come on in. Thank you. Um, I see uh, you all had to come and see what your friends are up to because the instagram and algorithms were showing you a bunch of ads and people that weren’t even your friends. No, no, the joke flopped. Well there’s difficult times in being a pastor and humor is a difficult topic for me. I never tend to figure it out. But there’s good times and difficult times and there’s times of peace in your life and there’s hard times in your life. There’s times of ease and times of war. I just, I understand that. And so psalms 20 is looking at a difficult time in the passage of that we’re looking at today, it’s known as a royal wartime benediction. I’m calling this sermon battlefield benediction battlefield benediction. So I think it’s fitting that we open up a word of prayer as we jump into this message today. God I thank you for psalms 20. I just enjoyed looking at it, studying it, digging into it. Lord. I just uh, we just enjoy you enjoy the word of God. And I said, just really help help us to really wrestle the text today. Help us to do business with you today. I pray that you would encourage and instruct convict challenge exhorts. I pray you would let the word of God convict the people of God in the way that only the word of God can I pray? I would get out of the way that we would get out of the way and we’d really do business. A few as individuals. Lord. As people We would really wrestle with this passage today and see what you’re calling us to do as a response of being here in this room and spending 30 minutes looking at this passage, I said, just really do what only your word of God can do, instruct and change lives. We pray this in jesus name. Amen. Okay, So psalms 20 is written by David. So who is David? David is the second king of Israel. And basically, David made a career of high stakes situations. Let’s say David was clutch. His middle name was clutch. He just always came through as needed. Uh, specific high stakes situations. We’re talking about our foreign military war into different, you know, military campaigns seems like every single summer. He led massive yearly campaigns into enemy territory to secure the borders and the terrain of the nation of Israel. And David was the goat of military leaders and was known in and out of Israel for his military might. His battlefield leadership and his victories. He was a genius general and he led many biblical battles. He was a gutsy leader, a savvy leader and a courageous leader. It said about Saul, he killed his predecessor killed his thousands. But David killed his 10 thousands. David was a dangerous man to be reckoned with. This is one of the oldest David in psalms that he wrote. So what is the benediction? So that’s who wrote it. What is the benediction. Benediction is a prayer blessing over people. It’s a practice we adapted about nine adopted about nine months ago as a church. It’s just the idea is that a picture of benevolent father figure praying for God’s blessing over a group of believers as we go and follow and respond to the word that was preached to us. That’s the concept behind the benediction. You see benedictions all throughout the bible today. Psalm 20 is a benediction before David and the armies of Israel go into battle and it’s an amazing and inspiring song. So what’s it about psalms 20 and psalm 21 could have easily been together at one time. There’s things of thanksgiving intercession and pleading for a nation asking God to intervene on their behalf. And it’s speculated that’s prayed on the eve or the morning of a very important critical battle in Israel’s history, which I’ll get to later. These first few verses, these first five verses that really talks about the voices of people praying for God to move on their behalf. It’s the we you…