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Steve Webb: That's security,
beloved.

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It's a Wednesday edition of the
Lifespring one year Bible coming

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to you from Riverside,
California and podcasting since

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2004. I'm your og Godcaster.
Steve Webb. This is the daily

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podcast where we're reading
through the entire Bible in a

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year. How's your week going?
Since it is Wednesday, this is

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the day we read from the songs.
Today's reading is chapters 63

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through 65. I'm calling the
episode safe in God's strong

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hand. As always with the Psalms.
I'll give you a brief

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introduction before reading each
chapter and I'll end the reading

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with some comments. Also, as you
know, Wednesday is the day we

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have a time of prayer together.
And now let's begin our reading

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with a prayer. Our Heavenly
Father, we thank you for the

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songs and we ask that You would
bless our time of reading today.

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pray this in Jesus name, amen.
Okay, time to get started.

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The title of Psalm 63 is a
Davidic song when he was in the

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wilderness of Judah.
Commentators have two primary

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ideas as to when David wrote
this song Many believe that it

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was before he became king of
Israel. Others believe it was

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when he was fleeing Absalon and
still other commentators think

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that the Psalm was written when
King Saul was pursuing David

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Charles Spurgeon said that the
very early church Father John

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Chrysostom, tells us that among
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decreed and ordained that no day
should pass without the public

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singing of this song. John,
Chris Austin was a very early

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church father, he lived from ad
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Psalms chapter 63. God, you are
my God, I eagerly seek you. I

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thirst for you. My body faints
for you in the land that is dry,

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desolate and without water. So I
gaze on you in the sanctuary to

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see your strength and your
glory. My lips will glorify you

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because your faithful love is
better than life. So I will

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praise you as long as I live at
your name, I will lift my hands.

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You satisfy me is with rich
food. My mouth will praise you

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with joyful lips. When I think
of you as I lie on my bed, I

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meditate on you during the night
watches because you are my

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helper. I will rejoice in the
shadow of your wings. I follow

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close to you. Your right hand
holds on to me. But those who

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seek to destroy my life will go
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They will be given over to the
power of the sword. They will

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become the jackals pray. But the
king will rejoice in God. All

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who swear by him will boast for
the mouths of liars will be

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shut.

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The title of Psalm 64 is for the
choir director of Psalm of

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David. In this Psalm David is
pleading with God. And we have

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no information as to when the
Psalm was written or the

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circumstances surrounding the
Psalm.

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Psalm chapter 64. Oh God, listen
to my complaint. Protect my life

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from my enemies threats. Hide me
from the plots of this evil mob

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from this gang of wrongdoers.
They sharpen their tongues like

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swords and aim their bitter
words like arrows. They shoot

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from ambush at the innocent,
attacking suddenly and

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fearlessly. They encourage each
other to do evil than plan how

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to set their traps in secret.
Who will ever notice they ask?

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As they plot their crimes they
say we have devised the perfect

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plan. Yes, the human heart in
mind are cunning. But God

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Himself will shoot them with his
arrows suddenly striking them

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down. Their own tongues will
ruin them, and all who see them

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will shake their heads in scorn,
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They will proclaim the mighty
acts of God and realize all the

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amazing things he does. The
godly will rejoice in the Lord

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and find shelter in him, and
those who do what is right will

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praise Him.

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The title of Psalm 65 is for the
choir director, a Davidic Psalm,

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a song it's rare for a psalm to
have both Psalm and song in the

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title. Charles Spurgeon had this
to say, the Hebrew calls it

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assure in images more a
combination of Psalm and song,

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which may best be described by
the term, a lyrical poem. In

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this case, the psalm may be said
or sung, and be equally

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suitable. Beloved, this psalm
does not tell us when or why it

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was written, but with its
message of thanksgiving and

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praise and referencing flocks
and grains. Some think this

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Psalm was written for a harvest
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Psalms chapter 65. God in Zion
We praise you and give you what

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we promised. Anyone can come to
you and you will listen to their

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prayers. When our sins become
too heavy for us, you wipe them

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away. Oh how wonderful it is to
be the people you chose to come

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and stay in your temple. And we
are so Happy to have the

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wonderful things that are in
your temple, your holy palace.

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God, you answer our prayers and
do what is right. You do amazing

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things to save us. People all
over the world know they can

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trust in you, even those who
live across the sea. You made

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the mountains, we see your power
all around us. You can come the

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roughest seas or the nations
raging around us. People all

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around the world are amazed at
the wonderful things you do. You

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make all people east and west
sing with joy. You take care of

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the land, you water it and make
it fertile. Your streams are

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always filled with water. That's
how you make the crops grow. You

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pour rain on the plowed fields,
you soak the fields with water.

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You make the ground soft with
rain and you make the young

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plants grow. You start the new
year with a good harvest. You

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end the year with many crops.
The desert and the hills are

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covered with grass. The pastures
are covered with sheep. The

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valleys are filled with grain.
Everything is singing and

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shouting for joy.

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Alright, beloved, let's back up
all the way to Psalm 63. It

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begins with a declaration of
devotion. It says God, you are

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my God, I eagerly seek you. Many
scholars believe that this was

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written by David during the time
that Absalon was pursuing him.

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This is a time when David had
been betrayed by those who

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trusted Of course, and he feared
for his life and he felt all

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alone. And yet, this is a
beautiful psalm of devotion and

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praise. It's as if David said,
God, you are my God, I will have

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no other God. You are my God,
God, you are my God. The

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translation I read from today
was the Holman Christian

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Standard Bible but I have to be
honest, I much prefer verses

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three and four in the King James
because in 1974, Calvary

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Chapel's Maranatha singers had a
song called thy loving kindness.

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Based on these verses, I can't
read these verses without

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hearing the song in my head...

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Maranatha! Singers: Thy loving
kindness is better than life.

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Thy loving kindness is better
than life. My lips shall praise

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thee. Thus will I bless thee. I
will lift up my hands unto thy

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name.

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Ths song was from the very first
album of the worship music of

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the Jesus movement. And the
songs from this album were sung

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for many, many years by churches
and youth groups around the

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world. Matter of fact, I still
have my copy of the vinyl album

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from 1974. But I digress. We
were talking about David's Psalm

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weren't way. He says that night
as he lies in his bed, he

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meditates on the Lord. Remember,
this is during the time that

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Absalom is after him to kill
him. But instead of worrying

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about that David meditates on
the Lord, how many of us lie in

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bed and worry about the bills,
whether we'll be able to keep

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our jobs or if our kids will be
okay and on and on and on? First

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Peter five seven says, Give all
your worries and cares to God,

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for he cares about you. Easier
said than done. I know. But when

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we put this in context with the
way we started, God, you are my

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God. The focus shifts from us to
him. And then we can like David

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meditate on the Lord. And then
dropping down to verse eight.

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David says, Your right hand
holds on to me. The right hand

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in Scripture represents the hand
of strength. And so David is

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saying that God's strong hand
holds on to him, he is safe, and

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nothing can take him from God's
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beloved, he talks about how his
enemies will be destroyed. But

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the King David himself will
rejoice in God and all who swear

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by him or who believe in Him
will boast for the mouths of the

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liars will be shut. Those who
trust in God will be vindicated,

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while their enemies will be
shown to be liars, and they will

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be silenced. Beloved, when God
is on your side, what is there

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to worry about? Or as Paul said
in Romans 831, if God before us

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who can be against us? Is it
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with the Lord do you have
tendency once you pray and say,

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Lord, take this from me. Oh,
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Steve Webb: Let's pray. Our
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righteous and faithful. You've
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can know you. You want us to
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privilege. Thank you for that,
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God who delights not in
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when we accept Jesus as our
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