Everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible podcast. Happy de Mayo. This is yesterday. Hey, we didn't forget you guys Cinco, the Mayo Celebrators. We just had more important things to celebrate yesterday. Yeah. Like the announcement about the move the church. Yeah. That was a pretty big deal. I hope though let's see today. Oh, today's Saturday. I think as we're recording it, that is, yeah. We, our city has a single de celebration that. Actually, oh, I forgot to mention this on May 3rd. Yep. The day that we recorded this that was my two year anniversary for moving into our home in Salinas, Texas. Congratulations, man. Thank you. I went back and looked at some of the photos and I relived the experience of driving down Dallas Parkway when there was no freeway. Yep. Being constructed there. Yep. And going through that really bumpy Dallas Parkway Road, it's still bumpy and driving down into that little county Road 52, where it's weirdly rural, and then we get into our development area. It's, it is, it was surreal to think about how long ago that was. Yeah. It's two whole years nostalgic, but it doesn't feel real. And now here we are two years later. Here we are. Yeah. Yeah. But as you're listening to this, it's the 6th of May. That's right. And yesterday was de Mayo Cinco de Mayo. What's your go-to Mexican food restaurant out here? I know it's been a labor, it's two years in. Have you found anything that you're like this, I like this place. I do like EAs. I feel like it's, and part of the calculation for me is local. I like local. Yeah. So enemy is, I do enjoy, it's one of my go-to places if I have a choice. If I don't have a choice, I don't care. I'll just, I'll find, I'll get some fajitas from anywhere and I'll choke that down. But I do enemy is a lot. They have great tableside, guac, good service and generally. Good food. That's my place. What about you? We go to Blue Goose. Oh yeah. That bar that you talk about all the time? Yes. It's a bar. It has a bar in the restaurant. It's called Blue Goose though. How Mexican can it be? Honestly, it's Blue Goose Cantina. They have, it's called, they call it Cantina, isn't it? Isn't that code for bar? No. If it was truly Mexican, it'd be as, I don't know what AGU is in Spanish. El Guso as I don't know either. El Cantina, it's all I know is their chips and queso are their chips and salsa and their queso top notch, and they make their own tortillas in store there. So yeah, it's great. Homemade vodka tequila that is, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. You wouldn't know. Yeah. And right next to it is cookie Society. Oh. So yeah. You load up on chips and Salsa eight, your dinner and you go get a cookie. It's great. Yeah. Not too bad. Great date night. Yep. Blue Goose, CIN de Mayo, cin to Mayo, happy Cinco to Mayo, everybody, Mexicans Army, a Mexican Army's victory over French forces. That's what it celebrates. So it's like a freedom celebration of sorts. Yeah. And we just get to go eat Mexican food. Yeah. I'm okay with that. Hooray. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, let's get into our Bible reading, 'cause we got a lot, again, a lot of Psalms. Shocker. Only six today. As opposed to yesterday, which was I think eight. Yeah. Today's only six, so we're cutting it back a little bit. Yeah, but the opening one is 52 verses. Yeah. That's why we're only doing six. Yeah. Psalm 89. This one is by Ethan, the Ezra, who is Ethan Pastor Rod. Do you know Ethan? I know one. Ethan. Yeah, he's not his last name is not Ezra Height though. Okay another Psalmist here. Just a reminder that not all of these are written by David. You know that by now. But here's one written by Ethan. Ethan had one shot and he was not gonna miss his chance to show I. Yeah, good try. I'm just saying this opportunity for him, it came once in a lifetime. Alright. All right. So he was gonna lose himself in the music moment. Keep going man. Anyways, mom, spaghetti. Ethan this longer Psalm spends the majority of its words praising God for his power and his strength and the great acts that he accomplished in the past. Zooms in on God's covenant that he made with David and recounts the promises that he made to be faithful to the Davidic line, even if the Davidic line wasn't always gonna be faithful to him. The Psalm turns though in Psalm 89 38, and he begins to, the psalmist does lament his present circumstances. The circumstances of Israel, acknowledging that God had cast them off in his language here and rejected them, and even accuses God of having renounced the covenant, which is strong. I mean that Psalm 89 39, if you look at that verse, he's saying, God, you renounced your covenant which is not true. God had not done that, at least if we understand renounced in the term of abandoned or forsaken or undone or severed I guess the he Hebrew word there is to repudiate and and yet that's how the psalmist feels given the circumstances that he finds himself in. But in the end, the Psalmist asks the question, how long, oh, Lord, will you hide yourself? This is a common refrain in the Psalm. Different ones. Sometimes David says the same thing, and then he calls on the Lord to remember and ends with one final statement of praise, saying, blessed be the Lord forever. Amen. Amen. This is he's. Really reminding God of his faithfulness at the beginning, beginning of the psalm, and then lamenting his circumstances, and in the end, he just throws himself on the mercy of God with this final statement of saying, God, how long blessed be your name. It's a, an emotional psalm for sure. Yeah. I think one of the things that I like about this Psalm is that everything he says prior to that statement of Why have you cast us off? Why you just rejected us, disregarded us, is that the 37 verses prior to that give you a sense of his theology. So you know that he doesn't think that God could ultimately do this. He just goes about saying the opposite. In fact, he says, you, you can't do this. You have said, I've made a covenant with my chosen one. I have sworn to David my sermon. Servant. So he's, he recognizes all that God is and has said and basically is guaranteed. And so that's what makes the next part of this passage also powerful because he's saying it, it's true to his feelings, although not true to fact. And sometimes that's a powerful conveyance of. Of how we relate to God. God doesn't want us to pretend. And neither does God want us to lie, either. This isn't true, verse 38. It's not true in the sense that it's ultimately true, but it's true to how he feels. And I think there's a place for that when we're interacting with God. Yeah. Sometimes our head has to lead our heart. We can be honest in our feelings, but at the same time, we have to let what we know to be true, which is Philippians four, eight, right? That the, we're gonna think on the things that are true and right, and honorable, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise. When our heart is feeling the anxiety of Philippians four, six. So sometimes, yeah, our head has to lead our heart in that and and yet we can be honest with the Lord and say, Lord, this is how I feel. I know this to be true, and yet this is how I feel right now. And that's an example in Psalm 89. I think that's what faith looks like when it's working itself out. Yeah. God wants us to bring our messiness to him and he'll. Clean us up. Yeah. Yeah. Psalm 96 Psalm 96 is a great evangelistic psalm, if there ever was one. This, the psalmist in this psalm, calls on the reader to sing again the commands. Sing to the Lord. Sing to the Lord. Sing to the Lord Three times in the first two verses here tell of his salvation, declare his glory. Again, notice verse four. That, that that preposition four, four, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. He's to be. Feared above all Gods verse five, four, all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols. Ascribe to the Lord. Ascribe to the Lord. Verse seven and eight. This is a time and time again. He's saying, exalt God, exalt him in the eyes of the nations. Make sure that people know how great and glorious God is. And so sometimes we think of evangelism and we say, yeah, the church is the God's evangelistic arm and yet God intended for his people to be a light. Israel was to be a light among the nations. Israel was to have an evangelistic element to it as well. And when they did that well and decently, we see examples of people that were not Israelites who choose to believe in the God of Israel and come along to that and come around to that. And Israel ultimately failed to do that. And now the church has been commissioned to do that. But but this is a psalm for telling people about how great and awesome God is. One of the cool things about the Psalm is that it forecasts the future restoration of all things. And we think about this in two ways. Number one, where every tribe, tongue, and nation gathers around the throne and sings praises to God, which is why it's so important in chapter 96 where he says, sing to the Lord. All the earth declares glory among the nations. His marvelous works among all the peoples, all families of the peoples, among the nations. This is such a cool idea, and we talked about this before, it gets me jazzed up when I start seeing a mixture of people of different backgrounds and ethnicities, and even prior different religions serve in worship Jesus as he deserves. This is what God forecasts and says, this is our future. But not only this, you also see that God is concerned and not only reconciling people to himself, but also. All the earth to himself. The earth is broken. It is riddled with sin. And consequently, the curse of sin, death, decay, thorns, thistles, Genesis, chapter three. Notice verse 12, though. Let the field exalt. In fact verse 11 let the heavens be glad. Let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, let the field exalt then shall. Look at this, all the trees of the forest. Sing for joy. The trees are singing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth and he's gonna restore all things. So it's not just the people, although that's the most important. It's also all creation. He's gonna restore, he's gonna refurbish, he's gonna make all things new. And that's such a cool picture if you just think about it for a few moments. Psalm 100, then Psalm 100, shorter ones, five verses here. And this psalm is a again, a call to worship. It's the opening. Make a joyful noise to the Lord. Notice verse two, serve the Lord with gladness. The word serve, there is the word that means to work to do service, yet to render service. And so it's just a reminder to us that as we labor, as we do whatever you happen to be doing, that ultimately we are working as Paul's gonna say later on, not for the approval of men, but ultimately for the Lord. And so we're gonna to serve him in our. Our labors were to do that even with gladness, come into his presence with singing. That's why, again we've said this before that, but that's why we don't just show up at church and hear a sermon and then turn around and leave. There's singing there because this is part of what God has commanded us to do. And it's all ba based on our knowledge. Verse three, know that the Lord is God. He made us and we are his. And we are his people in the sheep of his pasture. Because he is our creator. He has the authority, he has the right to command us to do what he's calling us to do here, which is to worship him. So as that creator he holds that position and we should do well to obey him by worshiping him with joyfulness and gladness and thanksgiving, which praise God. We've got that God and not the God that's worship me. And I don't care about how you feel about it. Worship me in depression and sadness and admire because I'm the Lord and I'm gonna crush you. He's a kind God. We were talking about this recently. He's a gracious God. He's about his glory, but he is also about our good in the process too, which is awesome. That's right. Psalm 1 0 1. Then we talked about David appealing to his blamelessness, and I think that was in yesterday's episode Here. We have that in Psalm 1 0 1. This is about the resolve of David in this psalm. It's it's his promise. It's his vow before the Lord. To to sing of God's love and character, to ponder the way that is blameless and to walk in the integrity of his heart. And so David is saying, this is what I'm going to do. I'm setting myself towards this, and I just found that those first three verses I will sing. I will ponder, I will walk and then he expounds upon the, I will walk in verses three and four. I will not set anything before my eyes. That's worthless. A perverse heart shall be far from me, but I just love David's intentionality here. And that's something, again, like we talked about yesterday if we're not intentional, we're gonna default, we're gonna drift into our fleshliness. So we have to resolve almost daily with David to say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk in integrity. Psalm one, ones a great psalm to read at the beginning of the day to say, yep, this is what I wanna do, Lord, I'm gonna set myself this direction. And maybe Psalm 1 0 1 verse three might be a great verse to put on a phone case. Maybe put it on the front of your phone case to say, I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. Now, in, in the context here, David doesn't just mean things that are trivial even though that might be a good application, but things that are sinfully things that are sinful and things that dishonor God. He says, I hate the work of those who fall away. It shall not clinging to me. He wants to protect and guard himself such that the infection of sin does not reach his own heart. He's guarding his heart, and that's a. Good posture as you are confronted with so many different sources of information, infotainment things that are worthless and even destructive on the further end of that spectrum. So be aware of that. Psalm 1 0 1 verse three is such a good verse for you to ponder and consider as you go about your navigation of today's world and technology. Yeah. In fact, the word worthless there it can mean useless. Good for nothing. And I think you, your description of putting it on our phones is so helpful that way. Yeah. The extreme of the sinfulness there, but so much of just our doom scrolling too. We would say at the end of the day, what is it profited me to sit on the couch for 45 minutes and get a thumb workout by just scrolling through reels over and over again. Yeah. Maybe I'm chuckling. I'm laughing at some things, but aside from that, man, there's so much good that we can do to redeem our time and redeem it in a way that's profitable. That's true. Yeah. Psalm 1 0 5. Then Psalm 1 0 5. Let me scroll down there since we're not that far away here. Alright, Psalm 1 0 5 Psalm 1 0 5 opens with a, the call to sing and praise again. Again, like I said yesterday, so many times we're commanded by the Lord to do these things, to be worshiping him. And so many others that. That's what he does here. And then from here it declares that the reader needs to remember the acts of God in the past. And the remainder of the Psalm looks back to God's promises to Abraham and how from there he had raised up Joseph and Moses and Aaron ultimately to deliver his people into the Promised land. Remembering things you often talk about this pastor out of just those moments for us to remember things as a family, to create those monuments even in our home to say, this is God's faithfulness to us. And. It's good not just to create those, but to be intentional, to set time aside, to go back through those and remember those intentionally with the family. Otherwise they become white noise. If you've got a picture, you've got a shadow box, you've got something like that up on the wall that's got something inside of it that reminds you of God's faithfulness, that's gonna work for a while. Yeah. But eventually it's gonna become, stop seeing it. You're gonna just be like, oh yeah, that's, there becomes wallpaper. Totally. So we have to be. Intentional and thoughtful to go back through even dates on the calendar. Like you said, the two year anniversary of you guys moving out here and taking possession of your house. That's a great opportunity for you and your family to look back over God's faithfulness in all of the different things that he did to bring you to where you were, to get you into that house. That's moments like that, that, that should not just be like, oh, cool, it's been two years. Wow. Time flies. But to stop and reflect birthday and give things to God, anniversaries, all of those things are opportunities for that. Yeah, probably one easy way to do that, in fact I tried to do it while I was here preparing for this is to create a little slideshow on my Apple Photos thing. It's really easy today on some of these platforms. You could just say, okay, gimme all the pictures from this timeframe. You can describe it to their ai. Machine thing, and it'll create stuff for you. Google, apple, they all do it. So that might be a really easy way for you to do that, to just play it on TV and say let's remember this guys, and let's, oh, look at that. You remember when we walked in here and when we did this, and we drove over there and God was faithful to us. How good God has been to us. Yeah. Psalm 1 32 this psalm mash up the themes of Jerusalem and the Davidic Messiah. And it's a psalm of ascent so that people are worshiping and preparing for worship as they, they climb up to Jerusalem here. And here they're praying for the city, but also asking God to establish his promise that he made to David that their future Messiah would also reign therein. This is about Jerusalem, about the Davidic Messiah. And I think for us we're sitting here going we, we don't go to Jerusalem and we know the Messiah. So what's our takeaway? Our takeaway here, I think is just. Remembering God has made promises and will be faithful to those promises, and it's good for us. It's right for us to even pray for those things and ask him to be faithful to the promises that he's made. Promises like the promise that Christ will come back for his church promises, like the fact that he's gonna wipe away every tear from our eyes and that death will be no more. And those are things that we can hold onto as Christians and say, God. We're asking you to do this. In fact, we're gonna see tomorrow in the reading the Davidic Covenant and after David is given the Davidic covenant from Nathan, the promises of the Davidic covenant. David basically says, okay, God, do it. He even uses in peral language, command language with God to say, God do these things. And I think that's something that we can we can take away and say, God, we're asking you to do the things that you promised you will do. I think that's probably one of the most redeeming ways to read these things is to see what God has done in the past. God has fulfilled his promises, but even though it is right to believe those promises, it is even more right to pray for those promises to be fulfilled. I would say every time you read your Bible and things like this is a good example of what piety, godliness, holiness looks like, takes God at his word, and then pleads for God to fulfill his word. God wants to do it. God's going to do it. But God often does that fulfills his promises through the plead, the pleading prayers of his people. Your prayers are meaningful, they're important, and Psalm 1 32 reminds us that it is good and right to pray for God to fulfill his promises. Let's pray and we'll be done with another full episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. God, we are thankful for the, for those promises. And certainly there are many that we look forward to as a church, and we trust in your character to fulfill them. And yet we're also gonna say, God we pray that you will fulfill them, and we just ask that you would fulfill them quickly. Even when we pray, Jesus, come quickly. That's a prayer that we're making based on a promise that you will return for your bride, the church. And so in the meantime, as we await that day, help us to be faithful. God, we pray that our time spent in the Word like today, and hopefully all the other days that we've been reading your word, would prove to be fruitful for us and shaping us to be more like Christ as we wait. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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