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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 reading Psalms thirty three and

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Speaker 1: thirty four, and we'll be reading from the English Standard version.

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Speaker 1: Shout for joy in the Lord. Owe you righteous praise,

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Speaker 1: befits the upright. Give thanks to the Lord with the

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Speaker 1: lear make melody to him. With the harp of ten strings,

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Speaker 1: sing to him a new song. Play skillfully on the

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Speaker 1: strings with loud shouts. For the word of the Lord

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Speaker 1: is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

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Speaker 1: He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of

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Speaker 1: the steadfast love of the Lord. By the word of

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Speaker 1: the Lord, the heavens were made, and by the breath

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Speaker 1: of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters

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Speaker 1: of the sea as a heap. He puts the deeps

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Speaker 1: in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let

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Speaker 1: all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

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Speaker 1: For he spoke, and it came to be. He commanded,

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Speaker 1: and it stood firm. The Lord brings the counsel of

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Speaker 1: the nations to nothing. He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

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Speaker 1: The counsel of the Lord stands forever the plans of

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Speaker 1: his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose

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Speaker 1: God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen

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Speaker 1: as his heritage. The Lord looks down from heaven. He

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Speaker 1: sees all the children of man, from where he sits enthroned.

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Speaker 1: He looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

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Speaker 1: He who fashions the hearts of them and observes all

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Speaker 1: their deeds. The king is not saved by his great army.

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Speaker 1: A warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The

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Speaker 1: war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by

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Speaker 1: its great might it cannot rescue. Behold, the eye of

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Speaker 1: the Lord is on those who fear him, on those

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Speaker 1: who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver

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Speaker 1: their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.

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Speaker 1: Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help

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Speaker 1: and our shield. For our heart is glad in him,

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Speaker 1: because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love,

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Speaker 1: O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in

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Speaker 1: you Psalm thirty four of David, when he changed his

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Speaker 1: behavior before a bimelech, so that he drove him out,

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Speaker 1: and he went away. I will bless the Lord at

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Speaker 1: all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

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Speaker 1: My soul makes its boast in the Lord. Let the

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Speaker 1: humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

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Speaker 1: and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

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Speaker 1: Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces

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Speaker 1: shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the

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Speaker 1: Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

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Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord in camps around those who

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Speaker 1: fear him and delivers them. O taste and see that

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Speaker 1: the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes

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Speaker 1: refuge in him. Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints.

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Speaker 1: For those who fear him have no lack. The young

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Speaker 1: lions suffer want and hunger, But those who seek the

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Speaker 1: Lord lack no good thing. Come, o, children, listen to me.

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Speaker 1: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What

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Speaker 1: man is there who desires life and loves many days

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Speaker 1: that he may see good. Keep your tongue from evil,

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Speaker 1: and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil

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Speaker 1: and do good, Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes

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Speaker 1: of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears

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Speaker 1: toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against

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Speaker 1: those who do evil, to cut off the memory of

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Speaker 1: them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help,

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Speaker 1: the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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Speaker 1: The Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves

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Speaker 1: the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

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Speaker 1: but the Lord delivers him out of them. All He

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Speaker 1: keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.

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Speaker 1: Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the

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Speaker 1: righteous will be condemned. The Lord redeems the life of

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Speaker 1: his servants. None of those who take refuge in him

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Speaker 1: will be condemned. Let's pray. Lord, We thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege of

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Speaker 1: being able to look at it together today. And we

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Speaker 1: thank you Lord for the words that we see in

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Speaker 1: the psalms that we just read. Remind us to revere

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Speaker 1: and respect you, to fear you in the sense that

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Speaker 1: we honor you, and we acknowledge your power. Lord, We're

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Speaker 1: grateful for the fact that when you look at us,

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Speaker 1: you look at us with compassion, and you show us

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Speaker 1: mercy even though we don't deserve it. Lord, we know

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Speaker 1: that ultimately we are not righteous in and of ourselves,

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Speaker 1: but through faith in your son Jesus Christ, you grant

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Speaker 1: us your righteousness. You have shown us your favor, and

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Speaker 1: you have blessed us in so many And Lord, it's

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Speaker 1: beautiful to be able to see how this section that

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Speaker 1: we just read concludes, where it just tells us here

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Speaker 1: that you redeem the life of your servants and that

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Speaker 1: no one who takes refuge in you will be condemned. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we're grateful for the fact that ultimately our pain and

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Speaker 1: our shame and our condemnation was experienced by Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: who took those things upon himself, so that through faith

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Speaker 1: in him we could live forever forgiven completely and cleansed

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Speaker 1: of all unrighteousness. Lord, thank you for making that possible

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Speaker 1: for us, and we pray that throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: this day we would be mindful of your presence with us.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Lord. We just thank you for all

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