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 --> 00:00:13.199 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in for another 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.960 great episode of The Bible Guys. 5 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:17.719 Great episode. Yeah, way set the bar. Yeah, this is 6 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.519 gonna be it should be great. It should be the 7 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.359 bar every time, because it wouldn't be that interesting, and 8 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.839 Arrol Nation went welcome to another mediocre episode of the 9 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:30.280 barverage average hum episode of The Bible Guys. I was 10 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.920 in the car, Yes, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, we plan 11 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:34.799 to mail it in today. 12 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.679 I was in the car with one of our staff 13 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:41.439 members who's only like a young twenties, and I said, 14 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.159 you know, speaking of mediocrity, I said, I said, oh, 15 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.640 that's like an e Or And he goes, e Or, 16 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.479 who's e Or? And then me and Wesley of course 17 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:51.799 us is older than him, right, And in Wes he 18 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.000 just starts laughing and he goes, you don't know who 19 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.520 ere is? And he says, he goes he's the donkey 20 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.479 and he goes, oh yeah, yeah, he goes from the 21 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.439 lion king, and all of a sudd we're laughing, and it. 22 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.439 Was He's like there's like from Shrek. 23 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.680 Right, He's like, there's like a sixty year difference between 24 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.120 Winnied the Pooh and this, and he goes, oh, we 25 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.920 need the Pooh. He goes, but who's there? He had 26 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:14.280 no idea who it was. 27 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:18.560 Wow, this shows how old we are, buddy, getting so old? Yes, 28 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.159 and you're quite a bit older than me, so yes, 29 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:22.120 gotta hurt worse. 30 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:23.799 What is it, April? What are you? 31 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.319 May? What? May tenth? 32 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.359 May tenth? So I'm one month in six days older 33 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:29.799 than you. 34 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.239 But it's got to feel I mean, you wear it, 35 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:33.560 you wear it pretty heavily. 36 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:43.519 It feels like a massive gap. Okay, right, so let's 37 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.959 jump right into this. Desiree has a segment for us 38 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:47.439 called would you rather? I love these? 39 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:48.280 Oh? These are fun. 40 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.400 Yeah, there's a lot of them from jump into a 41 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:53.799 quick Okay, I'll do the first one. Would you rather 42 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.280 always have to hop like a kangaroo or wadle like 43 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:02.439 a penguin? O? It depends on if you're gonna build 44 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.879 my knees to be as strong as a kangaroo's. Because 45 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.120 I can cover some ground with my current knees, I 46 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:12.800 don't think I could hop forever like a kangaroo. 47 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.199 And kangaroos can cover some ground. 48 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.159 Right, So if I had the knees of a kangaroo, 49 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:21.159 I might say kangaroo. But if they're Chris are Bonnies, 50 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:22.000 I'm going with the water. 51 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.280 Yeah. I think the older people get the more they 52 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.960 waddle anyway, So that's a good one. 53 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.120 All right, Well we'll choose wattle. I hate to say that, 54 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:30.680 that's terrible. 55 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.240 Would you rather have a talking dog that constantly criticizes 56 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.439 your choices or a cat that tries to outsmart you 57 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:38.039 at every turn? 58 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.960 That's a no brainer. I mean it's a cat every time? 59 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.800 Yeah? Yeah, how big is the cat? 60 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:44.000 Right? 61 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:44.759 Right? 62 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:45.960 It doesn't say, but. 63 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.159 I really feel like it's the cats that criticize your 64 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.240 every decision. Quite, oh they do. They're so judgmental. 65 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.680 Yes, but for a dog to verbalize that, nobody wants 66 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:03.240 to be around criticism, right on? Right? Okay, So the 67 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.319 next one is would you rather live in live in 68 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.680 a world? Live in a world where everyone constantly speaks 69 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.759 in movie quotes. Oh, that's funny that I just did that. 70 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:15.879 I kind of do, that's true, Or. 71 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.199 In a world where everyone communicates solely through interpretive dance. 72 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.599 Oh, I don't even think twice about it. I movie quotes, 73 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.039 movie quotes. I'm gonna I'm gonna go on record and saying. 74 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:29.439 We lost you. Interpretive dance. 75 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:34.520 Oh my gosh, there has never been, never, never been. 76 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:39.319 And I'm I'm an arts major. I graduated a music degree. Yeah, 77 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.800 there's never been a time when I thought, you know what, 78 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:46.719 this needs an interpretive dance. When people come and say, hey, 79 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.599 we're gonna do an interpretive dance, I'm like, really right. So, yeah, 80 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.199 there's movie quotes all day long, because that's what I 81 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.719 already lived with with you anyways, it's movie quotes all 82 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:57.000 the time. 83 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.000 I'm obviously gonna choose movie quotes as well, because that's 84 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:02.840 just your every day life. I'm not a I'm not 85 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.039 like a man. I love interpretive dance. It needs this 86 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:09.759 or man, that was life changing. But I very much 87 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.759 enjoy interpretive dance most of the time. Yeah, okay, so 88 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.079 I think it's I think it's but by the way, 89 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.560 I think it's hard to actually have a dance that 90 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.360 communicates the song or the video that you're in, you 91 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:27.959 know what I mean. Like to do interpretive dance, well, 92 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.920 it actually takes effort because most of the dances that 93 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.879 I would see as interpretive dance really aren't that interpretive? 94 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:36.000 Does it makes sense? 95 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:36.399 Yes? 96 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.519 Yeah so, but I enjoy them still. 97 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.439 Yeah, okay, good for you. 98 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:41.240 Yeah, good for me? 99 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.439 All right. Would you rather have to wear a full 100 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.480 pirate outfit every day or a full medieval night suit 101 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:50.680 complete with the helmet and sword wherever you go? 102 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.560 Well, that's a no brainer. It would definitely be the 103 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.519 Pirate outfit, even though the night Midie even Night's outfit 104 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.360 was way cooler, totally cool, totally cool that it's just 105 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:05.160 impractical too heavy and hot, hot and nasty and yeah. 106 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.279 Inside that I think Captain Jack Sparrow made the Pirate 107 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:07.920 outfit cool. 108 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.399 Yes he did, Yeah, he did for sure. 109 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:11.079 Okay. 110 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.399 Last one? Would you rather have your day narrated by 111 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:20.480 a hyperactive sports commentator or a mellow jazz DJ who 112 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:25.120 always plays smooth or soothing background music to your daily routine? 113 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.319 Oh? The jazz DJ? 114 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:32.439 Why? 115 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.120 Because jazz DJs are cool? Okay, all right, I don't 116 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.199 want some guy screaming and then he reached for the 117 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:39.560 milk and always. 118 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:40.639 Please pol ceial. 119 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.199 I know, I don't want that. That feels really stressful 120 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:53.879 and that it was pop tarts up, ladies and gentlemen. 121 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:55.480 That's funny. 122 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.160 He's walking into the bathroom. I think I heard the 123 00:05:58.199 --> 00:05:58.800 door every bock. 124 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.079 That's so funny. Yeah, so I'm gonna have to go 125 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.519 with you there. You sold me, you had me, You 126 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.360 had me at stressful. 127 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.879 Can you imagine so where we're Detroit Lions fans, can 128 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:11.959 you imagine having Dan Dickerson just losing his mind? 129 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:12.480 Right? 130 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.920 Right? Right? It Dickerson? 131 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:17.399 Is he the Lions guy? 132 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:18.319 Is Hee the Tigers guy? 133 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.680 I do not know the names, the DJ or the 134 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:28.079 commentation I think. Okay, anyways, I remember I remember Mark Champion, 135 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.519 Mark Champions, old Lions guy. So who, by the way, 136 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.079 went to our church for a long time. 137 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:34.680 That's fine, the. 138 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.680 Church that was a part of Okay, So there you go. 139 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.279 I think that those are great questions. And I wonder 140 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:43.519 who agreed with us and who disagreed. 141 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.639 Yes, well we got it sorted out. We got the 142 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.720 right answers. So it doesn't matter if the listeners agree 143 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:51.040 or disagree, right, because we're always we got him right 144 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:52.240 in our own world. Yeah that's right. 145 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.519 Okay, Well we're we're bouncing back and forth, and we're 146 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.319 gonna be going back to Psalm fifty nine because we're 147 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:03.959 talking about David in the Book of First Samuel. But 148 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.439 we're doing this series chronologically, yes, and chronological excuse me, 149 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.879 not just chronological, but we're also the series itself as 150 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.079 hitting the milestones of the Old Testament or the highlights, 151 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.319 and the psalms are a big part of the Old Testament. 152 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:20.800 Yeah, well, David is writing the psalms while these things 153 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:22.959 are happening, right, and so that's all it's doing is 154 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.959 it's kind of peppering into and we know when Psalm 155 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:30.720 fifty nine was written, because what happened was David gets 156 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.560 promoted after killing the Philistine. Saul is flip flopping back 157 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.160 and forth and supporting him or not, but wants to 158 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:42.120 support him. Jonathan is his buddy. Then David goes and goes, hey, 159 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.120 didn't you say that whoever kills the giant gets to 160 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:50.199 marry your daughter? And Saul goes, well, yeah, but how 161 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:51.959 about this, bring me one hundred four skins of the 162 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.319 Philistines and warriors and then you can. So David goes 163 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.560 and gets his buddies, and what Saul thinks is going 164 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:00.399 to happen is David's going to get killed the Bible 165 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.600 literally says he thinks he's going to die in this battle, 166 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:04.759 and instead David goes and gets a bunch of his 167 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:06.240 mighty men and they go out and they kill two 168 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.079 hundred guys and bring two hundred back to Saul. So 169 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.639 now Saul's kind of obligated. He lets David mary his 170 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.000 daughter Michael. So then this is a great romance. It's 171 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.399 all this wonderful thing. But then Saul is just spiraling 172 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:21.680 out of control, and at one point Jonathan saves David's life. 173 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:27.759 But then finally Saul in chapter nineteen, is it Yeah. 174 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:31.079 Chapter nineteen, Saul sends a bunch of soldiers to watch 175 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:36.840 David's house and he's gonna have David assassinated. And Michael realizes, Hey, 176 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.559 there's some hit men here at the house and you've 177 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:43.480 got to get out, and so he escapes out the window. 178 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:45.000 She helps him escape out the window, and then she 179 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.000 fakes in his bed that he's there. They come into 180 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.639 kill him, and of course he's not there. So it's 181 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.879 in that context that David writes Psalm fifty nine. And 182 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.919 the way we know that is, have you ever noticed 183 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.440 before the psalms that there's always these little notes yeah, 184 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:00.600 that say who wrote it and whatever. So the little 185 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.039 note before the song starts is and this is written 186 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.679 by David. It says for the choir director, a psalm 187 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.279 of David regarding the time Saw sent soldiers to watch 188 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.480 David's house in order to kill him, to be sung 189 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.679 to the tune do not Destroy. So so the way 190 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.240 we know that this song was written at this moment 191 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:20.559 was because David said I wrote it then, right, and 192 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.200 even tells him what tune to sing it to. 193 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:27.720 Yeah, okay, and you know that song do not Destroy? 194 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.120 Yeah, maybe that was it. Ye. 195 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.720 Yeah, So we don't know if the tune do not 196 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:33.320 Destroy because we don't know what that song is. 197 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.200 It could have been to like the tuna we are 198 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.960 the Champions or something, do not Destroy? 199 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.480 Oh my friend? 200 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.759 Right, yeah, here you go. Anyways, here's the song. I 201 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:50.039 think it's cool. God gives us the lyrics to this song. 202 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.919 That cool, and it says, rescue me from my enemies. 203 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.000 Oh God, protect me from those who've come to destroy me. 204 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.639 Rescue me from these criminals. Save me from these murderers. 205 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.360 They have set an ambush for me. Fierce enemies are 206 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.879 out there waiting. Lord, though I have not sinned or 207 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.559 offended them. I've done nothing wrong, yet they prepare to 208 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.799 attack me. Wake up, see what's happening, and help me, o, Lord, 209 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.360 God of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel, wake up 210 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:18.360 and punish those who hostile nations show no mercy to 211 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.919 the wickeds. And it's an interlude, isn't that Cela? Isn't 212 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:22.600 that usually where. 213 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.480 It says, Yeah? 214 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.679 They come out at night, snartling like vicious dogs as 215 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.440 they prowl the streets. Listen to the filth that comes 216 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.440 from their mouths, Their words cut like swords. After all, 217 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.039 who can hear us? They sneer? But Lord, you laugh 218 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.080 at them, You scoff at all the hostile nations. You 219 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.200 are my strength, and I wait for you to rescue me. 220 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.960 For you, oh God, or my fortress, in his unfailing love. 221 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:47.600 My God will stand with me. He will not, or 222 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.480 he will let me look down and triumph on all 223 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.679 my enemies. Don't kill them for my people soon forget 224 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.840 such lessons. Stagger them with your power and bring them 225 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.559 to their knees, Oh Lord, our shield, because of the 226 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.080 sinful things they say, because of the evil that is 227 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.679 on their lips, Let them be captured by their pride, 228 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.919 their curses, and their lies. Destroy them in your anger, 229 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.639 wipe them out completely. Then the whole world will know 230 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.759 that God reigns in Israel. And there's another interlude. My 231 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.279 enemies come out at night, snarling like vicious dogs as 232 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.440 they prowl the streets. They scavenge for food, but go 233 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.360 to sleep unsatisfied. But as for me, I will sing 234 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.840 about your power each morning. I'll sing the joy about 235 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.679 your unfailing love. For you have been my refuge, a 236 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.840 place of safety when I'm in distress. Owe my strength 237 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.759 to you. I sing praises for you. Oh God, are 238 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:40.600 my refuge, the God who shows me unfailing love. Well, 239 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.360 there you go, there you go. I felt like there 240 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:44.879 was a long silence and I need to fill it 241 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.200 with something, Yeah, like. 242 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:52.799 A Cela Cela? Yeah? So yeah, is it Selah or Cela? 243 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:53.840 Sure? 244 00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:00.480 Okay, got it? So so David then writes this song 245 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:05.159 and compares his enemies to dogs who are never satisfied. 246 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.600 They come out at night, they're vicious, they prowl the streets, 247 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:13.559 and they scavenge for food. And you know, I think 248 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:20.879 that sometimes we believe that our enemies are like this, 249 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.559 that By the way, that's not to say that people 250 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.399 don't have enemies that are like this. I think that 251 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.240 most of us probably don't have enemies that have people 252 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:30.080 that are out to get. 253 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.200 Us but have to kill us. 254 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.519 Yeah, but it feels that way. That's what I'm trying 255 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:35.879 to say. It feels like what David is saying, but 256 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.600 it's not true. But in this case, it's literally true 257 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.600 for David. Is That's what I'm trying to say, Right, So, 258 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.480 what can we learn from this Psalm Jeff, Other than 259 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:51.000 here's David who feels like he's the victim. He feels 260 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.399 like he's done nothing wrong, He's going to try to 261 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.600 praise God, and yet he's unjustly being hunted down and 262 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:58.559 running from his life. 263 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:02.240 Yeah. Well, I think you know, multiple times in the 264 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.639 New Testament, Paul and Peter both tell us that the 265 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:07.600 things written in the Old Testament are for our example. 266 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:09.840 And so when you read a passage like this and 267 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.480 you know that you know he's being hunted down by 268 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:17.320 his enemies and he feels forgotten, he goes to God. 269 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.240 And so this becomes a model prayer for us. I 270 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.960 think when we feel like we're in a situation where 271 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.759 we're being overwhelmed by the circumstances around us. Everybody's gunning 272 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.720 for us. You know, this might be a work thing, 273 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:29.879 or this might be a family issue that you've got 274 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.519 going on, you know, extended family, you're in laws or whatever, 275 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.440 you know, and you just feel like everybody's coming after you. This, 276 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.720 I think is a really appropriate kind of structure, and 277 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:41.919 there's a I would just pull this up, by the way. 278 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:44.440 First of all, he starts off with this cry of deliverance. 279 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.080 He's like, you know, rescue me from my enemies. That's reasonable. 280 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.039 God helped me, yes, right, I just I don't have 281 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.960 anywhere else to turn, which, by the way, that's not 282 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:53.840 a terrible place to be when you have nowhere else 283 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.159 to go, but God, right, and so verses one and two. 284 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:59.799 That's where he's at. And then he points out to 285 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.879 go these people are blood thirsty, right, they're murderers, they're 286 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.200 they're coming after me. And then he starts asking for 287 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.399 divine justice. So first it's God, I need help deliver me. 288 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:11.679 And then not only that, I want you to protect 289 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.720 me how much you go get them right, and and 290 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.000 there's a human element to that. It feels a little 291 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.120 weird because we know we're supposed to forgive. At the 292 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.080 same time, it's not inappropriate to desire justice. Right, I'm 293 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:30.080 not just saying protect me, stop them, bring justice against 294 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:31.639 the people that are doing these kind of things, because 295 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:32.639 if they'll do it to me, they'll do it to 296 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:33.320 other people too. 297 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:34.039 Right. 298 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.600 That that eliminates the problem, Yes, eliminate this problem. And 299 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:40.000 then he goes to God again. He reminds God, I 300 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.240 trust you, but then I think it's funny, and then 301 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.559 he ends it with praise. So those four elements I 302 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.000 think are reasonable to pray when you feel like you're 303 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.759 surrounded and you're you're being hunted down and that everything's 304 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:55.799 against you. You know, God, I'm trusting in you for deliverance. God. 305 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.759 Only you can bring justice. God, I need I need 306 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.639 only You are the one that I can trust. I 307 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.960 don't have any rest turn. I'm trusting you, and then 308 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.279 I'm going to praise you and then fill your life 309 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.559 with praise. I think that those things are important. But 310 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.759 I do have one verse or one spot that I 311 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:17.960 think is interesting that is always surprising to me. Verse four, 312 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.240 he goes, I've done nothing wrong, yet they prepare to 313 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:26.440 attack me. So he says to God, wake up, see 314 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.919 what's happening and help me. O Lord, God of Heaven's armies, 315 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.399 the God of Israel, wake up and punish those hostile nations. 316 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.240 Show no mercy to the wicked traders. It's almost like 317 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.679 he says, I feel like I'm in this alone. I 318 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.320 don't feel like you're paying attention to me. 319 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.559 Right You're silent, You're distant. It feels as if you 320 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:45.039 were sleeping. 321 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.240 Yeah, And sometimes when the world is burning down around us, 322 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.200 we feel like God's not paying attention. 323 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:55.320 Honestly, it's so relatable when you break it down like that, 324 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:59.120 you know, it's whenever have you ever been in a situation, 325 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.120 Oh my goodness, I've in situations like this so many 326 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:04.639 times in my life where I'm like, God is silent, 327 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.120 This is unfair. I'm just trying to be good. I 328 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.559 can name you three people right now in my life, 329 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.279 right now who are like, all I'm trying to do 330 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.240 is serve God, and it just seems like everything is 331 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:23.000 going against me. Circumstances around me, financially, my job, these circumstances, 332 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.240 this relationship, you know, whatever it is, and it's like, 333 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.519 I just want God to throw me a bone for 334 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.039 crying out loud. Right I'm serving him. It feels like 335 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:35.320 I'm in the one side of relationship. And so not 336 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:38.080 only does he pray that God, would you please help 337 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.519 the situation, help me, protect me, but then he says, no, 338 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.679 go further than that, demonstrate yourself in such a miraculous 339 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.200 way to where they would be completely eliminated. And I 340 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.440 think that that's what we pray as well. We say, God, 341 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.279 don't just spare me from the consequences of the situation 342 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.960 I found myself in. But God do way above, you know, 343 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.039 just like Ephesian says, right above that we can ask 344 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.559 or dream or imagine, and we have to be reminded 345 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.119 that God is not afraid of those kind of thoughts, 346 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.440 you know, you know, for us to accuse God of 347 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.079 being asleep, David in his heart knew that God wasn't. 348 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:20.880 Asleep, but he just felt alone. 349 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.519 He felt alone, and so God isn't afraid. It's not 350 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:28.039 as if God said, how dare you accuse me of 351 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:28.599 being asleep? 352 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.359 Well, under the inspirational Holy Spirit, God chose to include 353 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.720 this in Bible. That's right with that accusation. 354 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:37.279 Right, which means. 355 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:38.640 Like God's not afraid of our emotions. He's not afraid 356 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.960 of our anger, and in the instant moment of our response, 357 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.119 God is still saying, Hey, I'm on your side, David, right, 358 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.160 and God protected him, and the Bible says the Lord 359 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:48.759 is with David. 360 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.039 Yeah. And there are people who've come to you and 361 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:52.880 come to me in the past, and they say, I 362 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:55.519 can't even walk into a church, I can't even approach 363 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.839 God because I've yelled at God, I've blasphemed God, I've 364 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.680 I've blamed God, and I don't even know how to 365 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.119 approach him because I've written him off and he'll never 366 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.160 receive me from this point on, as to which I 367 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.759 would say, those are serious things, but God's always going 368 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.359 to receive you. God's always going to love you. God's 369 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.319 always going to forgive you regardless. 370 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.799 Yeah, you know, I think of my mom had a 371 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:24.640 particularly bad thing happened to her. She was a Christian 372 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:29.519 at the time, and she just spiraled. She couldn't find 373 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.920 her way out of this horrible nightmare. It's a nightmarish moment. 374 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.559 And so one night she was so depressed and she 375 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.200 couldn't figure out how to end this. She's mad at God. 376 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.160 You're not paying attention to me, you don't care about me. 377 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.480 And so she decided she couldn't end her own life. 378 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:50.559 She just didn't. She said she didn't have the courage 379 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:53.559 for that. But so she decided she was going to 380 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.559 go curse God and die. So at like two o'clock 381 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.039 in the morning, she goes into our bathroom, locks herself 382 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:00.920 in the bathroom. Nobody knows that this is going on, 383 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.519 and she's just trying to think of every horrible thing 384 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.920 to tell God. Right, she just everything in my mom's faith. 385 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.279 If you knew my mom, it's just incredible. But in 386 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:13.200 that moment, this was a really horrible event in her life, 387 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.599 and so she decided to do everything she could think 388 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:19.160 to do to make God kill her. And then she 389 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.960 fell asleep, like five o'clock in the morning, about six thirty, 390 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.079 the phone rings, maybe back in the day, the phone 391 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:29.480 hanging on the wall. Yeah, phone rings. My mom hurries 392 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.920 out to answer it because she didn't want the family 393 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:34.480 to wake up. So it's about seven in the morning, 394 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:37.200 I guess, and one of her friends calls and she says, Sue, 395 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.039 are you okay? And my mom goes why, She said, 396 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.640 God woke me up at two o'clock in the morning, 397 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:43.039 I've been praying for you until now. 398 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:47.880 Those a great moment R. 399 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:50.440 And so my mom told her what had happened and 400 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:52.799 all these things, and the lady said, you know that 401 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.599