The Way Back to Peace:Psalm 73 (Asaph)
Taught by Dr Victor Paul Wierwille You see, we have the same discomfort and the same loss today when we lose the peace. And you lose the peace when you lose the grace, the mercy, the love, the power. When you walk away from that, move away from that, you lose the peace. And here’s a prophet, the lead singer of all the singers of the Levites and a prophet, and he loses it. And the 73 rd psalm is just a fantastic revelation and that is where I…what I wanna really share with you today. Remember about “know thy self,” the more you look at yourself, the more miserable you get? I wanna take it a step further today. Not only is it like self-introspection, but when you look around at others and you look at the world, you get miserable and you lose it. And that’s why, here in Psalm 73, verse 1: …Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a [what?] clean heart. “…clean heart.” He’s good to them that are of a clean heart. But [in contrast] as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. He was on a banana peeling, heading out in a hurry. {laughter} Why? Why? Here it is: For I was envious… “I was envious.” Can you imagine? The lead singer, a prophet, a man of God, envious? …envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the [what?] {wicked}. He was envious at the prosperity of the wicked ‘cause the wicked had a better salary than he did. They had finer automobiles; they had bigger houses. Of course they were in debt to the finance company, but that doesn’t make any difference, had the big show! “And all I am is just the lead singer to those Israelites. Oh, yes, once in a while God gives me revelation.” {laughter} See? …I was envious… when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Verse 4: For there are no bands in their death:…their strength is firm. What he’s saying there: “They’re not sick all the time. They’re not being attacked all the time. I as the lead singer and as a prophet, everything happens to me all the time. Everyday there’s something
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Their eyes stand out with fatness… You know, they’re googly-eyed because of the material things. Psalms 73:7b: …[man] they have more than [any] heart could wish [for]. You know, not one farm, not two farms, three, four, ten. Not one house, two house, three house. Not one car, three-car-garages and still building on. Gotta go back to Texas, I guess, and the basics. {laughter} Ha-ha-ha. Psalms 73:7b: …more than heart could [what?] wish. Man, how many times I haven’t seen that through the years. Out in the senses world, man, they’re rolling in money (the way it looks), they got a lot of things, material things. You know, big boats, all that other stuff. Most of ‘em ain’t got a Harley though. {laughter} Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. {applause and cheering} Even though it may take 30 years to get it but I got one, baby. {laughter} I’m expecting to bring it out to you here one of these days. Maybe I’ll driv