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Psalm_073 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm 73 A Psalm by Asaph Surely God is good
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  Speaker 1: to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But
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  Speaker 1: as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps
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  Speaker 1: had nearly slipped, for I was envious of the arrogant
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  Speaker 1: when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there
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  Speaker 1: are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
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  Speaker 1: They are free from burdens of men, neither are they
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  Speaker 1: plagued like other men. Therefore pride is like a chain
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  Speaker 1: around their neck, violence covers them like a garment. Their
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  Speaker 1: eyes bulge with fat, their minds pass the limits of conceit.
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  Speaker 1: they scoff and speak with malice in arrogance they threaten
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  Speaker 1: oppression they have set their mouth in the heavens their
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  Speaker 1: tongue walks through the earth therefore their people return to
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  Speaker 1: them and they drink up waters of abundance they say
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  Speaker 1: how does god know is there knowledge in the most
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  Speaker 1: high behold these are the wicked being always at ease
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  Speaker 1: they increase in riches surely in vain have i cleansed
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  Speaker 1: my heart and washed my hands in innocence for all
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  Speaker 1: day long have i been plagued and punished every morning
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  Speaker 1: if i had said i will speak thus behold i
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  Speaker 1: would have betrayed the generation of your children when i
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  Speaker 1: tried to understand this it was too painful for me
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  Speaker 1: until i entered god's sanctuary and considered their latter end
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  Speaker 1: surely you set them in slippery places you throw them
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  Speaker 1: down to destruction how they are suddenly destroyed they are
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  Speaker 1: completely swept away with terrors as a dream when one
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  Speaker 1: wakes up so lord when you awake you will despise
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  Speaker 1: their fantasies For my soul was grieved, I was embittered
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  Speaker 1: in my heart, I was so senseless and ignorant, I
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  Speaker 1: was a brute beast before you. Nevertheless, I am continually
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  Speaker 1: with you, you have held my right hand. You will
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  Speaker 1: guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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  Speaker 1: Who do I have in heaven? There is no one
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  Speaker 1: on earth who I desire besides you. My flesh and
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  Speaker 1: my heart fails, but God is the strength of my
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  Speaker 1: heart and my portion for ever.' For behold, those who
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  Speaker 1: are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all
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  Speaker 1: those who are unfaithful to you. But it is good
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  Speaker 1: for me to come close to God. I have made
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of
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  Speaker 1: all your works.