WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.240 This Sunday night, Psalm nineteen is where we'll be. 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:21.920 If I was walking around carrying my Coke Zero, which says super fan on the side of it, and I were to stumble and trip, or you were to bump me and I were to spill, what would come out of the can? 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:24.000 Coke Zero. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:28.079 Not Diet Coke, they're entirely different, and I can tell the difference. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.039 Now why is that? 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:38.719 And the answer is of course, because that's what's in the can, and so when you spill it, what comes out of it is what is in there, of course, correct? 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.799 Tea does not come out of there, milk does not come out of there. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.000 Uh Diet Coke, fortunately, does not come out of there. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:47.759 Because it's not what's in there. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:59.439 If you were to, as you're minding your own business, bump into God, what comes out of God? 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:05.599 Or to say it differently, because as we learned earlier, God predates creation. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:16.319 So when God reveals what is inside of himself, when God spills over to the world, so to speak, what comes out of him? 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:21.760 And the answer that Scripture gives is grace. 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:24.159 Grace is what comes out of God. 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:25.920 Grace is what is inside of God. 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:29.200 God by nature is life-giving. 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.079 God by nature is generative. 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.000 He gives life. 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:47.200 And so all of his interactions with everything in the world, with everyone in the world, with everybody in the world, it's all predicated on the fact that God by nature is filled with grace. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.840 This is how Jesus says it. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.799 Well, John 1, verse 14, John speaking of Jesus, the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:56.239 We've seen his glory. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.480 So God's glory, of course, is who he is. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:01:59.680 We've seen it. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:08.080 We've seen it in the Son, because He's from the Father, and the Son is full of grace and truth. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:09.199 They're paired together. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.639 He's full of grace and truth. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.479 From his fullness, though, John goes on to say, from the fullness of God. 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:20.080 In other words, this idea that God is overflowing, he's filled to the top, and God's overflowing into the world. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.400 We have all received, John says, grace upon grace. 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:31.280 The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth come through Jesus Christ. 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:46.800 And this is a very critical point to understand when you come to the concept of Psalm 19, when you come to the concept of education, when you come to the concept of creation, is that all of God's interaction with the world is predicated on grace. 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.400 Why did God make the world? 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:04.159 God made the world so that he could pour over into the world for our good and for his glory. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.840 And so every interaction with God is the beginning point of it, is that God reveals himself to us. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.319 God did not need to create us. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.639 And I really hope you understand that. 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.719 God did not have to make us. 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:20.960 Why did God make the world? 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:26.159 And some might say God made the world because he was lonely. 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:28.800 Lonely God up there. 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.240 Lonely God, just needing somebody or some things to entertain him or to keep him happy. 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:39.039 And so he made us so that we can now, you know, diversify God's life. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:43.840 And that might get smithed up more theological sounding and some explanations of it. 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:49.520 But the bottom line of that kind of answer is that God made the world because he had a Jesse-shaped hole in his heart. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:51.840 He just needed me. 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:59.759 And he was so bored up there just with the Trinity, the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, perfect love, companionship, fellowship, and harmony, but he needed us. 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:05.199 And I don't think that's the answer the Bible gives, that he made the world because he needed us. 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:06.319 Of course not. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:11.599 The answer the Bible gives is he made the world to share himself. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.039 He made the world to magnify himself. 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:20.959 Jonathan Edwards said it this way: it's no sign of a fountain's weakness that is prone to overflow its banks. 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:22.319 A fountain overflows. 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.040 By nature, a fountain is overflowing. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.519 It's giving out water, it's giving out life. 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.839 God, by nature, is a fountain. 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.480 He's giving off life. 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:37.519 And as life comes out of him, it goes to a world he creates just to receive it. 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.240 That does not mean that God is arrogant or egotistical. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:45.680 I've had somebody tell me once, you know, I can't believe in the God of the Bible because he made the world just to make people worship him. 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.639 You know, how shallow is God that he would need worshipers. 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.319 And also not understanding it adequately. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.439 He made the world to share himself, and he is the greatest thing in the world. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:04.000 So there's nothing better for him to do for us than to make us so that we can share in his glory as well. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:12.399 You know, if a philanthropist were to give billions of dollars away, nobody would say, How arrogant is that guy? 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:18.399 Who does he think he is with all his philanthropic ways, giving away millions of dollars here and billions of dollars there? 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:22.959 I mean, how shallow is he that he thinks he has to give his money away to find significance in life? 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:24.319 Nobody would say that. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.800 Instead, you would say, thank you. 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:28.160 That's really the only thing you can say. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:29.680 Thank you for sharing. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:31.279 That's so kind of you. 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:32.560 And so it is with God. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:40.480 When God gives himself away, he's not egotistical, he's not arrogant, he's not in need of an ego trip. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.199 No, he's benevolent and he gives himself away. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.920 That's a key starting point before we look at Psalm 19. 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:57.839 Because when you understand that, you understand that every interaction with God begins with the fact that God is sharing himself, which he does not have to do. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.120 He didn't, he was under no obligation to share himself. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.360 It's by his nature he desires to. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.399 And so he makes us to receive himself. 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:13.360 And so what he does first before he made you is he made the world. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.000 He made the sky and the sun. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:26.000 And also before he made you, he made the birds and the plants and the snails, more on them later, and fish. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:28.720 And then he made animals. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.839 And then he made people. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:34.720 Now, why did he make those things? 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:43.120 He made us and all of creation to reveal himself, that he is by nature gracious and life-giving. 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:55.680 And particularly you have to appreciate God's grace is the foundation of this, because there is no way you could learn about God if he didn't reveal himself. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:02.160 And if that's too theoretical for you, let me say it this way: there's no way you could learn about God if he didn't make you. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.560 If you didn't exist, you couldn't learn about him. 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.040 So he made you, but that's not the first thing he did. 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:10.160 First, he made the universe, and then he made you. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:16.879 So both the universe and you were made to reflect the glory of God, to receive the glory of God. 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.399 And you were not there because the universe predates you. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.680 You were not there when he made it. 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:35.360 And so there is no way for you to discover any truth about creation, any truth about the universe, unless he also reveals it to you. 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:50.319 Kind of the humorous aside that Abigail shared earlier about the ranking the 17 things at creation, there's a little bit of humor in that, in that there's a lot of guesswork is going on there. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:08:01.839 You know, some evolutionary theorists say we can get back to, you know, the precise nanosecond, a fraction of an exponential power of a nanosecond after the Big Bang, but we can't go further in that. 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.360 And so we're left with these different atoms and particles and molecules and light waves that are all functioning. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.439 We can't quite get them sorted out. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:16.480 The truth is, if we're ever being honest, the scientific method stops being helpful when you're dealing with the Big Bang. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:21.199 It's not something that can be replicated and observed in a laboratory. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:28.160 You can't make a hypothesis about it, do it, observe it, and extract information and reason to a conclusion. 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:29.759 Because you weren't there. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:37.200 So for you to know anything about creation, it has to be shared with you by the person who was there. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.960 Now, why would God share that kind of information with you? 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.440 Are you on a need-to-know basis with him? 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:45.919 Do you need to know why he created the world? 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.200 Do you need to know what order things happen in the order of the first days? 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:50.240 Do you need to know that? 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:55.279 Well, he shares that information with you because he is gracious. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.720 He's doing it to help us out. 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:04.559 And thus there is the need for education in the world. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:15.679 In that the whole world is declaring the glory of God, the whole world is revealing his gracious nature, the whole world is giving insight into God that you have to be taught because of sin. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.600 You're not born in this world knowing it. 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:18.879 You have to be educated. 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.879 You have to be taught how the world magnifies the glory of God. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.120 You don't just figure it out. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:27.519 You have to be taught. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:40.559 And so the foundation for education is this concept of grace, that God is a revealer by nature and he wants to reveal himself to us, and he does that not because we deserve it, he does that through his grace. 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:54.960 And so if you think that theology or that Bible or the knowledge of God should be confined to Bible class and not to all classes, boy, do I have a psalm for you. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.360 Psalm 19. 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.080 To the choir master, Psalm of David. 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.559 The heavens declare the glory of God. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.200 The sky above proclaims his handiwork. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.600 Day to day pours out speech, night to night reveals knowledge. 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:14.159 There is no speech, nor are there words whose voice is not heard. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.720 Their voice goes out through all the earth. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.759 Their words to the end of the world. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:26.879 In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, like a strong man. 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.519 He runs its course with joy. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.559 Its rising is from the end of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.679 There is nothing hidden from its heat. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.279 This first part of the psalm basically reveals one thing to us. 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.399 This will be the first point of your outline: common grace. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.000 Common grace. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.879 God, because he's gracious, reveals himself to the world, and he does that through two different categories of grace. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:59.679 The first category of grace described in the psalm is common grace that he reveals to the whole world. 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:07.200 It's called common grace because you don't need to be a Christian to experience common grace. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:18.159 But that doesn't mean that non-Christians experience common grace to its full potential or as knowingly as they ought. 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:21.440 In other words, common grace, it cannot save you. 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.879 Nobody gets saved from common grace, but common grace can teach you and it can teach you about God. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.759 And there's nothing greater to learn about. 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:43.840 Education, then, must be rooted in this basic fact that the world is designed to reveal God's glory, and that as you study the world, which is what these first six verses are about, you are connecting everything back to God's glory. 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:49.440 You don't fully understand something, anything in this world, anything in this world. 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:54.240 You don't understand it fully until you understand how it connects back to God's glory. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.399 That is true in literature, it is true in mathematics, it is true in science. 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:06.399 You only fully understand something, or even adequately understand something, when you can connect it back to how it reveals God. 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:10.559 And you can take anything as elementary as basic mathematics. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:12.480 Why does two plus two equal four? 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.000 What does that reveal about God? 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:17.279 And the answer is it reveals that God is a God of order. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.080 Because God made a world where there is stability. 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.000 God made a world where there is reason. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.320 God made a world where there is order. 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:32.799 As a punishment in a psychology class, I'm not sure if it was actually designed as punishment when I was in college, but I took it that way. 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:38.399 I had to read a philosophical book arguing against the nature of mathematics. 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:44.000 Arguing that there is no grounds for mathematics to work. 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:53.759 The whole concept of mathematics is just an arbitrary function, it's all a mirage that humans have just kind of agreed to entertain to make life worth living. 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.759 The guy never did adequately argue against why like airplanes work or things, you know, that require mathematics to actually work in the real world. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:03.919 So I didn't give it a lot of credence. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:12.240 But I filed it away in my mind because it is a fascinating little insight into the world that you don't understand math until you understand how it reveals God's character. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:16.639 And if you reject God's character, then you're going to end up writing a book about how math doesn't work. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:25.279 Math works because God is a God of stability and a God of order and a God who wants to be discovered. 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:27.440 He wants you to learn about his creation. 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.440 He wants you to learn about the world. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:42.320 You only fully understand and appreciate something in literature when you understand how it reflects the complex way that God made people and human nature and even sin and righteousness and wickedness. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:52.320 That you understand how some worldviews are flawed because they're sinful and lead to suffering and destruction, like you read about in Proverbs 2 earlier today. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.519 Because they reflect the character of God. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:11.519 Everything in the world can only be understood when it is reasoned in your mind back to how it reveals God's character and God's nature, because that's why it was made. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:17.840 Failure to connect something you learn back to God's glory is not education. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.279 It's like trying to swim without water. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.440 Can you do that? 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:24.159 No. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.279 It's called floundering. 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:26.879 There's a word for it, floundering. 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:37.039 Trying to drive without a road, trying to fly without an airplane, trying to breathe without air, or to use more biblical analogy, is trying to read without words. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:38.799 You can't read without words. 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.519 In the same way you can't learn something without connecting it back to God's glory. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:45.840 Trying to live without life. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.480 Nothing is understood until it's connected back to God's glory. 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:53.039 This is what Romans 1 means when God made his creation evident to all people. 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.639 And this is where Psalm 19 begins. 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.039 The heavens declare the glory of God. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.960 I mean, that's just a verse that we all know. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.000 We've read it so many times that we lose the gravity of what it's saying. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:10.480 I mean, just pause for a second and marvel at the fact of what David just declares as self-evident. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.480 The heavens declare God's glory. 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:13.840 And what are they doing up there? 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.679 What are the stars doing in the sky? 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:19.120 I mean, they're shining and they're flickering and that kind of cool. 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.840 And you can look at them with telescopes and you can make animals out of them and all that. 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:23.519 That's not their main function. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:30.399 It's not to tell you that you're going to be hardworking and studious yet with a rebellious streak. 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.360 That's not the function of the stars. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.919 The function of the stars is to reveal God's glory. 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:39.519 The heavens are declaring it. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.039 They're talking right now. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.600 That word declare, it's a vocal word in Hebrew. 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.320 The heavens are speaking, and what are they saying? 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:52.399 They're doing the best they can to tell you that God is gracious and kind and holy and the creator. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.039 The sky above proclaims his handiwork. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.279 Now you've moved from declaring to proclaiming. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:58.480 This is a statement of fact. 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.320 It's like an argumentative word. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.120 The heavens are arguing with you, they're shouting down with you. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:15.519 This reminds me of Jeremiah, where Jeremiah, where Yahweh in Jeremiah calls the heavens to bear witness about the futility of sinners on earth and the absurdity of people sinning against God. 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:17.360 Even the stars know it's absurd. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:23.279 Here, David just says the sky is up there proclaiming that God is an incredible creator. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:24.720 That word handiwork. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.360 God weaves things together with beauty. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:34.720 Listen, it's not trite to see a beautiful sunset and go, God is just a beautiful God. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:35.919 God is a majestic God. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.480 What a creator God is that He can make a beautiful sunset. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.639 And we sometimes, I, you know, even in my own heart, I sometimes roll my eyes when I hear that kind of line. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.000 Like, God is a master painter. 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:44.960 I'm like, it's a sunset. 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:46.559 It's cute and all, but. 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:48.480 And then I realize that's my own sin. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:50.240 I mean, what is this guy doing up there? 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.919 It is telling you that God is a masterful artist. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.679 That's what this verse says. 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.440 That God can make a sunset like nobody's business. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.600 This happens every day, verse 2 says. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.119 Day to day pours out speech. 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.720 Listen, if there are stars over your head, you should know the glory of God. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.000 If there is a new day before you, you should know the glory of God. 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.920 Now David has moved on from saying that they're declaring their proclaiming. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.039 Now he's saying they won't shut up. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.160 The days just keep talking. 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.400 Like I heard you yesterday, day. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:27.759 No, it's got new things to say. 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:28.400 It's a new day. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.240 There's new ways to declare God's glory. 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.160 There's new ways to declare God's beauty. 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:33.680 It's a new day. 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:35.680 It's a new day. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.400 Night after night reveals knowledge. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:43.359 If you're tired of hearing about God, you think, well, when the day is over, at least I can go to sleep and not hear about him. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:44.799 Oh no, my friends. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.279 The night is talking to you. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.359 The night reveals God's power. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.519 This goes all the way back to Genesis 1, where he divides the day and the night. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:57.599 He divides the light and the darkness, the dry ground from the waters. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:04.079 He splits things, he makes divisions there, and both sides of the division declare his glory. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:06.799 Constantly talking. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:17.599 It's telling you that God, and this is everything in the world is telling you that God is precious, that God is incredible, that he can do things that you cannot imagine. 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:27.039 I was reading a couple weeks ago in Rwanda, there's something called a parasitic snail. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.559 There's a complex word for it, a parasite that takes over a snail's body. 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:34.240 The English word, all the English speakers just call it a zombie snail. 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:36.079 A zombie snail. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.400 And what happens is there's a parasite that moves into the snail. 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.119 This parasite can only live inside of a snail. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:44.720 Only live inside of a snail. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.279 But it can only reproduce inside of a bird. 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:53.119 And the problem is that the birds it reproduces inside of don't eat the snails that it lives inside of. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.599 Do you see this age-old snail dilemma? 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:18.240 So this parasite invades a snail's body, worms its way up to the, you know, I don't know what that word is, the antennas of the snail, then engorge themselves on the snail and turn this pulsating, like hippie-ish 60s are calling kind of color. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.519 And it looks like a caterpillar that's tide-eyed in the snail's antenna. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:30.720 And the bird that this parasite reproduces inside of doesn't eat snails bee, nor does he tide-eyed caterpillars. 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.440 And so it eats the snail. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:40.880 And the parasite reproduces in the bird's intestines and drops out of the bird and is eaten by new snails on the ground. 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:43.200 The cycle of a snail's life, right there. 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:47.359 What in the world does that teach you? 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:50.160 I don't know. 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.359 I'm open to suggestions. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.640 It's it's pretty cool though. 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:06.960 For starters, it teaches you the absurdity of evolution because that's the kind of thing that has to, you know, co-locate, co-evolve involving three different species at the same time, and any of them gets it wrong, it all goes wrong. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.519 It teaches you that God is just incredible in his design. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.200 Incredible. 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:15.440 Just a basic thing. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.640 You're supposed to look at the zombie snail and go, wow. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:19.519 Wow. 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:20.640 Who comes up with this? 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.000 God comes up with this. 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:23.119 God comes up with this. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:24.400 What does something teach you about God? 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:25.599 What does it teach you about sin? 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.200 What does it teach you about the beauty of the world? 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:30.640 I'll tell you the days after days are talking about this kind of stuff. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:36.000 Verse three, there is no speech, nor are there words whose voice is not heard. 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:42.000 This is a complicated thing to translate in Hebrew, and I like the way the ESV did it because it just says at the beginning of it, there's a low in front of it. 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:42.799 No in Hebrew. 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:44.079 There's no speech, no words. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:49.440 Earlier it said there's speech and speech and words and words, and now it just says there actually is no speech. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.400 They're not using actual words, is the point. 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:57.680 But their voice goes everywhere. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.279 If the star is above your head, you can hear this. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:04.880 If the sun is on your horizon, you can hear this. 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.680 If you have a snail in your garden, you can hear this. 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:10.319 It's constantly talking to you. 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.960 And it's not even using actual words, but their voice is heard everywhere. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:20.160 In fact, verse 4 says, their voice goes to the very ends of the earth. 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:22.079 The very ends of the earth. 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.000 You can't get away from this. 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:29.680 Jesus says, God shows his love for the world by causing the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.599 If rain falls on you, you know God loves you. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.920 Because he didn't need to make the world that way. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:42.480 He didn't need to make the world so it rains, so the water, the hydrological cycle where the river flows to the ocean and evaporates to the clouds, and then rain falls down on you. 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:43.759 And what are you supposed to learn about that? 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:46.720 That God provides for you is what you learn. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:57.839 If you've been in a place that doesn't have running water, doesn't have streams, you see families that dig wells, you see families that dig water, have to carry water canisters for miles. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.759 You know what God does? 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.039 He causes it to rain. 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:02.079 How kind of him. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:03.200 He did not need to do that. 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:04.880 And it was not always that way, by the way. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:06.880 It was not raining before the flood. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:12.000 It's a little thing that God put in the world to make the world livable, to make rainbows awesome. 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.119 Totally cool. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:15.359 All that knit together for you. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:17.839 This is David's point. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.160 It's voice is everywhere. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.519 Physics works because God wants the world to be discovered. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.960 And God wants the world to be discovered so that you learn more about Him. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:31.440 You don't understand farming until you understand that God made a world with seasons in it. 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:35.279 You don't understand farming until you understand the food is supposed to be good. 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:36.240 Right? 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.839 God made a world with some good food in it. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:42.720 And you did not evolve to appreciate good food. 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:44.480 It's just a gift from God. 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.920 You know, fruit pre-exists you. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.480 How great is that that God made a world with orange juice. 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:54.400 It's really neat. 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:55.279 That it tastes good. 00:22:55.440 --> 00:23:08.400 You think all that goes into orange juice, like those capsules that fill up with water, and through the photosynthesis, they become sweets and they take a skin on the outside so it falls off the tree and doesn't get damaged, and you can squeeze it and you can drink it and you go, mmm, orange juice. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:10.079 Isn't God kind? 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:13.839 There is no evolutionary reason for that to work. 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:15.440 It just is. 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:17.839 God is so kind. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:19.519 The world, the whole world is like that. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:22.000 Their voice to the end of the world, it says. 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.640 Verse 4, through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:31.440 In them, speaking of the world, he has set a tent for the sun. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:37.839 So now there's this image of us being like we live in a big tent and the sun going by in the sky. 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.119 The sun runs across the sky, it says in verse 5. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.279 It comes out like a bridegroom leaving his bridal chamber. 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:46.400 He's happy. 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:47.599 He's like a strongman. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.119 He's going to run his course with joy. 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:50.799 He's running up the stairs. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:52.480 He's carrying his new bride with him. 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:53.680 He's excited. 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:54.640 He's happy. 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.359 Have you ever seen a groom on his wedding day be sad? 00:23:57.519 --> 00:23:58.559 I hope not. 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.720 You know, the door opens and there's the bride coming down the aisle. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.400 And if you look up and the groom's just like, I don't know. 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:12.160 I just don't, I don't know. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:14.000 Ah. 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:16.880 Run then, bride. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.960 The groom is happy, and that's the that's why David uses this analogy. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:25.039 So happy. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:31.039 I was at a wedding recently where the groom was fresh out of the hospital. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.880 He had to get sprung out of the ER to get to the wedding. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:43.440 He's there ripping off his hospital band, filling out the IV thing, and the bride opens the door, and you see the smile. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.920 That's the way God made the world. 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:47.359 How cool is that? 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.599 And this is the analogy for the sun in the sky. 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:55.200 Do you think the sun is out there reluctantly revealing the glory of God? 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.079 Oh no. 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.079 Do you think the stars are upset that they're advertising God's glory to the world? 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:01.200 No way. 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.119 They're stoked about it. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.160 The sun is like a bridegroom prancing through the sky. 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:07.440 He's so happy. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.640 Like a strong man, he runs his course with joy. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.200 He's not limping across the finish line here. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:16.000 The sun has got many more miles left in him. 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:18.400 And he does it joyfully. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.039 Do you understand how much of the world is meant to be discovered? 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:30.160 I've mentioned this before, but you know that the sun is 400 times larger than the moon. 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:36.960 The moon happens to be 400 times closer to us than the sun. 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:38.799 Happens to be. 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:41.119 There's no evolutionary reason for that. 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.599 It's not like the moon evolved to be exactly proportionate to the sun in the distance from the earth. 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:47.359 It just is that way exactly. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.200 Do you know what we learn from that? 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:51.759 Just that little coincidental fact. 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.079 I mean, the moon could be bigger, there's bigger moons. 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:56.160 The sun could be bigger, there's bigger suns. 00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:59.599 Our earth could be further away or closer, there's planets further away and closer. 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:00.799 No, everything is perfect. 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:06.720 So that we learn that the earth is round because of a solar eclipse, perfect solar eclipse, where it's blocked out perfectly by the moon. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.279 We learn the sun has a cornea in it. 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:14.720 We learned the makeup of the sun that allows us to see the light rays that wouldn't be a corona. 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.319 We can see the light rays that wouldn't otherwise be visible. 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:25.680 We learn that Einstein's theory of relativity works because light bends around the moon from the eclipse. 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:34.240 All of the stuff we learn from a corona to a light bending to relativity to all of these things. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.119 Why? 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.799 Because God wants us to discover him. 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:50.400 Your eyes can see the light spectrum that the sun produces and the atmosphere lets into the earth. 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:53.119 There's no reason for that. 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:54.319 There's no reason for that. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:27:01.519 It's not like your eyes could have evolved to see another light spectrum, and it's not like the light that the sun lets off happens to be what eyes would later on evolve to see. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.839 It doesn't work that way. 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:12.240 But God does that so that you can see the world and see the sun and learn science. 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.039 He wants to be discovered. 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.000 Verse 6 is rising is from the heaven, speaking of the sun. 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:20.160 It's circuit to the end of them. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:25.680