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Psalm chapter 50 verses 10 through 12.

This is God speaking to his people. He says,

Every beast of the forest is mine.

The cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the hills and all that moves in the field

is mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world and its fullness are mine.

I love these verses. God's speaking to his people. Now, the context here is in verse 7, which right before this, we started in verse 10.

Right before this, God is speaking to his people.

And he's saying, I'm going to testify against you.

I am God, your God.

And he starts talking about how they offer sacrifices to him, which obviously in the Old Testament

God had prescribed as a way for his people to worship him. But they had started to get the idea

that God needed their sacrifices in some way, that God needed their worship in some way, when the reality is

God is completely, totally self-sufficient. He does not need anything from us. He doesn't need

anything from his people. This is one of the things that

makes God different from you and me. Like we are needy people all day long, right? We need

God to put breath in our lungs. We need God to cause our hearts to beat. We need God to provide water and food for us.

We need sleep. We need so many different things. God is not like us in this way. He doesn't need

anything. And that's what he's saying here. He said, if I were hungry, which God doesn't get

hungry, but he's saying, if I were, I wouldn't tell you, like, you need to feed me for the world

and its fullness are mine. In other words, God says, I have everything. So when we worship God,

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