WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:09.720 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.640 Good Morning, good morning. We talked all that through. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.399 Good morning, good morning to you. 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:20.519 And you and you. 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.920 That was amazing the whole night through. That sounds you 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.280 lost me it the whole night through. 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.519 But that's all. You don't know that song, no, I've 10 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:27.920 not heard. 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.039 I've heard good morning, good morning, but I've never heard 12 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:30.800 it in more. 13 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:31.640 Vers than that. 14 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.359 Well, hey, as our listeners probably already know at their 15 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.159 faithful listeners, that is from the movie Singing in the Rain, 16 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:39.600 Oh Yes, released in nineteen fifty two. 17 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:41.159 Wow, I'm impressed. 18 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.439 Well don't you always impressed me? Chris donfy hey, but 19 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.280 for age good morning. My name is Chris and I'm 20 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:47.960 Brian Moral. 21 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.159 Yes, and we today are the Bible Guys because Jeff 22 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.679 is out of the country and today, or actually this 23 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.039 whole week, we are having a different guest every single day, 24 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:01.280 and so today we're doing Ryan. Ryan, you are the 25 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:04.359 family ministry director at our church, Partage Church. 26 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.719 I am in Michigan, Yes i am, and I've known 27 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:09.959 you for how long gosh, twenty years? 28 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.480 Twenty years right over twenty we were a lot less gray. 29 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.159 You know, you've got to you know, at that point, 30 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:17.599 but I think we're. 31 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.840 Still I love the people watching. He touched me. 32 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:24.079 I just grazed his face. So I wish I could 33 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:26.359 grow a beard like this guy. And he shaved it 34 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:27.760 about two weeks ago. 35 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.599 It was totally gone. Yeah, and it freaked everybody out, 36 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.400 but I loved it. I love the look for those. 37 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.200 Few days that you were totally you know, clean shaven. 38 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:36.640 Buddy, Yeah, appreciate that. 39 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.359 Well, hey, Ryan, we are diving into a segment that 40 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:45.159 I'm calling Crazy Questions. Desiree threw together some pretty random 41 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.879 crazy questions and so here's what it says. Ryan is 42 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:52.280 the Family Ministry's director. So here is today's question. What's 43 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.920 the most ridiculous family tradition that you secretly love but 44 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:58.359 would never admit to anyone else. 45 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.359 Okay, yeah, it doesn't by the way, it doesn't say 46 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:02.640 that it's your family tradition. 47 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.959 Oh well, this one is was a family tradition. I 48 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.560 can say that much. So family for our family. Yeah yeah, 49 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:15.120 So every year spring break, we just did this two 50 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:15.680 weeks ago. 51 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:17.199 We will go. 52 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:19.439 On a trip and we go down to pretty much 53 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.960 the same location. We go to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. 54 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.120 My wife's been going there since she was a little girl, 55 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.159 and so when we got married, we went there. 56 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:28.759 And it's just been this thing for our family. 57 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:33.080 So as we as our family grew and we had, 58 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:35.520 you know, more and more children, we would and they 59 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.840 were younger, we'd get a fun album. Right, we put 60 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.599 twelve children, yes, yes, yes, we love each other a lot, true, 61 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.479 three children, three children, and so we get a fun 62 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:48.919 album and we put it in. And so the album 63 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.400 of choice this was Gosh. I mean, our middle one 64 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.599 was probably fourth grade, so he's ten years old, he's ninety, 65 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:56.759 just about ten years ago. 66 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:58.919 I think you guys would all know the and the album. 67 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.240 The big movie that year was. 68 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.000 Mowana Miwana, so we put Mawana in. And my my 69 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.240 fourth grader at that point, he loved Malan. He just 70 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.680 loved the songs. You know, all the girls in the school, 71 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.919 I probably probably liked a couple of those girls. We're 72 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:15.479 singing Milana. So so we sang Milana the whole trip 73 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:18.639 down and it was just so much fun and and 74 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.400 there were some great songs. You know, Manuel am I 75 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.879 getting to write his the writer of it, the guy 76 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:25.599 that did Hamilton. 77 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.039 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he wrote it. 78 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:34.080 It's fantastic. So anyway we get we remember his name. Ye, yes, 79 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.719 he's fantastic. So anyway we we enjoyed the music. And 80 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.680 and so that music kind of stuck with me. Now 81 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.919 the boys get older, they become teenagers. No, no teenage 82 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.439 boys listening to Milana, right, No teenage boy at least 83 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.439 you know publicly. And so but I've continued to like 84 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.719 the music. So now when I get to Hilton Head, 85 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:00.159 that's great. Milana is on my on my playlist. So 86 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.759 I'm on the beach just this last week, and and 87 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:06.680 the title song comes on if you know, if you 88 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.560 know how it starts, you know, you know Disney was 89 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.520 I've been standing at the edge of the water long 90 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.080 as I get and so there I am running down 91 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.079 the beach and here I am a fifty two yes 92 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.879 I'll say it, year old man singing will want at 93 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:22.959 the top of my lungs. And then there's the crescendo moment, 94 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.160 like you know, She's like I am. 95 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:27.959 You know, and there I am. 96 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.160 I'm christndoing with it as well. So and it continues 97 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:32.160 to stay on the playlist. 98 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.519 This turned into a great story. So it started as 99 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.319 a sweet family tradition singing sing along, and now it's 100 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:44.560 turned into you by yourself as an older young singing 101 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.319 buy the ocean. 102 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:46.720 By the ocean. 103 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.480 Yeah it is, so it's I thought if and I 104 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.160 have not confessed that moment back to them at all. 105 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.480 But it's in the lists. It's in the playlist, and 106 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.600 it will remain there as well. So we all have 107 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:00.360 hidden songs in our playlist that we you don't want 108 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:01.040 others to know about. 109 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:02.399 That's mine. 110 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.800 Oh well, you know what. Speaking of an ocean, the 111 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.600 psalms are an ocean of great writings. 112 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.519 And the first line Chris that we're talking about as 113 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.199 the deer lungs for streams of water. 114 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.360 Oh wow, wow. 115 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.680 The goal is terrible transitions. That was actually a good transit. 116 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:24.959 Oh sorry, you missed the goal. 117 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.439 I'm sorry. I should have gone somewhere else. Yeah. 118 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.199 Hey, by the way, before we continue on and dive 119 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.399 into the scriptures for today, I just have to say 120 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.199 we've said this all week, but if you're in Michigan 121 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.800 and you feel like it, join us. We're doing a 122 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:44.360 Bible Guys Live event April twenty fourth and six pm 123 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.519 at our Inla City campus for Heritage Church. So you 124 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.360 go to Heridichurch dot com. And you know, we have 125 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.519 different campuses. In La City is about forty minutes north 126 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:57.680 or so of our String Heights campus. Amazing, and so yeah, 127 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:59.480 it just be kind of cool. Even if you don't 128 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.680 go to church. Church, you don't even know what it is. 129 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.839 Just walk to the church. It's a church. It'd be 130 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:07.160 fun right walking to the church. It's it's a it's 131 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.639 a it's an event. Uh, friendly people and Jeff and 132 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:12.680 I will be there and it's gonna be fun. 133 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.959 And I know Liz loves in La City because she 134 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:19.040 loves that drive into the country. 135 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.360 We spoke there several weeks ago and she said, uh, 136 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.079 you know, she opened up, you know, and you know, 137 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.600 people up there a little bit. 138 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:27.680 More rural, your rural. 139 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:29.920 There's a lot more farmers, you know, things like that. 140 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.959 You know, people with uh you know, uh, chickens and animals. 141 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:37.839 And she said, my goal in my life is to 142 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.279 move up to Inlay City and have chickens and cows. 143 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.480 And I'm looking at her and I'm like, who are 144 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.519 you kidding? What you want is you want servants to 145 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.040 take care of your chickens and cows, but you want 146 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.959 to go out and visit them and then come back 147 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.680 in and then say, hey, husband, go milk the cow 148 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.639 or take care of the cow or you know whatever. 149 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.680 That's what That's what she wants to She wants to 150 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.720 be a farm owner with with with with ranch hands, 151 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.439 and then two wants to walk around. 152 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.519 And the irony and the dichotomy of this whole thing 153 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.040 is you couldn't be anymore on the other extreme where 154 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.759 you want city and buildings. 155 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.800 Yes, which is a surban environment. 156 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.600 Which, by the way, I'm a very rare breed in 157 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.639 that way. People love nature, they love all that stuff, 158 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.720 and I do too. I'd like to think that I do. However, 159 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.879 I get more excited in Yeah it's crazy. 160 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:27.959 Yeah, I don't understand it myself. 161 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.399 I know, I still love you. Yeah, thank you. 162 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.480 Well, Hey, buddy, we're going to transition into the book 163 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.480 of Psalms. We wrapped up Proverbs yesterday and we're skipping 164 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.160 around to Psalms. And I would love to actually read 165 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.920 a note that sort of sets us up from the 166 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.639 life application study Bible. We promote buying one of these, 167 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.639 but this these are psalms that are collected in Hezekiah's era. 168 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.399 Okay, so this is how it reads. This note it. 169 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:54.560 So this is a loose collection of fifty seven psalm 170 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.600 Psalms forty two through forty nine, along with eighty four, 171 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.160 eighty five. 172 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:57.600 And eighty seven. 173 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.480 They're attributed to the descendants of Korra who served in 174 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.519 the temple. The other psalms in this section are all anonymous, 175 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.560 meaning that the Hebrew subtitles don't give any indication of 176 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.160 who wrote the song. We collected them all together here 177 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.560 because it's as likely a place as any for them 178 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:15.879 to appear. This doesn't mean that they're a group that 179 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.120 was meant to be read together, or that they are 180 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.879 necessarily written at this time. However, it is likely that 181 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.360 during Hezekiah's reign many psalms were either composed or rediscover 182 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.720 as a part of his revival. 183 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:29.759 So a little bit. 184 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.320 Tid bit there, a little piece of cool knowledge, and 185 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.919 so Psalm forty two is among them, and we're going 186 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:35.759 to read the whole thing. 187 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:37.919 And that's you, by the way. 188 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.720 All right, I'm reading it all right, starting at verse one, 189 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.120 as the deer longs for streams of water, so I 190 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.519 long for you, oh God. A thirst for God, the 191 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:50.759 Living God. When can I go and stand before Him 192 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.679 day and night? I have only tears for food, while 193 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:58.200 my enemies continually taught me saying, where is this God 194 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.600 of yours? My heart is break as I remember how 195 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.879 it used to be. I walked among the crowds of worshippers, 196 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.519 leading a great procession to the House of God, singing 197 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:12.200 for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a 198 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:16.519 great celebration. Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart 199 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.039 so sad? I will put my hope in God. I 200 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.240 will praise him again, my Savior and my God. Now 201 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.039 I am deeply discouraged, But I will remember you. Even 202 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.240 from distant Mount Herman, the source of the Jordan, and 203 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.960 the loud of Mount Mazar. I hear the tumult of 204 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.600 the raging seas, as your waves and surging tides sweep 205 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.919 over me. But each day the Lord pours his unfailing 206 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.240 love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, 207 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:49.360 praying to God who gives me life. Oh God, my Rock, 208 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.759 I cry, Why have you forgotten me? Why must I 209 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.919 wander around in grief? Oppressed by my enemies? Their taunts 210 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.000 break my bones. A scoff, Where is this God of yours? 211 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.559 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? 212 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.360 I will put my hope in God. I will praise 213 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.480 him again, my Savior and my God. 214 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:13.399 That's great good. 215 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.799 You know, I know, I know that it sounds crazy, 216 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:22.039 but I actually get encouraged when I see the Psalmists 217 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:27.159 express sadness and discouragement, because. 218 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.320 It just reminds all of us that we're all human. 219 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:30.159 You know. 220 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.600 Oftentimes we hear of you know, these great writers of 221 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.159 you know, there's such godly men. 222 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:35.840 They're authors. 223 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:40.639 God literally used them to write his inspired word. Right, 224 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.240 we believe that, we believe that this is the inspired 225 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.279 word of God. We don't believe their words about God. 226 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.840 We believe that these are the words of God. Right, 227 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.720 because you know, either God was in control of building 228 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:53.960 the Bible or he wasn't. 229 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:54.519 Right. 230 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.279 You know, the Word of God talks about itself and 231 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.720 talks about its authority so much it's almost unbelievable. How 232 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.840 it talks about the Word of God is is you know, 233 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.120 for correction and for rebuke, and these are the inspired 234 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.679 words of God authored by men, but yet inspired. 235 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:14.679 It says that about. 236 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:18.440 Itself, and so Therefore, if you think about it through 237 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.080 that context, and you think, okay, God, the Holy Spirit, 238 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:25.919 God himself, he had control of which pieces of the 239 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.279 Bible are going to come together and be authenticated as 240 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.759 God's word. Either God was a part of that or 241 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:32.440 he wasn't. And so you have to have to have 242 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:35.440 faith in that. You can study all about you know, 243 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.919 the council that I see, and the different meetings and 244 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:41.200 all the different books that were voted in and voted out. 245 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.200 You could debate that all day long, or you can 246 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.200 just say God said that he was going to build 247 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.559 his word, and it is here in front of us, 248 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.679 and it is the most I'm going on a rant 249 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.960 here now, but like it is the best selling book 250 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.000 times a billion over every other book. It's the only 251 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.639 thing in heaven that's going to survive, that's going to 252 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.440 be fit physical outside the Ark of the Covenant, the 253 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.759 rod of Aaron and the bowl of Manna and the 254 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:07.559 remains of the Ark of the Covenant, it's the Word 255 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:10.480 of God. Right, So all of that to say in 256 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:15.519 that context, in that perspective, then why would God allow 257 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:22.159 an author to express through his divine inspiration feelings of discouragement? 258 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:23.279 Why? 259 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.399 And I think the answer is is to let us 260 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.320 as future readers, know that it's okay to be discouraged, 261 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.320 because as we are human and we have discouragement. The 262 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:37.559 answer then is to put our hope in God, because 263 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.200 that's his answer, right, And I. 264 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:44.399 Think the church has for so so many people, and 265 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.879 maybe I'm sure there are several listeners myself included times 266 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.320 where where the church just wanted to always put the 267 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:54.080 positive spin on life or situations. 268 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:56.480 And you know, we hear that. 269 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.320 Phrase toxic positivity, and I just that's that's not what 270 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:02.240 I read in scripture. 271 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:03.879 There is there's this reality base. 272 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.480 And we connect, there's we connect to that. There's this 273 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.000 authenticity that comes from it. It says, gosh, you know 274 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.600 when a pastor is authentic, when a friend is authentic 275 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:15.440 with us, it's like, wow, you can associate with me. 276 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.120 And scripture does the same exact thing. It's alive and. 277 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.799 Alive, it's breathing, it's a it's this, it's the word 278 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.519 of God. So of course it's going to be real 279 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:22.919 with us. 280 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.120 So yeah, that's great. 281 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.879 And uh and uh, you know, think about the number 282 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.919 of times here that it goes I don't want to 283 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.360 say dark, but like you know, there's either you know 284 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.840 dark meaning like you know sad uh. He says in 285 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.919 verse five, why am I discouraged? Why is my heart 286 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.399 so sad? And and and then the next verse, now 287 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.559 I'm deeply discouraged. But then he says, but but I 288 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.720 will remember you even even from distant Mount Herman, the 289 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:51.759 source of the Jordan Uh. And and I've been to Israel, 290 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.279 even Israel, right, is really no So Mount Herman is 291 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.799 obviously still there, and that is where Ordan River does 292 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.039 come from. So you know, it'd be like northern modern 293 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:04.799 day Lebanon. 294 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:05.399 Right. 295 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:07.960 I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of Lebanon 296 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:11.399 in the winter, but they could have snowbanks higher than 297 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:11.919 this building. 298 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:13.279 I mean, just crazy. 299 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.480 And and so Mount Hermon is, like I think, I 300 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.639 don't know, thirteen hundred feet above sea level seventeen. 301 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:20.639 Hundred, I don't know it's up there. 302 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.879 It's less than two thousand, but it's but it's pretty high, 303 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:24.360 and it's got snow caps on it, which is hard 304 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.879 to believe because in Israel the entire time I was there, 305 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:28.399 it was one hundred and twenty degrees. 306 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.440 Wow, one hundred and twenty snow in one hundred and 307 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.000 twenty degrees. 308 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:37.519 Yeah, it's terrible. But the snow caps of Mount Herman 309 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:39.159 run deep. 310 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:43.639 Down and and and you know, and as Israel goes south, 311 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.600 you have to see Galilee and up northern you know, 312 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:52.759 near you know, you know, to Pernaum, right and and 313 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.320 all those places. And then the river, the Jordan River 314 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:57.759 sort of connects the two and it goes all the 315 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.559 way down to the south and then sort of right 316 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.840 near drew Rusalem and Bethlehem and those places in the 317 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.759 south is the Dead Sea and and so that's where 318 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.200 you know, that's what happens there. And as as you 319 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:14.720 go down, uh, the entire thing goes downward. So it 320 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.360 just continues to go down below sea level, okay, and 321 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:23.120 and so uh therefore it is so interesting how Psalms 322 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.440 were written, you know, hundreds of years before Jesus, and 323 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:31.279 yet we can still match the word of God with geography. 324 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:32.559 Isn't that amazing? 325 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.840 And so in what he's doing is he's doing a 326 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.320 word picture, and he's saying like Mount Herman is so distant, 327 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.679 and yet I recognize it. It's the source of life, right. 328 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.679 The Jordan River flows from it. It's the source I 329 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.320 don't know if you know this or not, but did 330 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.639 you know that? Remember the woman at the well. So 331 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:53.559 Jesus meets the. 332 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.039 Woman and uh and and and uh. 333 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.240 And it's in Sickar, just outside of Sicar, and uh 334 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.600 and and she he says, he says, Jesus says to her, 335 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.559 if you knew who it was who was talking with you, 336 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:07.960 you would ask me for a drink and you never 337 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:08.480 thirst again. 338 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:09.519 And so she didn't understand it. 339 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.440 And she says, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob 340 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.440 who dug this well? Did you know that Jacob's well 341 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.519 is one of the I think it's the deepest well 342 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.480 and greatest well in all of Israel, and the ancestor 343 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.320 Jacob obviously dug it. 344 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.039 But it goes all the way down. 345 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.399 And when we were there, this priest because they built 346 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.120 a church over this well and Jacob's well, and it's 347 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.679 definitely Jacob's well. Like there's some places where you're like, ah, 348 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:38.360 I think maybe it was kind of, but this is 349 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.559 definitely the place for a lot of reasons. But we 350 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.639 know for a fact it's this place. He drops a 351 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.080 rock and he goes listen, he goes drops a pebble, 352 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.159 and he goes one, two, three, counts to nine before 353 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.960 it goes bloop. He said, he goes, these are from 354 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.879 the snow caps of Mount Herman. And so we lowered 355 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:01.080 the rope and he pulls it up. Everybody drinks and 356 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.160 it is ice cold. Dude, I'm talking like like you 357 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.920 didn't even the ice cubes. It's that cold. Can you 358 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:11.359 imagine in one hundred and twenty degree heat, you know, 359 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.519 thinking that the difference between life and death, you know, 360 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.200 is just some shade. And everybody goes to the well 361 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.519 and she says, are you greater than Jacob who dug 362 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.599 this well? Because this well is like magic, it's life. 363 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.079 And guess what it all comes from the source, which 364 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.160 is Mount Herman. And so this is what the writer 365 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.680 is saying. The writer is saying, I look to you 366 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:36.799 because you are the source of life. 367 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.960 Isn't it amazing? Yeah? 368 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.880 I love as you look at the passage as it starts, 369 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.720 is the deer lungs for the streams of water. So 370 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.279 I long for you, O God. I thirst for God. 371 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:51.680 And so as you're building that picture of thirst and 372 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.559 again picturing one hundred and twenty plus degrees and the 373 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.640 coldest water you can imagine and how sweet and wonderful 374 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.839 that would taste. It's it's an amazing picture. 375 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.400 Do you think of the song as a dear. 376 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:11.759 And it for the water so long after you? 377 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.759 Yes, yes, back. 378 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:18.759 Alone my hearts, yep, and I long. 379 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:23.720 To worship you exactly. You're welcome everyone. Yes, that was amazing. 380 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.680 I changed keys on you because you say it really high. 381 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.240 But that is definitely what I think of when I 382 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.759 when I. 383 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:32.200 And and by the way, all Christians who live in 384 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.640 church wild probably thought of that. 385 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:35.720 It was a very popular song. 386 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.119 But if you think about, you know, the dear longing 387 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.759 for streams of water, it's a beautiful, beautiful picture. And 388 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:44.640 then all of a sudden, you know, the word picture 389 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.119 is in the same way you know when the deer pants. 390 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.319 This is how I long for your truth and your 391 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.359 goodness and and and long for you. 392 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.079 You know, have you. 393 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.960 Ever been so parched where you're like, I have to 394 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:58.440 have water. 395 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:02.680 I've got a story for you. Okay, actually so gosh, 396 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.359 probably twenty years ago. So I'm a runner, right if 397 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.400 you spending time around me, I'm running. 398 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:07.880 Quite a bit. 399 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.160 And so this is in the early days. 400 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.680 Went anywhere I was running, I was run Ning Forest. 401 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:17.559