Yesterday, we moved into this
area and we talked some, and she told me her and her husband
were going to be here to hear the gospel. So as I prepared my message,
I didn't think of them one time. I refused. Because they're not
here this morning. It never fails, without a doubt. And so when I hear that, I say,
well, I hope so. Click. But you won't. This is
for you, Central Baptist. This is for you. My sheep hear
my voice. Oh, God has predetermined, preordained
cybernally purposed before the foundations of the world to hear
Psalm 19 dealt with this morning are here. And I hope you'll be glad you
are. All right, Psalm 19. Now, David is the writer, we
believe, the sweet psalmist of Israel who was a shepherd Being a shepherd, he spent a
great deal of time out of doors, out under the stars, out in the
sun. And while out of doors, while
outside, tending his father's sheep, David studied. He was a student. David was a
student. And David studied two books.
You say two? Yes, two books. One unwritten,
one written. David studied the book of nature,
the book of creation, which was written. But nevertheless, this
is an unwritten book that he studied. David also studied,
chiefly studied, God's Word. David had perhaps the books of
Moses, perhaps the book of Job, any others I don't believe, but
he studied God's Word. And these two books are the subject
of this psalm, Psalm 19, and then there's a prayer at the
end. Three divisions here you'll see in the first four verses. It speaks of this book of creation
or nature, and then the next several verses speak of God's
Word. And then David ends this psalm
with a prayer, his heart's desire. With no lengthy introduction,
let's get right into it. Verse 1 of Psalm 19, the heavens
declare the glory of God. And the firmament showeth his
handiwork." The heavens declare God's creative and providential
glory. You can turn to Romans chapter
1, because I'm going to quote from that. I was going to quote,
but I want you to see it. Romans 1 is a very good companion
New Testament companion passage to study with this Psalm 19. I thought of Romans 1 throughout
this psalm. I couldn't help but think of
it. Romans chapter 1, David said,
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth
his handiwork. The heavens, God's creation,
declare his power, his Godhead, his creative, providential power. Look at Romans 1 verse 19. That
which may be known of God is manifest or revealed in them,
or to them. God hath showed it unto them.
Now, he's talking about all creation, men, women. 4, verse 20. The invisible things of him of
God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, his eternal power and
Godhead, creatorhood, so that they are without excuse. These
things cry out, cry out, the things that God has made cry
out that God is. He said, "...the firmament showeth
his The heavens, the sun, the moon,
the stars, the firmament, the sky, the clouds, the wind, all
declare God is. All declare the marvelous works
of our Creator, the works of his hands. Look back at Psalm
8. Just mark that Romans 1, and
of course Psalm 19, which is our text. But Psalm 8, look back
there. And you know how often I poke
fun at these fellows who talk about God having no hands but
your hands? I poke fun of them because they're
poking fun of our God. But you've heard that, haven't
you? Quite often. I was just a young believer.
When I first heard that, and it was at work on the railroad,
they used to have, Steve, every Friday at lunch, an optional
Bible fellow to come in and give a
little sermon. And some well-known evangelist
came in, and I remember him getting up and quoting all that at the
end of his God is no hand but your hand. I wish I'd had the
presence of mind and the knowledge of the Scripture. the courage
at that time to stand up and say, hold it, just hold it. Let's turn over and see what
God's word says, whether or not he has any hands or not. Psalm
8, look at this. Psalm 8 verse 3 says, When I
consider the heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which
thou hast ordained. What is man? Oh, Daniel talked
about us being in his hands, the God in whose hands our breath
is and all our way. He has hands, all right. And he made this universe with
them. And I've said this before, since
Christ is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, since God
is Spirit, If God has hands, then they are the hands of Christ.
They are not mine. They are the hands of Christ,
and the scriptures declare that by him were all things made,
and without him was not anything made which was made. Christ's
hands. Christ's hands. The heavens declare
that, and God I think before time, before this world began,
he began creating the heavens, putting the stars in space, numbering
them all, calling them all by name. Scripture says he knows
them by name, doesn't it? I thought of God flinging stars. He didn't fling stars like we
would that glitter, you know, child's glitter. He didn't fling
them, he placed them. Providentially. Somehow or another,
you know, the moon and the stars do play a role in the seasons
and this and that, and the other. They do. We don't despise those
things. Knowing my God, I know it must be so, because there's
nothing out there without significance and without order. Everything has its place,
and God put them in its place. Every star. The hairs of my head
are numbered. And he has no more trouble numbering
yours, Henry, than mine. It's not difficult at all. And
what do you have that you have not received? the hairs of your head, and then
the stars are ordained by God. He made them with the works of
his hand, the work of his fingers, and no more creation. There is
nothing more beautiful and glorious and wondrous than God's vast
expanse of sky. Ever laid out? Sure you have.
Everybody in here is laid out at night time and looked up at
the stars. David did that sitting up on
the hill while the sheep lay there in the green pastures. He looked up and he must have
wrote these psalms at that time. When I consider the heavens,
the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that you have
ordained. What is man? Who look at me?
Who am I that you should Be mindful of me, or visit, come down to
this cesspool, come down to this little infinitesimal speck in
the solar system called planet Earth, and become a worm. The heavens, back to the text,
Psalm 19, they declare His glory, affirm His handiwork, His handiwork. Verse 2 says, Day unto day uttereth
this speech, declaring his glory, his handiwork. Night unto night
showeth this knowledge, or teaches one this knowledge. Now, there
is no audible voice. No audible voice is heard. Yet
every time the sun comes up, it says loud and clear. For those who have the ear of
faith, the sun, every time it rises in the morning, well, the
sun doesn't rise. Every time we're turned toward
it, the sun is in its place right there. It's shining whether we
see it or not. Who does that speak of? Well,
I'm going to get way ahead of myself. But every time we see
the sun, it declares loudly that God is. Behold thy God, loudly,
though no audible voice is heard, they uttereth speech. Night and the night, stars and
moon, showeth, revealeth this knowledge of the Most High. Verse
3, there is no language, no speech,
There's no speech nor language where their voice, or the voice
of this wisdom, this knowledge, day and night, there's no speech
nor language where this voice is not heard, this language is
not heard. Day and night, this knowledge, this speech. There's
no heathen, the most heathen, idle worshiper in the jungle. acknowledges some great spirit,
don't they? I read and I see and I watch
things that, you know, superstitious and pagan religions and so forth,
particularly our American Indians here, Native American. They all
talk about the great spirit, the great spirit, the great spirit. Well, there is a great spirit. God is that great Spirit. They
all acknowledge that there is some great power in the heavens. Verse 4, there is a line, or
that is the direction of day and night that has gone out throughout
all the earth. Their words, their language,
their speech is to the end of the world. There is no language,
no speech, no ear, no one who has not been under the sound
of this message. No one. This is the reason Paul
said back there in Romans 1, they are without excuse, didn't
they? Remember that? He said the things that God hath
made are clearly seen, even his eternal power. Stars, the moon,
the sky, the sun, and his Godhead, that there is one vastly superior
being to us somewhere. They are without excuse, everyone
without, this, why, how could God send men to hell? To have
never heard the gospel? Easy. When they refuse to acknowledge
or try to worship or seek out this one who is so clearly revealed. Right? Right. Well, look at verse 4 now. Oh, their line has gone out through
all the earth, their words to the end of the world. And in
them, day and night, he hath set a tabernacle for
the sun. A tabernacle for the sun. Though that great burning ball
of fire up in the sky, that burning sphere in the sky is glorious. And it is. It's so glorious that
we can't even look on it. That the sun, S-U-N, is so glorious
that we cannot look on it, not for a second, lest we see spot. Any longer than that, we'll be
blinded by the light. Now that is glorious. That's
marvelous. Marvelous. But now, this speaks
of a far greater and more glorious sun than that. A far greater glory than a ball
of hydrogen out in space. And for you who have eyes to
see and ears to hear, if your eye is single, If you've taken
a look at the sun, you see spots, all right. You see spots. Look over at Psalm
2. Look over there quickly. We saw
this Sunday morning, didn't we? What sun is he talking about?
What sun is David talking about? That ball of fire? Is that what
he's talking about? What a wonderful thing is the
sun. Yes, it is. But there aren't four or three
verses in the scriptures devoted to a bonfire and hanging in the
sky. Oh, no, these speak much deeper
than that. And I, being a steward of the
mysteries, better bring it out. Look at Psalm 2. And he says
here, he has set, back there in verse 4, it says, "...in them
he hath set a tabernacle for the sun." All right, look at
Psalm 2, verse 6. "...Yet have I set my King upon
my holy hill of Zion. I declare the decree, the Lord
hath said unto me, Thou art my sun." This is the sun. This day. What passage is it,
John, that talks about the day spring? Peter said that, didn't
he? And 2 Peter 2. When the day spring
arise in your heart. The day spring. When the sun
comes up, oh, well, it is when you see him, isn't it? And shines
gloriously to you. That's the day of salvation.
When you see the sun, when you look into the sun and see his
glory. The sun tabernacled among us.
The S-O-N. Now I'm talking about the S-O-N.
The sun who tabernacled among us. Around whom? Back in the
text there. He says, "...in them," or in
the midst of the heavens and the firmament, right in the middle.
Right in the middle, he says, "...in them he hath set a tabernacle,"
or as it were, a throne for the sun. Right in the midst of the
heavens and the firmament and all of creation, the center of
creation of all things, is the S-U-N. The center of all this
creation, or the center of more than that. All and in all is the S-O-N,
the Son, around whom time and eternity revolves, around the
S-O-N, Christ the Son of God. Look at verse 5, which is, he's
talking about the Son, but a far greater Son, which is as a bridegroom. Now, David, where did you get
this? He's like a bridegroom, the sun
coming up, the sun shining in search of shining down upon his
bride. As a bridegroom, David, where
did you get such terminology? What made you think such a thing?
David, as a son, like a husband or a bridegroom. Well, because this is a man after
God's own heart. These are the thoughts of God.
This is the word of God, which is as a bridegroom coming out
of his chamber. Look at it, verse 5. Coming out
of his chamber, rejoicing as a strong man to run a race. Coming out of his chamber. Oh, my. the Son of God who came
once out of his chamber. Where was it? He was with the
Father. He was in the bosom of the Father. And he came out once, years ago,
came out of that chamber, came out of that chamber and rejoiced
as a strong man. That's what it said in another
place, in the habitable parts of the earth. a habitation, a
body hast thou given me. Lo, I come," he said. Who came? Lo, I come. In the volume of
the book it's written to me. What? Son. Son, S-O-N. In the volume of
the book it's written to me. I come to do thy will, O God.
A body hast thou prepared me. And we call those celestial things
out there, bodies. The body is celestial. The Son
is a body, or the S-O-N took a body. He was celestial, as
it were, spiritual, but he took a body and tabernacled among
us. And he came down rejoicing. He
says he rejoiced for the joy set before him. John, Hebrews 12, says this very
word. Let us look in unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despised the shame, and is set
down right now. So let us run the race." See,
Christ came first, didn't He? He went before us. He ran this
human race. Christ became a man. He came
the first time. He was not that pathetic figure
that men make him out to be. He's not that helpless man that
men make him out to be. He was not a helpless martyr.
He was not a powerless victim of evil men. No, no. The Scripture
says here, strong man. Kevin, did you win that race,
that 5K race not long ago? You didn't, did you? Not strong
enough are you, Kevin. Can't do it. Came in second. That's pretty good. She came
in second. Christ won the race. Oh, he's
no helpless martyr. He's no pathetic man, figure,
no victim of men's whims and will or powerless victim of evil
man. He came, the Scripture says,
as a strong man to run a race. Now, it's only the one that crosses
the finish line that wins, who has declared the victor, who
has given a laurel, or is a crown. Only the one who crosses that
finish line. Christ came, a strong man, over
in Romans 1. You still got it? Romans 1. This is my favorite portion of
Scripture. Romans 1, the first four verses, is as clear and
plain a declaration of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse
1, the gospel of God, it's God's gospel, the
gospel of His Scripture. Verse 2, the gospel concerning
His Son, our Lord, made of the seed of David, according to the
flesh," verse 4, here it is, "...declared to be the Son of
God with power." Strong, strong. Christ came, this strong
man, the Son of God with power. He said, all power is given unto
me in heaven and earth, who came with an eternal purpose in mind,
who came with a particular people on that mind and in his heart.
his bride, like a bridegroom, in search of his bride. He came
with a life to live for them, a righteousness to establish.
He came with a death to die, it says he set his face toward
Jerusalem. He said, No man takes my life
from me, I lay it down. Don't go to Jerusalem, what do
you mean? From all eternity I have my eye
set on that cross. A death to die for these particular
people. a salvation to accomplish. It
says when Moses and Elijah met him on that mountain, it says
they discussed, they talked about the death he should, I love this
word, accomplish. Now you and I don't accomplish
death, it's something that happens to us. Well how was death an
accomplishment to him? Number one, you can't kill God,
but yet he died. Feed the church of God, Acts
20 says, which he purchased with his own blood. God's blood? Yes. He poured out his soul unto death.
God? Yes. How? I don't know. He did. And it says he accomplished so
great a salvation, he finished the work. Now, nobody gets the
laurel unless they cross the line. Well, Christ hung on Calvary's
tree after he had done that marvelous work for us, and it said, his
last word, it is finished. That song says, crowns become
the victor's brow. Crown him, crown him, Lord of
all. And he is by virtue of his life,
his death. Listen to Romans 11. Whether
we live, we live under the Lord. Whether we die, we die unto the
Lord. Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this
end, Christ both died and rose and revived, that he might be
Lord to both of the dead and living." And he accomplished salvation
on Calvary's tree, a strong man. Nobody could thwart him, not Satan, not the gates of hell,
nothing. He's the strong man who came
to run this race, came to accomplish my salvation and accomplish it.
He did. He did it. He obtained eternal
redemption for me. Smile, somebody. Verse 5. It says, verse 6, he's going
forth from the end of the heaven. He's going forth. Look over at
Proverbs 8 quickly. Turn quickly. Maybe that'll get
you roused up. Proverbs 8. Proverbs 8, his going
forth is from the end of the heaven. From the end of the heaven,
his circuit under the ends of it. Look at Proverbs 8. I love it. This is my favorite
passage. Proverbs 8, look at verse 23
and following. I, talking about Christ, was
set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the
earth was, when there were no depths, I was brought forth.
I was set up. Before there were no depths,
I was brought forth. When there were no fountains
abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, it
was settled. I was settled. Before the hills
was I brought forth. While as yet he had not made
the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest parts of the dust
of the world, when he prepared the heavens, I was there. When
he set a compass on the face of the earth, In the face of
death, when he established the clouds above, when he strengthened
the mountains, when he gave to the sea his decree, verse 30,
I was by him as one brought up with him. I was daily his delight,
rejoicing in all," here it is, rejoicing in the habitable parts
of the earth. It pleased him to become flesh,
and his delights were with the sons of men. shown on the sons of men. And
the scripture back in Psalm 19 says his going forth is from
the end of the heaven. He's a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. He has no beginning or end. No,
really no father or no mother. His circuit under the ends of
it, his reign, his rule, the son. There's nothing, there's
nothing in this universe that is not under the heat It says
there's nothing hid from the heat thereof. There's nothing
that doesn't. I'm talking about the farthest
reaching planet or star out there still is under the sun. It feels it somehow. And I read that passage to you
from Romans 11. Christ reigns over all flesh. To this end he came. that he
might be Lord over the dead and the living. Though men don't
acknowledge him as such, he is. Like I said a while ago, though
we don't see the sun shining, you've said it, we've all said
it, haven't we? Well, the sun's not out. Oh,
yes it is. The sun is right where it was
from the beginning. And it's going to be right there
when you're gone. And though you can't see it,
it's there. It's shining. And it's powerful.
And it's glory. And you're living because of
it. That's the, it's a win. Men don't
acknowledge him. They don't like to retain him
in their knowledge. We will not have this man reign
over us. Oh, yes, you will, because he
does. Hmm? Won't you make Jesus Lord
to reign? He's been that way a long time. Right? Make Him Lord. What you
talking about? You're in His hands. The breath
you took to say that, He gave it to you. There's nothing out from under
the reign, the rule of the Son of God. Is it any coincidence,
Vicki, is it a mere coincidence that we call that ball of fire,
fire, that we call it light, that we call that ball of fire
and light which every living thing owes its existence to,
is it a mere coincidence we call it the sun? Huh? Man says, what will we call
this thing? We'll call it the Son. Well,
that's right, the Son. And every time man utters that
word, he condemns himself if he doesn't acknowledge the greater
than that Son, the S-O-N, in whom we live and move and have
our being. And don't bow to him as Lord
and acknowledge him. young and old. It is a condemnation
to a man every time he walks out under the heat of that ball,
and doesn't think of the one in whose hands his breath is.
Right? Every time we're out under the
sun, we ought to consider we're under the sun. S-O-N. Under You know, our sun is getting
more and more powerful. Well, let me take that back. The firmament, the ozone they
call, the scientists like to call ozone. What do we call it? Oh, I don't know. Ozone. Well, the ozone is getting a
hole in it. And man is getting burned up
by the sun. It's not getting more powerful.
It's just as powerful as it always has been. But man is being more
and more touched by it, and feeling its heat, and feeling its wrath,
until I believe someday this is how God's going to burn this
thing up. That ball of hydrogen is going
to explode. That's how she's going to go. And one of these days, The SOA
is going to get up, too, and explode with his wrath and his
anger. And we read there in Psalm 2,
it says, We better kiss the sun, lest he be angry. We're destroyed
when his wrath is kindled just a little bit. If we get out in
the sun too long, just, I mean, thirty minutes too long, we're
burnt, we're scorched, aren't we? Especially, Henry, you've
got a problem with that, don't you? Fair-skinned people. I do,
too. This is how you'll know if any of you fellows think you're
going bald. This is how you'll know. When your head gets sunburnt. Right, Stan? That's when you
know. How does a person know the Christ?
Oh, when they feel the heat and the fear of the Lord at the beginning
of wisdom, scorched, scorched by his power. I mean, they're
brought low underneath him, and they acknowledge him as such,
and they fear and tremble in his presence, and they're not
so quick to mess with the Son of Man. Oh, my. Well, someone says now,
now back to the text there. Someone says, does creation teach
that? Christ? You better believe it. Is it a mirror without an excuse?
Like I said, is it in mere coincidence people call that the sun? Stop
and think about that. Selah. Sun. which pertains to Christ, that
our God is a consuming fire. He says, I am the light of the
world. Do you know what? I saw an article the other day
that was referring to Pope John Paul as the light of the world. I'm telling you, he's going to
feel the brunt of the heat of the light of the world, isn't
he? And I'm going to say amen the
loudest. Well, creation doesn't teach
all of this. But if a man, this is what I
was saying a while ago, if a heathen out in the jungle would look
up and say, too much for me, I don't Show
me! If a heathen or a general would
say, Show me! O great Spirit, teach me! God would send the gospel to
him. God would send another book for
him to study. He'd send a preacher with a book
in his hand and reveal unto him which could not be revealed by
sitting out on this dock. It happened. I told you about
Walter Rueber, didn't I? That Mexican, some of you may
not have heard this. It was a Mexican fellow, and
Walter used to, maybe perhaps still, goes in very remote areas
where, and at this time, this particular tribe of Mayan Indians,
or it may have been another tribe down there, there's lots of them,
but they had never seen a white man. Now, if you don't think
there's places like that that still exist, there are, even
in Mexico, let alone Africa and so on. Well, this fellow, this
is true. Now, I don't make much of these
stories and all that. I don't make anything of it,
but this happened. And this fellow, Walter, drove
his, he had a big blue truck at the time, suburban, and he
was driving out, out in these remote areas, and he stumbled
across this village. Walter stumbled across this village,
you know. Like, sound like Philip. I'm
going to go for a walk in the desert. Just feel like walk, God lead
me into the desert. Walter went driving and stumbled
across this village, and this fellow, like that fellow from
Macedonia, he said, I've been praying, or
whatever he used to call it, I've been asking the Spirit to
teach me. And he said, I had a dream or
vision or whatever he said, that a man in a machine would come
tell me about God. Now I wouldn't say there's anything
to that if that man wasn't a man of God, and if he didn't tell
him about God. I mean the true and living God.
If he didn't come with a book in his hand, if he didn't come
in preaching the gospel, I would say there's nothing to that story.
But he did. He came with this book. preaching
the gospel, the true and living God. And that man heard the gospel. He heard about God. And now he
believes the gospel, and there's a church there. And this is what
they worship, and this is what they study. Verse 7, the law
of the Lord. You see, God's existence And
his power can be known and seen in creation, but you cannot know
God's character or how we may come to God except through this
book. Barbara, you cannot know the
character of God or how you may... You know, men and women and people,
human beings try to please God, don't they? Try to please or
appease God, the natives out there, Jeanette, why do natives
sacrifice animals out in the jungle? I've never heard of Jesus
Christ, I've never seen his Bible. You ever think about that? Why
is there always blood in these pagan religions? Though God's existence and power
can be known, one cannot know how to come to this God, how
this God may be pleased, how we may be accepted by this God,
know anything about the character of God apart from this book. Hence, because of that, because men
refuse this, that's the reason. We have all these ridiculous
notions about God and hundreds of denominations and so forth.
You follow me, Stephen? That's the reason you've got
all these religions and confusion about God. They're not consulting
them. Right? Now, this tells us there's
one way. Look at it, verse 7. The law
of the Lord is perfect. The word of the Lord, the doctrine
of the Lord, the law of the Lord, the word of the Does that mean
just talking about God's Word? Yeah, it is. And what's the Word
talking about? The Word. What's the Word of
the Lord talking about? The Word's talking about the
Lord. Who? Who is Lord? The Lord Jesus Christ,
that's it. It's the Word of the Lord. This teaches us how we may get
to God. How? through Christ, Vicki. No man can come unto the Father,
Christ said, but by me. You mean living like? No, by
Him. Living for you, dying for you,
interceding for you. This person, this person, the
doctrine of the Lord. His name is even called the Word,
isn't it? The Word of the Lord. It's perfect.
Look at it, verse 7. I won't keep you too long. The
word of the Lord is perfect. Not only is the word of God infallible
and inerrant, but it's perfecting. It reveals unto us how we may
be perfect before God. Some imbecile wrote an article,
some so-called rabbi, I wrote an article not too long
ago for the Reader's Digest. The title of it was, How Perfect
Must We Be Before God? That was what his whole article
was about. And you know what he was saying. He was telling
everybody, God doesn't expect you to be perfect. Oh, yes, he
does. That's what, Nauber quoted it,
didn't he? Wednesday night, Leviticus 22,
21. It shall be perfect. Not only must it be, it shall
be to be accepted by God. How perfect must a human being
be to be in the presence of God? As good as God, as holy as God. Well, how can you say that, preacher?
God said it a long time ago. Because God's holy. And that imbecile pinhead rabbi,
he ain't never read this book. He's ignorant. He's ignorant.
Well, it's the law, the doctrine of the Lord is able to show us
how we may be perfect before God in Christ. You read on, converting
the soul, regenerating, converting the soul, restoring the soul. How is the soul restored? You see, in Adam all died. The
soul of man is in ruins. Do you know the three R's? Huh? It says here, restoring
the soul, or it says converting the soul,
restoring the soul, regeneration. Do you know the three R's? Do you know the three R's? You
better know the three R's. Salvation, your salvation is
based on. What happened in the garden?
Man was ruined by the fall, dead in trespassing sin. What happened
on the cross? There were some people redeemed
by that blood. Actually, their sins were paid
for. What happens in the heart of
every single one Christ died for? They are regenerated. They regenerate, converting the
soul. Oh, regenerating the soul, restoring. Adam all died. Well, how are
we going to be made alive? How are we going to be converted?
How are we going to be made holy? How are we going to be restored
to that perfect image? God can only dwell with the second
Adam. The second Adam. Cry. Read on.
Oh, the testimony of the Lord is sure. That's the gospel. It's so sure. Isn't it? It makes wise the simple. It's
sure. Why? Because it talks about a
surety, and everything is ordered. Oh, this covenant is ordered
in all things, and sure, the testimony of the Lord. It makes
wise the simple. It makes wise the simple. Christ has made wisdom unto us.
The statutes of the Lord are right. I'm going to continue
this another time. Statutes of the Lord, whatever
he does, is right. Shall not the judge of the earth
do right? Yes, he will, and yes, he has,
in Christ. He'll do right by me, because
Christ was right before him. All right, Joe, let's sing a
hymn, a closing hymn. to sing verse 1 and verse 3 as
the last time. 1 and 3, let's sing it. Oh, Lord, my God, will I in awesome
wonder I see the stars. I hear the rolling
thunder. My power throughout the universe displayed. And thank my soul, my Savior
God. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior
God to Thee. How great Thou art. How great Thou art. And when I think that God is
about to marry, send him to die, I scarce can take it in. I heard a gladly burning. He
went and died to take away my pain. Then sang my soul, my Savior
God to Thee. How great Thou art. Then swang my soul, my dear God,
with Thee. How great Thou art! How great Thou art!