Take Heart | The Writings | Psalm 74

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

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Do you ever wonder where God is when evil strikes? Are you ever stuck in suffering, waiting for God to do something? How are we supposed to find peace in a broken world? In today's episode, Jensen shares how Psalm 74 reminds us that we can take heart in Jesus, because he has overcome the world. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 74

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. In John chapter 16, Jesus tells his disciples, in this world you
0:18.8	will have trouble. And he wasn't wrong. Many of the disciples with whom he spoke faced imprisonment, beatings, and gruesome deaths in this world.
0:28.5	And his words ring true for you too, don't they?
0:31.6	You face trouble. There's no escaping it. We live in a fallen world.
0:36.3	Things are not the way they were supposed to be. We are not living in the ways we were
0:41.6	created to live. We face evil, injustice, death, grief, sinful
0:47.8	hearts day in and day out. Trouble feels like an understatement sometimes. The Psalmist Asaf of Psalm 74 has found himself in the midst of trouble.
0:59.0	In this Psalm he's recounting the destruction of the temple. Most likely he's speaking of the time when the
1:04.8	Babylonians came in and destroyed the temple in Jerusalem. For context, the temple in Jerusalem
1:11.2	wasn't just a church building like we think of today.
1:14.8	It was the place where the Israelites were able to make sacrifices, complete ceremonies,
1:19.6	and follow the laws that God set out for purification from sin so that they could be in right relationship
1:26.1	with the Holy God. It was the heartbeat of the community, both religiously and socially,
1:32.1	and most importantly, it's the place where God dwell among his people.
1:36.6	His presence was in the Holy of Holies inside the temple. The Creator of the universe was with his people in this temple.
1:45.0	So the temple wasn't just a building.
1:48.0	It was a symbol of God's presence with his people.
1:51.0	It was where they came to draw near to him, to repent, to be washed clean of their sins so that they could be in relationship with their God. And so, the destruction of the temple was truly devastating, socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and the Psalmist
2:09.2	saying, Oh God, why have you rejected us forever?
2:13.4	Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture remember the nation you purchased
2:17.8	long ago, the people of your inheritance whom you redeemed, Mount Zion where you dwelt.
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