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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Psalms 15-17, and I’m calling the episode “Who Can Come Into God’s Presence?”.  Thoughts on Psalms 15 David begins this Psalm with two questions: Lord, who may enter your Temple? Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill? These questions show the desire of David's heart. He longed to be in God's presence. The Temple (or actually in the original language the word "Temple" in our translation today, is tent, or Tabernacle) represented the place of God's presence.   He answers his own questions, and it is important for us to remember that he wrote from the perspective of the Old Testament, or Old Covenant. Obedience, or the lack thereof, determined the blessings or curses that a person could expect. The person who was not in obedience to God could not expect the blessing of God's presence. The New Testament gives us a different basis for receiving God's blessing and being able to be in His presence, doesn't it? Because of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross