Hey everybody. Welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast and happy Father's Day. Hello fathers. God bless you all. Thank you for having children. We're grateful for that because we wouldn't be here without you.

We wouldn't be here without you. Yeah. In fact, today after church, we're hoping that you're gonna stay and grab a hot dog with all his nitrates and everything else. It's gonna be good for you and tasty and everything else. And we got Mug root Beer in the coolers and we've got chips and just our way to say, Hey we love you. Thanks for being a dad. Wow.

Yeah, maybe not the nitrates being healthy for you, but everything else will be healthy. The fellowship, the fun, the celebration for your fathering, that'll be good for your soul. Yeah, it will If not for your belly. Yeah. Yeah. But a hot dog's good every once in a while. Sure. Yeah. It's tasty. There's 4,000 hot dogs in our refrigerator right now and I can't wait to get them out and put my monster energy drinks back in there. Yes. They are impeding the energy of the office right now

And we've all been dragging. Yeah. All thanks to these hot dogs. Happy Father's Day to you Dads out there. You play a massive role in the lives of your kids and even grandfathers out there. You still are playing a role in the life of your son and your son's kids. Your daughters. This is a significant role that is really, you're not done with until the Lord calls you home. It changes, but you're not gonna be done with it until. You're in his presence. Keep going, keep being faithful, keep Godly, leaving the Godly legacy. We've read about so much of that as we've been reading through the Bible and through the Old Testament. That's such a, an impactful thing to have a father who walks with the Lord, even as we're talking about Solomon and David and has as Solomon thought about David and David's example, and as Solomon in the book of Proverbs is writing to his sons saying, Hey sons, this is how I want you to conduct yourself and live and behave. Dad, you've got an important role. And keep going. Excel still more at it and make this year, the year. That you are the godliest that you've ever been as far as a dad goes.

I was talking to a father recently who was reflecting back on his experience as a dad at his certain age, and he's got adult children now. And he was thinking when I was younger and I was taking them through each successive stage of parenting. I thought this, it'll be easier as they get older. And he laughed thinking how foolish I was because the. Issues only become more complex. The challenges of being a father to adult children are different than the challenges of being a father to teenagers or toddlers or anything else in between. The role of a dad is in fact important and it really never goes away. It does change and the dynamics certainly are different, but the role is, I would argue, as important in adulthood as it is in early childhood. They're equally important, I think, even though a lot of people put a lot of emphasis on the first 18 years, give or take. But please don't stop being a dad, and as we've said before, please don't move away. When you get old enough and your kids are doing their own thing, please don't move to Florida or Arizona, right? We need you in the church. We need senior saints who have walked with the Lord for years and have raised children. These things matter to the life and vitality of the church. So I would encourage you fathers, as you continue to see your kids get older, and your seeing the fruit of your work, please don't lose heart in doing good. In fact, stay at it. Stay with them. Stay close to the family. If you can stay connected to the church really needs you.

Yeah, that, that is 100% sure. And amens to that. Let's jump into our DBR for the day. We are in a lot of psalms and we were just wondering about this. We were going through going, wait, how many more psalms do we have here? And when does it end? The Psalms don't officially go away until September. So they slowed down quite a bit though. Yeah. In fact, we're finishing up. Technically the Book of Psalms today. We're hitting the last Psalm in the book today

but we're not finished with it. 'cause we did skip several psalms we did that are saved to be sprinkled throughout the future readings as

seasoning with our Bible reading a bit of salt and pepper. Yeah. Yeah. Psalm 1 34 is not gonna take you long to read only three verses here. And so in fact, we can do it together. Come bless the Lord. All you servants of the Lord who stand by night in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion. He who made heaven and earth. This seems to be written for the Levites who were serving in the Temple overnight and saying, look you have a job to do overnight. Don't neglect the duty and your responsibility to worship the Lord. And to as you're tending to the temple, tending to the burn offerings, tending to these things that need to be done here you're to do that with worship. And so it's a call for worship, even for these Levites, it's also a song of a sense. So as they're going up, it's they're singing to the Levites, to those ministering in the temple as they're coming to serve and coming to, to worship. And perhaps there's something there about the idea of looking to those that lead worship, to fulfill the responsibilities, to say, Hey we need you guys to be on your A game because you're part of what we're doing as far as coming to worship. The Lord is concerned.

That's right. And I would encourage you, as you think about gonna church this morning, which I believe it is Sunday, right? Yes. It's, as you think about gonna church, maybe offer, prepare for your worship team and those who. Facilitate the service. Granted different roles, different dispensations, but still worthwhile. You thinking about the people that help put the whole service on. And in fact, we try to recruit you guys to be part of this, to enjoy the blessing with us. We talk about those who stand by night in the house of the Lord. We don't exactly have that, but sometimes in the winter it sure feels like we're still at church. At the nighttime, we show up early for setup and then we stay later for tear down. Yep. We'd love to recruit you to be part of this blessing. So if you want Psalm 1 34, blessed in your life, prayed over for you. Would love to have you

join us in the morning as we set up. That was a good drop of the word dispensation, by the way. It's fitting. Might have something to do with the sermon today. I heard about that. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, why are people taking pot shots at Dispensationalist, by the way? Yeah, it's, dude I don't know. I don't know if it's a fair pot shot. It's just people are like, oh, dispensationalist right now. And they got their fingers twiddling because of what's happening in Israel. Which, that's a bad situation. It's horrible situation. We didn't talk about that really bad, and I noticed that the Iron Dome is. Maybe not always effective in letting certain things go through and hit Tel Aviv. I saw some shots of that. Scary stuff right now,

right? No, for sure. And some have come out and said, this is Gog and Mego, this is, 'cause that's gonna be Persia and everything else going on there. And so this is go and Mego and Jesus is certainly coming back tomorrow. And it's okay, let's tap the brakes on that. I thought actually Greg La had a good take on it. And he's a dispensationalist. He's a dispensationalist. Yeah. And he's also quick to point to the end times. Yes, he is. And he came out and said, look, we're not saying that this is the fulfillment of what we see there with the prophecy of Gog and Mago, but it's certainly the foreshadowing of it. It's the geographical territories that are talked about there that are in play and there's disruption. There's things going on there. Now our view is the church is not on the scene when Gog and Mego show up. And so we're not sitting here going, oh no, the battle's happening and we're in the midst of it. What happened? Did we get left behind? Our view is that, that we believe we will be caught up. We will be raptured, we will be taken up to be with the Lord. And and that's our future. That's what's in store for us. Yeah, we don't think we're still gonna be here. But that's why people always like to poke fund a dispensational is because of the charts and the, the eschatological timeframes and everything else. And we talk about those things because it matters. I don't have any problems saying I'm a dispensationalist. Some people look at that as like a, it's a short now. Yeah. And it's no I think we see that there, and we're gonna talk about this morning because of the book of Obadiah deals with one of Israel's enemies, edem, and doesn't just deal with it with their. Temporal punishment, which by 70 ad edem is wiped off the face of the planet. They're no longer there. That's why there's no country of edem anymore today. But God also talks about the fact that edem is gonna be judged at the day of the Lord. And so if God is gonna take Israel out of play and not be concerned with Israel anymore, why is he sending obadiah to comfort Israel with a message about an eschatological judgment of her enemies that. To me, it doesn't make any sense. It seems if God was gonna move on from Israel and turn to the church, that it doesn't really matter what happens to eat him in the end, it doesn't really matter what happens to other enemies of God at the end. And yet God is telling E Israel, Hey there's a bigger picture in play besides just the immediate and the temporal that involves things to come. And I think that's important for us is the church to remember too. Like we're not, we're on, we're center stage, so to speak right now, but we're not. Everything about God's program and plan, and so we'll talk about that a little bit the this morning at church.

This reminds me if you haven't done so yet and you're still in your quiet time, devotional hour, whatever that is, we'd love for you to read the book that you're preparing to be taught about yes, in your Sunday morning service. So Obadiah is pretty short. You could pull it off in five minutes. We'd love for you to do that. Every Sunday that we're working through the minor prophets, some of that's gonna be harder because some of them are quite long even though they're minor, we'd love for you to spend time before you get to church reading it so that you're prepared or at least have a basis for understanding what's gonna happen during the Sunday morning service. Yeah, for sure.

Let's get to Psalm 1 46. Psalm 1 46 is bookended. You'll notice by the phrase, praise the Lord, which is the Hebrew. Hallelujah. And this is a helpful psalm to be reminded of during the upcoming just political turmoil that we find ourselves in during everything that's going on here. We're recording this on Saturday, and so far I haven't seen anything really about the protests that were supposed to be, the no Kings protests that were supposed to come out. I haven't seen anything. Glaring about that. Of course. It's not nighttime yet. And usually all that stuff goes off when the dark comes, but governor Abbott was like, come at me bro. Yeah. Come at me and the Florida, I dare you. Did you see the Florida Sheriff too? Oh yeah. We'll kill you. Yeah we'll kill you dead. We'll take you out. You can collect their remains afterwards. But man, there's that, there's everything going on in the world right now and this is a good reminder to us. Verse three, put not your trust in princes in the son of man in whom there's no salvation. Because when his breath departs and returns to the earth on that very day, his plans perish. Behold, blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord is God. We could even say, not only when his breath departs, 'cause that's how it was for Israel, but when his term limit expires, right? Everybody who's. A great hope right now is the fact that we've got a president that's leading in a way that, that appeases them and pleases them right now, man in less than four years now, he can't run again. And so then what's gonna happen? If that's where our hope is anchored, then we've got a problem there. If our hope is anchored in the UN and peace and things like that it's not gonna last. And we've gotta have a hope that transcends. And Psalm 1 46 reminds us of that. Psalm 1 47. Then this one has some of the markers of being post exilic possibly used in connection to the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem there. And so here he's going to come in and talk about the one that is broken hearted, but call that one to praise the Lord. It's good. He says in verse one, to sing praises to our God. It's pleasant to sing a song that is fitting, just talking about what God does for the broken hearted, healing them, binding up their wounds, de. Determining the number of the stars giving to them their names. One of the reasons why we think this might be post exilic is because it could point to God's restoration, and this would be a good one that would remind the people sitting on the backside of the return to Jerusalem, but the fact that there is a future still for them, and God takes it takes pleasure in his people still, he's not done with them. And so there's reason to be encouraged. Verse 13, he strengthens the bars of your gates. That could have been quite literal if they were working on rebuilding the walls and the gates of the walls at that point. Psalm 1 47, calling for a trust in the Lord and the Lord as the one that builds up the broken hearted and attends to those that are downcast.

Yeah, really cool here. Verse four says here that he determines the number of the stars he gives to all of them, their names. And maybe you haven't looked us up recently, but I did. How many stars are there in the universe? One zillion. There's pretty close, actually. Pretty close. I don't actually even know how to comprehend this number, but the estimate for how many stars there are 200 billion trillion. I. Which the technical number is 200 sextillion, 200 billion trillion is a number that I can't even fathom. No. Much less comprehend in any meaningful sense. For numbers so large for human brains, we just really don't grasp that kind of information. But just notice here, I don't think God is. Using any kind of hyperbole here to say I know the stars and I number them and I name them. God knows their names, and he does that in order to give comfort to the downcast and the oppressed to remind you, look, I've got things under control. You don't have to worry. In fact, another image that he uses in verse eight is that he covers the heavens of clouds. He prepares the rain for the earth. He makes grass grow on the hills. In another words, God controls the natural cycles that we attribute to, oh, this is just the way. Creation works we'll. Look at creation and say, oh, the sun rises in the east. It sets in the west. Oh, there's humidity in the air. And so this kind of weather can be expected. We look at natural cycles and we have to realize that Hebrews one is absolutely true. God is governing, he's upholding the universe by the word of his power. And even though we can have a scientific understanding of how it works, that does not change the fact or negate the fact that God is actively managing creation. And that includes down to the details of your life. So take heart.

Yeah, those same stars are on the scene in Psalm 1 48, and this time the psalmist is calling on those stars to worship God, to praise God. In fact, that was a good transition, wasn't it? Yeah. Boom. Wow. Look at that. Sal, Psalm 1 48 is the psalm about calling on. Everything to praise God. And in fact, we're gonna get there that the Psalm one 50, the last line is let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Here the psalmist is saying, let everything that has breath and the inmate objects and everything else that God has created, praise God. And so this is appropriate because he saying this is what creation is made to do. Everything exists for the glory of God. And that's what the psalmist is saying should happen. And so whether it's the stars, the sun, and the moon, all the angels, the hosts, the angelic armies they need to worship God. And then eventually he gets down to human beings. And he says that young men in verse 12 and maidens together old men and children, let them praise the name of the Lord. For his name alone is exalted. His majesty is above. Earth in heaven. So the psalmist is saying everything and everyone that is on the earth is meant by God's to praise him. Absolutely. Psalm 1 49 then is here a call for Israel to, again, praise the Lord. To execute vengeance on his behalf, which is an interesting one, an interesting concept. Let the godly exalt and glory let them sing for joy on their beds. He says in verse five, there Israel is going to, as he goes on here, execute vengeance on the nation's in punishment on the people's. In fact, it's interesting in obadiah, which we're looking at today, God is going to tell Israel that on that day of judgment, on the day of the Lord, they are going to be an instrument of his judgment. That Israel is going to be a fire that is going to burn Edem like stubble and consume them like chaff. And so God is going to use his people in the judgment of the nations. What is that gonna exactly look like? I don't know, but here I. Even in this timeframe with Israel in the Old Testament, God was saying, you need to recognize your role as a weapon in the hand of the Lord, that he's going to use Israel to exact vengeance on the nations, even here in Psalm 1 49.

Yeah. What's interesting is that the Eschatological calendar does allow for at least two major battles, one of which is called the Battle of Armageddon, and this is the one that you know about. And there's also the battle that we alluded to earlier, the Battle of Gog and may go, it's not entirely clear if these are. Whether and how they're related. We do know, or we are expecting a battle at the end of the tribulation and a battle at the end of the thousand year millennial, literal millennial reign of Christ on the Earth. So there's two times when God is going to judge his enemies, and both of those times it's going to be, even though Jesus is the one leading I believe he's going to utilize his people. And so it seems more likely given the fact that he destroys the enemy by the word of his power in the, at the end of the millennium. I think that's how he. Destroy Satan once and for all and his allies. So it seems more likely to me that this fits better with the end of the tribulation period. Yeah, when God's people, Israel, his ethnic people that is Israel, rise up together with the Lord to execute vengeance on the nations. As he says here in verse seven, uncomfortable thought for us, very uncomfortable, especially under a New Testament understanding. We think about what Jesus says. Love your enemies. Pray for those that persecute you. I totally get that and we should do that, but make no mistake. There is a time when praying for your enemies ceases. The time for praying for them is done because Jesus is now appointed a time to execute final judgment. And this is a time where a Psalm like this may very well still be sung. Yeah. In

fact we're talking about that today too. Our third point this morning is gonna be about that, that the day of the Lord there, there's this weird tension that we have with the day of the Lord where we are called to. To hope in it and to seek it even, as Peter says, to hasten its arrival and at the same time in the day, the Lord should cause us to fear for our lost. Family members, loved ones, neighbors, those that are on the wrong side of God's justice right now. Because when that day comes, there is no more opportunity. It's done. And so we have this weird tension that we live in right now where we wanna be missional, we wanna reach people, and we wanna pray for the lost and pray for their salvation. But to your point, there's gonna come a day when we're gonna be on Christ's side. When he's the one that's at the forefront of the armies. And at that point, it's about justice and vengeance and wrath and there is no more opportunity to reach people. So all the more reason for us to do that right now.

Amen. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Marath, we sing that we're gonna sing songs today at church that have to do with the coming kingdom. We're gonna pray that his kingdom come quickly. And so we do have the tension of saying, we want you to come, Jesus, but please save my family first. Yeah, please save my neighbors. Please do all these things. Which means that if we're gonna hasten that day, as you often bring up, we should do that by reaching our neighbors. Yeah. And spreading the gospel far and wide. So what are you doing today? Hopefully you have some time in your schedule to talk about Jesus to somebody. Hey,

it was really cool at the Rangers game that we were at on Friday night. We all had our reaching teaching training shirts on. And so there were, I had two people stop me, Rangers, employees, stop me and see I see all you people walking around here with these reaching teaching training shirts. What does that mean? What is that about? Oh, nice. And so it was a cool opportunity to say, Hey, we're a church and this is our mission. This is what we're about. It's based on Matthew 28. We're trying to reach people. That's awesome. Teach people, train people. So even what we wear can help. Do that. So absolutely.

Like an actual billboard on your body. There you go. That's fantastic. In fact, we have more shirts coming down the line. We've heard you guys teaser. Say that you want more. We're gonna give you more. We got some stuff in the works. Stay

tuned. Stay tuned. Alright. Hey Psalm one 50 then, which is the last in the psalter. Although, like we said earlier, we're not done with the Psalms, we're gonna come back and hit some of the other ones that we've missed. But this one is a fitting end to the Book of Psalms and it really has that fitting. Final verse. Let everything that has breath. Praise the Lord. And so he's talking about all kinds of different. Instruments here talking about praising him for his mighty deeds. And then he's talking about use the trumpet, use the loot, use the harp, use the tambourine, whatever you have. And then at the end of the day, just your very breath should be something that you are using to praise the Lord. So a good fitting conclusion to a book that's all about I. Worshiping God. And that was Israel's hymnal. Israel's songbook. This is what they used to worship the Lord during this Old Testament dispensation

man. And it is this is still so relevant to us. Even though this is written under a different covenant and the people in mind are different people, these are still Psalms that we should in fact sing. These are still Psalms that we should in fact obey, maybe not precisely. Again, Psalm 1 49, there's things in there that we're not going to do. But otherwise, when it comes to praising God for who he is and what he's done, we have every reason. In fact, we have more reason. Then Israel to celebrate his goodness and his grace. And I hope that you'll do that with us

this morning at church. Amen. Amen. Let's pray. God, thanks for this morning. We thank you for our church and we just pray that we would gather together today as we do every single Sunday and praise you and worship you with gusto and excitement. And that we would be there to lift high the name of Jesus Christ. And we pray that it would be just an encouraging time together as a church family. We are thankful for the dads in our midst. The fathers that have impacted us, whether they be our biological fathers or somebody else in our life who's played that role in our lives and how they've. They've served that role and impacted us. And for those of us that are fathers, God, I just pray for wisdom for us and continued just humility and dependence upon you as we raise up the next generation to hopefully bow the need of Christ on this side of eternity. We pray that would be true of all of the dads in our church. So thanks for this morning. Thanks for everything that it represents. Thanks ultimately God for Jesus Christ, and for our salvation that we have in Him. So we just pray for a great day today. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep you in your Bibles tuned in. Get tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye. thanks for listening to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. This is a ministry of Compass Bible Church in north Texas. You can find out more information about ourChurch@compassntx.org. We would love for you to leave a review to rate to share this podcast on whatever platform you happen to be listening on, and we will catch you against tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said