All right, Psalm 85 is not a very long psalm. We've got 13 verses here, and a lot of this is similar. We see references to sin, the iniquity of the people. We see forgiveness from God. This is more of a positive psalm, and it's just a high-level overview of the psalm before we dig into the verses here. the asking of God to bless and to not be angry with them. And then we see some of the blessings following through of the Lord and righteousness here. So let's dig in here to verse number one. The Bible says, Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. So the first verse is setting us up with where we're at right this is after uh children of israel being brought back out of captivity so uh it doesn't necessarily say which captivity i don't think that that's necessarily important it's just referencing a captivity a time when the children of israel have gone astray and then they're coming back to the lord and i mean this may be prophetic from that time but I would say it doesn't really matter because we're, you know, I want to just dig more into just how God works is a very good summary of how God works in general. And this is from the vantage point from the standpoint of having now finished going through chastening of the Lord as a people. This is, you know, Israel as a whole is coming out of being captive. They've turned from the Lord. Now they're being brought back out of captivity. And verse two says, thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou has covered all their sin, Selah. So they've received the forgiveness of God. God brought them back. They have now passed that point of whatever transgression was, God has forgiven that iniquity. He's covered all of their sin. Verse 3, thou has taken away all thy wrath. Thou has turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. Verse 4, turn us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger toward us to cease. We see here three times the first three verses expressing, look, we've been forgiven, our sins are covered, you've taken away your wrath, the fierceness of your anger, that you've kind of crossed that point to where they're getting back in good standing with the Lord. And as we go through this, this is referring to, you know, you know, the nation, the land, the people of God as a collective. And I'm going to address it that way, but obviously you can still apply most of this individually as well. So when you go through your own chastening and your own times where God might have to punish you for your sins and your disobedience and stiff-neckedness that you know when when you return to the Lord and you humble yourself and you seek God then and he forgives you then covers your sin and then takes away his wrath from you you're gonna be in this state where you're, one, very thankful because you've received that forgiveness from the Lord, which is great, and you're starting to get back in good graces, but at the same time, this is also a very good place to, you're not far removed from that captivity, from the punishment, and you're probably gonna be treading very lightly, going like, like, thank you, like, like, thank you for not, you know, for, for, for your wrath, you know, toning that down and taking away your wrath. But, but please don't, don't be angry with me again. You know, like, turn us, the Bible says here, turn us, oh God of our salvation, like, like, you know, get us on the right path is what this is saying. And I just want to express this real quick in, in verse number four here, when it says, turn us, oh God of our salvation, cause an anger toward us to cease. This does not negate any type of free will. You can look at this statement, and what I wouldn't do is when it says, turn us, oh God, that's not saying, like a lot of people, and this is very understandable, I think, you would like to just be able to let God just run your life for you, right? Like where you could just be like, God, like if you just had a switch you could turn right now and just be like, God, just take over and run my life for me. I would like to be able to do that, because then you'd just be guaranteed, like, all right, well, then God's just going to do everything that is good for me, what's right, what I should be doing. But that's not how God operates. We don't believe in the God of John Kelvin. that just everything happens to what he says it's gonna be, and it's all predetermined, it's all predestinated, and God's just like a puppet master controlling the strings of everybody and everything that they do. That is completely false. We don't subscribe to that, not even a little bit. So when the Bible says, turn us, O God of our salvation, Obviously, we want God to direct us. We want God to be with us. We want God to show us the right way, which is ultimately how this Psalm ends up. So look at verse number 13. This is where we get this conclusion of the thought to, hey, look, we've done wrong. We've sinned. We've gone into captivity. We've been punished for that. Now God, turn us back to you, back to serving you. Get our minds straight. Help us to walk the right path. Show us the way forward from here. Turn us. We don't want to go back to where we were before. Turn us the right way. And this has to do with getting direction, getting guidance from the Lord. Verse number 13 there in Psalm 85, the Bible says, righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps. This is what they were looking for. Of course, it concludes with that. But this is the whole point of saying, turn us, right? Show us the right way. Go back in our life and give us the guidance that we need. And as I was preparing for this sermon, there's a couple of passages that came up that just made me think about other portions of scripture. If you want to keep your place here, and turn if you go to Amos chapter number 8, This desire, this request for God to, hey, turn us back right again, get us in the right way. Verse number five, I'm gonna read for you in Psalm 85. I meant to read this before we turn to Amos 8. It says, wilt thou be angry with us forever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Will thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoice in thee? And it's still this feeling of making God, please don't just cast us off forever. Don't be angry with us forever. They already know that they've been forgiven. God's brought them back. But the desire here is to not want to have the anger of the Lord in their lives anymore. They want to get right. And this is the right heart that has to be there in order for them to even be brought back and to receive that forgiveness anyways. It's that repentant heart and looking for the right way. what and this is this is the concern i think that that they're worried about is what the bible says in amos chapter 8 when the people have sinned greatly and they're being judged look at verse number 10 of amos chapter 8 the bible says and i will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. And before I even continue here, this is just such a basic principle overall, going all the way back to the law, all the way back to the first five books of Moses, going back to where God just promises like, hey, here's my law. You keep my law and I will bless you. And I'm going to multiply your you know your seed i'm going to multiply the crops i'm going to you know protect you i'll be your defender you know one of you shall chase 10 10 of you shall chase a thousand like like you're going to be blessed and i'll and i'll be there for you and i'll be your god and you'll be my people but if you disobey me then things are going to go bad. Then I'm going to allow you to be brought into captivity. You're not going to be reaping anything good out of the land. You're going to go into all kinds of problems. So we see this play out over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again throughout scripture. And you see it play out, I'm sure, just in life in general, whether it be your life or people that you know. people just having no regard for the Lord and especially his people and you know Christians that just get out of the will of God and just have no regard for serving God, no regard for doing anything for the Lord, they end up not being blessed just in general and seem to have a lot of problems that that wouldn't otherwise be there. Look at, let's keep reading your verse number 10. I will turn your feasts in the morning and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the morning of an only sun and the end thereof as a bitter day. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. And this is, that's a scary place to be. He's not only saying, you know, I'm going to turn your feasts in the morning, your songs and lamentation, you're going to be going through these curses. But then you're going to want to know what the Lord has to say. You're going to want to get that direction from the Lord. You want God to be with you. God to answer you. God to hear your prayers. And God to guide you. And you're not going to be able to find it. And you're going to be trying to find the Word of the Lord. And you're going to be running to and fro. And trying to find who's got a message from the Lord. Who's got a word from the Lord. And you're not going to find anything. There's a famine in the land of God communicating, of God guiding, of God directing the people. And this is a place where you don't want to be in. And this is the concern. And this is the request. Hey, turn us, oh God. Be there for us. Guide us. Show us the right way. Because obviously, as we saw in Amos, turn back if you want to Psalm 85, as you can see in Amos, you can get to that point. The people can get to that point. The nation can get to that point to where You know, they've sinned and sinned and sinned against the Lord, and now he's punishing them. And now they're not even receiving of the Lord. They're not receiving the right guidance and the right instruction that they would need. We saw that in King Saul's life, right? Remember, he sinned and sinned and sinned and sinned. He didn't humble himself and thought he could do everything. And then when he wants to seek the Lord and he wants counsel from God, he goes and he's trying to ask counsel. He's like, God doesn't answer. And then he takes it so far as to go see a witch and try to bring up Samuel to give him word from the Lord, which is extremely wicked. And he ends up dying, of course, and getting killed in battle. And they desecrate his body, his son. Him and his sons die in battle. as a result of his disobedience, but we see that God will get to that point to where, you know, if you push things too far that he just won't be there for you. He won't be there to answer your requests, to guide you, to give you the instruction that you need. Now, again, I'll bring this up probably As much as I feel I need to, I think everyone here already understands this, but we already believe that there's no way a believer could ever lose their salvation. Even King Saul didn't lose his salvation. When he was able to speak with Samuel the day before he died, Samuel prophesied to him and said, tomorrow you'll be with me. that you and your sons are going to be with me. And there is no indication that Samuel wasn't saved as a prophet of the Lord. We wholeheartedly believe that Samuel was a prophet, that he was saved, he was a man of God. And if he was saying, you're going to be with me, then Samuel wasn't burning in hell. So we can take that as proof. that Samuel prophesied the truth unto him, and that when he died, he was with him. Not to mention that the Bible says that, you know, God gave him another heart, and that Saul prophesied, just like the prophets, and all these other things. We have plenty of evidence to show us that King Saul was saved, and we know that salvation is eternal, and that can never be taken away. Even when you do bad, you know, God's people, you do bad things, hey, God's gonna punish you, he's gonna chase in you, he may get to the point to where he's not gonna listen to you because you've been too disobedient and you need to be punished some more, but his loving kindness, his mercy is never fully taken away from you. That you still have that salvation, you're still a child of God, and you still have a home in heaven. So the plea here in Psalm 85 is just basically to not be angry forever and to guide them now. And now that they're seeking him, please show us a way and guide us the way that we ought to go. verse number six says wilt thou not revive us again and revive of course means to be brought back to life so like they in the sense that we were serving you before we were walking the right way the path of righteousness we fell we transgressed now you've forgiven us now revive us again bring us back to be able to serve you again, to be fruitful again, and to be a people that could bring you honor and glory again, that thy people may rejoice in thee. And basically be able to be used again, right, of the Lord. And this should be a concern if you've got your heart right with the Lord. It's a scary place to be in, you know, for us, especially once you know, you know, let's say you're someone who's, you know what it's like to serve the Lord. You go soul winning, you pray, you read your Bible, you've served God, you've experienced the blessing of God in your life, and then something happens and you end up backsliding and kind of getting out of the things of God, and maybe you commit some bad sin, some type of grievous sin, and then you get to the point where you're like, man, what have I done? and you want to turn back to God, and you find that God is a merciful God, and there is forgiveness with the Lord, and then you get back, well, you're going to want God to still be able to use you again. Right? You're going to want to not just get out of the fight. And I would just encourage you, you're all here in church with us tonight. If this ever happens to you, and I pray that it won't ever happen, but just being in church long enough, you will see people come and go through church. It happens. happens. It happens to really good people. It happens to people that you love. It happens to people that you care about that have been on fire for the Lord and that you would never think would ever drop out of church and just kind of go by the wayside. But it happens. And all I can do is while you're here, just stress, look, Do your best for that not to happen, but if you find yourself in that position where you have backslidden, you have committed sins, you're ashamed, you're whatever, you're guilty of whatever it is before God, and God's chasing you, and God's going to go brought you into captivity, and however that needs to be handled for your case with the Lord, that you would turn to him, but then seek to be used of him again, and don't be so proud that you can't show back up to church. And even if you never go back to the same church, even if you don't come back to this church, for example, go back to church and start serving the Lord again. and don't get the defeated attitude. Look, if you're still alive, God has something more for you to do. Because if God was done with you, then he'd be done. As a child of God especially, if he were done with you in this life, you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't be here. So there's clearly more for you to do. So I would just remember that. And as you're thanking God for his mercy and thanking God for taking away his wrath and turning himself from his fierce anger on you, when you get to that point, as the Bible's describing here, that you would seek to be revived again in the sense of being renewed, being able to go back now, start fresh, start new, and serve the Lord again. And I'll tell you this much from our church, okay, and I can't control how every person behaves, obviously, but I think I know the people here well enough. You come back here and no one's going to say anything or question you or hound you. And you know what? If you were thinking that way, don't ever do that. Someone you know has been out of church for a long time. Just welcome them. Hey, it's great to see you. God bless you. Man, I'm so happy you're here. And you don't need to bother asking about what all the deal, oh, well, how could you possibly do that? Where have you been? Huh? What have you been? No, we don't do that. You want people to be able to look. If they're already willing to come back, let's welcome them. Whatever happened, now they're seeking the Lord again. Great! We're happy about that. We're going to rejoice and just let whatever that is be, whatever is between them and the Lord that got them out of serving God, whatever they were doing, none of our business. Let's just be able to keep moving forward. And we ought to be able to do that and allow other people to do that. And I say that here so that way when, if that ever happens to you, don't think like, oh, what's everyone going to think? You know what people are going to think, honestly? At least the righteous people are going to be thinking, wow, I'm so glad they're back. And I can think of many people right now, many people right now that no longer attend our church that could come to our church that I would be, if they walked through those doors, I would just be really happy that they're here. And the only people that I would not be happy about are the ones that got kicked out because they're perverts. Those guys, no. But that's it. I don't think there's been anyone kicked out for any other reason. We haven't kicked out that many people. We're not even that old of a church. But people have left. Some people have left because whatever, because of me, because of something that I teach. Other people have left for just probably their own personal reasons. Who knows? I don't know what all the reasons are, why people leave. And you know what? I don't go out of my way to ask people in general If you're going to leave, and this is just a good opportunity just to cover this right now anyways. If people are going to leave here, I'm not going to go and try to run after and chase after people that leave. But that doesn't mean that I don't care. I care tremendously. But I may reach out because I do care, but I'm not gonna bend over backwards to try to get, if there's a reason why you're leaving and if someone's gonna leave our church, I would hope that more time or whatever, something got into that point to where, I don't know, what's it gonna matter what I say? If it's a matter of what I'm teaching, well, I'm not gonna change what I teach in order to get somebody to stay. is one of the ways I look at that. So I just, you know, if that's a reason for someone departing from our church, I don't really see much of a point in that. And if they feel like it's bad enough, then I can't be part of the church and I have to leave. Well, then that's on you. It doesn't mean I don't care. It doesn't mean that I want you to leave or anything like that. But I'm not going to go trying to run after and chase after people if that's the case. You come to that conclusion, and then God bless you. That's your conclusion. But serve the Lord somewhere else, and that's fine. So that's just my mindset, and I think it's important to understand that. It's not like a pride issue or anything. For me, it's I'm not too proud. I try to not get into anybody's lives too much here at all. I don't want to pry. I don't want to just get into personal matters a whole lot in general. I really agree with people being independent and coming up to your own conclusions. And I've expressed multiple times, if you have an issue, come and talk to me about it. And I'm happy to talk about whatever your issue is. Bring it up to me. I'll talk to you about it. And if I'm wrong about something, then let me know. But just bring the Bible, bring facts to the discussion. And I will listen to that. And no way am I going to guarantee that I'll change my mind, because I don't know. I have to hear what's. or whatever it is that people have to say before I would say that. But in my heart, I'm open to being corrected and changing my mind about things if I'm wrong, if you can show me that I'm wrong. And in any case, I don't even know how I got that far off what I was preaching here. But what verse were we on for that? Revive us again, being brought back, right? Going back to following the Lord. That's where this all came from. You get in that position where if you've been kicked out or anything like that, or you've just backslidden, you know, you wanna come back and seek the Lord and ask God for his help. Hey, bring me back into good graces, Lord, in good standing and show me the right way again. And you know what? We'd be happy to receive everybody back that has fallen out for whatever reason. And yeah, let's keep reading here. Verse number seven, show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints. But let them not turn again to folly. So we see the goodness of God here at the very beginning, talking about the forgiveness, God turning from his anger, the reception again, and seeking the Lord, and looking for that revival. But then we see in verse eight, this is also part of the process. Okay, I'm going to hear what the Lord will speak like. And part of your coming back from being chastened of the Lord, have your ears open to God, right? Probably what got you in trouble in the first place was not wanting to hear from God. And we see that happen with the children of Israel, especially, you know, they don't want to hear the word of the Lord. They want to serve their idols. They want to do this. They want to do that. They want to get into this and they want to do what they want to do. They don't want to hear what God is telling them to do. So here we see, hey, I'm gonna hear, I will hear what the Lord God will speak. For he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints. God brings peace. And look, whatever the sin is that got you into trouble and whatever that sin is that may have caused you to stray, I guarantee you your sin isn't gonna bring you peace. It only brings trouble One, it brings inherent trouble of sin. Just sin itself never yields good fruit. It never does, ever. That's just inherent to sin. If God didn't even get involved in any chastening, just sinning of itself has its own built-in ramifications of just curses, of no good fruit coming from sin. I mean, obviously the Bible says the wages of sin is death. I mean, that is the end. But on top of that, you have God who also, as if you're a child of God especially, will chasten and not hold you guiltless in that regard here on this earth. And will make sure that you have to face your punishment. But we ought to listen to God because he's gonna speak peace to his people and to his saints. He's gonna help us to walk in the right way. He's gonna show us the right way. And of course that will be good for us. But then it says there, but let them not turn again to folly. So you get to the point, okay God, I'm sorry, I did wrong, please guide me, please show me a way, I'm ready to hear, I'm ready to listen. When you get to that point, don't go now back like a dog returns to his vomit and go back to your foolishness and back to your folly. Hey, you've already been through a lot. You got back to this point, don't go back again. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him. And that's key. Look, we want God to guide us and be with us, then have the right fear of the Lord. And normally that's why people get back right with God after he's disciplined, after he's punished, because they start to realize What was I thinking? I don't want God's anger in my life. I want God blessing me, and I'm going to turn back to him. And yeah, his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Verse 10, mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. And of course, this is very poetic language. It's a psalm, it's a song. But we see mercy and truth essentially going hand in hand, right? God's mercy and God's truth. The truth and mercy go hand in hand. You can't hide from your sin. You can't lie to God about your sin. You have to be truthful about it. Confess, forsake, and then you'll find God's mercy. And similarly, righteousness and peace go hand in hand. Because if you're walking in righteousness, you'll know peace. You'll have peace. God will be with you. Truth shall spring out of the earth and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good and our land shall yield or increase. Now we're seeing the result of walking in righteousness and truth is the blessing of the Lord, the earth yielding or increase. And again, I've been doing a lot of individual application of this, but the Psalm is about This is talking about the whole of Israel turning back to the Lord. And we're seeing the playing out of the law and what God had said would happen when Moses gave them the law. And now we're seeing what does happen and then kind of being in the condition of returning to the Lord. And then of course, verse 13 says, righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps. Now turn a few to Ezekiel chapter 37, excuse me. This is one other passage that came to mind while I was meditating on this passage before preaching tonight. Specifically there in verse number six, talking about reviving us again, that that people may rejoice in the Ezekiel 37, the first half of the passage is that famous passage about the dry bones. Them bones, them bones, right? So we got the, and we're going to read this if you don't know the story, but basically, you know, Ezekiel sees this valley, it's full of dead bones, and of course God, raises those bones they all come together before his eyes and then the flesh and the sinews and muscles they all start to to to like men start being uh animated or or completed right from the bones now are becoming back like people and then of course god brings uh the wind and and they they receive life and the question is here well let's just read the passage Verse number one, the Bible says, the hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones and caused me to pass by them round about and behold, there were very many in the open valley and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again, he said unto me, prophesy upon these bones and say unto them, oh ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and ye shall live and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them. and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet. an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried and our hope is lost. We are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, thus saith the Lord, God, behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves. and bring you into the land of Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land. Then shall you know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it, saith the Lord. There is a lot in that passage, and I'm not going to just go through and give a verse by verse here on Ezekiel 37, but I think right off the bat, you could probably see why this popped into my mind as I'm studying Psalm 85, because one, he's referring to the nation of Israel, where I was talking about Israel, about his people in general. Again, I think there's a lot of applications we can make with Ezekiel 37. I think it's very prophetic. Obviously, there's a reference to resurrection, and we could see, you know, that Israel just being resurrected, that the bones are dry, doesn't matter how long people have been dead, but when Jesus comes back, there's gonna be a resurrection, and of course, there's going to be ruling and reigning from Jerusalem, and that his saints and his people are gonna be ruling and reigning. So there is definitely that application here. We could see that prophecy here, but I don't think that that's the only application we could make with Ezekiel 37. I think as we see here, You know, well, what about these people? They're dry bones. They're dead. They're good for nothing, right? They've been out for a long time. They've been dead. Well, can they live again? Can they be revived? Can they be revived again? And the answer is yes. God can use them again. God can bring them back to life. And here, the nation of Israel, okay, you've gone into captivity. Yeah, you've been punished. You could say, we're the laughing stock. We went into captivity or whatever. Now what can we do as a nation? You can still turn back to the Lord and he can still use you and he can breathe life into you again. And you can go forward and continue to serve the Lord. This is a Psalm of hope, of knowing that God is a God of mercy, knowing that God is a forgiving God. He wants you to turn to him. He wants you to have the desire to listen to him. As we saw that also in Psalm 85, I will hear the word of the Lord. I will listen, right? There's mercy and truth are bound together. And God can use you again. And as I mentioned, if you're still alive and breathing breath, God has a purpose for you. And God can use you and God wants to use you again. Such a great, This psalm, and this psalm, I wasn't gonna cover this necessarily tonight because there's multiple psalms like this, and I think I covered it quite a while back in our first, somewhere between Psalm 1 and 50, somewhere in the 40s, I think. The title for this psalm, it says, to the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah. And there's multiple, and I don't remember the exact number, if it's six or seven or eight, there's something where there are, like Psalm 84 also says a psalm for the sons of Korah. Psalm 84, Psalm 85, and there's a few more, Psalm 87, and Psalm 88, and then in the 40s there's also some as well. So I covered this once before, but if you remember Korah, this is that Korah of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Korah, Dathan and Biram were the ones that withstood Moses. And they're the ones that were saying, you know, they wanted the priesthood, right? And Korah was a Levite. There was other, Dathan and Biram were, I don't know if they were of Judah or some, one of the other tribes. But Korah was a Levite. It's like, look, you already have a job serving God. And now you just want to have the priesthood. And they wanted to just take over. You'd be like, who is Moses? And who is Aaron? And who are these guys? They're thinking there's something special over us. And they were wicked, right? And this is the story where God opens up the earth. and just, they go straight to hell. Like, they just get consumed, like them and their families, you know, day's in a buy room, they're standing in their tents, and they're just kind of standing there with their families and stuff, and God just opens up the earth, and they just fall straight down into hell. And Korah dies also, but the Bible's clear, and I don't have the reference here, you can look it up later, that the children of Korah, though, did not Go down to hell like it's the Bible specifically mentions that his children did not die that way because David and Byron their whole household did die and they did go straight to hell, but Korah's children did not go down to hell, and now we see multiple references here, and I think it makes sense to me, and I don't treat these titles as the word of God, but I also don't treat them as being untrue either, right? So when we see here, to the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah, I don't treat that on the same level as the word of God, but here's the thing, it makes sense that this psalm would have that, right, that's talking about this hope and still being able to serve the Lord, you know, even as a son of Korah, because Korah does not have a good name. in scripture but obviously they're being referred to as the sons of korah so it's more of an inspirational and i think the last time i brought this up it was a similar saw a similar type of a song that was giving hope and forgiveness and things like that uh... within the the text of the song uh... for as a as a song for the sons of korah so these are great songs here that this this section and if you notice to that the songs are um not even though they're subdivided into five books they're also um the you know the psalms are next to each other very frequently have very similar themes to them and that's why we kind of cover some of the same things week after week just in general the thematic they're grouped together but each one individually all has its own depth of truth to it praise the lord