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INTRODUCTION:
The average person people have estimated hears 20,000 to 30,000 words every day.
That is a lot of words.
We hear that many words every day, of between conversations, the telephone, and the Internet.
We hear a lot of words every single day.
I wonder –
How many of those words are overtly sinful?
How many of those words are foolish?
Even if most of those words not overtly sinful and overtly foolish – I wonder how many of the words that we hear are wise and worth repeating?
Yet further,
how many of the words that we hear in our lifetime will truly last into a eternity?
Even if we consider written words,
how many of those words will last into eternity?
When we examine the value of even our wisest sayings, how do they compare to the glorious words of God?
how do they compare to the glorious words of God?
You might compare humanity's wisest words to God's words this way-
COMPARISON:
Man's wisest words are no valuable then grass clippings being thrown into the garbage,
and yet God's words as magnificent as the most beautiful diamonds you can ever find, lasting for eternity.
will begin to address the purpose and role of the law in the history of humanity.
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What then shall we say?
That the law is sin?
By no means!
I plan to look at this morning as a pretext to understanding .
>>>>>This will help us to better understand this chapter.
This will help us to better understand this chapter.
You see we often come to a text like and then looked down upon the law is something worthless.
Yet I assure you, the law will stand the test of eternity in ways none of our words will.
Yet I assure you, the law will stand the test of eternity in ways none of our words will.
Further,
I want us to understand why this would've been a huge struggle for a Jew who is always heard how wonderful the law is.
>>>It will help us understand their struggle, and thus how we can apply the text to our lives.
So serves as a great pretext to jumping in to .
While we are lucky if our words last 500 years – God's words will stand forever.
And this text will teach us how God’s Word is a glorious voice to humanity.
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Ps 19
According to this Psalm,
PROP: We ought to Listen to the Glorious Words of God.
TRANS: And David teaches us this in a series of 3 voices.
The first voice.
1) Creation Testifies of the Awesomeness of God’s Words.
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has been the text for many songs and poems over the years.
“The spacious firmament on high” (Joseph Addison)
“The heavens declare thy glory” (Thomas Birks)
“The heavens declare thy glory, Lord” (Isaac Watts)
“Lord, thy Word abideth” (Henry Baker)
How firm a Foundation is a hymn that is based in this verse.
“Jehovah’s perfect law restores the soul again” (Psalter, 1912)
“The law of God is good and wise” (Matthias Loy)
“Most perfect is the law of God” (Psalter, 1912)
Verse 1 is a text that captures the imagination when we read it.
It is almost like we have to sit down and behold the magnificence of what it declares.
Many times we think of God’s glory in creation we think of the mountains or maybe the ocean.
But David in this Psalm thought of the sky.
a) The Sky Voices the Glory of God.
(v.
1-4)
Ps 19
We live in big sky country, and the clouds, and the storms…the vastness of it all demonstrates the awesomeness of our God.
(v. 2) Makes the point this is not a literal voice, but is a silent object whose majesty demonstrates the glory of God.
But v. 2 also makes the point we so often fail to hear this awesome voice of God.
Can’t help but think of
May I make this point –
>>>>>No one rejects God because they don't know God exists.
No one rejects God because they don't know God exists.
I know what they claim,
I just can't see God, I can’t believe in a God I can’t see.
Millions and millions of supposed years clearly disprove the God of the Bible.
Millions and millions of supposing years clearly disprove the God of the Bible..
But at the heart of the issue,
that is was truly going on in their heart….Is that they are willingly rejecting the obvious truth of God and his awesomeness.
- We know that because Paul tells us that in .
- We also know that because David tells us that we fail to hear the glory of God found in the sky and the sun.
We also know that because David tells us that we fail to hear the glory of God found in the sky and the sun.
In fact, the point both Paul makes in and David makes an is that we are all without excuse when we ignore the reality of the one true God.
Observe,
b) The Sky and Sun’s exhaustive pronouncement of God's awesomeness to the world.
(v. 4 – 6)
b) The exhaustive pronouncement of God's awesomeness to the world can be found in the sky and the sun.
Ps 19:46
David first explains that all people hear the voice of God's glory in the sky.
Every one of us.
There are no exceptions.
DOCTRINAL EXPLANATION/APPLICATION:
Which is why the first step to someone coming to know Christ is not the hundred ways I can prove that God exists,
but in our acknowledgement of the God that we suppress.
This is why I think the best apologetic method you could ever have is simply to give them God's word.
It forces them to deal with the reality that they have suppressed.
I know that at times it feels like you need to do more, but remember evangelism is accomplished God (not us)
Further, evangelism is about them realizing their need for the God they want to ignore.
And David proves his point by pointing to the sun.
How many times has each one of us sat somewhere under the sun?
Probably almost every day we have ever lived.
He explains that the glory of God found in the in the steadfastness and powerful heat of the sun.
It is is like a voice declaring to all the world – I am God, I am awesome, I am one who who deserves praise and worship.
I think of
The sky and the sun demonstrates to us the glory of God – he is both powerful and he is merciful… He is our awesome God.
the sky and the sun demonstrate us the glory of God – he is both powerful and he is merciful… He is our awesome God.
But what does this have to do with the Word of God?
Almost every time of ever heard this Psalm preached I've heard it either focused on the glory of God in creation or the word of God that we should listen to.
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