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Psalm_078 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm 78 A Contemplation by Asaph Hear my law, my people.
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  Speaker 1: Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. I
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  Speaker 1: will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter
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  Speaker 1: dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known
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  Speaker 1: and our fathers have told us. We will not hide
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  Speaker 1: them from their children, telling to the generation to come
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  Speaker 1: the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and His wondrous works
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  Speaker 1: that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers,
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  Speaker 1: that they should make them known to their children, that
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  Speaker 1: the generation to come might know even the children who
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  Speaker 1: should be born, who should arise and tell their children.
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  Speaker 1: THAT THEY MIGHT SET THEIR HOPE IN GOD, AND NOT
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  Speaker 1: FORGET THE WORKS OF GOD, BUT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. AND
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  Speaker 1: MIGHT NOT BE AS THEIR FATHERS, A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS GENERATION,
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  Speaker 1: A GENERATION THAT DIDN'T MAKE THEIR HEARTS LOYAL, WHOSE SPIRIT
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  Speaker 1: WAS NOT STEADFAST WITH GOD. THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM, BEING
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  Speaker 1: ARMED AND CARRYING BOWS, TURNED BACK IN THE DAY OF BATTLE.
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  Speaker 1: THEY DIDN'T KEEP GOD'S COVENANT AND REFUSED TO WALK IN
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  Speaker 1: HIS LAW. They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that
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  Speaker 1: he had shown them. He did marvelous things in the
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  Speaker 1: sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in
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  Speaker 1: the field of Zon. He split the sea and caused
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  Speaker 1: them to pass through. He made the water stand as
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  Speaker 1: a heap. In the daytime he also led them with
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  Speaker 1: a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
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  Speaker 1: He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink
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  Speaker 1: abundantly as out of the depths. He brought streams also
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  Speaker 1: out of the rock and caused waters to run down
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  Speaker 1: like rivers. Yet they still went on to sin against him,
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  Speaker 1: to rebel against the Most High in the desert. They
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  Speaker 1: tempted God in their hearts by asking food according to
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  Speaker 1: their desire. Yes, they spoke against God. They said, Can
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  Speaker 1: God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck
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  Speaker 1: the rock so that waters gushed out, streams overflowed. Can
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  Speaker 1: he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
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  Speaker 1: Therefore Yahweh heard and was angry. A fire was kindled
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  Speaker 1: against Jacob. Anger also went up against Israel, because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe in God and didn't trust in his salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. He rained down manna on them to eat,
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  Speaker 1: and gave them food from the sky. Man ate the
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  Speaker 1: bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
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  Speaker 1: He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: By his power he guided the south wind. He rained
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  Speaker 1: also flesh on them as the dust, winged birds as
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  Speaker 1: the sand of the seas. He let them fall in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of their camp, around their habitations. So they
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  Speaker 1: ate and were filled. He gave them their own desire.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet
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  Speaker 1: in their mouths when the anger of God went up
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  Speaker 1: against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and
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  Speaker 1: struck down the young men of Israel. For all this
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  Speaker 1: they still sinned and didn't believe in His wondrous works.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore He consumed their days in vanity and their years
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  Speaker 1: in terror. WHEN HE KILLED THEM, THEN THEY INQUIRED AFTER HIM,
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  Speaker 1: THEY RETURNED AND SOUGHT GOD EARNESTLY. THEY REMEMBERED THAT GOD
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  Speaker 1: WAS THEIR ROCK, THE MOST HIGH THEIR REDEEMER. BUT THEY
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  Speaker 1: FLATTERED HIM WITH THEIR MOUTH AND LIED TO HIM WITH
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  Speaker 1: THEIR TONGUE, FOR THEIR HEART WAS NOT RIGHT WITH HIM,
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  Speaker 1: NEITHER WERE THEY FAITHFUL IN HIS COVENANT. BUT HE, BEING MERCIFUL,
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  Speaker 1: FORGAVE INIQUITY AND DIDN'T DESTROY THEM. YES, MANY TIMES HE
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  Speaker 1: TURNED AWAY HIS ANGER AND DIDN'T STIR UP ALL HIS WRATH.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that
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  Speaker 1: passes away and doesn't come again. How often they rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: They turned again and tempted God and provoked the Holy
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  Speaker 1: One of Israel. They didn't remember his hand, nor the
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  Speaker 1: day when he redeemed them from the adversary. How he
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  Speaker 1: set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields
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  Speaker 1: of Zoan, turned their rivers into blood and their streams
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  Speaker 1: so that they could not drink. He sent among them
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  Speaker 1: swarms of flies which devoured them, and frogs which destroyed them.
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  Speaker 1: He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their
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  Speaker 1: labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail,
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  Speaker 1: their sycamore fig trees with frost. He gave over their
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  Speaker 1: cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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  Speaker 1: He threw on them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, indignation,
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  Speaker 1: and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. He
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  Speaker 1: made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their
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  Speaker 1: soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
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  Speaker 1: and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of
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  Speaker 1: their strength in the tents of Ham. But he led
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  Speaker 1: forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness like a flock. He led them safely, so
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't afraid. But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to
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  Speaker 1: this mountain, which his right hand had taken. HE ALSO
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  Speaker 1: DROVE OUT THE NATIONS BEFORE THEM, ALLOTTED THEM FOR AN
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  Speaker 1: INHERITANCE BY LINE, AND MADE THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO
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  Speaker 1: DWELL IN THEIR TENTS. YET THEY TEMPTED AND REBELLED AGAINST
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  Speaker 1: THE MOST HIGH GOD, AND DIDN'T KEEP HIS TESTIMONIES, BUT
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  Speaker 1: TURNED BACK AND DEALT TREACHEROUSLY LIKE THEIR FATHERS. THEY WERE
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  Speaker 1: TURNED ASIDE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW, FOR THEY PROVOKED HIM
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  Speaker 1: TO ANGER WITH THEIR HIGH PLACES, AND MOVED HIM TO
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  Speaker 1: JEALOUSY WITH THEIR ENGRAVED IMAGES. When God heard this, he
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  Speaker 1: was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel, so that he forsook
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  Speaker 1: the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
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  Speaker 1: and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the
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  Speaker 1: adversary's hand. He also gave his people over to the sword,
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  Speaker 1: and was angry with his inheritance. FIRE DEVOURED THEIR YOUNG MEN,
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  Speaker 1: THEIR VIRGINS HAD NO WEDDING SONG, THEIR PRIESTS FELL BY
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  Speaker 1: THE SWORD, AND THEIR WIDOWS COULDN'T WEEP. THEN THE LORD
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  Speaker 1: AWAKENED AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP, LIKE A MIGHTY MAN
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  Speaker 1: WHO SHOUTS BY REASON OF WINE. HE STRUCK HIS ADVERSARIES BACKWARD,
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  Speaker 1: HE PUT THEM TO A PERPETUAL REPROACH. MOREOVER HE REJECTED
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  Speaker 1: THE TEN OF JOSEPH, AND DIDN'T CHOOSE THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM,
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  Speaker 1: BUT CHOSE THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, MOUNT ZION WHICH HE LOVED.
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  Speaker 1: He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth
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  Speaker 1: which he has established forever. He also chose David his servant,
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  Speaker 1: and took him from the sheepfolds. From following the youths
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  Speaker 1: that have their young, he brought him to be the
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  Speaker 1: shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel his inheritance. So
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  Speaker 1: he was their shepherd, according to the integrity of his heart,
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  Speaker 1: and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.