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Bible Study Podcast, Episode 851. Today,

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the Bible Study Podcast continues the study of

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the book of Psalms with Psalm 116 and

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117. Welcome

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Psalm 116 goes like this, I love the

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Lord for He hurt my voice, He hurt

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my cry for mercy, because He turned His

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ear to me. I will call on

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Him as long as I live. The cords

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of death entangle me, the anguish of the

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grave came over me. I was

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overcome by distress and sorrow, then I called

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on the name of the Lord, Lord save

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me. The Lord is

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gracious and righteous. Our

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God is full of compassion, the Lord

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protects the unwary. When I

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was brought low, He saved me. Return

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to your rest my soul, for the Lord has been

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good to you. For you, Lord,

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have delivered me from death, my

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eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,

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that I may walk before the Lord in the land

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of the living. I trusted in the Lord

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when I said, I am greatly afflicted.

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In my alarm I said, everyone is a liar. When

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shall I return to the Lord for all His goodness to

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me? I will lift up the cup

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of salvation and call on the name of the

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Lord. I will fulfill my vows to

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the Lord in the presence of all His people. Precious

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in the sight of the Lord is the death of

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His faithful servants. Truly I am your

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servant, Lord. I serve you just as my mother did.

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You have freed me from my chains. I

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will sacrifice the thank offering to you and

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call on the name of the Lord. I

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will fulfill my vows to the Lord in

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the presence of all His people in

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the courts of the house of the Lord in

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your midst, Jerusalem. Praise

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the Lord. If

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we had to take one word and assign it

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to this psalm, it would be grateful, I think.

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So many times we get the psalms are

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a cry to the Lord for mercy or

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a cry to the Lord for help. And

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this one is after that, this one is

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the Lord heard me, the

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Lord helped me, the Lord saved me. And

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now what do I do? And So

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it is a song of praise. Specifically

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of praise from person all help.

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So this isn't a song that

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is rejoicing in the victory of

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God over the Egyptians five hundred

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years ago or something like that

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are in my case, twenty Five

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hundred Twenty Three thousand years ago

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but is very much a personally

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cry and and it has that's

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personal quality to it, right? I

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love the Lord for he heard

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my voice, He heard my cry

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for mercy because he turned. His

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ear to me. I will call on him as

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long as I live. So.

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Does saw must has. Determined.

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Through experience that prayer is

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worth it that God is

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listening. The courts

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of Death in handled me past

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tense the anguish of the grave

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came over me. I was overcome

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by distress and sorrow than I

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called on the name of the

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Lord Lord saved me. The Somos

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doesn't say what the situation was,

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what's the cords of deaths were

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With the anguish of the grave

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are. For

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those of you who just got near

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Christmas cards from the time I'm doing

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this, we just heard from a lot

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of friends. We haven't heard from some

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with wonderful great news and some were

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terrible and tragic news. And certainly there

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are those that I'm hearing from. There

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are those friends that I'm stressing on

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social media who are entangled with the

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of death. Who are feeling

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the anguish of the grave. The

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Lord is gracious and righteous are

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God is full of compassion. The

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lord protects the unwary. When I

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was brought low, he saved me

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so. Again that when I

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was brought low he saved me whenever

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that issue was that that saw must

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was dealing with. Lord is gracious, those

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are the lord prefers to do good

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things for lords is giving us things

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we don't deserve. Remember that's the definition

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of Grace vs. Mercy is not getting

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the punish. Then you do deserve.

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grace is getting that great thing

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you don't deserve. And the Lord

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is righteous. The Lord is full

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of compassion, so the Lord is

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looking for those who are hurting.

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Looking. For those who are in

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need of help. The

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Lord protects the unwary. I thought that

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was interesting. I'm

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wary of what what is it as

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a saw must is dealing with. Was

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it something this almost that was did

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that got him into trouble because he

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was unwary? Is the Lord protecting those

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who are. Going. To stumble

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into sin Or stumble into trouble.

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Return to your rest. My soul for

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the lord has been good to you.

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the almost like the songs the same

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Now I can go back to to

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I was I can go back to

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that piece I had before I was

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troubled, before I needed help. For

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use Lord have delivered be from death

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my eyes from tears, my feet from

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stumbling that I may walk before the

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lord and the Land of the living

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to the definitely seems like those the

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deliverance from death here death keeps coming

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up and that I may walk before

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the lord in the land of the

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living but also my eyes from tears

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as tears obviously sorrow. But my see

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from stumbling my feet from stumbling because

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I was weak or my feet because

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I was stumbling because I was going

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in the wrong direction. Don't know. But

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both can work. I trusted in the

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lord. When I said I am greatly

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afflicted in my alarm I said it's

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Everyone is a liar Now was interesting.

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Why was everyone a liar. So

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I trust in word. When I said I'm

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greatly affected. So you went to God. The

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Somos went to God with that. Cry.

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For help? But what Was it?

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That. Everyone was saying. That.

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The Somme as thought they were all a liar.

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I don't think I know. What?

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Should I returned to the Lord for all

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his goodness to me. When I

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did great for us, what should we returned

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to the Lord for others? goodness for all

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he has done for us. For the saving

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grace of Christ on the crusts, what should

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we return and the samosas. I will list

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up the cup of salvation and call on

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the name of the Lord of fulfill my

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vows to the Lord in the presence of

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his people. Added a saw must make vows

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those way that people do with lord If

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you. Saved me from the situation.

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I will do this or do that,

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don't know, but definitely is has that

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kind of ring to it doesn't It's

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that I will now carry out what

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I said. I would do a lift

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up. the couple solution. I think of

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that as as a toast. I don't know

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if that's what how it's meant here.

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Precious. In the side of the lord is

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the death of his faithful servants. Truly.

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I am your servant Lord I serve

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you just as my mother did either

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freed me from my chains. This is

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a verse and sometimes gets read at

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funerals. Precious in the site of the

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Lord is the death of his faithful

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servants. As you can see why. But

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this servants. This almost is saying

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that I am your servant as

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my mother was your servant. This

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is where I learned this from

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of you freed me from my

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chains. Whatever. Those things where

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that bound and captivated the saw

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must the Lord has set them

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free. Now we might be bound

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by habits, We might be bound

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by addictions, We might be bound

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physically, eaten by a by imprisonment

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their of on a lot of

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different ways that we can be

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in need of salvation, In need

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of freedom. i

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will sacrifice a thank offering to

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and call on the name of

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the lord i will fulfill my

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vows to the lord again we

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get this fulfill the vows in

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the presence of all his people

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in the courts of the house

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of the lord in your midst

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jerusalem praise the lord and so

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the only appropriate response is thanks

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and praise and obedience. And

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that's what the psalmist is offering God. And

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then going on to Psalm 117, I said

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this was short, it is two verses long. Praise

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the Lord all you nations, extol him

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all you peoples, for great is

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his love toward us, and the

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faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.

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Praise the Lord. It's

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interesting, I can't imagine singing this as a

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hymn in church unless you're going to repeat

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it a few times. But it's

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basically just a psalm of praise. Praise

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all you nations, extol all you people,

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calling out for all the world to

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praise God, for great is his love

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towards us, and the faithfulness of the

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Lord endures forever. So God is a

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God of love who

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is faithful to us, and

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therefore we should praise him. It's

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as simple as that. And with that,

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