When He Speaks To Me

We’re going to do two Bible studies in one tonight. It is always interesting because when you’re speaking to children all the way up to retired people it is next to impossible to have one subject that always covers everything. So tonight, I had the rest of last week’s lesson to cover and then we have a Psalm, so we are kind of going to do both tonight. We’ll be out on time, but it’ll be a Psalm and then we’ve got some tips on childrearing.

For those of you that have grandchildren, children, or you know a kid, or you have a kid that you saw down the street, or you’ve seen a picture of a kid, this message is for you. And so it’ll be something for all of us. So, let’s look if you would, please, at Psalms chapter 19. Psalm 19, and that’s where we’ll start, I think it’s there in the Bible study sheet. And we’ve got bunch of little blanks, and we’ll fill them out quickly. I’ll pray and then we’ll just get right in and this is such a great Psalm. It’s “to the chief musician,” and we do know the author of this one, humanly speaking. It’s David.

Let’s pray. Father, bless this time. Thank You for the Word of God. Give us something that would help us practically in our lives and then also in our area of worship and how we are adored and how we view You. So, please help us now. Help our eyes to be open, our hearts to be tender. People have rushed straight from work. Others have come straight from out of town. A lot of things on our mind. So, I pray You would feed us and help us tonight. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Look at how this starts off. Psalm 19. I would call this “When God Speaks to Me.” That’s what this psalm is—how or when God speaks to me. God wants us to know Him. God wants us to know what He’s like. And so that’s why this Psalm is in the Word of God. Notice, he says in Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

“Heavens”? What would he be talking about? He’s not saying there’re seven layers of Heaven like the Mormons teach. 77 ranks of Heaven. But what he’s saying here is the heavens—that means beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. He’s talking about the stars, the planets, the constellations, the solar systems. He’s saying at night they declare the glory of God. So, they are speaking. Those stars are speaking. From what I hear, from what science is able to measure, the stars are actually making sounds now. I don’t know if it’s in English or Spanish. I don’t know what sounds they are. But it’s simply saying they are speaking to people who have never heard the Gospel.

Sometimes we hear deepest about darkest Africa, or in the Himalayas, or out in the jungle somewhere. How do they know about God? The heavens declare at night. When the settlers were traveling across the country and settling America, when they camped out at night and they had a little of fire and they put their head on a pillow and looked up the heavens. The heavens declared. What do they declare? They declare the power of God.

He must be powerful for those planets just to hang on nothing. He must be powerful to put those rings around Saturn and put the lunar moons around different planets. He must be powerful just to speak and it all happens and it just keeps going and they don’t collide and they keep their proper distances. He’s a big God. So, it declares His power. It declares his creativity. Every star is at a different brightness, a different size. Some are many times bigger than our sun. And just so that’s what he’s talking about.

He says the firmament declares His handiwork. The firmament would refer to the sky, the blue sky, the clouds. You ever just maybe lay on the ground and look up and say, “That cloud kind of looks like an elephant. You see this cloud—it kind of looks like someone I know.” It’s saying that even below the stars, God is speaking from the sunsets to the sunrise, to the rainbow, to the seasons, to that wind blowing, to that cloud cover, to the different types of…” He’s speaking. He’s speaking, “I am in charge. I am big. I am bigger than your problems. I care about you.” The birds don’t look up and say, “What a beautiful sunrise.” Only humans notice these things, and God did all that for us. He could have made it in black and white. He made different colors. Why? I think He’s thinking, “My kids will enjoy that. I think they’ll love these different colors.”

It was, T. Dewitt Talmadge who said what God’s favorite color was. I thought, “What? What do you mean? God has a favorite color?” He said His favorite color is green. I’m reading, I’m saying what in the world? He said because from space, planet Earth has more green than any other color. I said, “Okay, maybe you’re right.” I don’t know. Let’s keep going here. So then, he’s talking about how God is speaking.

Now in your notes there, the heavens speak generally. No one can get saved by just looking up at the clouds. No one gets saved by just looking at the stars and saying, “God must love me. He must have sent His Son to die for me.” It doesn’t happen that way. It’s general. He is speaking generally.

But look down in verse number two. Psalm 19:2–3 “Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3. There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard.” So, God is speaking through His creation. Verse 4: Psalm 19:4 “Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.” So, it is just all speaking. But nature is not enough to get us saved. There’s got to be specific speaking. God has to speak specifically. And then that’s where His Word comes in. His Word is Him speaking specifically. Given us all the details of his love and salvation.