Buddy, welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's happening folks? Hey, we were at the CLC, which is the Church Leaders Conference. Oh, that's right. This week and with our staff, we took our team and we got to go down there. It was hosted by Watermark Community Church down in Dallas off of LBJ and the Toll Road in that area. Yeah. It was great and it was it was super encouraging. Probably the highlight that we heard from our team at least was just the fun of being together as a team. Yeah. And we got some good time together. Got to have some meals together. Fellowship together on the drive down, the drive back up. And and then the breakout sessions were particularly helpful things about, they were leadership and administration and student ministry, kids ministry. You went to one with their elders, a q and a there. It was just really practical, helpful things from a church that's doing a lot of things really well. There, there's some differences between us and them, but they preach a biblical gospel and they're doing things really well there. And so it was a blessing for us to be able to go down there as a church staff and spend some time.

Yeah we came away with a, I think a lot of lessons not everything is a lesson in the positive. Some of it's a lesson in the negative in that we see what they're doing and say, oh, we wouldn't do it that way, but that does help us think about this a little better. So there are so many benefits to something like that. Even though we share the same gospel, we don't share the same, a lot of things really, but it is so beneficial and it was a great time for us to be together. In fact, on the second day we drove up together in the same van. This might be the last time that we could do that. 'cause of our team size right now, it was really special. It was really sweet to spend time together and we're thankful that we're able to do that. We're thankful that our church is able to support us in these things and it really deepens our friendships, our relationships, and I think that you're going to see that and benefit from that because of what we're able to do. So thanks for making that happen, folks.

It was awesome. It was awesome. In fact, I, I preached last Sunday about that wave of momentum and I just found myself this week reflecting on that, going, okay, I gotta practice what I preach now. That's right. Because you come back with so many things that you're like, all right, hey, let's be, let's do this. And yet, if we don't put structure couple days later Yeah. It's ah, that was all right. But I'm tired. Yeah. It's Friday. It's easy to go back to familiar.

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Yeah, so anyways, we're excited to to see what God does with that and still moving towards this this new facility that we're looking forward to getting into and prosper there. Hopefully June one we're working out still some last minute details here with the the contract, but and it is just, it's fun. This is a good opportunity for us. We were talking even just recently at lunch. Our, even our team, our staff is nimble enough right now because of our size that we can really. Stop and say, okay, what is our culture gonna look like? And who do we want to be as a staff and how's that gonna look moving forward? And how's our church gonna look? And yeah. The some of that's overwhelming, just the responsibility of all that, but some of it's a blessing. 'cause you go into a church that's been established for a long time. There was a guy during the q and IQ and A that I went to, that's I'm stepping into a church that's been around for 90 years. Wow. And he's and I've been there for three months and I see so much here that needs to turn around and change. And that's so hard to try to do any of that. And so we have the benefit to still be on the front end of a lot of this and say, okay, how do we do this effectively? What's the best thing for us to do? And put things in place that hopefully when we're 90 years old one day, there won't be a whole lot that's unhealthy there. That needs to be changed.

Yeah. I'm sure there'll be things that change regardless. Oh yeah, there's always a new fresh coat of paint, that kind of thing. But there are lots of things that even at watermark that we learned that I think, man, that's helpful for us to think through. Even, we've been talking a lot about culture and building that culture and that nim that nimbleness allows us to be both responsive and proactive. And so we're thinking a lot about this. If you guys think about us as leaders over the church, we'd love for your prayers as we please prayerfully consider. Where God wants us to take this thing, and of course it's God's church. We're not saying what do we wanna make it? How do we wanna make the church? This is not about self-aggrandizement. This is really about in our neck of the woods with our people in this time. What does God want our church to do? What does God want his church to do? More theologically, accurately. And we're sensitive to that because God does call different churches to do different things. We're not watermark and to try to do what they're doing would be utterly foolish. Yeah. For a number of reasons. We are Compass Bible Church, nor Texas, and we're acutely aware that we have an identity. That God has given us. We have a calling that God has given us and we wanna fulfill that calling. So please pray for that. As you think about this, as you hear our podcast, if you're part of our church especially, please pray for that. We're thinking through that a lot. We're gonna be praying a lot about that, I'm sure, and we would love your support in that. Totally.

Yep. Let's jump into our daily Bible reading. We've got four Psalms today. Psalm 50 is a Psalm of judgment. And Israel is gonna be called before the ultimate judge. And verse three is quite a frightening picture of God. Our God comes, he does not keep silence before him, is a devouring fire around him. A mighty tempest. And so the consuming fire that the mighty storm that comes with the presence of God is not him drawing new to. Comfort his people, but coming near to judge his people. And in this psalm the Israelites are going to be brought before him, and in a portion of them at least, are gonna be confronted by God for just basically going through the motions of worship and living a sin filled life, thinking it would go unnoticed by him, by Yahweh. And God is saying you're bringing me these sacrifices, thinking that somehow bringing me these sacrifices, you're doing me a favor. He says, I don't need your. Cows. I don't need the, I've got, I own the cattle on a thousand Hills. A lot of times we'll quote that verse as God, my God is able to supply any of our needs. And yet contextually it's hear him saying, I, I don't need what you're bringing me. Don't think that you're doing me a favor by bringing me these things. I own the cattle on a thousand hills. Everything is mine. And he's saying to them, Hey, you know what you. Are doing all this thinking that you're getting away with it, but he says you verse 17, you hate discipline and you cast my words behind you, behind your back. You throw them behind you, and then you dare to draw near to me and take my covenant upon your lips. This is a frightening psalm. It is one where God is saying, I'm not gonna be mocked. You are gonna reap what you sow and what you are sowing is you are sowing towards judgment here and not towards blessing.

Yeah. One of the things that I, that stands out to me is that God and this is repeated over and over again. This is not novel. This is not something that God only says once. But when he says that it's not for the sacrifices that I rebuke you it's not your burnt offerings. Those are there you're doing the right thing at the right time, so to speak. But you're not bringing the right heart and God doesn't want the mere form of our worship. We can do this as Christians. We could show up to church wearing our, the right clothing. We could say the right words. We can amen at the right time. We could say at the right time when the pastor preaches, but God is not impressed by that. God is not moved by affectation. He doesn't just want the appearance of godliness. He wants the actuality of it. He doesn't want the form of worship. He wants the fellowship of it. And this tells us that real worship is relational. And in particular, one theme stood out to me, although there's a couple here. The theme that struck me this time around is Thanksgiving. He wants the sacrifice of Thanksgiving from us. He says it both in verse 14 and verse 23. The one who offers Thanksgiving as sacrifice glorifies me. I wonder how your words are, Christian. How are you doing with offering Thanksgiving to God? It's so easy for me, and I'm sure it's for you, for many of you to complain about almost anything. We live in such a soft, cushy, really absurdly rich timeframe that I can complain almost about anything but sac. The sacrifice of Thanksgiving is what God wants. A thankful heart is truly a humble heart, A heart that doesn't feel entitled to more, to better, to bigger a sacrificial. Thanksgiving is a heart that recognizes I have far more than I deserve. And even though some people say it when you say, how are you doing? Oh, better than I deserve. It sometimes we say that, but we really don't mean that. If God were to take everything away from us, we'd be pretty upset about it. So I think this is helpful for us. God wants a real relationship with us that is built on the humility that has a sense and the wherewithal to say, Lord, thank you for the graces that I have. Thank you for these gifts. Thank you for my spaceship car. Thank you for our admins at the church. Thank you for glasses. I can see better because I have glasses on. Thank you. What an incredible gift that is, or context. I saw Ezekiel came wearing context the other day that's it. He looks fundamentally different, but I thought how cool someone thought about a little sliver of glass to put in someone's eye. I don't even know if it's glass. Is it glass? I don't know. I don't use them. Yeah. Whatever They are the context. Someone you put this little n. Moldable thing in your eye and it helps you see better. What an incredible invention. Thank you Lord for those things. How's your life doing? How's your heart with giving Thanksgiving? This is what God wants from us.

Yeah. And going through the motions and you talked about Yeah. They were bringing their sacrifices. They're doing that, that, that's a good thing. And I think we would say to the person that wakes up on a Sunday morning, he's man, I just don't feel like going through church, going to church this morning. I, my heart's not there. Maybe I shouldn't go because I don't wanna be. I don't wanna be guilty like Israel, we would say, no, you need to go to church. It's always better to go than not to go. And you say how do we guard against going through the motions? We're gonna talk about that even this Sunday, repentance, right? When you wake up and you feel like, man, I just don't feel like going part of the remedy is what you were just suggesting. Start getting thankful. About what God's brought into your life. Start thinking about all the reasons why you do have to praise him and to give him thanks and to show up and to worship him. But the good news is maybe you don't wanna be at church because you've had a week of sin. The blessing that you have in Christ is the ability to repent. And to say, you know what, God I'm sorry. I am turning, I'm repentant. I'm confessing this. I'm agreeing with you that this is wrong. This is sin. I wanna throw it behind me. Not your word, but my sin behind me, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna worship you, and I can because of your grace and your kindness and your mercy towards me. If you're sitting there going, man I just don't feel like it. I know what that's like. I've been there before. Yeah. Even as pastors we go through times like that where it's okay, I just feel like I, I'm going through the motions right now. It's still better to be with God's people and to be there and to say, God, please change my heart on this, and I want to think about the reasons I have to be thankful and to praise you and to worship you and trust the spirit that the spirit will bring good by your presence being there. I. Then not now. If you just shut your brain down and you just go to check the box because you feel guilt ridden or whatever, then yeah you're gonna be guilty of what Israel's doing here. But I would still say go rather than don't go.

Amen to that. Yeah. There is a Christian responsibility. Duty is better than not doing it. But delight is better than duty. Yeah. Doing it because we love the Lord and sometimes our heart is not there. And sometimes I have to push myself to do the thing to get my heart there. And we don't wanna wait for our feelings to allow us to be in the right frame of mind, because that may never come. Maturity and the Christian life is to say I'm going to do the right thing because it's the right thing. I'm gonna beg the Lord to help me feel the right thing. That might come along for the right. It may not. There are seasons when God pulls his hand back because he wants us to draw an ear. And there are other seasons where it is as sweet as it can be. The duty is there, the delight is there. Everything's just firing in all cylinders. But that, in my experience, is not the normative Christian life. It's what we want. It's what we aim for. But it's not every season, for sure. Yeah. Psalm 53.

Is a psalm of David that emphasizes the depravity of man. And Paul is gonna grab a lot of this and apply it to mankind in Romans chapter three when he is trying to make the point in Romans chapter three that, hey, everyone is guilty. He's coming back to Psalm 53 and he's borrowing from David there. So even David was a card carrying tulip. Embracer, if I can put it that way. At least he embraced the t we'll say that. He he opens, he says, the fool says in his heart, there is no God. They're corrupt doing abominable iniquity. There's no one who does good. Verse three, they've all fallen away together. They've become corrupt. There's no one who does good. Not even one. And I know we don't love this doctrine, but I think we would all. Have to agree with it. If we just push back from the table and consider humanity, consider, and we've talked about it before that with our children, we don't have to teach our children how to sin. We don't have to teach our children how to do evil things and wicked things. It they come outta the womb, inherently self-centered individuals, and that's. Because of what David's talking about here. And the answer that he gets to is the same answer that we hope in verse six, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion. Salvation for us came out of Zion and it was in the form of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior who came out of Jerusalem, who literally went outside the city and died on the cross for our sins and rose again so that we could live with him forever. Yeah. Psalm 53 is a depressing psalm initially here, but it's a gospel psalm too because he gets to the place of hoping for salvation from Zion. And Zion did indeed produce well. You

were just talking recently about the fact that Target is changing up their exit strategy. Oh yeah. Because of the ongoing theft, they're trying to control the fact that a lot of people want to go through the aisles and take stuff, which is bonkers. I don't I see it on X, I see it on different posts and news media. They're reporting that theft is going up. And then California had that issue because it wasn't even a crime unless it was over $700. So people were just going in unabashedly, taking things, walking out with no shame whatsoever. And so now Target is saying, okay, we're getting rid of the self checkout. You guys can't handle this. You're not responsible enough. I see that. I think their scripture. Scripture is right. We are depraved. We can't be trusted with these little things. And the reason why is because the Christian Bible, the god of the scriptures is not being preached. He's not being presented otherwise. I think there would be a right and healthy fear among us. But man, Psalm 53. Right on. Still today? Yep.

Psalm 60 Psalm 60 is an interesting one. If you look at the title, there's a lot of information given there in the title. It's a mti. Of David and it's for instruction. And so it was meant to teach and then it gives the context when he strove with that guy's name there and the other guy's name. And when Joab on his return struck down 12,000 of Edem in the Valley of Salt, okay, the second Samuel eight. We just looked at this yesterday. And so that, that's not the issue. The issue comes when we read the psalm. And we're trying to justify what's written in the Psalm with what we read about in Second Samuel eight. When you read Second Samuel eight you don't see a lot of trials. You don't see a lot of defeat. In fact, you don't see any defeat. You just see, here's the victory, here's a victory, here's a victory, here's a victory. And yet when we come to Psalm 60 it seems like there were quite a few defeats in the midst of the victories. That that, that led the people even to verse 10 to say, have you not rejected us? Oh, God, go back. If you have a second, go back and just skim over Second Samuel chapter eight again, and ask yourself where in the context of Second Samuel chapter eight. Would that make sense? Have you forgotten us? Oh, God. And so the conclusion that we have to get to is that there were more. There was more going on. The second Samuel eight is summary and it provides the high level, but it's not getting into the full ups and downs. And I think the only reason that's a little bit odd is because so many times in scripture it does go into the valleys with Israel as well as the mountaintops. And so second Samuel, chapter eight is skipping over the mountaintops. I think you've often said Pastor Rod, when you're standing on one mountaintop looking at the other, it looks a lot closer until you get down to the valley. You don't always see the valley. Sometimes you just see mountain top to mountaintop. And I think that's Second Samuel chapter eight versus this is saying. There were some valleys there. Let's take you into the valley in this psalm. And Israel here is asking God what, where are you? What happened? And saying have you not rejected us?

Yeah. To your point, there's a lot that happened in the time of scripture that is not presented and preserved for us. Even. John, we're about to finish the gospel of John pretty soon actually, right? Yeah. Next week. Next week. Next week. Last time. Last, wow. The last verse in the gospel of John is that there's other things that Jesus did and boy, I don't know about you, but I salivated that. Yeah. Oh, I wish I knew. For sure. Tell me more. And John says, we every one of those things to be written. I suppose that the whole world itself could not contain the books. That would be, so he's saying all of us, all four, the gospels, everything in the Bible itself has to be a shortened version of what took place. So not everything is listed there, and there's gonna be times where you'll read about books like, oh, in the Book of the Wars, or the Book of Josh, or it's written about it here and there. 'cause we're gonna get to the king soon and they're gonna use that. That phraseology is not the rest of this. King's works in the book of such and such. You might be tempted to say great. Let me go look at my Bible's table of contents and look for that book. And it's a surprise, it's not there. That's because not everything that scripture refers to is in scripture, and not everything that happened during the time of scripture is in scripture. So our due diligence as good Bible exus to try our best to hear one side of the phone conversation and put the other side together without doing. Injustice to the text, and that's really hard to do. It means that you know the history. It means that you have a sense of how the language works. It means that you have a sense of the grammar, and this is why surprise is what we teach the historical grammatical approach to the scripture interpretation. This is what it looks like to put the pieces together in a faithful way In Psalm 60. It's a good reminder that there's a lot there that we don't know about.

Yeah. Verse 11 is such a good reminder. When things are going well for us to remember this verse 11, grants us help against the foe for vain is the salvation of man. I'm rem reminded of the passage where it says some trust and chariots. Have we gotten there? Summon horses, right? But we trust in the name of the Lord God, we

trust in the name of the Lord

God. Boom. That's the one teaching that to our kiddos too. But this is such a good reminder for us that if our confidence is in the fact that we've got the right guy in the Oval Office right now, or if our confidence is in, your job is going right now and you're, making enough money for your family and even more than you need and things are good and things are comfortable, we need to remember. Our hope is not in these things. Our hope is ultimately in the Lord. He's the one that has the ultimate ability to help us against our greatest foe and our greatest foe, by the way, is not is not anything this world can throw at us, but it's Satan. And ultimately death. Death is the last victor, the last enemy to be overcome and will be eventually, but not because of who's in the Oval Office and not because your job is going right now. Because of Christ, because salvation ultimately is not from man, but from God.

Yeah. I'm just just thinking about this off the top of my head. I probably would say our hope is built in nothing less than Jesus. Blood and righteousness. Catch it. You should, off the top of my head, should to some music. I'm just gonna keep on thinking about it here. How about this? I dare, we dare not trust in the sweetest frame, but we wholly lean on Jesus. Now this is just coming down my heart and from my head, just top of my head, how for a chorus on Christ, the

solid rock I stand, something like all other hope is. Fleeting bands. How about sinking?

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sinking. I don't like that. You remember when we were growing up, quicksand was such big. What about sinking sand? Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, no, I don't like that one. I'll stick with my part. Thanks for sticking with us guys as we nerd out on some. Some old hymns. Hey, Psalm 75, as we wrap today this is a Psalm of asap. This is about the wrath of God. This is another judgment psalm, and this one has the picture in verse eight that always comes to mind for me with communion. You guys have heard me talk about this, the little juice trap in the bottom of the cup. Verse eight. For in the hand of the Lord, there's a cup. With foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs, in other words, till it's absolutely dry. And that is the cup of God's wrath. And that's why the wicked are the ones that are gonna have to drain it. And this is a sobering. Passage for many reasons. One of the reasons why it's sobering though we may think it's sobering because the judgment of the wicked is a sobering concept. Yes, it is. It's also sobering to realize that this is what Christ took for us on the cross, and again, that's why communion is so poignant when it. Deals with the cup there. That this is what Christ did for us on the cross. And you might say, okay, I can even get there. This is where we go a step further with that. And we've mentioned this before too. Our appreciation of the just wrath of God on the cross has to extend to the fact that the people that have committed the greatest sins against you. The greatest sins that you could ever conceive of against you if they were to be born again. If they were to repent from their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as their savior, then their sin was punished as much as you would desire that person would suffer for what they've done for you. That. Punishment was doled out upon Christ. Christ drained the cup for them on the cross, and it doesn't diminish the heinousness of their sin against you, or it doesn't diminish the amount of justice that they deserved. What it does is it magnifies the work of Christ on the cross for us that he drained God's wrath for us on our behalf.

Yeah, this whole psalm is about God's judgment, and even though it's an uncomfortable part of our theology, it's also a very. Comforting part of our theology. It is because God is just and because God is the judge that we can take. We can take comfort and refuge in the fact that we don't have to avenge ourselves. God himself will be our avenger. He's the one who will judge. And our sin, if we're honest, has to be judged as well. So it's not like we can just shrug off our sin and look at the sins of others and say, I can't wait for God to judge that guy. God had to judge our sin too, which is why the cup of the wrath of God is E. Even though it's uncomfortable, we celebrate that because our sin then past, present, and future is fully atoned for. At the at the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But verse two reminds us at the set time I appoint, I will judge with equity. There is a time when it's all gonna be said and done. The curtain call is gonna be called and everyone's gonna get up to leave the the auditorium as it were. God's gonna judge everybody. This is both, again, comfort and uncomfort and uncomfortable because it means that there's gonna be a lot of people that won't be able to stand up against him because they'll be judged for their sin. It's our job right now to remember texts like this and to let that spur in us a kind of urgency and a motivation to say, I wanna make sure that I'm talking to my friends and my neighbors, my loved ones, about the justice of God. He is just, and that's what demands his wrath. And this is something that's good. We want this. We don't want the bad guys to go free, but we also know that we ourselves are the bad guys and we want our brothers and sisters better said, to be more theologically accurate. We want our friends and our family who don't know Christ to become brothers and sisters who won't have to suffer under God's wrath.

Amen. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, that is our heart's desire and we trust that it's yours as well. In fact, you tell us in. And you're worried that it is, that you don't wish that any should perish, but that all should come to faith. That all should come to repentance. Romans two, four, that you are patient and that patience is meant to lead people to repentance. And so we pray that would be true of those that we care about, that we love that the wrath that they've stored up for themselves. Romans two, five to this point would ultimately be realized in, in. That which was poured out upon Christ as they do repent from their sins and put their trust in Jesus. And yet, that's not gonna happen unless they hear, like you say in Romans 10. We need to be the mouthpiece we need to be the messengers. We need to be calling people to leave off their sin, to repent from their sin and put their trust in Jesus as they're going to Savior. So give us that that compassion, that love, that heart for the lost we would ask and pray, and we ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep bringing your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you then. 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