You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. There's so much here, and we could spend days together

in this Psalm. But let's just, let's move through it together, just word by word, phrase by phrase.

So starting in verse one, the Lord is my shepherd.

So maybe, if you haven't already, maybe circle Lord there. And remember, whenever you see the

word Lord, capital L, small caps, O or D like this, this is Yahweh in the Old Testament. So that actually takes us all the way back to something

else we read in our Bible reading recently in Exodus chapter 3. So you can turn there or maybe

just make a note Exodus chapter 3 verses 14 and 15. So it all goes back to the moment when God spoke to Moses in a burning

bush, and God told Moses, he was going to deliver his people out of slavery, which they'd been

in for 400 years. God was going to bring them into a promised, prosperous land. God was sending

Moses to lead them, and Moses asked God, who will I tell this people sent me?

And this was God's response. Exodus 3, verse 14. God said to Moses, I am who I am. And he said,

say this to the people of Israel. I am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses, say this to the people

of Israel. The Lord, so there it is,

the God of your father's Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you.

This is my name forever. Thus I'm to be remembered throughout all generations. So this is when God

revealed himself to Moses and his people as the Lord.

So that's Yahweh, right there.

Same word we're reading in, same name for God we're reading in Psalm 23.

And it's based on the Hebrew verb for to be,

which is what's translated I am here in Exodus chapter 3.

And basically, just to contrast this, you see, God mentioned numerous times,

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