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Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading Psalm 60, answering the question, what is a didactic

psalm? As a kid, I remember going to this event at the local fire station. There were lots of

different booths kids could go to to have different experiences or pick up little knickknacks.

You could get plastic fireman hats, try on all the gear of fireman would wear.

You could sit in the front seat of the truck or even learn how the hoses work.

And one of the stations taught you what to do if you ever happen to catch on fire.

What do you do?

Stop, drop, and roll. The premise was simple,

though this was a pretend scenario. If you were ever in a similar situation, a real-life fire

situation, this is what you should do. And that's exactly the idea of what David was trying to do

with this Psalm. He wanted to teach those who would read it what they

should do or how they should trust in the Lord whenever they were to encounter something similar,

a similar challenge or difficulty. And this is a good premise to keep in mind as we approach the

Psalm. It was intended to teach something. And you actually don't need to consult a

commentary in order to know this. At the beginning of the psalm, there's a superscription that there's those

bolded or italic words you see beneath or beside the number 60. And they read to the choir master,

according to, and you get a bunch of names that are hard to pronounce, a mictam of David for instruction

when he strove with, and you get some military warriors, and when Job on his return struck down

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