Day 280: Psalms 85-86 | 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 280. We got
10. 0:27Psalms 85 and 86 to cover today. Only
11. 0:31two Psalms. However, I am going to
12. 0:33backtrack a little bit and cover some
13. 0:35content from Psalm 82, which was on
14. 0:38yesterday's reading. So, if you are new
15. 0:41to the podcast, every single day I
16. 0:43tackle context clues and I move into
17. 0:45nerdy nuggets. And then I always leave
18. 0:46off the episode on a timeless truth. If
19. 0:49you have not done the reading yet, how
20. 0:51about you stop, pause, stop the video,
21. 0:54pause the audio, go do the reading, read
22. 0:56Psalm 85 and Psalm 86, cuz that's
23. 1:01primarily what we're going to jump into
24. 1:02today. Now, I I've got to kind of make
25. 1:05up for some things I did not say
26. 1:07yesterday. Um, I just kind of watched
27. 1:10the episode and realized, ah, there are
28. 1:12some really, really, really some huge
29. 1:14things about Psalm 82 that I think that
30. 1:16we should really, really, really talk
31. 1:18about. And so, I'm going to backtrack
32. 1:20just a little bit, but if you've done
33. 1:22the reading for today, let's jump right
34. 1:24in. All right. Psalm 85. Okay, this is a
35. 1:27corporate lament over Jerusalem. Now, we
36. 1:30have seen tons of these here in book
37. 1:34three of the Psalms. Okay. Corporate
38. 1:36laments over Jerusalem. So as you read
39. 1:40through Psalm 85 today, you see you'd
40. 1:43see nothing new, right? Uh first line,
41. 1:46you Lord showed favor to your land. You
42. 1:49restored the fortunes of Jacob. You
43. 1:51forgave the iniquity of your people and
44. 1:53covered all their sins. You set aside
45. 1:55all your wrath and turned from your
46. 1:58fierce anger. Okay, so the first three
47. 2:00verses are all past tense and then
48. 2:02things are going to shift. Restore us
49. 2:04again, God, our savior, and put away
50. 2:06your displeasure towards us. Will you be
51. 2:08angry with us forever? That is a
52. 2:11repeating theme all throughout these
53. 2:13psalms. Will you be angry with us
54. 2:15forever? Will you prolong your anger
55. 2:17through all generations? Will you not
56. 2:20revive us again that your people may
57. 2:22rejoice in you? Show us your unfailing
58. 2:24love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
59. 2:27Okay, so you get the gist. Okay, this is
60. 2:29a corporate lament over the fall of
61. 2:32Jerusalem. And and that is the context
62. 2:35for this psalm. Okay, the people are
63. 2:38grieving. They're mourning. Now, pretty
64. 2:40much the context for book three as a
65. 2:45whole, right? This collection of psalms
66. 2:48uh that we know as book three. The
67. 2:50context has been pretty much the same
68. 2:53throughout all the psalms in book three.
69. 2:55The people are returning back from
70. 2:57exile. There is mourning, there's
71. 2:59lament, there is uh frustration. Uh
72. 3:03there's all kinds of emotions underneath
73. 3:05the surface of these psalms. Like really
74. 3:07good human emotions that I'm glad that
75. 3:09we've gotten a chance to dive into.
76. 3:10Okay, Psalm 86. What's the context? This
77. 3:13is the only Psalm of David in book
78. 3:16three. So, it's it it can feel a little
79. 3:18bit out of place to be totally honest.
80. 3:20Um but this is a psalm of individual
81. 3:22lament. Okay? and psalms of lament are
82. 3:27definitely fitting for book three. Okay,
83. 3:30so we've got a psalm of corporate lament
84. 3:32for Psalm 85, a psalm of individual
85. 3:34lament for Psalm 86. And before we dive
86. 3:37into any nerdy nuggets for Psalm 85 or
87. 3:4086, I now just want to go back to Psalm
88. 3:4382. All right, I'm going to go back to
89. 3:45Psalm 82. It says this, we covered this
90. 3:47a couple days ago, but I just don't feel
91. 3:49like we covered it in depth enough. And
92. 3:51I'm going to try to do this really,
93. 3:52really quick because I think that Psalm
94. 3:5482 is really, really, really important.
95. 3:56And I want to say this, most people
96. 3:58don't realize that we record episodes
97. 4:01really, really far in advance. And um
98. 4:03it's rare that I tell people kind of
99. 4:05what's going on like in present day cuz
100. 4:08I don't want people to tie the episodes
101. 4:10to when they were filmed. I don't want
102. 4:13them to be bound to a date or anything
103. 4:14like that. But in the United States of
104. 4:16America, yet again, right now, we're
105. 4:18just dealing with a lot of political
106. 4:20upheaval, political division, and people
107. 4:25tend to silo themselves into political
108. 4:28parties. So, the political talking
109. 4:30points become the frameworks for
110. 4:33everything that people say or or how
111. 4:35people think. And I just think Psalm 82,
112. 4:37I feel like I missed an opportunity
113. 4:38yesterday because Psalm 82 gives us such
114. 4:41a divine perspective on human issues
115. 4:45that I think is really really important.
116. 4:46So says this, God has taken his place in
117. 4:49the divine counsel. Okay, so remember
118. 4:52who's the divine council? I believe that
119. 4:54the divine council are angelic uh beings
120. 4:58are spiritual beings that God initially
121. 5:01set up over the nations and they've
122. 5:02rebelled against him. So here we go. In
123. 5:04the midst of the gods, he holds
124. 5:07judgment. So God, uppercase G, has taken
125. 5:10his place in the divine counsel. Okay?
126. 5:14In the midst of the gods, okay? Yahweh
127. 5:18holds judgment. He holds judgment. So,
128. 5:20so God, which is not a name, it's a
129. 5:23title. So Yahweh, okay, the God of gods,
130. 5:27the king of kings, the lord of lords,
131. 5:30which means there are other kings, there
132. 5:31are other lords, there are other gods,
133. 5:33okay, Yahweh is is taking his place in
134. 5:37the council of all the gods and and he
135. 5:40has something judgmental to say. He
136. 5:43wants to hold judgment. How long would
137. 5:45you judge unjustly? Okay. And show
138. 5:47partiality to the wicked. Give justice
139. 5:50to the weak and the orphan. Maintain the
140. 5:52right of the lowly and the destitute.
141. 5:53Rescue the weak and the needy. Deliver
142. 5:55them from the hand of the wicked. Okay.
143. 5:59They neither have knowledge nor
144. 6:00understanding. They walk around in
145. 6:02darkness. All the foundations of the
146. 6:03earth are shaken. I say you are gods,
147. 6:06children of the most high. Okay. So
148. 6:07there's another clue. So they are c
149. 6:09they're first called the divine counsel,
150. 6:11then they're called gods. Now they're
151. 6:13called children of the most high. All of
152. 6:15you nevertheless you shall die like
153. 6:17mortals. So now God is saying, "You're
154. 6:19going to you're going to die just like
155. 6:21humans." Okay? And fall like any prince.
156. 6:24So now there's another word, prince.
157. 6:26Okay? Rise up, oh God, judge the earth.
158. 6:29That word for rise up actually in Hebrew
159. 6:31is resurrect. Okay? So So resurrect.
160. 6:35Okay? Rise up, oh God, judge the earth,
161. 6:37for all the nations belong to you. All
162. 6:40the nations belong to you. Okay? Now, in
163. 6:42order to understand Psalm 82, we really
164. 6:45have to understand Deuteronomy 32. Okay?
165. 6:47And so we're going to go back to
166. 6:48Deuteronomy 32 and get context for Psalm
167. 6:5182. So in Psalm 82, God is sitting down.
168. 6:54In his heart, I'm such in a habit of
169. 6:56saying God. However, God is not a good
170. 6:59word for God because there are many
171. 7:02gods. Okay? And remember, the Bible is
172. 7:04not espousing monotheistic worldview
173. 7:08where there's only one God. It's
174. 7:09espousing a monolous worldview where we
175. 7:12are loyal to one God, where we worship
176. 7:14one God. Okay? There are many gods in
177. 7:17the Bible. It's clear there are many
178. 7:18gods. Okay. Psalm 82 is making it known.
179. 7:22God Yahweh, the one true God, takes his
180. 7:24place in the divine council. Who's in
181. 7:26that council? Many gods. And what are
182. 7:29those many gods going to be called?
183. 7:30They're going to be called children of
184. 7:31the most high. And they're also going to
185. 7:33be called princes. Okay? But they're
186. 7:35going to die like mortals. There's a lot
187. 7:36of clues. Okay? Deuteronomy 32, what
188. 7:40here's what it says. says, "When the
189. 7:42most high, okay, when Yahweh, when when
190. 7:45the the God of the universe aortioned
191. 7:48the nations, okay, remember in Psalm 82,
192. 7:51the nations, okay, the way that the
193. 7:54psalm ends is that the nations are going
194. 7:55to belong to Yahweh." Says, when he
195. 7:58aortioned the nations, when he divided
196. 8:00humankind, okay, when did God aortion
197. 8:02the nations? When did he divide
198. 8:04humankind? Well, a lot of scholars,
199. 8:06including Dr. Michael Heiser would say
200. 8:09that this is what happens at the tower
201. 8:11of babel that God divided humankind. He
202. 8:15aortioned the nations. Okay, if you go
203. 8:17back after the tower of babel, we are
204. 8:20going to get a table of nations. Okay,
205. 8:22and so God, okay, divided humankind, he
206. 8:26fixed the boundaries of the peoples
207. 8:28according to the number of the gods.
208. 8:31Okay, so God creates nations based on
209. 8:34how many gods there are. The Lord's own
210. 8:37portion was his people. And God then
211. 8:41Yahweh took Israel as his. And what does
212. 8:45God do then? Right after the Tower of
213. 8:47Babel, he goes to find Abram and Sarai
214. 8:50who can't get pregnant. Perfect. God's
215. 8:53going to start a nation through two
216. 8:56infertile people because nobody's going
217. 8:58to be able to say that it wasn't Yahweh
218. 9:01who did it. They're actually perfect. I
219. 9:04could preach that all day long. what
220. 9:06seemed like a a something that would
221. 9:09disqualify them actually qualified them
222. 9:12cuz God was looking for someone who
223. 9:14couldn't have kids on their own. That is
224. 9:16just too good, man. Okay. So, what does
225. 9:19Deuteronomy 32 teach us? Now when God
226. 9:21divided humankind, okay, when he
227. 9:23separated the languages, divided
228. 9:25humankind, gave boundaries to people,
229. 9:27created nations, he did it according to
230. 9:30the number of the gods so that these
231. 9:34gods could be governing princes and
232. 9:37principalities over the nations. Okay.
233. 9:40So now we get to Daniel chapter 10. This
234. 9:42is going to help us to create like a
235. 9:45biblical worldview for powers,
236. 9:48principalities, politics, kings, queens,
237. 9:51all this. Okay? He said to me, "Do not
238. 9:54fear Daniel." This is Daniel 10:12. "Do
239. 9:56not fear Daniel, for from the first day
240. 9:59you set your mind to gain understanding
241. 10:01and to humble yourself before God. Your
242. 10:03words have been heard, and I have come
243. 10:05because of your words." But the prince,
244. 10:08this is good, the prince of the kingdom
245. 10:11of Persia. Who's the prince of the
246. 10:14kingdom of Persia? The God who was set
247. 10:16up to govern as prince over Persia by
248. 10:20Yahweh himself in Deuteronomy chapter
249. 10:2332. Well, recounted in Deuteronomy
250. 10:25chapter 32, but then what it actually
251. 10:29happened in Genesis after the Tower of
252. 10:30Babel. Okay, so the prince of the king
253. 10:33of Persia is a real spiritual being. So
254. 10:36a lot of times what can happen in our
255. 10:39nation and in many nations people begin
256. 10:41to put their hope in politics. But the
257. 10:44Bible gives us a worldview that whoever
258. 10:46your favorite politician is. Guess what?
259. 10:49There are puppet strings attached to
260. 10:50those politicians. And those politicians
261. 10:53actually work for spiritual beings that
262. 10:56have been assigned to every nation.
263. 10:59Okay? So there's a spiritual being that
264. 11:03governs over Persia. There's a spiritual
265. 11:05being that governs over Russia. There's
266. 11:09a spiritual God. There's a God. There's
267. 11:12a lowercase G God. There's a prince of
268. 11:14the air. There's a principality that
269. 11:17governs over Italy that governs over
270. 11:21America, that governs o that governs
271. 11:24over Canada, over Mexico. And in Psalm
272. 11:2782, Yahweh is upset with these gods cuz
273. 11:31instead of teaching the people about
274. 11:35him, they've convinced the people to
275. 11:38worship them. So, and God says, "You are
276. 11:41God's children of the most high." This
277. 11:43is Psalm 32. Uh, sorry, not Psalm 32.
278. 11:47Psalm 82 SAYS, "YOU'RE MY CHILDREN. YOU
279. 11:50KNOW WHAT? Since since you don't want to
280. 11:53act like my children, I am going to
281. 11:55cause Abraham and Sarah to have children
282. 11:59through the power of the Holy Spirit.
283. 12:01Okay, this is all through the New
284. 12:04Testament because the reason that Paul
285. 12:07is so adamant about going on missionary
286. 12:09journeys is because he wants the nations
287. 12:13because see how Psalm 82 ends, rise up,
288. 12:16oh God, resurrect, oh God, judge the
289. 12:20earth for all the nations belong to you.
290. 12:23You gave the nations to these gods. You
291. 12:26gave the nations to these principalities
292. 12:29and powers. They've done a terrible job.
293. 12:32They've caused when me and my wife went
294. 12:34to Thailand, literally the phrase right
295. 12:36at the airport to be tied to be
296. 12:38Buddhist. Okay? I don't think Buddha is
297. 12:40a figment of their imagination. I think
298. 12:42Buddha is the governing principality,
299. 12:46the governing God, lowercase G, God,
300. 12:49that was set up by Yahweh to reflect his
301. 12:53glory, to teach people about his ways.
302. 12:57and Buddha's done a terrible job. So now
303. 13:00the psalmist is saying, "Rise up, oh
304. 13:02God. Judge the earth for all the nations
305. 13:05belong to you." Thailand doesn't belong
306. 13:07to Buddha. It belongs to God. Okay? So
307. 13:11we have to realize we battle NOT AGAINST
308. 13:13FLESH AND BLOOD, but against powers and
309. 13:16principalities, rulers in high places.
310. 13:18And oftentimes, anytime something
311. 13:21happens, we have this temptation to
312. 13:24immediately, well, do you see it like a
313. 13:26liberal? Do you see it like a
314. 13:27conservative? And honestly, God's people
315. 13:31have to actually rise up AND SAY, "NO,
316. 13:33NO, NO. I I don't see it according to
317. 13:35any of these parties cuz all these
318. 13:37parties are evil." And they're all being
319. 13:39deeply influenced
320. 13:42by these these rogue children of God,
321. 13:46these spiritual beings. this divine
322. 13:49council that God is in the midst of
323. 13:51judging and and there is no political
324. 13:54party that is just perfect or that
325. 13:57aligns perfectly with what the Bible
326. 14:00says. It's it's not possible. Okay.
327. 14:03There's a governing prince and
328. 14:05principality over America. And what
329. 14:08should our prayer be as Christians? Rise
330. 14:10up. Resurrect, oh God. Judge the earth
331. 14:14because all the nations belong to you,
332. 14:17Lord God. America belongs to you. This
333. 14:20country belongs to you. We're not too
334. 14:22far gone, God. Yeah. Oh, man. We we we
335. 14:26have been manipulated
336. 14:28by spiritual beings that have that have
337. 14:31gotten us completely
338. 14:34in divisive patterns against each other.
339. 14:37But Lord, we're your people. I'm not on
340. 14:40the right. I'm not on the left. I belong
341. 14:42to God. I'm God's I'm I'm I'm God's
342. 14:46property. And so often what begins to
343. 14:49happen anytime something happens in the
344. 14:52media that gets all of our attention is
345. 14:54it's easy to forget a Psalm 82,
346. 14:57Deuteronomy 32, Daniel 10 perspective.
347. 15:01Because what's happening with Daniel is
348. 15:03that Daniel has all the reason to just
349. 15:07be upset with Persia and you know the
350. 15:10the actual king of Persia. But what does
351. 15:14Gabriel tell him? He says, "No, I had to
352. 15:17war against the prince of the kingdom of
353. 15:19Persia. Don't get it twisted. Don't make
354. 15:21it seem like this is just flesh and
355. 15:23blood evil and have come to help you
356. 15:25understand what is to happen." And he
357. 15:26what does he say? Michael, one of the
358. 15:29chief princes. So, so here we go. An
359. 15:32archangel is called a prince, which ties
360. 15:35all this together. Okay, that how we
361. 15:38should interpret Psalm 82 is that these
362. 15:40are not human rulers. I kind of gave you
363. 15:43a bunch of options yesterday, okay? That
364. 15:45these are not just human judges and
365. 15:47rulers. These are not p just pagan gods.
366. 15:50These are spiritual forces that oversee
367. 15:52nations. And because they have the power
368. 15:55to oversee nations, they have set up
369. 15:58pagan gods and they manipulate political
370. 16:00systems. And Daniel, Gabriel is saying
371. 16:04to Daniel, "Hey, I know all your eyes
372. 16:07can see is that there's this king, but I
373. 16:10want to show you what human eyes can't
374. 16:13see. that there's a war happening in the
375. 16:16heavenly realms between Michael the
376. 16:19prince Michael and the prince of Persia
377. 16:23who we don't even need to say his name
378. 16:25cuz he's not relevant but he is a he is
379. 16:27a spiritual force that oversees nations
380. 16:31who's been set up by God to oversee the
381. 16:33nations and has done a terrible job
382. 16:36overseeing the nations and one day God
383. 16:39is going to judge all of these sons of
384. 16:43God that have rebelled against him and
385. 16:45God is going to claim the nations again
386. 16:48as his inheritance. This is why when
387. 16:51Paul is preaching the gospel, he's
388. 16:53saying Jesus has resurrected and what
389. 16:55what does the resurrection mean? That
390. 16:57all the nations can now be brought back
391. 17:01to Yahweh. That God's promise to Abraham
392. 17:05was, "All right, Abraham, I've given the
393. 17:08other nations to these gods. You are
394. 17:11going to be set apart. And what I'm
395. 17:13going to do, Abraham, is you're going to
396. 17:16have a child. And and through you, all
397. 17:19these nations are going to be blessed.
398. 17:21You see that? I'm going to separate you
399. 17:24so that you could be mine. But the
400. 17:26ultimate goal is that through you, all
401. 17:29the nations will be blessed. And how
402. 17:30does that happen? Through the Messiah.
403. 17:34His name is Jesus. Through Jesus, all
404. 17:37the nations are blessed. So Paul sees it
405. 17:39as his mission to bring the gospel to
406. 17:43all these nations because these nations
407. 17:46have been under the corrupt leadership
408. 17:48of spiritual powers and forces of
409. 17:51wickedness. And there's all there's tons
410. 17:54of other verses that support this
411. 17:56worldview, by the way, but Psalm 82 and
412. 17:59Deuteronomy 32 and Daniel 10 are the
413. 18:01three passages that really support this
414. 18:04worldview. And this is huge. And I think
415. 18:07it's a good reminder to anyone who
416. 18:09thinks that progressive ideas or or
417. 18:14conservative ideas are the solution.
418. 18:16Biblical ideas ARE THE SOLUTION.
419. 18:18BIBLICAL IDEAS ARE THE SOLUTION. THE
420. 18:20gospel of Jesus Christ is the solution.
421. 18:22The church of Jesus Christ is the hope
422. 18:24of the world. All right. Let me say a
423. 18:27couple of things about Psalm 85 and 86
424. 18:29since that's actually what's been
425. 18:30assigned for today's reading. Okay. I
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449. 19:34to the episode. Here we go. Uh Psalm 85,
450. 19:38we should be 100% familiar with at this
451. 19:40point. Okay, this psalm is lamenting the
452. 19:42fall of Jerusalem. It has a structure.
453. 19:44Verses 1-3, recounting Yahweh's
454. 19:46forgiveness in the past. Verses 4-7,
455. 19:49crying out for restoration in relent for
456. 19:52God to relent on anger. Okay. Verses
457. 19:548-9, listening for Yahweh to speak an
458. 19:57answer. And then verses 10 through13,
459. 20:00declaring in faith that God is steadfast
460. 20:02in his love and faithfulness. So 1
461. 20:05through 3, 4- 7, 8- 9, 10 through13.
462. 20:09This psalm is literally portioned out in
463. 20:12four kind of ding ding ding ding like
464. 20:15four chunks. Okay, helpful to understand
465. 20:17that. I think that's a nerdy nugget that
466. 20:19will help you to interpret the psalm.
467. 20:21Well, Psalm 86 is a psalm of lament and
468. 20:24the entire psalm is actually a kayazm.
469. 20:28Okay, which is common for lament
470. 20:30literature. Okay. So, a kayazm is going
471. 20:32to give you a b a. Okay. So, it's like a
472. 20:35sandwich. Okay. The two things on the
473. 20:37outside are going to mirror each other
474. 20:39and whatever's on the inside is actually
475. 20:41the buried treasure. Okay. So, A is
476. 20:44going to be what's going to happen is
477. 20:46verses 1-7 we're going to get problem,
478. 20:48lament, complaint. And then at the end
479. 20:51of the psalm, Psalm 14 to 17, we're
480. 20:53going to get problem, lament, complaint.
481. 20:56But then right there in the middle,
482. 20:57verses 8 through13, David is going to
483. 20:59praise and thank Yahweh. And that kayazm
484. 21:03helps you to interpret what's going on
485. 21:06in this psalm of lament. Which leads us
486. 21:08right into our timeless truth. Because
487. 21:10here's what you need to know about
488. 21:11kayazms. In an eastern worldview, you
489. 21:15always bury the most important thing in
490. 21:18the center of the kayazm because it's
491. 21:20always the buried truth that is the
492. 21:23treasure. In a western world, we make
493. 21:25the, you know, we make the most
494. 21:27important thing our thesis statement.
495. 21:29But in a in a eastern world, you make it
496. 21:31the center of your kayazm because by
497. 21:34unearthing it by digging it up, you find
498. 21:37the buried treasure. And that gives it
499. 21:39it gets into a Thomas truth because hope
500. 21:42and comfort are always buried. Buried
501. 21:46and sandwiched in between what? Pain,
502. 21:49lament, and complaining. And that's just
503. 21:52life. Recently, I was in Columbus,
504. 21:54Mississippi, and uh the one of the men,
505. 21:58one of the great guys that that uh
506. 22:00hosted me while I was there, I found out
507. 22:02that his 21 or 22-year-old son had died
508. 22:06last year. And he said, you know, he
509. 22:08said, uh, me and my wife were in the
510. 22:10biggest season of grief and mourning
511. 22:12ever in our life. And he said, but
512. 22:15comfort is there if you want it. said,
513. 22:16"There's a lot of people who went
514. 22:18through what me and my wife went through
515. 22:19with losing a child who they've made up
516. 22:22in their mind they don't want to be
517. 22:23comforted. They they they'd rather drink
518. 22:25or they want alcohol. They'd rather
519. 22:27escape." He said, "We went through
520. 22:29unfathomable loss, losing a child. I
521. 22:32don't want to rank pain, but that's got
522. 22:35to be top five." I mean, just that's
523. 22:37unfathomable. And he said, "I promise
524. 22:40you if you are looking for comfort,
525. 22:43you'll find it. but if you're not
526. 22:46looking for it, you won't find it. And
527. 22:48he's like, the reality is that we
528. 22:50minister to a lot of people who have
529. 22:51lost children and they don't want to be
530. 22:54comforted. And and I love that that
531. 22:57comfort is actually the center of the
532. 22:59kayazm cuz it's the buried treasure.
533. 23:02Comfort is something that you're always
534. 23:03going to have to dig up. You're gonna
535. 23:06have to unearth it. You're gonna have to
536. 23:07go go looking for it. It's not just
537. 23:09going to automatically find you. And uh
538. 23:11I wrote out kind of a a Thomas truth for
539. 23:14the day. One of the good things that I
540. 23:15love about these psalms of lament is
541. 23:17they honestly portray the suffering and
542. 23:18pain that causes the lament. And because
543. 23:20of the nature of the kayazm they do all
544. 23:23of this twice. Greater space is given to
545. 23:26the pain because pain has a right to be
546. 23:29heard. They oppose these psalms of
547. 23:31lament oppose the idea that we should
548. 23:34suffer in silence. Christianity is not
549. 23:37stoicism. I need you to hear that again.
550. 23:40Christianity is not stoicism. We are
551. 23:43broken people and God wants to hear us
552. 23:45tell him about our brokenness. He is
553. 23:49concerned with our pain. That's how
554. 23:51compassionate and amazing God is. This
555. 23:53reminds me, you, it should remind all of
556. 23:57us of Romans 8 verse 26 to 28 where Paul
557. 24:01tells us that the spirit hears our
558. 24:03groans, hears our cries of pain,
559. 24:06interprets them, and intercedes for us
560. 24:09with the father. But even though the the
561. 24:11psalms give voice to pain, even though
562. 24:13they give space to suffering, even
563. 24:15though they legitimize our cry for help,
564. 24:17they do not give that pain the focus. At
565. 24:20the heart of these poems, at the heart
566. 24:23of these songs of lament sits Yahweh
567. 24:25himself. It is in the midst of pain, in
568. 24:29the center of the kayazm that God comes
569. 24:31into focus. It is in suffering that we
570. 24:35are meant to look beyond and see God's
571. 24:38face. And that's my prayer for you
572. 24:41today. If you're in mourning, if you're
573. 24:43in suffering, maybe you're in mourning
574. 24:45or you're lamenting because of things
575. 24:46happening in our country. And I promise
576. 24:49the God of comfort needs to come into
577. 24:51focus. Whatever else wants your
578. 24:53attention, I promise you that the only
579. 24:56thing that is going to heal America, the
580. 24:58only thing that is going to bring hope
581. 24:59to our nation is the word of God, the
582. 25:02presence of God, the person of Jesus,
583. 25:04and his amazing bride called the church.
584. 25:07There is no other organization that has
585. 25:09solutions to what we face. But God has
586. 25:12solutions, and the nations belong to
587. 25:14him. I hope that today's episode was
588. 25:17helpful. I'll see you tomorrow for day
589. 25:19281 as we dive into Psalms 87-89.
590. 25:23I'll see you right here, same time, same
591. 25:24place. I love you. I'm proud of you.
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