Redeemer Church

Psalm 24

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A Psalm of David.

24 

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,

    the world and those who dwell therein,

2 

for he has founded it upon the seas

    and established it upon the rivers.

3 

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?

    And who shall stand in his holy place?

4 

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

    who does not lift up his soul to what is false

    and does not swear deceitfully.

5 

He will receive blessing from the Lord

    and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 

Such is the generation of those who seek him,

    who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

7 

Lift up your heads, O gates!

    And be lifted up, O ancient doors,

    that the King of glory may come in.

8 

Who is this King of glory?

    The Lord, strong and mighty,

    the Lord, mighty in battle!

9 

Lift up your heads, O gates!

    And lift them up, O ancient doors,

    that the King of glory may come in.

10 

Who is this King of glory?

    The Lord of hosts,

    he is the King of glory! Selah

A Psalm of David.

23 

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 

    He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.

3 

    He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness

    for his name's sake.

4 

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

    I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

    your rod and your staff,

    they comfort me.

5 

You prepare a table before me

    in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

    my cup overflows.

6 

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

    all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

    forever.

Psalm 22

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To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

22 

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

    Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

2 

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,

    and by night, but I find no rest.

3 

Yet you are holy,

    enthroned on the praises of Israel.

4 

In you our fathers trusted;

    they trusted, and you delivered them.

5 

To you they cried and were rescued;

    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

6 

But I am a worm and not a man,

    scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

7 

All who see me mock me;

    they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;

8 

“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;

    let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

9 

Yet you are he who took me from the womb;

    you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.

10 

On you was I cast from my birth,

    and from my mother's womb you have been my God.

11 

Be not far from me,

    for trouble is near,

    and there is none to help.

12 

Many bulls encompass me;

    strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

13 

they open wide their mouths at me,

    like a ravening and roaring lion.

14 

I am poured out like water,

    and all my bones are out of joint;

my heart is like wax;

    it is melted within my breast;

15 

my strength is dried up like a potsherd,

    and my tongue sticks to my jaws;

    you lay me in the dust of death.

16 

For dogs encompass me;

    a company of evildoers encircles me;

they have pierced my hands and feet—

17 

I can count all my bones—

they stare and gloat over me;

18 

they divide my garments among them,

    and for my clothing they cast lots.

19 

But you, O Lord, do not be far off!

    O you my help, come quickly to my aid!

20 

Deliver my soul from the sword,

    my precious life from the power of the dog!

21 

    Save me from the mouth of the lion!

You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!

22 

I will tell of your name to my brothers;

    in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

23 

You who fear the Lord, praise him!

    All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,

    and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

24 

For he has not despised or abhorred

    the affliction of the afflicted,

and he has not hidden his face from him,

    but has heard, when he cried to him.

25 

From you comes my praise in the great congregation;

    my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

26 

The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;

    those who seek him shall praise the Lord!

    May your hearts live forever!

27 

All the ends of the earth shall remember

    and turn to the Lord,

and all the families of the nations

    shall worship before you.

28 

For kingship belongs to the Lord,

    and he rules over the nations.

29 

All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;

    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,

    even the one who could not keep himself alive.

30 

Posterity shall serve him;

    it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;

31 

they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,

    that he has done it.

Psalm 21

English Standard Version

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

21 

O Lord, in your strength the king rejoices,

    and in your salvation how greatly he exults!

2 

You have given him his heart's desire

    and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

3 

For you meet him with rich blessings;

    you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

4 

He asked life of you; you gave it to him,

    length of days forever and ever.

5 

His glory is great through your salvation;

    splendor and majesty you bestow on him.

6 

For you make him most blessed forever;

    you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

7 

For the king trusts in the Lord,

    and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

8 

Your hand will find out all your enemies;

    your right hand will find out those who hate you.

9 

You will make them as a blazing oven

    when you appear.

The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,

    and fire will consume them.

10 

You will destroy their descendants from the earth,

    and their offspring from among the children of man.

11 

Though they plan evil against you,

    though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

12 

For you will put them to flight;

    you will aim at their faces with your bows.

13 

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!

    We will sing and praise your power.

Matthew 7:13-29

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13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

28 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

Matthew 7:7-12

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“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:1-6

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“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Matthew 6:25-34

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“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:19-24

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“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 6:1-18

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6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

10 

Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

    on earth as it is in heaven.

11 

Give us this day our daily bread,

12 

and forgive us our debts,

    as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 

And lead us not into temptation,

    but deliver us from evil.

14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.