19 Psalms 16-19 - Pastor Chuck Smith - C2000 Series

so let's turn now to Psalm 16 the sixteenth Psalm is called a mich tomb of David amidst um is actually a meditation or a prayer and there are about five or six Psalms that are designated as mich terms of 56 57 58 59 60 with a 16 David's prayer to the Lord has preserved me O God for in thee do I put my trust the prayer for preservation now David expect well I guess all through his life he had those that were out after him sometimes without cause Saul sought to destroy David later Absalom his own son rebelled against him David was a popular King but it seems that you have you know a person has a capacity of gaining friends but there are some of the people who just become your enemy because you have so many friends and there was a lot of jealousy David was a very handsome young man he was a very athletic person he was a very dynamic person and so it did inspire jealousy and so David was constantly it seems being harassed by those that were jealous of him seeking to get rid of him and so the prayer preserved me O God for in thee do I put my trust oh my soul thou has said unto the Lord thou art my Lord actually again if we read it it more literally to the Hebrew thou has said unto Jehovah thou art my Lord the two different lords again the first one the name of God the second one the title by which it expresses my relationship to him thou art my lord my Adonai I my master the translation my goodness extended not to thee is actually a poor translation that would much better be translated because that doesn't really make much sense does it my goodness extent is not today literally it is I have no goodness but thee and that's a much better translation lord I have no goodness but the if there's anything thing that is good in me it's from the Lord I have no goodness outside of him Hall tells us that what do you have but what you have received and if you've received it then why do you boast as though you didn't receive it if there is any goodness in my life it's because of God's work in my life I can't go around and boast or brag about my work for God or my righteousness or anything else because my righteousness is at that gift of God to me through my faith in Jesus cried no goodness but the Lord and so it is surely a something that we all agree in that truth now David speaks concerning those that would worship other gods their sorrows verse 4 shall be multiplied that hasten after another God their drink offerings of blood will I not offer nor take up their names unto my lips I will not utter the names of the other gods nor will I take up their drink offerings of blood now this is exactly what God have prohibited in the law when he said thou shalt not drink or eat blood God was referring to the pagan sacrifices where they would sacrifice an animal to their gods and as they would take the blood of the animal they would drink it as a libation unto their God the drinking of blood it was definitely prohibited in the law not to drink the blood of animals but it is tragic that the ignorant leaders of the Jehovah Witnesses have translated that commandment to mean that you're not to have any blood transfusions and as the result of this mistranslation due to the ignorance of the leaders they are killing more people every year than Jim Jones killed down Indiana hundreds thousands of people are dying every year because they refuse to take a blood transfusion because the ignorant leaders of the watchtower society have declared to them that they are damning their souls if they take a blood transfusion be because the Bible says that you're not to drink blood but God is referring to the pagan practices that were extant in those days where they would sacrifice an animal to their God and take the blood of the animal and drink it and David is saying I will not drink their drink offerings of blood referring to the very same practice it's tragic that the blind are leading the blind into the ditch my heart goes out to the people that are going around door-to-door because they have been deceived by those leaders into believing everything that comes out from Brooklyn is gospel truth that these men are the true spokesman for God every Church is trying to deceive them they are the only ones who are really preaching the truth of God all of the churches are really mixed up in the Babylonian system of religion and thus all of the churches are the parish and they only have the truth and these poor people have been deceived and they're going around door-to-door to spread that deception but death is the fruit of that deception the Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup I'm not going to drink the cup of their drink offerings of blood to their gods but the Lord is my inheritance and of my cup they'll maintain us my position the lines are fallen unto me in Pleasant places yay I have a goodly heritage I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel my mind also will instruct me in the night seasons oftentimes I have found that God speaks to me in the night seasons it used to be when I was younger that I could never remember when I laid down at night just slept straight through until the alarm in the morning but as I'm getting older somehow I just don't sleep through like I used to now noises in the night can wake me up used to be you could shake and rattle it in fact I used to counsel young kids up at the summer camps and I'd say to them not kids if you're smart you'll just wait till I go to sleep and you can carry the camp off and I'll never know it but let me get to sleep and so they wised up and they'd wait till I go to sleep and then they terrorize the camp I never know it I slept so soundly enough nothing would disturb my sleep but things have changed and now there are things that do disturb my sleep at night and it used to be if something would disturb me I could just roll right back over and go right back to sleep but you know the phone rings at 3:00 in the morning and and then I have difficulty going back to sleep after that and I just lie there and just sort of toss because I've been awakened out of a deep sleep and and and now I'm in the tossing thing and I used to get upset at tossing but no more I find this is just glorious time to commune with the Lord he instructs me in the night seasons just to open my heart to God and and and it's amazing the things that God pours into my heart in the night hours and so I just now take it as an opportunity rather than cursing the sleeplessness of night I just take it as a neat opportunity to be instructed of the Lord in the night seasons I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved and now we are actually getting into a prophecy Peter quotes this on the day of Pentecost when they have been challenged because of the phenomena that is taking place the sound like a mighty rushing wind the Galilean disciples speaking in many different dialects and the accusation these men are filled with new wine they're drunk with new wine and Peter said no these are not drunk as you suppose it's only 9 o'clock in the morning too early to be drunk but this is that which was spoken up by the Prophet Joel and then he quotes the Prophet Joel and then he gave them having given them a scriptural basis for the phenomena that they were observing he then began to preach to them the message was of Jesus there were 7 points to the message he began by the identification of the person he was going to talk about Jesus of Nazareth there are a lot of little Jewish boys named Jesus was a popular name because Joshua was one of the national heroes after all he was the one that led them into the Promised Land Jehovah is salvation and so there were many Jewish mothers that were hoping that their child would be the savior also of Israel and so they named their little boy Joshua which in Greek is Jesus and so to identify him Jesus of Nazareth there is probably a Jesus of Jerusalem and of Bethany and of Bethel and and of Samaria so to identify him Jesus of Nazareth a man who was proved to be of God by the miracles and wonders which he did in your midst whom you according to the pre determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God with your wicked hands have crucified and slain but God has raised him from the dead the centered truth of the message of Peter the central truth is the resurrection of Jesus that's the central message of the New Testament the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead the hope and the basis of the hope for our whole Christian experience if Christ be not raised from the dead then our faith is in vain we're hopeless so the central truth the message new test of the resurrection so Peter gets it in the center of the truth that he is proclaiming whom God hath raised from the dead for it was not possible that he could be held by four David he said by the mouth of the Holy Spirit spake of him saying thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell neither will you allow the Holy One to see corruption in fact he quoted old therefore my heart shall be glad and my glory rejoices my flesh also shall rest in hope for thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell neither wilt thou allow the Holy One to see corruption Jesus I mean Peter saw this as God's direct promise to his son and no doubt Jesus made reference to this and that is why Peter made the assaut that this was God's promise to Jesus I will not leave my soul in hell and neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption now concerning David let me tell you he was a prophet and he's faked not of himself but of him who was to come and we do testify that God did not leave his soul in hell and neither did he allow his Holy One to see corruption but this same Jesus hath God raised from the dead and has exalted him to the right hand of the throne on high and has given to him this which he has shed forth upon us which you not see that is the gift of the Holy Spirit for he said I will pray the father he'll send you another comforter that he may abide with you forever even the Spirit of Truth in the world cannot receive so this what you see is the result of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and it is his promise to send the Holy Spirit upon us but he went into hell with the promise of God that his soul would not be left in Hell so that when Jesus died and this hell is the Hebrew Sheol which is also translated grave I will not leave my soul in shield the grave or hell no prior to the death of Jesus Christ sheíll of the Hebrew or Hades of the Greek was an area in the center of the earth that was divided into two compartments and Jesus tells us about it in the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke where he tells about a certain rich man who fared sumptuously every day and a poor man that was brought daily and laid at his gate full of sores and the dogs came and licked his sores and how that the poor man died and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom and also the rich man died and in Hades hell lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeing Abraham afar off and Lazarus there the man he recognized being comforted in Abraham's bosom cried and said father Abraham have mercy on me send Lazarus to me that he may take his finger dip it in water touch my tongue I'm tremendous in this heat Abram said well son you remember in the light your lifetime you had the good things Lazarus evil now he's comforted while you were tormented besides that between us there's a gulf that is fixed it's impossible for those that are here to go over there or those that are there to come over here then I pray thee if he cannot come over here send him back send him back to the earth that he might warn my brother's lest they come to this awesome place Abram said they have the law and the prophets that they will not believe them neither will they believe should one come back again from the dead so Jesus gives us the description of Hell in the center of the earth for one day they were asking Jesus for a sign and he said a wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah for as Jonah was three days and three nights and the belly of the whale so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth so it's located for us by Jesus now Peter is telling us that this was God's promise to his son now will not leave my soul in Hell neither will you allow the Holy One to see corruption Paul tells us in the fourth chapter of Ephesians that he who ascended is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth and when he ascended he led the captives from their captivity so when Jesus ascended from the grave those that were there with Abraham being comforted awaiting the promise of God were delivered from the grave also he set free those captives you remember the prophecy of Isaiah in the 61st chapter where it said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor to mend up those that are broken to set at liberty those that are bound and to open the prison doors to those that are captive he's talking about the prison doors of death of Hades to those that were captive in the 11th chapter of Hebrews when we are told of all of these great Saints of the Old Testament who by faith wrought all of these wonderful things the chapter concludes now these all died in faith not having received the promise that is of resurrection and eternal life but seeing in a far-off they embraced it they held on to it and they claimed that they were just strangers and pilgrims here they were looking for a city which hath foundations whose maker and builder is God and then in the end of the chapter again it says these all died in faith not having received promised God having reserved some better thing for us that they without us could not come into the perfect or completed state until Jesus made the provision on the cross to put away sins they could not come into the completed state in heaven the Old Testament sacrifices served to cover their sins but it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats could put away sin all they could do was to testify of a better offering that was to come the offering of Jesus Christ himself for our sins by which he made the way into heaven for all men so those in the Old Testament who were by faith believing the promise of God and trusting God through faith to fulfill his promise they were in one side of Hell being comforted by Abraham and they were released from that captivity at the resurrection of Jesus Christ in Peter the Epistle of Peter we read where Jesus went down and preached to those souls that were imprisoned and so for three days and three nights Jesus was preaching the glorious good news to those who have been waiting with faithful Abraham for God's promises to be fulfilled what a time of rejoicing that must have been and then when he ascended broke the bars of the grave ascended he led the captives from their captivity and gave gifts unto men so Peter is quoting this in the New Testament said David being a prophet spake not of himself his Sepulchre is with us to this day but he was speak king of Jesus and we bear witness God did not leave his soul in Hell neither did he allow the Holy One to see corruption for thou will show to me the path of life and in thy presence is fullness of joy and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore this now is the exalted place of Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father he said henceforth you'll not see me until you see me sitting there at the right hand of my father in glory at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore in thy presence there is fullness of joy God has shown to me not death I'll not leave my soul in the grave but you've shown to me the path of life and so the glorious promise to the son and who for the joy that was set before him by the father endured the cross though he despised the shame the seventeenth Psalm is another prayer of David and it is again one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause his own righteousness before the Lord here the right Oh Lord attendant to my cry give ear into my prayer that goeth not out of deceitful lips it is important that our prayers not come out of deceitful lips I am afraid that many times I have prayed rather deceitfully hoping to sort of calm God I haven't always been absolutely honest in my prayers I've tried to make myself look better than I really am in many of my prayers and I find that God can't deal with me until I get totally honest with him as long as I keep saying O Lord I I can do it I just need a little help I'm not really honest and in the help doesn't seem to be forthcoming because if he would help me under those conditions then I go around saying I always knew I could do it so it's when I get really honest and say Lord I can't do it I need help then he comes in and helps me because then all I can say is Wow the Lord really helped me and I give the credit and the glory to him Lord you know that I get a little upset with this brother I don't love him as much as I should I don't have that agape for him Lord that's sort of deceitful it's not really telling the truth God you know I hate his guts I can't stand it he makes me sick every time I look at him I want to punch him in the nose God changed my heart and my attitude then God can deal with me so David is saying Lord I'm not you know speaking out of deceitful lips and it's something that we need to watch in our prayers that it can be very subtle can be very subtle we have not because we ask not we ask and receive not because we ask amiss that we might consume it upon our own lust the true motive behind our prayers is is often veiled o God save my son bring him to you Lord and in my mind I'm thinking I don't know what I'm gonna do with this kid can't control him any longer I just know that one of these days he keeps on the way he is I'm gonna get a telephone call and it's gonna be his one call that he has from jail they're gonna pick him up our name will get in the paper what a disgrace that will be when all of the you know the people see art the name our son arrested all ken had Lord save him Lord save him I don't want the embarrassment of my name in the paper you know motive it isn't that my heart is breaking because my son is destined in this path for hell if I don't want my good name drugged down into the gossip collar Oh God send a revival to our church Lord save souls bring in the Lost pack the place Lord I don't know what we're gonna do we don't raise our budget son we only had about five new families we wouldn't have to worry about the budget lords and then the souls maybe the bishop will notice you know that I'm a pretty good pastor and I might even get a promotion to a bigger church God say souls you know motive oh how we have to watch it because I can deceive myself you see the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and we don't always know it ourselves that's why David in Psalm 139 said search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if there is a wicked way there and then you lead me in your path O God preserved me hear the prayer that comes out of unfeigned or out of not out of the feigned or deceitful lips let my sentence come forth from thy presence let thine eyes behold the things that are equal and again he's asking ready for justice hear something I never do when I pray but David feels that his cause is right here he does declare I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress and that's a great purpose to make I think that we so often transgressed with our mouth our mouth can get us in the most trouble it seems years ago when we first started before we had any children we first started in the ministry we knew all about how kids ought to be raised in those days we were beginning to discover that we didn't know as much as we thought we knew about marriage but we still knew all there was to know about raising kids till we had our own and at this point we know that we know nothing about raising kids but at that time we put a notice in the bulletin teach your child to be Silent Hill learning soon enough to talk we get into trouble talking I purposed in my heart I'll not allow my mouth to transgress concerning the works of men by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the path of the destroyer hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slept not I have called upon thee for thou will hear me O God incline thine ear unto me show your marvelous loving-kindness although the save us by thy right hand them to put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them keep me as the apple of the eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings now David is asking the Lord to just keep him there as the pupil the apple of his eye and hiding me under the shadow of thy wings for the wicked that oppressed me from the wicked that oppressed me from my deadly enemies who encircle me and then he speaks not so nicely about his enemies they're enclosed in their own fat their mouth speaks proudly they've encircled eyes our steps they set their eyes bowing down to the earth like a lion that is greedy of its prey and as it were a young a lion lurking in secret places o arise Lord disappoint them cast them down deliver my soul from the wicked from men which are thy hand O Lord from men of the world which have their portion in this life what a interesting phrase and important talking about the men of the world he's talking about men who have their portion in this life now in the 73rd song we have an interesting case where the psalm confesses hey I almost slipped I almost I almost went under when I looked around and I saw the prosperity of the wicked I saw these wicked men and man they had everything they wanted everything their hearts desired people would pour out a full cup to them they didn't lack for a thing and when I saw how prosperous the wicked were then I said hey man it doesn't it doesn't pay to try to live the right kind of a life you know better that you're wicked you seem to have it better off Here I am trying to live the right kind of a life and I'm in trouble all the time it seems like I'm always broke and I'm always going through such hardships and and it really doesn't pay me to serve the Lord and he said when I sought to understand these things it almost wiped me out my foot almost slept until I went into the house of the Lord and then I saw there and surely you have set them in Slippery places in a moment they go down into the pit and all but he saw now the end now so he talks here of the men of the world who have their portion in this light only you see God is interested in your eternal welfare don't forget that God is always dealing with you in the light of eternity I am always interest in the light of today I'm looking for my ease today I'm looking for comfort today I'm looking for deliverance today I want it now so I can enjoy it for the next few minutes but God is looking at me with eternity in view and he wants me to have the eternal blessings of his glory and of his kingdom and it may take depriving me of some of those things that I think I want right now in order that I might have a richer eternity with him when Jesus spoke very harshly saying if your eye offend thee pluck it out and and we cringe at such a horrible thing which he wanted you to do he's just using a illustration that just caused you to cringe and he's trying to get that kind of a revulsion in you because he is seeking to point out how important eternity is now I think my eyes are extremely important but they are not as important as my eternity with him and that's that's the illustration he's trying to make just that your eternal welfare with him is the most important thing in this life and the men of the world they have their portion in this life only but I'm a stranger and a pilgrim here my portion is coming in the life to come my portion is there with him in his kingdom 15th verse is one of my favorites and the whole Psalms are in the Bible as far as that goes as for me I will behold thy face in righteousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness I'm going to behold your face Lord in righteousness this reminds me of what Paul said in Corinthians where a said and we with open face beholding the glory of the Lord are changed from glory to glory into the same by his spirit EMS I'll be satisfied I'll behold your face in righteousness and I'll be satisfied the day I awake in your likeness oh how I long for that day when I open my eyes and I look in the mirror and there I am in the likeness of Jesus Christ now I see through the glass darkly but then face to face his work completed me conformed into the image of God's dear son beloved now are we the sons of God it does not yet appear what we're going to be but we know that when he appears we're gonna be like him now people all wonder what kind of bun I'm not at all where I'm satisfied he's gonna be like him where I'm gonna see him as he is people are always worried what kind of a bomb we're gonna have another kind of you know what will I look like and I don't know if I want to change it up maybe I'd like to have this one you know just renew it or something you know no way friend I can hardly wait for the new model to come out like him I'll be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness comes from beholding his face in righteousness as we behold the glory of the Lord we are being changed from glory to glory the 18th psalm has a long title to it it is to the chief musician it is a psalm of David the servant of Jehovah who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Joe Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul and he said I will love thee O Lord my strength so that is all in introduction to the psalm which is written in the Hebrew just the introduction to the psalm this evidently is the tie when he was pursued and he escaped the hand of Saul and went down to a Kish because he speaks about dwelling in the latter part among the heathen and all and no doubt if as as he had fled from Saul in to the Philistines so that Saul would not pursue him anymore and so now safe from the pursuit of Saul having been delivered by the hand of God from Saul I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my rock and my fortress he had been actually running in that rocky wilderness area around the Dead Sea and gety and those rocky cliffs hiding in those caves and using the rocks as a place of Defence and as a fortress the Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust he's my buckler the Horn of my salvation and my high tower all of these are defensive weapons of war God is all of it he is my defender he keeps me he's my high tower he's my buckler he's my strength I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised and so shall I be saved from my enemies for the sorrows of death encircled me the floods of ungodly men all of the troops of Saul he came out with several thousand men pursuing David and David looked over there and saw all his guys enough he knew they were after my hide and they had encircled David he was trapped the sorrows of death encircled me the sorrows of Hell encircled me about the snares of death prevented to me and in my distress I called upon the Lord I cried unto my god and he heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him even unto his ears now out of his temple the temple was not yet built in Jerusalem but he's talking about God's temple in heaven then the earth shook and trembled the Foundation's also the hills moved and were shaken because of his anger there went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured and coals were kindled by it and he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet and he rode upon a cherub one of those angelic beings and did fly and he did fly upon the wings of the wind and all of this is very beautiful poetic in picture as speech of course this was a song written in Hebrew type of poetry and very descriptive and very beautiful indeed in verse 16 he said he sent from above he took me he drew me out of many waters he delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me they prevented me in the day of my calamity but the Lord was my state he brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me because he delighted in me the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompense to me verse 25 with the merciful you will show yourself merciful with the upright man you will show yourself upright with the pure you will show yourself pure with the froward you will show yourself forward for that will save the afflicted people but will bring down the high looks for thou wilt light my candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness for by thee I have run through a troop and by my god have I leaped over a wall as for God his way is perfect the word of the Lord is tried he is a buckler to all of those that trust in him for who is God save Jehovah and who is a rock save our God it is God that Gerta they with my straight with strength and maketh my way perfect he maketh my feet like Hinds feet and setteth me upon my high places he teaches my hands to war so that the bow of Steel is broken by my arms now it's also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy right hand has held me up and thy gentleness hath made me great interesting phrase thy gentleness hath made me great and he goes on and tells how the Lord had subdued his enemies that were rising up against him and then he in verse 43 those deliver me from the strivings of the people you have made me the head of the heathen he was actually went down to zig lag in the area of the Philistines and he was the head of the city of zig lag and of people whom I have not known shall serve me now this of course David was speaking of himself but it became prophetic of Jesus and the gospel going unto the Gentiles the Lord liveth blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite Psalms where David does speak about how God reveals himself to man in nature the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork day and today uttereth speech and night and tonight short knowledge there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard God is speaking to you every day every night through the world that University is created the heavens are declaring you the glory the awesomeness the magnitude of God as the earth is showing to you his infinite wisdom the life forms around the earth now this last week I had a very interesting experience we have a fella in our church who is a he is the president of a polygraph firm and so he has been doing some experiments with his polygraph machines by hooking the connections up to a plant leaf and then watching the responses on the polygraph as the the electrodes are hooked up to a plant and he had been doing these experiments and he wanted me to come over and observe some of the things that he had discovered and I found them very interesting as we are thinking about the earth showing his handiwork and day and today their uh Turing speech and the question is just how much understanding or knowledge is there in a plant and so as he hooked up the electrodes to the plant and the needle started just moving up and down as it was measuring the responses within the leaf he said now move the needle upwards move in an upward position on the graph and as he commanded it to do so the needle started moving upward and he said now show us a downward movement and let me needle move down on the graph and then he said now show us some violent motion and the needle began to swing all the way across then he said to me now you choose a number in your mind and so he said is the number 1 and of course I didn't answer but he was just majoring the graph is the number two is the number 3 and neither was just going up and down and when he got to my number 7 the needle goes way up and then came back got down again and leveled off an 8 9 and 10 and I think I can't believe it what kind of communication you know no I'm certain that there are many things of God's creation that we don't understand that there are vast facets within nature that we've only begun to scratch the surface that God has coded in many things wisdom that is phenomenal things that are just amazing and I and I think that there is much to be learned and much to be discovered God says that day and today they are uttering their speech that it's a universal language there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard you say well what do you make of that I don't know what to make of it it was weird but it was interesting and it just sort of opens up your mind to the fact that God creation is far vaster than we ever dreamed what kind of intelligence just is in a cell itself there was a gal who pinched the leaf one at one of the lease on the plant not the one that the electrode was attached to and the needle began to move violently she went out of the room to get something and the needle settled down when she came back in the room the needles started moving violently again the way this was all discovered is a fella had attached the electrodes to a plant and he was just watching the movement of the needle sort of fascinated within and he decided to water the plant and as he picked up the water to plant to water the plant the needle started going crazy so instead of watering it he he stopped and he and he put the water back down and the needles settled back down again and so he picked up the water as though he was going to water deciding he wasn't going to do it but just see what the needles do and this time it didn't do anything and he made several gestures like he was going to water it but not intending to do it and the needle did nothing and this guy started getting bugged you know and so he finally said okay I really will will water it this time I'll go ahead and read he water it and the needle started jumping again and he watered the thing now I don't know the explanations of it I have no explanation for it but it's interesting all nature we sing all nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres who knows the wisdom of God who has created life forms the infinite variety of life forms what kind of understanding has he put into some of these life forms I don't know it's fascinating the heavens declare the glory of God the earth the firmament shows his handiwork and day and today they utter their speech they're talking to us night and the night their voice goeth forth there's not a speech nor language where their voice is not heard God speaks to man universally through nature but though nature speaks to you of the existence of God the testimony or the witness of nature then falls short because it cannot tell you of the love of God and the redemptive plan of God for your life for that we needed the special revelation and God is thus given us the special revelation that we might know his love and his plan for our lives but the fact that God exists we all know just by the fact of life around us and life forms around us now David in the psalm of course speaks of the law of the Lord and the testimony of the Lord the statutes of the Lord the commandment of the Lord the fear of the Lord the judgments of the Lord all of these are a part of God's revelation to us in his word the law of the Lord perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes the fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the Lord God has revealed himself it in nature but he's revealed himself more specifically in his word and thus his law his testimony his statutes His commandments his judgments more to be desired are they than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter also than honey in the honeycomb oh how sweet the Word of God becomes to us as we get into it and as we begin to draw from its sweetness moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward and so he closes the psalm with a prayer keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins let them not rule over me then shall I be upright I shall be innocent from the great transgression Oh God let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer you

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