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The Bible Study Podcast, Episode 841. Today

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the Bible Study Podcast continues the study

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of the book of Psalms with Psalm 105.

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Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast.

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I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Before

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Psalm 105 doesn't have any preamble

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in telling us anything about it. It's

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a longer psalm, so I'm going to do

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it in its entirety. It's 45 verses

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long. Give praise to the

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Lord, proclaim his name, make known among

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the nations what he has done. Sing

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to him, sing praise to him, tell

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of all his wonderful acts. Glory

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in his

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holy name, let the hearts of those who

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seek the Lord rejoice. Look

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to the Lord and his strength. Seek

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his face always." And

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so we start in praise, praising God

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for who he is, praising God

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for what he has done, and

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what else can we do but sing praise to God,

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as the psalmist is telling us. And

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glory is named, let the hearts of those who seek

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the Lord rejoice. You're

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listening to a Bible study podcast today, so I'm going

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to include you in those people

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who are seeking the Lord. And

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so I pray that you will be rejoicing this

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week, and that's what the psalmist is saying. Look

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to the Lord in his strength. Seek his

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face always. Remember

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the wonders he has done, his miracles

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and the judgments he pronounced. You

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his servants, the descendants of Abraham,

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his chosen ones, the children

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of Jacob, he is the Lord our

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God. His judgments are

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in all the earth. So remember

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what he's done. We do a lot of that in psalms.

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We do a lot of that. The prophets

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tell us to do that as well. His miracle

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and his judgments. So all

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the things that he told us in terms of the law,

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as well as all the things he did with the people of

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God, especially of course in this

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context, the people of the Old

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Testament. But we can certainly remember

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what he has done in the New Testament and in

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our lives and in everything in between. You

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his servants, descendants of Abraham, his chosen

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ones, the children of Jacob. And so

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obviously this is a psalm that originally

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was intended for the

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people of God and that meant the children of Israel.

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We believe that that has been extended

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now to those of us who are not Jewish through

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the work of what Jesus did. And

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he's the Lord. His judgments are in all the earth.

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I thought that was interesting. We hear

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about that you're the chosen ones.

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You're the people of God. You the people

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who are Jewish. And yet the

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psalmist even is going on to say his

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judgments are in all the earth. God is not limited.

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to Israel. God is not limited to Judah.

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God is not a small God, a regional

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God. God is the God of all the earth.

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He remembers his covenant forever, the

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promises he made for a thousand generations,

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the covenant he made with Abraham, the

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oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed

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it to Jacob as a decree, to

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Israel as an everlasting covenant.

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To you I will give the land of Canaan

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as the portion you will inherit. So

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he's saying that God made promises to Abraham,

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to Isaac, to Jacob, to

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Jacob's sons, and

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that he remembers those. He'll

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remember them for a thousand generations,

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and if you think of a generation as being something

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like 20 to 40 years, we're talking about for

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a very long time. And

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he confirms his promises that

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he's made, and the promises that he's

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talking about here are the promise of the Promised

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Land. That promise that

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takes them quite a while from

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the promise being made to Abraham until they

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go into the Promised Land. Something like 500 years,

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but God remembered those

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promises he made to Abraham and fulfilled

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them in his time. When

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they were but few in number, few indeed,

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and strangers in it, they wandered

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from nation to nation, from one kingdom to

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another. He allowed no one to oppress

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them, for their sake he rebuked kings.

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Do not touch my appointed ones, do

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my prophets no harm. And

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if you think about it, God promises Abraham

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his descendants will be as

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many as the sands on the seashore. Well,

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obviously not just his direct

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descendants. That's certainly going to

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kill Sarah, his wife, who

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only manages to have who has one

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son, but not that many. And

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so it takes a while to develop

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from a family of three

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into a tribe. And

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so during that time, as the wandering

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around as they're spending time in Egypt, as

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they're wandering in the desert, God is

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protecting them as they're growing

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into a people that can fill the

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Promised Land. He

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called down famine on the land and destroyed

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all their supplies of food. He sent a

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man before them. Joseph sold as

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a slave. They bruised his feet with shackles.

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His neck was put in irons till

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what he foretold came to pass, till

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the word of the Lord proved him true. The

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king sent and released him. The ruler

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of peoples set him free. He made

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him master of his household,

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ruler over all he possessed, to

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instruct his princes as he pleased and

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teach his elders wisdom.

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And so we're remembering not

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just Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but

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that one son who was sent ahead into

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Egypt. Now his brothers would

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have told you he was sold into slavery in Egypt.

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Or maybe they wouldn't tell you that. Maybe they'd hide that

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from you as they did from their father and

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told them he died. But

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Joseph later understood that

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this was all part of God's plan. And

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so that the psalmist is remembering

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this plan of God of Joseph sold

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into a slave raised up to be a ruler

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under Pharaoh in Egypt. Then

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Israel entered Egypt. Jacob resided

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as a foreigner in the land of Ham. The

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Lord made his people very fruitful. He

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made them too numerous for their foes whose

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hearts he turned to hate his people

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to conspire against his servants. He

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sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom

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he had chosen. They performed his

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signs among them his wonders in the land

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of Ham. He sent darkness and

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made the sky dark for had

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they not rebelled against his words. He

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turned their waters into blood, causing

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their fish to die their land teamed

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with frogs, which went up into

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the bedrooms of their rulers. He spoke

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and there came swarms of flies and

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gnats throughout their country. He turned

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their reign into hail with lightning throughout

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their land. struck down their vines and

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fig trees and shattered the

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trees of their country. He spoke and the locusts

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came, grasshoppers without number. They

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ate up every green thing in their land, ate

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up the produce of their soil. Then

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he struck down all the firstborn in their land, their

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first fruits of all their manhood. He

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brought out Israel laden with silver

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and gold, and from their tribes

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no one faltered. Egypt was glad

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when they left because dread of Israel

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had fallen on them. And

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so basically in these 15

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or so verses we get the entire

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story of that first part of the book

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of Exodus from Moses

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being called until the people are

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at the Red Sea. And all

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that God did and all those great wonders

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and marvels and plagues that

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were sent on Egypt to get Israel out

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of Egypt. And so it says first

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he caused them to be

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numerous and he blessed them so

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they grew numerous and so

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much so that they were too

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numerous. And so he is

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setting them up for the situation

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where they will become slaves and

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then will get kicked out, birthed

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as a nation as it were, out

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of the crucible, out of the womb of Egypt.

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He spread out a cloud as a covering and

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a fire to give light at night. They asked

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and he brought them quail. He fed

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them well with the bread of heaven. He opened

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the rock and water gushed out. It

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flowed like a river in the desert. And

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so we're now moving on through the book

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of Exodus to how God was

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able to care for his people in the wilderness,

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care for his people in Sinai

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as they traveled across it and then as they wandered

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there. For he remembered

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his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.

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He brought out his people with rejoicing, the

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chosen ones with shouts of joy. He

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gave them the lands of the nations

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and they fell heir to what

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others had to offer. for that they might

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keep his precepts and observe his

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laws praise the Lord and so

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this whole psalm

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here is trying to remember basically

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all of the things that have happened up

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until entering in the

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promised land so from Genesis

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into Exodus into Joshua

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are all recounted in this 45 verses

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now

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that's

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it's great for us to sing songs like

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this that praise God and remember the things

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that he did especially to the people

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of Israel but I also wonder if we shouldn't

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in the same way remember what God has done

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for us and remember how God has

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been important in our lives and how God

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has worked in our lives to give us

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direction or guidance or deliverance

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and should we in fact be making

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psalms like this or songs or

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poems or how are we going to remember

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the things that God has done as

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the psalmist is encouraging the

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people of God the people of Israel

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to do and with that we're going to end

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this episode of the Bible study podcast

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