In this light-hearted and engaging episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts dive into various Psalms while keeping the tone conversational and humorous. They touch upon Psalm 7, 27, 31, 34, and 52, providing context and insights into each. The episode begins with playful banter about singing and transitions smoothly into more substantial topics such as praying for their pastor's health and the dangers of microplastics. They conclude with a prayer and encourage listeners to delve deeply into the Psalms, despite the poetic complexity, to draw meaningful principles and truths.

00:00 Welcome Back to the Daily Bible Podcast

01:07 Pastor Rod's Voice and Prayers

02:04 Microplastics and Gum

02:48 Barbershop Memories and Haircuts

06:11 Diving into the Psalms

07:04 Psalm 7: A Prayer for Deliverance

09:31 Psalm 27: Confident Joy in the Lord

10:59 Psalm 31: Trusting God in Distress

12:54 Psalm 34: Taste and See the Lord's Goodness

16:14 Psalm 52: Trusting God to Punish Evil

17:35 Closing Prayers and Reflections

18:26 Final Thoughts and Farewell

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Hey, and welcome back to a very s Soy, not balmy buts soy

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addition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Would've been better if

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Rod: you sang it

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PJ: Sy.

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Rod: Yeah,

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PJ: I don't know how I would s it.

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Try saying

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Rod: Welcome back at

this time, but sing it

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PJ: like, welcome back Cotter.

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Rod: No,

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PJ: welcome back.

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Welcome back.

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Rod: No.

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Just sing it that you

are basically rapping.

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That was spoken word.

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Try singing

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PJ: it.

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I don't want to, I don't know the tune.

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I don't know that song.

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I don't think it's a real song.

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Don't

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Rod: A song may just make up a song.

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It doesn't have to be a real song.

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I don't wanna make up a song.

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We have.

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Why are you not wanting to say

you sing at your small group?

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All the time.

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PJ: All the time.

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All the, every time, the time.

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I feel like that's, everyone says I,

who you're talking to because this

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is, these are false accusations.

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Rod: Isn't that an accusation,

isn't it a statement of fact?

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PJ: I don't know.

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It's not a statement of fact.

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Rod: Okay.

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You've led

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PJ: worship at your small group.

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Yeah.

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I, okay, so I also led worship back

at like for a job for a while too.

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Rod: Alright, so then we know that

you are willing to, so why not you?

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And you got me

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PJ: coughing.

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Now all of a sudden

I've got laryngitis too.

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I can't talk anymore

'cause I got laryngitis.

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Okay.

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Anyways, that's why I can't

sing 'cause I've got laryngitis.

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That's why.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Perfect.

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Or something like that.

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Yeah.

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Hey, it's Tuesday.

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Hopefully Pastor Rod's voice is

back to full strength at this point.

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God will, it's Saturday as we record this.

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So again, if not, keep praying for that.

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And if you're not unsure,

keep praying for it.

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And then hopefully your prayers will show

themselves to have been answered, even

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if it retroactively, even if he's already

healed by now and you're still unaware.

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Keep praying that he would be healed.

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I'll take your prayers

anytime day or night.

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Yeah.

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Do it well and even thinking about that

I, as you're praying for pastor out

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on a regular basis, which hopefully

you're praying for your pastors,

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myself included, on a regular basis, I

would say praying for his voice to be

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strong and healthy and robust would be.

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A good prayer on a regular

basis, whether he's sick or not.

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Amen.

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'cause he's gotta use it on

Wednesday nights for our students.

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He's gotta use it on the weekends

as he leads worship and sings.

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He's gotta use it as he's here

and counsels and meets with

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people throughout the week.

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So it's our bread and butter.

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It's our instrument.

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Yeah.

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Yeah it is for sure.

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So pray that for both of us because it's

it's important for us that we maintain

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our health and maintain our voices.

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Please.

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And thank you.

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Hey, did you hear?

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Speaking of health the, the

whole microplastics craze, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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Everybody's concerned about those.

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Oh, yeah.

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I saw a headline and I didn't click

on it the other day, but it popped

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up on my newsfeed that they're

discovering that gum has been releasing

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microplastics into people for ages.

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Rod: Oh, I did hear about that.

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Yeah.

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PJ: Yeah.

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So there you go.

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Everybody ruined gum for you.

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You're welcome.

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No more gum.

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Is it all gum or just some of that old gum

that you used to get from the barber shop.

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Yeah.

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Or in like the cards of baseball

bubble or double bubble.

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Baseball cards.

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Double bubble.

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That's what it is.

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Yeah.

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Is that what it's Yeah, it's

made out of Bubble Guppies

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Rod: Bubble.

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What?

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It's something like that.

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What is it?

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Bubble.

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Bubble.

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Guppies.

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It's oh man.

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Double bubble.

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Double bubble.

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PJ: It's double bubble.

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Double bubble.

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Yes, it is.

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You're right.

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There's also licious, there's

also fruit stripe which never

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tasted good for very long.

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Did you ever go to the barbershop or

did you go to salons your whole life?

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I Yes.

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Salons my whole life.

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Yeah.

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Did

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Rod: you get the double

bubble from the barber?

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PJ: I don't think I ever got the

double bubble from the barber.

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I got the stick of cardboard gum

outta the baseball card pack.

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Like that thing that I had

been in there for like ages.

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Yeah.

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That I'm sure that.

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Has cancerous properties in it.

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There's no doubt.

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That's

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Rod: great.

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It is worth it.

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PJ: Those are fond

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Rod: memories.

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PJ: They, yeah, sure they are.

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Yeah.

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I agree.

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Uhhuh a hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Rod: I dunno you probably went to this

salon where they gave you like brisket

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every time you came or something?

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PJ: Yes, and a hundred dollars

for actually showing up.

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They paid me to be there.

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They were like, wow,

you hair is so amazing.

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We can't believe that we get to cut it.

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We're

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Rod: paying you for the

privilege of using your hair.

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PJ: Yeah.

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The haircut itself was 200 bucks,

but they paid me a hundred bucks.

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In the end it all washed ouT.

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And if you're sitting there outraged

that your pastor did that, I didn't.

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So there you go.

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That was just, it was all a lie.

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So be outraged that I lied, but I only

lied because Pastor Rod made me, so I, did

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Rod: I not Thank you.

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PJ: You fed me the lies and I just went

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Rod: I was just talking about a scenario

wherein I could see it being the truth.

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That I went to salons my whole life.

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Yeah, maybe.

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Yeah.

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Like you'd go to get your Mani

PE and then go get your Yes.

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Yes, exactly.

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Just kidding.

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I don't see, I would be shocked

if any of that was true.

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What?

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What?

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PJ: Yeah.

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What about my Great Clips haircut

that I'm rocking right now

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would give you the impression.

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She did a great job though.

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That place, man.

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It is.

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That is the most gambling

I do in my entire life.

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Rod: It basically is gambling, man.

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Yeah, you're paying for the privilege

too, so it's just like gambling, right?

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A hundred percent

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PJ: I go in there, I sit down, I tell 'em

the same thing I want every single time.

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I want a two on the sides

finger length on top.

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And it is amazing how many different

interpretations of that there are.

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Rod: It's art and science.

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That's my conclusion.

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PJ: Yeah.

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And I love when they point

out my cowlick every time.

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I haven't heard that since that

like I was five years old getting

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her, you have a cowlick right there.

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I'm just gonna feign shock every

time from no one will be like, wait

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a minute, nobody's ever told me that.

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What do you say when they say that?

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I say, yeah, I know.

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And then they're like, and then carry on.

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Just kinda like smile and they move on

and keep cutting the rest of my hair.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I wonder what they're expecting

to have you say to that.

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What's the anticipated response?

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I

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PJ: don't know.

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You can't fix it.

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Shock.

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Oh.

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I'm like, yeah.

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My parents, I grew up on a farm and

my parents used to put me in the cow

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pen and they just went at it at all.

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Rod: You should just go for it.

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Maybe that, that, that'd be humorous.

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At least dude.

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Oh

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PJ: man.

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They would be so confused.

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They'd be like, what?

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What is happening?

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Yeah.

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No, she did a great job.

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She was kind and nice.

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So I've got a lot more grays in my

hair though than I used to have,

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Rod: yikes.

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PJ: How do you feel about that?

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I'm okay with it.

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Crown of glory, right?

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As long as, not like Baldy, where

the bear, she bear comes out and

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eats the children from mocking Baldy.

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Yeah.

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Rod: Do you think maybe for one

of the milestones that our church

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hits that you'll let us d your

No, you didn't, lemme finish.

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I didn't let you finish.

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You're exactly right.

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You're a milestone that the

church hits like a big one.

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Nope.

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We go to two services.

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Nope.

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You let us d Your hair with highlights.

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PJ: Nope.

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I told my wife the other day,

I was like, love highlights.

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I said, Hey, I think I want

to get I think I want a buzz.

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And she looked at me and she goes,

literally, she was like, you're 40.

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What's wrong with that?

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I think she thought I've passed the

age where I can pull off a buzz.

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Rod: I say give it a shot and

we'll all give you some feedback,

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PJ: okay?

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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My daughter is not a

fan of the buzz either.

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She's no, dad, you can't do that.

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Rod: Don't buzz her hair.

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Yeah, let her keep her hair.

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PJ: Yeah, hers for sure.

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Yeah.

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The buzz would not look good on Annie.

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That's a for sure.

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Alright, let's talk the Bible.

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Psalm seven, Psalm 27, Psalm

31, Psalm 34, Psalm 52.

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There's a lot.

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We're gonna have quite a few

of these days, by the way.

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While Pastor OT is still somewhat unable

to talk, I'm gonna go ahead and say what I

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think about how you should refer to these.

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And they're not, it's

not Psalms seven Psalms.

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27 Psalms 31.

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Contrary to what the grammar books

out there might tell you they can do.

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The grammar books are written by people

that are not commentary writers, and they

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are wrong because it is an individual

psalm that makes up the book of Psalms.

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He's typing right now furiously.

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He's looking for justification

to be able to say no.

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You can say Psalms seven, but it is.

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Incorrect.

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It is a compromise.

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It's postmodernism at work.

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It is a result of DEI, getting

their hands on the Bible and

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telling us what we can and can't do.

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It's all of these things.

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In that above it is an individual

Psalm in the book of Psalms.

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It is not Psalms seven.

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With that out of the way,

let's talk about Psalm seven.

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I can argue with you.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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Hey, Psalm seven.

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This is Aon getting shaggy with it.

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I think as we referenced it last

time we recorded this ion of David.

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That's just talking about what the

melody was or the type of song was

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against so much is unknown here,

but this is a situation where

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we have some specificity here.

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So it says, who sang to the

Lord concerning the words of.

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Kush a Benjaminite.

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So we get some context provided for us.

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That tells us this is when

this is all happening here.

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This psalm is broken down as a

prayer, a plea and then really

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a call for God to respond.

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And so he, he opens up with

his prayer for deliverance.

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And this happens so often

in, in these psalms.

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This is a common familiar structure.

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David's in trouble.

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He's laying out his situation saying,

God, I'm asking you to deliver me from.

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This.

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And then in verses three through five,

he's gonna plead the foundation for that,

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which is his innocence in this matter.

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And that's important to note here.

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David is not pleading the fact that

he's innocent across the board.

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He's not saying I'm, I've never

committed a sin, but he's saying.

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I'm being chased and pursued

for something that I didn't do,

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a wrong, that I didn't commit.

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And so in response, he

calls for God to act.

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In verses six through nine says,

God, I want you to deliver me

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and also defeat my enemies.

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And we see the theology of David

emerged there in verses 10 through 13.

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He says, my shield is with God

who saves the upright in heart.

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My God is a righteous judge, a God

who feels indignation every day.

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If man does not repent,

God will wet his sword.

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And so David is saying, this

is who I know you to be God.

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And so that's why I'm asking these things.

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Verses 14 through 18, he's saying, I

know that in the end, the wicked will

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be judged, the wrongs will be righted.

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And so as a result of that

verse 19, I will worship you.

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He's gonna trust the Lord.

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He's going to worship God no matter what.

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And and rely upon that

not verse 19, sorry.

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Verse 17, I will give thanks to the

Lord thanks to his righteousness,

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so he's gonna praise God.

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But there's a lot here that,

that is similar in a lot of

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the Psalms that we'll read.

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Rod: Just a quick note here.

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We don't know who this

cush is though, right?

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We don't know if it's a location.

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We know if it's a guy.

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It's more likely a person, obviously, but

we just don't have any place in scripture.

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So if you're scratching your head

saying, when did we read about this?

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We did it.

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And we don't know who this is.

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This could be a number of David's

enemies that are in collaboration with

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Saul, who was a Benjamin Knight as well.

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That's where Saul was from.

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So that's maybe something that's

happening here, but we don't have

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an exact story in scripture that

tells us about this scenario.

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PJ: Correct.

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Yep.

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Yeah, that's helpful clarification there.

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Psalm 27 this is a Psalm of confident joy.

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By contrast, this again, is of David

and he's confident and he's rejoicing

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because the Lord is on our side.

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And this is the situation where he says,

if that's true, whom shall we fear?

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Paul is gonna say something very

similar to this in Romans eight.

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He's gonna say, if God is

forced, who can be against us?

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And that's basically what

David is saying here.

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The Lord is my light, my salvation.

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Whom shall I fear the

stronghold of my life?

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Of whom shall I be afraid?

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I could see David writing something

like this on the heels of his

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interaction with Saul and Getty.

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Where he was able to emerge from that.

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And Saul says, Hey, I, I

know who you're gonna be.

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Remember my family?

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And Saul walks away and

David's man, God is so good.

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God is so kind to, to do that.

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And I think this is kinda a good

reminder that, pastor Rod, you often will

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bring up, hey, make these memorials of

things that God has done in your life.

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And David's doing that through song.

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I think these are him reflecting

back on God's actions and saying,

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God is good and He's done this,

and so I'm gonna praise him for it.

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Rod: Amen.

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This is why we sing songs as a church.

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We're commemorating God's good deeds,

even though they're somewhat generic.

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They're not about a specific point or

season in our lives, but sometimes we

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get those songs that are just like,

that's the song that I was singing

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during that particular season of my life.

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And that's the power of music.

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We're meant to do this.

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This is evidence.

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All the evidence we need really to show

that God designed us to be singers.

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God sings over us.

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And therefore we ought to sing as well.

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This is a good thing, and I'm so glad that

God preserved these things in scripture

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because it reminds us how powerful and

potent music is in the life of a believer.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 31 then is a psalm that was

written by David as, again, in this

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time in a time of great distress.

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We don't have any.

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Other information about this, but we

do know verses 11 and 12, because of

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all my adver adversaries, I've become

a reproach, especially to my neighbors,

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an object of dread to my acquaintances.

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Those who see me in the

street flee from me.

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I've been forgotten, like one who is dead.

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I've become like a broken vessel.

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So we see that this is a bad circumstance

for David as he's writing this psalm.

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But still he's gonna recount

the times in the Psalm that.

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The Lord had been faithful to him

to deliver him and preserve him.

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God had been faithful.

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Verse eight, he says, you

have you have not delivered

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me into the hand of the enemy.

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You have set my feet in a broad place.

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David's saying You've done that in

the past, so you can do that again.

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So he resolves then to trust in the Lord.

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Verse 14, knowing that his life

or his times as it's put there,

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where in the hands of God that,

that God had it in control.

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Think Psalm 1 39, you've got every

single one of my days written down

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before even one of them came to pass.

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And so David's not gonna add days.

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He's not gonna subtract days like

Jesus said to his disciples, who

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have you by being anxious, can

add a single hour to his life.

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So David is gonna resolve

and trust in the Lord.

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And we get the contrast there from

his circumstances in verse 19.

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How abundant is your goodness

for those who fear you?

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And then.

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The flip side of that, for those that

don't fear you verse 23 you abundantly

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repay the one who acts in pride.

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So, this is a significant chapter.

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In fact, as we approach the cross, some

of Jesus's final words come from this very

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chapter in Psalm 31, 5 into your hand.

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I commit my spirit.

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You have redeemed me.

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Oh Lord, faithful God.

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Now, for David, that meant he was

saying, I'm gonna trust my life

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to you as I'm on the run, but.

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But Jesus takes those words and applies

those same words to himself on the

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cross before breathing his last in

a final act of obedience and trust

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in the Father, ultimately in this

act of self-sacrifice on our behalf.

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And so these words

harken back to Psalm 31.

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I.

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Psalm 34.

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Then the title of Psalm 34 is

gonna tell us that we are to taste

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and see that the Lord is good.

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And we see some context here when David

changed his behavior before a Alek.

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Or a bilac, sorry, pr let's

talk about that for a second.

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'cause we said that we didn't think that

this was a good thing that David did this.

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And yet he's going to praise

God for delivering him.

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And so this is clearly in our Bibles.

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We're not gonna look at Psalm 34

and be like, we shouldn't have this.

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But is David drawing wrong

conclusions from or right?

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Conclusions from a wrong.

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Act in in Psalm 34,

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Rod: God uses sin sinlessly.

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And so it's not a farfetched

thought to, to think that even if

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I did something wrong and I could

acknowledge that I didn't act it in a

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way that was prudent or wise or good.

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The fact that God brings about

good from these things ought to

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be reasoned for us to celebrate.

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So I would say, yeah, it's not.

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I am actually a little more

unsure about his behavior

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before Aish, who he calls a bim.

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I don't know.

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And part of the reason I don't know

is because of this passage here

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that leads me to say, okay is it?

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That, is David just.

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Praising God because God

delivered him through this means.

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Or was this something that God, I

don't wanna say endorsed, but tolerated

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and said, okay, this may not be the

ideal, but this is a wartime situation.

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It's one of those things where in

war deception is part of the practice

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and it's a part of a just war.

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No one expects the enemy to be forthright.

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You hide, you put camo on

your tanks to hide your tanks.

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Yeah.

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You deliberately deceive

your enemy to overcome them.

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So I don't know if David is using

war time techniques or tactics and

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I'm unsure of whether or not that

was a sinful move on his part.

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But I do think Psalm 34, regardless of

whether it was a sinful tendency on his

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part or if it was something that God

permitted either way, the fact that David

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celebrates this is always a good thing.

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If God uses sin in a righteous

way in your life, not your sin

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necessarily, but maybe your sin.

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If he brings about good from it,

it's always good to say, man,

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thank you God for doing that.

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Didn't have to.

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If God were to be just with

us, he would always give us

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discipline every time we sin.

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And that would be

exhausting, excruciating.

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And yet here God allows David to be

successful in that, ultimately to bring

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himself glory to overcome the Philistines.

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But that would be my few thoughts on that.

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What about you?

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PJ: Yeah I'm with you.

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I think there's enough of an opportunity

to give us pause to say, okay, maybe we.

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The situation was more upright than

we initially thought there because of,

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again this text, this passage where

actually we talked about this past Sunday

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of this idea of compatible, of God's

sovereignty, of man's responsibility

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and how he uses, as you, you put it,

sinful things in a non sinful way.

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Then may, maybe that's

what's going on here.

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And David's recognizing the good in

spite of his own actions, which is

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good for us to do at times to say,

okay, God, we messed up and yet

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you still brought good out of our

sin, out of our wrongdoing there.

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So maybe that's what's

happening here in Psalm 34.

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Rod: Amen.

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And I love the fact that David

calls us the tasting sea.

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There's a very real experiential

element to our faith, and part of

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it is to say, this is what David

is encouraging us to do, trust him.

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See for yourself.

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If you think I'm making up how

God is good, try it for yourself.

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Test, test the Lord and see

whether or not he's good.

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And this is his point.

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He's good.

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He's still, he's delivered

me, he's taken care of me.

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God has been faithful.

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Every turn that I can come to God is good.

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I love that.

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PJ: Psalm 52.

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Then as we move to our last Psalm

in this title here tells us the

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context that this was for When do

the mite had gone to a alek or told

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Saul that David had gone to a Alek.

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So this is an interesting psalm

against the background of a very.

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NA horrific situation.

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And do's the one in view when

it says in verse one, why do

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you boast of evil almighty man?

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And you think of, do remember Saul said,

who's gonna kill these people for me?

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And these priests form me and

do, has no fear of God and steps

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forward and does it no matter what.

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And so this psalm is a confident

expression of the trust that

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David had, that God would

punish dogue for his evil deeds.

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And by extension anyone who sets himself

against God And in bows up against

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God, God is going to punish them for

the evil and the wrongdoing that they.

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Commit.

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The response that the righteous

should have is to see and fear less.

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They should find themselves in

the same spot, in the same place.

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And this is something that we look at and

it's, we talk about the L-shaped amen.

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Sometimes we listen to a sermon and we're

like, oh, this is for that guy over there.

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I think that the healthy thing

for us to do is to read this

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in fear that we should ever be.

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In a position to draw the

same response from God.

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That do is gonna draw that, that we

should say and pray along with David,

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Hey Lord, keep me from anything,

grievous any evil way within me.

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So that I might not try you,

that I might not sin against you.

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And I think that's Psalm 52 is

a good reminder of that for us.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you for the Psalms.

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I just pray that as we spend time with

them, we would be able to truly do just

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that, that we would spend time with each

one as I know sometimes it's gonna feel

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like there's a lot, there's five, there's

six Psalms that we're reading in a day.

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But God help us to still draw things,

principles, truth out of your word.

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The poetic sometimes is more difficult

for us, but allow us to be able

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to understand even consult a good

commentary, something like that, that

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we can read and track along with.

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But God, we we love your word

and we love how your word

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speaks to real life situations.

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And the Psalms are such a good

example of that as David Mourns.

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As David struggles.

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As David fears David, questions.

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It's such a good thing for us

to read the Psalms and see this,

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and also see the answers that

you provide through them as well.

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So we pray for just a rich time

as we study these together.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Rod: Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said