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boom. I'd be okay with that. Done. Done. Hey, it's Sunday and by the way, this is the second to last Sunday that we are gonna be at FCA Frisco before our move up to FCA Prosper. We're excited about that if you can't tell, and just. Super thankful. I was meeting with somebody this week just talking about God's provision in this and opening doors for us that weren't even expected. I went to a lunch expecting to, to talk about the contract for Frisco and they said, Hey, what would you consider moving up to Prosper? So it is just it's an awesome situation for our church. Can't wait to be there. And yeah, second to last week here at Frisco for church. And then we will be in starting in June up at FCA Prosper. But hey, let's get to part two of the question that we addressed part one yesterday about forgiveness. Can we forgive others on behalf of God? The answer there is no, but the second part of this question is this. It's when we get to heaven, will we have the opportunity provided that the offended party is in heaven with us to tell that person we're sorry for any egregious acts that we have may have committed against them and vice versa. It says, the person says I know that sin can't enter heaven, so would we forget the wrongs? Committed against others. And would we forget the ones that have been committed against us? That's a great question. Yeah. So that's kinda the question there. Oh, are you gonna answer? You seem like

you were ready to jump in. You said great question. I just acknowledged that it was a great question. I can say something, but I'd love to hear you talk about it first. I think everybody as a rule Yeah. Wants to hear you talk about,

I don't know about that. Here's what I'll say. I think when you think. A picture, and hopefully you've experienced this. Just good true biblical reconciliation take taking place. There is something that is, is sweet about that. There is something that when genuine forgiveness is offered and received and the reconciliation is accomplished, and there's the warmth of the embrace or maybe between guys the fist bump whatever it is. There, there's a warmth that fills you. There's a, a Thanksgiving that fills us for. How God does these things. And I think God is glorified through the mending of relationships. So in, in a sense, I think that yes, there will be reconciliation that does take place in heaven. I think there will be times when people who were opposed to one another are in heaven and realize, man, we can be we're brothers and sisters in Christ. I I hope so for. Just for the Christian blogosphere in, in social media world for that matter, right? How many times we use the social media world and everything else to blow up other people for their beliefs that are secondary, tertiary. I don't like people do that, but Yeah. Yeah. Secondary or tertiary issues. And it's like we're questioning whether this person is saved just because they disagree with us on sign gifts or disagree with us on eschatology. And I think there's gonna be time in heaven for us to be together and be like, man we were super foolish and it's so good that. That we are one in Christ, that we have this peace and unity in Christ now being here and that all that stuff is behind us. So I do think there's gonna be that measure of reconciliation there. We won't carry, I don't believe, guilt and shame in heaven still. So when we think about will we carry sin into heaven? I don't believe we'll have the guilt and the shame of our sin, but I do think we'll have an awareness of the offense and I think what's that's gonna drive us to, rather than guilt and shame is just an appreciation for the grace and mercy of God in Jesus Christ. Even that scenario where somebody has offended you and coming up and saying, look, I'm so sorry about what I, I. What I tweeted about you, what I posted about you, what I said about you. I think the response is gonna be, man, you know what? How great is the mercy? And Gracie, how Mercy and Gracie, yeah, the mercy and grace of God, like the fact that we're here and we have been forgiven our offenses against the holy God. I 100% we are our reconciled together and let's just be in odd together of how amazing God is with with how he's forgiven us. So that's my take on it. I would agree with most of that.

I think all of it, actually, the only thing I would add to that would be. When Christians think about our translation into heaven, I think we often say there must not be any knowledge of sin or any remnant of what used to be because there's no crying, there's no there's no shame or guilt. And I agree with those things, but let's just think about this for a second. God sees everything. He knows about all sin. He knows about the bad things that are happening. Even right now in this very moment that this podcast is taking place, something evil is taking place, you can guarantee that. And yet God is not sullied or stained by that happening. He sees it. He's aware of it, he's omnipresence, and yet no part of him is compromised because of that. I think something's gonna be very similar about us in our glorified state. I think we're gonna have full access to our life's history. I can't see it otherwise. If we're gonna have continuity between this life and the next life, and we believe that, it's not like you suddenly go to heaven and you forget everything. Oh, who is my wife? Oh, who, what kind of kids did I have? Who were they? Did I have a dog? I think we're gonna remember everything. Or at least, I don't know. I think everything because we'll have a glorified body, but glorified mind, which then will have access. It won't be godlike. It won't be godlike in the sense that we'll have recall of things that are, and are not, but that we'll be able to think about everything past, present, and future in a sinless way. Which will include the fact that our sins, which characterized us on this planet will be framed in such a way that I could think about them without feeling guilt, shame, and sorrow. Because I'll have a perfected mind with a forgiven soul that will forever be united with Christ. And therefore, I do agree that I think there can be reconciliation in heaven. That was never able to take place on earth for all the reasons that we just talked about. One of those things, of course being death. But imagine a persecutor like Paul who killed Steven. I wonder when Paul died, if he was able to go to Steven and say, bro, thank you for your witness. Thank you for doing what you did. And they hug and they they do the things that brothers do when there's a full and genuine reconciliation. I could not think that there would be anything otherwise.

Yeah. Because ultimately. In a sense, it's all going to be a picture of the greater reconciliation between us and Jesus. 'cause our sin killed Jesus. So the only reason we're gonna be in heaven is because he went to the cross for our sin. So you, your illustration of Paul and Steven is great there because at first you think, man, how could you do that with somebody who you were, had a hand in murdering? Hello? That's us and Jesus. And when we get to heaven. And we are with him and we will be like him 'cause we will see him and all that John says about, yeah, I think it's gonna be such a good and sweet time there. Let's jump into our reading for today. Psalm 26 is gonna kick us off. Psalm 26 is a Davidic psalm here. And the keys here in Psalm 26 are the key subject, I should say, is the subject of integrity, which we just are finishing a men's retreat. On integrity. And David says in Psalm 26, 1 vindicate me, oh Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. Integrity is the foundation of David's pleas for deliverance in, in this chapter. And he asks God to act on his behalf based on how faithfully he had served the Lord. And there's parallels here with Psalm one in some of the languages. He's saying, look, I haven't walked with the wicked or sat in their council or done these things. And so we see some of the overlap there between Psalm one and this, but. This is something that, that I want to live this kind of a life to be able to say, God, when I'm in a tight spot, I can pray that you will deliver me and appeal to my integrity for that. And that's, it's a tough. Balance line for us to walk because ultimately we're asking God to deliver us not for our righteousness sake, but for the Christ, the righteousness of Christ. We, we are acceptable. He hears our prayers because of Christ's merit, not ours. And yet there's something to this. We've talked before when Peter says that husbands should love their wives and otherwise their prayers are gonna be hindered. That meant if we're not walking in integrity, then our prayers are gonna be hindered. God's not gonna listen to our please for help and for deliverance. He may still choose to deliver you based on his mercy and his plan, but we don't have that confidence the way we do when we are walking with uprightness and integrity in this life. Absolutely.

And here's something interesting too that I always struggle with as a Christian. I think I understand it, but verse five, there's verse, there's verses like it. David says, I hate the assembly of evil doers and I won't sit with the wicked. Psalm five, the boastful shall not stand before your eyes. You hate all evil doers. This is what he says about how God feels. And there's a tension there for us. Isn't there one that says We recognize that God does hate evil. And he hates the personification of evil. When it finds itself in human people, when people do evil things, there is a real antagonism between man and God that is genuine. God hates evil. Now, on the same token, we could say John three 16, but God does love the world such that he's willing to give his son to die for us. In fact, he couldn't save good people because there were none. All he could save were sinners. And that's what makes the gospel so beautiful and so amazing, is that Christ dies for his enemies. People that hate him and people that he in some way, shape or form he hates as well. Now there's poetic devices happening here, so it's not like there's a genuine, I don't know, a hatred, like a malice and animus that's that would characterize a human hatred. This is holy hatred and it's a real thing. You see it here. And as a Christian grows in his or her maturity, I think there's a kind of holiness that says, I hate. Evil. I just despise it because I want Jesus to rule and to reign in the hearts of man and throughout all creation. So there is something there about that. It's a difficult subject to wrap your mind around but it is here.

Yeah. Yeah, Psalm 40 Psalm 40 opens with a statement that is, is hard for us. It's again, of David here and David says, I waited patiently for the Lord. And David models this he's modeled this already in, in past situations, even initially when he was running for his life from Saul, waiting patiently on God's fulfillment of his plans and what. Samuel had told him God was gonna do through him as he's running from his son. Other situations, David knew what it was to wait patiently for the Lord. And I just think that's so hard for us to do when we're praying and the prayers that we're praying are being heard by the Lord, but we're not getting a clear answer in the timeline that we want from him. We're instead the answer from God is not now. Maybe not. That he's saying never, but he's saying not now in response to what we're asking for. And so David is saying I waited patiently for the Lord. And then in the rest of the psalm recounts how God had been faithful to him in the past. I. Time and time again. There were other times that he had delivered him. And so he was confident that the Lord would deliver him and praise that he would do it again. And he's asking God, please do this again. But I think the key here, the thing that jumped out to me this time, reading Psalm 40, was just that opening. I waited patiently for the Lord. That's so hard for us to do to just say, okay, Lord I don't know what the future holds. And even talking with someone today about this the idea is. We have this moment in time. We don't know what the future's gonna hold, but today we know that what God is calling us to do. And really, that's not gonna change based on what he's gonna do in the future. He, we know what we're supposed to do today. So we can say, God, I, I waited patiently for you and yet in the meantime, while I'm patient, I'm gonna do what I know you're calling me to do. Psalm 58. Then this is a tough one. You, you talk about an appreciatory psalm, this one is pretty intense. It takes the request to another level when he, I don't mean to laugh, although I think it is rather humorous when he prays that they would melt like a snail that it would dissolve at first eight. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime. Oof. Have you ever prayed that for your enemies? Let them be like a snail that dissolves into slime? Yeah. He's just praying against his enemies, asking God's ju perfect justice to be executed against them. And this is, again, we can do this when it's connected to our concern for God's righteousness. Not the offense against us, but our concern against God's righteousness. We can say, God, this is wicked. This is evil. I want it to be completely destroyed. You think of something like Planned Parenthood and you'd pray, God, I pray that you would close. Every single door planer, planned Parenthood. I pray that every single doctor that works for Planned Parenthood would lose their job, would lose their medical license. These are in preparatory psalms and prayers that we might offer that are praying for bad things to happen to these people. No doubt about it, to lose their source of income. But we're praying that because what they're doing to earn this income is wicked, and it's an offense against God. And we would say, God, this is wrong, and we want this to end no matter the cost to the people involved in perpetuating the evil.

Yeah. Don't forget, as you read these imprecatory, to try to understand what the imagery is conveying. So in verse six when David is praying break, break the teeth in their mouths he, he's not literally asking God for that to happen. He's not saying, Hey, take out their molars and their wisdom teeth, and. Whatever those other teeth are called. Canines. The canines and incisors. Yeah, all those. He's not talking about the technical tech, technical teeth in their mouth. He's talking about their their violence and their ability to do damage, which is why he says tear out the fangs of the young lions. It's what makes them especially. Vicious and able to create great damage because of their teeth. And so the teeth represent their, his enemy's ability to do violence to people. And so when he prays for breaking their teeth it sounds like, oh, this is awful. And it is awful. We're not trying to truncate this or take away the impact. What we are saying is just make sure that you're trying to understand the poetic terminology. He's not just saying break their teeth. He's not just saying, make them like. Slimy slimy snails. Or slimy snails, but he is saying something poetic into it. So do your homework and try to understand what he's saying. That

would be an interesting shirt to, to have that one about the dissolving like the, a snail into its slime.

So let me just take a quick stab at that, by the way. Yeah, go for it. Snail that dissolves into a slime. A snail is defenseless. It's weak. It's pathetic even. Yeah. And so when it dissolves is because it's being destroyed by the sun. The sun is melting. It. There's no, there's nothing to protect it. Nothing to stop it. The pathetic and pitiable nature, I think is what he's going for. Yeah. Dissolve them. Take, show how weak they really are, I think is

what David is trying to say. Which fits with the parallel in verse eight, which is like the stillborn child who never sees the son.

Right.

Yeah, stillborn child. Same concept there. By the way, that's probably worth noting as you're reading the Psalm. It's just a quick, there's something called parallelism where a lot of times, not every single time, but a lot of times you'll see a statement, and then the next statement is a parallel. It's communicating the same truth in a different way of what you just read, and so situations either by

contrast or by, it's either addition, subtraction, or it's meant to restate it in a new way. Hebrew parallelism. All over your

Bible. Yep. Yeah. And there's some good books out there, resources out there. I think Mark Fudo has an intro to the Psalms that is somebody was asking us, they sent an email to us or a text about some good resources for the Psalms, and we recommended some. But I know Futos book on the Psalms is good and helpful to give some framework on understanding some of that stuff if you're interested in diving a little deeper. Psalm 61. Again, here we go of David and David's praying forward. Deliverance this is a simple expression, asking God to be his rock. The rock that is higher than him, his refuge. A strong tower against the enemy. He wants to dwell on the tent of the Lord forever. This is just a prayer for David to be in that state of security with the Lord. There's times so we gather every Sunday morning before service to pray for the service, and there are times, many times in fact that I'll find myself sitting in that circle with the men that are praying for the service and just thinking to myself, God it's good to be here. It's good to be with you. It's good to be in your presence. It's good to be with your people. And I think about the week that I've come off of and the hecticness of the schedule and the busyness of everything else, and going, God I just wanna be here. I wanna be with you. And and that, that's a little bit of what I imagine here, although David is praying for physical deliverance. He's afraid for his life, but he's saying, man it's good to be with the Lord. I just want to be with the Lord. That's where security and peace is truly gonna be found. Psalm 62 then is expressing complete confidence in God in in, in God alone. In fact, that's what I highlighted time and time again in this Psalm for God alone. Verse one, verse two, he alone. Verse five, for God alone, verse six, he only, trust in him at all times. O people, verse eight, God is a refuge for us. And so you hear the psalmist, David is saying, look, the only one worthy of your confidence in your trust right now is God in God alone. Now you might say, okay, we've talked about this before, but I lock my doors. I set my alarm. I have trust in my security system. I have trust in the police force. I have trust in the military. I have trust in our government. And so can we say in God alone? And the answer to that is yes. Because what this Psalm serves to remind us is that God is the one behind all of that. He's the one enabling all of those things to, to be what they are and to operate the way they do. And so your hope is not ultimately in Brinks as your security system. Your hope is in God and his sovereign plan. And if he sovereignly chooses to let your security system do its job, if someone tries to break into your house and the police show up and stop it your deliver is not the police. Your deliver is God. And our hope can truly be only in him, even though that is expressed in the. The servants of him in these different ways.

Yeah. I love the way that he talks about the opposition people that would oppose you enemies of the cross and the gospel. Verse nine, these people are of lowest state and they are but of breath. Those of high estate are a delusion. That is they think that they're high and mighty. They think that they have power. They think that they have the ability to stop the gospel, but if they're weighed in the balances, they go up. They're together, all together. You put all their power, all their force together. They're lighter than a breath, he says. And sometimes we need that reminder. We think that the people of power in the world are actually powerful. We look at them because of their bank accounts and their prestige and their jets and all the nice clothes that they have and their platforms or their talking in front of the news all the time and all these things. And we think that in our minds, because we're human, we look at that and say, man. If they don't want us to preach the gospel or if they're changing our ability to speak openly about Christ and certainly what's, what are we gonna do? Christians can freak out so quickly and so easily, but we need to be reminded. Those of lowest state are but of breath, and those of high state are a delusion that is all humankind from the smallest of the greatest. We're. Really nothing in the grand scheme of things. God's the one who makes decisions. So we don't put trust in this life or in these people. We put our trust in the Lord who has all the power in the world. Yeah.

Psalm 64 what came to mind here is spiritual warfare. As it applies to us as you're reading this he's starting in the first. It's six verses talking about the enemies and talking about how they are secretive in their plots and how they wet their tongues like a sword. And they plan ambushes at the blameless and they hold fast to their evil purpose and they lay snares secretly. And so what came to mind for us, because we don't have people laying snares for us, at least, I hope you don't in your life if you do find another job or another house to live in. But what came to mind is spiritual warfare. That, that we do have an enemy that is. Cunning and shrewd and and deceitful in trying to attack us as believers in our hope, David's in. This one needs to be at the Lord. Look at verse seven, but the Lord shoots his arrows at them. They think they're hiding. They think they're gonna get away with this. They think they've got a snare laid and that they're gonna win. But in the end, God wins. God shoots his arrows at them and they're wounded, suddenly brought to ruin. Then it says in verse nine, all mankind fears and tells us that what God has brought about and ponders what he has done. And so we rejoice verse 10 in the Lord. So spiritual warfare is just kinda what came to mind as I was reading Psalm 64 is how we can understand this, that God supports us and helps us in the battle against the enemy like. Paul says, our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against these spiritual forces that work in this present darkness. And and we serve the God who wins that battle.

Yeah, I love, in verse one, he says, preserve my life from dread of the enemy. So not protect me from the enemy, although he's prayed that before, but here he prays. Please protect me against fear and what a good prayer that is for all of us. Protect me against things that I should not fear. Cause me to be strong and bold and entrust you to fight our faith or to fight our fear with faith, to know that God's the one who ultimately holds all the guard. Yep.

Let's pray. God anchor our confidence in you, even as these last two Psalms, only in you will we trust only you are our deliver. You are the response and the answer to the fear that we have, the anxieties that we possess. God, be that for us. I pray that we would have such a robust confidence in who you are because we know you, because we spend time with you Lord, that we would not fear whatever this world brings and that we would not fear the enemy who p prowls like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. But we would know that we are. Safe and secure in Christ. Help us to take up the, along those lines, the armor of God on a daily basis Lord, to be able to stand against the schemes of the enemy, one and to pick up the shield of faith, to extinguish his flaming darts. Lord, the sword of the Spirit to go to war and go to battle offensively, even against the enemy. We need to have that on a daily basis, and I pray that we would. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep you in your Bibles tune again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye. Thanks for listening to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. This is a ministry of Compass Bible Church in north Texas. You can find out more information about ourChurch@compassntx.org. We would love for you to leave a review to rate to share this podcast on whatever platform you happen to be listening on, and we will catch you against tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said