Hey everybody. We made it. We are back after the camp out. It's another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yes, and thank the Lord. It was a great event. Mark, Allie, your whole team, did a superb job at organizing at running it Lewis with the games. It was great, man. It was just, I heard multiple people say this was their favorite event that they've been a part of at Compass Bible Church. Is that right? That's really cool, man. I'm, that's a high bar. That is a high bar. That's a, that's pretty cool. Now, one of them happened to be Patrick Chen, whose family won Best family. Oh yeah. You win best family, of course you're gonna love it. Yeah. And then I think the arses came in second. They put the trophy on the hood of their car. They like attached it as a hood ornament to That's cool hood of their car. So I think that will decrease your efficiency probably a little bit. Yeah. Although it's a tiny trophy. The second place is small first place, massive second place. Not as massive. But no, it was a great time, man. We, last night the park police showed up. They wanted to see our permit, which is understandable. Okay, fine, whatever. But they showed up at 1145 what I know. And so unbelievable. Thankfully, Allie happened to be one of the people still awake at that point, and she has the permit. So she showed the, rent a cop there. Here's our permit. We're allowed to be here. And then he turned into nice guy. And then the police showed up to go down and chase other people out of other campsites. That Irwin Park. There were gunshots too, man. Irwin Park. It's like Compton. I didn't know this, but McKinney, you have experience in Compton. Y you would be shocked, man. I, me and Compton, mean Compton go way back. Way back straight outta. Wow. I'm actually not, I don't, but no. There, there were some gunshots that people were talking about and this is coming from reputable sources. Stephen Little said he heard gunshots going off in the forest. This is where we're taking our church to go camping. Amen. I said it was a great event. I didn't say it's a great location. Yeah. The, we had the bathrooms were locked, so we had porta-potties the whole time. Yeah. I heard that they were broken. They were broken. Yeah. There was a pipe that burst in one of the bathrooms, so you know that it could have been worse, but man, it was. It was just, it was great. It was good fellowship, good time. Weather was perfect. Aside from everything else, pastor Rod you're let's just draw attention to the elephant in the room. You don't sound like yourself. This whenever it is, they're listening to this. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. You can pray for my voice and my. My, everything in my nasal passage. I don't know. What's something I, maybe I have laryngitis. It sounds like it. It sounds like it, but I have no idea. I've never had this before. This is a new territory for me. I haven't been sleeping super great either. I don't know what to make of that. I've been waking up about three o'clock every night. I. Every morning, and I'm unable to shut off. Like I just, so I just lay there, I toss, I turn. And it's one of those things where I'm like, okay, are is there something happening in my body or just something happening in my heart and my soul that I'm just, I'm stressed out by something and I don't know it. I don't have an answer to that. I just know that I've been wrestling and so I'm not sure if this is related to it or if it's, I don't know. Adjacent. Yeah. I just know that I've had better days, but I've also had worse too. So even though I sound I don't know, whatever I sound like right now I just. I've had worse days. I don't feel as awful as I sound. So here's the follow up question for you. Would you like, because you've just told a church full of people who love you, that you have laryngitis. So would you like everybody's remedies for how to cure your laryngitis? I've already got a couple people at the the church camp out who told me what they thought I should do. One was about a summer told me I needed to eat garlic. Okay. And gargle. What was it? I forget. Did get this I remember the garlic part. Salt water. Oh was it honey water and more teaspoon of honey, something like that. Every two hours she said, and she said for me it like resolved it over the course of 24, 48 hours, but she had to do it every two hours. She's so I got up in the middle of the night. I did it anyway. If it's easy, it doesn't require me to do a whole lot. I'm totally willing to hear it. Ramin told me to gargle with typical salt water, antiseptic, or I guess salt water too would probably work, but sure. I'm open to it. I. I don't expect me to talk a whole lot. I guess I'll listen to you, but I won't be asking a ton of questions. It takes a lot of energy to talk right now for obvious reasons. Totally. Besides that I'll happily take that dude. I'm just saying if if you're gonna have garlic every two hours, then she said, I smelled awful. Kristen and the kids may go back camping. They may leave you and go camp again. Dude, I probably smelled worse than that though, Sue. I think it'll be okay. Yeah. That was camp Out was great. Thanks for you guys that we're praying who weren't there. Yeah. Please be praying for Pastor Rod's voice to recover and get strong. We've got a big weekend coming up next weekend. I don't know if you guys realize that, that's like a, it's a big deal. It's one of the highest holy days that we have as the church. It's arguably the ar Yeah I can't think of a bigger one. Christmas is important, but. Christmas is here because of Easter, because of what we're celebrating on on Sunday. So pray for Pastor Rod's voice, pray that it would come back to full strength and that nobody else would get sick. In the meantime, that'd be my good Friday. Yep. Yeah, that would be super helpful. We would appreciate that. Alright, let's jump into our daily Bible reading. We are starting to wade into the territory of the Psalms now. We've hit a couple Psalms already, but we're gonna start to hit a lot of them because we are entering into the life of David. And as David is one of the most prolific psalmists. We have others in the book of Psalms, but David, I. Is attributed with the majority of the Psalms that we read. So those, because of the chronological plan will be sprinkled in. So come to expect that some of them are gonna be quite obvious where it's got a direct connection. In fact, I think in our reading today, there's a pretty direct connection where you can go, okay, this makes sense. He wrote it at this time. In fact, some of the super prescriptions of the psalms will tell you those things. Other times it's. The editors and the people that made this plan, it's their best guess of when to read these psalms in concert with what's going on in David's life. The words of the Psalms are inspired. Their placement alongside the chronological reading plan, that's an editorial decision, and so we're, we'll do the best that we can to roll with it. But we get in chapter 18, we are after now David and Goliath and David has been recognized for his bravado and his courage and his victory. Three. And yet he's the one that is pointing to God through this all. And Jonathan. Hello, Jonathan Saul's son. It says there in verse one, as soon as David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Pastor Rod. Last year we did our men's retreat and talked about male. Friendship, and this is probably the preeminent example of of biblical male friendship at work here between David and Jonathan. Yeah. And it's a shame that this relationship has often been twisted to be something else for so many reasons. And one of the things that I often see in this passage is that the tip, the male friendship as I idealized in scriptures, doesn't look like almost anything that we see today, right? Anyone that has a friendship. This close, and that's probably our loss. That's sincerely something that I feel a burden for, even though I don't know how to fix it. Our culture is just different and maybe that's some of the thing that's happening here where the translation doesn't quite make sense, but I think there is a lot left on the table between male relationships and it's the Jonathan David. A paradigm that gives me that sense of saying there's clearly something more. There's another gear to male friendships that a lot of us don't know, in part because we're busy doing our own things. We're busy running our own ways. But man, this is something I think if you're a lady and you know that your husband doesn't have very many good friends this is something worth praying about. This is something that God uses to preserve our relationship in him and also to keep us running the race. Having a good brother by your side can make a ton of difference when you're going through. The valley of the shadow of death to use David's terms. So pray for your husband if he has male friendships, to have deep and honest and real and genuine male friendships. And if he doesn't have that, pray all the more that God would help him to identify these men. Yeah. And men, if you're listening to this and you would say, Hey that's me. I don't have super close friendships with other guys. Then are you availing yourself to those friendships forming? Are you involved in a community group? Are you involved in men's Bible study when we have it? Are you coming on our men's retreat? Men's retreat is one of the. The best areas to and opportunities to deepen friendships with other guys at the church. You're gonna be with them for about 24 hours of pretty highly condensed time, and there's gonna be opportunities to do free time events together, but just to sit and talk with each other over meals and everything else. This is a great opportunity, men to sign up for our men's retreat and come and be a part of this and build into the foundation of what will be some great relationships. If you're sitting there and you're not involved in a community group, you, you're not involved in men's bible study you would look at men's retreat and go I don't wanna be there. Then you sit there and you say and I just don't have any friends at the church. Then pick up a mirror and stare hard into the mirror because the problem's not the church. The problem is your attitude about whether or not you want to invest in these relationships. Not to be overly harsh, but I think that the opportunities are there. I, and I say that because I know how awesome so many of the men in our church are, and we've got a plethora of men in the church that. Would benefit anyone to get to know and build friendships with. I know there's plenty of men in the church who just bless me in the areas that I get to know them and spend time with them. So that's why I'm coming down so strong on that, is because the, there, it's good for you to invest in these connections, these relationships as Jonathan in. David grow close together. David and Saul begin to separate, and not that they were ever super close, but verses six through 16 in chapter eight, David's military endeavors and prowess begins to drive a wedge between him and Saul because Saul wants the glory that David is getting and so much so that it prompts Saul. Not for the only time as we'll. Find out to pick up a spear and try to s. To, to spear David to death. That's a problem. And thankfully he fails. And so then after this, Saul takes David and puts him over a thousand of his troops in order to get him out of his presence. A weird. Manic relationship here between Saul and David, but Saul's view of David is this weird mixture of jealousy and fear and hatred. And so what he's gonna do then in the rest of the chapter here is he's gonna say, okay, how can I. How can I make sure that David's gonna be on my side? And the way he's gonna do that is gonna give David his daughter Mical in marriage. And so Mical is gonna become David's wife, and it's an alliance. It's just a strange alliance because this is an alliance between two rival kings. I guess theoretically we could argue that, but not yet. At least this is an alliance between Saul and his servant David, and wanted to make sure that he and David are on the same same wavelength, same team, so to speak. But Saul knows what's going on. Look at verses 28 and 29 of chapter 18. When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, he was even more afraid of David. And so Saul was David's enemy continually. So Saul begins to suspect as God has already told Saul, Hey, the kingdom's not gonna remain with you. That maybe David is the guy that the kingdom's going to when as sooner comes to take Annie's hand. Oof. Will you require the same bride price? Yes depending on the man. I don't know where he is gonna find Philistines. Around 200 of them on top of that, right? 200 men. Yikes. Yeah. Yeah. Stick a pin in the name Mical, by the way. She's gonna come back up later on in the story in not so much of a positive light, but, anyways chapter 19 me call comes up sooner than later because there's a, an assassination plot that is discovered and Jonathan Dissuades, his father from killing David, even manages to make it so David could return to the King's presence again. But that doesn't last long as, again, here comes. Spear number two, Saul tries to kill David, and so then Saul's gonna send soldiers to David's house to arrest him and basically hold him captive until he can kill him. Nicole learns about it and she tells David and David escapes. Now she takes a household idle, which she shouldn't have but she does, and she puts some hair on it and lays it in the bed, and it deceives the guards there. Mical delivers David, but even the fact that she's got a household idol foreshadowing of the fact that Mical may not be on, on the best terms with the God of Israel here rest of chapter 19, you get this weird scene where Saul pursues David and, there's messengers that, that are sent out there, and Saul eventually goes after him himself and they all end up prophesying. And this is strange because you'll remember Saul prophesied after Samuel said, Hey, you're gonna be king. And that was to confirm his role as king. Here. It seems more to humiliate Saul in, there's more things that he does in concert with this disrobing in the such. But I think this is too. Humiliate Saul and for Saul to be reminded by God, Hey, you're not in control. Look what I can make you do if I want you to do this. And so that's kinda what happens there in chapter 19. Chapter 59 then is of Psalm 59. Sorry. I think is good to jump in and cover here because of the context. I, I mentioned some directly connect there and here it says a Mik Tom of David when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him. So we just read about that in one Samuel 19 and here we read the psalm that David wrote. Reflecting back on that appealing to his innocence he has an imprecatory plea. Maybe let's introduce that concept briefly here. 'cause we're gonna read more direct Imprecatory psalms, but the psalms were. Where David is praying for judgment against his enemies pr, do you want to address how we should go about reading those as far as when we approach them, the best way for us to benefit from them and how we should think about application? Let's start off by saying that the application of an imprecatory psalm is difficult for the New Testament Christian who has been told to forgive his enemies. God's enemies. On the other hand, I think there is a place to use an a precatory psalm. So let's just frame this under the Old Testament covenant, under, even in his particular here, the Davidic Covenant, where God said, I'm gonna make you a sure house. I'm gonna bless you. You're gonna be my king. A king naturally has enemies, and in this case, the king's enemies are God's enemies. These are not just personal vendettas. And so when David prays an imprecatory psalm. A Psalm that praise curses upon his enemies. This is not David saying, I just don't like the way that you treated me. I'm gonna, I'm gonna deal with you. I'm gonna ask God to curse you. This is not a, a little foible. This is not something that is, is David having a bad day? This is God's king, God's representative, leadership, doing a righteous thing, a righteous act, which in this case is calling down judgment, which is what God will do for everyone who opposes him. You read here in verse eight. You, oh Lord. Laugh at them. It sounds a lot like Psalm chapter two where it says, kiss the sun lest he be angry. The Lord will laugh in derision against his enemies. And so what you have here is a microcosm of the larger picture of Jesus rulership. So everything that you see here ultimately points to Jesus and its fulfillments of Jesus judgment of the nations that will not bow the knee. And that here in glimpses in David. So that's where it fits in the Old Testament or in the narrative of redemption history in the story of redemption history as a New Testament Christian, I don't think we're often gonna be using these because we don't have, I. The same kind of position David did. However, again, I will say for God's enemies I don't think they're off the table. In fact, I prayed against Planned Parenthood with Imprecatory Psalms and granted, I'm praying against an organization and not a person, but I have used the CEO's name before and say, Lord, stop her. Yeah. I use these kinds of psalms to, to help inspire and motivate a righteous prayer, hopefully a righteous indignation, but I would say handle them carefully. Yeah. Yeah I just thought, just popped into my head when you were talking about that in, I think one Corinthians six when our chapter, sorry, chapter five, when Paul is confronting the church there for having somebody in the midst that's in an immoral relationship with somebody that he says, even the world wouldn't do these things. And then it says in there, you need to discipline him outta the church. You need to turn him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, lest his soul should perish also, which would imply that perhaps this guy. Didn't forfeit his soul eternally. But there, I wonder if there's a measure of imprecatory ju prayers that we can pray such that it's God we desire the salvation of your enemies. We desire that they would repent and believe, but in the meantime, I. Stop them, whatever means necessary, stop them from doing what they're doing there. I think that's a really interesting and helpful framing of that, because you're right, Jesus does say to pray for your enemies pray for those who persecute you. Love your enemies. Give them food and give them water. Give 'em shelter. You're putting, burning coals in their head. So again I would make a distinction between our enemies. We're not the Davidic king. We're not the Messiah. And God's enemies, for God's enemies. I feel the preparatory psalm still have a place for my personal enemies saying and I may say, oh man they're against me because I'm a Christian maybe. And if that's a case, this is a place for me to display that kind of love and affection. But when it comes to something that's clear and evidently opposed to God's rulership in his authority, in our lives again I feel like these still have a place. Yeah. Yeah. Chapter 20 then, as we jump back into First Samuel first Samuel 20, we get here more on David and Jonathan and the development of the relationship. This is gonna be a chapter that includes a covenant that's entered into, and what's worth note here is Jonathan understands that the kingdom is going to David and he is treating David that way. He's talking about David that way, and in fact he even says, look if my father wants to do you harm. And something befall you. I'm gonna let you know. And then he says, and David, here's what I'm asking of you. If something happens to me, take care of my family. And that's this covenant relationship that they enter into this mutual care and concern for one another's wellbeing. And David's gonna follow through with this down the road. We're gonna find that out with one of Jonathan's sons named Mephibosheth. But this is again, just the Jonathan is a commendable guy, and we only get such a brief snapshot of Jonathan's life because. It's not gonna last for very much longer, but he's a commendable guy and I, I. I hope and believe that in eternity we'll get to find out more about him and get to know him a little bit more. But he and David have this unique relationship and the plot in chapter 20 eventually reveals what David suspected to be the case. And Jonathan warns David to flee. And it's such a great cost here because Saul goes off on his son. And just blows up at him. And Psalm even tries to kill his son when he realized what was happening. And so the parting there at the end in verses 41 through 42, just a moving scene depicting their true love for one another and their commitment to their friendship together. Psalm 11. Then as we. Conclude not entirely sure of the placement of this psalm, but thematically it does work here in the Psalm, David asks the unknown counselor how they can advise him to run for his life when it was God whom he trusts and he's still reigning. God is, and he's still aware of all that men plot and do so even back in, in Psalm 59 the confidence David had there that. God was gonna deliver him is still present here. And so that's gonna be an interesting tension in David's life. David is gonna run from his life so often, but all at the same time in the Psalms we're gonna read that he expresses a confidence and a trust in God despite the fact that he's running. He's not running thinking, man, this is it. I need to take care of myself because God can't. He's understanding. And this is that whole idea of God's sovereignty and our circumstances and. Evil befalling us and everything else. And I think David is a great example of somebody who trusts that God, a sovereign over the events that are before us, but he's not gonna then say, so I'm gonna let go and let God. He's still gonna say, you know what? If Saul's got a spear, I'm gonna run. I'm gonna dodge that spear and trust that's, God ordain my steps as well. So Psalm 11. A great psalm about fleeing and taking refuge and needing to trust the Lord in the midst of the troubles and persecutions that befall us. Well, lemme pray and then we will be done with this episode. God give us great wisdom to know even as we were talking about in preparatory prayers and in Psalms, we want to be careful with those and we want to know that our right righteous indignation is an in. Indignation is an anger that is rooted in the offense being against you more than it is the offense being against us. And so helps us to learn from passengers like this and sections like this so that we can we can act in accordance with what you would have us do. And so we thank you for these texts and we thank you for the life of David, the friendship that he has with Jonathan and the example that he is for us. Pray for. Godly friendships like that to saturate our church. We pray Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yeah, bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said