1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hi there, and welcome to another Prayer through 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: the Psalms episode of the Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: Jamie and I'm very excited again to be with you 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: to talk about and pray through Psalm fifty three. This 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: is a first so Psalm fifty three apparently is almost 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 1: identical to Psalm fourteen. There are a few words that 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: are different, and we'll talk about that when we get 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: into it, but I just think that's very interesting. It's 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: almost word for word. We see that in some of 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: the gospels we have among the different gospel stories of Matthew, Mark, Luke, 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: and John, we see repeated stories with different words and 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: maybe from slightly different perspectives. But Psalm fourteen is a 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: Psalm of David. Psalm fifty three is also a Psalm 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: of David, but it's a little bit more. It's almost 15 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: like he revised it, like it's you know, Psalm fourteen 16 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: two point zero. So it's pretty interesting. I just love it. 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: Every week there's something new, something different to kind of 18 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: pull out. So before we get started, as always, let's 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: open up with some prayer and just take what's going 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: on in our hearts and minds and lay it before 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: the Lord. There have been some absolutely terrible, terrible tragedies 22 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: that I have read about in the last week. I 23 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: won't go into details, but a lot of them are 24 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: just I'm sure you have seen tragedies regardless of when 25 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: you're listening to this. You might be listening to this 26 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: and you know, twenty thirty, and I'm pretty sure you 27 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: will have experienced or seen many tragedies in the news 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: and just even in your personal lives. And it can 29 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: be heavy, and it can cause us to just pause 30 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: and think what is going on with this world that 31 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: we live in. I think about the song This is 32 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: My Father's World, and it just talks about, you know, 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: this is my Father's world. It's a very childlike song 34 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: being sung from the perspective of a child, you know. 35 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: And I just remember the one line that says, and 36 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the 37 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: ruler yet, And I just I think about that as 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: we need to have that childlike belief that even though 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: what we see in this world is so so painful 40 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: and heavy, and even though whatever you're experiencing in your 41 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: life right now is so painful and so so heavy, 42 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: and God seems absent God is on the throne, and 43 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense logically, but we have to. We 44 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: don't have to, but we need to for survival as Christians. 45 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: We need to disconnect the logic and state what is 46 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: true and say, even though the wrong is oft so strong, 47 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: God is the ruler. Yet God is on the throne, 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: and we need to hold on to it, cling to 49 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: it like nothing else, and state it as fact, even 50 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: when our mind and our heart and our emotions are 51 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: just railing against that truth, even when the evidence in 52 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: front of us is contradictory to that truth. We need 53 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: to stand on that truth that God is on the throne. 54 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: He is because Satan is the ruler of this world. 55 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: So the things that we're seeing, the evil, the death, 56 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the destruction, the wars, the famines, all of the things, 57 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: those are a result of a fallen world. That is 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: the work of our enemy. That is the work of 59 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: sin and death that has come into this world. And 60 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: it masks the undercurrent the spiritual reality that is going on. 61 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: Not sometime in the future when we die and go 62 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: to heaven, it's going on now. The kingdom of Heaven 63 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: is now. God is at work now. Jesus died so 64 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: that we could see that, so that we could be 65 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: unbound and unchained from the power of sin and the 66 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: bondage of sin. The sin is still here, but we 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: are able to transcend it because we are able to 68 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: see through it. We are able to see past the 69 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: evidence in front of our faces. And we're trained in 70 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: this world of logic and science, which I love science 71 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: by the way I love it. I love logic. It 72 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: is good. But if we only rely on logic, if 73 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: we only rely on what we see in front of us, 74 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna miss We're gonna be masked from seeing that 75 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: God is on the throne. And when we get that 76 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: glimpse when he parts the waters, when he lifts the veil, 77 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: and we can temporarily see God's hand at work. When 78 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: we see those glimpses, those godwinks, those pictures of how 79 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: He is working, even in the smallest of ways, it 80 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: just can give us a hope that He is in this. 81 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: And sometimes maybe my definition of good isn't God's definition 82 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: of good. Other times my definition of good is spot on. 83 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: It is justice, it is goodness, and that isn't happening. 84 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: But God is working in and through even the horrible 85 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: terrible things to bring about His kingdom purposes. And I 86 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: can't tell you how, and I can't promise you that 87 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: you will see it all the time. But I do 88 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: believe that at some point when we get to Heaven, 89 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: that God is going to unveil He's going to reveal 90 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: this is what it was about all along. And I 91 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: was there with you, and I just pray. I pray 92 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: for myself. I pray for you, for the strength, for 93 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: the faith, and for the courage to believe that God 94 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: is on the throne today no matter what. It's hard. 95 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: And I think that's why we're called to be in 96 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: community together, because I might be in a place where 97 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, I can't. I just I can't 98 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: say that right now, I can't believe it. I want to, 99 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: but I can't because then I have someone else. I 100 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: have another believer that is lifting me up in prayer, 101 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: that is praying God increase her faith, God sustain her 102 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: until the time when she can declare the truth, get 103 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: her through this season of difficulty, get her through this 104 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: season of unbelief, because it is true, whether she believes 105 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: it or not. Like I said, we can choose to 106 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: believe it or say it. We could choose not to, 107 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: but whether we believe it or not, it is true. 108 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: So if you are going through a season where you 109 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: can't declare the truth that God is on the throne, 110 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: regardless of what's going on in your life, I am 111 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: here to say it for you and to declare it 112 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: over you, and to say that there will come a 113 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: time you will get to the other side of this 114 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: difficult thing you're going through, and God will give you 115 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: that glimpse. He will show you. And it is because 116 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: the prayers of the brothers and sisters in Christ around 117 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: you that you're going to be able to get through 118 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: that tough time. So kind of a little bit of 119 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: a tangent. I don't know where that came from, but 120 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: I feel like God must need someone to hear that today. 121 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: So let's pray, Lord God, we declare before Heaven and 122 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: Earth and principalities and angels and demons and people and 123 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: anyone else who has ears to hear that you are 124 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: on the throne. Period. Whether we believe it or not, 125 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: it's true. Whether we can perceive it or not, it 126 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: is true. And we will stand on that. And I 127 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: pray for all of us that during the times when 128 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: it's very hard or impossible to speak those words, when 129 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: we're in the valley of the shadow of death, when 130 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: we are in unspeakable pain, that you would surround us 131 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: with people to lift us up, to pray for us, 132 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: to pray us through those seasons of doubt and disbelief 133 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: until we can emerge from the other side and see 134 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: and I do pray Father, for God winks, for glimpses 135 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: of your hand at work in the times when you 136 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: seem silent or distant, or even like maybe the exact 137 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: opposite of what we have been praying and hoping for 138 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 1: is happening. We just pray for you to meet us 139 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: where we are in our desperate times. You tell us 140 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: that you are close to the broken hearted, and we 141 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: claim that, and we claiming to it. Like a mother 142 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: with many children, where you're going to find her is 143 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: with the child that needs her most at that moment. 144 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: And thankfully you can be with everyone at once, because 145 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: that's who you are, because you're omnipresent and you're all knowing, 146 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: and you're all powerful. But there has to be something 147 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: to The Lord is close to the broken hearted, and 148 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: so we thank you and we claim that during the 149 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: times when we need you most, that you would meet 150 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: us in our time of need and give us what 151 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: we need to hang on. We just pray that truth 152 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: would prevail. We claim Tewod Corinthians ten to five, and 153 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: I love the Nasby nineteen ninety five translation. We are 154 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the 155 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive 156 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: to the obedience of Christ. Lord. We demolish anything in 157 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:08,359 Speaker 1: our minds and our thoughts, words coming from others, attitudes 158 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: of our hearts. Anything that sets itself up against the 159 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: knowledge of God, that sets itself up against the knowledge 160 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: that you are on the throne, we demolish it. We 161 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: are destroying it currently. And it's not a once and 162 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: for all thing, because we continue to have these thoughts 163 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: and doubts rising up in us. But we are destroying, 164 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: we are taking every thought captive. We are doing it 165 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: to the best of our ability, and we will keep 166 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: doing it until the day we die. And at that 167 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: point we will see your face and praise God. It 168 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: will all make sense. But until then we have this 169 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: gift of not knowing and being able to declare it anyway, 170 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: being able to speak what is true, even when everything 171 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: else around us is speaking the opposite. May that bring 172 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: you glory and praise and honor in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, 173 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: well that is that was that was unexpected, tangent, and 174 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: thank you God, because it is so important and I 175 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: have I have actually never I had to pause and 176 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: look up that verse because one of my favorite verses 177 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: to loosely quote and sometimes hopefully not misquote, but kind 178 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: of just from memories. We demolish arguments and every pretension 179 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and 180 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: we take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ. 181 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: I think that's the NIV. I think that's how I 182 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: memorized it, but I've never read the Nasby nineteen ninety five, 183 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: and it's so accurate. We are destroying speculations, we are 184 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: taking every thought captive because we have to keep on. 185 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: We have to keep on doing it. So don't give up, hope, 186 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: don't lose hope. If okay, I've demolished those arguments and 187 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm still struggling. Well, it's a battle. It is a battle. 188 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: And when you can't do it, I'm going to do 189 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: it for you or someone else. Is going to do 190 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: it for you. And when I can't do it, You're 191 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: gonna do it for me. We as the collective body 192 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: of Christ, who were never meant to operate in a vacuum. 193 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: We collectively we are destroying for ourselves, for each other. 194 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: Praise God, Thank God for community. So Psalm fifty three, 195 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: like I said, this is very interesting that Psalm fifty 196 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: three is almost an exact word for word of Psalm fourteen. 197 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: So in Psalm fourteen the title is folly and wickedness 198 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: of men, and then the subtitle is for the choir director, 199 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: a Psalm of David. And then Psalm fifty three the 200 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: title is folly and wickedness of men. But it's almost 201 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 1: like David upgraded it a little bit or maybe repurposed 202 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: it for an other reason. This says for the choir 203 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: director according to Mahalith, which means sickness or a sad tone, 204 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: so according to a certain type of music, So maybe 205 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: a sad version a mas skill of David. And as 206 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: we know the maskill we've talked about this before. It's 207 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: like either contemplative or a didactic or skillful psalm. So 208 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: it's kind of a sort of melancholy. I don't know. 209 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: Maybe the Emo of Psalms, I don't know, but it 210 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: seems like he's maybe ratcheted down the specificity a little 211 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: bit to be more specific of when it's supposed to 212 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: be used. One of the primary differences is the word 213 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: for God used in Psalm fourteen was I believe Yahweh. 214 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: So Psalm of fourteen uses that covenant name Yahweh, the 215 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: tetragram which was y h w H, which was the 216 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: unspeakable name of God that was revealed to Abraham from 217 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: or Abram, and then in Psalm fifty three it uses Eloheim, 218 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: which is a more general term, and it's Eloheim is 219 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: meant to just mean God. It could mean capital G. 220 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: It could mean lowercase G, but in this case it 221 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: means capital G God, but it's Elohem instead of that 222 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: specific name of God. Maybe it's a different audience. I'm 223 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: just not sure, but they just believe that maybe it 224 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: was adapted for this different worship setting. Some scholars think 225 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: that it emphasized God's universal sovereignty because it does, you know, 226 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: in saying Yahweh, you know the great I am, the 227 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: veiled name of God to his people were kind of 228 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: addressing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God 229 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: of the Covenant, the God of Israel. And so this 230 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: is just fun because to back up and open the 231 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: scope up to Elohim, the God of Genesis, who created everything, 232 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: the God who encompasses everyone, not just Israel. But this 233 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: is the God and in a world where people, I mean, 234 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: I just almost wonder maybe someone was listening who didn't 235 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: know yahweh. Maybe this And this is total speculation. I'm 236 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: not a theologian. I don't even claim to know anything 237 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: about it, but I just wonder. I just know that 238 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: God is so loving and as we talked about, he 239 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: meets us where we are, and I just have this 240 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: picture of maybe there's this person in the audience as 241 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: this is being sung. I don't know the context of 242 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: how this was sung or when or where. Maybe there 243 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: was a servant that was, you know, a sojourner from 244 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: another land that was you know, knew another God that 245 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: was listening. Maybe something about this resonated with someone who 246 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: was not within the House of David, you know, was 247 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: not from the Hybraic background, and this spoke to them 248 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: in a way that met them where they were. I 249 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: don't know, that's just speculation, But basically this was just 250 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: kind of you know, Psalm fourteen in a different context. 251 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: So let's let's read it. The fool has set in 252 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: his heart there is no God, and again that's Eloheen, 253 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: the God of everything, the Creator God, just God of 254 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: universal God. They are corrupt and have committed abominable injustice. 255 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: There is no one who does good. God has looked 256 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: down from heaven upon the sons of men to see 257 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: if there's anyone who understands, who seeks after God. Every 258 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: one of them has turned aside, and together they've become corrupt. 259 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: There is no one who does good, not even one. 260 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge, who eat up 261 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: my people as though they ate bread, and have not 262 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: called upon God. There they were in great fear where 263 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: no fear had been for God scattered the bones of 264 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: him who encamped against you. You put them to shame 265 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: because God had rejected them. Oh, that salvation of Israel 266 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: would come out of Zion when God restores his captive people. 267 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: Let Jacob rejoice, Let Israel be glad. So this is 268 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,479 Speaker 1: kind of encompassing this idea of all have sinned and 269 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: fall short of the glory of God. Not one has 270 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: been found righteous, not one who truly seeks after God. 271 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: And that's a tough pill to swallow. I actually looked 272 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,239 Speaker 1: into this and thought, well, maybe they're saying just you know, 273 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: because it goes on and says, every one of them 274 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: is turned aside, the workers of wickedness eat up my 275 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: people as though they ate bread. I'm thinking, well, maybe 276 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: this is just about the people that are coming up 277 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: against the people of Israel. And no, no, when you 278 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: look at the lexicon, when you look at the context, 279 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: this every one of them, God has looked upon the 280 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: sons of men. This is a This is again a 281 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: universal term. This is not specific to gentiles or unbelievers 282 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: or people that come against the sons of God. No, 283 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: this is the sons of Adam, those who come from Adam, 284 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: all of humanity. And so it would make sense that 285 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: we're talking about the God of all of humanity, right, 286 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: So maybe David is looking at this from a different lens, 287 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: And basically it's another foreshadowing. It's David prophesying that there 288 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: is going to come a time when this God, not 289 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: just of the people of Israel, but this God who 290 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: created everything, who created all of these people that he 291 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: looks down on and realizes, I cannot coexist because I 292 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: am holy in the presence of these fallen people, none 293 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: of them, not even the ones that I call my own. 294 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: They are all fallen, every single one of them. And 295 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 1: yet it says, oh, that salvation of Israel would come 296 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: out of Zion. So when David talks about, oh, that 297 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion, it's interesting. 298 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: It says, when God restores his captive people, let Jacob rejoice, 299 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: let Israel be glad. There had been no diaspora at 300 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: that time. David lived around a thousand. The Babylonian exile 301 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: happened in five eighty six BC, which was like almost 302 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: five hundred years later, so there had been no captivity 303 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: and exile. There had been no destruction of the temple. 304 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: There wasn't even a temple built. Actually, David wanted to 305 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: build a temple, and God said, nope, your son will 306 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: build it. So this is another prophecy that can be 307 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: read in so many layers because he's saying, oh, that 308 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion. When 309 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: God restores his captive people, well, they hadn't been captive yet, 310 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: So that's one layer of prophecy. And then another layer 311 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: of prophecy is for God to restore all of his people, 312 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: those in bondage to sin, in slavery, to sin, which 313 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: is what Jesus did. So there's such richness to this psalm. 314 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: It's a very short psalm, only six verses, but it 315 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: is very very rich in meaning. One more thing that 316 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: stuck out to me, and I don't exactly know what 317 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: exactly it's referring to, but it's verse five, so you know, 318 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: it's talking about the workers of wickedness having no knowledge, 319 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: who ate up my people as though they ate bread. 320 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: So these could be the Philistines, these could be any 321 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: of Israel's enemies at that time. And he said, there 322 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: they were in great fear where no fear had been, 323 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: for God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you. 324 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: So this just stood out to me, Like have you 325 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,239 Speaker 1: ever read scripture and like it just stands out to you. 326 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: Either someone's reading it and it gets louder or you 327 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: just it sticks with you, or you're reading it and 328 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: it's like the words jump out of the page, like 329 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: kind of when you're sending a text, and you have 330 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: the option to make the words like do weird things anyway? 331 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: Sometimes that happens to me, And that's what happened here 332 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: verse five, and I'm just like mulling it over. I 333 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: think about when the people were sent out to scale 334 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: out the Promised Land and they came back and they 335 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: were like, oh, yeah, I know there are giants in 336 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: the land. We felt like grasshoppers. There was like a 337 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: lot of scary stuff there. And basically they were in 338 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: great fear where no fear had been because God scattered 339 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: the bones of him who encamped against you. This reminds 340 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: me of what we were just talking about. When we 341 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: see the stuff going on in the world, when we 342 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: have personal troubles and frustrations and problems, and we just 343 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: we fear and we have not just fear, but great fear. 344 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: We're like, oh, no, God, but this is the obstacle. 345 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: I know that you're calling me to do this, but 346 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: this is insurmountable. Or I know that I should believe 347 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: that you're on the throne, but look at what's around me, 348 00:22:54,320 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: look at the evidence. And yet God put those enemies 349 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: to shame. God scattered the bones of those who have 350 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: encamped against us, He already did it. We haven't seen 351 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: it yet, but in spiritual terms, God has already defeated 352 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: the enemy. And so that spoke to me today, and 353 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: maybe it'll speak to you too. Let's not be in 354 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: great fear where nothing to fear is there, because God 355 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: has already scattered the bones of those who have encamped 356 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: against you. No weapon formed against you will prosper. But 357 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: when we don't believe that, when we stand on lies, 358 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: when we believe that the territory that's in front of 359 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: us belongs to someone else, belongs to the enemy, even 360 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: though God's already put his flag in the ground. When 361 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: we're blinded to that victory, we operate as if we're defeated. 362 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: And there's so much power in believing the truth because 363 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: when we believe what is true, when we believe that 364 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: the battle has been won, we will begin to operate 365 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: as victors, will come out of that victim mentality, and 366 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: we will You'll be amazed at the difference in what 367 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: the world feels like and how you can operate within 368 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: the world differently because you know the truth. The Bible says, 369 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: resist the devil and he will flee. I believe that 370 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: means when we say, oh no, no, no, no, I 371 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: see that there's an obstacle here, but that victory is mine. 372 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: I'm claiming it' I'm gonna walk in it, and you 373 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: would just I believe. And I'm not saying just you, 374 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: I'm speaking to myself. I will be amazed at the 375 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: way the obstacles melt into the ground, the way the 376 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,959 Speaker 1: mountains are made low and the valleys are filled in, 377 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: so that there's this stra path that we can walk 378 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: on accomplishing the purposes for which God has called us. 379 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: He will provide, because He's already provided. We just need 380 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: to stand on it and believe it and walk in it. 381 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, we just thank you again so much 382 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: for your word. We love these psalms, we treasure them. Lord, 383 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 1: I just pray that you would help us to just 384 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: understand the gravity of the prophecy that we see in 385 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: the Old Testament pointing forward. How impossible it would be 386 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: for David to know to speak these words if you 387 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: had not placed them in his mouth. You're the Alpha 388 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: and the Omega. You're the beginning and the end and 389 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: everywhere in between. Thank you for being our Lord who 390 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: loves us and invites us into a relationship with you. Lord, 391 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: we claim the truths again. You are on the throne. 392 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: No weapon formed against us shall prosper You have already 393 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: scattered the bones of our enemies who encamp against us. 394 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: Give us spiritual eyes to see the victory. I pray 395 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: that not a single inch of territory that belongs to 396 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: us because it is yours, would escape us. That we 397 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: would not be deceived into thinking that something is out 398 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: of our reach or out of our grasp because it 399 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: is too hard, or because the people in the land 400 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: are too big, because it's our promised land. Not for 401 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: our individual prosperity, so that we can just be comfortable 402 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:53,239 Speaker 1: and selfish and have selfish gain, but because it is 403 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: yours to bring glory to you, to have freedom, to 404 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: reclaim what is already yours. 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