00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:31 Church Updates and Gratitude

01:29 Reflection on Indoor Worship

02:19 Bible Study: Second Kings 19

06:40 Psalm 46: God's Strength and Refuge

08:00 Psalm 80: A Plea for Restoration

09:58 Psalm 135: Praise and Worship

11:18 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Sunday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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You are listening to just one

of us today because pastor

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Rod's out as I'm recording this.

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And in fact, he's going to

be out for like the next.

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I don't know however many days, but

over two weeks, he's, he's taking

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some time off with his family.

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He'll be at church today, but, uh,

on Saturday as I'm recording this, he

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had some time with one of his sons.

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And so, uh, I'm here and I'm with you.

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And we are back in God's word.

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Second Kings 19 Psalm 46,

Psalm 80 and Psalm 1 35.

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So we've got quite a bit, quite

a bit in front of us here.

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Uh, this, uh, this morning at

church, we are blessed to be inside.

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And we reminded of that this week

because we were almost outside

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and that would have been okay too.

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But as God would have

it, he worked things out.

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The school was doing some work on the

gymnasium floor and there were some.

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Uh, communication.

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Uh, things that just needed to be

smoothed out, but we were almost

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sitting up our chairs outside.

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And having church outside, which we

could do, we would be able to do that.

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We'd have church.

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We'd be a little bit uncomfortable, I

guess, more so than we normally are.

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But we would still do it.

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And by God's grace, we

don't have to do that.

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So.

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Uh, as you walk into church this morning,

if you're listening to this before you

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leave, or if you're already been to church

this morning, Uh, maybe stop in and give.

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Thanks.

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Just thank God for the indoors.

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Thank God for the air conditioning.

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Thank God for the chairs that we have

and the sound equipment, just all

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the blessings that we get to enjoy

on a regular basis for church that

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we just take for granted, because.

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We don't know any different.

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And it's only when that is threatened

to be removed from us, that we sit

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there and we go, oh man, that's right.

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These things are nice to have.

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I remember.

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Being in, in California for COVID.

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Uh, where we were outside for

a little while doing church, we

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weren't doing church outside.

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And I remember the first time we

moved back inside, just how thankful

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I was to hear the voices of the saints

around me singing and worshiping God.

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And that was something that we didn't get

outside because it's, it's outside there.

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You don't have the.

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The same acoustics and everything else.

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So it was so cool to be

reminded of something so simple.

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As corporate worship and

what a blessing it is.

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So hopefully you appreciate those

blessings this morning, whether you're

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on your way, or you've already been to

church that you can have a moment to just

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stop down and thank God for the body of

Christ and in what it is that we get to

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do in the place that we get to do it.

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And it's pretty cool.

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It's great.

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It's awesome.

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God's provision is super.

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Uh, super abundant for us in so

many different ways when it comes

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to where we meet in the school

and the classrooms that we get to

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use, just so many awesome things.

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So praise God for that.

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Let's jump into our text for this morning.

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All right.

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So second Kings chapter 19 second, Kings

19 is a parallel again, of, of so much

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of what we've seen already in Isaiah.

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Uh, 36 and 37.

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You've got a situation where, uh, the

people of Israel are under distress

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from Sennacherib and the Assyrians.

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And I say, Isaiah is brought

in and he prophesies and

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says, don't worry, don't fear.

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Don't be afraid because the

Lord is going to deliver you.

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He's going to take care of his people.

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This is verses six and

seven in chapter 19, but.

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Uh, in the meantime, Sennacherib is

going to store up more RAF for himself.

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If I can put it that way

versus eight through 13, he

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he's going to send a letter.

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So Sennacherib is going to send a letter

instead of having the wrap Shakka,

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just stand there and, and taunt the

Israelites he's going to send this letter.

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Well, has a Kaia takes the letter?

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And spreads it out before the Lord.

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And he prays, he seeks the Lord.

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Just like we talked about that in the,

the, our treatment of Isaiah 36 and 37.

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That's such a good response for the

believer when the believer walks

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through a valley, when the believers

up against a trial, it's so good

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for us to go to the Lord in prayer.

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Now, earlier this week on a Wednesday.

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I got a notice that said, Hey.

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Uh, you know what we are, uh,

are not going to be able to

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use the gymnasium on Sunday.

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Like I was talking about earlier

and that's a minor trial that's.

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Way, way, way, way more, uh,

small in comparison to what

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Isaiah was going through or has

a keyer was going through rather.

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But the response needed to be the

same, rather than pull myself up by

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my bootstraps and think about what we

can do and how I can handle it myself.

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Oh, man.

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I needed to go to the Lord and say, Lord.

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You're in control of this and you

know, where our heart is, you know,

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what our desire is, you know, what,

what our preferences, what would be

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better for our people would be to be

inside and not outside where there's

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distractions and heat and weather

and elements and everything else.

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But I needed to go to the Lord in prayer

on that, and not first turned to myself.

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And so often.

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I think we're, we're more

prone to turn to ourselves.

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And to say, okay, how do I

get myself out of the spot?

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Well, it has a, Kai's a great example

because his, the guy goes to the Lord.

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And he prays and in response.

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Isaiah shows up and Isaiah prophesies,

the fall of And so in this prophecy

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Sennacherib is confronted for his pride

and his arrogance and taunting the Lord.

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And reminded that, Hey, you know what.

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Verse 25.

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I'm the one that determined this long ago.

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In other words, God did this.

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I plant from days of old.

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What I now bring to pass.

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Like we talked about in a yesterday's

episode of the episode before the

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Lord brings calamity even to pass.

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And so here again, that concept that yes.

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Yeah.

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Sennacherib, you've done a lot and, and

you've conquered a lot of peoples, but

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don't forget that it was, it was me.

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It was the Lord.

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It was y'all wait, I'm the one

that ordained all these things.

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You've raged against me, verse 28 and

your complacency has come to my ears.

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And so I'm gonna put my hook in

your nose and my bitten, your mouth.

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And I'm going to return you

by the way, in which you came.

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Uh, and, and then he shifts in here

and he talks about this remnant.

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That's going to go out of Mount

Zion, a band of survivors.

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The zeal of the Lord will do this.

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Is that future is that.

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Is that distant future near future?

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What w what was that for Hezekiah?

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The answer is yes.

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I mean, it was.

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Literally a remnant was going to

come out from the siege of Jerusalem.

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When the Assyrians left.

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Do you remember the story there?

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Uh, the angel, the Lord

strikes down 185,000.

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But lepers go out.

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They find the food.

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They say, we should tell

other people about this.

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And so they go back and, and

people flood out of the city and,

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and they, they take the ransom.

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They take the, the booty, the spoil

of, uh, of the Assyrians who had fled.

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And so, yes, there's a near

term fulfillment for Isaiah,

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uh, or second Kings, 1931.

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But there's also that, that future.

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And he's talking about the, the

remnant that's going to come back

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from exile, but then ultimately

the remnant that's going to be re

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gathered in the millennial kingdom.

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And so.

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Again, as we're studying this period

in Israel's history, it's important

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that we keep in mind all of these

different layers going on here.

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There's multiple times.

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There's multiple fulfillments.

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There's multiple scenes

that are happening here.

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And sometimes you get those all working

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Uh, verse 34, I will defend this

city to save it for my own sake,

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for the sake of my servant, David.

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Uh, that that is David, the, uh,

the original Davidic king David,

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and then also the Davidic line that

would ultimately terminate and, and

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culminate rather in the Messiah, in

the, the ultimate David in Jesus.

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And so for the sake of the Davidic

line for the sake of the Davidic

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covenant, He wasn't going to turn

Jerusalem over to, uh, Syria verse 35.

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We read about the ultimate

downfall of the Assyrian army.

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There.

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So that's second Kings 19.

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Now we get into the Psalms and as we get

into these Psalms, again, we don't have

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anything contextually that says this

was written during the time of Hezekiah,

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or this was written during the time

when a Syria was proceeding the city.

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But there are quite a few just

contextual markers here that

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at least fit that timeframe.

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So some 46 is a, an amazing Psalm

praising the strength of God.

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And certainly that would be responsible

or responsible, appropriate.

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That's the word?

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Uh, that would be appropriate

on the heels of what gotta.

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Just done by delivering

Israel from the Assyrians.

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So some 46, such a good one

for you to read through.

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Uh, there's been a lot of different

musicians that have put this to music.

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Shane and Shane have done that.

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Uh, of late.

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Uh, another one called the corner

room has a version of Psalm 46.

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That's really good as well.

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So if you want to hear it in

kind of a modern arrangement,

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English words, Uh, those are two

that I would recommend to you.

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But some 46 is so good.

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God have our refuge and strength

to help in time of trouble.

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We will not fear.

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Uh, verse five, God will help.

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When morning dawns, the Lord of

hosts, verse seven is with us.

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The Lord of hosts, by the way,

is the title, the Lord of armies.

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That's what hosts means.

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He's the Lord of armies.

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And he is with us.

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The God of Jacob is our fortress.

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And so as you read Psalm 46, just

think about it through the lens of.

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Uh, the Israelites reflecting

on God's faithfulness to

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deliver them from the Assyrians.

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I think certainly it fits that context.

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Now some 80.

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Psalm 80 is a you'll notice in the

title again, a Psalm of ASAP, but again,

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no contextual clues or markers there.

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That would say that it's specifically

from this time, but, but it fits.

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It fits.

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And so here, this is more, I think,

from the perspective of those waiting

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on the Lord for that deliverance.

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So verse three, the prayer restore us.

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O God, let your face shine upon us.

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This is a plea for salvation.

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That he's giving it.

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He says the same thing in verse seven.

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Again, restore us O God of hosts.

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Let your face shine

that we might be saved.

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And then down in verse 19, the same

thing restore us O Lord God of hosts.

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Let your face shine

that we might be saved.

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So some 80, rather than

some 46 is reflecting on the

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power and strength of God.

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Some 80 is more of in the midst

of it in the midst of the trial,

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in the midst of the siege.

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Uh, they're trusting that the

load is going to deliver them.

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So an encouraging song for you,

maybe if you're going through.

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A difficult time, a trial.

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It's just to go back and an into.

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To, to empathize, to see the

Psalmus rather empathize with you.

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Uh, to see God empathize with you

through this and to be reminded.

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Of, uh, of his goodness to us.

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To be faithful to deliver us.

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And it may not be that he's going to

deliver us from the valley and the way

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we want to, uh, the deliverance from the

valley might come in in us being delivered

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through, through death even at times.

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But, uh, this is a good

song for us to be reminded.

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God, you are faithful and you

can deliver us if it's your will.

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Uh, and so just, uh, encouraging,

uh, som for us to read.

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Again, contextual marker, perhaps

that, that leads us to think this

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came during this time period, Psalm

80 verse five, you have fed them

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with the bread of tears and given

them tears to drink and full measure.

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The seizure Jerusalem would have led

to a great period of a famine because

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Jerusalem was cut off from outside supply.

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So what the, what did they have to

eat and what did they have to drink?

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They, they had their tiers is

basically what that versus saying

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again, perhaps that's why we, we might

place that there in that time period.

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All right.

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Finally, some, 1 35.

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Someone 35, we have here another

Psalm of praise, another Psalm

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of, of worship of Thanksgiving.

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Uh, if you jumped down here,

uh, Or a couple of verses.

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Of note here, verse six, whatever the

Lord pleases he does in heaven and on

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earth in the seas, in all the deeps.

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So just a reminder of God's power.

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No one can stop his hand.

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No one can stay him.

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No one can say, Hey, you can't do this.

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Verse 13, your name O

Lord endures forever.

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Your renown renown as a word.

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That means fame majesty,

praise your reputation.

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Oh Lord.

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Throughout all of the

ages is that praise there.

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Uh, verses 15 through 18.

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It sounds a lot like Isaiah's prophecies

regarding the idols of the nations, verse

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15, the idols and the nations there.

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They're silver and gold.

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The work of human hands.

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They have mouths, but they don't speak,

they have eyes, but they don't see,

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they have ears, but they don't hear nor

is there any breath in their mouths,

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those who make them become like them.

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So to all who trust in that,

remember we just read that those

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who make them become like them.

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They, they, they become feudal.

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They become nothing in the end

because the idols are powerless.

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They are powerless.

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So again, Uh, that could be potentially

a reason why we might look at a verse or

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a song like this and say it fits the same

context that we've been studying with.

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Uh Sennacherib and the Assyrian siege

of Jerusalem, that timeframe, at least.

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So there you go.

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There's our DBR.

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Uh, for today and I hope you have a

great Sunday, hope church has been

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a part of it and we can't wait.

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We'll be back with you or I'll be

back with you tomorrow, but let me

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pray as we wrap up God, we thank

you for your faithfulness to us.

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We thank you for your faithfulness

to be able to deliver us.

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We thank you.

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That it's true.

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We can say as well, you do whatever

you please in heaven and on earth

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in the season, all the deeps that,

that no one can stay your hand.

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And so I know that there are

those listening right now.

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In the midst of the valley.

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And I just pray that this morning

they'd be encouraged by the reality

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that you are the God of the valley.

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As much as you are the God of the

mountaintop, you are the God of the trial,

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as much as you are the God of the triumph.

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And so I pray that they

would be encouraged by that.

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They would be reminded of that.

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There'll be reminded even of the eternal

perspective that allows us to have hope in

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the midst of the pain and the suffering.

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We might endure and experience

here on this side of the cross

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or this side of eternity rather.

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And so we pray these things,

God, and we ask for your.

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Uh, your good hand of favor upon us.

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We thank you that we were able to

be inside this morning for church

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and, and we didn't have to set up

outside what a blessing that is.

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We don't want to take

those things for granted.

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We thank you for that.

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We praise you for that.

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And we pray this all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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