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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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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Yeah.

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So it's 24 hours.

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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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,

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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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Yeah.

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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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in a way that is not good.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said