Theology You Can Use - The Word of God (pt-2)

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well before we come to the Lord's table let's open our Bibles please to Psalm 19 as you know we've started a series on Sunday night about theology and how useful theology is what you know about God determines what you do how you act and what you think about as we discussed this morning in Romans the first 11 chapters doctrine and how we are to think about God and think about our salvation and think about Israel for that matter and then in chapters 12 13 14 and 15 how do we respond and we want our theological series on Sunday night to be the same theology must be used we could probably call it that instead of a theology you can use theology must be used and tonight we're going to talk again about the
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Word of God I'm using Wayne Grudem systematic theology as a backdrop but tonight I'm kind of just jettisoning that because there are so many topics he talks about the canon clarity sufficiency necessity authority all kinds of words and we could go through those in a classroom setting but I don't really want to I want to go to Psalm 19 to tie up all those words and if we have time later we'll discuss each of those but I love
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Psalm 19 because it talks about how God shows himself in nature and then in the word
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I did a study and I came up with these words for synonyms regarding the
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Word of God Jeremiah 23 is not my word like fire the
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Word of God is called fire why would it be called fire by the way anyone okay because it convicts good
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Jeremiah 23 goes on to say and like a hammer which shatters a rock why would the
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Word of God be called a hammer that's able to shatter a rock okay it could break your hardened heart it's a hammer that could break the will of someone who has a hardened will by the way
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I just have to stop for a minute how did it go this morning Scott Scott was down at Cape Cod Bible Fellowship preaching I just have one question did you preach the word yes good did it go well this morning good thanks for serving for the last three or four months we've had someone from the church at least one man from the church sometimes to go to other churches and preach the word and I've been very encouraged by that well the words not only a fire and a hammer can you think of any other words for the
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Word of God sword okay what's the verse Hebrews 412 for the
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Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two -edged as dr. Zemeck used to say two -edged surgeon scalpel this is the smaller sword this is not the big sword that you have to wield with two hands this is a smaller one and it would be small for a very precise kind of heart surgery when
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I used to work in the operating room and this is kind of scary tell surgeons how to do their surgical procedures brain surgery heart surgery
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I didn't tell them really what to do I just told them how to activate this little cautery laser thing that we sold and anyway sometimes they'd look at me and they'd say is this right
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Mike yeah yeah just keep doing what you're doing side note we had this machine it was called an argon beam coagulator and we were told that whatever a typical radio frequency current coagulator would do to tissue this would do the same thing well what would that matter if the doctor looks at you and say can
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I use this on brain tissue we would tell them no because you wouldn't use a regular cotter machine on brain tissue so doctor please don't use it on brain tissue and brain tissue doesn't bleed anyway and so would there be no need can
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I use it on this particular artery yes you can can I use it on this vascular tissue like the kidney or the liver yes you can so one time
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I'm in the heart room at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles we just had this brand new machine out and the doctor looked at me and said can
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I use this argon beam coagulator by the way when you push the foot pedal down this arc would come out and it really was kind of Star Wars like it was impressive it would make a sound people just look and it was $37 ,000 one of these machines my advice was free so can
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I use it on the heart and so the sternum's cracked open and they've got these big things to keep it apart and so you can see and actually now the heart has been stopped by medicine and we have the heart bypass machine over here working as the lungs and the heart of the patient and the doctor has the heart in his hands and he looked at me and he said can
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I use this on the patient's heart and I said well what I've been trying to say the machine was brand new and I said well would you use regular
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RF cautery on the heart yes I would well then you can use it on this sent the patient into cardiac arrest
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I'm not kidding next thing I knew I was up against the wall basically as they were paddling the patient and they did revive him and then
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I didn't know what to do I did what I was told and I got a phone call from the family or what
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I thought was the family member of that person in the operating room and really it was my boss's friend acting like the lawyer to get after me and it was one of those times where I just thought
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I can't believe it I've heard someone if you're going to have heart surgery and you'll watch these doctors as they take the saphenous vein out of the leg cut it up and then place it into the heart where the atrophy that veins are are some of the problem arteries they're very precise and getting back to Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 the
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Word of God is very precise and it can get into those places actually that sometimes we don't want it to get into kind of like a dentist you give them an inch they'll take a mile you go in for a checkup and the next thing you know it has to you have to have a crown and so the
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Word of God is a fire it's a hammer it's like a two -edged surgeon's scalpel very precise can you think of any other words for the
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Bible the Word of God is scripture will I have a few more in 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 23 it's called a seed for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable and even this morning planting seeds as we had the baptism several visitors come the
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Word of God is like a seed that is planted through us the Word of God is like a laver to cleanse husbands love your wives just as Christ also love the church and gave himself up for her that he might sanctify her having cleansed her by the washing of the water with the word and lastly a song that we sing many times
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Psalm 119 105 the Word of God is called a light to show our paths the word is a lamp to my feet and a light makes you want to sing doesn't it absolutely and so we want to talk today about this
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Word of God so we can understand its demands on our lives so let's turn to Psalm 19
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I think you're already there and this is a great classic song that talks about how God reveals himself in two ways first in the world as you look and see and then through his word and I'd like to preach through a song tonight instead of giving you a theology lesson because there'll be a theology lesson actually in Psalm 19
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Psalm 19 is the mini version of mini version of Psalm what 119 so if you like to do the quick American easy way and go for shorter but just almost as good
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Psalm 19 is the short version of Psalm 119 and it will tell us about God's showing himself unveiling himself when
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I say God revealing himself I'm saying just like in the book of Revelation Jesus Christ is not revealed now and he'll unveil himself and show the world
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God unveils himself and shows himself in Psalm 19 through the world and then through the word and this is really a hymn isn't it isn't
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Psalm 19 a hymn this is this is my father's world and this is my father's word kind of song very beautiful all kinds of wonderful poetry things that if you study
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Hebrew you could really have this explode in your mind and come to life or come to color
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C .S. Lewis said I take this to be the greatest poem in the Psalter how many
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Psalms in the Psalter the best one out of a hundred and fifty he thought this was the best one that would make me want to study it how about you
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Franz Hayden had an oratorio that included a movement based on Psalm 19 profound theology yet wonderful poetry
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Psalm 19 verse 1 it says from the choir director or for the choir director rather a
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Psalm of David and then it just kind of blasts out I love this first part the heavens whisper
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God's glory heaven's just kind of telegraph it out secretly a little smoke signal
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Indian esque like it's not that at all just the language the heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands true or false a master is known by his work that's exactly right
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Weezer was right and here we have the heavens tell the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands what's we know heavens what are the what's the expanse give me another translation what do you have
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I read the NAS who does anybody have an IV and willing to admit it yes
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Frank firmament what's firmament you know is that like the inside of a light bulb the filament you know
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I want to know these things when I'm a kid if you have a lot if you have a dictionary when you read the Bible you want to know what these things are because it just makes it more meaningful because there's no great kudos to be found in reading the
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Bible and understand not understanding what you read anybody want to guess what a firmament is okay so someone said the ground and then we have the area between the earth and heaven did you read your study notes good all right here's what
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Wilcox said a sort of upside -down bowl that sat on the circular plate like earth to form a sealed environment interesting say what does it mean
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I have no idea I just read the guy he wrote it I didn't think Frank's right and what does this firmament do what do the heavens do they declare and they show and would you guess the tense in Hebrew is an ongoing show where it shows and shows and shows you know you've ever been to a movie and it says it plays at one o 'clock in the afternoon matinee five o 'clock and nine o 'clock is this this kind of showing where it just shows it once in a while or is it an ongoing here's a display go outside and just gawk at it all you want
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I went outside this week and it was so great because we didn't have all that the haze and the rain and everything else that we have today and last week and the week before and the week before that and all yeah
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I looked outside and this week do you know you could see Mars you could see the orange kind of I wish
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I had a telescope but I could tell from the from the TV advertisements okay that orange blob up there is
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Mars and here we have God showing forth his glory look at my glory it announces and proclaims and make known makes known the glory of God Adam Clark the old commentator said quote literally the heavens number out the glory of the strong God a first view of the starry heaven strikes every beholder with astonishment at the power by which they were made in quote you count and recount
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God you have so much glory look at his handiwork look at the work of his fingers as Psalm 8 says never forget
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I was flying across country from Kentucky to Massachusetts I think through Ohio and I could see the form and shape of these thunderclouds right here and we were flying around I just thought as I could see the lightning bolts shoot up and down and through I thought that's the most amazing thing
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God you were to be glorified in that how many stars can you see with your naked eye how many stars visible if you went out on a clear night how many could you see how many could you count 2 ,500 they say you could count on a good night 2 ,500 stars did some research at light speed which is what approximately 186 ,000 miles per second that's pretty fast if you went 60 seconds let's see how's this how's this calculated 60 seconds in a minute 60 minutes in an hour 24 hours in a day 365 days in a year that's approximately at the speed of light what 6 trillion miles and Sirius is about Sirius I like Sirius it sounds like a better a constellation doesn't a better star
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S -I -R -I -U -S is 54 trillion miles away nine light -years away this is the immense place that God has spoke out in a word and can you imagine
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David true or false didn't have a telescope he didn't have a telescope and he still knew look at what
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God does and how he reveals himself true or false space is empty in the mind of David or it's a revelation of God's creation good job you're listening buddy tell you what good job by the way in Sunday nights if you're a kid you just blurt out the answer as long as it's right if you're an adult you raise your hand very good speaking of blurting out look at verse 2 day -to -day pours forth speech a pours forth is a it's a charismatic word almost of its ecstatic utterances it's just kind of it's almost when somebody stutters and they're trying to get the right word out and here you have the word of God no you have the world of God showing forth it pours forth excited speech bubbling speech something that's kind of pent up in you and you've got to get out and off it goes it's like a well or if it's a
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I watch kids do this you ever take a hose it has a lot of power and you try to get the kids to stop the hose right there's only so long they can stop the hose here's the end of the hose they take their finger down there
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I think it's funnier to try to get a kid to put the finger on the hose to spray things because then it's just auto spray right back and you try to take a hose with a lot of force and put your finger down there and there's only so long you can do that before it just pours forth and that's exactly this word in Hebrew it's like a fire hydrant just gushing out you know used to do the game with kids to put the hose in your buddy's mouth and then you just rip that thing up that's exactly what it is day today don't get any ideas either we're to love one another day -to -day pours forth speech and night tonight reveals knowledge knowledge about the universe and knowledge of whose universe
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God's universe verse 3 there is no speech nor are there words is the communication with words and with diction and with with syllables or is it with a nonverbal mode and we know the answer it doesn't talk nothing's articulate verse 4 their line has gone out through all the earth their utterance to the end of the world their voice their line the way they talk quote -unquote goes way out in them he has placed a tent for the
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Sun a tabernacle for the Sun where does the touch where does the Sun go at night and in poetic language it goes in a tent it's poetry even to the ends of the world and then now how does the
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Sun come up if the time if the Sun kind of goes into a tent at night what comes out of a tent who would come out of a tent in a happy joyous bubbly effervescent way well it tells us in verse 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his tent coming out of his chamber coming out of his wedding honeymoon night kind of morning when you get up and you say today's a beautiful day and it's hopping and skipping and jumping and the triple jump and out you come the
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Sun goes to bed it's like in a tent and it comes out as you see those Sun beams just come racing across the horizon it just with joy and with happiness
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Craig he said quote implying either the grooms emergence from the chamber in which the marriage was conducted are from the nuptial chamber on the morning following the wedding
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Oh happy day look at the Sun verse 6 it's rising is from one end of the heavens and it's circuit to the other end of them and there is nothing hidden from its heat and as Ryrie says you can be blind and still feel the
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Sun's power now here's my question
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God shows himself forth in nature he shows that he's powerful he shows that he's wise is that enough to save someone is that enough to sanctify someone what about the pygmy in Africa who's innocent are an
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Indian in Hyderabad and never knowing the gospel another question
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I have are there any atheists there are what do we do with that what do we do with some of these questions
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I just as soon sing with Isaac Watts I sing the mighty power of God that made the mountain rise that spread the flowing seas abroad and built the lofty skies
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I sing the wisdom that ordained the Sun to rule the day the moon shined full at his command and all the stars obey
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Helen Keller's teacher and Sullivan would give
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Helen Keller names of physical objects in sign language and then miss
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Sullivan attempted to explain God and tapped out the symbols for the name God according to miss
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Sullivan surprise Helen spelled back thank you for telling me God's name teacher he has touched me many times before there's something about God I know that there's a
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God but is that enough to save certainly not but it is enough to what to hold people accountable it is enough to condemn them it is enough to on Judgment Day have
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God say to them I have shown you my glory and you have not accepted it so we need something more if anyone is going to be saved we need something more than just the natural revelation and that revelation would be what words something specific by the way can you look up in the
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Sun or the moon are the stars and say hmm well
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God's a creator yes or no he's a creator he must be the judge he made everything you probably couldn't tell me what to do could you figure that out
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I think you could figure that out and the way he he he saves people by looking at Libra is by sending
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Jesus the lion from the tribe of Judah and can die in our place and by the way there's three stars over there and the third one must be symbolic and so he's raised three days from he's been in the grave three days then he was raised from the dead you know some people think that and I won't even tell you who thinks some of that but it is wild for me to imagine that no heavens declare
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God's glory but we have to know specifically that's why God speaks to us and that's the second part of the psalm here we have a great section of the psalm that tells us about God's Word and this is how
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I will kind of broach the subject of Wayne Grudem's book on can you trust the canon is
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God's Word understandable can God's Word be obeyed is God's Word necessary is
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God's Word inerrant is God's Word infallible and so let's just teach you through the
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Bible about what God says about his word and I think you will say then at the end of the day God's Word is clear
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God's Word is understandable even though there's some hard parts God's Word is even more understandable because he's given us his spirit that I must obey
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God's Word it is a necessity to obey and certainly it is sufficient how many lines of parallelism are we going to find does anybody know for those who are in the hermeneutics class close six six descriptions of God's Word six things that it does and then you'll see how it all works out it's the outline for this is six six six and six that makes sense six groups of a description of God's Word name for God's Word and then what
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God's Word does the law of the Lord is perfect restoring the soul by the way these are all ongoing except the last one it's an ongoing participle just keeps on going the law of the
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Lord is always perfect restoring the soul who can tell me what law is if you think of the first five books of the
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Bible you would call that not just Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy but you could also call that what
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Torah the books of the law this is God's instructions just not only law it's his instruction and this instruction is can you imagine faulty this instruction is not complete this construction a goal only goes halfway this kind of instruction is a bridge that goes halfway across the river is any that true are you paying attention
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I'm waiting to get stoned up here I think I sometimes should get electrocuted but this is no
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I'm trying to use this as a teaching prop the law of the Lord is perfect it is complete it is well rounded it is whole it lacks what nothing it is comprehensive it is a stop sign with eight sides ever seen a stop sign with three sides wouldn't be a stop sign to be a yield sign right it is whole it is complete it is perfect it lacks nothing
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James calls law sometimes the perfect law and what does it do what does it do that the world that shows forth
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God's glory cannot do the world the world says God is a good God God is powerful
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God is wise but what can that world not do that the word can do and there's the answer it can restore the soul it can revive it can transform it can save we had a bunch of unbelievers here this morning how can we get those unbelievers to be saved we just keep preaching so we preach so they believe as Paul said to the church at Corinth and here it can restore the soul before we get into anything else kind of take care of your life give you a better marriage figure out your financial problems talk to figure out how to submit to your boss etc etc it can change you on the inside we need a heart change it's a restorative quality that can take care of us on the inside Spurgeon you know him said quote making the man to be returned are restored to the place from which sin had cast him here's
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Adam in the garden before he fell then he fell and now God can take the word to restore people back even better than Adam because do you have
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Adams righteousness after salvation or someone else's righteousness before Adam fell
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Adam had his own righteousness yes Adam fell he had his own sin when God saves us does he impute your account
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Adams perfection our Christ perfection we actually are more perfect than Adam was before the fall figure that one out this is not behavior modification the
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Word of God can behave change your behavior no the name of the
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Bible is called the law of the Lord what does it do it restores the soul and a description of it it's perfect let's go to the second one this is just an easy way to preach it the law of the
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Lord is perfect restoring the soul number two found in verse 7 of Psalm 19 the testimony of the
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Lord that's the name of the word is sure making wise the simple it bears witness to God it tells us something about God that's why it's called the testimony the word here in Greek excuse me in Hebrew is
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Edith it is something that God bears witness to God attest this but to himself
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God vouches for it gives surety of it and there it says the testimony of the
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Lord another synonym for the Word of God is sure the Word of God sadly is not trustworthy the
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Word of God sadly is not reliable the Word of God sadly into our shame is full of errors doesn't that sound weird it sounds weird because it's wrong it's false the
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Word of the Lord is sure it means trustworthy you can count on it it's not vacillating back and forth it is a settled thing in God's eyes we were watching a show on Friday night we have a big thing at our house on Friday night kids don't get to watch movies throughout the entire week but on Friday night it's called at a vendor us house
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Friday night what Luke movie night do you look forward to it of course because you don't get it's like no
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TV the whole week so on Friday night get your rooms cleaner no Friday night TV night boy get down there
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Friday night movie night we were watching this Knights of the Roundtable 1950
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Lancelot what's it called it was called Luke called it a weird movie you know movies in the old days where you kind of had to think instead of having action scene after action scene after action scene but there was a man in quicksand and it was pretty dopey because you could see that it was just kind of mud on the set but his horse came over and gave its reins to the guy who had all his iron armor on and pulled him right out this is the opposite of quicksand this word sure is firm it's kind of terra firma on this terrestrial ball there's something to stand on that will have us lifted up it's not quicksand at all it's terra firma that's what divine scripture is but I like what
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Kidner said the Greek the Hebrew scholar by its passive form it cannot it can mean not only what is firm but what is confirmed did you get that not just firm but confirmed something that can be supportive verified reliable trustworthy and what does it do makes wise the simple it naive people smart
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I went to college and I thought I was super smart in high school
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I just studied and it was easy to get straight A's and boom off I went I got to college where he actually had to think and I started getting
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I got my first D in my life I thought I'm pretty stupid I'm here at a university school and I'm getting deep that's bad and at the risk of somehow acting loud like I'm super smart and I've got such high
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IQ and everything else I don't have a high IQ but I think I'm smart so smart that I'm smarter than my university professors now back at the
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University of Nebraska how is that my own gray matter my own formulations my own differential equations class that I had to drop out of no because God has given me his word and I used to be stupid and now
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I'm what wise because I can understand things that God has told me it's not innate it is not inherent within me but I can learn it makes wise the simple it makes fool smart
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I could say that sure guidance and the word for simple is literally open -minded it takes those who are open -minded and couldn't care less what goes in their mind what goes out of their mind just give me the latest
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TV program by the way someone told me once that TV changes their camera angles every two seconds so if you'd like to learn how to not pay attention then just sit in front of the
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TV because it'll change every two seconds and it will teach you how not to pay attention as you watch it over and over and over and then you come to church and you hear some guy a hayseed from Nebraska stand up and preach for 50 minutes and you can't pay attention why because I'm not just doing all these different camera angles you just stand and stare so if you want to learn how to pay attention less than just watch a lot of TV great book by a man who's deceased but it's called amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman if you have not read that book you need to read that book and the next time you turn on the
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TV you're gonna think of that book it's not a sin to watch TV but here it's the word that makes people wise it's the word that takes naive people and gives them skilled living that's what what wisdom is skill living how to live properly with understanding well we better get going because I told
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Steve I was gonna get get through this quickly verse 8 the next word from God in Psalm 19 that describes
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God's Word is called the precepts of the Lord what are they they're right what do they do they rejoice the heart the precepts also means statutes means charges it means governing it means divine principles
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God has rules that's one of the words for the Word of God a divine precept and what are they they are right they can be trusted because they are right earlier they were trustworthy now we know why they're trustworthy because they're right they're proper they're good they're well -founded in wisdom they're not just these arbitrary rules that God makes up he wouldn't lead us astray would he they're straight our level are straightforward and what do they do they spoil
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Christians fun the Word of God don't do this don't have any fun this is church don't smile what do the what does the
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Word of God do rejoices the heart it gives joy and happiness and satisfaction how many times even in my own life
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I'm going through a certain trial and all my external circumstances are just horrible and you read the
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Word of God and you just have that inner calm serene joy that you think look at what the
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Word of God has done to my own heart Barnes the commentator said making the heart glad by the fact that they are equitable and just and glad as a result of obedience the
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Word of God is not a killjoy yes God says for our own good don't do that and do this but they give joy later in verse 8 this is the fourth description of the
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Word of God and different name for the Word of God the commandment of the Lord is pure what does it do enlighten the eyes the world can't do this the stars can't do this the moon can't do this yes temporally enlighten the eyes you could see the reflection of the
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Sun off the moon we're talking about spiritual things here the commandment of the Lord the divine mandate the order of the
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Lord the law of the Lord the decrees of the Lord are what super hard to understand mysterious clouded no one can figure out you have to be a
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Bible scholar you have to know Hebrew right are some things difficult yes and even
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Peter said Paul's writings at times were difficult that's one of my favorite verses in the
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Bible because Peter even had a hard time but overall the commandment of the
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Lord is pure it's an open book it has no hypocrisy it's easy it's lucent it's clear it's radiant it gives focus on all kinds of issues it's not an enigma it's not a riddle it's not confusing especially with the
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Spirit of God in us to understand things by the way sometimes when I talk to people as a pastor
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I talked to several unbelievers and they can't seem to figure out the Word of God and I try to explain the verse and they just don't get that they don't understand it and I start thinking to myself after a while I'm knocking my head up against the wall trying to talk to this believer about spiritual things because they don't have the decoder ring right they're receiving things on a .m.
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frequency and God is sending them out through his word on FM and Dr. Zimmick said to make matters worse their a .m.
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receivers broken and so God is preaching out through the FM airwaves and they've got a broken a .m.
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antenna little transistor radio and they're deaf and they can't hear it but the Word of God to believers is by nature clear and then it's even made more clear as the
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Spirit of God yes illumines the word to our own hearts and minds and what does it do it enlightens the eyes we get to see truth as MacArthur said that others can't see it gives light to the eyes as the
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Sun gives light to the world we have spiritual light we know what God's doing we can understand it lights our way it's a lighting of our path number five we got two more and then we'll finish up the fear of the
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Lord is clean enduring forever fear here is a word that's equivalent to law or the
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Word of God it's a special kind of figure of speech but it's equivalent to the
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Word of God and it says the fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever opposite of clean filthy opposite of clean soiled opposite of clean dirty and the
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Word of God is none of those things but it is clean it is not defiling it could be translated radiant it is unsullied this word pure or clean was used ceremonially of animals that were clean animals instead of unclean animals it was used physically of pure gold instead of kind of tainted gold and it was used ethically of pure hearts and pure hands are pure eyes of God and what does it do it lasts until the
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Council of Trent it lasts until men don't want to obey it anymore it endures forever if it is pure if it is holy if it is untouched by sin certainly it's not going to decay that's the idea what is now is always to be
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Jesus said for truly I say to you unless heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or strokes
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I'll pass away from the law until all is what accomplished and then lastly in verse 19 the
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Word of God synonym number six the judgments of the Lord are true they are righteous all together when
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God gives his command from Supreme Court he says these are true they're right they're good this is a legal term this is not just what
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God wants this is what is right of course those are similar the truth we have a sense of dependability because we know
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God's Word is true it's permanent it continues how would you like to be a pagan
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God back in those days how should I please God how much bloodletting might be right how many virgins do we need to offer how much crops do we have to give well
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God's still kind of mad at me what else should I do how about let's just give them some of our newborn babies maybe
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God would then be pleased they didn't know what God's required they didn't know what
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God's demanded they didn't have any assurance and here we have the Word of God it says it's righteous all together it's good it reflects
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God's righteousness well how should we act what should we do where should we go from here verse 10 what a great response they're more desirable than gold yes then fine gold and that's before it was $500 an ounce also sweeter than what honey what was the sweetest thing going back then we just got some ice cream and it's a apple pie ice cream it's got little chunks of Apple I think they're real
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Apple and little chunks of Apple and this got some crust in it in vanilla ice cream and last night the
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Johansons were over and I put I think I got it reversed but I took some vanilla ice cream and I put some apple ice cream together because I wanted to have apple pie a la mode and so we needed to have vanilla ice cream on that but here's honey was it they didn't have
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Snickers bars they didn't have high fructose corn syrup so that twice in two sermons hey if Carol Ruvalo can say it so don't
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I and the drippings of the honeycomb that's how desirable they are they're sweet it's luxurious it's good it's stuff that you can't get we can just go get anything anytime
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I love the story of the wise mother who put a dollop of honey on the family
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Bible go on lick for I want you should never forget that this book is sweeter than honey just lick it if you took a person in 500
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BC is that still culturally and politically correct for me to say BC and AD instead of BCE and and you put them into the brand -new super Walmart whatever store of your choice you're gonna be blown away the
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Bible's better than the best of the sweetest the most desirable the hardest thing to get the biggest luxury we don't have luxuries anymore because you can get anything that's ever been made from eBay but here this was a luxury verse 11 moreover by them my servant is warned
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God loves us enough to warn us in keeping with them there's great reward he didn't have to do that just obey but he said if you obey me there's even a reward and a blessing then here's the prayer verse 12 who can discern his errors acquit me of hidden faults the
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Word of God does get in there and it does pry in places that we like to keep secret hidden concealed and keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins let them not rule over me then
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I shall be blameless and I shall be acquitted of great transgression transgression that the word showed us by the way let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in my sight
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Oh Lord my rock and Redeemer God thank you that you didn't leave us in the dark thank you that it was not just what the world has shown us but your word has shown us what is exactly your desires and your plans for us
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Jameson Fawcett Brown said the clearer our view of the law the more manifest are our sins still for its full effect we need divine grace to show us our faults acquit us restrain us from the practice and free us from the power of sin thus only can our conduct be blameless and our thoughts and words acceptable to God now if you have the right view of God's Word I don't think
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I need to teach you that it's clear because Psalm 19 did even though Rudim does for a long time
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I don't think we need to say there's necessity of it because we realize we have to have it if we're going to have salvation
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I don't think we need to say it's sufficient because Psalm 19 did I don't think we need to say it's authoritative because Psalm 19 did
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I love Psalm 19 and one of the things you could do you and your family could memorize this one or you could personally memorize it because there's only 14 verses and if you did two verses a week in what at Christmas time you would have
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Psalm 19 memorized how many people have memorized verses on the Bible I have met some people that have never memorized the verse of the
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Bible and here's what they say I I just have a bad memory I can't memorize you know what
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I think Bible memory is practice when we're older it's harder
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I watch the kids memorize they can memorize like mad I mean it is just memory but for us when it's older it's more difficult so why don't you grab yourself an accountability partner memorize