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930. Bible Study: Psalm 16 (El, YHWH, Adonai, a personal message to Him) · Faith by annm2705

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Psalm 16 from the book of Psalms.
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First, let's pray. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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we read through these verses that David wrote and let your
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Holy Spirit open our eyes, our ears, our hearts to what you
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have to say. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So I will read through this first and then I will go through
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the study Bibles, questions and answers, and then I will just
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talk a little bit. I don't have a lot to say about
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this this chapter, so we will just get started right away.
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Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.
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I say to the Lord. You are my Lord.
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Apart from you I have no good thing.
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I say of the holy people who are in the land.
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They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.
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Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
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I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods, or take up
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their names on my lips. Lord, You alone are my portion
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and my cup. You make my lot secure.
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The boundary lines have fallen for me in present places.
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Surely I have a delightful inheritance.
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I will praise the Lord who counsels me.
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Even at night. My heart instructs me.
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I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
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With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
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Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices.
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My body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me
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to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one
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see decay. You make known to me the path of
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life. You will fill me with joy in
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your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
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And that's the end of Psalm 16. So here is what the study Bible
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says. It's the title of David.
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Some scholars associate Psalm 16 and 30 with the dedication of
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the Citadel, David's palace on Zion.
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David regarded the palace as God's pledge of the stability
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and exaltation of his Kingdom. Apparently a severe illness or
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mortal danger had delayed him from moving into the new
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building. Does the question, does knowing
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God enable us to enjoy our possessions in a unique way?
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David considered his relationship with God to be the
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most important dimension of of his life.
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Since God desired the best for David and provided for his
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welfare, David recognized every blessing, every good thing in
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life as a gift from God. In addition, the gifts we
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receive from God are a trust. They are ultimately owned by
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God. Knowing this frees us from being
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possessed by our possessions. Who qualifies us as holy people?
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Holy is often applied to God himself when referring to
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people. The word does not mean sinless
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perfection. Rather, it means those who are
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God's people set apart through dedication and service to God.
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What were libations of blood? Blood of sacrifices poured on
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altars? David was declaring his
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allegiance to the Lord. He would never make sacrifices
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to other gods. How was God portion and cup to
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David? Guest at ancient banquets
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received their portion of food and their cup of drink.
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David was expressing satisfaction with his lot in
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life by comparing God to the host of a banquet and that we
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see that pattern continue we're on in Scripture in other parts
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in the New Testament and a lot of people talk about the wedding
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supper of the lamb, the wedding feast.
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There's a lot of that and, and, and the cup is also can also, I
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mean, the cup was symbolic of a marital covenant between a
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person. The Galilean wedding, the
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groomsmen or the bridegroom would give the cup to the person
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that he was going to be engaged to, and if she would drink from
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it, that means she accepted his cup and they were in a covenant
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relationship through that. And then he would go to prepare
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a place for her, similar to what Jesus was saying to his
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disciples about what he was going to do.
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So we'll go back to this. How did David's heart instruct
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him even at night? Perhaps David meant that long
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after he had meditated on the Word of God, his inner being
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continued to apply it. God's word.
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Word affected even his subconscious mind.
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He may have been recalling the times when, as a shepherd alone
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at night under the stars, he had marvelled at God's handiwork.
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David's nightly meditations may have inspired several psalms.
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This is interesting because I guess I'll just talk about it
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now. It says, I will praise the Lord
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who counsels me even at night, my heart instructs me.
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So it does seem like it's David's heart that is
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instructing him at, at night, like his thoughts and things.
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And I will praise the Lord who counsels me like he's getting
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the counseling from the Lord. And I find this very
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interesting, like even at night my heart instructs me.
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So last night, ironically, I had a dream that was symbolic and a
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metaphor of things. And it was kind of a warning, a
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personal warning to me from God. And I understood it because
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these sorts of things started happening when I decided that I
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would no longer live like a hypocrite and that I would be
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serious about my commitment to God.
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And then I got baptized and it was the night of my baptism that
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dreams started coming. And I've had over hundreds of
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dreams and many of them had the name of Jesus.
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They they were either encouraging about biblical
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truths. They were things that I wasn't
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familiar with it, but were in the Bible that I would research
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and say, is that really in the Bible?
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There were scriptural verses that would come to me that I
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didn't have memorized and truths that were repeated in multiple
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dreams. One dream would build upon
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another dream and they would be separated by weeks or months.
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I would also start to see a scene from a dream in my real
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life. That's what really kind of
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startled me at the beginning of this was, wow, I saw this in a
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dream and now I'm seeing this in real life.
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The whole dream didn't play out, but only a scene did.
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And that's when I started thinking, I think there's
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something more to this than just me and my imagination at night.
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And so when I read this in Psalm 16 about I will praise the Lord
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who counsels me even at night, my heart instructs me, it is
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true that God does speak to us in at night.
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And I do believe that he does these things.
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You know, I've received warnings, I've received
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encouragement, I've received Bible verses, All sorts of
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things have happened. And this is over since 2021 and
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and it continues today. And it's one of those things
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that is special. I don't, I don't ever know when
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they're going to come. And it felt like it's been a
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while since I've had a dream and all of a sudden, I mean, it's
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really only been maybe a month or so, but all of a sudden it
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came and I actually had two different short dreams.
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So, but the point is that God does these little things, not
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little, they're big really, but he communicates with us and, and
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it's something that is so special that in so many
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different ways and he communicates with people in
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different ways. But when you see it reflected in
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the Psalms and David, who was known as a man after God's own
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heart, I mean, I want to be that person too.
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I want to be, you know, a, a woman after God's heart, you
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know, like, and, and so it's, it's kind of reassuring to see
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this and to see David's relationship.
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I remember when I first read Psalms, I thought about David
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and I thought, God, how can he feel like that?
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Like that's so strange to me and it seems so far away from how I
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would feel Like I, I know like one of the verses, I don't have
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verses memorized very well. I paraphrase a lot of them.
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But he said something about like your, your commands are, you
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know, wonderful or something like that.
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And I was like, what How would you say that?
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Because at the time I was like really struggling with some
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things. And, and so to hear that David
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was saying, Oh, I love all your, your, your laws, your precepts
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that, you know, like I meditate on them all the time.
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And I remember thinking, gosh, wow, that's different.
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And now I'm becoming that. And, and it is, it's also
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interesting. I listened to another podcast
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this morning and and they were talking about abiding in Christ
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and a few podcasts ago, I what it I had covered on the podcast
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was what in him meant in Christ. And you know, abiding in Christ
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is another way of saying that as well.
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And they came along with similar topics.
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And it made me wonder, you know, is the Holy Spirit speaking to
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us about abiding in him, abiding in Christ and having that close
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relationship? And the podcast talked about the
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way that you abide in Christ is being in his word.
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And certainly that is my goal, to stay in the Word.
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I was in the word yesterday, but I didn't do a podcast because I
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spent so much time doing something else that was
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preparational in in the word. But it is so important every day
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to be in the word. And that's the whole reason why
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I actually do this podcast for me to be accountable and also
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for others. Hopefully it's beneficial to
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someone else as well. And anyway, let's go back to a
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couple more questions and answers.
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It says nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
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The apostles of the New Testament saw David's words as a
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prophetic allusion to the resurrection of the Messiah.
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And that's found in Acts chapter 2 and also Acts chapter 13.
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So they, they saw this, that about this foreshadowing or
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this, I guess, almost like a vision of what the future would
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be relative to Jesus, who is a descendant from King David, from
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the tribe of Judah. What did David mean when he
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wrote that God would not abandon him to the realm of the dead?
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David was probably thanking God for his protection and for
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sparing him from death. But David also spoke of eternal
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pleasures, which indicates that he anticipated being with God
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forever after death. So isn't that incredible that
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this was revealed to David back in, you know, the BC time frame
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way before Christ was here on earth and told everyone about
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the resurrection and, and proved that it was true by him doing
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that. But David was aware of it.
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This is how God can speak to us. Like David didn't have the
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evidence of Jesus for his belief he was a descendant of David,
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but he had this relationship with God.
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God chose him. If you remember how David came
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to be king, God was not happy with Saul's disobedience.
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And so he he said, no, Saul's not going to do this anymore.
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God appoints kings, he appoints leaders and he takes them away
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too. And so at this time Saul was
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being disobedient to God. And so God decided I'm going to
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have David. So he had Samuel go and find his
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replacement, Saul's replacement. And David's own family didn't
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even put him forth. He had other brothers and his
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father Jesse put all these people in front of him, all of
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his his sons and and Samuel, he was waiting for the Lord to let
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him know which one was to be king and none of them.
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And so Samuel asked the dad, he's like, well, are there any
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others? And they're like, oh, there's
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David, but he's little. He's out in, you know, with the
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field and he's out with the sheep.
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And, you know, they were kind of like dismissing him.
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And so he's like, no, call him in here.
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And so he came in and that was the one he was the one, the
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Lord. He was the chosen one.
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That's also evidence of God having plans, specific people
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for a special purpose. And David was one of those
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people where God chose him out of all the people that he was
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going to do something with him. And David wasn't a perfect
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person. He was consistently after God's
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own heart, but it didn't mean that he was holy or anything
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like that. He committed adultery.
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He had the woman's white, the woman's husband killed in war
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and then he had a he suffered the consequence, his child that
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when he impregnated her died and that was devastating to him.
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But then her next child, Solomon, I think it might have
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been the next child. I don't know the birth order,
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but one of their children, Solomon, then he became a king
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and the descendant and he was both good and bad too.
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So not all of the people that are the histories are the
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ancestors were none of them were perfect people like another
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study that I had done. No one is good but God.
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God alone is good. But even though David gets a lot
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of time in the Bible where people talk about him, he was
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not perfect and but God had a special purpose for him.
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And God may have a special purpose for you and it's
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important to seek God because God will let you know what that
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is. And God the Holy Spirit will
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encourage you in that way. And, and others will see that
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that is something that you seem to be gifted in the gifts of the
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Spirit. That's what God gives people
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when he has a plan for them or a purpose for them.
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In fact, all of us have a purpose.
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It's whether or not we seek God and find out what that is.
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So also, as the podcast this morning said, you know, you
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don't want to waste your life here on earth because God does
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have a purpose for you. So it's important to find out
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what your purpose is and God will reveal it to you anyway.
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I think that is that is all that it will all the questions and
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answers that are covered in the study Bible.
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I'm going to go back to what I had mentioned before about
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looking at God and Lord and this time is is interesting because
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it seems like most of the references lately have been if
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you want to say Jehovah or Yahweh or the way we may want to
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really say it. And this is something that just
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came in my mind today was and when that was spelled.
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It's a pronunciation thing. If you want to say that Yehovah
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is like a current modern way of Hebrew saying that.
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But apparently in the ancient times, the the IT sounded like
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AW instead of the V. So Yahweh is the way scholars
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say should be the pronunciation of it, but I think that's even
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incorrect. And I don't know that anyone
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really knows what it is except the original people who heard it
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from God. I guess that was what Moses who
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heard it first, the name of God, that it will be his name
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forever. But if there's only four letters
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and there are no vowels, anything else that we put in
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there is human messing with things.
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And while there may be good intentions with that, it does
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lead us down the wrong path. So perhaps everyone who's saying
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Yehovah or Yahweh, perhaps everybody is wrong and perhaps
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it's actually that's it, not it. I mean, that's, that's this.
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That's the completeness of it. Maybe it is someone once said
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this because I didn't come up with it, but someone once said
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it's almost like a breath. It sounds like a breath.
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And I think that's really interesting because God is
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Spirit. The spirit is called Ruach.
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And I'm not saying that correctly, but RUAH.
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And that is also a reference to the spirit or to wind.
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So it's also like that life giving breath.
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And a lot of times names were a description of someone.
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And since God is spirit, it would make sense that his name
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would sound like that would be like or, you know, just like a
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breath. That's what it sounds like and
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that's kind of hard to say in a sentence.
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You know, it's almost like downs rather than a name.
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And God would be set apart, wouldn't he?
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His name maybe isn't like ours. Maybe his is just like a breath
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and that's what his name is. So I, I don't know how to refer
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to God after thinking about this, but it would make most
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sense to say like the the breath like like that's it sounds like
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a breeze. So OK, going back to the
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beginning of Psalm 16, it says keep me safe, my God.
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Now this is interesting because it is ale El is the word in
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Hebrew singular form of God. Very interesting.
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So David speaking, I believe to the Father singularly in this
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one. Keep me safe, my God, for in you
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I take refuge. Then it says I say to and then
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he goes by name. You are.
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That's interesting because I don't know if I looked at verse
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2 because does he repeat it twice like you?
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I need to look this up because I think I skipped over it when I
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was researching. On my phone to start.
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So Psalm 16 verse 2 is what I want to look up and I'm going to
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blueletterbible.com because I love how it shows you what the
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Hebrew word is. So it's if you want to say
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Yehovah or Yahweh or the breath that we were talking about is
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the first, the first reference I said to the Lord and oh, OK,
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this is different. OK, So the second part is
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Adonai. Adonai, which does essentially
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mean Lord, like the Lord of your life.
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So first he says, I say to you the personalized name to God,
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you are my Lord. So it's there's just so much
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more depth when we look at the Hebrew translation.
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So to start, it says keep me safe.
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My my God, which is ale singular, singular person for in
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you I take refuge, I say to and then the name of the Lord is
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used and then you are my Lord Adonai, which means Lord.
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And then later he goes back to using God's name when he says I
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will praise the name of God who counsels me even at night, my
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heart instructs me, I will keep my eyes always on.
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He uses the proper name of the Lord with him at my right hand,
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I will not be shaken. So this is a very surprised
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message to God, who is Lord over David's life and David takes
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refuge in him and he is talking about others who chase after
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other gods and saying I'm not going to do that.
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You are it for me. This is what he's saying to God.
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And he's he knows about his inheritance somehow.
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Like perhaps God reveals that to him in the night.
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We don't get everything. And maybe we'll see that in
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future Psalms that we read, because I haven't read these
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Psalms in a very slow manner looking up things until now.
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So you learn a lot more when you go slowly with Scripture.
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And he is just rejoicing and he's, he's secure and he knows
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that God will not abandon him. And he knows that God is
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faithful and he feels the joy in his presence and know that he
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has eternal pleasures. I mean, this is just like a
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wonderful thing, a wonderful Psalm of, of praise and just
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thankfulness to God that David is expressing.
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And so that really concludes this Psalm 16.
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So if this was beneficial to you, please share this with
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other people. And if you want to stay in the
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word, please subscribe because I try to do this.
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My goal is to record something every day because I, I would
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need to be in the word every day.
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Just like I, I mentioned that podcast earlier was talking
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about abiding in Christ. And I think it my podcast where
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I talked about in him in Christ and all of that was turned out
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to be like 2 hours long, which I couldn't believe I actually
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talked for that long. So anyway, this one's much
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shorter and I hope you come back again and I hope you stay in the
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word, even if you're not here on this podcast, but that you just
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personally stay in the word and God speaks to you through
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scripture. I ask that in Jesus name, Amen.