The Bible Study Podcast, episode 359. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 16.

Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I'm hoping so far that you are enjoying the study of Psalms. I find that I am. And it's interesting because I don't always get as much out of reading through the book of Psalms, which I'm in the second time through. I read one chapter of the Bible every day. I don't know if I have mentioned it recently, but if you go to

Chris2X.com slash Daily Bible, you have a program that I wrote, which lets you get in your email

one chapter of the Bible, and you basically pick a book. You'll get one chapter a day. At the end of that,

you'll get an email, which will say it's time to pick another

book. And so I read through Psalms, and there are 150 chapters, so it takes 150 days. And then I

started over again in anticipation of doing this study. And the reason I started over again is I

felt like I hadn't gotten out of Psalms what I could.

And it's funny because even reading through it the second time, I find that I don't necessarily,

but I'm finding that somehow teaching it gets me slowing down enough to appreciate it better.

I don't know if that is applicable for you, but something to think about.

Today we're doing Psalm 16.

Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.

I say to the Lord, you are my Lord.

Apart from you, I have no good thing.

I say of the holy people who are in the land, they are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.

Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such

gods or take up their names on my lips. This is another Psalm of David, and it's a little bit like some of the other Psalms we've dealt with in the past in the sense that David is asking for help.

David is asking for refuge.

Keep me safe, my God.

For in you, I take refuge.

But the thing I like about Psalm 16, the thing that gives me, I'd have to say delight, is I see in it a very joyful David

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