1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're reading Psalms fifty six, fifty 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: seven and fifty eight, and we'll be reading from the 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: English Standard version to the Choir Master. According to the 7 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: dove on far off terrabinths a Micktom of David when 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, 9 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: oh God, for man tramples on me all day long. 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: An attacker oppresses me. My enemies trample on me all 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: day long. For many attack me proudly. When I am afraid, 12 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: I put my trust in You, in God, whose word 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: I praise. In God I trust. I shall not be afraid. 14 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: What can flesh do to me? All day long? They 15 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: injure my cause, all their thoughts are against me. For evil. 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: They stir up strife, They lurk, They watch my steps 17 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: as they have waited for my life. For their crime. 18 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: Will they escape in wrath? Cast down the people's Oh God, 19 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: you have kept count of my tossings. Put my tears 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: in your bottle, are they not in your book? Then 21 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: my enemies will turn back in the day. When I 22 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: call this, I know that God is for me. In 23 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: God whose word I praise, in the Lord whose word 24 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: I praise. In God I trust. I shall not be afraid. 25 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: What can man do to me. I must perform my 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: vows to you, Oh God, I will render thank offerings 27 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: to you, for you have delivered my soul from death. Yes, 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: my feet from falling, that I may walk before God 29 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: in the light of life. To the choir master, according 30 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: to do not destroy a mick Tom of David when 31 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me. O, God, 32 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes 33 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: refuge in the shadow of your wings. I will take 34 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: refuge till the storms of destruction pass by. I cry 35 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: out to God most High, to God who fulfills his 36 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: purpose for me. He will send from heaven and save me. 37 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: He will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah. 38 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness. 39 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: My soul is in the midst of lions. I lie 40 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: down amid fiery beasts, the children of man whose teeth 41 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. Be exalted, 42 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: O God above the heavens, Let your glory be over 43 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: all the earth. They set a net for my steps. 44 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: My soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in 45 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Say Lah, 46 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: my heart is steadfast, Oh God, my heart is steadfast. 47 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: I will sing and make melody. Awake my glory. Awake, 48 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: O harp and lear, I will awake the dawn. I 49 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples. 50 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: I will sing praises to you among the nations. For 51 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: your steadfast love is great to the heavens. Your faithfulness 52 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: to the clouds be exalted, Oh God, above the heavens, 53 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: Let your glory be over all the earth. Psalm fifty 54 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: eight to the choir master, according to do not destroy 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: a mick Tom of David. Do you indeed decree what 56 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: is right? You gods? Do you judge the children of 57 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: man uprightly? No? In your hearts you devise wrongs. Your 58 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: hands deal out violence on earth. The wicked are estranged 59 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: from the womb. They go astray from birth, speaking lies. 60 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like 61 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: the deaf adder that stops its ear so that it 62 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: does not hear the voice of charmers, or of the 63 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: cunning enchanter. Oh, God, break the teeth in their mouths, 64 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,119 Speaker 1: tear out the fangs of the young lions. O Lord, 65 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: let them vanish like water that runs away when he 66 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: aims his arrows. Let them be blunted. Let them be 67 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn 68 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: child who never sees the sun. Sooner than your pots 69 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, 70 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: may he sweep them away. The righteous will rejoice when 71 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: he sees the vengeance. He will bathe his feet in 72 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: the blood of the wicked. Mankind will say, surely there 73 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: is a reward for the righteous. Surely there is a 74 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: God who judges on earth. Let's pray. Lord, we thank 75 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: you for your word, and we thank you for the 76 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: privilege of being able to look at it today. And 77 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: we thank you, Lord that you are our deliverer. We 78 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 1: thank you that you are the one who judges on 79 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: the earth. And Lord, we know that there is coming 80 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: a day when every knee will bow and every tongue 81 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we will 82 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: give an account for our lives. You are the one 83 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: who judges, Lord, we are. We also know that you're 84 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: the one that has taken our sins upon yourself. So 85 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: we thank you, Lord that through faith in Jesus Christ, 86 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: your son, we have the privilege of having our sins forgiven. 87 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: And even though we will give an account for our 88 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: lives before you, we know Lord that you have rewards 89 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: in store for all of your children. So we're grateful 90 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: Lord for these promises. We're grateful that we can look 91 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: forward to the future of being in your presence continually, 92 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: that you will dwell with mankind, and you will be 93 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: the center of everything we focus on for all time. 94 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: So we thank you, Lord for these promises. We thank 95 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: you for these reminders from your word, and we commit 96 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: this day to your care and pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.