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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:12.8 | We don't know who wrote any of the Psalms we read today, but they're all really descriptive, |
0:17.7 | picturesque Psalms, so it makes me wonder if they were written by the same person. |
0:22.2 | Psalm 95 opens with praise and reminds the listener that God isn't just supreme over the earthly |
0:27.1 | realm, he's supreme over the spiritual realm as well. He's worthy of worship, and especially the |
0:33.1 | worship of his people. It's not entirely evident in the English version of verse six, but in this short |
0:39.2 | verse, which says, Oh, come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. |
0:46.2 | He's describing three different postures for worshiping God. Bowing and down are two separate acts, |
0:53.9 | and kneeling is another act. These are humble postures of |
0:57.7 | honor and submission, which is how we should relate to the one who made us. But then he goes on to |
1:03.5 | describe another aspect of our relationship with God. It's not contradictory to the humble |
1:08.2 | bowing toward our maker. It's complimentary. He portrays God as our |
1:12.5 | shepherd, the one who is attentive to us and feeds us and watches over us. He calls us the sheep of |
1:18.5 | his hand. It's a much more intimate relational picture. And both things are true of our relationship |
1:24.9 | with God. He's our maker and he's our shepherd. He doesn't just |
1:29.5 | make us and then leave us on our own. He's with us all the time, watching over us. The psalmist begs |
1:37.0 | the listener not to harden their hearts to such great truths, and he references the Israelites |
1:42.1 | who did have hardened hearts. They didn't know God's ways and they |
1:46.1 | missed out on the beautiful complexity of this kind of relationship with him, the kind that brings rest |
1:51.6 | and restoration. Psalm 97 reiterates God's supremacy over everything. He depicts God as a thunderstorm |
1:59.6 | with lightning that strikes and consumes his |
2:01.9 | enemies. He also says God melts the mountains like wax, which is a direct affront to all the |
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