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This episode is part 101 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 5th of a 5 part series of episodes the songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims heading to Jerusalem.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-132-134-songs-of-ascents/

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This episode is part 100 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 4th of a 5 part series of episodes the songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims heading to Jerusalem.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-129-131-songs-of-ascents/

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This episode is part 99 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 3rd of a 5 part series of episodes the songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims heading to Jerusalem.

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This episode is part 98 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 2nd of a 5 part series of episodes the songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims heading to Jerusalem.

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This episode is part 97 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 1st of a 5 part series of episodes the songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims heading to Jerusalem.

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This episode is part 96 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 7th of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience, the law, and on seeking the Lord.

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This episode is part 95 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 6th of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience, the law, and on seeking the Lord.

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This episode is part 94 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 5th of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience, the law and on seeking the Lord.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-119-nun-samekh/

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This episode is part 93 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 4th of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience and on seeking the Lord.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-119-kaph-mem/

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This episode is part 92 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 3rd of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience and on seeking the Lord.

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This episode is part 91 of a study of the book of Psalms and the 2nd of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience and on seeking the Lord.

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This episode is part 90 of a study of the book of Psalms and the first of a series of episodes on Psalm 119 which talks about obedience and on seeking the Lord.

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This episode is part 89 of a study of the book of Psalms. "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever". The psalmist starts and ends this psalm with a reminder of the love of the Lord. In the middle, he talks about the victory that God has accomplished.

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This episode is part 88 in a study of the book of Psalms. Two psalms that call on us to praise the Lord. The first psalmist because the Lord has heard his voice and the second for His great love.

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This episode is part 87 in a study of the book of Psalms. We look at two Psalms. The psalmists talk about the power of God vs the importance of idols. The call us to praise and trust in God.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-114115-trust-in-the-lord/

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This episode is a sermon that I gave at Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino about about the coming of the wise men and the story of Epiphany.

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This episode is part part 86 in a study of the book of Psalms. Psalm 112 talks about the blessing on those who fear the Lord and delight in his commands. Psalm 113 encourages us again to praise the Lord.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com//psalms-112-113-delight-in-his-commands/

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This episode is part 8 in a study of the book of 1 Corinthians. Paul deals with some questions that have come up about whether people should get married or not. He also talks about slavery and circumcision.

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This episode is part part 85 in a study of the book of Psalms. In Psalm 110 David prophesies about a priest and king like Melchizedek, who we understand to be Jesus. In Psalm 111 we remember that the works of the Lord are great.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-110-111-melchizedek-and-more

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This episode is part This episode is part 84 in a study of the book of Psalms. David has been slandered by his enemies and asks for God to do not nice things to them... in a song.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-109-slandered/

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This episode is part This episode is part 83 in a study of the book of Psalms. David sings praise to God and asks for aid against his enemies, for human help is worthless.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-108-making-music/

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This episode is part This episode is part 82 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist uses the refrain “Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind” and then recounts what God reaching out to save his people.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-107-his-wonderful-deeds-for-mankind/

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This episode is part This episode is part 81 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist says "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever" and then recounts what God has had to put up with.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-106-his-love-endures-forever/

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This episode is part This episode is part 80 in a study of the book of Psalms. We go back this week and cover two psalms I accidentally skipped over. Psalm 98 is a "new song" of joy and Psalm 99 is a psalm to a sovereign God.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-98-99-the-lord-reigns/

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This episode is part 79 in a study of the book of Psalms. This is a song of praise to God about what he has done that specifically looks at how God's covenant with Abraham through Joseph.

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This episode is part 78 in a study of the book of Psalms. A song of praise to God the creator and the splendor of creation.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-104-splendor-and-majesty/

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This episode is part 78 in a study of the book of Psalms. A song of praise by David emphasizing that God is "compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love."

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-103-praise-the-lord-my-soul/

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This episode is part 76 in a study of the book of Psalms. A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-102-a-lament/

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This episode is part 75 in a study of the book of Psalms. We look at two psalms in this episode. The first is a song of praise and the second is a psalm by David about how David will attempt to live righteously.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-100-101-praise-love-and-justice/

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This episode is part 74 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist talks about the awesome power of God and reminds his people that God reigns, that God is over all.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-99-the-lord-reigns/

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This episode is part 73 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist encourages the people to sing a new song. What song have we sang for far too long that we need to give up in order to sing a new song to God?

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-96-a-new-song/

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This episode is part 72 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist encourages the people of God to pray and not to be stubborn like the children of Israel were in the wilderness in Exodus.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-95-gods-flock/

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This episode is part 71 in a study of the book of Psalms. Psalm 93 is a short psalm that remembers the majesty of God, while Psalm 94 asks for God to act.

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This episode is part 70 in a study of the book of Psalms. This episode has a song for the sabbath. What does one do on the Sabbath? Praise God.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-92-for-the-sabbath-episode-832/

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This episode is part 69 in a study of the book of Psalms. This is a psalm about the Lord Almighty and talks about the power of God to save us from war, pestilence, and whatever we are afraid of.

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https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-90-a-prayer-of-moses/

This episode is part 68 in a study of the book of Psalms. In the episode we cover a psalm written but Moses... who had a hard life. As Moses describes life, he says it is hard.

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This episode is part 67 in a study of the book of Psalms. The psalmist sings of the Lord's great love and remembers his promises to the descendants of David... then calls on those promises.

https://thebiblestudypodcast.com/psalms-89-the-lords-great-love/

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This episode is part 66 in a study of the book of Psalms. This episode covers two different Psalms. In the first, the psalmist talks about his love for Jerusalem. In the second psalm, the psalmist writes from the midst of terrible despair.

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This episode is part 65 in a study of the book of Psalms. In this Psalm of David, he calls out to God in distress. He has been faithful but is still in difficulty.

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This episode is part 64 in a study of the book of Psalms. In yet another psalm by the sons of Korah, we hear the psalmist remembering times in the past when God has forgiven his people and asking God to do so again.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/85.html 

Psalm 85

New International Version

Psalm 85[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

1 You, Lord, showed favor to your land;
    you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You forgave the iniquity of your people
    and covered all their sins.[b]
3 You set aside all your wrath
    and turned from your fierce anger.

4 Restore us again, God our Savior,
    and put away your displeasure toward us.
5 Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you prolong your anger through all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again,
    that your people may rejoice in you?
7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.

8 I will listen to what God the Lord says;
    he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—
    but let them not turn to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
    that his glory may dwell in our land.

10 Love and faithfulness meet together;
    righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
    and righteousness looks down from heaven.
12 The Lord will indeed give what is good,
    and our land will yield its harvest.
13 Righteousness goes before him
    and prepares the way for his steps.

Footnotes

Psalm 85:1 In Hebrew texts 85:1-13 is numbered 85:2-14.
Psalm 85:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

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This episode is part 63 in a study of the book of psalms. In Psalm 85 we get images of heaven and a pilgrimage to get there as the psalmist decides "Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere"

Psalm 84

New International Version

Psalm 84[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
    Lord Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
    Lord Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
    they are ever praising you.[c]

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
    they make it a place of springs;
    the autumn rains also cover it with pools.[d]
7 They go from strength to strength,
    till each appears before God in Zion.

8 Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty;
    listen to me, God of Jacob.
9 Look on our shield,[e] O God;
    look with favor on your anointed one.

10 Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
    from those whose walk is blameless.

12 Lord Almighty,
    blessed is the one who trusts in you.

Footnotes

Psalm 84:1 In Hebrew texts 84:1-12 is numbered 84:2-13.
Psalm 84:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 84:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 8.
Psalm 84:6 Or blessings
Psalm 84:9 Or sovereign

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+84&version=NIV

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This episode is a sermon that I preached at Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino, California. It is about Romans 8 and the struggle between the flesh and the spirit. It is also about zombies.

First Reading Genesis 25:19-34
19These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. 21Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 22The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. 23And the LORD said to her,     “Two nations are in your womb,          and two peoples born of you shall be divided;     the one shall be stronger than the other,          the elder shall serve the younger.” 24When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 26Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
27When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 28Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 30Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.) 31Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.” 32Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” 33Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Second Reading Romans 8:1-11
1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law — indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Gospel Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 6But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9Let anyone with ears listen!”
18“Hear then the parable of the sower. 19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. 22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. 23But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

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This episode is part 62 in a study of the book of Psalms. We wrap up the last of the psalms of Asaph with two psalms with a similar theme. Asaph cried out to God with "how long?" How long will he let his enemies prosper?

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This episode is a sermon that I preached at Bethel Lutheran Church in Cupertino. It is about T which is about sin. Paul uses two analogies: instruments and slaves.

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This episode is part 61 in a study of the book of Psalms. The people of God are encouraged to sing for joy. Is that what God intends his relationship with us to be like?

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This episode is part 60 in a study of the book of Psalms. This psalm compares the nation of Israel to a transplanted vine as it pleads for God to come and save them.

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This episode is part 59 in a study of the book of Psalms. This song is a plea for mercy from God's people after they have been invaded by a foreign people. In the ruins of the Holy Jerusalem they call out to God.

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This episode is part 58 in a study of the book of Psalms. This psalm is a maskil. A maskil means "enlightened" or "wise saying", because they impart wisdom. What does Asaph want us to learn?

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