00:00 Introduction and Father's Day Celebration

00:53 The Role of Fathers in a Godly Legacy

03:00 Daily Bible Reading: Psalms Overview

03:29 Psalm 134: A Call for Worship

08:10 Psalm 146: Trust in the Lord

09:32 Psalm 147: God's Care for the Brokenhearted

12:01 Psalm 148: All Creation Praises God

13:06 Psalm 149: Israel's Role in God's Judgment

17:20 Psalm 150: A Fitting Conclusion to the Psalms

18:25 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another

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Rod: edition of the Daily Bible

Podcast and happy Father's Day.

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Hello fathers.

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God bless you all.

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Thank you for having children.

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We're grateful for that because

we wouldn't be here without you.

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PJ: We wouldn't be here without you.

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Yeah.

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In fact, today after church, we're hoping

that you're gonna stay and grab a hot dog

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with all his nitrates and everything else.

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It's gonna be good for you

and tasty and everything else.

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And we got Mug root Beer in the

coolers and we've got chips and just

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our way to say, Hey we love you.

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Thanks for being a dad.

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Wow.

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Rod: Yeah, maybe not the nitrates

being healthy for you, but

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everything else will be healthy.

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The fellowship, the fun, the

celebration for your fathering,

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that'll be good for your soul.

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Yeah, it will If not for your belly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But a hot dog's good

every once in a while.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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It's tasty.

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There's 4,000 hot dogs in our

refrigerator right now and I can't

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wait to get them out and put my

monster energy drinks back in there.

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Yes.

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They are impeding the energy

of the office right now

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PJ: And we've all been dragging.

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Yeah.

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All thanks to these hot dogs.

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Happy Father's Day to you Dads out there.

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You play a massive role in the lives of

your kids and even grandfathers out there.

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You still are playing a role in the

life of your son and your son's kids.

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Your daughters.

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This is a significant role that

is really, you're not done with

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until the Lord calls you home.

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It changes, but you're not

gonna be done with it until.

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You're in his presence.

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Keep going, keep being faithful,

keep Godly, leaving the Godly legacy.

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We've read about so much of that

as we've been reading through the

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Bible and through the Old Testament.

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That's such a, an impactful thing to have

a father who walks with the Lord, even as

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we're talking about Solomon and David and

has as Solomon thought about David and

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David's example, and as Solomon in the

book of Proverbs is writing to his sons

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saying, Hey sons, this is how I want you

to conduct yourself and live and behave.

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Dad, you've got an important role.

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And keep going.

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Excel still more at it and

make this year, the year.

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That you are the godliest that you've

ever been as far as a dad goes.

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Rod: I was talking to a father

recently who was reflecting back on

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his experience as a dad at his certain

age, and he's got adult children now.

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And he was thinking when I was

younger and I was taking them through

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each successive stage of parenting.

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I thought this, it'll be

easier as they get older.

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And he laughed thinking how

foolish I was because the.

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Issues only become more complex.

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The challenges of being a father to

adult children are different than the

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challenges of being a father to teenagers

or toddlers or anything else in between.

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The role of a dad is in fact important

and it really never goes away.

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It does change and the dynamics

certainly are different, but the role

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is, I would argue, as important in

adulthood as it is in early childhood.

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They're equally important, I

think, even though a lot of

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people put a lot of emphasis on

the first 18 years, give or take.

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But please don't stop being a dad, and as

we've said before, please don't move away.

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When you get old enough and your kids

are doing their own thing, please don't

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move to Florida or Arizona, right?

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We need you in the church.

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We need senior saints who have

walked with the Lord for years

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and have raised children.

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These things matter to the life

and vitality of the church.

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So I would encourage you fathers, as

you continue to see your kids get older,

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and your seeing the fruit of your work,

please don't lose heart in doing good.

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In fact, stay at it.

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Stay with them.

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Stay close to the family.

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If you can stay connected to

the church really needs you.

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PJ: Yeah, that, that is 100% sure.

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And amens to that.

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Let's jump into our DBR for the day.

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We are in a lot of psalms and we

were just wondering about this.

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We were going through going, wait,

how many more psalms do we have here?

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And when does it end?

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The Psalms don't officially

go away until September.

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So they slowed down quite a bit though.

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Yeah.

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In fact, we're finishing up.

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Technically the Book of Psalms today.

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We're hitting the last

Psalm in the book today

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Rod: but we're not finished with it.

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'cause we did skip several psalms we

did that are saved to be sprinkled

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throughout the future readings as

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PJ: seasoning with our Bible

reading a bit of salt and pepper.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 1 34 is not gonna take you

long to read only three verses here.

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And so in fact, we can do it together.

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Come bless the Lord.

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All you servants of the Lord who stand

by night in the house of the Lord.

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Lift up your hands to the

holy place and bless the Lord.

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May the Lord bless you from Zion.

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He who made heaven and earth.

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This seems to be written for the

Levites who were serving in the

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Temple overnight and saying, look

you have a job to do overnight.

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Don't neglect the duty and your

responsibility to worship the Lord.

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And to as you're tending to the temple,

tending to the burn offerings, tending

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to these things that need to be done

here you're to do that with worship.

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And so it's a call for worship,

even for these Levites,

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it's also a song of a sense.

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So as they're going up, it's they're

singing to the Levites, to those

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ministering in the temple as they're

coming to serve and coming to, to worship.

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And perhaps there's something there about

the idea of looking to those that lead

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worship, to fulfill the responsibilities,

to say, Hey we need you guys to be on

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your A game because you're part of what

we're doing as far as coming to worship.

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The Lord is concerned.

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Rod: That's right.

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And I would encourage you, as you

think about gonna church this morning,

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which I believe it is Sunday, right?

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Yes.

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It's, as you think about gonna

church, maybe offer, prepare for

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your worship team and those who.

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Facilitate the service.

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Granted different roles, different

dispensations, but still worthwhile.

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You thinking about the people that

help put the whole service on.

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And in fact, we try to recruit

you guys to be part of this,

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to enjoy the blessing with us.

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We talk about those who stand by

night in the house of the Lord.

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We don't exactly have that, but

sometimes in the winter it sure

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feels like we're still at church.

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At the nighttime, we show

up early for setup and then

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we stay later for tear down.

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Yep.

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We'd love to recruit you to

be part of this blessing.

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So if you want Psalm 1 34, blessed

in your life, prayed over for you.

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Would love to have you

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PJ: join us in the morning as we set up.

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That was a good drop of the

word dispensation, by the way.

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It's fitting.

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Might have something to

do with the sermon today.

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I heard about that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Rod: Hey, why are people taking pot

shots at Dispensationalist, by the way?

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Yeah, it's, dude I don't know.

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I don't know if it's a fair pot shot.

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It's just people are like, oh,

dispensationalist right now.

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And they got their fingers twiddling

because of what's happening in Israel.

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Which, that's a bad situation.

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It's horrible situation.

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We didn't talk about that really bad,

and I noticed that the Iron Dome is.

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Maybe not always effective

in letting certain things

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go through and hit Tel Aviv.

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I saw some shots of that.

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Scary stuff right now,

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PJ: right?

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No, for sure.

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And some have come out and said,

this is Gog and Mego, this is,

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'cause that's gonna be Persia and

everything else going on there.

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And so this is go and Mego and Jesus

is certainly coming back tomorrow.

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And it's okay, let's

tap the brakes on that.

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I thought actually Greg

La had a good take on it.

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And he's a dispensationalist.

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He's a dispensationalist.

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Yeah.

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And he's also quick to

point to the end times.

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Yes, he is.

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And he came out and said, look,

we're not saying that this is the

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fulfillment of what we see there with

the prophecy of Gog and Mago, but it's

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certainly the foreshadowing of it.

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It's the geographical territories

that are talked about there that

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are in play and there's disruption.

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There's things going on there.

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Now our view is the church is not on

the scene when Gog and Mego show up.

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And so we're not sitting here

going, oh no, the battle's happening

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and we're in the midst of it.

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What happened?

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Did we get left behind?

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Our view is that, that we

believe we will be caught up.

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We will be raptured, we will be

taken up to be with the Lord.

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And and that's our future.

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That's what's in store for us.

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Yeah, we don't think

we're still gonna be here.

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But that's why people always like to

poke fund a dispensational is because of

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the charts and the, the eschatological

timeframes and everything else.

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And we talk about those

things because it matters.

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I don't have any problems

saying I'm a dispensationalist.

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Some people look at that as

like a, it's a short now.

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Yeah.

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And it's no I think we see that there,

and we're gonna talk about this morning

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because of the book of Obadiah deals

with one of Israel's enemies, edem, and

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doesn't just deal with it with their.

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Temporal punishment, which by 70 ad edem

is wiped off the face of the planet.

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They're no longer there.

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That's why there's no country

of edem anymore today.

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But God also talks about the

fact that edem is gonna be

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judged at the day of the Lord.

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And so if God is gonna take Israel

out of play and not be concerned with

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Israel anymore, why is he sending

obadiah to comfort Israel with a

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message about an eschatological

judgment of her enemies that.

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To me, it doesn't make any sense.

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It seems if God was gonna move on

from Israel and turn to the church,

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that it doesn't really matter what

happens to eat him in the end, it

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doesn't really matter what happens

to other enemies of God at the end.

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And yet God is telling E Israel,

Hey there's a bigger picture in play

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besides just the immediate and the

temporal that involves things to come.

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And I think that's important for

us is the church to remember too.

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Like we're not, we're on,

we're center stage, so to

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speak right now, but we're not.

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Everything about God's program and

plan, and so we'll talk about that a

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little bit the this morning at church.

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Rod: This reminds me if you haven't done

so yet and you're still in your quiet

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time, devotional hour, whatever that

is, we'd love for you to read the book

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that you're preparing to be taught about

yes, in your Sunday morning service.

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So Obadiah is pretty short.

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You could pull it off in five minutes.

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We'd love for you to do that.

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Every Sunday that we're working through

the minor prophets, some of that's

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gonna be harder because some of them

are quite long even though they're

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minor, we'd love for you to spend time

before you get to church reading it so

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that you're prepared or at least have

a basis for understanding what's gonna

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happen during the Sunday morning service.

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Yeah, for sure.

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PJ: Let's get to Psalm 1 46.

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Psalm 1 46 is bookended.

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You'll notice by the phrase, praise

the Lord, which is the Hebrew.

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Hallelujah.

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And this is a helpful psalm to be reminded

of during the upcoming just political

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turmoil that we find ourselves in

during everything that's going on here.

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We're recording this on Saturday,

and so far I haven't seen anything

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really about the protests that were

supposed to be, the no Kings protests

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that were supposed to come out.

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I haven't seen anything.

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Glaring about that.

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Of course.

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It's not nighttime yet.

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And usually all that stuff goes off

when the dark comes, but governor

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Abbott was like, come at me bro.

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Yeah.

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Come at me and the Florida, I dare you.

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Did you see the Florida Sheriff too?

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Oh yeah.

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We'll kill you.

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Yeah we'll kill you dead.

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We'll take you out.

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You can collect their remains afterwards.

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But man, there's that, there's

everything going on in the world right

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now and this is a good reminder to us.

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Verse three, put not your trust

in princes in the son of man

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in whom there's no salvation.

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Because when his breath departs

and returns to the earth on

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that very day, his plans perish.

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Behold, blessed is he whose

help is the God of Jacob, whose

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hope is in the Lord is God.

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We could even say, not only when

his breath departs, 'cause that's

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how it was for Israel, but when

his term limit expires, right?

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Everybody who's.

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A great hope right now is the fact that

we've got a president that's leading

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in a way that, that appeases them and

pleases them right now, man in less

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than four years now, he can't run again.

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And so then what's gonna happen?

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If that's where our hope is anchored,

then we've got a problem there.

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If our hope is anchored in

the UN and peace and things

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like that it's not gonna last.

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And we've gotta have a

hope that transcends.

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And Psalm 1 46 reminds us of that.

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Psalm 1 47.

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Then this one has some of the markers

of being post exilic possibly used

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in connection to the rebuilding

of the walls of Jerusalem there.

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And so here he's going to come in and

talk about the one that is broken hearted,

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but call that one to praise the Lord.

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It's good.

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He says in verse one, to

sing praises to our God.

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It's pleasant to sing a song that is

fitting, just talking about what God

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does for the broken hearted, healing

them, binding up their wounds, de.

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Determining the number of the

stars giving to them their names.

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One of the reasons why we think this

might be post exilic is because it could

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point to God's restoration, and this

would be a good one that would remind

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the people sitting on the backside of

the return to Jerusalem, but the fact

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that there is a future still for them,

and God takes it takes pleasure in his

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people still, he's not done with them.

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And so there's reason to be encouraged.

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Verse 13, he strengthens

the bars of your gates.

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That could have been quite literal if

they were working on rebuilding the walls

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and the gates of the walls at that point.

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Psalm 1 47, calling for a trust in

the Lord and the Lord as the one

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that builds up the broken hearted and

attends to those that are downcast.

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Rod: Yeah, really cool here.

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Verse four says here that he

determines the number of the stars

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he gives to all of them, their names.

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And maybe you haven't looked

us up recently, but I did.

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How many stars are there in the universe?

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One zillion.

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There's pretty close, actually.

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Pretty close.

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I don't actually even know how

to comprehend this number, but

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the estimate for how many stars

there are 200 billion trillion.

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I.

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Which the technical number is 200

sextillion, 200 billion trillion is

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a number that I can't even fathom.

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No.

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Much less comprehend in

any meaningful sense.

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For numbers so large for human

brains, we just really don't

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grasp that kind of information.

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But just notice here,

I don't think God is.

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Using any kind of hyperbole here

to say I know the stars and I

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number them and I name them.

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God knows their names, and he does

that in order to give comfort to the

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downcast and the oppressed to remind

you, look, I've got things under control.

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You don't have to worry.

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In fact, another image that he

uses in verse eight is that he

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covers the heavens of clouds.

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He prepares the rain for the earth.

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He makes grass grow on the hills.

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In another words, God controls the

natural cycles that we attribute

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to, oh, this is just the way.

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Creation works we'll.

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Look at creation and say, oh,

the sun rises in the east.

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It sets in the west.

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Oh, there's humidity in the air.

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And so this kind of

weather can be expected.

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We look at natural cycles

and we have to realize that

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Hebrews one is absolutely true.

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God is governing, he's upholding the

universe by the word of his power.

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And even though we can have a scientific

understanding of how it works, that does

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not change the fact or negate the fact

that God is actively managing creation.

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And that includes down to

the details of your life.

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So take heart.

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PJ: Yeah, those same stars are on

the scene in Psalm 1 48, and this

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time the psalmist is calling on those

stars to worship God, to praise God.

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In fact, that was a good

transition, wasn't it?

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Yeah.

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Boom.

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Wow.

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Look at that.

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Sal, Psalm 1 48 is the

psalm about calling on.

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Everything to praise God.

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And in fact, we're gonna get

there that the Psalm one 50,

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the last line is let everything

that has breath praise the Lord.

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Here the psalmist is saying, let

everything that has breath and the

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inmate objects and everything else

that God has created, praise God.

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And so this is appropriate

because he saying this is

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what creation is made to do.

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Everything exists for the glory of God.

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And that's what the psalmist

is saying should happen.

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And so whether it's the stars,

the sun, and the moon, all the

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angels, the hosts, the angelic

armies they need to worship God.

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And then eventually he

gets down to human beings.

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And he says that young men in verse 12

and maidens together old men and children,

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let them praise the name of the Lord.

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For his name alone is exalted.

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His majesty is above.

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Earth in heaven.

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So the psalmist is saying everything

and everyone that is on the earth

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is meant by God's to praise him.

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Absolutely.

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Psalm 1 49 then is here a call for

Israel to, again, praise the Lord.

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To execute vengeance on his

behalf, which is an interesting

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one, an interesting concept.

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Let the godly exalt and glory let

them sing for joy on their beds.

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He says in verse five, there Israel

is going to, as he goes on here,

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execute vengeance on the nation's

in punishment on the people's.

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In fact, it's interesting in obadiah,

which we're looking at today, God is

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going to tell Israel that on that day of

judgment, on the day of the Lord, they are

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going to be an instrument of his judgment.

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That Israel is going to be a fire

that is going to burn Edem like

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stubble and consume them like chaff.

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And so God is going to use his people

in the judgment of the nations.

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What is that gonna exactly look like?

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I don't know, but here I.

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Even in this timeframe with Israel in

the Old Testament, God was saying, you

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need to recognize your role as a weapon

in the hand of the Lord, that he's going

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to use Israel to exact vengeance on

the nations, even here in Psalm 1 49.

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Rod: Yeah.

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What's interesting is that the

Eschatological calendar does allow for

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at least two major battles, one of which

is called the Battle of Armageddon, and

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this is the one that you know about.

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And there's also the battle

that we alluded to earlier, the

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Battle of Gog and may go, it's

not entirely clear if these are.

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Whether and how they're related.

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We do know, or we are expecting a

battle at the end of the tribulation

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and a battle at the end of the thousand

year millennial, literal millennial

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reign of Christ on the Earth.

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So there's two times when God is going

to judge his enemies, and both of those

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times it's going to be, even though

Jesus is the one leading I believe

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he's going to utilize his people.

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And so it seems more likely given

the fact that he destroys the

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enemy by the word of his power in

the, at the end of the millennium.

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I think that's how he.

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Destroy Satan once and

for all and his allies.

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So it seems more likely to me

that this fits better with the

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end of the tribulation period.

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Yeah, when God's people, Israel,

his ethnic people that is Israel,

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rise up together with the Lord to

execute vengeance on the nations.

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As he says here in verse seven,

uncomfortable thought for us, very

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uncomfortable, especially under

a New Testament understanding.

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We think about what Jesus says.

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Love your enemies.

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Pray for those that persecute you.

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I totally get that and we should

do that, but make no mistake.

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There is a time when praying

for your enemies ceases.

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The time for praying for them is

done because Jesus is now appointed

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a time to execute final judgment.

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And this is a time where a Psalm like

this may very well still be sung.

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Yeah.

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In

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PJ: fact we're talking

about that today too.

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Our third point this morning is

gonna be about that, that the day of

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the Lord there, there's this weird

tension that we have with the day

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of the Lord where we are called to.

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To hope in it and to seek it even, as

Peter says, to hasten its arrival and

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at the same time in the day, the Lord

should cause us to fear for our lost.

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Family members, loved ones,

neighbors, those that are on the

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wrong side of God's justice right now.

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Because when that day comes,

there is no more opportunity.

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It's done.

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And so we have this weird tension

that we live in right now where we

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wanna be missional, we wanna reach

people, and we wanna pray for the

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lost and pray for their salvation.

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But to your point, there's gonna come a

day when we're gonna be on Christ's side.

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When he's the one that's at

the forefront of the armies.

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And at that point, it's about justice

and vengeance and wrath and there is

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no more opportunity to reach people.

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So all the more reason for

us to do that right now.

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Rod: Amen.

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Come quickly, Lord Jesus.

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Marath, we sing that we're gonna

sing songs today at church that

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have to do with the coming kingdom.

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We're gonna pray that

his kingdom come quickly.

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And so we do have the tension of

saying, we want you to come, Jesus,

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but please save my family first.

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Yeah, please save my neighbors.

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Please do all these things.

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Which means that if we're gonna hasten

that day, as you often bring up, we

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should do that by reaching our neighbors.

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Yeah.

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And spreading the gospel far and wide.

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So what are you doing today?

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Hopefully you have some time in your

schedule to talk about Jesus to somebody.

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Hey,

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PJ: it was really cool at the Rangers

game that we were at on Friday night.

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We all had our reaching

teaching training shirts on.

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And so there were, I had two people

stop me, Rangers, employees, stop

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me and see I see all you people

walking around here with these

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reaching teaching training shirts.

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What does that mean?

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What is that about?

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Oh, nice.

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And so it was a cool opportunity

to say, Hey, we're a church

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and this is our mission.

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This is what we're about.

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It's based on Matthew 28.

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We're trying to reach people.

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That's awesome.

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Teach people, train people.

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So even what we wear can help.

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Do that.

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So absolutely.

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Rod: Like an actual

billboard on your body.

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There you go.

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That's fantastic.

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In fact, we have more

shirts coming down the line.

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PJ: tuned.

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Stay tuned.

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Alright.

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Hey Psalm one 50 then, which

is the last in the psalter.

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Although, like we said earlier,

we're not done with the Psalms,

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we're gonna come back and hit some

of the other ones that we've missed.

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But this one is a fitting end to the Book

of Psalms and it really has that fitting.

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Final verse.

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Let everything that has breath.

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Praise the Lord.

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And so he's talking about

all kinds of different.

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Instruments here talking about

praising him for his mighty deeds.

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And then he's talking about use the

trumpet, use the loot, use the harp,

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use the tambourine, whatever you have.

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And then at the end of the day, just

your very breath should be something

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that you are using to praise the Lord.

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So a good fitting conclusion

to a book that's all about I.

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Worshiping God.

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And that was Israel's hymnal.

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Israel's songbook.

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This is what they used to worship the Lord

during this Old Testament dispensation

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Rod: man.

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And it is this is still so relevant to us.

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Even though this is written under a

different covenant and the people in

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mind are different people, these are

still Psalms that we should in fact sing.

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These are still Psalms that we should

in fact obey, maybe not precisely.

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Again, Psalm 1 49, there's things

in there that we're not going to do.

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But otherwise, when it comes to

praising God for who he is and what

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he's done, we have every reason.

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In fact, we have more reason.

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Then Israel to celebrate

his goodness and his grace.

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And I hope that you'll do that with us

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PJ: this morning at church.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Let's pray.

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God, thanks for this morning.

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We thank you for our church and

we just pray that we would gather

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together today as we do every single

Sunday and praise you and worship

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you with gusto and excitement.

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And that we would be there to lift

high the name of Jesus Christ.

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And we pray that it would

be just an encouraging time

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together as a church family.

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We are thankful for the dads in our midst.

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The fathers that have impacted us,

whether they be our biological fathers

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or somebody else in our life who's played

that role in our lives and how they've.

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They've served that role and impacted us.

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And for those of us that are fathers,

God, I just pray for wisdom for us and

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continued just humility and dependence

upon you as we raise up the next

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generation to hopefully bow the need

of Christ on this side of eternity.

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We pray that would be true of

all of the dads in our church.

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So thanks for this morning.

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Thanks for everything that it represents.

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Thanks ultimately God for Jesus Christ,

and for our salvation that we have in Him.

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So we just pray for a great day today.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles tuned in.

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Get tomorrow for another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said