Affliction will slay the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
This is the final two verses of Psalm 34 and the culmination of this passage.  God redeems the life of his servant and those that take refuge in him will not be condemned.  This passage celebrates the hope of salvation that we have in Christ.
Throughout this passage we have strong statements that God protects and cares for his people.

* 4 – The LORD answered me and delivered me from all of my fears
* 5 – Those who look on him shall never be ashamed
* 6 – The LORD heard him and saved him from all of his troubles
* 7 – (He) encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.
* 9 – Those that fear him have no lack
* 10 – Those that seek the LORD lack no good thing.
* 15 – The Eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, his ears toward their cry.
* 17 – the LORD hears and delivers them
* Vs 18 – The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
* 19 – But the LORD delivers him out of them all

These are strong statement that show the LORD’s love and protection for his people, but this final verse includes the phrase, “the LORD redeems the life of hiss servants,” This idea is different than simply God’s protection, his care or his provision.  Redeem is a different word and contains the idea of paying the price for someone.
Webster’s dictionary defines Redeems as:

* to make (something that is bad, unpleasant, etc.) better or more acceptable
* to exchange (something, such as a coupon or lottery ticket) for money, an award, etc.
* to buy back (something, such as a stock or bond)

(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redeem)
This great Psalm concludes with a reference of how God saves his people, but not only from the cares of this world, but from the price of their sin.  Jesus is the payment that “bought us back” from the wages of our sin.  How Great is our God who loves us and paid the price to redeem us?
Amen
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Psalm 34: 19-20
Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
He keeps all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.
 
This verse seems counter intuitive.  Many are the afflictions of the righteous?  Why is that?  We would hope that it says little are the afflictions of the righteous, but that is not so.  The Bible never tells Christians that their path will be easy, just that God will be with them.  In fact, many Christians experience a more difficult life because of their faith.  John 16:33 tells us that.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world
Jesus is telling his disciples that they will have a difficult life, that the life of a follower of Christ will be difficult, but that he has overcome the world.  What a wonderful thought that Jesus will be with us in our suffering.
John 15:18 reminds us that Jesus was hated too,
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Jesus was ridiculed, hated, and even murdered for who he is, how also should we be willing to suffer with him.
But the verse does not leave us there, suffering all by ourselves.  Jesus tells us that He will be with us to the ends of the earth, and Hebrews asks this question, if God is for us, who can be against us?
Hebrews 13:5b – 6
…because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”  So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?”
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When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears
And delivers them out of their troubles.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
And save the crushed in spirit.
 
This passage is a wonderful promise that God hears us.  It is amazing, to me, that the God of the universe cares about us.  Think of it.  The God that hangs all of the billions of stars in the sky, and suspends the Earth from nothing.  The God that causes all things to be in existence, loves you enough to know how many hairs are on your head.  To know all of the events of your life, and to know when you are calling for Him.  The God of all of the universe hears you and responds.  He keeps his ear toward those who need him.  And he is near to comfort you and save you.
Thank You God for loving us enough to hear us, and to save us.
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The eyes of the LORD are towards the righteous
And his ears toward their cry.
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
God doesn’t have eyes and ears or a face that is like ours, but these verses offer us a compelling picture of God’s distain for sin, and his blessings on those that follow him.  One of the big questions in these verses is the claim that the LORD cuts off the memory of those who do evil.  This promise certainly sounds nice, but we still learn about some of those that have done extreme evil, and they are still named in our history books.  What is this verse telling us, and is it possible that is is a gross overstatement of God’s actions?
To correctly understand this, we need to first keep it in the context of the rest of the psalm.  This passage, as we have learned is showing us God’s love and protection for those who love him, and God’s distain for those that seek evil.  It promises ultimate protection and comfort for those that seek him, and ultimate ruin for those that don’t.  Many of the verses in this psalm seem to be overstatements if we look at them simply from our perspective in our lives, but God’s plan if far more reaching and His patience is far more than we can imagine.  The ultimate end that is in view in this passage is then the ultimate end of all of history.  The entire Bible is filled with God’s promise to make all things new.  This promise is that He will repay evil and He will reward good.  That God himself paid the price for sin, and He is the only judge.  God is promising that ultimately, He will make all things new, and evil will be wiped away.  He is telling us that His face is towards those that seek Him, but he is against those that do evil.
Revelations 21:4 tells us of a day in the future when this will all come to pass.
 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
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Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.
Turn away from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.
These two verses are the only two physical actions commanded in the entire chapter of Psalm 34, and as such, create a sort of turning point in the Psalm.  The first part of the chapter is exhortation to seek the Lord, fear the Lord, cry out to the Lord, but the second part of the chapter is almost exclusively promises of the Lords protection, deliverance, and redemption.
The commands are simple, be honest and truthful, turn away from evil (or repent from it) and do good, and pursue peace.  These commands are simple instructions that demonstrate a life spent seeking and following the Lord.  It is impossible to seek the Lord and live a life of dishonesty, and evil.   When we seek God with all our heart, and wait on his salvation our lives will be transformed (vs. 5) and we will demonstrate our transformation in a life of repentance from evil and truthfulness and peace.
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Come, O Children, listen to me;
I will teach you to fear the LORD.
What man is there who desires life and loves many days,
That he may see good?
 
Many of us are familiar with Psalm 111:10, The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.  The passage for this week in Psalm 34 tells us that if we listen to the author (David) he will teach us to fear the Lord.  It would seem, then, that the “fear” of the LORD is a good thing, but what does it mean to fear the LORD?
Fear, today, is a word that is associated with a strong aversion for the unknown.  It is an uneasiness, or dread of the unknown.  God is not something that we do not know, nor is he something that we need to dread.  God loves us and wants the best for us.  He wants a relationship with us and he provided for that relationship through the death of his Son, Jesus Christ.  So what does it mean that, “I will teach you to fear the Lord.”?
Fear of the LORD, in Scripture is a deep respect or awe.  The word fear, in Scripture, is not the same as the way that we use it today.  This verse is calling us to have a reverence, or awe, deep respect for God.  To put him in his rightful place as king and Lord of our lives.  The word fear, here I n this verse, is conveying the idea of establishing God in his rightful place in our lives, and only when we do that can we truly desire good and seek to understand his ways.
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Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints,
For those that fear him have no lack!
The young lions suffer want and hunger;
But those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
 
These two verses tell the reader (or hearer) that the LORD is a God who provides for his saints.  God provides for those who seek and follow Him is the message of this passage.  It is a continuation of the previous passages that state that if we look on Him He will transform us and never disappoint us (vs. 5) God watches over the needs of his saints and provides for them.  Verse 9 tells us that those who fear the LORD will lack nothing.  This is a great promise because of the general nature of it.  God is promising that if I fear him I will never lack anything.  How can this be in a world that is missing so much?  The answer is in a correct understanding of the passage.  Often times we read Bible verses like these and take them to apply to our wants and our needs.  We think that God is telling us here that if we worship him, he will provide everything we want and need.  We think that God will guarantee us a easy and prosperous life.  This simply is not the case.  God is promising to be all that we need, that if we seek him he will be enough for us regardless of our material earthly needs.  This promise (and may others in Scripture) is not to imply that God will give us every earthly thing that we think we need, but that God himself will be enough for us if we truly seek him.
Think of it this way, God is the creator of all of the world, the universe, and everything that we know. Acts 17:8 tells us the in him we have our being – we are here breathing today because of him.  He created us and by his power we are sustained for this life.  He appoints the days of our lives, and loves us so much that he knows how many hairs are on our heads.  Imagine, for a minute, knowing this God – who does all of this.  Can you think of anything that you would still lack in the presence of the God that has and provides all things?  The question here is God promising to provide everything that I want, or is God promising to be all that we need?  It would seem the latter is the correct interpretation.
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The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
 
These two verses in this passage contain wonderful promises for those that put their hope and faith in God.  David, in the midst of trouble tells the reader to put their trust in God for deliverance, and promises, on God’s behalf, that God will deliver them.  What is most amazing about this verse is that David writes this during a period of hardship and trouble in his life.  David is not discouraged, but reminds the reader (and possibly himself) of the hope that we have in God.
The first 8 verses of this Psalm are broken down into actions that we are to do and promises that God will keep.  Look at the actions that we are called to below:

* Bless the LORD
* Praise the LORD continually
* Boast in the LORD
* Be glad in the LORD
* Magnify the LORD
* Exalt the name of the LORD forever
* Seek the LORD
* Look on the LORD
* Cry out to the LORD
* Fear the LORD
* Taste and see, the LORD is good.
* Take refuge in the LORD

That is quite a comprehensive list, but look at all that they have in common.  Each of these actions are related to our relationship with God and our focus on him.  God does not call us to work for our salvation, he calls us to rest in Him and enjoy him – to be glad in Him, and focus our eyes on Him.  Our part of the relationship with the LORD is simply to trust and abide in him – not some complex and difficult list of actions, merely a heart that seeks after God and loves him.
When we seek after god, and bless, praise, boast, and be glad in him the LORD rewards us with the following:

* The LORD answers our call
* The LORD delivers us from our fears
* The LORD transforms us
* The LORD will never disappoint us (we will never be ashamed)
* The LORD hears our cries
* The LORD saves us from our troubles
* The angel of the LORD encamps around us
* The LORD delivers us from our troubles
* The LORD is good
* The LORD blesses us
* The LORD is our refuge

Wow!  Think of it, the God of all the universe, who created the sun, moon and all the stars, promises to deliver you if you rest in Him.  He will never fail you, and will encamp around you to be our hope and our refuge.  What a wonderful promise from a wonderful God.
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Those who look on him are radiant,
And their faces shall never be ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him out of all of his troubles;
 
These two verses remind us of the wonderful product of a true relationship with God.  Imagine, we can have a relationship with the creator of the world.  Imagine, He loves you!  These verse tell us that we can look on him, enjoy him, fellowship with him, and doing this will change our lives.  Those who look on him are radiant – we cannot look on God and come away unchanged.  A true understanding of God, and relationship with him will change our lives and hearts.  The conclusion of verse five is a promise for us that God will never let us down or allow us to be ashamed because of him.  What a wonderful two-part promise that we can have a relationship with the creator of the world, and that He will never disappoint us.  My wife and I have had a difficult few months, and this verse has proven to be a hope and an encouragement for us.  God will never allow us to be disappointed or ashamed because of him.
Verse six portrays David sharing God’s faithfulness to him.  The Lord hears David and saves him out of his troubles.  This is the fulfillment of verse 5, David is not ashamed of the Lord, because the Lord saved him, and promises to save us too.  We serve a God who loves us and promises us that He will never let us down.  He might not always accomplish his plan my way, but he will always work things together for good.
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Psalm 34:3-4
Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together!
I sought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalm 34:3 tells us to magnify the Lord together.  This is an open invitation for all people to make much of the Lord God.  The God of all creation, the God who holds the whole world in his hands and who calls each one of the stars in the sky by name.  This verse is a call to action, not just a nice line in a psalm.  It is a command to make much of God in all things.  To recognize him in his proper place in the world, the creator of all things.
David, in this psalm, tells us that we are to make much of God in all things.  That we are to make him great in our lives.
John Piper explains that we are to magnify God like a telescope, not a microscope.  A telescope helps us to see lager things as they are, a microscope helps us to see small things greater than they are.  (http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-to-magnify-god).  This analogy is helpful in understanding this concept, but not meant to convey that God is distant, or needs us to be seen or comprehended.  The fact is that we cannot comprehend God for who he is.  Isaiah 40 vs 18 & 25 ask the questions, whom then is God like that we can see him.  The answer is, of course, God is like nothing in this world.  He is like nothing that we could comprehend, except God sent forth his Son to be the likeness of himself that we might see him and in turn see God.
Jesus is the likeness of God that we can understand who God is by looking at him.  Jesus is the exact imprint of God, the exact replica of God – He is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15)
Verse four reminds us that God is not far from us and cares enough for us to respond to our cries for help.  God delivers his people, and promises to deliver us too from those that would harm us.  Ultimately, the deliverance comes for our souls as Jesus laid down his life for his sheep (John 10:1)
I hope these verses help you to remember how important you are to your great God, and that his hand is never far from you.
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Psalms 34:1-2
I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
Let the humble hear and be glad.
 
The first two verses of this psalm contain truths that for us are simply massive.  The first verses portray the author, David, as blessing the Lord at all times and continually praising God.  This may sound simple enough but think for a minute about the attitude of praise that is required for a man to make these assertions.
David was on the run from Saul at this point in his life.  David, the little shepherd boy, who was the least of his family had a great honor bestowed on him in 1 Samuel 16 when the priest Samuel anointed him as the next king over Israel.  This was done at God’s bidding, and with the full blessing of the Spirit of God.  This event changes David’s life, forever.  In 1 Samuel 15:13, David is described as receiving the Spirit of the Lord at this time, and shortly thereafter he walks into the valley between the Israelites and the Philistines and kills the Philistine giant Goliath with nothing more than a shepherds sling.  We would think that David would be a hero for both the land and the king, but his popularity with the people became a problem with the current king, Saul, and David was forced to run for his life.
He had been anointed king, but then, in a very short period of time, was a fugitive from his own people, and being chased all over the countryside by the one whom God promised he would replace.  His life was not going well, by our standards, and yet he still clung to the Lord God.  He makes this startling statement in verse one that the praise of God will continually be in his mouth.
How many times is our lives do we bless God when things go well, and question him (at best) when they don’t go well for us?  WE seem to think that God is in the “good” thinks of our lives and that anything that we would think of as bad is from the devil.  This is not so, and is actually damaging to our faith.  God is in charge of all things – and He arranges all of the events of our lives together to accomplish His purpose.  His purpose is our good.  (Romans 8:28)
So even in the dark and gloomy times in our lives we must lean on God, the Creator, who works all of these events together for His purpose.  God has a plan for you, and each of our lives have a purpose.
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Romans 10:9-15
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?[a] And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
It seemed necessary to me to put the pieces together from some of the verses that we memorized this year.  Romans 10 is an fantastic passage that explains the Gospel and the need for those that share it.  Throughout the Gospel path this year we memorized almost all of this passage, and I wanted to give you an episode to help you put these verses together as a passage.  Verse 11 is the only verse that we did not work on specifically, but I think you’ll agree this verse will come to you pretty easy once you get the rest of the passage in place.
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Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
 
This is the final verse in our series this year, and as we wrap up season 3 of Essential Verses (The Gospel Path) I want to remind you of the reason that we worked so hard to hide these verses in our hearts.
The Gospel is “good News,” not meant to be hidden or kept quiet, but proclaimed to all the world.  The Gospel is the power of God for Salvation.  Think of that, the power of almighty God is in the Gospel.  The power to transform a life completely and totally.  The power to make all things new.  The Gospel is power over sin, and death, and judgment.  The Gospel is our hope and future.  The Gospel is our hope and our mission – hope for our future and our mission to share with others.  We have hidden these verses in our heart, not just to meditate on them for our own good, but to share them with others.  Too many people horde the Gospel message to themselves for fear of offending others.  The Gospel guarantees offense, but it also promises redemption from sins.
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Romans 10:14-15
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Romans is a book of the Bible that is full of deep and spiritual promises and truths, but also laced with incredibly logical and sequential arguments for them.  God created man to be a reasoning and logical being, and Romans helps us to “work out” some of that reasoning and logic to understand spiritual mysteries.
Romans 10:14-15 is a good example of sequential reasoning in Scripture and it presents an argument for witnessing that is logical and far reaching.  These verse make the case in a simple and clear way that all of us are to engage in the great Commission, and to spread the Word of God.  Sharing our faith is not just a topic or category left for missionaries, but for all Christians.
Verse 14 starts out asking the question, how can the (the lost?) call on him (God) in whom they have not believed or heard?  This is great question.  A question that has the power to reshape the way that we think of our faith and lives in America today.  How can somebody come to Christ if they have never heard about Him?  The simple answer is that they can’t.  I don’t mean to put limitations on God, who can make all things possible, but surely, by earthly means, somebody who has never heard the Gospel could never believe in it.
This radically increases the importance of sharing Christ with those around us.  We have the keys to eternal life, and if we fail to share those with others, then how will they even know Him?
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We are not as we were, if we are in Christ, God re-makes us into the image of His son.  The Bible tells us that Jesus’s death paid the price for our sins and when we put our faith in Him we are no longer slaves to our sin nature, but children of God.  We are new and clean, pure before God.
II Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
The wonderful promise in this verse reminds us that we are no longer guilty before God for our sin.  Jesus paid the price for us and promises to raise us up to be like Him.
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It’s important sometimes to stop and review our verses to make sure that they are all still in our heads.  This episode is designed to help you do that.  I have enlisted some friends of mine to read the verses that we have worked on along with a quick one sentence summary about what that verse means to them.
I hope you enjoy this review episode.
 

Salvation is a wonderful gift.
Every year, on Christmas morning, children all over the world wake up early to run to their Christmas tree and open the presents that they have received.  They don’t worry about wither they deserve the presents, or if they can pay for them – they know that these gifts are for them without price.  It may be that the giver of the presents worked hard to afford the presents but the children opening them on Christmas morning don’t think about that – they only revel in the joy of receiving these gifts.
Salvation is for us the same type of gift – one that we should enjoy, and celebrate with enthusiasm.   Jesus gave us the ultimate gift and we are to open it, celebrate it and enjoy it.  We don’t deserve it, we don’t have any hopes of affording the gift, but the price for it has already been paid and the gift is secured for us.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Jesus died on the cross to pay the price for all of my sins.  To wash away the guilt and pain that I caused.  He died that I might live, and he rose again to show that we too will live with God forever.  I don’t deserve this gift.  I don’t deserve to be sinless before God, but I am.  God sees Jesus righteousness when He sees me, and He promises me a life forever with Him in Heaven.
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Romans 10:12-13
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Salvation is available to all people. The Gospel message is for everyone. There is no distinction between nationality or social status, no distinction between wealth or age, no distinction between gender or social status. The Gospel is a message for all people.
During the time when this was written (and to a large extent today as well) there are many things that divided people. People were divided by nationality and by social status. They were divided by education level and wealth. The Gospel of Jesus spans across all of these and reaches into the king’s courts and the pauper’s rags. The Gospel of Jesus is for all of us.
The promise of the Gospel is simple, Jesus Saves! He saves us from our sins and He gives us forgiveness and communion with God. Imagine, through the sacrifice that Jesus offered, we can come to the God of the universe, the creator with all of our cares in this life. 1 Peter 5:7 tells us to, “Cast [ing] all of your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”

I John 1:9
 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
This verse is an amazing promise from God that He forgives all of our sins – past, present, and future. If we confess our sin and repent from them – turn away from our idolatrous lives and seek Him – then He is faithful to forgive and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What an amazing thing to be considered cleansed of our sin. God offers all of us forgiveness through the blood of His son on the cross.