Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition in the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. It is it's Monday, which means the secret is officially out. We have we've revealed what the big news was on Sunday. I can barely stand it. What did we say? We're not gonna tell anybody I. Okay. So those that weren't there on Sunday, you don't get to know. Yeah, I got a text message from one I won't call him by his first name, but his initials are g and r. Okay. And he was asking if his wife and him could guess the thing. Yep. And I said you can guess. And I'm not guaranteeing that. I'll let you know if you got it right, but he got it totally wrong. He did ask a really good follow-up question. And I answered it truthfully, but he didn't catch onto it. So now hopefully he knows what we just announced. Yep. The announcement is we are moving our our facility. We're gonna move our facility from founders in Frisco, Texas to founders in Prosper, Texas. And you might think. If you're not here, okay, what's the big deal? It's a massive deal for us. Frisco's been great. We have been there for almost two years now, and and God has blessed our church. We've been growing there. And so one of the things that we are bumping up against is a need for more space as our church continues to grow. And Frisco's not as big of a campus as prosperous, prosper. Prosper is a bigger campus has a bigger facility more rooms for us to be able to utilize. That's right. And so we are going to be able to grow into that a lot easier than that. It's also up in our target demographic area. Frisco's great, but if you're not familiar with our area Frisco is built out and it's massive, but it is built out. When we moved out here, one of the things that we said is we want to hit where churches need to be built. Where the community is expanding and growing and things are being built. Schools and Costcos and everything else. And we wanna build churches there. And so moving up here puts us more in line with our ultimate lord willing, we will see what he does down the road, but with our target area. And it opens up a brand new area of growth for us. We have evaluated the demographics for the majority of our church. Actually, this makes the commute shorter. And this keeps most of our people, most of our congregation, over 90% of our congregation, well over 90% of our congregation, still within 30 minutes of a drive to church, which we've done some research and a lot of the organizations that look into these things have said most people are willing to drive about 30 minutes to get to church. That's not. Out of the ordinary. And so this was a good move for us. It made a lot of sense. It opens up a new area for us to reach even more people as our 30 minute drive area expands further north into some of these regions where a lot of this growth is taking place here. The administration at Founders has in Prosper, has worked with churches in the past and is very open. So working with us, they're excited about that. We're excited about partnering with them, and it's gonna be a lot better for our people, our setup and tear down crews, the that we're gonna be able to store our trailers on site there, which is gonna huge, not only save us some money, saves us money, but saves us time. Yeah. Wear and tear on our vehicles and the people. These as people that have to tow 'em. I mean that, that's a lot. They were towing all the way down to Frisco, back up to Salina and back. And so God has opened doors that we are very excited about. Starting June one, Lord willing, we are gonna be launching at Founders in Prosper. And we are just excited because we'll see what the Lord does long term as far as a permanent facility goes. We're not sure what that's gonna look like at this point, but this place allows us to grow and to really grow into this this school. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, there's really almost everything that we've thought about. In, by way of comparison, it is really a net positive for us. We've examined this, turned it over, we've thought about it. We've tried to even find ways where, okay, are there anything that we're not thinking about? And all the boxes that we're seeking to check have been checked by this move and we're really pleased by it and we're trusting that everybody who heard us announce it yesterday are also equally enthusiastic in almost every metric that we can measure. This is gonna be an up. Grade four. So if you've been tracking with us since the beginning as either a church member or just someone who's been listening from afar, we're grateful for your prayers and we think this is a good step in the right direction. And this is the thing that God is doing to position us for whatever the next season is. And of course, we are hoping and praying for a building. We're praying for land. We're just praying for God to open up doors that's gonna make sense for us. And even though this isn't the ultimate destination, this is a really great step in the right direction. And for this, we do praise God. Yes, we do. Amen. Amen. Let's jump into our text 'cause we've got a lot today. We have so much to cover. We have a, how are we gonna do this? Yeah I, we were talking about righteous indignation right before we hit play on or record on the button. And I feel maybe a little bit over the fact that he had us read one Psalm of three verses that one day. Yeah. And we've got all of these psalms to cover. Alright. Psalm one and psalm two. Really they probably were both, potentially one text at some point in time, but they've been split up. Now we've got Psalm one, Psalm two. Remember when we read the Bible, these were not written with chapters and verses. Those were added at a latter date. And Saint latter. What? Latter day Saint You said La Latter. Latter date. Oh, dates. Yeah. Not latter day Saint. Yeah, now Latter day Saint. Yeah. No, we don't like them. The Mormons. We like them. We love them. Even we don't like their theology. We hate their theology. They're better. Yeah. That's a better way to put it. Anyway, Psalm one really contrast two types of people. The wicked and the, just the blessed. And scripture does that pretty much across the board. In fact, if you read the Bible, it's gonna be, you're gonna be hard pressed to find anywhere in scripture that has a neutral man, somebody that isn't either. Pursuing the Lord and receiving blessings like this one in Psalm one who's not walking in the council of the wicked or standing in the way of sinners, but delighting in the law. The Lord meditates on his law day and night. There, there's that category, or there's the camp of the person that is standing opposed to the Lord. And and even if you're listening out there and going, okay I don't. I don't feel like I'm actively opposing God. If you're not actively pursuing him, then your default is gonna be towards the flesh, and the flesh is gonna pull you away from the Lord. There is no neutrality. There's no neutrality. In fact, we talked about that on Sunday. There's the Monday fog that kills the Sunday faith. There's the drift to our default. And our default is to be men and women of the flesh. And we have to actively pursue him. We have to actively meditate on his law and delight on his law and be like the righteous person in Psalm one rather than the wicked. Psalm two then is, uh, it's an interesting psalm 'cause there's so many different layers to this Psalm. On the one hand, it was an enthroned psalm, so this was a psalm that was read at the beginning of a king's reign. And so as a king is installed on the throne, they would've read this one because it, it talks about. God installing his king. And so they would've taken that language and applied it to the King of Israel as the King of Israel is getting ready to take the throne. But it was also a messianic psalm. And that's because this king, this divine figure this royal figure, and starting in verse six seems to be the ultimate Messiah. You are my son today. I've begotten you. The kings in ancient near Eastern culture were considered to have been adopted by the God of that culture. And when you had a pagan culture and they had a king, they would attribute that king to the be the adopted son of the God of that culture. This is unique because this is the God of Israel saying, I've installed my king, my son, you are my son. They would've applied that in the. Enthronement Psalm to the earthly king, but there's gonna come a king in the future. That's gonna be the actual literal the Son of God, begotten by God. And that's gonna be the one that is going to be the ultimate king, the messianic king. So Psalm two has multiple layers here, including a warning to the opponents of God to say, Hey don't wait too long. Honor the son while there's still chance, because eventually the sun's gonna come back in judgment. Yeah, that, I don't know if it ever struck you as strange, but verse 12, where it says, kiss the sun les to be angry. It's not like romantic kiss, right? Let's just be clear about that. The notion here is that you kiss in homage. It is a way of showing respect and reverence to the king himself. And so just like you might kiss the scepter or you might, and some of the images of a king, you might see the subjects kissing the king's feet or something like that. That's the idea. That's the concept that's being carried here. And of course, the son, the capital S here is Jesus Christ, the son, the Messiah, the son of David, who would ultimately be established and lifted high. He's the one that we have to be submissive to, and he's the one that right now, while you still have a chance, if there's breath in your lungs and you have not yet repented, he's the one that you must pay. Two. Yeah. Romans two, four don't despise the patience of God, don't presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience which is meant to lead you to repentance. And so that's what this is about this Old Testament version of that. Yeah. That's why the nas b the net Christian Standard Bible those all do translate it as do homage to or show honor to. That's that that concept there. All of those guys, huh? They do the NAS B two. Nas B 95, NAS B. No kidding. Early. Yep. Because the word is kiss. The word is the, literally the literal word is kiss. But that makes sense. That they would do, that's a really interesting text too, because that I'm sure they know that it's kiss. Yep. And they translate it to make it make sense to the English reader, which is why you need translation committees to help them wrestle with these things. It's really fascinating. What's interesting though, is the LSB Legacy standard Bible chooses KISS and not do homage. So NSBE and L SB are, yeah. 'cause they, they prefer the more literal. Rendering and even if it means that you provoke some kind of confusion on the part of the reader. Yeah. It's just, it's funny, a lot of people accuse the LSB of just being the Ns B with MacArthur's name on it and translating it as Yahweh and slave. Yeah. Oh, mostly, probably. Yeah. Hey man, I love MacArthur, so gimme his Bible. No, same for sure. Alright, Psalm 15. This Psalm establishes the type of person permitted to enter into God's presence. And so that's the question that's asked at the outset of the Psalm in verse one, oh Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall. Dwell on your Holy Hill. A Psalm of David here. It would appear that this is probably written after the city of David has been established after Jerusalem has been established there. The hill language the idea of ascending there and the answer here, right off the bat in verse two, he who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart. Pierre, I'm curious to get your thoughts but for me, I read that and I'm like, okay, so the answer is who's qualified to do that? No one. I mean that it essentially cuts the legs out from anybody to be able to say, yeah I walk blamelessly. Although David says from time to time that he does reading this maybe through our New Testament lens, it seems like this is setting up the conclusion to be like, I need Christ, I need the righteousness in order to dwell. In the with the Lord on his Holy hill. I need the righteousness of Christ because I can't measure up to these standards. I think there is a place for that for that understanding. On the other hand, I do think that there was a real concept of righteousness in the Old Testament mindset. Think about job I. He walked Blamelessly, he was upright. God himself called him blameless. Yeah. And so I think there is a real category for this kind of person, and David intends for us to read it that way. In other words, that your life has to convey a kind of integrity that God can say you. You live in a blameless way. So I would say yes, generally speaking, it's true. We can't ever live up to the standard by which God gives us. The standard is perfection. Matthew chapter seven, be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect, however. With the caveat, there is a real category for the righteous under the Old Testament law where he walked blamelessly and consequently, his life looks like this. Not perfectly, just like Job's. Life was in a perfect reflection of righteousness, but sincerely and evidently so I would say, I think he intends for us to say, okay, let me measure my life against this. Where do I need to grow to showcase my faith? Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with you there. It's, I don't mean to let us off the hook of saying we need to pursue righteousness there to say I can't do it, so I even bother him. Let's sin all the mors that Grace May a bound. But I think there's, we do have the added benefit as New Testament believers to read and understand a broader application of some of these Old Testament passages through the lens of Christ there. And so sure, it's maybe a both and, speaking of reading it with different eyes. Psalm 22 Psalm 22 is a Psalm of David here, and you'll note right off the bat that there's some familiar language in verse one. My God, why have you forsaken me? That is quoted by Jesus, by our Savior as he's on the cross dying in our place for our sins as he's bearing the full weight of God's wrath upon him. I think that's the moment of him feeling forsaken by the Father There. Yet here it's uttered by David. And David didn't have a concept of a crucified savior. David didn't know that Jesus, the his long in the future descendant was going to die in such a fashion. And yet, it's fascinating to me that as we read this psalm, we find such a clear depiction, it sounds at least of the elements of crucifixion. Just the exhaustion, the. Thirst the the dogs encompass me, pierced my hands and feet. Verse 16, they've pierced my hands and feet. I can count all my bones. They staring gloat over me. They divide my car garments among them, and for my clothing, they cast lots. We don't know of the specific situation that David wrote this in, but it's certainly one in which he felt destitute. He felt afflicted, he felt surrounded by the evil doers and was even suffering. It appears physically, although I think this is where by the spirit, David wrote better than he knew as he anticipated the death that Jesus would ultimately die. I don't think there was a point at which David's hands and feet were pierced. In that same sense, David is called a prophet. And so it would make sense that David would write prophetic songs that would speak not only about himself in some way, shape, or form, but also about the future Messiah who would come from his own loins. Another comment, I saw this recently, in fact, this week I saw someone. Tweet or X or post, I saw someone post that said because of Psalm 22, I have a hard time singing the song in Christ Alone where it says the Father turns his face away. He points to verse 24 where it says that he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted that is Christ on the cross. He has not hidden his face from him, but is heard when he cried to him. So would quick, I know this is we have many more Psalms to look at, but quickly would you please talk about that? Is it true? Can we theologically sing that the father turns his face away from Jesus on the cross? Man, we're getting into so much there because even the language of his face right is an anthropomorphism God doesn't, right. God doesn't have a face. He doesn't possess a face. Yeah. He's spirit. So even to sing anything about the physical body of God, we could say he doesn't actually. Have a face, and so he doesn't turn away in that sense. So if we understand that I think charitably, we can read this from the point of view of the author of that song, which I believe is Stuart Townend, if I'm Correct there. And one of the Gettys maybe both. Yeah. And that, to, to understand that there're really trying to capture the wrath of God that, that there was such a shift in. The experience of the son to the father, then that's how they put it into poetic language in this song. We're not reading this saying, okay town and Getti disagree with Psalm 2224. So therefore we're gonna choose to believe Song Town and getti and reject scripture. And I don't think they're trying to undermine scripture. I think they're trying to help us understand and feel the full weight of our sin in that song. I understand the sentiment and saying I have difficulty reading that and I. I heard the same thing and thought about that myself too, and I think about it, I think every time we sing that song, but for me, I just choose to go back to going, they're just trying to help us understand the weight of our sin. Yeah, and that's the difficulty with poetry and song is that sometimes we're using symbols and analogies to get the sense of what's happening. And obviously this does not allow us to be sloppy, but it does allow us to give room for the Psalm to sing what we're trying to convey. No one is saying that the song itself is a systematic theology where we're parsing every nuance. We're singing with the spirit of the song to say, okay, this generally happened and it is true. God poured his wrath upon the sun. There was some kind of, animosity between the father and the son. The son became sin. He who knew no sin became sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God. There's some kind of interaction that's happening there that is not the normal harmony between the father and the son's relationship. Yeah, I would agree with that. Psalm 23 probably the most. Famous of all the Psalms, perhaps it's a one that, that a lot of people know, even unbelievers know. I've heard of this one. It's red time and time again. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Maybe you've got even got it memorized and you can rattle it off here. But one thing that struck me this time is a lot of these are, it's, this is what the Lord is doing for us or to us. He makes us lie down. He leads us. He restores us. He leads us in paths of righteousness. He sets the table in the presence of my enemies. And we can think to ourselves, man that's so good. I'm glad God does all that for us. But if we're gonna build on the shepherd analogy, and I'm, hopefully, I'm not stretching this too far. That's for those that are part of his flock, that's for those that are with him, that's not for the sheep. That string, the sheep, that string, he's gonna go with the crook and the staff. And sometimes he might break his leg. Sometimes he had to break the leg. Yeah. To smack that sheep to the sheep to submit, to bring him back so that Jesus is not going off to the string sheep. And taking that sheep to a different stream and being like, let me lead you over here. Because no, he's gonna bring him back to the flock and say what's good for the flock is good for you. That's right. And for us as believers, I think we need to read Psalm 23 and understand, yes, we're passive in this. This is all stuff that God is doing to us through Jesus. But this is as we are. In the flock as we are part of the body of Christ, as we are being led by the Lord through our relationship with him. Yeah. Don't make the Lord come after you. I love Psalm 23, but make sure you're keeping track with the step, keeping track with the shepherd there. Yeah. Yeah. Psalm 24 Psalm 24, Psalm of David, and similar to Psalm 15, in, in that it asks the question in verse three, who shall ascend the hill of the Lord who shall stand in his holy place This time it's he who has clean hands and a pure heart and does not lift up his soul to what is faults and does not swear Deceitfully. And the other refrain and point in this is the anticipation of the coming of the king of glory and the celebration that's gonna be a part of that as well. And so in in Psalm 24, similar themes to Psalm 15, and he's trying to get us to understand, hey we need to be those that are righteous. We need to be those that are, like we were just saying in Psalm 23, part of the flock. And if we are there, then the arrival of the king is gonna be joyful for us. If we're not, then back to, Psalm two. We're gonna be fearful of that king 'cause that king's gonna come in judgment against us. What are the heads of the gates? What does that mean? Lift up your heads. Ou gates, O gates. Personification of the gates. I'm not sure what are your thoughts on that? Oh I was sincere question, but I agree. I know it's a poetic description of the gates opening to the king. Open the gates to the king, is what they're trying to say. But sometimes I, stuff like that tripped me up. For years I read that. I'm like, what does that mean? I never bothered to look at it. I've learned about it recently. Yeah. In the last few years, but for a long time. What does that mean? Yeah. The word in Hebrew, I get it's head or hair. Person. Pick your hair up. Yeah, put your hair, pick up your heads. Yeah. Yeah. So poetry, keep that in mind. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of personification in the Psalms. Yeah. They didn't actually have heads. These are not likes. That'd be cool though. I would love to put a head on my gate, a lion's head. You should do that. You should get gargo oils and put them on your house. Those are creepy, man. I don't, I'm just saying, why would you put a demon on your house to protect it from it's demons? From other demons. Protect demons from demons. Whoa. Oh, that demon's scarier than I am. Yeah, that's true. Alright, Psalm 47. Thi this psalm is about fuel for our worship and why God is worthy of our worship and praise. We're gonna see that a lot in the coming days here. Just the command to sing and clap and worship. Shout to God. These are commands. That we're being given in scripture. And I just noticed that more and more reading the Psalms this year through is just how many times God is telling us, Hey, you need to worship me in song. You need to, there needs to be an outward expression of the joy that you feel over the things that I've done. And I think that the Old Testament, they did that really well. I think we don't do that nearly as well. On Sunday, we talked in one of our points about feasting with Jesus. And one of the, my suggestions to you on that was. Creating a worship playlist, one that you just resonate with that, that you're just, they're the songs that you like to belt at the top of your lungs. And just living in that and spending time with that and worshiping God and engaging in your relationship with the Lord that way. We were on our way back from from somewhere, I'm not gonna put it on a blast but we drove by somebody in the church that we saw out at, it was later at night. So we drove, we saw the Compass Bible Church sticker on the car. And so we drove by and we were like, oh, who is that? And we looked over who this person. And Amanda text her and was like, what's up? What, why, what are you out doing? And she was like, where? What was I doing when you drove by me? What were you doing when we drove by you? She was belting it out. She was singing at the top of her lung. Ah, that's okay. But that's good, right? Worshiping God, we're commanded to do that. I think Psalm 47. Did she say she was worshiping? She, I don't know. She could have been doing Dr. Dre or something. We don't know. That's true. Knowing her, that'd be a little, that'd be a little out, out of out of her ilk. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So sing praises to God. Verse six, sing praises to our king. Sing praises. Why verse seven four. God is the king of all the Earth. Sing praises with the Psalm, by the way, small sidebar. Something I've been doing as I've been going through the Bible this year is noting in, in highlighting I use a little box in my logos Bible software, the word for. Every time that it's giving an explanation. It's such a powerful preposition and it unlocks so much for us as we study the scriptures to, to pay attention to that word. Four. 'cause it's giving the reason. And so as he's saying, shout to God, why verse two, four, the Lord most highs to be feared. He's a great king over all the earth sing praises. Verse six, why verse seven, four. God is the king of the earth. Sing praises with a psalm. Alright. Psalm 68, our last Psalm four today. How many is this today? Man, we just 30. It is, it feels like it. We've done 130 of the 150 psalms today and we only did 1, 1 33 on Monday. Yeah. And sometimes it's okay, surely the last few are just short and then you come to this one, it's 35 verses what in the world's going on. I'm, I've written the editors already. Thank you. Yeah, here we go. It's David again. And Psalm 35, or Psalm 35, Psalm 68 is again a praise psalm and it's one of great joy and perhaps written around the time that he brought the arc back to Jerusalem. So we're thinking maybe it's around that time of celebration. But I love verse five, that God has called the father of the fatherless and a protector of the widows that God cares about the vulnerable in our society, and we should too. And he is one that has not forgotten them and has not lost sight of them or or lost track of them. I was reading something recently about somebody who loses a loved one and how the time right after the funeral can be some of the hardest times for them because everybody else has gone home and eventually the meal train stops. And then they're just left in the void that's created by the loss of that person. And a psalm like this is such a, an encouraging reminder to us that God has not forgotten them, that God is there in their sorrow, in their pain, and he's the God who loves them in the midst of all of that too. Yeah. Anything else on, on Psalm 68 there? Nope. That's a good psalm. Okay. I like it. You should too. Awesome. Yeah. Alright hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with with this episode. God, thanks for your word. Thanks for these psalms. I pray that we would be able to soak them in as we, we read so many of them. I pray that we would not just glaze over or walk away quickly going I'm familiar with Psalm 23, so let's move on to the next one. God, make them fresh for us and help us to. Walk away with nuggets that we can think about and chew on and meditate on, and even think about how our lives need to look different as a result of our time in your word. And so we thank you for this time. We thank you for your word. Thank you for the provision of founders and prosper, and we look forward to great things in the coming years there as we continue to serve you as your church. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. For more Psalms, bye.

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