Day 270: Psalms 54-56 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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9. 0:24Family, welcome to day 270.
10. 0:27We are going to look at three of David's
11. 0:30Psalms today here at the Bible
12. 0:33department. I'm super super excited.
13. 0:35Hey, if you haven't done the reading
14. 0:36today, how about you stop the video,
15. 0:38pause the audio, go do the reading.
16. 0:40Today we are reading Psalm 54,55
17. 0:44and 56.
18. 0:46Three short Psalms. These would also be
19. 0:49like psalms of lament. And so they're
20. 0:52probably not going to get you fired up,
21. 0:54but uh they're important. They they
22. 0:56emphasize and they express the full
23. 0:59spectrum of human emotion. We're going
24. 1:02to dive into some of those human
25. 1:03feelings today. All right. So, if you
26. 1:06have done the reading, let's dive in.
27. 1:09Let's get into context clues. Like every
28. 1:12day, I'm going to give you context for
29. 1:13what we're reading and then we're going
30. 1:15to dive into some nerdy nuggets, maybe
31. 1:16some things that you wouldn't have
32. 1:18picked up if you were reading on your
33. 1:19own. And then we'll end the episode with
34. 1:21a timeless truth. So, context clues,
35. 1:25like you probably are aware of at this
36. 1:27point, we've looked at 53 Psalms. Uh,
37. 1:30there are these headings at the top of
38. 1:32the Psalms. Okay? So, Psalm 54 is going
39. 1:35to have one of these headings. I'll read
40. 1:37it straight out of my Bible. It says,
41. 1:39uh, for the director of music with
42. 1:41stringed instruments, a mascul of David.
43. 1:44So, we know that this is something
44. 1:45written by David. And then it gives this
45. 1:48little phrase. When the Zapites had gone
46. 1:51to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding
47. 1:55among us?" Right? I'll say that one more
48. 1:57time. When the Zephites had gone to Saul
49. 2:00and said, "Is not David hiding among
50. 2:03us?" So that is the context for this
51. 2:06psalm. Okay, David writes this psalm
52. 2:09based on that life scenario. So where is
53. 2:13that life scenario found? I'm so glad
54. 2:15that you asked. It is found in 1st
55. 2:17Samuel chap 23
56. 2:2014-2.
57. 2:221st Samuel chapter 23 14-2. And of
58. 2:26course I've got Psalm 54 pulled up in
59. 2:29this Bible. But I've got 1st Samuel 23
60. 2:33pulled up in this Bible. And so if we go
61. 2:36go we can go ahead and read. I'll read
62. 2:37it straight from my Bible. 1st Samuel
63. 2:39chapter 23. We can start reading at
64. 2:41verse 14. Uh, David stayed in the
65. 2:45wilderness strongholds and in the hills
66. 2:48of the desert of Ze. Here we go. Key
67. 2:51word, ze. Okay. And if you go uh day
68. 2:54after day, Saul searched for him. But
69. 2:56God did not give David into Saul's
70. 3:00hands. While David was at Hores in the
71. 3:02desert of Ze, he learned that Saul had
72. 3:06come out to take his life. Okay, so Saul
73. 3:08is adamant about trying to murder David.
74. 3:13This is not a game. Okay, David is on
75. 3:15the run for his life. He is he is
76. 3:18desperately trying to to not die at the
77. 3:22hands of Saul. And then if you drop all
78. 3:23the way down to 19, the Zephites, okay,
79. 3:27went up to Saul at Gibia and said, "Is
80. 3:30not David hiding among us?" So obviously
81. 3:33that is the exact heading that we have
82. 3:36at the top of Psalm 54. Okay. Is not
83. 3:39David hiding among us in the strongholds
84. 3:42at Horesh on the hill of Heca south of
85. 3:48Jeson. Now your majesty come down
86. 3:51whenever it pleases you to do so and we
87. 3:54will be responsible for giving him into
88. 3:57your hands. Talk about like not knowing
89. 4:00how to mind your business. Okay, the
90. 4:02Zifites have nothing to do with this,
91. 4:04but they are scared to be on the wrong
92. 4:07side of history. Well, unfortunately or
93. 4:09ironically, they they do get on the
94. 4:12wrong side of history. Okay, they they
95. 4:13did pick the wrong side. Okay, but what
96. 4:16they don't want is Saul and his raiding
97. 4:19army to come into their territory and
98. 4:22for them to be disloyal to Saul. The
99. 4:25only problem is that God has already
100. 4:28selected David. And so in this scenario,
101. 4:32loyalty does not look like loyalty to
102. 4:35the old king, but it looks like loyalty
103. 4:38to the new king that God has anointed
104. 4:40and that God has appointed. And so we
105. 4:42get a whole psalm now about these
106. 4:45zephites who betray David. And so uh
107. 4:48this how the story ends. This is 1st
108. 4:51Samuel chapter 23 27. Okay. Saul comes
109. 4:55down. He's literally pursuing David.
110. 4:58They're literally on a mountain. Saul is
111. 5:00chasing David around this mountain. And
112. 5:02then verse 27, a messenger came to Saul
113. 5:04while he's chasing David, saying, "Come
114. 5:06quickly. The Philistines are raiding the
115. 5:09land." Then Saul broke off his pursuit
116. 5:12of David and went to meet the
117. 5:13Philistines. That is why they call this
118. 5:15place Saha Hamalikoth. Hamelikoth. Okay.
119. 5:20And David went up from there and lived
120. 5:23in the strongholds of Engeti. All right.
121. 5:26So that is 1st Samuel chapter 23.
122. 5:29Obviously this psalm, okay, 1st Samuel
123. 5:3223 is what inspires the psalm that we
124. 5:35have here today. Psalm 54. Okay, so
125. 5:38that's context. David is in distress.
126. 5:41David's on the run. This is probably the
127. 5:43most stressful, probably top three most
128. 5:47stressful experiences of David's life. I
129. 5:49just want you to imagine being a
130. 5:51commander in the army, being the king's
131. 5:54son-in-law, being the best friend of the
132. 5:56crown prince, being a military hero,
133. 6:00being the person that has killed the the
134. 6:03famous enemy, Goliath, and then all of a
135. 6:06sudden your leader is so jealous of you
136. 6:11and so full of evil and hatred that he's
137. 6:14throwing spears at you at the palace.
138. 6:16You eventually have to leave. leave your
139. 6:19wife and your friends and your family
140. 6:22and everyone that you know to just be
141. 6:25chased around the wilderness like a wild
142. 6:27animal. I mean, this is just a hard
143. 6:30season of David's life. In this very
144. 6:32hard season, produces some gut-wrenching
145. 6:34psalms. Okay, Psalm 54 starts out, "Save
146. 6:37me, oh God, by your name. Vindicate me
147. 6:40by your might. Hear my prayer, oh God.
148. 6:42Listen to the words of my mouth.
149. 6:44Arrogant foes are attacking me. Ruthless
150. 6:47people are trying to kill me. People
151. 6:49without regard for God. Surely God is my
152. 6:53help. The Lord is the one who sustains
153. 6:56me. That verse right there, surely the
154. 6:59surely God is my help. That word help.
155. 7:02Here's a nerdy nugget for the day is
156. 7:04aair. That's the same word that that the
157. 7:07Bible is going to use to describe Eve as
158. 7:09a helper to Adam. And so that word is in
159. 7:13no way, shape or form denigrating or
160. 7:15like dishonoring. God actually describes
161. 7:18himself in that way. David is not saying
162. 7:20that God is beneath him. David is saying
163. 7:22that God is strong enough to actually
164. 7:24help him. And so when the Bible says
165. 7:27that women are called to be a helpmate
166. 7:30to men, that's not like a disrespectful
167. 7:33or denigrating term. It's saying you're
168. 7:35strong enough to actually be a help. And
169. 7:38so that's actually a word that is so
170. 7:41esteemed that God uses it for himself.
171. 7:43Let evil recoil on those who slander me
172. 7:46in your faithfulness destroy them. Let
173. 7:48it let let there be backlash. Let let it
174. 7:51recoil back on them. The evil that they
175. 7:53mean for me, God, let it go ahead and
176. 7:56backfire on them. I will sacrifice a
177. 7:59free will offering to you. I will praise
178. 8:00your name, Lord, for you are good. Here
179. 8:02we go. I love this. This is verse seven.
180. 8:04It's my favorite. You see how it starts
181. 8:07in chapter 54:1 as save me, oh God, by
182. 8:11your name. Vindicate me by your might.
183. 8:13It's it's asking God to save. It's
184. 8:15asking God to vindicate. But by the time
185. 8:17we get to verse 7, you have delivered
186. 8:20me. Now, you will deliver me. You have
187. 8:24delivered me. It's already in past
188. 8:26tense. By the time we get to the end of
189. 8:28the psalm, David has already moved from,
190. 8:31"Please Lord, deliver me to you have
191. 8:34delivered me. I'm already delivered from
192. 8:37all my troubles and my eyes have looked
193. 8:40in triumph on my foes." It's funny when
194. 8:44me and my wife are battling through
195. 8:46infertility, I just began to say, "On
196. 8:48the cross, Jesus said, "It is done."
197. 8:52Not, "It will be done." No, it is done.
198. 8:54It is paid for. So the healing that we
199. 8:57need in our physical body so that we
200. 8:59could produce children, it was purchased
201. 9:02on Calvary. Like I'm not waiting for God
202. 9:04to actually do anything. I have to walk
203. 9:08in the full measure of what has already
204. 9:11been done. You can see David doing the
205. 9:13same process right here in Psalm 54. He
206. 9:15starts out with save me, oh God, by your
207. 9:17name. But then by the end of the psalm,
208. 9:19he realized, I'm already saved. I have
209. 9:23been delivered. You have delivered me
210. 9:26from all my troubles. All right, let's
211. 9:28dive into Psalm 55. Let's give context
212. 9:32for Psalm 56. Actually, this will be
213. 9:34helpful. Okay, so we're going to skip
214. 9:35Psalm 55 really quick. We're going to go
215. 9:37to Psalm 56. And uh the context for
216. 9:40Psalm 56 is 1st Samuel chapter 21. So
217. 9:44this is a nerdy nugget that I want to
218. 9:45throw at you. Okay, the Psalms are not
219. 9:48recounting what happened in David's life
220. 9:50in chronological order. Okay, so things
221. 9:53are not in chronological order because
222. 9:55remember the context for Psalm 54 is 1st
223. 9:58Samuel chapter 23, but the context for
224. 10:01Psalm 56 is 1st Samuel chapter 21. Okay.
225. 10:05So, we're going back two chapters in
226. 10:08Samuel and we're going to read like well
227. 10:11what what actually happened and we can
228. 10:13read it right here in the heading of
229. 10:15Psalm 56 says this for the director of
230. 10:17music to the tune of a dove on distant
231. 10:21oaks of David a mtam. Okay, so we we've
232. 10:25got a mcam. Here's a nerdy nugget. We're
233. 10:27actually about to get a bunch of MCTs.
234. 10:30Okay, there are five MCTAs in book two.
235. 10:33Remember, we're in book two of the
236. 10:35Psalms right now. And so Psalm 56 all
237. 10:39the way to Psalm 60. So 56, 57, 58, 59,
238. 10:42and 60 are all going to be MCAMs. Now,
239. 10:45before I even get into the context, I'm
240. 10:47going to give you a nerdy nugget. Okay,
241. 10:48the word MCTM, uh, I may have said this
242. 10:51on a previous episode, could mean two
243. 10:54things. I'm going to kind of read this
244. 10:55from my iPad. There's two Hebrew words
245. 10:58that MCTM can be based on. Okay. The
246. 11:01first is ketm which means gold. Okay.
247. 11:04That's the Hebrew word for gold. So a
248. 11:06lot of people kind of refer to these
249. 11:08mamms as golden psalms. Okay. Due to the
250. 11:12similarity of the name to the Hebrew
251. 11:14word for gold which is km. But this is
252. 11:17not thought to be a good translation.
253. 11:19Very popular but I don't think it's a
254. 11:20good translation. There's a more likely
255. 11:23okay to come from the Hebrew word kmu.
256. 11:25Kmu which means to cover. Okay. to
257. 11:30cover. Um this same idea can be found um
258. 11:35in the cover covering in the sense of
259. 11:38like atonement like your sins have been
260. 11:40covered. Now this image is more likely
261. 11:42to be about covering the lips. Okay? So
262. 11:46that this is a secret psalm or a silent
263. 11:48prayer uttered to Yahweh in times of
264. 11:50distress. So this is not a golden psalm
265. 11:53as some scholars and theologians would
266. 11:55maybe you know talk about but this is
267. 11:58more of a secret psalm or a silent
268. 12:00prayer and you can see that like these
269. 12:03are psalms of distress. Okay the things
270. 12:05that all three of these psalms today
271. 12:07have in common Psalm 54 55 and 56 is
272. 12:10that these are psalms that come from a
273. 12:12season of David's life where he is
274. 12:14literally on the run for his life. He is
275. 12:17scared that he is going to die. He is a
276. 12:20political refugee. He is being hunted by
277. 12:23a very powerful, very, very emotionally
278. 12:27unstable and mentally unstable
279. 12:29tormented, demonically tormented,
280. 12:31probably actually schizophrenic king
281. 12:33named Saul. And Saul has all the power
282. 12:36of the nation to throw at hunting David.
283. 12:40The fact that David survives is a
284. 12:43testament to God's grace and covering on
285. 12:48David's life. And so we're going to get
286. 12:50these psalms where David is covering his
287. 12:52lips to offer up to God these silent
288. 12:55prayers while he's in the middle of
289. 12:56distress. So Psalm 56. Okay, I dipped
290. 12:59into some nerdy nuggets and now we're
291. 13:00back into context clues. On most of the
292. 13:02episode I moved from context clues to
293. 13:04nerdy nuggets to timeless truth, but
294. 13:06today we're kind of going back and forth
295. 13:08between context and nerdy nuggets and
296. 13:10context clues and nerdy nuggets. But
297. 13:12you're a pro. You've been rocking with
298. 13:13me for 270 days now, so you're good. Uh
299. 13:16it says this for the director of music
300. 13:18to the tune of a dove on distant oaks of
301. 13:22David a miktam when the Philistines had
302. 13:25seized him in Gath. All right. So let's
303. 13:28go to 1st Samuel chapter 24. Okay,
304. 13:31sorry. 1st Samuel chapter 21. 1st Samuel
305. 13:34chapter 21. I don't know why I said
306. 13:36chapter 24, but it's 1st Samuel chapter
307. 13:3821. And we are going to start reading.
308. 13:41Verse 10 says this. That day David fled
309. 13:44from Saul and went to Akish, king of
310. 13:46Gath. Now, if you remember, Goliath is
311. 13:50from Gath. And so, literally, you kind
312. 13:53of have to be crazy to go to the very
313. 13:57hometown of the hero that you killed.
314. 14:01Okay. But the servants of Akish said to
315. 14:04him, "Isn't this David, the king of the
316. 14:06land? Isn't he the one they sing about
317. 14:08in their dances? Saul has slain his
318. 14:10thousands. David, his tens of thousands.
319. 14:13David took these words to heart and was
320. 14:16very much afraid of Akish, king of Gath.
321. 14:18So he pretended to be insane in their
322. 14:21presence. And while he was in their
323. 14:23hands, he acted like a madman, making
324. 14:26marks on the doors of the gates and
325. 14:28letting saliva run down his beard. Akish
326. 14:30said to his servants, "Look at the man.
327. 14:33He is insane. Why bring him to me? Am I
328. 14:36so short of madman that you have to
329. 14:38bring this fellow here to carry on like
330. 14:41this in front of me? Must this man come
331. 14:43into my house? Now, why is David even in
332. 14:46Gath? Well, he's in Gath because there's
333. 14:48no safe place in Israel for him to be.
334. 14:50The thing that proceeds or precedes the
335. 14:53story is that David is at a place called
336. 14:56Knob and he says to a Himch, the priest,
337. 14:59is there a sword? And he actually gets
338. 15:01Goliath's sword. Okay? and he gets
339. 15:04Goliath's sword and what's going to
340. 15:05happen? There's an Edomite, okay, named
341. 15:09Doe who is going to go snitch. This
342. 15:13whole Psalm 54 to 56 should be just like
343. 15:16the psalm for the snitches, okay? Cuz
344. 15:19literally, it's just a bunch of people
345. 15:20snitching on David. Like, he's here,
346. 15:22he's here, he's here. And because Doe
347. 15:26the Edomite snitches on David, what ends
348. 15:29up happening is that David has to flee.
349. 15:31Okay? And so that's the reason that he's
350. 15:33even in Gath in the first place. Okay.
351. 15:36And then after Gath, he escapes to the
352. 15:38cave of Adullum. And he's just on the
353. 15:41run, on the move. No home, no rest, no
354. 15:45predictability to his life. Just
355. 15:47literally on the run, just living day by
356. 15:50day, trying to survive. Okay? And so out
357. 15:54of this, we get just song psalms of
358. 15:57anguish. Okay? Remember I told you in in
359. 16:00chapter 54:7. So Psalm 54:7 kind of
360. 16:04ended with you have delivered. Well,
361. 16:07guess what? We're going to get that
362. 16:08again. Look at Psalm 56:13. Okay, Psalm
363. 16:1256:13
364. 16:14says this, "For you have delivered me
365. 16:16from death and my feet from stumbling
366. 16:19that I may walk before God in the light
367. 16:23of life." So uh chapter 56 or Psalm 56
368. 16:26starts with be merciful to me my God for
369. 16:29my enemies are in heart pursuit all day
370. 16:31long they press their attack my
371. 16:33adversaries pursue me all day long in
372. 16:35their pride many are attacking me okay
373. 16:38so it's like please pursue me be
374. 16:39merciful or or please have mercy on me
375. 16:43please pity me please uh rescue me and
376. 16:46then we go from be merciful to me to you
377. 16:51have delivered me from death we move
378. 16:53from present tense to past tense. This
379. 16:56is already done. By the time he gets to
380. 16:58the end of the psalm, he's acknowledging
381. 17:01you've already delivered me. You've
382. 17:03already done the thing that I started
383. 17:05this prayer asking you for. It's already
384. 17:08done. And uh I just want to encourage
385. 17:11anyone who prays on a regular basis.
386. 17:14Your prayer should follow the same
387. 17:15pattern. Lord God, would you please give
388. 17:17us kids? You've already given us kids.
389. 17:20God, would you please heal us from
390. 17:22cancer? the cancer is already healed.
391. 17:25You have healed me. I got a good friend
392. 17:29whose dad did have cancer and he felt
393. 17:32like they the their family had a promise
394. 17:34from God that his dad would be healed of
395. 17:36cancer and then his dad died, you know,
396. 17:38of cancer. And his way of interpreting
397. 17:41that was that, well, now he's healed
398. 17:45because he's in heaven. And so whether
399. 17:47or not someone gets healed while they're
400. 17:50alive doesn't mean that they didn't they
401. 17:52didn't get healed. God, you have healed
402. 17:55me. You have whether or not I receive
403. 17:58the physical manifestation of that
404. 18:00healing here on earth or whether I
405. 18:02receive the physical manifestation of
406. 18:03that healing in the afterlife when I'm
407. 18:05with you forever in heaven. I have been
408. 18:09healed. And and David comes to this
409. 18:11conclusion. I have been delivered. you
410. 18:15have delivered me. I'm not going to keep
411. 18:17asking you to do something that you've
412. 18:19already done. I think our timeless truth
413. 18:23uh needs to be that whatever we're
414. 18:25asking God for, you have to move into a
415. 18:27position of he's already done it and I
416. 18:30may as well praise him in advance for
417. 18:33the thing that he's already done.
418. 18:35Whether I see it here on earth or
419. 18:37whether I see it in heaven, it's already
420. 18:40done. It's funny. I I was talking to a
421. 18:43woman at a church recently and uh I was
422. 18:45just praying for people in the lobby and
423. 18:47I said, "What can I pray for you for?"
424. 18:49And she said, "Well, I'm already healed,
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427. 18:55but my body hasn't caught up with what
428. 18:58God has said yet. And can you pray that
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434. 19:12source of healing you already have." And
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460. 20:20to the episode. One other timeless truth
461. 20:22that I want to give you for today is
462. 20:24that Psalm 54 and Psalm 55, we didn't
463. 20:27talk a lot about Psalm 55, but really my
464. 20:30big key verse is going to come from
465. 20:32Psalm 55 today. Let me just grab it in
466. 20:35my Bible. Psalm 54 and Psalm 55 give
467. 20:37voice to the personal pain of betrayal
468. 20:41by close friends and trusted loved ones.
469. 20:45We can all relate to this form of human
470. 20:48and emotional pain. So, I want you to go
471. 20:49to Psalm 55
472. 20:5212-4. Psalm 55:12-14.
473. 20:55Here's what actually makes these psalms
474. 20:56really, really sad. Says this, "If an
475. 20:58enemy were insulting me, I could endure
476. 21:01it. If a foe were rising against me, I
477. 21:05could hide. But it is you, a man like
478. 21:08myself, my companion,
479. 21:11my close friend." You see what David is
480. 21:13saying? Saying, "If it was an enemy, I
481. 21:15could endure it. Like, it'd be okay. I
482. 21:18could hide. But the betrayal of a close
483. 21:20friend, of a brother, of a companion,
484. 21:23this is unbearable. With whom I once
485. 21:25enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of
486. 21:28God, we enjoyed the presence of God
487. 21:31together. As we walked about among the
488. 21:34worshippers. Okay, so that's verses 12
489. 21:35to 14. Now skip over to verse 20. My
490. 21:38companion attacks his friends. He
491. 21:41violates his covenant. His talk is
492. 21:45smooth as butter, yet wars in his heart.
493. 21:47His words are more soothing than oil,
494. 21:49yet they are drawn swords. One of the
495. 21:51things that I think is timelessly true
496. 21:54is that we're not only going to
497. 21:56experience betrayal or hurt uh by those
498. 22:00who are sworn enemies, but we're also
499. 22:02going to experience betrayal and hurt by
500. 22:04those closest to us, by friends, by
501. 22:07people that we would have never seen it
502. 22:09coming. And David goes ahead and gives
503. 22:12voice to like that kind of deep personal
504. 22:15pain. The thing that David is lamenting
505. 22:18in these psalms in particular is not
506. 22:21just that random people are attacking
507. 22:23him or that want to see him die or
508. 22:25trying to kill him, but that people that
509. 22:27he loves and cares for and at one point
510. 22:30trusted. And man, that sucks. Like
511. 22:33that's just hard. There are some friends
512. 22:36that I've had for decades and there are
513. 22:38some friends that I've had to mourn the
514. 22:40loss of not being that person's friend
515. 22:43anymore. And that stuff stings and that
516. 22:47is uh there's a temptation to just put a
517. 22:49wall of defense up. But what we see in
518. 22:52the Psalms is David's vulnerable or
519. 22:55David's choice to remain soft-hearted
520. 22:57and vulnerable even when there's a
521. 22:59temptation to become callous when
522. 23:01there's personal betrayal in your life.
523. 23:03And so I think that's not just relevant
524. 23:06for David's life. I think that's
525. 23:07relevant for your life. And obviously
526. 23:09that was relevant for Jesus's life. I
527. 23:11mean, it's not like some random person
528. 23:13betrayed him. One of his disciples that
529. 23:14he had spent 3 years with betrayed him.
530. 23:17And I think all of us have people in our
531. 23:19life who we would have never expected
532. 23:21that they would be the person that would
533. 23:23betray us. I've got a friend, I won't
534. 23:24say his name, who found out that his
535. 23:27wife was cheating on him with his best
536. 23:30man at their wedding. Like talk about
537. 23:32just personal betrayal, like close
538. 23:36personal betrayal. And so for people who
539. 23:39are work walking through those kinds of
540. 23:41scenarios, Psalm 55, Psalm 54, 555, and
541. 23:4556 are for you. You're not alone. You're
542. 23:48not the only person that's walked
543. 23:50through the pain of personal betrayal.
544. 23:53And you're in good company because so is
545. 23:55David and so is Jesus. And J David's
546. 23:58words are not as relevant for him or for
547. 24:01Jesus. They're relevant for you as well.
548. 24:04All right, I'll see you tomorrow for day
549. 24:05271.
550. 24:07We're going to be in Psalms 57, 58, and
551. 24:1059. It's going to be good. All of the
552. 24:12Psalms tomorrow are your favorite. Yep.
553. 24:15MC Tams.
554. 24:17I can't wait to see you. If you're on a
555. 24:19streak, I love you. If you're not, come
556. 24:21on. It's the Psalms. Dive in. I love you
557. 24:23guys so much. See you right here
558. 24:25tomorrow. Peace. Thanks so much for
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