Hey, this is Shelby and Paul. We are in Psalms 21 through 25 today. Just a reminder, leave a review,

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We love the idea that we're spending time with you every day, but we want to hear back from you, you know? So leave that for us. Paul today, Psalms 21 through 25, we're going to get there, but we have a really, maybe one of the most well-known psalms that is in today's reading. So we're very excited to get to that. But before we get there, I know we want to

talk about another psalm first. Yes, that's right. Yeah. So we have two of the most famous

Psalms in the whole Salter in today's reading. And I wish we could talk about all five Psalms,

but we'll focus on these two. So there's Psalm 22 and Psalm 23. And if we've read, any of you have read the Gospels before,

you might recognize the very beginning of Psalm 22 because it's what Jesus says as he hangs on the cross.

He says, my God, my God, why have you abandoned me? And some translations say, why have you forsaken me?

So there's a few things to talk about there with the

connection between this and the gospel. So first of all, it's notable that even in Jesus's

lowest moment of his whole life dying, scripture is what's on his mind. And what does that

tell us about him, right? That he had the words of scripture on his mind even as he was dying. And second, when Jesus

says this first line, he's really invoking the whole movement of the psalm. It wouldn't have just been

this one line on his mind. He would have been thinking about where the psalm ends up as well. And as we read on,

we see that it follows a standard lament psalm, meaning that there's a turn towards

God's good character at the very end. And so verse 24 says, for he has not despised or appored the

torment of the oppressed. He did not hide his face from him, but listened when he cried to him for help.

And so we know that God did, in fact, hear Jesus's cries cries because three days later he rose from the grave, right?

And so this is again, one of the great advantages of reading the Bible all the way through is that you get these connections.

And so when we get to the Gospels later, we'll pick up on this and know where it came from.

Yeah, that's great. And I think that might not, I hope people picked up on that but if you didn't

pick up on that Psalm 22 those are the kind of things that we love showing you we

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