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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalms eighty one, eighty two,
Speaker 1: and eighty three, and we'll be reading from the New
Speaker 1: English translation Psalm eighty one. For the music director, according
Speaker 1: to the Giddeth style by Asaff, Shout for joy to God,
Speaker 1: our source of strength. Shout out to the God of Jacob.
Speaker 1: Sing a song, and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding
Speaker 1: harp and the ten stringed instrument, sound the ramshorn on
Speaker 1: the day of the new moon and on the day
Speaker 1: of the full moon, when our festival begins. For observing
Speaker 1: the festival is a requirement for Israel. It is an
Speaker 1: ordinance given by the God of Jacob. He decreed it
Speaker 1: as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land
Speaker 1: of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize. It, said,
Speaker 1: I removed the burden from his shoulder. His hands were
Speaker 1: released from holding the basket. In your distress, you called out,
Speaker 1: and I rescued you. I answered you. From a dark
Speaker 1: thundercloud I tested you at the waters of Mahrabah Selah.
Speaker 1: I said, listen, my people, I will warn you, oh Israel,
Speaker 1: if only you would obey me, there must be no
Speaker 1: other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought
Speaker 1: you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth
Speaker 1: wide and I will fill it. But my people did
Speaker 1: not obey me. Israel did not submit to me. I
Speaker 1: gave them over to their stubborn desires. They did what
Speaker 1: seemed right to them. If only my people would obey me,
Speaker 1: if only Israel would keep my commands, then I would
Speaker 1: quickly subdue their enemies and attack their adversaries. May those
Speaker 1: who hate the Lord cower in fear before him, May
Speaker 1: they be permanently humiliated. I would feed Israel the best wheat,
Speaker 1: and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.
Speaker 1: Psalm eighty two a psalm of Asaf. God stands in
Speaker 1: the assembly of l in the midst of the gods.
Speaker 1: He renders judgment. He says, how long will you make
Speaker 1: unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? Selah,
Speaker 1: defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless. Vindicate
Speaker 1: the oppressed and suffering, Rescue the poor and needy, Deliver
Speaker 1: them from the power of the wicked. They neither know
Speaker 1: nor understand. They stumble around in the dark while all
Speaker 1: the foundations of the earth crumble. I thought you are gods,
Speaker 1: all of you are sons of the most High. Yet
Speaker 1: you will die like mortals. You will fall like all
Speaker 1: the other rulers. Rise up, Oh God, and execute judgment
Speaker 1: on the earth, for you own all the nations. Psalm
Speaker 1: eighty three, a song, a psalm of Asath, Oh God,
Speaker 1: do not be silent, do not ignore us, Do not
Speaker 1: be inactive, O God. For look, your enemies are making
Speaker 1: a commotion. Those who hate you are hostile. They carefully
Speaker 1: plot against your people and make plans to harm the
Speaker 1: ones you cherish. They say, come on, let's annihilate them,
Speaker 1: so they are no law longer a nation than the
Speaker 1: name of Israel will be remembered no more. Yes, they
Speaker 1: devise a unified strategy. They form an alliance against you.
Speaker 1: It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab
Speaker 1: and the Hagrites, geebel Amin and Amelek Felistia, and the
Speaker 1: inhabitants of Tire, even as Syria has allied with them,
Speaker 1: lending its strength to the descendants of lot Selah. Due
Speaker 1: to them, as you did to Midian, as you did
Speaker 1: to Sicera and Jabin at the Kishan River, they were
Speaker 1: destroyed at Endor. Their corpses were like manure on the ground.
Speaker 1: Make their nobles like Oreb and zeb and all their rulers,
Speaker 1: like Zeba and Zalmana, who said, let's take over the
Speaker 1: pastures of God, Oh my God. Make them like dead thistles,
Speaker 1: like dead weeds blown away by the wind, like the
Speaker 1: fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that
Speaker 1: consume the mountain sides. Chase them with your gale winds
Speaker 1: and terrify them with your windstorm. Cover their faces with
Speaker 1: shame so they might seek you, O Lord, May they
Speaker 1: be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame.
Speaker 1: Then they will know that you alone are the Lord,
Speaker 1: the sovereign king over all the earth. Let's pray, Lord,
Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you
Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it
Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, we thank you that in these
Speaker 1: psalms we can see that those who oppose you do
Speaker 1: not prosper in the end, Ultimately you reign victorious. Ultimately
Speaker 1: you're the one who is in charge of the nations,
Speaker 1: and you are the sovereign king over all creation. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for helping us to realize this fact. Thank
Speaker 1: you for inspiring us to bow our need to your
Speaker 1: son Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
Speaker 1: to recognize Jesus as our Savior, our Lord, our Messiah,
Speaker 1: and our coming King. Lord. This wasn't something we came
Speaker 1: to the realization of on our own. This is something
Speaker 1: that you made clear to us by the power of
Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit. So we thank you, Lord that you
Speaker 1: have given us the opportunity to know you. We're grateful
Speaker 1: for the gift of salvation we have from you, and
Speaker 1: we pray that in all contexts of life, that we
Speaker 1: would honor you as our Lord. We thank you for
Speaker 1: all these things. We commit this day to your care,
Speaker 1: and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.