Day 279: Psalms 82-84 | 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 279 here at the
10. 0:27Bible department podcast and we are
11. 0:30diving into Psalms 82 to84 today. Psalms
12. 0:3382 or Psalm 82 rather. It's a pretty
13. 0:37like famous Psalm especially if you have
14. 0:40followed the ministry of the late Dr.
15. 0:43Michael Heiser. I know I'm a big Michael
16. 0:45Heiser fan. Was honestly sad at his
17. 0:48passing. But all that to say, we're
18. 0:51going to dive into Psalm 82 today, which
19. 0:53um a lot of his just scholarly work
20. 0:56centers around. And I'm going to
21. 0:58actually encourage people to go listen
22. 1:01to a lot of that content. But uh if you
23. 1:05have done the reading, everything that
24. 1:06I'm going to say is going to make total
25. 1:08sense. If you have not done the reading,
26. 1:11this is a great chance. It's a great
27. 1:13moment to stop the video, pause the
28. 1:16audio, and go get Psalm Psalm 82, Psalm
29. 1:2083, and Psalm 84 read so that you can
30. 1:24kind of keep up with what we're talking
31. 1:25about today. All right. Uh, like every
32. 1:27day, I'm going to give context clues.
33. 1:29Then I'm going to try to give as many
34. 1:31nerdy nuggets as possible. I'm going to
35. 1:33try to give at least one per psalm. And
36. 1:36we're always going to leave off with a
37. 1:38timeless truth cuz we're not just
38. 1:40learning history. We're not just here to
39. 1:42learn the context of scripture, but for
40. 1:44the content of the scriptures to
41. 1:46transform our lives. So, with no further
42. 1:49ado, for everyone who's done the
43. 1:50reading, let's dive into our context
44. 1:53clues. All right. Psalm 82 and 83 are
45. 1:57the final psalms of Asaf. And then Psalm
46. 2:0084 is a psalm of the sons of Kora. Now
47. 2:05we have had some psalms from the sons of
48. 2:09Kora before. So this is a return to some
49. 2:12psalms of the sons of Kora who will
50. 2:14provide three more psalms in book three.
51. 2:17Okay, three more psalms in book three.
52. 2:20So Psalm 85, Psalm 87 and Psalm 88 are
53. 2:24also going to be psalms of the sons of
54. 2:28Kora. Now, I gave tons of context on the
55. 2:31Sons of Kora, you know, back when we
56. 2:35kind of looked at previous psalms that
57. 2:37were written by them. The cool gist or
58. 2:41the gist of what I said, I don't know
59. 2:44how many days or weeks ago that was was
60. 2:47that it's cool that the sons of Kora
61. 2:50almost redeem their family's name. Uh
62. 2:54because Kora is not a positive character
63. 2:58in the Bible, that's for sure. We're
64. 3:00talking about a character who's known
65. 3:02for rebellion. So, it's cool that the
66. 3:05sons of Kora are like redeeming their
67. 3:07great great great great great great
68. 3:08great great
69. 3:10ancestors legacy. I just think that's
70. 3:13awesome. So, all right. Uh Psalm 82 and
71. 3:1683 are the final psalms of Asaf. Psalm
72. 3:1984 is a psalm of Kora. And we're going
73. 3:22to get some more Psalms from the Sons of
74. 3:25Kora as we continue to journey through
75. 3:27the third book of the book of Psalms.
76. 3:30Okay, Psalm 82 has no context, but we
77. 3:35get the divine counsel mentioned in
78. 3:37Psalm 82, and that's kind of a big deal.
79. 3:40Like a really, really, really big deal.
80. 3:42And so, no context, but this is a
81. 3:44really, really important psalm. So,
82. 3:46we'll kind of dive into what the divine
83. 3:48counsel is once we get down to our nerdy
84. 3:50nuggets in the middle of the episode.
85. 3:52Psalm 83. The context for Psalm 83 is 2
86. 3:56Chronicles
87. 3:5720. Now, in 2 Chronicles chapter 20, we
88. 4:01are going to have a king by the name of
89. 4:04Jehoshaphat. And there's going to be a
90. 4:07coalition of Edom, Ammon, and Moab that
91. 4:11are going to ally themselves against
92. 4:14Jehoshaphat. This story can be found in
93. 4:172 Chronicles chapter 20. I want to read
94. 4:19to you Psalm 83 6 to8 and uh Psalm 83
95. 4:25starting in verse 6 says this. The tents
96. 4:29of Edom. Okay. So the psalm is going to
97. 4:32give us some people groups. Okay. And
98. 4:35the people groups match what we have for
99. 4:38context in 2 Chronicles chapter 20. So,
100. 4:41Edom, the Ishelites of Moab, and the
101. 4:45Hagrites, Biblo, Ammon, Amalecch,
102. 4:48Felistia, and the people of Ty, even
103. 4:51Assyria has joined them to reinforce
104. 4:53Lot's descendants. So, Psalm 83 is going
105. 4:57to begin to match context 2 Chronicles
106. 4:59chapter 20. If you want to go to 2
107. 5:02Chronicles chapter 20, it would actually
108. 5:04be really really really helpful uh for
109. 5:07you because it provides the context for
110. 5:10what's going on in Psalm 83. Okay. 2
111. 5:15Chronicles 20 verse one starts like
112. 5:17this. After this, the Moabites, the
113. 5:19Ammonites, and some of the Munites came
114. 5:23to wage war against Jehoshaphat. Okay,
115. 5:25we're going to go to verse 13. Okay. All
116. 5:28of the men of Judah and their wives and
117. 5:31children and little ones stood there
118. 5:32before the Lord. Okay, so they're on the
119. 5:35battle lines. And it says this, "Then
120. 5:37the spirit of the Lord came on Jehaziel,
121. 5:40son of Zechariah, the son of Banayiah,
122. 5:42the son of Jel, the son of Mataniah, a
123. 5:45Levite, and a descendant of Asaf."
124. 5:49Asaf's back. Okay, so anyway. All right.
125. 5:52Sorry. I got so excited about Asaf just
126. 5:54now. Okay. a descendant of Asaf as he
127. 5:57stood in the assembly. All right. So the
128. 6:00spirit of the Lord comes down on Jehazio
129. 6:03and this is what he says. Says, "Listen,
130. 6:05King Jehoshaphat and all who live in
131. 6:07Judah and Jerusalem. This is what the
132. 6:09Lord says to you. Do not be afraid or
133. 6:11discouraged because of this vast army.
134. 6:14For the battle is not yours, but God's."
135. 6:17Okay? Tomorrow, march down against them.
136. 6:20They will be climbing up by the pass of
137. 6:22Ziz and you will find them at the end of
138. 6:24the gorge in the desert of Jeriel Jer
139. 6:28Jeriel
140. 6:30you go Jeriel. You will not have to
141. 6:33fight this battle. Take up your
142. 6:34position. Stand firm and see the
143. 6:36deliverance the Lord will give you Judah
144. 6:38and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid. Do not
145. 6:40be discouraged. Go out and face tomorrow
146. 6:43and the Lord will be with you. Okay. So,
147. 6:46we get one of Asaf's descendants who the
148. 6:49spirit of the Lord comes on him and he
149. 6:51begins to prophesy a word of
150. 6:53encouragement. And here's what begins to
151. 6:56happen. Okay, Jehoshaphat
152. 6:58leads them out to battle and and says
153. 7:01this. Okay, this is verse 21. After
154. 7:04consulting the people, Jehoshaphat
155. 7:06appointed men to sing, not fight, but to
156. 7:10sing to the Lord and to praise him for
157. 7:13the splendor of his holiness as they
158. 7:16went out at the head of the army. Okay,
159. 7:19so hey guys, this is like a football
160. 7:22team being like, let let's get the
161. 7:24cheerleaders. Hey, let's use
162. 7:26cheerleaders as our as our defensive
163. 7:29line, you know, so the quarterback
164. 7:31doesn't get sacked or as our offensive
165. 7:33line so the quarterback doesn't get
166. 7:35sacked. Like, this is just ridiculous.
167. 7:37Okay, so Jehoshaphat appointed men. Just
168. 7:40sing. Hey, I know. I know they've got
169. 7:43bows and arrows put at your face. I know
170. 7:45that they're throwing spears. They're
171. 7:47out here with swords. I'd like you to
172. 7:50sing, you know. Can you please sing?
173. 7:52Hey, choir. Choir, can we sing? All
174. 7:55right, I love this. Sing to the Lord and
175. 7:57to praise him for the splendor of his
176. 8:00holiness. Okay, as they went out at the
177. 8:03head of the army, not even behind the
178. 8:04army, not next to the army, in front of
179. 8:07the soldiers. How about you guys just
180. 8:09sing? Okay, give thanks to the Lord for
181. 8:12his love endures forever. That's what
182. 8:13they started singing. Give thanks to the
183. 8:15Lord for his love endures forever. As
184. 8:17they began to sing and praise, the Lord
185. 8:21set ambushes against the men of Ammon
186. 8:24and Moab and Mount Seir who were
187. 8:27invading Judah and they were defeated.
188. 8:31The Ammonites and Moabites rose up
189. 8:33against the men of Mount Seir to destroy
190. 8:36and annihilate them. So allies are
191. 8:38fighting against allies. After they
192. 8:40finished slaughtering the men from Seir,
193. 8:42they help to destroy one another. Okay,
194. 8:46this is great. So, the only thing that
195. 8:49the men had to do is sing and praise and
196. 8:53God fought the battle for them. What a
197. 8:58good story. And and honestly, what a
198. 9:00timeless truth. I know you've probably
199. 9:02been in church where we sing that song,
200. 9:04this is how I fight my battles. This is
201. 9:06how I fight my battles. This is how I
202. 9:09Right. This is how I fight my battles.
203. 9:10Like, man, worship is warfare. I don't
204. 9:14know if there's a better story like in
205. 9:17the Bible. And by the way, there are
206. 9:18plethora of stories just like this all
207. 9:22throughout the Bible where singing,
208. 9:25where praise, where lifting up of hands,
209. 9:29where physical expressive worship
210. 9:33literally is the defining weapon in the
211. 9:37battle because God is able to fight
212. 9:40battles for us if we actually do the
213. 9:43thing that elicits his presence, which
214. 9:47is Praise and worship. This is how I
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237. 10:48to the episode. So, the context for
238. 10:51Psalm 83 is 2 Chronicles chapter 20. All
239. 10:56right, just trying to give some context
240. 10:57here. All right. Psalm 84. Okay. These
241. 11:01this psalm is written by the sons of
242. 11:03Kora. This is a lament and this is
243. 11:06designed to be a longing for Jerusalem.
244. 11:10Okay? A lament, a longing for Jerusalem.
245. 11:14And this is another psalm for the feast
246. 11:17of tabernacles. All right? We've seen
247. 11:19this in Psalm 81 where Psalm 81 is all
248. 11:24about desiring, longing for the feast of
249. 11:27tabernacles. So, we're going to get to
250. 11:28Psalm 84 and we're going to get the same
251. 11:31exact place, but there's a longing to to
252. 11:35be in the house of God. And there's this
253. 11:38famous verse, okay? Psalm 84:10.
254. 11:42Better is one day in your courts than a
255. 11:44thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a
256. 11:47doorkeeper in the house of my God than
257. 11:49dwell in the tents of the wicked. I
258. 11:52think that's actually one of the first
259. 11:54verses that I memorized as a kid. Uh
260. 11:56because I just went to a church that did
261. 11:58liturgy every week and that passage was
262. 12:01read every single week during the
263. 12:03benediction or the opening. I can't
264. 12:05really remember. I was really young
265. 12:07talking like four, five, 6, 7, 8 years
266. 12:10old. I I grew up going to this African
267. 12:12Methodist Episcopal Church called
268. 12:14Charles Street amme in Boston,
269. 12:16Massachusetts. And part of the liturgy
270. 12:20was to quote this verse. And so this one
271. 12:22of the first verses that just got seared
272. 12:24onto my memory as a young kid. And we're
273. 12:26actually going to come back to it. Okay.
274. 12:28Now, now that we've kind of got context,
275. 12:31okay, for all three of these Psalms,
276. 12:34Psalm 82, Psalm 83, and Psalm 84. All
277. 12:38right. Now, we're going to actually get
278. 12:40into some nerdy nuggets. And it's
279. 12:42probably going to require most of my
280. 12:44time to really dive into Psalm 82. So,
281. 12:46if I don't get into any nerdy nuggets
282. 12:47from Psalm 8384, I'm so sorry, okay? But
283. 12:51Psalm 82 is huge because we have the
284. 12:56divine council. Psalm 82 says this, "God
285. 12:59provides in the great assembly. He
286. 13:02renders judgment among the gods." Okay.
287. 13:05Now, this idea has stumped scholars for
288. 13:09a long time. What who are these gods?
289. 13:12And what's this great assembly? What is
290. 13:15this divine council that's meeting in
291. 13:18the heavens? Why does God have a
292. 13:20conference room? Why does he have a
293. 13:21board? Like, what's going on? Why is God
294. 13:24having meetings with people? And who is
295. 13:26he having meetings with? All right,
296. 13:29there are three options for how to
297. 13:31interpret this stuff. And uh I'm going
298. 13:33to save the best for last. And wink
299. 13:36wink, the last one is the one I agree
300. 13:38with. But anyway, I want to give you all
301. 13:40three so that you can come to your own
302. 13:42conclusion. And to be honest, do
303. 13:44research. Look this stuff up. All right.
304. 13:46To be honest, I could do an entire
305. 13:48course on just the ideas that I'm about
306. 13:51to share in the next two to three
307. 13:52minutes. I'm not even going to do them
308. 13:54justice as I'm going to give a very
309. 13:57cursory overview of of the ideas for for
310. 14:02this segment. So Psalm 82, we're going
311. 14:04to have gods. Okay. Uh and I actually
312. 14:08want to read this to you maybe in the
313. 14:11NRSV just so that you can get a sense
314. 14:14for some different language. Uh Psalm
315. 14:1782. Psalm 82:1 says this, "God has taken
316. 14:22his place in the divine council." So, if
317. 14:24you're wondering why I'm using that
318. 14:26language, well, the NRSV uses that exact
319. 14:29language. Uh, so the great assembly is
320. 14:32how the NIV has it. Divine Council is
321. 14:36way more accurate. And so, you know, I
322. 14:39love the fact I like this language,
323. 14:40divine counsel. It's why I wanted to
324. 14:42read it in the NRSV. Uh, in the midst of
325. 14:45the gods, he holds judgment. Okay. In
326. 14:49the midst of the gods, who are these
327. 14:51gods? How long will you judge unjustly
328. 14:54and show partiality to the wicked? Okay.
329. 14:56Give justice to the weak and the orphan.
330. 14:59Maintain the right of the lowly and the
331. 15:02destitute. Rescue the weak and the
332. 15:04needy. Deliver them from the hand of the
333. 15:06wicked. They have neither knowledge nor
334. 15:09understanding. They walk around in
335. 15:11darkness. All the foundations of the
336. 15:12earth are shaken. Okay. I say you are
337. 15:16gods, children of the most high. All of
338. 15:19you. Nevertheless, you shall die like
339. 15:21mortals and fall uh like any prince.
340. 15:25Rise up, oh God. Judge the earth, for
341. 15:29all the nations belong to you. All
342. 15:32right, that's Psalm 82. Let's give three
343. 15:35options on what's happening here. First
344. 15:38option, first legitimate option. Okay,
345. 15:41you don't have to agree with option
346. 15:43number three, which is the one I agree
347. 15:45with, which is the right answer, but
348. 15:47I've genuinely you can I want you to
349. 15:49come to your own conclusions. Number
350. 15:51one, this could be talking about human
351. 15:54judges or leaders, okay? Humans,
352. 15:57mortals, humans who have great
353. 16:00responsibility, okay? when it comes to
354. 16:02leadership. Okay. So these human judges
355. 16:05or leaders or gods here should not be
356. 16:08understood in the like demigod kind of
357. 16:12understanding but rather this an ancient
358. 16:14term to indicate those in authority to
359. 16:16judge others. Okay. This psalm then
360. 16:19would be a critique of Israel and
361. 16:21Judah's failure of its judges and
362. 16:23leaders to stop injustice in the land.
363. 16:26All right. So perfectly legitimate way
364. 16:29to execute this. That's also important
365. 16:31to let people know there isn't like one
366. 16:34right way to interpret a text. There are
367. 16:37there could be multiple legitimate
368. 16:40exoggetical options for one text. There
369. 16:43are often times multiple legitimate
370. 16:46exoggetical options for any given text.
371. 16:48All right. So, human judges or leaders
372. 16:51is what Psalm 82 could be talking about.
373. 16:53Two, which I think is getting a little
374. 16:55warmer, I'd say pagan gods. Okay. Pagan
375. 16:58gods. here are are literally gods like
376. 17:01lowercase G. And the psalm paints a
377. 17:04picture of God summoning all gods. Okay,
378. 17:06this is what we would say when we say
379. 17:09God that Yahweh is king of kings, lord
380. 17:12of lords, right? He's not just the only
381. 17:16lord. The idea here would be that the
382. 17:20old testament specifically is not
383. 17:22primarily monotheistic, but monolitist.
384. 17:26There's a difference. Monotheism is the
385. 17:28belief in one god. Monolatry is the
386. 17:30worship of one god. And uh I I would
387. 17:33honestly say I think that the that the
388. 17:35old and new testament but for sure the
389. 17:37old testament has a monolatrous or
390. 17:39reflects a manous worldview not
391. 17:42necessarily a monotheistic worldview. So
392. 17:44god is summoning all of the pagan gods
393. 17:48to a council where he critiques them for
394. 17:50the injustice of their peoples. the ones
395. 17:53that worship them and follow their ways.
396. 17:56So God is putting some of the blame for
397. 18:00idol worship on the idols themselves,
398. 18:03the pagan gods themselves. Okay, that's
399. 18:06number three. That's number two. Number
400. 18:08three, which is the one I like, but
401. 18:10that's got nothing to do with the
402. 18:10present in China. Okay, it's third one.
403. 18:12Okay, our number three would be
404. 18:15spiritual forces, which would mean gods
405. 18:18are meant in the sense of the spiritual
406. 18:20forces that oversee nations. This is
407. 18:22part of a wider idea mostly based on
408. 18:26Daniel with the prince of Persia. Okay,
409. 18:30which says that Yahweh has given regions
410. 18:33of the earth, regions of the earth,
411. 18:35guardian spirits to oversee them. These
412. 18:38then would be called the sons of Elohim,
413. 18:41the sons of God, the divine counsel.
414. 18:43They are in that sense responsible for
415. 18:45what takes place in their jurisdiction.
416. 18:48And so God critiques them for injustice
417. 18:51that is found in their regions. This
418. 18:55option I actually think is the best
419. 18:58option. I think Paul is going to refer
420. 19:00to this as the rulers of the age. I
421. 19:02think Paul's going to refer to this as
422. 19:04principalities and powers that there are
423. 19:07spiritual forces and maybe these
424. 19:09spiritual forces are manifesting as
425. 19:11pagan gods. So then maybe we get a
426. 19:13hybrid of two and three. But I
427. 19:16definitely would lean towards spiritual
428. 19:18forces that are supposed to be operating
429. 19:23according to God's will but have clearly
430. 19:27rebelled. Okay? Are in some kind of act
431. 19:30of rebellion. All right? So those are
432. 19:32the three options. Now I don't really
433. 19:33have much time left at all. If that idea
434. 19:36intrigues you, that like there's a
435. 19:39council of other Elohim, lowercase E,
436. 19:43Elohim, and that Yahweh is the Elohim of
437. 19:47Elohim. He's the God of gods, and that
438. 19:51he has appointed other spiritual beings
439. 19:54to oversee nations, to oversee regions
440. 19:58of the earth, and that maybe some of
441. 20:00these have rebelled with Satan. Some of
442. 20:03these spiritual beings have elicited
443. 20:06worship from people and have become
444. 20:08pagan gods. Like if that whole idea is
445. 20:11new to you, foreign to you, then I would
446. 20:13say you should you should Google Dr.
447. 20:16Michael Heiser divine counsel and just
448. 20:19dive in. Like just start listening to
449. 20:22the man because he's brilliant and he's
450. 20:24going to have a lot more to say about
451. 20:26this than I could ever share on a short,
452. 20:30you know, 20-minute podcast. So that is
453. 20:32what my encouragement to you is going to
454. 20:35be. Okay. So Psalm 82 has three
455. 20:40different interpretive options. They are
456. 20:42all fair options. Psalm 83, the context
457. 20:46behind Psalm 83 is 2 Chronicles chapter
458. 20:4820. And for Psalm 84, we're going to
459. 20:52we're going to play it according to the
460. 20:54same tune as Psalm 81 because it's a
461. 20:57psalm of celebration. And the the verse
462. 21:00that I really really really really
463. 21:01really want to highlight today that's
464. 21:03going to be the verse for our timeless
465. 21:05truth is Psalm 84:10
466. 21:08is really the anchor verse for our
467. 21:10timeless truth for the day because this
468. 21:13one verse has just echoed through the
469. 21:15ages. I mean this is a popular verse. We
470. 21:18we say it in church a lot. We quote this
471. 21:21verse a lot. There's a recognition that
472. 21:23hits at the heart of what it means to be
473. 21:25human. This verse resonates with our
474. 21:28humanity. We were made to dwell in the
475. 21:30house of God. We are made in God's
476. 21:34image. We are his idols, his icons.
477. 21:37Okay? I don't know if you know this, but
478. 21:39the word image like God made us in his
479. 21:41image and in his likeness is the same
480. 21:44word for when God says don't make any
481. 21:47graven images. Okay? Okay. So in a real
482. 21:50way like an image or an idol of Baal is
483. 21:55made after the likeness of Baal. Okay.
484. 21:59So when you worship the idol, you're
485. 22:01worshiping Baal because the idol
486. 22:02represents Baal. Okay? In the same way
487. 22:05that when God made us in his image, our
488. 22:09our design was for worship that that we
489. 22:14reflect the glory of God around the
490. 22:16earth. And that when people are
491. 22:18impressed with our intelligence or our
492. 22:22ingenuity or our compassion towards
493. 22:24other people, it reflects good on who
494. 22:27God is. Okay? So we are images of God
495. 22:32designed to reflect his glory out in the
496. 22:36world, which is what an idol is doing
497. 22:39for their God. Okay? We were made, we
498. 22:43were literally designed for worship.
499. 22:45were designed to dwell in the house of
500. 22:46God. Images of Yahweh that he has placed
501. 22:50in his temple, aka the earth. Why does
502. 22:54one day in his presence mean so much
503. 22:56more than thousands elsewhere? It's a
504. 22:59great question. Well, it's because his
505. 23:03home, his presence, his courts truly are
506. 23:08home for us. Home for our souls. home in
507. 23:12terms of we are living out our design
508. 23:14and our purpose. We recognize in his
509. 23:17presence that it is where we are meant
510. 23:19to be. It's where we were designed to
511. 23:21be. There's a book by St. Augustine
512. 23:24called Confessions. And uh I think that
513. 23:27right in the beginning in the first part
514. 23:29of the book, St. Augustine says says
515. 23:31these words. They're really really
516. 23:33powerful. I'm actually just going to
517. 23:34read them from my laptop. Uh it says,
518. 23:36"You have made us for yourself, O Lord,
519. 23:39and our hearts are restless until they
520. 23:42rest in you." You have made us for
521. 23:45yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are
522. 23:48restless until they rest in you.
523. 23:50Confessions 1 one. And uh I think the
524. 23:54reason that Augustine says this and that
525. 23:56Augustine's words resonate true is
526. 23:59because Psalm 84:10 is true. It's true
527. 24:03in the highest sense of truth. It it
528. 24:05literally resonates with the fiber of
529. 24:08our being because it's what we were
530. 24:10designed to do. Better is one day in
531. 24:13your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I
532. 24:16would rather be a doorkeeper in the
533. 24:17house of my God than dwell in the tents
534. 24:20of the wicked. It's funny. There's a
535. 24:22girl on our launch team. Her name is
536. 24:23Tati. I love Tati. Tatiana Eggbuna. And
537. 24:27um it's funny because Tati when I met
538. 24:30her she was a she was a women's health
539. 24:33birth and health advocate advocate and
540. 24:37uh she wanted to be a doula and she
541. 24:39wanted to start a business for doulas
542. 24:41and uh I remember one time we were at
543. 24:43Thanksgiving and I said what's your
544. 24:44dream she kind of started sharing a
545. 24:46dream. I remember the Holy Spirit
546. 24:47telling me while she was talking there's
547. 24:49no way she's going to do that. Like
548. 24:50that's not what I put her on this planet
549. 24:52to do. Well, over the course of a long
550. 24:55series of conversations actually between
551. 24:56her and a girl on our team who started
552. 24:59really pastoring her and mentoring her
553. 25:00named Sarah, it became clear that Tati's
554. 25:03creative that like why she went to
555. 25:06school for medicine, I don't know that
556. 25:08maybe parents pressuring her or people
557. 25:11trying to put their identity onto her,
558. 25:14but God designed her to be creative. And
559. 25:19right now she's actually the creative
560. 25:20director at our church and she's
561. 25:22crushing it. She's doing an amazing job
562. 25:25and she's helping other people launch
563. 25:27podcasts and and and it's almost like
564. 25:30Tati began to come alive when she began
565. 25:33to do the thing that she was created to
566. 25:35do. And maybe you've just been living
567. 25:37life feeling like it just feels like I'm
568. 25:41wearing somebody else's clothes, like
569. 25:43I'm wearing somebody else's purpose or
570. 25:45I'm I'm I'm not doing what I've been
571. 25:47designed to do. Well, can I tell you
572. 25:49that feeling is rooted in the fact that
573. 25:51you've not yet taken your place in God's
574. 25:53house. You've not yet enjoyed his
575. 25:57presence. You are restless because you
576. 26:00have yet to find rest in the one who
577. 26:03made you. Psalm 84 is not just true for
578. 26:06the sons of Kora. They're not just true
579. 26:09in the context for which they were
580. 26:11written. They're true forever. That
581. 26:14better is one day in your courts than a
582. 26:16thousand elsewhere. That you were made
583. 26:19to be in the presence of God. Same way
584. 26:21that Tatiana was made to be a creative.
585. 26:24Created by God to be creative. You were
586. 26:27created by God to reflect his image and
587. 26:30to live in his temple and to image him.
588. 26:34That's what you were made to do. And if
589. 26:36you have yet to do that, your life will
590. 26:40always lack purpose and meaning. And you
591. 26:43probably don't need another career, but
592. 26:45what you need to do is surrender to the
593. 26:48lordship of Jesus so that you can
594. 26:50actually take up your original design,
595. 26:52which is to image and reflect the one
596. 26:55who made you in his image. That's
597. 26:59timelessly true. Tomorrow we got day
598. 27:02280. We're going to be looking at Psalms
599. 27:0485 and 86. And uh I'm super super
600. 27:08excited that we get to continue our trek
601. 27:11together through the book of Psalms. If
602. 27:13you're on a streak, I'm proud of you no
603. 27:15matter what. I love you and I'll see you
604. 27:17right here tomorrow for day 280. Same
605. 27:20time, same place. Love you. Peace.
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