00:00 Introduction and DJ Talk

00:39 Live Podcast Ideas

01:52 School's Out and Summer Plans

03:58 Psalm 5: Morning Devotion

06:40 Psalm 38: Acknowledging Suffering

09:24 Psalm 41: Lament and Hope

12:25 Psalm 42: Thirsting for God

15:09 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Hey, welcome to Monday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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And we are back in the songs.

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That's right.

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We're kicking it old school.

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Spinning.

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The, uh, the records for all of you.

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Now, what would it be like to be a DJ?

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You ever want to do that job?

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I.

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And confused by watching them like,

so, no, I've never been like, I

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want to do that because I don't

think I could ever figure it out.

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You.

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I could do it.

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Your dad did it.

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He was a DJ for a minute or a radio host.

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Anyhow.

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Well, that's different.

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I mean, he's not like spinning, like.

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He's not doing any of that.

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I don't know.

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He might have, did you

ask him maybe he did.

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I don't think he did.

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It seems like he could throw it down.

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Yeah.

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Being a radio.

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Like that sounds fun.

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Yeah, that would be fun.

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I think we should try it.

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Well, it's kind of what

we're doing right now.

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The guy from moody, tell us that he

wants to put our podcasts on the radio.

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Let's just go give him the files and say,

Hey, put this on the radio, do it here.

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Or let's just start recording

them live on the radio and take

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callers in between our segments.

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It's all right.

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We're done with this chapter.

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What are all your friends?

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Calling from Texas.

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I think they'd be longer episodes.

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Yeah, they might and

we'd have to do it live.

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That'd be fun.

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It would be fun.

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Yeah, we should do a live

episode at some point.

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I don't know when we talked about it with

the men's retreat that maybe we could

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have down there and recorded live with the

men, but I don't know if that'd be as fun.

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No.

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Fine.

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I think it would be fun.

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Pastor, rod doesn't want.

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I think I would be distracted

by their presence and then

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I'd have a hard time focusing.

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And then I would, I w I'd start talking

and I wouldn't know what I'd be saying

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because I'm distracted by their presence.

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I don't know.

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We could try.

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I know molar.

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I know molar does not

like doing those live.

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Ask me any or not.

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Briefing.

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Well, but that's because

he's trying to do it exactly.

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Like he always does it.

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And so I think if we changed it up and

we're a little bit more interactive

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with those that were present.

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It is enjoyable to listen to.

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I don't know, that's not my concern.

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Okay.

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Yeah, no, um, yeah, Monday.

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Uh, kicking off another new week.

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My kids get out of school this week.

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I don't know about yours,

but, uh, I think that's right.

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In fact, uh, last week,

Founders the church.

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Yeah, school that we use.

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Yeah.

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They got out on Friday.

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Yeah.

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So I think all of first gifted.

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All of Frisco.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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But, uh, we're we're we get

out on Wednesday, I think.

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And I don't know when Solana

gets out, maybe same time.

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Really you guys get on

a Wednesday, Wednesday.

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I don't know why I have it.

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I have, oh, I guess maybe, maybe it is.

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Yeah.

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I'm looking at my calendar here.

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Yeah, we're doing our end December

bash in the student minister.

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We're going to go to this

place called Andretti's.

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which has fast.

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You know, go-karts and things like that.

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Andretti like a Mario Andretti.

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Yes.

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That's how the.

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That's how the guys say it.

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Oh, but yeah.

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Yeah, we're excited about that.

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That's going to be fun and I guess a

what's it called a astronomical summer?

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Is that the right terminology?

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When it's like.

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What that is.

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Well, it's it's when it's

summer officially begins.

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There's a name for that.

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Yeah, it's in June sometime.

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Are you sure?

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It's not like in a couple weeks.

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Yeah.

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Cause yeah, it's in June.

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Cause it's summer solstice is

like June 20th or something.

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That's the longest day.

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Of the.

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Of the year only because you

remember your birthday, you're like,

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oh yeah, summer and my birthday.

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Well, honestly, yeah, because when I

was younger, It bugged me because when

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I was like, man, the longest day of the

year is really right before my birthday.

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Like that, that stinks.

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Not understanding that

there's still 24 hours.

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They just met the longest

amount of sunlight.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So speaking of your.

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It's a big one for you.

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It is four zero.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I expect that on that day, when we

record the podcast, That you will

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have 40 lessons that you've learned

over the course of your life.

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Abe Kim did this.

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When we went to his, uh, we

went to bagels and bruise.

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I remember the celebrate, his 40th.

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He had, he had, uh, a word doc or an Excel

spreadsheet with mathematical formulations

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about the 40 lessons that he's learned.

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And talk about lesson number one.

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Here's how you tie your shoes.

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This is the number two.

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Add salt to your food.

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I expect a bit more profound insights.

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We'll see what happens, but yeah, big,

uh, big four, zero coming up in June.

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So before.

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I heard you're going to

jump out of an airplane.

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Not going to do that.

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We were talking about the Bible today.

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And here we are in a 1, 2, 3, 4

Psalm Psalm five to kick us off.

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Some five is a Psalm of David.

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Another morning, som morning.

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Not as in, oh, I'm sad.

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But morning is in like, oh,

it's the morning I get to

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get up and get out of bed.

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Uh, it alternates here between a

focus on God's character and the

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character of the wicked in the first

eight verses David's focus is more

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theological while in the last four

verses they take on that judgment tone.

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That imprecatory tone

that we've seen so often.

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Uh, but I love verse three,

a load in the morning.

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You hear my voice in the morning.

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I prepare a sacrifice for you

and watch it versus like that.

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We've often gotten the

question in the past.

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Hey.

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When do I have to do my, my Bible reading?

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Do I have to do it in the morning?

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Or else or else or else what.

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I don't know.

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It doesn't, it's not as good.

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The spiritual well, Who knows.

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Right.

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And, and honestly, the Bible does

not say thou shalt do that quiet

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time in this timeframe, but there

are precepts that I think we pull in.

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One of them is from here.

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Uh, when David says, look in the

morning, I'm going to bring my

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sacrifice to you in the morning.

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I'm going to lift my voice to you.

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And so David was starting

the beginning of every day.

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Focused on the Lord and

that's helpful for us as well.

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Jesus himself did the same

thing in Mark's gospel.

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I love the way that Mark's gospel

starts to get straight to the action.

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And Jesus is up on the first

day of ministry and he's

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doing all kinds of stuff.

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He's teaching he's healing.

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He's casting out demons late, late,

late, late, late into the night.

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And then it says while it was still

dark, he got up to go and spend

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time with his father in prayer.

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And so there, you see Jesus prioritizing

that morning time to seek the Lord.

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And, and I think there's benefit to that.

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Again, we can't make a hard, fast

rule, but when we do our quiet

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time at the end of the day, And

then we turn around and go to bed.

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We're not really taking anything with us.

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When we do our, our DVR time.

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We're not really carrying anything.

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We're not giving ourselves a

chance to meditate on the word.

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We're not giving ourselves

a chance to mull it over.

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Um, Unless we wake up in the morning

with a thought, from the word

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that we studied the night before.

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And if you're going to do it at night,

I would encourage you to do that.

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Write something down on

your phone or on a notebook.

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And carry that thought with you,

meditate on that thought throughout

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the rest of the day until you get to

your next reading that, that evening.

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But I just think there's

there's wisdom and starting

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each day with the word of God.

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And immense wisdom.

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And I would say, man, if you're,

if you're a night person, Well,

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let's let's, let's do both.

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Let's do morning and evening.

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I mean, what a great way.

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There's a morning sacrifice

and a neat evening sacrifice.

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I mean, Spurgeon had his

comment, not his commentary, his

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devotional morning and evening.

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I think, uh, probably the godliest

Christians in human history have been

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people of the book all throughout the day.

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There's nothing, especially wholly

about the morning time, but it is

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a good way to posture your data.

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Say like you're, you're

getting my first and my best.

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Yeah.

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And for some people that's not the case.

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They're first in their

best is later in the day.

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Okay.

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Give God the first, in your best,

whatever part of the day that is.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Helpful.

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Psalm 38, sorry.

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We're not supposed to say helpful.

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Again, so I'm 38, never

even said, stop saying that.

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Uh, some 38 is a Psalm of

lament again, which is sorrow.

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This is morning MOU, R I N I N G

uh, written for remembrance either

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to remind God or more likely to

remind himself the Psalmus that is.

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And Israel of what to do

in the midst of suffering.

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And so in the first two verses you

get the petition of David here.

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And acknowledgement that this

suffering, that this situation is from

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God rebuked me, not in your anger,

discipline me, not in your wrath.

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Your arrows have sunk into me.

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So David understands God's

sovereignty over the suffering

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that he's enduring right now.

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Verses three through 10 though.

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David focuses on the internal

suffering, the suffering.

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Plaguing his, his body, his personhood,

his, his individual life before in

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verses 11 through 20, focusing on the

suffering from the outside sources,

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the external sources that were.

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Plaguing him from the outside in and,

and, and the, the enemies in what

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they were doing to him and how he

was suffering in the midst of that.

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Again, still all under the

sovereignty of the Lord verses

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one through to frame it that way.

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And then finally he concludes the Psalm

with a closing prayer in verses 21.

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In 22 pleading with the Lord, not

to forsake him, not to leave him in

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his suffering, but to make haste.

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And to deliver him from this.

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So I don't subscribe to the

prosperity gospel in the least.

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Good.

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But I do, I do think there is a

connection between our walk with

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God and our, and our health.

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Yes.

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Um, As you see here in

verses three, I guess a.

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What, what through the w where's

that at verse eight, give or take,

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um, David identifies the fact that

as he, as he withholds sin in some

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way, Um, he recognizes that God's

discipline and his rebuke and his anger

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looks a lot like no soundness in his

flesh because of God's indignation.

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The discipline of God is heavy upon him.

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There's no health in my bones because

of my sin and equities have gone

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over my head, like a heavy burden.

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I know you can over interpret this and

think about every cough and sniffle

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as God's discipline in judgment.

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I'm not saying that.

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It's not my intention, but I am

saying that it makes sense to me

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that a Christian who's way down

by the burden of his or her sin.

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Uh, and is, is either not confessing

it or wrestling with it in some

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way, shape or form would, would

create a situation where in their

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body would feel the effects of this.

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I think you see this also in the new

Testament, first Corinthians 11, Paul.

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Paul says to the church.

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This is why some of you are sick

and ill, and even some of you have

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died because you've taken the cup

of communion in an unworthy fashion.

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Which tells me that God still deals

with us in a very physical way.

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It's not the only way he deals with

us, but that's certainly part of it.

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So I would pay attention to that.

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And I'm again, not every sniffle on his

knees is his discipline, but it is worth

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asking, Lord, am I, am, am I holding on

to some sense, search me and know me as

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we're going to see in a couple of days?

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Yeah.

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Yup.

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Yep.

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I'm 41 then.

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Uh, this is another Psalm of David,

uh, and this is another Selma limit,

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particularly during a difficult

season of David's life here.

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Uh, versus one and all the way

down in verse 13, you've got a som.

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This book ended here by blessings.

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Uh, the first two, the compassionate

person at the end to the eternal God.

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So in the opening, he's saying blessed

is the one who considers the poor and the

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day of trouble, the Lord delivers him.

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And then the Psalm ends, uh, by David

blessing, God himself, uh, blessed

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to be the Lord, the God of Israel

from everlasting to everlasting.

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So those are bookends,

they're those blessings.

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But then in between.

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We get, uh, the, the, the lament,

the recognition that the Lord

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delivers, protects and heals

there in verses one through three.

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And then the, the ask for that

in verse four, he needs that.

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So he's petitioning the Lord for healing

and for forgiveness from the sin that

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has potentially brought about these.

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The circumstances of suffering.

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Versus 5 39.

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You get a again.

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The focus on the suffering

from the outside.

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Uh, those who hate me whispered

together about me verse seven,

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they imagined the worst for me.

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They see a deadly thing

is poured out on him.

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And so people are plotting

against David's life.

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That happened plenty of times.

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We've been reading about

that in a second, Samuel.

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As we've been going through the book,

then in verse 10, David petitions,

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the Lord for grace restoration and

even vengeance against his enemies.

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Uh, and then, uh, in, in verses

11 through 12, David's confidence

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is expressed here in God's care.

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Uh, before finally ending

it by, by blessing the Lord.

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And so David's lamenting, but again,

as we've seen so often with him, not

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without hope, he's, he's getting to

the right conclusion, which is that

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God can and does preserve his people.

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And that's why David asks

the Lord to do just that.

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Have you ever come to the conclusion

that there's too, too many limits?

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Psalms, do you ever feel

like, man, this is too much.

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Sorry.

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It gets to feel like it's redundant.

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Maybe not redundant, but

just like, oh, I got it.

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I guess yeah, redundancy is part

of it, but just that sense of.

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I would like more happy songs.

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I'd like songs that lift my spirits.

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David, come on, stop telling

me how hard things are.

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Right.

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Let's look on the bright side, buddy.

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I just feel like on occasion.

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And if David were part of the

21st century church, people

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are like, dude, you're too sad.

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Like you, you just got to put

your hope in the Lord, bro.

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Right.

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Right.

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Here's my only takeaway from that,

I think there is a way to, to

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have a lot of ha I mean, David had

reasons for this, obviously not, not

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the least of which being his sin.

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But sad feelings are part

of the Christian life.

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Disappointment regret

pain, heartache sickness.

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I mean, everything that you see

as part of the regular day to day

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experience of the Christian David

felt and Heela meant it over.

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But there's nothing wrong

with that sometimes.

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Sometimes churches.

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And this is certainly not

every church I am home.

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I'm not casting a wide blanket here.

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And saying, every church

does this, but sometimes it's

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like, Hey, welcome to church.

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Happy, sloppy time.

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Put.

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Put a smile on your face.

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People.

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I think there's times for us to

say, man, it's, it's good to be sad.

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It's good to be.

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Not sad.

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Let's use a biblical term.

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Let's lament over sin.

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Let's amend over what's

happening in Israel.

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Let's lament over.

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What we see happening at our nations.

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Highest courts and even the

highest leadership and what we see,

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there's a time to lament for sin.

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There's a time to be sorrowful

and the scripture gives plenty.

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Of examples for what that looks like?

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Yes.

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Yes it does.

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Including our next

Psalm as well, Psalm 42.

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Guess what it is.

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I remember this one, this

lament, it's a Selma lament.

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I preached an AAV.

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But this a song.

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Did you do a good job?

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Take it away.

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Well, okay.

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Um, This Alma element, actually, if you.

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If you remember, we read this

one already, but solid 43 and

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Psalm 42 are likely connected.

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In fact, I can, I can

prove it to you right now.

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If you're looking at your Bible, Psalm

40 twos, chorus, if you will in verse

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five, why are you cast down on my soul?

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Why are you in turmoil within me?

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Hope in God for, I shall again,

praise him my salvation and my God.

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And you'll notice in

chapter 43 in verse five.

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You see it again?

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Why are you cast down on my soul?

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It's the same exact verse,

same exact chorus, if you will.

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So it seems like these two things

go together in this particular

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Psalm, you see David on the run.

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Uh, verse 40 41 verse chapter 42, verse

one as a deer pants for flowing streams.

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So pants my soul for you.

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Oh God, you might've seen this on a,

on a greeting card or, or a coffee

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mug and w with a deer just like.

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Serenely looking at, uh, you know,

a body of water and saying, oh,

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this is delicious and wonderful.

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And then you'll see it

on your cup right there.

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Psalm 42 verse one.

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This is not that scene.

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This is a deer on the run.

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This deer is running for dear life.

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He's hungry.

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He's thirsty.

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He's famished.

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I can't breathe.

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He's panting.

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He needs, he needs help.

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So this is not that.

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It's as beautiful as this all miss.

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That's not the intention

behind verse one here.

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So this whole thing is David crying.

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Or it sends a core, actually not David.

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My soul is crying out.

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I need you God.

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When are you going to help me?

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When will you deliver me?

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I've been crying day and night.

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My enemies taunt me.

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But with all of that, notice

the Ray of sunshine here.

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Uh, these things are a member as a pour

out my soul, how I would go with the

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throng, this, the people and lead them

in the procession to the house of God

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was shouts, glad, shouts and songs of

praise, a multitude keeping festival.

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So even while he's drowning

in his sorrows, David's still

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quick to point out to himself.

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Look, David.

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Or, sorry, I keep going back

to David, but it sends a Cora.

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Uh, suffer, even though you're

suffering, don't forget the good times.

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Don't forget what God has done.

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Don't forget how God has been faithful.

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And this is where the chorus comes in.

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Don't why are you cast down?

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Put your hope in God, then

that really is the point.

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I remember when I preach this

at Avi, my big thing is like,

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you need to preach to yourself.

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You need to counsel yourself, talk

to yourself and don't listen to

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what you're saying to yourself.

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I think.

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Uh, what's his name?

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Martin Lloyd Jones and his

book, spiritual depression says

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most of man's troubles come.

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Uh, from listening to himself

rather than preaching from

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himself, preaching to himself.

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So I think this song really sets up

a good paradigm for us to say, look,

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when I'm sorrowful, when I'm sad, I'm

not going to take it and cry all day.

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I'm going to preach to myself, tell

myself the truth, and I'm going to do

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my best to make progress in this great.

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Great insightful.

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Helpful.

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Maybe you can preach that one again,

sometime out here, you know, I didn't

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do a good job at the first time.

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I would like another crack at it.

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They have much more to say no.

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I guess I was like five or six years ago.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, one quick note, before we

land the plane here, you may note.

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Or pay attention to you or, or

observe in, in the book of Psalms

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that there are different books.

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Uh, that you'll come across

in, in, in your, your Bibles.

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Now, those are our editor contributions.

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Those are not inspired.

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Those are not part of the original.

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You know, inspiration of the

texts, these division of books,

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they're they're editor inspired.

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They're they're put in place by

whoever collected these and put

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them into one con compendium here.

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Uh, what do we do with the books?

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Well, the books.

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There's different.

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Reasons given for why the books are there.

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You'll notice that we don't emphasize

the books as we're going through them.

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It doesn't seem to be that there's any.

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Real clear understanding as

to why exactly they're there.

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Some have tried to pull thematic elements

out of each of the books that, that

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there's something about God's relationship

to us and each of the books or the Torah.

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Or the Torah.

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Yeah.

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So that's why you're not hearing

us say, oh, we're in book two.

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Well, that means this because

there's, there's really not a lot

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of clarity as to why the books

are divided up in the Psalms.

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That's right.

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So if you see that don't

lose sleep over it.

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Uh, but Hey, speaking of sleep, uh,

don't go to sleep before you have, uh,

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made sure you've done your daily Bible

reading today and tune in again tomorrow.

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For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then guys.