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 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're reading Psalms forty two, forty three, 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: and forty four, and we'll be reading from the English 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Standard version to the choir master. I'msquille of the Sons 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: of Cora. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so 8 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: pants my soul for you, Oh God. My soul thirsts 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: for God, for the Living God. When shall I come 10 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: and appear before God? My tears have been my food 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: day and night, while they say to me all the 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: day long, where is your God? These things I remember 13 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: as I pour out my soul. How I would go 14 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: with the throng and lead them in procession to the 15 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: House of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O, 17 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: my soul? And why are you in turmoil within me? 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him my 19 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me. 20 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: Therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and 21 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: of Herman from Mount Mizar, Deep calls to Deep at 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: the roar of your waterfalls, all your breakers and your 23 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands 24 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: a prayer to the God of my life. I say 26 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: to God, my Rock, why have you forgotten me? Why 27 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: As with a deadly wound in my bones. My adversaries 29 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, 30 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: where is your God? Why are you cast down? O 31 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: my soul? And why are you in turmoil within me? 32 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my 33 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: salvation and my God Psalm forty three. Vindicate me, o God, 34 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: and defend my cause against an ungodly people from the 35 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: deceitful and unjust man. Deliver me, for you are the 36 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: God in whom I take refuge. Why have you rejected me? 37 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression 38 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: of the enemy. Send out your light and your truth. 39 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your 40 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: holy hill and to your dwelling. Then I will go 41 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy, 42 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: and I will praise you with the leer. Oh God, 43 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: my God, why are you cast down? O my soul, 44 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: and why are you in turmoil? Within me? Hope in God, 45 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 46 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: Psalm forty four to the choir master, a mass skill 47 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: of the sons of Cora. Oh God, we have heard 48 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: with our ears. Our fathers have told us what deeds 49 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: you performed in their days. In the days of old, 50 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: you with your own hand drove out the nations, but 51 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: them you planted. You afflicted the peoples, but them you 52 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: set free. For not by their own sword did they 53 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: win the land, Nor did their own arms save them. 54 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: But your right hand and your arm, and the light 55 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: of your face, for you delighted in them. You are 56 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:17,239 Speaker 1: my king, O God, or deign salvation for Jacob. Through 57 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: you we push down our foes. Through your name we 58 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: tread down those who rise up against us. For not 59 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword 60 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: save me. But you have saved us from our foes, 61 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: and have put to shame those who hate us. In God, 62 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to 63 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: your name forever Sailah. But you have rejected us and 64 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies. 65 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: You have made us turn back from the foe, and 66 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: those who hate us have gotten spoil. You have made 67 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: us like sheep for slaw, and have scattered us among 68 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: the nations. You have sold your people for a trifle, 69 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: demanding no high price for them. You have made us 70 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of 71 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: those around us. You have made us a byword among 72 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: the nations, a laughing stock among the peoples. All day long, 73 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face. 74 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: At the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the 75 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: sight of the enemy and the avenger. All this has 76 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: come upon us. Though we have not forgotten you, and 77 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,239 Speaker 1: we have not been false to your covenant. Our heart 78 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from 79 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: your way. Yet you have broken us in the place 80 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. 81 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: If we had forgotten the name of our God, or 82 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: spread out our hands to a foreign godd would not 83 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: God discover this, For he knows the secrets of the heart. Yet, 84 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: for your sake, we are killed all the day long. 85 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. Awake, Why 86 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: are you sleeping, Oh Lord, rouse yourself, Do not reject 87 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: us forever? Why do you hide your face? Why do 88 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: you forget our affliction and oppression? For our soul is 89 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 1: bowed down to the dust, our belly clings to the ground. 90 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: Rise up, Come to our help, redeem us for the 91 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: sake of your steadfast love. Let's pray. Lord, we thank 92 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: you for your word, and we thank you for the 93 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: privilege of being able to look at it together today. 94 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: And Lord, it's fascinating to be able to look at 95 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: these psalms and to acknowledge the fact that there are times, 96 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: just like the psalmist state, that our hearts are in 97 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: turmoil or are downcast. Within us. We go through seasons, Lord, 98 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: where we feel discouraged. We go through seasons where we 99 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: feel irrationally down and we find ourselves scratching our heads 100 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: and wondering what we're supposed to do or how we're 101 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: supposed to handle these seasons. And then we see the answer. 102 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: In these passages. You remind us in your word to 103 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: hope in you, to praise you, to recognize that you 104 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: are the source of our salvation, that you are our God. 105 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: We're reminded here, Lord that you are the one who 106 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: rises up and comes to our help. You're the one 107 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: that redemption comes from. Through faith in your son, Jesus Christ, 108 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: we are rescued, we are redeemed, and we are just 109 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: covered with your mercy and your grace and your steadfast love, 110 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: just like the Psalmist gives you praise for. So Lord, 111 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: we're thankful for these things, and we're thankful for the 112 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: fact that we can be reminded of them today. Lord. 113 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: We don't know all the trials that will face today 114 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: or in coming days, but we do know that you're 115 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: present with us. And we pray Lord, that our confidence 116 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: would not be in our flesh, but that our confidence 117 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: would be in You, and that we would rejoice in 118 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: the fact that we are deeply loved by you, our 119 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: Lord and our creator. So we're grateful for all of 120 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: these things, and we thank you for your presence with 121 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: us today, and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.