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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Psalm one oh five,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the New English translation. Give

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Speaker 1: thanks to the Lord. Call on his name, make known

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Speaker 1: his accomplishments among the nations. Sing to him, make music

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Speaker 1: to him, Tell about all his miraculous deeds. Boast about

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Speaker 1: his holy name. Let the hearts of those who seek

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Speaker 1: the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.

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Speaker 1: Seek his presence. Continually recall the miraculous deeds he performed,

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Speaker 1: his mighty acts, and the judgments he decreed. Oh, children

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Speaker 1: of Abraham, God's servant, you, descendants of Jacob, God's chosen ones.

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Speaker 1: He is the Lord, our God. He carries out judgment

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Speaker 1: throughout the earth. He always remembers his covenantal decree, the

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Speaker 1: promise he made to a thousand generations, the promise he

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Speaker 1: made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac.

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Speaker 1: He gave it to Jacob as a decree to Israel,

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Speaker 1: as a lasting promise, saying to you I will give

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Speaker 1: the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.

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Speaker 1: When they were few in number, just a very few,

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Speaker 1: and resident foreigners within it, they wandered from nation to nation,

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Speaker 1: oppress them. He disciplined kings for their sake, saying, don't

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Speaker 1: down a famine upon the earth. He cut off all

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Speaker 1: the food supply. He sent a man ahead of them.

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Speaker 1: Joseph was sold as a servant. The shackles hurt his feet,

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Speaker 1: his neck was placed in an iron collar, until the

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Speaker 1: time when his prediction came true. The Lord's word proved

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Speaker 1: him right. The king authorized his release. The ruler of

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Speaker 1: nations set him free. He put him in charge of

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Speaker 1: his palace and made him manager of all his property,

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Speaker 1: giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach

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Speaker 1: his advisers. Israel moved to Egypt. Jacob lived for a

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Speaker 1: time in the land of Ham. The lord made his

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Speaker 1: people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.

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Speaker 1: He caused them to hate his people and to mistreat

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Speaker 1: his servants. He sent his servant Moses, an aaron whom

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Speaker 1: he had chosen. They executed his miraculous signs among them,

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Speaker 1: and his amazing deeds. In the land of Ham, he

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Speaker 1: made it dark. They did not disobey his orders. He

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Speaker 1: turned their water into blood and killed their fish. Their

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Speaker 1: land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the

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Speaker 1: rooms of their kings. He ordered flies to come. Gnats

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Speaker 1: There was lightning in their land. He destroyed their vines

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Speaker 1: He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers. They ate all

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Speaker 1: the vegetation in their land and devoured the crops of

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Speaker 1: their land, the first fruits of their reproductive power. He

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Speaker 1: brought his people out, enriched with silver and gold. None

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Speaker 1: of his tribes stumbled. Egypt was happy when they left,

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Speaker 1: for they were afraid of them. He spread out a

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Speaker 1: cloak for a cover and provided a fire to light

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Speaker 1: up the night. They asked for food, and he sent quails.

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Speaker 1: He satisfied them with food from the sky. He opened

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Speaker 1: up a rock and water flowed out a river ran

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Speaker 1: through dry regions. Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he

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Speaker 1: made to Abraham, his servant. When he led his people out,

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Speaker 1: they rejoiced. His chosen ones shouted with joy. He handed

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Speaker 1: the territory of nations over to them, and they took

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Speaker 1: possession of what other peoples had produced, so that they

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Speaker 1: might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word, and

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Speaker 1: we thank you for the privilege of being able to

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Speaker 1: look at this psalm together today. And Lord, as we

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Speaker 1: look at this psalm, we could see that you keep

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Speaker 1: your promises, and you keep your pledges, and you do

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Speaker 1: the things that you've promised you your servants that you

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Speaker 1: will do. Lord, we pray that, by your grace, that

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Speaker 1: you'd help us to trust in you in the midst

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Speaker 1: of all circumstances of life that we may find ourselves in.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, we recognize that you encouraged your people to

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Speaker 1: keep your laws. But we also know that by nature, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we're sinners, and we've broken every law you've ever given us.

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Speaker 1: So you sent your son Jesus Christ into this world,

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Speaker 1: and we know that Jesus kept all the law for us,

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Speaker 1: and now through faith in Jesus Christ, we are declared righteous,

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Speaker 1: as if we've personally kept the law. Lord, We're grateful

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Speaker 1: that your son, Jesus Christ has kept your law on

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Speaker 1: our behalf, and that we can be the recipients of

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Speaker 1: his gift of righteousness through faith in him. We thank

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Speaker 1: you that that's a truth that your word has revealed

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Speaker 1: to us, and we pray Lord that that would be

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Speaker 1: something that we would rejoice in each and every day.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Lord. We're grateful for your presence with

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Speaker 1: us today, and we commit this day to your care.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for all of these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm