Thursday nights, we're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, and we are in the Psalms.

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 Psalmsms 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, 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, we're told it's another contemplation of Asaph. Verse one, give ear,

O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

which, verse three, we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. Now you have to understand

that how many generations have passed, as now Asaf is penning this Psalm, and he's starting

off by telling us that this was handed down to them by their forefathers, all the wondrous works

of God. So, verse four, we will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation

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