Psalm 78
Notes
Transcript
2
nd
July 2017
A very warm welcome to our Holiday Club preparatory service led
by Mr Chris Barrowman and Mr John Hebditch. We pray that you
will all know God’s blessing as we meet together. Worship this
evening will be led by Rev T K Shadakshari
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Praise: NEP 70
Praise: NEP 44
Reading: Psalm 78 v1-39
My people, hear my teaching;
listen to the words of my
mouth.
2
I will open my mouth with a
parable;
I will utter hidden things,
things from of old—
3
things we have heard and
known,
things our ancestors have told
us.
4
We will not hide them from their
descendants;
we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of
the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he
has done.
5
He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in
Israel,
which he commanded our
ancestors
to teach their children,
6
so the next generation would
know them,
even the children yet to be
born,
and they in turn would tell
their children.
7
Then they would put their trust
in God
and would not forget his
deeds
but would keep his
commands.
8
They would not be like their
ancestors—
a stubborn and
rebellious generation,
Praise: NEP 71
whose hearts were not loyal to
God,
whose spirits were not faithful
to him.
9
The men of Ephraim, though
armed with bows,
turned back on the day of
battle;
10
they did not keep God’s
covenant
and refused to live by his law.
11
They forgot what he had done,
the wonders he had shown
them.
12
He did miracles in the sight of
their ancestors
in the land of Egypt, in the
region of Zoan.
13
He divided the sea and led
them through;
he made the water stand up
like a wall.
14
He guided them with the cloud
by day
and with light from the fire all
night.
15
He split the rocks in the
wilderness
and gave them water as
abundant as the seas;
16
he brought streams out of a
rocky crag
and made water flow down like
rivers.
17
But they continued to
sin against him,
rebelling in the wilderness
against the Most High.
18
They willfully put God to the
test
by demanding the food they
craved.
19
They spoke against God;
they said, “Can God really
spread a table in the
wilderness?
20
True, he struck the rock,
and water gushed out,
streams flowed abundantly,
but can he also give us bread?
Can he supply meat for his
people?”
21
When the Lord heard them, he
was furious;
his fire broke out against
Jacob,
and his wrath rose against
Israel,
22
for they did not believe in God
or trust in his deliverance.
23
Yet he gave a command to the
skies above
and opened the doors of the
heavens;
24
he rained down manna for the
people to eat,
he gave them the grain of
heaven.
25
Human beings ate the bread of
angels;
he sent them all the food they
could eat.
26
He let loose the east wind from
the heavens
and by his power made the
south wind blow.
27
He rained meat down on them
like dust,
birds like sand on the
seashore.
28
He made them come down
inside their camp,
all around their tents.
29
They ate till they were
gorged—
he had given them what they
craved.
30
But before they turned from
what they craved,
even while the food was still in
their mouths,
31
God’s anger rose against
them;
he put to death the
sturdiest among them,
cutting down the young men
of Israel.
32
In spite of all this, they kept on
sinning;
in spite of his wonders, they
did not believe.
33
So he ended their days in
futility
and their years in terror.
34
Whenever God slew them, they
would seek him;
they eagerly turned to him
again.
35
They remembered that God
was their Rock,
that God Most High was their
Redeemer.
36
But then they would flatter him
with their mouths,
lying to him with their
tongues;
37
their hearts were not loyal to
him,
they were not faithful to his
covenant.
38
Yet he was merciful;
he forgave their iniquities
and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his
anger
and did not stir up his full
wrath.
39
He remembered that they were
but flesh,
a passing breeze that does not
return.
Tea/Coffee will be served after the morning service to which every
one is warmly invited
6pm service – Rev T K Shadakshari
The Week Ahead
Mon 3rd July – Showstoppers Holiday Club at Lionel School
Please pray for the holiday club that God will be glorified in all
that is done.
Mon 3rd July-7.30pm –Monthly prayer meeting (church hall)
Wed 5th July -7.30pm – midweek prayer meeting (church
hall)
Services next Sunday 9th July 2017
11am (church hall) - Gavin & Des Campbell – Rose of
Sharon Ministries, South Africa
6pm (church hall) -
The nomination committee would value the congregation’s
prayers at this time for Gods guidance, wisdom and
discernment as they continue to search for a new minister.