1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalm one nineteen, verses 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: seventy three through one twelve, and we'll be reading from 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: the New American Standard Bible. Your hands made me and 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: May those who fear you see me and be glad 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: because I wait for your word. I know, o Lord, 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: that your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness you 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: have afflicted me. Oh, may your loving kindness comfort me 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: according to your word to your servant. May your compassion 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: come to me that I may live. For Your law 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: is my delight. May the arrogant be ashamed, for they 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: subvert me with a lie. But I shall meditate on 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: your precepts. May those who fear you turn to me, 17 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: even those who know your testimonies. May my heart be 18 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: blameless in your statutes, so that I will not be ashamed. 19 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: My soul languishes for your salvation. I wait for your word. 20 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: My eyes fail with longing for your word. While I 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: say When will you comfort me? Though I have become 22 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: like a wine skin in the smoke. I do not 23 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: forget your statutes. How many are the days of your servant? 24 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me? 25 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: The arrogant have dug pits for me. Men who are 26 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: not in accord with your law. All your commandments are faithful. 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: They have persecuted me with a lie. Help me. They 28 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: almost destroyed me on earth. But as for me, I 29 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: did not forsake your precepts. Revive me according to your 30 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: loving kindness, so that I may keep the testimony of 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: your mouth forever. Oh Lord, your word is settled in heaven. 32 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: Your faithfulness continues throughout all generations. You establish the earth, 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: and it stands They stand this day according to your ordinances. 34 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: For all things are your servants. If your law had 35 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 1: not been my delight, then I would have perished in 36 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for by 37 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: them you have revived me. I am yours. Save me, 38 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: For I have sought your precepts. The wicked wait for 39 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: me to destroy me. I shall diligently consider your testimonies. 40 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: I have seen a limit to all perfection Your commandment 41 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: is exceedingly broad. Oh, how I love your law. It 42 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: is my meditation all the day. Your commandments make me 43 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. I 44 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies 45 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: are my meditation. I understand more than the aged. Because 46 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: I have observed your precepts. I have restrained my feet 47 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: from every evil way that I may keep your word. 48 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: I have not turned aside from your ordinances. For you 49 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to 50 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: my taste? Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth. From 51 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: your precepts, I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way. 52 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a 53 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,839 Speaker 1: light to my path. I have sworn, and I will 54 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: confirm it that I will keep your righteous ordinances. I 55 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: am exceedingly afflicted. Revive me, oh Lord, according to your word. Oh, 56 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: accept the free will offerings of my mouth, O Lord, 57 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: and teach me your ordinances. My life is continually in 58 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: my hand. Yet I do not forget your law. The 59 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: wicked have laid a snare for me. Yet I have 60 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: not gone astray from your precepts. I have inherited your 61 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart. 62 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes forever, 63 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: even to the end. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you 64 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: for your word, and we thank you for the privilege 65 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: to look at this portion of Psalm one nineteen today. 66 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: And Lord, we're reminded when we look at your word 67 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: that when we obey you have communicated, we experience insight 68 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: and wisdom and all sorts of things that we would 69 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: not experience if we went our own way, or if 70 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: we adopted the false wisdom of this world. Lord, we 71 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: know that many people adopt thinking patterns and worldviews that 72 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: are not in line with your word. And then we 73 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: look at what your word communicates, and we realize that 74 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: you have revealed wisdom to us, and you have revealed 75 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: your heart, and you have revealed to us insight that 76 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: we would never naturally know. And Lord, we know we 77 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: cannot keep your law perfectly. That's why your son Jesus 78 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: Christ came to this earth, because he is able to 79 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: keep the law perfectly. And the law was kept on 80 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: our behalf. And now through faith in your son Jesus Christ, 81 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,119 Speaker 1: we are granted the righteousness of Christ, and it says, 82 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: if we have kept the law, even though naturally speaking, 83 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: we could never have kept it, he kept it for us. 84 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: But Lord, we're grateful for this gift, and we're grateful 85 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: for these reminders. When we look at a portion of 86 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: scripture that focuses verse after verse on your teachings and 87 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: your precepts and your testimonies and your law, we're grateful 88 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: for it all. We're grateful to be able to read it, 89 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: meditate on it, think about it, and be beneficiaries of it. Lord, 90 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: thank you as well for the wisdom and insight that 91 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: you grant us through faith in your son. And Lord, 92 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,799 Speaker 1: we're grateful for the fact that you are present here 93 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: with us today. We commit this day to your care, 94 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: and we thank you for all of these things in Jesus' name. Amen.