Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. And would you say a happy good Friday or just it's Good Friday. We acknowledge that It is Good

Friday. It is Good Friday, and we are gathering tonight as the church six 30 at Founder's Classical Academy. So we'll be spending about an hour together, maybe just a little bit more and remembering the cross singing songs together, smaller message communion together should be a good. It's meant to be a sober day. It's meant to be a day

of reflection. It's an odd one to participate in. Yeah, because it's like you, you're celebrating, or honoring is probably the better word. Good Friday. Not forgetting that. Sunday's around the corner. Yeah, I know how this ends. It's a story that you know the ends to, so there's not a good way to talk about Good Friday. There's not like a catchphrase like on Sunday. You say he has risen and everyone says he has risen Indeed. Now, what do you do for Good Friday? Do you say Happy good Friday to people? When you see other Christians in the hallway, do you be like, Hey. It's that day to day. Yeah. I

don't know if I, because it's good Friday. It's not Black Friday. And it's good be Yeah. And we know why it's good, but. For me I feel a little bit of this every time we go to the Lord's tup table together. Every time we take communion together or tupper, some people just put us together. Yeah. The Lord's Tupper. The Lord's Tupper Tupperware. It was the party actually is what it was. He was like, Hey Peter, did you bring the the Rubbermaid? No. I feel that every time we go to the, to communion. It's heavy. It's a memorial of his death. That's what communion is. We're proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes. We're not remembering his resurrection. When we go to communion together I. I feel that way about Good Friday too. It's, it is a bit of a somber day and that's okay. It's, I think it's good for us to feel the weight of the day and we can feel the weight of the day and mourn, yet not mourn as those without hope. I, this is a microcosm of what we go through as believers. When we lose somebody that we love to death, it's, we feel the weight of that and yet, that's the way to put it. We remember that they're not gone forever. So to, to sit in the shadow of the cross as it were is good. It's it's helpful for us to be pensive and contemplative when it comes to the serious nature of our faith. And there are el elements of our faith that we need to take seriously. So we're gonna do our best with the song selection and just preaching through this part of John, and then taking communion together to really set our minds on the gravity of the cross and what it means for us as believers.

Yeah, it's gonna be a great night tonight or great evening, I guess I'm say six 30 to seven 30. Yeah. Should I bring visitors to something like this? Is this a visitor friendly event?

I would so I, I'll give you a little sneak peek into the message. I'm really gonna be talking about why it mattered that Jesus needed to be both God and man. Truly God, truly man. And why both of those realities matter to us for our standing with the father ultimately. Sunday morning is gonna be heavily evangelistic. I'll just let you know that ahead of time. It's geared at a lot of it is directed towards the unbeliever reminders of us as believers that we can rejoice in for sure. But Sunday morning is gonna be heavily evangelistic but Friday will be as well. It should hopefully cause us as Christians to reflect, like we've been talking about here with a, a. A sobriety that causes us to be very grateful and thankful and overwhelmed with even just a refreshed feeling of relief that, man I'm forgiven by God, my debt's been paid. And I think it would be good for the unbeliever because hopefully that would instill in them a desire to say I want that, and I don't have that. Yeah, it sounds like it's gonna be a great weekend for us. Hope hope yeah. And by the way, keep praying for Saturday the rain. I think what I'm seeing recently is that it's supposed to start in the afternoon, which would be great 'cause that would mean that we could get our extravaganza in there and not have to cancel that event. We don't want to cancel that event. There's been a lot of work that's gone into that event, but just keep praying that the weather will start later in the day and not hit early on Saturday. Before we get started, let me throw a quick shout out there. Christian Brothers automotive in Salina, specifically Clayton who works at Christian Brothers Automotive in Salina. If you guys are looking to get your car taken care of or you need work done on your car they I'll say this. They I trust them with their assessment of things. They do good work. It's not that they're always gonna be the bottom dollar in town, but they're gonna be people of integrity with what they do. And and they've come through for me and my family of just within this last week had a situation where they they stepped up and made right something that had gone wrong and not even on their fault, it wasn't their fault. And they still went above and beyond as far as customer service goes to, to make something right for us. Clayton and Christian Brothers Automotive in Salina off Preston Road there they've got my. My business moving forward.

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Yeah. I'm the guy that's it's going like this. Isn't that what most people do? Alright, let's jump into our Psalms. We have four of them today. Which is, it may sound like a lot, but pass, you were just saying we've got some days, there's days we're doing double Yeah, double. A lot double duty. Even tomorrow's reading, like we've got something first and first Samuel, but then we're jumping to Psalm 18. You're like, oh, only one Psalm. And yet it's 50 verb verses long. It's a ton. Anyway, Psalm 17. In Psalm 17, we have a prayer of David here asking that the Lord would deliver him from his foes. Just common themes here in the Psalms, and that's something that I think comes out more in this plan just because we are hitting a lot of this time when David's on the run from Psalm. So a lot of the psalms that we're reading chronologically right now have to do with deliverance and prayers for deliverance. Here again, he appeals to his integrity as the foundation for his. His request, his ask of God. And and as the prayer winds down as he ends it acknowledging that sometimes the Lord allows the wicked to flourish here, but the greater flourishing will be found for believers in the presence of God. So he acknowledges the fact that maybe deliverance isn't gonna come, or at least maybe not in the way that he. Is hoping that it would come, and yet it will ultimately come from the Lord in the future. Psalm 35. Then again here, David, praying for deliverance again, and we know, again, if you're wondering, how do we know these are David? When you look at the title of the psalm underneath the heading on the ESV, it'll say something like, in chapter 17, a Prayer of David and in chapter 35. Of David. And so check those titles. 'cause those give us an idea of who it is that is, is writing these. And those are not titles put in by editors. Those are there because David wrote that David put in the original manuscript or the original text as he was writing it, A Prayer of David. And though we don't have the original manuscripts anymore what we do have is the copies of those manuscripts that have been passed down. And those have preserved that attribution there in the title of the psalm. But in chapter 35, he's praying for deliverance and looking forward to the day that he can rejoice at the downfall of his enemies. This one's hard. We've talked about it quite a bit, just this idea of finding joy in the downfall of the wicked. And I think there are some that it's easy for us to conceive of what that looks like. But then we have to balance that by turning the other cheek and praying for our enemies and heaping burning coals on their heads by the acts of kindness. And so that, that's difficult here. And David is re saying, I wanna rejoice over their downfall, like they've rejoiced over my downfall. And that's. That gets a little sketchy just because we've talked about it that our joy over the downfall of an enemy, of the Lord should really come because of their offense against God more so than their offense against us. Any thoughts on that interaction there?

Yeah. I. If we're gonna read this charitably as much as we can anyway. I wonder if his delight, his joy is maybe not so much at their downfall as much as it is his at his vindication. Yeah. The fact that God is honored and he has shown to be righteous and full of integrity. I think the judgment of God in the lives of these. Unbelievers, these enemies show that David was in fact in the rights. And I wanna say, I think that's part of what's happening here. More, more that than it would be, ha you got what you deserved. Yeah. I don't know that one, at least that doesn't resonate in terms of what we know to be true about David. That's fair.

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is a charitable reading. That's a good way. Psalm 54. Then context of this psalm is given as the time that the zip fights were going to turn David over to Saul and his men. And so you remember David had prayed saying, Hey, is this gonna happen? God said yes. And so David booked it. He got out there. And so in the Psalm, David ends up praising God and asking that God would continue to deliver him as he always had. And so he's talking in the psalm just about. Verse three, strangers have arisen against me ruthless men seeking his life. But God, verse four is my helper, the Lord, the upholder of my life. He will return evil to my enemies. And so he just, he knows because of the way that God has operated in the past, how he anticipates God operating in the future. And that's something that, that is, is helpful for us. God is unchanging, he is immutable, but we also. Need to know. And we're gonna see this a little bit later on in the life of David's generals when they go out to battle that God doesn't always deliver the same way twice. And so there's gonna be a situation that we're gonna read about in second Samuel, where David's army is gonna go out to do battle and they're gonna win. And then the enemy, the same enemy, is gonna draw up to the same spot that they were when the army beat them the first time. And yet God's gonna deliver them in a totally different way than he did the first time around. So I think. We can bank on the theology and the doctrine that, man, God delivers us. He's got us, he's gonna care for us. He's gonna protect us. But I think we also need to know that deliverance may look different than it's ever looked in the past. And so we can draw some principles, guiding principles, thoughts about God, but I don't think we want to take it to the bank and go, oh, we're gonna be fine this time because we were fine last time. And he's gonna do the same thing this time that he did last time.

O one thing I saw here in verse six is that David says, with the free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I'll give thanks to you. Oh Lord. For it is good. And the reason why he says in verse seven is that you've delivered me from every trouble. My eye has looked in triumph on my enemies. I think one thing that's important for us to see is this principle of Ren rendering to God something tangible when he showcases some kind of deliverance. If God does something for you, that is incredibly good. And you notice it to say, man, Lord, this is amazing. I'm so thankful that you did this. It's not inappropriate to say, God, I want to thank you with some kind of tangible expression of my love for you. So David offers a free will offering. That is something that's not obligatory. It's not he has to because there is some kind of sacrifice required. But he says, I want to give you a sacrifice. I wanna offer something to you because you were kind to me. You delivered me. You showed your steadfast love to me. And I think God is honored and pleased by that. Again, the idea here is that it's free will. It's not a compulsory act where God delivers you and you have to now give him something. But man, isn't it good when our kids are just genuinely thankful and they say, man, thank you, dad for this, or, thank you mom, and man, I really appreciate that. Sometimes I'll be caught off guard. My kids do that, and I'm like, oh. You're welcome. Yeah, that's right. There's a sense of pride that comes from my heart, right? I'm just like, that's really sweet. It doesn't happen all the time, which is why it becomes all the more special when I see it. But I think that's something that reflects the way that God feels toward us when we render to him some kind of free will, offering some kind of tangible expression of Thanksgiving to him. So keep that in mind the next time that you notice, ah, God has done something great in my life.

Yeah. Yeah. We know people that and you're right, this is free will offering. And so this is not compulsor compulsory or and it's not something that is expected of everybody, but we know people that have, for example, sold their house. God has provided them a buyer that maybe gave them above and beyond what they're expecting, right? And they've turned around and they've given to the church based on some of what that, that extra. Profit was, that's an example, maybe modern day, tangible example of what that would look like today.

You brought one up not too long ago in one of your sermons about if you have more than enough cars and God has blessed you, maybe you're in real estate or something, or you just have a ton of money, God has blessed you with resources and you see someone who has a need for a vehicle. Maybe the Lord moves you to say, I wanna give this vehicle to this family. They're gonna benefit from this. This is the way that I think God designs a church story, but again, it's not compulsory. This is something God has to stir up in your heart to make you. As generous as he has been generous to you. Totally. Yep.

Alright. Psalm 63 then. Here is a psalm of David conveying his devotion to the Lord, his reliance upon God, his desperation for him, and God's faithfulness to him in return. This is such a graphic psalm in a good way, in, in a clean way. Not in an obscene way, but graphic in the illustrations that David uses to describe his. Devotion, passion for the Lord. And we read this and it just, it resonates with us because all of us know what it feels like to thirst when he says, my soul thirsts for you. My flesh faints for you is in a dry and weary land when there's no water. I think thirst is one of the strongest feelings that we experience as human beings, I would say more so than even than hunger. There have been times that I've been really hungry for something, but I think the times that I'm more thirsty than anything else it's, it becomes all consuming. It's all you can think about is just, I need water. And I think that's such a good way for David to compare that to our love for the Lord. I desire for him is to say, does my. Soul thirst after the Lord. Do I long to be with him? Am I convinced verse three, that his steadfast love is better than life? Am I convinced that he's worthy of that? That devotion of my soul that he is precious to me that I would say yes, I want that right? Because you can be as thirsty as you possibly can be, but yet. You're gonna look at a stagnant pool and you're gonna go, I'm not gonna drink that, that, that doesn't appeal to me. You're gonna want the crisp, cold glass of water because that's what appeals to you, that's refreshing to your soul is God. That because it's not enough, just that you feel a longing in your soul, that longing in your soul has to be connected to an affection for the Lord that would say and I wanna be satisfied with him.

Such a good analogy, and he carries it through even not only to the thirst, but even to the food. In verse five, my soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food. And I love that because it, it speaks to something so primal in us that. Thirst, the hunger, the deepest of our human needs, physically speaking, are expressed in those requirements. And God says, I am that for your soul. I am that for your soul. And that's so hard to tell somebody. It's so hard to communicate that. I was trying to communicate that to the students this last week in one of our sermons, trying to say, Jesus is the one who satisfies us. He's the bread of life. That's why he says, I am the bread. I am the living water. And so David here is pointing out, this is the way that Yahweh is. To us as his people. He's their thirst quencher, he's their rich food. And he's the one that satisfies. So it's no mistake when Jesus shows up and he's Hey, I'm the bread of life. I'm the thing that you really need to feast on. I am the living water. He's making a claim to deity even without necessarily using the same words, even though you could argue that IMS are pretty clear. But David is. Previewing this in Psalm 63, and I love this analogy 'cause it's just it hits me, it hits all of us, I think, who know what it is to taste and see that the Lord is good.

Yeah. And it, it's almost as though he's saying it's not just that he's satisfying you at the bare minimum because he doesn't say he's. Just bread. He says he's fat and rich. Food. That's right. This is the Dlec delicacies. These are the things that in the middle of the desert, you don't expect to find. Totally. And things that you can imagine David is missing from Saul's table when he had sat at Saul's table with Jonathan. It's a great connection and thinking, man, that's what's back there. But God is that to me now.

Yeah. Yeah. In Matthew 15 where Jesus multiplies the fish and loaves for probably a largely gentile audience that says, all of them ate and were satisfied. Yeah. I made the connection to what you were just saying here, God is not stingy. He's not just giving you enough to get by a couple meager calories, but he is satisfying. He's making their bellies. Bulge because they're just stuffed. Yeah they're well provided for, I think in Psalm 23, he's the shepherd who leads us to still waters and green pastures. The sheep lay down 'cause they're safe. This is the God that we serve. And Psalms like this really help bring the color to the black and white words of scripture. I think these are just so helpful to us. So if you're reading these psalms, maybe you're. Tired by some of the poetry. It's challenging to get through. In fact, I think I was just telling you, PPJ, it takes longer for me to read through these than it does the narrative portions. Yeah, because I have to think more about the connections that whoever's writing the psalm is trying to make for us. But if you work at it, they're totally worth it. Yes, I agree with everything that you just said.

Hey, let's let's pray. When we done with this episode, he really said that though, guys, just to be clear, he really just said that. Said what? Stop. Alright, let's pray. God, we we are grateful that you are not a stingy God, that you satisfy us above and beyond anything that we could ever ask or imagine. And that is ultimately seen at the cross what we're gonna be remembering tonight. The fact that you have not just. Started us over from scratch. You've not just declared us that, that we're not guilty, but good luck. From here, you've declared us fully righteous with the righteousness of Christ. You've supplied more than we need, and given us an infinite degree of righteousness because you've filled us up with the merit of your son. And so that is such a good thing for us to be reminded of, Lord, that you are a God of abundant grace and mercy. And so we are so thankful for that. May we in return long for you, faint for you, thirst for you the way that David describes in this passage. Help us to be a church desperate for more of you. Never in, in some sense, never satisfied this side of eternity with what we know of you, but always wanting to know more, always thirsty to know more, and to be. Closer to you than we are today, and we pray that by your spirit, you enable us to do that. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said