His Time – Scripture Studies: Psalm 9, Ecclesiastes 3 & 4, Reading from Charles P. Krauth

1. Meditation on the Day’s Psalm

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on the Psalm of the Day, Psalm 9:1-8
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Psalm 9:1-8

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.[b] A Psalm of David.

9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before[c] your presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

5 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.

Footnotes:

Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 together follow an acrostic pattern, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they form one psalm

Psalm 9:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Psalm 9:3 Or because of

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2. Meditation on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 4:6

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 4:6.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 4:6

A Time for Everything

3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

6 Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

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3. Meditation on The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology

Rev. Jonathan Fisk reads a selection of The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology by Charles Porterfield Krauth and gives explanation for this selection. Purchase your print copy at cph.org or find it as a free pdf online here or as a Google e-book here.