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Psalm 104 verses 1 through 15, these are God's words. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty, who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. He lays the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot. who walks on the wings of the wind, who makes his angels' spirits, his ministers, a flame of fire. You who laid the foundations of the earth so that it should not be moved forever. You covered it with the deep as with the garment. The waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hastened away. They went up over the mountains, they went down into the valleys. to the place which you founded for them. You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they may not return to cover the earth. He sends the springs into the valleys. They flow among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. By them the birds of the heavens have their home. He waters the hills from his upper chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. He calls us the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, that he may bring food from the earth, and wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart. Amen, this ends this reading of God's inspired and inerrant word. In the previous psalm, Psalm 103, we learn to instruct our souls to bless the name of God, especially those whom he was redeeming to join the great hosts, the angel armies. that which we would praise him for forever which we will praise him for forever when we say for you have redeemed us by your blood and have made us kings and priests unto god with the whole host that we see already singing that in Revelation. Well here in Psalm 104, we're still giving our souls instruction. You see that at the beginning, verse 1. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. But now we're focusing especially on the blessings that we enjoy as His creatures. And one of those, of course, is to have set before us things that He made to show how great His glory is. So we say, oh Yahweh my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. You cover yourself with light as with a garment. You stretch out the heavens like a curtain. God, of course, does not have a body. He is spirit, he is being essential to himself so that it is impossible for there to be such a thing as existence of anything apart from him. Where anything exists, it is because He exists. And yet, He has created light in order to give us a hint about His greatness. I think I remember recently some of you, or maybe it was someone in church, thinking about how we have always been unable to measure the one-way speed of light. and then of course there's the great brilliance of light and how it perplexes us even today because it's apparently both wave and particle and even apart from all of that technical knowledge how glorious the reality of light itself is, and yet this is just a hint at what he is like. Or if you were brought into someone's palace, there are the curtains in the entryway and you see the extravagant expensiveness of the material, the beauty and the skill of the pattern. That's just the curtain in the entryway, how great must be the one who has built such a house for himself. Of course the heaven and the highest heavens cannot contain him, and yet they do speak hints to us about the greatness of God. So he's created all these things to remind us continually, to declare to us continually how glorious he is. Observe the work of his hands and we should remember that he is glorious and we should lift our hearts to him in praise Saying oh yahweh my god. You are very great another thing that we see In this psalm is how generous he is in his power You see this especially with what he does with the land and the water And here we are moving into the part of the creation where he gathers the seas and he makes the dry land appear and it describes it almost in slow motion. He's laid the foundations of the earth, verse five, and then he describes the gathering of the waters even down to, by the time you get to verse 10, the sending of the springs into the valleys to flow among the hills, not only making the land to be consolidated for the creature, but just enough water in all the right places for the good of the creature. And so the great power of God to rule over the oceans, heavens, clouds, expressed in generosity and wisdom and care, even for wild donkeys because they get thirsty, and birds because they are vulnerable and need places to nest. And so So he makes fertile places with trees in order that the birds can nest among branches. And then he makes, addresses not just thirst and safety, but also food, causes grass to grow for the cattle and vegetation for the service of man that he may bring forth food from the earth. And so God displays He hints at his own glory in the first four verses. He exercises his almighty power to provide for the creature, generosity, in verses 5 through 14. And then there's a special focus on man, man who is not only made among the creatures and we are needy and we need food, We're right there alongside the cattle in verse 14, as far as needing food goes. But man has a heart that is created to know God and that needs to be gladdened. Man has a countenance, a face. that needs to have that relational warmth and pleasure in others. He's created us to be relational with himself and one another. man who needs to have courage and diligence, resolve. So God created a variety of things that he causes to come in his providence that address each of these needs separately. It's not just wine that makes a glad the heart of man, but wine is representative of all the good things that God has made, not just for sustenance of the body, but for gladness of the heart. Wine that makes glad the heart of man. uh, oil, uh, to make his face shine, uh, and the use here for, uh, for health and for beauty, uh, so that we may, uh, we may be helped even physically to have that sunny disposition, to play on the word shine here, towards one another. We desire to be healthy for various reasons, but one is so that we may bless one another and enjoy one another's presence. When the Lord says that he makes his face to shine upon us, it's talking about his blessing us and his expressing enjoyment at our nearness to him and at our belonging to him. We also are to express that towards one another. And that's something that is very difficult to feel or to express when you are ill. Or when you're not keeping well, and so the the oil in this case, especially the olive oil Does this for the man and then bread? Which strengthens man's heart worse. It's not just bread that strengthens man's heart, but all his food, bread here again, being representative, and giving man what he needs, the energy, the nourishment, the nutrition that he needs, in order that he can live and act with resolve and diligence and courage. But in all these things, in verse 15, it's describing God having made us in his image as beings with eternal souls, and yet creating us with physical needs and the physical aspect that is interconnected with us spiritually as a way of our depending upon him by grace, body and soul day by day, just as we just as he teaches us to pray for our daily bread, just as he communicates to us his own personal strengthening of our souls in Jesus Christ at the table where we eat the bread and drink the wine. And there at the table, we have the echoes of Psalm 104, verse 15, with Jesus himself for our strength and Jesus himself for our gladness. So we'll probably continue two more weeks in Psalm 104, but teaching ourselves to note God's glory, God's generosity, and then God's grace himself being strong for us in our weakness here in these verses. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we thank you for the way you created all things and the way you sustain them to display your glory to us, to show us how generous you are to all of your creatures, to show us very specifically how the strength and health and gladness of our life is from you and all the more in you in the Lord Jesus Christ we pray that you would make us always to be grateful and to be full of praise unto you for all these things we ask this in Jesus name amen
Glorious, Generous, Gracious God of Creation
시리즈 Family Worship
For what does our soul bless the LORD? Psalm 104:1–15 looks forward to the opening portion of morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these fifteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that our souls are to bless the LORD for His Creator-goodness to all His creatures and especially to us among them.
설교 아이디( ID) | 1016231744451298 |
기간 | 12:08 |
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카테고리 | 개인 예배 |
성경 본문 | 시편 104:1-15 |
언어 | 영어 |
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