Day 283: Psalms 93-95

Summary

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The Bible Dept. Podcast with Dr. Manny Arango

Day 283: Psalms 93–95

Date: October 10, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Dr. Manny Arango guides listeners through Psalms 93, 94, and 95 as part of a week-long journey through a special block of Psalms (93–100). The episode explores the key theme uniting these Psalms—the reign and rule of Yahweh—while examining their literary unity, mythological language, and theological implications for both ancient Israel and modern believers. Dr. Arango offers historical and scriptural “nerdy nuggets,” personal anecdotes for practical understanding, and a challenge for listeners to recognize Jesus's kingship in all areas of life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Block of Psalms 93–100: Literary and Thematic Unity

• No Psalm Headings or Specific Contexts
  • [01:25] Dr. Arango notes the absence of headings, attributions, or historical details for these Psalms, underscoring their collective purpose.
  • Quote:
    “There’s no context there. There are no headings here, no context. That’s the bad news.” [02:15]
• Shared Theme: The Lord Reigns
  • Although each Psalm lacks individual context, their content makes it clear they’re a united literary unit celebrating “the reign or enthronement of Yahweh.”
  • Quote:
    “The theme here is the reign of Yahweh … these eight Psalms make up a literary unit in order to be understood together.” [02:32]

2. Psalm 93: Yahweh’s Sovereignty & Mythological Imagery

• Opening Declaration:
  • “The LORD (Yahweh) reigns,” a phrase recurring throughout this Psalm section: Psalms 93, 96:10, 97:1, 99:1.
    Quote:
    “This whole section from Psalm 93 all the way to Psalm 100, we don’t have context, but we do have a consistent message, a consistent theme. That is this: The LORD reigns. Yahweh reigns.” [05:54]
• Mythological Language:
  • References to seas, waves, and thunder in Psalm 93:3-4 evoke ancient mythological concepts of chaos and order.
  • Insight:
    The language “communicates that the God that tamed the chaotic ocean... is the God that we are talking about.” [10:08]
• Reflection on Truth:
  • Dr. Arango reminds listeners that ancient expressions of truth may use mythic language, not to diminish factual reality but to express deeper meaning.

3. Psalm 94: Yahweh as King and Husband

• God of Vengeance:
  • Psalm 94 introduces Yahweh as not only a vengeful king but also a jealous husband, highlighting relational themes unique to the Hebrew Bible.
  • Quote:
    “If Yahweh is king, if he’s suzerain, one of the twists that the Hebrew Bible is going to put on that idea of suzerain is that Yahweh is also husband.” [11:02]
• Illustrative Story: Dr. Arango’s Uber Ride
  • Personal story about fidelity and righteous jealousy, relating human relationships to God’s covenant with Israel.
  • Extended discussion of Proverbs 6:23–35, emphasizing the seriousness of covenant betrayal and the fierceness of divine love.
  • Quote:
    “There is no way to have love without anger. Not possible. The only people who can really get me riled up angry are people who I love.” [20:04]
    “It is his love that causes him to be jealous.” [20:33]
• Big Picture:
  • The Psalm’s vengeance is rooted in Yahweh’s love and exclusive claim over Israel.

4. Psalm 95: Praise and Warning

• Two-Part Structure:
  • Verses 1–7: Call to worship and acknowledge Yahweh’s kingship.
  • Verses 8–11: Warning not to repeat the rebellion of ancestors who failed to enter God’s rest by disobeying His kingship.
• Application:
  • Each generation faces the choice to submit to God’s reign.
  • Quote:
    “Every generation is at the crossroads. Don’t act like your ancestors. Be faithful. Be like David. Recognize that Yahweh is king.” [24:26]

5. Timeless Truth: Jesus as King

• Challenging Misunderstandings of the Gospel
  • Many Christians reduce the gospel to “Jesus as Savior,” but the true gospel message is “Jesus is King.”
  • Quote:
    “The gospel is this simple message. It can be found in three words: Jesus is King.” [25:13]
  • Only by recognizing Jesus’s kingship can one access Him as Savior; both new and seasoned believers must continually surrender areas of their lives to His reign.
• Personal Challenge to Listeners
  • Dr. Arango prompts reflection:
    • “Is he really king of every area of your life? … Because the job of the believer is to continue to live as though he is king. He’s king regardless.” [27:19]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Psalm Collection:
  • “It’s like Psalm-ception. It’s like a dream within a dream within a dream. Psalms—collections of psalms within collections of psalms.” [06:06]
• On Yahweh and Israel:
  • “The Hebrew Scriptures are actually the testimony of the failure of Israel to acknowledge Yahweh as the reigning and ruling king of the universe.” [07:08]
• On the Human-Divine Relationship:
  • “He is king, but he’s also husband. … they’re not just being unfaithful vassals. They’re being an unfaithful wife to him.” [11:02]
• On Divine Jealousy:
  • “And why is it that God can be jealous and nobody else can? … because God owns you.” [20:33]
• On Living Out Jesus’s Kingship:
  • “You don’t get to access him as Savior if you don’t surrender to him as king.” [26:19]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:25] — Introduction to the Psalms 93–100 block
• [02:32] — Explanation of literary unity and the theme: Yahweh reigns
• [05:54] — Recurrent phrase: The LORD reigns
• [09:55] — Mythological language and God taming chaos
• [11:02] — Yahweh as king and husband; explanation of jealousy
• [12:53]–[21:09] — Anecdote: Uber conversation, fidelity, Proverbs 6, divine jealousy
• [23:22] — Psalm 94 in the context of covenant and vengeance
• [23:37] — Psalm 95: Structure and message
• [25:13] — What is the gospel? Jesus is King
• [27:19] — Personal application; challenge for comprehensive submission to Christ’s reign

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Conclusion & Next Steps

• Summing Up:
  This episode emphasized the central biblical truth that Yahweh—and, for Christians, Jesus—is King. Dr. Arango guided listeners from ancient context to personal application, challenging the audience to align every part of life with King Jesus’s rule.
• Upcoming:
  The podcast continues in the Psalms 93–100 block in the next episode, exploring Psalms 96–98.

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Transcript

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Hey, Bible nerds. This is Dr. Manny Arango and I'm your host for the Bible Department podcast powered by arma. This podcast follows a Bible reading plan we created to help you read the entire Bible in a year. You can head to the show notes or thebibledepartment.com to download our reading plan and join the Journey.

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Family.

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Welcome to Day 283 here on the Bible Department Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Manny Arango, and I'm super excited to dive into what's honestly about to be a collection of psalms. Okay?

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From Psalm 93 all the way to.

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Psalm 100 is a solid block of psalms. And we'll probably be in this block of psalms for the next couple of days. I think probably the next three, if not four days. I can't remember how the Bible reading plan actually breaks down, but buckle up because we are going to be in this collection of psalms for the next couple of days. Now, if you have not done the reading for today, which is Psalms 93, 94 and 95, then I want you to go ahead and stop this video, pause the audio and go do the reading. Read Psalm 93, Psalm 94, and Psalm 95, and then come on back when the reading is done. Done.

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For those of us who have done.

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The reading, let me give you some.

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Good news and some bad news.

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All right, I'll give you the bad news first.

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The bad news is that there's no.

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Context for any of these Psalms, not just today's psalms. You're probably will notice this, right? If you look at Psalm 93, there's no heading. If you look at Psalm 94, there is no heading. And if you look at Psalm 95, there is no heading. Well, if you cheat a little bit and Skip ahead, Psalm 96, no heading. Psalm 97, no heading. Psalm 98, the only heading that's there is a psalm. Thanks. Very, very helpful. Psalm 99, no heading. Psalm 100, a psalm for giving grateful praise. And that's going to end this whole block. And then we're going to start at Psalm 101, which is of David, a psalm. Okay? So from Psalm 93 to Psalm 100.

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This is a solid unit.

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Okay? This is a collection within book four. All right, so here's the first thing that I want to say. It's the bad news. There is. There's no context there. There are no headings here, no context. That's the bad news.

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The good news is that because this.

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Entire block has no context. And the contents of the Psalms are very similar. Actually, we can begin to deduce that the context of all these psalms is the same. All right, so we don't have context, no headings for the individual Psalms themselves. But because the contents of the Psalms are very, very similar, most scholars, I mean all scholars would agree that these Psalms 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 90, 98, 99, 100, that these eight Psalms make up a literary unit in order to be understood together. They actually have the same context, which is the celebration or the enthronement of the reign of Yahweh. All right, the celebration or the enthronement or even the ascension of Yahweh to his throne. Okay. The theme here is the reign of Yahweh. Now we don't know exactly which cultural moment that is being celebrated in. We have, we don't have, we really don't know. We have no idea. Okay, so we don't have a ton of context, but we have a shared theme. Okay, now, now that you know, we know that there is no context for all of these psalms. Okay, Psalm 93, 94, 95 are the Psalms that we have today. We're gonna dive into some nerdy nuggets as it relates to the these psalms. Okay, 1st Psalm 93 is going to start. Let me go ahead, flip back. Psalm 93 is going to start out with these words. The Lord reigns. The Lord reigns. Yahweh reigns. By the way, just extra nerdy nugget. Anytime you see L, R D, all caps, that is your English translation telling you that the Hebrew word Yahweh is there. Okay? Y, H, W H. Okay, Typically in a Hebrew Bible, just four dots. The Jewish people would not dare write the name Yahweh. Okay? It was too holy according to their understanding and their theology. All right? Sometimes I'll end up teaching, you know, what was standard or what was normal in, in in the Jewish world. And people will walk up to me like, hey, why don't we still do that? And I'm like, cuz we're not Jewish. I'm like, cause we're Christians anyway. That's a whole other episode for a whole nother day. Now Psalm 93 starts with these words, the Lord reigns. Now you're gonna begin to realize as you read the next couple of days that that repeated phrase is gonna be found all the way through this section from Psalm 93 all the way to Psalm 100. Actually, I want you to go to Psalm 96, 10, okay? Psalm 96, verse 10 says this, say among the nation the Lord reigns. Okay, I want you to go to Psalm 97, verse 1. The Lord reigns. Let the earth be glad Let the distant shores rejoice. Okay, I want you to go to Psalm 99, verse 1. Psalm 99, verse 1. What do you think it's going to say? I think it's going to say something about God reigning. That's right. Psalm 99, verse 1. The Lord reigns. Okay, so this whole section from Psalm 93 all the way to Psalm 100, we don't have context, but we do have a consistent message, a consistent theme.

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That is this.

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The Lord reigns. Yahweh reigns.

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These eight Psalms are all about the rule and reign of Yahweh.

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That is what we are talking about in this little mini collection of psalms inside of book four, which is a collection of psalms, and within the wider book of the Psalms, which is a collection of psalms. This is like Psalm ception. It's like a dream within a dream within a dream. Yeah, Psalms. Collections of psalms within collections of psalms within collections of psalms. Psalm ception.

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All right, Psalm 93 to 100.

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Focus on one singular theme, the reign and rule of Yahweh, the King of the earth. These Psalms are all about that one singular theme. And this is David's legacy. All right? This is David's legacy.

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I need you to realize that although Yahweh has always been king, Israel has consistently failed in her history as the bride of Yahweh and as the nation.

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Of Israel, they have consistently failed.

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The Hebrew Scriptures are actually the testimony of the failure of Israel to acknowledge Yahweh as the reigning and ruling king of the universe. That is the story of Scripture is Israel's failure to worship Yahweh and him alone to live according to that truth.

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Okay? And this is the legacy of David, Okay? The reality is that Yahweh was already king of Israel.

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Deuteronomy established that.

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Okay? Deuteronomy establishes that Yahweh is suzerain, Israel is vassal.

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But in the time of the Judges.

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And in the reign of Saul, in.

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So many other moments, that kingship was.

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Not acknowledged, was not recognized by Israel.

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So now in the Psalms, the Psalms.

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As a whole, but definitely in this collection of eight Psalms, we see and hear Israel recognizing the kingship of Yahweh over them, proclaiming that he reigns, and so therefore submitting to his authority. As we will continue to see, this is the true significance. This is the true legacy of David's reign. David makes Israel recognize the reign of Yahweh. David makes Israel recognize the reign of Yahweh unlike any other king, unlike any.

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Other leader, unlike any other ruler.

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David is adamant that the people recognize Yahweh as their king and recognize the reign of Yahweh. This is why David is a man after God's own heart. Not because he's moral, not because he's.

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Holier than anybody else, but because he.

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Is adamant that the people recognize the reign of Yahweh, okay? And worship him as such. Yahweh's always been king, but Israel has rarely behaved based on that reality, except he here in the psalms. Okay, Psalm 94. Okay, that. That's all we'll say about Psalm 93. Ah, I'll say this about Psalm 93. One last thing about Psalm 93, you can begin to see mythological language again, starting in verse. What verse is this? Starting in verse three. The seas have lifted up, Lord. The seas have lifted up their voice. The seas have lifted up their pounding waves. Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea. The Lord on high is mighty. Okay, so we're going to get that.

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Sea, sea, sea, waves, water, thunder.

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All that language is mythological language that is communicating that the God that tamed.

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The chaotic ocean, that tamed the waters.

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Of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2, and established order over the chaos, that is the God that we are talking about. Okay? So that mythological language that probably a lot of us may be uncomfortable with because we're used to thinking about God not in mythological terms, but in factual terms, because we define truth a little bit differently than our ancient counterparts define truth. Maybe thinking about God in mythological terms is just a little, like, weird for you because that feels like fantasy or a fairy tale or like not real or not true. But here it is, and you're going to see it all throughout the Psalms. You're going to continue to see mythological language. All right, Psalm 94.

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If Yahweh is king, if he's suzerain, one of the twists that the Hebrew.

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Bible is going to put on that idea of suzerain is that Yahweh is also husband. Okay? This is not true for any other. Other kings, you know what I mean? Or gods. But this is uniquely true for Yahweh, that he is suzerain, he's king, he reigns, but he's also husband. So he is going to enact vengeance, and he's going to be jealous when his people are unfaithful to him. It's not just that they are being Unfaithful vassals. They're being unfaithful wives. They're being an unfaithful wife to him. So there's an added layer and level to the metaphor. Okay, so what do we get in Psalm 94? Psalm 94 starts, and the Lord is a God who avenges. Okay, I actually want to see how the NRSV says it. Psalm 94 in the NIV says, you're a God who avenges.

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Not as strong as we're going to read it in the NRSV.

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Psalm 94, verse 1. NRSV.

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Oh, Lord, you got a vengeance.

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Some. Some. For some reason, avenge doesn't carry. Or pack the punch that vengeance carries. Okay, you got a vengeance. Shine forth. Rise up, oh, judge of the earth. Give to the proud what they deserve. Oh, Lord, how long shall the wicked. How long shall the wicked exalt? Okay, so vengeance. God is a God of vengeance. Why is he a God of vengeance? He's a God of vengeance because he's not only a king, he's also a husband. Now, in order to kind of understand this, you know, I got into an Uber yesterday, and for whatever reason, my Uber driver, her name is Tamika, she was kind of saying, like, you know, sometimes women's cheat.

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Women cheat, men cheat, women cheat, everybody cheat.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Sometimes people cheat because they got to.

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Get their needs met. She was kind of talking about cheating. And I said, well, I've never cheated on anybody. You know what I mean? I don't cheat, you know, and. Because cheating is kind of cowardly. And I was like, yeah, I just. I'm. You know, I'd rather break up with somebody then cheat on them. Like, that's just. That's moving. Like a coward, you know, don't be scared. Just tell a person, hey, like, this relationship's not working out, and then break up with them, stop being with them. You know what I mean? And then she was like, well, what have you married? I'm like, then go get marriage counseling. Figure out, you know, what the issue is. And she was like, your wife may be cheating on you. And I was like, ma', am, if my wife was cheating on me, somebody would die. I literally looked this woman in her face, was like, nope, somebody would die.

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And she was like, what?

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That's crazy.

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That ain't Christian.

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Bo.

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Ain't you a pastor? Blah, blah.

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And I was like, ma', am, do you have a Bible? And I was like, I'm gonna read song.

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So I'm in the car, I'm in the Uber, reading the Bible to this woman, okay? I'm like, hey, this is salt. This is Proverbs, chapter six. Okay? Proverbs, chapter six, verse 30.

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Actually, no, no, I wrote down. I want to start reading in verse 23, okay?

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Psalm 30.

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Why do I keep saying psalm? Proverbs. Sorry. It's because we're in the book of Psalms right now. Okay? This is Proverbs, chapter 6, verse 23.

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For the commandment.

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For the commandment is a lamp.

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And the teaching a light and the.

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Reproof of discipline are the way of life.

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To preserve you from the wife of another. Okay? So the father figure in the proverb is saying, hey, you can never have.

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Sex with the wife of somebody else. The wife of another man.

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Never, never, never, never.

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Okay?

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To preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

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OK? Verse 25.

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Do not desire her beauty in your heart. Do not lust after another man's wife.

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Okay?

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And do not let her capture you with her eyelashes. Lashes ain't new. Lashes ain't new. You know what I'm saying? Don't let her capture you with the lashes. Okay, here we go. Verse 26. I know this is controversial. You're not gonna like this, but this is a proverb. Says this for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread. Hey, hey, if, if, if you got a lust issue, go, Go sleep with a prostitute. A prostitute's only gonna cost you a loaf of bread.

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They're cheap.

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They're not even. It's not even expensive. There's prostitutes out here. Go, go be with a prostitute. Don't mess around with another man's wife. Don't mess around with a married woman. Why? But the wife of another stalks a man's very life. Hey, the sin of sex, you're still going to deal with the consequences of.

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The sin of having sex outside the confines of marriage.

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But the consequences of sleeping with a prostitute is.

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Is.

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Is guilt, some shame, I don't know, maybe chlamydia. But you have sex with another man's wife, you'll. You're going to die. You're going to die. That man's going to kill you. Okay, here we go. And typically, moms don't like their.

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Their husbands talking to their sons this way. This is why I love Proverbs. It's from a man to a man, okay?

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Proverbs is like, look, hey, let us reason together, okay? Let your dad tell you like it is, all right? Prostitute only going to cost you a Loaf of bread, but another man's wife. Oh, you want to get your butt beat? You going to get jacked up? Okay, here we go. Next. Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes? Or one walk on hot clothes without scorching the feet? So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife.

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Wife.

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If you sleep with a married man's wife, no one who touches her will go unpunished. You don't have the same consequences for sleeping with a prostitute as you have with taking that which belongs to another man. Here we go. Thieves are not despised who steal only.

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To satisfy their appetite when they're hungry. Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold.

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They will forfeit all the goods of their house. But he who commits adultery, he who has sex with another man's wife has no sense. He who does it do destroys himself. He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. For jealousy arouses a husband's fury. I said to Tameka, I said, do you understand what the word fury means? Tamika said, fury. If my wife were to cheat on me, then whoever she messed around with would experience my fury.

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Fury.

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She's like, what would you do to your wife? I was like, divorce her. I wouldn't lay a hand on my wife. I would never. I would never touch my wife. I would never hit my wife.

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Never.

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You all know who these fists would be reserved for? The idiot who thought that he could take that which belongs to me. I said, sweetheart, Tameka, let me help you understand something. If somebody stole my car, I wouldn't be mad at the car.

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I'd go find the person who stole my car, and they'd experienced my fury. She's like, yeah, but it takes two to tango. She was not having. She didn't have a biblical worldview. She didn't know that. She didn't understand the Bible.

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I was like, sweetheart, for jealousy arouses a husband's fury. I was like, don't call me man. Call me fury. I'm going to be. Call me fury. And if that's how I feel as a husband, imagine how Yahweh feels. And so this Psalm 94 is actually here to say, he's king, but he's also husband. And he will rise up in vengeance over the nations who the people of Israel have sacrificed to their idols. He will rise up in vengeance against.

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The nations who have taken Israel into captivity.

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He will rise up. They will experience his fury. And I think a lot of times we are uncomfortable with God's fury or anger because really we don't understand God's love. There is no way to have love without anger. Not possible. The only people who can really get me riled up angry are people who I love. This is why, like, if you cussing people out on the road that cut you off, something's wrong with you. If strangers can get you mad, something's wrong. You, you actually have an anger problem. Strangers shouldn't be able to get you upset. Only the people who you love should. Should be able to get you mad because you love them. Like. So let's think about this. If I went to my house and God forbid, I found my wife's body dead and my son, you know, they've been gunned down and my response was.

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Eh, it's okay, you know, I'll get another son, I'll get another wife.

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You would want to get me psychologically evaluated. You'd question whether or not I actually.

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Loved my wife or loved my son. Why?

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Because in the presence of great evil, there should be great vengeance. In the presence of great evil, there should be great fury. So a lot of times we're uncomfortable with God's anger. We're uncomfortable with his fury because actually we don't understand the depth of his love.

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It is his love that causes him to be jealous.

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And why is it that God can be jealous and nobody else can? Is because God owns you. In the same way that I couldn't be jealous when I was a boyfriend, but the moment I became a husband, now me and my wife belong to each other.

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I'm hers, she's mine.

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I can only be jealous if I'm.

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Jealous over someone who is actually mine and I am actually theirs.

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If my wife, if for whatever reason.

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We got divorced and she got remarried and her new husband was trying to get my son to call him dad.

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I'd be like, you better get up out of here. That's my son. And there's a certain jealousy that I'm going to have that is normal and natural because that boy's mine. He's mine. Family, the wait is over.

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Copies at a physical location.

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So you can grab this book at a physical Barnes and Noble or you can go to a Books a million or Amazon or anywhere books are sold and grab a copy. If you enjoy reading the Bible from an ancient perspective, if you understand that the beauty of scripture is actually knowing it in context, then you'll love this book. And if there's any chaos in your personal life, I think that reading the Bible from an ancient perspective can actually help to crush the chaos in your life.

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I think this book is going to be a New York Times bestseller.

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I really do. I think we wrote a good one. I think you should get a copy today. All right, back to the episode.

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It's one time I kind of adopted one of the kids at the youth.

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Group as a spiritual son, and his name is Jayon. And one time I took Jay on to the barbershop, and he was like, I don't want a haircut.

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And I was like, I don't care what you want. You're done walking around here like you don't like nobody, like you don't belong to nobody. I'm taking you to get your haircut. Because if I'm going to be a spiritual father in your life, you need.

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To look like somebody.

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Somebody takes care of you. You can't look homeless. You all look homeless. Then you don't. You're not going to have a spiritual father. Part of having a dad is a dad makes sure that you look like.

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You belong to somebody when you're out in public. Okay?

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And so Psalm 94 fits under the greater umbrella, the fact that Yahweh is a king according to the template of.

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Deuteronomy, which means that he's in a.

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Covenant relationship with Israel, whereby he's not.

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Only king and suzerain, but also husband. All right, Psalm 95. We don't even have enough time for Psalm 95.

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Psalm 95 is divided in half. Verses 1:7 again continues the theme of.

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Of the fact that the Lord reigns.

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Yahweh reigns. So verses 1 through 7 talk about the enthronement of Yahweh. Come and bow before him.

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He's enthroned. And then verses 8 through 11 are essentially giving a warning, saying, because remember.

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Your ancestors sucked at this. They failed. They failed to enter God's rest. God said, go up to the land.

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Of Canaan and take it, for I've given it to you. And they decided to not act like Yahweh was king. And how do you act like Yahweh's not king? By disobeying orders. They did not obey God's orders. They decided to go rogue. And so they fail to enter God's rest. And so verses 8 through 11 are.

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Essentially saying, hey, every generation is at the crossroads.

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Don't act like your Ancestors, be faithful. Be like David. Recognize that Yahweh is king. What's our Thomas truth for the day? Thomas truth is pretty simple. It's me to ask you this question.

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What is the Gospel? Because the theme of these psalms is that Yahweh is king, that Yahweh reigns, that Yahweh reigns. He sits enthroned as king over the.

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Earth and over Israel.

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Which really caused me to ask the question, well, what does that have to do with you and I today as New Testament believers?

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Well, I need to then ask you.

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This question, what is the gospel? Because a lot of people really don't know what the gospel is.

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They think that the gospel is that Jesus Christ died for the remission of your sins. So they preach Jesus as Savior. But really that's not the gospel. The gospel is this simple message. It can be found in three words. Jesus is king.

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He's King, He's Lord, he reigns. So the fact that Yahweh reigns isn't as relevant for the audience of Psalm 93, 94, 95. Actually, every Christian needs to live under the understanding that Yahweh not only was.

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King, but that he is king and.

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That Jesus has a throne next to.

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The Father and that he is enthroned as king.

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And the only reason he can be.

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Savior is because he is first king. Right? I couldn't die for your sins. Why? Because I'm not the King of the universe.

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Only the Son of God could be.

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Savior, because only the Son of God is king. And the nature of the gospel message is this. Jesus is king. Sometimes when all we do is advertise Jesus as Savior, what that does is it gets converts. And we think that the Gospel is just a form of evangelism for new converts.

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But really the gospel message is for.

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Christians and non Christians because the gospel message is Jesus is king. And in the same way that a non Christian needs to surrender their life to the lordship of Jesus, there are always areas where Christians need to surrender their lives, our lives, to the lordship of King Jesus. Maybe there's unforgiveness in your life, which means that area of your emotions has not been surrendered to the lordship of Jesus. Maybe you don't tithe well, that means that area of your life has yet to be surrendered to the kingship, the lordship of King Jesus. Maybe there's areas where you don't trust him as king. And I just hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you don't get to access him as Savior if you don't surrender to him as king. And so this idea that Yahweh reigns and that right now he's reigning through his son, Jesus, who is king, at the mention of that name, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. And me and you get the option of bowing our knee and kissing the ring and confessing his name. But many won't get the option of doing that. They'll have to do it by force. And so my question to you today is this. Is he really king of every area of your life? Is he king over your words? Is he king over your time management? Is he king over your emotions? Is he king when you're at your job, or have you relegated him to Sunday mornings? Is he king? Because the job of the believer is to continue to live as though he is king. He's king regardless. But just like in the time of the Judges, in the time of Saul, Yahweh was king, but they weren't living like he was. And then David made sure that they. That they saw Yahweh as king. Hopefully I can be a David of sorts that will remind you he is king. But whether or not you're living surrendered is a whole nother question. And that's not just true in the context of Psalm 93, 94, 95. That is a timeless truth, and I hope it challenges you today.

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All right, tomorrow we got day two. 84.

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I hope Tamika finds this podcast.

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I really do.

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I hope so. She inspired this episode today. And I hope you come back Tomorrow for day 284. We're going to be looking at Psalms 96, 97, and 98. I can't continue. I can't wait to continue our trek through the rest of this little section of The Psalms. Psalms 93 to 100.

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I love you.

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I'm so proud of you, especially if you're on the street. I see you tomorrow, same time, same same place. Peace. Thanks so much for joining us on the Bible Department podcast. You can find us online and learn more about the show at thebibledepartment.com and on Instagram hebibledepartment. If you enjoyed this episode and want to dive deeper into the Bible, you can get free access to our library of [e-mail] we'll see you back here tomorrow.