Day 282: Psalms 90-92 | 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 282
10. 0:28HERE AT THE BIBLE DEPARTMENT PODCAST.
11. 0:30I'm your host, Dr. Manny Rango. I'm
12. 0:32super super excited to dive in. Uh we've
13. 0:35got not just brand new chapters, but a
14. 0:38brand new book of the Psalms. We're in
15. 0:40book four. Uh we have left book three of
16. 0:44the Psalms behind. And for those of you
17. 0:46who may need a refresher, the Psalms are
18. 0:49divided into five books because these
19. 0:52Psalms are designed to help people to
20. 0:55reenter into the Torah. And that's going
21. 0:58to become really, really, really obvious
22. 1:00uh that that's the goal of how the
23. 1:03Psalms are compiled as we look at Psalm
24. 1:0590. So, if you have not done the
25. 1:08reading, if you have not read Psalm 90,
26. 1:11Psalm 91, and Psalm 92, then I'm going
27. 1:14to challenge you to stop the video,
28. 1:16pause the audio, go get the reading
29. 1:18done. This podcast is not designed to
30. 1:21substitute uh your daily Bible reading,
31. 1:23but to supplement your daily Bible
32. 1:25reading. So, we're going to knock out
33. 1:27three Psalms today. Like always, I'm
34. 1:29going to give you context clues, going
35. 1:30to give you some nerdy nuggets, going to
36. 1:32leave you with a timeless truth, and I'm
37. 1:34really, really excited about our
38. 1:36timeless truth for the day. Uh, we'll
39. 1:38get to that at the end of the episode.
40. 1:40All right, let's look at some context.
41. 1:42Okay, context for Psalm 90, Psalm 91,
42. 1:45and Psalm 92. Uh, Psalm 90, uh, we get
43. 1:49this heading. All right, and the heading
44. 1:50is a prayer of Moses, the man of God.
45. 1:54Now the first thing that we need to know
46. 1:55is that this is the first and only time
47. 1:58that Moses is given authorship or or
48. 2:02claimed as an author of any of the
49. 2:04psalms. Okay. So of all of the psalms uh
50. 2:08this is one of one. Okay. So we're going
51. 2:10to get a prayer of Moses the man of God.
52. 2:12Okay. That is the context. Uh that is
53. 2:15the important context for Psalm 90 is
54. 2:17that Psalm 90 is claiming Mosaic
55. 2:21authorship. Now, when we get into the
56. 2:24nerdy nuggets later in this episode,
57. 2:26we'll really have to think through what
58. 2:29does it mean that this psalm is claiming
59. 2:32Mosaic authorship? Because uh what many
60. 2:35of you may not be aware of is that
61. 2:38authorship in the ancient world is not
62. 2:41the same as authorship in the modern
63. 2:44world. So, the way that we modern people
64. 2:46think about authorship is not the same
65. 2:49as how ancient people thought about
66. 2:51authorship. What? How ancient people
67. 2:53thought about authorship would be
68. 2:55downright what's the word? When you
69. 2:58steal someone's writing. Oh man, I
70. 3:02couldn't do it in college. Oh boy. This
71. 3:04is going to be a funny moment on the
72. 3:06podcast. Nope. It's not polygamy. It's
73. 3:09not forgery. PLAGIARISM. BOOM. SHOUT OUT
74. 3:12TO CAM WHO'S IN THE STUDIO WITH ME.
75. 3:14Cam's in the corner like
76. 3:17plagiarism. All right. How many ancient
77. 3:20people would have thought about
78. 3:22authorship? Most modern people would
79. 3:24call that plagiarism. Okay. So, we got
80. 3:26to orient ourselves into the context of
81. 3:29the ancient world. So, we'll kind of
82. 3:31look at what does it mean that this
83. 3:33psalm says uh that it's a prayer of
84. 3:35Moses, the man of God. All right.
85. 3:37Context for Psalm 91
86. 3:40is that there's no heading and no
87. 3:43context. Ain't that fun? So we literally
88. 3:46are clueless about the context for Psalm
89. 3:4891. And to be honest, that would be the
90. 3:52case with Psalm 92 as well. Okay, we
91. 3:56would not have any context for Psalm 92
92. 3:59if it was not for the Mishna. But the
93. 4:02Mishna tells us that Psalm 92 was sung
94. 4:04or sang sung was sung by the Levites in
95. 4:09the temple on the morning of the
96. 4:12Sabbath. Okay. So on Saturday morning,
97. 4:16this psalm was sung aloud. Okay. So that
98. 4:20means another piece of Jew Jewish
99. 4:23literature is actually providing us
100. 4:26context for the psalm that we have in
101. 4:28front of us today. Okay? Uh which is
102. 4:30going to actually be very very helpful
103. 4:33as we dissect this psalm. All right?
104. 4:35We've got context for at least two out
105. 4:37of three of the psalms. I'm sorry I
106. 4:39cannot make up context for Psalm 91. We
107. 4:42don't have context for Psalm 91, but
108. 4:44we're going to get a lot of nerdy
109. 4:45nuggets for Psalm 91. And so hopefully
110. 4:47that makes up for the lack of context.
111. 4:49All right, let's dive into some nerdy
112. 4:51nuggets. Okay, Psalm 90. All right, we
113. 4:54get a unique title, a prayer of Moses,
114. 4:57the man of God. This is the only psalm,
115. 5:00okay, that is attributed to Moses. So on
116. 5:03the face of it, that would mean that
117. 5:05this is the oldest psalm in the
118. 5:08collection of the book of Psalms, okay?
119. 5:10because obviously Moses is way older
120. 5:13than David or anybody else who who's
121. 5:16authored the Psalms. All right. However,
122. 5:19most scholars today doubt that this
123. 5:21psalm was actually written by Moses due
124. 5:24to the content reflecting a long
125. 5:27history. Okay, rather than the beginning
126. 5:29of their history, which would be Moses'
127. 5:31perspective, also we have the usual how
128. 5:34long question in Psalm 90:13. Okay, we
129. 5:38tackled that. We saw that question over
130. 5:40and over and over and over and over
131. 5:41again while we uh were in book three of
132. 5:44the Psalms. And here it is again. Also,
133. 5:47the anger of Yahweh for the iniquities
134. 5:50of the Jewish people, which again we saw
135. 5:54a lot in book three, lines that are
136. 5:56usually associated with the people going
137. 5:58through God's judgment for breaking
138. 6:00covenant that we see in their history.
139. 6:02There's also, and this is really what
140. 6:05convinced me, there are also other
141. 6:08technical issues with Mosaic authorship
142. 6:10in general, the lack of an adopted
143. 6:13alphabet during Moses' lifetime, meaning
144. 6:16that if he wrote it, it would not have
145. 6:18been in the Hebrew that we have here in
146. 6:21Psalm 90. Okay? Language changes. So,
147. 6:24think about it, right? Have you ever
148. 6:25gone to read Shakespeare and it's like,
149. 6:27"This is old English. I don't even know
150. 6:29how to read this." Okay, it's still
151. 6:31English, but language adapts. If I said
152. 6:34to William Shakespeare, you know, during
153. 6:37his lifetime, just Google it, he
154. 6:39wouldn't know what Google is. Like he
155. 6:41that that's not a word that existed
156. 6:43while William Shakespeare was alive,
157. 6:45even though he's speaking the English
158. 6:47language. Okay. Also, one of the things
159. 6:50that scholars do is they're looking at
160. 6:53manuscripts and they're judging, is this
161. 6:56old Hebrew? Is this modern Hebrew? like
162. 6:59like they're able to date things based
163. 7:01on how old the actual language is,
164. 7:04right? When you read the Constitution of
165. 7:05the United States of America, it's
166. 7:07pretty clear, yeah, this was written in
167. 7:09the 1700s, right? And then when you read
168. 7:12Shakespeare, you're like, yep, this is
169. 7:14definitely written in a different
170. 7:16century than the Constitution. And so on
171. 7:18and so on and so forth. You get the
172. 7:19point. Having said all that, okay, it is
173. 7:22clear that this psalm reflects heavily
174. 7:25on the opening chapters of Genesis, a
175. 7:28book that's actually attributed to
176. 7:31Mosaic authorship. Okay? The reason that
177. 7:35there's a connection between Moses and
178. 7:38Psalm 90 is because Psalm 90 is heavily
179. 7:42reflecting on creation, on Genesis, on
180. 7:46themes from Genesis. Uh so perhaps what
181. 7:50we have here is that this like a lot of
182. 7:53the psalms some of the psalms that are
183. 7:55attributed to David are not actually
184. 7:57written by David but they're in the
185. 7:59style of David. Okay. And this is
186. 8:01probably in the style of Moses. And an
187. 8:05unknown psalmist writes this unique
188. 8:07psalm based on the language and themes
189. 8:09of the books of Moses, the Torah. So
190. 8:12writing a psalm the way Moses would have
191. 8:16written a psalm. Okay, which in the
192. 8:18ancient world, not weird. Like that's
193. 8:21not plagiarism in the ancient world.
194. 8:23That's odd to us as modern people. So,
195. 8:25let's actually look at Psalm 90 and look
196. 8:29at those themes. Okay. Verse two, we're
197. 8:31going to get God's creation of the earth
198. 8:32and his eternal presence. Verse three,
199. 8:35we're going to get man's creation from
200. 8:36dust and his return to it in death. This
201. 8:39shows how dust is used in the Hebrew
202. 8:41scripture as a metaphor for mortality.
203. 8:44From the dust you are formed into dust
204. 8:47you will return. Verse five, we're going
205. 8:49to get a theme of humanity being swept
206. 8:52away by the flood. Again, all the stuff
207. 8:54is found in Genesis. Verse 10, we're
208. 8:57going to see God setting the years of
209. 8:58humanity's lifetime. And then again in
210. 9:01verse 10, we're going to get man's life
211. 9:03of toil, which is a massive theme, not
212. 9:06just of Genesis, but of the five books
213. 9:09of Moses. The theme throughout is the
214. 9:11contrast. And this is can kind of almost
215. 9:14be a timeless truth, but we'll leave it
216. 9:17as a nerdy nugget. The theme throughout
217. 9:20Psalm 90 is this contrast between God
218. 9:22and humanity, between that which is
219. 9:25infinite and that which is finite,
220. 9:27between that which is eternal and that
221. 9:29which is temporal. God and humanity. God
222. 9:32is from everlasting to everlasting. A
223. 9:34thousand years in your sight are but as
224. 9:37yesterday. Okay? And so on. Whereas for
225. 9:41humans, for you and I, we are from the
226. 9:43dust and will return to the dust. We're
227. 9:45not from everlasting to everlasting.
228. 9:47We're from dust to dust. Okay? We are
229. 9:50like a dream grass that withers in the
230. 9:52evening. We live to 70, maybe 80 if
231. 9:55we're particularly strong and healthy.
232. 9:57Yet they're there or hour. Yet our years
233. 10:02are full of toil and trouble and are
234. 10:04soon gone. So the psalmist writes this,
235. 10:07"Teach us to number our days." This is
236. 10:09Psalm 90:12.
237. 10:11That we may get a heart of wisdom. So,
238. 10:16actually, this is kind of a wisdom
239. 10:18psalm. Okay? Wisdom begins by knowing
240. 10:21who you are and who you are not. Wisdom
241. 10:25begins by acknowledging who God is and
242. 10:28how insignificant you are in comparison
243. 10:30to God. That's right. Wisdom is rooted
244. 10:35in a fear of the Lord. Why am I scared
245. 10:38of God? cuz I'm in I'm in I'm in full
246. 10:42knowledge of of his grandeur of his
247. 10:45infinite status of how awesome he is. It
248. 10:48should humble me. Okay. This psalm truly
249. 10:52in its comparison to the eternal nature
250. 10:54of God and the mortal nature of humanity
251. 10:58is a clear example of one of the prime
252. 11:00themes of Hebrew wisdom. The fear of
253. 11:02Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
254. 11:05Wisdom begins, as this psalm does, by
255. 11:07putting us in our place. By fearing God,
256. 11:10acknowledging his eternal power, by
257. 11:13being filled with awe and wonder as we
258. 11:16compare our fleeting lives to his
259. 11:18eternal life. This is the beginning of
260. 11:21wisdom. But as all the wisdom books tell
261. 11:24us, it is the beginning, not the end. It
262. 11:27is not the goal of wisdom to fear God,
263. 11:30but that is the wisest place to start.
264. 11:33Okay. And where do we end? We end with
265. 11:36humility, worship, obedience. We start
266. 11:39with, I cannot believe how much greater
267. 11:42God is than me. I am mortal. I am not
268. 11:45God. Okay, honestly, this should curb
269. 11:49our tendency towards idolatry. Because
270. 11:52we begin to realize, yeah, I'm a mere
271. 11:55mortal. Like, I'm a human. We're
272. 11:57nothing. We're nothing compared to God.
273. 11:59All right, let's give you some nerdy
274. 12:01nuggets from Psalm 91. Okay, you're
275. 12:04probably going to recognize Psalm 91 if
276. 12:07you've read the New Testament. Okay,
277. 12:09because the words that Satan is going to
278. 12:11use to tempt Jesus in Matthew 4:6 and
279. 12:14Luke 4:10 and 11 come straight from this
280. 12:18psalm, Psalm 91. And so, the psalm is
281. 12:21actually divided into three unique
282. 12:23sections. What I want to actually teach
283. 12:26you, okay, Psalm 91 starts out with the
284. 12:30psalmist talking to God. You can see
285. 12:32that in verses 1 and two. I'll read
286. 12:33verse two to you. I will say of the
287. 12:36Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress,
288. 12:39my God in whom I trust. I will say of
289. 12:42the Lord, and now we're going to see in
290. 12:44verse three, the pronoun shifts. Surely
291. 12:46he will save you. Wait a minute. He what
292. 12:49you you mean surely you will save me?
293. 12:51You see how the the pronoun shifts? I
294. 12:54will save the Lord. So verses 1 and two,
295. 12:57the psalmist is just talking about God.
296. 13:00And then from verses 3 to verse 13,
297. 13:03there's an intermediary who's almost
298. 13:04like talking to the psalmist. And then
299. 13:06from verses 14 to 16, now Yahweh talks
300. 13:12because he loves me, says the Lord, I
301. 13:14will rescue him. So we've got the
302. 13:17psalmist talking, then an intermediary
303. 13:19talking, and then Yahweh talking. So the
304. 13:23three-fold division of this psalm is is
305. 13:26verses 1 and two is what the psalmist is
306. 13:29saying to the Lord. Verses 3 and 13 is
307. 13:32what this unknown intermediary is saying
308. 13:35to the psalmist. And then verses 14 to
309. 13:3816 is what Yahweh is saying to the
310. 13:41psalmist. It is in that chunk where an
311. 13:44intermediary takes over and starts
312. 13:47talking to the psalmist that Satan
313. 13:50actually quotes from. Okay. So, Satan
314. 13:52quotes from that middle chunk of verses
315. 13:553 to13. It's almost as if there's a
316. 13:59intermediary between the psalmist and
317. 14:00Yahweh. The psalmist begins by saying,
318. 14:03"I will say to Yahweh that he is my
319. 14:05refuge." Then the intermediary speaks
320. 14:07back to the psalmist. Basically saying,
321. 14:08"Yes." And then going on to describe how
322. 14:11Yahweh is his refuge. Then at the end,
323. 14:14Yahweh speaks, but he speaks to the
324. 14:16intermediary and not the psalmist. Sorry
325. 14:19if I said it the other way round
326. 14:21earlier. Uh he speaks to the interminary
327. 14:23and not the psalmist. It's as if Yahweh
328. 14:26is saying, "Yes, tell him I will be his
329. 14:29refuge." Okay? And Satan quotes from the
330. 14:32Psalms, actually the entire showdown in
331. 14:35the wilderness. Satan quotes from the
332. 14:37Psalms where someone is talking on
333. 14:39behalf of God. Jesus responds by quoting
334. 14:42Deuteronomy 6:16 where Moses rebukes the
335. 14:46people for testing Yahweh's patience in
336. 14:49their disobedience and wanting things
337. 14:51their own human way. I'll say this
338. 14:54probably for the unteenth time on this
339. 14:56podcast that Satan's a Bible nerd. Satan
340. 14:59knows the Bible. So if you don't know
341. 15:01the Bible, you're actually at a
342. 15:03disadvantage. And what Jesus proves out
343. 15:05in the wilderness is that he knows the
344. 15:06Bible better than Satan. that Satan is
345. 15:09not able to manipulate Jesus with God's
346. 15:12word because Jesus has made himself an
347. 15:14expert at God's word. Now, I don't want
348. 15:17to get too deep into the theology of the
349. 15:18humanity of Jesus, but I don't think
350. 15:20that Jesus knows the word because he is
351. 15:22the word. I think he knows the word
352. 15:24because he actually studied it. And
353. 15:26sometimes we can rely so heavily or lean
354. 15:29so heavily on the divinity of Jesus that
355. 15:31we forget that the humanity of Jesus is
356. 15:34is there. I I mean, Jesus is human. So
357. 15:37he has to study. He actually has to
358. 15:39memorize things. Okay? And Jesus is a
359. 15:42Bible nerd. So here's a re real thing.
360. 15:44If Jesus realizes that he needs to be a
361. 15:49Bible nerd, how dare you walk around not
362. 15:52knowing the Bible? If Jesus, if Jesus
363. 15:56LIKE ALL POWERFUL, 100% GOD, 100% MAN,
364. 16:01if Jesus has stored up the word of God
365. 16:05in his heart that he may not sin against
366. 16:07Yahweh, man, you may want to really
367. 16:10re-evaluate how lax you may be around
368. 16:14memorizing scripture. All right, I'm
369. 16:16just going to throw that out there. My
370. 16:17hunch, though, is that if you're
371. 16:18watching this podcast, you're serious
372. 16:20about being a Boba nerd. So, uh, shout
373. 16:23out to you for knowing the Bible better
374. 16:25than Satan, cuz that's the goal to know
375. 16:27the Bible better than Satan so that you
376. 16:28can do what Jesus does, which is to uno,
377. 16:31reverse that thing back on the devil.
378. 16:34Okay, let's go, family. The wait is
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400. 17:32back to the episode. Last section that
401. 17:34we got to tackle. And I've I've I've
402. 17:36dropped a lot of timeless truths today.
403. 17:38Uh still going to give you one major
404. 17:40timeless truth at the end. Psalm 92.
405. 17:43Okay, this psalm is supposed to be sung
406. 17:46on the morning of the Sabbath. This
407. 17:48individual song of thanksgiving was
408. 17:49written to be a part of the rituals and
409. 17:52worship of the Sabbath. This psalm was
410. 17:55uh sung in the morning of the Sabbath as
411. 17:57a part of the beginning of Yahweh's day.
412. 17:59Okay, Saturday, the seventh day,
413. 18:01Yahweh's day. This psalm does show that
414. 18:05our usual picture of the Sabbath being a
415. 18:07day of rest isn't completely accurate.
416. 18:10It's not incorrect. It's just
417. 18:12incomplete. And Psalm 92 begins to add
418. 18:14some wholeness to our theology of
419. 18:17Sabbath and our theology of work. Here's
420. 18:19the deal. The word that is repeated
421. 18:21throughout the Sabbath song, get this,
422. 18:24is the word work. That's right. Work is
423. 18:27a massive theme of a psalm focused on
424. 18:30the Sabbath, which you're going to get
425. 18:33why once I get to my timeless truth in a
426. 18:35minute. There's two sections that really
427. 18:36focus on work. uh verses 1 to4 show the
428. 18:39work that is needed to be done on a
429. 18:41Sabbath. Singing of the psalms to thank
430. 18:44and praise Yahweh in the night of the
431. 18:46Sabbath and in the morning. But not just
432. 18:48singing. Music is to be played on
433. 18:50multiple instruments. Okay, I want you
434. 18:52to see this. And anyone who's a musician
435. 18:55in church or anyone who serves in
436. 18:57church, you're going to get this. Okay,
437. 18:58here's how Psalm 92 starts. It is good
438. 19:01to praise the Lord. Make music for your
439. 19:03name, oh most high. Proclaiming your
440. 19:05love in the morning and your
441. 19:06faithfulness at night to the music of 10
442. 19:09stringed liar to the string 10 to the 10
443. 19:13string liar in the melody of the harp.
444. 19:16It's funny cuz you know if you play keys
445. 19:19at church on the Sabbath on Sunday, then
446. 19:22you realize that you're probably waking
447. 19:23up at 4 or 5:00 in the morning getting
448. 19:26to church early for a sound check. If
449. 19:28that church has multiple services, if
450. 19:30you play drums, if you play bass, if
451. 19:32you're a musician, you're you're
452. 19:34probably realizing, yeah, actually the
453. 19:36Sabbath means work for me. But there's a
454. 19:40difference between your work and God's
455. 19:42work. And the Sabbath is actually not
456. 19:46just an invitation to stop working, but
457. 19:48an invitation to stop doing the work
458. 19:51that just pushes your business forward
459. 19:53or your life forward and actually do the
460. 19:55work that pushes God's family business
461. 19:58forward, God's mission forward. And so,
462. 20:00the invitation is to work with Yahweh
463. 20:03doing what we do, which is worship the
464. 20:05Lord. It's funny because it's like a
465. 20:08light bulb moment went off while I was
466. 20:09at my at a church. I was working at a
467. 20:11church. I was on staff at a church in
468. 20:13North Carolina and uh a woman in the
469. 20:15lobby looked at me and she said, "Wait,
470. 20:17so today's my day of rest? I I I love
471. 20:20enjoying church. I go to get brunch
472. 20:22after church and I got a word today and
473. 20:24I worshiped God and the the music was
474. 20:26amazing." She said, "But this is a work
475. 20:28day for you, huh?" And I said, "Yeah,
476. 20:31while you're enjoying the sermon and the
477. 20:34music the sermon and the music don't
478. 20:37work itself." Like I wrote down here in
479. 20:39my notes that I I want to read it the
480. 20:42exact way that I wrote it. I said liars
481. 20:44and harps don't play themselves. That
482. 20:46God says, "Hey, on the Sabbath, PLAY
483. 20:48PLAY THE LIAR. Play the harp." Well,
484. 20:51those don't play themselves. Which means
485. 20:54that Sabbath doesn't just mean I forsake
486. 20:57all work. It means that I do holy work.
487. 21:01It means that I do the kind of work that
488. 21:04partners with Yahweh in doing the kind
489. 21:07of stuff that Yahweh wants done. It's
490. 21:10kind of like, you know, my wife keeps a
491. 21:12honeydew list for me and work for me is
492. 21:15typically recording content like this or
493. 21:18having meetings or looking at property
494. 21:20or, you know, pushing the businesses
495. 21:23forward that I lead, Arma, the Bible
496. 21:25department, the church that I lead, the
497. 21:27garden, right? But then I go home and my
498. 21:30wife may have a chore list for me. Hey,
499. 21:33this needs to get fixed. This needs to
500. 21:35get done. Hey, Theo needs a haircut.
501. 21:36Hey, this this this. You know, Theo's my
502. 21:38son's name. And that's not work in the
503. 21:43same category that the job where I get a
504. 21:47salary is work. That's just like
505. 21:50household work. And in the same way, God
506. 21:53begins to say, "Hey, there's the work
507. 21:56you do at your law firm or your doctor's
508. 21:58office, or there's the work that you do
509. 22:00wherever you get a paycheck from, but
510. 22:03then there's like the work of upkeeping
511. 22:06my house and worshiping me and and
512. 22:08making sure that my name is exalted."
513. 22:11And that is the kind of work I want to
514. 22:12invite you to on the Sabbath. And my
515. 22:15timeless truth was actually that um
516. 22:18until we have a healthy theology of
517. 22:20work, then we're never going to have a
518. 22:22healthy theology of the Sabbath. That
519. 22:24actually whenever people either don't
520. 22:27practice the Sabbath or make the Sabbath
521. 22:29into something that is not, it's
522. 22:30actually most likely or most times
523. 22:33rooted in a theology of work that's
524. 22:36actually incomplete. Not incorrect, but
525. 22:39incomplete. And I actually pray and hope
526. 22:42that Psalm 92 would add some context to
527. 22:47our definition of work, our theology of
528. 22:50work, and our definition of Sabbath and
529. 22:52our theology of Sabbath. And shout out
530. 22:55to anybody who does the work of ministry
531. 22:59on Sundays to actually make sure that
532. 23:03these temples called church actually run
533. 23:07smoothly. Shout out to the musicians.
534. 23:09Shout out to all the background
535. 23:10vocalists. Shout out to the worship
536. 23:12leaders. Shout out to everybody who's
537. 23:15actually helping work with God to
538. 23:19collabor with Christ to build his church
539. 23:21and expand his kingdom. That is not a
540. 23:24violation of the Sabbath. That's
541. 23:25actually you just doing your part and
542. 23:29partnering with God as we work together
543. 23:31towards a new humanity. And that's not
544. 23:33just true for Psalm 92 or the Levites
545. 23:36that are singing this on every morning
546. 23:38of the Sabbath. That's true for you and
547. 23:40I as well. All right, tomorrow we got
548. 23:42day 283. We're going to be looking at
549. 23:45Psalms 93 to 95. I love you guys so
550. 23:48much. I'm proud of you. Especially if
551. 23:50you're on a streak. I'm proud of you if
552. 23:52you're not on a streak. But uh I'm
553. 23:54especially proud of you if you are on a
554. 23:55streak. I love you guys. I'll see you
555. 23:57right here tomorrow. Same time, same
556. 23:59place. We're going to be continuing our
557. 24:01trek through the Psalms. It's going to
558. 24:03be fantastic. Love you guys. Peace.
559. 24:06Thanks so much for joining us on the
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