Day 274: Psalms 66-68 | 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 274 here on the
10. 0:27Bible department podcast. I'm your host,
11. 0:29Dr. Manny Orango, and I hope that you've
12. 0:33already done the reading for today.
13. 0:35Today, we are looking at Psalm 66, Psalm
14. 0:3867, and Psalm 68. We got a medium-sized
15. 0:41Psalm, a really short Psalm, and then a
16. 0:44pretty hefty psalm. The Psalms that
17. 0:46we've got today are not necessarily
18. 0:48evenly sized, but good reading, simple
19. 0:52reading, and hopefully uh this podcast
20. 0:54episode can illuminate what you've
21. 0:56already read. Now, if you haven't done
22. 0:58the reading for the day, then I'm going
23. 1:00to strongly encourage you to stop this
24. 1:02video, pause the audio, go do the
25. 1:05reading. This podcast is not designed to
26. 1:08substitute for your daily Bible reading.
27. 1:10Actually, it's designed to supplement
28. 1:13your daily Bible reading. So, let's dive
29. 1:15in. Like every day, I'm going to give
30. 1:17you as much context as I can in the form
31. 1:20of a context clue. And I'll try to give
32. 1:22you a context clue for each psalm. And
33. 1:24then I'm going to dive into some nerdy
34. 1:25nuggets. And then we are going to always
35. 1:28leave the episode off with a timeless
36. 1:30truth. And today is no different. I've
37. 1:32got I'm really excited about the
38. 1:33timeless truth for today. I'm going to
39. 1:35try to not steal my own thunder, but the
40. 1:37timeless truth for today is really,
41. 1:39really, really good. All right, let's
42. 1:41dive into Psalm 66,67, and 68. Let's
43. 1:45look at context. Number one, Psalm 66 is
44. 1:48a psalm of individual thanksgiving. I I
45. 1:51guess also let me say right here up at
46. 1:53the top of our section on context clues
47. 1:56that we've kind of gotten into a rhythm,
48. 1:59especially the last couple of days,
49. 2:00maybe even the last week, of having a
50. 2:03heading that gives us a real solid kind
51. 2:07of understanding of the context of
52. 2:09what's going on in David's life. So,
53. 2:11we've been flipping back to 1 Samuel a
54. 2:13lot uh in the last couple of days.
55. 2:15Today, we don't get any of that. Okay.
56. 2:20So, today's heading for Psalm 66 is kind
57. 2:23of like back to the simple stuff that
58. 2:26we've dealt with for a long time. So,
59. 2:28for the director of music, a song, a
60. 2:30psalm. That's it. That's all we got.
61. 2:32Now, what I can tell you is that this is
62. 2:34a psalm of individual thanksgiving. And
63. 2:38where we don't have a ton of context
64. 2:39clues, we're definitely going to have a
65. 2:41lot of nerdy nuggets. All right. So this
66. 2:43is a psalm of individual thanksgiving. A
67. 2:45psalm of praise, psalm of individual
68. 2:49praise. Next, Psalm 67. Really short
69. 2:52psalm. This is actually a priestly
70. 2:56psalm. And we're going to dive into what
71. 2:58that means a little later in the episode
72. 3:00when we get to our nerdy nuggets. But
73. 3:02for right now, you can know that this is
74. 3:04a priestly psalm. This would be a psalm
75. 3:09that really celebrates Israel's role as
76. 3:12a nation of priests for the other
77. 3:16nations of the earth. This psalm is an
78. 3:19Abrahamic blessing psalm. And lastly,
79. 3:24this would be a harvest psalm. So we can
80. 3:27see right here in Psalm 67:6,
81. 3:30the land yields its harvest. God, our
82. 3:34God blesses us. So, this is most likely
83. 3:37a harvest psalm. But more importantly,
84. 3:40it's a priestly psalm. And when we get
85. 3:42into our nerdy nuggets, I'll explain
86. 3:45exactly why it's a priestly psalm. But
87. 3:47we're going to get one big clue that
88. 3:49it's a priestly psalm. And that is the
89. 3:51fact that we're going to get the ironic
90. 3:53blessing right here at the top of the
91. 3:55psalm in verse one. It says, "May God be
92. 3:58gracious to us and bless us and make his
93. 4:00face shine upon us." Now, if you
94. 4:03remember Numbers 6 25, we get Aaron's
95. 4:08blessing. And so, Aaron's blessing is
96. 4:10going to get quoted here at the top of
97. 4:12Psalm 67. And who is Aaron? Well, he's
98. 4:16the great high priest. So, it's a
99. 4:18priestly psalm. We're going to dive into
100. 4:20more of what that means. Okay. Psalm 68.
101. 4:23Now, this is not explicit. Okay? We
102. 4:26don't have a heading that gives us this
103. 4:28information. Actually, all we get is
104. 4:30this. for the director of music of
105. 4:33David. Okay, this is the first Psalm of
106. 4:36David that we're going to have today.
107. 4:38Okay, Psalm 66 and Psalm 67 are not
108. 4:41Psalms of David, but Psalm 68 is a psalm
109. 4:44of David. Okay, for the director of
110. 4:46music of David, a psalm, a song. So a
111. 4:51lot of people uh a lot of people smarter
112. 4:53than me okay believe that Psalm 68
113. 4:56actually also has context and that the
114. 5:01context would have been 2 Samuel 6:12
115. 5:06aka the procession of the ark of the
116. 5:09covenant from Oed Edom's house to the
117. 5:12tabernacle in Jerusalem. very possible
118. 5:16that that moment is actually the context
119. 5:19for this psalm, Psalm 68. This isn't the
120. 5:23only Psalm that's connected to that
121. 5:26historical moment. And so there's a lot
122. 5:29of evidence that Psalm 68, although we
123. 5:32don't get a detailed heading at the top
124. 5:35of the psalm, there's a ton of context
125. 5:37here that what's being described in the
126. 5:41psalm is the transportation of the ark
127. 5:45of the covenant. And remember this is a
128. 5:48moment the whole reason that the ark of
129. 5:50the covenant is at Oed Edom's house is
130. 5:53because they had tried to move it with a
131. 5:56cart which was in the incorrect way to
132. 5:59move it and Oed Edom's house is blessed
133. 6:02because the freaking ark of the
134. 6:04covenant's there. I mean, the whole
135. 6:06manifest glory and power and presence of
136. 6:10Yahweh is chilling at Obedom's house.
137. 6:13And finally, David learns the right way
138. 6:17to to transport the ark of the covenant,
139. 6:19which is on poles because you have to
140. 6:21bear the weight of it. And um that's a
141. 6:24whole sermon on worship right there.
142. 6:26That worship is something you have to
143. 6:28bear the weight of. Okay. So anyway,
144. 6:31they do it the right way and David is
145. 6:34going to dance out of his outer garments
146. 6:37and his wife at the at this point in
147. 6:40time is going to be really unhappy.
148. 6:43Okay, that David has become even more
149. 6:46undignified or has undignified himself
150. 6:49in front of the servant girls in David's
151. 6:51responses, I will become even more
152. 6:53undignified than this. Like you ain't
153. 6:55seen nothing yet, girl. So, all right,
154. 6:58there's lots of evidence that that's the
155. 7:00context. All right, that's a lot of
156. 7:01context. Psalm 66, Psalm of individual
157. 7:04thanksgiving. Psalm 67, this is a
158. 7:07priestly psalm or a harvest psalm. We'll
159. 7:10get into what that means later. And then
160. 7:12Psalm 68, there's tons of evidence, and
161. 7:14we'll dive into that evidence that this
162. 7:16psalm is based on the procession of the
163. 7:19ark of the covenant from Oed Edom's
164. 7:22house to the tabernacle where it belongs
165. 7:25in Jerusalem. All right, let's dive into
166. 7:28some nerdy nuggets. Uh, let's look at
167. 7:30Psalm 66. I'm going to try to at least
168. 7:32give you one nerdy nugget per psalm.
169. 7:35Let's start with Psalm 66. The first
170. 7:37thing that I want us to see is that this
171. 7:40is going to be a theme throughout the
172. 7:42Psalms, but this is definitely a theme
173. 7:44here, and this could almost be even a
174. 7:46timeless truth for the day, is that the
175. 7:49presence of God demands and deserves a
176. 7:53physical expression of praise. Okay? I
177. 7:56remember when I was first a youth
178. 7:57pastor, young people used to tell me
179. 8:00like, "I worship God in my own way." And
180. 8:02you quickly begin to realize that just
181. 8:04means they don't feel comfortable
182. 8:06lifting their hands or they don't feel
183. 8:07comfortable singing out songs. And I
184. 8:11learned pretty quickly actually that if
185. 8:14I allowed them to worship God in ways
186. 8:18that made them feel comfortable, then I
187. 8:21actually just effectively made worship
188. 8:23about them. And worship is literally
189. 8:25about God. And so part of worship is
190. 8:31like seeking discomfort. Like worship is
191. 8:35inherently not comfortable. It is
192. 8:38inherently about God. And I cannot get
193. 8:42past or shake or ignore rather just the
194. 8:46physicality of worship. So the first
195. 8:49words of Psalm 66 is shout. Shout. I
196. 8:54don't think we get to just decide. Yeah,
197. 8:57based on my personality type, worship is
198. 8:59quiet. No, like it says shout. So
199. 9:02worship is not a personality type. It's
200. 9:04a command. It's like no, let's shout for
201. 9:08joy to God. Okay, all the earth sing the
202. 9:13glory of his name. Make his praise
203. 9:16glorious. So lots of words there. Okay.
204. 9:19Shout, sing praise. Say to God. Okay. So
205. 9:25also speak to the Lord. Talk to the
206. 9:28Lord. And what are we saying to God? How
207. 9:30awesome are your deeds. So great is your
208. 9:34power that your enemies cringe before
209. 9:36you. So we got some words of affirmation
210. 9:38here for the Lord, man. Okay. Aka
211. 9:41praise. All the earth bows down to you.
212. 9:44They sing praise to you. They sing the
213. 9:46praises of your name. I think that when
214. 9:49the psalmist talks about all the earth,
215. 9:51I think we are talking about creation
216. 9:53and humans. Okay? I think we're talking
217. 9:56about the mountains and the grass and
218. 9:57animals plus human beings. All right?
219. 10:01And how does creation worship the Lord?
220. 10:05By acting according to the nature that
221. 10:10God set within it. Okay. So, how does a
222. 10:13deer worship? By acting like a deer.
223. 10:16Okay. And so how do humans worship? By
224. 10:20reflecting the image of the ones of the
225. 10:23one whose image we bear. Okay. So the
226. 10:27way that God has designed us actually
227. 10:30shows us what worship looks like for
228. 10:34each species. Right? So a tree and a
229. 10:37human don't worship the same way. But a
230. 10:39tree worships by doing what God designed
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255. 11:49back to the episode. Now, the moment I
256. 11:52rebel against how God designed me, that
257. 11:56would literally be the opposite of
258. 11:58worship. So, if I'm using sex in a way
259. 12:02that's not the way that God invented sex
260. 12:04or designed sex to be used, I'm actually
261. 12:07using sex not for worship to God, but
262. 12:10worship for self. I'm perverting that
263. 12:13which God has made by using it in a way
264. 12:17that's not how the creator designed it
265. 12:20to be used or intended for it to be
266. 12:22used. It's like let's take for instance
267. 12:24if I use this iPad as a Frisbee, right?
268. 12:29I could it could work, but whoever
269. 12:33designed this iPad would probably say,
270. 12:35"Yeah, that's that's not what I designed
271. 12:37it to do, right?" So just because it can
272. 12:41be a Frisbee doesn't mean that it was
273. 12:43designed to be a Frisbee. And the person
274. 12:46who created it and made it actually has
275. 12:48the authority to say what they made it
276. 12:50for. And so God is creator. And so one
277. 12:55of the things that we get right here,
278. 12:58not just in Psalm 66, but through the
279. 13:00Psalms period, is a biblical worldview
280. 13:03acknowledges I'm not the creator. God's
281. 13:06a creator. I'm a created thing. God's a
282. 13:09creator. I don't get to define myself. I
283. 13:12don't get to pick my pronouns. I don't
284. 13:14get to create my own identity. I don't
285. 13:17get to define marriage the way that I
286. 13:19want to. I don't get to define sexuality
287. 13:22the way that I want to because I didn't
288. 13:24create any of that stuff. I didn't
289. 13:25create marriage. I didn't create sex. I
290. 13:27didn't create sexuality. I didn't create
291. 13:29gender. I didn't create any of that
292. 13:31stuff. So, I don't actually get to
293. 13:34tamper with it or pervert it or use it
294. 13:39in ways that are not how the creator
295. 13:41intended it to be used. And when I do
296. 13:45use these things the way that the
297. 13:48creator intended for it to be used,
298. 13:50that's worship. And anytime that I use
299. 13:53what God has made in ways that aren't
300. 13:55the way that God intended for it to be
301. 13:58used, that's perversion. Okay, so
302. 14:01worship versus perversion. Okay, this is
303. 14:03this is good. Okay, he turned. Okay,
304. 14:06come and see. Okay, I love this. Come
305. 14:08and see what God has done. His awesome
306. 14:11deeds for mankind. He turned the sea
307. 14:14into dry land. They passed through the
308. 14:17waters on foot. Come let us rejoice in
309. 14:20him. So this is the story of the Red
310. 14:22Sea. Okay. So come and see. Okay. And
311. 14:25now we get come let us rejoice. And then
312. 14:27there's a lot of praise. Okay. And then
313. 14:29in verse 13, everything shifts and it
314. 14:32goes from we we we us to I will come to
315. 14:39your temple with burnt offerings and
316. 14:41fulfill my vows to you. I love this one.
317. 14:44Verse 14. Vows my lips promised and my
318. 14:47mouth spoke when I was in trouble. Come
319. 14:49on. Please, let's not act like we have
320. 14:52not all vowed something to the Lord when
321. 14:55we were scared or in trouble and then
322. 14:57once the coast is clear and God rescued
323. 14:59us, you kind of reigged on the vow,
324. 15:02right? That's happened to me on a roller
325. 15:04coaster actually. I was I said, "Lord,
326. 15:06if I was so scared on this roller
327. 15:07coaster, I was like, God, if you get me
328. 15:08off this thing, I promise not only will
329. 15:10I break up with this heathen girlfriend
330. 15:12that you don't want me to be dating, and
331. 15:13not only will I confess, you know, that
332. 15:16that I was watching pornography and oh,
333. 15:18God, I'll do anything. I'll do anything.
334. 15:20Just please, you know, I'm scared. You
335. 15:22know, come on. Don't act like I'm the
336. 15:23only one. Okay. Who's who's ever been
337. 15:25scared? And then you're you start vowing
338. 15:27things to the Lord. And and so David is
339. 15:31well, not David, sorry. The psalmist in
340. 15:33Psalm 66 is like, "Hey, I am actually
341. 15:36going to fulfill the vows I made to the
342. 15:38Lord when I was in trouble. I will
343. 15:40sacrifice fat animals to you and an
344. 15:42offering of rams. I will offer bulls,
345. 15:44bulls, and goats. Come in here." Now,
346. 15:46we're at Come here. So we've done come
347. 15:48and see, come let us rejoice. I will
348. 15:51come to your temple and now come and
349. 15:52hear. And what do they come to hear? The
350. 15:55individual tell of all the things that
351. 15:57God has done. So the fascinating thing
352. 15:59is that this psalm of individual
353. 16:02thanksgiving actually starts with
354. 16:04corporate praise. And man, ain't that a
355. 16:07good model for church? I hope that
356. 16:10corporate worship and corporate praise
357. 16:13really does inspire you towards
358. 16:15individual thanksgiving. And there are
359. 16:18always moments during worship where I
360. 16:21begin to sing my own song to the Lord.
361. 16:23You know, we're singing as a
362. 16:24congregation and we're all singing the
363. 16:26same lyrics, but then corporate praise
364. 16:29turns into individual thanksgiving. I
365. 16:32think that's good. We have a model for
366. 16:34it here in Psalm 66. Vows my li Okay,
367. 16:37sorry. Come and hear all you who fear
368. 16:40God. Let me tell you what he has done
369. 16:44for me. Which means testifying of the
370. 16:46goodness of God is also praise. So we
371. 16:49see this in verse three. Say to God how
372. 16:52awesome are your deeds. So telling God
373. 16:53about how awesome he is is praise. But
374. 16:56then telling others about how awesome
375. 16:57God is is also praise. Okay. I cried out
376. 17:00to him with my mouth. His praise was on
377. 17:03my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my
378. 17:06heart, the Lord would not have listened.
379. 17:09And I highlighted that because there's a
380. 17:11big difference between committing sinful
381. 17:14acts and cherishing sin in my heart.
382. 17:18Man, there's a difference between, man,
383. 17:20I slipped up. Man, I acted in a way I I
384. 17:24didn't want to act. And I'm I'm hiding
385. 17:27sin. I'm cherishing sin in my heart.
386. 17:31like, yeah, I I will not give this up. I
387. 17:35I will keep sinning in this way as long
388. 17:38as possible. I'm cherishing it in my
389. 17:41heart. Okay. Uh that's a lot of nerdy
390. 17:43nuggets from Psalm 66. All right. Psalm
391. 17:4667. Now, Psalm 67, uh verse 4. May the
392. 17:51nations be glad and sing for joy, for
393. 17:54you rule the peoples with equity and
394. 17:56guide the nations of the earth. Okay, so
395. 17:58what was the Abrahamic covenant? It was
396. 18:01that God would bless Abraham so that
397. 18:05Abraham through his descendants could be
398. 18:08a blessing to the nations. Okay? That
399. 18:09was always the goal. God's goal was
400. 18:12always to get it to them so that he
401. 18:15could get it through them. That was
402. 18:17God's plan to bless Israel so that
403. 18:20Israel could be this beacon of light and
404. 18:23hope so that the nations could be
405. 18:25blessed. Okay? And so that's actually
406. 18:27what happens in the person of Jesus.
407. 18:29God's plan was never monoethnic or eth
408. 18:33ethnosentric.
409. 18:35Okay? God's plan was never, yeah, the
410. 18:37people of Israel are just so special.
411. 18:39I'm going to bless them and only them.
412. 18:41No, it was always I'm going to get it to
413. 18:44the people of Israel so I can get it
414. 18:45through them. And so in the same way
415. 18:48that Aaron the priest is supposed to
416. 18:51reflect the blessing of Yahweh to the
417. 18:54people, the people are supposed to be a
418. 18:57nation of priests for the world. Okay.
419. 19:00So the reason that this psalm starts
420. 19:02with Aaron's blessing from Numbers
421. 19:07uh 6:2
422. 19:09is because this psalm is actually
423. 19:12supposed to demonstrate
424. 19:15reveal the blessing that Yahweh has for
425. 19:19the nations through the descendants of
426. 19:22Abraham. Okay. So they are, this is a
427. 19:25psalm whereby the people are supposed to
428. 19:28remember the call on their collective
429. 19:31lives to be priests. And what happens
430. 19:34when when they don't worship idols, God
431. 19:36blesses their land. When they don't
432. 19:38worship idols, God blesses their
433. 19:40harvest. And when God blesses their
434. 19:42harvest, they are now a good witness to
435. 19:45all the other nations. All the other
436. 19:46nations are like, "Your God blesses your
437. 19:49harvest." There's a manifested way.
438. 19:52There's a there's a tangible way that
439. 19:56God blesses them so that the other
440. 19:59nations can see that Israel's blessed.
441. 20:02Okay? So, the fact that this is a
442. 20:04priestly psalm and a harvest psalm
443. 20:06really go together because it wasn't
444. 20:09like Israel is just supposed to go out
445. 20:10and evangelize. It's just they're
446. 20:12supposed to be blessed and they're
447. 20:14supposed to be so blessed that it would
448. 20:16cause the nations to ask, "How are you
449. 20:18so blessed?" And their answer's supposed
450. 20:20to be, "Oh, because we worship Yahweh.
451. 20:22We're blessed because we worship
452. 20:23Yahweh." And that was like Yahweh's
453. 20:25whole plan. But what happens? Instead of
454. 20:28the people doing that, they want to be
455. 20:30like the nations that they're supposed
456. 20:31to lead. And by being like the nations
457. 20:34and worshiping the idols of the nations,
458. 20:36they experience drought. And so the
459. 20:39reason that the nations, those secular
460. 20:42nations blood is on Israel's hands is
461. 20:44because Israel was called to to have an
462. 20:48allegiance to Yahweh so they could be
463. 20:50blessed so they could be a good witness.
464. 20:52But because they didn't have allegiance
465. 20:53to Yahweh, Yahweh had to curse them and
466. 20:55they had experienced drought because
467. 20:57they practiced idolatry and therefore
468. 20:59they're not reflecting the goodness of
469. 21:02God. So they can't be a good witness.
470. 21:04And so now the people that they're
471. 21:05supposed to be witnessing to, those
472. 21:08people's blood is now in their hands. So
473. 21:10this psalm has all of those themes
474. 21:12encapsulated in it. And to be totally
475. 21:15honest, I feel like without that kind of
476. 21:17an explanation, you you probably
477. 21:19wouldn't have understood that that's
478. 21:21what this psalm is reflecting on is
479. 21:24talking about. Last but not least, Psalm
480. 21:2768. Now this psalm, Psalm 68 is going to
481. 21:32actually quote Numbers 10:35. Okay,
482. 21:35Numbers 10:35
483. 21:38is going to say this. Okay, God shall
484. 21:41arise, his enemies shall be scattered.
485. 21:43Okay. Now, when Numbers says these
486. 21:46words, God shall arise, his enemies
487. 21:48shall be scattered, it is 100% talking
488. 21:51about the ark of the covenant being
489. 21:54brought out to battle so that the
490. 21:56presence of God can actually go before
491. 21:58the people. Okay? So, this entire psalm
492. 22:01is a reflection of Yahweh the king um
493. 22:05riding his mobile throne aka the ark of
494. 22:08the covenant. And the psalm begins with
495. 22:11the call that is mentioned in numbers
496. 22:1410:35.
497. 22:16God shall arise. His enemy shall be
498. 22:18scattered. Numbers, the book of numbers
499. 22:21presents Yahweh as the general king. Not
500. 22:24general like lowercase G, general like a
501. 22:28general of the army. Okay. Uh the
502. 22:30general the king that is also the
503. 22:33general of the army of the of of Israel
504. 22:36leading his army into battle. And this
505. 22:38psalm reflects some of that ancient
506. 22:40journey. All right. The triumph of the
507. 22:43warrior king continues as his thousands
508. 22:46upon thousands of chariots are
509. 22:48described. All right. Now, I'm going to
510. 22:50give you a three-fold kind of and that
511. 22:53emphasis on the ark and how the ark is
512. 22:56moving is what causes a ton of scholars
513. 23:00to actually say that Psalm 68 is 100% a
514. 23:05reflection or inspired by the ascent
515. 23:09from Oed Edom's house to the tabernacle
516. 23:12in Jerusalem. So, there's three things
517. 23:15that are outlined in Psalm 68. First of
518. 23:18all, arise. Arise. Okay. God shall
519. 23:22arise. His enemies shall be scattered.
520. 23:24Okay. This is God mounting the ark of
521. 23:27the covenant. Okay. Second, ascend.
522. 23:30Okay. Here's the language that we have
523. 23:32in chapter 68.
524. 23:35You ascended on high, leading a host of
525. 23:38captives in your train and receiving
526. 23:41gifts among men. Now, Paul is going to
527. 23:45quote this exact psalm in Ephesians
528. 23:47chapter 4:8, and that's going to be our
529. 23:49Thomas Truth for the day. But before we
530. 23:52get to that, I just want to close out
531. 23:55the sequence that we have. God is going
532. 23:57to arise and then he's going to ascend
533. 24:00and then he's going to enter. Okay, this
534. 24:03psalm is going to close. Okay. In
535. 24:06chapter 68 24, the procession ends when
536. 24:10the ark enters the sanctuary, the king's
537. 24:14home. Yahweh's home. Okay. Yahweh's
538. 24:18throne is back in his palace, which is
539. 24:22his home. The king is home. Okay. 68:4,
540. 24:27it says this, "Your procession, God, has
541. 24:30come into view. The procession of my God
542. 24:33and king into the sanctuary." I said,
543. 24:35"Okay, so this entire psalm is about a
544. 24:39procession, a the procession of a
545. 24:42warrior king where the ark is moving
546. 24:45around, it's victorious, and then it
547. 24:48finally comes to rest in its place or in
548. 24:53its home, but in the king's palace. Not
549. 24:56the David the king, Yahweh the king."
550. 24:58All right, timeless truth. We're going
551. 25:00to actually use the fact that Paul is
552. 25:04going to quote this psalm. He's going to
553. 25:06quote 68:18
554. 25:08in Ephesians 4:8. So, I'm going to read
555. 25:11Ephesians 4:8 to you. It says this. I'll
556. 25:15start at verse 7. But to each one of us,
557. 25:18grace has been given as Christ aortioned
558. 25:20it. This is why it says, "When he
559. 25:23ascended on high, he took many captives
560. 25:25and gave gifts to his people." What does
561. 25:28he ascended mean except that he also
562. 25:31descended to the lower earthly regions?
563. 25:34He who descended is the very one who
564. 25:37ascended higher than all the heavens in
565. 25:40order to fill the whole universe. So
566. 25:41Christ himself gave okay what gifts does
567. 25:44he give? Gives apostles, prophets,
568. 25:47evangelists, pastors and teachers to
569. 25:49equip his people for the works of
570. 25:51service so the body of Christ may be
571. 25:54built up. So if Jesus is a groom and the
572. 25:58church is his bride, Jesus has a wedding
573. 26:01gift for his bride and it is in the form
574. 26:04of these fivefold ministry giftings. So
575. 26:08what's my timeless truth for the day? If
576. 26:10David danced before the type and shadow.
577. 26:13Okay. If David danced before that which
578. 26:16was prefiguring what we have today. If
579. 26:20David danced before the type and shadow,
580. 26:22how much more so should we not express
581. 26:25physical praise to God. Now that the
582. 26:28fulfillment of the type and shadow is
583. 26:30here. Ephesians 4:8 is huge. Ephesians
584. 26:354:8 means that the fulfillment of Psalm
585. 26:3968 has come. And if David could dance in
586. 26:43front of the type in the shadow, how
587. 26:46much more should we acknowledge the Holy
588. 26:50Spirit of God? I'll read it this way. In
589. 26:55Psalm 68, the Spirit of Yahweh enters
590. 26:58old Jerusalem and ascends to rest and
591. 27:00rule in the tabernacle. In Ephesians,
592. 27:03the spirit of Yahweh enters the new
593. 27:05Jerusalem and ascends to rest and rule
594. 27:08in the new temple. And the new covenant
595. 27:10in the new Jerusalem and the new temple
596. 27:13are one and the same. What is it? The
597. 27:16church, the body and the bride of
598. 27:19Christ. David danced and rejoiced to see
599. 27:21the presence of God in a tent. Yet every
600. 27:24day of our walk with Christ, we know
601. 27:26something far greater than David. the
602. 27:29presence of God in these temples of the
603. 27:32Holy Spirit and the presence of God in
604. 27:35the churches that we are a part of week
605. 27:39in and week out. If David danced before
606. 27:42the ark of the covenant, how much more
607. 27:45should we bring physical praise, shouts
608. 27:49of praise, songs of praise, dances of
609. 27:52praise, exuberant praise before God who
610. 27:56has fulfilled everything that Psalm 68
611. 27:59was pointing to. That's not just true
612. 28:02for David. That's not just true for
613. 28:04Paul. That should be true for you and me
614. 28:07as well. And that's my timeless truth
615. 28:09for the day. All right, tomorrow we've
616. 28:11got Psalm 69-72.
617. 28:14We've got a good amount of Psalms to
618. 28:17study tomorrow. I'm so excited. If
619. 28:20you're on a streak, Dr. Manny is proud
620. 28:23of you. If you're not on a streak, let's
621. 28:25get it together. All right, I'll see you
622. 28:28right here tomorrow as we continue our
623. 28:30journey through the Psalms. I love you
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