everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Good morning. You're on mute. Good morning. There you go. Now you're back. Hey we have just over a week, about a week and a half now until our men's retreat and coming up so soon. It is coming fast and we've got a good amount of register, register people. We got REGIE people, there's people registered for it, but we want more. Un unashamedly, unabashedly. We want more. And so if you're on the fence, men listening to this, it's time to get off the fence and register. It's time to, to sign up for this. No gagging, no. And ladies listening to this, if your husband is not coming, boyfriend from the retreat, right? Or boyfriend is not coming on the retreat, then, or brother or uncle, when do you get them there? And listen ladies, especially if the reason they're not coming on the retreat is because you have somehow guilted them into feeling bad for going shame on you. That that's not okay. Your husband is gonna be, or your boyfriend or whoever he is gonna be a better off after this retreat than he would be if he misses it because you just want him home. And I understand it's a sacrifice. I get that and come women's retreat time, we're gonna say same thing to the men. We're investment. Exactly. It's a worthwhile investment in the godliness of your husband. And this is such a good thing. You should want him to be there and so do what you need to do and get them there. And men don't make your wife sign up for you. If you're sitting here, if we have to have that, then that's what we have to do. Yeah. If that's what it is, okay, fine. But we'll take it. But we want you there. And get online and sign up right now for the retreat. If finances are an issue, we've said this time and time again let us say it again. Don't let it be an issue. We will we'll make sure that we're taking care. We're, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm guessing that's gonna be the case for several guys. I haven't heard much about that lot. A lot of cricket, so whatever the reason is and we know that there's lots of good ones. There are so many good reasons not to do the good things that God wants us to do. But ultimately we think. That this is such a good investment of your time, that the fruit of it will be well worth the cost of admission or the investment of time and resources to be there. It's a beautiful facility. The room situation is great. Food is good. It's, we'll have snacks there for you as well. So it's not gonna be a, this is a little over 24 hours, honestly, when you come down to it, it's Friday afternoon through. Closer to dinnertime on Saturday. Yeah. So it's 24 hours. Yeah. We're not even a whole weekend. This is totally doable guys. We want you there. Yeah. And if we're your pastors, and this is your home church, we wanna see you guys there. We're zealous for your godliness and this is one way for you to help us. Cool. To help us achieve that together. Yeah. Yeah. It's an hour away. It's not far at all. I also heard if this is a selling point that one Jason Cooper might be leading a band of Merry men to go play Ultimate Fri, or not Ultimate Frisbee for but Disc golf. That's right. Yeah. Free lessons with Yeah. The Jason Cooper. Yeah. The. Not any old Jason Cooper. The, yeah. Yeah, that's, I don't know what else we're doing. I think we're doing some hikes and things that we have arranged. It's gonna be awesome. Angelo Angelo Trinidad is helping us coordinate some free time events for you guys to do so you won't be bored. There's always the games that people that are way smarter, Rob Kelly Head up that, yeah. If you try to learn it on the fly, it would take you eons, but there's Yeah. Gly, or, yes. Shoots and ladders. Monopoly. Yeah. Super hard. Know those other ones, like settlers of Catan and all that stuff, a break out and fun. That one's fine. Yeah. By the way, ladies if you were offended by me saying shame on you I'd apologize. I don't wanna offend you, but I want you to get your husband's there, so yeah. If you needed to hear that, then man, you needed to hear that. There you go. Yeah. But we love you and we love all of you. And we want you there. That's right. So please set up, yeah, please set up. Let's get in. We've got another slew of Psalms to get through today. Psalm 25 is a Psalm of David. David here casts himself on the Lord and asks God to continue to reveal his ways because David knows that there's ultimately safety in walking in the paths of the God of his salvation. So good. There that, that David is saying, Hey, God I want you to show more of yourself to me because I know that ultimately I'm gonna be safest in walking, in accordance with your will in your plan in my life. A couple of things that, that stood out to me here. First in, in verse one to you, oh, Lord, do I lift up my soul? That's not language that we use. Pastor Rod, what would you say? How do we lift our soul to God? Is that it seems. Hard for us to understand. Yeah, I would agree with you on that. I think it's, is one of, this is one of those situations where the smaller thing represents the whole thing. Yeah. So I'm lifting up my hands would be like I'm giving you my life. I'm lifting up my soul. Same idea. We're giving you everything that I've got to give. I'm surrendering myself as a sacrifice to you. I'm gifting, not gifting. I'm s. Surrendering. That's a really good way to put, I'm surrendering my life to you because he says in verse two, oh my god, in you. I trust. I think that's the idea here. Would you add anything to that? No I would agree with that too. And that's, yeah. The language is different because we are, we're a long ways away from this war, what give or take, about 3000 years removed from. This timeframe when David is writing this. And so we describe things differently, but I think that's a good parallel. How about verse seven? Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. Does God remember our sins? Yes. Yes, he does. Does he remember our sins? Yeah. Do. That's my question. That's your question. Does he remember our sins? He can't not know. Sure. So yes, he does, but the question is, does he hold them against us post Christ? And you'd have to say absolutely not. When scripture says that he separates them as far as the east is from the West, it is God actively choosing not to bring them up in opposition to you. But God can't know, can't not know. Everything he knows past, present, and future. Nothing occurs to God. He doesn't forget things in the strictest sense as you and I do. He just chooses not to hold those things against us. Psalm 1 0 3, 12 as far as the east is from the West. We just read this one recently. So far. Does he remove our transgressions from us? But it doesn't say he forgets them. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Verse 20. He prays that God would prevent him from being put to shame because David had chosen God as his refuge. So just wanted to see there that this is ultimately about the character of God. He says in verse 20, guard my soul. Deliver me. Let me not be put to shame for there's that preposition again. I take refuge in you. And so God is, David is really calling on God, saying, God if I'm put to shame, it's gonna look bad on you. Because if I'm put to shame, you're gonna be put to shame because I've chosen you to be my refuge. And so he's really establishing his confidence in God that God is gonna deliver him because he is gonna deliver him for the sake of his name there. And so David throws himself there on, on God's care, right? You're my God. Verse 14. The friendship of the Lord is for those who. Fear him and he makes known to them his covenant. I think that's such a sweet verse. I love that because it reminds us that drawing near to God has benefits our friendship with him. B based on the fact that we fear him, our friendship is something that is, is more than just an intellectual knowledge. God is sharing life with us. He's sharing information and primarily through his word. But this is a, an. Encouragement for us to draw near to him because there's benefits. Psalm 1611, he makes known to us the paths of life. Fullness of joy. I had his right hand or pleasures forevermore. To be a Christian is a good thing, man. Everyone looks down on it as though it's just a bunch of rules and I have to give up my Sundays. Being a Christian is exciting and fun and awesome. And if you think otherwise you don't understand Christianity. Totally. Yep. Yep. We talked about that last Sunday even a little bit. Did we? Maybe that's where I got it from. We did. Hey Psalm 29. And in this psalm, David is praising God and specifically the voice of God. And so I was reading this one and I was thinking to myself, okay, how did David understand the voice of the Lord here? Because he mentions it time and time again, the voice of the Lord, the voice of the Lord, the voice of the Lord. And it's a powerful presence. It's doing all of these things. It's stripping the forest bear. And so I guess my question is twofold here. How did David understand the voice of the Lord? And how do we understand the voice of the Lord today? And I think. That second question is a little bit easier for us to answer. We understand the voice of God primarily through the scriptures, that's the way that God speaks to us. That's the way that we hear the voice of God. Although we would also say, man, I go out into the creation and I see the skies and I see that the powerful storms that come through and that is the voice of God in creation saying, I'm here. And maybe that's what David understood to be the voice of the Lord here in Psalm 29, but. Pierre, your thoughts on that? Yeah. I've always understood Psalm 29 as a storm psalm, as the psalmist is reflecting on the storm and saying, man, that's really cool. And ascribing the thunder lightning combination to being the voice of God. I'm using air quotes here to say that again. It's a poetic description of God's interaction with creation and it's in this case because you hear that thunder and it is, there is something cool about it. It is humbling. It feels terrifying. We had a lot of thunder and lightning just a couple days ago. Yeah. And. There are times I'm like, man, that is some serious, that's like right above my head. It feels powerful and deep and it shakes the earth a little bit. I think that's what's happening here. Although it could mean more than what's on the surface, and he could be saying more than what's here. But I thought that's how I understood the psalm in the past. Yeah. And by the way, the word scribe is not one that we use very much, but it's the concept of attributing giving. And so when it says scribe to the Lord, glory and praise it's the idea of worshiping him. It's. Declare his worth and his glory in response to the things that you're seeing all around you. Psalm 33. Then in this psalm the psalmist here who is not named, but maybe it was David, but rejoices in the steadfast love and strength of God. It's a confidence psalm in this one that praises God for his creative power and declares that all creation should stand in awe of him and fear him. And this this powerful God is Israel's God as the psalmist goes on to talk about here. And as a result, Israel has nothing to fear. And we know that it's Israel's God because of verse 12. Verse 12 says, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. That is a verse that we would say is about Israel. Now that being the case, can we understand verse 33, in any way as applying to our nation, should our nation undergo a season of revival, of saying, okay if the United States undergoes a genuine season of revival wherein we have. Truly godly leaders that are pursuing the Lord. Could we claim verse 12 in any way of saying, Hey, this is in part for us as well. And I think there's a measure to which you could say, yeah, it, it's always gonna be better for us if we have leaders seeking the Lord than it would be otherwise. But I don't think that we can say that we are the nation, the people whom God has chosen as his heritage, because that we would say is Israel, and that's unique to Israel. This is one of those difficulties, we go to a ball game in the seventh inning stretch. We stand up and we sing the song. God Bless America. And it's actually a prayer. The whole psalm is, in fact, there's a song is, there's a second verse to it that is even more explicitly a prayer to God that we don't sing at the ballpark. But even that idea of praying, God bless America it's built on. Principles like this and concepts like this. And yet the reality is we are not a nation who has made God their Lord, at least not for a very long time. And so I think Psalm 33, verse 12, while on the one hand we would say this is Israel and exclusively Israel, I think it should cause us to say God, humble our nation and cause us to pray for our leaders and pray for Godly leaders. Because like I said a minute ago, it's always gonna be better if we're led by Godly leaders than if we're led by, by godless leaders. And so this is a psalm that should remind us of that for sure. Yeah, that's so true. And I often think of that passage in Second Chronicles. If my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, I'll heal their land. Something of that effect. I think that's a similar category where I would say, generally speaking, when people repent and turn to the Lord, things are better. And God does do good things for those people, but there's no guarantee that. A plus B equals C as it was the case for Israel. With verses like this, you have to be extremely careful with saying this means this for us today. I think it's true in a general sense. I don't know that I would say it's true specifically for America. He'll heal our land, he'll remove all the microplastics from our water and he'll, he'll take all the fluoride out of our drinking water as well and give us better health and take all the blue dyes and. And the red number 40 out of our fruit or our candy or whatever. I just think you, you have to be careful 'cause this is to Israel. These verses are Israel's songbook. We can adopt the principles, but some of the specific promises that were made to them are for them and not for us. Totally. Yep. Psalm 36. Then in this psalm, this is a Psalm of David. This time David contrast the sinner with God ultimately. And this psalm gives a piercingly clear picture of the sinful person who thinks they're getting away with their sin, or that their sin is no big deal in the set of God. And by contrast it shows that the righteousness of God towers immovable and his judgments are as deep as the ocean is. And so the sinner is in view. At the beginning there flatters himself thinking his iniquity. Verse two, can't be found out and hated that nobody knows. Verse four, even plotting to sin on his bed sets himself in a way that is not good. He. He's running headlong after evil. And then the contrast is in verse five. Your righteousness, your steadfast love, oh Lord, extends to the heavens. Your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is immovable like the mountains of God. And your judgments are like the great deep how. Deep, they run the scope and breadth of the judgments of God. In other words, nobody's getting away, God from your righteousness and your judgments. And so David here is saying, perhaps while he's on the run or from Absalom or whatever else is going on, or even reflecting on his own sin, he's saying, man, how foolish is the sinner who sits there and thinks I'm good. Nobody ever knows about this. I'm gonna get away with this. Yeah. And I wonder why it's no secret. Third day made this section of the Psalm really popular, right? He does. He did. Yeah. Steadfast love Lord knocked out one of the most memorable voices. It kinda reminds me of Creed a little bit, or one of those other guys that were at talk Anyway I wonder. I think it'd be really cool for them if they would've taken the whole psalm and put that to the music. I, in their minds, I don't know why I'm guessing the best about them, assuming the best. They just thought this part sings the other part, maybe not so much. There's no fear of God before. Their eyes can't quite sing that with the same tone or maybe even in the same key. But they all go together. And that's the awesome thing about musicians is they'll take songs like this and make 'em memorable. I can never forget that song. Now, every time I read this I can hear the lyrics and the melody in my heart and in my mind but you have to take the whole thing. For what it is. And to your point, it's they go together. Contrasting the wicked, those who don't fear God versus the immovable concrete. Just ways of God who will rule and reign and he'll reign even over those who choose not to submit to his leadership. Every knee will bow, bend it or broken as a saint goes. Psalm 39, then. Here we have another Psalm of David, and this one is to the best of my understanding of this seems to be David sitting in the judgment of God against his sin and feeling just the keen awareness of how fleeting his life is and how the pleasures of this worldly this world that exists around him are also fleeting and really pointless in the end compared to the joy of the Lord and the presence of being with him. And so here he starts out just with this. Declare declaration there in verse one. I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue. I will guard my mouth. Just reminded me this morning as I was going through this, man God holiness requires intentionality. We've talked about that before. We've talked about that in the recent episodes of this that we have to intentionally set ourselves to be godly otherwise. We will slip back into the old man. We the old self will grab hold of us and we will find that we are drifting further away from God, like we talked about a few days ago with Psalm one. You, there is no neutrality with God. And here David is saying I've gotta be intentional about this. And I can't be mute. I can't be silent. I've got to make sure that I'm bringing myself before the Lord and opening myself up to his his discipline. And he, it's not fun 'cause verse 10, he says, Lord, remove your stroke from me. I'm spent by the hostility of your hand. But that discipline as the writer of Hebrews says, is not to be despised because the Lord disciplines the son whom he loves. And so that is is really what David Exper is experiencing here in Psalm 39. Yeah, I would echo that. I think that's the same that's the same conclusion I came to, or I do have questions is. And the first three verses I'm curious as to whether you think let me just say I, if I was thinking verse one, two, and three, that he's struggling with confessing I'm not confessing. I want to, but I'm not. And then as he thought about it, verse three, the fire burned, then I spoke. I, in other words, I had to let it out. I had to confess because I was being afflicted even in my own heart and mind. I didn't have peace. I was mute and silent. I held my peace in no avail. The distress grew worse. It is, I wasn't able to just cover my sin and forget about it. What do you think about those verse three versions? Yeah. I think I, I see that connection there. I, where is it that he talks about when I was silent, your hand was heavy upon me and my bones wasted away within me. And I guess that's what I was thinking about when I was trying to put the pieces together. I was assuming, oh, maybe this is, like that passage Yeah. Where he's saying something very similar. Yeah. It's not as clear in this one. I'm not unsure that's what's happening. Yeah. Yeah. The brevity of life though, verse four is just another thing that, that we need to be aware of and. In its context of dealing with sin, right? And pursuing the pleasures of sin. David says, Lord, make me know how brief my life is. If all of us knew how be brief our life was, I think it would change the way that we use our time. I think if all of us knew when we were gonna die we would say, okay, I wanna maximize the time that I've got left here. And we would look at sin as far more foolish and far, much, far more of a threat to our eternity than it is right now when we just think. You know what I'm gonna live forever. And so David is praying that God would give him that keen awareness of his fleeting nature. And all of us have that same fleeting nature and need to be aware of that as well. Yeah. Some of us don't have 80 years, right? Or 70 or 50. It's funny 'cause now that I'm at the Big 4.0 I, I notice when I see people die younger than I, yeah. I pay attention when I see news articles about this celebrity or that person who had this issue. And I thought, man, I 40 is. Young-ish, older mid middle age, I suppose is the technical term, but that's a gift. Yeah. And there's no guarantee that I'll live another 40 or that we'll live the, at the end of this week. I try to keep that in mind and to your point, when we think about that, it really just changed the way that we appreciate and utilize the time that we have. Yeah. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God helps us to do just that, to, to realize that today is a one more day closer to being in your presence. Lord, we don't know if that's gonna come because Jesus is gonna come back for us or because our time on this earth is gonna reach its end. Even in Psalm 1 39, you say, all of our days are written down in, in your book. And and we're not gonna have another one. Jesus said to his followers, who can be, who by being anxious, can add a single hour to his life. And so we need to do the things that, that he calls them to in that same context when he says, seek first the kingdom of God and let all these other things that you're worried about be added to you. God, help us to be those that live faithfully that live for you, that live for your agenda. And that don't waste our time and waste away the stewardship of the years that you've given us while we still have them. Lord, we wanna be a faithful church in that regard. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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