WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:03.020 Think of all he's done for us before we even knew him. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:11.420 It's the LifeSpring One Year Bible Rewind and podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG Godcaster, 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:16.000 Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast where we're reading the entire Bible in a year. 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:21.300 Welcome. Thanks for joining me today. The website is lifespringmedia.com. 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:27.280 This is Psalms Wednesday. We'll read Psalms 48 through 50. And since we are in the Psalms today, 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:31.160 I'll give you an introduction to each chapter before I read the chapter. 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:36.940 We'll also have our On This Date in Church History segment, which we'll have a little fun extra today. 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:38.100 Here's a hint. 00:00:38.720 --> 00:00:44.600 What do Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Pillsbury Doughboy, and Disney's Haunted Mansion have in common? 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:45.460 Hmm. 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:48.600 And since it's Wednesday, we'll also have a time of prayer. 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:49.880 Let's begin. 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.380 Our Heavenly Father, Lord, we love you and we thank you for your word. 00:00:54.700 --> 00:00:57.880 We thank you, Lord, for revealing yourself to us through it. 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:02.280 We pray, God, today that you would open our eyes and soften our hearts. 00:01:02.650 --> 00:01:04.059 We pray this in Jesus' name. 00:01:04.730 --> 00:01:04.860 Amen. 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:12.220 The title of chapter 48 is A Song, A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:19.420 The Hebrew word for song in the title is shir, which conveys the idea of a joyful song. 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.500 The same word is used in Genesis 31, 27, which says, 00:01:23.940 --> 00:01:27.340 Why did you flee away secretly and steal away from me and not tell me? 00:01:27.460 --> 00:01:31.620 For I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with timbrel and harp. 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:34.220 It's also in Psalm 33, 3. 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:36.200 Sing to him a new song. 00:01:36.380 --> 00:01:38.460 Play skillfully with a shout of joy. 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:43.200 And I've told you before that the sons of Korah were Levites, the tribe of priests, 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.200 and they seem to have been a part of the music ministry of temple worship, sort of the worship band. 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:51.480 Psalms chapter 48. 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:58.420 The Lord is great. He should be highly praised. His holy mountain is the city of our God. 00:01:59.290 --> 00:02:04.360 Its beautiful peak is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion is on the northern ridge. 00:02:04.830 --> 00:02:11.600 It is the city of the great King. God is in its palaces. He has proved that He is a stronghold. 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:17.200 The kings have gathered. They marched together. When they saw Mount Zion, they were astonished. 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.000 They were terrified and ran away in fear. 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:24.580 Trembling seized them like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:28.460 With the east wind you smashed the ships of Tarshish. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.460 The things we had only heard about we have now seen in the city of the Lord of Armies, 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.160 in the city of our God. 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:38.160 God makes Zion stand firm forever. 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:39.280 Selah 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.980 Inside your temple we carefully reflect on your mercy, O God. 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:48.160 Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. 00:02:49.050 --> 00:02:50.800 Your right hand is filled with righteousness. 00:02:51.980 --> 00:02:56.320 Let Mount Zion be glad and the cities of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. 00:02:57.640 --> 00:02:58.640 Walk around Zion. 00:02:59.220 --> 00:02:59.900 Go around it. 00:03:00.380 --> 00:03:01.140 Count its towers. 00:03:02.060 --> 00:03:03.360 Examine its embankments. 00:03:03.880 --> 00:03:04.860 Walk through its palaces. 00:03:05.660 --> 00:03:10.340 Then you can tell the next generation, this God is our God forever and ever. 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.400 He will lead us beyond death. 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:19.720 The title of Psalm 49 is, To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:22.740 Of this psalm, G. Campbell Morgan wrote, 00:03:23.260 --> 00:03:27.320 The teaching of the song is simple and sublime, present and perpetual. 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.580 And I love this from Alexander McLaren. 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:35.760 This psalm touches the high-water mark of Old Testament faith in a future life. 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:39.580 Psalm 49 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:41.920 Hear this, all you peoples. 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.020 Listen, all who live in this world, both low and high, rich and poor alike. 00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:49.840 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. 00:03:50.620 --> 00:03:53.540 The meditation of my heart will give you understanding. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.260 I will turn my ear to a proverb. 00:03:56.980 --> 00:03:59.220 With the harp I will expound my riddle. 00:04:00.200 --> 00:04:04.520 Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me, 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.860 those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches? 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.000 No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them. 00:04:13.820 --> 00:04:15.560 The ransom for a life is costly. 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:20.980 No payment is ever enough, so that they should live on forever and not see decay. 00:04:21.940 --> 00:04:27.740 For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving 00:04:27.820 --> 00:04:28.740 their wealth to others. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:35.640 Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.320 they had named lands after themselves. 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:41.620 People, despite their wealth, do not endure. 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:43.900 They are like the beasts that perish. 00:04:45.260 --> 00:04:47.420 This is the fate of those who trust in themselves 00:04:48.140 --> 00:04:50.420 and of their followers who approve their sayings. 00:04:51.220 --> 00:04:53.360 They are like sheep and are destined to die. 00:04:54.140 --> 00:04:55.300 Death will be their shepherd, 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:58.260 but the upright will prevail over them in the morning. 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:00.860 Their forms will decay in the grave, 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:02.740 far from their princely mansions. 00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:06.260 But God will redeem me from the realm of death. 00:05:06.520 --> 00:05:12.100 He will surely take me to himself. Do not be overawed when others grow rich, 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:17.440 when the splendor of their houses increases, for they will take nothing with them when they die. 00:05:18.020 --> 00:05:23.100 Their splendor will not descend with them. Though while they live they count themselves blessed, 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:28.020 and people praise you when you prosper, they will join those who have gone before them, 00:05:28.300 --> 00:05:33.979 who will never again see the light of life. People who have wealth but lack understanding 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:42.020 are like the beasts that perish. Psalm 50 is entitled, A Psalm of Asaph. 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.620 This is the first psalm we see from Asaph in the book of Psalms. We know from 1 Chronicles 15, 00:05:49.020 --> 00:05:54.680 16, and 25 that Asaph was a great singer and musician in both David and Solomon's time. 00:05:55.300 --> 00:05:57.540 In addition, some of his psalms were prophetic. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:07.420 Psalms chapter 50. From the rising of the sun to where it sets, God, the Lord God, speaks, 00:06:07.940 --> 00:06:14.880 calling out to the earth. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines brightly. Our God is coming, 00:06:15.180 --> 00:06:21.040 He won't keep quiet. A devouring fire is before Him. A storm rages all around Him. 00:06:21.980 --> 00:06:25.920 God calls out to the skies above and to the earth in order to judge His people. 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:30.600 Bring my faithful to me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 00:06:31.760 --> 00:06:35.660 The skies proclaim his righteousness because God himself is the judge. 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:36.780 Selah. 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:40.180 Listen, my people, I will now speak. 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.740 Israel, I will now testify against you. 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.340 I am God, your God. 00:06:46.820 --> 00:06:52.580 I am not punishing you for the sacrifices or for your entirely burned offerings which are always before me. 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.740 I won't accept bulls from your house or goats from your corrals, 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:02.300 because every forest animal already belongs to me, as do the cattle on a thousand hills. 00:07:03.260 --> 00:07:05.060 I know every mountain bird. 00:07:05.550 --> 00:07:07.740 Even the insects in the field are mine. 00:07:08.180 --> 00:07:14.400 Even if I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you, because the whole world and everything in it already belongs to me. 00:07:15.580 --> 00:07:16.920 Do I eat bull's meat? 00:07:17.450 --> 00:07:18.980 Do I drink goat's blood? 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.820 Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving. 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:27.840 Fulfill the promises you made to the Most High. Cry out to me whenever you are in trouble. 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:33.240 I will deliver you, then you will honor me. But to the wicked God says, 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:37.920 Why do you talk about my laws? Why do you even mention my covenant? 00:07:38.820 --> 00:07:42.100 You hate discipline, and you toss my words behind your back. 00:07:42.820 --> 00:07:47.900 You make friends with thieves whenever you see one. You spend your time with adulterers. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.420 You set your mouth free to do evil, then harness your tongue to tell lies. 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.860 You sit around talking about your own siblings. 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:00.060 You find fault with the children of your very own mother. 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.880 You've done these things and I've kept quiet. 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:05.080 You thought I was just like you. 00:08:05.620 --> 00:08:07.400 But now I'm punishing you. 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:10.600 I'm laying it all out right in front of your face. 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.740 So consider this carefully, all you who forget God, 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.940 or I'll rip you to pieces with no one to deliver you. 00:08:18.260 --> 00:08:22.140 The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving is the one who honors me, 00:08:22.820 --> 00:08:27.280 and it is to the one who charts the correct path that I will show divine salvation. 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:31.600 Let's talk for a moment about Psalm 50. 00:08:32.560 --> 00:08:40.300 God, who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, does not find pleasure in the sacrifice of bulls or rams, or in our modern time, money. 00:08:41.099 --> 00:08:46.780 What He desires is our heart, our devotion, our thanks, our praise, our us. 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:51.700 He wants a people who acknowledge Him for who He is and what He has done for us. 00:08:52.420 --> 00:08:57.340 He wants us to desire to know Him, not to go through religious motions with no heart. 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:02.600 As you've heard me say, and maybe you're getting tired of it, but I never get tired of saying it, 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.080 I am deeply in love with the lovely Lady Leanne. 00:09:06.850 --> 00:09:11.160 Of all the people on earth, she is the one who gives me a reason to get up in the morning. 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:16.000 She is my world and will be celebrating 32 years of marriage on New Year's Eve, 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.860 and I still tell her multiple times a day that I do love her. 00:09:20.520 --> 00:09:24.280 But more than that, I still look for ways to show her that I love her, 00:09:24.620 --> 00:09:28.080 not because she requires it, but because I love to make her happy. 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:32.360 And I would never dream of doing something that I know would make her unhappy, 00:09:32.670 --> 00:09:34.140 even though sometimes I do. 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:38.920 And when I become aware that I've disappointed her, I try to be quick to apologize. 00:09:39.800 --> 00:09:43.160 Maybe that's one of the reasons we'll be celebrating our 32nd anniversary. 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:47.820 She works outside the home, and most of the time I do my work from home. 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:54.120 On the days when she has to leave early in the morning to go to work, I usually get out of bed to make breakfast for her. 00:09:54.780 --> 00:09:57.420 I don't do it because I have to or because it's an obligation. 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:02.280 I do it because I love her, and it helps to make her day just a little bit better. 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:10.480 The relationship that I have with Leanne is a type or example of the relationship God wants to have with us. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:19.180 He desires that we love Him and that we tell Him so, that when we do things for Him it's because of love, not because it's a requirement. 00:10:20.060 --> 00:10:25.960 As I find joy in doing things to make Leanne happy, God wants us to find joy in the things we do for Him. 00:10:26.730 --> 00:10:29.720 Think of all He's done for us, before we even knew Him. 00:10:30.270 --> 00:10:31.760 He gave us the gift of life. 00:10:32.230 --> 00:10:34.720 He gave us a beautiful planet on which to live. 00:10:34.870 --> 00:10:35.700 He gave us music. 00:10:36.140 --> 00:10:36.980 He gave us sunshine. 00:10:37.170 --> 00:10:38.000 He gave us rain. 00:10:38.280 --> 00:10:41.800 He gave us puppies and kittens and the giggles of little children. 00:10:42.520 --> 00:10:45.280 And as a grandfather, that's one of the greatest sounds in the world. 00:10:45.940 --> 00:10:49.420 And he gave us his son, who so selflessly gave his life 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.120 so that we could have fellowship with God for all of eternity. 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.100 For the life of me, I can't understand people who reject such a God as this. 00:10:58.940 --> 00:10:59.660 What are your thoughts? 00:11:00.280 --> 00:11:02.980 Our reading tomorrow is Job 33 and 34. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.120 Here's the verse of the day. 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:14.940 Today's verse of the day is Psalm 48.1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:30.160 our God. Psalm 48.1. Our associate producer today is Lifespring Family Berean, Brother Michael 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:36.480 Hainer, who came in with his weekly $7.77 donation. Thank you, Brother Michael. God bless you. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.580 Beloved, it is through the generosity of the Lifespring family that I can bring the Lifespring 00:11:41.610 --> 00:11:46.920 One Year Bible Rewind to you each day. Have you donated yet? The show needs your support. 00:11:47.310 --> 00:11:52.140 Would you miss it if it stops showing up in your podcast app? Time, talent, or treasure. 00:11:52.650 --> 00:11:56.380 It doesn't really matter how you give, but that you give. And when you do, 00:11:56.820 --> 00:12:00.760 you're helping to spread the good news to a world that needs it. God bless you. 00:12:10.020 --> 00:12:16.840 On this date in church history, February 11th, Najima Shimita was born. His life was like an 00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:22.640 adventure novel, and he later took the name Joseph Hardy Najima. Born in a closed Japan, 00:12:22.880 --> 00:12:29.420 where leaving the country meant a death sentence, he risked everything at the age of 21 to stow away 00:12:29.560 --> 00:12:35.600 on a ship bound for America. He eventually became the first Japanese person to be ordained as a 00:12:35.710 --> 00:12:40.500 Protestant minister. He didn't stay in the West, though. He returned to his homeland during the 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:46.919 Meiji Restoration to found Doshisha University. He left a legacy that proved that the gospel could 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:53.000 take deep root in Japanese soil through the power of Christian education. And now, on this date in 00:12:53.280 --> 00:13:00.280 1952, when Trans World Radio, or TWR, was founded. It started with a vision from Paul Freed, who 00:13:00.520 --> 00:13:05.560 realized that while missionaries could be blocked by physical borders or political iron curtains, 00:13:06.180 --> 00:13:13.159 radio waves could sail right over them. Beginning with a small transmitter in Morocco, TWR was grown 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:19.840 into a global powerhouse, now broadcasting the gospel in over 300 languages. It remains a 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:26.160 testament to the idea that the Word of God is not chained, using technology to reach the most remote 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:32.360 corners of the globe. Now, here's a bit of fun broadcaster trivia for you. When you hear the 00:13:32.520 --> 00:13:38.039 name Paul Freed, some of you, especially those of you who grew up on classic cartoons or Disney 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:43.780 parks, like me, might think of the Man of a Thousand Voices, Paul Freese. They were both 00:13:43.900 --> 00:13:49.700 masters of the microphone in the 1950s, but they lived in very different worlds. Paul Freese, with 00:13:49.700 --> 00:13:55.880 an S, was the voice of the ghost host in The Haunted Mansion, and Boris Badenov in Rocky and 00:13:55.980 --> 00:14:03.199 Bullwinkle. He even appeared on camera as the radio reporter in the 1953 classic film The War of the 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:08.980 worlds. The target for the A-bomb is this nest of Martian machines in the Puente Hills, where more 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:16.940 of these meteor cylinders came down early last evening. All radio is dead, which means that these 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:23.200 tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history. Yeah, do you recognize that voice? 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:29.259 Yeah, Paul Freese. But our man of the day is Paul Freed with a D, the missionary who had the vision 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:33.480 to send the gospel sailing over the Iron Curtain through Trans World Radio. 00:14:34.260 --> 00:14:36.180 One was a master of Hollywood imagination. 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:38.980 The other was a pioneer of the Great Commission. 00:14:39.580 --> 00:14:42.140 Just a little something to keep your D's and S's straight 00:14:42.540 --> 00:14:44.200 if you're looking them up in the history books, 00:14:44.400 --> 00:14:47.300 as if anybody uses history books these days. 00:14:47.800 --> 00:14:50.800 Anyway, from secret stowaways to shortwave radio, 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:54.240 February 11th reminds us of the creative, courageous links 00:14:54.300 --> 00:14:57.680 believers will go to share the good news of a risen Christ. 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:07.360 Praises and prayer requests. Joy Kurtz sent in an unspoken prayer request. We don't have to know it 00:15:07.740 --> 00:15:12.620 because God already does. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, our Heavenly Father, 00:15:12.790 --> 00:15:17.660 you are worthy of our love. Everything that we are, everything that we have, 00:15:18.140 --> 00:15:23.620 everything that we will ever be is from you. We love you, but help us to love you more, 00:15:23.660 --> 00:15:30.420 Lord, because you are worthy. Lord, right now we lift up our sister Joy to you. She has an unspoken 00:15:30.660 --> 00:15:35.460 request, and you, Father, know all about it. We don't need to know, but we just want to bring it 00:15:35.460 --> 00:15:40.320 to your attention as we agree together with Joy that we want your will to be done in her life, 00:15:40.680 --> 00:15:45.500 and we leave this in your capable, loving hands. Father, I thank you for the LifeSpring family. 00:15:45.920 --> 00:15:50.719 Bless them today. I pray, Lord, that you would meet every need according to your will and your 00:15:50.740 --> 00:15:57.760 plan. Pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Beloved, when you send in your praises and prayer requests, 00:15:57.940 --> 00:16:02.840 I'll pray for you in my daily private prayer time, and I'll rejoice with you, and I'll pray for you 00:16:03.060 --> 00:16:08.020 on the show so that we can all agree together as we take our requests to God. To send them to me, 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:12.740 just go to prayer.lifespringmedia.com. 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