You Must Obey God To Worship Him

Please stand for the reading of God's word.

The Old Testament reading comes from the eighth psalm.

I will be reading the first verse.

Oh Lord our Lord how

majestic is your name in all the earth?

You have set your glory above the heavens.

The New Testament reading is in Romans chapter 1 starting in verse 18.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and Unrighteousness unrighteousness of men

Who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to them Because God has

shown it to them for his invisible attributes namely his eternal power and divine nature have been

clearly perceived Ever since the creation of the world.

So.

So they are without excuse.

You may be seated.

Good morning.

Open your Bible.

So Psalm 19, please.

Psalm 19.

Psalm 19.

To the choir master a psalm of David.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech nor are there words whose voice is not heard their

voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world

and He has set a tent for the Sun.

Which comes out like a bridegroom leave in his chamber and like a strong man runs his course with

joy.

It's rising is from the end of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them and there is nothing

hidden from its heat.

The law of the Lord is perfect reviving the soul.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the precepts of the Lord are right.

Rejoice in the heart.

The commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever.

The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold even much fine gold.

Sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Moreover by them is your servant warmed and keeping them.

There is great reward.

Who can discern his errors?

Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.

Let them not have dominion over me.

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.

Oh Lord my rock and my Redeemer.

Oh God in heaven.

This is a day in which you have made to be glorified in.

Truly Lord you have given us all these things for us to look at and marvel.

And for us to worship it is our life Lord as your creatures to be

in your creation and to see everything as Glorifying your name so that it would resound deep

within our hearts that our God be praised God in heaven.

This is a simple task yet It is a terribly difficult task because many times we are drawn

away by many other things.

So I pray God that this would be a time in which we are Told and welcomed and shown how

we can be brought forth brought again to the cross of Christ the one who has forgiven us of these

trespasses and Sins and the one who brings us into conformity After the image of

Jesus.

Thank you for his great work.

Thank you for his great shepherding Love that he has for us.

Although we go wayward constantly he brings us to the fold like a loving Shepherd.

I'm overwhelmed by his mercies so I thank you for Jesus Christ and may he be glorified today

and all these words that are said and may we may we hear.

Through.

Grace Lord by the power of grace so that we can have worship once more in your creation.

So we can worship your great name and glorify you in Jesus name.

Amen.

So tomorrow is the great day.

Tomorrow is actually personally one of my favorite holidays.

It's actually probably the one of my the favorite holiday that I have and of course, it's the great

Independence Day.

I.

Absolutely.

Love it.

I love just the nature, you know of

Telling the history of our nation, you know telling the so -called Great Britain.

That you know, we're not gonna be obedient anymore.

If you have problems with that come at us right and they did and we slapped them around.

I just love that and then we did it again in in 1812.

We did it twice.

I love calling, you know, I have a few.

Not so much anymore, but I used to have some British friends I love calling them on that day and really celebrating that day with them.

And and I also love our history so much that then after we slapped around Great Britain twice

We saved them from getting slapped around twice from Germany.

And so it's just man we just have so much to celebrate with Britain with the British on this day.

I I love I really do love Independence Day.

It is a day though where we celebrate our Independence Day that we declared to

Great Britain that we would no longer be obedient to the crown and you know, my other favorite

holiday is October 31st and what's on October 31st?

Yes, oh, I love it.

I love it Reformation Day not that other thing.

Reformation Day is another great and if you think about it, what makes that so great is what did we tell the Pope?

We're not gonna obey you anymore, right?

It's it's really it's amazing my personal favorite holidays.

It has something to do with disobedience now whether or not it has the good disobedience or not is another

story.

But nevertheless, even if you think about.

The.

Apostolic faith or or teaching that the Reformation recovered.

It was what that you are not saved by a work of obedience.

Are you but you are saved by faith in Jesus who was perfectly obedient and is obedient.

Obedient and so really we're saved by faith in in Jesus Christ, and we don't rely upon our own obedience.

Do we and so I want to make sure that as good American

Protestants right in which we oftentimes celebrate disobedience to some degree that we

ensure ourselves that really obedience is very very Important.

Obedience is something that we we don't say of course we need to be obedient to God.

But rather obedience is something that we must do to enjoy God.

You see what we have before us in Psalm 19 is Really a psalm that's that's

telling two different things here.

One is it's talking about God's general revelation and God's general revelation is all of creation

all of nature, right?

That's his revealing of himself to us through his creation.

And so that's the beginning of that song.

We have that great telling of God's general revelation.

But then the second half is then God's special Revelation and we see that we

are we we are gonna see here in Psalm 19.

We are to enjoy God's general revelation.

And we see that the only way to do that is to obey his special revelation.

Again for us to truly as we are told to enjoy his general

revelation in his creation.

We are to be obedient to his special revelation.

So obedience despite the fact that we're American Protestants is a high order.

It's something that is very important something that we should meditate on.

Daily, am I being obedient to the special revelation of God to his scriptures?

So that I can enjoy him and his general revelation now

I remember being a Child and I thought that my obedience was something I

did out of a favor for my parents and we can run

into a problem thinking that way that our Obedience to God is something that we do as a favor for him like

we're doing him a solid but beloved.

We God does not need our obedience.

We need our obedience to enjoy God in his creation.

So far from being from far from obedience being a curse word to our American

Protestant ears.

It needs to be something we delight in in order to enjoy God's general revelation.

And so the first thing we come across is you are to enjoy God's general

revelation is found in verses 1 through 6 19.

1 through 6 the heavens Declare verse 1 the glory of God

the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above

Proclaims his handiwork.

So we see the skies have a very important function in God's general revelation and his created

order now the heavens when we see Heavens, it's talking about the sky.

It's like with the sky.

So it's repeating it twice here the heavens the sky it does something very important and

glorifies God it proclaims His handiwork it shows off what God has

done in creation.

The sky does the sky has a job to proclaim the glory of

God and we can see in verse 2 That it is constant

in verse 2 day to day pours out speech.

So you see the sky the heavens the sky it Proclaims it

speaks it does it day to day and it goes on to say in night to night it reveals knowledge and so

it is a Constant thing that the skies do it proclaims the glory of God

constantly day to day night to night it is a constant proclamation of the glory of

God in.

Verse 4.

Verse 3 excuse me.

We see that it is heard.

There is no speech nor are there words whose voice is not heard and

so it is constantly heard the glory the proclamations that the sky

scream out of the glory of God is Constant every day every night and it is

heard Constantly and then in verse 4 we see that it is everywhere

their voice this cries of the skies.

Their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world.

And so we can see here that the sky proclaiming the glory of God the general revelation of God in the

skies as it proclaims His glory is constantly heard Everywhere no one can get

away from it.

It is always screaming down upon all those who are on earth and

even above the earth.

This proclamation is also beautiful.

It's also beautiful and since it is beautiful it is something that we are to then enjoy.

We see in verse the end of verse 4 there and into 5 and 6 in them in the

sky in The the heavens he has set a tent for the Sun.

It's the visual here is that the Sun comes forth from the horizon and the poetry is that

it's like it's coming out Of its tent it's coming out to to to show off to the world.

Right in them in the sky.

God in his general revelation is creation of the skies.

He has set a tent for the Sun and what happens each day.

Well, the Sun in verse 5 comes out like a bridegroom Leaving his chamber

now if you ever notice that when the Sun comes out of the sky, right comes forth from the horizon.

It is beautiful.

It is masterful each day.

It draws our breath away as God paints a beautiful picture for us on the horizon and

in this beautiful poetry of Psalm 19 it likens it to a a bridegroom going

forth from his his tent to go and get his bride.

What's what's that all about?

Well, whenever a bridegroom went forth from his bedroom to get his bride.

It was an exciting time.

It was full of pomp.

It was full of Celebration that the bridegroom is going to get his bride.

So it came out in dazzling array, right?

Excitement and it went forth to get his bride and excitement with pomp and display and

beautiful celebration.

And so that's a good visual of when the Sun comes out of its tent to scream the glories of

God.

It does it and beautiful display.

It is amazing to us.

It cries out to all who are under it glory be to the God of

heaven.

It is beautiful and no one can deny it.

It is a beautiful display of the glory of God.

It goes on to say and like a strong man the Sun that is and like a strong man.

It runs its course with joy.

Have you ever considered the Sun that way the Sun is going forth up through the sky and moving and it's running

its course with?

Joy, why is it a joyful thing.

Because it's doing what God the Father created it to do to glorify him.

The Sun bursts forth and pomp and display and it runs this course with

joy as it Glorifies and screams the glory of God to everyone who is underneath it.

In verse 6 its rising is from the end of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them

and there is nothing Hidden from its heat.

Just like there's nothing hidden from the hidden from the heat of the Sun.

There's nothing hidden from the glory of the Father that's found in the heat of the Sun.

No one can escape the glory.

Declaring the glory is declaring of the glory of God the majesty that's found within the

Creator himself and so we see that General revelation the revealing of

God and his creation.

It is constant it is heard everywhere and it is absolutely beautiful

and Since it is absolutely Beautiful it is to be

enjoyed by creatures who were made by God to enjoy beauty.

We were created to enjoy beautiful things.

The Sun and its glorious pomp and display is Objectively beautiful and so

what is going on here?

The Sun is always glorifying God.

The skies are always glorifying God the stars and everything.

There's always the glory of God beautifully being displayed from heavens above Coming down on us and

so we always have an objective reason to glorify God.

Why is that so important for us?

Why would it be so important for us to always have an objective reason to glorify God?

What do I mean by that?

Objective meets its reality and it's not dependent on your thoughts or feelings.

It is a reality that God is glorified always and it does not depend on our emotions or feelings.

We always have a reason to wake up and glorify our Creator for his creation.

This can give us Confidence in our darkest of times and our saddest of times and the times in which we

subjectively do not want to worship God.

We know that there's an objective reality screaming glory to God above us.

And so therefore we shall join it.

We shall join it.

So our worshiping of God is not dependent upon our subjective feelings.

But it's dependent upon the objective reality of this the sky screaming forth glory

be to our God.

I remember this Was an important reality for

me.

Especially I remember a particular time working for Comcast.

Which is like spectrum here.

I had someone around here say what's Comcast?

So I figured everyone knew Comcast but Comcast is like spectrum.

It's a cable company.

I worked for them and I had to get up, you know early and get out to work.

And I remember I had the grumpies, you know, I had the grumpies.

I didn't want to worship God that day.

I didn't want to honor him.

I didn't want his word.

I didn't want anything to do with him.

I wanted to have the grumpies instead and so as I'm in my car with those I remember the Sun coming

forth from the horizon and just beating on my on my on my eyes, right?

It's glaring down and I'm just complaining about the Sun not be able to drive in my car without

having the Sun blinding me.

I remember getting to one of my first jobs and the Sun is high enough to where now it's really hot.

It's beating down on me.

I'm really hot and I got to carry my ladder to get up 25 feet up in the air.

Don't feel like doing that and I have this hot Sun and I'm sweaty and all these reasons why I want to complain.

So what a far cry that is, right?

The Sun is up there.

What is the Sun doing?

Well, it's providing heat.

It's doing all sorts of things.

Well with the major thing it's doing it's saying our God is awesome.

And I'm saying I got the grumpies instead.

I'm complaining and said what is that?

Where is this come from?

How can general revelation do such a great job of glorifying our God?

But subjectively it hits my heart and all I can do is grumble.

How does that possible?

How can we do that when it's such a great display of God's glory?

I think an answer to that.

We can find that if you go to Romans 1 18 Romans 1 18

Paul I think is referring to this psalm in Romans 1.

It's very fascinating he says in Romans 1 18, he doesn't say the glory of God

is revealed from heaven.

He doesn't say the glory and I think he's quoting Psalm 19.

He doesn't say the glory of God is revealed from heaven and said he says the wrath of God is revealed from

heaven.

And I think it's very fascinating that I don't think he's denying the glory of God revealed from heaven.

But what he's saying is it subjectively is received by the receiver as the wrath of God, right?

The glory of God is revealed from heaven and we receive it as wrath.

Why?

Well, he says against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness

suppress the truth so it's a very fascinating thing that God's glory is

revealed from heaven and The receiver of it me and you anyone walking this earth.

We in our unrighteousness receive the glories of God and it is rather the wrath of God because of our

unrighteousness.

Because of our sin it turns from being something beautiful that we can worship him and Everything to rather something

that crashes down on us and it's really the wrath of God Subjectively felt within our hearts.

This is why someone can walk about in creation and rather Glorify God rather what

they have crying out to them from the skies is the very wrath of God.

The very feeling of I am under judgment because I do not.

Because I fall short of the glory of God and so we can see that we can subjectively Receive the glory of

God and it could be his wrath because of our sin because of our unrighteousness.

Now I do think and I know Romans 118 is talking about the unbeliever and In reference to

the believer here the believer even us we can still have party with that even in our belief we

can fall into a spell of disobedience to God and lack of worship.

So you fail to join in worship to God with the Son?

Because of your disobedient hearts because of my disobedient hearts an obedient heart

Will leave his house and happily join in with the choir of the nature that cries out worship to God.

The disobedient heart uses the nature around him to feed his grumbling heart.

Same objective reality used in two totally different ways.

So what do we need?

We need obedience.

We need to obey we need to be righteous.

We need to use God's nature in his general revelation in a way that's righteous and not unrighteous in right

unrighteous so that we use his nature to worship him instead of grumble and Complain and so therefore I

think the psalm moves into God's special Revelation going

forth from his general revelation and how beautiful it is to now his special revelation and we

see in verses 19 and I'm sorry chapter 19 7 through 11.

This is all about God's special revelation in his word and it follows a general formula here.

These verses follow a general formula and I'm not going to spend too much time on each one.

But it follows a general formula.

What is that?

Well, there's a noun that is possessed by the Lord.

Okay, and it's typically it's the Bible only the noun is used in different ways to describe the Bible.

So we see a noun that the Lord possesses, right?

The Lord possesses the noun the Bible he possesses it and then there's an Adjective that

describes the noun that's empowered by the Lord.

And we'll get to in a second.

But it is we see that there's a noun that God is the possessor of and then there's an adjective that

describes it that is an empowerment by the Lord himself and then the third general part of

this formula is a Positive result for the one who obeys the noun empowered by the Lord.

So what do I mean?

Well look at verse 7.

We see the first one there the law.

The law and whose law is it?

It's not my law.

It's not your law.

It's the law of the Lord the law.

The one who possesses it of the Lord and what's the adjective what describes it is.

Perfect.

The law of the Lord is perfect now law there.

It's not talking probably it's not talking about the law of Moses.

It's talking about a general instruction.

It's just talking about general instruction here.

And so since this instruction from is the Lord's it is perfect.

And therefore the one who obeys it it revives the soul it revives the soul.

The law of the Lord is perfect and it revives our soul.

Look at the next one the testimony.

The testimony.

That is God's witness right.

A testimony is a witness.

And so the testimony that is God's with witness and.

19.

7b the testimony of the Lord is sure and it makes wise the simple

right?

And so there's the noun it's a testimony.

It's God's testimony and the adjective it describes it as being it describes it as being sure.

And so therefore those who obey it and makes wise the simple now some people argue that

in order.

And it it will make someone who is simple.

It'll make them wise.

But another another way to look at this is that those who approach the the testimony of the Lord

simply it'll make you wise.

So in other words, you cannot approach the Bible.

You cannot approach the scripture as I know it all right you must Approach the scriptures

as a very simple person in need of the understanding that the Lord provides.

And so with this simple approach of the scriptures you will then become wise.

And look at the next one 19a 8 8 the precepts

of the Lord are right.

So the precepts of the Lord, which is the commands of the Lord the commands of the Lord are right.

They're not wrong.

And so therefore they rejoice the heart.

Spurgeon says about these three different things the law of the Lord is perfect.

So it revises soul the testimony the Lord is sure so it makes wise and simple.

The precepts of the Lord are right.

And so it rejoices the heart.

Spurgeon says that this is really the journey of the believer that the soul is revived through his obedience that he grows in

wisdom through His obedience and so it results in the rejoicing of the heart through his obedience.

So we see that in order for us to enjoy God's general revelation in order for us to enjoy

what he has for us.

There must be an obedience to his word.

There must be obedience to his testimony.

There must be obedience to his precepts and we have these very very Positive results

because of our obedience.

It goes on in 1908.

The commandment of the Lord which is very similar to precepts.

It's an authoritative order by God.

It's pure.

It's not up here.

It's pure.

So therefore it enlightens the eyes.

Why are our eyes darkened?

Why do our eyes get dark?

And why do we because we follow things that are not pure.

We follow our own commandments our own law and it brings us into great darkness.

But rather the one who obeys the commandment of the Lord it enlightens their eyes.

It goes on to say in 1909 a the fear of the Lord.

It's clean.

So therefore endures forever.

The rules of the Lord are true and righteous.

In 1909 it waits though in verse 11 to get to what happens when we obey it.

Because his rules are true and righteous we in 1911 when we obey it we are warned and we are

greatly rewarded.

I Believe that the the great reward that we've received and keeping the Word of God is to enjoy

this general revelation that he's already Described above that it is beautiful in its display and for us to

enjoy it as we should we are to obey his revealed or special

revelation.

Now here's the problem though that we have.

Which one of us wants to obey naturally from the heart.

Which one of us uses God's Word we take hold of it and we say this is something that I want to obey

of my own.

Power.

Why is the Bible if the Bible has such power?

Inherently involved in it all that effects that we just saw.

Right look at all those effects.

Meditate on those effects sometimes.

Right it makes wise a simple it rejoices the heart and enlightens the eyes and endures forever.

It is we are warned and we have great reward through it.

Right.

And it has all these great effects.

Why in the world are people why do we get so bored with it?

In fact look at what in the middle there it says that Verse 10 more to

be desired is the Word of the Lord is a special revealing of the Lord.

More to be desired are they then gold even much fine gold sweeter.

Also, then honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

If it is this is true.

Then why do we find it so hard to obey it ourselves?

And why do we find it so hard to have others to obey it?

What's the problem?

What is the deal?

Well, I think this is a great transition into the last set of verses.

The last set of verses as he considers the beauties of the Word of God as He considers the importance of the obedience

to it.

So we receive its great benefits.

The last set of verses is his overwhelming feeling and understanding of his own error

and sin.

There's a great sin problem in this world and the greatest tragedy of sin is it draws us away from the true testimony

of God to The great effects it has on our hearts and it draws us into Disobedience to God

and it draws us away from his beauty.

And so I think as we saw the first set of verses.

We saw that God's glory is revealed in creation and you are told to enjoy it.

We have the second set of verses is the way to enjoy it.

It's by obedient to a special revelation and because we are unable to because it is not more desirable to us

than honey.

It is not more Desirable to us than gold we are to seek forgiveness of our sins, which

is the last set of verses.

Look what he says in verse 12.

Who can discern his errors.

I Find that question to be very fascinating because he doesn't just simply say man I am such a sinner,

but he says even further.

He says I can't even discern my errors.

I can't even understand my error.

He's saying that the sin that I find myself in is so persuasive.

It's so far reaching in my soul that I can't even discern it all.

He says who can even discern his errors in light of the truth found in God's special revelation who can

discern his errors.

The Word of God shows us our error and shows us our inability who can discern it.

And then he goes on to beg from God declare me innocent from hidden faults.

These are faults that he doesn't even see he's not even aware of he it's hidden from him because of his

ignorance.

He says he says forgive me of my end of my hidden faults and he goes on to ask forgiveness.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.

Presumptuous is is purposeful sins, right?

He's asking forgiveness forgive me for the sins that I do Purposefully against you and he says don't let them have

dominion over me.

Do not let them have control over my soul.

He says then I shall be blameless and innocent of great Transgression.

So there it is a understanding that there is a great transgressor.

Who's reading the special revealed Word of God and it explains why it does not resonate with our hearts and why?

Disobedience comes so naturally and why we complain in God's general revelation instead of

enjoying him in his general revelation.

So what's the great cry what's the great help verse 14?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.

Oh Lord my rock and my Redeemer.

He cries out for the rock.

He cries out for his Redeemer.

He cries out that the meditation of his heart would be renewed and he would desire the law of the Lord from the heart.

He cries out for grace.

He cries out for change.

This is exactly what me and you should be doing as we approach God in his special revealed word.

Oh God in heaven reveal yourself to me.

But don't just reveal your law to me that shows my error my transgressions.

But reveal a Redeemer to me the one who will renew my heart and calls me from the heart to rejoice

Greatly in your word and then that will change everything about how I carry myself out in your general revelation.

You see it is a cry for grace.

It's the cry for forgiveness of sin.

It's a cry for Jesus Christ.

There is only one Redeemer who can forgive you of your sins and give you a new heart.

Where you desire God's Word more than wealth and more than luxury.

It's the one who said if anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink.

Whoever believes in me as the scripture has said out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

There's only one Redeemer that said I am the way the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me the one who said I am the light of the world.

Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

It's the Redeemer who said before Abraham was I am.

The one who says if you abide in my word you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will Set you free.

It's the one who said if you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Jesus Christ through forgiveness of sins gives you a new heart of love for him.

That's what the new covenant does for you that enables you to keep his commandments.

Jesus Christ saves not through your obedience, but through his obedience and after he has done his work He

saves you for obedience.

See.

Jesus Christ saves you not by your obedience, but his own but he doesn't save you so he can be a

disobedient wretch.

He saves you that you can be a an obedient forgiven sinner.

And so that you can then carry yourself differently in his general revelation in which no longer are you grumbling from the

hearts?

But rather you sing out with the Sun with nature with the birds praise be to our God.

See the Sun.

By his obedience Jesus Christ forgives you and brings you into obedience with the

Father so the word The word of the Lord his special

revelation that you must obey in order to enjoy his general revelation.

The word of God becomes delightful to you and you are empowered to obey from the heart by faith in Jesus

by faith in Jesus, this is why your Devotional time with God should always begin with

the proclaiming of the gospel to your soul.

This is why if you wish to be to find any kind of Benefit as you

meditate upon the scriptures of the Lord.

It needs to be in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It needs to be in light of the mercies found in his veins.

Because any kind of understanding of the Lord separated from the grace found in Christ is vain and useless.

It needs to be in light of the forgiveness of sins found in his cross and this

livens everything.

That livens your worship to God as you behold God in the scriptures.

It's all in light of Jesus Christ.

And so you obey him you obey his commandments and it produces life in you.

So that as the Sun comes out of its chamber to shout proclamation of God's glory.

Your heart filled with the word responds with sweet songs of worship.

Because of what Jesus Christ has done to forgive you of your sins.

We can only enjoy God's general revelation through obedience to his special revelation and Jesus Christ.

Our Lord is the source and enabler of that blessed obedience.

So that enjoyment of God's creation becomes married to our worship of Christ as a

redeemer and King.

If you are not enjoying God in his creation, you are not enjoying Christ and redemption.

They are married together.

So the problem that you have as you grumble in this world is directly married with your problem with not

Understanding what Christ has done for you.

So when you wake up tomorrow.

The Sun bursting forth from its chamber proclaiming God's glory.

To the birds singing songs of praise to our King to the wind amongst the tree branches making a sweet

melody of worship to our God and the only melody playing in your heart is one of murmuring and complaints

or just simply indifference to our God.

Proclaim the work of Christ to your soul.

Open up his word with the aim to show him your love by your obedience.

That is driven by his grace.

With a confidence that it is only through gospel obedience that one can enjoy the general revelation

of our King.

That's why.

Every single problem that we have is a gospel issue.

It's a not realizing the power of the gospel in that problem that we have.

You think about biblical counseling?

What is biblical counseling all about telling a believer?

This is how you apply the gospel to this particular issue.

You're having this is what it looks like as a rubber meets the road.

So it's always a Christ problem whenever we are not utilizing this world in the way that

glorifies his name.

So we proclaim the excellencies of Christ to our heart and we see it reverberate and worship to him as we carry

ourselves in his General revelation.

Let us pray to our God.

Thank you so much Lord.

That you have revealed yourself in creation.

Lord, it's such an important thing for us to grab hold of and within our hearts and mind because we carry ourself in your creation.

Constantly we're always in your creation.

And we're met that each moment of our lives as we live and have our being in it would be one of worship to you.

But we know Lord that Oftentimes our hearts are full of disobedience.

And so instead of enjoying worship with you in our obedience.

Instead in our disobedience we find ourselves grumbling full of plagues of problems.

We're fighting fighting each other fighting ourselves full of envy and sin within our hearts.

I'm so thankful Lord that you don't just leave us to say well, here's my law.

Here's my word.

Obey me.

It'll be alright, but instead you give us Jesus Christ.

I'm so thankful Lord that as we look upon him.

We believe upon Jesus Christ and we live in faith to him each day.

He empowers us for gospel obedience.

So now our lives are rich with meaning.

Now we can truly join the song of the ages.

We can join nature itself as it proclaims your greatness.

So can we we proclaim Jesus Christ and him crucified and resurrected.

Thank you Lord that this is what we have for us.

We get to obey today.

We get to obey you.

But it's only through the blood of Jesus Christ and his work and so I pray that for those who are disobedient to him.

To the unbeliever that you would grant them repentance and a look at Jesus.

That you would grant those who are being disobedient to Christ.

Even as they profess believing in him that you you would show them that it is better to obey

Christ Than to live in disobedience.

So may we be reminded of it by your word reminded of it by the baptism that we get to

Witness may we be reminded of the grace found in Jesus Christ to enable our belief and the

table that we get to partake of.

Now, thank you for these reminders.

Thank you for your grace.

May you be glorified Forever in your church in Jesus name.

Amen.