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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stangey,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Psalm sixty nine and we'll be

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Speaker 1: reading from the English Standard version to the choir Master

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Speaker 1: according to Lilly's of David, save me, O God, for

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Speaker 1: the waters have come up to my neck. I sink

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Speaker 1: in deep mere, where there is no foothold. I have

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Speaker 1: come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

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Speaker 1: I am weary with my crying out. My throat is parched,

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Speaker 1: my eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. More

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Speaker 1: in number than the hairs of my head are those

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Speaker 1: who hate me without cause, Mighty, are those who would

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Speaker 1: dis dra me, those who attack me with lives. What

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Speaker 1: I did not steal, must I now restore? Oh God,

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Speaker 1: you know my folly. The wrongs I have done are

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Speaker 1: not hidden from you. Let not those who hope in

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Speaker 1: you be put to shame through me, O, Lord God

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Speaker 1: of Hosts. Let not those who seek you be brought

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Speaker 1: to dishonor through me, Oh God of Israel, For it

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Speaker 1: is for your sake that I have borne reproach that

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Speaker 1: dishonor has covered my face. I have become a stranger

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Speaker 1: to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons, for

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Speaker 1: zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches

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Speaker 1: of those who reproach you have fallen on me. When

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Speaker 1: I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became

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Speaker 1: my reproach. When I made sacloth my clothing, I became

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Speaker 1: a byword to them. I am the talk of those

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Speaker 1: who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs

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Speaker 1: about me. But as for me, my prayer is to you,

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Speaker 1: O Lord, at an acceptable time, Oh God, in the

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Speaker 1: abundance of your steadfast love, answer me in your saving faithfulness,

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Speaker 1: deliver me from sinking in the mire. Let me be

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Speaker 1: delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. Let

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Speaker 1: not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow

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Speaker 1: me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

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Speaker 1: Answer me, o Lord, for your steadfast love is good

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Speaker 1: according to your abundant mercy. Turn to me. Hide not

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Speaker 1: your face from your servant, for I am in distress.

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Speaker 1: Make haste to answer me. Draw near to my soul,

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Speaker 1: redeem me, ransom me because of my enemies. You know

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Speaker 1: my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor my foes

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Speaker 1: are all known to you. Reproaches have broken my heart

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Speaker 1: so that I am in despair. I looked for pity,

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Speaker 1: but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

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Speaker 1: They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst.

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Speaker 1: They gave me sour wine to drink. Let their own

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Speaker 1: table before them become a snare, and when they are

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Speaker 1: at peace, let it become a trap. Let their eyes

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Speaker 1: be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their

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Speaker 1: loins tremble. Continually pour out your indignation upon them, and

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Speaker 1: let your burning anger overtake them. May there can't be

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Speaker 1: a desolation. Let no one dwell in their tents, for

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Speaker 1: they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they

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Speaker 1: recount the pain of those you have wounded. Add to

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Speaker 1: them punishment upon punishment. May they have no acquittal from you.

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Speaker 1: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living.

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Speaker 1: Let them not be enrolled among the righteous. But I

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Speaker 1: am afflicted and in pain. Let your salvation, o God,

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Speaker 1: set me on high. I will praise the name of

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Speaker 1: God with a song. I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: This will please the Lord more than an ox or

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Speaker 1: a bull with horns and hoofs. When the humbles see it,

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Speaker 1: they will be glad. You who seek God, Let your

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Speaker 1: hearts revive, for the Lord hears the needy and does

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Speaker 1: not despise his own people who are prisoners. Let heaven

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Speaker 1: and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves

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Speaker 1: in them. For God will save Zion and build up

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Speaker 1: the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and

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Speaker 1: possess it. The offspring of his servants shall inherit it,

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Speaker 1: and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

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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 we thank you

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Speaker 1: Lord for the things that are referenced here, as we

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Speaker 1: know that you're the one who delivers your children from

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Speaker 1: all the different things that get cast against them. Because

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Speaker 1: of our faithful following of You, Lord, we know that

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of our lives we may have to

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Speaker 1: deal with unjust accusers who cast lies upon us or

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Speaker 1: try and disparage us in one way or another. And

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Speaker 1: that's something that your followers have been dealing with for generations,

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Speaker 1: so this is nothing new. But Lord, we're grateful that

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Speaker 1: you're the one who delivers us from all of these things.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, we see pictures of the deliverance that you

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Speaker 1: offered in this portion of scripture. Lord, we see multiple

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Speaker 1: references here prophetically referring to the things that Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: your son, did on this earth during the course of

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Speaker 1: his earthly ministry. Lord, we saw in verse nine that

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Speaker 1: it told us that zeal for your house has consumed me.

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Speaker 1: And we know that the apostles recognize that this was

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Speaker 1: a reference to Jesus. And we know Lord that as

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Speaker 1: we dig into this Psalm a little further and make

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Speaker 1: our way down to verse twenty one, we see reference

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Speaker 1: to the sour wine that your son Jesus Christ was

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Speaker 1: is a prophetic reference to these things. And we see

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ throughout the Psalms, just like we see him

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Speaker 1: throughout the entirety of the scriptures. But Lord, there's so

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Speaker 1: many prophetic references drawing our hearts and our minds to

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Speaker 1: you in these portions of scripture. And we're grateful Lord

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Speaker 1: for the fact that they're there, and we're thankful as

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Speaker 1: well that they remind us of the price that was

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Speaker 1: paid so that we could be brand new, so that

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Speaker 1: we could have new life, so that our sin could

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Speaker 1: be forgiven through faith in your son Jesus Christ, who

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Speaker 1: took our suffering upon himself, paid for our sin and

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Speaker 1: grants us new life through faith in him. Lord, We're

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Speaker 1: grateful for all of these things. We're grateful for your word.

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Speaker 1: We're grateful for the fact that you walk with us daily,

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Speaker 1: and we pray Lord that we would put you first

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Speaker 1: in all all areas of our lives, and that we

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Speaker 1: would show that we are grateful for who you are

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Speaker 1: by how we live in every context that you place

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Speaker 1: us in. Help us to trust in you and help

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Speaker 1: us to live that faith out in every context. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again, Lord for your love, Thank you for your

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Speaker 1: presence with us. We commit this day to your care,

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