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Turn with me to your scriptures Psalm chapter nineteen, the
Book of Psalm chapter nineteen. As a matter of fact,
if you don't mind, just if you have your Bible
in your hand or your device that has their Bible
on it, if you don't mind standing and just holding
that word in front of you and we're just going.
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To pray over the Word of God.
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If you have a great love for God's word, you
are going to love what you hear tonight. If you
don't necessarily have that burning passionate, zealous ambition, hunger in
your heart for the world of God, I kind of
think God's going to do a miracle tonight and give
that to you. If you've had it and you're missing
it now a little bit, it's waned. It's not that
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you've got luke warm, but just the things of your heart.
The busyness of schedule has caused this to diminish in
that zeal for the things.
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Of the Lord, the word of the Lord, the scripture.
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Then we pray that tonight would be a rekindling of
that fire for the word of God in your heart. Father,
I pray right now over the word to pray that
your word would come alive. It'd be that it is
that sharp, two edged sword. And so I'm just asking
you to deliver what comes from your word.
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Lord.
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This would be easy for me if I'm not trying
to make things up.
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It's just the delivery of your word. And I thank
you for your word.
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Going forth tonight in Jesus name, remain standing if you would,
We're going to read the whole chapter of the nineteenth Psalm.
I want to encourage you and warn you. Sometimes when
we read scriptures, particularly a long passage of scripture, we
kind of want the preacher to get onto the commentary
about it. But I want to tell you tonight the
commentary about it is not important as the word of
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God itself. The most important thing I will do in
your presence tonight is these next few minutes as I
read these verses. So don't drift off. Just look at
this and say, this is the word of the Lord.
Psalm nineteen to the choir master the Psalm of David's
the David, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
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the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day today pours forth speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech,
There are no words whose voice is not heard. Their
voice goes through all the earth, and their words to
the ends of the world. In them, he has sent
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set a tent for the Sun, which comes out like
a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and a strong man runs
its courts with joy. Its rising is from the ends
of the heavens, and its circuit is to the ends
of them, And there is nothing hidden from his heat.
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
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The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
The commandments of the Lord are pure, enlightening the heart.
The fear of the Lord is clean and enduring forever.
The rules of the Lord are true and righteous. All together.
More to be desired are they than gold, even much
more than fine gold. Sweeter also than honey, and the
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drippings of the honeycomb. More Over, them by, as your
servant warned, in keeping them or there is great reward.
Who can discern as errors. Declare me innocent from hidden
false Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
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Let them not have dominion over me.
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Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer. This is the word of the Lord,
and you may be seated. Charles Spurtson says about this
chapter that we've just read. In his earliest days, the Psalmist,
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while keeping his father's flock, had devoted himself to the
study of God's two great books. God's two great books,
one being Nature and the other being Scripture. This chapter
we've just read describes those two books of God. One
the Creation, God speaks through his works. The second his Word.
God speaks through his word. The first one is is
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what it's called the General Revelation.
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It's found in the handy works of God.
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Great is my faithfulness, Seeing His faithfulness in the stars
and the moon, and the sun, and the shine, and
the mountains and the rivers. Those are things we have
in Colorado that maybe you haven't seen yet. The beauty
of God's nature speaks about his handiwork. It reveals the
things of God. And David, as a young man, he
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understood these two books, and I want to encourage you
to live in these two books to appreciate what God
has created around you. Oftentimes I look at my hand
and I just go, that's a miracle. It moves my
brain says something and it does it, and.
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I just look at that and go like, that's a miracle.
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It's wonderful what God has done. And I don't even
have the best looking hand in the world.
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But just to see what God has done.
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In creation a baby. I have four children, nine grandchildren.
To hold the baby in your hands, beauty of God's creation.
He speaks through these things, but he also speaks more
importantly through his.
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Word, through scripture, through the Word of God. David looks
at these books.
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And he remembers these things that were really in his
heart from his birth. He says in psalmone thirty nine,
verse thirteen, You form me in my inward parts, you knitted.
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Me together in my mother's womb.
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I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works. There's the first thing he did.
He shows his beauty and the works that he's done
around and my soul knows you very well. He knew
God from the time he was born. Just as a baby,
he knew the things of God, probably from his family
and from others around him. But it wasn't just as
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a baby. As a young man, he grew up in
the things of the Lord. First Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse
fourteen says the Lord sought out a man after his
own heart. And this is when Samuel was looking for
a new king, after King Saul had failed the test
of the Lord, so to speak, and he's looking for
a new king. And little David, the youngest of all
his brothers, wasn't even part of the selection committee, the
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one who could possibly be selected. And Samuel says, there
has to be another brother, And God says, Tom, there's
one who's been seeking after my heart. A little boy
out in the wilderness, out in the forest, out in
the fields, tending sheep. He's been seeking after my heart.
He's been looking at these two books, and I have
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chosen him. He had a great hunger for the things
of the Lord when he became When he became king, he
had access. Historians tell us he had access to these books,
the first five books of Moses called the Torah. He
had the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, and
he also had the Book of the Book the Books
of Samuel, and so he could study these books. As
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a matter of fact, Dudon me seventeen, verse eighteen through
twenty says, there's a commandment given to kings that when
they become kings, they are to take the scriptures and
write them in their own book. And then there are
to take that book and meditate it on day and night.
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They are not to leave that book behind everywhere they go.
They are to bring that book with him.
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So there's something about King David, this heart after God continues.
It wasn't just a heart of singing, wasn't just a
heart of praise, although those are good. But he had
a heart for the book. He was a man of
the book. He carried that book with him. Saw him
sixteen eight says this I have set before me, have
set before me the Lord, because he is always at
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my right hand. Now, how do it make sense of that? Well,
the Rabbitical teachings of the Old Testaments tell us that
what the kings would do when they wrote in that
little book, some of the different testimonies of the lords,
some of the writings of Moses, they would put it
in a book, and then they would tie that into
their right hand, and they would have that book, and
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they would carry that book, not just carrying a book
around with them, but even when they were dancing or singing,
or ruling or reigning, whatever they were doing, they had
that book tied to their right hand. It was dear
to them. They loved this book. The kings of the
Old Testament, most of them loved this book. And David
loved it with all of his heart. And then when
he was an old man, First Kings, chapter two, verse
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one through four says this about him. On his deathbed,
he called his young son Solomon. He said this to him,
I am about to go the way of all the earth.
Keep the charge of the Lord, your God, walking in
his way and keeping his statues, keeping his commandments, keeping
his rules, and keeping his testimony, and it will go
well with you and all of your children after you.
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David was born with a hunger for the word of
God grew up in a place where he desired the
word of God, became a king, and carried the Word
of God with him everywhere he went.
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And we was all man about to die. What was
on his heart?
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My son, dig into this word, growing this word, get
to know this word. Be hungry for this word, be
consumed for this word. Let this passion for the Word
of God become the highest pursuit of your life, more
than ruling over our kingdom, more than singing songs, more
than reigning, and more than anything else in your life.
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Have a hunger for the Word of God.
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This generation and the church that we're living in today
needs a revival of the Word of God. We need
to see the word of God proclaimed, preach, taught, sung,
the Word of God becoming tied to our right hand,
that we would say, God, I want to hunger, to
be fresh again in the love for your word. Give
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me a love for your word. David speaks about these
these two different things, and then Psalm nineteen, verse one
through six, we see him talking about this first book,
the Book of Nature, the Book of Creation, the book
of general Revelation. Then from seven through nine we see
speaking about specific revelation God has spoken in these last
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days through the Word, through his son, who is the Word,
and he has speaken to us now, not just through creation,
but he's speaking through us through his Word. In the
first six verses, David speaks about God and he uses
the word when he uses the word God, there he
uses the word L e l and what he means
by that is sovereign one, omnipotent one. He sees him
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as a king almost high, ruling and reigning with power
and majesty and might and splendor. But then when he
begins to speak about his word in verse seven, the
Law of the Lord, he changed his language and this
word Lord in English would be translated or in the
Hebrew would be Yahweh. And so he moves from l
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God of power and might and majesty to eloheim or
to Yahweh, to the more personal. In other words, I
can know something about your power in creation around me.
But when I really want to know you as a
friend speaks to a friend, as a son to a father,
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then you're mind Yahweh's that's where you speak life into
my heart. And I want to take just a few
moments with you in the time I have with you
to break these two books down and see where you're
at with this hunger for the word of the Lord.
Verse one, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
the sky proclaims his handiwork. The word heaven there speaks
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of the realms, or or or the or the sky,
or in its original it means to be lofty or
the lofty realms. And it says here that the heavens
declare the glory of God, the lofty realms. The things
we see when you look out at nature, when you
look between the buildings and the skyscrapers in New York,
you see a little bit of cloud, you see a
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little bit of sunshine. You see sometimes some stars, possibly
even at night. That's the handy work of God, and
it's in the realm. And it says here the word
declare the heavens declare a strange word.
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The heavens actually speak something to you.
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The clouds in the sky, the stars at night, the
lightning bolts, the thunderstorms, they speak something to you. And
this word declared is often translated as a scribe. Somebody
who would write something, would write something into our mind,
into our heart, into our understanding. It means to announce
or to inscribe, or it can literally mean to preach.
The sky preaches to us, The clouds preach to us,
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The moon preaches to us. The sun and its orbit
preaches to us and tell us something amazing. The heavens
don't declare the heavens. The heavens don't say, aren't we
a pretty heaven? Aren't the stars shining so bright at night?
Deep in the heart of Texas. No, there's something more
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that the Word is trying to say to us. And
look what it says here. The heavens declare. What's the
next few words, the glory of God, hallelujah. The heavens
aren't declaring their own beauty, magesty, or splendor. And that's
where a lot of people fall short of understanding the
glory of God and the Word of God, because they're
looking just to creation.
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I worship nature.
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I go out into the woods and into the trees
or into Central Park, and I just commune with the
frogs and the birds, and the birds sing me songs
and it's glorious. No, every bird that sings the singing
the glory of God. Every tree that branches its flowers
is proclaiming the word of God. God is, God is
to be glorified. God is the one they're preaching about.
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God is the one they're singing about. God is the
one that ducks are quacking about. That it is God
in all of nature. He's wanting to speak to us,
and the heavens are declaring it.
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It's a powerful word. It's not a light word like
we're kind of speaking a little bit to you.
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No, it's a word like a preacher which preaches with fire,
a fire shut up in our bones. But oftentimes people
don't listen to this voice. They don't listen to this majesty.
And so that's why Romans one twenty talks about even
though the divine nature and the things that are seen
of God's character are seen in nature, people suppress that truth.
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So everybody in their right.
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Mind, in a clear understanding, without rebellion and the sin
nature in the heart, we look at the things that
God created and would bow down in honor and majesty
and worship him. But because of the sin nature, the
fallen nature of man, we've rebuilt against God. And we
don't want a ruler in our life. We want to
live an independent life, and therefore we don't receive the
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glory of God being preached from creation around us.
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But God doesn't give up.
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Verse two says day today pours out. First verse he's
declaring his glory. Now he's starting to pour it out.
Are you going to see my glory? Are you going
to see windstorms? Are you going to see volcanoes? Are
you going to see the Psalms calls it the terrors
of the Lord. They that go down into the sea
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and do business in great ships. These see the works
of the Lord, the powerful, majestic works of the Lord.
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And this is what he's doing.
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Now, He's pouring forth speech, and night and day reveals
what the knowledge of God. God is wanting to God
loves to speak to you. Did you know that God
loves to speak to people in New York City, even
those who are hardened and heart and death in ears.
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He wants to speak his word. He wants to.
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Show his glory and his majesty. And he's saying this,
and in verses one and two put together. He uses
the word declaring, which is preaching. He uses the word proclaiming,
which is letting others know. He uses the word pouring
out speech, which is a fountain that's flowing, and he
uses a revealing of his knowledge. He's revealing things even
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just in nature, let alone what we're about to study.
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In the word.
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Part of this, the preacher reveals and proclaims day and night.
It's twenty four hours. I won't preach that long here tonight,
but can you imagine day and night. Speech pours forth.
Knowledge of God pours forth day and night. It is
unceasing twenty four to seven, three hundred and sixty five
days a year, every year, calendar year, since the beginning
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creation of time. God has done this, this one thing.
I want to be known. I want to speak. I
want you to know me. I want you to know
me well. I want you to study me. I want
you to be close to me. I want you to
be near to me. I want to be dear to you.
I want to let you know who I.
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Am, what I'm like.
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That's what God loves to do. Twenty four to seven.
He does these things Verse three.
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There is no speech.
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There are no words whose voice is not heard. In
other words, there's no place where God's word is not heard.
There are only missionaries in certain countries. There are some countries.
One country when my missions director at World Challenge told
me recently that just to own a Bible, there is
a death sentence. If they find you have a Bible,
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even on your phone, your phone device, or you're trying
to hide it in there, and they find a Bible
app they will literally behead you. And there are some
countries where the word of God is not preached in
spoken form, but you know what, every country in the
world has this speech being revealed to it. The knowledge
of God is being known. It's not only twenty four
to seven, but it's everywhere. There's no speech, there are
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no words. Whose voice is not heard. In other words,
there's nowhere word. This is not being heard. Nobody is
Roman says, we're all without excuse, because even Creation has
spoken to us about the good things of God. The
literal Hebrew translation of this is a little bit different.
It's basically like this, no speech period, no words period.
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Their voice is not heard period. Speaking of a different
way saying right now in creation, you're seeing things, you're
catching drift of things, you're understanding some things.
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But it's not quite the voice yet. It's not quite
the speech yet, it's.
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Not quite being the word being heard. It's a hint,
even David, writing several thousand years before Christ is born,
there is a hint here of something to come, a
word to come, a voice to come. Not John the Baptist,
the voice in the wilderness, but the voice of Jesus.
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Christ in these last days.
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Hebrew says he speaks through this son, and David was
aware of this. He's speaking in the beauty when I'm
in the shepherd in the fields. He speaks through his
beauty's speaking twenty four to seven. He's speaking to the
whole world. But there's another voice coming. There's another one coming,
and that's going to be the most profound voice of all.
Right now, there's really no speech, not hearing words.
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You know.
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It's not God saying look at the stars that means
I'm alive. He's not speaking literally like that in these times.
In those times, there's no speech, no words where their
voice is heard. But God is speaking then through a
different way. The voice goes out verse four. Their voice
goes out through all of the earth, their words to
the end of the earth. This word, the voice can
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speak about a different word too, And the hebret it
means the line, a line of God goes forth it's
from the beginning, line upon line, precept upon precept, God
is teaching us his word even through creation around us. Now,
all of a sudden, there's a shift here and this
is now. Now it's going to get really good. Thanks
for bearing with me so far, all right, But now
I'm going to get into the Word. Now, I'm getting
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into the stuff that I really love. Now I'm getting
to the stuff that that like to some degree. Like
King David, from the time I was fifteen years old,
I got a milk crate, filled it with two different Bibles,
three different manuals about studying the Word of God, and
I would go out to the.
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Woods behind my house and I would.
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I quit watching TV, I quit playing sports with my friends,
and I went out into those woods and I just
studied the Word of God two, three, four, sometimes five
hours till it was dark at night. And I had
from the time I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old.
I have to call it a desperate hunger for the
Word of God. It's like I would read this and
I'd go like that was good, But I want more,
you know, give me more, Jesus, give me more of You.
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And a hunger for the word of God.
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And so I'm thankful for what he's teaching us in creation,
aren't you?
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But I want to talk about the second part.
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Here he talks about the sun as a part of creation,
and he says here verse five, which the sun comes
out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a
strong man it runs its course.
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Verse six.
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It's rising is from the ends of the heaven and
his circuits to the end of them, and there is
nothing hidden from its heat. In other words, God's bringing
the heat, and we're about to see something here in
transition in the Psalms, here when David just begins to
stop speaking about creation, but the last thing he says
about creation, he begins to speak not about the universe
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and whole, but just our sun, independently are our son.
And he uses the word here it goes in its circuit.
And many scholars for a long long time looked at
that verse and said, you know, this is evidence that
the Bible is inaccurate or true. Scientists generations go would say,
you know, because how foolish they think. The earth circuits.
Excuse me, the Sun circuits around the Earth. And we
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all know that the sun doesn't move. It's not The
Earth is in status and the Sun is not rotating
around it.
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So they despise the scripture.
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Because they thought this was an inaccurate thing, until scientists
started discovering later on that the Earth the Sun actually
is moving. Did you know that the Sun is actually moving?
The Sun moves around to orbit around our our Milky Way.
The Earth orbits around the Sun at sixty seven thousand
miles an hour.
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That's pretty fast.
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But the Sun, with the Earth and all the other
planets and moons in its gravity, travels around the Milky
Way at one hundred and thirty seven miles per second,
which is five hundred thousand miles per hour half half
a million miles an hour. If you were to take
a taxi in New York City or get on the
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subway and it was going twenty or thirty miles an hour,
and all of a sudden he accelerated, was going forty
or fifty or sixt year, that train started going eighty
or one hundred, and it got up to one hundred and twenty.
You'd be screaming your head off, wouldn't you. And many
of you have already experienced that multiple of times.
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But at one hundred and twenty miles per hour.
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Multiply that by four thousand, one hundred and sixty six times,
and you have how fast the Sun is traveling around
the Milky Way galaxy.
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Are you getting dizzy yet? Next? Our whole Milky Way.
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And the Earth with it is travel going to get
sixty seven thousand miles around the Sun. Or while that's
going travel while we're traveling around the Sun, the Sun's
traveling around the Milky Way together, the Sun and the
planets are traveling at twenty five miles per second around
a cluster of galaxies called the Local Group. Is a
fun scientific name, isn't it? You know?
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New one have these names you can't pronounce. I kind
of like this one.
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The Local Group is the closest cluster of galaxies, and
the Local Group, our Sun and galaxy, the Milky Way
is traveling around the Local Group at three hundred and
seventy five miles per second towards the Virgo cluster, which
is forty five million light years away.
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You are not standing still right now. You are traveling fast.
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And God was accurate in scriptures even before the scientists
knew this, that the Sun is moving around in a circuit.
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That is God speaking about who he is. That is
God speaking about his goodness.
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That is God understanding things we could never understand in
the fullness.
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And now here's this marvelous shift.
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David is marveling at the wonders of the sun and
the stars, and the mountains and the rivers. But he says,
all these things pale. They're minuscule in comparison to the
greater light of the glory of God that's found in
the Word of God. The sun and his most brilliant
shine does not shine like this book does. The speed
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of travel that which we see in the universe has
nothing to do with the speed of power of God working.
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In your life through his word.
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And I pray that my sermon today, my message tonight,
would be one if you don't remember anything I say,
there'll be some strange inkling in your heart to say, God,
give me a.
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Hunger for your word.
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Put a fresh fire in my heart, that I would
meditate on this book day and night, that I would
maybe take some time to turn the TV off, or
just stay up a little bit later, or wake up
a little bit sooner. Give me a craving hunger. If
you're hungry for it, you'll make time. If you're hungry
for it, you'll find time. If you thirst for it,
you find the refrigerator, and we can find the Word
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of God being alive to us. Verse seven through eleven
begins to and I'll move along quickly. Verse seven through
through nine, excuse me, begins to speak about the Word
of God. And everything I've said up to this point
is introduction. So you're ready to get into it now.
The Word of God, it's just three simple verses seventy
eight to nine, but six times in these three verses
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it says this of the Lord of the Lord, of
the Lord, the Word of the Lord, of the Lord
of the Lord.
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You know what David is trying to say.
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These things are of God, the Word of God, the
perfections of God, the statutes of God, the laws of God,
the rules of God. These are things of God. These
are God's things. The word there is Yahweh. These are
of Yahweh. Yahweh loves his word. Yahweh says his word
is perfect. Yeahwaih says his word is true. Yahways said
his word is sure. Yahways says his word is right.
Ye always said his word is clean, Yahweh said his Lord,
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his word is perfect. And Yahweh goes on to say,
not only is it perfect and and right and pure
and clean, but it revives the soul. It makes wise
people who are simple. It causes a rejoicing of our heart.
It lightens our eyes when we're in darkness. It causes
endurance in our life when we're struggling, we feel down
and out. It makes us righteous. It makes us live
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with a hunger and the righteousness. So six descriptive words law, testament, precepts, commandments,
fear of the Lord, and rule. And there are six
things that these things have within them, being perfect, being sure,
being right, being pure, being clean, being true. And these
are the six things that God does as a result
of these laws that are perfect and these testimonies that
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are sure.
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He's reviving us, he's making us wise.
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He's causing our hearts to rejoice, he's causing our eyes
to light up with joy and life. And he's causing
endurance and making us righteous in the things of God.
The law of the Lord is perfect. It's perfect. And
what does this perfection do. It revives, It restores you.
If you're looking to be revived and restored. I suggest
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to you the best way is not the local cinema,
And I certainly would not suggest to you the local bar.
I would not suggest to you even a vacation. I
would not suggest to you anything other than what God
says himself, the reviving of the soul, or the wakening
of the soul, or the turning back to the fire
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and passionate from God. The perfect way to find that,
the complete way to find that is in the Torah,
the Law of the Lord, the first five books of
the Word. And so if you'll study the Word of God,
your soul will be revived. And many of us in
the world today are looking for worldly answers to a
spiritual problem. We're trying to find some way to get
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revived in our heart and our mind. And when we
can't find it, we just look for something new, the
next thing down the road. But God is saying, I
have something perfect for you. There's not many offers in
the world today that show you something's perfect.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I know, the guy.
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Says there's perfect slippers, and there's the perfect blanket, but
there's not The perfect thing is in the Law of
the Lord that he has for you day and night.
The second thing he says is his testimony of the
Lord is sure, making wise the simple. If you find
wisdom to be a problem, you don't know how to
discern who should I marry, what kind of jobs should
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I have? How should I raise my kids? You get concerned.
There's something simple about all of us. We just don't
know what the best decision is in our life. God
has a solution for you, and the solution is not
just a nice solution compared to other solutions.
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The Bible says, this solution is sure.
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In other words, you could say, in our matter in
verinocular vernacular, it's a sure thing, not offer very often
a sure thing. God's saying, this is a short thing.
What is it? It's my testimony, my testimony. The testimony
is different than the law. The law is like the
five books of the Torah of Moses and other scriptures.
But this is God speaking who he is. He said
to Moses, I am that I am. This is my testimony,
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And he has a testimony about himself and when, and
that testimony is inscribed in the scripture. Yes, it's in creation,
but it's more clear in his word. He tells you
who he is. He's the most important person in your life,
The most important being is him, and he has described
himself in this book. And that's why David says, I'm
meditated on a day and night. I hunger and thirst
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for these words. These words were life to me. One
of the prophets says, these words were found, and I
ate them, and I ate them. They just got into
my soul and they became a joy to me. You
don't have to say it, but I'll say halleluja right
there for myself to say. The precepts. The third thing,
the precepts of the Lord are right. Rejoicing the soul.
How many of you want to have a rejoicing soul?
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You know, you just want you just want to rejoice.
I just I just wish I could get happy. Maybe
I need to see a counselor maybe I maybe I
need to take a pill. I'm depressed all the time.
I don't know how to get joy back in my soul.
I've lost the joy I lost. I've lost the fire.
God has a solution for you, and he says it's
in his word. It's the right way to go. He says,
the precepts of the Lord are right. You can't go
wrong with the word of the Lord. Study it day
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and night, dig into it, memorize it, get to know it,
and you will live a right life. You'll see things
turn out right in your life. These are the precepts.
The precept is a guiding principle. Some organizations have guiding principles.
We're going to be doing team work, or we're going
to have good order, or we're going to be compassionate
as people. We have these are called guiding principles of
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a company. Interesting, God has his own guiding principles, and
they are called precepts. That's what the Hebrew word for
precept means how he guides us. These are principles to
live your life by, and that is what causes you.
When you live by these precepts, they're right for you,
and it will cause a rejoicing in your heart. Anybody
rejoicing tonight. If you're not rejoicing tonight, I have the
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prescription for you. I have the remedy for it. It's
right in this book. Dig into it and you'll find
rejoicing of the soul as we move on quickly. The
commandments another way of saying things. The commandments of the
Lord are pure. They enlighten the eyes if everything around
you seems dark and dreary, if you feel down and out,
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if you feel the world is a traumatic place, if
you feel depressed by everything you're seeing around you, and
your eyes have kind of grown dim in a sense
of maybe from my childhood trauma, or maybe you want
to turn on the news.
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I just want to close my eyes.
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Everything around me seems dark and depressing and weary. I'm
fed up with it. I don't want to hear another
portion of bad news. And God says I have a
remedy for that, because he says, here, I can lighten
your eyes again. In other words, put the spark back
in you. Put the fire of God back in you.
The prophet Jeremiah was weary of all the things were
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going on.
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In the world.
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He saw the trauma and the heartache and the brokenness
and the rebellion towards God and the sex immorality of
his day, and he says, I'm giving up. I don't
want to preach ever again. But he says, oh, but
there was a fire shut up in my bones and
I could not contain it. I have to preach the
word of God. And you can have that fire that
lights up your eyes once again. You can become, in
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other words, brilliant, brilliant, a flame in your eyes with
a passion for Jesus, where people notice there's something different
about you. What is it about you that it's this?
You're on fire for God. And when you get on
fire for God. John Wesley said it so well, people
will come to watch you burn. People will see that
fire in your life. And God says it's pure. His
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commands are pure. They're not mixed, they're not adulterated, they're
not deluded. They are pure words from God's throne. Moving quickly.
Five we got five and six to go. The fear
of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. It's if you
want endurance. Got a spark in your eye, You got
joy back in your heart.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You're feeling good. How many have you been there before?
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But you've also got off the mountain back into the valley,
and you've been up and then and you've been down.
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You've been up and down.
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Look at this promise now enduring forever, a constant endurance
in the things. He's already just promised that his word
would deliver joy in the Lord, fire in your life.
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Eyes, brilliant with.
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The Lord, purity, cleanliness, godliness. These are promises of God.
And he says these promises will endure forever. Why because
they are clean, they are clean. These are promises of God.
And where do they come from this? Where does this
clean promise of enduring and righteousness and holiness forever? It
comes in the fear of the Lord. That's what David
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says in this verse. Here, the verse nine, the fear
of the Lord. It doesn't seem to mix, does it,
the fear of.
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The Lord with being clean.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It seems like fear of the Lord, trembling, fear of
the Lord, repentance, fear of the Lord, sorrow. But it's
fear of the Lord and a clean heart. It's the
fear of the Lord that brings the clean heart. I
remember in Abraham when he went into Egypt and he
was afraid they were going to kill him because they
were lusting after his wife. And what he says in
Genesis twenty, verse eleven says, because there is no fear
of God in this place, they will kill me. Lawlessness
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that we're seeing in our culture today, the rebellion against
the things of God and even the simple laws of
our land. They come because there's no fear of the Lord,
and there's no fear of the Lord, there's no clean
living any longer. And we can legislate it all we want,
and we can preach against all we want, but until
there's the fear of the Lord, no one around us
will live a clean life. And our cities won't be clean,
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our schools won't be clean, and our government won't be clean,
and the White House won't be clean, the Supreme Court
won't be clean. Nothing will be clean unless we get
back to the fear of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Unless we have a revival once.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Again and say God, we have turned from your statues,
we have turned from your ways, and.
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We're coming back to you now.
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And as I get ready to close here one last verse,
we want to look at the rules of the Lord
are true and righteous all together. The promise here is
to be righteous altogether, not partly righteous not. I'm doing
pretty good and I pray a little bit and I
read a little bit, but I'm also kind of stuck
in pornography or you know. I stop drinking now and
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I'm really doing good on that, but I'm still screaming
and yelling at my kids This promise is powerful, that
the Word of God gives the ability to be all
together righteous. The weble says, wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his ways from unrighteousness? How can a young man
cleanse his ways by taking heed to the word of God?
This book has precious promises for you. If we will
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find it out, we can be righteous together by and
living in the truth.
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The righteous.
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Being righteous altogether comes because God has rules. The Hebrew
word here speaks of household rules. How many of you
fathers or mothers have rules in your household? Don't take
your shoes off and stand on the table while you're
eating spaghetti.
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That's a rule in my house. As I'm not sure.
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I'm not going to tell you why we had this
set that rule up, but it was one of the
rules as my kids were growing up. So, if these
are the household rules of God, these are the manners
or customs of a community. And God is saying that
if you want to be righteous altogether, there are certain
rules and my rules. And here's the final thing I'll
say to you. But the Word of God is truth. We
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live in a culture where truth is all considered relative.
Oprah Winfrey asks almost every one of her guests, tell
me your truth.
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I want to throw a book at the TV. I
want to throw my Bible. I don't throw my Bible around,
but I want to throw it.
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There's no such thing as your truth. Your truth could
tell you you're a woman trapped in a man's body. Your
truth could tell you all kinds of stuff. Marry this person,
go to this place, Divorce your wife. She's no good
for you. Your truth can tell you all kinds of things.
It's emotional. I feel, I feel. And there's no absolute
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truth anymore unless we return as a nation to the
Word of God, and not and not just as a
nation turning back to the Word of God, but preachers
turning back to the Word of God. I'm so glad
the Word of God has preached faithfully here. I've heard
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some of the sermons here of the Word of God
has preached faithfully. And some of you have been here
so long you don't know what it's like around the
world today. Such foolishness from this pulpit. At best, the
Word of God is maybe they read one verse, close
the book and start telling dreams and visions they've had
about the money they're going to make or stories and clever,
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humorous forms of entertainment. And the Word of God is
not being preached. And that's why I've determined. You've probably
noticed it tonight. I determined the past few years that
the American Church and where we do these pastors' conferences,
need to return to the preaching of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
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And I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I used to want to preach good, and I used
to want to get applause, and I used to want
to walk up off stage and say, I think that
was a really hot sermon. But now what the Lord
is teaching me. So, Garrett, when you get up there,
you stand up there and you put your finger in
the book, and you go verse by verse and line
by line, and truth by truth you preach. You tell
your people, look look at this, look at this thing.
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Don't look at me, don't look at this, look at
this book, look into it. And I heard no old
preacher say one time, you put your finger in that
book and you go down line by line, and when
that hand gets tired, it's okay, go ahead and put
it in your pocket, and then get out your other
finger and go look at the book, look at the book.
Look at the book. I want to encourage you to
look at the book, stand with it if you would.
I want to pray for you, pastor Tim you're coming back.
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I want to pray for you.
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Father.
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Right now, your Holy Spirit, quicken is the Word of God.
It's not just bootstrapping it and saying I'll try hardly
read the Bible. Lord, it's your Holy Spirit that makes
the Word alive to us. It illuminates it. And so
I asked the Holy Spirit to come.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Now.
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We haven't really talked about the Holy Spirit in this message.
We talked about the Word of God. It's because the
Holy Spirit makes the Word of God known. He doesn't
just make visions and dreams known. He makes the Word
of God known, the words of Jesus, the words of life.
And so, Father, I'm asking for the Holy Spirit right
now to fill many many hearts in this place with
a fresh hunger for the Word of God. I pray
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that this is so vibrant and alive to them they
can't wait to leave this building to get home and
open up the book. And ask you to say, Lord,
put your finger in this for me and tell me
to look look at this. Let it come alive. Let
it be life to me. Let it be joy, Let
it alive in my eyes. Let it rejoice my heart.
Let it make me clean, Let it make me pure,
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Let it make me true, that I would know the
truth and be able to walk there in it, and
I won't be deceived by false teachings that prop up
in the church time and time again. But I'll be
walking in truth. I thank you for your truth. I
thank you for your purity. I thank you for your cleansing,
and I thank you for that we can be righteous altogether.
When we just say this is our word, we love it.
We love you, we love the Word of God, we
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love the God of the Word. We give thanks for
this in Jesus' name. Everybody said Amen, Amen, God, bless
you all. Thank you letting me be with you and
share on the word of God. Pastor ten point health,
thanks jan appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Hallo luie.
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Turn with me to your scriptures Psalm chapter nineteen, the
Book of Psalm chapter nineteen. As a matter of fact,
if you don't mind, just if you have your Bible
in your hand or your device that has their Bible
on it, if you don't mind standing and just holding
that word in front of you and we're just going.
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To pray over the Word of God.
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If you have a great love for God's word, you
are going to love what you hear tonight. If you
don't necessarily have that burning passionate, zealous ambition, hunger in
your heart for the world of God, I kind of
think God's going to do a miracle tonight and give
that to you. If you've had it and you're missing
it now a little bit, it's waned. It's not that
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you've got luke warm, but just the things of your heart.
The busyness of schedule has caused this to diminish in
that zeal for the things.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Of the Lord, the word of the Lord, the scripture.
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Then we pray that tonight would be a rekindling of
that fire for the word of God in your heart. Father,
I pray right now over the word to pray that
your word would come alive. It'd be that it is
that sharp, two edged sword. And so I'm just asking
you to deliver what comes from your word.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Lord.
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This would be easy for me if I'm not trying
to make things up.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's just the delivery of your word. And I thank
you for your word.
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Going forth tonight in Jesus name, remain standing if you would,
We're going to read the whole chapter of the nineteenth Psalm.
I want to encourage you and warn you. Sometimes when
we read scriptures, particularly a long passage of scripture, we
kind of want the preacher to get onto the commentary
about it. But I want to tell you tonight the
commentary about it is not important as the word of
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God itself. The most important thing I will do in
your presence tonight is these next few minutes as I
read these verses. So don't drift off. Just look at
this and say, this is the word of the Lord.
Psalm nineteen to the choir master the Psalm of David's
the David, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
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the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day today pours forth speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech,
There are no words whose voice is not heard. Their
voice goes through all the earth, and their words to
the ends of the world. In them, he has sent
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set a tent for the Sun, which comes out like
a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and a strong man runs
its courts with joy. Its rising is from the ends
of the heavens, and its circuit is to the ends
of them, And there is nothing hidden from his heat.
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
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The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.
The commandments of the Lord are pure, enlightening the heart.
The fear of the Lord is clean and enduring forever.
The rules of the Lord are true and righteous. All together.
More to be desired are they than gold, even much
more than fine gold. Sweeter also than honey, and the
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drippings of the honeycomb. More Over, them by, as your
servant warned, in keeping them or there is great reward.
Who can discern as errors. Declare me innocent from hidden
false Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Let them not have dominion over me.
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Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer. This is the word of the Lord,
and you may be seated. Charles Spurtson says about this
chapter that we've just read. In his earliest days, the Psalmist,
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while keeping his father's flock, had devoted himself to the
study of God's two great books. God's two great books,
one being Nature and the other being Scripture. This chapter
we've just read describes those two books of God. One
the Creation, God speaks through his works. The second his Word.
God speaks through his word. The first one is is
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what it's called the General Revelation.
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It's found in the handy works of God.
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Great is my faithfulness, Seeing His faithfulness in the stars
and the moon, and the sun, and the shine, and
the mountains and the rivers. Those are things we have
in Colorado that maybe you haven't seen yet. The beauty
of God's nature speaks about his handiwork. It reveals the
things of God. And David, as a young man, he
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understood these two books, and I want to encourage you
to live in these two books to appreciate what God
has created around you. Oftentimes I look at my hand
and I just go, that's a miracle. It moves my
brain says something and it does it, and.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I just look at that and go like, that's a miracle.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's wonderful what God has done. And I don't even
have the best looking hand in the world.
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But just to see what God has done.
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In creation a baby. I have four children, nine grandchildren.
To hold the baby in your hands, beauty of God's creation.
He speaks through these things, but he also speaks more
importantly through his.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Word, through scripture, through the Word of God. David looks
at these books.
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And he remembers these things that were really in his
heart from his birth. He says in psalmone thirty nine,
verse thirteen, You form me in my inward parts, you knitted.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Me together in my mother's womb.
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I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works. There's the first thing he did.
He shows his beauty and the works that he's done
around and my soul knows you very well. He knew
God from the time he was born. Just as a baby,
he knew the things of God, probably from his family
and from others around him. But it wasn't just as
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a baby. As a young man, he grew up in
the things of the Lord. First Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse
fourteen says the Lord sought out a man after his
own heart. And this is when Samuel was looking for
a new king, after King Saul had failed the test
of the Lord, so to speak, and he's looking for
a new king. And little David, the youngest of all
his brothers, wasn't even part of the selection committee, the
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one who could possibly be selected. And Samuel says, there
has to be another brother, And God says, Tom, there's
one who's been seeking after my heart. A little boy
out in the wilderness, out in the forest, out in
the fields, tending sheep. He's been seeking after my heart.
He's been looking at these two books, and I have
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chosen him. He had a great hunger for the things
of the Lord when he became When he became king, he
had access. Historians tell us he had access to these books,
the first five books of Moses called the Torah. He
had the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, and
he also had the Book of the Book the Books
of Samuel, and so he could study these books. As
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a matter of fact, Dudon me seventeen, verse eighteen through
twenty says, there's a commandment given to kings that when
they become kings, they are to take the scriptures and
write them in their own book. And then there are
to take that book and meditate it on day and night.
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They are not to leave that book behind everywhere they go.
They are to bring that book with him.
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So there's something about King David, this heart after God continues.
It wasn't just a heart of singing, wasn't just a
heart of praise, although those are good. But he had
a heart for the book. He was a man of
the book. He carried that book with him. Saw him
sixteen eight says this I have set before me, have
set before me the Lord, because he is always at
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my right hand. Now, how do it make sense of that? Well,
the Rabbitical teachings of the Old Testaments tell us that
what the kings would do when they wrote in that
little book, some of the different testimonies of the lords,
some of the writings of Moses, they would put it
in a book, and then they would tie that into
their right hand, and they would have that book, and
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they would carry that book, not just carrying a book
around with them, but even when they were dancing or singing,
or ruling or reigning, whatever they were doing, they had
that book tied to their right hand. It was dear
to them. They loved this book. The kings of the
Old Testament, most of them loved this book. And David
loved it with all of his heart. And then when
he was an old man, First Kings, chapter two, verse
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one through four says this about him. On his deathbed,
he called his young son Solomon. He said this to him,
I am about to go the way of all the earth.
Keep the charge of the Lord, your God, walking in
his way and keeping his statues, keeping his commandments, keeping
his rules, and keeping his testimony, and it will go
well with you and all of your children after you.
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David was born with a hunger for the word of
God grew up in a place where he desired the
word of God, became a king, and carried the Word
of God with him everywhere he went.
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And we was all man about to die. What was
on his heart?
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My son, dig into this word, growing this word, get
to know this word. Be hungry for this word, be
consumed for this word. Let this passion for the Word
of God become the highest pursuit of your life, more
than ruling over our kingdom, more than singing songs, more
than reigning, and more than anything else in your life.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Have a hunger for the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
This generation and the church that we're living in today
needs a revival of the Word of God. We need
to see the word of God proclaimed, preach, taught, sung,
the Word of God becoming tied to our right hand,
that we would say, God, I want to hunger, to
be fresh again in the love for your word. Give
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me a love for your word. David speaks about these
these two different things, and then Psalm nineteen, verse one
through six, we see him talking about this first book,
the Book of Nature, the Book of Creation, the book
of general Revelation. Then from seven through nine we see
speaking about specific revelation God has spoken in these last
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days through the Word, through his son, who is the Word,
and he has speaken to us now, not just through creation,
but he's speaking through us through his Word. In the
first six verses, David speaks about God and he uses
the word when he uses the word God, there he
uses the word L e l and what he means
by that is sovereign one, omnipotent one. He sees him
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as a king almost high, ruling and reigning with power
and majesty and might and splendor. But then when he
begins to speak about his word in verse seven, the
Law of the Lord, he changed his language and this
word Lord in English would be translated or in the
Hebrew would be Yahweh. And so he moves from l
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God of power and might and majesty to eloheim or
to Yahweh, to the more personal. In other words, I
can know something about your power in creation around me.
But when I really want to know you as a
friend speaks to a friend, as a son to a father,
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then you're mind Yahweh's that's where you speak life into
my heart. And I want to take just a few
moments with you in the time I have with you
to break these two books down and see where you're
at with this hunger for the word of the Lord.
Verse one, the heavens declare the glory of God, and
the sky proclaims his handiwork. The word heaven there speaks
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of the realms, or or or the or the sky,
or in its original it means to be lofty or
the lofty realms. And it says here that the heavens
declare the glory of God, the lofty realms. The things
we see when you look out at nature, when you
look between the buildings and the skyscrapers in New York,
you see a little bit of cloud, you see a
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little bit of sunshine. You see sometimes some stars, possibly
even at night. That's the handy work of God, and
it's in the realm. And it says here the word
declare the heavens declare a strange word.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The heavens actually speak something to you.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The clouds in the sky, the stars at night, the
lightning bolts, the thunderstorms, they speak something to you. And
this word declared is often translated as a scribe. Somebody
who would write something, would write something into our mind,
into our heart, into our understanding. It means to announce
or to inscribe, or it can literally mean to preach.
The sky preaches to us, The clouds preach to us,
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The moon preaches to us. The sun and its orbit
preaches to us and tell us something amazing. The heavens
don't declare the heavens. The heavens don't say, aren't we
a pretty heaven? Aren't the stars shining so bright at night?
Deep in the heart of Texas. No, there's something more
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that the Word is trying to say to us. And
look what it says here. The heavens declare. What's the
next few words, the glory of God, hallelujah. The heavens
aren't declaring their own beauty, magesty, or splendor. And that's
where a lot of people fall short of understanding the
glory of God and the Word of God, because they're
looking just to creation.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I worship nature.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I go out into the woods and into the trees
or into Central Park, and I just commune with the
frogs and the birds, and the birds sing me songs
and it's glorious. No, every bird that sings the singing
the glory of God. Every tree that branches its flowers
is proclaiming the word of God. God is, God is
to be glorified. God is the one they're preaching about.
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God is the one they're singing about. God is the
one that ducks are quacking about. That it is God
in all of nature. He's wanting to speak to us,
and the heavens are declaring it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It's a powerful word. It's not a light word like
we're kind of speaking a little bit to you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
No, it's a word like a preacher which preaches with fire,
a fire shut up in our bones. But oftentimes people
don't listen to this voice. They don't listen to this majesty.
And so that's why Romans one twenty talks about even
though the divine nature and the things that are seen
of God's character are seen in nature, people suppress that truth.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So everybody in their right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Mind, in a clear understanding, without rebellion and the sin
nature in the heart, we look at the things that
God created and would bow down in honor and majesty
and worship him. But because of the sin nature, the
fallen nature of man, we've rebuilt against God. And we
don't want a ruler in our life. We want to
live an independent life, and therefore we don't receive the
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glory of God being preached from creation around us.
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But God doesn't give up.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Verse two says day today pours out. First verse he's
declaring his glory. Now he's starting to pour it out.
Are you going to see my glory? Are you going
to see windstorms? Are you going to see volcanoes? Are
you going to see the Psalms calls it the terrors
of the Lord. They that go down into the sea
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and do business in great ships. These see the works
of the Lord, the powerful, majestic works of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And this is what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Now, He's pouring forth speech, and night and day reveals
what the knowledge of God. God is wanting to God
loves to speak to you. Did you know that God
loves to speak to people in New York City, even
those who are hardened and heart and death in ears.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He wants to speak his word. He wants to.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Show his glory and his majesty. And he's saying this,
and in verses one and two put together. He uses
the word declaring, which is preaching. He uses the word proclaiming,
which is letting others know. He uses the word pouring
out speech, which is a fountain that's flowing, and he
uses a revealing of his knowledge. He's revealing things even
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just in nature, let alone what we're about to study.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
In the word.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Part of this, the preacher reveals and proclaims day and night.
It's twenty four hours. I won't preach that long here tonight,
but can you imagine day and night. Speech pours forth.
Knowledge of God pours forth day and night. It is
unceasing twenty four to seven, three hundred and sixty five
days a year, every year, calendar year, since the beginning
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creation of time. God has done this, this one thing.
I want to be known. I want to speak. I
want you to know me. I want you to know
me well. I want you to study me. I want
you to be close to me. I want you to
be near to me. I want to be dear to you.
I want to let you know who I.
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Am, what I'm like.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's what God loves to do. Twenty four to seven.
He does these things Verse three.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
There is no speech.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
There are no words whose voice is not heard. In
other words, there's no place where God's word is not heard.
There are only missionaries in certain countries. There are some countries.
One country when my missions director at World Challenge told
me recently that just to own a Bible, there is
a death sentence. If they find you have a Bible,
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even on your phone, your phone device, or you're trying
to hide it in there, and they find a Bible
app they will literally behead you. And there are some
countries where the word of God is not preached in
spoken form, but you know what, every country in the
world has this speech being revealed to it. The knowledge
of God is being known. It's not only twenty four
to seven, but it's everywhere. There's no speech, there are
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no words. Whose voice is not heard. In other words,
there's nowhere word. This is not being heard. Nobody is
Roman says, we're all without excuse, because even Creation has
spoken to us about the good things of God. The
literal Hebrew translation of this is a little bit different.
It's basically like this, no speech period, no words period.
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Their voice is not heard period. Speaking of a different
way saying right now in creation, you're seeing things, you're
catching drift of things, you're understanding some things.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
But it's not quite the voice yet. It's not quite
the speech yet, it's.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Not quite being the word being heard. It's a hint,
even David, writing several thousand years before Christ is born,
there is a hint here of something to come, a
word to come, a voice to come. Not John the Baptist,
the voice in the wilderness, but the voice of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Christ in these last days.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hebrew says he speaks through this son, and David was
aware of this. He's speaking in the beauty when I'm
in the shepherd in the fields. He speaks through his
beauty's speaking twenty four to seven. He's speaking to the
whole world. But there's another voice coming. There's another one coming,
and that's going to be the most profound voice of all.
Right now, there's really no speech, not hearing words.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's not God saying look at the stars that means
I'm alive. He's not speaking literally like that in these times.
In those times, there's no speech, no words where their
voice is heard. But God is speaking then through a
different way. The voice goes out verse four. Their voice
goes out through all of the earth, their words to
the end of the earth. This word, the voice can
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speak about a different word too, And the hebret it
means the line, a line of God goes forth it's
from the beginning, line upon line, precept upon precept, God
is teaching us his word even through creation around us. Now,
all of a sudden, there's a shift here and this
is now. Now it's going to get really good. Thanks
for bearing with me so far, all right, But now
I'm going to get into the Word. Now, I'm getting
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into the stuff that I really love. Now I'm getting
to the stuff that that like to some degree. Like
King David, from the time I was fifteen years old,
I got a milk crate, filled it with two different Bibles,
three different manuals about studying the Word of God, and
I would go out to the.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Woods behind my house and I would.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I quit watching TV, I quit playing sports with my friends,
and I went out into those woods and I just
studied the Word of God two, three, four, sometimes five
hours till it was dark at night. And I had
from the time I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old.
I have to call it a desperate hunger for the
Word of God. It's like I would read this and
I'd go like that was good, But I want more,
you know, give me more, Jesus, give me more of You.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And a hunger for the word of God.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And so I'm thankful for what he's teaching us in creation,
aren't you?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But I want to talk about the second part.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Here he talks about the sun as a part of creation,
and he says here verse five, which the sun comes
out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a
strong man it runs its course.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Verse six.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's rising is from the ends of the heaven and
his circuits to the end of them, and there is
nothing hidden from its heat. In other words, God's bringing
the heat, and we're about to see something here in
transition in the Psalms, here when David just begins to
stop speaking about creation, but the last thing he says
about creation, he begins to speak not about the universe
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and whole, but just our sun, independently are our son.
And he uses the word here it goes in its circuit.
And many scholars for a long long time looked at
that verse and said, you know, this is evidence that
the Bible is inaccurate or true. Scientists generations go would say,
you know, because how foolish they think. The earth circuits.
Excuse me, the Sun circuits around the Earth. And we
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all know that the sun doesn't move. It's not The
Earth is in status and the Sun is not rotating
around it.
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So they despise the scripture.
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Because they thought this was an inaccurate thing, until scientists
started discovering later on that the Earth the Sun actually
is moving. Did you know that the Sun is actually moving?
The Sun moves around to orbit around our our Milky Way.
The Earth orbits around the Sun at sixty seven thousand
miles an hour.
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That's pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
But the Sun, with the Earth and all the other
planets and moons in its gravity, travels around the Milky
Way at one hundred and thirty seven miles per second,
which is five hundred thousand miles per hour half half
a million miles an hour. If you were to take
a taxi in New York City or get on the
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subway and it was going twenty or thirty miles an hour,
and all of a sudden he accelerated, was going forty
or fifty or sixt year, that train started going eighty
or one hundred, and it got up to one hundred and twenty.
You'd be screaming your head off, wouldn't you. And many
of you have already experienced that multiple of times.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But at one hundred and twenty miles per hour.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Multiply that by four thousand, one hundred and sixty six times,
and you have how fast the Sun is traveling around
the Milky Way galaxy.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Are you getting dizzy yet? Next? Our whole Milky Way.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And the Earth with it is travel going to get
sixty seven thousand miles around the Sun. Or while that's
going travel while we're traveling around the Sun, the Sun's
traveling around the Milky Way together, the Sun and the
planets are traveling at twenty five miles per second around
a cluster of galaxies called the Local Group. Is a
fun scientific name, isn't it? You know?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
New one have these names you can't pronounce. I kind
of like this one.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The Local Group is the closest cluster of galaxies, and
the Local Group, our Sun and galaxy, the Milky Way
is traveling around the Local Group at three hundred and
seventy five miles per second towards the Virgo cluster, which
is forty five million light years away.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You are not standing still right now. You are traveling fast.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And God was accurate in scriptures even before the scientists
knew this, that the Sun is moving around in a circuit.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
That is God speaking about who he is. That is
God speaking about his goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That is God understanding things we could never understand in
the fullness.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And now here's this marvelous shift.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
David is marveling at the wonders of the sun and
the stars, and the mountains and the rivers. But he says,
all these things pale. They're minuscule in comparison to the
greater light of the glory of God that's found in
the Word of God. The sun and his most brilliant
shine does not shine like this book does. The speed
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of travel that which we see in the universe has
nothing to do with the speed of power of God working.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
In your life through his word.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And I pray that my sermon today, my message tonight,
would be one if you don't remember anything I say,
there'll be some strange inkling in your heart to say, God,
give me a.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Hunger for your word.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Put a fresh fire in my heart, that I would
meditate on this book day and night, that I would
maybe take some time to turn the TV off, or
just stay up a little bit later, or wake up
a little bit sooner. Give me a craving hunger. If
you're hungry for it, you'll make time. If you're hungry
for it, you'll find time. If you thirst for it,
you find the refrigerator, and we can find the Word
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of God being alive to us. Verse seven through eleven
begins to and I'll move along quickly. Verse seven through
through nine, excuse me, begins to speak about the Word
of God. And everything I've said up to this point
is introduction. So you're ready to get into it now.
The Word of God, it's just three simple verses seventy
eight to nine, but six times in these three verses
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it says this of the Lord of the Lord, of
the Lord, the Word of the Lord, of the Lord
of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You know what David is trying to say.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
These things are of God, the Word of God, the
perfections of God, the statutes of God, the laws of God,
the rules of God. These are things of God. These
are God's things. The word there is Yahweh. These are
of Yahweh. Yahweh loves his word. Yahweh says his word
is perfect. Yeahwaih says his word is true. Yahways said
his word is sure. Yahways says his word is right.
Ye always said his word is clean, Yahweh said his Lord,
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his word is perfect. And Yahweh goes on to say,
not only is it perfect and and right and pure
and clean, but it revives the soul. It makes wise
people who are simple. It causes a rejoicing of our heart.
It lightens our eyes when we're in darkness. It causes
endurance in our life when we're struggling, we feel down
and out. It makes us righteous. It makes us live
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with a hunger and the righteousness. So six descriptive words law, testament, precepts, commandments,
fear of the Lord, and rule. And there are six
things that these things have within them, being perfect, being sure,
being right, being pure, being clean, being true. And these
are the six things that God does as a result
of these laws that are perfect and these testimonies that
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are sure.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
He's reviving us, he's making us wise.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
He's causing our hearts to rejoice, he's causing our eyes
to light up with joy and life. And he's causing
endurance and making us righteous in the things of God.
The law of the Lord is perfect. It's perfect. And
what does this perfection do. It revives, It restores you.
If you're looking to be revived and restored. I suggest
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to you the best way is not the local cinema,
And I certainly would not suggest to you the local bar.
I would not suggest to you even a vacation. I
would not suggest to you anything other than what God
says himself, the reviving of the soul, or the wakening
of the soul, or the turning back to the fire
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and passionate from God. The perfect way to find that,
the complete way to find that is in the Torah,
the Law of the Lord, the first five books of
the Word. And so if you'll study the Word of God,
your soul will be revived. And many of us in
the world today are looking for worldly answers to a
spiritual problem. We're trying to find some way to get
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revived in our heart and our mind. And when we
can't find it, we just look for something new, the
next thing down the road. But God is saying, I
have something perfect for you. There's not many offers in
the world today that show you something's perfect.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I know, the guy.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Says there's perfect slippers, and there's the perfect blanket, but
there's not The perfect thing is in the Law of
the Lord that he has for you day and night.
The second thing he says is his testimony of the
Lord is sure, making wise the simple. If you find
wisdom to be a problem, you don't know how to
discern who should I marry, what kind of jobs should
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I have? How should I raise my kids? You get concerned.
There's something simple about all of us. We just don't
know what the best decision is in our life. God
has a solution for you, and the solution is not
just a nice solution compared to other solutions.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
The Bible says, this solution is sure.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
In other words, you could say, in our matter in
verinocular vernacular, it's a sure thing, not offer very often
a sure thing. God's saying, this is a short thing.
What is it? It's my testimony, my testimony. The testimony
is different than the law. The law is like the
five books of the Torah of Moses and other scriptures.
But this is God speaking who he is. He said
to Moses, I am that I am. This is my testimony,
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And he has a testimony about himself and when, and
that testimony is inscribed in the scripture. Yes, it's in creation,
but it's more clear in his word. He tells you
who he is. He's the most important person in your life,
The most important being is him, and he has described
himself in this book. And that's why David says, I'm
meditated on a day and night. I hunger and thirst
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for these words. These words were life to me. One
of the prophets says, these words were found, and I
ate them, and I ate them. They just got into
my soul and they became a joy to me. You
don't have to say it, but I'll say halleluja right
there for myself to say. The precepts. The third thing,
the precepts of the Lord are right. Rejoicing the soul.
How many of you want to have a rejoicing soul?
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You know, you just want you just want to rejoice.
I just I just wish I could get happy. Maybe
I need to see a counselor maybe I maybe I
need to take a pill. I'm depressed all the time.
I don't know how to get joy back in my soul.
I've lost the joy I lost. I've lost the fire.
God has a solution for you, and he says it's
in his word. It's the right way to go. He says,
the precepts of the Lord are right. You can't go
wrong with the word of the Lord. Study it day
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and night, dig into it, memorize it, get to know it,
and you will live a right life. You'll see things
turn out right in your life. These are the precepts.
The precept is a guiding principle. Some organizations have guiding principles.
We're going to be doing team work, or we're going
to have good order, or we're going to be compassionate
as people. We have these are called guiding principles of
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a company. Interesting, God has his own guiding principles, and
they are called precepts. That's what the Hebrew word for
precept means how he guides us. These are principles to
live your life by, and that is what causes you.
When you live by these precepts, they're right for you,
and it will cause a rejoicing in your heart. Anybody
rejoicing tonight. If you're not rejoicing tonight, I have the
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prescription for you. I have the remedy for it. It's
right in this book. Dig into it and you'll find
rejoicing of the soul as we move on quickly. The
commandments another way of saying things. The commandments of the
Lord are pure. They enlighten the eyes if everything around
you seems dark and dreary, if you feel down and out,
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if you feel the world is a traumatic place, if
you feel depressed by everything you're seeing around you, and
your eyes have kind of grown dim in a sense
of maybe from my childhood trauma, or maybe you want
to turn on the news.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I just want to close my eyes.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Everything around me seems dark and depressing and weary. I'm
fed up with it. I don't want to hear another
portion of bad news. And God says I have a
remedy for that, because he says, here, I can lighten
your eyes again. In other words, put the spark back
in you. Put the fire of God back in you.
The prophet Jeremiah was weary of all the things were
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going on.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
He saw the trauma and the heartache and the brokenness
and the rebellion towards God and the sex immorality of
his day, and he says, I'm giving up. I don't
want to preach ever again. But he says, oh, but
there was a fire shut up in my bones and
I could not contain it. I have to preach the
word of God. And you can have that fire that
lights up your eyes once again. You can become, in
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other words, brilliant, brilliant, a flame in your eyes with
a passion for Jesus, where people notice there's something different
about you. What is it about you that it's this?
You're on fire for God. And when you get on
fire for God. John Wesley said it so well, people
will come to watch you burn. People will see that
fire in your life. And God says it's pure. His
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commands are pure. They're not mixed, they're not adulterated, they're
not deluded. They are pure words from God's throne. Moving quickly.
Five we got five and six to go. The fear
of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. It's if you
want endurance. Got a spark in your eye, You got
joy back in your heart.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You're feeling good. How many have you been there before?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But you've also got off the mountain back into the valley,
and you've been up and then and you've been down.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You've been up and down.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Look at this promise now enduring forever, a constant endurance
in the things. He's already just promised that his word
would deliver joy in the Lord, fire in your life.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Eyes, brilliant with.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
The Lord, purity, cleanliness, godliness. These are promises of God.
And he says these promises will endure forever. Why because
they are clean, they are clean. These are promises of God.
And where do they come from this? Where does this
clean promise of enduring and righteousness and holiness forever? It
comes in the fear of the Lord. That's what David
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says in this verse. Here, the verse nine, the fear
of the Lord. It doesn't seem to mix, does it,
the fear of.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
The Lord with being clean.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It seems like fear of the Lord, trembling, fear of
the Lord, repentance, fear of the Lord, sorrow. But it's
fear of the Lord and a clean heart. It's the
fear of the Lord that brings the clean heart. I
remember in Abraham when he went into Egypt and he
was afraid they were going to kill him because they
were lusting after his wife. And what he says in
Genesis twenty, verse eleven says, because there is no fear
of God in this place, they will kill me. Lawlessness
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that we're seeing in our culture today, the rebellion against
the things of God and even the simple laws of
our land. They come because there's no fear of the Lord,
and there's no fear of the Lord, there's no clean
living any longer. And we can legislate it all we want,
and we can preach against all we want, but until
there's the fear of the Lord, no one around us
will live a clean life. And our cities won't be clean,
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our schools won't be clean, and our government won't be clean,
and the White House won't be clean, the Supreme Court
won't be clean. Nothing will be clean unless we get
back to the fear of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Unless we have a revival once.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Again and say God, we have turned from your statues,
we have turned from your ways, and.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
We're coming back to you now.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And as I get ready to close here one last verse,
we want to look at the rules of the Lord
are true and righteous all together. The promise here is
to be righteous altogether, not partly righteous not. I'm doing
pretty good and I pray a little bit and I
read a little bit, but I'm also kind of stuck
in pornography or you know. I stop drinking now and
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I'm really doing good on that, but I'm still screaming
and yelling at my kids This promise is powerful, that
the Word of God gives the ability to be all
together righteous. The weble says, wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his ways from unrighteousness? How can a young man
cleanse his ways by taking heed to the word of God?
This book has precious promises for you. If we will
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find it out, we can be righteous together by and
living in the truth.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The righteous.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Being righteous altogether comes because God has rules. The Hebrew
word here speaks of household rules. How many of you
fathers or mothers have rules in your household? Don't take
your shoes off and stand on the table while you're
eating spaghetti.
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That's a rule in my house. As I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I'm not going to tell you why we had this
set that rule up, but it was one of the
rules as my kids were growing up. So, if these
are the household rules of God, these are the manners
or customs of a community. And God is saying that
if you want to be righteous altogether, there are certain
rules and my rules. And here's the final thing I'll
say to you. But the Word of God is truth. We
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live in a culture where truth is all considered relative.
Oprah Winfrey asks almost every one of her guests, tell
me your truth.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I want to throw a book at the TV. I
want to throw my Bible. I don't throw my Bible around,
but I want to throw it.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
There's no such thing as your truth. Your truth could
tell you you're a woman trapped in a man's body. Your
truth could tell you all kinds of stuff. Marry this person,
go to this place, Divorce your wife. She's no good
for you. Your truth can tell you all kinds of things.
It's emotional. I feel, I feel. And there's no absolute
(36:52):
truth anymore unless we return as a nation to the
Word of God, and not and not just as a
nation turning back to the Word of God, but preachers
turning back to the Word of God. I'm so glad
the Word of God has preached faithfully here. I've heard
(37:14):
some of the sermons here of the Word of God
has preached faithfully. And some of you have been here
so long you don't know what it's like around the
world today. Such foolishness from this pulpit. At best, the
Word of God is maybe they read one verse, close
the book and start telling dreams and visions they've had
about the money they're going to make or stories and clever,
(37:36):
humorous forms of entertainment. And the Word of God is
not being preached. And that's why I've determined. You've probably
noticed it tonight. I determined the past few years that
the American Church and where we do these pastors' conferences,
need to return to the preaching of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
And I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I used to want to preach good, and I used
to want to get applause, and I used to want
to walk up off stage and say, I think that
was a really hot sermon. But now what the Lord
is teaching me. So, Garrett, when you get up there,
you stand up there and you put your finger in
the book, and you go verse by verse and line
by line, and truth by truth you preach. You tell
your people, look look at this, look at this thing.
(38:16):
Don't look at me, don't look at this, look at
this book, look into it. And I heard no old
preacher say one time, you put your finger in that
book and you go down line by line, and when
that hand gets tired, it's okay, go ahead and put
it in your pocket, and then get out your other
finger and go look at the book, look at the book.
Look at the book. I want to encourage you to
look at the book, stand with it if you would.
I want to pray for you, pastor Tim you're coming back.
(38:37):
I want to pray for you.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Father.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Right now, your Holy Spirit, quicken is the Word of God.
It's not just bootstrapping it and saying I'll try hardly
read the Bible. Lord, it's your Holy Spirit that makes
the Word alive to us. It illuminates it. And so
I asked the Holy Spirit to come.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
We haven't really talked about the Holy Spirit in this message.
We talked about the Word of God. It's because the
Holy Spirit makes the Word of God known. He doesn't
just make visions and dreams known. He makes the Word
of God known, the words of Jesus, the words of life.
And so, Father, I'm asking for the Holy Spirit right
now to fill many many hearts in this place with
a fresh hunger for the Word of God. I pray
(39:19):
that this is so vibrant and alive to them they
can't wait to leave this building to get home and
open up the book. And ask you to say, Lord,
put your finger in this for me and tell me
to look look at this. Let it come alive. Let
it be life to me. Let it be joy, Let
it alive in my eyes. Let it rejoice my heart.
Let it make me clean, Let it make me pure,
(39:40):
Let it make me true, that I would know the
truth and be able to walk there in it, and
I won't be deceived by false teachings that prop up
in the church time and time again. But I'll be
walking in truth. I thank you for your truth. I
thank you for your purity. I thank you for your cleansing,
and I thank you for that we can be righteous altogether.
When we just say this is our word, we love it.
We love you, we love the Word of God, we
(40:02):
love the God of the Word. We give thanks for
this in Jesus' name. Everybody said Amen, Amen, God, bless
you all. Thank you letting me be with you and
share on the word of God. Pastor ten point health,
thanks jan appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Hallo luie.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Come on, can we thank Pastor Gary one more time
just for that word time
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