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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Enduresres forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

And this is more than physical hunger and physical thirst, though they remain signs of it.

This is the hunger and thirst for God and for the beauty of his city, the New Jerusalem,

for a place that would be home to us under the ages of ages.

That's the ultimate hunger and thirst that our pilgrimage through this world stirs up, and thus it expresses itself in prayer.

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church, past and prayer. The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Psalms, 107 through 150.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit. Be with you all.

Amen. Greetings, people, loved by God.

You recall that last time we wrapped up Second Timothy, looking at the fourth chapter in verses 17

through 22. Paul let Timothy know that at that moment when he felt most alone and abandoned,

the Lord Jesus had stood by him and given him the boldness

and strength necessary to proclaim the gospel message with crystal clarity to his Gentile jailers,

including, we assume, Emperor Nero.

Paul also spoke enigmatically of being delivered from the lion's mouth. We saw that could hardly be

taken literally since Roman citizens were not fed to the lions. Was it then a cryptic reference

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