8 Lord willing we'll make it through to Psalm 80 tonight on Thursday nights we're going

through the Bible book by book chapter by chapter and we are in the psalm so why

don't we pray we'll ask God's blessing on our time together in his word if you

would join with me.

Loving Heavenly Father, we're just so grateful to you for this time that we have on a Thursday night

to assemble ourselves together here in this your church as your people and open up your

word and put aside all the busyness of our day and week and all the cares and the

affairs and the struggles of this life and give you

our undivided attention.

That's what we want to do, Lord, is just focus and listen with ears to hear what the Spirit would say to us tonight. So Lord, we're

looking to you to speak into our lives as only you can by the Holy Spirit in Jesus name amen.

All right, so I need to, this is one of those Psalms that needs a preface and introduction

of sorts for a couple of reasons, one of which is that it is the second longest Psalm in the book of Psalms. The longest

Psalm is Psalm 119. And it's a Psalm that is all about the Word of God, and Psalm 78 is the second

longest Psalm in the book. And so for those of you who read ahead and stay ahead

we will make our way through this Psalm and we will have you out here by about 11 p.m. it's so long. No, well we won't go till 11, probably 10.30, but anyway.

Actually, I believe that the length of this Psalm speaks to the strength of this Psalm,

if I can say it like that, and this because it's concerning the next generation learning from the previous

learning from their mistakes the mistakes of their forefathers of which there were many

hence the length of the Psalm.

What we're about to see and read here is a very long list of the goodness and the faithfulness

of God and the response on the part of the Israelites when God was always so faithful. So it's a Psalm of Asaf,

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