S3:158 Psalm 73
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How can we learn from verses we may not easily understand? Today, Join the Journey staff member Lauren Atkinson considers the context while studying Psalm 73. The author, Asaph, was a righteous man who was despondent as he saw the prosperity of the wicked. When we see the wicked prosper, we can look to God for wisdom in discerning the future, and realize that first: purity, obedience and faithfulness are not for nothing, and second: that in God’s presence, there is fulness of joy.
Additional Scripture referenced:
2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
Hebrews 11:24-25, “By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.”
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| 0:00.0 | All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never too late to start and we're in this together. |
| 0:08.6 | This is the Join the Journey podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Thanks for joining. I'm Lauren Atkinson and I am on the Join the journey staff team. |
| 0:17.1 | And today we are jumping into Psalm 73 talking about how God is more worthy than the riches |
| 0:23.3 | of the world and the fleeting pleasures of sin. This Psalm starts us off as the third book |
| 0:29.1 | or section of Psalms and it's written by a man named Asif. A few weeks ago we were talking about |
| 0:35.7 | different helpful Bible reading principles that would help us to understand the passages we read. |
| 0:41.9 | And something that I have seen in my own study of the Bible is that especially in the book of Psalms, it can be really easy to open up a Psalm, start reading a few things you don't understand, and then skip straight to the verses that |
| 0:54.8 | feel encouraging, and then just apply them right away to your own life. And doing this sometimes |
| 1:00.3 | will make us, like, forget or look over those other verses we don't understand, and then we don't |
| 1:04.8 | realize how those parts matter to the whole Psalm that we're reading second timothy three 16 tells us that all scripture |
| 1:13.1 | all of it is breathed out by god and profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and for |
| 1:19.1 | training and righteousness so that means that even the parts that might seem confusing or less |
| 1:25.0 | easily applicable to our life today still matter they They are authored by God and he wants to |
| 1:30.7 | show us more of who he is through them. And so one tool that's been really helpful for me as I |
| 1:37.0 | understand more of the more confusing parts of scripture is asking context questions. And so I want to |
| 1:43.2 | give you a few helpful questions that I like to |
| 1:45.4 | ask myself when I'm reading the Bible. Who is the author? What are they saying or what are they |
| 1:50.9 | doing in the passage? Where are they writing from? Or to whom are they writing? When are they |
| 1:57.0 | writing? And what is going on during the time that they're writing? And then lastly, why are they |
| 2:01.8 | writing this passage? And what's their purpose? Not just for the immediate reader, but what is their |
| 2:08.0 | purpose also for us today as we read it? These kinds of questions, and they pretty much all started |
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