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Man, oh man. Oh, Psalm 24. Guys, welcome back. Yo, I'm so excited for a very specific, very very specific reason. Why are you excited? Because it's our first podcast together. It is. Look at us. This is a generational historical moment. I know. This is fun. I'm excited. Hey, I'm Zach, and this is the best theologian that I get to share the screen with.

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is reciprocate reciprocated shout out because i say it shout out reciprocated yeah we should be high-fiving this whole this whole thing flipping awesome hey we're gonna get into psalm 24 the earth is the lord's can i get an amen amen amen hey before we jump in though some some people who be living in the earth some parts of the earth they don't even be knowing that they're the lord's

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Drop that stuff and let's get into Psalm. Let's go.

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Hey, let's jump in. Let's go. Can you, could you read Psalm 24 for us just so we can get a little acquainted with what's going on here? Zach, I'd love to. Come on. What are you reading from? I'm reading from the NIV. This is a really cool Bible actually. I kind of want a Bible like this. A little blue number? Blue. It's really aesthetic. It's really nice. That's what I'm saying. What are you reading? It kind of matches your cuteness. Wait a minute. All right. It's getting a little too intimate here. That's my bad.

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Should we get into the word? Actually, let's just stop talking and read. Yeah, fact. Okay. Follow with your finger at home with your Bible. All right. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. For he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.

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Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their savior. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.

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Lift up your heads, your gates, be lifted up, you ancient door. Wait, hang on. Let me say that again. Lift up your heads, you gates, be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, you gates, lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty. He is the King of glory. I have...

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shivers i'm shaking just just takes me there it takes me there it does man this is a beautiful psalm i oh man i flippin love psalms let's just let it let it breathe for a second let it breathe sit there for a moment dude let's talk about verse one because you were saying something kind of interesting to me before that i had not picked up on point blank i'll admit it i didn't think about it

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I don't think about what you were saying about like,

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This verse one and two, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. That's what it says in mind in the ESV. For he has founded upon the seas, he has established it upon the rivers. Talk to us about like the earth is the Lord's, but more specifically how you were talking about, why does he specifically mention the waters? Why is that important? Yeah, it was something that I just noticed. I was like, it's so interesting that he's mentioned so often in...

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in scripture, you see imagery of the sea, but it's usually to represent something like chaotic, right? Something almost beyond human comprehension. So you've got the Leviathan, you've got Jonah, it's all uncertainty, instability. Jonah, you've got like the primordial wars in Genesis. Big wow word that on it. Whip that out. Primordial. Primordial. I see you king. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm proud of that one.

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I'm proud of that one. Primordial waters. But it's just on and on. Even in the New Testament, right? With Jesus, with the wind and the waves, you know? Constantly. I thought, I found that very interesting because I saw it as...

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even in this chaos, even in this stuff, you don't quite understand all of this uncertainty. I am still in charge. Wow. It's not outside of my authority. I feel like that's what God is saying here is, this is under my control as well, even if you don't get that.

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So that's how, that's what it came to me. I found that entire sort of that. I'm glad you said one and two, because I think to me, it's very, well, obviously it's very clear. It says, you know, the Lord, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, right? He is the owner of it. He's not coming as an invader. And we see it later on when we talk about who's, who's this coming? Like the King of Glory. Let's see the King of Glory open the gates, right? He is, um,

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not an invader. You don't open the, open the gates or the doors for an invader. You don't open the gates to a stranger. This is someone who is returning home. This is the owner. This is, it's his authority. It's his domain. And what does that mean for that? Actually, I have a question for you then on this. Okay. If, if, if it all is the Lord's,

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what does that make us? Like right now in creation, if we recontextualize all of this, all of creation as the lords, who are we? Well, I guess we are the lords. I suppose. Yeah, definitely. But I think what kind of stands out from what you're saying is,

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That puts us still under the care of the Lord, even in the trials, even in the rough circumstances, even when things are going well, when I've lost my job, when I've failed a test, when one of my family members has passed away, in these wind and waves of life, actually, you're still the Lord's. You're still living in his world, which I think is real comfort, right? Like you were saying, he's not coming as an invader. He's coming as a lover. Shoot, man. Yeah.

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That's good news. It's great news. I think, though, that's also kind of... I'll be real. I'll be real. I need to hear this. And I think a lot of people probably living in the West need to hear this.

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The world does not exist as ours to consume or to use. Yeah. I think there's a real humility in acknowledging that it's all the lords. We're stewards. We are stewards. Are we going to steward well? Shoot, man. Beats me, are we? That's a flipping question. Do you? That's something to do. Do I? Do you? I don't know. Shoot, you just broke the fourth wall. I broke the fourth wall. Sorry, everybody. Do you? Do you?

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That's a great question. I mean, yeah. Yeah. What is our relationship with all the things? With creations. Yeah. But that's not only, you know, nature, which I think that's what people think when you say creation, they go trees, right? But then also with one another, how we're stewarding our friendships and our relationships. I think that's something to take note of as well. Right? How do we honor those around us? 100%. Yeah. We're stewarding that well.

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I think it's interesting because then it jumps into verse 3, and it kind of seems like a switch of tone. Like it seems pretty disconnected. But I think it's almost like if we understand rightly the majestic nature of the Lord and his creation and our humble position within that,

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it kind of then is the foundation for what it says in verse three who shall ascend the hill of the lord who shall stand in his holy place or in other words how i take that to mean who can exist in his presence yeah who can live in the presence of the one who created yeah it's so great that they place they place that right after right there's like

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Everything is God's. He is in control of everything. Who can approach him? Can you? You know what I mean? I mean, I don't know. It's like the supremacy of God. Bro, I read this and I'm like, can I flip? It's humbling.

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It's super humbling. It's super humbling. And I think, listen, I was reading this about Psalm 24 previously was... Yeah. A lot of people, a lot of like Old Testament scholars think that this would have been the Psalm that was written either for or just used for the time in, I think it's 2 Samuel chapter 6...

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where David and this procession of priests carries the ark, which is God's dwelling place, like this little house for the Lord, into the holy city, Jerusalem. And so they're also kind of talking about like they acknowledge the Lord's,

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Kind of majesty in which is just another word for like his his awesomeness, his beauty, his just how big he is, how powerful he is. Yeah. And then they move into potentially what they're doing in the moment when they're reading this. Who who of us can ascend with the presence of the Lord?

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And like we know Jerusalem was literally on a mountain, Mount Zion. So it's literally as well as ascending to almost like this, like transcending to the Lord's place of being. It's also physically like who can actually enter into his temple on this mountain. Flip man. I don't know. Who can? Couldn't tell you. Who can? Who can?

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Well, let's see who comes. Let's keep moving. He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

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Bro, I don't know about you, I'm cooked in this regard. This whole Psalm Loki is making me feel a little bit cooked. I was thinking about it. I realized, why does it mention clean hands and a pure heart? Because clean hands is our actions. Clean heart is our intentions. It's like a twofold holiness. It's like external and internal, right?

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Yeah, dude, I'm my actions are cooked sometimes. Yeah, definitely. Like I'll be real. I'd be sinning, bro. I'd be sinning. And like, I know that's, that's kind of like a cliche thing. I feel like that Christian said, oh, I'm sinful. Like, woe is me, whatever, whatever.

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Like, dude, I'll be real. I've hurt some people. I've done some things that I wish I could take back. Yeah. And I still have intentions. Like, I think I'm getting, I'm maturing in my faith to not act upon things. But for sure, my intentions are crooked, bro, sometimes.

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Like I'd be wanting personal gain. I'll be, dude, let me ground it in a real example. Sometimes we shoot videos and I want people to see it because I know it'll get personal recognition. Like for me. That's something I've had to repent of where my intention is wrong. But I say all of that just to say, like, I don't feel like this is me, bro. How do I reconcile that? I don't feel like I've got a clean hands and pure heart. Can I exist in the presence of the Lord?

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I would say not on your own strength. No one can, right? Romans, was it Romans 3? 23, all full short, right? It actually, this bit actually reminds me of, I wrote it down in my notes here, Matthew 5.

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It does exactly what you just did where you go, actually, I don't have clean hands. I don't have a pure heart. Sin is, it's so easy to miss the mark, you know, so easy, so easy. There is no way we have clean hands or a pure heart on our own strength ever. And I think that's what's so beautiful about Matthew 5, but also about this verse is that it, it,

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that reveals our need for grace. It reveals our need for grace. It reveals our need for a savior. And then what I love about Psalm 24 is if we keep going, it says, here is the savior. Let the king of glory in, right? I like that. Yeah, I don't know. What do you think? Yeah, the only way, the only way I could be counted as...

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I'm going to say for lack of, I don't know, a word. I don't think the right word is coming to me right now, but quote unquote worthy of being in the Lord's presence is by free gift, exactly what you're saying. Like it's only through Jesus dying on the cross that I could hope to be someone who's counted as righteous before him. You know what I mean? Yeah. But good thing we got that.

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Bro, imagine if we didn't have that guarantee. Oh, that would suck. Shucks, bro. Shucks. That would suck. I'm cooked. Chat, I'm cooked. Bro, but add me in. Everybody, add all of you in. That would suck. But he did that. We got it.

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He did that, and thank goodness he did, because I think on the DL, that means down low for all of you newbies. I think that means I can low-key through Christ, and because of his faithfulness, I can claim...

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Verse five and six. Check this out. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. That's Jesus. Shout out. Shout out my salvation. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Dude, do you know what I find so fascinating about six especially here? Is God of Jacob. Why Jacob? Why not Abraham? Why not Isaac? Why Jacob? I didn't think about that. Why? Do you have an answer? Yeah.

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She's hoping I would have something to say. Yeah, you've got an answer for that. I think...

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For me, I was thinking, well, who was Jacob? Jacob was a, he was a deceiver. He was a, he was cunning, right? He was a cheat. And yet God restored him. Wait, what? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Explain Jacob. Jacob. Sorry, give me a little bit of background. I didn't know he was a deceitful person. Oh, Jacob. Jacob, we're talking Genesis right now. We're taking it all the way back. Genesis, Jacob, right? He grabs the heel and he deceives his brother for his inheritance, gives him some soup. Oh yeah, right. He's pretty, he's pretty shifty. Yes.

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He's a snake oil salesman, you might call him. Right. Real scoundrel. That's the story with Issa, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right. Okay, okay. Jacob means trickster. So that checks out. How does it bring that back to the song? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me about that. Well, I think, to me, what that says is that,

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if you know the story of Jacob, you know he's transformed and he's restored by God, right? It gives him a new name. And I think that what it says is that it's sufficient for, his grace is sufficient for Jacob, right? Ooh! That's what I'm thinking. That's where it's taken me. So that's why God of Jacob, that's what, that's what...

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That's where it took me. Whoa. Yeah. I think we're all Jacob. I can relate to Jacob. I've been cunning. I've been a trickster, a little prankster, a scoundrel, a rascal. You prankster. Exactly. Could be a nightmare. So I relate to Jacob in this regard. And therefore I seek out the God of Jacob. Shoot, man. Dude, I think it's sick.

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Yeah, that stuff of like, we've got this free gift that's offered to anyone. I was thinking about, what does it mean in verse five that it says, this person will receive a blessing from the Lord? But you just saying that,

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makes me think like, what more could I desire than to have just the presence of the living God who created the earth and owns the fullness of everything in it to dwell with me? Like that sounds like an infinite blessing in itself, no matter what that results in. 100%, 100%.

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And I think, well, it says, it kind of supports that in the next verse, right? With seek your face. It's not saying seek your blessing, seek you to help me out in this, seek you to give me this. It's those who want simply to be in his presence.

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And I think that in itself, like you said, is the blessing. Wow. Should we rip 7 to 10? Take us there. I'm ready. This is the last section. And it's talking all about suddenly the gates. We're talking about doors and gates. And I think this connects back to going back to 2 Samuel 6. Keep in mind, they would have marched up the hill and they probably would have been saying, who can ascend the hill now?

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This person will receive blessing from the Lord. They will receive righteousness. They will receive his presence. And we have that promise as Christians. And then they get to the gates of the city and they say, open up gates, open up. Let the king of glory in. They're carrying the ark, which is the dwelling place of the Lord. As I said before, they're saying, open up, but get this. I read that they would also read this psalm

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on the first day of the week, which would have been a Sunday in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, the priests would have read it. And who else entered the gates of Jerusalem on a Sunday? Famously, Jesus Christ. Jesus on a donkey. He entered the gates on the donkey on the first day of the week, which is super cool in my mind, because that means that according to the rabbinical tradition, they would have been reading in the temple

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Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in as Jesus walked in to the city. How poetic, bro.

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Gosh. And then if I can, this might be going too far. Tell me if this is going too far. I will. But I also kind of connect this to the Lord after he's died, Jesus has died, resurrected and ascended. He enters the gates of heaven.

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into ultimately the Lord's presence on our behalf. He says, open these gates that have never been opened before because who, what man could have walked through those gates previously? And they say, who is it that approaches these gates? Who could enter? And he says, it's the King of glory. And he's coming home, right? He's coming back. And that's why it mirrors- He says, fling these puppies open. Let's let the man's in. I was like, gosh. Gosh.

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That's awesome. Sorry, I'm getting excited. I'm probably... Whoever's listening with headphones is dying right now. Dude, you smashed it. You smashed it. That was sick. That was sick. That was sick. Oh, bro. Wow. Psalm 24. Do you have any closing thoughts? Yeah, I think when I read this psalm, the theme for me that stuck out was kind of a question. It was who's in charge? Who's in charge around here? You know, is it...

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Idols? Is it my idols? Is it my ambitions? Is it the chaos, right? The sea? No. Who is it? The King of Glory. Right there. The King of Glory. And I think that's what it's establishing. Amen. It's saying, actually, the King of Glory is here and he's in charge. That's how I read it or what I got from it. Dude, I love that. Thank you. I love that he's in charge. What a great promise.

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Great promise. I wouldn't want anyone else in charge. I wouldn't want to be in charge. Would you? I wouldn't. I wouldn't. And I feel like it produces such a healthy humility in me as someone who can honestly be prideful at times to know that it's not in my own hands. It's in the Lord's hands. Yeah. So I just want to say, could we actually just end on a little prayer? Lord, we commit everything to you again.

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We just ask, would we have a hard posture that is honoring towards the fact that it is all yours? In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Guys, thank you so much for joining us. We hope you have a great rest of your week. Yeah. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it. Dude, I've loved this. It's been great. You flipping go. No, this was fun. I hope we get to do this one again. Facts. Guys, we'll see you soon. We out for now. Bye.