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April 16, 2025 | Psalms 56, 120, 140-142
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In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss the events of Wednesday in the Passion Week, leading up to the Passover meal, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. They highlight the significance of Jesus' activities and explore theological implications, such as the divine nature of Christ during his death. Additionally, they delve into the Psalms, reflecting on themes of trust in God amid adversity. Psalm 56 focuses on trusting God despite fear, Psalm 120 calls for deliverance from deceit, Psalm 140 emphasizes God's justice, Psalm 141 discusses seeking God's help to avoid sin, and Psalm 142 portrays David’s plea for deliverance while affirming God’s awareness of human suffering. The hosts also humorously discuss technology and music formats, while maintaining a high view of honoring God through life’s challenges.

00:00 Introduction and Overview of Passion Week

01:23 Upcoming Church Events and Prayer Requests

03:00 Discussion on Youth Meeting and Bible Study

03:46 Daily Bible Reading: Psalms and Reflections

18:38 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

19:45 Outro and Podcast Information

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PJ:

Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's happening invokes?

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It is Wednesday of the Passion Week.

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We have talked about the Passion

Week already, but we are in the

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midst of it, and so this would've

been the day before Passover.

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In the Jewish calendar,

there's not really anything.

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Specifically unique going on right now.

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The upper room is gonna

be tomorrow on Thursday.

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That is the day of the Passover meal.

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We believe that's the meal Jesus

was eating with his disciples

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that night that he was betrayed.

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And so Thursday, then Friday,

he's gonna be crucified.

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We have our Good Friday service

coming up at six 30 on Friday to

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celebrate or remember that rather.

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And then Saturday he's in the tomb,

which that's gonna be interesting.

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In fact, we'll talk about that a little

bit on Friday, which is this concept of

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how God can die in the reality that in

his human nature, God experienced death.

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But then there's the divine nature which.

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Couldn't die.

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And so how does that work

and what does that look like?

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Where was God, where

was Jesus on Saturday?

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What's he doing?

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What does all of this mean for us?

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Scripture gives us some insight

into that, although not a lot.

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There's questions that we

still have there, but I.

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And then obviously Sunday

morning, his resurrection.

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And that is such a day

of joyful celebration.

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It's gonna be that for us as we gather,

get together as the church and hit

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the empty tomb for John Chapter 20.

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And we see what kind of savior Jesus

is as we look at his his resurrection,

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his patience and his calling.

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There.

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We hope that you're planning to join

us and be a part of all those events.

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We've also got extravaganza,

which pray right now.

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If you'll even stop right now, what,

whatever you're doing, driving,

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whatever, wherever you happen to be pray.

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Keep your eyes open if you're behind

the wheel, but pray that God will

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keep the weather at bay on Saturday.

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Yes, it's, potentially supposed to rain

and storm and we want to do this event.

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There's been a lot of effort.

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In fact shout out to the ladies

who gathered yesterday Monday, that

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was, so yesterday as we record this,

but a couple days ago they gathered

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over at Prosper Town Hall and packed

over 7,000 eggs full of candy.

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Wow.

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And so good job, ladies, such a, an act

of servant heartedness led by somebody

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who doesn't like to be shouted out.

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So we won't mention her name at all.

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So yeah, we're not gonna mention.

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We, if we were, many might speculate

that it could be somebody like,

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Rod: some might suggest.

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Yeah.

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Mo no.

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Hold on.

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You see what I'm, pick up

what I'm throwing down here.

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Might share her name, but we're

not going to, we might speculate

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maybe soon you'll find out.

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Do you see what I'm trying to do here?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Throw it down, bro.

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I don't know.

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This is improv.

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Come on.

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I'm missing what you're, I'm not

picking up what you're putting down.

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I was, I'm giving you her initials.

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Oh, covertly.

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Oh.

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So that no one notices.

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Oh, I follow what you're saying now.

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Maybe soon you'll find out what

I'm trying to do maybe soon.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, we didn't figure it out though.

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That's all right.

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That's no, I track we'll

let them in on that.

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I was with

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PJ: you.

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We'll let them in on that.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, good job.

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You know who you are listening to

this and so do all the ladies that

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were there and some others may have

sniffed it out at this point too.

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Anyways I.

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Man, it's gonna be a great week,

but pray that the weather holds off.

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'cause if the weather doesn't hold off,

we're gonna have to we're gonna have

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to trust the Lord in that situation.

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But we're praying that the

weather stays at bay and that

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we can get this event done.

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Youth is happening tonight though.

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It's passion week, but we still have

true North meeting tonight and covering

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the next section of Matthews Gospel.

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That's right.

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And what better time to

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Rod: meet.

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We don't wanna skip church

because of a of a special week.

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In fact, it's hey let's meet all the more.

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So we are meeting tonight.

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I'm preaching, excuse me, God

willing, my voice holds up.

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I will be preaching one way or another.

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If I have to use Lewis as my

puppet, I'm gonna preach it.

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So help me God.

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So please send your kids.

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I'm just gonna keep my words

short to, to preserve that.

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But yeah we're going to study

Matthew chapter 16 tonight.

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We'd love to see your kids there.

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PJ: Yeah.

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And on that note, as you're hearing

that pray for Pastor Rod's voice.

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Pray for it to hold out.

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Your prayers are working.

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Yep.

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It, I'm making progress.

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It is getting better, but just pray

that tomorrow or tonight rather,

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he is not a setback, as he's gotta

expend his voice to preach the word.

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So Matthew two 15, not 16.

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Matthew 15, not 16.

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Let's jump into our daily

Bible reading text for today.

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We've got Psalm 56, Psalm one 20,

and then Psalm one 40 through 1 42.

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Seems shorter 'cause it

lists three entries there but

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Psalm one 40 through 1 42.

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That's three by itself.

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So we've got quite a bit

of ground to cover here.

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Psalm 56 is, taking place

right before David Feigns his

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insanity in one Samuel 21.

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So you'll remember back there.

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And in this Psalm, David admits his

fear, but also reestablishes his

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trust in Yahweh and twice declares

in the Psalm that he will trust.

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The Lord for what can man do to him.

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And so this is a great Psalm of

David just expressing that confident

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trust in God despite circumstances.

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And it's an encouraging psalm for you.

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If you're out there, you're battling,

let's say anxiety or fear, or something's

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going on in your life that you wish

wasn't happening in your life, and

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you're tempted to despair over that.

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A psalm like Psalm 56 is such a

good one to come back to, to say,

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okay, Lord, I can trust in you.

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David was trusting in you.

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I can put my trust in you.

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You are the same God.

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Today as you were for King

David before he is king at this

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point, but you are the same God.

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You haven't changed.

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And so if he could trust

in you, I can trust in you.

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I can say in God I trust,

I shall not be afraid.

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What can man do to me?

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Psalm one 20 then is one of the

Psalms of a sense, Psalms of a sense.

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RO give us an understanding

of the Psalms of a sense.

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They're the Psalms that when you

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Rod: sing them, it smells good.

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Yep.

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Everyone smells the ascent of them

and they're pleasant to the nostrils.

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Just kidding.

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These are the songs that.

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The Israelites would sing as the

ascend up to Mount Jerusalem.

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And the ascension, of course, is

because it's at a higher elevation.

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And so you always ascend whether you're

going north, south, east or west or

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ascending up the mountain to Mount Zion.

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And so they would sing these pilgrim

songs as they prepare to worship usually

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for one of the three times of the

year where they're called to worship.

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And so they would sing these

songs as a reminder of what their.

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Hearts were to do and how

they were to think about God

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as they prepare themselves.

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So this is really cool because I

think maybe there are some songs

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of a sense that you guys could

pop in on your MP three player.

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As you go to church, you get

your heart ready for worship.

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And granted, there's a way

that we do that all week.

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I guess we're always

worshiping in that sense.

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We don't have to go to

a temple to worship.

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We are the Temple of God, but I like the

idea of saying, let's be intentional to

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prepare our hearts to worship King Jesus.

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And this is one of the ways that they did

that in the, under the Old Testament pop.

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In your MP

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PJ: three, I'm just thinking like

the Zoom Windows media player.

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What would you say now?

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Pop what?

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Pop on your iPhone songs that you can

stream on Spotify or Apple Music or, yeah.

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Okay.

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Young people.

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Bunin, pop it in your MP three player.

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Make sure that you plug your

co your ox cord into your tape

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Rod: deck.

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Dude, I had one.

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I had, so I had an iPod video.

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Yeah.

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Those things, those, that

was really cool, man.

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Those, that day and season of our

technological history was a sweet one.

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I liked it.

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I liked going to my

computer to get new podcasts

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PJ: and dude, it was great.

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You're digging a hole because

you know what's gonna happen.

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Because we can't win this battle 'cause

we're not the oldest generation yet.

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Of course not.

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Of course not.

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So at church on Sunday, here comes Dan

talking about eight tracks and LPs and

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Rod: dude, I went to a music store

the other day and I, you probably

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know this, a lot of people do vinyls

are making like a serious comeback.

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Yeah.

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We've got some vinyls in our

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PJ: living room right now.

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Do you?

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We are, yeah.

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I did not know that.

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Spinning a little Ben

Rector on the vinyl and.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Explain that.

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It's the sound quality

is supposed to be better.

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I it's also, it's supposed to be, huh?

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It's also a piece of furniture to have a

turntable and to have a record collection.

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And what is an aesthetic?

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It's, it gives a Yes, exactly.

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I'm scratching, scratching,

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Rod: laying down beats for Amanda.

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Is she?

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Totally,

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PJ: yeah.

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No I don't understand all of it except

that it's in our modern technology

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the sound files are compressed and

so you're not getting the full.

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The fullness of, unless you

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Rod: do apple music, which

has the full sound file.

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True.

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And if you use a digital to analog

converter, like the one I showed

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you you can get the full thing.

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Granted, it may not sound as

good on your speakers, right?

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Because okay, once you get into

that rabbit hole, speaking of,

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that's really hard to get outta.

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'cause now you have to say if I want

the best audio, I need the right

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subwoofer and then I need the right.

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Speakers, which have the

greatest level of frequencies.

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And I need the right

amplifier and I need this.

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And then headphones too, open ear

headphones, open ear clothes, dear.

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And then whether you want the

light stuff or you want the he.

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Yeah.

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This is a dangerous

place to go, my friend.

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PJ: Yes.

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Psalm one 20 was one of those psalms

of a scent preparing for worship.

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And in the psalm just thematically

here, he's praying that the Lord

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would deliver him from someone who had

brought him harm with lies and deceit.

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So you can think of

David's life and think of.

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Probably many instances where he

was in a situation where things

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were stacked against him because

somebody had lied about him or tried

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to deceive others in regards to him.

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And so this is we don't know if it's

David specifically 'cause it's not

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listed there in the title, but the

editors of this reading plan said,

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Hey, this is probably David and

we think it fits here in his life.

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Rod: I guess why would they, I

just explained that the songs of

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Ascent, the songs of Ascent were

one that you would sing as you wait,

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make your way to Israel, right?

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A Jerusalem rather.

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Why this one?

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Like how does this fit into the economy

of Hey, come prepared to worship.

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Let's think about our enemies and how you

were deceived or how you were delivered

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PJ: from wine lips.

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Other than it's acknowledging, we've

talked a lot about how worship speaks

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to the circumstances of our lives and

it's acknowledging that whether or not

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you were, no matter where you were if

you were called to go and worship the

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Lord in at the temple, think of Passover

or feast to booze or some of the other

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required attendances at the temple there.

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You're coming out of real life and I

think a song like this acknowledges that.

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And even as you're going to worship,

praying for that deliverance and asking

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that God would would do justice and

and bring reconciliation there and

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trusting that to him, almost rolling

that over to him to maybe for you to

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be able to go up and worship the Lord

as you should be able to worship him.

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That's a good word.

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Psalm one 40 then this is a psalm

that we do have ascribed to David,

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and so in this psalm here we have,

david asking the Lord to intervene

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and to deliver him from wicked men.

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And the Psalm ends with this

confident expression that Yahweh would

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maintain the cause of the afflicted

and execute justice for the needy,

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which is interesting because I.

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The question has to be asked and answered.

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It.

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Does he always do that?

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There, there's a confidence

that, that David has here.

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I know the Lord will maintain the

cause of the afflicted and will

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execute justice for the needy.

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But that doesn't always happen.

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We're dealing with a, an awful

situation right now which has yet to

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play out fully in the court of law.

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But we're dealing with this

situation of this 17-year-old

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young man who was murdered.

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By a guy and murdered in cold blood

at this track stadium down in Frisco,

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and his killer is the one that's now

raised over $300,000 on a GoFundMe.

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And some judge lowered his bail

from a million, which is what it

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was said, at normally to 250,000.

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Now he's out and he's at home with

his family and his family's rejoicing

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that they have their son home when the

man that he killed that family is now

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without their son sitting at the table.

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So you look at a situation like

that, let's bring this real life,

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and we say, okay, is God maintaining

the cause of the afflicted?

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And as key.

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Executing justice for the needy.

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It's the it's a cesspool.

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So I would encourage you not to do

it, but if you go down the rabbit

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hole of the comments on social media

under these articles that are out

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there it's crazy the number of people

that think that this perpetrator

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was right in doing what he did.

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It's mind boggling.

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And so we live in a

society and a culture of.

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Of un of injustice of the tragic.

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And granted, hopefully justice

will be done in the court of law.

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We can pray for that and entrust that.

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The Lord will do that.

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But it's interesting that

David is so confident here.

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So pr some thoughts on how David

can be so confident that justice

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is gonna come, that God is gonna

maintain the cause of the afflicted

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when sometimes we see the opposite.

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Rod: Yeah, I think we're all gonna

say that at the end of the day, even

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as Christians, we're gonna say, God's

the one who's going to uphold this

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cause He's going to protect them.

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Ultimately, even if not temporally.

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And so we'll have to distinguish between

that which we see here and now versus

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that which we know will take place in

the there and then, so as the Christian

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worldview comes into clearer focus, we

have to recognize that while we do enjoy

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some of the privileges of God's rule

and reign here and now when the justice

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system does work, our hope is not.

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In the here and now, but in the there

and then, and that's what's going

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to help us navigate some of these

rough and difficult seasons where it

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seems like evil has the upper hand.

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We look to the there and then.

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Yeah.

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That's

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PJ: good.

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That's good.

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Psalm 1 41, then in this psalm, David

is gonna pray both for deliverance

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from sin and deliverance from evil men.

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And so here we get a glimpse into David's

heart, knowing that he is inclined

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towards and prone to sin himself.

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And so David is not, even though

he will often plead his integrity,

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David is not unaware of the fact

that he can be inclined to evil

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and to wickedness and to sin.

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And so he's praying for deliverance,

both from sin and from evil men.

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And that God would keep him

in a state of integrity.

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And I think we see that in verse three.

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Set a guard, oh Lord, over my mouth and

keep watch over the door of my lips.

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Don't incline or don't let my

heart incline to any evil, to

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busy myself with wicked deeds.

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In other words, David's saying,

I know what my default is.

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I know what I will do if I'm not

dependent upon you, relying upon

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you trusting in you to do this.

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And so I'm asking that you would do this.

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Pierre let's kick around.

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This concept for a second there,

it, how is this different from the

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mindset of this being a mantra?

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Okay.

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If I wake up and I pray, God set a

guard over my lips so that I don't say

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anything stupid and help me not let

my heart inclined to towards any evil.

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Amen.

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And then I can just go

about my day and I'm good.

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I don't need to worry.

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It's like the mantra or the lucky

rabbit's foot that if I pray this,

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then clearly the rest of the day

I'm gonna, I'm gonna be fine.

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Rod: Yeah.

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It's funny that you

bring this up 'cause I.

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I copied and pasted this

into my prayer mate.

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'cause I'm like, this is so good.

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I just want to use this.

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And the danger is that we'll do

what this, what a lot of people

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will do with their prayers.

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Say this many Hail Marys,

this many our fathers.

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And you could take a really good

portion of the scripture and

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use them in really bad ways.

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And I think that's the danger

that Jesus speaks about when he

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says, don't think that you're

gonna be hurt for your many words.

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I don't think that because you say

the right formula, that suddenly

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your prayer becomes acceptable.

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A real prayer is dynamic and relational.

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And you can still communicate this

to God without actually repeating

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the exact phraseology and saying

I didn't say it just right.

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Therefore God doesn't hear me.

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God hears us based on our faith in Christ

and not on the the formality of our words.

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So I think that's probably the linchpin

for me is that we present our hearts

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to God by saying, man, don't let

my heart inclined to any evil Lord.

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You know me.

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And I think that's why the Psalms are

so great to use as really great starting

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places for prayer because they give words

to, to real as you were saying earlier.

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To real life situations.

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When I read verse four, I'm

like, man, that is so good.

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I just, I stopped and

I thought about that.

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I'm like, man, this is a Godly man saying,

don't let my heart incline to any evil.

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Which is, which becomes then a thought

of my heart can be stopped by God

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from inclining towards something bad.

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And I think that part of the

fact that changes part of the

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fact is that we're regenerated.

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And that changes everything for us.

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David wasn't, he wasn't born again by

the spirit of God like we are, but he

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did recognize that there is still a bent

to his flesh that will incline toward

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evil unless God does something about it.

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I love that.

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So I would say copy and paste it into

your prayer system, whatever that is, but

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don't depend on the words, depending on

the God to whom your words are directed.

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PJ: Yeah, I would agree with all of that.

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this is, that both and element

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of our sanctification, right?

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It's not that we are gonna be

automatically sanctified just

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because we pray a certain thing

or ask God to do a certain thing.

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He's not, he's not the

cosmic vending machine.

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He's not the genie in the sky who,

if we pray this, then all of a

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sudden we can let go and let God.

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Make this happen in our life.

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I've said it before and I think it's true.

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Our default is gonna be towards the flesh.

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So even if you wake up in the morning

and you go to the word and you pray these

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prayers, if you're praying these prayers

thinking that, okay, now it's God's job

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to, to keep me holy for the rest of the

day and I can let my guard down then

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you're a sitting duck, then it's not

gonna go the way that you want it to go.

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Instead we have to do what Paul

calls us to do and work out a.

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Work out our salvation

with fear and trembling.

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And so we're gonna pray this and

then we're also gonna be careful

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to set ourselves in the way

of seeing this become reality.

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And that's part of the way that

God's gonna answer, that He's

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gonna sanctify us by his spirit.

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And so we're gonna pray, God sanctify me.

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And then we're gonna know that God's going

to sanctify as his spirit works within

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us and uses our wisdom, our actions,

our thoughts, our desires, so forth and

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so on to, to drive us towards Christ.

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And so it's gotta be the both end there.

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Psalm 1 42.

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Then again, is from David, a Maskel

of David, and he's in the cave.

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Which cave?

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Good luck narrowing that down.

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David spent a lot of time in

caves and so we're not sure.

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Maybe this is the cave when

Saul comes in to relieve himself

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there and in Getty, maybe not.

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But here's David, and he's praying

to the Lord here in Psalm 1 42.

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And here I think this psalm

reveals for us God's personal

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awareness and acknowledgement

of our sorrows and our difficult

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circumstances as David is crying out.

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And he asked the Lord in verse

six, attend to my cry for I am

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brought very low, deliver me from my

persecutor, bring me outta prison,

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that I may give thanks to your name,

that the righteous will surround me.

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Yeah I think this is one of those

where the Lord does care about

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where you are and it's okay to

bring these things before the Lord.

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We talked in one of the previous

episodes about should we tell the Lord?

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The things that are going on in our

life, doesn't he already know them?

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And the answer is yes, but

at the same time it's good

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for us and it's okay for us.

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And David does this.

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God knew exactly where David was and knew

what was going on in his heart right now.

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And yet it was good and right for David

to be able to pour out his complaint

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before the Lord, to tell his trouble to

the Lord when his spirit faints within

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him, trusting that the Lord knew him.

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This was.

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This was okay and good for

David to do, and it's okay

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and good for us to do as well.

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As long as it doesn't turn into a spirit

of bitterness and grumbling in complaining

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the way that Israelites did, but rather

saying, Lord, here's my circumstances.

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Help me understand.

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Help me know how to go through this.

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Help me endure, help me persevere,

deliver me outta this trial.

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I think this is a good

example for us in Psalm 1 42.

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Rod: I guess I would also, the word

complaint ha has such a negative

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connotation to us, and I can understand

that it isn't negative word by and large.

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But notice the way that

David talks to the Lord.

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He's not saying, why have

you made me this way?

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Why do you do this?

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Why are you, it's not accusatory?

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And sometimes David does

get pretty close to that.

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I'll let confess, there are

times where he is ah, he gets

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really close to the line from me.

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But I think that brutal honesty, God

still honors because he's offering

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it with a spirit of humility.

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And I think that really is the difference

maker between our complaints of the

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Lord and our typical complaining when

someone cuts us off on Preston Road.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: So here I would say the complaints

you have to understand in this context

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of humble confession of frustration.

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There is not, you should not complain

to God where you shake your fist at him

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and say, oh, you hate when you do this,

or you're not talking to a toddler.

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Not that you should talk to

a toddler that way, right?

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You're not talking to a dog or a stray cat

or a housed cat, any kind of cat at all.

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You're not talking to a cat.

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You're talking to the God who made

everything the God of the universe,

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the God who made galaxies and stars and

nebula and volcanoes and earthquakes.

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This is the same God.

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I'd be careful about that.

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I would still say offer your complaint.

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But be sure the way that you

describe complaint isn't.

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Arrogance, proud, boastful, complaining,

but a humble confession of neediness

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on your part for understanding, for

wisdom, for clarity, all those things.

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PJ: Yes.

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And amen to that.

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Yeah.

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And we seek to maintain

a high view of God.

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That's one of our distinctives

here, and we've gotta maintain that

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high view of God in the valleys

as well as on the mountaintops.

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And so we've gotta be

careful with that for sure.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, give us the wisdom to know how

to do that to to check ourselves.

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Lord, help us to be sensitive to

the spirit within us to not allow

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circumstances, to drive us into

grumbling, complaining criticism doubt.

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That would be sinful of you and I.

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Certainly any accusatory thoughts

that would impugn you of wrongdoing

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that we don't want to cross that line.

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And Job is an example of somebody who

eventually did cross that line, but at

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the very beginning he's got that faith

in you that says you give, you take away.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord, that's

where we want to be, and yet that doesn't.

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That's not possible for us in our flesh.

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We need the spirit working within

us, making us more like Christ.

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To have that mentality, that mindset, even

thinking about Jesus, his example is like

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a lamb that was silent before it shears.

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He, he went to the slaughter for

us and he suffered for us, as Peter

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says, leaving us an example that

we should follow in his steps.

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And so help us to do that, to

entrust ourselves to our creator.

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While doing good Lord, we want that to

be true of who we are as we suffer with

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a great confidence and trust in you.

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So give us that we pray

in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles and tune

in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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