The NXR Podcast - October 30, 2022


SUNDAY SERMON - Enduring Criticism & Betrayal ｜ An Introduction to Psalm 42


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8,415

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:18.100 We're continuing our series today through the Psalter.
00:00:21.240 Today's text is Psalm chapter 42.
00:00:24.040 Again, that's Psalm chapter 42.
00:00:26.380 Would you join me now in standing for the reading of God's Word?
00:00:30.000 I'll read our text in its entirety when I finish reading the text I'll say this is the word of the
00:00:35.020 Lord at which point I would appreciate if you'd respond by saying thanks be to God one final time
00:00:41.020 our text for today is Psalm chapter 42 the Bible says this as a deer pants for flowing streams
00:00:48.560 so pants my soul for you oh God my soul thirst for God for the living God when shall I come and
00:00:57.500 appear before my God my tears have been my food day and night while they say to me all day long
00:01:04.280 where is your God these things I remember as I pour out my soul how I would go with a throng
00:01:10.220 and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise a multitude
00:01:16.560 keeping festival why are you downcast oh my soul and why so disturbed within me hope in God for I
00:01:25.920 shall again praise him my salvation and my God my soul is cast down within me therefore I remember
00:01:33.940 you from the land of Jordan and Hermon from Mount Mizar deep calls to deep at the roar of your
00:01:41.600 waterfalls all your breakers and your waves have gone over me by day the Lord commands his steadfast
00:01:48.400 love and at night his song is within me a prayer to the God of my life I say to God my rock
00:01:55.860 Why have you forsaken me?
00:01:58.080 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
00:02:02.400 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
00:02:05.300 my adversaries taunt me,
00:02:07.260 while they say to me all day long,
00:02:09.700 Where is your God?
00:02:11.180 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
00:02:13.500 And why are you in turmoil within me?
00:02:15.940 Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
00:02:19.400 my salvation and my God.
00:02:21.700 This is the word of the Lord.
00:02:23.220 Thanks be to God.
00:02:24.640 All right, please be seated and join me as I pray one final time.
00:02:29.080 Father, we pray that indeed through the preaching of your word today
00:02:31.880 that your people would arrive at a more accurate, faithful, biblical knowledge
00:02:37.380 of who you are, of what you've done,
00:02:40.120 and what it is that you require from us as a proper, that is a right response.
00:02:46.240 But Father, we pray that this knowledge would not be an end in itself,
00:02:49.600 but rather it would serve as the necessary means propelling your people
00:02:53.600 not merely into right knowledge of you,
00:02:56.280 but a right love for you.
00:02:58.380 The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.
00:03:01.500 And so by your grace and the power of your spirit today,
00:03:04.240 we feast our minds on your word
00:03:06.400 so that our hearts might be fueled by this knowledge
00:03:09.620 to love you like never before.
00:03:12.020 And we pray that the words of our Savior would ring true,
00:03:15.720 that in our love for you, we would trust you and obey you.
00:03:20.180 We pray this ultimately that you might be glorified
00:03:23.040 and all the earth, but we also pray this
00:03:25.300 for the good of those people that you're saving
00:03:27.120 across the globe, in our city,
00:03:30.100 and perhaps if you would be so kind,
00:03:32.200 even in this very room, especially among our children.
00:03:35.560 We pray these things in the name of your son, Jesus.
00:03:38.580 Amen.
00:03:40.160 All right, quickly, I'm not going to go over
00:03:43.180 the first page that is front and back of your notes,
00:03:47.040 but what I am going to do
00:03:48.540 is I'm going to give you a brief summary.
00:03:50.220 the first thing that we see as a prelude to our text are these few words.
00:03:56.320 To the choir master, a mascal of the sons of Korah.
00:04:01.740 There's three phrases here.
00:04:03.620 To the choir master, that's the first.
00:04:06.460 A mascal, that's the second, of the sons of Korah.
00:04:10.760 A mascal was meant to be an instructive song or an instructive ode.
00:04:18.420 So a mascal is not just poetry that's meant to be read,
00:04:21.740 but it is a song that is meant to be sung
00:04:24.540 corporately by the people of God in worship of God.
00:04:28.580 But it's not just a song in the way
00:04:31.420 that many people in our culture
00:04:33.100 and even Christian culture today think of music,
00:04:35.960 that its highlight, its emphasis
00:04:38.180 is just the beauty of a melody.
00:04:40.540 But no, the emphasis is not merely on the melody,
00:04:43.920 but first and foremost on the content.
00:04:46.720 It's the lyrics.
00:04:47.900 It's the teaching, the lesson that is contained in the song.
00:04:51.600 So this is an instructive song.
00:04:53.560 It's meant to be sung to the Lord in worship corporately with the people of God.
00:04:58.140 But it's not only meant to be a part of our arsenal to equip us to praise God,
00:05:05.280 but it also is meant to benefit us by instructing us.
00:05:09.580 We see in worship, in Ephesians, we see that there is a dual dynamic of worship.
00:05:15.000 Our worship is vertical.
00:05:16.060 It is given up to God in praise, but it is also horizontal in the sense that we're commanded
00:05:22.780 to not merely address God in our worship, but as we worship corporately, especially
00:05:28.260 as the church on the Lord's day, we are meant to address one another with spiritual songs
00:05:34.200 and psalms and hymns.
00:05:36.820 So worship has this dual function of addressing God in praise and adoration and thanksgiving,
00:05:43.420 But worship also has the function of addressing our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
00:05:49.620 And it is meant to not only praise God, but to instruct man.
00:05:54.460 So this is a mascal.
00:05:55.980 It is a song meant to be used to praise God, but also it is an instructive song,
00:06:02.020 an instructive ode meant to inform from God's truth the hearts and minds of God's people.
00:06:09.560 So it's a mass school, but also we see this phrase that it's given to the choir master.
00:06:16.460 That simply means that it's to the choir master, meaning that it's given to the chief leader of the musicians,
00:06:23.900 the worship leader, if you will, to be led by him for the whole choir and the whole corporate assembly of Israel
00:06:31.480 to be sung in praise to God and in instruction to one another.
00:06:35.500 So it's given to the choir master to lead the charge.
00:06:39.660 And what is it that is given?
00:06:41.380 An instructive melody, an instructive ode.
00:06:45.260 And it's also of the sons of Korah.
00:06:48.580 Now that last phrase is interesting.
00:06:50.560 And we need to understand it rightly.
00:06:52.600 The word of, that prepositional phrase of, it can be misleading.
00:06:57.100 Because the way that we can take that, if we're not careful, is we can say it's of the sons of Korah.
00:07:02.100 Meaning it came from them.
00:07:03.760 It originated from them.
00:07:05.500 So it's easy for us to think that the sons of Korah were the ones who wrote this particular
00:07:10.940 mass school, this particular instructive psalm, and it was given from the sons of Korah,
00:07:16.240 originating with them, they wrote it, and it was assigned to or given to the choir master.
00:07:22.400 But in checking with commentaries and church history and what they've thought about this
00:07:27.880 particular psalm, Psalm 42, most scholars, especially those who I would deem as being
00:07:33.880 trustworthy, would say that this psalm actually originated with King David, and that it was so
00:07:39.960 often sung by the sons of Korah, those particular musicians, that it was eventually attributed to
00:07:47.720 them. It became one of their peculiars. It was so regularly sung by this particular worship team,
00:07:54.940 if you will, namely the sons of Korah, that when you thought of this psalm, you thought of the
00:08:01.900 Sons of Korah because think of the Sons of Korah, for lack of a better term, as a cover band. And
00:08:07.220 this is one of their favorite psalms or songs to cover. So the Sons of Korah did not write this
00:08:14.640 particular song, but it was a psalm that the Sons of Korah loved deeply and often sang. So it's given
00:08:23.340 to the choir master, the worship leader, to lead the people of Israel in singing this particular
00:08:28.480 song. And what kind of song is it? It's a mascal. That is, it's worship to God, but also instruction
00:08:35.180 to one another, the people of God. And it is often sung by the sons of Korah to the extent
00:08:41.900 that it was attributed to them. Now, the final thing that I want to say as we dive into the text
00:08:47.980 or before diving into the text is who were the sons of Korah? Korah, if you remember, Korah was
00:08:54.620 a man who took his stand in opposition against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Now, Aaron was
00:09:03.120 the brother of Moses. Many of us are familiar with that, but what you may not be familiar with
00:09:07.580 is the fact that Korah was actually the cousin of Moses and, of course, by proxy, Aaron. And Korah
00:09:16.040 had this sense of familiarity that often breeds contempt. This is the same thing that we have
00:09:22.960 happen, at least in principle, with Moses' sister, Miriam. Miriam, she goes and confronts Moses over
00:09:31.880 his marriage to a woman who is not a part of the people of Israel. She was a part, but not by
00:09:38.460 biological descent. And so the sister of Moses, Miriam, confronts and corrects. She admonishes
00:09:46.220 her brother Moses. The result is that she breaks out immediately with leprosy and almost dies
00:09:53.700 until Moses prays for her healing. The lesson of the story is don't mess with Moses.
00:10:00.160 Doesn't matter if he's your brother, your cousin, doesn't matter. Moses is the man.
00:10:05.820 Moses is a type of Christ. He was the leader of Israel. And so Korah, he has this familiarity
00:10:11.220 breeding contempt. He's the cousin of Moses and Aaron. And this is particularly what Korah is
00:10:16.020 upset about. Korah, just like Aaron, he is a descendant of the Levites. So if you remember,
00:10:23.700 we have Abraham and the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now Jacob has 12 sons,
00:10:30.800 Levi being the third son, and the Levites were selected by God through Moses. Moses declared
00:10:38.140 this, but God decided it, that the Levites should serve as the priesthood in Israel. And so Korah
00:10:44.800 is a member of the Levitical priesthood,
00:10:47.420 but even though there are many priests,
00:10:49.240 servants, serving the Lord in the tabernacle,
00:10:51.440 the place where God's presence dwelt,
00:10:54.540 even though there are many priests,
00:10:56.000 there is only one high priest.
00:10:59.300 And there's a reason for that.
00:11:01.560 One of the biggest reasons
00:11:03.320 for there only being one high priest
00:11:05.300 is because the high priest,
00:11:07.480 like the ark with Noah,
00:11:09.260 like Moses himself,
00:11:11.240 like the rock of ages,
00:11:12.660 the high priest was also a type of Christ.
00:11:17.960 And just as there is one beloved Son of God,
00:11:21.760 eternal Son of God, one Savior, one Redeemer,
00:11:25.680 there was one high priest.
00:11:28.100 And the high priest who was selected from the Levites
00:11:31.320 in the Levitical tribe was Aaron, not Korah.
00:11:36.560 And this is precisely why Korah is so angry.
00:11:39.920 Now Korah, the defense that he makes
00:11:42.580 Well, not really a defense.
00:11:44.780 The supporting content for his accusation against Moses that he makes is not this.
00:11:52.440 And you'll notice, this is something that you'll find to be common.
00:11:57.060 Not only among unbelievers, but even Christians in the church.
00:12:00.480 He knows better.
00:12:01.660 He's craftier than to go to Moses and say, Aaron shouldn't be high priest.
00:12:05.480 I should.
00:12:07.120 Well, that's just so blatantly self-righteous.
00:12:10.300 Right?
00:12:10.460 It's too visibly arrogant and selfish.
00:12:14.880 So the people of God, not just unbelievers, not just the pagan,
00:12:18.320 but the people of God in our sin, in our arrogance,
00:12:21.480 we do the very same thing.
00:12:22.780 But what we do is we veil our selfishness.
00:12:25.100 We veil our arrogance.
00:12:26.540 So what does Korah say?
00:12:27.960 He doesn't say, I should be the exclusive lone high priest
00:12:32.140 rather than Aaron.
00:12:33.540 No, he goes to Moses and he says, we should all be priests.
00:12:37.360 We should all be high priests.
00:12:39.360 What makes you think that you're better than us?
00:12:42.500 So rather than saying I'm better than you,
00:12:44.340 which is a very difficult accusation to defend,
00:12:48.040 to substantiate,
00:12:49.980 rather than that, what Korah says is,
00:12:52.400 Korah brings in this novel idea,
00:12:54.460 it's called egalitarianism.
00:12:57.140 That's what Korah does.
00:12:58.100 I don't like hierarchy.
00:13:00.180 I don't like authority.
00:13:02.300 I don't like this idea that God appoints among men
00:13:05.400 some to rule over others.
00:13:07.380 It's not fair.
00:13:10.480 Let's be egalitarian.
00:13:12.600 Let's all be high priests.
00:13:14.320 Let's all do it together, right?
00:13:16.440 You see churches do this.
00:13:17.780 Don't preach at me.
00:13:18.640 Just share, pastor.
00:13:20.280 And honestly, why are you always preaching?
00:13:22.920 Why don't we take turns?
00:13:24.400 Let's sit around in a circle and let's all, you know,
00:13:27.680 doesn't the Bible say when you gather together,
00:13:29.840 each one should bring a hymn or a word?
00:13:32.000 Let's be biblical.
00:13:33.920 No, what you mean is let's twist the scripture and be egalitarian.
00:13:38.460 Why? Because you're arrogant.
00:13:40.860 Those who should teach are those who, by grace, not anything inherent in me or any other pastor,
00:13:46.220 but those who, by God's grace, are qualified to teach, meaning they're able to teach.
00:13:52.060 That's the qualification given in Titus chapter 1 and 1 Timothy chapter 3.
00:13:56.780 See, here's the deal. The egalitarian idea doesn't work.
00:13:59.520 We even try to do it among elders.
00:14:01.700 I'm all for, biblically, the model of a plurality of elders.
00:14:05.060 I think that is a biblical principle.
00:14:06.960 But I think some churches, without realizing it,
00:14:09.900 have bought into the egalitarian mindset
00:14:12.380 to the point where they think all the elders should take equal turns.
00:14:16.400 Why?
00:14:17.700 See, because the reality is that God makes individuals.
00:14:21.320 And he makes them uniquely.
00:14:23.040 And so even among, not just among the whole congregation,
00:14:25.800 the members of the church, but even among the elders,
00:14:28.740 whether there be three of them or 30 of them,
00:14:31.700 it stands to logically reason that one of those elders
00:14:34.780 will be endowed by God, by God's grace,
00:14:38.200 with a higher teaching capacity than the others,
00:14:41.920 meaning he's more apt to teach.
00:14:45.200 He is better in exegeting and preaching the word of God.
00:14:49.820 Now, if he is actually better in preaching the word of God,
00:14:53.240 what does that mean as a result?
00:14:55.400 The logical result of that is that if he's better at preaching the word of God,
00:14:59.100 then the people of God would benefit more by his preaching than the other elders.
00:15:03.040 And if we love the people of God, then he should preach more than the other elders.
00:15:08.420 It's not arrogance.
00:15:10.420 It's not an unrighteous, sinful competition.
00:15:13.540 It's simply recognizing what God has established and not fighting against it, but welcoming it.
00:15:19.840 And you know who does welcome these kinds of things, hierarchies,
00:15:23.040 whether it be ecclesiastical hierarchies in the church,
00:15:25.820 elders, deacons, members,
00:15:27.900 or whether it be a hierarchy in the civil state sphere,
00:15:31.120 or whether it be a hierarchy in the family
00:15:32.820 with the husband who is the head of the wife,
00:15:35.220 and then the husband and the wife over the children.
00:15:38.520 You know who welcomes hierarchy,
00:15:40.380 who welcomes the way that God structures authority
00:15:42.920 in every aspect of human society?
00:15:45.720 The humble.
00:15:47.900 That's who welcomes it.
00:15:49.640 The humble don't have any objection.
00:15:53.040 The humble don't get angry.
00:15:54.980 I believe it was C.S. Lewis who once said that pride,
00:15:58.240 although one of the worst of all sins,
00:16:00.180 Augustine said it's the pregnant womb from which all other sins come.
00:16:04.940 But Lewis said, although it's the worst of sins,
00:16:08.160 it is perhaps the most difficult to see.
00:16:11.080 The most difficult to see, namely in yourself.
00:16:16.000 And Lewis says that perhaps the easiest way to detect pride within yourself
00:16:20.680 is to see how bothered you are
00:16:23.140 by the pride that you perceive in others.
00:16:27.520 The people who are always talking about pride,
00:16:30.180 I just, I really don't like this person
00:16:31.760 because I think they're proud.
00:16:32.940 Or, you know, I'm just really concerned
00:16:34.460 about this person's pride.
00:16:35.940 I think this person's really arrogant.
00:16:38.040 The people who are most concerned about pride in others
00:16:40.980 are the people who are prideful of themselves.
00:16:44.340 Now, the humble can still be concerned
00:16:45.980 because pride does damage.
00:16:48.240 But the way that the humble,
00:16:49.480 the way in which they're concerned about pride
00:16:51.440 is very different than someone like Korah.
00:16:54.680 Korah's not concerned for everybody's equality and fairness.
00:16:59.040 No, Korah's concerned about himself.
00:17:01.540 If Moses had appointed Korah as high priest instead of Aaron,
00:17:05.200 Korah wouldn't have been making any objection.
00:17:07.760 He wouldn't be going to Moses and saying,
00:17:09.040 I don't think it's fair or right that I should be alone,
00:17:12.280 the high priest, when there are many in the Levitical tribe
00:17:15.560 and think we should all share the high priestly duties together.
00:17:19.300 No, he only makes this objection, not because he actually believes it by conviction, but because someone else was selected instead of him, namely Aaron.
00:17:29.000 If he was selected, he wouldn't have a problem at all.
00:17:32.440 And so Moses says this, all right, because ultimately what Korah is saying is he's saying, there's no question about what you did, Moses, who you appointed.
00:17:40.500 The question is this, is who Moses appointed, namely Aaron as high priest, actually synonymous with what God appointed?
00:17:49.740 You claim that you speak for God.
00:17:52.080 You claim that your appointment of your brother,
00:17:54.460 isn't this nepotism?
00:17:56.340 You're claiming that your appointment of your brother
00:17:58.600 was God's doing through you.
00:18:00.600 But I think that you are working on your own.
00:18:03.680 I think this was your doing.
00:18:05.580 I think you did this in and of yourself,
00:18:07.460 apart from the prompting, the leading,
00:18:09.300 the instruction of God.
00:18:10.800 So Moses says, I'll prove it to you.
00:18:13.820 And Cor, he's already arrived with two primary henchmen
00:18:17.760 and also 250 other men who were influential leaders in the community of Israel.
00:18:26.740 So he's already got his band, his bandwagon, right?
00:18:30.520 This is how division works.
00:18:31.900 This is how mutinies work, right?
00:18:34.260 Nobody just goes to the leader and says, I've got a problem.
00:18:38.780 No, usually what they do is they talk to 15 other people first,
00:18:43.160 and they try to rally as many people on their side as possible in secret,
00:18:47.760 In the night, right?
00:18:49.700 Not publicly, not visibly, not with courage, but cowardly.
00:18:53.440 And then they go to the pastor.
00:18:55.220 Now, let's be honest.
00:18:56.080 Usually it's not 15, it's two or three.
00:18:58.180 And then what do they say?
00:18:59.280 A lot of people are sane.
00:19:02.180 Anytime you hear a lot of people are sane,
00:19:04.220 you can count on it being two or three.
00:19:06.640 One other person besides this person has said.
00:19:09.580 Or this person has discipled and catechized
00:19:12.280 their own wife and children to where a lot of people are sane.
00:19:15.180 You mean the five people in your immediate family?
00:19:17.480 A lot of people, that's probably what they mean.
00:19:20.000 And so Cora, what he does is beforehand,
00:19:22.200 Cora actually does, Cora says a lot of people are saying,
00:19:24.680 and in this sense, Cora's actually not lying.
00:19:27.120 Cora did some homework.
00:19:28.580 He prepared.
00:19:30.260 He got 250 of the rulers,
00:19:32.980 the influential people in the community, right?
00:19:36.540 The kind of people that if you want to get something done,
00:19:38.920 you got to get them on board first.
00:19:41.180 The busybodies, the gossipers, the talkers,
00:19:45.160 The ones that if you want to spread a virus through the whole assembly, you got to spread it to them first and then they'll do all the rest.
00:19:53.020 They're those kinds of people.
00:19:54.640 And so Korah gets those people.
00:19:55.960 He enlists them in his mutiny, in his rebellion against Moses and his brother Aaron.
00:20:01.100 And he appears before Moses and Aaron with 250 influential leaders in the community of Israel.
00:20:06.580 And he says, let's be egalitarian.
00:20:10.260 This isn't fair.
00:20:12.060 What makes you better than us?
00:20:13.840 And he says, you appointed your brother, and you should have appointed everyone, right?
00:20:19.000 He's not so foolish to say you should have appointed me, because that can easily be seen through for the pride that it is.
00:20:25.260 No, you just, not me, but everyone.
00:20:27.600 You should have appointed everyone.
00:20:29.040 And his big claim is, you did this, Moses, not God.
00:20:32.960 So Moses says, I'll prove it to you.
00:20:34.580 He says, the next morning, I want you to return, sleep on it, take a night.
00:20:40.020 I want you to return and each of these 250 men with you bring censers which were pans special
00:20:46.720 bronze pans for worship and and fill them with incense and come before the tent of meeting the
00:20:53.120 tabernacle at the entrance and Moses says I and my brother Aaron will meet you there
00:20:58.280 and so the next day they do and and the scripture actually says even further that the whole
00:21:05.500 assembly is gathered also. So it's as though Korah has already got the leaders, 250 influential
00:21:11.840 leaders in the community, and then overnight him and those leaders go and get everyone else on
00:21:16.720 board also. And everyone, they're not just showing up kind of as a neutral third party to see who's
00:21:23.000 right, Moses and Aaron or Korah and his rebels. No, they show up on the side of Korah. So Korah
00:21:29.600 not only at this point has the 250 men with him that he already had when he initially confronts
00:21:34.120 Moses. But now the next morning, he's got all the assembly of Israel. He's got the whole assembly,
00:21:40.380 the whole church, right? That's, I mean, the term that's used in the scripture is assembly.
00:21:45.560 The other term that's used is congregation, the congregation of Israel. It's the church.
00:21:51.440 Coran gets the whole church on his side and they show up. And then Moses says,
00:21:57.220 out of, well, first he hears from the Lord. The Lord says to Moses, separate yourself,
00:22:05.480 not metaphorically, not spiritually, emotionally, not theologically. No, literally, physically
00:22:11.780 separate yourself, you and Aaron, from all the congregation, because I'm going to kill them all
00:22:18.500 and start over with you. I can't take them. I cannot take it. And Moses and Aaron plead for
00:22:25.800 mercy. This is another example of Moses being a type of Christ, an intermediate, a mediator,
00:22:34.320 an intercessor. He prays and pleases the Lord, please. And he says, don't let the sin of one man
00:22:39.960 punish, be punishable in the whole congregation and the whole people of Israel. Even though the
00:22:46.900 whole people of Israel have joined this one man by this point in his sin. But Moses still says,
00:22:51.860 it's this man's fault. Everyone is complicit. Everyone is culpable in some sense, but he's the
00:22:57.940 bad seed. He's ground zero where the virus started and the contagion began to spread. He's the one
00:23:05.200 who is sowing discord among the brethren. He's the divisive person that Titus warns about. Warn a
00:23:11.580 divisive person once and then twice and then have nothing more to do with him. Other people will
00:23:16.700 jump on board. That's what makes them divisive. They're not divisive and no one listens. What
00:23:21.640 makes them divisive is that they're effective in their sowing of division and yet it's the divisive
00:23:26.940 person who's worn once and then twice and then cast out not everybody else everybody else is
00:23:31.920 given a chance an opportunity of repentance and submitting themselves once again to god first and
00:23:39.620 foremost and to the authority and leadership that he has appointed so moses prays the lord grants
00:23:46.320 his request. He says, all right, I won't destroy them all, but Korah is going down. Him and his
00:23:51.440 household and the two henchmen, not the whole 250, but the two primary henchmen that he has with
00:23:57.680 them. Korah and these two men and their households are going down. So Moses then speaks to the
00:24:03.880 congregation, the assembly of Israel, and he says, separate yourselves. The same thing that God said
00:24:09.240 to Moses and Aaron, physically separate yourself because they're all going down. Now Moses says,
00:24:14.140 after conversing with the Lord, he says, you people of Israel who have joined with Korah,
00:24:18.780 separate yourselves physically, run away from their households, from their tents, from their
00:24:23.920 dwelling places, run away from Korah and his two henchmen and their households right now,
00:24:29.400 because this is about to happen. And he then prophesies, he speaks specifically what's going
00:24:34.680 to happen. The earth is going to open up and it's going to swallow up Korah, his household,
00:24:41.440 his two henchmen, and their households, they will be taken down to Sheol, that is the belly of the
00:24:47.100 earth, alive. Run away. And the people of Israel, God gives them repentance. They turn, and they
00:24:56.040 physically run as an outworking of that repentance, doing good works and keeping with repentance.
00:25:02.060 They physically begin to run away from Korah. And as soon as Moses finishes speaking, boom,
00:25:07.940 Precisely what he says comes to pass.
00:25:10.320 The earth opens up and it swallows Korah
00:25:13.420 and his two henchmen rebels and their households
00:25:17.400 and devours them and closes back up.
00:25:20.100 And then immediately, immediately in response to that,
00:25:24.180 if that were not enough, the 250 men holding the censures,
00:25:28.420 the bronze pans for worship filled with incense,
00:25:32.320 because Moses said, you come, and the Lord,
00:25:34.300 kind of like an Elijah scenario,
00:25:36.020 Elijah, his face off with the prophets of Baal.
00:25:40.020 Elijah says, whoever the Lord ignites,
00:25:42.660 whichever altar, whichever sacrifice,
00:25:44.720 that is the true God.
00:25:46.520 And so that's the scenario that Moses was setting up.
00:25:48.640 Come with your bowls, your censures of incense,
00:25:51.600 and the one who the Lord lights,
00:25:53.380 that will be the high priest.
00:25:55.140 Then you'll know that I did not act on my own accord,
00:25:57.720 but the Lord has appointed Aaron.
00:26:00.360 Another thing that Moses does later on
00:26:02.100 is he takes the 12 staffs for the 12 tribes
00:26:05.340 And Aaron's staff is taken into the place of meeting.
00:26:08.940 And the next day, when it comes out, it is budded and producing almonds.
00:26:12.980 And that's why Aaron, that was another visible sign for God to prove to Israel
00:26:17.660 that Moses didn't just pick his brother out of nepotism,
00:26:21.000 but that God actually selected Aaron to be the high priest.
00:26:23.840 But these bowls of incense and these 250 men, Korah, his household,
00:26:28.740 the other two men, their households, all swallowed up.
00:26:30.900 And then immediately, right after that, God sends fire to light all these censers of the 250 men.
00:26:38.540 He doesn't just light one of them to say, this guy's the guy.
00:26:41.440 No, he lights all of them.
00:26:42.900 And guess how he does it?
00:26:44.500 He sends fire from heaven, and he doesn't just burn up their incense.
00:26:47.960 He burns the men.
00:26:49.460 And all 250 men are incinerated.
00:26:54.180 So you have three households swallowed up into Sheol alive.
00:26:59.120 And then 250 other men burned alive to death.
00:27:04.600 And again, just like Miriam, the moral of the story is don't mess with Moses.
00:27:09.320 Not, not a good thing to do.
00:27:12.760 To the choir master, a math school of the sons of Korah.
00:27:18.580 Well, I thought Korah and his whole household was swallowed up.
00:27:22.260 Who are the sons of Korah, right?
00:27:24.020 All this, what I just told you, the narrative in the wilderness with Israel and Moses and Aaron and Korah,
00:27:29.240 that all predates, by a few hundred years, our particular psalm, written by King David in the time of David.
00:27:37.960 So who are the sons of Korah?
00:27:40.660 Well, apparently, what most scholars say is that there were some sons of Korah,
00:27:45.900 most argue all three, had three sons, that initially had joined their father in his rebellion
00:27:51.540 in his quest for establishing socialism
00:27:54.640 and egalitarianism across the board in Israel.
00:27:58.380 There were three sons that initially joined
00:28:00.740 their father in this rebellion,
00:28:02.640 but after Moses warned the congregation
00:28:04.780 to separate from Korah
00:28:06.420 because the earth would swallow him whole,
00:28:08.940 Korah's own sons listened to the preaching of Moses
00:28:12.860 and responded with repentance.
00:28:15.660 Rather than doubling down in their sin and rebellion,
00:28:19.020 rather than hardening their hearts
00:28:20.440 and standing by their father,
00:28:22.220 they listened to the preaching of Moses
00:28:24.440 and they repented and ran away from their own father
00:28:28.320 and were spared.
00:28:30.840 And Charles Spurgeon says it like this.
00:28:38.220 Psalm 42 is written to the chief musician,
00:28:41.160 a mascal for the sons of Korah,
00:28:43.320 dedicated to the master of music.
00:28:45.480 This psalm is worthy of his office.
00:28:47.340 he who can sing best can have nothing better to sing.
00:28:51.500 It is called a mascal or an instructive ode
00:28:54.820 and full as it is of deep experimental expressions,
00:28:59.400 it is calculated to instruct those pilgrims
00:29:02.820 whose road to heaven is just the same trying kind as David's was.
00:29:09.580 The choice band of singers, the sons of Korah,
00:29:12.560 are bidden to make this delightful psalm one of their peculiars.
00:29:16.700 a regular in their song selection.
00:29:19.880 They had been spared when their father and all his company
00:29:22.820 and all the children of his associates
00:29:24.660 were swallowed up alive in their sin.
00:29:27.360 They were the spared ones of sovereign grace,
00:29:30.600 preserved, we know not why,
00:29:32.920 by the distinguishing favor of God.
00:29:35.600 It may be surmised that after their remarkable election to mercy,
00:29:40.200 that these sons of Korah became so filled,
00:29:43.000 listen to this church,
00:29:44.300 so filled with gratitude
00:29:45.920 that they became, or that they addicted themselves
00:29:49.620 to the sacred music in order that their spared lives
00:29:53.640 might be consecrated to the glory of God.
00:29:57.420 At any rate, we who have been rescued as they were
00:30:01.160 from going down into the pit.
00:30:04.020 That's literally what happened with Korah,
00:30:05.440 down into the pit.
00:30:06.960 We, as the sons of Korah, who have been rescued
00:30:09.360 from going down into the pit,
00:30:10.980 out of the mere good pleasure of Jehovah,
00:30:13.420 his election, his mercy,
00:30:15.160 we like the sons of Korah can heartily join in this psalm and indeed in all the songs which
00:30:21.780 show forth the praises of our God and the pantings of our hearts after him. Although David is not
00:30:28.480 mentioned as the author, this psalm must be the offspring of his pen. It is so Davidic. It smells
00:30:35.500 of the son of Jesse. It bears the marks of his style and question and experience in every letter.
00:30:43.060 we could sooner doubt the authorship of the second part of Pilgrim's Progress
00:30:47.160 than question David's title to be the composer of Psalm 42.
00:30:52.900 It is the cry of a man far removed from the outward ordinances and worship of God,
00:30:59.460 sighing for the long-loved house of his God,
00:31:02.500 and at the same time, it is the voice of a man under deep depressions,
00:31:07.580 longing for the renewal of the divine presence,
00:31:10.060 presence struggling with doubts and fears but yet holding his ground by faith in the living God
00:31:15.940 most of the Lord's family have sailed on the sea which is here so graphically described it is
00:31:23.560 probable that David's flight from Absalom that is his son his own son who rebelled against him
00:31:29.420 may have been the occasion for composing this mass school David was the author I believe that
00:31:37.200 Charles Spurgeon says it, Matthew Henry says it, and there was one other. Oh, and John Gill.
00:31:46.200 John Gill, if you're not familiar with John Gill, he was the preacher in the church, 100, the same
00:31:50.200 church, 100 years prior to Spurgeon. He is known as the Baptist equivalent to John Calvin, which
00:31:56.080 means in typical Baptist fashion, not as good, but the best that we Baptists can do. So he's not quite
00:32:02.500 as good as the Presbyterian counterpart, but he's still pretty good. So John Gill, Matthew Henry,
00:32:08.120 and Charles Spurgeon, if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. David, I believe,
00:32:12.140 was the author, and David likely wrote this particular psalm as he was either on the run
00:32:17.820 from King Saul or on the run from his son Absalom. David is the author, but this song was regularly
00:32:25.180 sung by the sons of Korah, who knew what it was. They knew what it was for someone to rise up in
00:32:32.080 rebellion against the Lord's anointed. See, whether it's Saul, who was actually in the office
00:32:38.320 of king, but David was anointed to take his place, or Absalom, who is the son of David, and I tend to
00:32:45.380 think it was Absalom, but Absalom was the son of David. The word says of Absalom this. What Absalom
00:32:51.180 did was, the Bible says, in so doing, he won over the hearts of Israel. What did he do? What he did
00:32:58.180 As his father, David, was sitting on the throne in the palace, Absalom would stand out by the gates.
00:33:05.720 And everyone in Israel who was disgruntled, everyone who had a problem, all the angry people, all the critical people in Israel,
00:33:16.680 they would come to meet with David to get some kind of closure, some kind of resolution for their frustration, their criticism, their problem.
00:33:26.960 But Absalom would stand in between his father and Israel, the people, and he would make amends
00:33:33.960 with them before they got to David so that they would be satisfied by Absalom's solution.
00:33:39.780 And you know what Absalom's solution was? To tell them whatever they wanted to hear.
00:33:46.300 Absalom was a false prophet. Absalom positioned himself between the people and a true preacher
00:33:53.120 of God's word. The true king, David. And what he did was as the people would come to meet with his
00:33:58.800 father, the true leader, who would tell them the truth because he was a man after God's own heart,
00:34:04.400 Absalom would intercept these people and he would tell them what they wanted to hear. And so by
00:34:10.360 doing, the scripture says he won all the hearts of Israel. And by doing so, in rallying the troops,
00:34:16.680 he then had a full-blown mutiny against his father, exiled his father, was trying to kill his own
00:34:22.740 dad. David had to run just like he did with King Saul. He had to run for his life and on the run
00:34:28.880 after being betrayed by his own son, David writes Psalm 42. And this Psalm is most often sung by
00:34:40.880 the sons of Korah who also knew what it was like to rebel against the Lord's anointed. Not because
00:34:47.260 people rebelled against them, but because their own father was the rebel who rebelled against Moses.
00:34:53.580 So David writes a song about what it's like to be in the midst of deep depression and what it's like
00:35:02.000 to live in a season of betrayal. And the sons of Korah pick it up as one of their most commonly
00:35:11.340 sung songs as they lead the people of Israel in worship, because they too know what it's like
00:35:18.820 for someone to betray, to rebel against the Lord and his anointing. And this song is a mascal,
00:35:27.540 it's praise to the Lord, and it instructs the people of God. The final thing I want us to see
00:35:32.940 today is this. This is going to be two parts. I decided that about 15 minutes ago. So what we're
00:35:37.540 going to do is next week we'll hop into the text, but notice this. All I'm going to do is I'm going
00:35:43.080 to exegete next week the first five verses. And the reason why is because in typical song fashion,
00:35:49.400 this particular psalm is for the most part repetitive. Not verbatim word by word, but in
00:35:55.520 principle, concept by concept. And so in the first five verses, we see the big idea of the psalm.
00:36:02.520 Let's read it now just so that it's fresh in our minds. It's the first five verses.
00:36:05.880 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants, thirst, desires, longs for my soul, for you, O God.
00:36:15.340 My soul thirsts for God, the living God.
00:36:18.980 The one who is the author, the giver, and the sustainer.
00:36:24.000 The one who upholds all living things.
00:36:27.540 The source of life, the sustainer of life.
00:36:30.580 But then notice what he says in the verse 2.
00:36:33.480 When shall I come and appear before my God?
00:36:36.700 Well, David's praying right now.
00:36:40.040 When shall I come and appear before my God?
00:36:42.160 You are appearing before your God, David.
00:36:45.080 No, he's not.
00:36:46.480 Not in a vital, significant sense.
00:36:48.540 We'll see that here in just a moment.
00:36:50.220 Verse 3, my tears have been my food day and night.
00:36:54.020 Most scholars say it's not a literal sense,
00:36:55.760 but what it means is he's so sad, he is so depressed,
00:37:00.040 So overcome by his grief, he's lost his appetite.
00:37:04.300 My tears have become my food day and night, meaning I'm not eating.
00:37:09.120 I'm so distraught, I can't even eat any longer.
00:37:12.760 I have no desire for sustenance or food.
00:37:16.080 And I'm crying day and night as what?
00:37:18.780 While they say to me, that is the people he's surrounded by, namely Gentiles,
00:37:23.540 he's been exiled from the kingdom of Israel on the run,
00:37:26.700 So they, being pagans, unbelievers, likely the Philistines,
00:37:32.300 they say to me, where is your God?
00:37:34.920 This is not a legitimate question.
00:37:37.180 They're mocking him.
00:37:38.640 Where is your God?
00:37:40.520 Right?
00:37:41.080 Your God's not there with you, David.
00:37:43.860 Your God's not here.
00:37:45.220 He's abandoned you.
00:37:46.180 He's forsaken you.
00:37:47.460 He's punishing you.
00:37:49.140 Like the three miserable counselors of Job,
00:37:52.660 who insisted that Job must be underneath God's punishment.
00:37:56.100 Job must have done something wrong, although Job, he continues to maintain his innocence and blamelessness.
00:38:02.720 And yet they insist God does not let bad things happen to good people.
00:38:08.320 Therefore, you can't be good, Job.
00:38:10.160 And so too, the pagan, uncircumcised Philistines are saying the very same thing to David.
00:38:17.080 That's the same thing that our culture says today.
00:38:19.820 Unbelievers, what do they do all the time to try to disprove God?
00:38:22.700 If there was a God, and if he was loving, why would he let bad things happen to good people?
00:38:27.000 Here's your answer.
00:38:28.220 Number one, no such thing as good people.
00:38:31.860 God doesn't let bad things happen to good people.
00:38:35.100 Or as R.C. Sproul once said, that only happened once, and he volunteered.
00:38:41.740 The only time God let something bad happen to someone who is truly good was the suffering of Christ, and he volunteered.
00:38:50.040 So bad things don't happen to good people.
00:38:52.280 But the larger answer is that God does this,
00:38:55.000 first and foremost, for his good pleasure,
00:38:57.920 for his glory, and for our good.
00:39:01.840 For those who are good because they've been made good
00:39:04.280 by Christ through faith, not by their own works,
00:39:07.580 their own discipline, their own merit,
00:39:09.100 but for those like Christ who are good
00:39:10.920 because they're good in him,
00:39:12.960 because of their union with him by grace
00:39:15.640 through faith in him.
00:39:16.860 For those who are good, that is the believer,
00:39:19.500 the Christian, the people of God,
00:39:21.620 For those who have been made good by Christ, God allows bad things to happen to them because God is bringing about their eternal good.
00:39:29.740 And just as a parent in Hebrews chapter 12 may discipline their child, their son, for a moment, it causes displeasure, discomfort, and pain for a moment.
00:39:40.300 But the good father, the loving father, will inflict pain for a moment for that long-term benefit.
00:39:47.300 And so too, our life is but a vapor.
00:39:49.880 It's just a moment.
00:39:50.800 And for God to allow hardship into the lives of his people in this life for a moment in order to produce hope and character and endurance, all the things that the scripture says come by trial, and to refine our faith like gold, for God to do these things is not the absence of his love.
00:40:09.500 It does not symbolize his forsaking of his people, but rather his commitment, his covenant, and his loving fatherly discipline.
00:40:20.440 But the Philistines, the enemies of God that David is hiding among, they taunt him.
00:40:24.980 They mock him and say, where is your God?
00:40:28.100 Their point is, he's not here.
00:40:30.780 They may be saying he doesn't exist like our gods, like Dagon and all these other false gods.
00:40:36.040 But likely what they're saying is, yeah, your God exists, right?
00:40:39.840 They were plurists.
00:40:41.040 They believed in a multitude of gods.
00:40:44.260 Your God exists, sure, just like ours exists.
00:40:46.400 But here's the deal.
00:40:47.280 our God stand behind us, David. Yours has abandoned you. He has forsaken you. Verse four,
00:40:54.420 these things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I would go with the throng and lead them in
00:40:59.780 procession to the house of God with glad shouts of songs and praise. A multitude keeping festival.
00:41:06.840 Then lastly, David challenges. He doesn't listen to his heart. He doesn't follow his heart. David's
00:41:12.400 not a Disney guy. He doesn't follow his heart. He doesn't listen to his heart. He doesn't sit
00:41:16.700 under the tutelage of his heart.
00:41:18.540 No, David combats his heart.
00:41:20.580 He contests with his heart.
00:41:22.600 He speaks to his own heart, his own soul.
00:41:25.200 He says, why so downcast, O my soul?
00:41:27.760 Why so disturbed within me?
00:41:30.680 Hope in God.
00:41:33.000 Stop crying.
00:41:35.160 Stop doubting.
00:41:36.900 Stop worrying.
00:41:38.640 Stop pitying.
00:41:40.340 One of the most wretched and vile sins
00:41:42.240 that are common among the people of God today
00:41:44.380 is self-pity.
00:41:46.700 Self-pity. So sorry. Unbelievably sorry for what happened to you. Why me? Why me? How could this
00:41:58.280 happen to me? But David challenges that self-pitying, doubting, disbelieving heart of his,
00:42:05.900 soul of his, by saying, stop it. I'm not going to wallow in depression. I am in control of my
00:42:14.400 emotions. I am not a slave of my heart and my feelings. No, my feelings are shaped, what I feel
00:42:22.380 is shaped by what I know. And so I now will, rather than allowing what I feel to dictate my mood,
00:42:31.000 to dictate my state of being, rather than being led by what I feel, I will shape what I feel by
00:42:40.020 what I know hope in God for I shall again praise him my salvation I'll leave you with this I want
00:42:48.720 you to think about this week and I will go into these five verses with much greater depth next
00:42:53.720 Lord's day Lord willing I shall again praise him that's the end of verse five praise him like what
00:43:00.960 because because you might say David just praise him now or or what David says earlier he says
00:43:07.040 my soul is panting
00:43:09.680 for the living God. At the end of verse 2 he says
00:43:11.680 when shall I appear before God?
00:43:14.020 See David is saying I want to
00:43:15.660 appear before God. Well appear before him now
00:43:17.580 David. Aren't you appearing before him now as you
00:43:19.580 pray? As you pray to God
00:43:21.600 aren't you coming before him?
00:43:23.520 But no David says I long to appear before
00:43:25.480 my God. Implying I'm not appearing before
00:43:27.480 him now. Or at the end of verse 5
00:43:29.440 I shall again praise him. Well praise him now
00:43:31.400 David. Why don't you just praise him now?
00:43:33.800 No I will again praise him.
00:43:35.980 There's something about the presence of God that's missing
00:43:38.740 that David can't, he can't quite access.
00:43:43.940 Do you see that in these five verses?
00:43:45.760 And it repeats throughout the entirety of Psalm 42.
00:43:48.280 Here's the point.
00:43:49.460 God is inaccessible to David.
00:43:51.940 That's the thing.
00:43:53.500 God is inaccessible to David
00:43:55.160 and the enemies of David mock him
00:43:57.000 precisely for this reality.
00:43:59.420 And it's not just the enemies mocking David.
00:44:01.320 David admits it himself.
00:44:03.080 I can't see you.
00:44:05.260 I can't praise you like I used to.
00:44:07.880 I can't appear before you.
00:44:11.360 Why?
00:44:12.700 The answer is in verse four.
00:44:15.460 These things I remember as I pour out my soul.
00:44:18.100 That means pouring out his soul to God in prayer.
00:44:20.420 As I pray to you, O God,
00:44:22.760 what I'm reminded with is this,
00:44:24.940 how I would go with the throng
00:44:26.520 and lead them in procession to the house of God
00:44:28.820 with glad shouts of songs of praise,
00:44:31.760 a multitude keeping festival.
00:44:34.200 David cannot access the presence of God.
00:44:37.360 Why?
00:44:38.160 Because David has been separated from the people of God.
00:44:41.820 That's the key.
00:44:43.920 David has been cut off from Israel.
00:44:45.800 He's been cut off from the tabernacle.
00:44:47.900 He's been cut off from the dwelling presence of God.
00:44:51.620 He is missing and cannot find the praise of God
00:44:55.260 because he cannot find the people and the presence of God.
00:45:01.100 David cannot praise God because he has been cut off from the presence of God.
00:45:05.680 And he's been cut off from the presence of God precisely because he's been cut off from the people of God.
00:45:12.360 And I get that this is Old Covenant.
00:45:14.880 I get that this is Old Testament.
00:45:17.180 But this principle has not changed.
00:45:21.360 Jesus reaffirms it.
00:45:23.340 In Matthew chapter 18 where he says, wherever two or three are gathered in my name.
00:45:28.840 there I am among you that Jesus the Christ the spirit of the risen Lord is pleased to tabernacle
00:45:37.720 among his people especially when they gather together in his name and we live in a church
00:45:46.940 culture today that takes for granted the Lord's day and the gathering the assembly of the people
00:45:56.500 of God. Too many Christians, they believe and they are deceived. They're wrong. They believe
00:46:03.700 that they can worship God online. They believe that they can merely listen to sermons, that they
00:46:08.760 can read books, that they can just leave their family and worship with family worship without
00:46:12.720 gathering with the people of God. David didn't believe that. David's praying to God and he knows
00:46:20.320 that God hears his prayers because this is what we know about David. It's the same David who says,
00:46:24.100 whether I find myself in the sea, the bottom of the sea, or in Sheol, where can I go from your
00:46:31.180 presence? Right? So the same David, we know he's got good theology. He understands the omnipresence
00:46:38.000 of God. The same David who said, I can't hide from your presence even if I try. There's nowhere I can
00:46:43.560 go where you, oh God, are not. And yet the same David, he also says, I want to appear before you,
00:46:52.020 But the ability to appear before you has been stripped from me
00:46:55.820 because your people have been stripped from me.
00:47:00.040 So the same David who believes, as modern day Christians believe today,
00:47:03.580 well, God's everywhere. His presence is everywhere.
00:47:05.480 We don't need a church for that.
00:47:06.700 We can worship him in our home. We can worship him in the backyard.
00:47:09.580 Just me and my wife or me by myself.
00:47:11.760 The same David who believes all those things,
00:47:14.200 who wrote them himself in the psalm,
00:47:16.100 the same David who's quoted by those Christians in their deception,
00:47:19.360 him, right? Those same Christians would quote David and say, whether it's the bottom of the
00:47:23.340 sea or whether it's Sheol or where can I go from your presence? Yeah, you're quoting David.
00:47:27.540 That is the scripture, right? But let's quote another place where David
00:47:31.340 speaks, namely Psalm 42, where he says this,
00:47:34.840 I can't praise you, but I will once more. I'm hoping to God
00:47:38.740 because I know I will be restored to access to God to be able
00:47:42.760 to praise you once more in this life or if nothing else
00:47:46.680 in the next and I want I want I long I'm desperate to appear before you and I cannot now but I know
00:47:54.260 hope in God soul I know one day this will be restored and what's missing in the meantime
00:48:01.300 what have I been cut off from what do I remember with fondness but it also makes my heart ache and
00:48:07.440 brings me sorrow the throng the multitude keeping festival the people of God worshiping corporately
00:48:16.180 with them church do not ever take for granted the church let's pray father god thank you for your
00:48:25.540 word and thank you that by the word of god you have created in the same way that you spoke in
00:48:33.980 the beginning you spoke and it was you created ex nihilo out of nothing you created the world
00:48:41.580 and all that is in it by speaking.
00:48:44.680 In the same way that you speak
00:48:46.200 and created the physical cosmos,
00:48:48.720 also by your word, by your speaking,
00:48:51.860 you've created your people.
00:48:54.740 Not just mankind in the general sense,
00:48:57.460 but the people of God.
00:49:01.080 You create Christians by your word.
00:49:06.380 And you don't just create us in isolation
00:49:09.800 to live in this prolonged honeymoon phase with you.
00:49:15.740 No, you create us for community.
00:49:18.220 You create us to love you
00:49:20.360 and be loved by you with each other.
00:49:24.600 That we would address you in praise,
00:49:27.260 but we would also address one another
00:49:29.120 with instructive songs,
00:49:32.400 instructive ohs with mascals and psalms
00:49:34.940 and spiritual songs, melodies and hymns.
00:49:38.420 oh how sweet it is
00:49:41.120 not only to belong to you
00:49:43.420 first and foremost
00:49:44.340 but to belong to one another
00:49:47.540 we cherish that
00:49:49.300 and we know
00:49:51.380 that it is only possible
00:49:52.640 because of the access we have
00:49:55.160 the access David lost
00:49:56.960 we have received
00:49:58.500 by Christ
00:49:59.780 he has reconciled us to you
00:50:02.460 and to one another
00:50:03.820 by making peace
00:50:05.780 by the blood of his cross
00:50:07.720 he's preached to all those who are far off and he has brought us near we thank you for this in
00:50:15.320 jesus name amen oh hi i didn't see you there thanks for sticking around i've got an important
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