Feb. 7, 2025

Psalm 1 and Israel

Psalm 1 and Israel

We discuss a possible new interpretation of Psalm 1

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We discuss a possible new interpretation of Psalm 1

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Good morning everyone.

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It is Friday, February the seventh, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently ten fifty am Central Time, and I'm coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here.

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In Abilene, Texas.

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Now, I know I'm supposed to be talking about that

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list I gave you yesterday and which things on that

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list are permanent, which things on that list are provisional,

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which things on that list are both. That's what I

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need to be talking about. But well, I got distracted,

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and I think what we're about to find out is

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that when it comes to our interpretation to some famous

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passages in the Bible, we should probably never say our

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interpretation is permanent because I think there's lots of times

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we need to change our interpretation, because I believe our

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interpretations tend to be very, very wrong. In fact, I'm

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I'm starting to think that the majority of our interpretations

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of Scripture are just completely fraudulent, wrong, self serving. We're

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self indulgent, self seeking. I don't even know all the

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different words they're They're all self focused. That's what's wrong.

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I've talked about this a million times. The whole problem

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with the church, The whole problem with the church is

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the church is an organization where people come together so

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that they can talk about themselves. I mean, sermon after sermon,

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it's about us. It's about us. It's about us. It's

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about our problems, our needs, our wants, our desires, our struggles.

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Us us us us us us us. We go to

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the Bible and we make it all about us. It's me, me, me, me, mine,

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I you we it's it's it's that's that's what we do.

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And I understand why we want to go to church

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to hear sermons about us. I understand that. But the

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issue is what you want. Maybe even what you need

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shouldn't matter, because what should matter is when we open

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the Bible, what does it mean? And I know this,

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Every single book in the Bible was written to someone

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other than you or me. It was written to specific

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people in specific settings.

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And I get so sick of.

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The Church saying, well, we have to consider the historical

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and textual context. Why you're going to mention it for

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five seconds and then your entire interpretation in most cases

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is going to abandon who it was originally four in

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the first place. So why even play the game?

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Why you know what you said?

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You just say the people the Bible was written to,

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they're all dead. They don't matter. It's all about us.

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That's basically what we should do. It's just playing a

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little game. It makes everyone feel ooh, my church cares

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about the historical context for five minutes. So I get

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really bothered by And this has been true within our

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study of Isaiah forty through fifty five. Sermon after sermon

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moves out the original recipients and moves us.

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In, and they do so immediately.

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So as a result of that, I begin to question

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so many I begin to question basically the way most

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scripture is interpreted, especially in the Old Testament, because time

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and time again, I think, how did.

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We get how did we get inserted into this? Now?

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The reason I'm saying all of this is early this morning,

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I picked up the sermon's two point oh app I

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hit play on a sermon. I think it was in

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my feed tab. I think I was just looking around.

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Maybe I looked at newest sermons.

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I don't know.

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There was what three four in the morning. I have

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no clue what was going on. But I found a

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sermon entitled first Things. I'm like, okay, first Things. That

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sounds interesting, right, what are.

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The first things?

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Why should I know about the first things? How important

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are the first things?

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All?

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Right?

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Do I have the first things? Do I need to

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get the first things? I need to know about the

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first things? And I hit play and immediately realize that

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this is a sermon on Psalm chapter one, the Book

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of Psalms, Psalm one, and I'm like, oh, okay, interesting.

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I don't remember anything in the sermon. I don't remember anything.

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I don't know if I slipped back into a coma.

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I don't remember anything. I think the only thing I

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remember at the beginning is there was.

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A lot of kids and it was loud. I don't remember.

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I don't remember anything that was said.

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But immediately, like once I woke, I was thinking some one,

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some one. I don't remember anything about the sermon, and

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I started thinking.

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Huh, I would bet that most sermons make some one

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about us. Most would approach someone in almost a lordship

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kind of way. I wonder if all of those interpretations

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are completely wrong. I wonder if we could do a

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different one.

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Now I know that we should approach someone from a

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law gospel perspective. But I was thinking, maybe even that

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is not really being true to the original text.

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So I started working on it.

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I have kind of a detailed outline of a new

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interpretation of some one, but you don't get that yet,

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because we're gonna go to this sermon that I don't remember.

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We're gonna listen to at least a little bit of it,

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just to see which direction they're going to go.

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I mean, for some I don't even know how it's possible.

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This is a sermon on Psalm one, and the sermon

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is twenty minutes long. How can you do a sermon

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on ps one in twenty minutes? That is right there.

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That's a miracle. Okay, people say miracles don't happen. It's

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a miracle. Okay, I'm being I'm being sarcastic here, So yeah,

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that's pretty amazing. But at the same time, let's be fair, right,

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I'm being a little being a little sarcastic, But now

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let me get serious. Kind of trying to be a

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little funny there, but let me be serious for a minute.

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It is very possible that someone could cover Psalm chapter

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one and twenty minutes and do a far better job

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and be in a far more, far superior sermon than

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I could pull off in an hour and fifteen in

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an hour and twenty a right, because some people say

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you go too long, and there's probably sometimes truth to that, right,

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I could definitely manage my my I could structure things

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and manage things in a better way. So I'm just

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because you go long does not mean it's better. Just

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because you go short doesn't necessarily mean it's bad.

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But I'm just.

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Amazed that you could cover this and that short period

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of time. Now that maybe because you know, if I

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was a better communicator, I could do it in a

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shorter period of time.

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So we're gonna at least listen to this.

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What we're what we're listening for, all right, what we're

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listening for is we're listening to basically capture his basic

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interpretive system, his interpretive framework for SAW one.

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I think it's gonna.

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Basically be kind of a moralistic Hey, guys, if you

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want to be blessed, you will do all of this,

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and if you don't, and I think there's there's some

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problems with that, and we will discuss it in a

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a little bit. We'll discuss it in a little bit

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from a number of perspectives. I my my, My default

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is to immediately go into a long Gospel interpretation of

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Psalm One, which I think is basically been abandoned by

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majority of Christianity, which I don't understand why, considering we

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supposedly aren't Catholics.

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But that's okay.

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I think most of Protestantism takes more of a Catholic

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approach to it than it does a true, you know,

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law Gospel approach. But so I will mention that briefly

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depending on which way this goes, and then I'm going

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to get to the new interpretation. Right, So the law

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Gospel is not the new interpretation I'm going to offer.

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I'm going to offer a completely radical one that may

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ruin some one for you.

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All right, are you ready? Here we go.

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Let's at least listen to the beginning of the sermon

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and figure out exactly how they're approaching it.

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Psalm one, the first book of the Psalms. You'll turn there.

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It's the way of the righteous and the wicked. Blessed

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is the man who walks not in the council of

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the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor

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sits in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is

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in the law of the Lord, and on his life.

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Ah he meditates day and night. He is like a

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tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit

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and its season, and its leaf does not wither. In

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all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so,

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but are like chaft the wind drives away. Therefore, the

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wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in

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the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the

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way of the righteous, but the ways of the wicked

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will perish. Heavenly Father, as we prepare to hear your word,

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we humbly come before you, acknowledging our need for your

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Spirit to illuminate our hearts and minds. Your word is

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living an active sharper than any two edged sword. Yet

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without your guidance we cannot truly understand its depths or

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apply its truths to our lives. So we ask Lord,

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that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you would

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open our ears to hear, our minds to understand, and

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our hearts to receive the truth of Scripture. Remove any

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distractions or hardness of earth. It would keep us from

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listening to your voice. Help us to behold the beauty

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of Christ revealed in your word and be transformed by it.

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In His name, we pray.

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Amen, you know what I'm going to say, Say it

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every single time, a million sermons, a million prayers for

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God to help us understand, to open our eyes, to

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give us understanding, to help us understand, to remove distraction,

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to show us what it means, to illuminate it, to

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enlighten our minds. Prayer after prayer, after prayer, after prayer,

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after prayer, after prayer, after prayer, after prayer, after prayer,

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after prayer, after prayer, after prayer, and after two thousand years,

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we don't agree on anything now.

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I don't know what you take from that. Pray, pray, pray.

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God, open my eyes, God show me. God, give me understanding.

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God lead us to understanding, help us understand it, help

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us see, help us understand, help us understand, help us understand.

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And two thousand years later, no one can agree on

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one verse that has to.

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I don't know how else you can.

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I don't know what other conclusion you can come to

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than to say, guys, God's not helping us understand the Bible.

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He's not. If he was. After two thousand years, you

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think we could have figured out something, as we could

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have figured out baptism by now, don't you think? Don't

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you think we could have figured out the Lord's Supper

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by now?

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I think maybe we could.

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Do you think maybe we could have figured out I

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don't know what's the proper governance of a church?

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I don't know.

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Is it congregational? Is it pastor? Is it elder? I mean,

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is it a prespiratory? All the different I mean, all

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the different ways? How should it be done?

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I don't know.

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You see what else? Do you think maybe after all

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of this time, God can help us figure out I

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don't know.

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Salvation?

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Do we understand it from a lordship way? Do we

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understand it in a Calvinistic way? Do we understand it

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in an Armenian way?

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What is the correct way? It's salvation? Secure? Is it

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not secure? I mean?

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On and on and on? What is the blasphemy of

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the Holy Spirit? I can just go on and on.

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Scripture after scripture after scripture, where there are hundreds thousands

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of interpretations. We saw it just the other day. There's

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not even agreement on the audience for the sermon on

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the Mount for crying out loud like it is. Sometimes

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the smallest details which we don't understand. We heard just

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the other day a sermon where I think they gave

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this typical kind of statement of God giving us understanding,

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God helping us understand, and then they made comments about

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thirty three AD that were completely factually in error because

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they were borrowing information from sixty six AD. God did

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not intervene. God did not stop it. God did not say,

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let me explain to you how this really works, even

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though in that sermon they're supposedly a prophetess gave a

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prophet prophecy over this pastor's child about being musical, I mean,

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for crying out loud out. If God is speaking like that,

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could he stop us from misinterpreting his word? And I

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know I get frustrated by it every single time we

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listen to a sermon.

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I understand that those are just that's just.

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What we're expected to pray, But at some point does

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anyone just go I don't get it. If the pastor

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is praying and God is answering the prayer of the pastor,

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then no one in the congregation can question his interpretation

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because he prayed for God to lead and guide him

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and in preaching and teaching, So then his preaching and

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teaching his influence guided protected by God. So the teaching

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has to be correct so that no one in the

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congregation can ever criticize the preaching. But if the people

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in the congregation are praying for God to open their

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eyes and help them understand, and they come to a

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different interpretation than the pastor, then the is God answering

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the prayer of the people in the congregation, but didn't

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answer the prayer of the pastor. Because how can two

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people pray for God to help them understand the scriptures

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and come to two different understandings? Man alive, I don't

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get it. That drives me insane, It really does, all right.

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And guess what we're getting ready to find out? I

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wonder what's getting ready to happen?

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Is he getting ready to offer an interpretation of some

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one that agrees with everyone in church history? Well, I

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can guarantee you that's not the case. So were the

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people in the past wrong and God led them in

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the rung? See, the minute you involve God in the

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interpretive process, you just end up with so many like

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is God playing a game on all of us?

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Here?

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All right, please take your seats. So tonight's sermon comes

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from Reverend Dale Ralph Phillips. Now he's a former pastor

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of Woodland Presbyterian Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a former

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professor of Old Testament at Reformed Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.

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WHOA, So he's just going to read someone else's sermon.

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This is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard in

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my life. So he's just going to read someone else's sermon. Hey,

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tonight's sermon comes from this person. Here's his qualifications. So

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he's just going to read someone's sermon. Did that catch

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anyone else off guard? Tonight's sermon comes from So have

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you ever heard anything like that in your life? Hey,

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Tonight's sermon I'm going to I'm going to basically give

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you the sermon of someone else.

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It's one thing to say, Hey, I.

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Heard this sermon from so and so, and that's going

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to be the basis of what I'm going to speak.

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But you think you would be engaging it, right, Hey

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he said this, but what about that?

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And he said this?

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And what about like that is I gotta back that up.

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That's the craziest thing I've ever heard of my life.

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Is it just me?

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Maybe some of you are used to this gonna. I'm

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gonna play this again.

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Hold in your word and be transformed by it. In

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His name, we prayed demen. All right, please take your seats.

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So tonight's sermon comes from Reverend Dale Ralph Phillips. He's

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a former pastor of Woodland Presbyterian Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,

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and a former professor of Old Testament at Reform Theological

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Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. For my note takers, as we

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heard Pastor mcgail this morning, mission, the importance of taking notes.

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Three headings. We're gonna be talking about the direction of

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the believer's life, the description of the believer's life, and

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the destiny of.

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The Okay number one. Okay, this whole thing is baffley.

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Where's my note takers? Why do they need to take

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notes if it's already If you're just reading someone's sermon,

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just give everyone a copy of the printed sermon and

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be done with. Why don't you just email every text everyone? Hey,

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here's the sermon for tonight. Boom, and but did you

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note the outline? Did you get the outline? Did you

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see what the outline did? Did anybody notice the outline?

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I'm going to back it up. Listen to the outline.

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Did you see it? Did you hear it? Come on,

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you had to catch it. Did you catch it?

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Gotta back this.

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Up in Jackson, Mississippi, or my note takers, as we

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heard Pastor mcdail this morning mission on the importance of

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taking notes. Three headings. We're going to be talking about

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the direction of the believer's life, the description of the

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believer's life, and the destiny of the believer's life. So

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the direction to the description and the destiny.

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Did you get that?

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The direction, the description and the destiny of what the

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believer's life. So we're in some one and instantaneously we

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are inserted into the text. We're gonna look at Psalm

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one tonight under three headings, the direction of the believer's life,

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the the description of the believer's life, and the destiny

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of the believer's life. It is instantaneously, it's just like boom,

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someone us. Now I am going to go in a

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completely I'm gonna challenge this in a dramatic way. But

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let's at least let him take this just We're not

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gonna listen to a.

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Lot of this. I'm already baffled here.

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So this is a sermon where he's reading someone else's sermon,

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and someone else's sermon took some one and instantaneously made

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it about us.

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Here we go.

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The first question we need to ask tonight is why

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Psalm one is Psalm one? Why is it placed here

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first ahead of every other Psalm?

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All right, now, that's a good question. I like that.

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I like that. Why is Psalm one Psal one? Why

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is it go.

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Before all the others? I think that's a great question.

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I love good hermeneutical and interpretive questions. I'm gonna be

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curious of his answer right now. If the Psalm is

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about us, then I'm assuming the answer.

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Is going to have something to do with us.

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But if the answer doesn't have anything to do with us,

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then all right, we'll see how this goes.

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And the church today we need help with praise. So

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why is in Psalm one fifty ps one? And we

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need to learn to worship? So why is in Psalm

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one hundred or ninety five Psalm one? What could be

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more winsome than plastering the of God across the front

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page of the Psalter. So why isn't Psalm one O

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three at the beginning? Maybe we need to show how

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it tuned the Psalms are to human needs and troubles.

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the breakdown in family life, maybe Psalm one twenty eight

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should be here. Or perhaps we first need a grand

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view of the majesty and wonders of God, so we

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think Psalm one thirty nine should be Psalm one. So

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why is Psalm one Psalm one? Because it packs a

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matter of such supreme importance in this song. Two ways,

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two humanities, two destinies are clearly spelled out. If you

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turn to Matthews Chapter seven, Verses thirteen and fourteen, we

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see Jesus. We see where Jesus summed up the concern

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of Psalm one, says enter by the narrow gate.

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All right, So his he's claiming that Jesus and Matthew

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seven is summarizing the concern in Psalm one. Now is

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the purpose of some one and the purpose of Matthew

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seven the same. Now, Matthew seven. Is that a part

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of the sermon on the mound now?

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Get there's a lot of interpretive assertions being made there, right,

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I'm not gonna.

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I'm not gonna right now. I could get way off

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track here and I could start doing a little bit

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of work.

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some one? Is he reading someone into Matthew seven? Or

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is it just like, well, these two passages seem to

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have described two different ways or two different paths, So

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I'm just going to just put them together because they seem.

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Again, I death by cross reference sometimes bothers me. I'm

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not saying that this should not be something, should that

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sh and be investigated. And maybe he's a well, it's

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not him onto something. The sermon he is reading could

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be onto something, but we'll let it go a little further. Again,

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he's making it all about us or not him. The

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sermon he's reading is making.

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It all about us.

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Let's we'll just let it play out and then we'll

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we'll take this apart.

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For the gate is wide, and the way is easy

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that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it

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are many. For the gate is narrow, and the way

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is hard that leads to life, and those who find

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it are few. Psalm one depicts this in terse, stark,

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black and white, as if announcing let the clarity begin.

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The Psalm is saying to you, nothing is so crucial

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as you're belonging to the congregation of the righteous. The

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Psalm contrasts the righteous and the wicked. We will not

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ignore the contrast, but will develop the teaching from the

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angle of the righteous or believing person. This brings us

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to our first point, the direction of the believer's life.

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Notice what the Psalm highlights about the direction of the

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believer's life and verses one and two. Here the Psalm

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shows where the righteous man gets his signals for living,

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what drives him and moves him and leads him along,

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and as if he has no concern whatsoever for decent marketing.

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righteous man is described by what he shuns. The happy man,

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or the man enjoying God's blessing is the separated man,

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a man who is not in neutral, but who has

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a biased against evil in all of its forms. The

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three clauses are meant to say that the righteous man

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rejects the totality of evil. However, Allah, Derek Kinder, we

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can categorize these matters a bit.

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Okay, he's just reading someone else's sermon. This is the

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craziest thing I've ever seen. Okay, it would be one

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thing if you were reading maybe a historical sermon, like

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you know, I'm gonna read from Spurgeon. I'm gonna read

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from Calvin or Augustin or Tertullian or Afthanacius or I mean,

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like maybe maybe pulling from some early church father and

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I'd be very difficult and worthy to read. But Okay,

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it's just weird. He's reading someone who's pretty pretty relatively modern.

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I think the person may having to actually be alive.

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It's just I don't get it. I don't get I

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don't understand what is happening, right, So he's just reading it.

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That's why it's only like twenty minutes long. He's just

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gonna read right through this. There's no expounding taking a part,

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but you can already hear the basic premise. Hey guys,

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someone is what you are supposed to do, and the

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implication is you can do it. Someone tells you what

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to do and the implication is this is.

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What we must do, and this is what we can do. Now.

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I completely reject it outright from right there, all right,

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I think this is very important most pastors. Most pastors

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typically read someone as a prescriptive text, where the believer

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is viewed as being fully capable of obeying and thereby

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receiving the blessing. It's like, hey, you want to be happy,

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you want to be blessed, you want to have this

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wonderful life, Well.

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You have to do this.

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Well you don't do this, and you do this. That's

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the way it's typically preached in church after church after church.

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It's how I was taught as a teenager. If I

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want blessing, I will not do this, and I will

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do this. It's prescriptive. That's how it's constantly to do this. Now,

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I will argue all the sermons who approach someone as

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a prescriptive text that.

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We can obey, that we can accomplish it.

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One thousand percent fails to account for both human depravity

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and the reality that no one, not one person, apart

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from Jesus Christ himself, has ever perfectly fulfilled the law

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of God.

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No one has, no one.

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Has delighted in God's law anywhere close to perfect Well,

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no one, and we play this game. Oh wait, to

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be blessed, you have to meditate on God's law day

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and night. So what do we say, will have a

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morning devotional and doing the evening.

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See, that's that's that's that's that's a that's a that's

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day and night.

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There you go, you'll do a little morning devotional, you'll

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and then you'll do a little night time Even if

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you go with that, that fulfills it. Then if you

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do a morning devotional, you do a nighttime devotional.

475
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That fulfills it.

476
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:44.079
Even if you were to go with that concept. You

477
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know how many Christians do not do morning and evening devotionals.

478
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So then that means no one is blessed. And if

479
00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:58.519
the kid a blessing is meditating on God's day, day

480
00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:01.200
and night. The wand To Church only have services on

481
00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:03.839
Sunday or why do they only have services on Sunday

482
00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.160
and Wednesday? You think the church would be open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

483
00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.920
They would be open in the morning, in the afternoon,

484
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in the evening. Because the way of blessing is coming

485
00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.480
to meditate on God's word. So if you're gonna make

486
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.400
this a requirement that we can do well, then you

487
00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:30.519
can't water down the requirement. I think the problem if

488
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.799
you look at what someone's describing, it describes the ideal.

489
00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:36.960
The righteous man who delights in the law of Lord,

490
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.640
meditates on it day and night, and they prosper in

491
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:44.079
everything they do because they are being blessed because they

492
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:44.720
are well.

493
00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:45.920
Guess what they're not doing.

494
00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.440
They're not walking in the council, they're not standing in

495
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:49.960
the way of sinners, they're not sitting in the seat

496
00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:52.160
of this coreful. I mean, you have to do it,

497
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:53.920
not do and do all of this stuff, but you

498
00:27:53.920 --> 00:28:01.640
would have to do it perfectly. No fallen human being,

499
00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:07.480
and I'm gonna be I'm gonna scream this. No fallen

500
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:14.519
human being meets this standard, not even believers. No one

501
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:20.440
meets the standard. Not you, not your spouse, not your pastor,

502
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:24.720
not your small group leader, not your Sunday school teacher,

503
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:29.799
not your kids, not your neighbors, not your friends, not me,

504
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.400
No one on the sermon's two point oh app nowhere

505
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:38.160
on Christian YouTube, no one meets it. And if anyone

506
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:48.359
thinks that they do. They're literally insane. If Psalm one

507
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.680
is read basically like a checklist, Hey, this is how

508
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.079
you get blessing, then it will place the weight of

509
00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.000
obedience on you. It will place the weight of obedience

510
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.240
on me, which ultimately will lead to either are you

511
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:08.839
ready for this? It will lead to either self righteousness

512
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:12.319
because you'll think you're succeeding. You're gonna You're gonna have

513
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:14.839
to convince yourself. You're gonna have to become self righteous.

514
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.440
I do this.

515
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.640
I don't walk into council, I don't stand, I don't sit.

516
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:23.240
I meditate on God's law day and night. And you

517
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:27.079
have to elevate and convince yourself, wrap yourself in a

518
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.720
facade of self righteousness so that you think you pull

519
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:32.680
it off. And if you think it you pull it off,

520
00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:38.039
you are delusional. You are delusional because you have a

521
00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:46.240
corrupt nature inside of you. So you either have to

522
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:50.519
wrap yourself in a row of fraudulent self righteousness. You

523
00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:52.920
have to pretend and think and convince yourself that you're

524
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.759
actually doing it, or you know what it.

525
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.799
Us also can lead to.

526
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:01.319
It will either lead self righteousness or it leads to

527
00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:04.359
complete and total despair.

528
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:06.559
Because you know what, you're gonna.

529
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:13.519
Realize Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, just this week, you're

530
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:20.599
gonna realize you're failing. You're gonna realize you don't do it.

531
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:25.680
You're gonna realize you're never going.

532
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:29.240
To pull it off. Never. Never.

533
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.160
You meditate on God's word day and night. Meditate on

534
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:36.200
God's word.

535
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.839
Day and night. You know how many times things.

536
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:40.960
In your life gets in the way you and you're

537
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.079
more preoccupied with this, and you're more preoccupied with that,

538
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.559
and you're focused on your desires, You're focused on your wants,

539
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:58.359
you're focused on self. I mean, wait, next Friday is

540
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:03.279
Valentine's Day. People will be focused on their once, their desires. Now,

541
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:06.000
I'm not saying that's necessarily bad. I'm just saying it's

542
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:09.319
far different than Hey, I'm gonna meditate on God's word

543
00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:09.960
day and night.

544
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:11.160
I'm gonna focus on that.

545
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:13.359
I'm only gonna focus And people say, well, no, it

546
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:16.359
doesn't really mean that. Yeah, because you got to lower

547
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:19.599
the standard so it somehow fits all the things you

548
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.839
want to do. Super Bowls on Sunday, right, so.

549
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.000
People are gonna be focused on that. Everyone.

550
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.319
It's amazing that we can fit in all the stuff

551
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:28.880
we want to do, and all the things we love

552
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:31.000
to do, and all of our desire, and all our

553
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:35.599
desire for pleasure and this and for family, for intimacy,

554
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:37.960
we can we can pursue all of that, but somehow

555
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:44.640
convince ourselves that we meditate on God's word day and night.

556
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.920
That we delight in it above everything else.

557
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:51.759
Come on now that we that we desire the word

558
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.920
of God more than gold and silver, more than food.

559
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.759
We love God with all of our heart. We love

560
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:00.960
We love God above everything else. Our whole life is

561
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.279
given to God. We speak a big game, maybe on

562
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.319
a Sunday, but and as life plays itself out, well,

563
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.359
it's about It's about me, it's about us.

564
00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:11.160
It's about us.

565
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.880
It's about us, it's about us. I mean, just think

566
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:19.920
about how self centered we are. Sometimes in conversations we

567
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.880
it's all about us, us us us, us us us us.

568
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:26.319
And we barely even acknowledge anybody else in the conversation

569
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.920
where we're self seeking. We like situations where I get

570
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:34.079
what I want, I get what I need. I don't

571
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.079
know if anybody else does, but I get what I want.

572
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:43.200
That it is so common to the human condition. If

573
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:47.599
you make some one, Hey, here a prescriptive list and

574
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.480
how to become blessed. Now, I will argue it is

575
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.160
a prescriptive list in this way.

576
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.200
It gives you law.

577
00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:59.480
That law, shows you your inability to do it, condemns you,

578
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.799
makes you find yourself in the pit of despair, going

579
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:04.880
I'm never going to be blessed. I'm never going to

580
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.720
do this. And then you hear the beautiful words of

581
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:15.279
the Gospel, where you hear of Jesus Christ, who did

582
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:18.119
not walk in the council of the ungodly, he did

583
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:20.880
not stand in the way of sinners, he did not

584
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:25.240
sit in the seat of the scornful. His delight was

585
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:28.160
in the law of the Lord, and he did meditate

586
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:34.079
on it day and night. And you're like, oh, that's awesome.

587
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.799
And guess what.

588
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.880
When you put your faith in him, his obedience to

589
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.440
this is accredited to your account.

590
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:42.480
And then guess what.

591
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:46.240
In him you are blessed with all spiritual blessings. So

592
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:49.799
all the blessings are not based off your obedience to this,

593
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:54.559
but Christ's obedience to it. That's a law and gospel understanding.

594
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:54.799
Of the Psalm.

595
00:33:56.519 --> 00:34:02.799
If you want to make it about us. So Christ

596
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.359
is the blessed man. Christ is the blessed man and

597
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.639
someone just as Christ is the blessed person in the Beatitudes.

598
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:16.960
But as I was listening to that entire sermon, it

599
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:18.559
makes it all about us, makes it all about you

600
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.599
could say, you could tell it's all about us. It's

601
00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:23.880
about all It's the whole idea behind that Psalm is

602
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:26.760
it's about us, and we can do it. We just

603
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.639
have to do it, and if we do, we get

604
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:32.440
the blessing. All right, It's the typical. There's nothing unique

605
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:34.559
about that. The only thing unique about that sermon is

606
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:36.840
it's a sermon where someone is reading someone else's sermon,

607
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.440
which is just kind of bizarre, right, I don't even know, Like,

608
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:41.559
even if I was to read someone else's sermon, I'd

609
00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:44.079
be stopping five hundred and twenty seven times to offer

610
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:47.000
ideas and thoughts and conjecture and questions.

611
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:48.599
It's just interesting. Oh, but.

612
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:55.360
Here's where I wanted to get to. I'm gonna throw

613
00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:00.360
it out as a question. Do you think think it

614
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:11.039
is possible that Psalm one should be interpreted as speaking

615
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:17.599
to Israel and their covenant relationship with God? Is it

616
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:24.119
possible that we should keep our selves out of Psalm one,

617
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.079
and we should understand Psalm one as being spoken to

618
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:36.239
Israel in the context of their covenant relationship with God.

619
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.320
I think not only is it possible, I think it's plausible,

620
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:48.119
and I think the church at large, for some weird reason,

621
00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:49.639
never even.

622
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:51.599
Entertains this approach.

623
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:56.159
So I had to utilize AI at this point, Right,

624
00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:01.639
I was gonna start structuring out my heart hermonutical challenge

625
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:02.639
to everyone else.

626
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:05.320
But I'm like, well, maybe I'm wrong here, So.

627
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:09.559
Let me because I many times I bring my possible hermonutical,

628
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.559
you know, approach to a text AI, and AI will say,

629
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:13.639
a year out of your mind?

630
00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:14.280
What is this?

631
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:14.519
This is?

632
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.800
It doesn't say it exactly like that, but it will

633
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.079
push back and challenge me. So I asked AI, Hey,

634
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:23.119
do you think this is possible? Here's what AI said,

635
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:28.360
It is very possible. I'm like, WHOA, I got a

636
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:32.480
very possible. That's all right, Maybe I'm on to something.

637
00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:36.760
Now I love this. AI said, it is very possible

638
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:43.079
and even likely. WHOA, I've got a very possible and

639
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:46.440
then even likely. I'm like, I'm on to something here,

640
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:49.199
I'm on to something. All right, great, all right.

641
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:50.639
Now I know look, I know this.

642
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.320
I know, this blows up all the years you've heard

643
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:55.920
sermon after sermon after someone you've talked about how great

644
00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.079
the sermon was. You probably went to the pastor my

645
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.320
law goss approach to someone already blows that up. For

646
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:05.360
many people. I'm about to just ruin some one for you.

647
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:09.840
I'm about to utterly, absolutely ruin it for you. But

648
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.679
at least AI says it's even possible and likely. And

649
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:15.599
one of the reasons I love AI as a tool.

650
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.440
And I don't know why Christians. I still think Christians

651
00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:21.280
don't understand the amazing things. See just if I just

652
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:24.159
did a search on Google for things about someone, I'm

653
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:28.000
just gonna get all the standard answers, right, It's just

654
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.280
going to give me this link, this article, this sermon,

655
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:35.039
and it's just the same tired stuff that's been said

656
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.360
a million times that I think in many cases is

657
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:38.519
extremely wrong.

658
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.480
At Least with AI, I can bring.

659
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.599
A hermoneutical approach and it will It will engage me,

660
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.679
challenge me, agree or disagree that that's amazing. And only

661
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:52.880
that you see, now, if I go to other people,

662
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.320
if I was to go to other people and say, hey,

663
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:56.719
what about this about.

664
00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:58.440
Someone they'd be like, you're I'm your right of your mind?

665
00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.239
What are you talking about that?

666
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.599
We just immediately disagree with me and get defensive. So

667
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:05.559
then those conversations are usually a waste of time. But

668
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:09.440
with Ai, it's like, hey, it's very possible, it's even likely.

669
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:12.679
Well, why is it possible and likely? Here's what AI said.

670
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:19.719
It is likely that someone should be interpreted primarily in

671
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.880
the context of Israel and their covenant relationship with God.

672
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:32.920
This approach aligns with how blessing and curses function within

673
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:39.199
the framework of the Mosaic Covenant. Yes, I know, I

674
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.239
don't know why anybody else doesn't see this. Everything about

675
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:48.920
someone screams Mosaic Covenant. Remember when we did the study

676
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:52.079
on the dispensations, and for all the dispensations, we also

677
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:53.239
looked at all the covenants.

678
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:54.119
Remember that.

679
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:57.239
Remember that was a very important study. You need to

680
00:38:57.239 --> 00:38:57.719
go back.

681
00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:58.719
And listen to all of that.

682
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:01.760
Well, if you were, remember the Mosaic Covenant. Even in

683
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.159
our study of eschatology, we talked about some of these

684
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:04.880
things as well.

685
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.960
Right, we still need to finish the Dividic Covenant there, all.

686
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.519
Right, But and the framework of the Mosaic Covenant as

687
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:12.559
soon as you think. If you read Psalm one and

688
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.119
you don't, your mind immediately, this is a weird thing.

689
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:20.280
How can Christians read Psalm one and think about us

690
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.840
and not read some one and go? That's Deuteronomy twenty eight,

691
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.760
twenty nine thirty. But the Church trains you to read

692
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.840
some one and go the believer's direction, the believer's description,

693
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.480
the believer's destiny.

694
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:42.480
How about the believers nothing? How about Psal one? Mosaic Covenant?

695
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:50.159
All day, every day, so Ai says, look at someone.

696
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:54.400
And the context of the Mosaic Covenant. Psalm one presents

697
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.480
a contrast between the righteous and the wicked, describing how

698
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.880
the righteous men is blessed and the wicked are judged.

699
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:06.039
This structure mirrors the blessings and curses found in Deuteronomy

700
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:11.119
twenty eight and Leviticus twenty six, where Israel was explicitly

701
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:15.679
told that obedience to God's law would bring prosperity, stability,

702
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:22.039
and security. Well, disobedience would bring judgment and exiles. It's

703
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:28.679
literally Deuteronomy twenty eight Leviticus twenty six in poetic form.

704
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:34.679
That's what it is.

705
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.199
It drives me, It drives me crazy, all right?

706
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.320
Then, Ai.

707
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.079
Ai quotes this blessed is the man who walks not

708
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.960
in the Council of the Wickeds on one one. This

709
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:53.280
echoes the covenantal expectation that Israel was to separate from

710
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:58.119
nations and walk according to God's law, exactly what God

711
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.880
told Israel to do. Don't walk out after other nations.

712
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:02.440
Don't be like other nations.

713
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:05.199
You follow my law. Don't be like them.

714
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.760
Separate yourself from them, don't enter marry with them, stay

715
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separate from them, walk not in the council of the

716
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:18.599
ungodly verse three. He is like a tree planted by

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00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.159
streams of water. In the Old Testament, Israel is often

718
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:24.480
depicted as a tree or vineyard that was meant to

719
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.360
bear fruit through obedience, and they reference Isaiah five and

720
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:36.400
Jeremiah seventeen Isaiah five and Jeremiah seventeen. Let me state

721
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.639
it again. In the Old Testament, Israel is often depicted

722
00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:41.519
as a tree or vineyard that was meant to bear

723
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:43.880
fruit through obedience.

724
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:49.079
So it's even using.

725
00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:51.639
Imagery that would already be used in the Old Testament

726
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:55.599
that would kind of point you not to you, but

727
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:02.719
to Israel. Are like chef and the wind, or that

728
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.519
the wind drives away Psawm one four. This reflects the

729
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.960
judgment themes found throughout the Prophets, where Israel or the

730
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.920
nations was warned about being scattered like chef if they

731
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turned away from God. You see this in Hoseiah chapter

732
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:21.760
thirteen and Daniel chapter two, verse thirty five.

733
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:26.039
So the tree imagery, the.

734
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:30.039
Chef in imagery all used in the Old Testament not

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00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:35.360
about you, but in relation to Israel and other nations

736
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.719
and blessings and cursing that came with obedience or disobedience

737
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:47.119
to the law. Thus, this is what Ai says. I'm

738
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:52.079
quoting directly. Psalm one may not primarily be about individual

739
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:56.320
believers in any era, but rather about Israel as a

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00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.760
corporate people under the Mosaic covenant or obedience led to

741
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:04.400
bl blessing in the land, and disobedience led to exile.

742
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.039
And that's exactly what happened. If you obey, you get

743
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:10.920
the land. Everything's wonderful, everything is great.

744
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You disobey.

745
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:23.719
Curses, no provision, exile, captivity. Psal one is the poetic

746
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:31.760
expression of everything Israel needed to be reminded of. Now,

747
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.760
if someone is rooted in Israel's covenantal framework, then the

748
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.800
failure of Israel to fully embody the blessed man becomes evident.

749
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:43.480
Just as Israel failed to keep the law and suffered exile,

750
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:48.719
no individual Israelite except Christ could fully live up to

751
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:54.280
the standard Psalm one sense. This interpretation strengthens Christological reading

752
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:58.920
Jesus as the true and faithful Israel fulfilled the law perfectly.

753
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:02.159
Matthew five said, s he is the true blessed man,

754
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who delighted in the law day and night. He took

755
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upon himself the curse of disobedience Galatians three thirteen. Even

756
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though he was perfectly righteous in him, we received the

757
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:18.719
blessings promised to the righteous Ephesians won three. Israel couldn't

758
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:27.199
Christ did. Israel failed? Christ did not. Now you could argue,

759
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:29.760
not only did it. I mean this is clearly to

760
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.840
be about Israel, but if you want to insert us

761
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:36.280
into it, we are just like Israel. We fail, We fail,

762
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:42.800
and guess what happens under the law. We would get curse, punishment, exiled.

763
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.039
We are like chef thrown into the wind. I mean, what,

764
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.039
however you want to describe it, we would be the

765
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.719
same way. But we look to Christ, who fulfilled it.

766
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.559
Then we are saved and then we become the blessed

767
00:44:55.599 --> 00:44:56.480
man in Christ.

768
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:08.119
But it's about Israel. That's it's focus. That is the focus.

769
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Now I have here an in depth study of PSOne

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from an Israel Covenant interpretive framework.

771
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All right, I can do.

772
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A whole I'll just give you a little bit of

773
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just a little bit of this. I'm skipping way down

774
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.599
in all of my notes here because I've been working

775
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:27.000
on this throughout the morning, because I was just like,

776
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this is crazy. But let's just briefly consider the Mosaic

777
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:35.960
Covenant as the framework for blessing and judgment. Someone must

778
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.800
be read in light of let me state that again,

779
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.719
someone must it must be read in light of Deuteronomy

780
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:48.199
twenty eight through thirty, which outlines the terms of the

781
00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:52.679
Mosaic Covenant. I cannot right here above someone in your Bible.

782
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.199
You need to write Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty. And

783
00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:59.000
if you don't understand Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty, you

784
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.239
have no business interpreting Psalm chapter one. And if you

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00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:06.280
preach someone without mentioning Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty, then

786
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:09.199
you are then taking someone ripping out out of its

787
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historical textual context.

788
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You're making it about us, and then you're probably.

789
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Gonna make it prescriptive and you're gonna lead to either

790
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:21.199
self righteousness or total despair unless you approach someone from

791
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a law gospel perspective. And if you're gonnapproach it from

792
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:25.719
a law gospel perspective, I think you would want to

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go to Deuteronomy twenty eight and thirty because Deuteronomy twenty

794
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eight to thirty demonstrates exactly what's going to happen to

795
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:34.760
anyone who attempts to live under the law, which is

796
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going to be all the curses, which is what Israel

797
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:45.119
constantly God. See in Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty, you

798
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:47.960
have blessings for obedience. Deuteronomy twenty eight one through fourteen.

799
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:53.000
Israel's prosperity, stability, and security in the land all comes

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from from obedience. If they obey, they get all of

801
00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:00.800
those things. See if they obey, they Israel will be

802
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:02.920
like a tree planted by the rivers of water that

803
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.960
bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also

804
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.559
shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

805
00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:10.360
That's speaking of Israel.

806
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:12.599
We want to make it about us, Hey, guys, if

807
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.679
you obey, then everything you do is going to prosper

808
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.400
everything you're gonna do, Oh, life is gonna You're gonna

809
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:20.360
be like a tree planted next to the waters.

810
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:21.239
You're gonna be fed.

811
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.400
Well, now, now what some pastors will do, Well, that

812
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:27.320
doesn't mean like in a physical, materialistic way. It means

813
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.000
in a spiritual way. So I mean, you may obey God,

814
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.960
but you know you still only get cancer. Your spouse

815
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:36.480
may die in front of you, your child may be murdered,

816
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:39.519
you may end up alone, you may end up without,

817
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:43.199
Your life may be trash, but just know spiritually this

818
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:44.920
is true. So then we try to back it up

819
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:46.559
and try to make it just spiritual because we know

820
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:48.840
it doesn't work out in a practical way. Now, some

821
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.880
will try to make it a practical materialistic way, especially

822
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:57.880
prosperity gospel, but the whole thing behinges on your ability

823
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.480
to obey it. Well, if my, my, if God, if

824
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:03.320
I'm even giving the spiritual blessings based on my obedience

825
00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.440
to it, you know where that's gonna lead me. It's

826
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:08.000
gonna lead me to despair because no one is going

827
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.599
to obey this even remotely, right, So that what a

828
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.119
pastors do well, You're not gonna do it perfectly. As

829
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.960
long as you do it somewhat, then you get the blessings.

830
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.679
But if I do it, then it just becomes a mess.

831
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.559
But those blessings for obedience has promised in Deuteronomy twenty

832
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.920
eight one through fourteen. For Israel, they never ultimately get

833
00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:32.159
them because they constantly disobey. Now the curses for disobedience

834
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.559
is outlined in Deuteronomy twenty eight fifteen through sixty eight,

835
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:42.119
National Disaster, exile, and divine judgment. Psalm one reflects the

836
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:46.760
Covenant structure, reinforcing the idea that Israel's well being depended

837
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:55.679
on obedience to God's Torah, God's law, the Torah as

838
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:57.480
Israel's life and source of blessing.

839
00:48:57.559 --> 00:48:59.760
Psalm one two emphasizes.

840
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Delighting in the law of the Lord, which refers to

841
00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:06.119
God's instruction, particularly as given in the Torah Genesis through Deuteronomy.

842
00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:10.039
Deuteronomy six six through nine commands Israel to meditate on

843
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:12.119
God's law day and night, which.

844
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:14.559
Mirrors Saw one two.

845
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.760
Joshua one eight directly connects success and prosperity to meditating

846
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:24.840
on and obeying the law, but that that prosperity that

847
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.199
comes from meditating and obeying the law of God and

848
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.880
Joshua one to eight is about Israel going into the

849
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:36.039
Promised land. Even when they get the promised land, they've

850
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:38.119
got to do all of this stuff in order to

851
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:40.679
be prosperous and all get all the blessings.

852
00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:43.199
Well, guess what they get to the promised land.

853
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:46.519
They're not obedient, and guess what all the curses fall

854
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:49.960
upon them over and over and over because anyone who

855
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.000
places them in a system where obedience to the law

856
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.440
is the key to blessing, they're never going to get

857
00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:59.320
the blessing because the law.

858
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:09.360
Demands perfect.

859
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:12.159
So if we want to start breaking this down Psalm one,

860
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:14.480
Blessed is the man who walks not in the council

861
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.519
of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners,

862
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:21.559
nor sit in the seat of scornful. Blessed implies covenantal blessing,

863
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:27.679
not individual happiness. Blessed is the man. This implies covenantal blessing.

864
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.880
This is the blessing that comes from Deuteronomy twenty eight.

865
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.519
This is covenantal blessing. It's not about Hey, church, this week,

866
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:37.599
we're going to talk about how to be blessed, and

867
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:41.119
how to be happy, all the typical trash sermons that

868
00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:44.760
are preached over and over and over. It completely ignores

869
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:46.199
the whole context.

870
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:46.440
Here.

871
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:51.599
Who walks not in the council of the wicked. The

872
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:56.199
wicked here would be sinners, scoffers. They represent those who

873
00:50:56.239 --> 00:51:02.159
reject God's law, aligning with Deuteronomy's warnings against idolatry and

874
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:06.320
foreign influences. And Deuteronomy they're saying, hey, when you go here,

875
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:08.599
don't listen to them, don't do this, don't do that.

876
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:14.480
It's literally some one is Deuteronomy twenty eight. The progression

877
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:20.800
walks stand and sit mirrors Israel's potential decline into covenantial unfaithfulness.

878
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:28.679
The progression walks, stand, sit mirrors Israel's potential decline into

879
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:34.239
covenant unfaithfulness. If you look at I think, is it Deuteronomy?

880
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:35.800
Let me look here. I don't want to. I don't

881
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:38.000
want to give you the scripture. I gotta verify this.

882
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:39.079
I gotta verify something.

883
00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:47.760
Yeah, Deuteronomy, uh chapter eight, verse nineteen. And it shall

884
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:51.360
be if thou'll do at all forget the Lord thy God,

885
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:57.239
walk after other gods, serve them, worship them. I testify

886
00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.679
against you this day, that you shall surely perish as

887
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.639
a name which the Lord destroyeth before your face. So

888
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:07.280
shall ye perish because you would not obedient, be obedient

889
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.920
unto the voice of the Lord your God. You get

890
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:13.559
the idea of walking serving it. It's not perfect, but

891
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:19.000
it's mirroring in part this. Hey, don't walk, don't stand,

892
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:23.719
don't sit. It's it's the same kind of implication Israel.

893
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:28.440
Don't do, don't walk after, don't listen, don't heed, don't fall,

894
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:34.639
don't take this downward path because you're gonna end up

895
00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:37.400
being destroyed, which is exactly what someone is saying. Someone

896
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.119
mirrors it almost perfectly, all right.

897
00:52:41.159 --> 00:52:41.960
Psalm one too.

898
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.639
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,

899
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.039
and he meditates it day and night. The Torah was

900
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:51.079
given to Israel as their guide for holiness and national stability.

901
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.079
Meditating on the law was not merely a personal practice,

902
00:52:54.239 --> 00:53:00.840
but a corporate and national responsibility. All Rightee, he is

903
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:03.199
like a tree planted by streams of water that yields

904
00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:05.960
its fruit and its season, its leaf does not wither,

905
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.639
and all that he does, he prospers. Israel, as often

906
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:12.400
depicted as a tree or vineyard Isaiah five Jeremiah seventeen.

907
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.639
The tree metaphor aligns with Deuteronomy, where obedience leads to

908
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:21.239
agricultural and economic prosperity. If you look at Deuteronomy, is

909
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:26.480
it chapter eleven. I don't want to give you specific scriptures. Yeah,

910
00:53:26.599 --> 00:53:29.599
Deuteronomy chapter eleven, verse thirteen. It shall come to pass

911
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:33.039
if you shall harken diligently unto my commandments, which I

912
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:35.599
command you this day, to love the Lord your God,

913
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.320
to deserve him with all your heart and with all

914
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.840
your soul, that I will give you the rain of

915
00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:45.519
your land in his due season, the first rain and

916
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:48.639
the latter rain, that thou may gather in the corn,

917
00:53:48.920 --> 00:53:53.280
thine wine and thine oil. I will send grass in

918
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.719
the field for thy cattle. Thou may us eat and

919
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:56.320
be full.

920
00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:57.320
Take heed to.

921
00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.960
Yourselves, that your heart be not deceived. Turn aside and

922
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.000
serve other gods and worship them. Literally, this sounds just

923
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:08.920
like Psalm one. How do people Everyone talks about cross

924
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:12.000
referencing and all of this we go cross reference something

925
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:14.280
that many cases does nothing to help us actually understand

926
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:14.880
the passage.

927
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:17.280
Psalm one is the Book of Deuteronomy.

928
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:23.159
Okay, oh Man the tree metaphor aligns with Deuteronomy eleven

929
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:27.079
thirteen through seventeen, where obedience leads to agricultural and economic prosperity.

930
00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:30.840
This imagery connects to the promised blessing of staying in

931
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:36.320
the land and experiencing divine favor Psalm one four through five.

932
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:39.639
The Covenant curses upon the wicked. The wicked are not so,

933
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:42.679
they're like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the

934
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:45.639
wicked shall not stand in judgment, nor sinners and their.

935
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:46.920
Congregation of the righteous.

936
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:51.199
The wicked being driven away recalls Deuteronomy twenty eight, where

937
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:53.199
disobedience leads to exile.

938
00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:54.519
Not standing in.

939
00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:58.079
Judgment likely refers to God's covenantal judgment, where those who

940
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:02.920
break the covenant face divine wrath Assyria and Babylonian exiles.

941
00:55:03.159 --> 00:55:06.559
The congregation of the righteous refers to faithful Israel, those

942
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:11.159
who remain loyal to the covenant Psalm one six. For

943
00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:13.320
the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the

944
00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.519
way of the wicked will perish knows, and Hebrew is

945
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:21.159
a relational meaning knows like Adam Nu eve right. God's

946
00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:25.199
protective care over his covenant, keeping remnant the way of

947
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:28.760
the wicked perishing reflects covenant judgment, similar to how Israel

948
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:32.400
was warned about destruction if they abandon God in Deuteronomy

949
00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:40.280
chapter thirty, verses fifteen through twenty. Psalm one is about

950
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:46.480
Israel's national destiny, not individual salvation or individuals. Rather than

951
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:49.559
a universal principle for all believers, Psalm one is primarily

952
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about Israel's corporate life under the Mosaic Covenant. It emphasizes

953
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the conditional blessing tied to obedience, the consequences of rejecting

954
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the law, and the contrast between the faithful rem and

955
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those who fall into idolla tree.

956
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There.

957
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I want to call it a new interpretation. It shouldn't

958
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even be new. But we you know why you go

959
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:18.440
to church, and when you walk into church, you know

960
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:23.159
what you know what this should be, This should be

961
00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:27.760
the sign. And most churches enter in to worship self,

962
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.840
enter in to focus on self, enter in to magnify self,

963
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:35.920
enter in to glorify self. I know Christian to be like, No,

964
00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:41.039
we enter in to worship God. No, it's all about us.

965
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And then we go to text after text after text.

966
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Make it about us, Make it about us, make it

967
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about us, make it about us. If you want to

968
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understand Psalm one, understand Deuteronomy twenty eight, you say.

969
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Well, how is it applicable to us?

970
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:03.480
Just as Israel could not survive, could never get the

971
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blessings under that covenant, they failed constantly, we fail under

972
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the law. The law does the same thing for Israel.

973
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:13.599
The law does the same thing for us as it

974
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did for Israel.

975
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:16.320
What is that gives you a.

976
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:21.760
Standard which you cannot keep, which will then reveal your inability.

977
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To keep it?

978
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:26.400
Condemn you lead you to the pit of despair, and

979
00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:29.000
right when you feel like there is no hope, all

980
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:32.840
hope is lost, that you're just going to slide into

981
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:36.840
the abyss of hell and never return from it, then

982
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:41.079
you hear the wonderful words of the Gospel. Christ obeyed

983
00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:46.960
it all for you. He did it all for you

984
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:53.280
and our faith in him. That obedience is imputed to

985
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:55.840
our account. If you want to make it about us,

986
00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:11.079
but it's about Israel first and foremost. There someone, Now,

987
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I went through that quick. I didn't even go through

988
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:14.880
half of my notes there. I was skipping around in

989
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my notes like crazy. I was skipping all over the place.

990
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.719
Now you may disagree with it, I understand that you're

991
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gonna want to make it about us, make it about us.

992
00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:28.320
You probably got you probably want it to be in

993
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:31.000
a more lordship way, right, you want and a more

994
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.920
you know, prescriptive. This prescribes what you're to do. You

995
00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.920
want to be happy you do this, and you because

996
00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:41.039
you approach it from the idea that you can, well,

997
00:58:41.079 --> 00:58:42.719
if you think you can pull it off, then great.

998
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.480
I just think, I think, I think there's I think

999
00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:48.119
reality constantly shows we don't pull it off.

1000
00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:48.679
We don't.

1001
00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:53.719
And I'm just so tired of the Church taking every

1002
00:58:53.800 --> 00:59:01.599
text and making it about us. Maybe we start the

1003
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:03.119
hermoneutical approach this way.

1004
00:59:03.800 --> 00:59:08.760
It's not about you, it's not about me. In almost

1005
00:59:08.760 --> 00:59:15.280
every situation, it's about them. It's about they, not I.

1006
00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:18.679
Not you, not me, not we them they.

1007
00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:25.000
All Right?

1008
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:27.079
That was fun, wasn't it.

1009
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:28.400
Well.

1010
00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:30.880
I mean, I hope you find that somewhat interesting. I'm

1011
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.960
being a little sarcastic there, I think. I mean, I'm

1012
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:39.559
hoping someone's like, whoa, oh wow, oh yeah wow, never

1013
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:43.400
saw that before. That's awesome. I'm hoping someone thinks it's awesome.

1014
00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:46.000
Most people are gonna be like, whatever, he's an idiot.

1015
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:48.920
I don't care, you know, and just go around constantly

1016
00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:50.360
handling someone the way they do.

1017
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And I guess you can.

1018
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:54.320
But if you don't see Deuteronomy twenty eight through thirty,

1019
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in fact, if you don't see the entire book of Deuteronomy,

1020
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and someone I don't know what to tell you, I

1021
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:01.119
give up.

1022
01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:01.559
I don't.

1023
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:08.480
I mean it literally is Deuteronomy, That's what it is.

1024
01:00:12.559 --> 01:00:15.679
Go to any church. I tell everyone to do this

1025
01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:18.559
on Sunday. Walk around, just walk around church. Hey, guys,

1026
01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:21.679
someone is do you think it's about us? And do

1027
01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:23.599
you think the things that tells us not to do

1028
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:26.519
and the things to do that we can avoid doing

1029
01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:28.800
those things and doing the right things.

1030
01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:30.400
Do you think we can do it? Do you think

1031
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:31.199
we can obey it?

1032
01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:35.400
I almost emphatically, I bet you, almost without fail, they're

1033
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.519
gonna say, yeah, it's about us, and yes we can

1034
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:41.719
do it. And then you should just just get in

1035
01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:44.119
your car and drive away, go to the local liquor store,

1036
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:47.039
and then just I don't have a good Sunday because

1037
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.920
but it's sad. That's exactly what's going to happen. Hopefully

1038
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:51.960
my church wouldn't happen.

1039
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:52.760
I'm hoping.

1040
01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:56.280
I'm probably gonna ask on Sunday, and then you're just

1041
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:59.239
if you're gonna hear the message, it's gonna be you're

1042
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:01.800
gonna hear me ask the question. Then all of a sudden,

1043
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:03.880
you're just gonna hear silence. You're gonna hear the door close,

1044
01:01:04.559 --> 01:01:07.920
are open and then close, and then you're gonna hear

1045
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:08.639
the car start.

1046
01:01:09.079 --> 01:01:10.239
And then you're gonna hear me drive off.

1047
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:12.280
And you're like, well, he went to the liquor store,

1048
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:18.320
and you're gonna hear everybody sitting there going where did

1049
01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:18.599
he go?

1050
01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:19.800
What happened? What did we say?

1051
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:20.039
Wrong?

1052
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:22.719
Right?

1053
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:24.880
Okay, maybe it's a little hyperbole.

1054
01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:26.159
All right, You'll have a great day.

1055
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:27.039
Thanks for listening.

1056
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:28.639
Have a great weekend to everyone.

1057
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.519
It is uh Friday, So have a great weekend if

1058
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:34.800
you can. If whatever you if you've got good things

1059
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:36.679
going on in your life, make the best of it,

1060
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:40.239
be happy for it, celebrate that. And for those whose

1061
01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:45.679
situations may not be as well as great, well, I wish,

1062
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:48.719
I wish things would be different, but I the one

1063
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:50.920
thing is, I can't promise you that if you if

1064
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:53.679
you start being a good person and you obey really good,

1065
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:56.760
everything's good, You're gonna be like a tree planted by water,

1066
01:01:56.800 --> 01:01:59.280
and everything's gonna be great, and everything's going to prosper

1067
01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:01.440
even if if you try to make that spiritual and

1068
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:03.039
not in a material way.

1069
01:02:03.559 --> 01:02:04.960
I can't promise you anything.

1070
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:07.639
I know this that in Christ, though, you have all

1071
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.239
spiritual blessings, all spiritual blessings in Christ. So then if

1072
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.719
you have all spiritual blessings in Christ, then to make

1073
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.400
Psal one a way to get spiritual blessings by your

1074
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:23.400
obedience makes no sense since I already have all spiritual

1075
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.760
blessings in Christ, meaning I don't have to do anything

1076
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:28.000
to get the spiritual blessings in some one since I

1077
01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:29.440
already have all spiritual blessings.

1078
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:30.239
So then you would have to.

1079
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:35.360
Make some one material physical blessing. Well, then what happens

1080
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:37.760
when you're obedient and you don't get all the Yeah,

1081
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:41.679
then everything falls apart. I mean again, sometimes when you

1082
01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:46.039
just ask basic logical questions a lot of Christian Christian thought,

1083
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:50.039
it really shows how broken it is. All right, thanks

1084
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:51.679
for listening everyone, of a great day, God bless