Day 271: Psalms 57-59 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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9. 0:24Hey family, welcome to day 271 here on
10. 0:27the Bible department podcast. I'm your
11. 0:30host Dr. Manny Orango and today we are
12. 0:32looking at Psalms 57,58 and 59. All
13. 0:36three of these Psalms are MC Tams. MC
14. 0:41Tams. That's right. If you haven't done
15. 0:42the reading yet, then you're definitely
16. 0:45going to want to go ahead and do the
17. 0:46reading. Easy reading. Obviously, poems
18. 0:50are pretty easy to read. Psalm 57:58 and
19. 0:5259. You're going to see similar themes
20. 0:55throughout. David is definitely going to
21. 0:57communicate with the language of being
22. 0:59hunted like prey. Uh so we're going to
23. 1:01get a lot of animallike language for the
24. 1:03people that are trying to devour him or
25. 1:05ensnare him or trap him. Super super
26. 1:08poetic, really beautiful in my opinion.
27. 1:11Like always, if you haven't done the
28. 1:13reading, then you're not going to really
29. 1:14understand the content of this episode.
30. 1:17I'm going to start out with context
31. 1:19clues, then we're going to move to nerdy
32. 1:20nuggets. Always going to leave off with
33. 1:21a timeless truth. If you've done the
34. 1:23reading, then with no further ado, let's
35. 1:26jump into the episode. All right. Uh
36. 1:29we've got context for Psalm 57 and Psalm
37. 1:3459. Actually, Psalm 57, 58, and 59 kind
38. 1:37of work as a kayazm. And if you're new
39. 1:40to the podcast, you may not know how
40. 1:41kayazms work. It means that the outside
41. 1:45of the sandwich kind of begins to become
42. 1:48an interpretive clue for what's
43. 1:49happening inside. Right? So, um, a
44. 1:52kayazm, let's say in the New Testament
45. 1:54in the book of Mark would be Gyrus has a
46. 1:57daughter who's sick. He goes to see
47. 1:59Jesus to get healing for his daughter.
48. 2:02And in the middle of Gyrus's
49. 2:04conversation with Jesus, a woman with
50. 2:06the issue of blood pops up. And then
51. 2:08after the woman with the issue of blood
52. 2:09is healed, they go to Gyrus's house. So
53. 2:11it's like gyrus one with the issue of
54. 2:12blood. Gyrus. So gyrus becomes the
55. 2:15sandwich or the bread for the sandwich
56. 2:17and then the one with the issue of blood
57. 2:19becomes the meat. What's in the middle?
58. 2:21And so you've got to interpret what's
59. 2:24happening with the girl and with Gyrus
60. 2:26to understand what's happening with the
61. 2:28woman and vice versa. You got to
62. 2:30understand what's happening with the
63. 2:31woman to understand what's happening
64. 2:32with girl and with Gyrus. Right? So
65. 2:35another word for this would be an
66. 2:36intercolation or just a sandwich. But a
67. 2:39kayazm means that the gold is in the
68. 2:42middle. Right? So Psalm 57 and Psalm 59
69. 2:46are very very very similar which help us
70. 2:48to understand Psalm 58 which doesn't
71. 2:51have a context heading. So Psalm 57 does
72. 2:54have a context heading. Okay. Psalm 57
73. 2:57tells us right up at the top it says
74. 3:00when David had fled from Saul into the
75. 3:04cave. Okay. And so the context for Psalm
76. 3:0757 is going to be 1st Samuel chapter 24.
77. 3:11And we're going to look at 1st Samuel uh
78. 3:14chapter 24 in just a second. Psalm 59.
79. 3:18The context for Psalm 59, we can read
80. 3:21the heading right up at the top of the
81. 3:23Psalm is going to be when Saul had sent
82. 3:26men to watch David's house in order to
83. 3:29kill him. Okay. So the context for Psalm
84. 3:3257 is 1st Samuel chapter 24. And I just
85. 3:35want to make note that this is not in
86. 3:38chronological order. So Psalm 59's
87. 3:41context is 1st Samuel chapter 19. Okay.
88. 3:45So 1st Samuel chapter 24 for the context
89. 3:48for Samuel chapter 57. So sorry, Psalm
90. 3:5157 and then 1st Samuel 19 is the context
91. 3:55for Psalm 59. All right. So all three of
92. 3:59these psalms are written in a time of
93. 4:02great distress while David is on the
94. 4:04run. And so the context really in terms
95. 4:07of just distressed and on the run is the
96. 4:10same as yesterday if you were here for
97. 4:12day 270 of the podcast. Okay. Now
98. 4:16there's another little we're going to
99. 4:18get into 1st Samuel 24 and 1st Samuel 19
100. 4:20in just a moment. So a little bit more
101. 4:23context than normal. But there's another
102. 4:26little it's kind of a nerdy nugget of
103. 4:29context. So, it's still a context clue,
104. 4:31but it's it's a nerdy nugget of context.
105. 4:34So, I I know I'm merging context clues
106. 4:36with nerdy nuggets here. Let's look at
107. 4:40the headings again. Psalm 57 says this,
108. 4:43"For the director of music to the tune
109. 4:46of do not destroy, to the tune of do not
110. 4:50destroy." Okay, now let's look at 58.
111. 4:53Psalm 58, for the director of music to
112. 4:55the tune of do not destroy. And then
113. 4:59let's look at Psalm 59. These are our
114. 5:01three psalms for the day. Okay. For the
115. 5:02director of music to the tune of do not
116. 5:06destroy of David a Miktam. Okay, we're
117. 5:09going to see that repeated for all three
118. 5:12of our psalms that we have assigned to
119. 5:14the Bible reading plan today. To the
120. 5:16tune of do not destroy. So what's going
121. 5:20on with that? Okay. And and I know this
122. 5:23is super granular. Like you can't just
123. 5:26read the psalm itself. You kind of got
124. 5:28to read the heading. Okay. So what's up
125. 5:31with this tune? Do not destroy. Well,
126. 5:34let's kind of help us dive in to what
127. 5:36that could mean. Okay. Because uh I've
128. 5:39got I've got some clues as to what's
129. 5:41going on here. Let's go to Deuteronomy
130. 5:44chapter 9. Okay. Deuteronomy chapter 9
131. 5:46verse 25. This is Moses talking. Okay.
132. 5:51there there's been a golden calf
133. 5:52incident and Moses is going to intercede
134. 5:55on the behalf of the people because God
135. 5:57actually says to Moses, "Hey, I'm going
136. 5:59to destroy all these people and me and
137. 6:01you can start over." Okay, let's read
138. 6:04Deuteronomy chapter 9. I lay prostrate
139. 6:06before the Lord. This is Moses
140. 6:08recounting something that had happened a
141. 6:10long time ago. I lay prostrate before
142. 6:12the Lord those 40 days or 40 nights
143. 6:14because the Lord had said he would
144. 6:17destroy you. Verse 26. I prayed to the
145. 6:21Lord and said, "Sovereign Lord, do not
146. 6:24destroy, do not destroy your people,
147. 6:28your own inheritance that you redeemed
148. 6:31by your great power and brought out of
149. 6:34Egypt with a mighty hand." So Moses
150. 6:36prays to the Lord that the Lord would
151. 6:39not destroy. Here we go. Do not destroy.
152. 6:42That's Moses' prayer to the Lord. Do not
153. 6:45destroy your people, your own
154. 6:46inheritance, that you redeemed by your
155. 6:49great power and brought out of Egypt
156. 6:51with a mighty hand. We're going to see
157. 6:53this phrase again in Isaiah 65:8.
158. 6:56This is what the Lord says. As when
159. 6:59juice is still found in a cluster of
160. 7:02grapes and people say, "Don't destroy
161. 7:04it." There is still a blessing in it, so
162. 7:08I will do it on behalf of my servants. I
163. 7:13will not destroy them all. Do not
164. 7:18destroy. So now let's go to 1st Samuel
165. 7:22chapter 26. Okay, this is David who has
166. 7:26an opportunity to kill the man who's
167. 7:28trying to kill him, Saul. And here's
168. 7:30what he says. But David said to Abashai,
169. 7:33"Do not destroy him. Who can lay a hand
170. 7:38on the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?
171. 7:40As surely as the Lord lives, he said,
172. 7:43the Lord himself will strike him, or his
173. 7:46time will come, and he will die, or he
174. 7:49will go into battle and perish. But the
175. 7:51Lord forbid that I should lay a hand on
176. 7:54the Lord's anointed. Now get the spear
177. 7:57and the water jug that are near his
178. 7:59head, and let's go." So David took the
179. 8:02spear and the water jug near Saul's
180. 8:04head, and they left. No one saw or knew
181. 8:07about it, nor did anyone wake up. They
182. 8:10were all sleeping because the Lord had
183. 8:12put them into a deep sleep. Do not
184. 8:16destroy. So what? Okay, why did I lead
185. 8:20us down all this trail of breadcrumbs?
186. 8:22Because just the heading on Psalm 5758
187. 8:26and 59 are actually telling us that
188. 8:29David has the character of Moses and
189. 8:34Yahweh. That is what's being said here.
190. 8:36The reason that these psalms have to be
191. 8:39sung to the tune of do not destroy is
192. 8:42because then you're supposed to Google
193. 8:44search in your mind where else does the
194. 8:46Bible say do not destroy. And then you
195. 8:48go look up those stories and you go,
196. 8:50"Oh, Moses said those words to the Lord
197. 8:53when the Lord wanted to destroy the
198. 8:54people." And then Isaiah says, speaking
199. 8:58for God, that God is not going to
200. 9:01destroy the people of Israel although
201. 9:03they're rebellious. And then we get the
202. 9:05story of David in 1st Samuel 26 where he
203. 9:10could kill Saul, but it's intentional
204. 9:13not to use the word kill, but use the
205. 9:16word destroy because every word in
206. 9:18Hebrew is very, very intentional. So the
207. 9:21writer uses the word destroy to link
208. 9:24David and his character to Moses and to
209. 9:29Yahweh. This is brilliant. This this
210. 9:32this is this is just such an artistic
211. 9:35way to write. And so the theme that we
212. 9:38have for all three of these psalms is
213. 9:41that David will not destroy that which
214. 9:44only God is allowed to destroy. And that
215. 9:49is going to be be our Thomas truth for
216. 9:51the day because a lot of us it it's
217. 9:54we're battling with unforgiveness and
218. 9:56vengeance and jealousy but we don't
219. 9:58realize vengeance belongs to the Lord.
220. 10:01And the moment I try to take vengeance
221. 10:03for myself then actually I'm stepping
222. 10:06into God's shoes. I'm stepping into
223. 10:08God's position and I'm acting like God.
224. 10:11I'm actually doing something that's very
225. 10:12very idolatrous. All right. So let's
226. 10:15back up and get even more context. Okay?
227. 10:17cuz cuz that's the theme running through
228. 10:19these three psalms is the very tune that
229. 10:23the psalms have to be played to are
230. 10:26telling you something about David's
231. 10:27character that he will not destroy Saul
232. 10:31even though Saul is actively trying to
233. 10:34murder him. Saul is trying to kill
234. 10:37David, but David will not destroy Saul
235. 10:41because like Moses and like Yahweh,
236. 10:44David will refuse to destroy anything
237. 10:47that he has not been given a green light
238. 10:49to destroy. Wow, that right there, just
239. 10:53that alone blows my mind. Okay, now
240. 10:56let's actually look at the context. All
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263. 11:55to the episode. The context for Psalm 57
264. 11:58is 1st Samuel chapter 24. So, let's flip
265. 12:01to 1st Samuel chapter 24. What's
266. 12:03happening in 1st Samuel chapter 24? I'll
267. 12:05tell you exactly what's happening. Okay,
268. 12:08David is uh hiding, okay, in a cave. And
269. 12:13Saul goes into the cave to relieve
270. 12:16himself. Okay, this is actually supposed
271. 12:19to be pretty funny, okay? that that Saul
272. 12:23has to go number two. And it's clear
273. 12:26that he's got to go number two and not
274. 12:28number one because while he's going
275. 12:29number two, David is going to cut off a
276. 12:32corner of Saul's robe. And he's only
277. 12:34able to do that if he's going number
278. 12:36two, not if he's going number one. So,
279. 12:38pretty comical that the king is, you
280. 12:41know, going number two. And that the
281. 12:43Bible is just going to tell us that he's
282. 12:44going number two. That's what's funny.
283. 12:46Okay. It says this. Then David crept up
284. 12:49unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's
285. 12:51robe. Afterwards, David was conscious
286. 12:53stricken for having cut off a corner of
287. 12:55his robe. He said to the men, "The Lord
288. 12:57forbid that I should do such a thing to
289. 12:59my master, the Lord's anointed, or lay
290. 13:02my hand on him, for he is the anointed
291. 13:05of the Lord." With these words, David
292. 13:08sharply rebuked his men and did not
293. 13:09allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left
294. 13:12the cave and went his way. Okay, so I
295. 13:16love this. David feels conscious
296. 13:19stricken about cutting a corner off of a
297. 13:21man's robe who's actively trying to kill
298. 13:24him. Man, this is character. I know I've
299. 13:29said this so many times when talking
300. 13:30about David that David is less moral
301. 13:34than Saul, but David has better
302. 13:37character than Saul. Okay? He will not
303. 13:40touch God's anointed. And had David kept
304. 13:44this same mindset when dealing with
305. 13:46Uriah aka Beth Sheeba, he would have
306. 13:49done good in life. But people are
307. 13:51complex and people change. Okay? So the
308. 13:55context of Psalm 57 is that David is in
309. 13:59the desert of Engeti. Okay? And and Saul
310. 14:02takes 3,000 men and set out to look for
311. 14:05David and his men near the crags of the
312. 14:08wild goats. He came to the sheep pens
313. 14:10along the way. A cave was there and Saul
314. 14:12went to relieve himself. David and his
315. 14:14men were far back in the cave. Now, I
316. 14:16need you to see this, okay? If you're in
317. 14:191st Samuel 24, you got to see this.
318. 14:21Verse four, the men said, so David's
319. 14:25men, what do they say? This is the day
320. 14:28the Lord spoke of when he said to you, I
321. 14:31will give your enemy into your hands for
322. 14:33you to deal with as you wish. So, the
323. 14:36men are now reminding David of a word
324. 14:40he's received from God, a promise he's
325. 14:42received from God. But David does not
326. 14:45take his cues from his followers. This
327. 14:48is a good leadership lesson right here
328. 14:50that every leader is going to have to
329. 14:52get to a place where they go, I know how
330. 14:54to discern the difference between what
331. 14:55the Lord has said and how the people who
332. 14:59are loyal to me are interpreting what
333. 15:02the Lord has said. Okay. So the men
334. 15:04said, I want you to compare that to
335. 15:07verse 9. Drop down to verse 9 because
336. 15:09we're going to compare and contrast
337. 15:11Samuel, sorry, Saul to David. Okay,
338. 15:14verse 9 says these words of chapter 24
339. 15:17of of 1 Samuel. He said to Saul, so now
340. 15:21David is going to confront Saul. He's
341. 15:23got a corner of his robe. He's going to
342. 15:25confront Saul. Why do you listen when
343. 15:29men say David is bent on harming you?
344. 15:33This day you have seen with your own
345. 15:35eyes how the Lord delivered you into my
346. 15:38hands in the cave. I could have killed
347. 15:40you very very easily. Some urged me to
348. 15:43kill you but I spared you. I said I will
349. 15:47not lay my hand on my lord because he is
350. 15:50the Lord's anointed. See my father look
351. 15:54at this piece of your robe in my hand. I
352. 15:57cut off the corner of your robe but did
353. 15:59not kill you. And obviously cutting off
354. 16:01the corner of the road proves I could
355. 16:03have killed you because you were in a
356. 16:05vulnerable position. Okay? I could have
357. 16:07easily killed you. I did not kill you. I
358. 16:10need you to know that I could have
359. 16:11though. Here's the contrast. David is
360. 16:13saying to Saul, "Why are you listening
361. 16:16to your men?" Get this. I'm not
362. 16:18listening to mine. My men are telling me
363. 16:21to kill you. But I don't listen to my
364. 16:24followers. I listen to the Lord. And
365. 16:26instead of listening to the Lord, you've
366. 16:28decided to listen to your people, your
367. 16:32followers.
368. 16:33Why? David is literally contrasting
369. 16:35himself with Saul. Hey, he's saying,
370. 16:38Saul, can you do what I'm doing? I'm not
371. 16:41listening to my men. I'm listening to
372. 16:43the Lord. I'm taking my cues from the
373. 16:45Lord, not from my followers. I love
374. 16:48this. Okay. Uh and then he says these
375. 16:50words, verse 12, may the Lord judge
376. 16:53between you and me. Okay. So this whole
377. 16:55theme, do not destroy. Okay, do not
378. 16:57destroy. We we we saw this theme in 1
379. 17:03Samuel chapter 26, but we're also seeing
380. 17:05it here in 1 Samuel chapter 24 that now
381. 17:08there's multiple times where David could
382. 17:10kill Saul and he refuses to kill the
383. 17:13person who's trying to kill him. Okay,
384. 17:15what's the context for Psalm 59? It's
385. 17:181st Samuel chapter 19. So, we got to
386. 17:21flip all the way five chapters in the
387. 17:23past. Again, I hope you get this by now.
388. 17:25The Psalms are not going to give us
389. 17:28these moments in chronological order.
390. 17:31Okay. 19. Okay. And it says this in the
391. 17:35in the heading. Okay. When Saul had sent
392. 17:38men to watch David's house in order to
393. 17:41kill him. Okay. So, this is the thing
394. 17:44that's gonna spark David being on the
395. 17:47run. We'll actually back up two verses.
396. 17:50We'll start reading in verse 9. Chapter
397. 17:5219:9. But an evil spirit from the Lord
398. 17:55came on Saul as he was sitting in his
399. 17:58house with his spear in his hand. While
400. 18:00David was playing the liar, Saul tried
401. 18:03to pin him to the wall with his spear,
402. 18:06but David eluded him as Saul drove the
403. 18:09spear into the wall. That night, David
404. 18:12made good his escape. Okay, so David is
405. 18:16obviously in Saul's palace and Saul
406. 18:18tries to pin him to the wall with a
407. 18:20spear, meaning throw the spear through
408. 18:22him to kill him. And so now verse 11 is
409. 18:26where we pick up, which is what Psalm 59
410. 18:30is based on. Okay, it says, "Saul sent
411. 18:34men to David's house to watch it and to
412. 18:36kill him in the morning. But Mikall,
413. 18:39that's his wife. That's also Saul's
414. 18:41daughter. It's David's wife. Saul's
415. 18:42daughter, warned him, "If you don't run
416. 18:45for your life tonight, tomorrow you'll
417. 18:47be killed." So Mikall let David down
418. 18:49through a window, and he fled and
419. 18:52escaped. Then Mikall took an idol and
420. 18:56lay it on the bed, covering it with a
421. 18:58garment and putting some goats hair at
422. 19:00the head. When Saul sent the men to
423. 19:03capture David, Mikall said, "He is ill."
424. 19:06Then Saul sent the men back to see David
425. 19:09and told them, "Bring him up to me in
426. 19:11his bed so that I may kill him." But
427. 19:13when the men entered, there was the idol
428. 19:16in the bed, and at the head was some
429. 19:19goat's hair. Saul said to me call, "Why
430. 19:22did you deceive me like this and send my
431. 19:25enemy away so that he escaped?" Mikall
432. 19:28told him, he said to me, "Let me get
433. 19:30away. Why should I kill you?" So David
434. 19:34fled. He made his escaped. He went to
435. 19:37Samuel at Rama and told him all that
436. 19:40Saul had done. Then he and Samuel went
437. 19:44to Na and stayed there. And now David is
438. 19:48officially going to be on the run. Okay.
439. 19:50So these psalms, Psalm 57, 58, and 59,
440. 19:55all center around Saul's schizophrenic,
441. 20:00evilspirited
442. 20:01desire to kill David and David's loyalty
443. 20:06to Saul and to Yahweh. They're the
444. 20:09couple of timeless truths that we can
445. 20:12learn. Okay, I spent 20 minutes giving
446. 20:14context, but honestly, the context
447. 20:17brings these psalms to life. Okay. uh
448. 20:20without the context, the Psalms are
449. 20:23beautiful in and of themselves, but to
450. 20:25know what David is talking about helps
451. 20:28you to appreciate the actual Psalms in a
452. 20:30whole different way. There's a couple of
453. 20:33lessons, timeless truths I think we can
454. 20:35take out of this. Number one, even a bad
455. 20:38leader can create good character or let
456. 20:41me say this, can reveal good character
457. 20:44in you. Bad leadership reveals more
458. 20:48about me than it does about them. Bad
459. 20:51leadership. Now, I've had good leaders.
460. 20:54I've had bad leaders. I've had toxic
461. 20:56leaders. I've had healthy leaders. Now,
462. 20:58I've been on staff three different times
463. 21:00in my life. I'm now leading a church,
464. 21:04planting a church. And not every leader
465. 21:06I've ever had has been a healthy,
466. 21:09positive, good leader. I've had some
467. 21:12toxic leaders. And I will say I'm so
468. 21:15thankful for the good leaders, but I'm
469. 21:18also thankful for the toxic leaders
470. 21:20because they've revealed something about
471. 21:24me to me. And so I think sometimes we
472. 21:28think the only people we can learn from
473. 21:30are good, healthy, perfect, great,
474. 21:32awesome leaders. But the reality is that
475. 21:35David, we are not impressed by David
476. 21:39because he had a fantastic leader. We're
477. 21:42impressed by David because Saul's wicked
478. 21:45and it juxtaposes David's character so
479. 21:48much more. Okay. Number two, it is God
480. 21:52who elevates. It is God who judges. And
481. 21:56ultimately, it is God who replaces
482. 21:58people, not us. Oh, we need to know that
483. 22:01that that it's God who gives platforms.
484. 22:04It's God who elevates people in his
485. 22:07church. God does that stuff. Okay? And
486. 22:10if there's one big idea that I want to
487. 22:13like drive home as as we land the plane
488. 22:16here, it's Deuteronomy chapter 34,
489. 22:18sorry, chapter 32:35.
490. 22:21Deuteronomy 32:35.
491. 22:24And Paul is going to quote this in the
492. 22:26New Testament in Romans 12:1 19. And
493. 22:30here's the simple idea. Vengeance is
494. 22:33mine, says the Lord. David could have
495. 22:36easily sought vengeance on Saul. for all
496. 22:39of Saul's evil plotting and death
497. 22:42threats and attacks. But David declares,
498. 22:46"You know what? How I respond to you
499. 22:49says more about me than it says about
500. 22:51you. And so I am not going to match your
501. 22:54energy. I'm not going to respond in
502. 22:56kind. I am going to treat you based on
503. 23:01my covenant loyalty to Yahweh, not based
504. 23:04on how your actions towards me deserve
505. 23:07to be treated. Okay? And David could
506. 23:10have made every excuse in the world to
507. 23:14kill Saul because in David's mind, he
508. 23:17could have just come to the conclusion,
509. 23:18well, God's already anointed me to be
510. 23:20king. But here's what David understands.
511. 23:23He actually says this, I think in 1st
512. 23:26Samuel 23, if the Lord is going to kill
513. 23:28him, then let the Lord do it. I won't be
514. 23:31the one to do it. And I think sometimes
515. 23:33we assume, well, since it's God's will,
516. 23:36I may as well be the one to act out
517. 23:38God's will. And actually, the same can
518. 23:41be said about Judas in the New
519. 23:42Testament. Somebody's got to betray
520. 23:44Jesus, but it doesn't have to be Judas.
521. 23:47Judas could have decided, it ain't going
522. 23:48to be me. Somebody's got to betray
523. 23:50Jesus. It ain't got to be me. And you
524. 23:51can see how David goes, "Saul's got to
525. 23:54die, but I ain't going to be the one to
526. 23:57do it." And I think that, you know, I've
527. 23:59said to a lot of wives, "Hey, if your
528. 24:02husband who you're submitted to tells
529. 24:04you to do something stupid, how about
530. 24:06you just make sure that he has a problem
531. 24:08with God, but the moment I step out from
532. 24:10under the covering now, I have a problem
533. 24:12with God, too. Or rather, God has a
534. 24:14problem with me." And in every situation
535. 24:16where I've had a bad leader, I'm here to
536. 24:17tell you right now, God's protected me.
537. 24:19I've obeyed. I've submitted. I've done
538. 24:21what that person has asked me to do. And
539. 24:23God's protected me and God's covered me.
540. 24:27And I love that these are mctams and
541. 24:29that that word ketamu means to cover
542. 24:33because not only do I think David is is
543. 24:36praying these with a covering over his
544. 24:38lips. I think that these psalms are a
545. 24:40testament to the fact that God can cover
546. 24:42you better than you can protect
547. 24:43yourself. And God begins to say,
548. 24:46"Vengeance is mine, says the Lord." And
549. 24:49so you can let go of whatever the grudge
550. 24:51is or the bitterness or the
551. 24:52unforgiveness and let God enact
552. 24:55vengeance cuz guess what? He can heap
553. 24:59burning coals on people's heads better
554. 25:01than you can. All right. Tomorrow uh
555. 25:04we've got day 272. We're going to be
556. 25:06looking at Psalms 60- 62 right here.
557. 25:10Same time, same place, same channel. I
558. 25:13love you guys. If you're on a streak,
559. 25:14I'm proud of you. If you're not, let's
560. 25:17go. Come on. It's the Psalms. Let's dive
561. 25:18in. Love you guys. See you tomorrow.
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