Today's praises: Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise

 Psalm 106

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Psalm 106

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Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

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Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD or fully declare his praise?

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Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.

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Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,

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that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

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We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

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When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea. ^[2]

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Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.

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He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

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He saved them from the hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.

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The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.

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Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

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But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel.

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In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test.

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So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

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In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.

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The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.

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Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

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At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

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They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

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They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

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miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

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So he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.

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Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.

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They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.

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So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,

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make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

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They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

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they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

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But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.

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This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

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By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

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for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses' lips. ^[3]

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They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

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but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

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They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

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They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

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They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

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Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.

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He handed them over to the nations, and their foes ruled over them.

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Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.

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Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.

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But he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;

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for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.

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He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.

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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

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Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD.

Today's bible teaching: If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me

 John 5

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Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.

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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda ^[1] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

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Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ^[2]

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One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

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"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."

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Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."

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At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

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and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."

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But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, `Pick up your mat and walk.'"

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So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"

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The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

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Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

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The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.

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Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."

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For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

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For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.

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For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

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Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,

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that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

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"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

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I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

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For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

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And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

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"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

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and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.

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By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

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"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.

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There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

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"You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.

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Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.

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John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

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"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.

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And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,

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nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.

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You diligently study ^[3] the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

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yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

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"I do not accept praise from men,

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but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.

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I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God ^[4] ?

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"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.

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If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

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But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"

Today's praises: Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name

 Psalm 100

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Psalm 100 A psalm. For giving thanks.

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Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

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Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

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Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his  ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

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Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

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For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Today's bible teaching: Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob

 Psalm 114

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Psalm 114

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When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

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Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

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The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;

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the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

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you mountains, that you skipped like rams, you hills, like lambs?

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Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

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who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

Today's bible teaching: For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish

 Psalm 1

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Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

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But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

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He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

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Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

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Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

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For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Today's praises: Praise the LORD

Psalm 117

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Psalm 117

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Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.

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For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.