40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Psalm 16 Live from HWSS NWA (Episode 462)

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

In this live recording from the 2026 HWSS NWA, Chad and Daniel are joined by Erick Sorenson to discuss Psalm 16. Have a listen. Show Notes: Support 1517 Podcast Network 1517 Podcasts 1517 on Youtube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Events Schedule 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education  What's New from 1517: Preorder Sinner Saint by Luke Kjolhaug The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction by Donavan Riley Ditching the Checklist by Mark Mattes Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation, Book 1 of 2 by Amy Mantravadi More from the hosts: Daniel Emery Price Chad Bird

Welcome to 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. 40 Minutes in the Old Testament is a 1517 podcast network podcast. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast. Check out all the other podcasts that are living over there. Of course, while you're over there, make sure you check out everything else that 1517 is doing, like events, which you're at right now. So thank you very much for being here. We are going to, of course, look at a psalm because the theme of the conference is the Psalms of David.

And we're going to look at a psalm of David today. Chad, what psalm are we looking at? We're doing Psalm 16 today, which we picked this out, I don't know, three, four weeks ago. And after we picked it out, I got to thinking how fitting it is because this psalm talks about the resurrection. And of course, we just celebrated Easter. So it's a great psalm for that reason. But also because one of the reasons I wanted to do Psalm 16 is because there's a part of this that's quoted in the New Testament. a couple of different places actually but significantly in paul's sermon on pentecost

he quotes from psalm 16 and what he says there about david and how david speaks in this psalm i think is a is a good key that helps to unlock a lot of a lot of the psalms so anyway you can't go wrong with it but for those two reasons i think it's it's worth talking about no chad did just say paul's sermon he meant peter's sermon but he's not as familiar with the new testament he doesn't know i thought it was the same person he doesn't know he doesn't know but yeah well you know that's it's okay well i spend more time in the bible not the inspired commentary forgive me it's fine okay so i thought what we would do is uh we'll just read psalm 16 in english and then uh we'll uh go from there to talk about a couple of the verses

that peter quotes in his pentecost sermon go from there all right so it's pretty short it's only 11 verses psalm 16 a miktam of david preserve me oh god for in you i take refuge i say to the lord you are my lord i have no good apart from you as for the saints in the land they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another God shall multiply. Their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup. You hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel. In the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand,

I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol or let your Holy One see corruption. You make known to me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore. So we could go to verse one and start there, but I thought it might be helpful just to take that trip into the New Testament and look at what Peter says in that sermon so that we can kind of have that in mind as we launch into verse one of Psalm 16. So if you go to, if you happen to be following along in your Bible, you can turn to Acts 2. This, of course, is the day of Pentecost and Peter launches into a sermon first by quoting from Joel but listen

listen to what he to what he says so I'm going to begin here at verse 22 just kind of set the context men of Israel hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst as you yourselves know this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan for knowledge of God you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men god raised him up loosing the pangs of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it and now here is where he begins to quote psalm 16 for david says concerning him i saw the lord always before me for he's at my right hand that i may not be shaken therefore my heart was glad my tongue rejoiced my flesh also will dwell in hope for you not you will not

abandon my soul to Hades or let your holy ones see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence. So he quotes from Psalm 16. Now, here is the significant interpretive move that Peter makes. Listen to what he says. Verse 29. Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day being therefore a prophet interesting being therefore a prophet and knowing that god had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of christ that he was not abandoned to hades nor did his flesh see corruption this jesus god raised up and of that we are all

witnesses and then he goes on goes on from there so i mean there there's a lot that we could talk about here just a couple of things i think that are worthy of mentioning number one he calls david a prophet which is significant because the old testament really doesn't speak of david being a prophet calls him a patriarch too both of these are unusual designations for david but especially be focused on the fact that he's a prophet so we're familiar with david being a king of course being a warrior of course being a psalmist but he was also a God-inspired prophet and God had sworn to David that he was going to set one of his descendants on the throne David knew this David knew the oath that God had made to him and so with this prophetic gift he foresaw and spoke

about the resurrection of Jesus in Psalm 16 now I think why this is so important not just for Psalm 16 but for all of the psalms is this clues us in on how we should approach the psalms as well it doesn't matter if david or someone else wrote them ultimately as jesus himself says all of the psalms are going to be about him as he says in luke 24 everything written in the law of moses and the prophets and the psalms had to be fulfilled in him i'll stop talking let you guys jump in but that's at least my initial thoughts about the importance of that verse well the first thing i want to say is i agree yeah that's good yes we're all on the same page one of the things that's great about about peter sort of interpreting this is that i think i mean sure if he hadn't done this

i'm sure there'd be people be like oh this seems you could you could see the resurrection here yeah you could see it but peter says that that's like what you should see and so like the the idea that he wasn't abandoned to hell that he did not let his body see corruption yeah you could you could draw those lines but it it lets you know it sort of gives you that not just permission but it almost demands that you read the psalms this way right that uh that david is speaking of the son of david when he speaks yes which is really informative yeah it is and this is not to say for instance that you know david wasn't experiencing the kinds of things he describes in the psalms where he's lamenting his sufferings or exile or persecutions anything like that

wasn't as if david you know was just happy as a lark and sitting somewhere in his house and thought you know i'm gonna write a psalm where i talk about persecution yeah as if this was not some kind of existential thing that he himself was going through of course he experienced this and so he writes about his own sufferings but he writes about his own sufferings here and psalm 22 and other places with the inspiration of the spirit as a prophet talking at the same time not just about him but the one who would come forth from his own body yeah the son of david so you got typology going on here in the sense that david's life is a foreshadowing what's going to happen to jesus but you also have this prophecy that's kind of built into it because david is

talking about both of these yeah i'm just reminded and it's alluding to what you're already talking about here but just anytime you're reading the scriptures especially prophetic literature and that's what Peter refers to this psalm as being at least in part it's always important to recognize that to your point there's probably an initial fulfillment that's actually literally happening at the time to the person writing that there's national events going on that are directly about things that are happening all around Isaiah or David or whoever it might be but ultimately again to your point we're always meant to ask ourselves as we're reading the scriptures and especially prophetic literature what am i being told about jesus yeah what is this trying to tell me about

my lord and that is really the radical new way of speaking about the old testament speaking about the scriptures that they knew after jesus resurrects after jesus ascends it's been made very clear to them you are to find me that's where that's that's where i'm at yeah yeah i do like that uh that that peter does this thing where he says my flesh will also dwell in hope which is not sort of the the translation you have in the psalm so he like makes that this tweak right uh secure hope which whatever but uh the the idea here i think is that so when david says this this is true for david that god will not abandon him or let him see corruption because he's going to raise christ from the dead so yeah peter says he's not gonna let me do that either because he has raised christ

from the dead and so the way that these things work is david can say it knowing that that what god is going to do so this is like and he can be secure in that and then peter uses this word hope there which is a very new testament thing to do to say oh no like all your hope is is well placed in this resurrection of christ he is he is the guarantee that you have all your hope placed in the fact that christ has been risen from the dead and that's really the theme of the entire psalm i mean from from start to finish it's that we can find ultimately our comfort in life and death because we know who is at our right hand we know who is for us yeah so we can pray the psalm too yep so david prays it david writes it christ prays it it's about him and then we pray it

Because of what you're saying because we're in Christ and therefore his hope is is our hope as well Yeah, and I'm gonna say it now in case I forget it later cool thing too about the whole Dwell secure and then and then hope so the there's a neat thing that happens when the Hebrew is translated into the Greek of the Septuagint So the Hebrew root that's used here for secure is but talk Which is a verb is sometimes it means to trust to believe but when it was translated into Greek the Septuagint translators if it's used in a positive sort of way not trusting in idols

but if it's used in a positive sort of way they would translate it not as trust or belief but as hope so I love that because faith and hope are not like two different things they're kind of like two sides of the same coin so you have faith in the God who's the same yesterday, today and forever

and therefore you have hope and you have hope because you know that you can trust the God who's promised always to be with you Okay, should we start before we run out of time? Yeah, let's do it. All right. So I'm going to read, let's see. I'll start with the first four verses, and we can look at some details.

So keep in mind, this is Christ saying these words. David, yes. You, yes. But Christ saying these words. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, that's Yahweh. I say to Yahweh, you are my Adonai. I say to Yahweh, you are my Adonai.

I say to the Lord, you are my Lord. I have no good apart from you. As for the saints, the holy ones in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. Now, I actually think I'm going to stop there with verse 3. One thing I notice that I appreciate in these opening three verses is there's kind of a double focus. He starts out by talking about things from a vertical perspective.

So he's talking to God, meaning here, of course, his Heavenly Father. You are my God. You are my, not just Yahweh, but you're my Lord. And there's a lot of different ways you could translate this, I have no good apart from you. That's certainly one way you could do it. You could also say, my good is only through you. Another translator even has, my good things are not over you, in the sense of you are actually, even all the good things that I have, I don't put any of those above you. So it's a lot of different ways you could translate the Hebrew here.

But all his goodness is in God, and all his goodness is under God, in the sense of these gifts he's not elevating over God. So he starts out vertically, talking to God. But then he switches, and he says, not only do I love God and find my refuge in him, but the people, the saints who are in the land, I delight in them. so it's a beautiful vertical and then horizontal shift that he does i i'm i can't help but think about john 15 when i read the first verse here too um you know apart from you i have no good i

have no good apart from you and what does jesus say when you abide in me unless you abide in me you can do nothing no good things and so literally it is by our union to christ that we can pray this prayer that's what we have yeah it is not it is nice that he delights in the saints you might ask the question like what what would qualify one to be a saint and the answer to that is that that this would be a believer a truster right and the promises of people it's not it's not that david would not he would not qualify i don't think he likes that definition the uh yeah so so a believer a truster a hoper yeah uh this would be made this would make one a saint now god delights in those people but what i love that god does all the time what what is it that would make you hope or trust

it's faith that is born of the spirit right so god looks around and places hope via these promises being delivered places faith into people and then delights in his own thing right which is which is like the best because he looks around and he's like man i'll tell you what these saints are exceptional. There's some exceptional people out there, and what makes them exceptional is that thing I just gave them. And that's great. This is good that God rejoices in you, but only because of the thing that he gave you. So God is, I've said this before, but God is extremely pleased with his own gifts. This is what he is pleased with. So he's pleased with you because you possess what he has given which is hope trust faith all the gifts dan i think it was you at one

of our conferences that made definitely the case that uh well you gotta wait wait to hear what i'm gonna say but now that uh the problem for us a lot of the time is when we come to god we almost think sometimes because of our ongoing struggles with sin and unrighteousness that god sort of tolerates us yeah yeah he tolerates us right i mean at best because i mean he sees all the darkness in this heart he sees all the sin and so you can kind of get this sense that like well yeah i'll accept you he puts up with us he puts up with us well it's like he got he made a bad deal out like he made a bad deal with himself like i really backed myself into a corner yes yes and he kind of regrets his decision uh that's not it at all no uh sinner though you are like you see he sees a

hoper yeah and says uh i think that's excellent i love it and and not for nothing that the phrase here excellent ones also could be translated something like majestic ones so he i mean he really does in other words god is your friend he really he actually delights in you uh the prophets say that he sings over his saints right yep that's because he really does like you he really delights in you he doesn't just love you he actually likes you as your heavenly father yeah yeah when the thinking about the the holy ones of the saints it says it's for the saints in the land that might kind of seem like unnecessary why add a location yeah the reason is because a lot of times when this word is used it's in reference to the celestial beings to the angelic holy ones

so as for the as for the holy ones in the land they're the majestic ones are the excellent ones So think of it this way. Does God delight in his angels, in his celestial holy ones? Yeah, he does. Of course he does. For kind of the same reason. He created them, right? Yeah.

Also, he delights in us. The saints in the land. The saints in this world. He delights in us as well. So vertical, horizontal. He says to his father, you are my Adonai. I have no good apart from you. And I love your people.

I delight in them. and David's going to make a transition here in verse 4 because of course not everyone is someone who is a receiver of all these wonderful gifts that God gives like faith and hope and love because there's a lot of people

who seem bent upon chasing that which is ultimately going to be not for their benefit but for the worse and that's what he transitions to here and quite a few people in David's time while he's writing this are doing exactly what he's going to write down here in verse 4

yeah so he he's he's going to say in verse four the sorrows the sorrows of those who chase after who run after another god will multiply their drink offerings of blood i will not pour out or take their names on my lips so kind of a cool intertextual connection here between this verse and genesis 3 because the hebrew word that's used there for multiply and the hebrew word that's used there for sorrows is what is used in reference when god talks to adam and to eve about how her sorrows her pains it's usually translated are going to multiply because of their rebellion and in pain or in toil it's sometimes translated adam is going to bring forth food from from the earth so the root that's used here for sorrows has its root in genesis 3 in

connection with their rebellion against god yeah so david and using this kind of language is saying well what happened to avenue is the same thing that's going to continue to happen people who are you can translate this run after also you can translate it as like married to themselves betrothed to themselves either way you're chasing something down and wanting to make it yours well when you do that with another god your sorrows your pains are not going to decrease they're going to increase yes there's almost an illusion here too to the reality that whatever other gods there are are no gods at all they're inanimate objects because you know you could translate you alluded to this uh this idea of acquiring a god

that immediately sort of reminds you like this is they literally have to like make a wood thing i mean they have to like hey this is my god and you'll see isaiah making fun of this in his prophecy quite a bit yeah if you ever wondered if the bible is full of mockery and humor isaiah has a lot of it so yeah uh the the last line i think is worth just thinking about for a minute where he says i'm not even going to take their names on my lips that's something you actually find in joshua you find it in exodus as well there's this it's kind of it's it's ironic because on the one hand you got the old testament full of the names of false gods right they're actually recorded there but then you also have these stipulations about don't even let their

name be on your lips yeah reminds me of isaiah i dwell in a among a people of unclean lips i don't know if that's what isaiah meant but it's the same idea that these these these fake gods these no gods these idols i'm not even going to talk about them i'm not even going to put their names upon my lips i'm going to keep them so far from me that i'm never even going to mention them this is David's way, I think, and Jesus' way of saying, I'm going to utterly reject every single God besides the one to whom I just said, you are my Lord, that I'm not even going to let their name pass through my lips. Yeah, I think, too, the running after gods,

this is a contrast to a God who always comes to you. So one of the great things about God is that you know where to find him so that you don't have to chase him down or like try to figure out where he would be. This is the great thing about the church that you know where he is said to be. And so you can go there and that's where he is. Whereas a God who isn't a God, this is these these guys are like it's like they're looking for Sasquatch or something. They're like, yeah, you're going to you're going to chase after this thing forever. and never really have it because it doesn't exist and all this is going to do is multiply your sorrow right that you're this this frustration all of all of these negative things because this

god is very elusive because things that don't exist are elusive well idol idols always over promise and always under deliver and that's what leads to more and more and more sorrow that's because you made those promises up and you're a liar yes yes so because your heart is deceitful tell all kinds of lies about your god and believe them and then go try to find that god yeah yeah the lord is my chosen portion and my cup you hold or you support my lot the lines have fallen for me in pleasant places indeed i have a beautiful inheritance we get we got four different words that are used here for the idea of having something from god like a place or an inheritance a heavenly city heavenly city you got the portion you got a land cup you got lot actually you got five here

portion cup lot lines inheritance this is a lot of this is of course is drawing upon the language of joshua or he leads the tribes in and of course you have the division into all these areas and this tribe gets that and that tribe gets that so this is the language of inheritance of lines being drawn okay this is going to be your property and this is going to be your property but he also has cup in there because cup is used negatively and positively in the old testament it can be used in fact most of the time this is kind of the one of the surprising things about a cup in the old testament most of the time it's it's a negative most of the time you don't want the lord's cup yeah because it's full of wrath wrath you don't want to drink that it's not all of the uses but

many of them you know fire and burning wind will be the portion of their cup one of the psalms says and that's the background of jesus in the garden of gethsemane saying father let this cup pass from me he knows what he's about to drink on the cross but it can also be used of course in a positive way like in psalm 23 my cup overflows i shall lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the lord so here of course it's positive but most of the uses are negative you got portion you got cup you got lot lines inheritance so i think with the joshua background part of what's going on here is yeah you alluded to with the heavenly jerusalem or just the kingdom of god yeah so if we take these are as jesus speaking the lord my father he's my

portion he's my cup he's my lot the lines and inheritance have fallen to me in pleasant places everything i receive from my father is good and is right it's the kind of inheritance he wants me to have and this inheritance is ultimately the people he delights in the kingdom that he has established as well i'm reminded um when i read these words of jesus on the cross the saying to his father into your hands i commit my spirit there's this there's just this sense of complete and utter trust that as long as he's got his father everything's going to be okay yeah yeah to quote another 15 17 i have no good apart from you yeah everything's going to be okay there's also a there's also kind of a it's going back to the joshua part too there's also a priestly

background here so you remember that all the tribes got their parts about pieces of land so You guys are going to be here. You guys are going to be here. And all the guys from Levi are like, where's our land? You know, where's our acreage? And God says, you don't get any. Well, you do and you don't. So I'm going to give you cities, you Levites.

So you're going to live all through the tribes. You're going to have a city and a little bit of land around it. But you don't have, like, the parceled out territory for Levi. Why? He told them multiple times. I am your inheritance. so i'm going to be the one you inherit which you know what better inheritance can you have right yeah now what's happening here in the psalm and you see this not just in psalm 16 but other places

as well like psalm 119 what david will do is he will take this priestly language about god being his inheritance and he will apply it to himself which is kind of adapting priestly language to himself yep so like the levites have received you as an inheritance so i also have received you as an inheritance and that priestly background now is used by jesus when he's talking about his father you are the one that i inherit the lord is my chosen portion and my my cup all right no man we're good i'm looking at this clock yeah oh man we're like 27 minutes we got 40 I don't want to rush the end, you know. Okay, here we go.

Seven, I'll just do seven, and then we'll jump into the other ones that are quoted by Peter. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel in the night. ESV has my heart instructs me. Literally, that would be his kidneys, which we usually turn to for instruction. That's where I go. What are my kidneys saying now? I try to regular basis needing instruction. But that's what it says anyway.

In the night, my kidneys instructed me. So I don't think anyone's really ever figured out exactly why certain activities have been ascribed to the internal organs in the Old Testament. Why your heart as opposed to your mind? Why your kidneys? Why your guts are sometimes... But that's just kind of part of the biblical world, right?

There's a Greek verb, splakonizomai, which is like this compassion from your gut. yeah we we still in old english we talked about someone venting their spleen right meaning just kind of letting it all out what do we say to you you you vent right today you rant so and of course we were still talking about our heart and whatnot but anyway that's the way it is in hebrew your your kidneys or sometimes your heart will teach you and the lord is giving him this this counsel i think i think this is basically the same way as psalm 1 saying that he meditates upon the torah of the word of the lord day and night and through this word his father is instructing him he's

teaching yeah it's yeah that that's uh exactly what i was uh thinking was was alluded to here and it's almost got this sense of like um uh well you you've you've already gone there but it's a very deliberate sort of meditation on the word of god that then causes it's like the word being in him then is uh constantly coming up in his mind as he's going through the the night whether it's hard times easy times sleeping well whatever it is because he's eaten the word of god he it's now continually coming back up in his mind and guiding his days yeah okay yeah ready i'm ready dan has been just like chopping at the bit we gotta get here no no no this is good this is good i'm ready all right ready verse 8 so this is uh verse 8 in psalm 16 is what uh what peter begins

quoting in Acts chapter 2. I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad. My whole being rejoices. My flesh also dwells secure or if you do the Greek in hope for you will not abandon my soul to show or let your holy one see corruption we'll stop there um so the idea first of all of because he is at my right hand i will not i will not be shaken uh you kind of got two different things happening in the psalms so tomorrow i think tomorrow yeah tomorrow i'm doing psalm 110 and someone 10 famously begins uh the lord said to my lord sit at my right hand right this is the father talking to the son so in this case the son is at the right hand of the father now here he says because he this is jesus

talking because the father is at my right hand i should not be shaken so you got both these going on sometimes the son is to the right hand sometimes the father to the right hand because the right hand is never meant to be understood kind of spatially like there's a specific place in heaven the right hand of the father where jesus is sitting it's really speaking of authority yeah it's authority it's power you know we still talk about someone kind of he's my right hand man we still use that image today but here it's the father who is at his his right hand and because of that here's a word here's a phrase that occurs multiple times in the psalms i shall not be shaken sometimes i'd say i shall not be moved or my feet will not slip it's this idea of being secure

i'm safe i'm not going to be pushed aside or pushed down because the one who's at my right hand is going to it's going to uphold me yeah i think i think that uh the disciples don't understand this they want to be at the right hand badly uh they ask this question but uh i think that we would think man what would be good is if i was like god's right hand man that's what i'm looking for i'm looking for like a special call and anointing i'll be like god's right hand man for his mission on earth my co-pilot but what's like way better is this is if god is at your right hand okay this is much this is a much better situation uh you being at god's right hand is a horrible deal for him uh him being at your right hand is like a great deal for you and that's what

you want so he goes on so that i've set the law always before me he's in my right hand when we shake it and because of that basically no matter what happens in the end all will be well now this of course is quoted by peter in reference to jesus death and his burial and of course his resurrection now when you hear when you hear that when you hear these words in light of the resurrection of jesus they take on such depth and such meaning jesus is saying so my heart is glad my whole being rejoices my flesh is going to dwell in hope why because you're not going to abandon my soul to show you're not going to lead me in the pit which is another way that you could translate corruption there and let your you're not going to let your holy one see the pit or see

corruption yeah that word uh abandoned by the way interestingly you want to abandon my soul to show is the same verb in hebrew that begins psalm 22 azab yes my god my god why have you abandoned me Forsaken me. Forsaken me. Yeah. And now he says, you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor let your Holy One see corruption. Yeah, which lets you know that sometimes you do feel abandoned,

but this is not the reality, not ultimately, that God has promised to never leave you or forsake you, never abandon you, regardless of how abandoned it feels sometimes. Yeah. it's often been the case in fact that uh where god is doing some of his most significant work in the lives of his saints it's when he might feel the most absent you might feel abandoned and in fact he's actually purging and working in you and uh doing things that you can't possibly imagine at the lowest moments or what whatnot but he is actively working there and jesus is the

ultimate proof of that i mean he looks very very very abandoned on the cross yes and of course that is not the case yeah yeah friday and saturday looked like a lot of abandonment but sunday looked like oh man uh this this this whole thing has been turned out pretty good yeah i feel like i quote this every time that every every place i speak but it's worth saying it again and i borrow of this from Luther, his commentary on the Magnificat, where he says that the farther we are beneath God, the better he sees us. So we, you know, of course, the closer you are to me, the better I see you, right? Of course, that's the way it works. The farther you are from me, the less I see you. Not so with God. So the farther we are beneath God, the better he sees us. It goes along

with what you're just describing so when you when you feel like you're at the lowest lowest part of the pit i mean you're like in the depths of sheol here god sees you perfectly meaning that he sees those who are low he you're not unseen he sees you when you're there he hasn't abandoned you i'm not saying it doesn't feel like it certainly does feel that way jesus himself said that right my god my god why have you abandoned me forsaken me yeah but your your emotions in that case even though they're real emotions are not real fact because the truth is in that pit christ sees you father sees you and he won't leave you there yeah and jesus is certainly proof of proof of that he didn't leave him there he brought him up from that pit yeah yeah anything else just one verse

you make known to me the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand now we switched at your right hand are pleasures forevermore i can when you have that first line you make known me the path of life there i picture jesus finding the pathway out of the tomb out of the tomb yeah you make known to me the path of life this three days have passed there there's the path of life alive again walking up the pathway to step out of the empty tomb and smile upon the world that will never be the same because of what what he's done for us and there's sort of a double meaning here too because of course jesus is the way the truth and the life he is said to be the path for us and yet ultimately uh he is both the source of our life

but he also quite literally walks out of the tomb onto a path of resurrection well and the path of life includes death yeah it's it just is the case that um that god always makes he always kills before he makes alive and uh even even your salvation include the person that works your salvation death is included on your path to life uh and and this is like the great reversal of death that in defeating death in dying uh death now is just the door into eternal life so the path of life includes passing through that that once would lay claim to you but now is nothing more than a the entrance into a blessed forever yeah yeah death becomes your servant death becomes your servant it must serve you by opening up the door into the father's into the father's house

into into some uh forever pleasures which is nice yeah right in your presence there's fullness of joy. So in this life, we never have fullness of joy. And we have joy, of course. We also have sorrow. It ebbs, it flows. But in the presence of Christ, there is fullness of joy. And at his right hand are pleasures that don't last just for a while, but they last forevermore. And because these words are the words of Christ, and because these words testify to his resurrection, they are therefore not just David's words and not just Jesus words but our words as well yeah we can pray these in the face of death we can pray these in the face of sorrow we can pray these when we feel abandoned we can pray these throughout the journey of our life because we know that we're on

the path of life because we're on the path of Christ and one day we will leave this place where there's not fullness of joy and where there's temporary pleasures to that place where there will be joy in the full and pleasures that will never end permanent pleasure is not a way that people describe heaven that much because like when people ask you about heaven they're like i gotta be honest like i mean i don't i like the idea of living forever but what are we going to do what are we going to do what's it going to be like and i don't know the answer to that exactly but i do like little hints of it as christians i don't know but there's gonna be a lot of pleasure there and so that pleasure isn't a way that people describe it a lot but but this is a biblical way

describe it, it's going to be nice. It's going to be very pleasurable. It's good. And I think we're out of time. That's it, man. Everyone, stick around for Theocast. Don't go anywhere. But there'll be a little break. Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

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