May 25, 2021

Going Up to Jerusalem With Singing (Walk Thru the Bible Week 17)

Going Up to Jerusalem With Singing (Walk Thru the Bible Week 17)
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Out of Zion with Susan Michael

The Book of Psalms is made up of 150 songs used in prayer and worship. Most were written by King David and reflect his prayers during various times in his life. Some were written by priests and extol the beauty of the house of the Lord and serving in His presence. The Psalms of Ascent were sung by pilgrims joyfully making their way up to Jerusalem.

This episode complements the daily readings from our Walk Thru the Bible reading plan for May 24 - May 30, covering Various Psalms.

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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Well, hey there and welcome back to Walk Through the Bible.

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This is week 17 and today we're going to be talking about our reading this week which

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is found on pages 509 to 540 or in the Daily Bible or they're the dates of April 23rd through

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the 29th in the Daily Bible.

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So this week we're reading through many of the Psalms and as I explained last week, in

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the Daily Bible, the Psalms are in a completely different order than in your regular Bible.

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In the regular Bible, there's 150 Psalms and they're divided up into five books and the

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order isn't really very obvious when you're reading through the Psalms in your Bible.

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But it is true that Psalm 1 and 2 give a really great introduction to many of the themes that

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are found in the Psalms and then the last Psalm 150 is like this great crescendo of

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praise to the Lord.

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So in a way, there is an overall order but they're really just a book of songs and so

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if you can imagine opening up your hymnal at church, what we used to have in church

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were called hymnals and it was a book of songs for those of you who don't use a hymnal

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in your church.

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That's what Psalms is and it was divided up into five different books of all these songs.

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So in the Daily Bible, he took the ones that we know when they were written because they

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tell us it's during this specific time in the story.

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And so we have already read through some of the Psalms and they were a part of our reading

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and our chronology in the story.

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And then there are some of the Psalms that are going to appear much later in our reading

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because we know they were written much later.

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But the bulk of them, about 112 Psalms, are divided into three major subjects or four,

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I should say, subjects.

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And so this week, we continued in our reading of the Psalms of a troubled soul.

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These Psalms are just so comforting and so encouraging no matter what your trouble may

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be, you can read through these Psalms and just find encouragement as you cry out to

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the Lord along with the Psalmist.

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And then we started in the second category of Psalms about the righteous and the wicked.

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And these Psalms also, many times in our life, we feel like that we were right, we didn't

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do anything wrong, but yet someone else has done something really wrong.

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But either we're suffering because of it or they're not suffering because of it.

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And we read these Psalms and it's just, yes, it just expresses our heart and our cry to

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God that He would vindicate us when we are right.

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And so those Psalms are the bulk of what we're reading this week.

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And so I want to take a minute and just mention something that you may have noticed, that

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the Psalms are, I call them songs because they were sung, we just don't know the tune

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they were sung to.

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But you could also call them poetry.

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And very, very common within the poetry of the Psalms is a genre called parallelism.

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And so in the parallelism, oftentimes the Psalmist will say something and then they'll

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repeat it in the second line, they just say it differently.

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And there's different types of parallelism.

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There's parallelism where the first line and the second line say the same thing, they just

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say it differently.

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And then there's contrasting parallelism where the first line and the second line actually

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say the opposite.

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But the point here is that this is poetry.

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And as you're reading it, get into the feel of it, how that there's a line and then it's

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repeated or there's a line and then it's contrasted.

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Or there's a line and the number of syllables matches the next line.

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And of course that doesn't happen in English because it's written originally in Hebrew,

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but the feeling of it, it's like it's the same.

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And enjoy the poetry of it also as you're reading.

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And then there are some Psalms that are called didactic Psalms and that means they actually

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were written in order to instruct.

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And we have that in Psalm 1.

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Psalm 1 is a didactic type of Psalm and in Psalm 1 it links praises to Torah observance

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or observing the commandments of the Lord that that is a part of worship.

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And that individuals that pattern their lives after the Torah will be blessed.

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So as you're reading through this week, you know, I just wanted to mention those few things

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and mainly just let the Psalms minister to your heart wherever you are in life and in

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your walk with the Lord, let them minister to you and don't skip over the Psalms.

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Take your time and go through them.

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Now I want to mention something else that's not obvious in your reading in the daily Bible,

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the way he has the Psalms arranged.

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This week you will be reading Psalm 120 and I believe 121.

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And so I want to take a minute here to talk about a series of Psalms that began with 120

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to 134.

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And these are called the Psalms of Ascent.

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Now you didn't read all of them this week, but if you were reading through your original

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Bible then you would have been reading 120 to 134.

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They were kind of considered a special grouping of songs that were sung together kind of

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at the same time and Psalms of Ascent.

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So the idea is that every three times a year when the Israelites would come up to Jerusalem

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to worship the Lord and to celebrate the feast that they would sing these Psalms as they

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made that trip because keep in mind some of them traveled for days on foot and on caravan

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and on wagons to get up to Jerusalem.

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And so these were the Psalms that they would intentionally sing during that trip.

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But it's also believed that the priests sang them when they ascended the stairs to the

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temple and also that the exiles sang them as they returned back to the land from exile.

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So with that in mind I want to read to you a few of just some lines from the Psalms of

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Ascent starting with Psalm 120.

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I'm going to start with 121.

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I want you to get the feel here.

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Imagine yourself in exile leaving Babylon and you're going to be walking and traveling

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for weeks to get to the Holy Land, to get back home, to Zion that you've been praying

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for and longing for.

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And so just listen to this.

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I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help.

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My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.

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He will not allow your foot to be moved.

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He who keeps you.

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Now think about the dangers of a trip.

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Think about the physical strain and difficulties of a trip.

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What if you get ill along the way?

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What if you stumble and fall?

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It says here, he will not allow your foot to be moved.

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He who keeps you is not going to slumber.

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He who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.

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The Lord is your keeper.

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The Lord is your shade at your right hand.

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The sun shall not strike you by day nor the moon by night.

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Can't you just picture that?

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They're traveling and they're saying the Lord's going to keep you.

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The sun is not going to smite you by day or the moon by night.

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The Lord shall preserve you from all evil.

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He will preserve your soul.

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The Lord will preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever

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more.

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Wow.

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And then moving on, the next Psalm, Psalm of a Sin.

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I was glad when they said to me, come let us go unto the house of the Lord.

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Meaning come let us go up to Jerusalem, to the house of the Lord.

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Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together.

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Where all the tribes, all the tribes of Israel go up, the tribes of the Lord as a witness

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to Israel, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

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For thrones are set there for judgment.

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In the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, the psalmist is speaking about the thrones of

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the house of David.

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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May they prosper who love you.

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Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.

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For the sake of my brethren and my companions, I will now say, peace be unto you.

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Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

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Meaning the good of Jerusalem because the house of the Lord was there.

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Psalm 123, unto you I lift my eyes, O you who dwell in the heavens, behold as the eyes of

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the servant look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress.

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The parallelism there.

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So our eyes look to the Lord our God until he has mercy on us.

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Have mercy on us, O Lord.

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Have mercy on us.

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Do you see how that as they're coming up to Jerusalem, they're looking up to the mountains.

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The mountains are all around Jerusalem.

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And at a certain point they actually break through those mountains and they see Jerusalem.

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And the mountains are all around Jerusalem.

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They're actually a little higher than the ancient city of David was and of ancient Jerusalem.

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The mountains around it, the Mount of Olives is higher than Jerusalem.

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So it's like Jerusalem is protected by the mountains of the Lord.

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From whence comes our help?

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And you can just picture the Israelites looking up and then looking even higher up to the

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heavens and talking about the God that created the heavens.

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And they're just beautiful when you read them within the context of this pilgrimage.

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Psalm 125, those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but

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abides forever.

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As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth

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and forevermore.

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I can't tell you how many times I have sat there in Jerusalem and repeated this as the

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mountains are around Jerusalem, so the Lord is around His people.

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And it's just such a picture of the strength of God that's all around us that we can go

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through life and we can count on it that He's there to cover us and to protect us.

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Oh, they goes on and on and on.

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And blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.

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When you eat the labor of your hands, you will be happy and it will be well with you.

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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine.

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In the very heart of your house, your children will be like olive plants around your table.

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It's just describing the blessedness of those that obey His commandments, that come up to

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Jerusalem, that observe His commandments, that they'll be blessed.

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The Lord bless you out of Zion, it says, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the

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days of your life.

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Yes, may you see your children's children.

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Peace be upon Israel.

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So these are the Psalms of Ascent, Psalm 120-134.

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The last one, I'll just end here.

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Both jump ahead to 134.

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Behold, bless the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, who by night stand in the house

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of the Lord.

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See, we've now arrived.

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We've arrived to the house of the Lord and this is talking about blessed are the servants

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that stand all night in the house of the Lord.

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Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord, the Lord who made heaven and earth

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bless you out of Zion.

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Amen.

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So that's the Psalms of Ascent.

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Next week I'm going to talk about another series of Psalms that are used in Jewish prayer.

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But for this week, we'll keep going on what we read so far this week.

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So we also read one of the Psalms written by the priest.

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And this is Psalm 84 and I told you how that some of the Psalms are written by the sons

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of Korah and that those Psalms tend to talk about the beauty of the house of the Lord.

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And let me just find here, yes, the longing for the temple here.

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So I want to read to you parts of this.

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Remember now we've arrived in Jerusalem.

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We're standing there in the temple, the house of the Lord.

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And this is what it's like.

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How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of Hosts.

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My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord.

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My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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Even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow, a nest for herself where she may

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lay her young.

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Even your altars, O Lord.

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Can you imagine?

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The Psalmist here has found some birds that have come into the temple.

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They're saying even the swallow has found a place for her nest at your altar, O Lord.

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My King and my God, blessed are those who dwell in your house.

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They will still be praising you.

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Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on pilgrimage, whose heart

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is set on making this pilgrimage up to the house of the Lord.

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As they pass through the valley of Baca, Baca means weeping.

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And we don't know if there really was a valley named Baca or if this is talking metaphorically,

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but even though they pass through a valley of weeping, they make it a spring.

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The rain covers it with pools and they go from strength to strength.

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Each one appears before God in Zion.

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O Lord, God of Host, hear my prayer.

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Give ear, O God of Jacob.

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O God, behold our shield and look upon the face of your anointed.

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For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.

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I know a song where you sing that.

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Better is a day in your courts, better is a day in your house than a thousand elsewhere.

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I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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For the Lord God is a Son and shield.

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The Lord will give grace and glory.

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No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

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O Lord of Host, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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I mean, if only how often do we long for the presence of God like this and long to go to

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the church like they longed to go to the tabernacle and be in the presence of God.

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You know, another song that we sang this week, or we read this week, is a very famous song

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that many of us have turned to at times of need in our lives.

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And I know people that pray this song audibly every single morning of their life because

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it's a prayer of covering and of protection.

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So I want to read this song in closing over you.

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It's Psalm 91.

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Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.

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Surely He will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.

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He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings you will find refuge.

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His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

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You will not fear the terror of night nor the arrow that flies by day nor the pestilence

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that strikes in the darkness nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near

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you.

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You will only observe it with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

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If you say the Lord is my refuge and you make the Lord Most High your dwelling, no harm

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will overtake you.

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No disaster will come near your tent, for He will command His angels concerning you

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to guard you in all your ways.

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They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

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You will tread on the lion and on the cobra, you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

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Because He loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue Him.

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I will protect Him, for He acknowledges my name.

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He will call on me and I will answer Him.

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I will be with Him in trouble and I will deliver Him and honor Him.

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With long life will I satisfy Him and show Him my salvation.

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Well, yea and amen, I pray that the Psalms this week minister deep to your soul, to your

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spirit, to your mind, and that you come out of it renewed and refreshed.

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And I'll be back here again next week as we continue on our walk through the Psalms and

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our journey through the Bible.

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Okay, see you then and until then, the Lord bless you richly.

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