Read Psalm 19 together this morning.
It says,
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, rejoicing the heart.
The commandment of the Lord is sure, 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 warned.
In 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, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
If you guys will pray with me before we come to the Lord.
O Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning.
You are far more glorious than we can grasp.
As we get to hear in the psalms that were read this morning
and in the psalm that we're about to see,
Father, you have proclaimed your glory loudly before all men.
Lord, may we see it this morning.
Lord, would you equip your people?
Would you strengthen your people?
Would you cause us to stand before you that we might hear your word?
Lord, it is only by your spirit that we are going to be able to see you.
It is by your spirit you change hearts.
And that we are not just here to hear a word spoken, Father,
but we are here to hear from you.
So, Father, we depend on you to do this work for us.
Please, Lord, we pray.
It is in your son's name I ask this.
Amen.
So, Psalm 19, the psalm that we get the joy of having this morning,
is pretty widely regarded as one of the finest of all the psalms,
just in its construction is beautiful, its language is beautiful.
It's often quoted, even people that are not necessarily Christians
would look at it and say, man, this is beautiful.
And it has been such a joy to get to see the beautiful hand of God in his scripture.
So, the question that I want to put before everybody in our minds as we come into this scripture is,
how do you and I respond to when God reveals himself?
What is our response to the revelation of God?
When you need to see God, when he opens up his scripture to you or when you see him in creation,
what is your response?
What is my response?
This psalm really kind of breaks down into three movements.
There's three distinct sections to this.
And as you kind of read through it, at first, they might seem a little disjointed.
Why does he go from this to this?
And how does that flow out?
But I want you guys to see, as we go through this, just the richness and beauty of God's word.
So, the first movement really begins, and it starts in verse 1 and runs through verse 6.
It starts out by saying, the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
This is what theologians describe as God's general revelation.
How he has revealed himself to all people.
This is the sermon that his handiwork preaches day in, day out, to all men.
And I remember when I used to work construction, and it was one long day.
We had an office down in Vegas, and I was driving back to Reno.
And if you've ever driven through the middle of Nevada, you know there's absolutely nothing in the middle of Nevada,
particularly somewhere about the little town of Tonopah.
And I remember it had been a long day.
A bunch of stuff had happened and gone wrong.
And it was probably about 10, 11 o'clock in the middle of the wintertime.
So, it had been dark for five, six hours at least.
And I still had, it's halfway, I still had four hours left to go before I got home.
And I remember this particular stretch, pulling off and getting out.
And crystal clear night, you couldn't see the mountains.
They were just that black silhouette all around you.
And, man, you could have cut the stars with a knife.
If you've ever been out late at night, and you see just that band of the Milky Way, and it's so thick, you feel like you could grab it.
Like, just the glory and the beauty of God's creation.
In Romans 1, in 19 and 20, Paul says,
The psalmist here in verse 2 says,
Day to day to day pours out speech.
There's an image there.
The word is like a bubbling over.
It's an abundant welling up and just spilling over of words.
There's no lack.
And it says that night to night reveals knowledge.
So the image is that one one day finishes its job of proclaiming the glory of God.
It passes the floor, as it were, to the night that takes up its argument as to the glory and the majesty of a creator.
Even some of the pagan philosophers, they understood this.
They knew.
So, Cicero said,
When we behold the heavens, when we contemplate the celestial bodies, can we fail of conviction?
Must we not acknowledge that there is a divinity?
A perfect being?
A ruling intelligence which governs?
A God who is everywhere and directs all by his power.
Anybody who doubts this may as well deny there is a sun that lights us.
It says,
Time destroys all false opinions, but it confirms those which are formed by nature.
So no matter what you want to contrive, you still have to stand under creation and under the heavens and hear their sermon.
There's another story that I came across during the French Revolution.
One of the revolutionaries was speaking to one of the peasants, and he said,
I will have all your steeples pulled down.
Then you may no longer have any object that will remind you of your old superstitions.
And the peasant replied,
But you cannot help leaving us the stars.
The verse there in 3 says,
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
Paul in Romans 119 said,
This leaves men without excuse.
You can't get away from it.
The translation there in 3 is actually a little bit tricky.
Because it literally reads,
There is no speech,
Or sorry,
We translate it,
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
But it reads,
No speech,
No words,
No voice,
Not heard.
It's kind of this blunt,
Hammered fired sort of language
That I believe is there on purpose for that point.
There's no speech.
They don't speak to us.
There's not an audible voice.
There's not words.
There's no particular voice.
But you can't tell me it's not heard.
The sermon of creation is spoken clearly.
It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, what you speak.
All people sit under the same sky.
We all see God's handiwork.
And there's a fullness to this sermon that they speak.
It says,
Their voice goes out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.
The line in there,
Their voice,
That word is actually line in a lot of translations.
And it's the word for a measuring line,
Or like a measuring tape.
The idea in the image is,
There's this full line of all the words of this sermon spelled out.
It can actually even mean the words in a line on a page,
As you would write them.
So this is the image of the skies above,
Painting out the fullness of a declaration of God,
In his divinity,
In his power,
In his glory.
I found this quote,
And my wife said,
I don't know,
It's a little harsh,
But it's Spurgeon,
So I'm going to go with it.
He put it pretty bluntly.
He said,
He who looks up to the firmament,
And then writes himself down an atheist,
Brands himself at the same moment,
As an idiot or a liar.
You can't come away and not understand that you are small.
One of my favorite,
Calvin,
And not John Calvin,
But the other philosopher,
Calvin and his friend Hobbes.
There's this scene where he's out under all the stars,
And the second panel is him yelling,
I'm significant!
And then the next panel is just him under the stars staring up,
And then the last one is him staring up,
Saying,
Said the dust speck.
We quickly understand God's glory and majesty.
But then there's another element to this,
That the past seeing God's glory,
It does something even to us.
David then singles out one particular work of God's hand.
He says,
In them he has set a tent for the sun.
He says,
Which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber.
And the image there,
We do things a little differently,
But to the Jewish culture,
The bridegroom would gather all his friends,
Make all his preparations,
And they would go into his chamber,
And he'd get all ready in his finest,
To come out and wed his bride.
So the image there is,
Him in all his finest,
All his glory as it were,
Getting ready to go celebrate my friends.
I get my wife.
I've been waiting for her.
This is joy.
There is an excitement.
There is an exuberant happiness,
And a liveliness.
He's ready.
And like a strong man,
Runs his course with joy.
Now, some of you are strange,
And you like to run.
I do not like to run.
But,
Here's that image,
Of someone,
A strong man.
He is capable.
He's ready.
He enjoys this.
He does it with joy.
Again,
There's this picture of life,
And vigor,
And joy,
That's ascribed to the sun.
At first,
It kind of seemed like a little bit of a rephrasing,
Of the same image,
Of the speech,
As the heavens.
When he says,
That,
Sorry,
Lost my spot.
When he comes out,
Like a bridegroom,
Leaving his chamber,
And like a strong man,
Runs his course with joy,
Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the end of them.
Kind of seems similar.
But then there's this other part,
That stands out,
And it's different.
He says,
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Well,
This is a different work.
Because before,
The skies were proclaiming the glory of God,
But here's an effect.
Here's something,
Done on the,
Down below,
On the hands.
Nothing,
Under the heavens,
Is hidden,
From the piercing,
All disclosing light,
Of the sun.
Right?
When it comes out,
You see everything plainly.
All is exposed,
Everything is shown,
For what it is.
When we see the glory,
And almighty power of God,
As revealed in his creation,
It can only make us aware,
Of how small we are,
How base,
How corrupt we are in comparison.
God's general revelation,
Actually leaves us,
Exposed.
As our confession puts it,
Although the light of nature,
And the works of creation,
And providence,
Do so manifest,
The goodness,
Wisdom,
And power of God,
As to leave men inexcusable,
Yet they are not sufficient,
To give that knowledge of God,
And his will,
Which is necessary,
For salvation.
They show us who God is,
They show us the glory of God,
So that we are without excuse,
As Paul says,
But they leave us,
With very,
Very little,
To do with it.
Paul says,
In Romans 1,
The sin of men,
Is called to account,
By God's general revelation,
He says,
For the wrath of God,
Is revealed from heaven,
Against all ungodliness,
And unrighteousness of men,
So there is an apparentness,
Even to the unbeliever,
Who has to stand and reckon,
But there is a God,
And I am not him,
Who by their unrighteousness,
Suppress the truth,
And for what can be known of God,
Is plain to them,
For his invisible attributes,
Namely his eternal power,
And divine nature,
Have been clearly perceived,
Ever since the creation of the world,
And the things which have been made,
So they are without excuse.
So we see that even God's general revelation,
Is enough to call men to count before God.
But then David turns,
To a second movement,
And this is,
What we call God's special revelation,
This is his particular revelation,
To his people.
He says,
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,
Rejoicing the heart,
The commandment of the Lord is pure,
Enlightening the eyes,
The fear of the Lord is clean,
Enduring forever,
And the rules of the Lord are true,
And righteous altogether.
I deliberately want to take these first couple of verses,
And look at them as a whole,
And then we'll break them down.
But I want you to notice something first,
In verse one,
He uses the name,
For God,
That's kind of his general name,
This is El.
But then,
In these verses,
He transitions,
And he uses,
Yahweh.
This is the name,
That God gave Moses,
When he said,
Well,
Who am I going to say sent him?
And he said,
I am sent,
I am who I am.
This is God's personal name,
That he disclosed to his people.
And he uses it,
Four times here.
There's a difference between,
God's general revelation,
To all men,
And the way that he has spoken,
And his word that he has given,
To his people.
I want you all to see,
In these verses,
That,
There's a totality meant,
Some people will break this out,
And try to parse it out,
In each one,
But I want you to see,
By looking at all these,
There's,
There's a wholeness,
Of the word that God has given.
The word translated,
In that first verse,
Law,
Somewhere else,
Is translated,
Covenant.
It actually encompasses,
All of the work,
That God has done,
With his people.
That particular covenant,
We see it used,
Back,
When he speaks,
To Abraham.
So he's not,
Just,
We got to get out of the,
Thinking only law,
In the Mosaic law,
But he's actually talking about,
The whole covenant,
Of God with his people.
The word testimony,
Is that,
Recorded witness,
It's the testifying,
Of what God has done,
All that he's done,
All that he's worked,
For his people.
And the word precept,
Describes to us,
Those kingly directions,
Which the Lord has set down,
For the ordering,
Of his people's lives.
This is how,
My people are to act,
How they are to be,
How they are distinguished,
As my people.
And then commandment,
Has the general sense,
Of the moral law of God,
And the fear of the Lord,
Used in this sense,
Is the instruction,
Of how God is to be,
Worshipped and reverenced.
This is God saying,
This is how you shall worship me.
You remember,
Because the distinction,
That we see in Romans 1,
Is that they took that image of God,
And exchanged it,
And worshipped how they wanted.
God said,
This is how I shall be worshipped.
Yes I am God.
This is my people.
This is how they will worship.
So we can see,
As we look in that,
That it really,
It's all encompassing,
For everything that we have,
In scripture.
Everything from God's covenant,
With his people,
How he is to be worshipped,
How his people are to live.
What that all looks like.
It's really all defining,
But then,
David could rightly say,
That about God's word.
Then,
How much more do we get to,
Now?
When we have,
The fullness,
Of God's covenant people,
With his people revealed.
The whole testimony,
Of his action.
Everything that he's done.
All his kingly precepts,
Set forth by his reigning,
King Jesus.
His moral law,
Fully shown and fulfilled in Christ.
His people,
Rightly ordered to worship,
Father,
Son,
And Holy Spirit,
In spirit and truth.
You can see how,
Calvin and a lot of other,
Commentators have said,
No,
This really,
Speaks to us,
Of the whole,
Word of God.
This includes his gospel.
Because if we're going to look at it,
How would you not read through,
And see Christ in that as well.
I want you guys to see,
Some contrasts,
Between these two movements.
How are they different?
Creation,
It says,
Declares the glory of God,
Proclaims his handiwork,
And reveals knowledge.
Reveals it,
But,
God's word,
Says,
Revives the soul.
Makes wise the simple.
Right?
There's more than just a revealing knowledge.
Rejoices the heart,
And enlightens the eyes.
This is why,
That same first section,
In our confession,
In the very first words,
In our confession,
Begin with pronouncement,
Says,
The holy scripture,
Is the only sufficient,
Certain,
And infallible rule,
Of all saving knowledge,
Faith,
And obedience.
There's a particular work,
That the word of God can do,
That creation can't,
How does it revive the soul?
In the word,
Jesus Christ,
He is alone,
One who can give life to the soul.
And Peter,
Makes his confession,
In John 6,
Says,
Lord,
To whom shall we go?
For you have the words,
Of life.
They're not dead words.
Regularly,
People would say,
Well,
He speaks with power and authority.
When he spoke,
The dead came to life.
And how does it make wise,
The simple?
Remember,
In scripture,
The expression,
Of one who is,
A simpleton,
Or a simple,
Who is a fool,
Carries it,
With it,
The idea of someone,
Who's lacking wisdom,
But also,
Who has a moral deficiency.
Then,
Paul says in Timothy 2,
And from childhood,
You have been acquainted,
With the sacred writings,
Which are able to make you wise,
For salvation,
Through faith,
In Christ Jesus.
All scriptures breathe out by God,
And profitable for teaching,
For reproof,
For correction,
And for training in righteousness,
The man of God may be equipped,
For every good work.
Not only are we,
Proclaimed God,
But,
We're actually,
Taught,
Reproved,
Corrected,
Trained up in righteousness,
For good works.
Makes wise,
The simple.
How does it rejoice the heart?
It's hearing the word,
That produces faith.
It says,
Faith comes by hearing,
And hearing by the word of God,
And then,
Peter says in 1 Peter 1,
8,
That you do not see him,
You love him.
Though you do not now see him,
You believe in him,
And rejoice,
With joy that is inexpressible,
And filled with glory.
Because now,
We have Christ.
The scripture,
That gives us light.
For anyway,
We find Jesus saying,
John 8, 12,
I am the light of the world,
Whoever follows me,
Will not walk in darkness,
But will have the light of life.
And 2 Corinthians 4, 6,
For God who said,
Let light shine out of darkness,
Has shown in our hearts,
To give the light of the knowledge,
Of the glory of God,
That glory proclaimed,
In the face of Jesus Christ.
And there's some parallels,
That we have in here as well.
I love how this psalm,
All works together.
Just as the heavens speak,
Continually to us,
So the word of God,
Endures forever.
And just as the voice of the heavens,
Speaks to all,
And is full in its line,
So the special revelation of God,
Is righteous,
All together.
Complete,
Holy righteous.
So when you read through this,
And you say,
The law of the Lord is perfect.
Yes, he is.
He revives the soul.
The testimony of the Lord is sure.
Yes, he is.
Making wise the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right.
Yes, he is.
Rejoicing the heart.
And the commandment of the Lord is pure.
Yes, he is.
Enlightening the eyes.
And the fear of the Lord is clean,
Enduring forever.
The rules of the Lord are true,
And righteous all together.
Yes, he is.
So,
I want to see a little difference here too.
The effect of the different revelations of himself
That God has made.
It's a little different.
But it's very much the same.
If we actually get two kind of parallel pictures,
In here.
Some commentators believe
That the effect that's mentioned
About the sun and its circuit,
And its heat,
Is to be read as its life-giving effect.
Nothing would exist under the sun
On this planet without the sun and its influence.
Others take it to be that searching
And revealing nature
That light has.
And that the sun
Effects on the world.
I want to put to you guys
That I really believe both are in view here.
We often find
The idea of light and life
Tied together
Closely in scripture.
In Ephesians 5, 13 and 14
It says,
But when anything is exposed by the light
It becomes visible.
For anything that becomes visible
Is light.
Therefore it says,
Awake, O sleeper
And arise from the dead
And Christ will shine on you.
So there's the effect of
The glory of Christ
Making dead sinners alive.
In Isaiah 49, 6
Speaking, looking forward of Christ
Is it too light a thing
That you should be my servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob?
Is it too easy for you?
To bring back the preserved of Israel?
I will make you as a light
For the nations
That my salvation may reach
To the ends of the earth.
And in 58, 8
He says,
Then shall your light
Break forth like the dawn
And your healing
Shall spring up speedily.
Light and life.
So we get these two parallel pictures
In this psalm
Of
The sun and its glory
With all of its
Worth and sweet
Life-giving description
Of the word.
Right?
Here's this glory
This lively character
This strong man running
His race with joy
And here's
The glory
Worth and sweet
Life-giving description
In verse 10
We also see
The parallel
Revealing work
Of the sun
In verse 6
And the revealing work
Of the word
In verse 11
So I want to show you guys that
In 5
He describes him
As a bridegroom
Coming out of his chamber
And a strong man
Running his course with joy
And that his circle is
To the end of the heavens
And there's nothing
Hidden from his heat
Then let's look down
At 10 and 11
He says
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 warned
In keeping them
There is great reward
So we see
This picture of glory
Of worth
Of weightiness
That they are desired
More than gold
Even fine gold
Even purified gold
Is worth
There is a glory
To the word of God
But it is sweeter than honey
Drippings of the honeycomb
And you guys remember
As we were in 1 Samuel
And we see
Jonathan taking his staff
And dipping in honey
And his eyes are enlightened
He's enlivened
So there's these two pictures
Of how the sun gives joy
Life
But then there's also
Nothing hidden from its heat
And it says of God's word
Moreover by them
As your servant warned
In keeping them
There's great reward
There's the
This is how you should live
And this is how you should not live
Spelled out in scripture
This kind of
Dual work
Is what I want you guys to see
As we move into
That response
That David has
When he considers
The glory of creation
And the glory of God's word
And how it lays
All bare
Yet it
Gives life
So I started by asking you guys
A question of
How do you respond
To the revelation of God
When God reveals himself
What is our response to me?
And I
Have tried to kind of
Follow the pattern
Of the psalms
That we see the glory of God
The sweetness of him
And his
General and his special revelation
Because it naturally
Then drives us to application
Because if this is who God is
And this is what he's
Revealed himself to be
What do I do with that?
A pastor of mine
Once put it
We don't read
The word of God
It reads us
And that's become
Something when we get
In the car
At the end of
Sunday in the sermon
And we look over
How did God's word
Read you today?
Because when we stand
Before the glory of God
And we hear him
And we see him
There's a response
That we can't get away from
There's
An only natural reaction
When we see God's glory
His general revelation
Kind of gives us
A glimpse of that
But his special revelation
Shows all of it
Would you guys turn over
To Hebrews 4
And 12 and 13
While you guys are turning
You know
I started preaching Hebrews
And
For those of you guys
That are a little bit more
Book nerds
And you like Tolkien
Your homework is
Psalm 19
Is really like
The first six chapters
Of Hebrews
It's kind of like
How Tolkien
Gives you an appendix
That you turn to
And you read
And it's like
An entire story
In its own
Psalm 19
So
Now that you guys
Are there
There's your homework
For the word of God
Is living and active
Sharper than any
Two-edged sword
Piercing to the division
Of the soul
And spirit
Of joints
And of marrow
And discerning
The thoughts
And intentions
Of the heart
And no creature
Is hidden from his sight
But all are naked
And exposed
To the eyes of him
To whom
We must give an account
Does the language
Sound kind of familiar?
God's word
Always reads us
It leaves
No creature
Hidden from his sight
But all
Naked and exposed
To the eyes
Of him
Of whom
They must give an account
So then
It only makes sense
David's response
When he cries out
In verses 12 and 14
Who can discern
His errors?
Declare me
Innocent
Of 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
So how does
God's special
Revelation
Read David?
I want you guys
To see
That it has read
God's people
Much the same way
Since the very beginning
First
Notice
David humbly
Puts himself
Under its light
Who can discern
His errors?
David acknowledges
That he is not
The man for this job
In the light
Of the glory
And goodness
And majesty
And powerfulness
Of God
Who can actually
Search something out?
David calls on
The Lord to do it
Then God's word
Brings him
To confess
That he is not
Beyond having sin
Which he doesn't
Even know about
His hidden faults
Just as
That same word
Is used
That nothing
Is hidden
From its heat
He uses
The same word
Here
For hidden faults
That which requires
Being searched out
And then see
It shows him
His indwelling sin
That he is capable
Of presumptuous sins
That is
Those sins
That are
High handed rebellion
This isn't
I was unaware
This is
I did it anyway
And he shows him
That he is so
Bent to sin
Because of that
Indwelling sin
That he would
Easily let it
Make him a slave
He says
Let them not
Have dominion
Over me
There is
An urgency
And almost
An anguish
Heard in his voice
This
Oh let them not
Have dominion
Over me
One earlier
Caesareus of Arles
He was in
Late 400s AD
Said it this way
Let us not
Think little
Of our sins
Because they are
Slight
But let us
Fear them
Because there are
Many
Drops of rain
Are small
But because
There are many
They fill rivers
And submerge
Houses
And sometimes
By their force
They even carry
Off mountains
One commentator
Del Ralph Davies
That I read
Said this
About these
Verses
We find a
Pattern
That moves
From hidden
Faults
To arrogant
Sins
To decisive
Apostasy
The idea
Seems to be
That this
Is a genuine
Danger
And that there
Can be a path
From errors
To insolence
To apostasy
An earnest
Prayer is
Called for
In the face
Of each
Instance
And possibility
Christians
May err
Here
Some think
That since
They have
The assurances
Of Jesus
Or that
Of the apostles
No Christian
Need to be
Worried about
The specter
Of apostasy
But the
Bible never
Wants us
To use
It's
Assurances
To avoid
It's
Warnings
There's
Instruction
In how
David responds
To the
Revelation
Of God
Lord may
We take
David's
Example
How often
Do we take
The words
Of scripture
And then
Turn
And think
Little of it
Or think
Little of our
Sin
I just
Heard what
It costs
Christ
But it's
No big
Deal
The warning
Of James
In chapter
One
Cries out
But be
Doers of
The word
Not hearers
Only
Deceiving
Yourselves
For if
Anyone is
A hearer
Only
And not
A doer
He's
Like a
Man
Who
Looks
Intently
At his
Natural
Face
In the
Mirror
For he
Looks at
himself
And then
Goes away
And at
Once
Forgets
What he's
Like
May God's
Word
Read us
And cut us
To the
Heart
Like we
See David
There's
Another effect
Though
That the
Word has
On its
People
Just as
The sun
And the
Law
Expose
Us
So
God's
Revelation
Gives
Life
If you
Guys
Look
When he
Says
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
Who's
David
Looking
To
Do
This
Oftentimes
People
Will
Take
This
And
They'll
Say
Oh
Look
It's
The
Law
Of
God
And
There's
Great
Reward
In
Keeping
It
But
Who
Does
David
Ask
Who's
David's
Appeal
To
It's
Not
His
Own
Strength
It's
Not
The
Law
That
He
Just
Declared
Good
It's
The
Lord
The
Law
Of
The
Lord
Is
Perfect
He
Says
You
Declare
Me
Innocent
From
Hidden
Faults
You
Keep
Back
Your
Servant
Also
From
Presumptuous
Sins
You
Let
Them
Not
Have
Dominion
Over
Me
There's
Confession
Here
There's
Also
Trust
The
Response
Of
God's
People
To
His
Revelation
Has
Always
Been
Even
From
The
Time
Of
David
Now
After
Christ
Has
Always
Been
Repentance
And
Faith
His
Final
Petition
Is
Just
Saturated
In
It
He
Says
Let
The
Words
Of
My
Mouth
And
The
Meditation
Of
My
Heart
The
Goodness
And
Glory
Of
God
That
I
Have
Seen
And
Proclaimed
And
My
Own
Acknowledgement
Of
Who
I
Am
Before
That
God
There's
The
Confession
Be
Acceptable
In
Your
Sight
Oh
Lord
My
Rock
And
My
Redeemer
My
Trust
My
Shelter
My
Safety
The
One
In
Whom
I
Lean
The
One
Who
I
Take
Refuge
In
Trust
Is
Redeemer
The
One
Who
Has
To
Save
He
Didn't
Say I
Can
Keep
Myself
Innocent
From
My
Hidden
Faults
That
I
Don't
Even
Know
Of
I
Can
Keep
Myself
Back
From
High
Handed
Rebellion
I
Can
Keep
Myself
Becoming
A
Slave
To
My
Own
Sin
He
Looks
To
A
Redeemer
To
Do
It
There
Is
Repentance
And
Faith
That
Naturally
Comes
Out
When
We
See
The
Glory
Of
Who
God
Is
And
All
That
He
Has
Done
And
That
Is
The
Work
That
God's
Revelation
Does
In
The
Life
Of
A
Believer
Is
Repentance
And
Faith
Every
Time
So
How
Do
You
How
Do
I
Respond
Then
When
We
Hear
God's
Word
When
We
See
Him
How
Does
God's
Word
Read
You
Maybe
Some
Sitting
Here
This
Morning
That
Don't
Know
Him
Yet
I'm
Glad
That
You're
Here
And
You
Get
To
Hear
The
Word
Of
God
He
Is
Good
He
Does
Good
It's
Good
That
He
Exposes
Our
Sin
And
Does
Not
Leave
Us
In
It
It's
Good
That
He
Surges
Out
Even
Those
Hidden
Faults
No
Matter
How
Long
We've
Been
Exposed
There
Will
Be
More
To
Find
Our
Sin
Is
Worse
Than
We
Will
Ever
Understand
This
Side
Of
Heaven
But
There
Is
One
Who
Has
Paid
For
It
All
Who
Has
Taken
Every
Drop
On
Himself
There
Is
One
Who
Knew
No
Sin
Yet
Became
Sin
For
Us
So
If
You
Are
A
Believer
Or
Someone
Who
Is
Not
A
Believer
Yet
This
Morning
And
You're
Sitting
Here
And
You're
Hearing
This
Is
For
Your
Good
Will
You
Not
Come
To
Him
He
Stands
Ready
To
Save
He
Has
Already
Paid
For
It
All
On
The
Cross
He's
Good
And
He
Gives
Life
I
Pray
That
God
Works
In
You
Repentance
And
Faith
And
To
Some
Of
The
Younger
Ones
That
Say
Here
That
You've
Come
You've
Sat
In
Church
You
Done
Your
Best
To
Pay
Attention
To
The
Sermons
But
Maybe
Haven't
Given
God's
Word
A
Lot
Of
Thought
I
Pray
That
You're
Not
Like
Somebody
That
Just
Looks
In
The
Mirror
And
Turns
Around
And
Forgets
What
He
Looks
Like
When
It
Comes
To
God's
Word
That
You
See
God's
Word
And
Then
You
Go
About
What
You're
Doing
May
You
Actually
See
God
There
May
God
Give
You
An
Understanding
Of
Your
Sin
Your
Need
Of
Him
And
The
Life
That
He
Has
Given
In
Christ
May
God
Work
In
You
Repentance
And
Faith
And
The
Brother
And
Sister
Know
This
That
God
Has
Shown
Know
It
Full
Well
I
Know
In
My
Own
Self
I
Can
Often
Be
Like
One
Who
Looks
In
A
Mirror
And
Walks
Away
And
We
Regularly
Need
To
See
The
Goodness
And
Glory
Of
God
It
Challenges
Us
It
Exposes
Our
Sin
We
Need
To
Be
Like
David
And
Come
And
Say
There's
Sin
That
I
Don't
Even
Know
Of
Lord
Let
Alone
The
High
Handed
Lord
Keep
It
Back
May
It
Never
Have
Dominion
Over
Me
May
I
Come
To
You
May
I
Trust
How
Does
God's
Word
Read
You
And
I
May
It
Work
In
Us
Repentance
And
Faith
And
That
Daily
Work
Let
Me
Pray
For
Us
Heavenly
Father
You
Are
So
Good
Your
Word
Is
So
Beautiful
Lord
It
Is
Perfect
Sure
It
Is
Right
It
Is
True
Lord
You
Give
Life
You
Are
Good
And
You
Do
Not
Leave
Us
In
Our
Sin
And
That
Which
Would
Damn
Us
And
That
Which
Even
Though
We
May
Know
You
Causes
So
Much
Death
And
Brokenness
And
Destruction
No
Lord
But
You
Give
What
Is
Good
Father
Pray
That
As we
See
Your
Word
As we
See
It
Today
As we
See
It
Tomorrow
And the
Next
Day
Lord
That
You
Would
Read
Us
In
It
You
Would
Expose
Us
You
Would
Lay
Us
Bare
!
But
Lord
That
You
Would
Come
And
You
Would
Give
Life
That
You
Grow
Us
In
The
Daily
Work
Of
Repentance
And
Faith
Lord
May
It
Be
Acceptable
In
Your
Sight
Oh
Our
Rock
And
Our
Redeemer
I
Pray
This
That
Your
Son
May
Receive
All
The
Glory
In
His
Church
Amen