Day 277: Psalms 76-78 | 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 277.
10. 0:27We are diving in to three more Psalms of
11. 0:31Asaf. We are now in book three of the
12. 0:35Psalms. And we got three Psalms of our
13. 0:38man Asaf Rocky. Okay, ASAP with the
14. 0:41Psalms. Today we got Psalms 76,77
15. 0:45and 78. If you haven't done the reading,
16. 0:48uh this is a good time to stop the
17. 0:50video, pause the audio, go get the
18. 0:52reading done so that you can actually
19. 0:54have context for what we are talking
20. 0:57about here on today's episode. If you
21. 0:59have done the reading, then I hope that
22. 1:02just doing the reading by itself with no
23. 1:05video, no explanation, no context clues,
24. 1:08no nerdy nuggets, no timeless truth, I
25. 1:10hope that the reading alone edified your
26. 1:13spirit. It's building your faith. and
27. 1:16helping you fall in love with the word
28. 1:18of God in a deeper way. All right, like
29. 1:22every episode, I'm going to give context
30. 1:24and then I'll give nerdy nuggets. I'll
31. 1:26try to give a couple for each Psalm and
32. 1:28then I'll give a timeless truth. I'm
33. 1:30really excited about the timeless truth
34. 1:31for today's episode. So, context clues,
35. 1:35let's dive in. Psalm 76, we've got a
36. 1:39generic,
37. 1:40I would say a general psalm of praise.
38. 1:42All right, this is a psalm of praise or
39. 1:45worship and again by our good guy Asaf.
40. 1:48If you need more context on who Asaf is,
41. 1:51then you can watch I believe it was
42. 1:54yesterday's episode where we really
43. 1:55talked about Asaf as a character and the
44. 1:58context of when he got brought up in 1st
45. 2:01Chronicles 16:5 and 2 Chronicles 5:12.
46. 2:05Okay. Uh Psalm 77. This is a psalm of
47. 2:09individual lament. a psalm of individual
48. 2:12lament and we are going to look at uh
49. 2:15what that means in a little bit. Now
50. 2:17with Psalm 77 we get a a a interesting
51. 2:22little nugget. Okay, it's not a nerdy
52. 2:25nugget but more like a context nugget if
53. 2:27that if we if we can allow that. Um it's
54. 2:30going to be according to Jedathan. Okay,
55. 2:32so we're going to get a name here and
56. 2:34Jonathan appears in two chapters of 1
57. 2:36Chronicles. Okay. 1st Chronicles 16:es
58. 2:4041-42.
59. 2:42He along with Hemon were instructed to
60. 2:44lead worship as Zadok and the rest of
61. 2:47the priests were sacrificing. He and
62. 2:49Hemon played trumpets and symbols and
63. 2:51led the people in songs of worship
64. 2:53alongside the sacrifices. In 1
65. 2:55Chronicles 25:es 1:3 again, okay,
66. 3:00Jonathan uh is mentioned alongside Hemon
67. 3:03and by one of the other great psalm
68. 3:05writers, Asaf. Okay, so we get this
69. 3:07pairing Asaf and Jedithan. They and
70. 3:10their sons are again instructed to lead
71. 3:12worship alongside the priests. This
72. 3:14worship is said to prophesy, which I
73. 3:17could get into a whole lesson on how
74. 3:18worship is prophecy. I think that there
75. 3:20are a lot of worship leaders who
76. 3:22actually are operating in a prophetic
77. 3:23gift. I don't want to get too far on a
78. 3:25tangent, but uh the Bible teaches us in
79. 3:27the New Testament, Paul writes that to
80. 3:30the church, Christ, Jesus Christ gave
81. 3:33five gifts. And those gifts are apostle,
82. 3:36prophet, evangelist, uh, teacher, and
83. 3:39pastor. The worship leader is not one of
84. 3:41those. So, I always love to teach
85. 3:43worship leaders that you're probably
86. 3:45operating in a teaching gift, a pastoral
87. 3:47gift, an evangelistic gift, a prophetic
88. 3:50gift, or an apostolic gift. And I
89. 3:52actually have found that a lot of
90. 3:53worship leaders are actually operating
91. 3:55in a prophetic gift. That's why they can
92. 3:59lead uh spontaneously so well, jumping
93. 4:02from song to song. They really do have a
94. 4:04prophetic gifting. And and even when we
95. 4:08see characters in the Bible like Elijah
96. 4:10and Elisha needing to prophesy, they
97. 4:13will actually say like, "Well, go get
98. 4:15someone who can play." I think that
99. 4:17music has a prophetic nature to it. And
100. 4:22um yeah, I don't think that's just an
101. 4:23emotional thing. Now, I know there are
102. 4:25super cynical people on the internet who
103. 4:29are like, "Yeah, they're emotionally
104. 4:30manipulating you by how they play music
105. 4:32at church." And it's like, that's not
106. 4:34emotional manipulation. That's that's
107. 4:37invoking the power of the Holy Spirit
108. 4:39actually to help move on the hearts of
109. 4:41people to make godly decisions. So yeah,
110. 4:44I mean you could see that as cynically
111. 4:46or you could see it through the lens of
112. 4:48cynicism like yeah they play the keys at
113. 4:51the end of the sermon so that you could
114. 4:53you know be emotionally manipulated into
115. 4:55making a decision or it's that the
116. 4:58spirit of prophecy really moves through
117. 5:01instrumentation and music and um God has
118. 5:05actually given us a massive green light
119. 5:07to use that to help steer people towards
120. 5:11godly decisions. There is a nonsynical
121. 5:14way to think about this exact same
122. 5:16content. Okay, back to our guy Jedathan.
123. 5:18Jonathan then was a leader of the
124. 5:21Levites that David appointed in his
125. 5:23reformation and transformation of
126. 5:24Israel's worship to Yahweh. the
127. 5:26inclusion of this probably older psalm,
128. 5:30okay, in this collection book three made
129. 5:33in the context of the return to
130. 5:35Jerusalem and building of the temple is
131. 5:38probably due to its content reassuring
132. 5:42the people that once again God is
133. 5:45enthroned in Zion and he rules all the
134. 5:48world. So that's Psalm 77. So Psalm 77
135. 5:52is a psalm of individual event. It's
136. 5:55according to Jedithan and 1st Chronicles
137. 5:59uh 16 and 1st Chronicles 25 give us
138. 6:02context for who Jedithan is. And again I
139. 6:05want you to remember that the context of
140. 6:08book three for the most part are psalms
141. 6:12that have been curated collected from
142. 6:16prior generations. But the purpose of
143. 6:19the curation is to help the returned
144. 6:23exiles to actually be faithful to Yahweh
145. 6:27to rebuild their lives. And so we're not
146. 6:30just looking at the context of the
147. 6:32original psalms and when they were
148. 6:34written like what was Asaf thinking or
149. 6:37what was Jonathan thinking? No. But what
150. 6:40was the editor who assembled these
151. 6:42psalms thinking? And why did they
152. 6:45assemble these psalms for their
153. 6:47audience? Okay, so the audience here
154. 6:50isn't Asaf's audience or Jonathan's
155. 6:52audience. It's actually Asaf's
156. 6:55ancestors audience and the return
157. 6:59exiles. I hope that that's clear. I
158. 7:01tried to say it as clear as I could.
159. 7:03Okay. All right. Psalm 78. This is a
160. 7:05wisdom psalm. You probably realize that
161. 7:08just by reading it. Okay, this Psalm 78
162. 7:11starts like this. My people hear my
163. 7:13teaching. That sounds like it's straight
164. 7:15out of the book of Proverbs, right? My
165. 7:17people hear my teaching. Listen to the
166. 7:19words of my mouth. I will open my mouth
167. 7:22with a parable. I will utter hidden
168. 7:25things, things from of old. Okay, this
169. 7:27is wisdom. It's a wisdom song. And just
170. 7:30one little tidbit I'm going to add.
171. 7:33There's a very pro- David, pro-Judah,
172. 7:37pro-Jerusalem,
173. 7:38pro-S South agenda here in this in this
174. 7:42psalm. And we'll kind of unpack that as
175. 7:44we go. But Psalm 78 uh is a wisdom
176. 7:48psalm, but the wisdom really is around
177. 7:50accepting God's choice for who he's
178. 7:54anointed. And that anointed leader is
179. 7:56David. And so we're we're going to
180. 7:58really dive into how politically charged
181. 8:01this psalm is. That's all the context
182. 8:03for the content. Uh let's dive into
183. 8:07NerdyNuggets. I guess before we do, I'll
184. 8:09just say this. Okay. All three of these
185. 8:11psalms are designed to encourage the
186. 8:13people in their rebuilding efforts and
187. 8:17energy. Okay. The context of the group
188. 8:21assembling these psalms, not not the
189. 8:25people writing the psalms. Okay. The
190. 8:26Psalms themselves are very old, but
191. 8:29they're being assembled for a new
192. 8:31generation. And that generation needs to
193. 8:34be spurred on to have the effort and the
194. 8:37energy to rebuild their lives, but to
195. 8:40also rebuild God's dwelling place, his
196. 8:42temple, his city. Okay? Uh so that's the
197. 8:45context. All right. Let's get into some
198. 8:47nerdy nuggets for Psalm 76. One of the
199. 8:50biggest nerdy nuggets I could give you
200. 8:52is that Psalm 76 is split into two
201. 8:55halves. From verse one to verse six,
202. 8:58Zion is the dwelling place of Yahweh.
203. 9:01You can actually see the pro-Judah,
204. 9:03pro-S South, pro-David agenda right at
205. 9:06the top of chapter 76 or Psalm 76 says
206. 9:10this. God is enthroned in Judah. Aka,
207. 9:14he's not enthroned in any of these
208. 9:16northern kingdoms of Israel. He's
209. 9:18enthroned in the southern kingdom of
210. 9:21Judah. And the fact that the northern
211. 9:24kingdom has split the United monarchy
212. 9:28and taken people up north is is not
213. 9:31God's will. Okay. Where does God dwell?
214. 9:34God is renowned where? In Judah. In
215. 9:38Israel, his name is great. His tent is
216. 9:41in Salem. Okay? Which is the root of the
217. 9:46city Jeru Salem. Okay? His tent is in
218. 9:51Salem. His dwelling place in Zion. Okay,
219. 9:55Zion is the city of Jerusalem. Okay,
220. 9:58Zion. So, this is a pro-Zion,
221. 10:03pro-Jerusalem, pro-Judah psalm here.
222. 10:06Now, this is just a quick just want to
223. 10:10help everybody with these three words,
224. 10:12okay? Hebrew, Israelite, Jewish. Hebrew,
225. 10:17Israelite, Jewish. Here's a nerdy nugget
226. 10:19for you. Not in my notes. Just felt like
227. 10:22this is probably going to be helpful.
228. 10:23The term Hebrew is the oldest of these
229. 10:27three words. Hebrew, Israelite, and
230. 10:29Jewish. It's the oldest. It refers to
231. 10:32descendants of Abraham. Israelites are
232. 10:36descendants of Israel. Okay? So, Jacob,
233. 10:40whose name got changed to Israel, had 12
234. 10:43sons. Those become the 12 tribes of
235. 10:46Israel. Why? because they are the 12
236. 10:48sons of Israel. Okay? So obviously
237. 10:51Abraham lives two generations before the
238. 10:55lineage is Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Okay?
239. 10:58And so we don't get Israelites until we
240. 11:00get Jacob's sons. So Hebrew is an older
241. 11:05term that refers to all of Abraham's
242. 11:08descendants. Israelites refer to anyone
243. 11:12who identifies as coming from the any of
244. 11:14the 12 tribes of Israel. Jews. Okay.
245. 11:18Someone who is a Jew is someone who is a
246. 11:21descendant of the line of Judah. Okay.
247. 11:24So, Hebrews are descendants of Abraham.
248. 11:27Israelites are descendants of Israel.
249. 11:30And Jews are descendants of Judah. So,
250. 11:33when the Bible talks about Hebrews, you
251. 11:36can always know that book is probably
252. 11:38dated pretty far back. Israel is really
253. 11:41talking about the 12 tribes of Israel.
254. 11:45And Jews are going to be referring to
255. 11:48the descendants of Judah, aka David's
256. 11:52descendants. Okay? David is the king of
257. 11:54Judah before he becomes the king of
258. 11:57Israel. David's like ethnic background
259. 12:01is that he's from the tribe of Judah.
260. 12:04Judah being one of the 12 sons of
261. 12:08Israel. Okay, that's a nerdy nugget that
262. 12:10I think will help you out. All right,
263. 12:12Psalm 76 is split in half. verses 1-6.
264. 12:16Zion is the dwelling place of Yahweh.
265. 12:18Okay? His tent, his tabernacle, his
266. 12:22temple in Jerusalem, the Holy of Holies
267. 12:25is his throne. However, from verse 7 to
268. 12:28verse 12, what's clear is that heaven is
269. 12:31the throne of Yahweh. So, I want you to
270. 12:33begin to see how the psalm is working.
271. 12:36The psalm is actually communicating that
272. 12:38the temple in Jerusalem is simply a
273. 12:41model. It's a type. It's a shadow. It's
274. 12:44a symbol. That the reason that the type
275. 12:49and shadow even has power is because the
276. 12:53real temple which is in heaven has
277. 12:55power. And the reason that we have a
278. 12:59symbol on the earth is because God wants
279. 13:02us to know that the same way that he
280. 13:04rules the earth from his holy of holies
281. 13:07is the same way that he rules the
282. 13:09universe from his throne in heaven. All
283. 13:11right? So the the temple in Jerusalem is
284. 13:16a archetype of the reality of what's
285. 13:20happening in the entire cosmos. All
286. 13:22right. Psalm 77. Let me give you a nerdy
287. 13:24nugget from Psalm 77. One of the coolest
288. 13:28things about Psalm 77 is from verse 16
289. 13:31to verse 20, we are going to get a
290. 13:34poetic retelling of the Israelites
291. 13:36crossing the Red Sea. we are going to
292. 13:39receive in those couple of verses
293. 13:41ancient mythological.
294. 13:44Okay, the reason it's mythological is
295. 13:46because we're going to get those themes
296. 13:49from Genesis chapter 1 again that God
297. 13:53conquers chaos. So, we're going to get
298. 13:55words like the very depths were
299. 13:58convulsed. Okay, we're going to get
300. 13:59words like mighty waters. Okay, we're
301. 14:02going to get words like the sea. Okay,
302. 14:04we're going to get words like whirlwind.
303. 14:07We're going to get words that really
304. 14:09communicate not that God made something
305. 14:12out of nothing, but that God made order
306. 14:15out of chaos. So those chaos words are
307. 14:18all uh what we would call mythological.
308. 14:22And I'm going to help you to see how
309. 14:23this is linked to Leviathan. Okay? But
310. 14:26we'll see that in a second. This is
311. 14:28ancient mythological spiritual warfare
312. 14:30language. Okay? Is a dramatic
313. 14:33demonstration of Yahweh's power over
314. 14:36chaos. So let's read it together. This
315. 14:38is the retelling of God delivering his
316. 14:41people through the Red Sea or the Sea of
317. 14:44Reeds. The water saw you God. So that's
318. 14:47first of all, the water saw you. Okay,
319. 14:49this personification of the water.
320. 14:51Remember in an ancient world, the sea or
321. 14:55the waters or the depths are the abode
322. 14:58of chaos. They are personified
323. 15:01characters in a drama whereby order
324. 15:05continues to overtake chaos. So uh it
325. 15:08says the water saw you God. The water
326. 15:11saw you and writhed. Okay. The very
327. 15:14depths were convulsed. The clouds poured
328. 15:17down water. The heavens resounded with
329. 15:20thunder. Your arrows flashed back and
330. 15:23forth. Your thunder was heard in the
331. 15:27whirlwind. Your lightning lit up the
332. 15:29world. The earth trembled and quake.
333. 15:32Your path led through the sea. The sea,
334. 15:36the place of chaos. You made a you made
335. 15:38a a path through it. Your way through
336. 15:40the mighty waters. Though your
337. 15:43footprints were not seen, you led your
338. 15:45people like a flock by the hand of Moses
339. 15:49and Aaron. Okay, this is a dramatic
340. 15:52retelling. Why do we get this
341. 15:54mythological ancient dramatic retelling
342. 15:59of Yahweh's power over chaos? Well, it
343. 16:03is because the people of Judah at this
344. 16:07point in juncture, but the people of
345. 16:09Israel are experiencing insane amounts
346. 16:12of chaos. And so, these psalms are going
347. 16:16to have this flavor to them. Okay, I
348. 16:18want to actually draw your attention to
349. 16:20Ezekiel 29:es 1-4.
350. 16:24Ezekiel 29:es 1-4 is also going to give
351. 16:27us a dramatic retelling of this exact
352. 16:30same moment. Ezekiel 29:es 1-4. And it's
353. 16:33good that we would read the actual
354. 16:37events happening in in Exodus, I think
355. 16:40it's Exodus 15, it's the crossing of the
356. 16:42Red Sea. I will fact check myself really
357. 16:45quickly. Exodus 14 is the crossing and
358. 16:49then Exodus 15 is we get the crossing
359. 16:52talked about in song form through Moses.
360. 16:55Okay. So, it's good that we get kind of
361. 16:58a historical record of how it happens
362. 17:01back in Exodus, but then we get the veil
363. 17:04is lifted and we get to see a
364. 17:08mythological
365. 17:10retelling of the same story. Here's how
366. 17:12Ezekiel chapter 29 starting in verse one
367. 17:15is going to talk about the Red Sea. You
368. 17:18could tell way more mythological take. I
369. 17:20start in verse two actually. Son of man,
370. 17:22set your face against Pharaoh, king of
371. 17:24Egypt, and prophesy against him in all
372. 17:27Egypt. Speak to him and say, this is
373. 17:29what the sovereign Lord says. I am
374. 17:30against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You
375. 17:33great monster. Okay, that's that's new.
376. 17:38lying among your streams. You say the
377. 17:41Nile belongs to me. I made it for
378. 17:44myself. But I will put hooks in your
379. 17:46jaws and make the fish of your stream
380. 17:50stick to your scales. Okay. So So
381. 17:53Pharaoh is being talked about like a
382. 17:55dragon here. He's got scales. Why is
383. 17:58Pharaoh being talked about like he's
384. 17:59Leviathan? I will put you out from among
385. 18:02your streams with all the fish sticking
386. 18:05to your scales. Okay. And then we're
387. 18:08we're also we got this yesterday. Psalm
388. 18:1174. Okay. Psalm 74 reading verse 13 is
389. 18:16going to say this. It was you who split
390. 18:18open the sea by your power. You broke
391. 18:21the heads of the monster in the waters.
392. 18:23So we're going to get that mythological
393. 18:25language again. The word monster is a
394. 18:26very mythological word. Okay. Monster in
395. 18:29the waters. It was you who crushed the
396. 18:32head of Leviathan
397. 18:34and gave it as food to the creatures of
398. 18:37the desert. So Ezekiel chapter 29 and
399. 18:40Psalm 74 are all going to echo the same
400. 18:44exact thing that Psalm that Psalm 77
401. 18:49is echoing which is God has proven over
402. 18:54and over and over again that he has
403. 18:57ultimate authority, power, control over
404. 19:02chaos. And I know that maybe for modern
405. 19:06readers of the Bible, you you would just
406. 19:09want the Bible to say that plainly, but
407. 19:11the Bible speaks through images. And one
408. 19:13of the images that the Bible speaks
409. 19:15through is this chaos language that is
410. 19:17found all over the scriptures. There's
411. 19:21so much chaos language in the Bible that
412. 19:22I wrote a book entitled Crushing Chaos
413. 19:25because I think that this mythological
414. 19:27way of reading the Bible could really
415. 19:30really help us to understand what's
416. 19:32happening in the Bible and how to
417. 19:34understand what is happening in the
418. 19:36Bible and how to understand God better.
419. 19:38All right, last psalm. I'll give you the
420. 19:40last nerdy nugget from Psalm 78. This
421. 19:43psalm is deeply political. Very, very
422. 19:45pro David. Okay? Very, very, very pro
423. 19:48David. So is Psalm 76 by the way. But
424. 19:51when we look at Psalm 78, what we are
425. 19:54going to see is that there is this whole
426. 19:57story. This is a psalm of wisdom. We get
427. 20:00an entire story of how the people of
428. 20:04Israel have failed over and over and
429. 20:06over again. But it's not just the people
430. 20:08of Israel. It's Ephraim. Ephraim is
431. 20:11contrasted with Judah. Ephraim, the heir
432. 20:14of Rachel. And Judah is the heir of
433. 20:16Leah. Ephraim did not keep the covenant
434. 20:19just like those who rebelled against
435. 20:21Yahweh in the wilderness. Just like the
436. 20:23family of Eli when Shiloh was destroyed
437. 20:26and the ark was taken. Okay, the psalm
438. 20:29ends very clearly. He rejected the tent
439. 20:32of Joseph. He did not choose the tribe
440. 20:35of Ephraim. But Yahweh chose the tribe
441. 20:38of Judah, Mount Zion, where he loves.
442. 20:42and he chose David his servant and took
443. 20:46him from the sheepfold. That's chapter
444. 20:4978. Psalm 78 verse 67-70.
445. 20:53I skipped some things but generally
446. 20:56chapter 78 67-7.
447. 20:59This psalm was originally a psalm that
448. 21:01rebukes Ephraim and the northern tribes
449. 21:04that followed for rejecting David and
450. 21:08David's house in splitting the kingdom
451. 21:10in two. The psalm is clear. David and
452. 21:13Zion are the choice of God. To reject
453. 21:16David as king, to reject his dynasty and
454. 21:20Jerusalem as the sight of the temple is
455. 21:23to reject Yahweh, the true king. The
456. 21:26lesson that Israel must learn from the
457. 21:29history that's recounted all throughout
458. 21:32Psalm 78 is that rejecting Yahweh always
459. 21:35ends in disaster. And the psalm was
460. 21:38compiled so that that lesson could come
461. 21:41in a sharp focus. The Jews, the people
462. 21:44of Judah, the people of David led by
463. 21:47Zerubbabible, a son of David have
464. 21:49returned to the promised land. But
465. 21:51Ephraim and the northern tribes have
466. 21:54not. They were lost forever. Which is a
467. 21:57vindication that like, hey, God had
468. 22:00always chosen David and Jerusalem. He
469. 22:02chose a person and a place where he was
470. 22:06going to dwell. And it doesn't really
471. 22:08matter if we don't like that choice.
472. 22:10Okay, which leads us right into our
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495. 23:09back to the episode. I wrote it down
496. 23:11this way. It says, "Freedom of choice
497. 23:13doesn't free you from the consequences
498. 23:16of making poor choices." Okay. A lot of
499. 23:19times we try to pit the sovereignty of
500. 23:22God against free will. And I think these
501. 23:24psalms are pretty clear. God's sovereign
502. 23:26choice is David. That's his sovereign
503. 23:28choice. But just because God's chosen
504. 23:31David doesn't mean that everybody else
505. 23:33is forced to choose David. So they have
506. 23:35the freedom to accept or reject what God
507. 23:38has already chosen. So God's made some
508. 23:40choices and now you can make
509. 23:42corresponding choices based on what God
510. 23:44has chosen. And you are free to choose
511. 23:48what God has rejected. But that also
512. 23:50comes with consequences. Okay? Freedom
513. 23:52of choice doesn't free you from the
514. 23:54consequences of said choices. Okay? You
515. 23:57and I are free to reject God's plan. But
516. 24:01exercising that freedom comes with a
517. 24:04cost. There's a cost. And that's not
518. 24:07just true for the return exiles. That's
519. 24:11not just true for the original
520. 24:12recipients of these psalms. That's not
521. 24:15just true in David's life. That's true
522. 24:19forever. That just because you have
523. 24:22freedom of choice doesn't mean that you
524. 24:24are freed from the consequences of said
525. 24:27choices. And if you really trust that
526. 24:31God has your best interest at heart,
527. 24:33then you may want to choose the things
528. 24:37that he's chosen because that's a life
529. 24:39hack. I'm not even going to lie to you.
530. 24:42That's my timeless truth for the day
531. 24:44that you do have freedom of choice.
532. 24:46God's sovereignty doesn't somehow take
533. 24:48away your freedom of choice and you got
534. 24:50the freedom to choose bad decisions.
535. 24:53However, those bad decisions will have
536. 24:55consequences. And in this context, the
537. 24:58people of Israel who rejected David,
538. 25:02that choice is going to come with some
539. 25:04bad consequences. All right, I'll see
540. 25:07you tomorrow on day 278. We've got Psalm
541. 25:1179- 81 tomorrow. Uh so Psalm 79, 80, and
542. 25:1681. I hope that the reading blesses you.
543. 25:19I hope that this episode was a blessing
544. 25:21to you. I'm so excited that you're on
545. 25:24this journey with us to go through the
546. 25:26entire Bible in a year. I love you guys
547. 25:30so much. I'm proud of you. I'll see you
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