All right, brethren, let's turn
to Psalm 19. Psalm 19. Sometimes there's just some songs
I like singing a little better than other ones. And if there
was a soapbox I got to stand on to tell people about who and
what God is, I like this one. I want to get it out of me. and
my eyes twitching, and every time I look down, it's blinking,
but I don't need to read everything I got in my notes. I know, I
know this. I know what I got to tell you.
And I was studying this this week. We had our vegetables first.
That was the first hour. And now we get to dessert. Last
week, we had that flip-flop. We had dessert first, didn't
we? And so to me, this may just be for me, and that's all right.
You can listen in. But this is the sweet part. I didn't get
past the first verse of this psalm. I looked ahead from Psalm
18 and started reading Psalm 19. I got in that first verse
and I couldn't get past it. It just exploded. The heavens
declare His glory. When we speak of the glory of
God, Christ and His majestic glory, you think you're going
to hit all the points in 30, 45 minutes? I don't think I'm going to come
close to think about scratching the surface. Much less get my
hand out to scratch. Well, it's something. Let's read
this. We'll read the first 10 verses. Psalm 19, verse 1. The heavens declare the glory
of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth
speech and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech
nor language where their voice is not heard." That means there's
not a country, there's not a part of the Congo, there's not a part
of the North Pole, South Pole, anywhere between or in the middle
of the Pacific Ocean where there's no man and no land that this
voice is not heard, that His glory is not heard. Verse 4, their line is gone out
through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the Son, which is as a bridegroom, coming out of his chamber, and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is
from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it,
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof." Now the gears
in the car has kind of changed. We shift gears a little bit.
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony
of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes 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. The judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they. than gold, yay, than much fine
gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. A writer of
old said that there were two books
in David's library when he read this psalm. We may have heard
this, huh? You heard that before? David
had two books in his library. He had the book of creation.
He spent a lot of time in a cave, didn't he? He'd go outside and
look. He could pick out a window. Look out the cave. At night time, go outside in
one of those dark sky communities. It's what Grego Springs is. We
saw it sign in and they turned the lights down low so at night
time you can see the stars. Go outside and look at the stars.
That's a book and it tells of God's glory. It declares it wherever
we are. And he has there beginning in
verse seven, the Lord's law. That's his word. All of his words.
If he speaks it, it's law. Do you know that? I'll shout. That's it. It's going to happen.
We have laws of gravity. We have theories of electricity
and other things. We have laws of gravity. If I pick a glass
up and let go, it's going to go down. Why? Because He said
there's going to be a thing called gravity. He says it's law. And we have it here in our hand.
We have the book of creation. that you sleep in it, you wake
in it, you walk in it, you work in it, you do everything outside
and inside, and air that you walk through, that you breathe,
and moisture changes, humidity levels, we have those, don't
we? And then we have His written Word. What two majestic books,
isn't it? Well, as another old preacher
said, it's good to stand on those riders of old, on their accomplishments,
and try to reach a little higher. And I read this, and the first
thing come to mind, there's three books David had. Three books. He's got the book of creation.
In these first six verses, it declares Christ is the only potentate. He is the authority. He's the
ruler, the creator, the sustainer of all things, of all creatures,
of man, of all the weather, of all the rocks. We're coming back
on the interstate, and we saw them just beautiful mounds. It
looks like a quarry of huge stones. They're beautiful. You know those who declare the
glory of God? What do they say? Somebody come praising Him, and
them high-minded, hoity-toity religious folks said, you need
to tell them to be quiet. And He said, why can't I? He
said, if I hush them, these rocks will cry out to me. Didn't He?
They declare His glory. All things do. The book of the
Bible, the word of God, the word of salvation. The Bible means
the book of God. and it declares Christ the person
and work of the Son of God. I wrote that. I wrote that in
Luke 24, whenever he walked those two, the road to Emmaus, and
beginning at Moses and all the prophets, Christ expounded unto
them all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. That's
what the book contains. As soon as I wrote that, I happened
to take a break and I read Brother Mahan's article in his bulletin
this week. Some of y'all get that too. He said the word Bible
comes from the Latin and Greek word meaning book. The Bible
is the book of God. It's God's book about himself,
about his son, about his great salvation. What other book do
we really need? We have the book of creation,
that's what we'll look at today. We have the book of the written
word of God, it's in our hand. And then two, we have the book
of providence, don't we? Can you look back on your life
and see what the Lord has done. Have you ever stood still and
stopped talking and just seen what the Lord's done in our lives?
I talk often, I broke my leg. The Lord broke my leg so I'd
meet that woman over there. My children know that story.
I don't want my leg broke again. But I look back and I see his
hand and my pride and how mad I got and how depressed I got
and all the emotions I went through. Feelings come and go. He used
every bit of it to call out one of His children, to give me four
talents in my house. Five. We know God is the God of creation. That we are the creation of the
Lord. That new man in us is His creation. We know He's the God
of salvation. Salvation's of the Lord. And
we call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their
sins. And we know that God rules and
reigns and manipulates. I chose my words carefully. He
manipulates His creation for His people for His glory. I know that. To the saving of
the soul. There's not a molecule that moves
that it doesn't do His bidding as He sees fit. If it doesn't,
He ain't God. Do you get that? He either rules everything, is
sovereign over everything, every dust particle that floats through
the air, or He ain't. Me and a bunch of dust particles
can gang up on Him, and we got a chance of whooping Him. He
might win, but I got a chance. No. We know that, don't we? And
we also know through that providence, we have that book to look back
on. That's what Paul was writing in 2 Corinthians. He said, do
we begin again to commend ourselves, or we need, as some other Epistles
of commendation. Do I have to have a letter? Do
I have to have a sheepskin on the wall from you or for you? And he said, you are our epistles
written in our hearts. I know what the Lord's done with
you. I see it more than you do. I see growth when there's growth.
I see rejoicing when there's rejoicing. People forget, I ain't
a computer screen or something. I look you in the eye when I
preach to you. I forget that. God looks on in
the heart. And as we can look on Him, on
His book of providence throughout time, look at what the Lord's
done. Look what the Lord's done here. You seen that? We took
a picture three years ago. Looks a lot different now, don't
it? Look what the Lord's brought in. Look what He's done. That's
His providence. We can go back and read that,
can't we? And rejoice. Is that to our glory? Just as
that book of creation, just as this written word He's given
us, and just as that book of Providence, He's written right
before our very eyes. The ink's wet. Look at it. We might smudge it. Don't think
on what's happening today or next week. Look back a year or
two. You'll be all right. Look what He's brought us. We're going
to see it written before our very eyes. In Ecclesiastes 12. Let's look over there. This is
one of Solomon's. To the right a few books. Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Solomon, the wisest man that
ever born of Adam. I try to emphasize that every
time I say it. We ought to hear him. That's why I say that. And
if one billionaires that it's on the news every five minutes
was to come into this room, would you ask them financial advice? This is the wisest man. He's
qualified to give it. The Lord said so. Hear him. If somebody was broke, third
destitute, would you take advice, financial advice from somebody
that's broke? Would you take medical advice from somebody
that's just sick all the time and looks like they're about
to die? Would you take salvation advice from somebody that ain't
saved? You ought to raise your children
my way. What? No. No, it didn't work out. The
grandparents always raised Raised a grandkids, that always got
me. You did a bang up job the first time, I don't know what.
Listen to this, man. This is the wisest one that ever
lived. Our natural man, our old flesh,
we like lots of books. And there's some profit in it,
don't get me wrong. I read a lot of them. But it can make one
weary. There's times I study through
the week. I'm thankful for old brother Gil sometimes, but good
not, man. That's just, I gotta get up and walk around something.
Like I can, I'm drowning in words and old English. And that ain't
written in my day. That ain't written in my time.
He don't see the world through my eyes. He don't have the experiences
I have. I go out and look out a window.
I go for a walk. I sit on a park bench. I saw Brother Henry sitting
on a park bench one time in Central Park, Nashville on a Saturday. And he had a leather bomber jacket
on and went golfing with a button in the front of it. And I'd never
seen him in anything other than a suit. And he said, hey, Kevin,
how you doing? I just didn't want to look at him. That was
weird. I said, what you doing? He said,
studying, son. He's out there feeding birds.
Studying a little bit. Learn how to sing to God. These
birds do. They got enough sense to. Why
won't I? We sit and chat it for a minute.
Ecclesiastes 12, verse 8. Vanity of vanities, saith the
preacher, all is vanity. And moreover, because the preacher
was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yay. He gave
good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs. The
preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written
was upright, even the words of truth. The words of the wise
are as goads and as nails fastened by the masters of assembly, which
are given from one shepherd." Who created this whole world?
One shepherd did, didn't he? Christ did. Who moved the hand
of men to write this book we have in front of us? who rules
and reigns in all things in providence. He does as one shepherd. One
shepherd. And further, by these, my son,
be admonished of making many books. There is no end and much
study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of
the whole matter. You really want to learn something? Do you
really want to get down? I mean, complicated, deep things
of God. Here you go. Fear God and keep
his commandments. for this is the whole duty of
man. Believe the Lord, honor Him, fear Him, glorify Him, kiss
the Son, for God shall bring every work into judgment, and
with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. We read His Word throughout the
day, in the morning, noon, or night, sometimes in the middle
of the night we wake up. We read His Word. And then He shows it
to us. He teaches us. He proves His
Word to us. in providence and in creation. The kingdom of God's like mustard
seed, isn't it? You put that seed in the ground,
a whole lot comes out of it, don't it? We've been trying to
grow a tree from seed for a month now, and it's supposed to be
prolific growers. I mean, you just think about
growing it, and it's supposed to grow 30, 40 feet a year, and you can
eat the leaves and the branches and the bark and the roots and everything
underneath the sun. It's got seed, you can eat the seeds too. Can't
keep that thing from growing, and I can't get it to grow. And
I got weeds outside. These trees, I don't even know
where they come from. It ain't raining three months, and they're
growing all over the place. There's vines coming out of the
concrete. I keep weed whacking them and spraying stuff on them. You listen to me, child of God.
What's he proven to me? Life is of God. Salvation to
the Lord. And where he puts life, you ain't
gonna snuff it out. and where he chooses not to put
life, you ain't gonna force it. He showed me. I read his book
walking down my sidewalk the other day, tripping over them
vines. We're gonna see that, isn't that precious? Turn over to Romans chapter one.
Mankind's without excuse. They see his book of creation.
There was a French general one time, I won't say his name to
protect the The guilty and the innocent alike. The French general
during the French Revolution, he went through there and he
said, I'm going to sort you people out. I'm going to tear down every
church building you have. I'm going to burn every cross
you have. I'm going to burn every book you have. And we're going
to extinguish your superstitions in this religious ceremony that
you're going through. I'm going to snuff it out. And
there's this old peasant sitting there. And he said, you going
to take down the moon and the sun too? You go snuff out God,
good luck. That might do us some good to
have every building we have that we call a worship house, call
a house of God, have it burnt to the ground. We might have
to go outside and sit underneath a shade tree. It'd be a lot easier
talking about trees and how the Lord grows a great mighty oak
from a little tiny acorn if we're sitting underneath a big acorn,
isn't it? Might do us good. Man's without
excuse, because of the Lord's book of creation. Romans 1 verse
18, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness."
It's all around you. You don't see it. "...because
that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God
hath showed it unto them." How? Verse 20, "...for the invisible
things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen."
What invisible things of Him? His glory, His power, His majesty,
His sovereignty in all things. being understood by the things
that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they
are without excuse. That's why He speaks about the
birds. They cry unto Him because they're hungry. The rocks would
cry out to Him. They know who He is. His creation
knows who it is. Verse 21, because of that, when they knew God,
they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful. That's
us in our vain selves, but became vain in their imagination, and
their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image made like to a corruptible man, and to birds,
and a four-footed beast, and to creeping things. Wherefore,
God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own
hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served
the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. The Lord gave us oceans, mighty
oceans. Tsunamis come and take out whole
nations or cities or anything else, right? And you can't run
from it. What does He hold that mighty ocean back with? Sand. We pour out the concrete we can,
one state over, and can't keep water behind it if we want to,
can we? He dries it up. How does he hold the oceans in?
Sand. He sets their balance. Now, you think he's going to
want to do something? Go stand out, stick your hand
up, stop a tornado from coming. Go stop a hurricane. One fellow
said, ain't that the wind's blowing? It's what the wind's blowing?
Judgment's blowing. Stop it. You can't. We know better. How can we bend God's arm and
make Him do what we want Him to do. That's foolish. We think we're wise. We've become
fools. Paul's not lying to us, is he? This witness of creation's
been around for a long time. Turn over to Job 37. In college, I didn't get about kicked
out for this one, but it brought some controversy. In Job 38,
this is the oldest book we know of. It says, when the morning
stars sang together, all the sons of God shouted for joy.
The stars sang. Do you know what we call that
in our day? In our wisdom, because we've
evolved for thousands of years? Spectral analysis. That's the
analysis of light or sound or other systems of vibration into
a spectrum. Light emits a sound. We just
figured that out. No, Job wrote about it. 5,000
years, 6,000 years ago, a long time ago. 4,000 years ago. Job 37, this is one of my favorite
passages. I love to hear someone read a
book that knows the author. I mean, one of his saints was
talking about that this week. I'd love to get somebody that
knows God to be recorded reading the Holy Scriptures. Well, that'd
be precious. They know the author. Every time
I read this, I can hear Maurice Montgomery and plain as day.
Job 37, verse five. God thundereth marvelously with
his voice. Great things doeth he which we
cannot comprehend. We cannot comprehend. For he
saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth, likewise to the small
rain, and to the great rain of his strength. And man says, well,
now we know where snow comes from. We know there's never been
two snowflakes just the same. We know how rain comes. There's
evaporation. There's a cycle of things, right? We understand
that. Make it happen. You can't. He does things we
can't comprehend because He says to it, be thou on the ground.
If I could get people walking down the street to know who they're
messing with, who they're snubbing their nose at. This is Almighty
God. God of creation. There's His
book. Read it. Get some vitamin D on you and
see what God's done. Verse 7, He seals up the hand
of every man that all men may know His work when the beasts
go into the dens and remain in their places. Out of the south
cometh the whirlwind, and the cold out of the north. By the
breath of God frost is given, and the breadth of the waters
is straightened. He breathes, and rivers freeze flat. Also
by the water he weareth the thick cloud. He scattereth his bright
cloud, and it is turned round about by his counsels, that they
may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world
in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether
for correction, or for his land, because he owns it, or for mercy. Hearken unto this, O Job. Stand
still and consider the wondrous works of God. Somebody made this
place. This didn't just happen. This
isn't just sustained by dumb luck. It takes way more faith
to be an atheist than it does to believe God. To think it's
all just a random bunch of particles smacking together, and it just
happens to be, keeps going. Instead of an almighty God of
heaven and earth said it's so and it was and He sustains it.
That's a lot more simple, isn't it? We see these things. What a blessing we have. And
He sends all this weather for correction. He turns things the way He sees
fit. Or for His land. He made the
land. He owns the land. I got a title. I got a deed to a place up road
here. I say that's my land. I say that's
my house. Do I own it? It ain't mine. It's his. He owns it. The cattle
on a thousand hills are his. He owns it. It's his. And if
it's his, that means we're accountable to the one that owns it. But
he also sends that for his mercy. Hearken unto this, O Job. Stand
still and consider the wondrous works of God. And I couldn't
miss this one. Chapter 38. One page there. Job 38, 22. Elihu was getting on Job pretty
good. The Lord spoke to him. He says
here in Job 38, 22, Hast thou entered into the treasures of
the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures
of the hail? I need to hear this. Have you
been to my storehouse, my warehouse, where I keep all of my snow and
all of my hail? Verse 23, Which I have reserved
against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and
war." You ever been afraid of going to war? You ever had a
battle coming and you was nervous? Have you seen how much hail and
snow the Lord has in reserves that He could say, be on earth?
Do you think He could have froze that river when Washington crossed
it? When he crossed the Delaware? We may not make it. We don't
know who the God of war is. The man of war. I'll put Job
in his place, huh? Chapter 40, verse 1. Moreover,
the Lord answered Job, showing him just himself in his creation
for a few chapters, and said, Shall he that contendeth with
the Almighty instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him
answer. Then Job answered the Lord and
said, Behold, I am vile. What shall I answer thee? I will
lay my hand upon my mouth. The firmament. That's the atmospheres
that we have. The heavens declare His glory.
Everything that's in our atmosphere around this earth. The covering
that we have. We looked at that when we went through Genesis,
wasn't it? Crosses are covered. This heavens that we walk through
right now, birds fly and it declares Him. That these trees breathe
air from, it declares Him. Doesn't it? Shows His handiwork. And what about the heavens that
are space? All the stars we navigate by. Go out on a dark, dark night
and look up and see the Milky Way. The sun moving through the
sky. It's staying. We're circling
around it. The moon coming around. What a picture for us, isn't
it? It declares salvation to the Lord. We're the moon, we're
dead, we're empty, we're nothing growing on us, and we're cold.
The only thing that warms us up is the sun. We just reflect
what He is. We just tell others what He told
us. And every time our lights darken, it's because the world's
between us and the sun. Remember when we looked through that?
There's a couple chapters back, wasn't there? It declares His
work. It shows His glory. That's right,
isn't it? I see the stars. I hear the rolling
thunder. Thy power throughout the universe
is on display. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God to Thee, how great Thou art. Oh, how great Thou art. Do you
ever see some spectacular thunderstorm? Go out and look at an ant. How
does water even get inside of them things? Some of them's tiny.
One bit me the other day that wasn't that big. I swelled up,
and I was like, how does it even drink water? How great thou art,
Lord. How great thou art. Turn over
to 2 Corinthians 12. We see his glory in the atmosphere
that we have in that heaven. We see his glory in the stars
and the moon. all those beautiful comments
out there that just happens to be missing us all the time. No,
He commands them to go right where He wants them. And we see
His glory where He dwells. 2 Corinthians 12, verse 2, I knew
a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, whether in the body
I cannot tell or whether out of the body I cannot tell, God
knoweth, such an one caught up to the third heaven. What's the
first one? We're walking through it. What's the second one? The
one up there where the stars and the moon and all that stuff
is. What's the third one? Where God is. Where God is. I knew such a man within the
body or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth, how that he
was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which
is not lawful for a man to utter. He said, it's not possible. You
go outside, look at the glory of God sustaining this place.
Close your shades at night. Make it good and dark. Look at
the skies. Turn out the lights and stuff. Look at the skies,
how He's moving everything. Comets going through. Oh, you
see His glory. That's a foretaste. That's earnest
money. That's down payment. When this
wicked world's over. This is a sin-cursed earth. Could
you imagine what it was like in the garden? Could you imagine
what tomatoes looked like back in the garden? That's something. But this third heaven, We ain't
even got words to describe it. Verse five, 2 Corinthians 12,
five. Of such an one will I glory. I want to go to heaven because
heaven's a good place and they got streets of gold. No, no,
no, no, no, no, no. We learned that back in Genesis one, two,
when God created the firmament and the heavens, capital H. This
place is a person. And of such a one will I glory. I'll glory in him, Christ our
heaven. Yet of myself will I not glory but my infirmities. We
have a saying that's common practice. Well, they went to glory. When
a saint dies, when someone that God shed his blood for, and they
know it, and they hear his voice, and they follow him, when they
die, they went to glory. They went to glory. But we think
of that as a noun, don't we? That that's a place. There's
a place. Christ went to prepare a place for us. But in that place,
there's going to be the verb glory. When this old flesh is
over, and I leave this body of death, glory. I'll go to worship. I'll go to glory. I'll go to
sing His praises, to honor Him, to praise Him, and to give all
the credit for everything to one person. Every bird that's
ever sung a beautiful song, it'd magnify His name. Lord, You did
that. You ever seen a hummingbird?
I'm still amazed. We get them all the time. I've never seen that in my life
since we moved here. Hummingbirds are amazing. Look what the Lord
made. Whoa, it's fabulous. Everything sings his praises,
doesn't it? Everything. And more so, the worthless worm,
the maggot, that's standing right before you, that he sent his
only darling son, his firstborn, and turned his back on him. The
cross lived. He was born for me. He lived
for me. He died and bore my sin on that
wretched cross, that Roman death, for a worm Like me. I think a hummingbird's worth
way more than me. You know what I mean? And the Lord said, your
father knows what you need. Two sparrows are sold for a farthing.
You're worth more than sparrows. I don't see how, but I believe
it. What am I going to do? Get uppity? I'm a glory in Him,
the creator of heaven and earth, ain't I? Revelation 19. That book of creation
In the book of Salvation, here's an easy way to remember them.
Psalm 19 verse 1, Revelation 19 verse 1. Revelation 19 verse 1. After
these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
the third heaven, saying, Alleluia, salvation and glory and honor
and power unto the Lord our God. For true and righteous are his
judgments. For he hath judged the great
whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and
hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again
they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up. That victory
he accomplished. That smoke of burning rose up
forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders
and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on
the throne saying, Amen, Alleluia. And a voice came out of the throne
saying, praise God, praise our God, all ye his servants, and
ye that fear him, both small and great. Praise him, praise
him. I can't enter into that. I understand
it, I believe it so. But there'll come a day when
I'm without sin, and those that I love, like we looked at the
first hour, those that I compel, those that I urge, I do everything
within my sphere of influence to tell them to seek the Lord.
while he may be found. If he's not pleased to save them,
and they perish, and that smoke rises up forever, when I am without
sin, I'll say, what the Lord did is right. Oh, amen. Praise Him. Hallelujah. Glory
be to You. I can't understand it now. I
still live in this flesh. Oh, man, my heart still burns.
I'm like Lot. I linger. I tarry. Oh, I wait. I wait. I can't enter into that,
but I know it's so. How can you believe that, Kevin? He said
so. I believe him. That's it, isn't it? I don't
have any transition for this, but I just want to read it, okay?
Daniel 4. And at the end of the days, I,
Nebuchadnezzar, that great and mighty king I was so proud, lifted
up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned to
me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him
that liveth forever, whose dominion an everlasting dominion. And
His kingdom is from generation to generation. His kingdom does
not end. It doesn't tarnish. It doesn't
get old. And all the inhabitants of earth are reputed as nothing. And He doeth according to His
will in the army of heaven. Which one? All three of them. Among the inhabitants of this
earth and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou?
What are you doing? the same time my reason returned
unto me, and for the glory of my kingdom, this earthly kingdom
he was over, mine honor and brightness returned unto me, and my counselors
and my Lord sought unto me, and I was established in my kingdom,
and excellent majesty was added unto me." He went from walking
around on all fours for seven years and eating grass like a
goat, his earthly kingdom was restored. He said, that's good
for them. I know the Lord now. They might have had some wealthy
things before, but now they have a good King. I know Him. I know
something about grace. I know something about sacrifice.
The Lord's taught me something. It's good for you. That's what
He's saying. And now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor, glory,
the King of heaven, the one that rules and reigns it all, all
whose works are truth and His way is judgment. Those that walk
in pride, He is able to abase. I love that last part. And those
that walk in pride. Those that say, that ain't true.
Kevin, you're lying. You're mocking me. Am I able
to shake it into them? If I am, somebody else can shake
it out. But the Lord's able to abase. He's able to bring them
down. If He can control all this, it's
nothing. It's child's play for Him. And
the heavens we can see, the stars, and the moon, and the sun, and
all those things. Heavens above, He's able to abase. I'm back in our text, Psalm 19. Psalm 19, verse 1. This is a
song. Did you know that? David wrote
this, and the church used to sing this. He'd sit in there
on his harp and play, and they'd sing this. This is worthy to
be sung, isn't it? My heart sings it. Psalm 19 verse
1, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth
his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech
and night unto night showeth knowledge. He doesn't stop. There
is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their
line has gone out through all the earth and their words to
the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun, which is as a bridegroom, coming out of his chamber and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." This strong man,
the S-U-N he's talking about is the S-O-N. And he rejoiceth
as a strong man to run a race. He willingly laid down his life
with the joy that was set before him. He endured the cross. What
a thought. His going forth is from the end
of heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it. And there is
nothing hid from the heat thereof. What's not hid from the heat
there, Evan? What's that? Two quick things. All those that
despise him, all those that reject him, all those that will not
hear him, they won't support it, they won't tolerate it, they
won't have anything to do with it, this mighty God of heaven
and earth, they ain't gonna escape the heat. Judgment will come. Just as Lot went to those boys
and those men out in the city and said, death's coming. Fire's
coming. Everything's gonna burn with
the fervent heat. You ain't gonna escape it. But what does the Lord speak
to His people? That sword's got two edges on it, don't it? His people see these things.
His people see Him ruling and reigning and the ladybugs and
everything else and the queens of this world and the kings of
this world and everything. And we can't hide from the heat
thereof, the warmth thereof. You ever just felt cold? Oh,
I don't know. What am I going to do? And you
agonize, and your eye starts twitching. Agony. Go outside and look at a little
bird flying around. Boy, it's warm, isn't it? We
can't hide from the heat they're in. Seeing His creation, Him
ruling all things, seeing Him in His Word. We got that book
of creation out there, and we have this book of His Word, and
we look back over Providence. If that don't warm your cold,
stony heart, I don't know what will. And if you ain't been abased
yet, for that to warm you, he's able to abase. And that's what
I ask him to. Amen. All right, Brother Martin.