Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey. It is Friday of Med's Retreat, so be praying for us as we head up to Mount Lebanon. Up the mountain, all the way up the mountain. Yeah. Hey, I was in downtown McKinney the other day. Hey. With my wife. We went out on Monday, we had lunch there or whatever. Walked around to the Great Goose. No. We had, we ate at this place called Spoons. It was okay, but that's besides the point. We also went antiquing in that antique shop that is in downtown McKinney. The one Oh yeah, the one I told you about. That one's haunted and it gives me weird vibes. I told you a hundred percent. Told you it's also, I walked in the guy behind the counter. I'm pretty sure he, all that stuff was his, at one point, I think like 18 hundreds marbles. I think they belonged to him. You just gave that vibe if you catch my drift. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, we were walking around the streets. There's a place there called mountain cookies. Like mountain cookies. I've not been there. And also where the mountains, they're not anywhere here. And then Doug and Linda, I don't know who Doug and Linda are, but they've got a ski shop, winter ski, like snow ski shop in downtown McKinney, Texas that's closed from April through September. How do they pull that off? I don't know. They've, and they've got a massive parking lot behind it. That's clo, that's reserved parking for Doug and Linda Ski shop only. Like you guys aren't even bummer. Even here from April to September. I think I'd park there anyway. I just am. I'm flower gased. My, my gabber was flad or whatever that is. I just, I'm scratching my head going mountains. Where? Where are the mountains? I've never seen that place. Is that in the same square? It is, yeah. Doug and Linda Ski show. I must have just totally missed it. It's down by the Collin County Museum. The, okay. Collin County History Museum. It's like across the street from that, which, that place is only open on Saturdays. I went to go try to find out strange hours about the history. Strange hours, Saturdays only. And it's not too on, unlike Salina, they have everything closed on Monday. Yeah, that's true. Like we're just gonna choose Monday. Yeah. Yeah. I mean in quaint area. Fun. But all that to say, we're going up to the Mountain Mount Lebanon. Mount Lebanon Center. I don't know how mountainous it is. Yeah. In fact, I'd be willing to guess that the elevation is probably pretty similar to our elevation here. It's got some hills because you can look down over Lake Ray Hubbard or whatever that is, that's out there. One of those hikes that the men are gonna be able to go on, I think looks out over the. The lake, and so either the lake goes way down or it's a little bit of a rise, but certainly not a mountain that was bold. For them to call it that. Yeah, I'm looking at the topography right here. It looks pretty flat. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Okay. Lewis and Clark, I didn't realize you were gonna go topographical maps on me and stuff. I'm just Google thing here. Just a little bit. Little bit. It's out. Again, hard pressed to call it a mountain. Yeah. But there's at least something going on there. Yeah. Okay. There you go. We're gonna be there. Pray for us, pray for a great weekend. Pray for we, what we talked about on Sunday, that this is gonna be a short amount of time and we want the impact to be as maximal as possible. So just pray that these messages will go well, that relationships will be deepened, and that we will make it back safely there, and back safely. We would appreciate hers on both ends. That'd be great. Alright, let's get in Psalm three through four. Psalm 12 through 13, Psalm 28 in Psalm 55. We got a lot. Not a lot of 'em are long. In fact, I think 55 is the longest one of the bunch, but yeah. Psalm three. We've got David when he's on the run from Absalom. So we just talked about that yesterday, that Absalom came in, took the throne. David's running. Here's a title in Psalm three. In fact, this is the first title of any of the Psalms given. We don't find one in Psalm one or Psalm two. So the first titled Psalm is written by David. In the wake of what we just were looking at yesterday. And this is a great model of a lament psalm that demonstrates an honesty balanced with a robust faith. And I think it's appropriate for us to have this, to pray this when we find ourselves in the midst of valleys and trials. You get the it's the Old Testament, but God in verse three, but you oh Lord. So he's talking about a situation, those that are against him. Verse three. But you, it's that moment of faith pivoting here to say, I'm gonna trust in the Lord no matter what. The circumstances are around me. Yeah. I think it's amazing that he slept that night. Verse five, I laid down and slept. I woke again for the Lord sustained me. This is the kind of trust, and this is what makes David so endearing. Even though I had lots of harsh words to say about him in the yesterday's podcast I, we had to bleep out some of them. I did the editing. There was no bleeping to my knowledge. But it, I. This is what makes him so lovable and so endearing is that he really does have a genuine love for the Lord and a care for him. And this goes to show how woefully broken we can be apart from the Lord and even in the Lord. Now and now with all that said we have something dramatically better than what David had. We have the indwelling spirit within us. He had the spirit for the function of his kingship. We have the spirit because of our connectedness to and through Christ. So we have the spirit in a different way. It's like level 10. If David had a level one understanding, we have a level 10 understanding. With that said, then. We can have a kind of trust in him that allows us to sleep, even though we're going through a really severe trial or situation, we can trust him. So somebody talk to the person that's in the audience. Audience. Is that what that's listening? Who struggles with that? Who struggles with sleep? When, maybe even right now, maybe they've got marital strife going on. Maybe they've got a diagnosis that's out there, maybe they've got a wayward kid. Maybe it's one of the kiddos that listens to us, I know kids that have had difficulty sleeping that's a hard spot to be to struggle to fall asleep. That's not a good place because the brain doesn't do well. When it's tired late at night, it's worse. It's a vicious cycle and I think the way that we begin a virtuous cycle. And break that pattern is to do what David's doing here. I wanna point out, look at this. He takes his troubles to the Lord. And he acknowledges the things that he, that people are even saying about him. So he's doing a lot less talking to himself, and he's talking a lot to the Lord. So verse three, he's talking to the Lord, you are a Lord, are a shield about me. So he's rehearsing and declaring things that he knows are true about God to God. And so this is something that we should do. This is Philippians four applied and. Psalm chapter three, we're taking truths about God. We're declaring them. We're stating them to God out loud for ourselves. Verse four, he's crying to the Lord. That crying can be an actual weeping or just a crying out to him for help. Whatever it is, David's taking all of his issues and taking them to the Lord. Peter tells us to cast your cares upon the Lord because he cares for you. So all of that leads up to verse five. I laid down and slept. David isn't just going about his day and then when. Nine 30 comes, he's it's time to go to bed. David is working out his issue with the Lord, and consequently, because he's able to do that when bedtime comes, he's able to lay down asleep because it's the Lord. He says here, who does it? He's a, it's the Lord who sustains him. The whole process is one long, drawn out act of faith, and that's where I think we have a lot to learn. Sometimes we just sit with it and we're just thinking about it and really spiraling on it. We're not really doing a lot of good. We're just. Really spending time turning our wheels ruminating on it and really not meditating upon the Lord who oversees it all. Yeah. And there are times when. The pain, the difficulty, the sorrow is gonna be so great that sleep is gonna be fleeting from you. David went through that in Psalm six. In Psalm six, six. He says, I'm weary from my moaning. Every night I flood my bed with my tears. I drench my couch with my weeping. And so there are gonna be those times. And in those times that the call is still the same as what you're talking about. In the midst of the tears, go back to the Lord. Recount the things that are true about God. It doesn't mean the pain is gonna go away. Or that you're gonna be able to sleep like a baby, right? But it is the right thing to do. And if we go back to Philippians chapter four, that's what is gonna bring the peace that surpasses understanding. And sometimes that peace is felt as we're still crying. And yet it's the better peace than anything the world can hope to offer us. Amen. Alright, Psalm four then is a companion Psalm to Psalm three. Some think they were written together either way. This is some similar themes here. Here. David is gonna ask the Lord to deliver him as he had done previously so many times, instructs the afflicted to avoid sinful anger. When they are afflicted, this is when he says, be angry, but do not sin. Instead, he says, ponder in your own hearts and on your beds and be silent. Ponder what? Ponder God's justice. God's character. God's sovereignty. And that's why he says in verse five, offer right sacrifices and put your trust in the Lord. If you feel like you've been wronged and in your initial response, and then I'm angry and I desire vindication. I desire revenge. And remember, David running from Olem would've had some of those feelings. The right thing to do is to take your anger to the Lord. Then to worship him and to trust him. That's David's model here. And that's so hard to do sometimes. 'cause we just want to vent our anger. We want to let loose. And that's what feels better to us than dealing with it biblically, which is to turn it over, roll it over to the Lord, Psalm 55, 22, we're gonna get there at the end of this podcast. Cast your burdens on the Lord. He will sustain you. And that's hard to do. We don't want to do that. We don't want to cast our burden, our anger to the Lord. We wanna hold onto it because it feels better. Even though in the end it's better not to feel it, it feels better for us to stew and to think about, man, what a jerk. I can't believe this person did this to me. And man, what if I had said this in response to what they said to me? That would've been great. 'cause then they would've been put in their place. Or I hope they, get a flat tire and three flat tires on the drive home and they don't have spare tires and AAA's busy, and then they're just stuck on the road the whole night. I hope that happens, bro, you spent a lot of time thinking about this. It's really specific. Is there someone that we need to talk about? No but that's our response. But David's response is, Hey, don't sin in your anger. Consider God, worship him and trust him. And that's such a good equation here. I. Psalm 12. Then this Psalm contrasts the flattering person in the wicked lips with the pure, reliable words of God. It's a psalm expressing hope and confidence in the Lord's words to prevail. So this one's all about the way that we use our mouths. And whose words are we listening to here? Are we gonna listen to the words of the world, or are we gonna listen to the words of God? Are we gonna listen to the words of the evil one, or are we gonna trust. Verse six, the words of the Lord, which are pure words like silver, refined in a furnace on the ground. And this is so important for us because so many times the world's words are gonna seem true. Where God's words are gonna, are going to feel like they're not true. And we're gonna have to remember God's timing's not our timing. His ways are not our ways, and we're gonna choose to trust him or over the world that we live in. Yeah. I wanna point out to you again, verse five and seven. Because the poor are plundered, because the needy grown, I will now arise as the Lord. Verse seven recalls those people again, the poor and needy. You oh Lord, will keep them. You will guard us from this generation forever. Now, just remember, you are the poor and the needy. Even if you're relatively strong and healthy, you have a sizable bank account. Whatever it is that you might physically possess, you are always an ever poor and needy. Before the Lord, we have nothing to offer. He's the one who graciously generously bestows the riches upon us. So your posture of humility is, I am poor, needy, and without the Lord, I have nothing. Now, this is the right posture. This, these are the kind of people that God loves to bless. He opposes the proud, but scripture says He gives grace to the humble. The humble are the kind of people who recognize I'm poor in needy without the Lord. Psalm 13 is a great example of something that we've talked about multiple times, and that is that David is willing to be honest with the Lord and yet also willing in himself to remind himself of the things that he needs to remember. And Psalm 13 does this. The first two verses he's questioning if God has left him. If God has forgotten him, if God has abandoned him, and this is hyperbolic language obviously, as God never forgets anyone. He's omniscient. It's impossible for God to forget anyone or anything. And so here this is metaphorical language that he's using to express how he feels. And again, if this is. Contextually when he's been running from his son Absalom he may sit there and think, wait a minute, God, where are all the promises? Where are all the promises of the Davidic covenant? This doesn't feel like this is how this is supposed to work out. And then he calls on the Lord to answer him in verse three, he says, Lord, answer me light up my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. But. Comes in again though in verse five, but I've trusted in your steadfast love, my heart, shoulder, joice, and your salvation. I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me. David is not giving up all hope, but this is a great example of how we can be honest with the Lord and how we're feeling and what's going on in our heart so long as we don't leave it there. And that goes back to what you were talking about earlier, that we needed to. Think right thoughts about God, say right things about God. Go back and rehearse these truths about God while we're feeling the angst and the turmoil. Yeah. And that period of time may be a long time. I just look at verse one and two. How long? How long? I wonder if David is. Impatient about the situation he's in. Oh, for sure. Just think about this. We're gonna, we're gonna be done with David's scenario in a couple days. For us, it lasts a couple days for David. David build a bridge, man, I get over it. Come on. This is two weeks already. He's gonna be here for a long time. Yeah. And the ramifications of his sin are gonna continue to fall out for decades ahead of him. We need to take a lesson from scripture to recognize that God's timeline is often not ours, and it just takes much longer from our perspective than it does from God's. God is not so concerned with our convenience. He's not concerned about our microwave Christianity. He's far more the crockpot God. He lets things simmer and stew for a long period of time because that's what's gonna be most good for us. And what, of course, what's gonna bring him most glory. Take refuge in the fact that David's asking the same questions that you and I ask How long Lord? And even though God doesn't answer him, his affirmation should be ours. I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt built, he has dealt bountifully with me. Yeah, my I remember my mom telling me when I was growing up, God's always on time, but he is, he's never early and a lot of times we want him to be early and he's always on time because it's his timeline, right? He's sovereign and he knows exactly when everything needs to happen. For us, we're going, okay, gun, can you move it up a little bit? Can you totally, can you move faster? And we train in patients too. We've got rapid delivery for this and instant downloading of that. I re we don't have to go to Blockbuster anymore to even rent a movie, which is sad. I, it is pretty sad. But all that we're training ourselves toward impatience and I don't think we realize it because this is how everything is. And so when God doesn't do this, we're especially frustrated. Yeah Psalm 28 this is more corporate David praying here for God to deliver his people and declaring his trust in the Lord as his strength and his shield. Here David is again the editors of this planet. At least think this is the same scenario that he's still on the run from his son. And he's, we see that there's still despair in petitioning here verses one through six and then the, this confident trust that he has in the Lord in verses seven through nine. And yet I think it's about verse eight. The Lord is the strength of his people. He's the saving refuge of his anointed. So it's interesting because even though David runs from Absalom I think in his heart, he knows this is not what's right for not only me, but also for the people of God. I think he's mindful of the fact that, man, this is not what God has. For his people. This is not the right thing that's going on right now. And so in this, in, in 28, he's corporately setting the example for the people, not just for himself, but for everyone to trust in the Lord and and in his goodness and his ability to deliver there. Psalm 55. Content of this psalm tells us that it was written when David had been betrayed by someone close to him. Again, we don't know exactly, it doesn't say like it, it did in Psalm three that this was when Absalom had betrayed him. But there's a lot in here that seems to suggest that it fits that, that situation. But notice David's. Situation. Notice David's circumstances. Verse two, how he's feeling. He says, I'm restless. Verse four, my heart is in anguish. The terrors of death have fallen upon me. Verse five, fear and trembling have come upon me. Horror overwhelms me. Okay? That's where David's at. David is not sitting here, in, in his sober minded right? Spirit of his heart saying, okay, everything's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna work out because I know my theology. David's saying I'm restless, I'm in anguish. I'm afraid I have horror, overwhelming me. That's not the picture of David that I often have, and yet it's in that spirit that he works through it in this psalm and that this is so good. This process and it, this was not on purpose, but this kind of. It seems to be the theme of this episode here, this process of working through how we feel about our circumstances by rehearsing the things we know to be true about God and trusting in him. But some of the things that lead us to think, this is Absalom, verse 13 when he says, but it's you. It's a man. It's my equal, my companion, my. Familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together. This seems like it could be Absalom that he's talking about there, even in these verses. And yet this is the one that betrayed him. And so he laments this. He groans, he talks about this betrayal in verses 21 or 20 and 21. And then he concludes with this great statement of verse 22. Whatever it is, whatever's making him afraid and terrified, and fearful and burdened and overwhelmed and restless. Verse 22, he's gonna cast all that, cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved. What a great promise that is one that we can hold onto today. It doesn't say that the righteous aren't gonna be killed. They may be killed but the righteous aren't gonna be moved. They're not gonna be moved out of God's favor, out of God's presence. God is going to sustain them no matter what. Even if that means sustaining them by bringing them into his presence in death. Yeah. I feel like David feels sometimes in that I wanna fly away. Verse six. If I had wings like a dove, I just. I'm bounce. Yeah. And I go and find a nice nest. Sometimes I pay attention to animals. I'm like, man, what a cool life that is. You just sit there and get taken care of and people feed you and walk you and then clean up your mess after you go and do your business outside. A cat just wanders the neighborhood, like it owns a place. It just does whatever it wants. I know sometimes we can look at. Other animal life or creatures and say they must have it so good, they don't do anything. But man, we have such a good life, such a blessing and benefit to experience life as we do. And the temptation for all of us is, man, I just wanna fly away from these things. I just wanna be something else somewhere else, anywhere else. But God rarely wants us to do that. Fleeing from a situation is often not his plan for us. It's seeing us through the situation that is his plan. And that takes a lot more sticktuitiveness. It takes a lot more effort, a lot more energy. But at the end of that. There's also a lot more sanctification. And if we're honest, this is what God wants for us. His will is that we be sanctified. And so we shouldn't be surprised if God says, no, I don't want you to leave. Stay in it, work through it, and trust that I've got a better plan than you do. Alright, let's pray. God that's a hard thing for us to do to sit in it and to trust that you've got a better plan than what our plan is. Our plan says, God, we don't wanna suffer, we don't wanna hurt, we don't wanna be in pain or need or anything like that. Get us out of it. And yet. Lord, so often you bring us into those places to be dependent upon you. So help us to trust you in and through that and not to miss what you're trying to develop in us. Not to short circuit the process by looking for the quickest way out of pain because we can find ourselves in trouble so often when we take matters into our own hands instead of casting our burden upon you and trusting that you will sustain us through it. And God, we pray that you'd be kind to those in the church right now that are going through seasons like that. Those of us who will go seasons like through seasons like that. Lord, help us to develop a robust faith in you that can weather the storms knowing that you are at work in and through them all. So we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep your new Bibles. Tune in and get tomorrow for another edition, the Daily Bible Podcast. See you folks. Bye.

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