The Place God Chose (Walk Thru the Bible Week 16)

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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Well, hey there and welcome back.

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This is Walk Through the Bible Week 16.

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And today we're going to be discussing some from our reading this week, which in the Daily

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Bible was pages 475 through 508.

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Or in the Daily Bible, it's the dates of April the 16th through the 22nd.

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So let me give a quick review.

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We discussed King David, he's now king of Israel.

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He took Jerusalem and established that as the headquarters of his kingdom.

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And then the Lord promised him an eternal throne, what we call the Davidic covenant.

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God's promise to David of an eternal reign.

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And then we had the story of two immediate backlashes to this very, very amazing promise

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that God gave David.

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And he was tempted seriously by sin in the story of Bathsheba.

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And then he had a usurper.

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His son, Absalom, attempted to take over the kingdom.

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And we had a very poignant story of David leaving Jerusalem in tears over this rejection.

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And how that foreshadowed the day Jesus did the very same thing.

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So now this week, we're going to read 2 Samuel, chapters 21 through 24.

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And I want to say there's two stories here, and chapters 21 through 24 are a bit of an

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addendum to the book of 2 Samuel.

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So we're not really sure when these stories took place.

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So we want to discuss them here.

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The first one was a story that was famine in the land.

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And David discovered it was because of sin that Saul had committed.

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And so David had to rectify this situation and stop the famine.

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The second story, though, is that David himself brought on the judgment of God on the people.

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And so I want to take a minute here to discuss this story.

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So David took a census.

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This was very displeasing to the Lord.

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And when we read this, we're like, what's wrong with the census?

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I mean, we take a census in the United States every year.

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Many countries do, just to know their population and maybe a little bit about the demographics

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of their citizens.

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But that's not what a census was about at the time of David.

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It was that you counted up the men that were of fighting age.

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So it was a necessary step in preparing to go to battle.

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You counted up your men, and then you organized them.

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You knew what size of an army you had and what you could accomplish.

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So it was planning for military war.

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And this displeased the Lord probably for two different reasons.

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One is, of course, that David did this without the Lord commanding him to do it.

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And the Lord was actually their ultimate commander, their ultimate king.

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And he did not tell David to prepare for war.

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And so in a way, this was stepping out ahead of the Lord.

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You could say disobedience.

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But the second reason, it could indicate that David was getting a little prideful because

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of all these military victories that the Lord had given him.

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And so he's going out in his own strength now, preparing for war.

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So it could have been a very bad sign of where David was.

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And so once he realizes that this displeased the Lord, he repented.

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So David sees the angel of the Lord over Jerusalem with his sword drawn.

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And David then falls and repents and says, isn't it I aren't I the one that did wrong?

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Please have mercy.

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And so the angel of the Lord tells him then to build an altar to the Lord.

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And there on the threshing floor of Aruna, David wants to do this.

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So he goes to Aruna and he says, I want to purchase the threshing floor.

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And this is very, very significant because David buys the threshing floor and then he

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sets up his altar there.

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And the scriptures tell us later on in Chronicles that this is the area, this threshing floor

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of Aruna on Mount, this is the area of Mount Moriah.

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And it was on Moriah that Abraham took his only son, Isaac, to be sacrificed.

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And here David purchases this top of Moriah where he is going to then put the tabernacle

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with the Ark of the Covenant.

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And later Solomon is to build the temple there in the same place.

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And we have the transaction recorded in the Bible, which is very significant because because

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of this history, the temple mount in Jerusalem is actually the most highly controversial

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piece of real estate in the world because of this history and its sacredness to the

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Jewish people.

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But then of course, after the Romans destroyed the temple and we'll get into this history

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later on, the Muslims then come in, take the area, they build a mosque there.

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And so today the Muslims have control over the top of the temple mount.

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The Jews are able to pray down below at the Western Wall and the Christians at one time,

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they even had worship going on on the temple mount before the Muslims took it over.

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And it's just a highly controversial piece of land.

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But the significance is that we have in the Bible where it was bought and purchased by

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King David.

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It is owned by the Jewish people.

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And what's even more significant is that a thousand years after this story, Jesus was

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crucified somewhere on probably the edge of Moriah.

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You know, Moriah is not just like a mountain peak, you have to realize.

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It's a mountainous area with a plateau.

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And the two possible sites of Jesus' crucifixion, one is on the northern edge of that plateau,

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and the other one is on the western edge of that plateau.

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And so the plateau where Abraham took up his only son to sacrifice him, but knowing that

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God was going to provide the sacrifice and God did provide a ram and the thicket for

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him.

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But it seems that Abraham also saw forward into history and knew that one day God was

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going to provide the sacrifice in that area.

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And sure enough, he did through the death of Jesus.

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And here David is legally purchasing that property for all that will take place there.

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Now David also reveals in this portion of Scripture this week why he's not the one to

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build the temple.

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And he says that the Lord told him it was because he had blood on his hands.

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And as I said last week, we don't really have recorded when God told him that.

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But he repeats it twice that the Lord told him he was not the one to build the tabernacle

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or the temple because he had blood on his hands.

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But his son Solomon was the one who should build the temple.

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So then we have, we read this week in First Chronicles 28, it was sort of David's keynote

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address.

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He's getting old and he's setting up Solomon to be the king.

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And he's passing on to Solomon.

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He's giving him instructions and words of wisdom.

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And so here in First Chronicles 28 verses 2 beginning 2 through 7, he says here, King

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David rose to his feet and said, listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people.

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I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the Ark of the Covenant

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of the Lord, for the footstool of our God.

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And I made plans to build it, but God said to me, you are not to build a house for my

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name because you are a warrior and have shed blood.

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I just want to point out two things here.

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First is it was to be a place of rest for the Ark of the Covenant.

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Remember the Ark of the Covenant was the repository of the presence of God for them.

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And so a resting place for the presence of God.

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Remember a few weeks ago when we talked about the importance of the Sabbath rest?

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Well here it would be like a Sabbath rest for the Ark of the Covenant, for the presence

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of God that he could rest.

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But it also has a beautiful depiction here of the Ark of the Covenant as the footstool

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of our God.

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So the Ark of the Covenant wasn't the throne of God.

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It was the footstool.

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God was seated in heaven.

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And so the Ark of the Covenant was to be like a connection between earth and heaven.

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God is seated in heaven.

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And the Ark of the Covenant was his footstool.

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And so when they came before the Ark of the Covenant, they were coming in humility before

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the footstool of the king.

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It's just such a beautiful picture there in language.

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So I wanted to point that out.

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You know, in this story then, David, he gives this little kind of final speech.

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And then he begins to get everything ready for Solomon so that he can build the temple.

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He begins to gather the gold and the silver and all of the goods that are needed for building

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the temple.

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And he actually even draws up plans for the temple that he says the Lord gave him.

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And he's such a great example here of a leader passing on leadership to the next generation.

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He prepares it all.

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He prepares the people.

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He prepares Solomon.

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He gives him a plan.

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And then he passes it on to him.

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Well, then in our reading, we actually put a pause button now on the story.

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And we began a section of the Psalms because over half of the Psalms were actually written

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by King David.

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And so at this point, the Daily Bible editor inserts the Psalms so that we can take some

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time here in these writings before we finish out the story of David and passing on the

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kingship to Solomon.

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So let me just say a few words about the book of Psalms.

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In your regular Bible, the way the Psalms are organized isn't very evident.

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But there's actually five books of Psalms.

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Of course, there's 150 Psalms in the Bible.

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But they're organized originally as five different books.

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And we know that about it's a little hard to follow the organization of the Psalms within

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each book.

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But there is a little bit of a hint of organization.

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But these were songs that were to be sung.

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And so they have stanzas.

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We just don't know the tune of the music that they were sung to, but we know that they were

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sung.

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And so some of them are complete and tell a whole story and others do not do that.

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So but the the original order in the five books begins with Psalm one and two, which are a

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little bit of an overview of the concepts that you're going to find in the rest of the

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Psalms.

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And then they end with Psalm 150, which is like just a wonderful praising the Lord Psalm

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where it just all builds up to this of just praising the Lord with everything that they

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had in them.

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But that's one order.

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And that's in your regular Bible.

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In the daily Bible, what he chose to do was the Psalms that we knew their chronology.

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He's already inserted, I think about 17 of the Psalms have already been inserted in our

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reading.

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We've already read them.

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And then there's another 21 Psalms that we know were written later on, much later on.

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And so they appear much later on in our reading for the rest of the Psalms that leaves us.

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There about 112 remaining Psalms. And so the editor of the daily Bible took those and

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has arranged them by subject.

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And so we're going to read the the first Psalms are the Psalms for a troubled soul.

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And and then our second group of Psalms is about righteousness and wickedness.

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The third group of Psalms is about Psalms of joy.

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And then there's a miscellaneous group at the end.

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That's how he's organized them.

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And it's really nice.

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I mean, if you're looking for Psalms that deal really crying out to God because of troubles

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and problems, they're all right there together.

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And you can just spend time going through them.

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I will say that as I'm reading through them, there are some other orders that we could do

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the Psalms in.

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And so as we're reading through them in the daily Bible, I'm going to point out a couple

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of things about the Psalms that the editor doesn't include because of the way he's ordered

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them.

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But let me just say this out of all 150 Psalms, there are several different authors.

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The Psalms, most of them, we know 73 of them were written by King David.

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And it's a high possibility there's another 12 of them that were probably written by

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him, but we can't say for sure.

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Then there's another 12 songs that were written by David's chief song leader.

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His name is Asaph.

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And there's another 11 Psalms written by the Levites, the sons of Korah.

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They were the priests in the Levites.

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And you can kind of tell the Psalms that were written by the priests all just talk about

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the lovely tabernacle of the Lord and the privilege of spending time in the house of

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the Lord.

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And they're really special.

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But there's another 30, 40, 50 Psalms that we really don't know who wrote them or just

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miscellaneous, but most of them were written by King David.

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I want to say this about the Psalms.

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Back many years ago, when I was a young Christian, a lot of our worship songs were taken right

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out of the Psalms.

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We just read almost word for word or sang, I should say, word for word, some of the songs.

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Some of the Psalms.

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They were our songs.

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And I am so grateful for that because to this very day, I can repeat some of the Psalms.

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Not that I'm so great at memory or memorizing scripture, but these I remember because they're

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a song.

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I can hear the tune and I can remember the words.

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And I listen to a lot of the modern worship music and some of it's great, but some of

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it I just wish like, let's go back to singing the Psalms.

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They're so beautiful, so rich, so theologically correct.

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And I really am so thankful for the ones that we learned.

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So in this week, we're our first section of the Psalms that we're reading are Psalms

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for a Troubled Soul.

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And a number of them were written by King David and you just feel his heart and his

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heart cry for the Lord and to be right with the Lord and to walk in fellowship with the

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Lord.

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And they are just really beautiful.

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So I want to end our time today talking about two Psalms.

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The first one, of course, is the famous Psalm of the Good Shepherd, the 23rd Psalm.

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You know, the Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want.

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He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

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He restored my soul.

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I mean, such a beautiful song.

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And you can just see how that King David, who used to be a shepherd, here expresses his

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appreciation for God as his shepherd, as the great shepherd.

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And it's just such an absolutely beautiful, beautiful song.

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So let me read for you the 23rd Psalm and just picture David sitting out on a hillside

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looking out over his sheep and writing this song to his Lord.

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The Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want.

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I like nothing.

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He makes me to lie down in green pastures.

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He leads me beside quiet waters.

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He refreshes my soul.

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He guides me along the right paths for his namesake.

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Even though I walk through the darkest valley, or some say the valley of death, I will fear

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no evil.

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For you are with me.

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Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

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You anoint my head with oil.

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My cup overflows.

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Surely, your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell

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in the house of the Lord forever.

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You know, there is a wonderful devotional booklet written by a shepherd who understood

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the meaning behind every word in this song.

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His name is Philip Keller, and he wrote a devotional that has just been a bestseller.

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Just millions and millions of copies have been printed called A Shepherd Looks at the

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23rd Psalm.

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I recommend you get it.

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Give it to your children, to your grandchildren.

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It's a great little resource to give away.

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You can, we're just linked to it in the show notes.

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You can buy it from Amazon.

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And then I have what is called the Shepherd Trilogy.

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And this is a book by Philip Keller where they have combined three of his books.

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So the first book being A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm.

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The second book you wrote is called A Shepherd Looks at the Good Shepherd.

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And his third book is A Shepherd Looks at the Lamb of God.

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So you can buy this also on Amazon.

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It's the trilogy with all three books.

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But after all that we've learned about King David, it just brings new meaning to this

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song when we listen to it as though from his ears as he sang it to the Lord.

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There's another song that we read this week that I want to close with.

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It's one of my favorites.

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Why?

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Because I know a song of this song.

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And it is so expressive of my heart and of many people's hearts.

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There's one very special line in this song and it says, when my heart is overwhelmed,

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lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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When I hear this song, I'm going to read it for you.

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I always picture down at Angeddi where we talked about last week in the dry desert and

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the dry riverbed there, looking up at the caves and the cliffs and just picturing David

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looking at this when he may have written this song.

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So let me read for you the 61st song.

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Hear my cry, oh God, attend to my prayer.

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On the ends of the earth I will cry to you.

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When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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For you have been a shelter for me, a strong tower for the enemy, and I will abide in your

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tabernacle forever.

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I will trust in the shelter of your wings.

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For you, oh God, have heard my vows, you have given me the heritage of those who fear your

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name.

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You will prolong the king's life, his years as many generations.

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He shall abide before God forever.

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Oh, prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him.

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So I will sing praise to your name forever that I may daily perform my vows.

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The king, David, here is saying, you will preserve the king's life, that I may sing

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your name, your praises every day, and that I may daily perform my vows before you.

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That's why God would prolong his life.

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And just such a beautiful, beautiful song and it has another picture word in here that

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I want to mention about finding shelter in the shadow of his wings.

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We're going to talk about that again next week.

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It's a very common picture of the wings of God throughout the Psalms and that we can

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find shelter in his wings and we can find shelter in the shadow of his wings.

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And here, King David comes up with this in Psalm 61.

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So I hope that you will be blessed this week as you read through these amazing Psalms and

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just let your heart join with King David's or the Levites, whoever is writing each one.

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Pour out your heart before the Lord this week.

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You will never be the same.

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And in the meantime, I look forward to seeing you back here next week.

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Until then, the Lord bless the reading of his word and minister deep into your hearts

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and your spirits.

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Amen.

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