The Bible Study Podcast, episode 407. Today, the Bible Study podcast finishes a study of the book of Psalms with Psalm 75.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I say finishes the book of

Psalms. Well, I said finishes a study of the book of Psalms. We are doing one, but not the other. We are finishing the study for now, and then we'll come back sometime later on, or at least that's my intention. Lord be willing and the Creek don't rise to come back and finish the book of of Psalms sometime later, not this year.

And we've got to the halfway point of the Book of Psalms.

So we're going to talk about Psalm 75 today, and then we're going to look back a little at what we have

covered so far.

Next week, we are starting a new study, and that is on the Gospel of Matthew.

For those of you who want to read ahead.

But first, Psalm 75. For the director of music,

to the tune of Do Not Destroy a Psalm of Asaf. We praise you, God, we praise you, for your name is near.

People tell of your wonderful deeds. You say, I choose the appointed time. It is I who judge with equity. When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm. To the arrogant I say boast no more. And to the wicked,

do not lift up your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven. Do not speak so defiantly.

This is a psalm of praise. I do wonder about who named the tune Do Not Destroy. It seems like a cheery name. But the psalmist here, Asaph, who is the same

psalmist who we had for last week's psalm, is talking about the judgment of God. It's talking about a God

who is sitting on his throne and

watching, a God who is aware of what's going on, a God who chooses his own timing. And that's one of the

things that can be darn right frustrating about God is that God is God. God doesn't think the same way

we do, and God's timing is certainly

not the same as ours. He's playing a long game. If you go back to Genesis and you see the fall of

man in Adam and Eve, and as they rebel against God, as they choose to believe the serpent instead of God,

God starts at that point. He tells the serpent

that the offspring of Eve will crush his head. And he has at this point put in place a plan.

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