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Love Letters from God: Lee Wright · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  US. Welcome to Love letters from
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  God. Welcome to love letters from
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  God. We are going to be reading today
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  from the 119th Psalm at Psalms 119.
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  That's the longest chapter in the Bible, the longest Psalm in
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  the Bible. I want to show you another
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  little trick in how to get a daily reading of God's love
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  letter. And if you notice this
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  particular Psalm in your Bible, it's divided into 22 little
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  segments. Each segment has 8 verses in it.
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  And at the top of every one of those verses is a funny sound
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  and word. Now, that funny sound and word
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  is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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  And this is the way that the Jewish people taught the Jewish
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  alphabet to their children and taught the Bible to them as
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  well. So what we're going to do, I
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  don't think we'll get through all 22 sections of it today, but
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  we'll get a ways down the road. And notice if you would do each
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  one of these eight verse segments every day in 22 days,
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  you would have the complete Psalm read.
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  The Psalm is dedicated to the value of this love letter.
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  It talks over and over again about how tremendous this love
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  letter is. If you will remember last week
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  we talked about David saying in Psalm 23 that the Lord was
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  taking him through the valley of the shadow of death.
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  And now after he says that, he says your word helps me, Your
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  staff, guides me and protects me.
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  And that's what we're talking about here.
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  This staff, this guide that David used himself was God's
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  blessed word, or what you and I today can call love letters from
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  God. So let's start out reading this
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  in Psalms 119. Blessed are those whose way is
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  blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.
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  Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with
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  their whole heart, who also do no wrong but walk in His ways.
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  You have commanded Your precepts to be kept diligently.
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  All that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your
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  statutes. Then I shall not be put to
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  shame. Having my eyes fixed on all Your
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  commandments, I will praise you with an upright heart.
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  When I learn your righteous rules.
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  I will keep your statutes. Do not utterly forsake me.
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  Now that's the first 8 verses. You know, when David talks about
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  God's rod and staff comforting him, he's here talking about the
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  equipment that the Lord has, the shepherd's rod and staff.
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  They were used as instruments of discipline and of guidance and
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  of protection. And that's what's being talked
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  about here in this 119th Psalm. Let's read the next section.
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  How can a young man keep his way pure?
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  By guarding it according to your Word.
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  With my whole heart I seek you. Let me not wander from your
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  commandments. I have stored up Your word in my
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  heart that I might not sin against You.
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  Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes with my lips.
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  I declare all the rules of your mouth in the way of your
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  testimonies. I delight as much as in all
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  riches. I will meditate on Your precepts
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  and fix my eyes on Your ways. I will delight in your statutes.
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  I will not forget your word. All right, now that's the that's
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  the second eight verse segment here that's used in this 119th
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  Psalm today. Our spiritual rod and our staff
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  today is God's word, just exactly what we're reading, this
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  word of God, this love letter from God.
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  It is the staff today, and it is the rod today.
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  You know, we have difficulties, all of us, as we live our lives
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  today. And those difficulties sometimes
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  require some discipline, and this love letter talks about
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  that discipline. When we submit to the shepherd,
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  pay attention to the shepherd. It's not slavery that we are
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  being bound to, but it really is security.
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  This rod and this staff that the Lord has provided us with this
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  love letter is also protection. It's going to protect you and me
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  from the problems that we might have to face.
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  Let's take a look at, let's take a look at the next 8 verse
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  segment here. Deal bountifully with Your
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  servants that I may live and keep Your word.
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  Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things of Your law.
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  I am a sojourner on the earth. Hide not Your commandments from
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  me. My soul is consumed with longing
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  for Your rules at all times. You rebuke the insolent,
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  accursed ones who wander from your commandments.
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  Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your
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  testimonies. Even though Princess sit
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  plotting against me. Your servant will meditate on
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  your statutes. Your testimonies are my delight.
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  They are my counselors. OK, That's the third little 8
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  verse segment that we're talking about here.
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  Now, this persecution that may come our way, problems that may
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  come our way as we live our lives and so forth, they can
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  also purify us. They can make us stronger.
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  Remember, you know, diamonds, those beautiful diamonds, they
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  come from lumps of coal that are purified by intense pressure
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  over the years. So when you and I have these
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  pressures on us and things really seem to be coming down on
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  us, think in terms of the Lord helping us and making us
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  stronger, turning us from just a lump of coal into a beautiful
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  diamond. Let's take a look at the next
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  section. My soul clings to the dust.
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  Give me life according to your word.
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  When I told of my ways, you answered me.
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  Teach me your statutes, make me understand the way of Your
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  precepts, and I will meditate on Your wondrous works.
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  My soul melts away for sorrow. Strengthen me according to Your
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  Word, put false ways far from me, and graciously teach me Your
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  law. I have chosen the way of
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  faithfulness. I set Your rules before me.
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  I cling to Your testimonies. O Lord, let me not be put to
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  shame. I will run in the way of Your
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  commandments when you enlarge my heart.
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  OK, another one of those eight verse segments here.
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  You know, when you face a crisis, do you often wonder, do
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  the crisis that we face today come from God or do they come
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  from the devil? You know, we don't always know,
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  but we do know that God can bring flowers out of the muck.
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  You know any of you that are from the Midwest and you know
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  anything about farming in the Midwest and you know about the
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  ponds that are out there on those farms, those dark mucky
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  ponds on the farms of the Midwest, sometimes they are so
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  dark and so mucky that if you go down into the clean a mountain
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  some way you can't even see. But they can.
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  They can also grow some beautiful flowers on top of
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  those mucky ponds. God can do that with your life
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  and my life as well. Let's look at the next section.
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  Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep
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  it to the end. Give me understanding that I may
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  keep Your law and observe it with my whole heart.
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  Lead me in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in
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  it. Incline my heart to Your
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  testimonies and not to selfish gain.
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  Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things.
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  Give me life in Your ways. Confirm to Your servant Your
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  promise that you may be feared. Turn away the reproach that I
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  dread, for your rules are good. Behold, I long for your precepts
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  in your righteousness. Give me relief.
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  Everything you know that was brought into being by the love
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  of God was there because God made it.
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  And God loves what he made, and God keeps what he made in mind.
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  And that means you too, as you pay attention to this broadcast
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  about God's love letter. There's a song called It is Well
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  with my soul. I don't have that song with me
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  just right now. But when you have opportunity,
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  and we may just look at that next time, but keep in mind what
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  we have already read and we will continue reading the next
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  opportunity with this Psalms 119.
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  But for now, let's offer a prayer.
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  Our Father in heaven, your love letter is so wonderful.
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  It is so perfect. It is a guide, it is a staff
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  that is strong and keeps us in line.
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  Help us to read it every day. Make it a part of our daily
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  life. And as we do that, we'll find
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  out more about who you are and how you know who we are.
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  And we'll all be together a whole lot better.
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  We pray this all in Jesus name, Amen.
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