Walking Through The Word - Daily Podcast Commentary · New Song Nashville

On The Other Side

April 12, 2026·15 min·1 clip

Nadab and Abihu's profane fire shows we must come to God on His terms, not our own, through Jesus.

The episode begins with Pastor Dale referencing the previous day's message on Hezekiah's triumph over Sennacherib and encouraging listeners to find it on the New Song Nashville website. The week's wisdom word is Proverbs 13:12: hope delayed makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life. A poetic paraphrase reinforces the verse, and the pastor interprets the proverb as evoking a return to Eden. The worship word is Psalm 40:1-3, which was also the call to worship at New Song Nashville and is described as connected to the founding vision of the church. Worship leader Patsy Bass had noted these verses' significance to the church's origins. Pastor Dale unpacks the Hebrew 'I waited patiently' as literally 'in waiting I waited,' emphasizing exclusive reliance on God rather than patience as its own virtue. He describes the psalm's imagery of God stooping from the throne to rescue the helpless from a pit of miry clay. The psalm's reading moves to Psalm 38:1-18, a penitential psalm where David describes being crushed by sin's consequences: festering wounds, failing strength, friends standing at a distance, and enemies setting snares. Despite this, David turns to God as his only hope. An E.M. Bounds devotion titled 'A New Discovery,' drawing on Jacob's refusal to release God in Genesis 32:26, argues that prayers without genuine desire become stereotyped expressions of set phrases. Bounds claims God draws close to those who pray with a 'despairing grasp,' and that through real prayer, scripture becomes a new discovery. A brief Proverbs 13:2-3 passage follows on guarding one's mouth. The Leviticus passage on Nadab and Abihu — who offered profane fire before the Lord and were consumed — is used to illustrate that God cannot be approached on one's own terms but only through the prescribed sacrifice, which points to Christ. The episode closes with Mark 5:1-20 and Jesus crossing to the Gadarenes where Legion is cast out. Pastor Dale draws one focused insight: when Jesus says 'let's go to the other side,' every obstacle — storm, fear, doubt — is stilled because an appointment waits on the other side.

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