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 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stogey, 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: and today we're in Psalm one oh six and we'll 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: be reading from the New Living Translation. Praise the Lord. 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: faithful love endures forever. Who can list the glorious miracles 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: of the Lord. Who can ever praise him enough. There 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: is joy for those who deal justly with others and 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: always do what is right. Remember me, Lord, when you 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: show favor to your people, come near and rescue me. 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones. 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: Let me rejoice in the joy of your peace people. 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: Let me praise you with those who are your heritage. 15 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: Like our ancestors, we have sinned, we have done wrong, 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: we have acted wickedly. Our ancestors in Egypt were not 17 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: impressed by the Lord's miraculous deeds. They soon forgot his 18 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against 19 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: him at the Red Sea. Even so, he saved them 20 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: to defend the honor of his name and to demonstrate 21 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: his mighty power. He commanded the Red Sea to dry up. 22 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: He led Israel across the sea as if it were 23 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: a desert. So he rescued them from their enemies and 24 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: redeemed them from their foes. Then the water returned and 25 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: covered their enemies. Not one of them survived. Then his 26 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: people believed his promises. Then they sang his praise. Yet 27 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: how quickly they forgot what he had done. They wouldn't 28 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: wait for his counsel in the wilderness. Their desires ran wild, 29 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: testing God's patience in that dry wasteland. So he gave 30 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: them what they asked for, but he sent a plague 31 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: along with it. The people in the camp were jealous 32 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: of Moses and envious of Aaron, the Lord's holy priest. 33 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: Because of this, the earth opened up. It swallowed Daithan 34 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: and buried Aboram and the other rebels. Fire fell upon 35 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: their followers. A flame consumed the wicked. The people made 36 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: a caf at Mount Sinai. They bowed before an image 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: made of gold. They traded their glorious God for a 38 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: statue of a grass eating bull. They forgot God, their savior, 39 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: who had done such great things in Egypt, such wonderful 40 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: the Red Sea. So he declared he would destroy them. 42 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the Lord and 43 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: the people. He begged him to turn from his anger 44 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: and not destroy them. The people refused to enter the 45 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: pleasant land, for they wouldn't believe his promise to care 46 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: for them. Instead, they grumbled in their tents and refused 47 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: to obey the Lord. Therefore he solemnly swore that he 48 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: would kill them in the wilderness, that he would scatter 49 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: their descendants among the nations, exiling them to distant lands. 50 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: Then our ancestors joined in the worship of bail at Payor. 51 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: They even ate sacrifices offered to the dead. They angered 52 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: the Lord with all these things, so a plague broke 53 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: out among them. But Phineas had the courage to intervene 54 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: and the plague was stopped. So he has been regarded 55 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: as a righteous man ever since that time. At Maraba Tiu, 56 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: they angered the Lord, causing Moses serious trouble. They made 57 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly. Israel failed to destroy 58 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: the nations in the land, as the Lord had commanded them. Instead, 59 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: they mingled among the Pagans and adopted their evil customs. 60 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: They worshiped their idols, which led to their downfall. They 61 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. 62 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and 63 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: daughters by sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan. They 64 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: polluted the land with murder. They defiled themselves by their 65 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in 66 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: the Lord's sight. That is why the lord's anger burned 67 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession. 68 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: He handed them over to pagan nations, and they were 69 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: ruled by those who hated them. Their enemies crushed them 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: and brought them under their cruel power. Again and again, 71 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: he rescued them, but they chose to rebel against him, 72 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: and they were finally destroyed by their sin. Even so, 73 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries. 74 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of 75 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: his unfailing love. He even caused their captors to treat 76 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: them with kindness. Save us, o, Lord, our God, gather 77 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: us back from among the nations, so we can thank 78 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: your holy name and rejoice and praise you. Praise the Lord, 79 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: the God of Israel, who lives from everlasting to everlasting. 80 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: Let all the people say Amen, Praise the Lord. Let's pray. Lord. 81 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: We thank you for your word, and we thank you 82 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at this 83 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: portion of scripture today. We thank you, Lord for the 84 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: things that we're reminded of when we take a look 85 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: at this portion of scripture, and as it summarizes many 86 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: of the pivotal events in the nation of Israel, the 87 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: opportunities that they had to walk with You by faith, 88 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: the opportunities that they had to enter into the Promised Land, 89 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: and the ways that it seems that instead of honoring you, 90 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: they chose to honor and worship false deities. And Lord, 91 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: we recognize that we struggle with these sorts of things 92 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: in our generation as well. Lord, it's very easy for 93 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: us to welcome idols into our lives and not even 94 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: realize that we've done so, because we're so used to 95 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: these things, and we let ourselves think that created objects 96 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: or created things have the power to satisfy our soul. 97 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: When your word reveals to us that our souls are 98 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: only ultimately satisfied through a relationship with you, through faith 99 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: in your son Jesus Christ. It's interesting when we look 100 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: at this Psalm and we see that Moses, your chosen ones, 101 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: stepped in between you and your people and begged you 102 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: to turn from your anger and not destroy them. And Lord, 103 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: in that verse we see a picture of what your 104 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: son Jesus Christ has done on our behalf. We deserved 105 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: your wrath, and your word tells us that at one 106 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: point we were objects of your wrath. But because your 107 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: son Jesus Christ took our punishment upon himself, now through 108 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: faith in him, we become objects of your mercy. So 109 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: we're grateful for these realities. We're grateful for these reminders, 110 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: and we're grateful for your love. We commit this day 111 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: to your care, Lord, and we thank you for your 112 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: presence with us in it. We pray this all in 113 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: Jesus's name. Amen.