Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. It's it's Tuesday. It's not Tuesday right now. Right now it's actually Thursday, May 15th, believe it or not, as we're recording this is episode number four in a row that we're knocking out today. You don't need to know that, but it's because we love you that we're doing this because we're gonna be gone at this men's retreat and normally we record on Saturdays, so we recorded extra the week before so that these would roll out on time, and our hope is that you can't even tell that these are so good. And so seamless and so energetically captivating that you can't even tell that we're recording the umpteenth episode today. We each had seven bangs before we started this, so 2100 milligrams of caffeine. That's it. And yeah. So that's sustaining us all the way through. I think that's a lethal dose probably. It is. I'm sure I'm, yeah. That talk about tachycardia, that would, the Apple watch would be buzzing. Hey, you need to go to the emergency room right now. You're dead. You're dying. Yeah, you're dead. It's over. Yeah. No, and it's it's a good week. It's the week leading into our final week at the school here in Frisco. Just a shout out to our setup and tear down team that you guys have been doing such a great job over the last two years here especially. I just wanna recognize our trailer drivers, they get up earlier before even our regular setup team does to get to our storage facility to hook up the trailers to tow them all the way down to Frisco from Salina. And then they also tow them back. And not all of them live up there. Some of them live out in Little Elm and other places too. Good job. Thank you. Trailer drivers. You guys have done such an excellent job that has facilitated us being able to do what we do, and we're excited to be able to keep our trailers on site from here on out Lord willing. And then eventually, hopefully get a permanent facility where we won't have trailers. We'll just sell those things. Oh man, someday. Yeah. Lord, come quickly. Or give us a building quickly either way. That, that would be excellent. Yeah. But man, our trailer drivers are so good and so important to us, but the whole teams, you guys have been doing such a great job. In fact, just to encourage you, I wanna build you up team and let you know, church at a large that I had somebody come two weeks ago now, and they were there and sat in on our service and sat in for setup, and Saturn was there for tear down too, and he's. Planting a church himself. And so he's there to watch and see what we're doing. And he just was saying, you guys are doing such a great job. It looks like a well-oiled machine. He said, it just seems like you guys have such a good thing going. I wanna bring my team here to be able to see what you guys do and how you do it so they can see this in action. So I just, it was a, it was like a proud dad moment. That's a compliment. Yeah. Of just going, Hey, thank you so much. We are so grateful for that. And did say the grace of God. Did you recite the phrase that you taught us the last Sunday about when someone says, thank you only God? Yeah. It's only God's grace and mercy in my life. You said it was much longer. It took you like three minutes to say it. Whatever good that you have in me and what other good that you've seen in me is only there by the Lord of heaven. May God understand. Let the reader understand and I hope you understand something like that, right? Yes. That's what it was. Yeah. And forever and for always may you understand yes, that I am, but a humble recipient of the grace of God. Yes. Hence fourth may the world see and know is something like this, if I recall, be done. No anyways. No, it was it was super encouraging. So great moments. I wanted to pass that on to you guys because you guys are really the recipients of that praise. You guys have done a great job and it's noticeable and so good job church. We are grateful and hey, we want to excel still more and do well at this new facility that God is gonna give us. And so I trust that we will, but one more week here in Frisco. Can't wait to be with everybody on Sunday. Yeah. And this Friday is the end of school for I think a lot of our students. Yep. I guess it's the unofficial start of summer. That's exciting. That is exciting. So it's coming and thank God we're gonna be able to do a whole lot less setup, I think with this new location. I hope so. We just hit our first a hundred degree day a couple days ago. Yeah. It's summertime already, man. It feels like it. Yeah. But may is supposed to be the month of severe storms. Yeah. So we're not out of the woods yet. We're not starting summer yet, but we are, in fact, some of the warmer weather honestly creates those conditions where. You have that really violent stuff. Yep. Because it's not quite that. You'll get the cold weather that comes back in. Yeah. And then the warm weather and Yeah. And that's when you get the tornadoes. Exactly. Yeah. Let's jump into our text, Psalm five. We've got some more psalms today. I think just four today though. Psalm five, Davidic Psalm here. And this was another morning psalm, so it was meant to be recited in the morning. It alternates in the psalm between the focus on God's character and the character of the wicked. So you've got the first eight verses where David's focus is more theological, where the last four verses take on a more imprecatory psalm. And so God is, David is reciting truth about God. And these are notice not it's not worthless, but it's not. Overly deep. And I say that because sometimes you may think there, sit there and think, okay, can I get theological in my Psalms? I feel like I don't have a robust knowledge of, systematic theology and I don't know Hebrew and I don't know Greek. And so what should I do here, David is praying pretty simple things. Verse four, you're not a God who delights in wickedness. Evil cannot dwell in your presence. That's a pretty simple concept. That God is a holy God and does not delight an evil. And so we don't have to have our prayers or our Psalms or whatever we bring before the Lord marched by all kinds of flowery language and deep theological terms. There's a place for that. And that's appropriate at times to time. But if you're coming in simplicity before the Lord, there's nothing to be ashamed of with that. David is just saying he's attributing to God, who God is. He's reciting things about God to God that are. Simple truths about God and and that's good for us to do. That's part of our worship. Psalm 38 then is our second Psalm of today Psalm 38. This Psalm, it takes on a different tone. It's a psalm of David. It says, for the memorial offering. It's a psalm of lament, and it's written there for the remembrance, either to remind God or more likely to remind himself in Israel of what to do in the midst of suffering. And that's why it's for the memorial offering. The memory is the concept here. And he's reminding God of their need for his mercy and his his patience towards them. He does talk about David's suffering verses three through 10, his internal suffering the state of turmoil even because of his sin. As we've talked about before and what's the effects of unconfessed sin does in verse three? There's no health in my bones because of my sin. My iniquities have gone over my head. The external suffering then verses 11 through 20, how God had brought judgment against him for his sin and just the plea that God would remember his mercy in response. So Psalm 30, eights Psalm of lament. And it's an honest Psalm and it's a good Psalm because David here is saying, God, please remember your mercy because we need that. Habakkuk's got a famous line in wrath. Remember mercy. And I think that's similar to what David's praying for here in Psalm 38. Yeah. I keep on hitting these verse three and its connection to what we read in, I think we hit Psalm 32 recently when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day. I. I, I am fascinated by the spiritual connection to our physical bodies in that when we're living in sinner, when there's unconfessed sin I, you see it in the New Testament, Paul says to the Corinthian Church, this is why some of you're weak and Ill and died because you took this, the Lord Supper in an unworthy fashion, which suggests to us that one of God's disciplinary measures is death. That if we live in a persistent way of sin, God loves us enough to not let us do that. To, it's one of the ways that we as reformed Christians, we think God preserves Christians all the way to the very end, to the point that if he must, he would rather kill us than let us apostatize. That's a scary thought. I'd rather God not have to do that, which means we have to keep short accounts with him. But think about Anani and Sari. Their sin was public enough and egregious enough that God said, I'm just gonna take you out right here. Some people think maybe they weren't Christians. I think there's a chance at least, because this is how God treats his own kids. He's willing to take 'em out if that's gonna preserve their soul with him. And that's a little bit of what we were talking about I guess it's two weeks ago now on that Sunday of the idea that our the mercy of God is something that the Christians still needs. On an ongoing daily basis, you experience God's mercy still today, the fact that you are still alive and breathing and he's given you more time with your spouse or more time with your kids, right? Or more time. That, that's his mercy towards you. Because yeah, there are examples. I think you're right in scripture where we see him take out Christians Yep. Because of their sin and. You might say yeah, but they get to go be with him. Which is better. And in one sense, yes, that is true. That is better. But on the other hand, he's taking them away from those relationships and those memories and those times that they're, they would otherwise be able to spend here, as well as he's taking them away from more reward that they could have served, stored up for themselves in heaven by serving him here on Earth. Yep. So that mercy is something that we do continually need. That is a good reminder. Psalm 41. Then the title is taken from verse 10 where in verse 10, he, David prays, but you oh Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up that I may repay them. This is a psalm, that is another lament psalm. And so David is referring to his circumstances, his suffering, his need for deliverance, his need for protection, and at the same time, balancing that by recognizing that. That's found in God. Like we talked about maybe, I guess two episodes ago, that idea that in God alone is our deliverance. And I think here David is expressing that in a different way by just saying, God is the one that does this. The things that I'm asking for can only come from God. And that's the idea of grace. Grace is getting what we don't deserve. And so David is saying, look, I may not deserve God's grace because of my sin and what we were just, some of the things we were just talking about, and yet again, I'm gonna ask you to be. To act towards me in a way that I don't deserve. And that is by delivering me, by being compassionate, by being patient towards me, by removing my suffering. I may not deserve those things, but you're a gracious God. And so that's what I'm gonna call on. I'm gonna call on your characters a gracious God to act towards me in a way that I don't necessarily deserve. And that's Psalm 41 here, Psalm 42 Then is not written by David, but this time by the Sons of Cora pastor Rob, can you give us a quick. Refresh on the Sons of Cora and who we're talking about there. The Sons of Cora are one of the, one of the people from the tribe of Levi. They had a specific role. In fact the fact that you're reading one of their psalms, it showcases one of the roles that they were known for, which is that they were musicians. They were men of the sons of Cora, the they were sons who. Came from the tribe of Cora, for the line of Cora Rather, who were responsible for creating music for the temple. This is something that David did. This is one of the great things that David did because he himself was a musician and he valued this particular thing. He instituted musicians for the temple to create music like this. And so these guys were responsible to write the hymns that Israel were to sing. In fact, most of them. We suspect anyway, many of them were preserved in scripture. You have them today because David cared about God's worship in the temple and musically specifically. So when we come to church we do what the sons of core intended. We sing to God and God endorses their desire by saying, yes, this is exactly what you should be doing. I'm gonna preserve this in my Bible such that there's 150 chapters of scripture. I'm dedicated to the singing of God because of what these guys have done. And David, of course, David is who brought them to the fore to do this, but these guys are responsible for a lot of the songs that we now sing. Yeah. This is another lament song, but I do wanna point out specifically verse one and two as the Dear Pants for Flowing Stream. So My Soul Pants for You, God, my soul, thirsts for God, for the Living God, when shall I come and appear before God? That cultivating a craving for God is something that we as Christians have to work at. To desire God to this level, to desire God and to be in his presence. It's an acquired taste. Just like the first time you drank coffee, you probably didn't like it. I remember. I didn't like it. I love it now. And so it's an acquired taste to desire to be in the presence of God, to desire to pray. Sometimes we talk about that when it's if you're not praying at all. Don't sit back and go, okay, I need to go from zero to 60 minutes of prayer straight. You're gonna have to start with five minutes. You're gonna have to start with, to go from five minutes to 10 minutes and ratchet it up along the way until you get to the place where you feel like you are truly communing with the Lord, and you're de you're desiring that and Lord willing, you get to a place where you're never gonna be satisfied. You're gonna always wanna say, Lord, I want more. I want more. That's a, an acquired taste. And so that's why you'll often hear me say, make the place where you read your Bible, a place that you want to be in the morning. Connect spending time with God with other things that you desire, because that's gonna help make your affections for the Lord increase. We will often, we all, I think everyone loves sleep, right? I think that's a universal thing. We love good sleep. And hopefully you've got a comfortable bed at home and a comfortable pillow, and maybe you say, man, I love my pillow. My pillow is so great. You love your pillow because your pillow is associated with sleep. And really what you love is you love sleep, you love rest. And so in the morning when you get up in the morning, I. And you think, man, I love my time with God in the morning. Because I, I love the, to grab the cup of coffee and I love to sit down with the Lord. It's connecting things that facilitate your communion with God and making you love that time more. And that's gonna help you be like David or like the sons of Corey here saying, as the Dear pants, so I long for the Lord. Maybe you're there going, how do I get there? You have to work at it. It's an acquired taste, but it's worth the pursuit. Yeah. One thing to keep in mind too is that the deer's panting not because he is having a good day. He's being pursued, right? It might be that you need to be pursued by some evil situation in order to run to the Lord. We don't wanna have to rely on that, but this is one of the reasons God allows evil to afflict us because what it does is draw us to him such that. We know, like David, I, I need the Lord more than I even recognize. I thirst for him because he's my refreshment, he's my protection. He's my safe haven. Psalm 23, he's my shepherd. He's the one who leads me to still waters. He's the one who refreshes my soul. This is in the context of David, or not David, rather. The sons of core writing about a situation where there's affliction, there's some kind of pursuit, there's some kind of evil that's chasing after them, and they're saying, help me find my rest in God. If you feel like you're in a dry season pray through that. Because you don't wanna have to have God say, all right, Lord, I guess bring the worst so I can come near to you. Now you wanna be able to thirst after him for the right reasons, and in verse five, to hope in him. Recognizing at some point I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna praise him again. I like this verse because this is what Martin Lloyd Jones built his whole book about in terms of spiritual depression. That's the name of the book. Yep. Whole book is good. But really it revolves around this one idea, which is that we spend most of our trouble resting. The fact that we spend too much time, I. Listening to ourselves rather than talking to ourselves. And he highlights Psalm 42 verses five, and the other one that corresponds to it. Verse 11. Verse 11. Yeah. He says, we need to talk to ourselves and tell ourselves the truth about who God is. And this is what we see here, that the sons of core right for us. Yep. Preach to yourself, right? Yep. That's exactly right. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, let me lemme pray for us and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we we want to be like the sons of Cora. We want to long for you. We want to pant after you. We want to desire fellowship with you, intimacy with you to be close to you. And God, we do know that is a, an acquired taste, so to speak, and that we have to work at that. And so we pray that we would do just that and that you would make us a church that is faithful towards that end. And so make us a church that loves spending time with you, quick to preach to ourself when we need to do that. And so we thank you for that in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep your new Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye y'all. Bye.

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