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Love Letters from God Rejoicing in Suffering Scripture_ Psalms 94_ 95_ 97 & 98 · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  To love letters. Welcome to Love Letters from
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  God. We're going to be reading from
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  several Psalms today as we notice how wonderful God is and
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  how the writer of the Psalms wants us to know that.
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  And then we're also going to be taking a look at some material
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  that with all the rejoicing that we have with respect to how
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  wonderful God is, sometimes we have to suffer ourselves.
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  And we want to take a look at how that suffering might be an
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  asset rather than just a hurt. So that's what we want to kind
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  of look at today. Psalm 94 is where we're going to
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  start. O Lord God, to whom vengeance
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  belongs. O God, to whom vengeance
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  belongs, shine forth, rise up. O judge of the earth, render
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  punishment to the proud Lord. How long will the wicked, how
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  long will the wicked triumph? They utter speech, and they
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  speak insolent things. All the workers of iniquity
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  boast in themselves. They break in peace is your
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  people, O Lord, and they afflict your heritage.
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  They slay the widow and the stranger, and they murder the
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  fatherless. Yet they say the Lord doesn't
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  see, nor does the God of Jacob understand.
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  Understand, you senseless among the people, and you fools, when
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  will you be wise? He who planted the ear, shall he
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  not hear? He who formed the eye, shall he
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  not see? He who instructs the nations,
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  shall he not correct? He who teaches man knowledge,
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  the Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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  Blessed is the man whom you instruct, oh Lord, and teach out
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  of your law, that you may give him rest from the days of
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  adversity until the bid is dug for the wicked.
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  For the Lord will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake
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  his inheritance. But judgment will remain to
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  righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
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  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
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  Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
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  Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would soon have
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  settled in silence. If I say my foot slips, Your
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  mercy, O Lord, will hold me up in the multitude of my
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  anxieties. Within me Your comforts delight
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  my soul. Shall the throne of iniquity,
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  which they devise evil by law, have fellowship with You?
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  They gather together against the life of the righteous, and they
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  condemn innocent blood. But the Lord has been my
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  defense, and my God the rock of my refuge.
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  He has brought on them their own iniquity, and he should cast
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  them off in their own wickedness.
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  The Lord our God shall cut them off.
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  So is Psalm 94. Notice throughout that Psalm how
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  David is. He wonders why the problems, why
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  the issues come up that are so troublesome and terrible.
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  But he knows also that in spite of all the terrible things that
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  are going on in and around him, the Lord's still going to win.
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  He is the winner. Let's go on to Psalm 95.
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  Oh, come, let us sing to the Lord.
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  Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
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  Let us come before His presence with Thanksgiving.
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  Let us shout joyfully to Him with Psalms.
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  For the Lord is a great God, and the great King above all gods.
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  In His hand are the deep places of the earth.
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  The heights of the hills are His.
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  Also the sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry
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  land. Oh, come, let us worship and bow
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  down. Let us kneel before the Lord our
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  Maker, for He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture
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  and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His
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  voice, do not harden your hearts as in the days of rebellion, as
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  in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your father's
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  tested me. They tried me, though they saw
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  my work for 40 years. I was grieved with that
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  generation and said it is a people who go astray in their
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  hearts and they do not know my ways.
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  So I swore in my wrath. They shall not enter my wrath.
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  And that's Psalm #95 Again, notice how much credit David is
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  giving to God, who is the maker of everything now, when there
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  are so many things around that you and I don't understand.
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  Put our trust and our confidence in the end, because in the long
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  run, He's the winner. And that's what's going to be
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  proven in the end. Let's jump over now to Psalm 97.
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  The Lord reigns. Let the earth rejoice.
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  Let the multitude of Isles be glad.
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  Clouds and darkness around him. Righteousness and justice are
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  the foundation of His throne. A fire goes before him and burns
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  up his enemies around about His lightnings light the world, and
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  the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax at
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  the presence of the Lord. At the presence of the Lord of
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  the whole earth, the heavens declare His righteousness, and
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  all the peoples see His glory. Let all be put to shame who
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  serve carved images, who boast of idols.
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  Worship Him. All ye gods Zion hears and is
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  glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your
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  judgments, O Lord. For for you, Lord, are our Most
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  High above all the earth. You are exalted far above all
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  the gods. You who love the Lord hate evil.
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  He preserves the souls of His Saints.
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  He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
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  Light is shown for the righteous, and gladness for the
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  upright in art. Rejoice in the Lord, you
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  righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy
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  name. And that is Psalm #97 He's given
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  a lot of credit to God here. God is really the one who knows
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  and understands everything. There are a lot of things
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  sometimes that you and I don't understand, but He does.
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  Let's continue with Psalm 98. Oh, sing to the Lord a new song,
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  for He has done marvelous things.
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  His right hand and his holy arm had gained him the victory.
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  The Lord has made known His salvation, His righteousness.
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  He is revealed in the sight of the nations.
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  He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness in the House of
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  Israel. All the ends of the earth have
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  seen the salvation of our God. Shout joyfully to the Lord.
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  All the earth break forth in song.
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  Rejoice and sing praises. Sing to the Lord with the harp,
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  with the harp and the sound of the song with trumpets, in the
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  sound of a horn. Shout joyfully before the Lord
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  the King. Let the sea roar in all its
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  fullness the world and those who dwell in it.
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  Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the hills be joyful together
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  before the Lord. For he is coming to judge the
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  earth, and he judge with righteousness.
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  He should judge the world and the peoples with equity.
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  And that is Psalm #98. So there we've read 4 Psalms
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  today, and each of those psalms is talking about the wonders of
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  the Lord and also mentioning the the problems that come up in
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  life where sometimes we don't understand, but he does.
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  He's still the boss and he knows how to do what he wants to do.
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  I want to read you a little thing here that a fella passed
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  on to me. I don't know much about making
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  wine, but some of you probably do.
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  This guy visited one of the most beautiful wine forms in South
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  Africa a few years ago and one of the best wine makers in South
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  Africa was was working there in that spot and he told us a
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  little bit more about what he was doing.
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  He remarked that they were picking grapes for a specific
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  wine that specific day and he was very happy when he saw these
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  grapes because they were the best that he had seen.
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  But he said that it didn't mean that they would necessarily
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  produce the best wine. Many factors play a role in the
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  process of wine making, and some researchers claim that that we
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  need about 18% rot for a good wine.
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  Immediately I thought about the meaning of trouble and suffering
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  in our lives. Paul says, and David also in the
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  Psalms that we just read, that we should rejoice in the rot of
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  our suffering, because in the cellar of our suffering and
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  affliction we will discover that the best wines of perseverance,
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  character and hope exist. This love letter from God that
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  we tell you about all the time also mentions that we are
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  comforted in our troubles. When we have trouble, we're also
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  able to comfort others who are having trouble too.
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  So trouble is not really a bad thing.
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  When you are discouraged, rejoice.
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  Rejoice because you know that the Lord is still the winner.
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  Shall we pray? Our Father in heaven, we have
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  hard times. Sometimes times are really hard.
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  We just don't know what to do. But we know also that you're the
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  one with the answers. And as you bring these hard
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  times on us, you're developing our own courage, and we praise
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  you for that. We thank you for that, and we're
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  thankful that in that love letter you tell us why, and we
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  appreciate that very much. We ask your blessing upon what
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  we've read today. And we thank you so much for
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  your son who came here and made life really possible for you and
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  me. And we pray this in his name,
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  Amen. And that's it for today.
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