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May 3 - Psalm 114 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It
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  is Friday. It is the third of May. Oh,
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  we've reached the end of another week. Well
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  done to you. Well done. I
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  hope it's been a good week. And
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  I hope the weekend ahead is looking wonderful as
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  well. As today we will read a Psalm
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  together, Psalm 114, which is brilliant. This
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  is a Psalm that in the Arabic version of the Bible
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  when translated into that language, its title is
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  Hallelujah, which I think says it all. This
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  is a song, a Psalm that is celebrated as the Hebrew
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  people celebrate their Passover because it talks
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  of God rescuing their people. And
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  of course, this rescue echoes forward through all
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  the stories of rescue as Jesus rescues us and the
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  gospel story rescues people even today. So
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  let us sing this brief but very triumphant Psalm, Psalm
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  114. The
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  mountains skipped like rams and the hills like lambs.
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  What's wrong, Red Sea? What
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  made you hurry out of their way? What
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  happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? Why
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  mountains did you skip like rams? Why
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  hills like lambs? Tremble, O earth, at the presence
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  of the Lord, at the presence of the God of
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  Jacob, he turned the rock into a pool of water. Yes,
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  a spring of water flowed from solid rock. You
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  are a saving God. Jesus, you are our savior and we
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  worship you. And yes, indeed you have turned
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  the rocks of our heart into an ever flowing spring
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  of life giving water. You are so wonderful and you
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  have rescued your people from the very beginning of
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  your journey with humanity. You
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  have rescued us again and again and again. And
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  today we will need rescuing all over again because we
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  are broken people but we are loved and rescued by
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  you. So we thank you for your
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  rescue. We accept the gift of your
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  rescue and we praise you and we pray all of this
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  in your name, Jesus. Amen.