Day 272: Psalms 60-62 | 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 272
10. 0:27here on the Bible department podcast.
11. 0:29I'm your host, Dr. Manny Orango, and
12. 0:32today we're walking through three
13. 0:34Psalms. Psalm 60, Psalm 61, and Psalm
14. 0:3762. If you have not done the reading
15. 0:40yet, make sure that you stop the video,
16. 0:43pause the audio, and go get the reading
17. 0:45done. Quick Psalms. I would say these
18. 0:48aren't the most popular Psalms, but we
19. 0:51get headings for a lot of them, so the
20. 0:52context is going to be pretty easy to
21. 0:55figure out. And then, like always, I'll
22. 0:57give you some nerdy nuggets. And then
23. 0:58I'll leave the episode with a I'll leave
24. 1:01off uh I'll close the episode off with a
25. 1:04timeless truth because the goal is not
26. 1:07just to learn historical facts. It's
27. 1:09actually to put the word of God into
28. 1:11practice in our everyday life. So if you
29. 1:14have read Psalm 60, Psalm 61, and Psalm
30. 1:1662. Let's dive in to some context. All
31. 1:20right. Like always, well, with the last
32. 1:23couple of days on the Psalms, we've been
33. 1:24looking at headings, and we get a pretty
34. 1:27detailed heading for Psalm 60. Uh, it
35. 1:31says this for the director of music to
36. 1:33the tune of the lily of the covenant.
37. 1:36Don't know what that tune sounds like,
38. 1:38but that's what we're going to sing this
39. 1:40to. a mtam of David for teaching when he
40. 1:44fought Aram Naharim and Aram Neabbah or
41. 1:49Noah. Okay. And when Joab returned and
42. 1:53struck down 12,000 in the
43. 1:57valley of salt. Very, very, very, very
44. 2:01detailed heading that we get right
45. 2:04before Psalm 60. Now, you may be
46. 2:06thinking, okay, when did that happen?
47. 2:09Well, this entire episode happened in 2
48. 2:13Samuel 8 3-6
49. 2:1713-4 and then 2 Samuel 10 15- 19. So,
50. 2:22like always when we get something that's
51. 2:25referenced in 2 Samuel or 1 Samuel for
52. 2:28that matter, when first 2 Samuel is the
53. 2:30context for the Psalms, we go to 1 or 2
54. 2:33Samuel. And so, David's no longer on the
55. 2:37run. Like that's not the portion of
56. 2:38Psalms that we're like in. Okay. The
57. 2:42last couple days, all of those Psalms
58. 2:44were kind of really emphasizing, you
59. 2:47know, the distress, the fact that he was
60. 2:49on the run being hunted by Saul. But now
61. 2:53we are going to look at some of David's
62. 2:55military campaigns. Okay? And this is
63. 2:58one of those military campaigns. All
64. 2:59right? So 2 Samuel chapter 8, we're
65. 3:02going to start reading in verse three.
66. 3:03says this, "Moreover, David defeated
67. 3:06Hadad Ezar." By the way, that word Ezer
68. 3:09Edzer is help or helper. We talked about
69. 3:12that a couple days ago that God is our
70. 3:14help. I don't actually know what had
71. 3:17means, but I know that this name here
72. 3:20ends with the word helper. I know that.
73. 3:23Uh so Hadad Ezar uh son of Rebbo, king
74. 3:27of Zoba when he met me went to restore
75. 3:31his monument at the Euphrates River. All
76. 3:33right, big clue as the context of what's
77. 3:36going on is Euphrates River. Now this is
78. 3:40where this doesn't always happen, but a
79. 3:43lot of times I'm giving historical
80. 3:44context or linguistic context or
81. 3:47cultural context. I'm actually going to
82. 3:49give geographical
83. 3:51context. Okay, geographical context.
84. 3:54Now, if you don't understand the
85. 3:56geography of Israel, this is not going
86. 3:58to make a lot of sense. However, let me
87. 4:01break it down for you. The Euphrates
88. 4:02River is all the way up north. Okay? So,
89. 4:07David is going to have to go all the way
90. 4:10up north to fight the Arameans. What
91. 4:14then happens is that while David has his
92. 4:18army up north, the are going to
93. 4:21attack in the valley of salt. So if you
94. 4:24go to 2 Samuel 8:13,
95. 4:28says this, "And David became famous
96. 4:31after he returned from striking down
97. 4:3318,000 in the Valley of Salt."
98. 4:36Wait a second. I thought he was just up
99. 4:38at the Euphrates defeating the Arameans.
100. 4:41Well, what happens is that while he's up
101. 4:44north defeating the Aramians, the
102. 4:46figure, hey, no way David and
103. 4:50his army are going to get all the way
104. 4:52down here in time. We may as well attack
105. 4:56the southern border at the Valley of
106. 4:58Salt. Okay, so that's the context.
107. 5:01Valley of Salt is all the way in the
108. 5:03south, and you'd have to know that to
109. 5:06actually know like what's going on. like
110. 5:09why is this even stressful? Okay, why
111. 5:11are these details given? Well, these
112. 5:13details are actually really really
113. 5:14important because David, we're going to
114. 5:17get a sneak peek into David's theology.
115. 5:20Okay? Because the and this is one verse
116. 5:24in in 2 Samuel, but what we're going to
117. 5:27begin to get a glimpse of in Psalm 60 is
118. 5:31that at first the in the south
119. 5:35are actually successful. And David's
120. 5:38understanding of cosmology and theology
121. 5:42is that God controls everything. So if
122. 5:45God is allowing the Enoites to attack
123. 5:47them and be successful, then God must
124. 5:51have ordained this, why and why does God
125. 5:54ordain your enemies to defeat you? If
126. 5:57you've been rebellious and you need
127. 6:00correction okay so that is the context
128. 6:04for Psalm 60. And what does how does
129. 6:07Psalm 60 start? Here we go. Verse one.
130. 6:10You have rejected us. See, you see how
131. 6:13those words you have rejected us don't
132. 6:16make sense if you don't know that
133. 6:18there's a battle up north. They get
134. 6:20attacked in the south and they are
135. 6:23they're losing and David's got to bring
136. 6:26his whole army down south. This is a
137. 6:28stressful situation. Okay. Psalm 60. You
138. 6:32have rejected us, God, and burst upon
139. 6:35us. You have been angry. Now restore us.
140. 6:38You have shaken the land and tore it
141. 6:40open. Mend its fractures, for it is
142. 6:43quaking. You have shown your people
143. 6:45desperate times. You have given us wine
144. 6:48that makes us stagger. But for those who
145. 6:52fear you, you have raised a banner to be
146. 6:55unfurled against the bow. Save us and
147. 6:58help us with your right hand that those
148. 7:01you love may be delivered. God has
149. 7:05spoken from his sanctuary and triumph. I
150. 7:07will partial parcel out Sheckchum and
151. 7:10measure off the valley of Sukkot. If we
152. 7:14skip all the way down to the end of the
153. 7:16psalm. Okay. Uh verse 11. Give us aid
154. 7:19against the enemy for human help is
155. 7:22worthless. With God we will gain the
156. 7:25victory and he will trample down our
157. 7:28enemies. Now that right there is one of
158. 7:31the reasons why David is going to go
159. 7:33down in history as being a man after
160. 7:35God's own heart. It's not just his heart
161. 7:37of repentance when he sins against God.
162. 7:39It's this right here. Give us aid
163. 7:41against the enemy for human help is
164. 7:44worthless. If you spend time going
165. 7:47through kings, the number one thing that
166. 7:50kings, the kings of Israel are going to
167. 7:53be chastised for is trusting foreign
168. 7:56nations. Don't trust Egypt. Don't trust
169. 7:58Assyria. Don't trust any alliances. And
170. 8:02so what does David say? for human help
171. 8:05is worthless. I don't need an alliance.
172. 8:07I don't need other kings of foreign
173. 8:10nations to come help me. I don't need
174. 8:12deliverance from any other suzarin. I
175. 8:17don't need to make myself a vassel to
176. 8:19any of these stronger nations. No, no,
177. 8:21no, no. Human help is worthless.
178. 8:24With God, we will gain the victory and
179. 8:28he will trample down our enemies. So,
180. 8:32here we go. context clue. I mean,
181. 8:35literally helps you to interpret
182. 8:36everything that's happening. And the
183. 8:39psalm even sheds light on what's going
184. 8:42on in 2 Samuel chapter 8. Okay. All
185. 8:46right. Let's look at Psalm uh we may not
186. 8:50have time to ah we got to look at the
187. 8:52next psalm. Okay. Psalm 61. Okay. Let's
188. 8:54let's look at the context for Psalm 61.
189. 8:56Now, for Psalm 61, there are three
190. 8:59context options. Okay. because we don't
191. 9:02have a detailed heading. All we've got
192. 9:05is this for the director of music with
193. 9:08stringed instruments of David. That's
194. 9:10all we got. All right. So, there are
195. 9:13three options for possible context for
196. 9:16Psalm 61. Okay. Let me give you all
197. 9:18three options. The first is on the run
198. 9:22from Saul. Okay. The second is another
199. 9:26one of David's military campaigns just
200. 9:28like Psalm 60. Okay. Okay, so Psalm 61
201. 9:31could be from the same context as Psalm
202. 9:3460. And then last is when David is
203. 9:37fleeing from his son Abselum who has
204. 9:41usurped the throne. Okay, so he's either
205. 9:43on the run from Saul, on the run from
206. 9:45Abselum, okay, when he's young, when
207. 9:47he's old. Okay, he's on the run from
208. 9:49Saul when he's young, he's on the run
209. 9:51from his son Abselum when he's older, or
210. 9:53a military campaign while he's king. All
211. 9:56right. There are some clues that reveal
212. 9:59that the context is either two or three
213. 10:02and not one. All right. And let's look
214. 10:06at Psalm 61 verse 6. Okay. Psalm 61
215. 10:10verse 6. It says this. Increase the days
216. 10:13of the king's life. Increase the days of
217. 10:16the king's life, his years for many
218. 10:17generations. May he be enthroned in
219. 10:20God's presence forever. appoint your
220. 10:23love and faithfulness to protect him.
221. 10:26Now, what king is David talking about?
222. 10:29If this psalm is written while David is
223. 10:33young and he's on the run from Saul,
224. 10:37then the king that David is praying for
225. 10:39here is Saul. Okay? He's praying that
226. 10:43God would increase the day of Saul's
227. 10:46years for many generations. May Saul be
228. 10:48enthroned in God's presence forever.
229. 10:51appoint your love and faithfulness to
230. 10:53protect Saul. Possible. We know from
231. 10:57David's character that that's possible,
232. 10:59but unlikely. Okay, possible, but
233. 11:03unlikely. What makes more sense is that
234. 11:06he's actually praying this prayer for
235. 11:08himself. He's saying, "Increase the days
236. 11:11of my life cuz I'm the king." Okay? be
237. 11:16may may I be enthroned in God's presence
238. 11:21forever. Appoint your love and
239. 11:23faithfulness to protect me. And and this
240. 11:26probably lends itself towards an
241. 11:28interpretation that Psalm 61 is birthed
242. 11:32out of a moment in time where David is
243. 11:35running from his son Abselum. Okay. So
244. 11:39it these two verses verses 6 and 7 have
245. 11:43caused a lot of commentators and a lot
246. 11:46of scholars to really believe that this
247. 11:51is coming from a later moment in David's
248. 11:54life that although David is a man of
249. 11:58insane character and could pray this
250. 12:02prayer for Saul that this is probably
251. 12:04not a prayer for Saul but this is
252. 12:06probably a prayer for himself. All
253. 12:08right, that is a nerdy nugget and
254. 12:12context for Psalm 61. And then uh we've
255. 12:16got Psalm 62. All right, one of the
256. 12:19things that I wanted to highlight in
257. 12:20Psalm 62, we're going to read the
258. 12:22heading. Psalm 62 has this heading for
259. 12:24the director of music for Jedathan, a
260. 12:28psalm of David. Jedan. All right, just
261. 12:31to just for your notes, okay, this is
262. 12:32kind of a nerdy nugget more than a
263. 12:34context clue really. Jonathan is is
264. 12:37mentioned in 1st Chronicles 16 41-42.
265. 12:42Jonathan is also mentioned in 1st
266. 12:43Chronicles 25:es
267. 12:461 to3. Okay, so that little nerdy
268. 12:50detail. Okay, Jonathan is a character
269. 12:53that we've heard of before and you can
270. 12:56find out who he is contextually by going
271. 12:59to 1st Chronicles chapter 16 41-42 and
272. 13:031st Chronicles chapter 25 1-3. That's a
273. 13:08contextual nerdy nugget. I've been I've
274. 13:10been creating a lot of hybrid context
275. 13:13clues and nerdy nuggets kind of together
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300. 14:18back to the episode. Psalm 62. Uh, let's
301. 14:21actually look at Psalm 62. Says this,
302. 14:23"Truly, my soul finds rest in God. My
303. 14:28salvation comes from him. Truly, he is
304. 14:31my rock and my salvation. He is my
305. 14:33fortress. I will never be shaken. And
306. 14:37then we're going to go all the way down
307. 14:38to verse 5. Yes, my soul finds rest in
308. 14:43God. My hope comes from him. Truly, he
309. 14:46is my rock and my salvation. He is my
310. 14:49fortress. I will not be shaken. Uh we're
311. 14:53actually going to look at those verses
312. 14:56in a different translation. Okay, I'm
313. 14:58going to pull up Logos Bible Study
314. 14:59Software. We just read a couple of
315. 15:01verses from Psalm 62 in the NIV, but now
316. 15:04I actually want to read it in the NRSV.
317. 15:07Okay, Psalm 62:es 1 and 2, where the NIV
318. 15:12is going to use the word rest. The NRSV
319. 15:14is actually going to use the word
320. 15:15silence. And I actually think it's a
321. 15:17beautiful translation. Says this, for
322. 15:20God alone, my soul waits in silence.
323. 15:24From him comes my salvation. And he
324. 15:26alone is my rock and my salvation, my
325. 15:29fortress. I shall not be shaken. And
326. 15:32then verse 5 says this, for God alone my
327. 15:36soul waits in silence. For my hope is
328. 15:39from him. He alone is my rock and my
329. 15:42salvation, my fortress. I shall not be
330. 15:46shaken. Okay. Rest versus silence. This
331. 15:50is a bit of a nerdy nugget, but it's
332. 15:52also a timeless truth. And uh it's this
333. 15:56that for David true faith is not found
334. 16:00in multiplying words. It's actually
335. 16:02found in silence.
336. 16:05This this is a kind of an odd thing
337. 16:08maybe even for 21st century modern
338. 16:11readers. Uh because we don't think of
339. 16:14silence as an act of faith. But when God
340. 16:17speaks, silence is actually the response
341. 16:20of the mature. But to multiply words
342. 16:23could actually be the response of the
343. 16:25immature. I'll give you an example to
344. 16:27kind of connect the dots. A lot of
345. 16:29times, you know, my son will ask me for
346. 16:31stuff. Dad, can we go to the Lego store?
347. 16:34Dad, can you get me some juice? You
348. 16:36know, dad, can we go to In-N-Out? And
349. 16:38what's funny is that I'll say yes. Be
350. 16:41like, yeah, we can do that, buddy. And
351. 16:43then as soon as I say yes, he'll ask
352. 16:45again. and he'll ask again. And he'll
353. 16:47ask again until I actually do what he's
354. 16:51asked me to do. And for my son, silence
355. 16:55as he waits for me to actually act out
356. 16:59what I promised. He's just not at the
357. 17:01maturity level yet where he can ask and
358. 17:05then wait in silence until he finds the
359. 17:08fulfillment of what he's asked for. And
360. 17:10actually if we want to think about how
361. 17:13to gauge our own maturity, our own
362. 17:15maturity can be gauged by how silent we
363. 17:18are able to be like our soul being
364. 17:21quiet. That's why the NIV translates
365. 17:24this as rest. Like can you calm down?
366. 17:29Like can your soul get quiet and rest?
367. 17:34Like when you've asked God for
368. 17:35something, are you also trying to figure
369. 17:38out how you can make it happen for
370. 17:39yourself? Or when you ask God for
371. 17:41something, are you just going to rest
372. 17:43and wait? And I think for a lot of us,
373. 17:46we think about silence and we think
374. 17:48maybe that that's apathy or like we've
375. 17:51given up given up silence, like a
376. 17:53surrender in a bad way, like you've just
377. 17:55surrendered to fate, you know? But
378. 17:57actually, this is not a apathetic or a
379. 18:00given up silence. This is a faithfilled
380. 18:05silence. It's a faithfilled silence that
381. 18:07comes from the soul and your soul begins
382. 18:10to get quiet and the quietness of your
383. 18:13soul begins to remind you that God said
384. 18:17yes, that he is faithful and that
385. 18:21silence produces hope and that hope
386. 18:24becomes a fortress and that fortress is
387. 18:27also a rock. So if we look at this verse
388. 18:30again, for God alone my soul waits in
389. 18:33silence. Okay, God is able to bring rest
390. 18:37and silence to my soul. Whereas I'm busy
391. 18:40trying to accomplish things that God's
392. 18:42already promised me I can actually like
393. 18:45quiet my soul and then for my hope is
394. 18:50from him like that that's rooted in
395. 18:52hope. And then this makes God my rock.
396. 18:56It makes him my fortress. It actually
397. 18:59creates a faith in me that's unshakable
398. 19:01that I'm like, "Yeah, just because God
399. 19:03didn't do what I asked him to do does
400. 19:06not mean that I'm going to be anxious in
401. 19:09my soul or that I'm going to be worried
402. 19:12in my soul. I'm going to be quiet and
403. 19:15I'm going to be still. I'm going to find
404. 19:17inner peace even as I wait for God to do
405. 19:21what he's promised that he would do."
406. 19:24And believing God in faith does not ever
407. 19:28look like being in a rush or being
408. 19:31hurried or being worried. Believing God
409. 19:33by faith actually means that you can
410. 19:35slow down, that you can calm down, and
411. 19:37you can rest in the fact that he's
412. 19:41already said yes. And like my son at
413. 19:44some point, maybe this year, maybe next
414. 19:46year, who knows? When he asks me to go
415. 19:49to the Lego store or asks me to go to
416. 19:51In-N-Out or ask me for juice and I say
417. 19:54yes, he'll finally get to the place of
418. 19:56maturity where my answer is enough. And
419. 20:01he doesn't need my immediate action
420. 20:03because my answer has already created a
421. 20:06quietness and a stillness and a silence
422. 20:09in his soul that allows him to actually
423. 20:13wait. And my prayer for you is that you
424. 20:16would begin to do the same thing. That
425. 20:18God's answer would actually hold just as
426. 20:22much weight as his action. and that even
427. 20:24when there's a gap between his answer
428. 20:27and his action, that your soul wouldn't
429. 20:30be worried or anxious, but that your
430. 20:33word that your soul would actually find
431. 20:36hope in the answer that God's given. And
432. 20:39you wouldn't need immediate
433. 20:41corresponding action because you
434. 20:43actually have your hope in the God of
435. 20:45the answer. And that's not just true for
436. 20:47David, man. That's true for me. It's
437. 20:49true for you. It's true for my son who's
438. 20:51four. And I think that that will bring
439. 20:54peace to your life. And I would actually
440. 20:57say that a lot of anxiety happens in the
441. 20:59gap between God's answer and God's
442. 21:01action. And then instead of having
443. 21:04anxiety in that moment, you can actually
444. 21:06have hope in that moment, which is an
445. 21:08anchor for your soul. All right, I'll
446. 21:10see you tomorrow for day 273. We're
447. 21:14going to be digging into Psalms 63 and
448. 21:1665. If you're on a streak, I'm so proud
449. 21:18of you. If you're on a streak, you're
450. 21:20probably realizing that the words that
451. 21:22I'm even saying to you right now about
452. 21:24your soul and silence and hope and God's
453. 21:28word being a fortress and a rock, you're
454. 21:30probably realizing that if you're on a
455. 21:32streak, the word of God has become a
456. 21:35fortress and a rock for you. And so, I
457. 21:37pray uh that you would keep your streak
458. 21:39going. If you're not on a streak, I'm
459. 21:41praying that you would get it together
460. 21:42and that you would start to rack up some
461. 21:44wins. All right, I'll see you right here
462. 21:46tomorrow for day 273. Love you guys.
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