June 20

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/1727S0620.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 764 Download Link --> <p>Psalm 78-79 We are in the Wisdom Stream reading from the Message this week. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "http://sevenstreamsmethod.com/donate/">Donate</a></span></p> <!--more--> <p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</span></p> <blockquote>Heavenly Father, you are true. We are called to be grateful for your endless goodness, for your mercy that is new every morning, for your faithfulness that is GREAT.  Amen.</blockquote> <div>78 - Is a wondrous review of God's marvelous works.  His dealings with Israel have been so completely magnificent - and their behavior in response has been so delinquent or derelict or ... there are too many adjectives for Israel's behavior that was displayed instead of gratitude and worship.  This Psalm is a description about God - it is a description about us.</div> <div>God ordered that the children are to be taught so that they can teach their children, ad infinitum. Ephraim turning their back is the metaphor equivalent of Israel departing from the Covenant - despite knowing better. God guided them through the Exodus, he gave water and shelter and clouds, plus protection and fire - but they 'pressed in for the sin' which they preferred. They were provided for for 40 years, not one of them starved - and yet no food was good enough for them.  The complaining chorus was a song that never ended.  They remembered God their Redeemer. They knew He was merciful, but they in turn lied to God, they lied in worship, their lives became lies.  The rebellion in the desert was astonishing to God and to us today as we read it 3400 years later.  They acted like they forgot about being preserved through the plagues: from the blood, through the locusts, and boils and bugs, and during the passover of death (for the Egyptians it was death because they we