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Senior Sunday School 4 : Psalms Book 3 : Psalm 78 : 25th June 2023

Text: Psalm 78
25 June 2023

SSS 4 25 June 2023
Book 3
Psalms 73-89

Text: Psalm 78 V

40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!

41 Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

44 Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.

45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labour to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He also gave up their cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery lightning.

49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.

50 He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the plague,

51 And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52 But He made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53 And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 And He brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

55 He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an inheritance by survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Psalm 78:40-55

THE SINS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS

40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!

41 Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

Psalm 78:40-42

1. The children of Israel sinned often

a) By limiting God
b) By tempting (testing) Him

 

2. What sins did to the LORD

a) They provoked God
b) They grieve Him

3. What the children of Israel had conveniently forgotten

a) God’s Power
b) His redemption of the children of Israel from Egypt
c) How these might acts have been forgotten?

RECALLING THE MIGHTY DEEDS OF GOD IN EGYPT

43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

44 Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.

45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labour to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He also gave up their cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery lightning.

49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.

50 He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the plague,

51 And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalm 78: 43-51

GOD’S MIGHTY DEEDS

1. They were signs and wonders Psalm 78:43

2. One city were named as an example

a) Zoan was an ancient city
b) It was located in Lower Egypt
c) At one time, it was the local capital city

3. The Signs and Wonders recalled

a) Water turned to blood Psalm 78:44
b) Swarms of flies Psalm 78:45a
c) Frogs Psalm 78:45b
d) Locusts and caterpillars Psalm 78:46
e) Hail, Frost and Lightning Psalm 78:47
They affected badly the following:
i) Trees
ii) Vines
iii) Cattle
iv) Flocks
f) Death of the firstborn Psalm 78:51

4. What these plagues represent:

a) The fierceness of His anger/ wrath
b) Indignation
c) Trouble for Egypt
d) Angels of destruction

5. A path for God’s anger

a) Many died
b) Many souls were lost

GOD’S MERCY SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

52 But He made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53 And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 And He brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

55 He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an inheritance by survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Psalm 78:52-55

1. God’s regard for the children of Israel

a) They were called “His own”
b) They were called His flock

2. God’s mighty deeds

a) He led Israel as a good Shepherd
b) He guided them in the wilderness like a flock
c) He led them safely, thus they need not fear at all
d) He destroyed the Egyptian army
e) He brought them to the border of Canaan
f) He drove out the wicked nations in Canaan
g) God gave to the tribes different territories to dwell in