00:00 Welcome and Introduction
00:08 Men's Retreat Reminder!
00:41 Encouragement for Participation
01:56 Retreat Details and Activities
03:27 Transition to Psalms Discussion
03:30 Psalm 25: Trusting in God's Guidance
07:00 Psalm 29: The Power of God's Voice
08:46 Psalm 33: Rejoicing in God's Steadfast Love
11:46 Psalm 36: The Contrast Between Sinners and God
13:54 Psalm 39: The Brevity of Life and God's Discipline
17:22 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts
18:12 Outro and Podcast Information
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everybody, welcome back to another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Good morning.
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:You're on mute.
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:Good morning.
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:There you go.
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:Now you're back.
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:Hey we have just over a week, about
a week and a half now until our
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:men's retreat and coming up so soon.
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:It is coming fast and we've got a good
amount of register, register people.
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:We got REGIE people, there's people
registered for it, but we want more.
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:Un unashamedly, unabashedly.
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:We want more.
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:And so if you're on the fence, men
listening to this, it's time to
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:get off the fence and register.
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:It's time to, to sign up for this.
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:No gagging, no.
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:And ladies listening to this,
if your husband is not coming,
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:boyfriend from the retreat, right?
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:Or boyfriend is not coming on
the retreat, then, or brother or
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:uncle, when do you get them there?
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:And listen ladies, especially if the
reason they're not coming on the retreat
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:is because you have somehow guilted them
into feeling bad for going shame on you.
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:That that's not okay.
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:Your husband is gonna be, or your
boyfriend or whoever he is gonna
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:be a better off after this retreat
than he would be if he misses it
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:because you just want him home.
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:And I understand it's a sacrifice.
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:I get that and come women's retreat time,
we're gonna say same thing to the men.
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:We're investment.
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:Exactly.
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:It's a worthwhile investment in
the godliness of your husband.
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:And this is such a good thing.
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:You should want him to be there and so do
what you need to do and get them there.
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:And men don't make your
wife sign up for you.
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:If you're sitting here, if we have to
have that, then that's what we have to do.
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:Yeah.
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:If that's what it is, okay, fine.
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:But we'll take it.
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:But we want you there.
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:And get online and sign up
right now for the retreat.
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:If finances are an issue, we've said this
time and time again let us say it again.
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:Don't let it be an issue.
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:We will we'll make sure
that we're taking care.
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:We're, yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:I think I'm guessing that's gonna
be the case for several guys.
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:I haven't heard much about that lot.
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:A lot of cricket, so whatever
the reason is and we know that
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:there's lots of good ones.
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:There are so many good reasons not to do
the good things that God wants us to do.
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:But ultimately we think.
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:That this is such a good investment
of your time, that the fruit of
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:it will be well worth the cost
of admission or the investment of
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:time and resources to be there.
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:It's a beautiful facility.
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:The room situation is great.
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:Food is good.
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:It's, we'll have snacks
there for you as well.
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:So it's not gonna be a, this is a little
over 24 hours, honestly, when you come
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:down to it, it's Friday afternoon through.
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:Closer to dinnertime on Saturday.
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:So it's 24 hours.
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:We're not even a whole weekend.
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:This is totally doable guys.
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:We want you there.
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:Yeah.
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:And if we're your pastors,
and this is your home church,
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:we wanna see you guys there.
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:We're zealous for your godliness and
this is one way for you to help us.
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:Cool.
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:To help us achieve that together.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:It's an hour away.
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:It's not far at all.
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:I also heard if this is a selling point
that one Jason Cooper might be leading a
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:band of Merry men to go play Ultimate Fri,
or not Ultimate Frisbee for but Disc golf.
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:That's right.
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:Yeah.
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:Free lessons with Yeah.
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:The Jason Cooper.
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:The.
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:Not any old Jason Cooper.
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:The, yeah.
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:Yeah, that's, I don't know
what else we're doing.
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:I think we're doing some hikes
and things that we have arranged.
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:It's gonna be awesome.
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:Angelo Angelo Trinidad is helping us
coordinate some free time events for
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:you guys to do so you won't be bored.
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:There's always the games that
people that are way smarter,
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:Rob Kelly Head up that, yeah.
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:If you try to learn it on the fly, it
would take you eons, but there's Yeah.
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:Gly, or, yes.
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:Shoots and ladders.
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:Monopoly.
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:Yeah.
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:Super hard.
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:Know those other ones, like
settlers of Catan and all that
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:stuff, a break out and fun.
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:That one's fine.
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:Yeah.
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:By the way, ladies if you were offended
by me saying shame on you I'd apologize.
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:I don't wanna offend you, but I want you
to get your husband's there, so yeah.
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:If you needed to hear that, then
man, you needed to hear that.
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:There you go.
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:Yeah.
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:But we love you and we love all of you.
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:And we want you there.
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:That's right.
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:So please set up, yeah, please set up.
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:Let's get in.
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:We've got another slew of
Psalms to get through today.
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:Psalm 25 is a Psalm of David.
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:David here casts himself on the Lord
and asks God to continue to reveal his
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:ways because David knows that there's
ultimately safety in walking in the
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:paths of the God of his salvation.
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:So good.
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:There that, that David is saying, Hey,
God I want you to show more of yourself
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:to me because I know that ultimately I'm
gonna be safest in walking, in accordance
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:with your will in your plan in my life.
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:A couple of things that,
that stood out to me here.
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:First in, in verse one to you,
oh, Lord, do I lift up my soul?
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:That's not language that we use.
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:Pastor Rod, what would you say?
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:How do we lift our soul to God?
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:Is that it seems.
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:Hard for us to understand.
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:Yeah, I would agree with you on that.
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:I think it's, is one of, this is one
of those situations where the smaller
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:thing represents the whole thing.
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:Yeah.
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:So I'm lifting up my hands would
be like I'm giving you my life.
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:I'm lifting up my soul.
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:Same idea.
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:We're giving you everything
that I've got to give.
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:I'm surrendering myself
as a sacrifice to you.
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:I'm gifting, not gifting.
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:I'm s.
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:Surrendering.
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:That's a really good way to put, I'm
surrendering my life to you because he
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:says in verse two, oh my god, in you.
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:I trust.
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:I think that's the idea here.
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:Would you add anything to that?
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:No I would agree with that too.
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:And that's, yeah.
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:The language is different because
we are, we're a long ways away
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:from this war, what give or take,
about:
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:This timeframe when David is writing this.
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:And so we describe things differently,
but I think that's a good parallel.
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:How about verse seven?
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:Remember not the sins of my
youth nor my transgressions.
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:Does God remember our sins?
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:Yes.
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:Yes, he does.
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:Does he remember our sins?
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:Yeah.
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:Do.
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:That's my question.
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:That's your question.
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:Does he remember our sins?
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:He can't not know.
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:Sure.
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:So yes, he does, but the question is,
does he hold them against us post Christ?
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:And you'd have to say absolutely not.
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:When scripture says that he separates
them as far as the east is from the
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:West, it is God actively choosing not
to bring them up in opposition to you.
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:But God can't know, can't not know.
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:Everything he knows past,
present, and future.
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:Nothing occurs to God.
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:He doesn't forget things in the
strictest sense as you and I do.
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:He just chooses not to hold
those things against us.
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:Psalm 1 0 3, 12 as far as
the east is from the West.
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:We just read this one recently.
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:So far.
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:Does he remove our transgressions from us?
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:But it doesn't say he forgets them.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:Okay.
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:Verse 20.
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:He prays that God would prevent
him from being put to shame because
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:David had chosen God as his refuge.
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:So just wanted to see there that this is
ultimately about the character of God.
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:He says in verse 20, guard my soul.
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:Deliver me.
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:Let me not be put to shame for
there's that preposition again.
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:I take refuge in you.
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:And so God is, David is really calling
on God, saying, God if I'm put to
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:shame, it's gonna look bad on you.
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:Because if I'm put to shame, you're
gonna be put to shame because
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:I've chosen you to be my refuge.
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:And so he's really establishing his
confidence in God that God is gonna
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:deliver him because he is gonna deliver
him for the sake of his name there.
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:And so David throws himself
there on, on God's care, right?
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:You're my God.
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:Verse 14.
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:The friendship of the
Lord is for those who.
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:Fear him and he makes
known to them his covenant.
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:I think that's such a sweet verse.
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:I love that because it reminds
us that drawing near to God has
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:benefits our friendship with him.
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:B based on the fact that we fear him,
our friendship is something that is, is
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:more than just an intellectual knowledge.
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:God is sharing life with us.
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:He's sharing information and
primarily through his word.
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:But this is a, an.
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:Encouragement for us to draw near
to him because there's benefits.
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:Psalm 1611, he makes known
to us the paths of life.
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:Fullness of joy.
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:I had his right hand or
pleasures forevermore.
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:To be a Christian is a good thing, man.
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:Everyone looks down on it as
though it's just a bunch of rules
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:and I have to give up my Sundays.
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:Being a Christian is
exciting and fun and awesome.
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:And if you think otherwise you
don't understand Christianity.
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:Totally.
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:Yep.
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:Yep.
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:We talked about that last
Sunday even a little bit.
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:Did we?
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:Maybe that's where I got it from.
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:We did.
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:Hey Psalm 29.
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:And in this psalm, David is praising
God and specifically the voice of God.
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:And so I was reading this one and I was
thinking to myself, okay, how did David
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:understand the voice of the Lord here?
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:Because he mentions it time and time
again, the voice of the Lord, the voice
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:of the Lord, the voice of the Lord.
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:And it's a powerful presence.
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:It's doing all of these things.
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:It's stripping the forest bear.
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:And so I guess my
question is twofold here.
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:How did David understand
the voice of the Lord?
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:And how do we understand
the voice of the Lord today?
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:And I think.
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:That second question is a little
bit easier for us to answer.
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:We understand the voice of God
primarily through the scriptures,
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:that's the way that God speaks to us.
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:That's the way that we
hear the voice of God.
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:Although we would also say, man, I go
out into the creation and I see the
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:skies and I see that the powerful storms
that come through and that is the voice
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:of God in creation saying, I'm here.
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:And maybe that's what David
understood to be the voice of
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:the Lord here in Psalm 29, but.
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:Pierre, your thoughts on that?
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:Yeah.
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:I've always understood Psalm 29
as a storm psalm, as the psalmist
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:is reflecting on the storm and
saying, man, that's really cool.
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:And ascribing the thunder lightning
combination to being the voice of God.
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:I'm using air quotes
here to say that again.
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:It's a poetic description of God's
interaction with creation and it's in this
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:case because you hear that thunder and
it is, there is something cool about it.
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:It is humbling.
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:It feels terrifying.
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:We had a lot of thunder and
lightning just a couple days ago.
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:Yeah.
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:And.
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:There are times I'm like, man,
that is some serious, that's
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:like right above my head.
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:It feels powerful and deep and
it shakes the earth a little bit.
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:I think that's what's happening here.
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:Although it could mean more than
what's on the surface, and he could
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:be saying more than what's here.
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:But I thought that's how I
understood the psalm in the past.
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:And by the way, the word scribe is not
one that we use very much, but it's
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:the concept of attributing giving.
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:And so when it says scribe to
the Lord, glory and praise it's
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:the idea of worshiping him.
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:It's.
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:Declare his worth and his glory
in response to the things that
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:you're seeing all around you.
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:Psalm 33.
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:Then in this psalm the psalmist
here who is not named, but maybe
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:it was David, but rejoices in the
steadfast love and strength of God.
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:It's a confidence psalm in this one
that praises God for his creative power
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:and declares that all creation should
stand in awe of him and fear him.
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:And this this powerful God is
Israel's God as the psalmist
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:goes on to talk about here.
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:And as a result, Israel
has nothing to fear.
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:And we know that it's Israel's
God because of verse 12.
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:Verse 12 says, blessed is the nation
whose God is the Lord, the people
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:whom he has chosen as his heritage.
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:That is a verse that we
would say is about Israel.
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:Now that being the case, can we understand
verse 33, in any way as applying to
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:our nation, should our nation undergo
a season of revival, of saying, okay if
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:the United States undergoes a genuine
season of revival wherein we have.
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:Truly godly leaders that
are pursuing the Lord.
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:Could we claim verse 12 in
any way of saying, Hey, this
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:is in part for us as well.
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:And I think there's a measure to which you
could say, yeah, it, it's always gonna be
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:better for us if we have leaders seeking
the Lord than it would be otherwise.
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:But I don't think that we can say
that we are the nation, the people
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:whom God has chosen as his heritage,
because that we would say is
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:Israel, and that's unique to Israel.
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:This is one of those difficulties,
we go to a ball game in
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:the seventh inning stretch.
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:We stand up and we sing the song.
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:God Bless America.
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:And it's actually a prayer.
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:The whole psalm is, in fact, there's a
song is, there's a second verse to it
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:that is even more explicitly a prayer to
God that we don't sing at the ballpark.
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:But even that idea of praying,
God bless America it's built on.
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:Principles like this
and concepts like this.
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:And yet the reality is we are not a
nation who has made God their Lord,
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:at least not for a very long time.
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:And so I think Psalm 33, verse 12, while
on the one hand we would say this is
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:Israel and exclusively Israel, I think
it should cause us to say God, humble
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:our nation and cause us to pray for
our leaders and pray for Godly leaders.
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:Because like I said a minute ago,
it's always gonna be better if
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:we're led by Godly leaders than if
we're led by, by godless leaders.
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:And so this is a psalm that
should remind us of that for sure.
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:Yeah, that's so true.
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:And I often think of that
passage in Second Chronicles.
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:If my people who are called by
my name would humble themselves
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:and pray, I'll heal their land.
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:Something of that effect.
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:I think that's a similar category
where I would say, generally
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:speaking, when people repent and
turn to the Lord, things are better.
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:And God does do good things for those
people, but there's no guarantee that.
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:A plus B equals C as it
was the case for Israel.
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:With verses like this, you have to
be extremely careful with saying
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:this means this for us today.
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:I think it's true in a general sense.
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:I don't know that I would say it's
true specifically for America.
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:He'll heal our land, he'll remove all the
microplastics from our water and he'll,
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:he'll take all the fluoride out of our
drinking water as well and give us better
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:health and take all the blue dyes and.
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:And the red number 40 out of our
fruit or our candy or whatever.
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:I just think you, you have to be
careful 'cause this is to Israel.
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:These verses are Israel's songbook.
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:We can adopt the principles, but some
of the specific promises that were made
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:to them are for them and not for us.
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:Totally.
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:Yep.
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:Psalm 36.
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:Then in this psalm, this
is a Psalm of David.
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:This time David contrast the
sinner with God ultimately.
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:And this psalm gives a piercingly
clear picture of the sinful person
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:who thinks they're getting away
with their sin, or that their sin
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:is no big deal in the set of God.
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:And by contrast it shows that the
righteousness of God towers immovable and
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:his judgments are as deep as the ocean is.
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:And so the sinner is in view.
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:At the beginning there flatters
himself thinking his iniquity.
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:Verse two, can't be found out
and hated that nobody knows.
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:Verse four, even plotting to
sin on his bed sets himself
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:He.
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:He's running headlong after evil.
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:And then the contrast is in verse five.
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:Your righteousness, your steadfast
love, oh Lord, extends to the heavens.
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:Your faithfulness to the clouds.
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:Your righteousness is immovable
like the mountains of God.
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:And your judgments are
like the great deep how.
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:Deep, they run the scope and
breadth of the judgments of God.
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:In other words, nobody's
getting away, God from your
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:righteousness and your judgments.
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:And so David here is saying, perhaps
while he's on the run or from Absalom
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:or whatever else is going on, or
even reflecting on his own sin, he's
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:saying, man, how foolish is the sinner
who sits there and thinks I'm good.
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:Nobody ever knows about this.
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:I'm gonna get away with this.
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:Yeah.
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:And I wonder why it's no secret.
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:Third day made this section of
the Psalm really popular, right?
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:He does.
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:He did.
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:Yeah.
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:Steadfast love Lord knocked out
one of the most memorable voices.
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:It kinda reminds me of Creed a little
bit, or one of those other guys
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:that were at talk Anyway I wonder.
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:I think it'd be really cool for them
if they would've taken the whole
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:psalm and put that to the music.
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:I, in their minds, I don't
know why I'm guessing the best
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:about them, assuming the best.
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:They just thought this part sings
the other part, maybe not so much.
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:There's no fear of God before.
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:Their eyes can't quite sing that with the
same tone or maybe even in the same key.
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:But they all go together.
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:And that's the awesome thing about
musicians is they'll take songs
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:like this and make 'em memorable.
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:I can never forget that song.
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:Now, every time I read this I can
hear the lyrics and the melody
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:in my heart and in my mind but
you have to take the whole thing.
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:For what it is.
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:And to your point, it's they go together.
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:Contrasting the wicked, those who don't
fear God versus the immovable concrete.
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:Just ways of God who will rule and reign
and he'll reign even over those who
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:choose not to submit to his leadership.
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:Every knee will bow, bend it
or broken as a saint goes.
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:Psalm 39, then.
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:Here we have another Psalm of David,
and this one is to the best of my
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:understanding of this seems to be David
sitting in the judgment of God against
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:his sin and feeling just the keen
awareness of how fleeting his life is
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:and how the pleasures of this worldly
this world that exists around him are
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:also fleeting and really pointless in
the end compared to the joy of the Lord
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:and the presence of being with him.
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:And so here he starts out just with this.
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:Declare declaration there in verse one.
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:I will guard my ways that I
may not sin with my tongue.
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:I will guard my mouth.
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:Just reminded me this morning as
I was going through this, man God
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:holiness requires intentionality.
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:We've talked about that before.
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:We've talked about that in the
recent episodes of this that
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:we have to intentionally set
ourselves to be godly otherwise.
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:We will slip back into the old man.
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:We the old self will grab hold of us
and we will find that we are drifting
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:further away from God, like we talked
about a few days ago with Psalm one.
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:You, there is no neutrality with God.
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:And here David is saying I've
gotta be intentional about this.
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:And I can't be mute.
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:I can't be silent.
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:I've got to make sure that I'm bringing
myself before the Lord and opening
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:myself up to his his discipline.
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:And he, it's not fun 'cause verse 10, he
says, Lord, remove your stroke from me.
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:I'm spent by the hostility of your hand.
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:But that discipline as the
writer of Hebrews says, is not
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:to be despised because the Lord
disciplines the son whom he loves.
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:And so that is is really what David
Exper is experiencing here in Psalm 39.
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:Yeah, I would echo that.
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:I think that's the same that's
the same conclusion I came
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:to, or I do have questions is.
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:And the first three verses I'm curious
as to whether you think let me just
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:say I, if I was thinking verse one,
two, and three, that he's struggling
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:with confessing I'm not confessing.
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:I want to, but I'm not.
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:And then as he thought about it, verse
three, the fire burned, then I spoke.
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:I, in other words, I had to let it out.
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:I had to confess because I was being
afflicted even in my own heart and mind.
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:I didn't have peace.
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:I was mute and silent.
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:I held my peace in no avail.
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:The distress grew worse.
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:It is, I wasn't able to just
cover my sin and forget about it.
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:What do you think about
those verse three versions?
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:Yeah.
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:I think I, I see that connection there.
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:I, where is it that he talks about when
I was silent, your hand was heavy upon
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:me and my bones wasted away within me.
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:And I guess that's what I was
thinking about when I was trying
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:to put the pieces together.
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:I was assuming, oh, maybe this
is, like that passage Yeah.
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:Where he's saying something very similar.
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:Yeah.
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:It's not as clear in this one.
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:I'm not unsure that's what's happening.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:The brevity of life though, verse
four is just another thing that,
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:that we need to be aware of and.
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:In its context of dealing with sin, right?
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:And pursuing the pleasures of sin.
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:David says, Lord, make me
know how brief my life is.
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:If all of us knew how be brief our
life was, I think it would change
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:the way that we use our time.
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:I think if all of us knew when we were
gonna die we would say, okay, I wanna
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:maximize the time that I've got left here.
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:And we would look at sin as far more
foolish and far, much, far more of
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:a threat to our eternity than it
is right now when we just think.
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:You know what I'm gonna live forever.
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:And so David is praying that
God would give him that keen
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:awareness of his fleeting nature.
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:And all of us have that same
fleeting nature and need to
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:be aware of that as well.
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:Some of us don't have 80 years, right?
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:Or 70 or 50.
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:It's funny 'cause now
that I'm at the Big 4.0
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:I, I notice when I see people
die younger than I, yeah.
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:I pay attention when I see news
articles about this celebrity or
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:that person who had this issue.
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:And I thought, man, I 40 is.
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:Young-ish, older mid middle age, I suppose
is the technical term, but that's a gift.
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:And there's no guarantee that
I'll live another 40 or that we'll
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:live the, at the end of this week.
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:I try to keep that in mind and to your
point, when we think about that, it really
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:just changed the way that we appreciate
and utilize the time that we have.
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:Let's pray and then we'll
be done with this episode.
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:God helps us to do just that, to, to
realize that today is a one more day
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:closer to being in your presence.
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:Lord, we don't know if that's gonna
come because Jesus is gonna come
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:back for us or because our time on
this earth is gonna reach its end.
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:Even in Psalm 1 39, you say, all of our
days are written down in, in your book.
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:And and we're not gonna have another one.
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:Jesus said to his followers, who
can be, who by being anxious, can
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:add a single hour to his life.
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:And so we need to do the things that,
that he calls them to in that same context
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:when he says, seek first the kingdom of
God and let all these other things that
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:you're worried about be added to you.
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:God, help us to be those that
live faithfully that live for
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:you, that live for your agenda.
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:And that don't waste our time and waste
away the stewardship of the years that
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:you've given us while we still have them.
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:Lord, we wanna be a faithful
church in that regard.
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:We pray in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep reading your Bibles.
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:Tune in again tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:See you.
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:Bye.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said