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 --> 00:00:16.280 practical ways. Morning, good morning. We talked the whole night through. 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.480 Good morning. Good morning to you. 5 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:21.000 Man. 6 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.160 Hey, it's Tuesday, and I did last week on Wednesday, 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:25.280 so I figured why not do. 8 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.719 It on to you? Just made ours switching it up you. 9 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:30.879 Good morning everybody. I'm Chris, this is Jeff. We're the 10 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.960 Bible Guys, and we are in a brand new series 11 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:36.759 talking about the prayers of the Bible and some of 12 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:37.880 them even being dangerous. 13 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.719 Well, all of these are dangerous prayers. Okay, so all 14 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.000 of these are we double dog Dare you to pray 15 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.560 these prayers? That's that's where they are. Have you ever 16 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.759 been is that in the Bible? Are you susceptible to 17 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:51.240 double dog theres? 18 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.840 I used to be a little bit. Ye yet yeah, 19 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.799 but I mean like we we would Yeah, there was 20 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.840 actually a thing in our little friend group where we 21 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.079 would we would sort of reserve the double dog theres 22 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.079 and we were only allowed so many months, so many 23 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.959 so many a month. But then if you used it, 24 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:10.840 then you used it right all right then? And then 25 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.840 then the other person was sort of obligated. 26 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:16.359 Okay, right, so that's so that these are the kind 27 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:18.920 of prayers we dare you to pray them. Yeah, that's 28 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.959 that's kind of how we're praying. 29 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.439 Well, before we dive into that, we have a segment, 30 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.519 and today is the famous dead Joke competition, So we're 31 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.920 going to decide whether or not you have the best 32 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:30.400 batch or whether I do. 33 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.599 Yeah, I just read the first one just now. 34 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:37.439 I actually think that desiree uh used this one twice. 35 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.480 I think I've used I think I've read this before. You. Yeah, 36 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.959 I think I think maybe she she likes this one 37 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.599 when she was when she was googling at her chat 38 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:50.319 remember it. Okay, here's my first one. I'm terrified of elevators, 39 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:52.040 so I'm taking steps to avoid them. 40 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:53.640 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard that one. 41 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:54.359 We've heard that one. 42 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:55.200 That's a good one though. 43 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:55.920 It is very good. 44 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:57.719 It's a good one. It's better than this one. 45 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:58.239 Okay. 46 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.040 I told my Peter I needed a break. Now it 47 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.760 won't stop sending me KitKat ads. 48 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.680 Oh that is actually downright awful. 49 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:10.439 It is one to nothing. 50 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:11.960 Yeah for sure, it is. 51 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:12.560 Yeah. 52 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.879 Okay, here we go. I asked the librarian if the 53 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.199 library books. Oops, sorry, let me start over. I asked 54 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.560 the librarian if the library had books on paranoia. She whispered, 55 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:25.360 they're right behind you. 56 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:29.960 That's a good one. 57 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:30.800 It's really good. 58 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:39.199 That's a good one. That would have been a great 59 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:42.800 thirty second skit. Yeah, I mean that's a good like 60 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.400 TikTok it's a right scary music. 61 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:49.000 That's really funny. 62 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.599 Oh, that'd be awesome. Okay, let me see. I tried 63 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.400 to write a joke about a broken pencil, but it 64 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:01.919 had no point. Oh yeah, okay, to nothing nothing at 65 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:02.560 this point. 66 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.080 Here we go. I used to be a velcrow salesman, 67 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.560 but I couldn't stick with it. 68 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.000 Okay, it's better than this one shoe salesman until I 69 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:12.560 got the boot. 70 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.840 Oh actually, I like yours of slightly better better Okay, 71 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:18.120 all right? 72 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:23.960 Number four okay, so it's it's two to whirrow and one. Okay, 73 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:24.960 so we'll call it a tie. 74 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:29.960 Okay, number four. Uh, what do you call a factory 75 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:38.639 that makes okay products? A satisfactory I like it. 76 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:39.479 That's a good one. 77 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.039 I like it. 78 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.039 Very clever. I think so too, very clever. I tried 79 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.680 to start a business selling mirrors. It's something I could 80 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.599 really see myself doing Oh that's good. Okay, Okay, that's going. 81 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.400 But yours is better satisfactory that one. If she'd given 82 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.280 that to me in the previous one, yeah, I would 83 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:56.560 have gotten a point. But you're you're satisfactory. 84 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:57.159 Okay, way better. 85 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.240 Here we go beyond satisfactory. 86 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.159 I got hidden the head with a can of soda. 87 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:02.919 Luckily it was a soft drink. 88 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.159 Oh yeah, was that number five? 89 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:07.080 Yeah, it was number five. 90 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.159 I tried to organize a hide and seek tournament, but 91 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:11.439 good players are hard to find. 92 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.280 Oh that's a pretty Yes, that's. 93 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.199 A good one. Okay, I'm winning that one. Yeah, so 94 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.079 it's three one and one. That's how it worked out. 95 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:19.879 So I win. 96 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.519 Yeah, you win. Yeah, you're the winner. You're the best. 97 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:27.560 You're the best at the dead joke competition that she wrote. 98 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.680 That's right, that's what we read. I was lucky. 99 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:31.959 I was lucky enough to receive luck of the draw. 100 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.360 Yeah, I was lucky. It's like car It's like cards, 101 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.399 YATSI or whatever. If you're playing the ever play a 102 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.399 game that requires no skill whatsoever. 103 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:39.680 Yes, I hate it. 104 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.279 Like YACHTSI is like a game where it just doesn't 105 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.800 even matter. You just roll and whatever happens happens. Yeah, 106 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.360 but we love Yatzi. Yeah, we played at our family 107 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.720 all the time. We still play Yatsi when we do 108 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.680 game night was like Yasi. And then we have this 109 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.040 thing called YACHTI Free for All. It's like a version 110 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:59.959 of YACHTI that's really complex. That's actually spices it up 111 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.759 pretty much and it does require a little bit of skill. 112 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:03.639 Well okay, yeah, sounds good. 113 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:05.399 Yeah. 114 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:11.879 Well, yesterday, kicking off this new series of dangerous prayers, 115 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:13.839 we talked about dangerous prayers. God searched me. 116 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.199 Wait a minute, there's no transition. 117 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.160 Do you have a transition for this one? 118 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:22.000 I was going to say, no, I don't. Actually, don't 119 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:24.000 you ignored it? 120 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.800 I just ignored it. Yep, all right, well I had 121 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.160 I was going to do a good transition today. 122 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.920 Okay, how about this. Some of those jokes made me sad, Yeah, 123 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:38.240 some of them. Some of them were stinky, yes, right, yeah, 124 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.759 And when your sin stinks up the room, it makes 125 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.040 you sad. And that's the prayer of So I'm fifty one. 126 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.079 Okay, So yeah, that was a rough one. Rough. That's 127 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.560 why I was just going to say yesterday. 128 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.439 Well you said stink. You changed the direction. I was 129 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:53.240 just going to go with sad. 130 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.519 Well, the title of the day is when your sins? 131 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.000 I know, but I was going with a sad angle. 132 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:00.319 I'm sorry. That's all right, okay. 133 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.480 I think you stunck my transition up with your stink. 134 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.399 Okay. The idea, So, yesterday we talked about praying prayers 135 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.199 that ruin your comfort. Particularly God, show me if there's 136 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.399 anything that needs to be changed in my life. Really, yep, 137 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:16.079 search me and know me, show me. And today it 138 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.399 goes further because in Psalm fifty one, David is confessing 139 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:24.800 his sin with Bathsheba, and it's a powerful prayer. So 140 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.560 I'll just read it. Here's what it says. In Psalm 141 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.040 fifty one, he says, have mercy on me, oh God, 142 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.839 because of your unfailing love, because of your great compassion, 143 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.279 blot out the stain of my sins, Wash me clean 144 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.000 from my guilt, Purify me from my sin, for I 145 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.120 recognize my rebellion. It haunts me day and night against 146 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.879 you and you alone. Have I sinned? I've done what 147 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.600 is evil in your sight. You'll be proved right in 148 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.319 what you say, and your judgment against me is just 149 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:54.839 for I was born a sinner, yes, from the moment 150 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.120 my mother conceived me. But you desire honesty from the womb, 151 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.959 teaching me wisdom even there. Purify me from my sins 152 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.120 and I will be clean. Wash me and I will 153 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:07.439 be whiter than snow. Oh, give me back my joy again. 154 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.839 You've broken me. Now let me rejoice. Don't keep looking 155 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.000 at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. Create 156 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:16.839 me a clean heart, Oh God, renew a loyal spirit 157 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.000 within me. Do not banish me from your presence. Do 158 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.079 not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me 159 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.560 the joy of your salvation. Make me willing to obey you. 160 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:33.000 Yeah, that's awesome. You know there, I think that Psalm 161 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.240 fifty one is one of the most powerful psalms in 162 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.519 all of the Book of Psalms. And there's one hundred 163 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:41.279 and fifty of them. 164 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.000 Yeah, one hundred and fifty psalms. Yeah, and the biggest 165 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:44.720 book in the Bible. 166 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.160 And I think that I think that it's really a 167 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:57.639 there's a hang on a second, where is the versus? Yeah, 168 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:02.439 So people always focus on the creating me a clean 169 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.000 heart of God, which by the way, is also a song. 170 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.160 Yes, right, you know a lot, a lot of these songs. 171 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.759 Obviously, the psalms were songs, there you go. But I'm 172 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.319 talking about modern day songs. Yes, right, so I know, 173 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.120 remember yesterday I referred to the fact that created me 174 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.439 a clean heart. I actually knew two versions of that song, right, 175 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.800 I liked one way more than the other. But but 176 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:26.160 I sing it all the time. 177 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.279 Right, creating me a clean heart, Oh God, that I 178 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.600 might serve you, created me a clean heart, O God, 179 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.279 that I might be renewed, So phil me and heal 180 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.279 me and bring me back to you. Created me a 181 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.840 clean heart, O God, that I might serve you. 182 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.720 That's that's a song. Yeah. And then and then then 183 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:50.639 today I should have. 184 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:56.799 Sung that yesterday. Well that No, that's that's that's today's today. Well, 185 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:57.919 good news we sang it today. 186 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:00.639 Yeah. Yeah, because I know two version of this song too. 187 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.080 But even though the people go to this song, this, 188 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.240 this verse a lot, creating me a clean heart of God, 189 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.360 do not banish me from your presence, Do not take 190 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.919 your Holy Spirit from me. I like verses sixteen and 191 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.480 seventeen better. Oh really, yeah, I do, because I think 192 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:23.759 that I think that the concept of this is a 193 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.159 is a life lesson for all of us, because he says, 194 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.120 you do not you do not desire sacrifice, or else 195 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.240 I would offer one you don't want to burn, offering 196 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.200 the sacrifices you desire a broken spirit. You will not 197 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.960 reject a broken and repentant heart, O God. And so 198 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.679 the reason why I like that concept is because God 199 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.240 wants your repentance and your heart more than anything else. 200 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:49.159 And so there are people who try to say, you know, 201 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.159 like David, he said, you know, he says he could 202 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.519 have probably offered the sacrifices of a thousand rams of 203 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.080 the snap of a finger. Right, Hey, I'm gonna I'm 204 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.000 gonna give this, you know, I'm gonna write this big check. 205 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.440 I'm gonna make this donation, right, I'm gonna I'm going to. 206 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:01.519 Give the idea of penance. 207 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:03.320 Yeah, I'm gonna try it. Yeah, I'm gonna try to 208 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.600 make up for it by saying, you know, all of 209 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.720 these repetitive prayers or I'm going to you know. 210 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.759 Give this money, give this money, whatever it is. 211 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.440 And it's like no, no, no, no, you can do that. 212 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.320 But God doesn't want sacrifice or else. David says, I 213 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.240 give it, but that's not what God wants, So David 214 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.080 knows what God wants. David had all the power to 215 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.320 do whatever he wanted to do. He was rich, he 216 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:30.679 could have done all the good in the world. But 217 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.799 what he was acknowledging here is that God, I would 218 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.000 do all those things. But I know that's not what 219 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.000 you want. You want one thing. You want a broken 220 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.320 and contrite heart, a repentant heart, and these things you 221 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.360 will not despised. So I think it's an acknowledgment that 222 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.799 there's only one thing that God requires in these moments. Now, 223 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:50.720 I like to create in me a clean heart of God. 224 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.840 I love it. It's obviously phenomenal. Right, But I think 225 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.960 somebody should write a song about sixteen and seventeen. Maybe 226 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:57.320 I'll do. 227 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:01.720 That being broken in spirit yeah yea broken repenting heart. 228 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:04.480 Yeah, the fact that God only wants one thing and 229 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:05.919 that is your repented heart. 230 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:09.720 Yeah. And repent heart isn't I'm sorry, repent heart is. 231 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.320 I'm stopping it and I'm turning to you. 232 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:16.080 Yes, he's a desire to turn yeah. Yeah. Repent means 233 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:17.440 literally to turn the other way. 234 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:23.919 So this this comes after Nathan has confronted David. So 235 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.320 David has had an affair with Bethsheba. Bethsheba was the 236 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.120 wife of one of David's Mighty Men, one of David's 237 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:35.759 special forces, guys Uriah, and then she gets pregnant, and 238 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.320 so David makes sure that Uriah is killed in battle 239 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:41.399 so that then he can marry. 240 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.639 After he tries to cover it up another way. 241 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.559 Right, can come home and sleep with his wife. And 242 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:49.080 so it was. It was just a crazy little season 243 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.480 in David's life, and it winds up defining a big 244 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:58.120 chunk of the rest of his life. So he his 245 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:02.960 his concern are just to hide and to cover his reputation. 246 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.279 And then Nathan shows up. He's a prophet of God. 247 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:09.279 God sent Nathan to go and correct David, and he 248 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.519 tells me the story. Hey, there's this rich man who 249 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:14.919 lives next door to poor man. Rich man has a 250 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:19.000 guest come over, and the rich man had so many sheep. 251 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.240 But he goes over and he gets the sheep of 252 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.480 the poor man. And this poor man loved this sheep shep, 253 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.320 and he took care of the sheep, and the sheep 254 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.240 lived in his home and he fed him. He just 255 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.960 had his one lamb, and he loved that lamb. But 256 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.159 the rich man went and got that one poor man's lamb. 257 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.240 He said, he's one of his many many lambs. He 258 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.120 goes and kills that poor man's lamb and feeds him. 259 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.679 And he asked David, what do you think should be 260 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.960 done to that guy? Well, David was a shepherd as 261 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.600 a young man, so this was a perfect story. Yeah, 262 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.320 And David is so ticked off, he said they should 263 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:50.600 hunt down that guy killing. 264 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:51.679 Yeah. 265 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.720 And then Nathan says, well, you're the man, right right, 266 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.080 you're the king man. You have anything you want, you 267 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.039 have any woman you want, but you went and took 268 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.480 the one wife of a poor man who is loyal 269 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:06.440 to your right. And so then judgment came. The baby died, 270 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.000 Bessie was pregnant, the baby died, all those things, and 271 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.000 it was a difficult time in David's life. And it's 272 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.519 from that confrontation somebody who cared enough and had the 273 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.360 courage to confront David with his sin, that David comes 274 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.639 and praise this prayer and his first statement is, have 275 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.720 mercy on me, right, God, I don't deserve you to 276 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.240 forgive me, but you have great compassion. And then he says, 277 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.360 wash me clean of my guilt, blot out the stain 278 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.120 of my sins that blot out. You know, back in 279 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.240 that day, they would when they wrote with ink, they 280 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:42.600 would you know, dip the pen in the ink, write it, 281 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.879 and if there was a mistake, you try to blot 282 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.360 it out. It was kind of a try to pull 283 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.360 the ink back up off of the parchment or off 284 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.600 the paper with a blotter. It was the closest thing 285 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.240 to an eraser that you and I would use today. Right, 286 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.080 that's what they're trying to do. And he says, God, 287 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.480 but you know, have you ever used a blotter. It 288 00:13:58.559 --> 00:13:59.519 never makes it right? 289 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.080 Yeah, well I've blotted out different things, just probably not 290 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:02.679 in parchment. 291 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:07.000 Yeah, you can still see right, right. But he's like, hey, 292 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.879 clean it up as much as possible. Would you clean 293 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:13.200 it up? And he says, creating me a new heart? 294 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.240 And so it's interesting at first he says, would you 295 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.240 just cover it? Then he's like, could you blot it up, 296 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.159 maybe get rid of as much of it as possible, 297 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:21.759 And then finally says, would you make a new one. 298 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.480 There's kind of a progression to his prayer here, God, 299 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.320 I have no hope of my life ever turning around 300 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.559 unless you make a new life in me because I'll 301 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.639 go do this again. Probably I'm what kind of a sinner? 302 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.440 Am I? This is kind of where he's coming at. 303 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.840 What was I doing? Why did I do this? And God, 304 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:39.960 you know I'm a wicked person. Would you forgive me 305 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.440 for this? And then he's repenting of his sin, not 306 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.440 just that he he acknowledges I was born a sinner 307 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:48.799 and I sin, but that's not an excuse. And he's 308 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.399 asking God to forgive his sin and to make him 309 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.200 a new person. And then, like you said, he also 310 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.720 the one thing that we didn't talk about Verse thirteen, 311 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.080 fourteen fifteen. He says, God, then if you fix me 312 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.000 and change me, I'm not going to just use this 313 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.480 story for me. I'm going to use it to then 314 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.879 I'll teach your ways to rebels. Right, I'll use my 315 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.240 I'm not going to waste this story. I'll use my story, 316 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:13.240 this broken story, for others to maybe warn them and 317 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.519 unseal my lips that my mouth may praise you. Right, 318 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.080 he's saying, my actions are going to be different as 319 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.519 a result of the fact that you begin to change me. 320 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:23.759 And then he says, you know, I understand that God, 321 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.559 you know sacrifices are required for sin. He ends verse 322 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.600 nineteen says, you'll be pleased with sacrifices offered in the 323 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.600 right spirit. Right, So the sacrifices are required for the sin, 324 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.679 but they mean nothing without the heart. And so that's 325 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.559 what David is trying to extend to God is my 326 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.399 heart is all for you. And so I think that 327 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.200 that's the issue. Is first the heart has to turn 328 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.159 towards God. Then the behaviors will start to turn towards God. 329 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.799 Because when your heart turns towards God, your want tos 330 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.159 start to move towards God, and your feelings, your emotions 331 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.080 start to move that way, and those things tend to 332 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.240 drive your behaviors. And so as you're saying and then 333 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.720 all the other things, you know, the faith based stuff, 334 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.000 I'm supposed to be doing. Those please you. Then when 335 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:10.840 my heart is right, but when my heart's not for you, you 336 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.080 don't care about the ritual. Ritual doesn't matter. 337 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:16.159 Yeah, yeah, And you know this is the sin where 338 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:20.720 David says, my sin is ever before me, and so 339 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.120 you know, this was a public sin. And the thing 340 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.080 even though that we just briefly mentioned, Nathan, I think 341 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.519 one of the most powerful things about this whole story. 342 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.360 And even when you read this prayer, you have to 343 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.159 you know, sort of you know, receive it in that context. Right. 344 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:41.960 Nathan actually pointed out David's sin publicly as well. Did 345 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.600 you know it was in the courtyard with the kingdom 346 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.240 And so think about like it's what does that phrase 347 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.240 the emperor's emperor has no clothes or something. Yeah, and 348 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.600 nobody wants to tell the emperor is no clothes. It's 349 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:57.799 the same thing. It's the idea that like, David has 350 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:02.799 done this thing, and everybody knows that. Everybody knows that 351 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.359 that he is supposed to be our spiritual leader. He 352 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:07.559 is the guy. He's a man after God's own heart. 353 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.400 He is a godly man. But he is also the king, 354 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.839 and so other kings we fear because of the wickedness. 355 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:16.799 David is supposed to be king that we don't fear, 356 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.359 you know, because of wickedness. And yet he's done this 357 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.039 wicked thing, but nobody wants to say anything and fear 358 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.440 that he's going to kill him, like the messengers, Right, 359 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.319 and then all of a sudden Nathan comes along and 360 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.519 he's the prophet of God. Think about the courage that 361 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:35.319 Nathan had the assignment that God gave to Nathan is 362 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.640 to go and confront David. Well, you know, think about it. 363 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.759 It's like, you're the guy who's going to confront Nathan 364 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.799 or David publicly in front of everybody and point it out, 365 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:47.160 knowing that he has the power to kill you, and 366 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.559 he has a history of killing people who bring bad news, 367 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:51.960 and so he when he looks at him and he says, 368 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.720 you are the man. You know, you know this man 369 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.440 should be killed. Well, guess who. Guess who it is. 370 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.200 You're the man. You're the man of the story. You're 371 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:01.920 the one who did this. And then then he decrees 372 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.039 and then he actually lays out judgment in front of everybody. 373 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:09.759 And I just think to myself in that moment, we 374 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.400 also can use that as a life lesson for us, 375 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.200 because we also have a choice, don't we When people 376 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:20.400 confront us, When people approach us in love and they say, hey, 377 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.279 I'm gonna I'm gonna confront you about something. I'm gonna 378 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:27.680 confront you about something that I noticed in your life 379 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.240 that isn't you know, right, and whether it's right or wrong, 380 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.680 you know that that's that's for a discussion to decide. 381 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.319 That's for God's word to decide. But your reaction is everything, 382 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:40.920 and you have a choice. You can react like David 383 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.799 did right here, or you can react like all the 384 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.039 other kings of the world might right right, which is 385 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.440 which is, don't tell me what to do, and it's 386 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:54.160 my life. I'm the king of my world, right, don't 387 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:58.680 bother me with this. And yet David acknowledge the fact 388 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.240 that you're right, so much so that he actually says 389 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.720 against you verse number four, against you and you alone, 390 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.799 have I sinned? And he's talking about you know, God, 391 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.720 I have done with what is evil on your sight. Yeah, 392 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.640 he's done it before the kingdom. But ultimately his offense 393 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.359 is against God. And that's why David repented, because David 394 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.440 acknowledges this is directly a violation of what God wants 395 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:24.079 from me. 396 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.519 Yeah, of course he sinned against Rayah. Of course he 397 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.680 sinned against Betsheba. A lot of times we think, well, 398 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.359 as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, that this affair, 399 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:37.319 as long as it doesn't hurt anybody, whatever, I took 400 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:39.160 a little bit of this money, I did whatever, as 401 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.960