Hello, welcome back. This is lesson seven of Psalms lift up your hearts. Let's pray name the father and the son of the Holy Spirit Amen Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not Intimptation but deliver us from evil amen the name of the father and the son of the Holy Spirit amen Well lesson seven is going to be committed to Psalms 50 through 61 We are tackling these middle Psalms of book two so lesson six we begin book two lesson eight next time We're gonna finish book two so three lessons for book two Psalms 50 to 61 It's kind of a lot honestly 12 Psalms here and we're gonna spend the majority of our time at least half of it I should say a little more than half perhaps on Psalm 50 and 51 Psalm 50 is really really important as I'm gonna share with you Also because it's gonna be the foundational Psalm for all the Psalms after it at least in this particular lesson when we talk about the superiority of the To-da sacrifice contrition bringing a sincere contrain heart to the Lord and warnings for the wicked and all of that is going to be very very crucial for understanding Psalm 51 the link in the chain is very very strong how 51 flows from 50 is very important and very clear to see I hope to share that with you and then Psalms 52 all the way down honestly to 61 and beyond is a continuation of the wisdom that is Giving here in Psalm 50. All right, so we have a lot to do Psalm 50 there So we ended off at the last lesson with 49 49 was wisdom Psalm where the Psalmist exhorts all people to listen to him to not trust in their wealth and their riches and to trust in God Okay, so Psalm 49 tells the reader trust in God.
He will vindicate us. He'll write raises from the dead He is our shepherd. He'll ransom our soul. Okay, great.
Now Psalm 50 is God himself speaking and giving his Wisdom that's how the two Psalms flow one into the other. So 49 here all people's give your own habit into the world Listen to me. Listen to what I'm saying now. God is gonna say the same thing So actually on that point let me just read Psalm 49 verses 3 through 4 and take close attention to the call for wisdom 49 3 says my mouth shall speak wisdom my meditation of my heart shall be understanding I will incline my ear to a proverb I will solve my riddle to the music of the liar So a great couple of verses right there exhorting listeners readers to hear his wisdom to understand it And there's so many great connections with wisdom literature as I hold the Proverbs the riddles parable is put out Well, I talk about all of that when you get to other wisdom literature So that is an exhortation for wisdom So now let's read the first couple of verses of chapter 50 And you're gonna see it really quickly in verse 1 chapter 50 verse 1 the mighty one God the Lord speaks and summons the earth from the Rising of the Sun to its ending out of Zion the perfection of beauty God shines forth All right, so now God is speaking so I'm 49 the soul mist is speaking wisdom and how God himself speaks to us And that's the connection.
I really love that line by the way verse 2 out of Zion the perfection of beauty What a great little line that is for God. He is the perfection of beauty All right now this on 50 is written by a character named Asah or the sons of Asah people say or be clan the musical tribe of Asah. Asah has mentioned various times in the books of Chronicles I gave you some references here definitely check out your Catholic Bible dictionary for a short but really helpful little section little miniature essay entry on who Asah was with tons of references But just like last time we saw that there are various psalms of the sons of Korah You've also got this liturgical guild of descendants either literal biological descendants or spiritual descendants of its Asah They're two characters Korah and Asah So this is the first one of Asah he will be coming up again in book three a whole bunch This is the only Psalm in book two All right So now in chapter 50 as we just read verses 1 through 2 to make that connection with 49 previously Guys reigning and judging from Zion now that connection with Zion is also really important for what we saw previously in their royal and Zion Psalms So if you go back to 45 46 47 48 remember there's alternating Psalms royal Zion royal Zion Psalms This is a continuation of that God is ruling he is the king. He's majestic rising his wisdom now speaks from Zion He's the perfection of beauty.
He's shining forth. So that's another connection there with previous Psalms You can really call this to a certain extent as I on Psalm. It's an exhortations Tom Which your commentaries will call I put that down in your notes as well So he's exhorting his faithful ones now. I do want to read the rest of this on this song is super super important On its own right because what if it's proclaiming about the superiority that to doss sacrifice what you talked about before I'm gonna review that for you since it was a few lessons ago But it's gonna be as I said earlier foundational for understanding the connections with all the rest of the subsequent Psalms here in book two So let me just continue to read here starting with verse three says our God comes He does not keep silence before him is a devouring fire round about him a mighty tempest He calls to the heavens above and to the earth that he may judge his people Gather to me my faithful ones by the way says gather to me Ossoff apparently means to gather right so chapter 50 verse 5 says gathered to me my faithful ones That's a tribute to Ossoff whose name means gather that's kind of just a little interesting fact No, it'll trivia point right there kind of like that Anyway, gather to me my faithful ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice You can underline verse five that highlighted that's important verse six the heavens declare his righteousness for God himself is judge Here are my people and I will speak.
Oh Israel. I will testify against you. I am God your God I do not repute or prove you for your sacrifices your burner offerings are continually before me I will accept no bull from your house nor he goat from your folds for every beast of the forest is mine to cattle on a thousand hills I know all the birds of the air and all that moves in the field is mine If I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world and all that is in it is mine Do I eat the flesh of voles or drink the blood of goats? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the most high and call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver you and you shall glorify me actually stop right there here for the first half talking to his righteous as faith Once now who are his righteous to go back down to verse four?
I was talking about that first four and five his people his faithful ones who are they well of course is the people of Israel right? But the connection here in verse five is faithful ones are those who made a covenant with him by sacrifice What is this alluding to but Exodus 24? This is another Exodus connection. They're all over the place I've already shared with you a whole bunch in previous Psalms We're gonna talk a lot about that in later Psalms for sure I remember the Exodus I've said it a million times and so pretty much every single Bible study the Exodus is the paradigm of salvation It is the model of redemption for God and his people so you're gonna find Exodus imagery absolutely everywhere God redeemed his people in a very glorious majestic way It is full story of the Exodus delivered them from Egypt brought them to Mount Sinai They offered sacrifices go to chapter 24 verses one and following and read all of that I'm gonna resist the temptation to go into those details check it out in the Exodus Bible study That's a ten part series just go and read listen to that and you have all the great juicy fun stuff in there But God brought then his people to himself and they established a great covenant at Mount Sinai and he became their faithful ones They became a nation of priests and a holy nation of people the priests that all changed with the whole golden cast story But again, you can resist go check out that Bible study for more so Exodus imagery all over So he's speaking to the people that he made a covenant with by sacrifice and sacrifice is going to be a big theme for the rest of this Entire Psalm what kind of sacrifice well God doesn't desire as we just read here in verses seven and following he doesn't desire empty Sacrifices and offering sort of like just blind going through the motions bring your sacrifice to the temple offered up And you think you're good just checking off the box.
He doesn't want that He wants for them and for us all of this is super super relevant for us as well We're not to offer him empty sacrifices where our heart is not in it He wants genuine sacrifice of Thanksgiving So these verses are just so beautiful He's like you know I am I hungry what I not tell you do I desire to drink the bowl of goats or the Fetha fleshables and drink the blood of goats of course not God is not like all the false deities of the pagan world Whether the ancient or Eastern world the Grepparoman world or you know modern deities and pantheistic religions like Hinduism or whatever God is not like that. He is perfectly sufficient unto himself It is wrong to think that we need to offer him dead animals in order to satiate his hunger or his thirst or anything like that That's not why actually God gave them sacrifice again going back to Exodus to clarify this why did God command sacrifice to begin with? What was for the sake of it his people his people his people were worshiping the Egyptian gods in the form of animals And so when Israel sacrificed these animals they were repudiating the false idolatry of the nations all around about them right that's really one of the underlying points of why they had to sacrifice animals and honestly even before the The Golden calf episode where it Levitt the Levites became the priest and Leviticus was established and promulgated before all that right At Mount Sinai there were very few required sacrifices very few laws It was a very simple straightforward system of worship of God and you have ten commandments in chapter 20 of Exodus and three chapters of some chapters 21 to 23 Various laws to govern and its resignation That was it that was really it but those sacrifices were to help repudiate the false gods of Egypt and then after their golden calf the Bockle they had more sacrifices and then of course we talked about all that in a Leviticus Bible study So it's for the people honestly not for God God doesn't need blood He doesn't eat the flesh so this is what the Psalm is saying it's for the sake of his people But as people are taking it for granted they're going through the motions are becoming really hypocritical about this So God desires a sincere upright sacrifice of thanksgiving this Thanksgiving offering is called the todah I've said that a number of times in the past ten minutes And I've mentioned this before back in Psalm 22 I believe that was lesson four if I got that correct We look at Psalm 22 there and introduce the concept of the todah very very important because it's been a few I must say episodes but sure a few episodes few lectures lessons I want to review this because Psalm 50 is one of the go-to Psalms along with 22 one of the go-to Psalms about teaching the todah The superior order to dah sacrifice is connection with the Eucharist and the Mass I just want to do a little bit of review on that But also use this Psalm based on some of the quotations that have curated from you from the various commentaries and books on teaching you that this is What God had in mind this is for his people. So all right well that said let's begin with the first quotation here from your English Catholic study Bible the first half of it is kind of a review which I hope is it's pretty fresh in your mind It says quote a thank offering or thanksgiving offering Hebrew to dah was a special kind of peace offering Which you can find back in Leviticus chapter 7 it could be a voluntary act of gratitude or made in fulfillment of a vow That's important by the way just notice that word vow I'm not gonna come up many times in the subsequent Psalms here in our lesson today All right So to fulfill me of a vow it entailed the sacrifice of a herd so a bull or a heifer or a flock animal a lamb or a goat and an offering of Unleavened cakes and 11 bread and the meat of the animal was eaten by the worshipper and those he invited to share in the feast So stop there really quickly also there would be wine and while it was a gigantic party is what it was as I explained back in lesson Four when we talked about Psalm 22 It was a gigantic party the individual made a vow to God saying Lord help me out of this pretty commit this very difficult dangerous situation could be illness Injury war strife whatever and then this person because God delivered them offered up the sacrifice where he and all of his family and friends that He invited to the feast would partake in this sacrificial communal meal It was super joyful because God delivered them from that difficulty All right So that's what we talked about before so the quote goes on and says in view of chapter 50 here versus 8 through 13 Which is read for you the Psalmist's polemic or his argument is not against the sac against sacrifice as such since think offerings Required animal and grain sacrifices But against viewing sacrifice is something that God needs rather than something his people need Which isn't in other words to offer heartfelt gratitude for all that God has done for them Right, and that's the point that I've been sharing here Like so some people will say especially you know various groups and non-Catholic groups non-Catholic denominations We'll talk about you know how sacrifices passed away especially with Jesus This is a whole Pandora's box right here, and I have another quote here to touch upon this in a second But the argument is not against sacrifice as such this is not arguing that his people should not offer burn offerings sacrifices of any kind because otherwise scripture would be contradicting itself Leviticus is very very clear in those opening chapters that you must bring sacrifice to God for different reasons either to restore Community with God or to celebrate community with God and so that's essential you need to do it But the proper attitude is what God is talking about here another quotation that is mentioned a lot Is hosea chapter six verse six This is quoted in the New Testament a couple of different times in Matthew and the gospel of Matthew chapter nine verse ten The following for example, but it says here hosea chapter six verse six I desire mercy and not sacrifice the knowledge of God rather than burn offerings very very famous quote that even Jesus uses here So this is just explaining to the readers that God desires our heart mercy The sacrifice is orientated towards offering mercy towards others asking God for his mercy mercy restoring relationship and love between God and our neighbor Really it's meant towards its directed towards the two greatest commandments, okay So I already explained why God commanded sacrifice is was for the people's sake So that would they repudiate idolatry killing these animals was to teach them that they are just animals They are not gods at all and they're to thank God and to worship him and serve him and love him for all that he has done for them Generally as a nation which is exemplified most in the greatest way in the Passover the Passover I don't know if I said this before but the Passover was the quintessential toda sacrifice for the Jewish people the Jews the rabbis Arguvel what kind of sacrifice was the Passover it was a toda because Israel was in a dire situation slavery at pretty big deal and God delivered Them and they offer this Thanksgiving sacrifice to him every single year in celebration of that deliverance They ate the meal together in the presence of their family and their friends each family came together and it was a celebration of God's deliverance So the Passover was a toda and so God is saying be thankful be thankful for what I've done for you Just don't go through the motions sacrifice itself.
It's fine. It's important. It's instructive But it's not actually helpful for you if you don't have your heart and your spirit in the right place So then Psalm 50 here is so crucial and so many commentaries and teaches of the Psalms come to Psalm 50 as a great example of a Toda because it is teaching that the toda is a superior sacrifice to everything else There are five different types of sacrifices again go back to Leviticus Bible study on that point or consult your commentary But here's a little quote for you from your Catholic and Russian deal testament Which said the command to to offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving here in chapter 50 does not refer to the substitution of songs or verbal expressions Of praise and thanksgiving for liturgical animal sacrifice really quickly. Let me comment on that So what some people argue especially Protestant Christians will argue that this song 50 is saying okay sacrifice is not what God wants He wants like praise and worship basically praise and worship songs when there's nothing wrong of course with singing to God with songs and hymns The Psalms here entitled it for you lift up your heart I mean there's all kinds of songs and songs and poetry where we praise God through music Okay, there's nothing wrong with music, but the argument is that is not that sacrifice is therefore Unessential that's not the point here.
So the quote will go on to say say this it rather refers to the toda in which an animal was indeed Ritually self-swatered but then consumed in celebration by the worst of verse which we talked about so the argument is not that you don't need sacrifice at all False or that you're gonna substitute sacrifice with just praise and worship that's also false because the toda required sacrifice That was essential to the superiority of the sacrifice itself, right? You actually needed an animal to slay and offer up to God and then to consume the family and friends So the main point here Why why wanted to share this quote with you? He says or the commentary says thus song 50 asserts the superiority of the toda to other forms of sacrifice Well, why why because it's offering Thanksgiving to God. It's celebrating God's deliverance for man It's celebrating in restoring the communion expressing the communion rather that God has with his people So the toda is the superior to all other forms of sacrifice where the offer with family and friends just simply worships praises and thanks God for all of his goodness and maybe you've had those moments in your own heart where you just simply stare at the Lord in Adoration you stare at the Eucharist or your I don't know at your prayer chair at home or in the wilderness taking a walk in nature And your heart just you just lift up your heart and praise and worship of God and you have this amazing sense of gratitude for all that He's done for you Well, the toda is is an sacrificial expression of that now How does this come to us in the New Testament life said before in the previous lessons here?
It's the Eucharist, right? Now on that point I wasn't gonna read this for you because it's another bit of a long quotation But I'm just gonna read it anyways another great resource John Berg's about Dr. Berg's my has besides the Catholic interesting deal testament Which I love and want everyone of my students to get on their bookshelf He has a very short introductory book on the Psalms which I have in your syllabus called Psalm basics for Catholics It's a super quick easy read but he has a little good quote here I think with about the toda that I want to share with you He says this the songs are all about the think offering because so many of them were actually written for the toda cycle Not only that the salt or as a whole moves from mostly lament in book one to mostly Thanksgiving in book five So scholars say the salt or has a toda shape moving from lament to praise really quickly pause right there I explained this before in previous lessons the toda cycle is the whole movement that circular cycle coming full circle really From lament to praise all right where the saw the saw mist is not just lamenting the bad situation But this almost also is praising and thanking God for that deliverance So many Psalms have a full lament to praise a toda cycle in and of itself But the whole salter is a movement from lament to praise which I explained in depth in lesson one introducing the salter right So that's basically all dr. Berg's was saying here in this the first part of that quote But he goes on to say this is why I want to share the quote with you the ancient rabbi said that when the Messiah came all Sacrifices would cease except for the toda the Messiah would put an into sinned so most sacrifices would be unnecessary But it would always be necessary to thank God for salvation So the toda would come would continue in the age to come and that is exactly what happened He says the Messiah has come and put an into sin on the cross Therefore our one sacrifice is the think offering called the Eucharistia the Greek word for Thanksgiving End quote now I just geek out about this every single time because the Eucharist the Eucharist honestly is the fulfillment of all of the sacrifices for sure Like 100% But it has its greatest expression in thanksgiving Eucharistia because we are thinking God from our deliverance our own Passover deliverance right We are were if we were enslaved to not the Pharaoh but to Satan and to sin not to slavery and exile were restored from that So we are freed from Satan sin and death and we thank God for that So the Passover New Testament is all fulfilled the Christ the last upper in his pastel mysteries So thanks be to God we are delivered from Christ's Passover and we offer to him a thanksgiving offering and it's still a sacrifice as an Essential dogma to teaching of the Catholic Church.
It's not just a remembering of what Christ did it is that but it's more It's an anemesis. It's a making present that one and only a Passover sacrifice and getting tempted here to go back into all the Exodus Connections but again go back to Exodus because Christ's last upper Passover sacrifice is the fulfillment of the Old Testament Passover And we are made we participate in that sacrifice every time we celebrate the Mass But now the beautiful connection is what I hope you're seeing is not the mass the liturgy of the Mass the sacrifice of the Mass is The fulfillment of the toadah is the quintessential most perfect thanksgiving offering united to Christ our Lord All right, that's just absolutely dynamite So it is superior to all sacrifices and song 50 is making that very very clear And I would just say one more one more point I can't help it here when we go to Mass therefore and we participate in the sacrifice of the Mass the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God We too should have our hearts in the right place I'm not just go through the motions to show up because we have to and yes, there are distractions Don't get me wrong There's the crying babies right behind our heads and there's someone you know to our right hacking out alone And you can't hear the homily at all. Hopefully it was good the cancer is off key whatever I mean you can make all these jokes But we still bring our hearts and our souls and offer them up to God in this Thanksgiving sacrifice So that's really beautiful So then moving on to the second half now of the song God was gonna address the wicked so the first half he addresses his people the people that His faithful ones who has made a covenant with him by sacrifice again What kind of sacrifice a thanksgiving sacrifice of the Passover lamb now? He will address of the wicked here in the second half verse 16 He says but to the wicked God says what right have you to recite my statutes or to take my covenant on your lips There's a covenant again because they're being hypocritical the wicked it seems to me at least that the wicked were those of his people Who had covenant with God but now they're abusing and breaking the covenant through their wickedness Why do I mean that?
Well, let me keep reading all right? So what right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? You hate discipline you cast my words behind you If you see a thief you are a friend of his and you keep company with adulterers You give your mouth free reign for evil and your tongue frames deceit you sit and speak against your brother You slander your own mother's son these things you have done and I have been silent You thought that I was one like yourself, but now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you all right I'll stop right there and conclude the last two verses in a second few seconds a few minutes All right, so the wicked are those who hippocritically I am in my view here And I don't think I'm alone but who hypocritically follow God's covenant But only with their lips so many times in the songs really blows my mind How many times the wicked are described with evil lips they're tongue their lips their mouth Pronounce lies and deceit and falsehood and error and and that's just really blows my mind so in James chapter 3 I think I mentioned this in a previous lesson James 3 He really lays into the the great power for good or evil of the tongue we need to curb the tongue and control the tongue Honestly, that's a whole thing with all of their wisdom literature Just read Proverbs for example, and you're gonna see how many times the book of Proverbs says you know It's probably better if you just keep your mouth shut, you know, so many things can go badly if you just if you talk So just be quiet just be quiet right ponder before you speak That's a big theme in this wisdom literature because it seems like here over and over again like just right now in verse 19 the wicked slander Their mouth is full of evil and all this stuff. All right, so these people are rejecting God's covenant and specifically they're rejecting his words What words is God talking about?
Well, here's your other excess connection back in chapter 20 verse 1 You had the introduction and the teaching of God's 10 words the deck of log that go log literally means 10 words So the words of God are the 10 commandments so these wicked people who are profaning his covenant So I'm guessing Israelites and Jews who are falling away from grace if you want to put it that way They're not following the 10 commandments And in fact you have a couple of them thrive to your inverse 18 You're a friend of thieves right that shall not steal and you keep company with adulterers right that shall not commit adultery so in breaking so in hating discipline and breaking the covenant They're really refusing to listen to the deck of log the 10 commandments and God has said look you've done all these things And I've kept silence that's in verse 21. I kept silence, but no longer It's kind of an interesting thing a little little contrast here really quickly in verse 3 God says our Lord or the Psalms says our God comes and he does not keep silence But then all of a sudden in verse 21 He says these things you have done and I have been silent So there's a time when God's patience is running out in other words And I like this because God is patient with us with all of us with the wicked and with the righteous alike Why that we would repent I have to remember this all the time Let me actually first let me share a couple of verses with you I have in your notes your second Peter chapter 3 verse 9 where Peter says the Lord is not slow about his promise as some Count slowness but is forbearing towards you not wishing that any should perish But that all should reach repentance all right So he's slow and other he's slow and forbearing and silent why that people would repent Paul says the same thing in Romans chapter 2 verse 4 Do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? And you also you could check out first Timothy 2 4 as well It's kind of easy to remember just one address 2 4 for both Romans and 1 Timothy.
It's the same concept God doesn't desire anyone to Die he wants all to repent and to be saved so great verses about how patient God is and I was about to say a moment ago It's a little personal note here It's very easy I think to really kind of yell at God in a respectful way and say Lord Why aren't you dealing with these wicked people like just making politics or the church or just the world in general? Hey, you pick your own person in your mind that evil person you're thinking about right now that is in power perhaps Why aren't you doing something about this? This person is scandalous a murderous corrupt a cheater a liar whatever whatever it might be Lord Why aren't you doing something about this particular wicked person and the Lord says look? I'm not gonna keep silent forever the time will come but his patience is forbearance is so that way they would repent So we just simply need to be patient and say all right Lord You handle the situation in your own good time May I pray for their conversion and may that actually take place But we would have faith and trust that justice will be served for those people who do not repent You know what I'm gonna talk a lot about this when we get to imprecatory Psalms because that's basically what I'm describing right now Is the imprecatory Psalms where we call out to God for vengeance and for justice Which is a good thing we should cry out to God for that But we just need to have patience and trust that he will handle the situation when he's good darn good and ready Okay, so that whole point about keeping silence.
I just wanted to point that out as well All right now how does Psalm 50 conclude verse 22 mark this then you who forget God One more thing I have to say this you who forget God forgetting is the opposite of remembering obviously Oh big what do you do? What's the big point about that? Well to remember in Hebrew is a car to remember the covenant specifically So there's almost all the Bible studies I mentioned a car somehow somewhere the car is faithful covenantal remembrance with God with you know your people your spouse whatever So to forget God is not like oh, you know what? I totally forgot we the people of Israel We have a God in Jerusalem in the temple.
She's man What is wrong with my brain today has nothing to do with forgetting about God has to do with forgetting his covenant Which is what he was saying down below in verse 16 Why do you what right have you to recite my statues or take my covenant on your lips when you have forgotten me? In other words, you're not following the commandments. So forgetting God is not like darn it. I forgot it We have a God.
Don't we man? No, it's rebellion against God is what that is all right Anyway, put that little comment aside verse 22 mark this then who you forget God less I tear and there be none to deliver and here's a Crescendo he who brings thanks giving co-doc as his sacrifice honors me to him who orders his way a right I will show the salvation of God. That's a great crescendo. That's a great climax and a conclusion right here bringer Thanks giving sacrifice to honor me.
That's what God wants and in response you will receive the salvation of God So this is kind of a call to action I think for the rest of these songs So 51 is very very clear many commentators point this out I'm gonna share that with you right now because Psalm 51 is a response to Psalm 50 Psalm 50 says repent You know do not break my commandments offered to me a Thanksgiving sacrifice and you'll have my salvation well David's Pintential Psalm 51 is the perfect example of doing just that but I would be gonna argue the rest of this lesson Psalms 52 and following are a response to this verse 23 because you're gonna constantly be seeing the return of the theme of the Toa Daa sacrifice or being faithful to vows or fulfilling ones vows So you're gonna see this many times I'll point it out as we go along I think Chasampi is a call to action by God himself about repentance turning back to him and Hebrews shuv as a juvie turn back to God repent Medinolia in Greek and offered it with thanksgiving sacrifice So I'm gonna draw those connections with you. Oh, and then of course the wicked they need to do something about that repentance as well And the righteous will continue to rely upon the Lord So I'm ahead of myself Let's now look at how this is applied to Psalm 51, which is the most famous of the penitential Psalms It is the fourth penitential Psalm. So we already studied Psalms six thirty two and thirty eight This fifty one is the fourth one and then we'll still have yet to study one oh two one thirty and one forty three All right, so here here's your link in the chain and I'm gonna unpack it more just one more time So follow the notes on the Roman and world to Psalm 50 We just studied is calling for repentance with heartfelt thanksgiving offerings don't go to the motions turn from your sins Don't break the commandments, etc, right? So now David's repentance described here in Psalm 51 is the perfect example of that and in fact there's a little connection with David Since David famously committed adultery and then of course murder to cover up his sin well I already shared with you chapter 50 verse 18 talks about keeping company with adulterers adultery is mentioned It's a small connection, but I think it's it's a good one David is the most famous adulterer of the Old Testament So it's on 50 says turn from your sins, right?
Don't don't break my covenant don't be hypocritical of my covenant you're breaking my ten words That's exactly what David did and now he's crying out to mercy as Psalm 50 said to all right there you have it Hey, this is dr. Nick Thank you so much for listening to this course sample if you enjoyed it and want to listen to the entire lesson Please become a student over at scripture and tradition calm where you can listen to this entire course But also all the other courses that we have available in the S&T audio library where you can listen to them on demand However, and whenever you want so thank you so much God bless you and keep studying your Bible