00:00 Introduction and Good Friday Reflections

00:36 The Significance of Good Friday and Communion

02:13 Event Announcements and Visitor Information

03:30 Shoutout to Christian Brothers Automotive

04:35 Daily Psalms Reading

04:56 Psalm 17: A Prayer for Deliverance

05:41 Psalm 35: Rejoicing in God's Justice

07:36 Psalm 54: Trusting in God's Deliverance

11:30 Psalm 63: Thirsting for God

15:42 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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And would you say a happy good

Friday or just it's Good Friday.

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We acknowledge that It is Good

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Rod: Friday.

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It is Good Friday, and we are

gathering tonight as the church six

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30 at Founder's Classical Academy.

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So we'll be spending about an hour

together, maybe just a little bit

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more and remembering the cross singing

songs together, smaller message

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communion together should be a good.

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It's meant to be a sober day.

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It's meant to be a day

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PJ: of reflection.

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It's an odd one to participate in.

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Yeah, because it's like you,

you're celebrating, or honoring

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is probably the better word.

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Good Friday.

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Not forgetting that.

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Sunday's around the corner.

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Yeah, I know how this ends.

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It's a story that you know the

ends to, so there's not a good

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way to talk about Good Friday.

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There's not like a

catchphrase like on Sunday.

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You say he has risen and everyone

says he has risen Indeed.

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Now, what do you do for Good Friday?

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Do you say Happy good Friday to people?

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When you see other Christians in

the hallway, do you be like, Hey.

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It's that day to day.

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Yeah.

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I

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Rod: don't know if I,

because it's good Friday.

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It's not Black Friday.

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And it's good be Yeah.

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And we know why it's good, but.

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For me I feel a little bit of

this every time we go to the

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Lord's tup table together.

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Every time we take communion together or

tupper, some people just put us together.

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Yeah.

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The Lord's Tupper.

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The Lord's Tupper Tupperware.

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It was the party actually is what it was.

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He was like, Hey Peter, did

you bring the the Rubbermaid?

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No.

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I feel that every time we

go to the, to communion.

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It's heavy.

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It's a memorial of his death.

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That's what communion is.

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We're proclaiming the

Lord's death until he comes.

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We're not remembering his resurrection.

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When we go to communion together I.

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I feel that way about Good Friday too.

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It's, it is a bit of a

somber day and that's okay.

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It's, I think it's good for us to

feel the weight of the day and we can

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feel the weight of the day and mourn,

yet not mourn as those without hope.

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I, this is a microcosm of what

we go through as believers.

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When we lose somebody that we love

to death, it's, we feel the weight of

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that and yet, that's the way to put it.

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We remember that they're not gone forever.

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So to, to sit in the shadow of

the cross as it were is good.

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It's it's helpful for us to be pensive

and contemplative when it comes to

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the serious nature of our faith.

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And there are el elements of our

faith that we need to take seriously.

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So we're gonna do our best with the

song selection and just preaching

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through this part of John, and then

taking communion together to really set

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our minds on the gravity of the cross

and what it means for us as believers.

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PJ: Yeah, it's gonna be a great

night tonight or great evening, I

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guess I'm say six 30 to seven 30.

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Yeah.

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Should I bring visitors

to something like this?

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Is this a visitor friendly event?

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Rod: I would so I, I'll give you a

little sneak peek into the message.

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I'm really gonna be talking

about why it mattered that Jesus

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needed to be both God and man.

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Truly God, truly man.

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And why both of those realities

matter to us for our standing

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with the father ultimately.

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Sunday morning is gonna

be heavily evangelistic.

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I'll just let you know that ahead of time.

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It's geared at a lot of it is directed

towards the unbeliever reminders of us as

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believers that we can rejoice in for sure.

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But Sunday morning is gonna be heavily

evangelistic but Friday will be as well.

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It should hopefully cause us as

Christians to reflect, like we've

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been talking about here with a, a.

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A sobriety that causes us to be very

grateful and thankful and overwhelmed

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with even just a refreshed feeling

of relief that, man I'm forgiven

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by God, my debt's been paid.

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And I think it would be good for the

unbeliever because hopefully that

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would instill in them a desire to say

I want that, and I don't have that.

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Yeah, it sounds like it's gonna

be a great weekend for us.

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Hope hope yeah.

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And by the way, keep praying

for Saturday the rain.

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I think what I'm seeing recently is that

it's supposed to start in the afternoon,

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which would be great 'cause that would

mean that we could get our extravaganza in

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there and not have to cancel that event.

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We don't want to cancel that event.

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There's been a lot of work that's gone

into that event, but just keep praying

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that the weather will start later in

the day and not hit early on Saturday.

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Before we get started, let me

throw a quick shout out there.

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Christian Brothers automotive in Salina,

specifically Clayton who works at

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Christian Brothers Automotive in Salina.

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If you guys are looking to get your

car taken care of or you need work

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done on your car they I'll say this.

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They I trust them with

their assessment of things.

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They do good work.

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It's not that they're always gonna be the

bottom dollar in town, but they're gonna

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be people of integrity with what they do.

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And and they've come through for me

and my family of just within this last

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week had a situation where they they

stepped up and made right something

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that had gone wrong and not even on

their fault, it wasn't their fault.

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And they still went above and beyond

as far as customer service goes

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to, to make something right for us.

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Clayton and Christian Brothers

Automotive in Salina off Preston

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Road there they've got my.

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My business moving forward.

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PJ: For sure.

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Yeah.

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I've had really good

experience with those guys.

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I've been going to them since pretty much

the beginning of our arrival here, and

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they've always dealt fairly, I like they,

they send you text messages of what's

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wrong with their car and then it shows you

like, oh, here's what this actually does.

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And I appreciate that.

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'cause I don't know really

how the car works Totally.

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But when they send me those little videos,

I feel like, oh no, that makes sense.

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I get that.

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Yeah, it's helpful.

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Rod: Yeah.

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I'm the guy that's it's going like this.

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Isn't that what most people do?

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Alright, let's jump into our Psalms.

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We have four of them today.

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Which is, it may sound like a lot,

but pass, you were just saying

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we've got some days, there's days

we're doing double Yeah, double.

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A lot double duty.

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Even tomorrow's reading, like we've

got something first and first Samuel,

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but then we're jumping to Psalm 18.

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You're like, oh, only one Psalm.

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And yet it's 50 verb verses long.

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It's a ton.

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Anyway, Psalm 17.

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In Psalm 17, we have a prayer of

David here asking that the Lord

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would deliver him from his foes.

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Just common themes here in the Psalms,

and that's something that I think comes

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out more in this plan just because

we are hitting a lot of this time

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when David's on the run from Psalm.

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So a lot of the psalms that we're reading

chronologically right now have to do with

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deliverance and prayers for deliverance.

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Here again, he appeals to his

integrity as the foundation for his.

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His request, his ask of God.

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And and as the prayer winds down as he

ends it acknowledging that sometimes the

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Lord allows the wicked to flourish here,

but the greater flourishing will be found

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for believers in the presence of God.

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So he acknowledges the fact that maybe

deliverance isn't gonna come, or at

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least maybe not in the way that he.

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Is hoping that it would come,

and yet it will ultimately come

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from the Lord in the future.

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Psalm 35.

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Then again here, David, praying

for deliverance again, and we

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know, again, if you're wondering,

how do we know these are David?

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When you look at the title of the psalm

underneath the heading on the ESV,

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it'll say something like, in chapter

17, a Prayer of David and in chapter 35.

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Of David.

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And so check those titles.

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'cause those give us an idea of who

it is that is, is writing these.

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And those are not titles

put in by editors.

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Those are there because David wrote

that David put in the original

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manuscript or the original text as

he was writing it, A Prayer of David.

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And though we don't have the original

manuscripts anymore what we do have

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is the copies of those manuscripts

that have been passed down.

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And those have preserved that attribution

there in the title of the psalm.

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But in chapter 35, he's praying

for deliverance and looking forward

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to the day that he can rejoice

at the downfall of his enemies.

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This one's hard.

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We've talked about it quite a

bit, just this idea of finding

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joy in the downfall of the wicked.

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And I think there are some that

it's easy for us to conceive

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of what that looks like.

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But then we have to balance that by

turning the other cheek and praying for

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our enemies and heaping burning coals

on their heads by the acts of kindness.

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And so that, that's difficult here.

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And David is re saying, I wanna

rejoice over their downfall, like

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they've rejoiced over my downfall.

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And that's.

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That gets a little sketchy just because

we've talked about it that our joy

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over the downfall of an enemy, of

the Lord should really come because

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of their offense against God more

so than their offense against us.

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Any thoughts on that interaction there?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I.

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If we're gonna read this charitably

as much as we can anyway.

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I wonder if his delight, his joy is

maybe not so much at their downfall as

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much as it is his at his vindication.

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Yeah.

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The fact that God is honored

and he has shown to be

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righteous and full of integrity.

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I think the judgment of

God in the lives of these.

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Unbelievers, these enemies show that

David was in fact in the rights.

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And I wanna say, I think that's

part of what's happening here.

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More, more that than it would

be, ha you got what you deserved.

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Yeah.

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I don't know that one, at least

that doesn't resonate in terms of

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what we know to be true about David.

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That's fair.

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Rod: Yeah.

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PJ: That

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Rod: is a charitable reading.

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That's a good way.

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Psalm 54.

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Then context of this psalm is given as

the time that the zip fights were going

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to turn David over to Saul and his men.

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And so you remember David had prayed

saying, Hey, is this gonna happen?

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God said yes.

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And so David booked it.

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He got out there.

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And so in the Psalm, David ends up

praising God and asking that God would

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continue to deliver him as he always had.

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And so he's talking in

the psalm just about.

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Verse three, strangers have arisen

against me ruthless men seeking his life.

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But God, verse four is my helper,

the Lord, the upholder of my life.

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He will return evil to my enemies.

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And so he just, he knows because

of the way that God has operated

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in the past, how he anticipates

God operating in the future.

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And that's something that,

that is, is helpful for us.

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God is unchanging, he is

immutable, but we also.

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Need to know.

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And we're gonna see this a little bit

later on in the life of David's generals

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when they go out to battle that God

doesn't always deliver the same way twice.

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And so there's gonna be a situation

that we're gonna read about in second

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Samuel, where David's army is gonna go

out to do battle and they're gonna win.

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And then the enemy, the same

enemy, is gonna draw up to the

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same spot that they were when the

army beat them the first time.

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And yet God's gonna deliver them

in a totally different way than

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he did the first time around.

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So I think.

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We can bank on the theology and the

doctrine that, man, God delivers us.

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He's got us, he's gonna care for us.

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He's gonna protect us.

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But I think we also need to know

that deliverance may look different

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than it's ever looked in the past.

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And so we can draw some principles,

guiding principles, thoughts about God,

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but I don't think we want to take it to

the bank and go, oh, we're gonna be fine

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this time because we were fine last time.

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And he's gonna do the same thing

this time that he did last time.

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PJ: O one thing I saw here in verse

six is that David says, with the free

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will offering, I will sacrifice to you.

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I'll give thanks to you.

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Oh Lord.

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For it is good.

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And the reason why he says

in verse seven is that you've

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delivered me from every trouble.

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My eye has looked in

triumph on my enemies.

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I think one thing that's important

for us to see is this principle of Ren

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rendering to God something tangible when

he showcases some kind of deliverance.

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If God does something for

you, that is incredibly good.

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And you notice it to say,

man, Lord, this is amazing.

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I'm so thankful that you did this.

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It's not inappropriate to say, God,

I want to thank you with some kind of

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tangible expression of my love for you.

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So David offers a free will offering.

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That is something that's not obligatory.

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It's not he has to because there

is some kind of sacrifice required.

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But he says, I want to

give you a sacrifice.

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I wanna offer something to you

because you were kind to me.

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You delivered me.

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You showed your steadfast love to me.

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And I think God is honored

and pleased by that.

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Again, the idea here

is that it's free will.

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It's not a compulsory act where

God delivers you and you have

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to now give him something.

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But man, isn't it good when our kids are

just genuinely thankful and they say, man,

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thank you, dad for this, or, thank you

mom, and man, I really appreciate that.

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Sometimes I'll be caught off guard.

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My kids do that, and I'm like, oh.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah, that's right.

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There's a sense of pride that

comes from my heart, right?

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I'm just like, that's really sweet.

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It doesn't happen all the time,

which is why it becomes all

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the more special when I see it.

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But I think that's something that

reflects the way that God feels toward

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us when we render to him some kind of

free will, offering some kind of tangible

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expression of Thanksgiving to him.

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So keep that in mind the next

time that you notice, ah, God has

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done something great in my life.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We know people that and you're

right, this is free will offering.

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And so this is not compulsor compulsory

or and it's not something that is expected

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of everybody, but we know people that

have, for example, sold their house.

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God has provided them a buyer that

maybe gave them above and beyond

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what they're expecting, right?

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And they've turned around and

they've given to the church based

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on some of what that, that extra.

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Profit was, that's an example,

maybe modern day, tangible example

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of what that would look like today.

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PJ: You brought one up not too long ago in

one of your sermons about if you have more

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than enough cars and God has blessed you,

maybe you're in real estate or something,

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or you just have a ton of money, God has

blessed you with resources and you see

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someone who has a need for a vehicle.

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Maybe the Lord moves you to say, I

wanna give this vehicle to this family.

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They're gonna benefit from this.

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This is the way that I think

God designs a church story,

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but again, it's not compulsory.

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This is something God has to stir

up in your heart to make you.

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As generous as he has

been generous to you.

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Totally.

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Yep.

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Rod: Alright.

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Psalm 63 then.

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Here is a psalm of David conveying

his devotion to the Lord, his reliance

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upon God, his desperation for him, and

God's faithfulness to him in return.

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This is such a graphic psalm in

a good way, in, in a clean way.

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Not in an obscene way, but

graphic in the illustrations

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that David uses to describe his.

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Devotion, passion for the Lord.

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And we read this and it just, it

resonates with us because all of us

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know what it feels like to thirst

when he says, my soul thirsts for you.

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My flesh faints for you is in a dry

and weary land when there's no water.

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I think thirst is one of the

strongest feelings that we experience

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as human beings, I would say

more so than even than hunger.

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There have been times that I've

been really hungry for something,

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but I think the times that I'm

more thirsty than anything else

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it's, it becomes all consuming.

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It's all you can think

about is just, I need water.

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And I think that's such a

good way for David to compare

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that to our love for the Lord.

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I desire for him is to say, does my.

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Soul thirst after the Lord.

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Do I long to be with him?

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Am I convinced verse three, that his

steadfast love is better than life?

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Am I convinced that he's worthy of that?

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That devotion of my soul that he

is precious to me that I would

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say yes, I want that right?

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Because you can be as thirsty

as you possibly can be, but yet.

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You're gonna look at a stagnant pool

and you're gonna go, I'm not gonna drink

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that, that, that doesn't appeal to me.

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You're gonna want the crisp, cold glass of

water because that's what appeals to you,

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that's refreshing to your soul is God.

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That because it's not enough, just that

you feel a longing in your soul, that

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longing in your soul has to be connected

to an affection for the Lord that would

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say and I wanna be satisfied with him.

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PJ: Such a good analogy, and he

carries it through even not only to

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the thirst, but even to the food.

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In verse five, my soul will be

satisfied as with fat and rich food.

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And I love that because it, it speaks

to something so primal in us that.

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Thirst, the hunger, the deepest of

our human needs, physically speaking,

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are expressed in those requirements.

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And God says, I am that for your soul.

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I am that for your soul.

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And that's so hard to tell somebody.

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It's so hard to communicate that.

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I was trying to communicate that

to the students this last week in

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one of our sermons, trying to say,

Jesus is the one who satisfies us.

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He's the bread of life.

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That's why he says, I am the bread.

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I am the living water.

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And so David here is pointing out,

this is the way that Yahweh is.

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To us as his people.

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He's their thirst quencher,

he's their rich food.

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And he's the one that satisfies.

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So it's no mistake when Jesus shows up

and he's Hey, I'm the bread of life.

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I'm the thing that you

really need to feast on.

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I am the living water.

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He's making a claim to deity even

without necessarily using the

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same words, even though you could

argue that IMS are pretty clear.

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But David is.

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Previewing this in Psalm 63, and I

love this analogy 'cause it's just

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it hits me, it hits all of us, I

think, who know what it is to taste

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and see that the Lord is good.

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Rod: Yeah.

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And it, it's almost as though he's

saying it's not just that he's

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satisfying you at the bare minimum

because he doesn't say he's.

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Just bread.

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He says he's fat and rich.

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Food.

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That's right.

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This is the Dlec delicacies.

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These are the things that in the middle

of the desert, you don't expect to find.

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Totally.

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And things that you can imagine David

is missing from Saul's table when he

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had sat at Saul's table with Jonathan.

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It's a great connection and thinking,

man, that's what's back there.

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But God is that to me now.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In Matthew 15 where Jesus multiplies

the fish and loaves for probably a

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largely gentile audience that says,

all of them ate and were satisfied.

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Yeah.

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I made the connection to what you were

just saying here, God is not stingy.

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He's not just giving you enough

to get by a couple meager

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calories, but he is satisfying.

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He's making their bellies.

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Bulge because they're just stuffed.

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Yeah they're well provided for, I think

in Psalm 23, he's the shepherd who leads

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us to still waters and green pastures.

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The sheep lay down 'cause they're safe.

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This is the God that we serve.

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And Psalms like this really help

bring the color to the black

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and white words of scripture.

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I think these are just so helpful to us.

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So if you're reading these

psalms, maybe you're.

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Tired by some of the poetry.

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It's challenging to get through.

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In fact, I think I was just

telling you, PPJ, it takes longer

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for me to read through these than

it does the narrative portions.

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Yeah, because I have to think more about

the connections that whoever's writing

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the psalm is trying to make for us.

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But if you work at it,

they're totally worth it.

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Yes, I agree with everything

that you just said.

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Rod: Hey, let's let's pray.

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When we done with this episode, he

really said that though, guys, just

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to be clear, he really just said that.

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Said what?

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Stop.

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Alright, let's pray.

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God, we we are grateful that you

are not a stingy God, that you

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satisfy us above and beyond anything

that we could ever ask or imagine.

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And that is ultimately seen at the cross

what we're gonna be remembering tonight.

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The fact that you have not just.

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Started us over from scratch.

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You've not just declared us that,

that we're not guilty, but good luck.

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From here, you've declared

us fully righteous with the

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righteousness of Christ.

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You've supplied more than we need,

and given us an infinite degree of

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righteousness because you've filled

us up with the merit of your son.

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And so that is such a good thing for

us to be reminded of, Lord, that you

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are a God of abundant grace and mercy.

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And so we are so thankful for that.

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May we in return long for you, faint

for you, thirst for you the way that

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David describes in this passage.

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Help us to be a church

desperate for more of you.

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Never in, in some sense, never satisfied

this side of eternity with what we know

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of you, but always wanting to know more,

always thirsty to know more, and to be.

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Closer to you than we are today,

and we pray that by your spirit,

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you enable us to do that.

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We ask in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See

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you folks.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said