00:00 Welcome to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:10 Chasing the Aurora Borealis: A Personal Adventure

01:50 Upcoming Events and Podcast Planning

04:42 Exploring Forgiveness and Confession in Psalms

08:54 Exploring Psalm 51: Mercy, Forgiveness, and Repentance

09:59 The Joy of Salvation and the Role of Sin

10:49 The Unchanging Presence of the Holy Spirit

12:02 True Repentance: Beyond Going Through the Motions

13:11 Seeking a Deeper Repentance and Understanding of Christ

16:53 Trials and God's Shaping Hand

17:42 Praying for God's Favor in Trials

18:42 David's Joy and Prayer for Jerusalem

19:48 The Importance of Praying for Jerusalem

20:46 Closing Thoughts and Upcoming Series Tease

Hey, welcome back to another episode.

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Tuesday's episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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Tuesday.

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It's not, we've been

through the shoes today.

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Tuesday.

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Rod: Hey, the Aurora Borealis.

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Dude.

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I am so disappointed.

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I did not say well.

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Okay.

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There's actually still a chance that

as we record this, I might try to

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see it tonight, which is Saturday.

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And if I can, man, I'd be

so stoked, but I'm so sad.

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I missed it on Friday.

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I didn't know.

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There's an option.

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I saw it cause I saw all

over everybody's feeds on.

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On the social media, of course,

but I want to see them person.

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I'm willing, I'm willing to go to bed late

and I'd never do this on a Saturday night.

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Be fully rested for church.

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We have, you know, we

have an important job.

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I want to be my best.

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But I would do it for this.

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So I'm going to see if it's a

possibility and if it is, I'm going to

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drive as far north, as we could do it.

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If I have to go to Oklahoma to

see this thing, I want to see it.

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There's not many other

reasons to go to Oklahoma.

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Right.

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And I

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PJ: looked, this could

be one of them though.

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Yeah.

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Uh, well, the fair.

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So pastor rods there on Sunday morning.

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Or if you're reflecting back now on Sunday

morning, He did look kind of sleepy.

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Rod: That's why it,

that could have been it.

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Yeah.

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If it's a possibility I'm tracking it

right now to see if the solar storm

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is, is still going to be strong in

a couple hours when it gets dark,

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which I guess, you know, eight

o'clock eight 30 is when it gets dark.

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So we'd have to be out there and

then stay for 20 minutes or whatever

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PJ: somebody said.

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They said, if you still have

your glasses from the sore clips

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that you can actually look at the

sun and see some of the flares.

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Oh shooting alphabet.

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No, I don't hide them.

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I think we

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Rod: have overcast

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PJ: today.

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So.

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Probably can't see it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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People in new Braunfels were texting us

last week being like, Hey, you guys okay

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up there and we're yeah, we're fine.

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Because of the solar storm?

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No, because of the storage.

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Remember pastor.

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Send us like the cow and the tornado

that was flying through the air.

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Oh yeah.

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P H train H

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Rod: drain.

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Yeah, they care for us.

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Thank you.

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We're grateful for them back.

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We do.

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Yeah, we're going to be

down there, not too long.

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It's right.

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Next month, we're going to be there for

any, see the national equipped conference.

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Where you're at, you're

preaching about hell and.

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Evolution.

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Not together though, right?

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PJ: No, that'd be a weird sermon.

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Rod: Yeah.

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But that's a good,

that's going to be good.

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I'm excited to see some of the

guys and see some friendly faces.

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Um, I'm sure that we'll see

some people from Avi and.

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Maybe Tustin and HB and.

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New Braunfels, obviously

there'll be there in full force.

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Yes.

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PJ: So our non-California

residents listening to this.

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Avi Elisa VAO HB Huntington beach,

Tustin, Tustin, Tustin, Tustin.

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Yeah.

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Near Irvine.

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Yeah.

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Most people are outside of

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Rod: California, even Southern California.

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I've never heard of testing.

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That's true.

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Justin's kind of a small, I

mean, if you know the area, you

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know, testing, but you're right.

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It's not as popular as the others.

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Yeah, treasure valley

complic, treasure valley.

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They should be there to hopefully.

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PJ: Yup.

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Yeah, I would imagine

at least some of them.

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Yeah.

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That's your bet will be there.

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Your will.

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I don't know if the rest of them will be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so it should be a great time.

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We're looking forward to that.

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That'd be awesome.

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We're going to figure

out what we're doing.

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Cause then I'm leaving town

for two weeks after that.

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And we're going to have to figure

out something to do with the podcast.

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Rod: Yeah, let us know

what you want us to do.

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Do you want pastor PJ

to prerecord two weeks?

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Of podcast episodes.

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Or should we do something different?

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I mean, we're open to the idea,

although I'm nervous because what we

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have here is a good thing and you know

what you don't do to a good thing.

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Mess it up.

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Change it.

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Rearrange change it.

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Yeah.

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We've got a good thing.

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Uh, and so I I'm afraid to, to tamper with

the, uh, with the ingredients in the soup.

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Right.

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And that's fair.

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PJ: You know, if we got.

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M C mark Cogan, N B S M C Mark Hogan.

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I mean, I think he would add

a good flare to the discussion

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or we do, we have Kelly lead it

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Rod: and we both take a couple weeks off.

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Okay.

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Let's not do that.

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Or our wives.

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I mean, that's fine.

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No.

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No.

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What if I got Brahm and Kendall

to lead the podcast for two weeks?

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Yeah.

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Bromley.

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You know, I don't even know

what that would be awful.

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That'd be bad.

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Oh, dude, I think the novella

series of Bromley and Kendall.

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I mean, this could be good.

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It's you've got plots.

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I might start writing it.

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No one else does it?

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I might have to start writing some.

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Okay.

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Fair enough.

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No.

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Novellas.

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Yeah.

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Self publish on

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PJ: Kindle.

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Yeah, by the way, if you refer to

me as pastor Bromley, I'm going

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to excommunicate you on the spot.

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You're just going to be gone.

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Yeah.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Okay.

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We'll see.

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Yeah.

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You just

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PJ: invited people to do that.

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I'm going to go Pharisees

from John chapter nine.

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All right.

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I'm going to be like,

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Rod: you're put out of the synagogue.

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Okay.

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We'll see.

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You've issued the challenge and

now it's, now someone's got a.

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They already have,

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PJ: and you know who I'm sure did.

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Dan.

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It wasn't you, it was Dan Dan

would, but he would follow it

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up with, you know, I love you.

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Thanks a lot, Dan.

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I'm Matt, as you know on Tuesday

and it's not even Tuesday yet,

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and he hasn't even done it yet.

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You haven't even done anything

yet, but we know that you're

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Rod: going to.

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PJ: We have don't

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Rod: let us down.

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We have a premonition.

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Is it a biblical premonition?

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PJ: Would this be called prophecy.

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Is this a word of wisdom?

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No, no, no.

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No.

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Okay.

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Backpedal parachute.

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No.

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All right.

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All right, let's get to the Bible.

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Let's do it.

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All right.

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So we talked about all

the bad stuff yesterday.

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All of it we're done.

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There's no more bad stuff in the Bible.

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You're welcome.

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Yep.

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No, but, uh, that we get the response.

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And so specifically in two of these

Psalms Psalm 32 Psalm 51, uh, we get a

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response of David, some 32, admittedly

it doesn't say in this, the way that

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Psalm 51 does that this was right on

the heels of David's sin with Bathsheba.

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But I think we're on pretty safe

ground to say, it seems like this was

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written right around that same time,

or at least in the ballpark of it.

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Uh, the Psalm of David isn't the,

yeah, it doesn't have that, that title

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that helps us say yes, this is what,

but it fits the context of what we

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talked about in yesterday's podcast.

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So, if you haven't listened to yesterday's

podcast, yet, I would encourage you

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to go back, listen to that, and then

come back and listen to this one.

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Uh, but it's a Psalm here that

celebrates the forgiveness and confession

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and, and that's really what it is.

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It's a celebration of these things.

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Blessed is the one whose

transgression is forgiven.

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Bless it.

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Makarios in the Greek.

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Uh, it Barack in the Hebrew means happy.

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And so this is a good thing.

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The one whose transgression are seen

as forgiven, whose sin is covered

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over against whom the Lord counts.

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No iniquity.

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There's no deceit in him.

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Look down at verse five.

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I acknowledged my sometimes.

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When we seen that the, the

enemy, the lie, the enemy tells

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us is you can't confess this.

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You can't bring this to life to shameful.

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It's embarrassing.

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People are gonna think less of you or.

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You've already confessed this one enough.

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You're not going to be forgiven this time.

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And that's just a lie and that's

what we find here from David.

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He says, I acknowledged it.

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I didn't cover it up.

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I confessed it.

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And you four gave the inequity of my sin.

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This is such a good

thing for us to confess.

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And seek forgiveness, but the question

is begged here in Psalm 32 is why.

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Why would God forgive?

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Why would God forgive David's sin

with Bathsheba and everybody else in.

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The murder of your rot.

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Why w what gives.

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Him the rights or the grounds to

go to God and ask for forgiveness.

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For that matter.

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What gives us the right.

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Or the grounds to go to God

and ask for forgiveness.

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And the answer is the cross.

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Uh, the forgiveness that David enjoys

from the Lord here in verse five, when he

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says you forgive the iniquity of my sin.

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Is it forgiveness because of the cross

Davidson was paid for not through the

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blood of bulls and goats, but through

the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross.

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So this is an anticipatory, uh,

Forgiveness that God extends to David

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based on David's confidence and trust in

God that ultimately that same sin, his

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sin with Bathsheba, that would happen.

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A thousand years or so before the cross.

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Was a tone for, by Jesus

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Rod: Christ on the cross.

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I would also point out too, that

you'll see in verses three and four,

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that there was clearly a physical

effect to David's lack of confession.

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And I think that's probably still

happening today too, among Christians.

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When we conceal sin again, God disciplines

us because he loves us as a father

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disciplines, his son in whom he delights.

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Proverbs chapter three.

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And so here, David is saying, look, I,

even, when I was sitting on my couch and I

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was just pretending the sin didn't exist.

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As I kept silent, my bones wasted away.

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Through my groaning all day long.

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So there was some elements of

suffering internally, some kind of.

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No internal turmoil that

he was struggling with.

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And then in verse four day and

night, your hand was heavy upon.

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He felt conviction.

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My strength is dried up

as by the heat of summer.

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So he was lethargic.

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His body was.

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Aching, perhaps because his bones

were hurting and then he was just

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feeling like way to conviction.

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And so his energy was sapped.

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There was someone who said

there was no one more unhappy

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than a Christian in his sin.

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And I think David shows us,

even though he's not a Christian

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shows us what that looks like.

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Mm.

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PJ: Hmm.

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Rod: That's good.

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PJ: That's good.

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Well, Psalm 51 then is, uh, again dealing

with similar themes here, but this is

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more of the act of confession for David.

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So I'm 32 is, is kind of

celebrating confession, celebrating

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the benefits of forgiveness.

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This is David.

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Is that the context says when

Nathan the prophet went to him after

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he had gone into the Bathsheba.

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So this is a glimpse into David's heart.

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And the journal entry.

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So to speak from David following

Nathan's confrontation, and David

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is pleading for mercy from God he's

confessing and he's repenting, and

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he's, uh, asking God to remove his sin.

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There's other themes here that

focus on atonement that is that the

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wrath of God is satisfied against

our sin and also a doctrine called

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expiation expiation is that idea

that our seniors removed from us.

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It is expiated from us.

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It almost is a, is one of those

words that sounds like what it is.

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It's, it's drawn out from us.

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It's D it's purged from us as some

of the language David uses here.

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As well as the themes of

mercy and forgiveness.

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Uh, the one that always stands out

to me in Psalm 51 is verse four.

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And, and so often I'll go back to this

in counseling situations and others, but.

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David says against you and you only

have I sent a and he's talking to God

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and right in the rear view mirror is

the dead body of Uriah and Bathsheba.

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And the, the military commanders that he

involved in the murder of Uriah and the

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messengers that he involved in in going

to get Beth she'd been bring her to him.

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All of these people that

David had sinned against.

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And yet David says in 51, 4 against

you and you only have I sinned.

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And the reason being.

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Not that he was denying that he had

sinned against these other people.

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But he understood where the chief

offensive lay and where he first

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needed to be reconciled before he

was reconciled to anybody else.

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And that's the principle

for us, Christian.

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The first op in repentance and

reconciliation, when you have sinned

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to confess is God doesn't mean that you

don't need to go confess to other people

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or to seek the forgiveness of others.

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But your first stop is the stop work gun.

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Rod: And recognize too.

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Verse 12, that when you're in the midst of

your sin, there is you clearly evidently

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lose the joy of your salvation if you're

struggling or feeling dry in your soul.

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Perhaps, perhaps I'm not saying

with certainty, but perhaps there's

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sin in your life that needs to be

confessed and reckoned with so that

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the joy of your salvation can return.

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David says here, uphold

me with a willing spirit.

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Um, make me love you,

Lord, make me desire you.

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I that's how I understand that.

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I think that's a good prayer

for us, whether we're in season

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of great fruitfulness or out of

season, and we're not feeling it.

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Lord make me love you, make me

to, will willingly do for you.

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What I want to do reminds me of

a Philippians two, 12 and 13.

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It is God who works in you to will

and to work for his good pleasure.

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I pray for that and see what God does.

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PJ: Yeah, look at verse 11, right before

that cast me not away from your presence.

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Take not your holy spirit from me.

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Oh, that's an important one for us to

think about as, as Christians, this is not

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something that you should or need to pray.

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Um, the, the relationship of the

holy spirit to the old Testament

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Saint is different than the

relationship with the holy spirit,

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to the new Testament believer.

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We are in dwelt by the spirit

from the moment that we are saved.

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We are sealed with the holy spirit

as a promise of our inheritance.

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As Paul says, in Romans chapter

eight, anyone who does not have the

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spirit does not belong to Christ.

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So there's not a sense in which

you, as a believer should pray.

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God, take not your holy spirit from

me because that's not a possibility

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for you as a, as a follower of Jesus.

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The spirit in the old

Testament think about Saul.

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Uh, th the spirit would rush

upon Saul and then God would

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remove his spirit from Saul.

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And David was cognizant of that.

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Apparently aware of that

in that interaction there.

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And so he's praying and asking

that God would not do to him

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what he had done to solve.

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He's praying that God would not remove his

spirit from him, but that would continue

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to, to protect them and, and have that,

that, uh, source of, of empowerment and

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in presence with him in his reign here in.

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Uh,

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Rod: verse 11, do thank God for

the new Testament work of the

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spirit who will never leave us.

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Right?

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He is a gift from the

savior gift from Jesus.

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He will dwell with us forever.

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We never have to fear the

departure of the holy spirit.

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For those of us who have been

truly grafted into the vine.

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PJ: Yeah.

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And.

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Finally as, as the Psalm

concludes verses 16 through 17.

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Uh, David.

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Realizes here that, that atonement doesn't

come from going through the motions.

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And so sometimes again, in the aftermath

of our sin, we can think, well, if

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I do enough, then it's, I'll be okay

if I, if I get enough distance from

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this, if I obey enough, if I show

up at church enough, if I, if I show

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up at community group, if I sing the

songs, if I listened to the sermon.

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If I memorize scripture, if I do my

daily Bible reading enough, then,

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then maybe my sin is just it's.

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It's good.

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I'm fine.

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And in verse 16, David says you will not

delight in sacrifice, or I would get it.

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You will not be pleased

with a burnt offering.

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In other words, that's not where

a true repentant heart lies

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and going through the motions.

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But for 17, the sacrifices of God are

a broken spirit, a broken and contract.

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Harteau God, you will not despise God

desires us to be broken over our sin.

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And so to deal with are seen as

is not to say, okay, well, I just

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need to get a better track record.

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And eventually.

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It'll it'll people will forget about it.

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Like a baseball player who

strikes out four times in a game.

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If he goes out the next five games

and goes, you know, four for five

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and the next five games, nobody's

remembering the fourth strikeout game.

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That's not how it works with God.

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We need to be broken and

contract of our sinfulness.

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And that's where true repentance

lies is in that attitude, not an

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attitude that says, well, if I obey

enough, God will be happy with me.

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Rod: What do you do at

the person who feels.

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Uh, a lack of the level of repentance

that they know that they should have.

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So David here says a

broken and contract heart.

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You're you're not going to despise.

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And there was a yes and amen.

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Now I feel, I feel sorrow for my sin.

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But I don't feel enough sorrow.

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I'm not repentant enough for this.

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How do I know that my

repentance is sufficient.

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To warrant God's positive response.

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PJ: Well, I think there's comfort for

that person in the fact that scripture

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doesn't give us a, uh, a metric by

which to measure our repentance, to say

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you've you're you're repented enough.

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But I think if your desire is to say,

man, I wish I, I grieved over my sin more.

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I think that's a good place

for every Christian to be in.

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And I think the way that we get

there is, uh, appreciating Christ,

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more understanding more of his.

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His holiness, understanding

more of his righteousness.

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Appreciating that the cost of our

forgiveness, more understanding

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the cross and everything that

went in and took place there.

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We're preaching the gospel to ourselves

on a regular basis is a, is a way

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to keep that cost in front of us.

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Um, and, and praying and asking God.

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Okay, got it.

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I'm going to ask that you

would break my heart over this.

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There's a song that, that worship song

break my heart for what breaks yours.

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Um, it's Hillsong.

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Yeah.

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Rod: Jose.

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Yeah.

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PJ: So don't stone us because we

referenced Hillsong in the podcast,

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but it's, it's such a good line.

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It's such a good line because that's man,

that's what I want in, in, in our world.

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It's so easy for us to become numb.

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Did the things.

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Break the heart of dots.

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Right.

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And that goes all the way back to that

discernment sermon from a few weeks ago.

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That's why we have to be careful

about what we're watching.

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We don't want to numb ourselves.

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To these things that God looks

at and says, I hate this, right?

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This is what Christ died for.

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Um, and so having that posture,

praying for those things, going

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back to the gospel, going to Christ.

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It's such a helpful way for us to

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Rod: feel a greater burden of our sin.

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Amen to that.

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And let me just close

on this one last verse.

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As we prepare to go to the next one

here, verse one, have mercy on Neo God,

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according to my great repentance, right?

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You read that there and some 51 verse one.

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That's excellent.

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Have mercy on me.

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Oh God.

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According to your steadfast love,

according to your abundant mercy, David's

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not pointing at his great repentance,

but on his great savior and the great

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steadfast love and mercy of God.

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That's where your focus should be to.

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Psalm 86.

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PJ: I mean, these are three.

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Great slumps to start off

with and someone 22 is too.

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Don't get me wrong.

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But man, just three of my

favorites right off the bat here.

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86.

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Uh, this is a Psalm where David is

in a time of great need and he cast

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himself on the Lord believing that only

he could and would come to his aid.

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So in the first.

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A handful of verses here

verses one through seven.

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Uh, I've kind of phrased

this David's methodology.

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He he, yeah.

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He's kind of talking about

here's where I am in.

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Things are bad and they're really,

really hard preserve my life.

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I'm godly.

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Lord, save your servant.

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I trust in you.

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Be gracious to me, Gladden me for tea.

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You are good and forgiving

abounding in steadfast.

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Love to all who call upon you.

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And he's talking about his

trouble and he's afflicted

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and he's poor and he's needy.

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And then he shifts his focus

to who God is and remembers his

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theology, which counteracts that.

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That, that despair, that, that despondency

there, and he remembers who God is.

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And he asks the Lord, um, Not

only to deliver him, but also,

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uh, verse 11, teach me Lord in the

midst of this, teach me your way.

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Oh Lord.

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That I may walk in your truth.

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That unite my heart to fear your name.

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Uh, David wants the Lord to instruct

them in the midst of his sorrow so

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that he might be useful to the Lord.

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And in there we get a glimpse into how

the deliverance through trial can be

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useful in ultimately glorifying to God.

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Um, is as we learn our lessons through

our trial, and then we go and impart

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those shoes to other people as the

Lord leads us through these things.

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Rod: I only go in further and

say that it has be, it is through

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trials that God shapes us, forms

us and causes us to depend upon

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him in a variety of circumstances.

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That's true for all of us, no matter what

the situation is, the trial is the way

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that God preserves us and strengthens us

and conforms us to the image of Christ.

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Never try to reject it.

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God will often now.

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It was first Corinthians 10

31 says that no temptation is

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overcoming as overcome you.

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That is not common to man.

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God is faithful.

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He will not let you be tempted beyond

your ability, but with the temptation,

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he will provide the way of escape that

you may be able to endure it, endure it,

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not necessarily escape it, but endure it.

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So just be aware when you're going

through a trial, this is God's design.

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He's doing it for your good.

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PJ: Verse 17.

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Show me a sign of your favor.

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That those who hate me may see and

be put to shame because you Lord

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have helped me and comfort me.

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Uh, pastor rod, is that something

that a Christian should pray?

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God, show me a sign of your favor so that.

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Those who are persecuting me,

are the people responsible for

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the trial that I'm going through?

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Maybe put to shame, uh, because

you're helping me uncover to me.

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Rod: Um, I can tell you what I would pray.

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Okay.

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I would do it.

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Yeah.

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If I, if I felt that it was

being persecuted by, by somebody.

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And I, I knew that it was

because of my faith in Christ.

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I say, Lord, bless me,

protect me care for me.

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And in doing so demonstrate that

I'm not doing this in my own

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power, that it's you behind me.

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And that way, if that's how you shame them

and bring them to a knowledge of their

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own sin, then thank the Lord for that.

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I would be okay with that.

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How would you do that?

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PJ: Yeah, I would agree with that

because I don't think this is the

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same thing as, as Gideon's fleece.

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This is not.

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Show me a sign because I

want the fleece to be dry.

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Now I want it to be wet.

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And this is not lack of faith.

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In fact, this is David saying,

do something that's only

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explicable by, by pointing to you.

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Right.

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So that they would be put to shame

and go, oh, we were on the wrong,

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we shouldn't have been doing this.

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So, yeah.

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And I think there's there's grounds there.

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All right.

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So 1 22, this SAMO David rejoices

over God's presence in Jerusalem.

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So it was probably written after the

arc was brought to the city, most

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likely, and the song of a sense.

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Yep.

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So.

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Yep.

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As you're smelling things, as you're

walking up to worship in Jerusalem.

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Uh, but verses one through five

joy over being there in Jerusalem

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and then verses six through nine

is your prayer for Jerusalem?

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Uh, not to beat a dead horse, but

man, I can't wait till we get there.

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Yeah.

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I don't think that's what

it would sound like anymore.

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Just think treed beside a dead horse.

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Sounds like.

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Just like that.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So, um, but it's, it's such a

cool place that there's something

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different about being there.

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Like I've been to some other

cities I've been to New York.

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I've been to Boston.

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I've been to Philadelphia.

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I've been to Los Angeles.

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But you go to Jerusalem and

it's like, there's something.

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What have you been in

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Rod: Inglewood?

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No.

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Okay.

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Well then when you visit Inglewood that.

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In the staple center.

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So, yes.

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Okay.

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Have you seen Watts towers though?

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No.

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Okay.

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Well, let me know when you go to Watts

towers and then let me know if you

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think Jerusalem is still pretty great.

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Um, I will tell you right now,

I think Jerusalem is better.

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Okay.

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Well, you haven't been to Watts towers

yet, so yeah, withhold judgment.

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This is where we typically see

this, uh, on the Twitter sphere when

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Jerusalem is attacked, you'll see,

pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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This is where we get it from.

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And that's good.

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We should pray.

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We should still pray for

that protection of Jerusalem.

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We should still care about

the welfare of Jerusalem.

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And not because we think that that's

necessarily going to be the, the

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mechanism that God uses to usher

in his, his, uh, his second coming.

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But we.

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This is God's people.

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The covenants came to them, Romans chapter

two, there, this is how God issue forth.

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The word that we have even

today, we're reading the words

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that come from God's people.

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Now, the church is now

grafted in, so we don't see.

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I want to see that the God's

people as replaced, but we're

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grafted into the vine with them.

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And we trust that God's going to

bring about a great revival where

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he includes many more of them

as a consequence of his return.

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PJ: In fact, if.

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If we see just a sweeping piece

taking place in the middle east

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with somebody heading that up.

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Oh, yeah, that's a bad sign.

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Not a good sign.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a sign that maybe

you miss the rapture.

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Oops.

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And Nikolai Carpathia has risen to power.

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That was a good series.

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I don't care what you say, man.

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I, I, I liked it.

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I enjoyed it.

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It was understanding almost as good as

the novella series of Bromley and Kendall.

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Rod: Which is coming

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PJ: out

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Rod: soon.

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PJ: So stay tuned.

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If you're watching, it's going to hit

the shelves of all of your favorites.

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Walmart target.

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Barnes and noble.

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I thanks for tuning in guys.

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We'll be back tomorrow with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.