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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're reading Psalms twenty one

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Speaker 1: and twenty two, and we'll be reading from the English

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Speaker 1: Standard version to the choir master, a Psalm of David.

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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, in your strength, the king rejoices, and in

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Speaker 1: your salvation, how greatly he exults. You have given him

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Speaker 1: his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of

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Speaker 1: his lips. Say lah, for you meet him with rich blessings.

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Speaker 1: You set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

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Speaker 1: He asked life of you. You gave it to him,

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Speaker 1: length of days, forever and ever. His glory is great

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Speaker 1: through your salvation, splendor and majesty you bestow on him.

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Speaker 1: For you make him most blessed forever. You make him

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Speaker 1: glad with the joy of your presence. For the king

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Speaker 1: trusts in the Lord, and through the steadfast love of

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Speaker 1: the most high, he shall not be moved. Your hand

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Speaker 1: will find out all your enemies. Your right hand will

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Speaker 1: find out those who hate you. You will make them

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Speaker 1: as a blazing oven. When you appear, the Lord will

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Speaker 1: swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

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Speaker 1: You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their

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Speaker 1: offspring from among the children of man. Though they play

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Speaker 1: an evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will

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Speaker 1: not succeed, for you will put them to flight. You

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Speaker 1: will aim at their faces with your bows. Be exalted,

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Speaker 1: O Lord, in your strength, we will sing and praise

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Speaker 1: your power. Psalm twenty two to the choir master, according

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Speaker 1: to the Doe of the Dawn, A psalm of David.

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Speaker 1: My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me? Why

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Speaker 1: of my groaning? Oh, my God, I cry by day

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Speaker 1: but you do not answer, And by night but I

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Speaker 1: find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the

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Speaker 1: praises of Israel. In you, our fathers trusted, They trusted,

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Speaker 1: and you delivered them to you. They cried and were

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Speaker 1: rescued In you, they trusted and were not put to shame.

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Speaker 1: But I am a worm and not a man, scorned

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Speaker 1: by mankind and despised by the people. All who see

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Speaker 1: me mock me. They make mouths at me, they wag

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Speaker 1: their heads he trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him,

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Speaker 1: let him rescue him, for he delights in him. Yet

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Speaker 1: you are he who took me from the womb. You

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Speaker 1: made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you,

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Speaker 1: as I cast from my birth and from my mother's womb,

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Speaker 1: you have been my God. Be not far from me,

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Speaker 1: for trouble is near, and there is none to help.

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Speaker 1: Many bulls encompass me. Strong bowls of bashan surround me.

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Speaker 1: They open wide their mouths at me like a ravening

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Speaker 1: and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and

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Speaker 1: all my bones are out of joint. My heart is

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Speaker 1: like wax, It is melted within my breast. My strength

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Speaker 1: is dried up like a potshirt, and my tongue sticks

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Speaker 1: to my jaws. You lay me in the dust of death.

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Speaker 1: For dogs encompass me. A company of evil doers encircle me.

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Speaker 1: They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count

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Speaker 1: all my bones. They stare and gloat over me. They

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Speaker 1: divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they

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Speaker 1: cast lots. But you, o Lord, do not be far off.

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Speaker 1: Oh you my help, Come quickly to my aid, deliver

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Speaker 1: my soul. From the sword, my precious life, from the

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Speaker 1: power of the dog. Save me from the mouth of

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Speaker 1: the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of

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Speaker 1: the wild oxen. I will tell of your name to

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Speaker 1: my brothers. In the midst of the congregation. I will

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Speaker 1: praise you, you who fear the Lord. Praise him, all

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Speaker 1: you offspring of Jacob. Glorify him and stand in awe

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Speaker 1: of him, all you offspring of Israel. For he has

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Speaker 1: not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and

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Speaker 1: he has not hidden his f from him, but has

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Speaker 1: heard when he cried to him. From you comes my

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Speaker 1: praise in the great congregation. My vows I will perform

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Speaker 1: before those who fear him. The afflicted shall eat and

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Speaker 1: be satisfied. Those who seek him shall praise the Lord.

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Speaker 1: May your hearts live forever. All the ends of the

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Speaker 1: earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. And all

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Speaker 1: the families of the nations shall worship before you. For

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Speaker 1: kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

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Speaker 1: All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship before him.

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Speaker 1: Shall bow All who go down to the dust, even

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Speaker 1: the one who could not keep himself alive, posterity shall

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Speaker 1: serve him. It shall be told of the Lord to

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Speaker 1: the coming generation. They shall come and proclaim his righteousness

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Speaker 1: to a people yet unborn, that he has done it. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you

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Speaker 1: for the privilege to be able to look at it

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Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, your word is fascinating. Lord. It's

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Speaker 1: fascinating when we look at a psalm like the one

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Speaker 1: we just read from Psalm twenty two, and we realize

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Speaker 1: that this was written hundreds of years prior to the

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Speaker 1: earthly ministry of your son Jesus Christ, and yet this

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Speaker 1: psalm outlined so many of the things that took place

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Speaker 1: at Christ's crucifixion. We see the words of Christ quoted

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Speaker 1: ahead of time. My God, My God, why have you

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Speaker 1: forsaken me? Lord? We see a description of how people

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Speaker 1: treated your son Jesus Christ, how he was scorned, and

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Speaker 1: how he was mocked, and how people wagged their heads

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Speaker 1: at him and basically just ridiculed him as he was

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Speaker 1: on the cross suffering for our sin. Lord. We see

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Speaker 1: the description here of the way that the physical body

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Speaker 1: of your son Jesus Christ was treated, including the fact

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Speaker 1: that it says here that my heart is like wax.

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Speaker 1: When we look at what the Gospels tell us, we're

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Speaker 1: shown that when the spear was pierced through the side

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Speaker 1: of your son, Jesus Christ, that that water just flowed

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Speaker 1: out with the blood Fulfilling this prophetic psalm, we see

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Speaker 1: a description of your son's tongue sticking to the roof

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Speaker 1: of his mouth. We see a prophetic description of soldiers

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Speaker 1: dividing garments among them and casting lots for his clothing.

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Speaker 1: But we also see a prophecy of things yet future.

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Speaker 1: We see here in this psalm that the ends of

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Speaker 1: the earth shall remember and turn to you, Lord, that

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Speaker 1: the families of the nation shall worship you, that Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ is king forever. So Lord, we're grateful for the

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Speaker 1: privilege to be able to notice these things and see

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Speaker 1: these things as they're explained and shown to us in

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Speaker 1: this Psalm and then clarified in the New Testament. But Lord,

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Speaker 1: as we look at this today, we pray that we

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Speaker 1: would have grateful hearts for everything that was done on

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Speaker 1: our behalf, recognizing that this suffering that Jesus Christ endured

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Speaker 1: was for us. So Lord, thank you for giving us

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Speaker 1: access to this. Thank You for allowing us to look

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Speaker 1: at it and meditate on it today, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for your presence with us in each and every context

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Speaker 1: of our lives. Lord, we commit this day to your care,

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Speaker 1: and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen,