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Podcast: Parish Presbyterian Church
Episode: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 The Gift of Marriage
Description: I hope that over the past five weeks you have enjoyed learning and singing Do You Decree, O Earthly Gods (Psalm 58). This is certainly one of the more unusual texts in the psalter, in which David details the corruption of earthly rulers who "go astray from birth, speaking lies" (vs. 3), have venom like serpents (vs. 4), and "deal out violence on the earth" (vs. 2). He then pleads with the Lord to defend him from these wicked foes in explicit terms: "break their teeth," "tear out the fangs" (vs. 6), "dissolve into slime" (vs. 8), "sweep them away" (vs. 9...