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 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: John Stogey, and today we're reading Psalms fifty fifty one 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: and fifty two, and we'll be reading from the New 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: Living Translation a Psalm of Asath. The Lord, the Mighty 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: One is God, and he has spoken. He has summoned 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: all humanity. From where the sun rises to where it 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: sets from Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty. God shines 10 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: in glorious radiance. Our God approaches, and he is not silent. 11 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm 12 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: rages around him. Calls on the heavens above and earth 13 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: below to witness the judgment of his people. Bring my 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: faithful people to me, those who made a covenant with 15 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: me by giving sacrifices. Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: for God himself will be the judge. Interlude. O, my people, 17 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, 18 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: O Israel. I am God your God. I have no 19 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly 20 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: offer But I do not need the bulls from your 21 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: barns or the goats from your pens. For all the 22 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: animals of the forest are mine, and I own the 23 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird on 24 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine. 25 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for 26 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: all the world is mine and everything in it. Do 27 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the 28 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: blood of goats? Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and 29 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: keep the vows you made to the Most High. Then 30 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: call on me when you are in trouble, and I 31 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: will rescue you, and you will give me glory. But 32 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: God says to the wicked, why bother reciting my decrees 33 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: and pretending to obey my covenant? For you refuse my 34 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: discipline and treat my words like trash. When you see thieves, 35 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: you approve of them, and you spend your time with adulterers. 36 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: Your mouth is filled with wickedness, and your tongue is 37 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: full of lives. You sit around and slander your brother, 38 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: your own mother's son. While you did all this, I 39 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: remain silent, and you thought I didn't care. But now 40 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: I will rebuke you listing all my charges again, you 41 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: repent all of you who forgot me, or I will 42 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: tear you apart and no one will help you. But 43 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: giving thanks is a sacrifice that truly honors me. If 44 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 1: you keep to my path, I will reveal to you 45 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: the salvation of God. Psalm fifty one for the choir director, 46 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: a psalm of David regarding the time Nathan the prophet 47 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 48 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love, 49 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: because of your great compassion, Blot out the stain of 50 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me 51 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: from my sin, for I recognize my rebellion. It haunts 52 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: me day and night. Against you and you alone. Have 53 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: I sinned. I have done what is evil in your sight. 54 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: You will be proved right in what you say, and 55 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: your judgment against me is just. For I was born 56 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: a sinner, yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. 57 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom 58 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: even there. Purify me from my sins and I will 59 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. Oh, 60 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: give me back my joy again. You have broken me. 61 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: Now let me rejoice. Don't keep looking at my sins. 62 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: Remove the stain of my guilt. Create in me a 63 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: clean heart, O God, renew a loyal spirit within me. 64 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take 65 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy 66 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: of your salvation and make me willing to obey you. 67 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they 68 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: will return to you. Forgive me for shedding blood, Oh 69 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: God who saves. Then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness. 70 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: Unseal my lips, Oh Lord, that my mouth may praise you. 71 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. 72 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: You do not want a burnt offering. The sacrifice you 73 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a 74 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: broken and repentant heart. Oh God, look with favor on 75 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: Zion and help her rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Then 76 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: you will be pleased with sacrifices offered in the right spirit, 77 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings. Then bulls will 78 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: again be sacrificed on your altar. Psalm fifty two for 79 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,239 Speaker 1: the choir director a psalm of David regarding the time 80 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: do egg the Edomite said to Saul, David has gone 81 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: to see a him. Why do you boast about your crimes, 82 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: great warrior? Don't you realize God's justice continues forever all 83 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: day long? You plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a 84 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: sharp razor. You're an expert at telling lies. You love 85 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude. 86 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: You love to destroy others with your words, you liar. 87 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: But God will strike you down once and for all. 88 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: He will pull you from your home and uproot you 89 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: from the land of the living interlude. The righteous will 90 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say, 91 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust 92 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more 93 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: and more bold in their wickedness. But I am like 94 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: an olive tree thriving in the house of God. I 95 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: will always trust in God's unfailing love. I will praise 96 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: you forever, Oh God, for what you have done. I 97 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: will trust in your good name in the presence of 98 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: your faithful people. Let's pray. Lord, We thank you for 99 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege of 100 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: being able to look at these portions of scripture today. 101 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: And Lord, we thank you that when we're consumed with sin, 102 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: when we have sinful activity on our minds and in 103 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: our lives, that we can come before you and confess 104 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: and repent of those things. Lord, we know that that 105 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: was something that David was wrestling with, and he was 106 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: confronted of those sins, and he confessed them to you, 107 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: and you cleansed him, and you forgave him, and you 108 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: offer to do the same for us. And Lord, just 109 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: as it says in this portion of scripture from Psalm 110 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: fifty two, we desire to trust in your unfailing love. 111 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: We desire to praise you forever because of what you 112 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: have done. And Lord, what we see in you is 113 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: the perfection of love. We know that your son Jesus 114 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: Christ died on our behalf because of love. We know 115 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: that your son Jesus Christ rose from the grave to 116 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: grant new life to all those who trust in him. 117 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: And again, Lord, this is evidence of your love. So Lord, 118 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: we pray that throughout the course of today and every 119 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: day that we live, that we would trust in you, 120 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: that we would love you as well, and that we 121 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: would be grateful for the fact that you bestow blessings 122 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: and so many mercies upon us that we truly do 123 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: not deserve. So we're grateful for all of these things, 124 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: and we thank you Lord for the fact that you've 125 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: given us your word to remind us of reasons that 126 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: we need to be thankful before you. We give you 127 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: praise for all of this. We thank you for your presence, 128 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: and we pray this all in Jesus's name. Amen.