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Families circle Jerusalem’s walls and count its towers as hostile kings and shattered ships retreat beneath an east wind.
KING JAMES VERSION

PSALMS 48

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Psalms 48 — Zion’s beauty, defenses, temple worship, and enduring Guide reveal the city of the great King to another generation.

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The secure city and retreating threat combine remembered deliverance with the command to inspect and teach its fortifications.

Scripture basis: Psalms 48:1–14
  1. 1A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
  2. 2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
  3. 3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
  4. 4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
  5. 5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
  6. 6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
  7. 7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
  8. 8As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
  9. 9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
  10. 10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
  11. 11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
  12. 12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
  13. 13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
  14. 14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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February 22, 2023Pastor Dean Odle

The Mountain of God in the North, Paradise & Christmas (Part 1)

In “The Mountain of God in the North, Paradise & Christmas (Part 1),” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, eternal life and hope. Drawing especially from Romans 1, Ezekiel 28, Psalm 48, Psalm 75, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.

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