Day 289: Psalms 110-112 | 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 289. I'm your
10. 0:27host Dr. Manny Orango. Welcome to the
11. 0:29Bible department podcast. Today we are
12. 0:32looking at three Psalms in our final
13. 0:35stretch of the book of Psalms. We are in
14. 0:37book five of the five books of the
15. 0:40Psalms and we've got Psalm 110, 111, and
16. 0:43112 on the docket today. If you have
17. 0:46done the reading, then you're going to
18. 0:48understand everything that I'm going to
19. 0:50say. You're going to have full context
20. 0:51for what I have to say. But if you
21. 0:53haven't done the reading, then you're
22. 0:55not going to be able to follow along.
23. 0:56So, if you haven't done the reading, how
24. 0:58about you stop the video, pause the
25. 1:00audio, go get the reading for today
26. 1:04done. Three beautiful psalms. And uh
27. 1:08like every day, I'm going to give you as
28. 1:10much context as I can via our context
29. 1:13clues. And then I'm going to give you as
30. 1:15many nerdy nuggets as time will allow.
31. 1:17And we'll always end the episode with a
32. 1:20timeless truth. that timeless truth will
33. 1:22be a charge for you to go live the
34. 1:26abundant life that God has called you to
35. 1:28live. Uh so uh let's dive into our
36. 1:31context clues. Okay, we got Psalm 110,
37. 1:34which is going to be a standalone psalm,
38. 1:35and then we've got Psalm 111 and 112,
39. 1:38which are a pair. Okay, so this has
40. 1:40happened to us a couple of times here on
41. 1:42the podcast where the pair will make
42. 1:46sense individually. However, once you
43. 1:49pair them together, they actually begin
44. 1:51to make way more sense. Uh it begins to
45. 1:55the the the sense exponentially grows.
46. 1:58Okay, so we've got a single psalm in
47. 2:01Psalm 110. Now, this identified as a
48. 2:04psalm of David. And what's probably
49. 2:07abundantly clear as soon as you start
50. 2:08reading it is that this is a royal
51. 2:10psalm. Uh now in Hebrew that word
52. 2:14messiah doesn't just mean the messiah
53. 2:18but it means a messiah right so king
54. 2:21David was a messiah because the word
55. 2:23messiah simply means anointed one and
56. 2:26king David was anointed by god to be
57. 2:28king he was anointed by Samuel by god
58. 2:31via Samuel to be king. uh Solomon is a
59. 2:35messiah and every king is a lowercase
60. 2:38msiah and all these messiahs are
61. 2:41pointing towards the ultimate messiah
62. 2:44which we know is going to be none other
63. 2:46than Jesus Christ. Now this psalm
64. 2:49because it's a royal psalm it's a
65. 2:51messianic psalm and actually this psalm
66. 2:54psalm 110 is going to get quoted a lot
67. 2:58in the new testament this psalm is
68. 3:00actually key I mean this is a
69. 3:03interpretive key for understanding the
70. 3:05nature of the godhead for understanding
71. 3:08the divinity of Jesus and David is
72. 3:12actually prophesying years and years and
73. 3:14years hundreds of years probably uh most
74. 3:17people would put David at a th00and BC.
75. 3:20So David is is prophesying a thousand
76. 3:23years before the birth of Jesus about
77. 3:26the divinity, the lordship uh and
78. 3:28identity of of Christ. So Psalm 110 is a
79. 3:32royal psalm. It's a messianic psalm and
80. 3:35we are going to have lots of nerdy
81. 3:37nuggets as we dive into the episode
82. 3:38further that are going to come from
83. 3:40Psalm 110. All right. Psalm 111 and
84. 3:44Psalm 112 don't have a title. So, we
85. 3:46don't have context uh from a title.
86. 3:49However, they are seen as a pair because
87. 3:52both psalms are acrostics. Okay? You
88. 3:55know, an acrostic. I'm trying to think
89. 3:57of one. Uh one time, actually, this is
90. 3:59one of the worst moments I've ever had
91. 4:01in youth ministry. I I was a I was
92. 4:04probably in college maybe maybe I was a
93. 4:06young adult and the pastor at the young
94. 4:09adult pastor at the time he preached
95. 4:11about twerking. It was it was terrible
96. 4:14actually. And each letter of the word
97. 4:17twerk stood for something. You know what
98. 4:19I'm saying? So it was like you know to
99. 4:21God be the glory. You know work with all
100. 4:24your might. You know every thing that
101. 4:27has breath praise the Lord. You know,
102. 4:30the righteous will inherit the earth and
103. 4:33king of kings. You know, it's like t we
104. 4:35e r k like every letter of the word
105. 4:39twerk kind of represented something that
106. 4:41is an acrostic. Okay. Uh it's when a
107. 4:45letter starts out when you're using the
108. 4:47Hebrew alphabet to give God praise.
109. 4:50That's an acrostic. It's actually a
110. 4:52common thing in Hebrew poetry. Thank God
111. 4:56there is no Hebrew word for twerk. Okay,
112. 4:58that's that's that's praise be to God
113. 5:00that there's no Hebrew word for twerk.
114. 5:02And honestly, it's one of the worst
115. 5:03sermons I've ever had to sit through.
116. 5:05And hey, I apologize in advance. If
117. 5:07you're watching this and you're the one
118. 5:08that preached that sermon, you know who
119. 5:10you are. I'm not going to say your name.
120. 5:13That was really bad. All right, let's
121. 5:14keep moving. All right. Not only is
122. 5:16Psalm 111 and 112 a pair, we know they
123. 5:20are a pair because both of them are an
124. 5:22acrostic, they also both begin with the
125. 5:25word hallelujah. Now, you may not be
126. 5:28able to tell in your English translation
127. 5:30that both of these psalms begin with the
128. 5:32word hallelujah, but they do. Here's a
129. 5:34nerdy nugget for you, okay? It says
130. 5:36this. Psalm 111:1, praise the Lord. And
131. 5:39then Psalm 112 verse1, guess what it
132. 5:43says? Drum roll, please.
133. 5:46Praise the Lord. That's right. In in
134. 5:48Hebrew, that's hallelujah. So, these
135. 5:51psalms start with hallelujah, which
136. 5:53simply means praise the Lord. Okay. They
137. 5:56are also connected through the last
138. 5:59verse of Psalm 111 and the first verse
139. 6:02of Psalm 112. Okay. So the last verse of
140. 6:06Psalm 111 reads as follows. Says this uh
141. 6:10this is verse 10. Very final verse of
142. 6:13Psalm 111 says, "The fear of the Lord is
143. 6:15the beginning of wisdom. All who follow
144. 6:18his precepts have good understanding. To
145. 6:21him belongs eternal praise." And then as
146. 6:24soon as we flip to 112, we're going to
147. 6:26get our praise the Lord, our hallelujah.
148. 6:29Then it says, "Blessed are those who
149. 6:31fear the Lord, who find great delight in
150. 6:34his commands." So the end of Psalm 111
151. 6:39and the beginning of Psalm 112 are 100%
152. 6:42linked through this theme of wisdom.
153. 6:45That's right. So, these are also low-key
154. 6:48some wisdom psalms that we have here in
155. 6:51Psalm 111 and Psalm 112. All right. So,
156. 6:54big big big context. Psalm 110 is a
157. 6:57royal messianic psalm. This uh Psalm 110
158. 7:01is going to be a massive foundation for
159. 7:04building a solid uh not just theocracy,
160. 7:08not just an understanding of God, not
161. 7:10theocracy, theology. Sorry, not as an
162. 7:12understanding of God, but also a uh
163. 7:15christologology, an understanding of
164. 7:16Jesus. So, Psalm 110 foundational for
165. 7:20understanding the person identity and
166. 7:23name of of Christ. And then Psalm 111
167. 7:25and 112 totally connected and you've got
168. 7:28to interpret them as a pair instead of
169. 7:31as individual units. Uh they both start
170. 7:34with the words hallelujah. They are both
171. 7:36acrostics and they are connected via the
172. 7:40last verse of Psalm 11 and the first
173. 7:42verse of Psalm 12. How about this in the
174. 7:45comments uh here on YouTube, if you're
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177. 7:52if you're watching this on YouTube, how
178. 7:53about in the comments tell me if you saw
179. 7:57that while you were doing the reading.
180. 7:59All right. So, I kind of want to start
181. 8:01to see whether or not, you know, we've
182. 8:03been on this journey together for 288
183. 8:06days. Today's day 289. And if you've
184. 8:08been rocking with me for a while, I want
185. 8:10to begin to see, can you see stuff
186. 8:12before I say it? All right. Uh, and so
187. 8:15let me know in the comments whether or
188. 8:16not you saw that. Did you see that the
189. 8:20Psalms both started with praise the
190. 8:22Lord? Did you see that Psalm 111 ended
191. 8:26with the fear of the Lord is the
192. 8:27beginning of wisdom? in Psalm 112
193. 8:29started with this same theme of the fear
194. 8:32of the Lord. Let me know in the comments
195. 8:33if you saw it. All right, let me give
196. 8:35you some nerdy nuggets. All right, let's
197. 8:37start out with our nerdy nuggets for
198. 8:39Psalm 110. This is a royal psalm, a
199. 8:42psalm connected to the ceremonies
200. 8:45surrounding the kings of Israel. Okay.
201. 8:47So in its original context before it
202. 8:50gets used in the New Testament, this
203. 8:52psalm would have been used during the
204. 8:56coronation or during any kind of any of
205. 8:59the formal uh ceremonies involving a
206. 9:04succession from one king to the next.
207. 9:06All right. This is an enthronement psalm
208. 9:10given to a new king as he succeeded his
209. 9:13father. Its importance, however, has
210. 9:16been elevated due to its use in the New
211. 9:18Testament. Now, I want you to write
212. 9:19these down in the Gospels. Uh, this
213. 9:22psalm is going to get quoted four times.
214. 9:24Mark 12:36,
215. 9:27Matthew 22:44,
216. 9:29Luke 20 42-43, and then in the book of
217. 9:34Acts, okay, uh, Peter's actually going
218. 9:36to quote it on Pentecost on the day of
219. 9:38Pentecost. Acts 2:es 34-35.
220. 9:42Verse 1 is quoted first by Jesus but
221. 9:46then later by Peter at Pentecost. The
222. 9:48quote is used to show the kingship of
223. 9:51Jesus the Messiah. And as appropriate
224. 9:54for royal psalm has an abundance of
225. 9:57kings involved. One of those like count
226. 10:00the kings. How many kings are involved
227. 10:02here? Okay. So here's what it says.
228. 10:05Okay. And I'm going to actually read
229. 10:07some of these words in Hebrew just so
230. 10:09that we actually get clear on what's
231. 10:11being said. Okay, so Psalm 110, the
232. 10:15Lord. Okay, anytime you see the Lord, L
233. 10:17O R D, all caps, that means that the
234. 10:20Hebrew word Yahweh is being used. The
235. 10:23Lord says to my Lord. So that second
236. 10:26Lord is lowercase. It's not capitalized
237. 10:29L O R D, which means we know that it's
238. 10:32not Yahweh. Okay. So, the Lord says to
239. 10:37my Lord, and so I'll read it for you in
240. 10:39Hebrew. Yahweh says to my Adoni, okay,
241. 10:44sit at my right hand until I make your
242. 10:46enemies your foottool. That's Psalm
243. 10:48110:1.
244. 10:50So, David is probably writing this for
245. 10:54his son Solomon in preparation for his
246. 10:57son Solomon to succeed him. David, the
247. 11:00king of Israel, writes a psalm for the
248. 11:01king that will succeed him. He opens the
249. 11:04psalm by talking about the true king of
250. 11:07Israel. That would be Yahweh. Speaking
251. 11:10to someone that David calls Adoni. Now,
252. 11:14we got to admit this is straight up
253. 11:16strange cuz who does David consider to
254. 11:20be his Adoni? Okay, Adonim was a name
255. 11:24sometimes used for Yahweh. In fact,
256. 11:27century centuries later, it will
257. 11:30literally replace Yahweh. But that's a
258. 11:32whole another conversation for another
259. 11:33time. Which is why Yahweh becomes
260. 11:36capital L O R D as that is what Adoni
261. 11:40means. Adonai means Lord. Okay. Here
262. 11:43Yahweh is speaking to Adoni. It's kind
263. 11:46of weird. Not only that, David refers to
264. 11:50Adonai as my Adonai. So Yahweh considers
265. 11:54this Adonai figure to be a Lord. And
266. 11:58David definitely considers this Adonai
267. 12:00figure to be his Lord. Whoever this is,
268. 12:04he is David's Lord. Yet he is not
269. 12:07David's king as that is Yahweh who is
270. 12:12here distinct from this Adonai figure.
271. 12:17So this is what becomes really really
272. 12:19cool is that the word Adonai can be used
273. 12:22of Yahweh but it's being used of someone
274. 12:25who's not Yahweh which means whoever
275. 12:28this Adonai figure is shares a name with
276. 12:32Yahweh. Yahweh is Yahweh. Christ is
277. 12:35Christ. But both Yahweh and Jesus Christ
278. 12:38are Adoni which reveals trinitarian
279. 12:42theology right here in the book of
280. 12:45Psalms. Okay. Uh, the use of Yahweh and
281. 12:49Adonai in David's submission to them
282. 12:51both actually long confused Jewish
283. 12:54scholars prior to Jesus being born.
284. 12:57Eventually, this Adonai became
285. 12:58associated with the future Messiah, the
286. 13:00Messiah that would come. Jesus and Peter
287. 13:03then used this quote with its baggage of
288. 13:06confusion to identify who Jesus was and
289. 13:10how the Messiah was greater than their
290. 13:12earthly human perception of him. The
291. 13:15question asked is how can the son of
292. 13:18David be greater than David as David
293. 13:20clearly calls him Lord. This question
294. 13:23shows they did not realize who the
295. 13:26Messiah actually was to be. The
296. 13:28connection with Adoni the name they then
297. 13:31called Yahweh makes the statement even
298. 13:34greater. The Messiah is not only Lord
299. 13:37over David but he also shares a name
300. 13:40with Yahweh. I've already said that but
301. 13:42I just wanted to read it straight from
302. 13:43my notes. His name is Yahweh's name. His
303. 13:46title is Yahweh's title. His nature is
304. 13:49Yahweh's nature. But he is distinct from
305. 13:52Yahweh. He is not Yahweh. Yet he shares
306. 13:54his name and nature. The son of David is
307. 13:58also the son of God. What a profound
308. 14:01mystery. So unbeknownst to him, as he
309. 14:04wrote, David a thousand years before
310. 14:07Jesus laid the foundation stone of what
311. 14:10we now call the Trinity, the simple line
312. 14:12at the start of a psalm designed by a
313. 14:15king for his son revealed the truth of
314. 14:18the greatest mystery of all, the nature
315. 14:21of God himself. That God is three. that
316. 14:25God is a holy communion of three
317. 14:29individual parts yet an indivisible
318. 14:33whole. All right, so that's all the
319. 14:35nerdy nuggets we got for Psalm 110. I
320. 14:36got a couple minutes left and I'm going
321. 14:38to try to give you as many nerdy nuggets
322. 14:39as I can for Psalm 111 and Psalm 112.
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345. 15:40to the episode. Uh, these are seen as a
346. 15:43pair. Again, they are both full
347. 15:44acrostics and both wisdom focused and
348. 15:47wisdom is seen primarily in the verses
349. 15:49that connects them. The final verse of
350. 15:51Psalm 111 and the first verse of Psalm
351. 15:54112. Okay. And what is the connection?
352. 15:56The fear of Yahweh connects these two
353. 15:59psalms. The fear of Yahweh as the
354. 16:02beginning of wisdom is one of the
355. 16:03central themes of wisdom literature
356. 16:05within scripture. It is the idea that
357. 16:07fearing Yahweh having awe about who he
358. 16:11is and how insignificant humanity is in
359. 16:14comparison. I'm not saying humans are
360. 16:16insignificant. I'm saying we're
361. 16:18insignificant in comparison to an
362. 16:20infinite almighty God. That is the
363. 16:23starting place of all wisdom. Why?
364. 16:25Because when we acknowledge who God
365. 16:27truly is and we also acknowledge the gap
366. 16:30that exists between Yahweh the infinite
367. 16:32one and humanity who is finite, humility
368. 16:36is the response. Humility and awe then
369. 16:41are the starting places of wisdom. It is
370. 16:44impossible to be wise if you don't have
371. 16:46humility. It is impossible to be wise if
372. 16:48you don't walk in awe and wonder of who
373. 16:50God is. Impossible. Wisdom starts when
374. 16:54you know your human limitations and when
375. 16:57you know the boundless power of who God
376. 16:58is. Awe is what causes us to worship.
377. 17:01And our lifestyles can only be
378. 17:03lifestyles of worship when we are in awe
379. 17:05of God. It's what causes us to trust him
380. 17:07and obey him. Also, we have to
381. 17:10understand who we really are. I am not
382. 17:13God. I am not the creator. I am a
383. 17:16created being. Uh humility and a are the
384. 17:20starting places of wisdom. A firm
385. 17:21footing to begin the journey of a wise
386. 17:24life in harmony with Yahweh and his
387. 17:28creation. These psalms show this. Psalm
388. 17:3211 focuses more on the holiness and
389. 17:34awesomeness of Yahweh. Whereas Psalm 112
390. 17:37focuses on the man who fears Yahweh. So,
391. 17:40I've kind of got this highlighted in my
392. 17:42Bible. If you just go through Psalm 111,
393. 17:44it says a lot of things about God. First
394. 17:46of all, in the council of the upright
395. 17:48and in the assembly is where we're going
396. 17:50to extol him. So, first verse three,
397. 17:53he's great. Next verse, sorry, verse
398. 17:56two, he's great. Second, verse three,
399. 17:58he's glorious and majestic. Verse four,
400. 18:02he's caused his wonders to be
401. 18:04remembered. Oo, that means he's
402. 18:06wonderful. Verse five, he provides food.
403. 18:09That means he's a provider. Just think
404. 18:11about it. In five verses, we have five
405. 18:13things about God, okay? That God is
406. 18:16great, that he's glorious, that he's
407. 18:18majestic, that he's wonderful, that he's
408. 18:20gracious, that he's compassionate, and
409. 18:22that he's a provider. Sorry, we've got
410. 18:24more than five things about God in just
411. 18:26five verses. Let's actually count them,
412. 18:28okay? He's he's great. He's glorious.
413. 18:31He's majestic. He's wonderful. He's
414. 18:34gracious. He's compassionate. He's a
415. 18:37provider. Seven things about God in just
416. 18:39five verses. So for people who say like,
417. 18:41"I don't know what to say when I pray."
418. 18:43It's like, "Then you don't know God. I
419. 18:45run out of words when I pray." Then you
420. 18:47don't know God because he's awesome.
421. 18:49He's majestic. He's wonderful. He's
422. 18:51glorious. He's a provider. He's great.
423. 18:54Like, in order to praise God, you are
424. 18:57going to have to have a vocabulary to
425. 19:00describe this great God that we're
426. 19:02talking about. Oh, that's a timeless
427. 19:04truth. that in order to properly praise
428. 19:07God, your vocabulary
429. 19:10to describe this God is going to have to
430. 19:12expand. Which means you're going to have
431. 19:14to actually study the Bible to figure
432. 19:16out what does the Bible say about the
433. 19:19character nature of God so that you can
434. 19:21use that vocabulary in action and
435. 19:24actually use those words to describe him
436. 19:26to talk to him. We're not even we're
437. 19:28verse six. He has shown his people the
438. 19:31power of his works which means he's
439. 19:32powerful. That's the eighth thing we
440. 19:34hear about God. The works of his hands
441. 19:36are faithful and just. More more words
442. 19:38to describe God. Everything he does is
443. 19:41enacted with faithfulness and
444. 19:42uprightness. He provided redemption. He
445. 19:45ordained his covenant. Okay? And and
446. 19:47then it gets to the fear of the Lord is
447. 19:49the beginning of wisdom. So we get down
448. 19:52to fearing the Lord once the psalmist
449. 19:53makes it clear. Hey, get this. He's
450. 19:56great. He's glorious. He's majestic.
451. 19:58He's wonderful. He's gracious. He's
452. 20:00compassionate. He's a provider. He's
453. 20:02powerful. Man, the works of his hands
454. 20:04are faithful and just. I mean, the
455. 20:06psalmist is just on a barrage of how to
456. 20:09describe God to do what? To get you to
457. 20:12the point of awe, of wonder, of fear, of
458. 20:16an acknowledgment of, "Oh, God, he's
459. 20:19great. I'm not. He's glorious. I'm not.
460. 20:21He's majestic. I'm not. He's a provider.
461. 20:23I'm not. He's compassionate. I'm not.
462. 20:25He's gracious. I'm not. He's powerful
463. 20:29and I'm not. I'm just a mortal. And man,
464. 20:32I have moments where I'm compassionate.
465. 20:34I have moments where I'm gracious. I've
466. 20:37got moments where I'm great, but God, I
467. 20:40have so many other moments where I'm not
468. 20:43great. I'm really average. Where I'm
469. 20:45definitely not glorious, where I'm
470. 20:46definitely not majestic, where I'm
471. 20:48definitely not wonderful, where I'm I'm
472. 20:50I'm not gracious. I'm petty sometimes.
473. 20:53I'm not compassionate. I'm pretty I'm
474. 20:57pretty merciless at times. I I can I can
475. 21:00be vengeful sometimes. I can be
476. 21:02spiteful, man. I'm not the perfect
477. 21:05provider for my son and for my wife and
478. 21:07for my family. I want to be, but I'm
479. 21:09not. Praise should get you to the place
480. 21:12of God, I'm so in awe of you. I'm
481. 21:15inspired by you. And I just want to be
482. 21:18like you, but I know I'll never be you.
483. 21:20I want to be like you, but I know I'll
484. 21:22never be you. Which then leads to Psalm
485. 21:24112. And what does Psalm 112 say? that
486. 21:28blessed are those who fear the Lord and
487. 21:30find great delight in his commands.
488. 21:32Well, guess what? There's now that
489. 21:34blessing of fearing God. It gets teased
490. 21:37out in detail. Said their children will
491. 21:39be mighty in the land. The generation of
492. 21:41the upright will be blessed. Wealth and
493. 21:44riches are in their house and their
494. 21:47righteousness endures forever. What else
495. 21:49happens when I operate from a posture of
496. 21:52Psalm 111? Well, I get all the promises
497. 21:55of Psalm 112. says, "Even in the
498. 21:57darkness, light dawn for the upright,
499. 21:59for those who are gracious and
500. 22:00compassionate and righteous. Good will
501. 22:03come to those who are generous and lend
502. 22:05freely." So when I decide I'm going to
503. 22:07act like God even though I'm not God, I
504. 22:10begin to lend to the poor. I begin to be
505. 22:12generous to the poor. And God says, "Ah,
506. 22:16I'm going to bestow my blessing on you.
507. 22:19The righteous will never be shaken. They
508. 22:21will be remembered forever." And this
509. 22:23here's what I really love. Physical
510. 22:25blessings are great. Wealth is great. My
511. 22:27children being established as mighty
512. 22:30inhabitants and heirs of promise. That's
513. 22:32awesome. But here's what this is
514. 22:34everything right here. They will have no
515. 22:36fear of bad news. That the righteous
516. 22:38will have no fear of bad news. I don't
517. 22:41have to walk around with my head on a
518. 22:42swivel. I have no fear of bad news. Uh
519. 22:45why? Their hearts are steadfast trusting
520. 22:47in the Lord. Their hearts are secure.
521. 22:50They will have no fear. In the end, they
522. 22:53will look and triumph on their foes.
523. 22:55They have freely scattered their gifts
524. 22:57to the poor. Their righteousness endures
525. 22:59forever. Their horn will be lifted uh
526. 23:02high in honor. And that's that. That's
527. 23:05the pair. Psalm 111 is all about how
528. 23:08awesome God is. Psalm 112 is all about
529. 23:11how awesome he is towards his people who
530. 23:15actually acknowledge his awesomeness. So
531. 23:18Psalm 111 and Psalm 112 are a pair. And
532. 23:21that moves us seamlessly into our Thomas
533. 23:23truth for the day. And that's this. I
534. 23:26just want you to get a sheet of paper
535. 23:27out. I've been doing this a lot lately
536. 23:29and just start to get a working
537. 23:32vocabulary for how you describe God.
538. 23:35Okay? What are the top five words that
539. 23:37come to your mind when you describe God?
540. 23:39What are the top 10 words? What are the
541. 23:41top 15 words? And maybe you're like, I
542. 23:44don't have 15 words that describe God.
543. 23:46Well, let me challenge you. I want you
544. 23:49to begin to build a vocabulary for how
545. 23:52you describe God because it is on the
546. 23:54foundation of that vocabulary that you
547. 23:57can actually praise him. So if you're in
548. 24:01moments of prayer and you run out of
549. 24:04things to say, that means you just don't
550. 24:06have enough words to describe him, which
551. 24:08means you have to grow your vocabulary.
552. 24:11He's glorious. He's majestic. He's
553. 24:13awesome. He's wonderful. He's powerful.
554. 24:15He's a provider. What are the first five
555. 24:18words that come to your mind as you
556. 24:20begin to dwell on the character nature
557. 24:22of God? What are the top 10 words? What
558. 24:25about 15? What about 20? What about 25?
559. 24:28How many words can you get to before you
560. 24:30run out of words to describe the
561. 24:31indescribable God that we know as
562. 24:34Yahweh? Uh I hope that's a helpful
563. 24:36timeless truth. I want to expand my
564. 24:38vocabulary of who God is. And uh I want
565. 24:42my son to hear me describe God and learn
566. 24:45words about God based on how I talk
567. 24:47about him. I want my son to know of
568. 24:50God's reputation based on how his father
569. 24:53describes him. Ain't that cool? That
570. 24:55that's the legacy of Psalm 110. that as
571. 24:57David wrote a psalm for his successor
572. 25:00and son that then it got put in the
573. 25:03mouth of Jesus as Jesus understanding
574. 25:06that that is how his father described
575. 25:09him. Man, I want to be the kind of dad
576. 25:12that leads my son into timeless truth.
577. 25:15And I hope if you're a parent, if you're
578. 25:16a father, then your desire is the same.
579. 25:19All right, I'll see you tomorrow for day
580. 25:22290.
581. 25:23Tomorrow we're going to be diving into
582. 25:25three more Psalms. Psalm 113, 114, and
583. 25:28115. I'm so proud of you, especially if
584. 25:31you're on a streak. Love you so much.
585. 25:32I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same
586. 25:34place. Peace. Thanks so much for joining
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