Buddy, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? It's Wednesday and man, it's Men's Retreat Week and we are so stoked for this. It's gonna be an amazing weekend. If you're not signed up, men, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, I don't think we're, we can't sign up anymore, so we can't sign up anymore, but we're gonna miss you. Like we wish you that you were gonna be there. We'll come back and we'll try to convey that it was an awesome time and you totally missed out on an amazing time out there. But we'll do more of these. This is not gonna be the last one by any stretch of the imagination, but we are stoked for this weekend. It's gonna be a great time. We are, and part of what's gonna be so exciting is that we're gonna spend a lot of time doing fun stuff together, as long as the weather holds out. I remember last time we got rained in, but hopefully the weather is accommodating this year. But we like this place. This place is a really nice place. The food's good. The location is beautiful. There's lots of, it, it doesn't feel like Texas in some ways. It's actually very pretty in a lot of good ways. Shots fired on the host of Texas. I'm fine. We live in North Texas where there's not a lot going on, so I'm not saying anything no one else knows about. It's just true. In California there's a lot more to look at and here at this camp Mount Lebanon Baptist Camp, there is a lot to look at and it's beautiful. So hope you can make it if you're coming along. If not, I think we'll be back here again next year, if I'm not mistaken. We'll see how it goes. Yeah. But we loved it last time. Yeah. Our ladies are going down there for women's retreat. Oh. 'cause we hiked up October. So much. October. Yeah. So they're saying, we want in, we wanna do this thing too. They're gonna like it. They will like it. Yeah. Hey, we got a lot going on. Don't forget, we are moving our location's coming up in just about two weeks here. We've got two more Sundays down in Frisco, and then we're gonna be up in Prosper. Wow. And we know that's not great news for everybody. We got some people driving from a little bit further away already. And this maybe extends the drive for a few people out there. And, hey, we love you and we are not trying to tell you, we don't want you to be a part of our church. We just want you to drive a little bit further. That's all. But we know that this is gonna be a great move for the majority of our people and it also sets us up into the mission field that we're wanting to be a part of. We've done Pride in the Sky on the 4th of July with Prosper around the 4th of July with Prosper for the past two years. Three years. Two years. Two years. Two years now. Yeah. This will be our third year this year. And it's always felt a little bit of a disconnect 'cause we're this church in Frisco? Yeah. That's doing an event up in Prosper. But we tried to get in the Frisco, 4th of July one, and it was, they're like no cost prohibitive and just massive. Don't like this, guys don't want you to do it. So this is great because we're gonna be able to be there this year and connect people to a church that's in prosper. That's right. And so it's just an answer to prayer. It's gonna be awesome. And we can't wait to make this transition, make this move. We just think it's gonna be good for our church body. Yeah. I tell people that are moving all the time before you move, make sure you're researching a good church. Yeah. A lot of people think that you can just go anywhere, throw a dart at a map, and then wherever your DART lands, you're gonna find a really good Bible teaching church in that place. And that's just not true. Not anymore. There's not good churches everywhere you go. Yeah. Which means then at minimum, you should think long and hard about where you move in relation to a good local Bible teaching God-fearing gospel preaching church. And if that's you if you found yourself a good Bible teaching church, man, don't take that for granted. They're just not everywhere. And secondly, a good Bible teaching church is worth moving forward. I'm gonna, I'm gonna put my money down and say that loud and proud. A good Bible teaching church is worth. Moving for. Yep. And there's a couple in our area. We're not the only guys in town. We're not the only shop doing this, but man, if you find a good church a church that you love, a church that loves you, they teach the Bible, they're faithful, man, that's worth investing your family into, even if that means a temporary, smaller house or a temporary cut and pay. It's worth it. Yeah. It's gonna pay itself off in dividends. Yeah. We have one family in our church. I won't put them on blast on the podcast that, that made that decision. They actually moved from outta state here because they found us online. They were coming out of another church background, church denomination that was not as, as faithful to the word and they. Started listening to us and we're like, man we need a solid bible church. And so they moved here to be a part of what, what's going on with our church and that's awesome. And that, that doesn't compute even when we tell people about our church plant and they're, they ask, but there's a thousand churches here. That, and or they'll say, so did you start in your living room? It's no, we didn't have to. We came with 75 people from California. Yeah. And they're going, wait a minute. They sold their house. They moved from California out here. Yep. And it's, yeah they're behind what we're doing, reaching, teaching, training. They're behind trying to do all this. Where's Mark going with all that trash? I don't know. He is walked by the office with all of this cardboard. He's that cardboard and Amazon plastic bags. He just looks like a hobo. I think he's camping outside. He might be. Anyways. Yeah, so find a good church. Hopefully if you're part of our church you check the box. You're done on that one. You're done. You can stay here and and be a part of this, but yeah. Yeah. Don't assume they're everywhere. No. Good church. Not plentiful. Nope. Nope. Let's jump into our scripture reading for the day. We have just come off of the heels of a downer passage with David and Bathsheba in the fall of David in the fallout from David and Bathsheba. And so now we're gonna turn to the Psalms. A lot of them that were reading, probably written around the same time. In fact, we know for sure at least one of them was written right on the heels of this sin with Bathsheba and Nathan confrontation. But first we start in Psalm 32, and the reason why these are here is because of the themes of forgiveness. And mercy. And so David would've been very keenly aware of his need for, and just appreciative of God's mercy in the wake of his sin and the wake of the confrontation with with Nathan. And so Psalm 32, we get the Psalm of repentance. Repentance is a word we throw around a lot, but it's really a an about face. It's what the word meant in the Greek la language metanoia. It was to do an about face. It was the command given to the army. They're marching in one direction. They needed to go the other direction. They were to repent in that. And so that, that's what it is to repent from sin, is to be moving towards our sin and to do an about faced, to turn our backs on our sin. I the Bible will use the metaphor. I think it does a couple of times of negatively. Casting God's word behind the back, and they'll talk about that in the sense of this is an act of disobedience from the people of God. Repentance is taking our sin and casting our sin behind our back saying, you know what? I'm not gonna go after this anymore. I'm gonna be done with it. Two Corinthians seven. Paul describes a godly repentance and so this is David's prayer of repentance here, and he is. Describing initially the weight of sin, the burden of unconfessed sin, and then the blessing that came when he brought a sin into the light when he, verse five, acknowledged his sin to the Lord, didn't cover his iniquity anymore, and sought forgiveness from the Lord and the joy that was even given to him in that. And so this is a psalm about repentance and confession, but it also carries these notes of joy and happiness all the way through to the final verse, this relief that comes with true repentance and forgiveness. Yeah. And this is something that a Christian starts but never finishes. There is an initial confession and repentance to access our faith for the first time, or at least to apply our faith for the first time as we put our trust in Christ. But this is the life of the Christian. Confession and repentance is not something that we do only to become a Christian. This is what it looks like to live every day. As a Christian, this is what it means to be in Christ. Now it is not hypocritical for Christians to sin. It is hypocritical for us not to confess our sin and to repent of it. And therefore, David's confession here and his repentance in Psalm 32 is really good for you. Now, maybe something worth putting down into your prayer journal as a means to prompt the kind of response that you want from your heart on an ongoing basis. Notice though in verse three, how taxing it is to hide your sin. He says, when I kept silent, my bones were wasted away through my groaning all day long for day and night. Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Man, I know about that verse more than I ever have in my whole life. When I go outside and it's 115 degree day in North Texas, I feel like I'm going to die after five minutes. It's just so oppressive. I feel like the heat of summer, just like a hand just squashing me from above the heat of summer. Awful. David says that's what it feels like to hide your sin from God, even though you're not hiding. It truly, God sees it all. He knows it all. When we have unconfessed sin, there is a. Physical a physical weariness that comes because of that. So I would encourage you to do what David does make it a practice to say, man I want to be right with you. I want my transgression forgiven. I want my sin covered. And more than David did, we have a better understanding of what this is because of Jesus taking our sin for us. Yeah, it's a grace of God. That burden that you feel shame, conviction, guilt is a, it's a grace of God that he gives us the ability to feel those things when we sin, because that's indicative of. Indicative of the fact that we've done something wrong. And even when an unbeliever feels guilt, it is the natural law of God written upon their heart. It is that idea that they have wronged, they have crossed a line, they've done something that is morally wrong. And this is one of the arguments for the existence of God the moral argument that is that how do they know what is right and what is wrong? If God doesn't exist, it's all arbitrary. It is all subjective. If God doesn't exist, the fact that God does exist and the fact that they do feel guilt when they sin, even an unbeliever is evidence for the existence of God. But as Christians, we know we can appreciate that guilt and that shame and that conviction even more because it's a grace that God. Provides for us through the spirit. And the danger is, I think, as we talked about even in our last episode if you ignore that for too long if you desensitize your heart to the conviction of the spirit in regards to that, then God could turn you over to that sin. Don't want that, and you don't want that at all. That is, is certainly something that we want to avoid. What he says in verse six, offer a prayer. To you at a time when you may be found. There is a time when you can so harden your heart that he may not be found. Which is terrifying. Which is absolutely terrifying. And I think that kind of fear is a God-fearing a good fear that God puts it within us so that we might draw near him. Yeah. Yeah. Psalm 51, then as we move along here, this is the one that we know for sure because it says right there in the title a Psalm of David when Nathan, the prophet, went to him after he had gone into Bathsheba. So this is. We are wondering to ourselves, okay what is David thinking? After his confrontation with Nathan, he's thinking this, and he puts pen to paper, quill to papyrus, chisel to stone, whatever he had at the time. And he crafted this song of sorrow and repent. It's a lot of similar themes to Psalm 32. But this Psalm pleads over and over again for cleansing that, that, that's the common theme here, the common word that David uses. He feels the dirtiness of his sin. And asks that God would cleanse him, that God would purge him that God would wash him. And it begins with this plea for God's mercy towards David. And again, mercy, like we talked about on Sunday, mercy is not getting what we deserve. We deserve to be the burn mark on the ground. And mercy is something that we need not just at the moment of salvation, but for our whole life. We always need God's mercy in our life. Like you were talking about with repentance and mercy is. An element of repentance. The fact that we can repent is a mercy of God, that he doesn't just wipe us out right away. And so here David is pleading for mercy and connecting that mercy with the idea of being cleansed. Which is something that's, so I think it it's something that we understand as human beings that we, everybody loves to go from being dirty to being clean. You go outside. Absolutely. Yeah. You sweat, like you're talking about being out in the h the hot summer heat and everything else like that. Yeah. You just, and you come back home and you take a shower. You just feel. So much better. Feel brand new. You feel fresh, brand new you feel like you can be around people. That's there's a spiritual cleansing that we can find in Christ when we repent from our sins. That is the imagery that's brought forth in, in Psalm 51 here. Oh, precious is the flow that makes me wide AST snow. Yeah, that's the one right here. I. I love it. Yeah. Psalm, do you want to, I think we've hit this before, but just so that we're aware here, David prays something that, that is a believer is probably not something that we should pray. In fact, I would say it's not something that we should pray. And that is when he prays that God would not remove his spirit from him. That is not something that is a believer is possible. Verse 11, cast me not away from your presence and take not your spirit from me. When we think about. Our standing before the Lord in Paul says in Ephesians one, we've been sealed with the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our inheritance. As a believer, our relationship with the Spirit is different than David's relationship with the Spirit. So the spirit could be removed as it was from Saul, but not from a New Testament era believer. You and I have a different relationship with the spirit of God, so that. When we see this we shouldn't pray like David does here. Take not your Holy Spirit from me, and God's never gonna take his Holy Spirit from you if you're a believer. The spirit is the seal, the guarantee of your inheritance for the future. So that's the one caveat here in Psalm 51 that said maybe don't echo that prayer specifically. Yeah. And just to be clear for the reason why he remembered that what was going on in this period of time, the spirit wasn't in dwelling believers like he does today. Now, that's a blessing of the new covenant. After Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father, he sends a spirit. They're they're baptized by the Spirit in the Spirit. And now when someone becomes a believer, Romans eight, you have the spirit of God dwelling within you here at this period of time. Under the old covenant, the spirit would transfer. And maybe that's a, a. That's not the best word, but he would go from one person to another, specifically for a work. So you might think about Saul's Saul forfeited his leadership over Israel and consequently, God's spirits left him in one Samuel 16. It's a spirit enablement for the work of something. Whereas in under the new Covenant, the spirit indwells us because of our relationship to him because of what the son has done. Psalm 86 we're actually gonna be seeing a part of Psalm 86 on Sunday. Are we not? That's right. We are the the song is Undivided, by the way. Don't forget, we send out our weekly email. It goes out on Fridays, but it's got our set list. I don't know. When do you update the Spotify set list? Usually? Usually Tuesdays. Tuesdays, sometimes as soon as Sunday. Yeah, if I'm feeling in the mood. So by Tuesdays you should be able to get on the Compass Antix Worship Spotify playlist and see what we're singing that weekend, and you can be singing it all week long in preparation. And so we'll be singing Undivided, which is. Based on Psalm 86. Yeah let coming. That's a good practice. This is from David. We see that in the title here. And this one is a Psalm of commitment. David committing himself to the Lord, asking that gal would instruct him, teach him to fear him to walk in all his ways. So we don't have the context in the title, but again, if we think about where David's coming out of and we think about what true repentance looks like, it makes sense that this would be a follow up. That David would come out of his sin, out of being overcome by his lust, and then his coverup, and then his murder of Uriah truly repent and then set himself here to say, God, I don't wanna be fully committed to you, fully devoted to you. I wanna follow you with an undivided heart. Teach me to your ways, oh Lord, that I may walk in your truth, unite my heart to fear your name. This is Second Corinthians seven, kind of repentance. This is that I wanna clear myself. I wanna have a, an eagerness. I wanna vindicate myself. I don't want this sin to be around me ever again. And so here David is saying, rather than following myself, rather than having a heart that's divided between my flesh and you, Lord, I want you and you alone. And so he's committing himself to that in Psalm 86. Something so good for us to pray daily, honestly, just to say, God my default is not to follow you. My default is to have a divided heart, not undivided heart. And so every single morning, every single day, I wanna arise and I wanna pray. God, teach me your way. Then I may walk in your truth. Gimme a, an undivided heart to follow you. Yeah. This whole psalm is comprehensive in that David is praying to God. There's a ton of imperatives in this psalm. Psalm 86 is basically David saying, please do this. And he's covering his whole life with prayer from start to finish. Mourning to evening is saying, please. Do these things in me. I want to do them. I know I should do them. Help me do them Lord. Give ear, preserve me. Be gracious to me. Glad in my soul. Answer me. Teach me. Unite my heart. Turn to me. Be gracious to me. Save me. Show me. All these things. David is begging God to do the things that he knows we're responsible to do. And yet an aware believer understands God has to do it through me. I'm not even strong enough to make myself will these things or to want these things, but ultimately, God's the one who does it through us. Like the robot suit. Like the robot suit from Sunday. That illustration about The xl. Oh yeah. The robot. Yeah. That's cool man. Yeah, that's a good illustration. I figured you the cave too. Or that, not the key, the tunnel. Tunnel. That's the one I meant. The Riri Ilka. Yeah. When I put that, when I was like, I'm gonna butcher that when I go to preach it. And I did, I butchered it. Did you? The pronunciation of the word. Oh, okay. I did look up on Google, how to pronounce it. Did you practice? It's Riri, Ilka, RKA. But then I'm sure the Norwegians say it in a much more Norwegian way. Yeah. Psalm 1 22. Song of a Sense. And so you gonna sniff the microphone again, like there it is of David. And and this one is interesting 'cause it's all about Jerusalem. And so it's as they're going up to worship the Lord in Jerusalem, they're going to be praying for Jerusalem, they're gonna be praying for the safety of Jerusalem. They're gonna be. Praising the quality of Jerusalem. And it's not just because Jerusalem's so great, but because this is where the Lord chose to make his named dwell and his presence once the temple gets built, especially in Solomon's era. But here, David's even anticipating that beforehand, that the the tent with the Ark of the Covenant had been moved there. And so they're praying for that. The line there, verse six, pray for the peace of Jerusalem pr. Is that something that we should be doing? Should we be praying for the peace of Jerusalem? I do. And that's because I'm a good dispensationalist. I think God's not done with Jerusalem yet. So we do pray for those guys. In fact, you'll see a pretty clear dividing line between people that do believe what we believe. There's not a ton of us, there's not a ton of dispensationalist online, especially on Twitter or X rather. But I do, and granted, I. I don't know that this is the best text to say, this is why I do it. But the principle of praying for Jerusalem and her peace is something that I do. And because ultimately I want God to do a great thing for himself and his glory and his honor by protecting her, preserving her, and ultimately drawing people back to himself who are part of Israel, ethnic Israel that God promises someday will, they will return. So let's talk about that for a second, because the. There's in, and it's a hideous sect within the, I use this term very loosely with scare quotes, Christianity that's falling back almost into a, a nazim anti-Semitic. Yeah, totally anti-Semitic. And they're trying to say, look, as Christians, we should have no affection for the Jews because they don't worship our God. Our God is a Trinitarian God. They reject Jesus. And so thereby they don't worship the same God that we do, they crucify Jesus. And so we should have no affection for them. We should not be supporting them. We should not be defending them. And they've even carried that over into a racism against them. And so as Christians. How do we think about that? Even if we're not dispensationalist? I mean that we wouldn't say that about anybody, right? We wouldn't look at the Muslims and be like we wanna wipe them off the face of the earth because they don't worship the same God that we do. Our hearts should be broken for them evangelistically, and we should want to reach them with the gospel. And I think even with the Jewish people today, we should have the same approach. We should say, man we want them to repent and believe in Jesus. We sure do. And one day we think they will by, by large numbers in the future. But if you've been seeing any of these posts about the antisemitism and you've even been lured by some of it, just know that this is, it's insidious, it's anti-God, it's anti god's people, it's anti-biblical. It's not something for us to engage in as believers at all. Yeah. You gotta be careful out there. There's so many ways that we can go awry today, and especially because people can make it sound so attractive and intelligent and biblical even. One of the challenges today especially is that we have so much knowledge. That wisdom is really the thing that we're most urgently in need of right now. Now, wisdom in that it takes more than knowledge to make your case, but the wisdom is, okay, what does it mean? How do I apply it? And how do I respond to some of these charges online? Because these guys can come across sounding so oh, they're clearly biblical. These guys know their bible. Who's really good with this Bible in the worst way possible. Steven Anderson. Yeah. He's, he's got a lot of it memorized. That's compelling. Even as someone who knows his shtick and understands some of the dangers behind what he teaches, like the guy knows his Bible and he's got this great YouTube video even that I watched about how to memorize your Bible more effectively and it's. Interesting insights, but it takes a lot more wisdom on your part today to discern the true from the almost true, the good, from the better, from the best, and perhaps the best way for you to do that is to become a student of the word, to master it and have it master you. And to sit under wise teachers who can help you discern and even practice discernment through your everyday life. Guys like this they're gaining popularity, they're gaining notoriety, they're gaining a following because of how easy it is to access. I'm gonna say information, not knowledge, because knowledge assumes that it's true. How easy it is to access information. Please, Christian, be on your lookout, be on your guard, know your Bible, follow wise teachers, and prepare yourself to defend yourself against these guys. Yeah, in fact, shameless plug we are finishing up the gospel of John this Sunday. And then after that for the summer, we're gonna go through the minor prophets, and we're gonna be talking a lot about God's plan for Israel. Because the minor profits have a lot to say about that. And this is gonna come through a lot of that during our summer series. Hopefully it's gonna look different. We're covering a book a week, a couple weeks. I think we're covering two books even. Oh, bold. So it's a lot to bite off, but Sure. It is, man. It's, we just wanna be a little bit more familiar with them on the back end of the series than we are at the front end. Hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we want to be people that know the word we were just talking about knowledge. We want to be people of the book. We wanted that moniker to be true of us, and we want to have a deep knowledge and understanding of the scriptures and not just stop there, but to apply ourselves to think about. Theology and to think about the character of who you are and to think about how all of these things apply to our lives. And there's the difference that Pastor Rod was just talking about of knowledge versus wisdom. Knowledge is an end in and of itself. Wisdom is knowledge applied and so God help us to be a wise church, a wise people that are able to see. Error and to identify it quickly and to know what the truth is in response to it. And to protect ourselves, to protect our families, to protect our church, to protect this flock from any error creeping in. I'm reminded of Jude talking about the false teachers creeping in and being like reefs in their love feast. It's a danger, and it's something that we pray against for our church, that we would have a church that is well guarded and well protected and well rooted in the word of God. So we ask that would be true, and that this podcast would be a help in that. We prayed. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey folks. Bye.

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