Everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? It is a day full of Psalms today. Yes, it is. Yeah. Many Psalms. Yeah, many Psalms. It's Tuesday. Ladies, I don't know what your plans are for this weekend, but I know what they should be. We've got Women's Bible study this weekend. All right. So hopefully you're making plans to be a part of that. I'll be there. And that's, yeah. Women, ladies. Oh, women's Bible. Yeah. Yeah. Men's retreats. We are, you sent out an email last week that caught me off guard when you said, man, we are one month out from Men's Retreat. I know. Isn't that crazy? It is crazy. It's right around the corner. It is. So men make sure that you're registered for that. Or get registered for that. If you're not yet, it's gonna be awesome. That, that was one of my favorite events that we've done as a church. Just the comradery the fellowship, the good time. The venue was great. The food was decent for a camp. Yeah. I'd say so. And it rained at our last one. It

did, it rained all day on Saturday, just about, and that worked out in our favor. We all stayed inside in that lobby area. Yeah, we played games and all sorts of cool things together. Yeah, it was actually quite sweet. It was. It was, we're hoping for no rain this year. That'd be nice. We'd like to get out outside a couple trails. I'd like to, I'd like to travel. Yeah. Happy trails. Happy trails for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Your dad went on one. I wanted to go on that same one that he went on. He said it was great.

Yeah. So there you go. Men be a part of that. Make sure that you're there for that. Ladies, we've got spring tea coming up in May. So mark your calendars for that. You're gonna wanna be a part of that. We've got ladies hosting various tables. The focus is gonna be on some testimonies. TN testimonies is the the function there the title of it? I believe so. There's some testimonies being shared. In fact, pastor Rod, I think your wife is sharing her testimony. That's right at the the t in testimony. She's excited about that as is. Shay Zuma, she's sharing her testimony. Wow. Mrs. Zuma's gonna be sharing, she's sharing hers too. Yeah. All right. Yep. And then Amanda's working on some teaching from one of the ladies historically as well, so it should be a great event. So lots going on. Exciting things happening here. We're not too far away from move up weekend for our kiddos. The school year's winding down, summer's getting ready to ramp up. That's right. We've got youth with revival summer camp happening in the summer. We've got VBSI mean, it's, there's a lot happening. There's

a ton happening, and that's great. That's a great sign for a church. We've got lots of things happening. We're always planning things. We're ambitiously putting things on the calendar for the good of the church and for the glory of Christ. So hope you guys take advantage of those things. It's a bummer to set it up and if you're not enjoying it we really set it up for you guys and we want you to benefit from that. And you have a church that you're not. Really super engaged with man. Take this as an encouragement from two pastors who care about the church, not just our church. We'd love for you guys to get involved. That's the best way to get to know people. It's the best way to be known. It's the best way to really take part in what God's doing on the planet through your local church. So we would strongly encourage you, get involved, sign up for the things. Totally and sign up early. There's always this thing where we get signups like the last week or two by the men's retreat. We have to give them numbers. I think two weeks before, yeah, I forget what the number is, but that means we have to have a pretty good sense of who's coming before then. So particularly fellas, we understand work and there's other things that have to be juggled. We'd love for you to sign up before, before too long and

honestly, y y'all it's a. It's a way to bless your pastors, your leaders, by signing up early. Because it really does, like it weighs on us. Not in a sinful, anxious way, but in a fact. Sometimes though, some it can, yeah.

Let's just be honest.

It can, yeah, it can cross the line. But just in general, just thinking about, man we want this to be a good event. We want there to be people there. And so if you know you're going, if you sign up early, you're never gonna get us going, man, you signed up too early for this thing. Oh man. Yeah that's never gonna happen. So a lot of people come up and be like, Hey, how can I serve? How can I help the church? I wanna be more useful. Sign up early. Sign up early. That is a low hanging, super practical

fruit for you. We might even start giving away like a prize or something for the people

that sign up first. I think that's a good thing. That would be a great thing. Plus, I was talking to somebody the other day that said they really appreciate the fact that you can go on, you don't have to pay the balance all at once. You can pay a. Portion of it up front and then pay the rest of it off later, so Oh yeah. We don't want that to be a reason not to sign up. Now, we used to do

that when I was a boy at Kmart. We would go do the, what's that called? Layaway. Layaway, yeah. I forgot that. We should call it that. Put retreat on layaway. We have a layaway tree retreat. There we go. There we go. That was so much fun. We'd go to Walmart or Kmart rather, and we'd go to the layaway department and we go and add a few more dollars to the clothes that my mom bought or whatever it was that we were doing. It was such a sweet memory. I don't know why this took out. Yeah. Or stood out. But yeah, we should totally do layaway

retreats. That's what we're doing. Dune. We'll do it. Done. Yeah. Layaway. Do you have a payment plan? No, but we have layaway. That's right. Alright, let's jump in. We got a lot of ground to cover eight psalms today. First one is Psalm six. The title there does ascribe it to David and says it's according to the shein. So we don't know what the shein is, but that's what it is right there. Speak for yourself please. Okay, fine. Can you hum it for us then? 'cause we were wondering.

Oh, it's a musical term. Oh, okay. It's not a, it's not a, it's

not a tune melody. No. Yeah. Okay. According to Shein. Shiman. Okay, fine. Yeah. Psalm six though this one is is what's known as a penitential psalm. It's talking about God's hand of discipline in David's life. The author laments his situation acknowledges that his own actions or sin had contributed to the trial that he was facing. That's why it's penitent. We get the word penance from that. That are penitentiary. Penitentiary, yeah, exactly. Pen penitentiary. Nevermind. So David, in Psalm six is acknowledging that even the circumstances that he finds himself in, the suffering that he's in comes from God. And he's still though asking that the Lord would deliver in verse four, turn to oh Lord of me, deliver my life. Save me for the sake of your steadfast love. Now, that's gonna be a theme that we're gonna see in the Psalms. David is gonna ask for God to deliver him. For God's glory. So not just saying I'm uncomfortable. I don't want this. And notice verse six, he says, I'm weary with my moaning. I have, I flood my bed with my tears. I drenched my couch with my weeping, my eye wastes because of my grief. So it's not, it's like David is comfortable here, and yet he's saying, Lord, I want you to deliver me for your sake, for the magnification of your steadfast love that I might be able to praise you for how good you are. And that's an instructive for us when we're going through a difficult season to be reminded. We are ultimately asking the Lord to deliver us, not so that our pain will end first and foremost, but that we might boast in God and say, how good is God, that God has led me out of this valley that I'm walking through. Psalm eight. Then Psalm eight is such a good psalm and it's been put to music multiple times. Shane and Shane have a great rendition of this one on their Psalms album that came out a handful of years ago. But this one is so good. In fact, Derek Kidner, who's one of the commentary writers on the Book of Psalms, he writes on this one. He says, this Psalm is an unsurpassed example of what a hymn should be. So Geddes, you guys take a note. You guys need to listen. This is an unsurpassed example of what a hymn should be celebrating as it does the glory and grace of God rehearsing who he is and what he has done and relating us and our world to him, all with a masterly economy of words in a spirit of mingled joy and awe. I love that commentary from Kidner. That's not easy to do as one who speaks for a living to say things well with an economy of words. Is not easy to do, and David does that here as he praises. God is the creator. And so there's a lot going on here in verses three through eight. This is referenced by the writer of Hebrews in connection with Jesus. The one who was made lower than the angels, verse five for a little while, and then been crowned with glory and honor that, that is attributed to Christ in the book of Hebrews. There. And there even may be an allusion to this. Passage in one Corinthians 1527 when it talks about the exaltation of Christ and all things are put in subjection to him. And so looking forward to that time as well. But Psalm eight's such a good encouraging verse passage rather. Psalm nine, pastor Rod disappeared. By the way. He was, he I don't think he was ruptured. I, I hope not, but, psalm nine. Do you wanna take Psalm nine? I'm still here. No, go ahead. I was, I'm just telling you people to know I'm not raptured, I'm not gone. Okay, good. That's good because everybody would be really concerned because that wouldn't be a problem. It'd be like if I was raptured and no one else must, nobody else was. It'd be problems there. Wait a minute, where do we even start with this? How do we begin to sort through this? Psalm nine. This one is again for David. This one is according to the moth lobin. It's gonna, I have questions when we get to heaven. God, what is that? What is the moth lain? That's the question you're gonna ask. And in the shitty off of all the questions you can look, this has been burning for my whole life. What is the Molo and what is the Shay ath? How do I get Shay with the Psalms? That's what I wanna know. You're gonna be waiting a long. And a long line to ask about the oath. Yeah, I dunno. Or the moth lobin. Yeah. I'm curious. I wanna know, maybe I'll just find David instead. His line will be short. Anyways, this psalm and Psalm 10, probably one Psalm originally, and so we're reading both of them today. But Psalm nine is a praise psalm verses one through 12, praise to the Lord for his justice. And then verses 13 through 20, you have a prayer to the Lord for continued justice. And we can tackle Psalm 10 too, which is if they were written together, the counterbalance to Psalm nine is the psalmist is despairing, then in Psalm 10, so he is praising the Lord, but then he's despairing of the apparent injustice in Psalm 10 all around him until he turns and puts his hope in the Lord. So Psalm nine kind of establishes that God is the source of justice. And then Psalm 10 gives an example of the fact that David at times was wondering, where is justice only to come back and remember that justice does come from the Lord and that's what we find in these two Psalms together.

Yeah, I love verse 10 in chapter nine. Those who know your name, put their trust in you for you. Oh Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. It's one of those interesting verses that remind you that for someone to experience the kind of trust that they want to have, everyone wants to trust in the Lord when they're going, when they're going through a trial. Really it's a matter of a allowing yourself to go through the trial and to see what God does in the midst of those things. You said earlier, even though you pray, doesn't mean that God's gonna deliver you. Right away. Sometimes he keeps us in those very trying circumstances In order for us to know him and to know a full orbed expression of who he is. It's hard to know God when you're only experiencing one kind of thing in life. It's like only eating vanilla ice cream and saying, yeah, I know what all ice cream tastes like. No, you need to try all the different flavors. And God is concerned that you know the full expression of his glory, which is gonna mean you're gonna have to know God and the high seasons and the low seasons and everything else in between. This is why David says, and even though I walked through the valley of the shadow, I know you're with me. It's because he's been there, he's done that and he's seen God be faithful. So those who know your name, put their trust in you. It's for those who have walked with God through every single season of life. So when the going gets tough, know that's part of God's design and it's meant to strengthen your face so that you would know him.

Yeah, that's good. That's really good. Psalm 14 then, is the psalm about total depravity? A total depravity is one of the elements of Calvin's tulip, but don't hold that against it. If that is of your. Your predisposition. It's, this is where it comes from though this is where God says, the fool says in his heart there is no God. They're corrupt, they're abominable, they do evil deeds. And then verse one, there is none who does good? Paul's gonna pick this up in Romans three verses 10 through 12. He's gonna quote this as he is indicting every single person under God's green earth or on God's green earth, under the heavens. Of being guilty before God, that there is no one who does good. There's no one righteous. And we even, we talked about that a little bit on Friday at Good Friday. Like we can't pay the debt because all of us are inherently sinful. And so in 14, he's David's laying this out. He's recognizing this even before, way before polling theology, right? Verses four through six, the, he describes some of the actions of the depraved in what they do. And then in, in verse seven the hope still though that's gonna come outta Zion. Oh, that salvation for Israel would come outta Zion. And this is so good. This is a psalm that writes better than it knows at the time because this Psalm anticipates Christ. And it talks about the total depravity of mankind and begs the question, okay, so how are we gonna have deliverance? And even though David wasn't. Thinking about spiritual deliverance at that time. Verse seven does point to the fact that salvation is gonna come out of Zion for Israel, but not just for Israel, but for all of us. And that's salvation is gonna be Christ and he's gonna be the answer to our total depravity.

God so believes in this Psalm that he basically repeated it in Psalm 53. So if you read Psalm 14, maybe read Psalm 53 at the same time and notice that there's just a few subtle differences, but by and large, it's the same Psalm.

Yeah. Repetition. Psalm 16. This is a prayer that's backed up by David's personal testimony of God's faithfulness. And so the prayer comes in Psalm 16, one, preserve me, owe God for in you. Do I take refuge? Peter used a part of the psalm, Psalm 1610 and took it and applied it to Jesus. He used it apologetically in Acts 2 25 through 28. Because in. Psalm 1610 says, you will not abandon my soul to Sheol or let your holy one see corruption. And Peter makes the point. He says, if David was talking about himself there, then that's not true. David's body was buried and his body did corrupt his fleshly body did waste away, but. He must be, have been talking about somebody else. And so David is prophesying here about Christ, the fact that the Messiah won't experience corruption. And that's what we celebrated on Monday or on Sunday with the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday. And so this is a psalm anticipating that and verse 11 is a great text too, because it reminds us that death is not the end for any of us now. You make known to me the path of life. In your presence, there's fullness of joy and that your right hand are pleasures forevermore. I will often use that verse in a funeral when I'm doing a funeral for a believer to say, look, this is what waits for all of us, and this is what the, your loved one who is now no longer here is now experiencing pleasures forevermore at the right hand of God.

Yeah. Feel free to use this text when you bury me in Jerusalem. Yes. As we previously agreed upon. Yes. Okay. So in verse 10 though, that letting your holy one see corruption. When we read that we should read corruption as in rotting of the flesh and the pit. Is that what we're understanding? Is that how you understand it? I think that's how

I have understood it, and I think that's how Peter is using it. In Acts chapter two.

Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, there's a little subs script here, or superscript. I'm not sure which one this is, but my ESV says instead of saying corruption, you could say or see the pit. Either way it it hits the same idea here. That right, the flesh is not gonna rot away in the pit. Jesus saw the pit only for three days, but he ultimately is resurrected and he doesn't see a permanent corruption because he was. Vindicated. He did not have sin to die for except for ours. Yep.

Sal 19 may be my favorite Psalm in the entirety of the Salter. Wow. Really? Because it wow it of all the psalms? I think so. Wow. Yeah. Okay. I'm unapologetically, I think I can say that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I would choose this even over Psalm one 19. I assume, yeah. Yeah. All that's all of them. All right. And the reason why is this is all about the revelation of God. And so it starts with the general revelation of God and it points to creation. And that has been something that God has used in my life so many times to just remind me of his presence. When I have, I think I've shared this before, but just during seminary and other occasions grown book weary of just going, okay if all the books were gone, if I didn't have the commentaries and everything else, if I didn't have my professors, my instructors would, I know that God exists. And so many times God has used the, just the power of creation that the heavens, the skies to remind me, Hey, this is why. Because this is evidence of a creator. This is Romans one the general revelation of God that tells us that he's there. But then it also then in the second half of the Psalm, speaks to special revelation, which is the law of the Lord and the word of God, the scriptures and how the scriptures benefit us as human beings. And the benefits that we draw from it, that it makes us wise, that it revives the soul rejoices the heart, it enlightens the eyes. And so I love Psalm 19 for what it tells us about how God communicates to us, both through general and special revelation.

So we know, all of us know, I think, and this is why we do our Bible reading program, is that God speaks to us through the special revelation of the scriptures, but we often don't talk a lot about the general revelation, the Book of Nature, as some people call it, that God expects us to read and to understand. Psalm 19 verses one through six. Talk about the heavens, the glory of God, and how the, they're speaking, they're preaching. They're proclaiming, they're declaring, their voice is heard all over creation. And this is one of the things that Paul says in Romans is what God's gonna hold against people because they suppress the truth. And unrighteousness, scripture says, nature is speaking and. Even the unbelieving man closes his ears and says, la. I'm not listening. La. But here's a cool thing for Christians. This is where the role of general revelation really plays a part for us. Scripture is our final. And first authority. But scripture authoritatively tells us, go to the Anto sluggard. Pay attention to how the ant lives. And take note. Learn from the ant, which is such an amazing thought. Don't read the Bible. It says, look at the ant, which I think is fascinating. The Bible tells us to look at the ant and study and understand. Psalm 19, of course, we just read that here. But even, psalm Isaiah 40, lift up your eyes and see. Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these scripture calls us to read the book of nature and to make wise and judicious, I don't know responses and response to that. So we ought to know creation. We ought to know scripture. Scripture Again, final and first authority, but we ought to know creation as well. Scripture speaks that creation is speaking and we ought to listen.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah, Psalm 21. Then as we get into our final Psalm of the day, number eight of eight, I believe it is Psalm 21 in this Psalm, David, thanks God for Victory's past as he anticipates and prays for Victory's future. And David is looking back saying God has given him his heart's desires, verse two and giving him rich blessings and he's then anticipating in the future God continuing to do that. And the foundation of that. Verse seven, for the king, trust in the Lord and through the steadfast love of the Lord, the most high that is, he shall not be moved. David is both looking back and forward and saying, God, you have been so good and you will continue to be good because of who you are. Let's pray and then we will be done with this episode. God I pray that we would be those that are attentive to what you're saying to us, not just in the scriptures, but also through the creation that's all around us. And creation is so unique. Depending on where we find ourselves. So many of us were in California and saw your creation on the shores of the ocean. Others have been in the presence of mountains. And for us in Texas, we look at these gigantic skies and these powerful storms that roll through and we need to be reminded of who you are, but also through the creation of the. The animal life around us. So yes, like the writer of Proverbs says that we can go to the ant and learn discipline and learn organization and learn planning from that. And God, we pray that we would learn from everything that you've given us to learn from and not just confine it to one area or another. So thank you so much Lord, for this time in your Word, and we just pray that it would continue to bear fruit in our lives. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said