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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalms one oh eight

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Speaker 1: and one oh nine, and we'll be reading from the

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Speaker 1: English Standard version Psalm one O eight A song, a

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Speaker 1: Psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, Oh God. I

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Speaker 1: will sing and make melody with all my being. Awake,

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Speaker 1: Oh haarp and lear, I will awake the dawn. I

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Speaker 1: will give thanks to you, Oh Lord, among the peoples.

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Speaker 1: I will sing praises to you among the nations. For

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Speaker 1: your steadfast love is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness

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Speaker 1: reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, Oh God, above the heavens.

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Speaker 1: Let your glory be over all the earth, that your

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Speaker 1: beloved ones may be delivered. Give salvation by your right hand,

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Speaker 1: and answer me God has promised in his holiness. With exultation.

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Speaker 1: I will divide up Shechem and portion out the valley

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Speaker 1: of Sucketh. Gilead is mine, Manassa is mine, Ephrium is

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Speaker 1: my helmet, Judah my scepter. Moab is my wash basin.

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Speaker 1: Upon eatom. I cast my shoe over felictia. I shout

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Speaker 1: in triumph, Who will bring me to the fortified city?

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Speaker 1: Who will lead me to eat them? Have you not

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Speaker 1: rejected us, O God, you do not go out? Oh God,

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Speaker 1: with our armies, Oh, grant us help against the foe,

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Speaker 1: For vain is the salvation of man. With God we

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Speaker 1: shall do valiantly. It is he who will tread down

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Speaker 1: our foes. To the choir master, a psalm of David.

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Speaker 1: Be not silent, O, God of my praise. For wicked

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Speaker 1: and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me

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Speaker 1: with lying tongues. They encircle me with words of hate

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Speaker 1: and attack me without cause. In return for my love,

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Speaker 1: they accuse me. But I give myself to prayer. So

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Speaker 1: they reward me evil for good and hatred for my love.

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Speaker 1: Appoint a wicked man against him. Let an accuser stand

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Speaker 1: at his right hand when he has tried. Let him

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Speaker 1: come forth guilty. Let his prayer be counted as sin.

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Speaker 1: May his days be few, May another take his office.

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Speaker 1: May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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Speaker 1: May his children wander about and beg seeking food, far

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Speaker 1: from the ruins they inhabit. May the creditor seize all

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Speaker 1: the he has. May strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.

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Speaker 1: Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor

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Speaker 1: any to pity his fatherless children. May his posterity be

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Speaker 1: cut off. May his name be blotted out in the

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Speaker 1: second generation. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered

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Speaker 1: before the Lord, and let not the sin of his

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Speaker 1: mother be blotted out. Let them be before the Lord continually,

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Speaker 1: that he may cut off the memory of them from

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Speaker 1: the earth. For he did not remember to show kindness,

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Speaker 1: but pursued the poor and needy and the broken hearted

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Speaker 1: to put them to death. He loved to curse. Let

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Speaker 1: curses come upon him. He did not delight in blessing.

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Speaker 1: May it be far from him he clothed himself with

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Speaker 1: cursing as his coat. May it soak into his body

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Speaker 1: like water, like oil into his bones. May it be

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Speaker 1: like a garment that he wraps around, like a belt

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Speaker 1: that he puts on every day. May this be the

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Speaker 1: reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who

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Speaker 1: speak evil against my life. But you, oh God, my Lord,

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Speaker 1: deal on my behalf. For your name's sake, because your

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Speaker 1: steadfast love is good. Deliver me. For I am poor

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Speaker 1: and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. I

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Speaker 1: am gone like a shadow at evening, I am shaken

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Speaker 1: off like a locust. My knees are weak through fasting.

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Speaker 1: My body has become gaunt with no fat. I am

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Speaker 1: an object of scorn to my accusers. When they see me,

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Speaker 1: they wag their heads. Help me, oh Lord, my God,

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Speaker 1: save me according to your steadfast love. Let them know

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Speaker 1: that this is your hand. You, o Lord, have done it.

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Speaker 1: Let them curse, but you will bless they arise and

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Speaker 1: are put to shame. Your servant will be glad. May

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Speaker 1: my accusers be clothed with dishonor may they be wrapped

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Speaker 1: in their own shame as in a cloak. With my mouth,

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Speaker 1: I will give great thanks to the Lord. I will

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Speaker 1: praise him in the midst of the throng, for he

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Speaker 1: stands at the right hand of the needy one, to

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Speaker 1: save him from those who condemn his soul to death.

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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 these portions of scripture today from the Psalms

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Speaker 1: and We thank you, Lord for the encouragement that they

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Speaker 1: give to us that you are ultimately the one who

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Speaker 1: fights battles on behalf of your children. And Lord, when

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Speaker 1: we look at these psalms, we also see prophetic references

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Speaker 1: to things that would happen during the course of the

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Speaker 1: earthly ministry of your son Jesus Christ. We know Lord,

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Speaker 1: that the apostles took a look at this portion of scripture,

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Speaker 1: particularly from Psalm one oh nine, verse eight, and as

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Speaker 1: they saw that it says here, may his day be few,

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Speaker 1: and may another take his office, they understood this to

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Speaker 1: be a reference to Judas, and as a result, they

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Speaker 1: selected an apostle to replace him after Judas was dead.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, as we continue looking through this Psalm, we

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Speaker 1: see references to your son Jesus Christ, as it describes

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Speaker 1: him as an object of scorn to his accusers. When

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Speaker 1: they saw him, they waged their heads, these things being

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Speaker 1: prophetically fulfilled in the life and ministry and crucifixion of

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Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ. So Lord, thank you for these

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Speaker 1: things that remind us of all that's been done on

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Speaker 1: our behalf. And we pray Lord that we would rejoice

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Speaker 1: in the gift of salvation that we receive through faith

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Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ, that that would be something that brings

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Speaker 1: our hearts encouragement each and every day. And we're grateful,

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Speaker 1: Lord that you grant us the privilege to receive these

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Speaker 1: things through faith in Jesus. We love you, Lord, We're

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Speaker 1: grateful for your presence with us today, and we commit

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Speaker 1: this day to your care and thank you for this

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Speaker 1: all in Jesus's name, Amen,