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Day 301: Psalm 149-150 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
  2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
  3. 0:04podcast powered by Arma. We are walking
  4. 0:08through the entire Bible in a year. You
  5. 0:10can go to the description or the bible
  6. 0:13department.com to download a reading
  7. 0:15plan and join the journey.
  8. 0:24Family, WELCOME TO DAY 30. WE'RE AT THE
  9. 0:27END OF THE BOOK OF PSALMS. COME ON. UM,
  10. 0:30THAT MAY BE BITTERSWEET. It's
  11. 0:31bittersweet for me. We've been in Psalms
  12. 0:33for like 50 something days. I have
  13. 0:36fallen in love with the book of Psalms.
  14. 0:38Honestly, I I will say I THINK THAT
  15. 0:41BEFORE RECORDING ALL THESE EPISODES WITH
  16. 0:43THE BIBLE DEPARTMENT. I liked individual
  17. 0:46Psalms, but I don't know that I liked
  18. 0:48the entire book as a whole. I can
  19. 0:50honestly say on the other end now, you
  20. 0:53know, recording day 301, having studied
  21. 0:56for every single day that I've have a
  22. 0:58newfound, personally, I have a newfound
  23. 1:01appreciation for the whole book of
  24. 1:03Psalms. And hopefully by the end of
  25. 1:05today's episode and today's reading, you
  26. 1:08will as well. So, I hope I hope and pray
  27. 1:12that you've enjoyed our trek through the
  28. 1:14book of Psalms. This is the biggest like
  29. 1:17longest book of the Bible that we will
  30. 1:19study on this uh podcast journey. So,
  31. 1:22I'm glad that you stuck it out. Good job
  32. 1:26making it through Psalms. If you can
  33. 1:27make it through Psalms, you can make it
  34. 1:28through anything. So, I'm super super
  35. 1:30excited. Hey, like I say every day, if
  36. 1:33you have not done the reading for the
  37. 1:35day, stop the video, pause the audio, go
  38. 1:38get the reading done. All right. Today,
  39. 1:39we've got Psalms 149 and 150. just two
  40. 1:44Psalms to end the entire book of Psalms
  41. 1:47and then TOMORROW WE'LL CRACK OPEN
  42. 1:49PROVERBS. OKAY, we'll go from David to
  43. 1:52Solomon. So, uh I'm super pumped about
  44. 1:55Proverbs, but let's not get ahead of
  45. 1:56ourselves. Let's go out with a bang.
  46. 1:59Okay, let's let's uh let's run the race.
  47. 2:02Let's finish. Okay, let's get Psalms
  48. 2:05done. All right, context clues. Okay,
  49. 2:08just two bits of context. Okay, Psalm
  50. 2:10149 naturally flows out of Psalm 148.
  51. 2:15Okay, the big idea for Psalm 148 is that
  52. 2:19everything is going to praise the Lord.
  53. 2:21Okay, if you remember Psalm 148, right,
  54. 2:25there was this tiered journey of
  55. 2:27everything that was going to praise the
  56. 2:28Lord. Verses 1-4, okay, the heavens
  57. 2:31praised the Lord and then verses 7-10,
  58. 2:34the earth praised the Lord. And then
  59. 2:36verses 11 through 12, humanity praise
  60. 2:39the Lord. And this is supposed to set us
  61. 2:42up to to want us to go, wait, wait,
  62. 2:45wait, wait, what about Israel? Is Israel
  63. 2:48ever going to praise the Lord? And
  64. 2:49that's where Psalm 149 comes into play.
  65. 2:52We can read it right here in verse one.
  66. 2:54Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise
  67. 2:57in the assembly of his faithful people.
  68. 3:01And we're going to look at the words
  69. 3:03faithful people for one of our nerdy
  70. 3:04nuggets when we dive into our nerdy
  71. 3:06nuggets. So the the context for Israel
  72. 3:11having a psalm where the nation, God's
  73. 3:15faithful people can offer up praise to
  74. 3:18him comes out of Psalm 148. Because in
  75. 3:21Psalm 148, everything is praising the
  76. 3:24Lord. And it should kind of get you on
  77. 3:26the edge of your seat like, wait a
  78. 3:28second, if everything's praising God,
  79. 3:30why isn't Israel praising God? Well,
  80. 3:32that leads us directly into Psalm 149
  81. 3:34where Israel does praise the Lord. And
  82. 3:36then Psalm 150 closes out all of it. And
  83. 3:39we'll really dive into Psalm 150 when we
  84. 3:41get to our nerdy nuggets. And honestly,
  85. 3:43no need to wait. No need to WAIT FOR THE
  86. 3:45NUGGETS. LET'S GO. LET'S DIVE into our
  87. 3:47nerdy nuggets. Okay, I got a lot for
  88. 3:48you. First, Psalm 149:1 says this, "Sing
  89. 3:52to the Lord a new song." That's a good
  90. 3:55verse right there. A new song. Sing to
  91. 3:57the Lord a new song. You want to know
  92. 3:59what I've had to say to a worship leader
  93. 4:01a time or two? Hey guys, let's sing a
  94. 4:04new song. I don't know if you realize
  95. 4:06this, but songs are attached to seasons,
  96. 4:08right? I don't know. I don't know if
  97. 4:09you've ever realized this that like
  98. 4:11there's a season where like a song, it's
  99. 4:14almost like God releases songs from
  100. 4:16heaven that he wants us to declare on
  101. 4:18the earth. And so songs aren't timeless.
  102. 4:22Like songs have seasons and there are
  103. 4:25times where a song has the power to
  104. 4:28create an anointed atmosphere like in a
  105. 4:31room or in a sanctuary or across a
  106. 4:34nation, right? And then you ever get to
  107. 4:36a point where a song that used to just
  108. 4:38like HIT DOESN'T HIT ANYMORE. THAT'S NOT
  109. 4:41JUST BECAUSE YOU GOT tired of singing
  110. 4:43it. That's because I do think songs have
  111. 4:45a shelf life. And right here we get this
  112. 4:48phrase, a new song. Sing to the Lord a
  113. 4:51new song. Number one, I just want to
  114. 4:54tell you, your pastor is not just being
  115. 4:56annoying by asking you to sing new
  116. 4:58songs. Actually, God wants a new song.
  117. 5:02Okay? God's a God of creativity. He
  118. 5:04wants a new song. I don't know if you've
  119. 5:06ever been a worship leader who like
  120. 5:07you're introducing a new song to the
  121. 5:09congregation on that first Sunday and
  122. 5:11everybody's just kind OF LIKE, "AH, SING
  123. 5:13OLD STUFF." It's kind of like you can't
  124. 5:15please everybody, right? Sometimes it's
  125. 5:16like we're tired of old songs and then
  126. 5:19we want the old songs. I get it. But
  127. 5:21this is a tension that we're all gonna
  128. 5:23have to deal with all the time of
  129. 5:26realizing that part of leading God's
  130. 5:29people into worship is prophetic. And
  131. 5:31what you have to prophetically discern
  132. 5:33is like, "All right, when is it time for
  133. 5:36the old faithful songs? And when is it
  134. 5:38time for a new song? When is it time to
  135. 5:40introduce a new song?" But God wants a
  136. 5:43new song. Also, I'll say this that each
  137. 5:47person's testimony is a new song. That
  138. 5:49the life book, the himynel. I I want my
  139. 5:52life to be a himnil. I want to say,
  140. 5:55Lord, I I may not be able to offer you a
  141. 5:57new literal song, but I can offer you a
  142. 6:00new metaphorical song because there's
  143. 6:02always new things that you're doing in
  144. 6:03my life. So, a new song, a new song. I
  145. 6:07always want to have a new song on my
  146. 6:09heart. I always want to have a new song
  147. 6:12on my lips. I I think that that's a good
  148. 6:14thing. I I think it keeps a church fresh
  149. 6:18and relevant, but I also think it
  150. 6:20ministers to the Lord, okay, to offer
  151. 6:23him a new song, okay? So, that language
  152. 6:26that's not just the worship leader
  153. 6:28wanting to be creative or the pastor
  154. 6:30being picky. No, that's like biblical
  155. 6:32language. I think it's good. Sing to the
  156. 6:34Lord a new song, his praise in the
  157. 6:37assembly of his faithful people. One of
  158. 6:40the repeated verses or repeated words
  159. 6:42that we're going to get in Psalm 149 is
  160. 6:44that phrase right there, faithful
  161. 6:46people. Faithful people. You'll see it
  162. 6:48right there in verse one. But then
  163. 6:49you're going to see it again in verse 9.
  164. 6:53It's going to say to carry out the
  165. 6:54sentence written against them. This is
  166. 6:56the glory of all his faithful people.
  167. 6:59But then we're going to get it in the
  168. 7:00middle of the psalm in verse 5. Let his
  169. 7:03faithful people rejoice in this honor
  170. 7:06and sing for joy in their on their beds.
  171. 7:09So, three times in this psalm, we're
  172. 7:11going to get faithful people. Faithful
  173. 7:12people, faithful people. And what IS THE
  174. 7:14NUMBER ONE THING THAT ISRAEL STRUGGLES
  175. 7:17WITH? YOU GUESSED IT, BEING UNFAITHFUL
  176. 7:19TO YAHWEH. THAT'S WHAT GETS THEM EXILED
  177. 7:21OUT of the land is being unfaithful to
  178. 7:23Yahweh. AND HOW WOULD WE DESCRIBE GOD?
  179. 7:26FAITHFUL. That's right. So, the people
  180. 7:29are kind of marked as unfaithful. And
  181. 7:31Yahweh is faithful. And so, what does
  182. 7:33this song do? It calls the people based
  183. 7:36on their identity, not their behavior.
  184. 7:39If you call someone faithful, even when
  185. 7:42they're not being faithful, guess what
  186. 7:43it'll do? It'll force them to be
  187. 7:45faithful. You know, as a senior pastor,
  188. 7:48guess what I do? Every time I stand up
  189. 7:50before our people, I thank them for
  190. 7:52their generosity. Well, guess what? I
  191. 7:54know the numbers. I know that they're
  192. 7:55not all generous, but I don't call
  193. 7:58stingy people stingy because then
  194. 8:00they'll just continue to be stingy. me
  195. 8:02as a leader, I've got to prophesy that
  196. 8:04they're generous. Got to speak it into
  197. 8:07existence. And so Psalm 149 is calling
  198. 8:10very unfaithful people faithful people,
  199. 8:13which is just good old Bible. And here's
  200. 8:15what worship is designed to do. Worship
  201. 8:18uh is designed so that what you behold
  202. 8:21becomes what you become. Whatever you
  203. 8:23behold is what you become. And in
  204. 8:25worship, you're beholding the Lord and
  205. 8:28he's faithful. And so the reason that
  206. 8:30this the music or the song or the psalm
  207. 8:33here saying the people are faithful, the
  208. 8:35people are faithful. The people are
  209. 8:37faithful is because if they continue to
  210. 8:39behold the one that is faithful, they'll
  211. 8:42become faithful. But if they continue to
  212. 8:44behold their own lack of faithfulness,
  213. 8:46then they'll never be faithful. It's
  214. 8:48funny. I almost literally last night
  215. 8:51almost teared up. One of my like I mean
  216. 8:54closest close someone that I've
  217. 8:56discipled for a long time text me. His
  218. 8:58name is Jesse Summers. He text me. He
  219. 9:01said, "Um, I just want you to know like
  220. 9:04I try my best to lead like you." He
  221. 9:06said, "When you first met me, I wasn't a
  222. 9:08leader, but you called me one anyway."
  223. 9:11Said, "You were actually the first
  224. 9:12person to really call me a leader."
  225. 9:13Like, you just you just spoke it into
  226. 9:16existence. And uh you know what? I think
  227. 9:19that's what we're called to do. I think
  228. 9:20that we're called to look at people who
  229. 9:22go astray and say, "You're faithful."
  230. 9:25We're called to look at people who are
  231. 9:26STINGY AND SAY, "YOU'RE GENEROUS. We're
  232. 9:29called to look at people who are weak
  233. 9:32and tell them that they're strong." And
  234. 9:34I think our music should definitely be
  235. 9:36doing that. Our music should reflect the
  236. 9:38identity that we want people to have
  237. 9:40because again, whatever you behold,
  238. 9:42you'll become. And that's just a law of
  239. 9:45life, but that's also a law of worship.
  240. 9:48All right, let's keep moving, family.
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  263. 10:46to the episode. One other nerdy nugget
  264. 10:48that I want to dig out is that Ezra is
  265. 10:52the one who's writing Psalm 149 and 150.
  266. 10:55And Ezra is definitely using David as a
  267. 10:59hero from Israel's history that the
  268. 11:02people can and should emulate. So we got
  269. 11:05to know in order to interpret you know
  270. 11:09any Bible verse or verses we have to
  271. 11:12know the agenda of the author. What is
  272. 11:15the agenda? Well the agenda is that Ezra
  273. 11:18is dealing with some unfaithful people.
  274. 11:20And Ezra is trying to get the people to
  275. 11:23be faithful. And so he's using David as
  276. 11:27a figurehead from Israel's history. And
  277. 11:29so a lot of this like prioritization
  278. 11:33on David as a character is definitely
  279. 11:36something that Ezra is doing. Okay. Now,
  280. 11:39one of the things that I want to show
  281. 11:40you with Psalm 150 are what I call the
  282. 11:43seams that prove the Bible has been
  283. 11:47woven together. Okay. Tim Mackey says
  284. 11:49this a lot, that the Bible is a quilt.
  285. 11:52And you know how quilts work. There's
  286. 11:54these, let's say you make a quilt out of
  287. 11:56like individual shirts or something,
  288. 11:59okay? You've got all these individual
  289. 12:01squares and you take all the squares and
  290. 12:03you have to actually weave them together
  291. 12:06into one big quilt. Okay, a quilt is
  292. 12:10many pieces that get turned into one
  293. 12:12thing. And the Bible is that way. But
  294. 12:15you don't realize the Bible is like that
  295. 12:18until you look at the seams. The seams
  296. 12:20actually begin to show you, oh, no, no,
  297. 12:22no. this and this have been woven
  298. 12:25together. So, I'll kind of show you,
  299. 12:27we'll pull the veil back and I'll show
  300. 12:30you some seams throughout the book of
  301. 12:32Psalms. Okay? So, if you kind of wanted
  302. 12:35to know how do we know that Ezra edited
  303. 12:38all this together, you know? Well, I'll
  304. 12:40I'll show you the scene that closes book
  305. 12:43one, the scene that closes book two, the
  306. 12:46scene that closes book three, the scene
  307. 12:48that closes book four, and then Psalm
  308. 12:51150, which is the final scene that
  309. 12:53closes book five. Okay, let's look at
  310. 12:55this. Okay, remember book one of the of
  311. 12:58the Psalms is uh from Psalm 1 all the
  312. 13:01way to Psalm 41. So, let's look at Psalm
  313. 13:0441:3
  314. 13:06uh 13, sorry. Psalm 41:13. It says this,
  315. 13:11"Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
  316. 13:13from everlasting to everlasting. Amen."
  317. 13:16And amen. How do we know that that's a
  318. 13:17scene? Well, we realize that that's not
  319. 13:21original to that psalm. That was added
  320. 13:25to that psalm by Ezra, the editor. Once
  321. 13:29you look at the seam that close out book
  322. 13:31two, here it is. Psalm 72:1 19 says
  323. 13:35this, "Blessed be his glorious name
  324. 13:38forever. May the whole earth be filled
  325. 13:40with his glory. Amen and amen." Did you
  326. 13:43see it? Let's look at Psalm 41:13 again.
  327. 13:46Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
  328. 13:48from everlasting to everlasting. Amen
  329. 13:50and amen. Then Psalm 72:1 19. Blessed be
  330. 13:54his glorious name forever. May the whole
  331. 13:57earth be filled with his glory. Amen.
  332. 14:00And amen. Now, let's look at the scene
  333. 14:02that ends book three. This is Psalm
  334. 14:0389:52. Says this, "Blessed be Yahweh
  335. 14:08forever." Amen and amen. See, these
  336. 14:11aren't original to the actual Psalms.
  337. 14:14These were added to close the books.
  338. 14:17Okay? And then book five says this.
  339. 14:19Psalm 106:48
  340. 14:22says, "And let all the people say,
  341. 14:25"Amen. Praise Yahweh. You see, we get
  342. 14:28blessed be Yahweh. Amen and amen.
  343. 14:30Blessed be his glorious name forever.
  344. 14:32Amen and amen. Blessed be Yahweh
  345. 14:33forever. Amen and amen. And let all the
  346. 14:36people say amen. Praise Yahweh. And then
  347. 14:40how do all those seams culminate into
  348. 14:43the final scene? Well, it culminates in
  349. 14:45a Psalm 150. Praise God in his
  350. 14:48sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty
  351. 14:51heavens. Praise him for his acts of
  352. 14:53power. Praise him for his surpassing
  353. 14:56greatness. Praise him with the sounding
  354. 14:58of the trumpet. Praise him with the harp
  355. 15:00and liar. Praise him with timberland
  356. 15:03dancing. Praise him with the strings and
  357. 15:06pipe. Praise him with the clash of
  358. 15:08symbols. Praise him with resounding
  359. 15:10symbols. Let everything that has breath
  360. 15:13praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. That
  361. 15:17is how the final hal closes. And that is
  362. 15:21the last scene that we have for the
  363. 15:23Hebrew Bible. This right here, these
  364. 15:26seams are actually the number one proof
  365. 15:29that these psalms have been edited and
  366. 15:32intentionally woven together. And they
  367. 15:35all culminate with Psalm 150. So what's
  368. 15:38the point of the Psalms? To get
  369. 15:40everybody to praise the Lord, to praise
  370. 15:43him, to to sing about him, to dance
  371. 15:45about him, to celebrate him, to honor
  372. 15:47him. Praise. It's funny. I told our team
  373. 15:50today, we're, you know, we're planning
  374. 15:52uh launch Sunday at our brand new church
  375. 15:55plant, the garden. We are planning
  376. 15:58worship and planning services. And I
  377. 16:01said said, "You know what, guys? One of
  378. 16:02the things I learned just through
  379. 16:04studying the Psalms and then looking at
  380. 16:07chronicles and like just looking at the
  381. 16:10history of how David revolutionized
  382. 16:13worship for the nation of Israel is he
  383. 16:16had musicians and choirs at the temple
  384. 16:20at the tabernacle day and night. Like
  385. 16:22you don't think there was a cost
  386. 16:23associated to that? Like that's
  387. 16:25expensive, man. And I said to the team,
  388. 16:28I said,"I never going to apologize for
  389. 16:32how much I know it's going to cost for
  390. 16:35us to offer great praise to God." And
  391. 16:37I'm not saying praise has to be
  392. 16:40expensive. But what I am saying is that
  393. 16:42musicians and choirs and like that that
  394. 16:46that takes production like like it's a
  395. 16:49resource whether you like it or not. You
  396. 16:53know, there is no such thing as cheap
  397. 16:56sacrifices to the Lord. Like actually,
  398. 16:59all throughout the Bible, God says, "If
  399. 17:02an animal's blemished or broken or
  400. 17:04bruised, like don't offer that to me."
  401. 17:06Like, no, no, no. We offer God our best.
  402. 17:08We offer him a new song. We offer him
  403. 17:11our lives. Like, we offer him stuff
  404. 17:13that's worthy of his great name. And
  405. 17:16[snorts] let everything that has breath
  406. 17:18praise the Lord. It's almost like Psalm
  407. 17:21150 isn't just a commissioning. It is
  408. 17:25the activity that all
  409. 17:28149 previous psalms lead us to do. Like
  410. 17:31Psalm 150 is Psalms in action. That's
  411. 17:35what it is. What is the book of Psalms
  412. 17:37supposed to get you to do? Praise the
  413. 17:39Lord. What is Psalms from Psalm 150
  414. 17:42supposed to do? Get you to praise God in
  415. 17:45his sanctuary. It's supposed to get you
  416. 17:46to praise God in in his mighty heavens.
  417. 17:49is supposed to get you to praise God for
  418. 17:51his acts of power. It's supposed to get
  419. 17:53you to praise him for his surpassing
  420. 17:55greatness. All of the Psalms from 1 to
  421. 17:58150 are supposed to get you and me and
  422. 18:00all of us to praise him with the
  423. 18:03sounding of the trumpet, praise him with
  424. 18:05the harp and liar, praise him with the
  425. 18:07timberal and dancing. It's supposed to
  426. 18:09get us to praise him with the strings in
  427. 18:11the pipe, to praise him with the clash
  428. 18:13of symbols, to praise him with
  429. 18:15resounding symbols, to let everything
  430. 18:19that has his breath, praise the Lord.
  431. 18:22Praise the Lord. So my challenge to you
  432. 18:26is to live a life of praise. Praise
  433. 18:28isn't quiet. Praise isn't private. No,
  434. 18:32praise is pretty public. Praise involves
  435. 18:34other people. Praise is corporate.
  436. 18:37Praise is excellent. Praise is skillful.
  437. 18:41Praise is emotional. Praise is
  438. 18:45expressive.
  439. 18:46Praise to praise. If you ever want to
  440. 18:49see praise, just go watch a football
  441. 18:51game, man. People are praising. You see
  442. 18:53a a stadium of 30, 40,000 people and
  443. 18:56they're doing the wave, that's praise,
  444. 18:58man. You see how people rush a field
  445. 19:01after their team has won a victory,
  446. 19:03that's praise, man. It involves your
  447. 19:06whole body. It involves music. It
  448. 19:09involves all kinds of stuff. It may
  449. 19:10involve painting your whole face and
  450. 19:12belly blue. It's praise. It's what we're
  451. 19:16designed to do. And if church leaders
  452. 19:18don't direct people's energy towards
  453. 19:21praising Yahweh, they'll praise all
  454. 19:23kinds of things. They'll praise the
  455. 19:25Republican party or Democratic party.
  456. 19:27They'll praise their favorite football
  457. 19:28team. They'll praise everything but the
  458. 19:31one who gave them breath. What the end
  459. 19:33of this psalm is saying is, well, how
  460. 19:34about we return our breath to the one
  461. 19:38who gave it to us. Let everything that
  462. 19:40has breath praise the Lord. And that
  463. 19:43that's what the book of Psalms is all
  464. 19:44about. So what's our timeless truth
  465. 19:47today? To go and praise God. To praise
  466. 19:51him with everything that we got. To
  467. 19:53praise him with all of our might, with
  468. 19:55all of our power, with all of our
  469. 19:56strength. To worship the Lord. And that
  470. 19:59worship will eventually become the kind
  471. 20:01of warfare that begins to tear the
  472. 20:04strongholds of the enemy down. Because
  473. 20:05that's what Psalm 149 is actually all
  474. 20:08about. Says this in verse 6, "May the
  475. 20:10praise of God be in their mouths, a
  476. 20:13double-edged sword in their hands." That
  477. 20:15when we praise God out of our mouth, we
  478. 20:18have a double-edged sword in our hand.
  479. 20:20The goal of praise is to offer something
  480. 20:22to the Lord that activates his power to
  481. 20:26destroy every stronghold of the enemy
  482. 20:28because worship ultimately is warfare.
  483. 20:32That's not just true for Ezra or David.
  484. 20:35That's not just true for the historical
  485. 20:37moment of Psalm 149 and 150. That's true
  486. 20:41for you and that's true for me. I knew
  487. 20:43that when I got to Houston to plant a
  488. 20:45church that there were some spiritual
  489. 20:49forces of wickedness that had been set
  490. 20:51up in this city as a stronghold to the
  491. 20:54plan of God. And part of what I knew
  492. 20:56needed to happen is that we needed to
  493. 20:58offer up praise to God so that God will
  494. 21:01begin to destroy the proverbial walls of
  495. 21:05Jericho that were keeping Houstononians
  496. 21:08bound and trapped because worship is
  497. 21:12warfare. So the legacy or the lesson
  498. 21:16that Psalm wants us to learn is to
  499. 21:19praise God with everything we got
  500. 21:21because man, at the end of the day,
  501. 21:23guess what we're going to do for
  502. 21:24eternity? Praise God. So, you may as
  503. 21:26well fall in love with doing it down
  504. 21:28here. Family, THAT'S THE BOOK OF PSALMS.
  505. 21:31I'M SO PROUD of you for making it
  506. 21:34through the longest book of the Bible
  507. 21:37that we've got here on the Bible
  508. 21:38department. I'm so proud of you. I love
  509. 21:40YOU SO MUCH. TOMORROW, WE GOT A BRAND
  510. 21:43NEW BOOK. WE GOT PROVERBS chapters 1, 2,
  511. 21:45and three for day 302. Same time, same
  512. 21:49place. I'll be here ready to HELP YOU
  513. 21:52UNDERSTAND THE book of Proverbs. I hope
  514. 21:54you'll be here too. Love you so much.
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