Never should we develop a sense of entitlement with God.

God really doesn't owe us anything, but thanks be to God because of His mercy.

We enjoy so many benefits because of the Lord.

What does it mean to praise God that way?

That's what we'll study today in Psalm 9. Welcome to Everyday Truth with

Kurt Skelly. We believe the Bible is true and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day. If today's

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Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hello, friends. Welcome back to the studio here at

Faith Baptist Church. We are in Psalm 9, studying the book of Psalms, or at least the first part of the book of Psalms, received

this nice card from my friends Chris and Kristen Vestel, who work on staff out there at

Grandview Baptist in Oregon, just dear friends and faithful listeners.

So thank you guys for sending me this thank you slash postcard,

a beautiful picture of the church on the front of it. Appreciate you, you too, more than you know.

Psalm 9, as we learned yesterday, is a Psalm of wholehearted praise to the Lord. And that's the only kind of praise that the Lord

deserves, wholehearted praise, not halfway, not just praising God when we feel like it or when we

think that circumstances are good, but praising the God that's always there. We saw yesterday a bit about how God is our help

in repelling the enemy, fighting for us. But there's another side to that coin, and we'll see that

in verse number nine, where it says, the Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

So I love that.

Yet the Lord fights for us.

The Lord defends us against the enemy, but then there's that part of the Lord that is a refuge

force.

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