Psalm 33 Part 2

Good morning. How are you? It's truly a sacrifice to be inside a building today, isn't it? Yeah. Did you see me outside? Yeah, I was having a really hard time coming in, so I was out there to greet you and enjoy the weather.

So we got is going to bless you greatly for coming inside a building on a beautiful day like this. We are in Psalm 33. If you'd like to turn their in, your Bible will also project it for you. Uh, in fact, we're going to spend one more Sunday in it.

So three weeks total, because it's such a great passage about praising God. So I'm 33. Before we do that, I do want to pause on, just identify. We just added to our staff. We hired Ben Hill, who's worked here before.

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So, um, we thank you for your service. Um, let's go to God in prayer As we look at Psalm 33 Father, we have about a few moments to open the scriptures. Dig into them on. We pray that it might be, uh, insightful, profitable, challenging, convicting all the things that your spirit can do.

We know you'll achieve as we talk. It may be like a 11 to 1 conversation that isn't like I'm talking to a room full of people, but as if we're just having a conversation one on one about what you want us to know.

And for those who don't know you that have wandered in here, maybe searching for you might The things that were said today be the information they need, uh, to come to you to know you a savior and Lord.

And we've all been there. So we pray for them in Christ name. Amen. Uh, some 33 is a some about why you should praise praise the Lord. So, uh, since it's been two weeks since we talked about it, we have to review So what we wanna do first to just ask you a question in the question is a very practical question.

But, uh, when you look at your life in a given day given week, how much time do you spend on that day? Actually stopping and praising God, I mean, he does something and you immediately stop and say I've got to praise him.

Do you do that? How often do you do that? Uh, there's different words for prays in Hebrew, This word yada, which using used in chapter 33. I was looking in my Hebrew lexicon this week. Uh, toe ask, uh, you know, not just in what context is this particular word used? But where is this word? Used first in the Old Testament, the various time very first time the word yada toe to praise God has used that David uses here as in Genesis, Chapter 29 verse 35.

And sometimes when you do electrical studies and word studies, you don't find much. Other times you have an ah ha moment. This is one of those ah ha moments when I went to Chapter 29 a Genesis first usage of praise comes in.

The Tora comes from the lips of Leah, married to Jacob on she has sons and one of the sons. At this case in point a za little boy that she calls Uda. You're Judah is his name. When she has this child, she praises God for the gift of the child.

Why is this on Ah ha moment? His Bible Trivia 101 from the tribe of Judah comes David comes Jesus. Go read Matthew chapter when the the lineage of Jesus Jesus comes from the line of Judah on If you read Chapter 49 versus 10 and following, it's from this particular tribe that the king will come the messiah that will that will set up his kingdom of peace on deal with the devil in sin.

And so she stopped and praise God that God gave her this special child. So the point being, you should not You should not put any time between when God does something amazing in your life that you see and when you stop to praise him, that's what David writes about in this song, is why should we praise God? And he had all kinds of ups and downs in his life.

I mean, we know his life from Scripture. He had moments of amazing spirituality and other times where he completely through his faith to the wind or adverse things happen to him on as he writes these songs as we've studied, we've seen his heart on these pages as he took his harp put to music, uh, in Psalm 33.

Why you should praise God. So in some of 33 by way of review, um, as we talked about in the first two verses. When he tells you to praise God, he says, use your voice to praise God on use your instrumentation to praise God.

So if you can sing, hey says, Use that to praise God. If you have a complain musical instrument use that to praise God. But he's going to give us the main reason why we should praise God, which we we've been developing this motif eyes this.

We should praise God for two things. Number one is what we should praise for what reason for who he is, who goddess second reason what he does, what who he is and what he does. And so he's going to take that concept and he's gonna We've that main idea and support it with these concepts that we'll look at.

I call him pathways of praise. But these things we have talked about thus far validate that premise. So why should we praise God? We should praise him for who he is and what he does. And so he starts out in versus one and two.

It says we should praise him for his person. So which name of God did he use? Their He used L O r D capitalized And we talked about who That waas that is God, Jehovah the great I am of all time, the eternal one existing outside time and space.

We praise him. So he says, when I stopped to praise God when I think about how great he is, who he is. I use the name Yahweh. I use that name. Does God have other names? Answer. So we could all come up with other names of God that you could praise him for What? What might you praise him for? What name would you use? I give you permission to talk in this huge auditorium.

Adenine capital, Small or D? He's Lord and Master. What else? El Shaddai. What else? What? Elohim? First word in the in Genesis 11 when it says in the beginning, Borussia God Elohim created about the heavens.

The Hashemi, um and the Earth edits. And so this is Elohim, the great Creator. God, you praise him for who he is. Who else? What else are the names of what he is? Jehovah. Gyra. What else? We just ran out.

There's tons is they're not. What's the point? When you see those names of God, you stop and praise him for those things. That's what David says when I think of God, who he is. I praise him for that. I he said I just like the word Yeah, way.

That's what he uses. So we're still reviewing. We'll get to the sermon in a few minutes. You know how this goes, right? Mhm versus 35 We praise him for his practice. What is this practice? He says. Your word is true, and we talked about how this word in Hebrew means moral truth.

When God speaks about, do this, don't do that. He's always right. Does God's moral truth change in time? No. Never changes. So what was evil 14,000 years ago is still evil today. What's our culture dio the opposite.

They're constantly changing what is true, what is morally true, what is morally right. And it's so messed up now. And so he says No, you can praise God when you read the word of God, You may not like what you read, because it is It is moral magnetic north.

But he tells you live this way and you'll please God. Now we want to add to that versus 69 is all we're gonna look at today, eyes praising God for his power. So the path to praise the first two components we already looked at, we're gonna have number three to that Praise God for his power.

Verse six says, By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made and the host of them by the breath of his mouth. So breath denoting words that come out of your mouth. So it's just parallelism saying the same thing.

He says, Hey gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deep in storehouses the depths of the ocean like the Mariana Trench, etcetera. Your submariner, you probably know where all these trenches are in the ocean.

Says let all of the earth fear of the Lord capital L O R d the way the eternal one let all the inhabitants of the world stand in all of him. So versus 6 to 7. Or what You should dio a Z you're thinking about God and then the effect of that is verse eight and then Verse nine starts with that little particle for giving you the reason why you should fear God.

He restates what he's already said, he says, for he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. So if you look at this in your Bible, it doesn't show this way on this translation on the text, but in verse nine when it says for he spoke and it was done.

Done is not in the Hebrew text in your Bible, it's probably, I tell us sized meaning They're putting it in there to finish the sentence out for you, a Westerner to read the sentence because it would sound funny if it said for he spoken it.

Waas. But if you remove that word, which is not in the Hebrew text, he's telling you exactly what God did. He spoke and poof there it waas didn't take millions and millions and billions of years when there was nothing, he extended hello out of nothing spoke his creative word.

This is how powerful God is. He can speak and make things happen. Uh, this particular because we love grammar before lunch, don't we? The front row does praise God for you. Thank you for sending close, uh, eso, he says, by the word of the Lord.

So the word buys a prepositional phrase, Correct? Oh, that's not showing the person question, but the person question by the word of Lord, he made all these things. So it's a proposition of phrase that's super important because there's all inspired by God.

It's there for a reason. So it's important dramatically because of this. The in Hebrew when you read it from right to left, the very first word should be a verb subject, and object is a proposition of herb.

We'll see you in the near. Got up in the top. No, it is not a verb. It's a prepositional phrase. That means it's out of word order. What's that mean? It's highly emphatic, he says. When you think about the power of God, I think by the very word of God he made everything that we can see, the things that are seen and the things that are unseen.

He did it by the breath of his mouth. So why is there something rather than nothing? Because there is a God who is outside of everything who's spoken into existence. Years ago, when I was 15, I went to Spain with my uncle from Barcelona on, and so I went with my Aunt Roberto, my mom's sister and my uncle, Tony Antonio Sanchez and my cousin Steven, who was like my brother on Papa Sanchez and another cousin, D.

Uh, it's fun going to Spain. I've never been toe Espana on. We had a lot of fun there, but it's 15 and we're running out of things. That it were there for a month. Went all over Spain. Had a lot of fun.

We're in Madrid one day, kind of bored. And my uncle says today we're going to go to a museum. How do you think that goes over with a 15 year old? Uh huh. Are you kidding me? We're going to a museum. I think it was called the product.

You have You been there? Anybody been to the product? You need to go on vacation. Eso We went there and I walked in, and I'm like, Oh, this is gonna be really boring. It became a theological exercise because you're walking around you Look at these massive paintings.

I mean, they were huge. Do you know how hard it is to draw something on a small scale, let alone feet wide on a piece of canvas and beautiful oils? And I was just standing There was a little kid going.

Wow, I remember that. I can't remember before cell phones and you had the little Kodak camera they had a little square light bulb on it and you take a picture and it's spin around. Remember those days? Yeah, So I was a standard going click.

This is amazing. Click I'm out of film is terrible. Uh, there was a picture there. The Sacrifice of Isaac by Andrea del Sarto It was unbelievable. It's like, How could she paint this large? How could it be this beautiful? How could it be this complex on this scale? Mind boggling.

Do you think I stood? There was a little child at 15 and looked at that and said, Well, I was a teenager. Well, it's a beautiful, complex piece. It just happened to be No, I look at it and said, No, there's a designer who's the designer.

Well, it says on the little plaque there, Andrea del Sarto. I don't know her, but she's the designer. He's the designer. See highly complex design and beauty speaks of a designer. We all know that. So why, when you look at the cosmos, would you not make the same summation? God is much like an artist, but the difference between God is an artist and creating the cosmos by the word of his mouth and an artist.

Is this somebody like Picasso? They use existing materials. So what does an artist use? You're no artist here. Okay? They have some kind of pencil charcoal, Whatever. Kind of pencil? Uh, they have, you know, brushes, paints a different kind of paints, canvas.

Whatever they're painting on. They have all these things. So they take something abstract and they make it concrete. They have a beautiful thought. They put it down and they make the abstract concrete.

See, God is not like that. He thought of something abstract. I e the cosmos and all of its beauty and complexity. And it there was nothing there. That's what in the hell? Oh, means there was nothing there.

So he created canvas. He created color. He created the materials you'd make a brush out of. So when God did everything, he did it by the word of his mouth. Okay. It's a beautiful day. Is that not? You should be cooking out today on the Weber.

I'm just saying Okay. So I'm going to challenge who? I don't know who cooks at your house. I usually get the grill duty. In fact, I was told early this morning. I got grill duty this afternoon, so it's good pork chops on the grill.

So imagine if I go out there today and I'm standing there looking at my Weber on. I'm out there for, like, 23 hours just staring at the girl and my wife comes out and there's no fire. Nothing's happening.

There's no calls, and I just tell her she's like, What are you doing? Hey, I'm just I'm just trying to project coals in to my Weber by the word of my mouth, I have spoken. Nothing's happened yet. How long can I stand there and speak coals into my Weber girl? I'm gonna be there a long time, huh? You know, how about if I pour the Weber by poor, the poor, the coals that or not let yet into the Weber Grill and then I just stand there speaking fire.

You're gonna probably I'm not probably lose my job, huh? Right. And then, like, that's insane. I know if you're scientifically minded and a physicist and smart and I know some of you are here, there's probably some kind of probability is off the grid.

That fire could eventually start well it's possible, but I'm thinking, logically not what did God dio by the very word of my mouth that created the complexity of the cosmos that has rationality about it, has predictability about it, mathematics about it, perfect alignment of this and that and its ever expanding in tow.

What is, by the word of his mouth? Talk about power, the power by the word of the word of God. He made all that you see, Francis Schaeffer. Years ago, he wrote a book called Genesis and Time and Space.

I read it right after I got out of college in 1980 on and in that he says that there's a quote says that God possesses power beyond all that we can imagine. In the human finite realm, he was able to create and shape merely by a spoken word.

That's power. So if he has that kind of power and you look at your life, whatever your issues are, maybe you want to. You know, whatever your complexities are, you should never think there's no way God's got this.

This is way behind his ability. He looks down from heaven and says to you, Hey, if I can speak all of this complexity into an existence. Your situation, not a problem. It's not a problem, not a problem, he says.

He made all of the heavens well. I want to focus on the heavens for just a minute because I like astronomy and you can't stop me. Totally awesome. Eso Let's let's talk about the Let's talk about that which God has made.

Let's just focus for just a second on the sun. I think I have, ah, picture of the sun. See that God made that by the word of his mouth. That sun in our solar system comprises 99% of the total mass of our solar system.

That's amazing. Um, it would take 10 hours with light traveling at the speed of light to cross our solar system, by the way, because we're a trivia kind of church. How fast? The speed of light. 468,000 miles per second.

It would take 10 years. Just cross our solar system. It's amazing. I mean, you see all that immensity, and I think of God, and that's that's the world that we live in when you think about this particular son that we so enjoy.

There's ones, physicist and who's a great professor. His name is D young. This is what he says about our son, he says. In just one second, the sun releases more energy than mankind has produced since the creation, including all the engines combined, all the power plants and all the bombs ever detonated in one second.

The energy exchange on the sun produces more energy than all of that combined. Would you not call that power? Who would look at that and go, Hey, that's no big deal. Thank God you did that. It's not No, no, that's not a big of a deal.

No, it's awesome. Awesome Power Eyes the sun, the largest star that we can see these air softball questions. No, no. Give you another one and carries is a bright red or orange starts in the eye of scorpion consolation.

Um, this particular star is 700 times the size of our sun, 700 times. Its brightness is equivalent to 9000 of our sons. I mean, and this is just one of the massive stars. As a case in point, I think I have another picture of stars you can kind of see to see our son how small it is.

And we think it's really big. I mean, it's over 800,000 miles in diameter. But if you look at this particular thing and Tories is massive, and then you got this Beetlejuice over there, did you see the movie? I used to think that was that was Bedol geese.

But I was wrong, wasn't it? Then I saw the movie, and I understood astronomy. It's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ism. Massive start. You have to have some humor in a sermon, do you not? Yeah, anyway, So let's think about the complex of the world in which we live, because God's put his fingerprints all over it.

He created these things by the word of his mouth. The milky Milky Way galaxy, of which all of our particular planets and enjoy their spinning, Um, is no fluke about like where we are on the arms of the Milky Way galaxy is that spins in space, got strategically placed this on an outer arm in the dark spot of space so we can see the brightness of the cosmos.

I just finished a book by Hugh Ross. Astrophysicist s title Why is the universe the way that it is? He's a Christian and a great thinker. Here's what he says about our placement in the Milky Way galaxy.

By the word of the mouth of God, Here's what he says, he says. Another distinctive of the Milky Way galaxy is the galaxy cluster in which it resides, he says Nearly all other Galaxies in the universe reside within dense clusters of Galaxies with giant or super giant Galaxies.

As nearby neighbors, he says, these giants and super giants intermittently blast their whole neighborhood with radiation. Not good, I added toe Dr Ross. He probably doesn't use short words like that, he says.

Also, their gravity and the gravity of the thousands of smaller Galaxies associated with them significantly distort the structures of the Galaxies they contain. Thus, he says, advanced life is not possible for Galaxies dwelling in typical galaxy clusters.

He then adds this. He says the super giants near nearby, where the Galaxies air widely dispersed, can't provide life. He says a typical galaxy cluster contains more than 10,000 closely packed Galaxies.

The Milky Way's cluster, called the local group, contains only about 40. Not 10,000, he says to medium sized. The clusters are the Andromeda and the Milky Way. All the rest are smaller dwarf. What's the point of all that? God put us out in the middle of darkness.

Space on a arm of a spinning galaxy away from the super giants. These other Galaxies that if we live near them, an occasional birth burst of radiation would fry all of us. Forget the weather, girl, and we just happen to be flung out there.

No. What did God do? God says I'm gonna place you exactly right there. And not only will you be protected from radiation blast, but from this location of this darkness you'll be able to see the wonder of my heavens because the stars are his handiwork.

I want to show you a picture of Daniel, the Prophet Daniel, the prophet in the lion's den. Does he look worried? No, he's not worried. He's not worried. Why? Because that same power of God is holding the miles that day.

Now, notice this from artistic standpoint. The darkness starts at the back of the picture, does it not? Are you with me today? Are Yeah, I just feeling cool can relate back Joined with me in the Sherman.

Um, See the dark in the black? Yes. Then it gets gradually lighters to come forward. So when you get to the animals on the front there especially this one down in the bottom, this one line, they're very white.

And then all of a sudden, what's the color of the prophet Black? Think about this from an artistic standpoint, that color change when you get to the black, appear in the foreground against that light and then the dark makes the profit jump out.

Doesn't see this is this is like what God does. God's like an artist like this. He's like a Rembrandt who painted this. He's going to take our little planet, Put it on the outer arm of the Milky Way galaxy just at the right spin, right location.

So we're protected on, he says. You know, from here you can see the glory of my cosmos. You're protected from radiation. And this was done by the word of my mouth in a second. How great is God? How great is God? He's great.

When the last time you praise God for a nebula. You did it today. I got it this morning at five o'clock. God, I love Nebula. I I love them. Don't Don't lie to me. Did you know? So I think about it. The torrential.

A nebula. How big is it? Torrential. A nebula. It is 780 light years across. So light traveling at roughly 186,000 miles per 2nd. 780 light years. It would finally cross just one nebula. One should you not read in astronomy book? I do.

And stop and look at that. And go. How great is God? How great is gone. I mean, I stop all the time. The placement of the moon. Perfect for a title action for us to have rain. It's etcetera. Jupiter's placement with Saturn absorb space debris.

So we're not hit the spot on Jupiter ISS, 16,000 miles in diameter. You can park Earth there and you look at the immensity of this. And you're like, Hey, what's Reliance? You know? Hey, no, you should look at the immensity of this.

And do what? Praise God for that. Because that same God is the one who sent his son to be your savior. And who redeemed you? And now he's your shepherd. And don't you think he cares more for you than all these things spinning around out there? That's how great he is.

Says God created the heavens. He also says he created the host. What does that mean? The host? Well, the Hebrew word Shabba host could mean to lexical things. Number one, it can denotes stars. Moon accepted planets that he created the host.

Okay, so he did. Shabba Shabba, From which we get Shabba both God's name, Lord of Host, Um also denotes angelic beans. So what this tells us is that God not only created the scene, but the unseen, because because angels are not eternal.

So he created them to buy the word of his mouth. First Kings Chapter 22 Verse 19 tells us about angelic host When the prophet says this. Therefore hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne.

And who was with him? All of the Shiva, the host host of heaven, standing by him on his right hand and on his left hand Are these angels or demons? Their their holy angels. That had not defected. They're standing up.

So when you see God, when you appear in his presence, what do you see when you see him? When you you see angelic beans around him, millions of them and before his throne. According to Isaiah six, you see the Seraphim class of angels because they're put together like a military rank.

You see them in front of his throne saying, what? Holy Holy holy is the Lord God, a host. They chant this 24 7. It's this rhythmical chant of His Holiness and these angels, you see, when God created the heavens, he also created the Heavenly Host, which are the angelic beings that inhabit the heavens.

Isaiah, Chapter 24 Verse 21 talks about the demonic class of hosts. How God's going to deal with them. Notice what it says in Isaiah. 24. Isaiah, 24 to 27 is called The Little Apocalypse in the Book of Isaiah, meaning it's a miniature of the Book of Revelation.

So when I was in grad school back in the day, I did A compared to study between Isaiah, 24 to 27 in the Book of Revelation. It's like a 1 to 1 chronological correspondence on in this. When you get the chapter 24 Verse 21 this is what Isaiah says.

It shall come a pass in that day, the day of the Lord, when he comes in judgment that the Lord will punish on high who it's in English. You see it, He will put it on high. The host of the exalted ones on Earth, the kings of the Earth.

So if you read the whole chapter versus 5 to 13, he makes it known that the end of time, which were fast approaching that when you get to the end of time versus 5 to 13, God's going to say the rebellion of mankind against his law, his moral law and his spiritually truth was so great it's gonna pollute the entire planet.

And you re Chapter 24. He's gonna shake the earth with his hand. But at the end of this judgment of God, as he talks about in revelation at the end of this, he's not only going to judge the kings of the Earth, the politicians who threw truth to the wind, he's gonna he's gonna judge the high exalted ones behind those politicians.

Those would be the demonic beings he's going to deal with them to. That's an ecological study of prophecy. I'm digressing, but it excites me, and we'll get into that sometime. But I'm here to just say God created the demonic class and the angelic class by the word of his mouth.

In a word, how strong are angels? Very, very. Yeah. I went to seminary with a guy who played for the Detroit Lions, and I remember I was in the weight room one day when I was like, 21 years old, are 22 years old, and he was in there working out.

And I'm thinking I'm his size. Yeah, Yeah, he was doing the weight bench machine, and I'm like he's picking up the stack. I'm like, Okay. Okay, great. Uh, yeah. Angels. Much more powerful than that guy ever.

Waas someone of three. Verse 20 says about angels. Bless the Lord ye, his angels that excel in strength. Could an angel pick up the entire Nautilus stack? Yeah, no problem to it. For an angel, they will use their power.

According to Matthew 24 32 31. Jesus says. At the end of the tribulation, he'll dispense the angels together, the elect from the four winds. When he comes to set up his kingdom, he's going to send them out to round up all those believers that will be alive at the end of the tribulation.

Um, the Tomb of Christ when Christ was directed and it says in Mark, Chapter 16, 33 to 4 that an angel, a mighty angel, was sent to roll the stone away. It's really it za reason why you wouldn't want to learn to Greek read Greek, because when it says that he rolled the stone away, the word that is used in these context to explain that is the Greek word to hurl h u r l.

So it's not like the angel just came and took this massive stone. And if you come with me to Israel in February, when we're going, we'll show you the Tomb of Christ in the massive track for the stone.

This stone weight tons So he didn't just go and let's let's just push it out of the way. It says. When the angel came, he just took and just threw it. No problem for him. And you worry about your life that God can control things and work in your life in a profound way.

His power. He gave the Angels great power. And so those particular beans are there available to you? How do I know that? Because I read my Bible. Hey, Bruise 1 14 says this. Are they angels? Not all ministering spirits sent forth to Minister for those who will inherit salvation.

What's the answer to the rhetorical question? Yes. Have you ever seen an angel? Don't look at your wife. She's right next to me. It's a great opportunity to build my relationship. That's not what I'm talking about.

You know, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about an angel of God, you know, He said they're cento saints. I'm sure that your first day in heaven, when you step into his presence, there's some angels.

They're gonna come to you. Yeah. I was with you in Fallujah. I was with you in that car crash. I was there. One of my friends in World War two guy at my first church church. Ivan Harper was his name was walking through the forest with two buddies in the army on a machine gun opened up.

German machine gun opened up and sprayed them. He said we were walking three abreast. They died. He did not. He asked me one day. What do you think happened there? How did How was there not a bullet for me? And I said, Well, Ivan, God, God had more things for you To dio He became a prisoner of war and then his position was overrun by the Russian and he was freed as the Russians Freedom.

But he had amazing story to tell. But God had much more Diprivan to do. My youth pastor, when I grew up and was going to college, uh told us a story about he and his wife in Washington state. They wrecked their car in the middle of nowhere in the forest and and there was no cell phones.

And he pulled his wife out of the car and later down on the payment. She's dying in her own blood and he said, No cars, no cell phones, nothing. Nobody. And he said, out of the darkness came a man with a black bag and said, Excuse me, I'm a doctor.

Did a tracheotomy there on the side of the road saved her life, and he said I was so caught up in the moment because star, you know, another car eventually came blah, blah, blah, he said. I was so caught up with what was going on, he said.

I didn't even look to see like where he went. He got guy. He said there was no car, no motorcycle, nothing. He just came out of the woods and he said when I looked up to tell him, Thank you, he's not there and I don't know how he left he said.

I know to this days, and my wife does, too. That was an angel God sent to save her life that Hebrews tells us this, that they came to minister to us. If you re Chapter 13 of Hebrews to jump ahead, if you want to read it, he tells you in verses one and two, you better be care when you be careful when you show hospitality, because you might show hospitality to angels and not even know it right.

So there, there who created them, God by the word of his mouth. He also created the waters that we enjoy. He created the angelic class, the astral class. All the things that he's made also created water.

Did you find it interesting when you watch science shows and they're probing the cosmos to try to find life? What are they looking for? Her first? Water. Water. We think we found it in a crystallized format under the subterranean turf of Mars and blah, blah, blah.

Yeah. Are you finding it in oceans that average 12,100 ft deep? Like you do on Earth? No. Because the Earth was, you know, strategically placed here by the word of God. And he put us out here on this edge of this welcome galaxy.

And he gave us plenty of water. So how much water did he give us? Lot. 97% of Earth's water is found in the oceans on I've read all the articles. How many oceans are there? Everybody debates about everything.

I'll leave that to you to talk about at lunch. How many oceans are there Exactly? God made them all. Well, you know, the Atlantic Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, etcetera. But of all the countries of the world on the earth, there's only 1% of all waters.

Fresh water. Really? Wow. In the countries that have 50% of the water are not. It's not the United States. It's Brazil, Russia, Canada, Indonesia. Uh, China and Colombia. They have 50% of the fresh water.

Don't you find this interesting that in all of things that God made by the word of his mouth, he positioned the 1% of the water where it needed to be? And we have enough here to have a drink this afternoon? Shouldn't you thank him? Water, water When their god make all this well, Day number three Genesis Chapter one, Verse nine says date number three of creation.

Then God said, Let the waters into the heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear. And then what happened? It was so and God called the dry land. Earth, cause it was dry immediately didn't take millions of years.

It was dry, immediately called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters. He called the season God looked at that and said to himself It was good. It is good. Could you imagine this? You have an entire planet covered with water, primordial seas.

And God looks at and goes. Okay. Today, three. I speak for a division between land and water. So all the subterranean landmass that's under the water. I wanted to burst forth. I'm gonna move the tectonic plates.

I'm going to send some earthquakes. The bubble, it all forward. Push the things aside. I'm going to create South America, North America. I'm gonna make it all. And I'm gonna just speak it into existence by the word of his mouth.

That's power. See, that's why you should praise God. Because he did all this by the word of his mouth. He made it all happen on Lee. A fool would look at that and say, Man, that's not that big of a deal.

No, that's awesome. So what's the result? The practical result of all that this first aid you know, theology should lead you to to doing something. So what should you do first? Eight. Here's your challenge for the day.

What should you do? Let all the earth do what? Fear the Lord Let all the inhabitants of the world to do What standing. All of him. Notice he's going to reinstate what he's already told you. Why should you praise God and standing off him for he spoke and it waas he commanded and it stood fast.

That's some kind of power. When I was in a college back in the seventies, Carl Sagan was kind of the big scientists on the block. Hey, said this one day on ABC News Nightline. Quick. We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way galaxy, which is one of the billions of other Galaxies which make up the universe, which may be one of, Ah, very large number, perhaps an infinite number of other universes, he says.

That is the perspective on human. That's his perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering. Mhm, really. Is that worth pondering? Yeah, but then he added this later toward the end of his life, Hey said Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark in our obscurity.

In all of this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves is not not sad. Carl Sagan, in all of his great thinking as a scientist could look at. Why are we on the dark part of the Milky Way, man? It's just, you know, knee idealistic.

There's no God. Just by chance there's no one's coming to help us. Instead of saying no, God strategically placed us here so we could see the wonder of his handiwork. I must worship him, he says. No one's coming to help us.

You know what? Somebody already came to help us. Do you know this? The creator came toe. Help us. Jesus was the creator. Read Colossians 1 16, 17. He's the creator. He came to help us because we have centers.

Can't help ourselves. And, boy, do we need help. Do we not just follow the news? We need help. What he do? He came to redeem us by laying his life down for us. Talk about power, Power that he said I could lay my life down.

I could pick it up again. And he did talk about power. So the next time that you are in your lab is a scientist working on something with a microscope and you see some cool, intricate stuff through the lens.

What should you do in the quiet lab? Praise God. You should become a Pentecostal at that moment. What would a Pentecostal do in the first service? I said we're going to read some 33 today. Some little kid in the back went Hey, So your lab, you see something cool under the microscope? Everybody else is sitting there taking notes, and you're over there going? Yes.

Praise God. Um, next time you're in your boat at night on the Potomac, Socially distance, of course. From others on the boat on you look up at the star studded sky in the beauty of the evening and you look up and you say to your son, check that out.

That's my father's anywhere. Praise him for that. Next time you're a doctor, we have many in our church and you're looking at the complexity of the human system because I've seen the results of what happens to a stroke.

And I've seen what what God can do and healing a person with the stroke that the body can heal itself and they can reclaim motor movements. I've seen it. It's unbelievable. Who doesn't look at those kind of things as a doctor and say Man, God, you are so amazing.

You spoke this complexity into existence. I praise you next time you're flying your military jet through an amazing cloud system because remember, you're in the front seat and could see I'm in the back and a commercial jet, you know, kind of looking down, hoping they'll put the windows shades down near me when you're flying through amazing cloud systems.

What should you be saying? As you're looking out as your with your co pilot, what should you be saying as you're looking out? Praise God. Look at that. Because if that is, that majesty of that cumulus cloud system is like that in the glory of the sun shining through and illuminating it, what must the throne of God look like? You know, the next time you are enthralled at spiderweb lightning that you see, because I went out in my yard and watched it together night until it got too close to me.

I didn't want to see God way make inside with my umbrella. Pastor died praising God. But when you go out there and you see the handiwork of God and see all of it. Do you stop and praising him for it? And then if you get a chance to hike in the shadow this time of year with your kids, my wife and you get to a point where you look back down the valley below and you see all the trees turning the color, the reds and yellows who looks at that goes man, that's kind of cool.

What is the godly father, the godly mother the godly teenager do now? They look at that and they say, Look at the wonder of the artistry of God and we gotta stop right here and praise God for it. So you have many things to do this day.

Don't stand it. I'm not telling you that, Pastor said. Stand look at the Weber and wait for it. I didn't say that. No, you're gonna thank God for the coal that goes in the Weber Grill and the lighter fluid etcetera.

But you should be praising God and wasted no time doing it because he's so great. Let's pray. God, our lives are full of all kinds of issues trials, adversities, moments of great joy. That's just life, But may we never forget Behind all of that is the powerful God that we use is the word of his mouth to create all that we see.

And may we not waste any time when we see these things giving you praise for That's what we're gonna be doing for eternity. So we might as well get ready now on lift your name high in Jesus name. Amen.

God bless you. And there will be prayer counselors up at the front. If you would like to have someone pray for you, Whatever your situation has, feel free to come forward. And if not, it's Weber time.

So enjoy. Good to see you.