WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:07.559 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:14.119 Well, good morning, good more morning. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:18.800 Yeah, we talk all right, Chris is coffee is kicking in. 6 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.079 That's what I'm said seeing right now. 7 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.719 In the morning in the motor I never I never 8 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:24.359 go past that. 9 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.879 Mark. Okay, So dude, you really livened up. Dude, caffeine 10 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.399 hit send a couple of nice text messages. Feeling good. 11 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.880 He's referring to in between the All right, hey, today 12 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:39.079 this if you don't know, if you're just joining us today, 13 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:41.840 this is Kyler is standing in for Jeff because Jeff 14 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.079 is out of pocket. And so we are delighted, thrilled, nay, 15 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.479 we are privileged to have with us this week. 16 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.200 The Bible Guys with Kyle and Chris. Yes, it was 17 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.799 pretty terrible then. First, I don't know how that happens. 18 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.280 Yes, yes, deserved, but you deserved. 19 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:59.399 I don't know about that, not at all. But thank you. 20 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.280 Well. Hey, today's desiree wants us to do two truths 21 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.719 in a lie. Yep, and the way she wrote it is, 22 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.239 oh I lost my place now, it says Kyle, we 23 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.280 always enjoy having you as a Bible guy. 24 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.280 She had to write that that's good getting. 25 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:11.879 To know you more. 26 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.040 Let's play two truths and a lie to see how 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.359 well Chris knows you? 28 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:16.000 All right? 29 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.319 Can he figure out which statement is a lie? And 30 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.560 she put exclamation mark question mark as if that's so intense? 31 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.560 Can he find out? I figured us see if we 32 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.159 can figure it out. Okay, we got three things for you, Chris, 33 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.519 Two truths, one lie. First thing is this is that 34 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:36.400 I graduated from the same high school that your kids 35 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:37.120 graduated from. 36 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.159 Yeah, I know that's true, buddy. 37 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:42.640 Wait for me to say all three Yeah. 38 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.120 Well, I'm I'm just calling you out. 39 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.640 Okay, there you go. I am the youngest of my 40 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.519 older of the three siblings in my family, I'm the youngest. 41 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.040 That's the second thing. And then the last is. 42 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:55.640 That the last one's a lie. 43 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.280 Okay, the last thing, the last thing, son of a gun. 44 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:01.120 I already knew you. 45 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:05.079 Okay, I married in Hawaii, So there are two truths 46 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.040 and a lie in that I was married in Hawaii. 47 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:08.400 I'm the youngest of Uh. 48 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.039 Hey, I'm proud. I'm really proud because you know we 49 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.360 know each other. But I but you know. Obviously I 50 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.439 don't know you nearly as well as some other staff 51 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.479 members because you run staff well before me, right, And 52 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:21.319 so I'm really proud that I got this. 53 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:22.639 I knew both of those things. 54 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:24.439 Yeah. So the truth is I did go to Troy 55 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.800 Athens High School, graduated away before his kids, but went 56 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.520 to the same high school as them. The other truth 57 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:32.199 is that I actually have six siblings. I'm not the youngest. 58 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:32.960 I'm right in the middle. 59 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.520 I get it wrong, I get it wrong. 60 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.360 You said that you said you thought that was the truth. 61 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.479 No, no, no, I said, I said the last ones. Uh, oh, 62 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:43.560 so you are wrong. 63 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.439 Let's go totally misunderstood you. Yes, it's right. So I 64 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:48.680 actually was married in Hawaii. I really was two thousand 65 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.400 and seven, got married in Hawaii. And uh, and no, 66 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.000 I'm I'm not I'm not the youngest. I am right 67 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.319 in the middle of the six siblings. 68 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.479 I said. I said, I know you're the youngest, but 69 00:02:58.520 --> 00:02:58.840 you're not. 70 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.520 No, I'm not, no right, no middle. So wow, yeah, 71 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.159 I have two older siblings and then and then three 72 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.360 younger than me. So six of us six. It's okay. 73 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:10.919 You were getting a little confident, and I actually trusted 74 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:12.719 your confidence. That's the worst part is also you know 75 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:13.639 he's right, He's got me. 76 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.439 Did you ever see Willie Walker at the end when 77 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:16.800 he goes wrong, sir wrong? 78 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.719 Yes, you get married in Hawaii. 79 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.400 Yeah, So we basically we had the opportunity. When we 80 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.400 were planning our wedding, we were just broke as a joke, yeah, 81 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.560 and we were like, you know, we were talking about 82 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:31.280 what are options where we could have done a big 83 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.719 wedding in the area and probably spent too much money 84 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.039 that we didn't have. We could have done a small 85 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.240 wedding in the area and left out a bunch of people, 86 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.560 or what we decided was another option was what if 87 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:43.639 we go to Hawaii and we just invite whoever wants 88 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.759 to come and uh, and then we we stay there 89 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.000 and we get married there. So we ended up inviting 90 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.120 whoever wanted to come and thirteen people joined us. It 91 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.159 was really great two thousand and seven. So my family, 92 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.680 her family, close family. We didn't have anybody stand up 93 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.479 in the wedding. It was just on a beach and 94 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:01.680 the couple that did we basically a couple that was there. 95 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.759 She did the photography, he performed the wedding and it 96 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.879 was really sweet. It was out in the on a 97 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.719 beach with like nobody around us. It was awesome, very cool, 98 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.080 very cool. It was it was a guy we found 99 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:17.839 like a like a online pastor. We found rent a pastor. Yeah, 100 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:20.720 yet very nice guy. 101 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.839 Wow. So a pastor at our church hired a rena 102 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:25.959 pastor in Hawaii. 103 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.800 Was before I actually wanted to go in the ministry. 104 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.040 So I was just like, I just need to get married. 105 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.279 We just gotta figure this out. There's got to be 106 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.519 somebody we could, uh we could find to do this. 107 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:33.000 Wow. 108 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.360 So yeah, it was not. I mean I had I 109 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.519 had other pastor friends I could have invited. 110 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.079 But let's pretend that you were single up until now. Uh, 111 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.480 and let's just say you just met Kristin right, and 112 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:43.639 you guys are gonna get married. 113 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:44.800 Uh. 114 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.439 My question is, would you be okay hiring a rena 115 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.319 pastor now or would you like say, gosh, I just 116 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:52.879 can't do that. 117 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:54.839 I have to have whoever special in your life. 118 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.160 So you're saying you want to go to Hawaii? Is 119 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:00.399 that what you're saying? No, I'm just no, oh no, no, 120 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.560 My mindset is definitely different. But you have to I 121 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.319 was very very young we did not, like, we didn't 122 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.519 have much like, so I'm trying to think of, like 123 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.000 what's the most easy and efficient way to get this 124 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.240 thing legally take care of. 125 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.279 That's why people hire rena pasters. 126 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.120 Yes, yes, so now I would say I definitely want 127 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.000 to fly out somebody who'd be important to me and 128 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.000 have them do the wedding one. 129 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.000 Yes, yeah, okay, yeah, even though that'd be a more 130 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.480 expensive Yes, absolutely that point you might as well stay 131 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.879 at home and yes, so but but wow, that is amazing. 132 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.560 So so yeah, you probably have incredible photos. 133 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.480 Yes, it's great and also was it was before the 134 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.120 age where like everything's digital, right, so we have a 135 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.240 lot of great printed photos, we have a few digital 136 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:42.439 photos and some really just good good memories from that. Actually, 137 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.000 I'll tell funny. I know we were probably run out 138 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.040 of time for this segment, but we were on this 139 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:48.480 beach and it was like totally like like the rent 140 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.560 to pastor helped find us the spot, and it was 141 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:52.959 beautiful beach. No one's around, and there's this guy in 142 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.959 a speedo that's ceremonies about to start runs by a 143 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.360 speedo and my dad is like kind of, I mean, 144 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.240 he's a very nice kind guy, but he also has 145 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:03.920 an agressive side. Don't want to mess with him. So 146 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:05.920 sure enough, like the guy runs by and we all 147 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.040 kind of got to laugh, right then the guy runs 148 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.959 by again, second time. By the third time, he's just 149 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.879 running laps. My dad was like, I honestly might tackle 150 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.959 this guy in the speed home and into the ocean. 151 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.040 And so just funny thing because we were just like 152 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.480 a memory that we have is just some guy making laps. 153 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.199 He'd run like a football field link running back. And 154 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.560 finally Mike had to say, can you please leave? There's 155 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.079 a wedding happening because we're standing up there about to 156 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.199 get married, about to exchange bowls and some guys running 157 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:29.639 behind him. 158 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:30.639 Did he say please? 159 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.439 Yeah, I think he said in a more firm way 160 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.720 than that. But and then the guy did not come back, 161 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:36.879 that's for sure, but it made for a really funny 162 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.399 Dad's also muscular. Yes, yes he's not. He's not messing around. Yeah, 163 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:44.160 he's not messing around. Your dad said to me leave, Yes, 164 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.199 I would leave, yes, yes. And this guy, I mean again, 165 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.199 we're in the middle of nowhere, in this beautiful spot, 166 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:50.600 and this guy thought it was a good idea to 167 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.759 run across where the photos were being taken so many times, yeah, 168 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:54.519 three different times, yea. 169 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:54.839 Yeah. 170 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.920 So anyways, all right, we should probably talk about the Bible. 171 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.000 Yep, yeah, Well, I mean, hey, we did good. We 172 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.319 were within our talk of time. A right, So David, 173 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.240 as we know, many of us already know that David 174 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.120 wrote many of the psalms, right, almost exclusively, all of them, 175 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:10.680 and many times. 176 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:11.600 What he did was he. 177 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:17.279 Wrote them, you know, throughout his journey and and and 178 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.279 it'll literally tell us when he wrote them, right now, 179 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:24.519 each psalm had a tune. They were actually songs, right 180 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.319 and we don't have the charts, we don't have the 181 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:31.040 chords of the melodies. But he actually would write music. 182 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.639 He was a musician. And this one says a psalm 183 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.560 of David which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush 184 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.519 of the tribe of Benjamin, which is right where we 185 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.120 are chronologically in his life. 186 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.439 All right, So right there in Psalm seven, i'll read 187 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.720 it today. It says, I come to you for protection, 188 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.519 O Lord, my God, save me for my persecutors. Rescue me. 189 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.879 If you don't, they will maul me like a lyon lion, 190 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.319 tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. 191 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.040 Oh Lord, my God. If I've done wrong, or I'm 192 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.040 guilty of justice, injustice, if I betrayed a friend or 193 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.680 plundered my enemy without cause, then let my enemies capture me. 194 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.319 Let them trample me into the ground and drag me, 195 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:12.360 drag my honor in the dust. Arise, O Lord, in anger, 196 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.079 stand up against a fury of my enemies. Wake up, 197 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.399 my God, and bring justice. Gather the nations before you 198 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.319 rule over them from on high. The Lord judges the nations. 199 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.759 Declare me righteous, o Lord, for I am innocent almost 200 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:29.759 high End the evil of those who are wicked, and 201 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:33.639 defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind 202 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:38.360 and heart, Oh righteous God, God is my shield, saving 203 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.080 those whose hearts are true and right. God is an 204 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.320 honest judge. He is angry with the wicked every day. 205 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:47.240 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword, 206 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.440 he will bend and string his bow. He will prepare 207 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.080 his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows. The wicked 208 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.679 conceive evil. They are pregnant with trouble and give birth 209 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.720 to lies. They dig a deep pit to trap others, 210 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.919 then fall into it themselves. The trouble they make for 211 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.279 others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on 212 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.759 their own heads. I will thank the Lord because he 213 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.399 has just I will sing praises to the name of 214 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.919 the Lord Most High. It was a good, good psalm 215 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:18.399 of David. 216 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:24.360 Yeah, it is, yes, And you know it's interesting to 217 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.519 me how whenever you read a psalm like this, we 218 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.879 today on the other side of the cross, we try 219 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.639 to obviously apply that. 220 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.000 We try to say, Okay, what. 221 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.240 Does this mean for me not to be selfish because 222 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.159 we're trying to you know, obviously, you know, sort. 223 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.240 Of become like Christ, become like God, what God wants 224 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:46.559 us to be. 225 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:48.720 Yeah, yeah, I guess what I was going to say is, 226 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.120 you know, we're trying to receive it. You know, when 227 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.000 it was written with what intent was it written for? 228 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.360 What did it mean to David? Right? 229 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:59.960 Oh, you're saying that's the correct way to approach it. 230 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.480 Yeah, I'm saying, yeah, that's we have to understand the context. 231 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.879 The stuff that doesn't relate to us, it's they're still important. 232 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:08.279 I guess is what I'm trying to say. There's a 233 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.720 lot of stuff in the Old Testament. Remember Yesterday's story. 234 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.080 He stabbed into the gut and split out his guts. 235 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.519 You're like, what does this have to do with me today, 236 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.720 in my life in twenty twenty four, Right, So we 237 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:20.879 have to appreciate it for what it is and what 238 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.120 it means and how it applies to the life of David, 239 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.279 is what I'm saying. But then also you sort of 240 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.879 have to short of apply and say, Okay, God, what 241 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:30.159 does this mean for me? Because every verse, you know, 242 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.440 there's there's a sermon in there somewhere, right, every verse 243 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.120 can lead you to Christ. But anyway, what I was 244 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.320 just going to say is, sometimes when we are trying 245 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:42.600 to receive a psalm for us today in twenty twenty four, 246 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.039 we come across things that could be a little discouraging. 247 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:46.480 You know. 248 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.279 Sometimes it says He's angry with the wicked every day. 249 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:53.039 God is an honest judge. If a person does not repent, 250 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.320 God will sharpen his sword, he will bend and string 251 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:00.639 his bow, he will prepare his weapons, the weapons and 252 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:01.879 shoot his flaming arrows. 253 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.200 And it's like, holy cow, it's. 254 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.919 Like those of us who have a past, those of 255 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.759 us who currently struggle. You know, I can imagine that 256 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.080 there are probably some people listening to the podcast even 257 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.519 right now, They're like, that's me. I'm the wicked person, right, 258 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.120 Like I try to be good, I just can't. 259 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.200 Or I try to be. 260 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.759 Good, I'm just not as disciplined as I want to be, right, Ye, 261 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:29.159 And so let's just be reminded. Here's the here's the 262 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:35.240 statement of the day that God still does hate wicked 263 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.159 things every day. So the Bible says that, you know, 264 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:42.360 God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So God 265 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.519 does not change God. Whatever sin that God hated in 266 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.559 the Old Testament, God still hates in the New Testament. Right. 267 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:50.360 There's nowhere in. 268 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.279 The Bible does it say that God has changed his 269 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.679 stance on sin, nor does he feel about sin any 270 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:01.200 differently than he did even back then. The only difference is, 271 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.279 and trust me it is a massive difference, is God's 272 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:10.120 response to sin changes greatly. So God's response to sin 273 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.480 is different because of Jesus Christ. Right. 274 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:14.519 So in the Old Testament we see. 275 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.320 The God of wrath, right, you know, like you know, 276 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:21.080 God executes his judgment on the spot. 277 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.399 For sin, you know, and he just boom, just lays 278 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:24.799 it out. 279 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.879 You know, We're going to strike people down and again, 280 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.159 he struck people down in the New Testament and in 281 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.679 Aisi and Sephirah in. 282 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:32.399 The Book of Acts. 283 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:38.120 Right, like, there's still execution, you know, happening in the 284 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.399 New Testament post Christ. But for the most part, we 285 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.279 have to understand that God's response to us in twenty 286 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.039 twenty four for our sin is radically different than it 287 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.360 was before Christ, because Jesus Christ came to pay for 288 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:55.039 our sins. 289 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.360 Right, So what happens in the Old Testament. 290 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:02.440 Is, you know, they would live trying their best to 291 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.720 please God, and obviously because of their sin, they would 292 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.840 sacrifice an animal. The Bible says in the Book of Hebrews. 293 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.000 Without the shedding of blood, there is no repentance for sin. 294 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:17.279 There's no forgiveness of sin. And so they would excuse me, 295 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:21.399 they would have to offer a blood sacrifice. In those 296 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:25.159 blood sacrifices they would have to offer continually. But the 297 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.159 Bible says that Jesus Christ was the one and only 298 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.000 an ultimate sacrifice. 299 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.039 He was the Lamb of God. 300 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.960 John the Baptist said that takes away the sins of 301 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.519 the whole world. When his blood was shed, it covered 302 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.879 all of our sins, not only all the sins that 303 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.399 we've committed in the past, but all the sins in 304 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.279 the future, all of our future sins. God's one sacrifice 305 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:53.799 is enough to forgive everything that we will ever do 306 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.080 for our lives. So I just want to say, as 307 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.759 we receive this psalm, just know this God is still 308 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.679 a God of justice. He's still a God who hates sin. 309 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.080 He's still a God who, by the way, will have 310 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:10.399 us answer for our sins. Right, we have judgment in 311 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.720 our lives. Judgment is still relevant. We have to answer 312 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.159 for our sins. The Bible says, our sins are going 313 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.480 to find us out right. Whatsoever we sow, we're going 314 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.360 to reap. We understand those things. 315 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:22.879 But just know that his. 316 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:29.679 Anxiousness to sharpen his sword and get you back because 317 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.159 of your sin, that is not the spirit in which 318 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.759 we live under the Blood of Christ. Right, God is 319 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.679 not out to get us. God is out to love us. 320 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.600 God pursues us, He loves us, He forgives us, He 321 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.240 invites us into a loving relationship with him, offering us 322 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.679 continual forgiveness for our sins. 323 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.200 Right, especially when you figure the context of who's writing this, right, 324 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:57.759 it's David, a man after God's own heart yet has 325 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.120 so much like things that honestly to feel a lot 326 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.440 of shame and regret and pain over of his own 327 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.600 sins and mistakes. And the verse that stood out to 328 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.000 me that is kind of a beautiful verse, but also 329 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:09.559 like a scary verse, kind of like you're saying, sometimes 330 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.480 people read this stuff and they're like, oh, my goodness, 331 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.919 this applies to me. But in verse nine, it says, 332 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.159 for you look deep within the mind and heart, you know. 333 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.480 Reading that, some people can take soul list in that. 334 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.120 They can say, man, the God, he just sees my 335 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.840 heart and he knows my mind, what I'm thinking, He 336 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.039 knows my intentions or pure or whatever. But then others 337 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:28.799 maybe read that and they're like, wow, that's that's scary 338 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.360 to know that that the God actually knows deep within 339 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.480 your mind and heart. He knows your motives, he knows 340 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.120 you know what you're thinking, he knows your temptations, your 341 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:39.679 struggles and that sort of thing. And that part of 342 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.279 it feels a little bit convicting. It feels a little 343 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.120 bit like, you know, a little bit revealing. It feels like, 344 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.000 you know, a vulnerable moment. But I think it's also 345 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.200 a reminder that as Christians we can kind of live 346 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.000 with like the mask off, pretending not you know, stop 347 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.879 pretending to be something or not, Stop pretending like you're perfect, right, 348 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.919 stop pretending like you know, all this rightciousness you walk around, 349 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.120 self righteousness you walk around with because end of the day, 350 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:04.759 no matter what it is, we have a God who 351 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.080 sees deep within the mind and heart, and that's what 352 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.519 matters most. And we see right here we have someone 353 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:11.679 like David who's considered a man after God's own heart, 354 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.639 and yet he's being completely real about the fact that 355 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.639 God sees him, knows him, knows all his issues, and 356 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:20.879 yet still deeply loves him. 357 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:21.679 Yeah. 358 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:25.480 Well you know, I mean, you know, he's not claiming 359 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.360 perfection right to you to the point he's just made. 360 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:30.360 But when he does say that, at the very beginning, 361 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.759 he says, hey, you know, if I've done wrong, if 362 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.679 I'm guilty of an injustice or portrayed a friend, then hey, 363 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.840 let the enemies capture me, tramp me in the ground, 364 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.440 drag my honor through the dust. What he's talking about 365 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:42.480 here is his reputation. 366 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:43.879 You know, I love this. 367 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:47.240 Note in the Love of Life Application Study Bible says 368 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:51.679 this have you ever been falsely accused or so badly 369 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.639 hurt that you wanted to take revenge. Instead of taking 370 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.159 matters into your own hands and striking back, David cried 371 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.159 out to God for justice. The proper response to slander 372 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.279 is prayer, not revenge, because God says I will take revenge, 373 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.039 I will pay them back, and then it give us 374 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.839 some cross references, and it says, instead of striking back, 375 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.279 ask God to take your case, bring justice, and restore 376 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:14.200 your reputation. 377 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:17.480 I'm not sure if you could relate to this, but 378 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.200 I could relate to this in a very massive way. 379 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:22.559 Something you know well. 380 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.519 I mean, I don't want to get into details, because 381 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.440 people who know me personally and they know the church 382 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.319 that I came from, they know that there was some 383 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.240 of that involved in leaving my other church. And as 384 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:38.359 long as you've known me, even personally in conversation, how 385 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.039 many times have you ever heard. 386 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:40.400 Me mention this? 387 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.079 And the answer is almost zero? Right, I never talk 388 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.359 about it. I certainly never say anything publicly. And the 389 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.880 reason why is because my goal isn't to slander other churches. 390 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.200 My goal isn't to say bad things about people. Right, 391 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.599 there's no good that'll come from that. You know, sometimes 392 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.319 when we leave churches, sometimes it's a really good leaving 393 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:01.079 and sometimes it's not. 394 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:05.079 And it's complicated, right and so and so my goal is. 395 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:09.920 Not to slander anybody listening who knows anything about my leaving. 396 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.680 But I will say one thing, and again, this is 397 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:14.880 one thing. This is a very it feels like a 398 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:21.440 very safe comment. Okay, a very safe comment. There was 399 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.079 there was a thing that happened where you know, I 400 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.240 spoke up against you know, leadership and had some attitude 401 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.160