McCracken Lenten Lecture; #4; Book of Psalms

lettuce pray oh god we frankly that is so constant and tender the depressive understanding a mother's love may fail toward her only child or faithlessness sometimes robs us of a lot of our friends self knowledge levin says ever loving ourselves here by love for us is not conditioned by our worthlessness but through or rebellion we would miss and despair continues unfailing and unending help us then to turn to the we thank the more that i love is just ran it is merciful often we have pleaded and

mostly that something might step in between us and the consequence of our sin but when we have this tilt to mean as sought refuge allies them with some and try to speed or might be forgotten and life lawn as before we are glad to know that by justice is wiser than our message and i propose greater than our prayers help us to trust only which means now we think the most that i love is like the light relentless inescapable victorious i will not leave us in the darkness however much we love it though will

not care to shoot ourselves with ignorance deception or crying but will china in upon us whatever the interview and learn my way to our shows that whatever pain that far is on our trust in by mercy and our final refuge environment marriage as you might be repeating the lord's prayer in our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on and as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our dates as we forgive our guitars and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from

evil a writing is the kingdom and the power and the glory fought over farmland is being built is the most remarkable there is no nba or testament that has exercised a more profound a more extensive influence over succeeding issues it has a prominent place both in the worship of the synagogue and the

church both in the private devotions of jews and christians it is the most veiling all of the books of the old testament and the piety of israel at its highest and all ears is reflected with more planets in baseball than in any other sort of comes to us out of the hot or judaism but the voice's aspirations and emotions that are universal its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be it is that speech august so face to face with god notice aren't i was along long years in the making this probably an integral although at least

five hundred years between the areas and the latest sales this book is not the work of a single generation much less the work of a single man the various collections within the salter ceremonies so called on tv all these socks off that kora i say so called because actually we know very little about the individual the us embassy was scripture things that you will see in the king james version and in the revised expanded mission was one singles songs psalm of david psalm of the sons of color up a sample a sap let's say that after later date and biblical scholars at the present time do not regard as indicative all of the ship the fact is we attach much more importance to the ship the man

of the old where ever been and surely it is not the oscar but what the awesome world that really matters did a major composed some of the sam's david may have composed none of the center's as they stick anything from around you anyone who wants to follow up the subject of authorship and eight it's a complicated subject should consult a good commentary and as a good commentary i would recommend the long view on the salt air in the interpreters but has a copy of the interpreters bible among the bulls at the rear of the assembly will and huge fans actually if you're interested the soccer was a hymnal used in the temple worship in jerusalem it was not however him but in the hands of the lecithin congregation that's it would've been

better if i had said the salt it was on and humble in the hands of libya tickle choirs don't that worshippers in the congregation listened and responded at intervals by saying c lao i man hallelujah after the return to jerusalem from the exile in babylon about which we were thinking last wednesday night the musical part all the temples service had greater significance attached to have been had never been the case before a professional players have an important part in the service the instruments used where percussion instruments tim rose and symbols string instruments the liar and the hot wind instruments the trumpet the horn and who you should look at the very last sound in the salt

i remember her reciting when we dedicated be rehabilitated all in a crazy little praise god in this century raisin in the firmament of a spot praise employees might be x rays in according to his excellent greatness regime with the sound of the trumpet raisin with a sultry and are presented with the dam broke and dance craze in with stringed instruments and all the things much to mr virgil fox is disappointment that stuck this doesn't mean the type of organ over which he presides it means is this meeting in ireland as they're supposed to that there may be a place for the bagpipe and i praise him up on the loan symbols raise him up on the high sounding symbols that everything that

praise praise you you know that a branch of the presbyterian church in scotland in the nineteenth century used only the sands in public wished that they would not sing modern hymns journalist liza minnelli else insisting that they went on to inspire they want towering choirs or anthems moreover they say end a sentence without any musical accompaniment whatever unarmed and most of them are just the whistles and they voted to an abomination little i always wondered what they made all the very last stand in the salt grazing with all these instruments and they wouldn't have a musical instrument in most of gaza while used in public worship many of the sam's originated in private devotion the

salters a correction brandis even more than a liturgy of praise and as such what impresses the reader at once is that wide range their school the universal appeal of a sam says buckley explained by the variety there comprehensively as abolitionists and the soldier and thanksgiving and confession and petition and into session and meditation there's something in this article every life situations every move of the solo from the diggers is back to the highest deletion finds a voice sometimes within the same sound subtle and rapid changes a feeling this one that must've been known to lower our law on the cross he drew on my god my god why has forsaken me why are those so

far from helping me from the words of my groaning oh my god i cry by day but no just not on set and by night but i find no arrest i noticed this with him feeling empty outpouring enthroned on the praises of israel in the er fathers arrested for the crime in the they trusted them were not disappoint and throughout the session you have ejection and you know exploitation the swinging of the pendulum and who does not know this year's olympian like and a striking contrast in the salt as well as endless about it just because it was hundreds of years in the making it reflects different exhibitions and practices differing degrees of beliefs and convictions for out for example on the one hand the ritual of the temple and the

horse sec officials system ought emphasized and command take this passage i will come into my house with the offerings i will pay the my vows that which my lips and what what my mouth promised when i was when i went off to me bond offerings of fact things with the small of the sacrifices of our arms i will make an offering all things and go out i can imagine is the key or saying every word of that their mission representatives the word and when a bottom i would accept nor go from your house your legal for miracles <unk> beast of a florist his mind the cattle on a thousand videos i know all the birds of the air and moves in the pew is mine m i want and not tell you for the

world and all of these images mind you it official blames one drink the blood of bolts oh a sacrifice of thanksgiving and he opposed to the most try and call upon the interview i will deliver you and you show more autonomy and then sanders catching up this note himself been saying about us no delight in separate times when i didn't give a burnt offering though it's not be pleased to sacrifice acceptable to god is a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart oh god no not despite another scientist except the same know and emphasizes i will praise the name of god with us all i will magnify him with thanksgiving this will please the lord more than an ox on a boo with horns and

whose can't you imagine a mosque when i signed up and especially jeremiah applauding those sentiments know we all i assume i grew up in around my fingertips of edinburgh the capital city princes street guys treat the gazans for all the castle the law or mario even as i use that but i couldn't respond to the patriotism in this setting we had a minister at all who love to declaim from the salt and it would actually go to political situation the joy of all earth is mount zion the city of the nba king will go around about taylor towers that all mahdi wearable what's considered a premise is that the main character the generation following

this god is a lot of dog for ever and ever he will be ongoing even on today's with some of us this is our favorite passage that people will have to be devoted to the bible it is grown on them with the years the moscow million across the more precious it becomes never a day passes no but they reached some part of it you will appreciate that forceps people these words the time about the poor are charged with me now i'm not thinking of our preacher at home to gleaming from the song i'm thinking of say henry jones professor of modern philosophy of glasgow university and seventies or if your own or ask him teaching moral philosophy and saying to his castle well i know it is my meditation day and night by word as a latin quantum

it and i liked to my part a lot of them are guys are contacting the so the testimony of the market should making lives a simple the statutes of the lord are right rejoicing law the commandments of them are your unlike the ideas that here enjoying the generations of the law through and writers altogether or a person as a genuine first than religious experience the only proper word is spin that cause he begins a new light we've got to the second women's but in the foreground of his consciousness with god not as some sort of a something but as the one who has problem his sins and

right spirit within him for such a man these words are autobiographical i waited patiently for the lawyer and he inclined them to me and he brought me up a lot of the mining clay and he said it might feed upon iraq and established my goings and he has built a new sorrow in my mouth even praise and local a known from leading things and first and foremost is the fact the law everywhere in the book one encounters and in consciousness of the thing that is your marketing from our twentieth century when an intense consciousness of got the lord is my shepherd i shall not want nor

theorizing no argumentation strong staunch personal conviction the obvious reasons but the reason for my stolen forget not always benefits and the benefits of the more devastated one out that many of you have a man expressing what he has learned and what he knows to be true because he has this is rooted in his own experience this is mr lund some of them out that writers in don't know that the enemy detection of thought they believed that the pathway to god is in the song are every person man spent it is the capital of the law and god might say the salsa record build israel's conviction that god speaks to men with open immediately directed person the person the scientists are god and god as a friend of prince yet

it was leaking from the almighty the eternal high end and and lifted out the mosque that and meet all the universe but there is great frustration and he was patient preserving old men and beasts under the shadow of these wings they were not afraid of being a local mall under the shadow of these wings like rest and quietness and incompetence to him they could pour out their deepest thoughts and their innermost hidden mornings he was be here again the onset of prayer and thesaurus not only of spain but the vision in his light the song light and whatever they might suck our means they were content if they add him to the end of october but finally translated sam seventy three vast twenty five years i haven't but

the i asked for nothing in heaven on earth is this a most extraordinary god consciousness would you like to admit some of these men that's the breadth of the conception but especially noteworthy outside of israel at the time all through these five hundred years the one man who believed in royalty it space is limited in power of operations but the scientists god is the god of the home where he is the judge of color he is immeasurably in conceivably about his creation is not limited by space below seven and they have enough evidence cannot contain me he is not limited by it when his passionate defenders award the norwegian

you're like he's enjoying faithfulness even drama the last into everlasting though our god it's a man's rail feeble instability is like the rumble seat when it can aggress and the difference is intensely veil between goss and diplomat a high end exotic imams performance that effect the shadow of man's sin is doctors in the white like all the righteousness holiness and lovable the panic angel's share audio confessions not so much of gross or breaking says as of some lessons committed in the sight of god committed supreme leader against him when one sam has sent tens of me from secret sins he wasn't thinking about

since oh which he was aware of what she was trying to conceal from other people he was thinking of sins that were far more subtle he was thinking of since you splitting of which he himself was abysmally unconscious nevertheless in spite of the inimitable distance between the vinyl innocent human sinfulness the scientists were assured that god was always a guard at hand a bar between the creator and that created that nothing could sit calmly and tennessee's raise me you don't and breathing most of the hands off the gold tonight and read the one hundred and thirty ninth psalm one of the greatest in the sort of old law loyalists edged me and known me no noise when i sit down and when i rise up though does then that's my thoughts from afar oh so just vote my pocket my mind down and

up acquainted with all my wages even before the worms on my tongue or more oh no waste it all together thinking over activity that goes on inside of him that he does are things on fields that isn't known to resent me behind and it probably has nine hand on me surely that knowledge is too wonderful for me and later of course that nelson sam claims to its climax with ash and i leave for my spirit than with russia michael from my presence if i stand up into heaven no apparent i make my bed in n out there is no place where god is not but his perfect in his goodness and therefore full

of compassion he has plenty of statements he win abundantly pot so is driven to our knowledge into that war to just mock inequities or who should stand and god answers i am as a thick cloud like transgressions returned and to meet what i have redeemed lee the assurance of free food forgiveness creates in some us dr simons hermes inspires gratitude and enjoy and then the testimony he inclined to me and have my cry he brought me up also out of an honorable pick all that man who raised the morgue or his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of man only satisfy at alarming so with goodness and the hungry so with goodness with this joint with this vision of the grace of god other desires plane

empathize with a single desire to grow knew that and knew that oversaw source of good to put a crumbly are going to approved as they say in the inwood box to have clean hands and a pillow talk what matters to these men supreme it is the listening so and was too small voice although the clearest prayer to the show a scam let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart the acceptable and eyesight or or my strength and my medium for god consciousness another theme however as the problem of evil the generally accepted believe in mankind from the sin

of disobedience to the will of god and only prospective mentor in that ives from working in the way of god's mind that's considerably especially thirty seven we could use with the problem of evil from start to finish the workers of inadequate they shall soon be cut down like the crops and we as the green are those that wait upon the marble shall inherit the air this was the traditional conventional view and which the book of job was written and it goes and re it was in the sort of art that might have never square with that billy which is the reason why this is the button of many of the sam's the writer suffering the weekend commemoration one sam this makes paul taylor got his own experience in and in these are great words but this will be

my step said well nice that i was envious when i saw the prosperity of the wicked below the easel prosper in the world and the ongoing i've planned my tv is virtually saying after i drive to try again the mode of the scientists they face when when when they're grappling with the probable the prosperity of evildoers sometimes they're in the depths of the objection they feel that they're fighting a losing battle helpful on one that is no longer any one that is god for the people of vanished from among the sons of man sometimes though one cries of a key then he jumps on my mother worried over the implications were listening to have just one of them

these days the few another sees his goods <unk> a fatherless and his wife a widow made his children wander about and they may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit me the creditors sees only as they strangers the front of his talk that they've been known to extend kindness to him or any depicting his father whose children made its prosperity be kept all me his name be brought about in the second generation thing on the way in which they could squarepants was to see that some sort of justice will spend the evil doer and this was what they can see sometimes sometimes why has the invisible light is the

silent as he abandoned the faithful altogether at once our mistakes got to pass or downright the difference why leave only you could see another asks why doesn't understand why don't know why i still untitled poem and another from the depths of his personal despair exports tomato do know keeps tabs on human disease the scientists who rely on trying to set things right the prosperity of the weekend they feel must be additional unique many of us we killed when we complained about the prosperity of selma were recognized by us to be far from walking in righteousness when we beat when we

told the prosperity wouldn't last well there's two one finds in this awkwardly at a little while and the wicked shall not be thou shall become so there is ways and he shall not be filing as i say from start to finish and thirty seven wrestles with the problem and the solution when i arrived there is this one i have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay to beat but i thought it was no i started it could not be found this is why repeatedly we commonly exhortation my solo we only upon law or my expectation is from him the only solution you see is it and faith in the sort that always means the same thing not intellectual subscription to a body of faith in the

sort of always means trust in god kong's ripples in your email in god's good diane would be brought to not write with a crime in the end as one of the scientists who did we really enjoyed in the morning but even had appeared awesome power of persistence that it went all israel and before the end of it i've been to spoil by bob i'm the chosen people and see their beloved capital city beautiful situation the joy of all that and the temple in ruins the chosen people or be carried away into exactly what in babylon when you listen to this anguished lament rejected and protesters shame and both snuggle with our armies

openness does back before the enemy and forced the teenagers take the sport that gave us best to be devoted like heat and scatter stress among the most satisfied people for not and just not even name a price for doing this all came upon those who have never forgot the sport or was there where some of whom that was true we did it like a job did not turn away nodded our food stamps levi park is it to be a wonder that all through the assault that echoes and re eckersley the crime how long or walk along and zach schiller straits there were a few scientists whose fatal go along mole we who began to cherish another kind of whole expectation ten from

it at a light and after for mass with its loans to heaven with kids joins the high watermark in the salt is home of rye in heaven but the and having to me that is not on a high desert misses that that that have quoted that momentous of passage he just aren't giving it out there for the consolation that one the translation of julius davis high watermark this is in the sort of because within the pages of the same bow that affirmations of a very different product within the same boldness in death there is known remembrance of the ngos here and they're able to all the other day the underground existence good and that ought to be to get lumped together in the same kind of

state in and cio who could give the british band nor do any of it would go into science but that began to the soundest those demands grew up articulate those demand again and system that he'll couldn't be the that fellowship with low begun in this light it could not be broken off whatever that data does not give me up to shield on like a godly once see the pit love the show make the proclamation in my presence there is fullness of joy at a live right hand that are pleasures forevermore and i was at a piece of poetry because that way you

know and then he begins to saw nevertheless i am continually with the the best quote my right hand i was meeting with thai consulate and afterward receive me to my heart to make me fail but god has the strength of my heart and in my plush and the sam we all know so well we can recite it and you see volvo level again at the deathbed of the dying i have had an experience that that gives nasa significance for me that it may not happen to you before getting into the oversight my hand and there's an artist taking from memory and there would be in my hands sometimes their lips moving yea

though i will through the valley of the shadow of death i live here know you do about me iraq and livestock they complicate charlie goodness and mercy have followed the holidays of my life and i will dwell in the house of the lord whatever wouldn't you like to make the man who's sort of that hate long before jesus christ appeared intimations of immortality that's what this policy of the passages like those and our oil so the passionate conviction to mime assurance of the santas as fundamental as bc a cafe in the life after death you recall what he said to the center sees who have the pianists of his day who denied that there was an immortality any of resurrection from the

grave he said to them about the resurrection of the dead have you whenever it in the book of moses in the story of the burning bush how god spoke to him and said i have a lot of abraham and the visor an uptick of god sent jesus to the savage sees god is not the god of the day but of the living god jesus is saying god had called abraham and isaac and jacob and the membership with himself that have a ship he is saying and not being brought to a name by dave the relationship had once it was not at the mercy of time i am not i will i believe government of isaac and jacob this is essentially a judgment of faith and you see viral warts day was it stems from the conviction about the nation of

specially a conviction about the flow of god it is inconceivable jesus says it was the assurance of which the scientists arrive inconceivable that god or man into fellowship with himself he had gone out and they leave them at a loss to mourn and to the us open your bible at the middle and you open it at the bulk of the songs in more ways than one the sochi is at the heart of the bible comes along long time before the gospel but in praise and in prayer it expresses our response to the gospel think of abuse made of they spoke english because i'm drawing on it and the services of the senate bill the previous of roman catholicism doing to say that

it's something that lots of protestantism doing the same in scotland that is customer at the beginning the public worship of god every sunday morning with the singing of the sound in one walk from your testament to selected to be bound up with a new system or go along with him but it's the will of the sounds of private knowledge that isn't a prayer book to compare would read it really memorize all portions are supposed to repeat it to yourself in the course of the day had to get up fine way to begin the day as you say a joke for you when you're in the middle of your work when you were just too much for you and when you guys are about to retire you can find

words with which to pray clean meaning on the salt collective voice for you your average your friendship your your confession your petition you're going to say uni that did speak to you and for you there's something in it for every state of the sort of those comfort and sorrow there's healing in sickness this piece in anxiety as gary johnson perplexity there's like about it very few but you don't read far until you're caught up into the divine it has one supreme it deals with an endless variety of savage protests last always it is a book about the law it is a book about god written by men who saw it would go to ten weeks

postulated women and who through twelve and sunshine and just in france we don't like those we need to keep company with the noblest of the scientists before you turned into night turned in don't turn on the television or make the news of the hour good place for the news of eternity was that after spending an evening at the dinner well the talk was about everything in general and about nothing of significance went to his steady as soon as he got home and looking at the books of the mobsters on in sharon's said no what song real people where we are because we have not been thinking

about everything in general and nothing of significance when you get home open your bible at the middle and i don't feel inclined to invite christians we know have a goodly number of copies all again for the reboot of the new testament when i spoke of this at the beginning of the matches he's there was such a demand for this twenty five cent paper bag that all the copies were picked up that are more available know you have a device standard version of the new testament this is in there's a companion piece that's edith hamilton spokesman for god it's also available in quantity million it is a paperback it's cost one dollar and twenty five it's worth far more than that she's a

layperson not an ordained person but she knows the ground that we've been traversing in the last month and i too enthusiastically commanded and i would also like to refer to another work by another woman the bible and the common read house while this cds of lectures is concluding man is a movie and as i've emphasized throughout this cd is one of the ways to keep lit is to concentrate on discriminatory in the best sense of the adjective reading i had been asked to say about the word about the say a word about the prayers that have been used in this series and i'd gladly do this because while the salter is the terrible car insurance

we have we can be greatly helped by other collection of ancient prayer books i use tonight the temple a book of prayer by wbur showed i have used on a previous wins tonight and diarrhea private prayer by john bierly written for his only son ian and used by ian really taught me so when he was in africa the only white man and in the territory extending to some two hundred square miles and on another evening i used a book of practical students as our inspiration and gary may i say to you that always lectures have been taped for subsequent broadcasting i might in the violin comment on the fact that this has a great deal to do with the delivery of these lectures and one knows though that

on our microphones on our own that what you're saying will be broadcast and broadcast over aid stations ultimately and stations will end up without fm radio station one has to be very careful about facts and verified speech guarantee or a spontaneous as it could be would be if everything started and finished here in the assembly hall but in all that you have been patient and understanding and i appreciate that i wanted also to express gui xi asian of your presence throughout these thought out wednesday nights i've been on this lecture cds know since the fall of nineteen forty six when i began i wondered how long i could carry on each year one has to come forward with a new aspect of thrones with a new

treatment of some subject of your presence you're supporting your enthusiasm of all along been a great inspiration that your rise of the benediction the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god the fellowship of the holy spirit be with us all know and forevermore i mean the

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