November 21, 2025 • 26 mins
Episode 820:
In this episode, our focus is on the intimate relationship we can have with God, encapsulated in the phrase, "You are my hiding place." We delve into Psalm 32, a penitential psalm written by King David. This psalm beautifully illustrates the joy of forgiveness and the relief that comes from confessing our sins to God. We discuss how David describes the physical and emotional toll of unconfessed sin, contrasting it with the freedom and joy that follows genuine repentance. The key verse we focus on is verse 7: "For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble; you surround me with songs of victory."
In this episode, our focus is on the intimate relationship we can have with God, encapsulated in the phrase, "You are my hiding place." We delve into Psalm 32, a penitential psalm written by King David. This psalm beautifully illustrates the joy of forgiveness and the relief that comes from confessing our sins to God. We discuss how David describes the physical and emotional toll of unconfessed sin, contrasting it with the freedom and joy that follows genuine repentance. The key verse we focus on is verse 7: "For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble; you surround me with songs of victory."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. It
is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ooh, it's everybody's favorite day.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Are excited. Hey, we're wrapping up this theme of the
week of God's Protection in our series about God's promises
in different context of our lives.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, and today's topic is talking to God. You are
my hiding place. You are, Yeah, but you're not hiding
from this segment.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Those next segment. I have nowhere to hide, right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So what made Christians this week? What made Chris this week?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This is everybody's favorite segment.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, I gotta tell you, Jeff, I didn't take me
long to figure it out, because I am getting on
a plane on in a few days and I'm going
to go to the Dominican Republic. And guess what My
TSA pre check ran out? Oh yes, oh yeah, And
so I started to number one. I didn't realize that
it had run out number two. I'm mad that it did.
(01:09):
But what made me angry is that I experienced what
four days ago, and then every day since then, and
every day until I fly, I will experience the anticipation
of how bad TSA is. It is awful, isn't it. Yes,
it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It can be.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And you know what it feels like, Jeff, It feels
like since you know, September eleventh, two thousand and one,
it feels like something horrible happened to our country. So
therefore they're out to punish us whenever we fly.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, we're gonna spend trillions of dollars inconveniencing everybody and
not actually catch a bad guy. Yeah, we'll catch some
grandmas with some bullets and some or we'll catch some
grandma with a nail clippers. We'll catch some grandpa that's
got an extra twenty two bullet in his pocket. Yeah,
but we haven't actually caught a terrace through the TSA,
so look it up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, yeah, we've never caught one terrorist.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But we spent trillions of dollars and wasted hundreds of
trillions of hours.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, no kidding, Well, it's it's really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I got to tell you that would be the
argument that the people who.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Work in TSA are, to be honest with you, they
have to be some of the most unhappy humans in
the face of the planet.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Some of them. Some of them are funny, though.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
There's one at Detroit at dt W. He's entertaining the
whole time. Yeah, funny, he's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh yeah, well, most of my experience, some of them
are not. Yes, I would say most in my experience.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
They just bark at you.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh and they must hate their jobs because they know
that they have a terrible job because nobody likes TSA.
It's just a big inconvenience. And I think that they
sort of sense that because people have to be grumpy
and take off your shoes.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, I think the government's listening, and you're on a
list now.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Oh you know what, I'm already.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You're getting padded down. You're getting padded down next week.
That's what's happening to you, buddy. They're gonna go through
all your stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, probably so, But I got to tell you. It
may be mad this week figuring out that my TSA
pre check was gone, which means I have to take
my computer out of my bag, I have to take
off my shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, you don't take off your shoes anymore, No, nope, Okay,
We'll shows you how long I've had TSA pre check.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's been a while, but it's it's terrible, and I
have an I'm angry about it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can I hook you up? Let me help you. Do
you have status right now? Are you silver?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I'm silver?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Okay, So that puts you in sky Priority yep, right,
So go to the sky Priority desk.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Guess what I am flying American Airlines. The reason why
is because it only flies into the airport that I'm
going to.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, then it's going to be awful. Yes, I was
going to tell you that there is a sky Priority
entrance into.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The hotel and no endo TSA. Oh that you skip everything?
Really yeah, huh, it's pretty good. Okay, So well, and
you have to go through all the stuff that you skip,
all the long lines right right right?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, but anyway, never mind that. Well maybe, but if
you're flying American Airlines, then there's no benefit. That's that's
that's on you. You made a bad.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Choice on the country for Delta not flying yeah, no
to the to the pop yeah yeah. So anyway, so
that made me mad, and I got to tell you,
it's going to make me mad every second until I
have it again. So and so I'm flying with no
TSA status and I have a temporary passport. Remember my
passport got stolen.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, so I'm still I'm flying with a purple passport.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You still haven't gotten your regular passport.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I should have, but I have a year.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh I have a year okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah so so yeah that happened back in July. So yeah, yeah,
so I still have some time.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You're mad that you don't have TSA pre check anymore, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And and I'm mad at the fact that it's going
to be a miserable experience already, know.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And then do you have global access to be when
you come back so you have to stand in line
back into the country, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Wow, yeah, okay with a temporary passport, which was this.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is this is a rich people problems, you know that, right. Yeah,
I'm flying out of the country.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But by the way, I was in I was even
in the Dominican and I was coming back last time,
and they wanted to like it's almost like their goal
is to throw things away. So I carry it like
sometimes like a little a little thing with like a
tonal clippers and you know, like little scissors and things
like that. You know, like a manicure set whatever. So
it's like this big and it's really small, and uh,
I've flown with that set, like I don't know a
(05:30):
dozen times, right and then uh, and so I threw
it in my bag and I went to the D S,
T dt W and they're like, you have to throw
your scissors away. I'm like, you're the only one out
of all the people. And I'm like, show me a
photo where and then you can't take scissors. Well, the
photo is like the big scissors. I'm like, no, that
(05:50):
is not a photo of these scissors, these tiny, little,
tiny little scissors. I'm like, and he refused, He's like,
throw it away. I'm like, I'm like, I don't like
you very much at all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You throw it away.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I had you. And then on the way back, on
the way back, the lady, the lady in the Dominican
she goes, oh, you can't have this, uh this shampoo,
and and it's under four ounces. And so I don't
know how to speak Spanish, so I'm like, quantos is
like you know, the quantity. I'm like, quantos is bueno.
Quantos is bueno and whatever, and and so then she
(06:24):
looks and she say okay, and she leaves it. But
she was just determined, determined to throw away my shampoo.
She wanted it will till I'm like, I'm like, why
why does t s A stink so bad around the world?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, there you go. Well you're mad.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I am mad for I hope you have a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, for all the rest of us, thank you, yes
and uh.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And so this week, though, I would say for most
of our listeners, this is a.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Little bit of an elitist complaint. Do you think that?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Do you think that people fly who listen? Most people
listen fly?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I would think so.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, then, so it's not necessarily I mean, it is elitist,
but it's also applicable.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's applicable. You were right, You were right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, Well I enjoyed it, and I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Start to finish, start to finish, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, Well I also agree with David in Psalm thirty
two from start to finish Wow on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, you dare not disagree.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And if you have to run, you might be looking
for a hiding place. And this this verse that we
if you have to run from TSA.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's it right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You should have stuck with you should have start with that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I know I'm trying to get there. Man, this is bad.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So some thirty two says, Oh, what joy for those
whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight? Yes,
what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared
of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty. When
I refuse to confess my sins, my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day, long, day and night. Your
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hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated
like water in the summer heat. Finally I confessed all
my sins to you, and stop trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, I will confess my rebellion to
the Lord, and you forgave me all. My guilt is gone. Therefore,
let all the godly pray to you while there is
still time that they may not drown in the Floodwater's
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a judgment, for you are my hiding place. You protect
me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.
The Lord says, I will guide you along the best
pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch
over you. Do not be like a senseless horse or
mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it
under control. Many sorrows come to the wicked, but unfailing
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love surrounds those who trust the Lord. So rejoice in
the Lord and be glad, all you who obey him.
Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, there you go. I like it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I like it. Hey, So for those who may be
reading along, which, by the way, do you think people
pause the the Bible guys, and they actually go get
their Bible and they read with us. I think I
think some people do.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
There have to be right, I think it'd be a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Out of thousands, tens of thousands of listeners, I bet
you some do.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
If some people are reading Jeff, they came across this
little segment in this chapter three different times it says interlude,
and somebody else's might say, what say Cela, Celaela, Selah, Cela?
However you pronounce it? So I know that you know
what this means. Cela Selah? What do you say Cela
(09:38):
or sela?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Both? Do you?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay? So what does it mean? Why is it there?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Pause?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It means pause? But why is it there to pause
because of what to think, Well, it wasn't there because
of the song.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That there was music going on right there. Yes, so
I there's a guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And yeah, yeah it's a little uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, So those are musical interes right there. Music.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's what I was trying to get you to say.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So it was written for pause, but I think it's
there because these songs were songs, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So so there's a pause there for the reading or
for the singing. Uh, but then there has to be
music that's right during.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That time, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So I always wanted that as a kid, you know,
I was you know, I became a Christian fifteen, so
I was a teenager. But but I was reading, I
would say, what is sila or salo? However you to
pronounce it? And I didn't understand until I learned that
they were all like this was written to music. Yeah,
and by the way, these an't rhyme. These must have
(10:53):
been the worst songs ever.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Not name you think they were written in Hebrew or Hebrew?
I mean, yeah, it was. Many of them are.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Very clever and Hebrew you think, yeah, they are, Yeah, yeah,
in the original Hebrew. You know how sometimes we will
have songs that have double meanings or that are very
clever turn of phrase.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So many in Hebrew, many of the psalms have a
clever turn a phrase, or they have a double meaning,
kind of a you know, it means they said this,
but they really meant this, And so the Hebrews would
have picked up on it that a lot of these
are really clever and cleverly written. It's just not how
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we would do it because it's translated to English. It's
hard to read, hard to sing a song. Yeah, you know,
because rhyme and meter are different in different languages. The structure,
because you know, Hebrew is spoken backwards compared to us
right where they put their adjectives and adverbs is after
not before, all that kind of stuff. So just even
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the structure there's sentences is different, so it wouldn't make
any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But yeah, interesting, okay, So our operative verse is verse
number seven.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That's right for you are my hiding.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Place, You protect me from trouble, you surround me with
songs of victory. And this one was written by King David.
So King David wrote this one, and uh it says
this and my application study Bible it says the psalm
is one of seven penitential psalmsial penitential psalms in which
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the writers are being disciplined by God and experiencing suffering.
The other psalms are Psalms six thirty eight, fifty one, one, two, one,
and one forty three. I'm not sure that I knew that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, so this is you know the other one? Psalm?
Was it? Fifty one? Search meal God and know my heart.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think I need reading glasses?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Do you I think I do? Is it time?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think it is. I've missed pronounced words. I'm tongue tied.
Whenever I try to read, I squint, and I mispronounced
this word penitential. I'm like, I just I think I
had a time I dread. The folks get some cool ones.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I dread it, and then you can just wear them
like a string around your neck. You get some of
those gold ones that snap together.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Right here?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How are your eyes not? You're the same age as me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I can't see anything far away?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I can't either, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, so you're both directions. I could see up clothes,
I just.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can't see far away.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, that's awful.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, I lost my glasses though.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You're ready with glasses.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, yeah, So for driving and stuff. Yeah, I have
to wear my sunglasses because their prescription. They were great,
except at night it's dark I'm driving down the road.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The sunglasses they.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Do make glasses when if I had.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Time go get glasses in the last four or five days,
I haven't even had time go get a haircut.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Dude, in the last two weeks, were you hunting?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
No, sure that I'm positive in the last two weeks okay, yeah,
all right, dude.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I flew all the way to Morocco for a one
day meeting and turned around, landed for another meeting before
I got home, and then had a meeting the next
day with one hundred and twenty pastors and then it
was church day. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So I had
Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I could have done it. But are the eye glass
places open on Sunday? Probably not, I don't think so.
So that's where anyways, back to this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah for sure, right back to the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So thirty two is a psalm of David. If you remember,
Psalm was at fifty one, he's confessing sin. Yeah, oh God,
you know against you and you only have I sinned?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
This is that where David is saying, dude, I feel
so much better now that I got that right with God.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's this whole chapter, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This doesn't play take place after fifty one. Yeah, so
it's out of work because this is only thirty two.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sure, it's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The Book of of Psalms is divided into four books,
and he clusters them together based on things that he's
trying to say in those books. So there's four song
books in the Book of Salms.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, so I think I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, so this is out of order. So the Book
of Psalms is not in order. It's just this is
the order in which they sang them.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay, so I'm certain that I knew that at one time. Yeah,
but now I can't let that pass without you if
you already know them.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What are the four I can't remember?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh, here it is. It just says book one, Book two,
Book three, Book four, Book five.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, there's five.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Then intimacy with God.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The Book of Psalms has been and still is irreplaceable.
Devotional blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So anyways, the point I was making was if you're
reading in Psalm you know, fifty one or whatever it is,
where he is just God, it's against you, and you
only have I sinned and all these things. He's describing
here what it took to get there to that point,
because that's a beautiful Psalm, right, was it Psalm fifty one?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We you talked about the sin with Besheba.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So here he's saying, what joy for those whose record
the Lord is cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived
in complete honesty. He said, I feel so much better now,
as miserable as I was. But then he describes I,
when I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away.
I groaned all day, long, day and night. Your handed
the discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like
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water in the summer heat. And finally I confessed all
my sins to you, and I stopped trying to hide
my guilt, and I said to myself, I will confess
my rebellion to the Lord, and you forgave me all.
My guilt is gone. And so he's describing how miserable
he was when he was fighting God. And man, if
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you are miserable in your life and you have not
yet surrendered to God, let me tell you the only
so should take it from this warrior, take it from him,
and just understand your only hope for any peace is
to finally surrender to God. And then, man, this guy
who he's got it all. He's the king of the world,
and not the whole world, but you know he's the king.
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There's nobody that can come up against him. He takes
what he wants, and finally he does. He takes a
woman that he shouldn't have, he kills a man that
was her husband, all these kinds of things, and then
the world begins to burn down around him, and he's
mad at God, he's mad at everything, and he won't repent.
And he said, during that time, my body was wasting away,
my strength evaporated.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was miserable.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But then when I finally said, you know what I'm
gonna I'm just gonna get right with God. Then the
whole rest of the chapters.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
God, You're so good. I feel great. Right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He's like on top of a mountain. He was miserable
and now he's on top of a mountain. And there
have been times in my life when I finally quit
fighting God and decided to surrender to God, and you
come away. It's almost euphoric where it's just done, it's
just oh final.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, there's something to that, for sure. I think I've
experienced that as well, for sure. And and yeah, especially
the heaviness party, the physicality. I mean, it's it's legitimate, right, Hey,
So because you open that can of worms, it says
it says the Book of Psalms is divided into five books,
and it says each of the first three books and
he's talking about like book one is like Psalm one
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through forty one. Then it's forty two through seventy two.
It's divided sort of like that. And it says each
of the first three books ends with double a men.
The fourth ends with an amen and a praise the Lord.
In the last book, he said about all the books,
closed the entire collection with a double praise the Lord.
David wrote thirty seven of the first forty one Psalms
in book one, so this is the beginning of the collection.
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Books two and three may have been collected by the
advisors of King Hezekiah a literally a literate literary guild
and king hesitized Hezekia's day, copied and preserved precious Old
Testament manuscripts. Has Guy himself was a writer of sacred poetry.
Books four and five were probably collected and added during
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the time of the scholar Ezra. As with our modern hymnals,
there are collections within the collection, such as the Songs
for Pilgrims, and that gives examples like someone twenty three,
one thirty four, the Writings of Assaf seventy three, three
eighty three, the Psalms of the Descendants of Cora forty
three through forty nine eighty four to three eighty seven,
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and the Praise Psalms one of three through one oh seven, six,
one fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah. In't that neat?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So this this one in the Life of Application study
Bible breaks down the four books because I look that
up while you're doing yours. It says, well, the psalms
are not organized by topic. It's helpful to compare the
dominant themes in each section of the Psalms to the
five Books of Moses. So that's why there's five is
they're clustered that way. The first collection of psalms, mainly
written by David, is similar to the Book of Genesis.
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Just as Genesis tells how humankind was created, fell into sin,
was then promised redemption. Many of these songs to discuss
humans as blessed, fallen, and redeemed by God. That's all
Book one, which includes Psalm thirty two that we just read.
Book two is forty two through seventy two. This collection
of psalms, mainly written by David, the Descendants, of course,
similar to the Book of Exodus. Just as Exodus describes
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the nation of Israel, many of these psalms describe the
nation as ruined and then recovered. As God described the
nation of Israel, he also rescues us. As God rescued
the nation of Israel, he also rescues us. We do
not have to work out solutions first. We can go
to God with our problems and asking help. And that's
forty two through seventy two. It's all those things God,
I needs your help.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I like to rescue us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I like that explanation better than yeah, this one, which is,
by the way, another promo for the life application of
study Bible, because this one is not this one's the
Transformation study, Bob, and it's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
A good one. I love that one. But yeah, I
like your explanation, bet So.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Book three is seventy three through eighty nine. Chapter seventy
two through eighty nine. This collection of psalms mainly written
by Asaf or Acef's descendants, which is what you're said,
is similar to the Book of Leviticus. Just as Leviticus
discovered the Tabernac in God's holiness, many of these psalms
discuss the temple and God's enthronement. Remember we just talked
about God's temple all that kind of stuff. Because God
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is almighty, we can turn to him for deliverance. And
these psalms praise God because he's holy in his perfect holiness,
deserves our worship and reverence. And then the fourth book
is all about mainly written by unknown authors, is mostly
about the Book of Numbers, which discusses the relationship of
Israel to surrounding nations. And these psalms often mentioned the
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relationship of God's overruling kingdom to how God oversees and
commands other kingdoms. And then that's ninety three one oh six,
and then you got the one oh seven through one
fifty which is all the worship, right, and it's similar
to the Book of Deuteronomy, and they are anthems of
praise and thanksgiving to God.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So isn't it neat?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, it's very neat.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Like I said, I'm sure in Bible College we covered that,
and I'm sure I've read a time or two, but
that totally escaped my mind. And when you said thirty
two came, so it's not intentionally came after fifty one,
I was like, what do you mean? Because I thought
that although when we did the chronological read through, they
skipped all around the songs, so that makes.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It they should.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And then you remember, fifty two would have been found
by Hezekiah's priests and thirty two you would have fifty
fifty one would have been found by Hezekiahs priests, and
thirty two was already established from David's writings, right, So
that would have been the difference too. But anyways, what
you have is you have this almost euphoric experience. Fifty
(22:33):
one is so much grief over his sin and trusting
that God would forgive him, but struggling with his grief,
and this one is I can remember how bad it was.
But buddy, let me tell you, just get right with God.
This is what he's pleading. Just car right with God.
You're going to be feeling so much better if you
just get it off your chest and get it right
with God. And then he said it's along those lines
(22:56):
that he says, what's the our key verse today?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I just lost it?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Verse number seven?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, seven, For you are my hiding place, and you
protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.
So all of a sudden, his creativity is coming back right.
He's he's protected from trouble again. He's just confident that
God's got his back again. He was alone and he
was miserable. Now he's right with God. God's got his back,
and he has so much joy.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I like the punctuation. It says, and you forgave me excamission.
I said to myself, I'll confess my rebellion to the Lord,
and you forgave me all my guilt is gone. Then
he says, therefore, all right, there's the conclusion for us.
Let all the godly pray to you while there is
still time that they may not drown in the floodwaters.
Of judgment because you said he was you know he was.
(23:47):
He was wallowing in his guilt, but he was also
wallowing in the consequences of his sin.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yes he was.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, So the consequences of a sin as child died
is you know, his sin was ever before him. And
what he meant by that was the entire nation knew
about it, right, So he Sometimes you sin and it's private,
and sometimes it's made public. And David had to face
that in front of everybody. He was accused publicly, and
everybody already knew it anyway, right, everybody already knew his sin.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So in Romans chapter four, verse seven, Paul is talking
about the faith of Abraham, and then he talks about
how grace works and that God gives grace and for sinners,
it says, because of their faith in God, who forgives sinners,
he said. David also spoke of this when he described
(24:35):
the happiness of those who had declared righteous without working
for it. And then he quotes this passage, Oh, what
joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are
put out of sight? Yes, what joy for those whose
record the Lord is cleared of sin? O neat and
then he says, now, is this blessing only for the Jews?
Or is it also for the uncircumcised gentiles what we've
been saying. Then he goes on and he says, is
for all of us. This forgiveness isn't just for Jews.
(24:57):
It's not just for David. This forgiveness when God blots
out all of our sins, it's for everybody who places
their faith in Christ.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, and yet another example that the promises that were
written so long ago can apply to today.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So here's here's Paul applying it a thousand years after
David wrote it to their context. And God says, I
gave you this for your context in all the future. Right,
And so we can have trust. Jesus believed in the Psalms.
He quotes them many times. Paul believes in the Psalms,
he quote them many times. Right, So you and I
can have Satan. Yes, Satan believes in the songs.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, so we can have confidence that, Hey, the Psalms
are are God's word to us.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well, it looks like that is our time. So thanks
for joining us this week, and hopefully we will see
you as we continue this series of God's promises on
Monday on the Bible Gos
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. It
is Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ooh, it's everybody's favorite day.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Are excited. Hey, we're wrapping up this theme of the
week of God's Protection in our series about God's promises
in different context of our lives.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, and today's topic is talking to God. You are
my hiding place. You are, Yeah, but you're not hiding
from this segment.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Those next segment. I have nowhere to hide, right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So what made Christians this week? What made Chris this week?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This is everybody's favorite segment.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, I gotta tell you, Jeff, I didn't take me
long to figure it out, because I am getting on
a plane on in a few days and I'm going
to go to the Dominican Republic. And guess what My
TSA pre check ran out? Oh yes, oh yeah, And
so I started to number one. I didn't realize that
it had run out number two. I'm mad that it did.
(01:09):
But what made me angry is that I experienced what
four days ago, and then every day since then, and
every day until I fly, I will experience the anticipation
of how bad TSA is. It is awful, isn't it. Yes,
it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It can be.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And you know what it feels like, Jeff, It feels
like since you know, September eleventh, two thousand and one,
it feels like something horrible happened to our country. So
therefore they're out to punish us whenever we fly.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, we're gonna spend trillions of dollars inconveniencing everybody and
not actually catch a bad guy. Yeah, we'll catch some
grandmas with some bullets and some or we'll catch some
grandma with a nail clippers. We'll catch some grandpa that's
got an extra twenty two bullet in his pocket. Yeah,
but we haven't actually caught a terrace through the TSA,
so look it up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, yeah, we've never caught one terrorist.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But we spent trillions of dollars and wasted hundreds of
trillions of hours.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, no kidding, Well, it's it's really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I got to tell you that would be the
argument that the people who.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Work in TSA are, to be honest with you, they
have to be some of the most unhappy humans in
the face of the planet.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Some of them. Some of them are funny, though.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
There's one at Detroit at dt W. He's entertaining the
whole time. Yeah, funny, he's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh yeah, well, most of my experience, some of them
are not. Yes, I would say most in my experience.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
They just bark at you.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh and they must hate their jobs because they know
that they have a terrible job because nobody likes TSA.
It's just a big inconvenience. And I think that they
sort of sense that because people have to be grumpy
and take off your shoes.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, I think the government's listening, and you're on a
list now.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Oh you know what, I'm already.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You're getting padded down. You're getting padded down next week.
That's what's happening to you, buddy. They're gonna go through
all your stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, probably so, But I got to tell you. It
may be mad this week figuring out that my TSA
pre check was gone, which means I have to take
my computer out of my bag, I have to take
off my shoes.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, you don't take off your shoes anymore, No, nope, Okay,
We'll shows you how long I've had TSA pre check.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's been a while, but it's it's terrible, and I
have an I'm angry about it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Can I hook you up? Let me help you. Do
you have status right now? Are you silver?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I'm silver?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Okay, So that puts you in sky Priority yep, right,
So go to the sky Priority desk.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Guess what I am flying American Airlines. The reason why
is because it only flies into the airport that I'm
going to.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, then it's going to be awful. Yes, I was
going to tell you that there is a sky Priority
entrance into.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The hotel and no endo TSA. Oh that you skip everything?
Really yeah, huh, it's pretty good. Okay, So well, and
you have to go through all the stuff that you skip,
all the long lines right right right?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, but anyway, never mind that. Well maybe, but if
you're flying American Airlines, then there's no benefit. That's that's
that's on you. You made a bad.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Choice on the country for Delta not flying yeah, no
to the to the pop yeah yeah. So anyway, so
that made me mad, and I got to tell you,
it's going to make me mad every second until I
have it again. So and so I'm flying with no
TSA status and I have a temporary passport. Remember my
passport got stolen.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, so I'm still I'm flying with a purple passport.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You still haven't gotten your regular passport.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I should have, but I have a year.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh I have a year okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah so so yeah that happened back in July. So yeah, yeah,
so I still have some time.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You're mad that you don't have TSA pre check anymore, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And and I'm mad at the fact that it's going
to be a miserable experience already, know.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And then do you have global access to be when
you come back so you have to stand in line
back into the country, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Wow, yeah, okay with a temporary passport, which was this.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is this is a rich people problems, you know that, right. Yeah,
I'm flying out of the country.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But by the way, I was in I was even
in the Dominican and I was coming back last time,
and they wanted to like it's almost like their goal
is to throw things away. So I carry it like
sometimes like a little a little thing with like a
tonal clippers and you know, like little scissors and things
like that. You know, like a manicure set whatever. So
it's like this big and it's really small, and uh,
I've flown with that set, like I don't know a
(05:30):
dozen times, right and then uh, and so I threw
it in my bag and I went to the D S,
T dt W and they're like, you have to throw
your scissors away. I'm like, you're the only one out
of all the people. And I'm like, show me a
photo where and then you can't take scissors. Well, the
photo is like the big scissors. I'm like, no, that
(05:50):
is not a photo of these scissors, these tiny, little,
tiny little scissors. I'm like, and he refused, He's like,
throw it away. I'm like, I'm like, I don't like
you very much at all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You throw it away.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I had you. And then on the way back, on
the way back, the lady, the lady in the Dominican
she goes, oh, you can't have this, uh this shampoo,
and and it's under four ounces. And so I don't
know how to speak Spanish, so I'm like, quantos is
like you know, the quantity. I'm like, quantos is bueno.
Quantos is bueno and whatever, and and so then she
(06:24):
looks and she say okay, and she leaves it. But
she was just determined, determined to throw away my shampoo.
She wanted it will till I'm like, I'm like, why
why does t s A stink so bad around the world?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, there you go. Well you're mad.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I am mad for I hope you have a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, for all the rest of us, thank you, yes
and uh.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And so this week, though, I would say for most
of our listeners, this is a.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Little bit of an elitist complaint. Do you think that?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Do you think that people fly who listen? Most people
listen fly?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I would think so.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, then, so it's not necessarily I mean, it is elitist,
but it's also applicable.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's applicable. You were right, You were right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, Well I enjoyed it, and I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Start to finish, start to finish, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, Well I also agree with David in Psalm thirty
two from start to finish Wow on this one.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, you dare not disagree.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And if you have to run, you might be looking
for a hiding place. And this this verse that we
if you have to run from TSA.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's it right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You should have stuck with you should have start with that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I know I'm trying to get there. Man, this is bad.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So some thirty two says, Oh, what joy for those
whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight? Yes,
what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared
of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty. When
I refuse to confess my sins, my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day, long, day and night. Your
(08:00):
hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated
like water in the summer heat. Finally I confessed all
my sins to you, and stop trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, I will confess my rebellion to
the Lord, and you forgave me all. My guilt is gone. Therefore,
let all the godly pray to you while there is
still time that they may not drown in the Floodwater's
(08:22):
a judgment, for you are my hiding place. You protect
me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.
The Lord says, I will guide you along the best
pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch
over you. Do not be like a senseless horse or
mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it
under control. Many sorrows come to the wicked, but unfailing
(08:43):
love surrounds those who trust the Lord. So rejoice in
the Lord and be glad, all you who obey him.
Shout for joy, all you whose hearts are pure.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, there you go. I like it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I like it. Hey, So for those who may be
reading along, which, by the way, do you think people
pause the the Bible guys, and they actually go get
their Bible and they read with us. I think I
think some people do.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
There have to be right, I think it'd be a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Out of thousands, tens of thousands of listeners, I bet
you some do.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
If some people are reading Jeff, they came across this
little segment in this chapter three different times it says interlude,
and somebody else's might say, what say Cela, Celaela, Selah, Cela?
However you pronounce it? So I know that you know
what this means. Cela Selah? What do you say Cela
(09:38):
or sela?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Both? Do you?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay? So what does it mean? Why is it there?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Pause?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It means pause? But why is it there to pause
because of what to think, Well, it wasn't there because
of the song.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That there was music going on right there. Yes, so
I there's a guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And yeah, yeah it's a little uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, So those are musical interes right there. Music.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's what I was trying to get you to say.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So it was written for pause, but I think it's
there because these songs were songs, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So so there's a pause there for the reading or
for the singing. Uh, but then there has to be
music that's right during.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That time, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So I always wanted that as a kid, you know,
I was you know, I became a Christian fifteen, so
I was a teenager. But but I was reading, I
would say, what is sila or salo? However you to
pronounce it? And I didn't understand until I learned that
they were all like this was written to music. Yeah,
and by the way, these an't rhyme. These must have
(10:53):
been the worst songs ever.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Not name you think they were written in Hebrew or Hebrew?
I mean, yeah, it was. Many of them are.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Very clever and Hebrew you think, yeah, they are, Yeah, yeah,
in the original Hebrew. You know how sometimes we will
have songs that have double meanings or that are very
clever turn of phrase.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So many in Hebrew, many of the psalms have a
clever turn a phrase, or they have a double meaning,
kind of a you know, it means they said this,
but they really meant this, And so the Hebrews would
have picked up on it that a lot of these
are really clever and cleverly written. It's just not how
(11:37):
we would do it because it's translated to English. It's
hard to read, hard to sing a song. Yeah, you know,
because rhyme and meter are different in different languages. The structure,
because you know, Hebrew is spoken backwards compared to us
right where they put their adjectives and adverbs is after
not before, all that kind of stuff. So just even
(11:59):
the structure there's sentences is different, so it wouldn't make
any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But yeah, interesting, okay, So our operative verse is verse
number seven.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
That's right for you are my hiding.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Place, You protect me from trouble, you surround me with
songs of victory. And this one was written by King David.
So King David wrote this one, and uh it says
this and my application study Bible it says the psalm
is one of seven penitential psalmsial penitential psalms in which
(12:35):
the writers are being disciplined by God and experiencing suffering.
The other psalms are Psalms six thirty eight, fifty one, one, two, one,
and one forty three. I'm not sure that I knew that.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, so this is you know the other one? Psalm?
Was it? Fifty one? Search meal God and know my heart.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think I need reading glasses?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Do you I think I do? Is it time?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think it is. I've missed pronounced words. I'm tongue tied.
Whenever I try to read, I squint, and I mispronounced
this word penitential. I'm like, I just I think I
had a time I dread. The folks get some cool ones.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I dread it, and then you can just wear them
like a string around your neck. You get some of
those gold ones that snap together.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Right here?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
How are your eyes not? You're the same age as me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I can't see anything far away?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I can't either, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, so you're both directions. I could see up clothes,
I just.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can't see far away.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, that's awful.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, I lost my glasses though.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You're ready with glasses.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, yeah, So for driving and stuff. Yeah, I have
to wear my sunglasses because their prescription. They were great,
except at night it's dark I'm driving down the road.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The sunglasses they.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Do make glasses when if I had.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Time go get glasses in the last four or five days,
I haven't even had time go get a haircut.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Dude, in the last two weeks, were you hunting?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
No, sure that I'm positive in the last two weeks okay, yeah,
all right, dude.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I flew all the way to Morocco for a one
day meeting and turned around, landed for another meeting before
I got home, and then had a meeting the next
day with one hundred and twenty pastors and then it
was church day. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So I had
Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I could have done it. But are the eye glass
places open on Sunday? Probably not, I don't think so.
So that's where anyways, back to this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah for sure, right back to the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So thirty two is a psalm of David. If you remember,
Psalm was at fifty one, he's confessing sin. Yeah, oh God,
you know against you and you only have I sinned?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
This is that where David is saying, dude, I feel
so much better now that I got that right with God.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's this whole chapter, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This doesn't play take place after fifty one. Yeah, so
it's out of work because this is only thirty two.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sure, it's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The Book of of Psalms is divided into four books,
and he clusters them together based on things that he's
trying to say in those books. So there's four song
books in the Book of Salms.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, so I think I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, so this is out of order. So the Book
of Psalms is not in order. It's just this is
the order in which they sang them.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay, so I'm certain that I knew that at one time. Yeah,
but now I can't let that pass without you if
you already know them.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What are the four I can't remember?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh, here it is. It just says book one, Book two,
Book three, Book four, Book five.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, there's five.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Then intimacy with God.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The Book of Psalms has been and still is irreplaceable.
Devotional blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So anyways, the point I was making was if you're
reading in Psalm you know, fifty one or whatever it is,
where he is just God, it's against you, and you
only have I sinned and all these things. He's describing
here what it took to get there to that point,
because that's a beautiful Psalm, right, was it Psalm fifty one?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We you talked about the sin with Besheba.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So here he's saying, what joy for those whose record
the Lord is cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived
in complete honesty. He said, I feel so much better now,
as miserable as I was. But then he describes I,
when I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away.
I groaned all day, long, day and night. Your handed
the discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like
(16:33):
water in the summer heat. And finally I confessed all
my sins to you, and I stopped trying to hide
my guilt, and I said to myself, I will confess
my rebellion to the Lord, and you forgave me all.
My guilt is gone. And so he's describing how miserable
he was when he was fighting God. And man, if
(16:53):
you are miserable in your life and you have not
yet surrendered to God, let me tell you the only
so should take it from this warrior, take it from him,
and just understand your only hope for any peace is
to finally surrender to God. And then, man, this guy
who he's got it all. He's the king of the world,
and not the whole world, but you know he's the king.
(17:15):
There's nobody that can come up against him. He takes
what he wants, and finally he does. He takes a
woman that he shouldn't have, he kills a man that
was her husband, all these kinds of things, and then
the world begins to burn down around him, and he's
mad at God, he's mad at everything, and he won't repent.
And he said, during that time, my body was wasting away,
my strength evaporated.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I was miserable.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
But then when I finally said, you know what I'm
gonna I'm just gonna get right with God. Then the
whole rest of the chapters.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
God, You're so good. I feel great. Right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He's like on top of a mountain. He was miserable
and now he's on top of a mountain. And there
have been times in my life when I finally quit
fighting God and decided to surrender to God, and you
come away. It's almost euphoric where it's just done, it's
just oh final.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, there's something to that, for sure. I think I've
experienced that as well, for sure. And and yeah, especially
the heaviness party, the physicality. I mean, it's it's legitimate, right, Hey,
So because you open that can of worms, it says
it says the Book of Psalms is divided into five books,
and it says each of the first three books and
he's talking about like book one is like Psalm one
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through forty one. Then it's forty two through seventy two.
It's divided sort of like that. And it says each
of the first three books ends with double a men.
The fourth ends with an amen and a praise the Lord.
In the last book, he said about all the books,
closed the entire collection with a double praise the Lord.
David wrote thirty seven of the first forty one Psalms
in book one, so this is the beginning of the collection.
(18:45):
Books two and three may have been collected by the
advisors of King Hezekiah a literally a literate literary guild
and king hesitized Hezekia's day, copied and preserved precious Old
Testament manuscripts. Has Guy himself was a writer of sacred poetry.
Books four and five were probably collected and added during
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the time of the scholar Ezra. As with our modern hymnals,
there are collections within the collection, such as the Songs
for Pilgrims, and that gives examples like someone twenty three,
one thirty four, the Writings of Assaf seventy three, three
eighty three, the Psalms of the Descendants of Cora forty
three through forty nine eighty four to three eighty seven,
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and the Praise Psalms one of three through one oh seven, six,
one fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah. In't that neat?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So this this one in the Life of Application study
Bible breaks down the four books because I look that
up while you're doing yours. It says, well, the psalms
are not organized by topic. It's helpful to compare the
dominant themes in each section of the Psalms to the
five Books of Moses. So that's why there's five is
they're clustered that way. The first collection of psalms, mainly
written by David, is similar to the Book of Genesis.
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Just as Genesis tells how humankind was created, fell into sin,
was then promised redemption. Many of these songs to discuss
humans as blessed, fallen, and redeemed by God. That's all
Book one, which includes Psalm thirty two that we just read.
Book two is forty two through seventy two. This collection
of psalms, mainly written by David, the Descendants, of course,
similar to the Book of Exodus. Just as Exodus describes
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the nation of Israel, many of these psalms describe the
nation as ruined and then recovered. As God described the
nation of Israel, he also rescues us. As God rescued
the nation of Israel, he also rescues us. We do
not have to work out solutions first. We can go
to God with our problems and asking help. And that's
forty two through seventy two. It's all those things God,
I needs your help.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I like to rescue us.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I like that explanation better than yeah, this one, which is,
by the way, another promo for the life application of
study Bible, because this one is not this one's the
Transformation study, Bob, and it's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
A good one. I love that one. But yeah, I
like your explanation, bet So.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Book three is seventy three through eighty nine. Chapter seventy
two through eighty nine. This collection of psalms mainly written
by Asaf or Acef's descendants, which is what you're said,
is similar to the Book of Leviticus. Just as Leviticus
discovered the Tabernac in God's holiness, many of these psalms
discuss the temple and God's enthronement. Remember we just talked
about God's temple all that kind of stuff. Because God
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is almighty, we can turn to him for deliverance. And
these psalms praise God because he's holy in his perfect holiness,
deserves our worship and reverence. And then the fourth book
is all about mainly written by unknown authors, is mostly
about the Book of Numbers, which discusses the relationship of
Israel to surrounding nations. And these psalms often mentioned the
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relationship of God's overruling kingdom to how God oversees and
commands other kingdoms. And then that's ninety three one oh six,
and then you got the one oh seven through one
fifty which is all the worship, right, and it's similar
to the Book of Deuteronomy, and they are anthems of
praise and thanksgiving to God.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So isn't it neat?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, it's very neat.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Like I said, I'm sure in Bible College we covered that,
and I'm sure I've read a time or two, but
that totally escaped my mind. And when you said thirty
two came, so it's not intentionally came after fifty one,
I was like, what do you mean? Because I thought
that although when we did the chronological read through, they
skipped all around the songs, so that makes.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It they should.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And then you remember, fifty two would have been found
by Hezekiah's priests and thirty two you would have fifty
fifty one would have been found by Hezekiahs priests, and
thirty two was already established from David's writings, right, So
that would have been the difference too. But anyways, what
you have is you have this almost euphoric experience. Fifty
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one is so much grief over his sin and trusting
that God would forgive him, but struggling with his grief,
and this one is I can remember how bad it was.
But buddy, let me tell you, just get right with God.
This is what he's pleading. Just car right with God.
You're going to be feeling so much better if you
just get it off your chest and get it right
with God. And then he said it's along those lines
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that he says, what's the our key verse today?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I just lost it?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Verse number seven?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, seven, For you are my hiding place, and you
protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.
So all of a sudden, his creativity is coming back right.
He's he's protected from trouble again. He's just confident that
God's got his back again. He was alone and he
was miserable. Now he's right with God. God's got his back,
and he has so much joy.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I like the punctuation. It says, and you forgave me excamission.
I said to myself, I'll confess my rebellion to the Lord,
and you forgave me all my guilt is gone. Then
he says, therefore, all right, there's the conclusion for us.
Let all the godly pray to you while there is
still time that they may not drown in the floodwaters.
Of judgment because you said he was you know he was.
(23:47):
He was wallowing in his guilt, but he was also
wallowing in the consequences of his sin.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yes he was.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, So the consequences of a sin as child died
is you know, his sin was ever before him. And
what he meant by that was the entire nation knew
about it, right, So he Sometimes you sin and it's private,
and sometimes it's made public. And David had to face
that in front of everybody. He was accused publicly, and
everybody already knew it anyway, right, everybody already knew his sin.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
So in Romans chapter four, verse seven, Paul is talking
about the faith of Abraham, and then he talks about
how grace works and that God gives grace and for sinners,
it says, because of their faith in God, who forgives sinners,
he said. David also spoke of this when he described
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the happiness of those who had declared righteous without working
for it. And then he quotes this passage, Oh, what
joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are
put out of sight? Yes, what joy for those whose
record the Lord is cleared of sin? O neat and
then he says, now, is this blessing only for the Jews?
Or is it also for the uncircumcised gentiles what we've
been saying. Then he goes on and he says, is
for all of us. This forgiveness isn't just for Jews.
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It's not just for David. This forgiveness when God blots
out all of our sins, it's for everybody who places
their faith in Christ.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, and yet another example that the promises that were
written so long ago can apply to today.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So here's here's Paul applying it a thousand years after
David wrote it to their context. And God says, I
gave you this for your context in all the future. Right,
And so we can have trust. Jesus believed in the Psalms.
He quotes them many times. Paul believes in the Psalms,
he quote them many times. Right, So you and I
can have Satan. Yes, Satan believes in the songs.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, so we can have confidence that, Hey, the Psalms
are are God's word to us.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well, it looks like that is our time. So thanks
for joining us this week, and hopefully we will see
you as we continue this series of God's promises on
Monday on the Bible Gos
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