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May 3, 2025 | Psalm 106-107
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00:00 Hello!

00:04 Discussing the Psalms and Future Plans

00:34 Teaching Repentance to Children

11:39 Balancing God’s Glory and Our Good

13:18 Psalm 107: Deliverance and Gratitude

17:18 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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It's a little bit more robust today.

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We've got two Psalms, not just one Psalm.

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I dunno if we're gonna finish.

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I know too many just buckle up.

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'cause in a couple days we've

got like 10 Psalms in one day.

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Why do they do this to us?

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I don't know.

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We will never.

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Understand, never, ever, and as long

as we keep doing this plan, which

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is I think the plan for now-ish.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Maybe we'll switch, maybe in August.

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We'll just do a new plan.

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We'll make a call just midstream.

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Just be like, we're not

gonna do this one anymore.

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I used to do that, but

my by boarding plans.

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I'm bored of this one.

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I'm gonna go to do a new one.

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Jump around.

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Yeah, jump around.

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Like, how's the jump around?

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Yeah.

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Hey, I got a question for us.

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It actually was brought to

mind because I saw our kids at

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Compass Post on social media.

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On our ex account, there

we're about to get shot at.

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No, it says this weekend your

kids will learn about repentance.

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When Israel returned from

exile, they discovered they

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were still struggling with sin.

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They needed new hearts to

truly turn from their sin.

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Your kids are gonna learn

that true repentance also

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requires a new heart from God.

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So there's a lot here.

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But I guess my thought is

man, how do we avoid raising

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little legalists in our church?

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Because we're teaching them all of these

things about godliness and holiness, which

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is all good and right and proper, and we

should and that, and we wanna do that.

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That's why we're doing this.

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But we're teaching the doctrine

of repentance to a bunch of

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kids who, most of whom, if not.

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All of them, but most of whom,

we'll, we will leave room there,

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most of whom can't truly repent.

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And so how do we, what's our

thought process behind that?

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I think it's probably helpful

for us to, to revisit that.

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What's our thought process

behind teaching kids doctrines?

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Like repentance when they're at an

age where they can't truly repent?

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What do you mean about can't truly repent?

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Explain that before we answer that.

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The repentance of second.

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Second.

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Corinthians seven the

Godly repentance, right?

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Feeling a God godly sorrow that

leads to repentance versus a

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worldly sorrow that produces regret.

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I think our children, before they're

saved, before they're regenerate, they

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know the worldly sorrow of getting busted

by mom and dad or getting in trouble at

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school or whatever it is that leads to a

sorrow that they're willing to say, I'm

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sorry that I did this, but the true godly

sorrow of having sinned and that sin is.

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Ultimately an offense against God.

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And so I want to clear my conscience.

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I want to separate myself from

this, you know that's not possible

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for somebody who is unregenerate.

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It seems like we are calling

these kids to, to do something

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that they're not able to do.

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Now, granted we're not telling them you

have to go and repent now, but we're

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teaching them about something and holding

this up and saying, this is what's good,

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repentance is good, and yet at the end

of the day, they're not able to do that.

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And so how do we make sure that we

as parents and as a church, are not

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producing an army of little legalists

as we're calling them to godliness

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and holiness that really they're

not able to replicate and produce.

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Yeah, I guess my quick answer,

and I definitely wanna hear

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what you have to say about this.

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My, my quick.

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And dirty answer from the hip here

is that we can't be responsible for

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what their hearts can or can't do.

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We can be responsible for putting

before them what is true, what

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is right, and what is good.

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And so we entrust that God can light the

logs of our faithfulness at some point in

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the future, and that's what we're doing.

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We're putting the wood, stacking the

wood, as it were into the fireplace,

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trusting that God will sump.

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At some point, light the fuse

and cause the whole thing to

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be a blaze with love for God.

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And all the training and all the teaching

that we put into the fireplace up until

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that point will serve its ultimate and

noble purposes in helping our young

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people truly understand what's happening

and what's happened to them through the

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process of regeneration and how to direct

their hearts to God and repentant faith.

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So I think that's our ultimate posture.

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We're humbly entrusting our kids to God.

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We can't guarantee it.

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We're talking about the birth

rate on the last one last episode.

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And even then we're assuming

that a kid born in a Christian

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household is probably gonna make

a Christian profession of faith.

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Maybe we hope for that.

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We want that.

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But unlike Islam, there's no guarantee.

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Just because you're born into a

certain family doesn't mean that

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you're gonna become a child of God.

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But we do pray for that.

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We do pursue that.

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We stack the logs and trust

that God will like the flame.

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That's our ultimate hope.

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And we entrust God with

the entire process of that.

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What would you say?

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Yeah I agree with what

you're saying there.

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And we do this because it's, it, in part

we have to ask what's the alternative?

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Do we just entertain these kids while

their parents are over in church and we

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say, when you get to be a certain age,

then you can learn about these things.

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At some point we're gonna have to say no.

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We're gonna start teaching them biblical

concepts and in scriptural ideas and

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ideas that are connected with the gospel

because they need to know these things.

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And these are the, this is the

seed that's sown on the path.

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And yes, God is the one that's gonna.

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Cause the growth and we're

praying that some of the seed

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falls on the fertile soil.

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But we have to sow the seed.

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We can't just hands off go we will let

you come to that realization on your own.

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Or, don't worry about being sorry for sin.

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Because you can't truly repent.

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We, we, this is a good

thing to call them to.

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This obedience and this obedience

sorrow and and holiness and godliness.

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Because ultimately someday we want

them to come to faith in Christ.

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And I think we've said it before in

different contexts, but there is,

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and this is not the most comfortable

thought to think about, but

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there's, even for those that never.

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Will come to faith in Christ.

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It's good for us to teach them godliness

and holiness at this age because it's

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going to keep them from some of the

wrath and judgment that they might

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otherwise inco incur because hell is a

place of judgment that is, is graded.

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Not all judgment is equal in hell.

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And so even the fact that we are raising

our children to be upstanding citizens,

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even if and we pray and plead and beg that

God will save all of our kids, but even

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if that, for those that, that maybe he.

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Doesn't them being raised in the

church hopefully to grow up following

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biblical morals and principles is going

to help them in the long run in, in,

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in the sense of eternal damnation.

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Which again, not a comfortable thought.

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None of us want to entertain that

thought, but that is still something

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that, that is there that weighs on the

side of why we do what we do as well.

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Yeah.

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Every family, every.

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I don't know.

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Every societal institution is

undergoing the process of discipling

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their kids to think and believe

and behave in a certain way.

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The Christian Church is not unique.

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We've just been doing it for so long

that we have catechisms and we have

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processes where we do this on purpose.

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In fact the word indoctrination, if you

take out the negative connotation is a.

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Is a word that all of us do.

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We all indoctrinate, we're all

teaching our kids how to think.

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Liberals and people that are vehemently

opposed to what we teach are doing

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the same thing for their kids.

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They're indoctrinating them with the

thoughts of, Hey, if you feel like you're

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this gender versus that gender, great.

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And then they'll support that with all

sorts of things that help reaffirm their

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decision to walk in their footsteps.

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We do the same thing.

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We're unashamed about it, we're

clear about it, and we're trying

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to do it in a way that we think

this is what God's word says.

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And so I'm gonna be faithful

to deliver to the truth.

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And what you do with the truth

ultimately is your decision.

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And again, we're stacking the, we're

planting the seed, we're stacking the

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wood, and we're trusting that God's

gonna do something great with it, and

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we're gonna peripherally pursue that.

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But to let them or to

operate under the guise.

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The ideology that, oh, they're gonna make

their own decisions is patently false?

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Yeah.

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You're teaching, everyone's being

taught, everyone's being discipled.

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The question is, what

are we discipling with?

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Yeah.

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And ultimately we're using our Bible.

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Yep.

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Great.

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So hopefully that encourages you

parents out there, that's the

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environment that your kids are

stepping into in our kids' ministry.

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We do take it seriously.

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I know Mark takes it seriously as he

leads that ministry and we're grateful

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for his leadership on that front too.

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That's right.

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Hey, let's you jump in today.

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Psalm 1 0 6, 1 0 7.

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1 0 6 is an honest look at the history

of Israel and the psalmist does not wear

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any rose colored glasses as he looks back

over his people's past and recounts all

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the times they sinned against the Lord.

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So he could have gone back and

said, here's this high point and

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this high point and this high

point, and look how great we are.

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And we did this, and then we repented and

look how awesome we are here and there.

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But instead, man, he goes through

and here's all of our warts.

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This is all the times that we failed,

and this is all the times that man,

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God was ready to be done with us.

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And yet his kindness,

his grace, his mercy.

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And so he balances this in this chapter

with a focus on yes, the punishment

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for their sins, but ultimately that

the Lord shows his abundant mercy and

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grace by not completely wiping them out.

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And so the history of Israel given

here in Psalm oh six is so good.

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And that's an area that I think.

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And I was just commenting on this today

with you and I and Mark and Lewis.

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I'm reading this book on the development

of the doctrine of the Trinity, and

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what struck me in reading this is it's,

fourth century ad the heavy hitters

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are still trying to figure out how do

we understand the trinity, how do we

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explain this and what we take for granted.

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E even though admittedly today, it's

still a very difficult doctrine, it's

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not something that we anybody can clearly

explain to us, and yet we understand

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one God, three persons to get to

that place of one God, three persons.

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Took 400 years, 300 years post Christ to

really crystallize some of this ideology.

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And, some of the heresies that are

out there, albeit yes, are dead wrong

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and heretical like modalism, that God

is sometimes the father, sometimes

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the son, sometimes the spirit.

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That emerged I think honestly

outta somebody that was

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trying to understand how God.

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Shows up in scripture and how we're

to understand these three people the

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father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.

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How does all this work together?

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So all that same, and it just got

me thinking about church history and

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how grateful I am for the people that

went before us that wrestled hard with

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these things so that we can now study

doctrines like the Trinity without having

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to go maybe we should be Mo Modalist.

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Or maybe, s was right.

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Maybe, 'cause his arguments,

he's just trying to rap as a.

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Mind around this.

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We should be thankful for our past, but

also I think there's something, Allah,

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Psalm 1 0 6, to learn from the errors of

the past in the church and to say, okay,

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we wanna avoid some of these things too,

so that we can make sure that we are

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being the church that God wants us to be.

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That's exactly right.

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The errors of the past are often called

heresies, and that's what we learn from.

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Yeah.

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We still use some of the names today

to define the errors that are to be

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avoided and sometimes we, we fail to

explain why heresies are heretical.

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A heretical idea or understanding

about God or the word emerges

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from someone who probably is

sincere as you just brought up.

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There's a book that I read about that,

just about, maybe about a year ago,

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two years ago at this point by David

Alister McAllister called Heresy Uhhuh.

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I forget if it's Alister

McAllister, one of those two.

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He talks exactly about this

and that people don't often

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understand what the word means.

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But today, when we understand the word

heresy, it means something that is so

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aberrant and so different from what is.

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Understood in the text that it does

violence to the very foundations

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of our understanding of God, the

gospel, salvation, things like that.

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So when you're talking about heresy, we're

talking about something that's really

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bad and really destructive to our faith,

which is why we are so opposed to them.

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What's really interesting is that.

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The church, to your point, pastor PJ has

done so much where we're:

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Yeah.

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Our church is 2000 years old.

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Our roots go all the way back to

the very beginning with the apostles

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and with the early disciples.

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And so we've had 2000 years to hammer

out some of these really difficult

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issues and we now have textbooks

called systematic theologies where you

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can read a really well put together

concise, consistent doctrine of the

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church and doctrine of last things.

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And I, we just, we read

it like, oh, this is nice.

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Yeah.

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We don't realize it's taken us.

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Years of hammering it out, people

thinking it over, studying their Bibles,

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accessing the languages, and putting

languages together to give us these rich

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resources that we now can just pull up

on our phone, in the middle of a day.

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And you say, okay, lemme just

read about the atonement.

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Yeah.

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No big deal.

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We have such an embarrassment of riches.

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It is not even funny.

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It is wonderful.

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And we would do well to take it

full advantage of all the resources

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that we have at our fingertips.

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Psalm 1 0 6.

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A good representation example of

remembering the past in a way to

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benefit the future generations,

our present generations.

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One quick word about Psalm 1

0 6, I didn't realize we're.

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Moving on.

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Okay.

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Psalm 1 0 6.

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I wanna point to you two verses that

go together that are super cool to see.

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You ready for this?

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I heard you say yes.

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Good.

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Psalm 1 0 6 verse eight.

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Yet he saved them for his namesake that

he might make known his mighty power.

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This is something that all Christians

are super comfortable with.

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Christians like us anyway.

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We believe God does all things for

his glory, his honor, his power,

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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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It's for his power to be displayed.

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Fantastic.

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Okay.

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Scoot on over on your

page to Psalm 1 0 6, 45.

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For their sake, he remembered his

covenant and relented according to

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the abundance of a steadfast love.

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So who's it for?

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Is it their sake or his sake?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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This is one of those questions

that have two answers.

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It's for both.

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God is.

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Passionate and zealous for his glory.

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But don't make the mistake of thinking

that he doesn't care about you.

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He does what he does for your sake,

even though it is for his sake.

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It's also for your sake.

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What's good for God's glory is

good for your good and you ought

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to be comfortable with that.

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This is such a cool thought.

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I hope you circle those, connect

those two thoughts together.

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'cause this is one of those cool places in

scripture where it's in the same chapter.

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His sake and their sake.

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They're not mutually exclusive.

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That, yeah.

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That's what's so amazing and.

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We used to tell our college students

all the time the gospel's not about you.

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You're not the hero.

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The this life is not about you.

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And yet we get to benefit from the gospel.

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We get the, to be the

recipients of the love of God.

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We get to, to enjoy heaven

and eternity with God.

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And ultimately it's still

even in that not about us.

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It's about the exaltation of Christ.

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But we are brought into that

in the, at the same time to, to

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be able to enjoy those things.

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It's a gracious, loving,

merciful God in that sense.

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For sure.

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He brings us into it in a really.

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Powerful real way.

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We're, we share his glory.

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That's, that almost feels wrong to say.

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But we will share in the glory of God.

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Even though he's the one

who gets the ultimate glory.

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That's fascinating to think

about all these things.

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Being co-heirs with Christ.

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Correct.

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Crazy.

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Psalm 1 0 7.

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Psalm 1 0 7 is about deliverance.

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And this Psalm counts all the times.

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The Lord had spared his people

and and was faithful to them in

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spite of their circumstances.

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And so the re repeated refrains

here to note are the words.

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Then they cried to the Lord in

their trouble and he delivered

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them from their distress.

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And then following that, just a few

verses later, each time is this.

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And let them thank the Lord for his

steadfast love, for his wondrous

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works to the children of man.

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So those two things,

they cried, he delivered.

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And then the response is, let

them be thankful for that.

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And I think that's such a good reminder

for us to be a grateful people, a thankful

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people for our salvation in Christ.

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Never to get over that, never

to treat it as common or banal.

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That man, God saved me for

my sins and I'm justified.

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I'm forgiven.

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I've got a future with Christ.

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But to always be.

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Find reason, at least there to start

to give him thanks and praise for

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what he's done for us eternally.

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And Israel, again different

circumstance, different situation there.

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They didn't know salvation the

way that you and I know salvation.

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So how much more should we be

grateful and thankful people

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because of what God has done for us?

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Amen to that.

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And I, I couldn't.

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Help but wonder if verse 29 was in the

minds of the apostles the disciples.

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At that point when Jesus is

walking on the waves and when he

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says, oh yeah, cease be still.

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Verse 29 says, he made the storm be still

and the waves of the sea were hushed.

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I think this was their experience,

and I don't know if they

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thought about this passage.

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Maybe they did.

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I was assume so.

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But when Jesus does what he does and he

says, peace be still to the waves and

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everything suddenly becomes dead silent.

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I could understand why they would

be terrified because here it's e

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evident, they cried to the Lord capital

LORD, Yahweh in their trouble and he

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delivered them from their distress.

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He made the storm be still, Yahweh

alone possesses the ability to do what

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Jesus does, and therefore their only

conclusion is this is more than a man.

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I don't know if they're

able to say, this is Yahweh.

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But they could say,

this is not a mere man.

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In fact, even verse 30, they were

glad that the waters were quiet and he

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brought them to their desired haven.

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There, there's accounts in the

gospels where he calms the storm

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and then immediately they're

Okay, how did we get here?

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Teleportation.

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And that's why they say, who is this?

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That calms the, I agree

with you a hundred percent.

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I think that would've been there.

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In fact, I was listening to something

earlier that the Jewish youth.

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At this time would've had the

Torah memorized, but also much

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of the Old Testament memorized.

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And so the, it's likely, if not very

likely, that the disciples in the boat

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had Psalm one of 7 29 in their memory

banks, and they were ready to pull it out.

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And so when they see this happen,

they're like, wait a minute.

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I know that I've seen this somewhere.

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Where did I see this before?

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Oh, yeah, Psalm 1 0 7.

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Now, they wouldn't have known the chapter,

but they would've said I we've read about

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this in David Psalms, we know about this.

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That's so interesting to think about.

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We read stuff like this all the time and

I don't think we appreciate because we

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are so familiar with it what it would

be like to be in that situation Totally.

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To have God the father appear out of

a cloud and say, this is my beloved

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son with whom I'm well pleased.

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Or to have Jesus say peace

be still to the stormy.

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Yesterday we had a pretty gnarly storm.

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Yep.

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I mean it wasn't super cra it

was crazy for a few minutes.

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And we had some clouds that were

circling above our neighborhood.

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He is like, Hey, stop.

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And everything subtly just, yeah.

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That would be so surreal.

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It would be And terrifying.

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Yeah, because it, the, it says in the

text there that the waves were stilled.

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It's not like they.

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Gradually petered out and yeah,

the boats slowly stopped rocking.

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It was just boom, placid, calm water.

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With no, no movement there.

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That would blow your mind.

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Would.

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You'd be terrified.

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You do what?

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Every other person in the scripture

who encounters the holiness

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of God, you do what they do.

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You fall down.

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Yeah.

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And say who is this?

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I'm terrified.

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I'm gonna die.

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And you have every reason to believe

that unless you're in Christ.

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Benjamin Franklin, I believe it was

used to do experiments with oil on

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how to calm waves and stormy seas.

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And so he would use oil that would go out

and it would end up suppressing the waves.

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I don't know all the signs behind it,

but he was doing experiments on how

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you could use oil to calm the waters.

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But I don't think he ever

calmed the entire sea.

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Probably not.

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That's pretty cool though.

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Hey, let's let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful for Christ.

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We're thankful for just the joy

that we have in knowing him.

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The joy that we have in knowing the

God who calms the sea and the storms.

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And we're thankful to be

able to make connections like

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that backs to Psalm 1 0 7.

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That's not something that would come

naturally to us, but we're grateful

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that your word is so cohesive, so

unified, that the story is one story.

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Coursing throughout the entirety of the

Old Testament and the New Testament.

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So help us to grow in our understanding

of that and our appreciation of

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that as well as in our understanding

and appreciation of Christ.

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We're grateful for the deliverance

that we do have in Christ because

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of his death on the cross for

our sins and his resurrection

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that we just celebrated recently.

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So we thank you for all

this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles, tuning

again tomorrow for another edition

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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