Day 284: Psalms 96-98 | 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 284.
10. 0:27Today we are looking at Psalms 96- 98.
11. 0:33And remember if you were here yesterday,
12. 0:35you probably remember that Psalms 93 to
13. 0:39Psalms 100 are all a part of a block or
14. 0:44a collection of Psalms. And so today we
15. 0:48are going to continue to look at three
16. 0:50of the psalms that are in that wider
17. 0:52collection from Psalm 93 to Psalm 100.
18. 0:55We are in book four of the Psalms. If
19. 0:59you haven't done the reading today, this
20. 1:00is a good time to stop the video, pause
21. 1:03the audio, go get the reading done, read
22. 1:06Psalm 96, 97, and 98. Three short and
23. 1:09simple Psalms. They're short and sweet.
24. 1:11And my job is to help you to understand
25. 1:14what you've already read. I know there's
26. 1:16a lot of people who sometimes they reach
27. 1:18out, they say, "Well, we will we listen
28. 1:20to episode first, then we read." I'm
29. 1:22like, "Okay, I mean, I hear you, but I
30. 1:26want you to read it on your own first."
31. 1:29Like, try at least try to understand it
32. 1:32and then once you listen to the episode,
33. 1:35you can grade yourself on like how how,
34. 1:38you know, how close did I get to
35. 1:40comprehending that or to understanding
36. 1:41that. All right. So I told you yesterday
37. 1:45uh that the the this entire block of
38. 1:49Psalms, okay, from 93 to 100, they don't
39. 1:52have a context. Now, they don't have a
40. 1:54definitive context. However, no pun
41. 1:57intended, there is a context clue, okay,
42. 2:00there's a clue as to the context. And I
43. 2:03can actually Psalm 96 is where we we
44. 2:06begin to discover the context. Now, once
45. 2:08you start to read Psalm 96, you can go
46. 2:11to 1st Chronicles 16. Okay? 1st
47. 2:14Chronicles 16. And what you're going to
48. 2:16realize is that 1 Chronicles 16,
49. 2:20starting essentially in verse 23.
50. 2:25Okay? 1 Chronicles 16 23 mirrors Psalm
51. 2:3096. I mean, word for word. Okay? Sing to
52. 2:32the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord
53. 2:34a new song. Okay. Pretty close. Then de
54. 2:38proclaim his salvation day after day.
55. 2:40Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to
56. 2:42the Lord. Praise his name. Proclaim his
57. 2:44salvation day after day. Okay? Declare
58. 2:47his glory among the nations. His
59. 2:48marvelous deeds among all people.
60. 2:50Declare his glory among the nations. His
61. 2:52marvelous deed among the people. I'm
62. 2:54just reading, you know, I'm reading 1st
63. 2:56Chronicles chapter 16 starting in verse
64. 2:5823. I'm just reading it line by line and
65. 3:00then just reading Psalm 96 line by line.
66. 3:02You can do that on your own. And what
67. 3:04you will begin to realize is that all
68. 3:06the way down to 1 Chronicles 16 verse
69. 3:1034. Okay, so from 23 from 1st Chronicles
70. 3:1416:23 all the way down to verse 34. Or
71. 3:17let's actually just back up to verse 33.
72. 3:20Let the trees of the forest sing. Let
73. 3:22them sing for joy before the Lord for he
74. 3:24comes to judge the earth. Okay, that's
75. 3:26verse 33 of 1 Chronicles 16. Now let's
76. 3:30go over to Psalm 96. And it says, "Let
77. 3:33all creation rejoice before the Lord,
78. 3:36for he comes, he comes to judge the
79. 3:38earth. He will judge the world in
80. 3:40righteousness and all the peoples in his
81. 3:42faithfulness." Okay, pretty dang close.
82. 3:46Okay. And then verse 34 ends, "Give
83. 3:48thanks to the Lord for he is good. His
84. 3:50love endures forever." All right. So
85. 3:53Psalm 96 and 1st Chronicles uh 16:es
86. 3:5723-34 are dang near identical. I mean,
87. 4:02pretty close, which gives us a clue that
88. 4:05Psalm 96 probably comes from 1st
89. 4:09Chronicles chapter 16. So then the
90. 4:11question is, what's happening in 1st
91. 4:13Chronicles chapter 16? And I'll tell you
92. 4:15exactly what's happening. David is
93. 4:18taking the ark of the covenant from Oed
94. 4:21Edom's house and actually bringing it
95. 4:24back to Jerusalem to a restored, rebuilt
96. 4:28tabernacle. Now, why is this so
97. 4:31significant? Well, it's so significant
98. 4:33because the ark of the covenant is known
99. 4:35as the throne of Yahweh. Okay? It's the
100. 4:39throne of Yahweh. So, imagine, you know,
101. 4:42God's throne has been chilling at a
102. 4:45dude's house. And why is it at that
103. 4:47dude's house? It's at that dude's house
104. 4:48cuz the Philistines had captured it.
105. 4:50Which means the enemy had captured the
106. 4:52ark. And now it's just at some Jewish
107. 4:55dude's house named Oed Edom. And David
108. 4:58cares so much about God's throne because
109. 5:01he cares about God's kingship. He cares
110. 5:04about God's kingship because he cares
111. 5:06about God's presence. He cares about
112. 5:08God's glory. And David goes through the
113. 5:11painstaking process of returning the
114. 5:15throne of God, the presence of God, the
115. 5:18glory of God back to where God needs to
116. 5:22reign, which is the center of the
117. 5:25nation, which is Jerusalem, aka Zion.
118. 5:28Okay? So this psalm is being sang by the
119. 5:33Levitical choirs as the throne of God
120. 5:37comes back into the city of God. Okay,
121. 5:41now that is huge because this is
122. 5:45literally like what David's known for.
123. 5:48David restores a focus on the kingship
124. 5:53of Yahweh. So if that's the context for
125. 5:57for this psalm because all of these
126. 6:00psalms are connected from Psalm 93 to
127. 6:02Psalm 100, that is actually the context
128. 6:05for this entire block of Psalms. So now
129. 6:08that we got context out of the way, and
130. 6:10you can go back to 1st Chronicles 16.
131. 6:12You could read the whole story if you'd
132. 6:15like. Okay. Uh now that we've know that
133. 6:17context, let's dive into some nerdy
134. 6:19nuggets. I mapped out a a uh a timeline
135. 6:22here in my trusty dusty notebook. Okay,
136. 6:25mapped out. Anytime I say context clues,
137. 6:27I think Blues Clues and then you know
138. 6:29the Steve on Blues Clues had a trusty
139. 6:32dusty notebook and so I call this my
140. 6:34trusty dusty notebook. Anyway, you don't
141. 6:36need to know all that, but I said it
142. 6:37anyway. So, ADHD for the win. All right,
143. 6:39let's go. This leads me to our nerdy
144. 6:42nuggets. Okay. So, I I kind of wanted to
145. 6:45give you a history of Yahweh as king
146. 6:48because if we don't know how Yahweh has
147. 6:51been treated as king, then it's hard to
148. 6:54really appreciate how David is treating
149. 6:56Yahweh. Okay? So, this history starts
150. 6:59out number one in Deuteronomy, Yahweh's
151. 7:03susaranty. So, remember, if you've been
152. 7:05on this journey with us for a long time,
153. 7:06Deuteronomy is set up in the in the
154. 7:09template of a susarin vassel treaty.
155. 7:11Susan just means king. Vassel means you
156. 7:15know subject ruler subject or big king
157. 7:19little king. Yahweh is established as
158. 7:22the susarin or the king legally like via
159. 7:26a treaty with Israel that was signed
160. 7:30back in Deuteronomy. Okay. So
161. 7:32contractually covenantally. Okay. Yahweh
162. 7:35is king established in Deuteronomy. Now
163. 7:38obviously the people ratify that
164. 7:40covenant in the wilderness. They fail to
165. 7:42take the land under Josh under Moses.
166. 7:44They do it under Joshua. They go into
167. 7:47the land. So you know he's king, okay,
168. 7:50for for the book of Joshua. And then by
169. 7:52the time we get to Judges, the
170. 7:54resounding theme of the book of Judges
171. 7:56is this verse. There was no king in
172. 7:59Israel. Everybody did what was right in
173. 8:01their own eyes. That's Judges 17:6,
174. 8:04Judges 18:1, Judges 19:1, Judges 21:25.
175. 8:09I mean, over and over and over and over
176. 8:10and over again. The theme of the book of
177. 8:12Judges is there's no king in Israel.
178. 8:14Everyone does what is right in their own
179. 8:16eyes. Okay? So, Samuel is a
180. 8:20transitionary character. He's the last
181. 8:22judge and he anoints the first king.
182. 8:25Okay? So, we get out of judges and you
183. 8:27get Samuel. By the time you get to
184. 8:29Samuel, Samuel is is grieved. And Yahweh
185. 8:34is like, "Hey dude, they haven't
186. 8:35rejected you. They've rejected me as
187. 8:37their king." And the people keep begging
188. 8:39for a king. Give us a king. Give us a
189. 8:41king. Give us a king. Give us a king.
190. 8:43And God is just like, "The people have
191. 8:44rejected me as king." And so Samuel has
192. 8:47to anoint Saul. And Saul is an evil
193. 8:51king. Okay? Terrible king. Now, there's
194. 8:54a couple things that are going to
195. 8:55happen. It says 1st Samuel chapter 4.
196. 8:58The tabernacle at Shiloh gets destroyed
197. 9:02and the Philistines steal God's throne,
198. 9:04the ark of the covenant. And nobody
199. 9:07seems to care. Psalm 78 60. He abandoned
200. 9:12the tabernacle of Shiloh. Okay, so
201. 9:14Shiloh is where the tabernacle was
202. 9:18established. He abandoned the tabernacle
203. 9:20of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among
204. 9:23humans. Okay, he set the ark of his
205. 9:26might into captivity, his splendor into
206. 9:28the hands of the enemy. Okay, so the
207. 9:30Psalm 78 is is giving poetic words,
208. 9:36imagery to the historical events that
209. 9:38happened in 1st Samuel chapter 4.
210. 9:40Jeremiah 7:12. Okay, Jeremiah 7 starting
211. 9:44in verse 12 says this. Jeremiah is
212. 9:48warning people like, "Dude, God's got to
213. 9:52judge Jerusalem." So what does he say?
214. 9:53Go now by my place that was in Shiloh.
215. 9:56So this is a warning. Don't think that
216. 9:59just because you have my presence,
217. 10:00you're protected. Go over to Shiloh
218. 10:03where I made my name dwell at first and
219. 10:06see what I did to it for the wickedness
220. 10:09of my people Israel. So God is saying
221. 10:12through Jeremiah, I destroyed Shiloh. I
222. 10:14judged it because my people were wicked.
223. 10:16Okay, so here we go. Under Samuel's
224. 10:19leadership, the tabernacle at Shiloh
225. 10:21gets destroyed. The ark of the covenant
226. 10:23goes into captivity a amongst the
227. 10:25Philistines. The people have rejected
228. 10:28Yahweh as king. They want Saul. So God
229. 10:30gives them what they want under Saul's
230. 10:33leadership. He never goes to restore
231. 10:37Shiloh, nor does he rebuild the
232. 10:40tabernacle in Jerusalem. Because Saul
233. 10:42saw himself as king. Why do I need a
234. 10:45throne for Yahweh when I'm king and I
235. 10:48have a throne for myself? Saul sees
236. 10:51himself as king. He does not see himself
237. 10:54as serving the real king which is
238. 10:56Yahweh. Then comes David. Okay, so
239. 11:01judges, everyone does what is right in
240. 11:03their own eyes because Israel has no
241. 11:04king. Samuel, the very last judge,
242. 11:07Yahweh says, "Don't worry, Samuel. They
243. 11:09haven't rejected you. They've rejected
244. 11:10me as king." Samuel anoints Saul. Okay,
245. 11:14the Ark of the Covenant is off in enemy
246. 11:17territory. The tabernacle has been
247. 11:19destroyed. Saul doesn't care. Saul
248. 11:21doesn't care about God being king. He
249. 11:23doesn't care about God's glory, God's
250. 11:26presence. He doesn't care about God's
251. 11:28rule or God's reign. He's arrogant. He's
252. 11:31insecure. He cares about his own reign.
253. 11:33Finally, a shepherd boy named David gets
254. 11:36exalted to be king. And David's heart
255. 11:39posture is, "I'm not king. God's king.
256. 11:42Let's go get the ark. We got to go get
257. 11:45the ark. We gota We got to make sure
258. 11:48that there's a tabernacle for Yahweh in
259. 11:52Jerusalem. So, the reason that David is
260. 11:54such a hero is because for centuries,
261. 11:58not a judge, not a ruler, not not a
262. 12:02leader, all throughout Judges, all
263. 12:04throughout Samuel, all throughout Kings
264. 12:07Saul's kingship, nobody regards Yahweh
265. 12:11as king. which is why they don't care
266. 12:13about his throne until David. David
267. 12:16acknowledges, I am not really king.
268. 12:19Yahweh is king. David is different.
269. 12:22David knew his role. David knew Yahweh
270. 12:25was the true king. And so when he had
271. 12:27control over all Israel and had chosen a
272. 12:30place to be the capital, he then gave
273. 12:34that authority back to Yahweh. David
274. 12:38brought the throne, the ark to the
275. 12:40capital. He restored the tabernacle and
276. 12:43declared to the people of Israel, Yahweh
277. 12:45reigns. That's why the theme of all
278. 12:48these psalms from Psalm 93 to Psalm 100
279. 12:50is Yahweh reigns. It is the legacy of
280. 12:53David. David is essentially saying by
281. 12:55Yahweh reigns, he's saying I don't
282. 12:57reign. I'm not in control. I'm not the
283. 13:00one in power. I only have power because
284. 13:02Yahweh has given me power. So why would
285. 13:05I not give that authority back to the
286. 13:08one who's given me authority? This is
287. 13:10the counter truth. This is going to be
288. 13:11my Thomas truth. Obviously, he gave that
289. 13:13authority back to Yahweh. He brought the
290. 13:15throne, the ark to the capital. He
291. 13:16restored the tabernacle and declared to
292. 13:18the people of Israel, Yahweh reigns.
293. 13:21These psalms tell the real reason why
294. 13:24David was the ultimate king, a man after
295. 13:26God's own heart. Because David gave
296. 13:30Yahweh's authority back to Yahweh and
297. 13:34led the people in true worship and
298. 13:36acknowledgment of their king and savior
299. 13:40Yahweh. Yahweh reigns. David never made
300. 13:43it about himself ever. He makes it about
301. 13:46Yahweh. And this is why Yahweh makes it
302. 13:49about David. Yahweh celebrates David
303. 13:52because David celebrates Yahweh. And
304. 13:54this is the counterintuitive nature of
305. 13:56leadership. If I make my church, the
306. 13:59garden about me, then God will be like,
307. 14:02"All right, you're busy promoting
308. 14:03yourself, so I'll let you promote
309. 14:05yourself." But the moment I make it
310. 14:07about him, God will reward me and make
311. 14:10it about me. This is God. Remember the
312. 14:13Tower of Babel and the call of Abraham
313. 14:16happen side by side. What do the tower
314. 14:18builders say? Let's make a name for
315. 14:20ourselves. Let's build this tower. And
316. 14:22God's like, "Yeah, right. I'mma confuse
317. 14:24your languages. You'll never make a name
318. 14:25for yourself." And then God chooses a
319. 14:28man by the name of Abraham who doesn't
320. 14:30care about making his a name for
321. 14:31himself. And what promise does God give
322. 14:33Abraham? I'll make your name great. I'll
323. 14:35make your name great, Abe. I will make
324. 14:37sure that your name is great. So God is
325. 14:41not anti making people's names great.
326. 14:44God's not anti-fame. He's not
327. 14:45anti-popularity. He's anti-idolatry.
328. 14:49He's anti-self worship. He's anti
329. 14:53selfpromotion.
330. 14:54God's all about God promotion. God
331. 14:58promotes people. God elevates people.
332. 15:01God expands the influence of people. God
333. 15:05does that really well. He does it better
334. 15:08than than social media could do it. He
335. 15:11does it better than Hollywood could ever
336. 15:13do it. God knows how to promote people.
337. 15:16The testimony of my ministry career, my
338. 15:19ministry life has been, as long as I
339. 15:22make a big deal about God, God will make
340. 15:23a big deal about me. I really don't have
341. 15:25to make a big deal about me. Don't
342. 15:27really have to talk about myself that
343. 15:28much. I'm just going to talk about God.
344. 15:30This is going to make God famous. And
345. 15:32guess what? The more I've made God
346. 15:34famous, God has sent book deals into my
347. 15:36life. He has sent speaking engagements
348. 15:39into my life. I've stood on bigger and
349. 15:41bigger and bigger and bigger stages.
350. 15:43I've gained influence. Preaching clips
351. 15:45go viral. I just make a big deal about
352. 15:48God and God in turns makes a big deal
353. 15:51about me. David is arguably one of the
354. 15:54most important characters in the entire
355. 15:56Bible. And that is because God just
356. 15:59goes, "Anyone who makes a big deal about
357. 16:02me from a pure place with no agenda."
358. 16:05God says, "Ah, it's easier for me to
359. 16:08make a big deal about you, you make a
360. 16:09big deal about me." You know, somebody
361. 16:11asked me recently, "It seems like you
362. 16:13promote yourself a lot." I was like,
363. 16:14"Yeah, right." I was like, "I promote a
364. 16:16message and that message is the gospel."
365. 16:19And because I'm promoting the gospel,
366. 16:22God will always promote me because the
367. 16:24message I'm preaching is the gospel. And
368. 16:27God wants to get his message of hope and
369. 16:30life and lordship out to the world. So,
370. 16:34as long as I make a big deal about God,
371. 16:36God will always make a big deal about
372. 16:37me. And that's honestly the the timeless
373. 16:39truth. But before we get to that
374. 16:41timeless truth, which I've already stole
375. 16:42my thunder on the timeless truth, let's
376. 16:44get to Psalm 96 and 97. Okay, family,
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398. 17:43back to the episode. Uh or sorry, Psalm
399. 17:4697:98. Since Yahweh reigns, since he's
400. 17:49king, and since his throne is being
401. 17:52brought to the capital to Jerusalem, and
402. 17:55these psalms are all really about
403. 17:57celebrating that, Psalm 97 begins with
404. 18:00the words Yahweh reigns. And if he
405. 18:04reigns, and that means the establishment
406. 18:07of his throne is, it says it in verse
407. 18:10two, righteousness and justice are the
408. 18:12foundation of his throne. Righteousness
409. 18:15and justice. Now, these two words go
410. 18:17together. And I wish to God we just if
411. 18:21we we could preach this all year.
412. 18:22Righteousness and justice, especially as
413. 18:24we live in a nation where for whatever
414. 18:28reason, politics has become something
415. 18:32that has divided righteousness from
416. 18:33justice. And so, uh, if you talk to
417. 18:36anyone who identifies as more
418. 18:38progressive or identifies as being on
419. 18:41the left side of the political spectrum,
420. 18:42big on justice. And that's awesome.
421. 18:45That's great. And people on the right
422. 18:48side of the political spectrum really
423. 18:51will preach righteousness. And I just
424. 18:53go, these these political categories
425. 18:56that we've made just just baffle me. And
426. 19:00and I just always go, "Hey, hey, hey,
427. 19:02can we just can we just teach this? Can
428. 19:05we just teach this? Can we take our hope
429. 19:07and our faith out of these parties and
430. 19:10just Hey, the Bible talks about
431. 19:12righteousness and justice." The Bible
432. 19:14says that God's throne, the foundation
433. 19:17of his throne, aka the politics of his
434. 19:20kingdom, are both righteousness and
435. 19:22justice. Tim Keller said this, and I I
436. 19:24think it's brilliant. He's like, "My job
437. 19:26is to be so conservative, I make liberal
438. 19:28people uncomfortable, and to be so
439. 19:30liberal, I make conservative people
440. 19:31uncomfortable." And amen Tim Keller.
441. 19:35Because the reality is that the
442. 19:37unfortunate reality in our country is if
443. 19:39you say something that's biblical like,
444. 19:42"Hey man, we're called by God to
445. 19:44dismantle systems of oppression." People
446. 19:47be like, "Ah, systems of oppression.
447. 19:49That's a liberal word." That's not a
448. 19:50liberal word. It's a Bible word. These
449. 19:52are Bible words. And then if you say,
450. 19:55"Hey man, God's all about the nuclear
451. 19:57family." People like, "Those are
452. 19:59conservative words." Those aren't
453. 20:00conservative words. Those are Bible
454. 20:03words. These are Bible words. My
455. 20:06frustration is that you could just be
456. 20:08teaching the Bible and people are
457. 20:11hearing you teach the Bible and want to
458. 20:15put you into a conservative or liberal
459. 20:18category. And the reality is that I
460. 20:21can't speak for everybody who's teaching
461. 20:22the Bible. I can speak for me. It's
462. 20:25going to be impossible for somebody
463. 20:27who's really teaching the Bible to get
464. 20:29put into any of these categories. These
465. 20:32are man-made categories. And I want to
466. 20:34challenge you. If you are constantly
467. 20:37trying to fit people into conservative
468. 20:40or liberal categories so that you can
469. 20:42feel comfortable with them, then that's
470. 20:44a problem. The only category I'm trying
471. 20:47to figure out when I hear someone, I'm
472. 20:50not listening out for are they
473. 20:52conservative, are they liberal. I'm
474. 20:53listening for was that Bible? Was that
475. 20:56Bible? Was that kingdom? Was that the
476. 20:59gospel? Does that sound like Jesus and
477. 21:02that's it? If it's Bible, I agree with
478. 21:04it. If it's kingdom, I'm all in. And
479. 21:08righteousness and justice are the
480. 21:10foundations of his throne. So,
481. 21:12Christians should be all about
482. 21:14righteousness and all about justice,
483. 21:17man. And and that leaves me kind of a
484. 21:20little bit homeless because you just
485. 21:23live in a world that is just obsessed, I
486. 21:26mean infatuated with these political
487. 21:29categories. And at the end of the day,
488. 21:31I'm going to preach righteousness. I'm
489. 21:33going to preach justice cuz I cuz these
490. 21:36are Bible words. These are Bible words.
491. 21:39And I just think we got to get back to
492. 21:42the place where the number one way that
493. 21:44Christians identify themselves are as
494. 21:46bibleelving, bloodwashed kingdom
495. 21:49citizens. Bibleelving,
496. 21:52bloodwashed kingdom citizens. We're
497. 21:54Bible people. We're Jesus people. We're
498. 21:57blood of the lamb people. We're gospel
499. 21:59people. We're kingdom people. Period.
500. 22:02There's no other thing that needs to be
501. 22:06an identity marker for us in terms of
502. 22:09ideology or worldview. No, man. I'm I'm
503. 22:12Bible. I'm Bible. I'm kingdom. I'm
504. 22:14gospel. I'm Jesus, man. I If it's If
505. 22:17it's Jesus, I'm with it. All right. You
506. 22:19get the point. All right. One little
507. 22:21nugget from Psalm 97 is we're in verse
508. 22:247, we're going to get the word images.
509. 22:26All who worship images are put to shame.
510. 22:29Now, you're going to need a little bit
511. 22:30of worldview for this because in the
512. 22:32ancient worldview, images and idols are
513. 22:35the same. Okay? So the reason that God
514. 22:38says don't make any idol, okay, any
515. 22:41graven images, uh, and those words are
516. 22:44going to get used interchangeably, is
517. 22:46because for Yahweh, he made us in his
518. 22:51image so that we do the job that pagan
519. 22:56idols do for their gods. Okay? An idol
520. 23:00of Baal made in Baal's image is not
521. 23:03Baal. It's an image. It's an idol. Baal
522. 23:07actually exists as a spiritual being.
523. 23:11And the people who worship Baal make
524. 23:14Baal's images, idols. And God says,
525. 23:18"Don't do that because I've already done
526. 23:20that. I made you in my image. You are
527. 23:23images of me." So actually when we carve
528. 23:27out physical idols and worship them, you
529. 23:30are actually trying to get a idol made
530. 23:32of wood or stone or a statue to do your
531. 23:36job for you and that's just lazy. Your
532. 23:39job is to reflect my image. Okay? So I
533. 23:42wanted to just point out all who worship
534. 23:45images are put to shame. So why does it
535. 23:47say images instead of idols? Well, is
536. 23:50because in the ancient world, idols and
537. 23:52images are flip side of the same coin.
538. 23:56Idols are made in the images of the gods
539. 23:59that they represent. So, images, idols,
540. 24:01images, idols. When you see the word
541. 24:03image, you should think idol. These
542. 24:05words are interconnected. All right,
543. 24:07last nugget. Okay. And again, if Yahweh
544. 24:10reigns, then these things are true. All
545. 24:14right. And that last Psalm 98, if Yahweh
546. 24:17reigns, he brings salvation. Okay? If
547. 24:20Yahweh reigns, he brings salvation. And
548. 24:24so Psalm 98 is all about the salvation
549. 24:27of Yahweh. He brings salvation uh as an
550. 24:31outpouring of his love, his
551. 24:32faithfulness, and his righteousness.
552. 24:35Okay? Uh, we don't really have time to
553. 24:36dive into all that, but I want you to
554. 24:39see all of these psalms through the lens
555. 24:40of if if if Yahweh reigns, what's true?
556. 24:44And these psalms are answering the
557. 24:46question that if Yahweh reigns, these
558. 24:49other things must be true. All right.
559. 24:51What's our timeless truth? Our timeless
560. 24:54truth is we are gospel people. Two
561. 24:57timeless truths for the day. We're
562. 24:59gospel people. We have to honestly stop
563. 25:02being discipled by CNN and Fox News. We
564. 25:06need to be discipled by the word of the
565. 25:07Lord. We We got to get discipled by the
566. 25:09word of God. I I just feel like I'm
567. 25:11living in an America right now where
568. 25:13everyone just sees life through either a
569. 25:16liberal lens or a conservative lens. And
570. 25:20I just want to take the glasses off
571. 25:21everybody and say, can you just see the
572. 25:23world through a Bible lens? Can you just
573. 25:26Can we just see the world through a
574. 25:27Bible lens, please? a kingdom lens, a
575. 25:29Jesus lens, a gospel lens. So I want
576. 25:32those to be the buzzwords, okay? Gospel,
577. 25:35Bible, Jesus, kingdom. Bible, gospel,
578. 25:38Jesus, kingdom. Bible, gospel, Jesus,
579. 25:40kingdom. Those are the buzzwords. You
580. 25:42want to know the lens? Those are the
581. 25:43lens. And then second, if you make a big
582. 25:45deal about God, God will in turn make a
583. 25:48big deal about you. And I know that's
584. 25:50counterintuitive, but in the kingdom,
585. 25:52the way up is always down. And uh I I
586. 25:55want that to be a timeless truth. That's
587. 25:56not just true for David. That's not just
588. 25:58true for Psalms 96, 97, and 98. That's
589. 26:02true forever. That's true for me and you
590. 26:05today. And I think that's super, super
591. 26:06relevant. Tomorrow, we've got day 285.
592. 26:10We're going to be looking at Psalms 99
593. 26:13to 101. So, we'll look at Psalms 99 and
594. 26:16100 because that's the end of this
595. 26:18little mini collection. And we'll look
596. 26:19at Psalm 101 as uh as a separate deal.
597. 26:23So, tomorrow we got Psalms 99 and 100,
598. 26:26both part of our uh Psalms around the
599. 26:29enthronement of Yahweh. And then we got
600. 26:30Psalm 101. Three Psalms tomorrow. Can't
601. 26:33wait. I'll be right here, same place,
602. 26:35same time. Tune in, and uh I'm so proud
603. 26:38of you. I love you. See you tomorrow.
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