1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,920 All right, now I should be on. All right. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,320 Hey, welcome again this morning. So glad that you're here. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,120 I think notes should be arriving any second. 4 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:10,360 They should be walking into the door. 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,480 So we'll just handles out to those of you who would like 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,800 them. So maybe when Alethia comes in, 7 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,720 she can. If you'd like those, she will 8 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,760 pass those out to you. Again, that's great because 9 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,600 normally we have enough for want to print first service for 10 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,560 second service. That's a good sign that people 11 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,600 are eager and ready. All right, Tom's walking in with 12 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,720 them and he will be distributing the notes. 13 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,440 So as he's coming around, if you would like, maybe maybe there's 14 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,000 maybe there's Liz, maybe Michael, can you help Tom pass 15 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,480 those out? Maybe he's right beside you 16 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,840 there. All right, again, you know, this 17 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:45,360 isn't for the podcast yet, but I love that that you are eager to 18 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:46,840 take notes home with you on Sundays. 19 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,880 I've never been part of a church myself where the pastor did like 20 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,280 4 pages of really intensive notes. 21 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,240 But I love that as a culture, we're digging in and it's like, 22 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,680 OK, wait a minute. We're hungry to take this home 23 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,720 with us and wrestle with the truth that we're learning on 24 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,080 Sunday morning. So I want to be diligent and 25 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,880 take the time to and I make these every week. 26 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,040 By the way, this is something I put together, you know, 27 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,880 interesting enough, when I was in high school, I took this 28 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,040 random class called literary genres and technical writing. 29 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,360 It's a weird class, but it would taught you how to like lay out. 30 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,440 Chris, this would be interesting to you. 31 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,840 It taught you how to lay out writing. 32 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,600 It wasn't really judging. You weren't getting graded on 33 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,520 your content more so the way you laid it out. 34 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,640 So if you notice these, I center some things and I put some 35 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,600 things in color and I bold some things and I underlined some 36 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,840 other things. And the goal is that I want you 37 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,560 to be able to kind of scan the notes and and capture the 38 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,560 content and understand it and take it home with you. 39 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,800 OK, now let me just say that this series that I'm starting 40 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,320 this morning will be in for several weeks. 41 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,160 And I was going to start this a couple weeks back, but I 42 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:54,080 postponed it and pivoted because a few weeks ago after the Irena 43 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,720 Zurutzka killing in In the Carolinas and then after the 44 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,440 assassination of Charlie Kirk, I felt two weeks ago that I really 45 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,000 wanted to bring you truth in the context of what we were 46 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,120 navigating through as a country and other things that are going 47 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,200 on in our violence in other areas from both sides of the 48 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,280 spectrum, from both political parties, I must say. 49 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,600 So how do we navigate through? So I did a message 2 weeks ago 50 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,920 on dealing with evil. And if you're looking for a 51 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:27,520 political party or a political leader to help you navigate 52 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,280 through the spiritual deficit that we're in, then you'll come 53 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,560 up very shy. But I taught on how we as 54 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,760 Christians deal with evil. And if we send the news abroad 55 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,640 in a certain way, then it'll just sow more discord and more, 56 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:46,880 more violence, etcetera. So I taught on dealing with evil 57 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,920 2 weeks ago. If you missed that message, I do 58 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,200 encourage you to go back and get it because it was an important 59 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,640 message for our church and for us. 60 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:59,080 And I utilized the story of the Levite in the book of Judges and 61 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,680 it's concubine, and it's one of the most disturbing stories in 62 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,440 all of the Bible. Very disturbing story. 63 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,240 It's a rated R story, I would say, very challenging story. 64 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,560 But if you missed that message, I do encourage you to go back 65 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,480 because it was an important message. 66 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,480 But I was going to start the series that I'm starting today, 67 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,640 two weeks ago, but change that and we're going to start it 68 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:16,800 today. I'm very excited about it. 69 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,520 OK, let me just greet those who are online with this. 70 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:23,320 Good morning. If you're joining us, whether 71 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,160 live right now online or in weeks to come, we're so glad 72 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,480 that you're here and we invite you to come and be with us. 73 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,400 Live at North Life Church right here on Main Street in the heart 74 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,560 of the old downtown part of Gaylord. 75 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:36,960 Our services are at 9:00 and 10:30. 76 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,600 This is your invitation. If you're waiting for an 77 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,320 invitation, this is it. Come and join us in worship 78 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,200 sometime soon. We hope to see you now. 79 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,840 If you have your Bibles and you're here in the room or 80 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,240 online, please take your Bible and turn to Luke chapter 24. 81 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,520 Remember, if you're new to the Bible, Luke is in like maybe 82 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,160 like 75% or so, maybe 80% through your Bible. 83 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,400 It's in the New Testament. It's after Matthew, Mark, and 84 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,480 then before the book of John. Luke is one of the gospels and 85 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,560 the Gospel stories. If you're new to the Bible, the 86 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,040 Gospels are the stories of the life and teachings of Jesus. 87 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,440 So Luke chapter 24 is one of the tellings of Jesus's life, and 88 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,240 this is at the end of what we would consider Jesus's earthly 89 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,120 life. He has lived 33 in some years. 90 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,440 He has gathered disciples, he's taught, he's done miracles. 91 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,920 He offered himself as a sacrifice for us on the cross, 92 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,760 and he was resurrected. He spent time with some of his 93 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,000 followers giving them more teaching and interaction and now 94 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,520 he is going to ascend into heaven to be at the right hand 95 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,800 of the Father. And now we have the Holy Spirit 96 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,400 with us as New Testament followers of of the of the Lord. 97 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,880 We now the Holy Spirit is who abides in US and with us. 98 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,480 But as Jesus has ascended to be with the Father. 99 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,400 Now this is some of the last words of Jesus found in the 100 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,000 story of Luke. This is Luke chapter 24 verse 101 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,200 44. It says then he said to them, 102 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,800 meaning Jesus. Jesus said to them, These are my 103 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,400 words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that 104 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,880 everything written about me and the law of Moses and the 105 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,200 prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. 106 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,320 Right before Jesus ascends to heaven, he references that he 107 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,000 fulfills the writings of the Law, which was of Moses. 108 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,840 And we know that the prophets prophesied about Jesus. 109 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:33,120 Yes, prophets prophesied about Jesus coming. 110 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,440 He says he fulfilled the prophecies, but he also 111 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,880 references right here towards the end of his earthly life, 112 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,120 before he ascends to heaven, he mentions that he also fulfilled 113 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,840 the Psalms. So this morning and in the weeks 114 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,880 to come, I want to start a series on the Psalms. 115 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,880 We're going to call it the OG playlist. 116 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,160 And this morning I want to introduce you to the Psalms. 117 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Let me pray for us. God, we do thank you for this 118 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,800 day. This is a day that you have 119 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,560 made, and we want our hearts to rejoice and be glad in it. 120 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,240 And now, God, we have worshiped you, even coming into the lobby 121 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,400 and interacting with others, this worship to you. 122 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,600 And we've sung our songs, we've given our offerings, and now 123 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,000 we're going to turn our attention to your word. 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,080 And we pray that you would supernaturally speak to us and 125 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,960 ready us for the weeks to come as we dig into the Psalms. 126 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,360 Do something really beautiful in our church in the next weeks as 127 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,720 we lean into this very valuable part of the Bible. 128 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,960 Grow as we pray in Jesus name and everyone loudly said Amen. 129 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,920 Now Jesus speaks of the Psalms. And maybe you missed that in 130 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,160 your reading of the Gospel. If you've read through the 131 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,200 Gospels before, Jesus references the Psalms. 132 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,240 And maybe again, if you're new to the Bible, we always want our 133 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,440 church to be a place where if you're new to the Bible, you can 134 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,240 get it. And if you've been following 135 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,920 Jesus for decades and decades and decades, I still want to 136 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,120 teach in a way where you're learning things and you're being 137 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,680 challenged and growing. But I want to teach sensitive to 138 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,960 both. Those were seasoned in scripture 139 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,480 and those were brand new to the Bible. 140 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,200 Maybe you're seasoned in Scripture and you didn't know 141 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,560 that Jesus references that he fulfills the Psalms. 142 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:19,920 If you're new to the Bible then you're like wow, that'll be new 143 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,000 news to you that that Jesus CST fulfills the writing that this 144 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,960 found in Moses. There are a lot of images of 145 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,360 Jesus in the writings of Moses from Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 146 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:34,160 Numbers to Neuronomy. Remember, in Egypt, the slaves, 147 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,080 the Israel, the Jewish slaves had been in captivity for 148 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,080 hundreds of years, slaves. And there's a picture of Jesus 149 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,880 as our deliverer in the story of Moses and the Pharaoh that he 150 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,400 is, you know, saying that Moses says to the Pharaoh, let my 151 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,200 people go. And eventually it's the blood of 152 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,560 a lamb upon their doorposts that enables the Angel of death to 153 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,800 pass by their homes and bring God's judgment to those who have 154 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,040 been disobedient to him. We see that story in Exodus, and 155 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,920 it's a picture of Jesus. Jesus comes to fulfill the law. 156 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,920 So many of the sacrifices and the traditions that are set down 157 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,480 by Moses in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Jesus 158 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,440 fulfills those. And you know that he fulfills 159 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,280 the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah and other prophets in 160 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,040 the Old Testament. Maybe you're familiar with the 161 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,800 fact that, yes, Isaiah is going to prophecy. 162 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,200 He will be wounded for our transgressions and Pierce for 163 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,800 our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is 164 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,919 upon him. By his stripes we're healed. 165 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:36,720 And if you're familiar with that passage, but Jesus is saying 166 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,960 here in Luke that yes, that he fulfills what the prophet said, 167 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:43,799 what Moses said, and he also fulfills the Psalms. 168 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,000 Jesus valued the Psalms and he fulfilled them. 169 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,320 Now what are the Psalms? To some of you, this will be new 170 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,280 information. What are the Psalms? 171 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,240 Well, the Psalms are a book in the Bible about 1/3 into your 172 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,280 Bible and it's the longest book of the Bible with 150 chapters 173 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,880 and it contains about 5% of the Bible. 174 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:10,080 So 5%, one in 20 of the Bible is is in the book of Psalms, again 175 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,360 about 1/3 through your Bible. And the word Psalm comes from 176 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:20,280 the Greek word Psalmos, which means a song sung to a harp or 177 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,720 stringed instrument. And I love this as a guitar 178 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,280 player. I particularly like this. 179 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,240 Right. So the term derives from the 180 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,680 word saline, which describes the act of playing a stringed 181 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,760 instrument. OK, so literally psalms, at 182 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,960 least from Greek means again a song sung to an instrument 183 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,240 played a stringed instrument. But before that, in the old 184 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,920 Hebrew Bible that we gather the Old Testament from initially the 185 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,840 book of Psalms was called Tehelum. 186 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,640 And it's it translates praises or songs of praise. 187 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,040 So what are the Psalms that you find a third into your Bible? 188 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,680 There's 150 chapters. Well, there's songs of praise 189 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,080 and the simplest understanding the song. 190 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:04,400 The Psalms are ancient songs that you and I can utilize today 191 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,840 in our devotions, in our prayer life and our understanding of 192 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,440 God's truth and theology and doctrine. 193 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,280 It's all there in the Psalms. OK, there are songs, but there 194 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,880 are songs that teach and give us again, prayers, etcetera. 195 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,080 So then I want you to understand this, that the book of Psalms is 196 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,160 grouped in the Old Testament with watch this because this 197 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,160 will be new to some of you, but I can't wait to give you this 198 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,640 information. So you'll get understanding of 199 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,440 this. The book of Psalms is grouped in 200 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,600 the Old Testament with with Psalms. 201 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,200 OK. So the Old Testament is set up 202 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,080 in this way where there are. Yeah, poetry, where the Bible, 203 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,680 if you try to read it from beginning to end, it's likely 204 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,840 that you'll find it a bit daunting or overwhelming because 205 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,600 when you go to read the Bible, understand that it's not one 206 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,040 book. If you think it was as one book, 207 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,000 it'll just, it's a terrible way to start reading the Bible and 208 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,880 think of it as one book because really the Bible is a library. 209 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:06,240 It's 66 books. And when you go to read it, the 210 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,840 cool thing is that if you see it as a library, you could go, OK, 211 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,320 I'm just going to, I'm going to go with this one book. 212 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,080 And once I get that done, I'm going to say I've finished a 213 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,160 book. Wow. 214 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,560 I read a book and some of them are quite short, some of them 215 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,240 are long, but if you look at it like 1 long book, you'll miss 216 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,200 it. It's really library. 217 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,560 My library, one of my libraries is there in my office. 218 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:25,800 I have, I don't know, a couple 100 books right there at home. 219 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,040 I have like 2500 books that many of them are fiction. 220 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:30,840 A lot of them are reference books to study the Bible. 221 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,360 And I have beautiful bookshelves at home and I love to go and be 222 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,640 in my library. And I would read as much as 223 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,520 people will let me write. People won't let me read as much 224 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,320 as I want to sometimes, right? I'm saying that facetiously, but 225 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:43,920 but so I love being in my library. 226 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:49,280 But but when your Bible itself is a library, look at it that 227 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,920 way. And one of the books in the 228 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,280 library of the Bible is the book of Psalms. 229 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,400 And the Bible is grouped this way. 230 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,480 You have the historical books that are early stories that are 231 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,760 factual and true, and they are again, stories. 232 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,080 So we have Genesis. It's the story of creation and 233 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:12,080 story of Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and 234 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,120 his brothers, right? That's in Genesis. 235 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,400 Then you have Exodus, and it's the story of Moses and the 236 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,880 slaves, of the Jewish slaves being Israel. 237 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,360 Then after that you have so you have Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 238 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,000 Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Ruth. 239 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,160 Those are all mostly, mostly ancient stories. 240 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,440 OK, first and Second Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, first and second 241 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,800 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. 242 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:40,280 OK, those all of those books are historical and I recommend this 243 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,040 about once a year. I pull these out like once a 244 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,960 year. And what these are, this is 245 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,960 interesting enough. This is a what's called a 246 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,000 reader's Bible and it's different than this Bible. 247 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,160 And I love this Bible. I love this Bible that I teach 248 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,440 from and markup. I love this Bible, but I don't 249 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,000 read this Bible from cover to cover because it's it has really 250 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,880 thin pages. And if I go to write in it, then 251 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,720 it's, you know, it's difficult. I tend to open this Bible to 252 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,840 certain passages and read that passage. 253 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,400 OK, I tend to go passage to passage, but I will tell you 254 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,040 I've not read this Bible cover to cover. 255 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,040 I have read some Bibles like this cover to cover. 256 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,960 However, what I'll tell you is that reading a Bible like this 257 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,480 to me is easier or listening. If you whenever I mentioned 258 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,480 reading the Bible nowadays, I'm also mentioned you can listen to 259 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,000 the Bible. You can go to YouTube or go to 260 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,480 Audible. There are lots of lots of 261 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,560 options with music and dramatization, but if you're 262 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,760 interested in getting the Bible as in its entirety, then look at 263 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,560 it as a library. So watch this. 264 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,280 This is the reader's Bible, and I've read through it and I have 265 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,040 when I read through this one, then I got myself a leather 266 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,320 edition and I read through that one. 267 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:51,880 But the book of Psalms lands grouped with other poetry in the 268 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,560 Bible. So after Ezra and Nehemiah and 269 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:59,520 Esther, then comes Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song 270 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,280 of Solomon. And all of those books are 271 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,800 beautiful ancient poetry. And the Psalms land grouped with 272 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,120 with the poetry of the Old Testament. 273 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,560 So, and there's poetry dispersed in other areas, even in Genesis 274 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,480 and in excess and in the profits. 275 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,320 But the books that are solely poetry, they're here and they're 276 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,200 after the historical book. So in my reader set here, and I 277 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,520 encourage, you could go to Amazon, you could go to 278 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,320 christianbook.com, you could buy the reader set. 279 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,880 This is the ESV. You can get them an NIV or 280 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,920 Living Bible or CSB. But to me, if you're interested 281 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,840 in reading the Bible from cover to cover, which I would 282 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,480 recommend you do, it's a worthwhile endeavor. 283 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,400 But just know that I have found it easier to read it like this. 284 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,520 OK, so then after the poetic books, then you have the 285 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,280 prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and all the the prophets lead all 286 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,880 the way up to the New Testament. And then in this collection, you 287 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,280 have a book that's just Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and Acts. 288 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,880 OK, So that's the stories of Jesus and the early church. 289 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,760 And then finally in this set, you have the letters that were 290 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,280 written after the book of Acts. But I wanted you to see that 291 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,960 that is how the Bible is grouped. 292 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,160 It's easier to see it in this in this shape, if you will. 293 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:15,120 Then here, this is a library and it looks like this if and these 294 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,160 do not have chapter verses, they read just like it would have 295 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,960 been initially written. And these are easy for me to 296 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,880 read. So I wanted you to envision 297 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,320 where the Psalms land in the Old Testament. 298 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,680 OK, again, whether you're going to read them or listen to them, 299 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:36,040 approach it like it's a library. OK, Now, so the Psalms so that 300 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,240 you know, they're grouped with the with the poetry in the Old 301 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,320 Testament. And 73 of the Psalms out of the 302 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,360 150 are written by David, who was the king. 303 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,680 He killed Goliath when he was a young man. 304 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,320 And then 12 of them are written by a man named Asaph. 305 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,160 And I did a Series A couple months ago. 306 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,760 If you're curious, you could go back and listen to it. 307 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,280 I did three weeks on the sons of Korra. 11 of the Psalms are 308 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,200 written by the sons of Korra. Korra was a man in the story of 309 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,640 Moses and the children of Israel coming out of Egypt. 310 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,880 And he was disobedient. He led a rebellion against Moses 311 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,920 and God judged him harshly and he deserved it. 312 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,520 But his descendants become these amazing writers of the Psalms, 313 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,800 and they were like a brother band, the sons of Korra, like 314 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,360 the Jonas Brothers or something, right? 315 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,840 So the sons of Korra, they wrote 11. 316 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,120 I did a series. I'll touch on them again as we 317 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,160 go through Psalms, but I kind of covered those a couple months 318 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,480 ago, which kind of led me to want to even dive deeper into 319 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,480 the Psalms. Then Solomon wrote two of the 320 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,000 Psalms, Moses wrote one, and the others are all anonymous. 321 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,840 So 150 of them. Now I want to read to you a 322 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,760 couple quotes from some Christian leaders you might 323 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,440 admire to let you know what they think about the Psalms. 324 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,480 I love them. I love the Psalms, I've just 325 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,720 cherished them. But watch this, Billy Graham 326 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,520 said. I read 5 Psalms every day and 327 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,080 that teaches me how to get along with God. 328 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,200 Wow, read them 5A day. Through the years I've often 329 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,680 been in seasons where I try to write read 5A day if there are 330 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,800 150 of them and think most months have roughly 30 days. 331 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:09,400 So if I I don't read 12345I tend to read like chapter 1 and then 332 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,400 like chapter 30 and chapter 60 and 90 and 120. 333 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:14,040 I tend to read through them that way. 334 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,079 OK, and I find that reading that way just seems to be a better 335 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:18,640 rhythm for me. But you might want to decide 336 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,480 that you want to read 5 Psalms a day in the next several weeks as 337 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,440 we study the book of Psalms. John Piper, who's one of my 338 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,800 favorite modern day teachers and preachers, he said that in the 339 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Psalms, God gives us inspired words to pray back to him. 340 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,760 If you're looking to pray and you don't know what to pray to 341 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,880 God, there are several beautiful prayers in the Psalms and you 342 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,080 might want to find some of them. You can just Google and I'll be 343 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,560 teaching in the next weeks also, and I've got some even this 344 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,640 morning. But you might Google prayers in 345 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,360 the book of Psalms and you might find one that is befitting to 346 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,440 the season that you're in in your life. 347 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,280 And just praying it over and over and over again could be 348 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,360 really encouraging and uplifting to you. 349 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:02,760 And then the classic preacher Charles Spurgeon, who died in 350 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:07,480 1892, he said the Psalms are the heartbeat of the Bible, 351 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,960 heartbeat of the Bible. So let me let you know. 352 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,640 Interesting enough, the Psalms were written and you can see 353 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,080 this in your notes. And I made this little graphic 354 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,720 here with ChatGPT. I'm trying to say that, right? 355 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,760 So I'm like trying new things. I'm trying to stick with the 356 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,840 times. So the Psalms were written in a 357 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,720 period of 1500 years. Now imagine that our country is 358 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,160 about to be 250 years old. The Psalms were like the best of 359 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:38,520 1500 years of Old Testament songwriters and we think 360 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,880 scholars think that the Psalms were not compiled in the era of 361 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,360 David who was the king, even though he wrote a majority of 362 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:47,120 them. The songs were there, but around 363 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,760 around like 500 BC. So around 500 years roughly 364 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,760 before Jesus. We think that the Psalms were 365 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,680 compiled then into one book with the 150 Psalms. 366 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,880 And if you know your old system in history, I don't want to 367 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,800 overwhelm you, but you remember Moses. 368 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,400 Moses is like 1400 years before Jesus. 369 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,640 Then David is like 1000 years before Jesus. 370 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,400 So Moses writes some of the songs, David writes some of the 371 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,880 songs, then Solomon and other songwriters write their songs in 372 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,520 the 9 hundreds. Then there was a time of exile, 373 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,120 which I won't go into, but the Jews are taken to Babylon and 374 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,320 eventually Persia, and then they come back post exile. 375 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,960 And we think during that period of post exile, many of the songs 376 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,680 talk about like rivers in Babylon. 377 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,640 That wasn't David, wasn't Solomon. 378 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,040 No, that's like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego 379 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,120 in that era. They were writing songs that end 380 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,720 up in the Psalms, and we'll look at some of those in the weeks to 381 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,360 come. But I wanted you to know that 382 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,520 the Psalms are 1500 years of the best songs. 383 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,160 Now, where did I come up with the name for the series, the OG 384 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,520 playlist? I love this. 385 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,920 Some of you are going to remember you're old enough. 386 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,640 And we're going to, we're going to do this exercise and it's 387 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,440 going to date you to tell how old you are. 388 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,280 And I'll let you know how old I am. 389 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,240 So my youngest music, that was mine, if my parents were 390 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,280 watching Christmas, I would have been like in the 6th grade. 391 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,080 You know, I got to the age where I was like requesting music and 392 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,040 my mom loves the story that I was requesting Christian music. 393 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,720 So I'm 55, I'll be 56 in November. 394 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,280 That the first music I ever really got that was my own was 395 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,160 on 8 track. How many of you remember 8 396 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,520 tracks? Right man, I was like cool with 397 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,200 my eight track and the 1st 8 tracks I got were how the West 398 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,440 was one. It was 28 tracks with Phil Kegey 399 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,440 and 2nd chapter of Acts. How many of you remember those 400 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:25,200 guys? Right? 401 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,400 Jane remembers them. OK, so that was my first music. 402 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,760 But then after that you got a little older and then cassette 403 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,320 players came out. And when cassette players came 404 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,560 out, what was cool about cassette players is you could 405 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,400 record, right? You could record from the radio. 406 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,200 So I have this little box right here. 407 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,480 It says hugs to you. It was a gift to me probably in 408 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,440 like the 6th or 7th grade and when I was when I was junior 409 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,240 high high school. Inside of this are cassettes 410 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,280 that I meticulously recorded with the radio and some of you 411 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,560 are going to remember this. So stick with me. 412 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,280 Remember like you'd sit by the radio and you'd wait for that 413 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,200 song that you wanted to come on and when it came on, you'd push 414 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,240 record and your cassette would record it. 415 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,440 How many of you remember doing that? 416 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,200 Some of you, OK, you'd have to be older like me, but yes, 417 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,800 remember and you sit there and when you felt so accomplished, 418 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,640 when you'd get your mixtape, it was like your playlist and you 419 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,640 get a cassette full of songs and they might not match up side to 420 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,400 side. You'd fit as many on this one 421 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,760 side as you could. And so this is some of these. 422 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,840 Look at here. And I drive a 9th. 423 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,200 I drive a 2001 Volvo wagon. I call it my geek mobile. 424 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,120 You know, it's like a totally wonderful geek car. 425 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,760 And it's it has a cassette player and ACD player. 426 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,560 Still. I don't have an MP3 player. 427 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,680 I don't have a USBN. So I keep these Jason's like, 428 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,920 when are you going to throw away stuff? 429 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,960 I'm kind of a pack rat, but I'm like, these are still really 430 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,400 valuable. These are my mixtapes from the 431 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,520 80s, and I could put these in my cassette player. 432 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,880 I worked hard for these. I'm not throwing these away. 433 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,920 So there you go, right? OK, Then after that period, 434 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,640 well, there goes my cassettes. I'm just going to break them. 435 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,080 OK, Then after that, remember the era? 436 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,600 Then it was like, no, then CDs came out, right? 437 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,520 And so when CDs came out, you weren't sitting by the radio. 438 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,240 You could take another CD and you could burn that song with a 439 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,400 Cdr to another CD and man, the world was a good place then. 440 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,640 How many remember that right, it got way better right, and so I 441 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,480 like in here I have let's see so I still have these. 442 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,080 I keep these in my car. This is a January 05 443 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,200 miscellaneous makes copy #2 I've got some great tunes on here. 444 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,920 And then I've got I think there's a Veggie Tales one here 445 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,080 back here. I've got a Veggie Tales mixtape 446 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,080 right here, the best of Veggie Tales. 447 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,120 And I've got Nat King Cole Mello and I've got for Rodger, who was 448 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,560 a friend of mine who passed away. 449 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,920 And this is 11/26 like A1 miscellaneous, right? 450 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,360 So watch this these, these were my playlist. 451 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,800 I felt so rich when I compiled them on and put them in a 452 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,480 collection. These were my playlist. 453 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,240 This is this was fun. This is, and I think this is 454 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,320 like 2000, maybe 6 or 7. This is Worship Leader magazine. 455 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,760 But then remember you could buy like a compilation of songs 456 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,960 where they would put like a mixtape together. 457 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,800 Somebody would put it together like Wow Worship. 458 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,880 If you remember Wow Worship or Time Life used to put out like a 459 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,120 collection of songs. So this was Song Discovery. 460 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,960 It was Worship Leader magazine. And I had a song on here like in 461 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,600 2006 called You've Won My Affection that I wrote right? 462 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,680 And I remember thinking, I made the playlist. 463 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,360 I'm in the playlist, right? It was kind of cool, right? 464 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,040 So that came out. And then, but then after that, 465 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:22,120 some of you were going to remember. 466 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:24,000 Now we're aging you. Some of you remember, like 467 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,160 Napster. I never got a Napster. 468 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,240 But how many of you did Napster, right? 469 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,760 Some of you did Napster. So you can take a collection of 470 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,400 digital songs and you can put them together in your computer. 471 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,600 And then the iPod came out. Remember when the iPad, I mean, 472 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,120 I got the iPod right away and now it's like 3000 songs. 473 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,640 We felt so wealthy, right, with our songs. 474 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,000 They were $0.99 apiece. Remember back then, that was 475 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,280 your playlist, right? But nowadays, those of you who 476 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,000 are young, you have it so good because you have Spotify and 477 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,520 Apple Music and YouTube. You can just go any song 478 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,720 anytime, combining in a playlist. 479 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,720 It's so easy. It's nothing like back in the 480 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,680 day when we were sitting there listening to the radio with our 481 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,000 cassette player, right? So you had you live in a good 482 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,640 time. Now, my point in telling you all 483 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,680 that is watch this. The Psalms are the original 484 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,560 playlist so so through the direction of the Holy Spirit in 485 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,880 the post exile period, after Daniel and Shadrach and 486 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,280 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the arrow past Esther and 487 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,320 Nehemiah and Ezra, all the way towards the end of the Old 488 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,000 Testament. Even though it lands in the 489 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,600 middle kind of of the Old Testament, it would have been 490 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,560 compiled by that era of, of people following God. 491 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,080 The Holy Spirit inspires them to put these 150 songs into a 492 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,480 playlist. And it's the OG playlist. 493 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,960 Isn't that cool? So in the next several weeks, 494 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,320 what I want to do is I want to dive into this playlist that we 495 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:58,320 find that's called the Psalms, a gathering of 1500 years of the 496 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,480 best songs written in the Old Testament era that you and I can 497 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:08,280 gather devotion from prayers from theology, doctrine, 498 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,080 encouragement, all of these things land in the Psalms. 499 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,000 And So what I, this morning, I, this is an introduction for some 500 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,280 of you, you're quite familiar with the Psalms, but for many of 501 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,080 you, you're like, I didn't even know the Psalms existed. 502 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,720 And I saw them. I didn't know what they were. 503 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,960 Now I've told you their playlist and their songs and they're of 504 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,520 great value to Jesus. He references them and now you 505 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:34,280 and I can lean into them also. And we should Now let me give 506 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,960 you some examples of profound Psalms. 507 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,520 Again, there were 150 of them. Some of them are very short. 508 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,040 Some of them are like you could read them in 30 seconds. 509 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,880 Some of them are really long and in between. 510 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,720 But let me show you a couple examples of profound Psalms 511 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,720 found in the book of Psalms. Many of the Psalms present truth 512 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,000 and theology and doctrine. So Psalm 145, verses 18 through 513 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,680 19, it says the Lord is near to all who call on him. 514 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,920 Isn't that good news to all who call on Him? 515 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,800 In truth, He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him. 516 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,960 He also hears the cry and saves them. 517 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,640 If you're ever crying out to the Lord and you feel desperate and 518 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,920 you feel discouraged out of hope, knowing that the Lord is 519 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,320 near to all who call on him, that's a good truth to lean 520 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,040 into. We find it in the Psalms. 521 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,320 That is one that's worth memorizing, one worth reciting 522 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,120 out loud. Watch this great profound truth 523 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:40,440 in Psalm 119, verse 105. It says your word. 524 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,520 In other words, the Bible is a lamp to my feet and a light to 525 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,080 my path. So in the midst of great 526 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,280 darkness and evil around us, we have scripture to guide us. 527 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,400 When you're when you're wondering, God, how should I 528 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,960 respond? God, what's the next step I 529 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,800 should take in my life? Well, the Bible is there to 530 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,880 offer a light to your path and darkness, like your headlights 531 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:09,600 on your car leading you home. There were also profound prayers 532 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,280 in the Psalms. Psalm 61 isn't a great example. 533 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,600 And again, you can find prayers that that give voice to where 534 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,360 you are and what you're requesting of God. 535 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,240 Psalm 61, one through 4, it's so wonderful and profound. 536 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,880 The psalmist writes, hear my cry, oh God, and listen to my 537 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,640 prayer from the end of the earth. 538 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,120 I call to you when my heart is faint, lead me to the rock that 539 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:37,920 is higher than I for you have been my refuge, a strong tower 540 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,480 against the enemy. Let me dwell in your tent 541 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,080 forever. In other words, let me dwell 542 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,440 God, where you dwell. Let me be in your presence and 543 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,200 let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings. 544 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,120 This morning there was a Carol, I think Chris took the picture 545 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,560 was in the first service. Chris was greeted this, there 546 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,400 was a, there was a bald eagle right behind our church this 547 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,520 morning on like one of the trees that could have got broken by 548 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,120 the ice storm. So the pictures showed this tree 549 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,080 broken off and there's an eagle looking out over. 550 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,040 I mean, you've seen the span of an eagle, right? 551 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,360 6-7 feet, right? So it gives the image of like 552 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,320 God, you hide us, you shelter us under your wings like, like a 553 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,720 young eagle. It's a beautiful picture. 554 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,640 Another profound Psalm. Often the Psalms present 555 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,320 encouragement to praise and to worship God. 556 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,520 Psalm one O 3 verses one through 2 says bless the Lord, O my soul 557 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,680 and all that is within me. Bless his holy name, Bless the 558 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,680 Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits. 559 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,360 And this occasion David is speaking to himself. 560 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,640 He's doing self talk to find a lot of self talk in the Psalms. 561 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,880 It's valuable. You're talking to yourself as 562 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,680 like rise up O soul, give God praise that he's worthy of. 563 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,160 Those are worth knowing and reading and loving. 564 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,800 Sometimes the Psalms present prophecy. 565 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,720 Jesus said he fulfilled the prophecy. 566 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,520 So many references in the Psalms. 567 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,120 Give us a picture of Jesus and you find this in Psalm 22 one 568 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,480 through 5. I'm just going to read part of 569 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,240 it. I have that in the notes for you 570 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,960 there to read more of it when you take your notes home. 571 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,080 But it's this is the psalmist saying, my God, my God, why have 572 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:16,360 you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving 573 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,000 me from the words of my groaning? 574 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,240 Watch this. I love this so much. 575 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,320 God is not threatened. God's not going to ZAP you or 576 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,760 even punish you. If you get to a place in your 577 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,320 life where you like, you sense God, I feel so distant from you. 578 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,680 I don't know where you are. God, where are you got to feel 579 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,400 so broken and so without you, God, where are you? 580 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,680 What's interesting is this is a lamenting song. 581 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,200 It's an honest Psalm, but also Jesus is going to quote this 582 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,120 Psalm and it's a fulfillment of prophecy in the New Testament in 583 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,600 Mark chapter 1534. You maybe you know this Jesus is 584 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,280 hanging on the cross. Two of the Gospel cite this 585 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,880 story and it says at the 9th hour Jesus cried out with a loud 586 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,680 voice, ILO ILO Lima sabakhthani, which means my God, my God, why 587 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,920 have you forsaken me? Even Jesus in this moment, did 588 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,920 God forsake him? No, but he fell forsaken, being 589 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,360 honest about it. And Jesus gives us a model that 590 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,520 when we feel distant from God, it's OK to give voice to it, and 591 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,800 when you give voice to God can lift you out of it. 592 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,080 Now there are other psalms that are profound and that they 593 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,000 present lament. And maybe lament is a new word 594 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,240 to you. A lament is a poem or song that 595 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:36,520 expresses sorrow or suffering or worry or complaint. 596 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,840 You're going to find, and maybe this is new to you, that there 597 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,520 are several psalms that are complaints, an expression of 598 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,840 sorrow and disappointment and anger at God. 599 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,880 You might find yourself at a season, your life where you're 600 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,280 confused. You're like, God, this makes no 601 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,200 sense to me, God, this is unjust. 602 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,760 This is unfair. There are psalms that say that 603 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,800 and you're permitted to pray them to God. 604 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,200 But the beautiful thing is that those psalms, they don't stick 605 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,480 there. They ascend out of it. 606 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,640 But giving voice to your disappointment, your struggle, 607 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,680 your sorrow, giving voice to it leads and can lead to you 608 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,720 becoming out, coming out of it and lifting yourself to greater 609 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,280 faith. Now, I put your notes together 610 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,240 this week where there's more than I can cover in this 611 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,560 message, but I want you to take them home and to read through 612 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,000 them. The Psalms are divided into 5 613 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 books and the headings are there for you to see. 614 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,560 Okay, and every one of the Psalms, they end with a 615 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,960 doxology. Maybe you grew up in a church 616 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,480 where they said the doxology at the end, right? 617 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,160 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 618 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,960 How many of you had a church where you went and sang this 619 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,280 right? Praise them all creatures here 620 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,280 be though. So all of the sections of the 621 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,160 Psalms, the book one through book 5, they all end with 622 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,840 somewhat of a doxology type of greeting. 623 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,320 And I have them listed here for you. 624 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,200 In Psalm 4113, it says blessed be the Lord the God of Israel 625 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,040 from everlasting to everlasting, Amen and Amen. 626 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,040 That closes book 1. And there are in your notes 627 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,280 again, I won't cover this morning. 628 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,440 You can take it home and read it. 629 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,920 But there are there are things that are exaggerated, if you 630 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,000 will, or reference more in the books, OK. 631 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,880 They focus on some certain themes in book 1234 and five, 632 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,400 OK, And knowing that helps you to navigate through reading 633 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,520 through them. OK Psalm 72 is the ending of the 634 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,400 second book and it says blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, 635 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,680 who alone does wondrous things, Blessed be his glorious name 636 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,960 forever. May the whole earth be filled 637 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,560 with this glory, Amen and Amen. And the prayers of David the son 638 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:48,040 of GFC are ended. And then Psalm 8952, similar in 639 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,320 nature, it says blessed be the Lord forever, Amen and Amen. 640 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,680 And then before close of Psalm one, O 6 verse 48, this is 641 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,680 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to 642 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,800 everlasting, let all the people say Amen, praise the Lord. 643 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,760 Each of them ends in similar fashion. 644 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,800 And then finally, the Psalms end in Psalm 150, where the psalmist 645 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,240 writes, let everything that hath breath praise the Lord, praise 646 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,200 the Lord. So 5 different books, all of 647 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,040 them with different emphasis. That was the word I was looking 648 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,280 for a little while ago. Emphasis, right? 649 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,480 And in your notes, if you take them home, you can read through 650 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,200 those which are good understanding before you 651 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,040 approach them. Now, I've also listed for you 652 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,080 reasons why the Psalms are so valuable. 653 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,720 They're invaluable. Like they're without, I mean, 654 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,680 they're just the value goes so great for Christians today. 655 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,760 There's so much that we could be encouraged by and strengthened 656 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,840 by in the Psalms. And my hope in the next few 657 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,320 weeks is again, if you're seasoned, believing you read the 658 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,840 Psalm several times, my hope is to increase within you an 659 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,360 appreciation and love for them. But if you're new to 660 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,840 Christianity and you're new to the Bible, then I, I want to 661 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,400 introduce you to them and I want you to start reading them in a 662 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,560 way where you understand how to navigate through them. 663 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,000 What are they, their prayers, their truths? 664 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,240 They are laments. There are there's so many that 665 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,320 are allow you to and you're going to find the ones that are 666 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,320 favorite to you. OK, and I encourage you in that. 667 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,920 Now let me show you something. I want to encourage you to as 668 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,159 you ready yourself to gather truth from the Psalms, grow in 669 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:24,040 your discipline of using them. I I say read them or listen to 670 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,960 them. And I try to say this often 671 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,520 because nowadays, again, you have so many ways of listening 672 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,400 to scripture. You can go to YouTube, you can 673 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,800 find King James. I teach out of the English 674 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,800 standard version, but the NIV is great. 675 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,760 The Today's Living Bible is great, the Christian standard 676 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,040 Bible with so many great translations to be had. 677 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,800 And you could find them on YouTube or other platforms where 678 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,639 there's music underneath. There's one called Pure Voice 679 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:49,400 that I love. There's also Kristen Getty is a 680 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,360 songwriter, her and her husband, Keith and Kristen Getty wrote 681 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,800 like in Christ alone and some other really renowned songs. 682 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,200 And there's, she's Irish and there's a version where she's 683 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,760 reading the entire Bible and I found that I really appreciate 684 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,840 her Irish accent when she's reading through scripture, 685 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,240 right. So I utilize that. 686 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,120 But I, I want to encourage you to find either an audio version 687 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,920 or maybe both and find, maybe you want to buy like this right 688 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,640 here. I, I have one that's marked up 689 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,560 and taped up that I've bent and the, the spine is broken on it. 690 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,000 This is a, this is a journal book of Psalms. 691 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,920 And maybe I'll leave this up here so you can see it in the 692 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,000 front of the church when it's done. 693 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,520 So what this is is it is the Psalms. 694 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,480 But look how thick this book is. Some of your Bibles are thinner 695 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,880 than this. This is only the Psalms and it's 696 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,480 really thick paper and it's made-up to where the text is 697 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520 here on this side. And then this side is blank. 698 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,800 So I have one that I've written a whole bunch of things on this 699 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,000 side. OK. 700 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,520 And what I love about this is because the paper is thick, I 701 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,280 can use highlighters and pens and I can scribble on the words. 702 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,480 It helps me to understand and and remember what I read when I 703 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,080 mark things up. OK, so you could buy this on 704 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:59,400 Amazon or christianbook.com. It's like 7 bucks and maybe in 705 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,360 the next several weeks or in your years to come, you there 706 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,360 are better versions. Also, there's a Psalter that I 707 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,560 have at home that sometimes I read. 708 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,400 I have several different ways that I read the Psalms. 709 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:11,560 I read them in my Bible, right? But I also have journals where I 710 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,200 can mark up and make them more memorable to me. 711 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:19,240 OK, so this again is the ESV and this is called like the journal 712 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:21,320 Psalms, right? And actually, if you look at my 713 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,400 desk when you leave this one, you can walk in my office if you 714 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,960 want. But in my office, I have the 715 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,000 whole Bible like this, where every book of the Bible and talk 716 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,800 about a library, it's like this long. 717 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,600 So it's Genesis through Revelation, it's this long. 718 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,480 That's how it's a library, not just one book. 719 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,520 And so I could just pull out the book of John. 720 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,720 It's much thinner than this. And it shows me in perspective 721 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:44,600 how long each book of the Bible is. 722 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,960 OK. So my encouragement to you is 723 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,360 find a plan, whether an audible, there's the Bible app that you 724 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,920 can get that life church from Oklahoma City's put out Craig 725 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,600 Rochelle. That's a great app. 726 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,880 It has like endless versions of the Bible you can listen to or 727 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,240 read on your device or order a journal or take your favorite 728 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,120 Bible. But my exhortation and 729 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,680 encouragement to you is find a way in the next several weeks to 730 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,240 read through the Psalms and just start reading through them. 731 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,520 Next week. I'm going to start in chapter 1 732 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,040 and we'll start there and I'm not going to go through them. 733 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,440 I'll probably zigzag through them, but my hope and my 734 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,320 intention and my prayer is to increase within you and 735 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:30,840 appreciation and love and a utilization of the Psalms in a 736 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,520 deep and meaningful way in the weeks to come. 737 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,120 Now, as I said, next week we'll get into Psalm 1/4. 738 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,840 I put the start of that in your notes. 739 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,080 So you have that there. And we'll, I'll unpack next week 740 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,600 this idea. Blessed is the man who walks not 741 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,560 and the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way the 742 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,400 sinners nor sits. And this passage, there's a real 743 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,800 progression and I'm going to unpack it for you next week. 744 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,400 It says he's like a tree planted by streams of water that yields 745 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,040 its fruit and its season and its leaf does not wither. 746 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:04,120 And all he does, he prospers. So let me close with some 747 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:08,480 application and invitation. My challenge to you is for you 748 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:14,120 to step up to a commitment to read or listen to the Psalms, to 749 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,440 read or listen. I hope this morning I've 750 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,080 introduced you. You're like, OK, I'm in. 751 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,320 I hope you're in. I hope that you'll leave here. 752 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,360 And this week, tomorrow morning or tomorrow on your way to work 753 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,080 or tomorrow evening before you go to bed, take some of the 754 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,400 Psalms. You'll find you can read through 755 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,080 them or listen to them quite quickly. 756 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,800 Find a version reading or listening. 757 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,120 And then my challenge to you is it maybe order something. 758 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,560 OK, order or go online. There's nothing here in Gaylord 759 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,280 that's like this, but it's super easy to find on Amazon. 760 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,640 Again, order an audio book, subscribe to an audio book, 761 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,280 subscribe to some type of app where you can get the Psalms 762 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,000 before next week. And then I want to close with 763 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,760 this. I want you to invite the Holy 764 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,600 Spirit to meet you in the Psalms When you, when you, when you 765 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,840 open your Bible, whatever, however you're going to read the 766 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,960 Psalms again. It could be one, one book where 767 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,080 it is or it's in your Bible or in your on your iPhone. 768 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,080 You're reading your iPad or you're listening. 769 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,520 However you listen or read it before you do, would you just 770 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,520 pause and say God, Holy Spirit, speak to me? 771 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,800 My mind is open, my heart is open. 772 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,800 God, speak to me through your Word as you open any one of the 773 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,760 Psalms again, start wherever you want. 774 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,840 Google psalms of lament wherever you are. 775 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,880 Maybe you're in a lamenting season where you're in the midst 776 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,520 of sorrow or sadness. Or maybe songs of praise. 777 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,960 You want some exhortations. The ones that are songs of 778 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,680 praise or songs of ascent, those are the ones that start heavy 779 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,080 and they ascend out of it. Or maybe the songs with the 780 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,600 greatest truth, or maybe the psalms that represent Jesus. 781 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,680 Wherever you want to start, start there. 782 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,200 You can zigzag around and use it as a playlist. 783 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:51,880 The OG playlist, the original 1 put together by God, Me. 784 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:58,440 Pray for us, God. I'm personally excited for our 785 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:05,000 church in these weeks to come as we grow in our love and 786 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,360 admiration and appreciation for the book of Psalms. 787 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,800 And I do pray, Holy Spirit, that you'll meet us, meet us in the 788 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,320 book of Psalms as a church family, those of us. 789 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,080 Maybe we'll even walk through them with our our spouse or our 790 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,320 children or friends. Wherever we go with them, God, I 791 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,400 pray that you would strengthen our love for you, grow us in 792 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,160 your ways. Let your word truly become a 793 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,560 light into our path. We're hungry, we're ready and 794 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,120 meet us in the Psalms. We pray in Jesus name and 795 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,080 everyone said Amen. Great, let's all stand together. 796 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,600 Thank you for being here this morning. 797 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,840 And don't don't forget to check out Facebook or the web church 798 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,120 website for all the events coming up in October. 799 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,560 Lots of great events. Looking forward to seeing you 800 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,920 there. And if you didn't get notes for 801 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,480 this morning, I think there's still some back there. 802 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,080 Let us know. I can always e-mail them to you 803 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,720 if you reach out to me at curt@nlifechurch.org. 804 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,280 Before you go, I want to say a blessing over you. 805 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,280 So if you'll prepare your heart to receive this blessing before 806 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,880 you go. And now may the Lord bless you 807 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,160 and keep you, and may he make his face to shine upon you. 808 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,640 And may the joy of the Lord that is unspeakable and full of 809 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,920 glory, may it abound to you. And may the peace of God that 810 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,480 passes all understanding, may it surprise you in the midst of all 811 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,400 of the challenges that life brings. 812 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,480 And then may the mercies of the Lord, in other words, the 813 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,480 forgiveness of God, that's new every morning. 814 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,560 May it be especially new to you and your mornings to come. 815 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,720 And now, may the Lord Jesus Christ guard your heart and your 816 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:40,560 mind. You are salt and you are light. 817 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,240 Go now and be salt and light into the world. 818 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:45,680 You are blessed. We'll see you again soon.