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 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalms eighty one, eighty two, 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: and eighty three, and we'll be reading from the New 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: English translation Psalm eighty one. For the music director, according 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: to the Giddeth style by Asaff, Shout for joy to God, 8 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: our source of strength. Shout out to the God of Jacob. 9 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: Sing a song, and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: harp and the ten stringed instrument, sound the ramshorn on 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: the day of the new moon and on the day 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: of the full moon, when our festival begins. For observing 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: the festival is a requirement for Israel. It is an 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: ordinance given by the God of Jacob. He decreed it 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize. It, said, 17 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: I removed the burden from his shoulder. His hands were 18 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: released from holding the basket. In your distress, you called out, 19 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: and I rescued you. I answered you. From a dark 20 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: thundercloud I tested you at the waters of Mahrabah Selah. 21 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: I said, listen, my people, I will warn you, oh Israel, 22 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: if only you would obey me, there must be no 23 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god. 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought 25 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: wide and I will fill it. But my people did 27 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: not obey me. Israel did not submit to me. I 28 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: gave them over to their stubborn desires. They did what 29 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: seemed right to them. If only my people would obey me, 30 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: if only Israel would keep my commands, then I would 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: quickly subdue their enemies and attack their adversaries. May those 32 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: who hate the Lord cower in fear before him, May 33 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: they be permanently humiliated. I would feed Israel the best wheat, 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs. 35 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: Psalm eighty two a psalm of Asaf. God stands in 36 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: the assembly of l in the midst of the gods. 37 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: He renders judgment. He says, how long will you make 38 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? Selah, 39 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless. Vindicate 40 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: the oppressed and suffering, Rescue the poor and needy, Deliver 41 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: them from the power of the wicked. They neither know 42 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: nor understand. They stumble around in the dark while all 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: the foundations of the earth crumble. I thought you are gods, 44 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: all of you are sons of the most High. Yet 45 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: you will die like mortals. You will fall like all 46 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: the other rulers. Rise up, Oh God, and execute judgment 47 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: on the earth, for you own all the nations. Psalm 48 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: eighty three, a song, a psalm of Asath, Oh God, 49 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: do not be silent, do not ignore us, Do not 50 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: be inactive, O God. For look, your enemies are making 51 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: a commotion. Those who hate you are hostile. They carefully 52 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: plot against your people and make plans to harm the 53 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: ones you cherish. They say, come on, let's annihilate them, 54 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: so they are no law longer a nation than the 55 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: name of Israel will be remembered no more. Yes, they 56 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: devise a unified strategy. They form an alliance against you. 57 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab 58 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: and the Hagrites, geebel Amin and Amelek Felistia, and the 59 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: inhabitants of Tire, even as Syria has allied with them, 60 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: lending its strength to the descendants of lot Selah. Due 61 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: to them, as you did to Midian, as you did 62 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: to Sicera and Jabin at the Kishan River, they were 63 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 1: destroyed at Endor. Their corpses were like manure on the ground. 64 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: Make their nobles like Oreb and zeb and all their rulers, 65 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: like Zeba and Zalmana, who said, let's take over the 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: pastures of God, Oh my God. Make them like dead thistles, 67 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: like dead weeds blown away by the wind, like the 68 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that 69 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: consume the mountain sides. Chase them with your gale winds 70 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: and terrify them with your windstorm. Cover their faces with 71 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: shame so they might seek you, O Lord, May they 72 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame. 73 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, 74 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: the sovereign king over all the earth. Let's pray, Lord, 75 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you 76 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it 77 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, we thank you that in these 78 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: psalms we can see that those who oppose you do 79 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: not prosper in the end, Ultimately you reign victorious. Ultimately 80 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: you're the one who is in charge of the nations, 81 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: and you are the sovereign king over all creation. Lord, 82 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: thank you for helping us to realize this fact. Thank 83 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: you for inspiring us to bow our need to your 84 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 1: son Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, 85 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: to recognize Jesus as our Savior, our Lord, our Messiah, 86 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: and our coming King. Lord. This wasn't something we came 87 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: to the realization of on our own. This is something 88 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: that you made clear to us by the power of 89 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit. So we thank you, Lord that you 90 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: have given us the opportunity to know you. We're grateful 91 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: for the gift of salvation we have from you, and 92 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: we pray that in all contexts of life, that we 93 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: would honor you as our Lord. We thank you for 94 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: all these things. We commit this day to your care, 95 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.