Laban said, God has blessed me because of thee. And I believe that God has blessed this ministry because of thee. God's blessed this ministry because of the people that he's put here, who are surrendered, who are dedicated, who are sold out I'd like for all the faculty and staff, those that work here, make this, or serve here, and make this place tick. It's so clean. It's neat. And it's done right. And my heart just, it just thrills my heart to see God's work done that way. And I want to say thank you. But I'd like for you to stand up. I see who you are, would you? If you have a job here of any kind, would you please stand, teacher, faculty, staff, maintenance, whatever. Oh my, oh. God bless you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Thank you. You may be seated. I know that that is pleasing to the Heavenly Father. I know it is. God's house, God's place, God's work, God's ministry needs to be done the best, the best. And my wife and I, as we walk around, we I looked at the facilities, and we looked at the buildings, and I just thank God for what He has done. Now let me do something else. How many of you feel that the Lord, you're either in the full-time service for the Lord, or you feel that God has called you into full-time service for the Lord? Would you please stand? You're either in, so we're going to stand twice. So you feel you're in the Lord's work, You're in the order of work, or you feel God has called you. Lenora, doesn't that look like Tabernacle? Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Whenever I would do that at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Virginia, it beats the whole congregation stand. May the Lord don't let them leave all at once. And what a thrill it was. I've seen over 200 people. I stand and say, yes, God's called me. I'm called to go into the Lord's work. And what a thrill it is to reproduce yourself and to see you go out into the Lord's ministry and into the work. Well, this is the last service that Mrs. Bell and I will be here, and I am so thrilled to have her with me. I'll tell you what, I just don't know what I would do without Mrs. Bell. I go off in meetings and most of the time she goes with me but sometimes she can't and it's a great homecoming. I can't wait to get home and she can't wait for me to get home. So the Lord has just put us together as a team, and we look forward to coming down here so much, and thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Daniels, for inviting us, and thank you, Mrs. Daniels, for all your labor and all you're trying to make, treating us like we're somebody. I just thank God for you, and thank God for the ministry. Church don't ever take for granted what you have here, what God has given you. I'm telling you, don't take it for granted. You can travel all over. This is unique because God's here. And listen, it's just beginning. The greater days, greater days for this ministry is yet ahead. Folks, you're just getting started on what God's got in store for you. I believe that with all my heart. And people all over where I go, they want to talk about it. They've never been here. But our pastors say, when are you going to take me down there? When are you going to take me down there? When can I go down there? When are you going to take me down there? I say, when you pay the way. When you pay the way. When you pay the way. So you pray. That's exactly what I tell them. So they said, okay, you just let me know. You just let me know. So, you don't know what the Lord has in store for us, so we're praising the Lord. Let's pray. Blessed Heavenly Father, Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh upon me. thou hast promised in thy word to give the Holy Spirit to those that ask thee. And blessed Lord, we are praying for the anointing, the unction of the Holy One. This is the last service I'll be here, but Lord, may this spirit, this hunger, this thirst that I have sensed. Continue. Lord, send a revival to this ministry. Now Lord, you're able, and Lord we know we can have evangelism and missions and not have revival, but we cannot have revival and not have missions and evangelism. Oh God, we pray, open the windows of heaven, wouldst thou come down and visit thy people. Father, tonight do your work and speak to hearts, may there not be one May there not be one thing that would hinder revival. Lord, the only reason we don't have revival is because of sin in our life. And I pray, Lord, that you will remove anything. Clean out the cow stall, unplug the pipes, and Lord, may the windows of heaven be opened and fill us, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's stand and we're going to pray our prayer. Psalm 139. Psalm 139. And we will pray. I want you to pray aloud and pray with me. Pray that I can hear you as we pray, especially these last two verses. Psalm 139, verse 23 and 24. Let's pray aloud. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Thank you. You may be seated. I want to speak on Psalm 139. Open your Bible to Psalm 139. What I want to do, I'm going to be very basic and very simple. I want you to just take a pencil and a piece of paper, and I'm going to jot this down. I want you to go, as I give the outline, I want you to follow with me, and then later I want you to study this psalm. Please. It will do something for your heart. It will help you. It will encourage you if you just read it and meditate upon it. And read a verse, stop, and say, what is that saying? Get you a good dictionary. Get you a good lexicon. Look up words. Christianity is a religion of words. And just read words. And think what they're saying. And then meditate upon them. All right. Psalm 139. I have titled this passage, When God Sees the Soul and the Soul Sees God. when God sees the soul and the soul sees God. Now what happens? Well, as you begin to look at this psalm and try to divide the 24 verses, if you'll outline it this way, verses 1 through 18, we see the revelation of the Creator. Verses 1-18 is the revelation of the Creator. Verses 19-24 is the reaction of the creature after he sees the Creator. That is the simple outline of this entire psalm. Now, as you begin to look at the psalm, Psalm 39 blends the divine nature of a whole God and His relationship with the creature, me and you. And really what it is, it's a soul looking face-to-face to God and God looking face-to-face to the soul. And as you read the psalm, you'll find out that there's no other persons in the entire universe except God and I. As you begin to read this, you'll begin to see what I'm saying. And it gives you a concept of who God is, what God's like, and you begin to get your biblical concept of God. You see, here's my burden. I'm so afraid that many people who are Christians worship a God that's not the God of the Bible. They have a God in their imagination, and they have built a God out of their imagination of some of it is of the scripture, some of it is what Grandma told, Grandpa told, truth they have learned, things they have heard, things they have said, and they have taken and made an image in their mind of what God is like, and they have a concept of God. I probably told you, I think maybe I did, about the little boy who was five years of age, and heaven devotion, and his mother said to him, said, Hunter, do you want to go to heaven when you die? He said, no, I do not want to go to heaven when I die. Well, I said, what? Why don't you want to go to heaven, son, when you die? He said, I don't want to go to heaven. I just don't want to go to heaven when I die. Well, she called daddy and dad talked to him and said, son, what's wrong? Why is it that you do not want to go to heaven when you die? Little fella looked up at him and said, because Jesus is there. He said, what? You don't want to go to heaven because Jesus is in heaven? He said, yes, sir. Well, he said, why did you want to be with Jesus? He said, because he's got long hair and he wears a dress. Now, that was his concept of God. He's seen a picture on a wall in Sunday school, and he had a mental concept that Jesus had long hair and wore a dress. And he didn't want to be around a man who had long hair and wore a dress. That was his concept. But I'm so afraid that we have a false concept so many times of God. And we're living in a day when man has made his own God out of his own imagination. It's like a cosmic Santa Claus. And we are always wanting God to give us or do something for us, as God is our helper. God is our servant. He's our errand boy. And most prayers are really selfish prayers. All, when we learn to pray, to where we begin to talk to God as a person, instead of a it, we begin to talk about and thank Him for His patience, His longsuffering, His mercy, His tenderness, His loving kindness, His understanding, and we begin to talk with Him as the concept of God, we begin to get the right concept of who He really is. Notice in this passage, If you look, first person pronouns, Mrs. Jacobson, being the English teacher she is, she'll appreciate this. The pronouns, the first person singular, I, me, my. Now if I've counted them correctly, there's fifty. Fifty personal pronouns that refers to me, my, or I. Now, wait a minute. Second person singular, there's 30 personal pronouns. And these, thou, thee, and thy. So, until the last two verses. Now, it seems that there's only two beings in the entire universe, and that's the soul and God, face-to-face, with a triune God. Now, A. W. Tozer said this in his book on The Knowledge of the Holies in Chapter 1. He said, why we must think rightly about God. And here's his very first sentence. He said, what comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us. In other words, he said, without a doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God. And it's so important to have the right concept of God. And the right concept of the God that we know, the God that we love, and the God that we serve is based upon proper knowledge of the Word of God. And of course, that is applied to our practical Christian life. He goes on, he says something else. He says, we tend by secret law of the soul to move towards our mental image of God. This is true of the individual Christian, but also of the church as a whole. Always the most revealing thing about a church is her idea of God. So what comes to your mind when you think about or think of God. So I want us to take this psalm, Psalm 139, and I've outlined it basically in two sections. But as you begin to look at it, you can divide it into four separate divisions. And this consists of six verses each. Word of God will outline many times itself if you would just let it. And it shows us this wonderful glorious being, our God. Notice first of all, in verses one through six, we see the divine, that he is divine, the omniscience. Now whenever we talk about being omniscient, we're talking about his all-knowing. God is omniscient, which means God knows everything. So the first verses 1 through 6 deals with the omniscience of God. He knows everything. Here we see the absoluteness of the divine knowledge. And he says, look in verse 1, God knows my character. Look what it says in verse 1. He says, O Lord, thou hast searched me and knoweth me. You know, I don't need any spiritual FBI agent following me around and trying to find out what I'm doing and what I'm not doing. God knows my character. And there's a difference between your character and your reputation. You see, your reputation is what people think you are. Your character is what God knows you are. I was up in the mountains of West Virginia one time as preaching for one of my dear friends there in Hunnican, West Virginia. And back in the mountains, the women are different. I don't know how to say that, but some of them, not all of them, but some of them are different. And they use snuff, and they'll have a lip full of snuff. And she came out, she had a bundle on her head, and a long categorized dress, and had a big Bible, a family Bible about that big, as I walked out the door. And she looked up at me and she said, well doctor, Said, you didn't learn me nothing tonight. And I thought, above you. Not the woman, but the English. I said, you didn't learn me nothing tonight. I said, I believe it, man, I believe it. I believe you. I believe you. But see, some people think they know everything about us. They think they know everything. You know something? My wife doesn't know me. lived with me for 53 years. She doesn't know me. Dr. Dan was one of our good friends. He doesn't know me. No, no. As a matter of fact, I don't know my why. But I'm going to tell you something. God knows me. God knows me. He said, I know your innermost being, I know you. I see right through you. I know the very fiber of your soul. In other words, I know what you're made out of, Rod Bell. Aren't you glad that God knows you? Aren't you glad? Now, sometimes that frightens me. because God knows my character. And then notice verse 2. Not only does he know my character, he's omniscient, but he knows my contemplation. Look what it says in verse 2. It says, thou knowest my down sittings and mine uprisings, thou understandest my thoughts So God understands my thoughts afar off. In other words, he knows my secret sins. He knows my inward desires. He knows what I am going to do before I do it. He knows My contemplation. In other words, what it really means is, he knows my subconscious mind. You see, he's the creator. He's omniscient. He knows everything. You can't pull anything over on God. And he knows my contemplation. Knows my thoughts, knows my motives, knows everything. Knows everything about me. And then, notice verse 3. God not only knows my character, He knows my contemplation, in verse 2. And in verse 3, He knows my conduct. Look what it says in verse 3. Thou comest to my path, and my lying downs, and thou art acquainted with all my ways. He knows when I sit down. He knows whenever I lie down. He knows wherever I walk. He knows where I'm going. He knows everything. I have a fight plan. I have a plan of what I'm going to do tomorrow. I have to have that or I forget it. But God knows everything. He knows what I'm going to be doing a year from now. He knows what I did last year at this time. See, God knows. and God knows you. I don't know what that does to affect you, but I know what it has done to affect me because I've taken this entire Psalm and I've taken every word apart and I began to really get into it and ask God, It's terrifying sometimes to know that you know me whenever I don't know me, but you know me. God knows my contemplations. God knows my conduct. Then look in verse 4. Not only does He know my character and my contemplation and my conduct, but look in verse 4. He knows my conversation. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, I know, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it all." He knows my conversation. He knows what you said in secret. He knows what you said when you said, now listen, this is confidential, but don't you tell anybody. That's what you just told the last four people. See, God knows. God, like the little boy, the preacher went home for dinner after church. The preacher went over to the house for dinner and wasn't quite ready. And the mother told the little fellow, said, would you go into the living room and entertain the pastor while I get lunch ready? Well, they were sitting there and they were talking and finally, in a few minutes, what? The pastor said, well, he talked very little conversation. He said to him, he said, Some of them were going to have dinner. The little boy said, make a guess. Well, he said, we're going to have roast beef. He said, no. He said, fish. He said, no. Turkey. No. Well, he said, ham. The boy said, no. He said, so what are we going to have? He said, we're going to have buzzard. Buzzard? He said, yep, gonna have Buzzard. Oh, he said, in a chilly night. Said, uh-huh. Said, my mama said we was gonna have that old Buzzard for dinner today. Now, listen, folk, I want you to know that God knows our conversation. God knows it. And you may whisper it, and you may think it's a secret, but if two people knows it, it's not a secret. God knows our conversation. He knows all about me. Knows my thoughts, knows my character, knows my contemplation, knows my conduct, knows everything. And He knows every idle word. The Bible says, let your speech be for what? For edification. By the way, when you talk about somebody, does that build them up or tear them down? Does this really help this person, what you're saying? Dr. Bob Jones, Jr. used to say, now, is it kind? Is it true? And is it necessary? So, God is the God that knows my conversation. Every word, he knows it all. Psalm 44, 21 says, he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Then not only do we see that God knows my conversation, but let's look at these four verses. that these four verses covers the whole man. It covers the inner man and the outward life. In verse 1, he knows my heart. In verse 2, he knows my thoughts. In verse 3, he knows my actions. In verse 4, he knows my words. So he knows me, but the most amazing thing is that he knows me, he knows all about me, yet he loves me with a love that is stronger than death. So the songwriter is right whenever he says, Oh come rejoice with me for I have found a friend who knows my heart's most secret depths, yet he loves me without end. There's not anything that I can do to stop God from loving me. He still loves me. In spite of who I am and what I am, he loves me. So he knows me. Notice this. These terms, as I looked up every term, every one of them, and took my little Hebrew lexicon, and I began to study it. These terms are used to describe God's knowledge for us. It's very revealing. In verse 1, the word search, underline it. That word search means it's a process of minute investigation. One searching for hidden treasures or secrets. It's a, it pierces through and through. It's searching for the smallest clue. It is a word that we use sometimes. A detective will use a DNA and will take a hair or a speck of dust or a piece of lint from a claw and will convict a man for murder. Now that's what this word means. God searches us, and the word no indicates the result of this minute, penetrating investigation of absolute, complete knowledge. You put to God, we have to have x-rays and CAT scans to reveal what we are, but God knows our inner being thoroughly, completely, because he's the creator. He's omniscient. Look at that verse 2, here's some expressions that really stirred my heart. Understandeth my thoughts afar off. No guesswork, no speculation, no mistakes, no trial and error, but absolute, complete, perfect knowledge. That phrase, understandeth my thoughts afar off, implies that God observes and discerns all that the mind sees, all of the mind, and sees all our thoughts as they begin to evolve from our subconsciousness. He understandeth my thoughts aforeall. In other words, God knows it all. Look at verse 6. No wonder David said, Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It's high. I cannot attain it. Psalm 90 verse 8 says, Thou hast set our iniquities before thee. Our secret sins is in the light of thy countenances. You can't sin and God not get by, you get by with it and God not know it. Sinning, doing that, and God looking at you, doing that, and God knows you're doing it, doing that, and God sees you, God knows what you did, why you did it, God knows all about it. Because God is omniscient. Now that's what the first six verses says. But then, here's another attribute of God, or character, or characteristic of God. Secondly, not only is He omniscient, but He's omnipresent. Look at verse 7 through 12. He's omnipresent, meaning He's everywhere. He is present everywhere. Look at the second division now. The psalmist did not ask the question in verse 7, just to try and get away from God, but he said, Where shall I go from thy spirit? Or where shall I flee from thy presence? If I stand up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, thou art there. You're there too. shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Verse 12, Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day, and the darkness and the light are both a light unto thee. It does not get too dark for God to see. God sees you. God is everywhere. He's omnipresent. Don't make any difference where it is. If you're in an airplane at 35,000 feet in the air, private, you're out flying 500 miles an hour, God's there. He spread it. That astronaut said that whenever he went up, went around the moon, he said, he said, I didn't find God. I didn't see God. Makes no difference. God's everywhere. I don't care if you're two and a half miles deep in the northern Atlantic Ocean, down where the Titanic wreck is, God's there. He's in the depths of the ocean. Makes no difference if you're in China, or you're in Russia, or you're in the jungles, or you're in Africa. Makes no difference where you are. God is omnipresent. Now, this spoke to my heart in such a way, as I began to analyze this, I thought, well, wait a minute now. There's five extremes here. Five extremes. There's the extreme of height, verse 7. He said, try to fly away from God. Try to fly as high as you can fly in the heavens to get away from God, the presence of God. It's like flying into the center of the sun to try to get away from the heat. You can't do that. God is everywhere. I think sometimes we don't realize what we're saying, but we say, well, there's first heaven, second heaven, and third heaven, and the third heaven is where God dwells. That's not so. There is a first heaven, a second heaven, and a third heaven, but God dwells in the third heaven, second heaven, and the first heaven. God dwells in all of them. God's everywhere. This is the God. God's here. tonight. God's here. He's in the atmospheric heaven, but He's also is in the hearts and the lives of the believers. So, there is the extreme of height, but notice also, there is the extreme of depth. Look in verse 8. In verse 8, he said, if I send it to heaven, you're there. But make my bed in hell, there's another extreme. Make my bed in hell, surely if I go to the highest, I can get away from it. But wait a minute, he's there. But what if I go to the depths? As deep as I can go, as far as I can go, God is there. You can't get away from God. That's the God that we serve. How big and how wonderful and how mighty our God is. all with this little finite mind, how could we comprehend such an infinite, holy, great, awesome God? Look in the, there's two more extremes. He says in verses Well, look in verse 9. It says, If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utmost part of the sea, now what's the wings of the morning? That's in the east. when the sun comes up in the east, the wings of the morning. That is the east. And he said, then if I dwell in the outermost part of the sea, what is that? Well, that's the Mediterranean Sea. Everything in the scripture, whenever you talk about directions, you always go from Jerusalem. And because that's the center of the universe. That's the navel of the universe, geographically speaking. and one's from the east and one is from the west. He said you go to the east and keep going to the east and you keep going to the east and you keep going to the east and you keep going to the east and you'll come up west and you'll still be going east. This is our God. God created everything. And now they tell us that Sinus has discovered, are you listening, one hundred billion stars in our galaxy. My! One hundred billion. And then they have told us now that they have discovered that there's over one hundred billion galaxies with one hundred billion stars in all the galaxies. And the amazing thing is that our God calls them all by name. And the amazing thing is that our God knows the hair that is on my head. Knows the sparrow that falls. Our God can take a, we know so little and comprehend so small, our comprehension is so small. Have you ever seen a leaf on a tree and you see a little red dot on the leaf and you look at that little red dot and you back away from it and you see a leaf you back away from it and you see a branch and you get a little far away from it and you see a tree and then you back up and you see a forest and then you back up and you see a country, and then you back up, or a county, and then you see a country, and then you see a state, or a nation, and then a father, you see the earth, and you back up, you see all the solar system, and you back up, and you see the Milky Way, and all the constellations, and oh, wait a minute, there's hundreds of thousands and millions more that our God spoke into existence. But all of us go the other direction. We come back from out in the outer space and out of the constellations and down through by the planets and down through the solar systems and we come down into our constellation and into our solar system and into the atmosphere and we come down and we see the state of South Carolina and we see the county and we see the forest. And we see the tree, and we see the little leaf on the tree, and we see the little spot. And let's go inside that tree spot. Let's look at them with the magnitude, the greatness of the world that is created inside the leaf of that tree. all of the cells and all of the workings that's inside the leaf and the world that is inside that, that's our God's creation. Our God! It's our God. Then notice the darkness. There's this extreme here. Verse 11, 12, he says, I want darkness to hide me. How does it hide me? Verses 11, 12 say, Yea, the darkness hath not from me, but the dark is light, and the darkness and the light are both alike. My, as I begin to read this, I begin to think. God knows when the blinds are pulled. God knows when the door is shut. God knows that men love darkness rather than light. It may be dark, but it's still light. God sees right. God knows it. God sees all. God knows everything. And who in the world are we to think that we can pull anything over on God? So these first twelve verses shows us God's omniscient. God is omnipresent. But look in verses 13 through 17. This is the third division of this psalm, and it shows us that God is omnipotent. God is omnipotent. That means all-powerful. Now, there's five verbs here, and I'm not going to go into all five of them, but let me just touch them. But I've got to hurry. These five verbs, verse 13, possessed, covered. Look those words up tonight. Get you a little, and look at them. They refer to the embryonic stage of a cell, of a baby in a mother's womb. The embryonic stage. The smallest cell, possessed means formed, covered means woven together in the integral parts of the structure. Verse 14. said, wonderfully made. Look at that expression. That means set apart. We are no identical twins. No identical snowflake. Everything, and God said, you're fearfully and wonderfully made. Look at Verse 14, I praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance, look at verse 15, my substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth. So we see the word made and curiously wrought really is where we get the word invagrate. you make an embroidery, a fringe on a dress or something, integral workings, and you can't consider, absolutely, listen to me, no way can you consider those five verbs, and formed, woven, separated, fashioned, skillfully wrought, without believing in the omnipotence of God. God is omnipotent. That means he is all-powerful. Someone said, I had a doctor in our church, and I'll never forget, he said, Pastor, if you could see all that's taking place in your body, all the cells, that's taking place in your body, all the function, everything, firing at the same time, replenishing, replenishing, dying and replenishing, and the blood, the feeding, this and that. And he said, if you could see, if you could just stop and see what's happening inside you, he said, you'd die from a heart attack. He said, hey, make sure you fire right down there. Hey, take care. Watch out. He said if you only knew how the integral parts of the body work and depend upon each other. See I have no stomach. He moved my stomach and threw it away in 1989. Threw it away. Five pound of blood clots. He took it and threw it away. And I had no stomach, no spleen, three and a half feet of small intestines gone. I'm a million dollar biotic man. Seriously, God, you know what? God so fearfully and wonderfully made this body that I never get hungry. If you don't have a stomach, you don't get hungry. There's some blessings to this, you know? I never get hungry. Now I get weak. I know I need to eat. So, but anyway, God has made it. My son, Rod, Jr., whenever he was in a car wreck, and I flew down to Atlanta when he was in the hospital, and I walked into the emergency room, and I saw his femur in his leg, sticking out of the side of his leg that far, broken. His femur was broken. And I said, Doc, can't you do something for that gruesome looking bone? He said, I'm not concerned about that bone. I'm concerned about what's happened in here. Of course, to make a long story short, it was there. I slept by his bed 22 days and 22 nights. And the doctor said he had less than 6% chance to live. And God gave me a promise, and he lived. I shall not die, I shall live and declare the wonderful works of God." That was my promise. And he did. But when the doc started to fix that femur, he took, pulled that femur back up, and put it together, put it together, put those two bones together and ran a rod down through that femur all the way down through the middle of that bone all the way down to his knee. It was a rod about that big. And then he put clamps, put bolts through it where it was broken. And then he showed me the x-ray and I said, there's a gap there, it looks like almost an inch of gap between those two bones where you've got that brace and those steel brace and those bolts going through there. That bone, I said, well he said he's got both legs got to be the same length and that bone's gone. Well I said, well what in the world happened? Well I said, Preacher, don't you know we're fearful and wonderfully made? I said, yeah, I know that. Well, he said, you know what will happen? He said, the body, the central control system, the mind, he said, the mind is going to send out a distress signal through the body, through the bloodstream, transportation department, and say, look, we got a bridge out over here, and we need to fill that bridge up with calcium. all the calcium, and that body will go out and go all over his, through the bloodstreams, all out through his body, and they'll bring all that calcium in, truckload after truckload come in, and dump it into that hole, into that, and fill up that gap, and he said, first thing you know, he said, that gap will be filled with calcium, and he said, then it'll get, there'll be a bulge on each side of it, he said, it'll be like that. And he said, finally, he said, then the control tower will say, halt, stop! Got enough, got enough, send no more calcium and he said the body will stop and then he said that bone was straightened out and the strongest part in his body, in his bone structure will be where that bone was healed. What a God! Whenever I would protest, I thought that my mind, my emotions, my thoughts, my senses, my cells, my things, and I thought, My! The body! What a marvel! What a marvel! What a man! What a miracle! No, no, no! What a God! What a God! What a God who can make a man and make our body our God! is omnipotent. Our God is in control. Then let me hurry, look at verses 17-18. The first three divisions deals with the Creator. You see God, our great God. And then the last is the creature. What happens whenever the creature has a revelation of the greatness of God? Well, this verse tells us. The revelation of the Creator is verses 1-18. Reaction to the, of the creature is verses 19 through 20. Look at, what's the first thing the creature does in verse 19 through 24? What's his reaction? Look what it says, and it says in verse 19. Look with me. In verse 19. Surely thou hast slain the wicked. Well, let's back up here. Verse 17, How precious also are thy thoughts of me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked." Wait a minute, it's more than he can take in. And he begins to, now he says, I've been dwelling on the greatness of God. I've been dwelling on how great you are God. But he said, and I can't take it in. But he said, to know you is to love you. And I've got to make a clean break with sin. I can't have anything else to do with sin. Notice in verse 19, this man, the man truly sees and knows the true character and the nature of God. When he gets the proper opinion of God, in verse 20, look what he does. He says, For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain." And look at verse 21, "...do not I hate them?" In other words, he said, God, to see who you are and what you've done, he said, how can anybody take your name in vain? How can anybody go against you? He said, God, I hate them. Boy, he was a good hater, wasn't he? He knew who to hate and how to hate. And he said, God, I belong to you. You've turned the searchlight upon me. And I belong to you. And I'm yours. And he said, Lord, God, I'm everything. And you're, I'm nothing. And you're everything. Look at verse 23 and 24. And here, I'm hurrying. I've got to hurry. He said, I hate them with a perfect hate. I count them as mine enemies. But look at verse 23 and 24. Most of all, he said, I've got to come clean. Search me. But wait a minute. Search me. David wants no part with sin when he sees how great God is and who God really is. And how that God formed him. and how that God made him. And he said he just owns anything to do with sin. He said, I got the proper concept of who you are. Oh God, examine me. Now listen. Examine my inner thoughts now, Lord. Search me. Try me. And see if there'll be any wicked way in me. Lord, how can I have sin and how can I have any wickedness in me? Sin who you are. See how great God you are. Oh God, search me. Put away the sham and the hypocrisy and the pride and help me come clean before you, Lord. This is one of the most powerful psalms that I've ever gotten a hold of. Search me. Investigate me. Intensely. My heart. My thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me. Now that's the proper concept of God. Whenever you see who God is, you get the proper concept of yourself. So, when you think of God, what do you think about? When you think of who you are serving, and who you are living for, And you think about who made you, who knows you, who puts you together, who knows everything about you, and you can do nothing. I've said so many times this week, I've said the easiest lesson for us, the hardest lesson for us to learn is that we need God. And the easiest lesson for us to forget is that we need God. What do we need? We need for God to turn the searchlight upon our heart and our life and help us see ourself as God does see us. Oh God, open the eyes of my understanding that I might see who you are and that I might see who I am. Oh God, create, search me, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me. That is the reaction of the creature when he sees the revelation of the Creator. Let's stand with our heads bowed and our eyes closed. Every head bowed and every eye closed, I had to rush. But I want you to get, listen, you take that psalm home with you tonight. You get along with God in your open Bible and you get a vision of who God is. You let God, ask God, Lord, search me. Lord, see if there's anything in me that does add displeasure to you. You made me. And I'm your creature. And God, I want to be clean. with her heads bowed and her eyes closed, no one looking around. All week, listen to me carefully, all week God has been putting his finger on something in your life. God has been touching areas in your heart. God has been attitude. God covetousness. I don't know what it is. Pride. Unbelief. Jealousy. I have no idea. Maybe you have said things that you shouldn't have said. You've been harsh. You've been hateful. You've been mean. You've been unkind. You've misrepresented things. You know it. God knows it. And I'm going to tell you something. If other people know what you have said and what you have done, then you need to get that thing right. will never have revival until we have a revelation of who God is and see God for who he is. God speaking to your heart, with your head bowed, your eyes closed, I'm going to ask the pastor to come and dismiss. No one looking around, Mr. Jacobs, is going to play before we