SUNDAY SERMON - Why The Wicked Hate Your Children - Psalm 8
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Psalms 8:8-9 In loving you, O God, we are worthy of your grace, because you have revealed to us your love for us through Christ Jesus, and we cannot help but respond with love for you. But the question is: How do we love you?
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One final time, our text for this morning is Psalm chapter 8.
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O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
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above the heavens out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established strength because of
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your foes to still the enemy and the avenger when I look at your heavens the work of your fingers
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the moon and the stars which you have set in place what is man that you are mindful of him
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and the son of man that you should care for him yet you have made him a little lower than the
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heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works
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of your hands and have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen and also the beast of
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the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the
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seas. Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. This is the word of the Lord.
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All right, please be seated and join me as I pray.
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to be entitled or deserving of a revelation of your truth.
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the grace of your special revelation to your people.
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We pray, God, that you would empower us by your spirit,
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the exposition of your word, that your people might arrive at a greater, more faithful, more accurate
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understanding of who you are, of what you've done, what it is that you require from us as a proper
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and obedient response. Father, we pray that we would see who you are and your work, what you
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have done, what you have accomplished, your work in creation, that you are the universal creator
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of all mankind, even more so your work in redemption, that you are the savior of your
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elect people who you have given the gift of faith to trust in the person and the finished work of
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your son, Jesus Christ. Father, we pray that we would indeed respond to that grace rightly,
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properly. We love, according to 1 John 4, 19, because you first loved us. But in our love,
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a response, no man initiates. No man cries out to God in and of himself, autonomously saying,
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who persistently hunts down and seeks for the souls of lost men.
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And God, you have initiated, you have revealed to us
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We now cannot help but respond with love for you.
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You've loved us, so we respond with love for you.
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And so we are grateful that you have answered this question in many ways and in many texts.
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But perhaps most clearly through the words of your son, Jesus Christ,
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in the gospel narratives when he says, those who love me will obey me.
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that we should love you with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength
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In loving you, we seek to have no other gods before you.
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In loving you, we are diligent to not make any graven images or idols.
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In loving you, we are diligent to esteem and honor your name and to not take it in vain.
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In loving you, we are dedicated and diligent by your grace to remember a one day in seven
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and to keep it holy as a day of rest and worship.
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But in loving our neighbor, we are diligent to honor our father and mother
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that you have providentially given us here in this life on this earth.
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And all these things, Lord, we seek ultimately to love you and to love people.
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Loving you and loving people is not left up to our own individual creative license and freedom.
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And help us to submit to your word, your precepts, what you have prescribed.
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Help us to stick to the script and to trust that you know better than we do.
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We pray all these things that you might be glorified in all the earth.
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But we also pray these things for the good of those people that you're saving in our city and across the globe.
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And we pray these things with confidence, but we pray them in Jesus name. Amen.
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All right, by way of introduction in your sermon notes, I've written this morning the following.
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Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, who died in 1966, whose driving principles were explicitly racist.
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In her book, Women and the New Race, she wrote, quote,
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the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
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She also said in her book, The Pivot of Civilization, that the so-called, quote, inferior races were in fact human weeds and a menace to civilization.
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She was part of the eugenics movement inspired by Thomas Malthus that purged the human race of defectives, delinquents, and dependents through calculated birth control, including abortion.
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This past January 22nd, 2021, the United States celebrated 48 years of legalized abortion for any reason in all 50 states.
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In these last 48 years, there have been an estimated 60 million abortions.
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An estimated 21 million of these abortions, which constitutes approximately one-third of all abortions, have occurred within the black population.
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The current total population of the United States is approximately 330 million people.
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The current living black population makes up approximately 13% of that, approximately 44 million people.
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So in the last 48 years, roughly half of the current living black population in our nation was legally murdered in their mother's womb.
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43 or 44 million living black people in our nation today and yet we have 21 million murdered
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over the last 50 years minus two so in the last 48 years we've seen atrocious crimes and sins
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committed in our nation and see contrary to what some may say in our current culture the most
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dangerous environment for a black man is not the streets of Chicago or the side of the road while
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being pulled over by a police officer, but rather it is in their own mother's womb. All of these
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statistics do not even begin to account for the number of natural miscarriages and early abortions
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caused by several different types of birth control, as well as IVF, in vitro fertilization.
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Since the fall of mankind, people have always taken what God made good and perverted it into something evil.
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The womb is perhaps one of the most tragic examples of this.
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What God designed to be one of the safest places here on earth.
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A place of nurturing, a place of security, a place of love has been perverted and twisted into one of the most dangerous environments in our culture today.
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My prayer, or my goal this morning, is to profoundly influence our lives through the preaching of God's word for the sake of the unborn.
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And this vision comes from Psalm chapter 8, which clearly teaches that the majesty of God is worthy of our complete and eternal worship and allegiance.
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And this majesty is expressly manifest here on earth in the glory of God's supreme creation, that is, human beings,
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while treating the supreme creation with contempt.
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To claim to glorify the majesty and supremacy of God
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while treating His chief earthly creation with contempt,
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You cannot claim to love and cherish your fellow man.
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Jesus said that the greatest commandment of the Lord our God
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And the second greatest commandment is like it, Jesus says, that we love our neighbor as ourselves.
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Those who are standing by ask Jesus, who is our neighbor?
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I've said it before, but again, the Bible clearly teaches the creatorhood of mankind.
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And the book likewise teaches the universal neighborhood, if you will, of humanity.
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That every single human being on this planet, the tall and the small, like Dr. Seuss would have said with the Who's and Whoville,
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even those who are so small that they're inside of their mother's womb, just a few weeks old,
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every single human being the tall the small the old and the young the black and the white
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they are all our neighbor so the bible is the universal creatorhood of god god is the creator
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of all mankind and the universal neighborhood of humanity of mankind everyone is our neighbor
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the bible is only exclusive when it begins to speak of salvation not common grace god's
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universal creatorhood and the fact that the Psalms say he has compassion in his common grace on all
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he has made right there is a sense in which God is compassionate even towards the unregenerate
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even towards the the unbeliever he causes it to rain on both the wicked and the righteous
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Ecclesiastes says and so God has compassion on all he has made as a creator he is a compassionate
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and merciful creator in his common grace God has compassion towards all mankind without exception
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because he is the creator of all mankind and he is a benevolent creator he is a compassionate
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creator and all mankind likewise as I've already said are neighbors of one another to get exclusive
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when it speaks special grace when the bible moves from creation to salvation from creation to
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redemption then the bible begins to speak in more specific terms god is not as i think in our
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culture and sadly even in the church today god is not a universal father the father of those
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who have been saved by grace alone through faith alone in the lord jesus christ alone
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if god was a universal father if people were physically born
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in the world, already with the same children of God, you might hear often in our culture,
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no we're not. If we all begin this life as children of God, then there would be no purpose
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of the doctrine. I was adopted twice, once by God in salvation, by grace, by my parents
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I don't think you understand how adoption works.
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See, in adoption, I never gained my parents' blood,
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but I did gain something that we see also a spiritual principle,
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But the beautiful thing about spiritual adoption is that it's even greater than that.
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See what God has for us that we should be named, called the children of God.
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And yet without even taking a breath, the very next phrase is this,
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meaning that when God names someone it changes ontologically their nature
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that when God gives to someone his name it changes not only what they're called
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named the children of God and in being named the children of God by God himself
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God named us his children, and so we became his children.
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People are not naturally born into this world as children of God.
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In order for that to take place, a man must be born again.
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birth a spiritual birth a supernatural birth where god adopts us as his children
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and so the bible clearly teaches in terms and categories theological categories
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of special grace in terms of redemption salvation he is not a universal father
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live in this mass of humanity in a universal brotherhood or sisterhood see when God adopts
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us as his children two things take place at least one we become children of God but secondly we also
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become brothers and sisters of one another we not only gain God as a father but we also gain
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siblings spiritual siblings so the bible teaches not universal but a specific a special fatherhood
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of god for his people and a specific particularized special brotherhood among the people of god
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that's but over here we have common grace categories that god is the universal creator
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not universal father but universal creator and a universal neighborhood so at the level of god
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universal creator common grace at the level of god particular father special grace at the level
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of man we have universal neighborhood common grace at the level of man once more within
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And the second greatest commandment, which is like, it extends.
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It's an extension of the greatest commandment, to love the Lord our God.
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The second greatest commandment, which is like it, is to love our neighbor.
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And so if those who profess to be followers of the Lord Jesus Christ do not love, in biblical terms, the unborn neighbor, then they are not fulfilling the second greatest commandment.
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And because the second greatest commandment is like the first greatest commandment, to love God, we can say that by virtue of disobedience to the second greatest commandment, we are disobeying the first as well.
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that one of the spiritual tests of genuine conversion,
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one of the spiritual tests of authentic love for God
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1 John even says that if someone claims to love God,
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and christians cannot be complacent in our call and command to love all of our neighbors
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by neglecting and failing to love our neighbor we fail to love the lord our god all this is at the
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heart of the law of god at the heart of what it means to be obedient to god and all we've seen
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this morning to obey God, he is to love God. It is to love God. And if we do not obey his commands,
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then what we are proving is to truly love him. And if we truly love him, according to 1 John 4.19,
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the reverse logic would be if we don't love God, it's probably because he's never loved us.
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See, we often reverse this logical and biblical progression of love.
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And in obeying God, you may prove, if you're obedient enough, prove to God that you love him, step two.
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And if you prove by your obedience you love God, then God in return may love you.
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The Bible teaches that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Very rarely will anyone die for a good man, a righteous man.
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Though possibly for a good man, someone might dare to die.
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but Christ showed his love for us in this, that even while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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And so God first loved us, not because we were looking for him, but he loved us at our worst
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point. In the climax of our depravity and rebellion against him, Jesus died for his enemies.
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so so the logical and biblical progression of love and salvation is not we obey god that proves
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we love god if we prove we love god god in return will love us no it's god first loved us at our
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worst point in not our obedience but our rebellion against him and because god has loved us like this
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we cannot help but respond and love him in return and if we love him in return
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we cannot help but obey see because when you love someone part of loving someone is trusting them
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if we have truly seen God's love for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ we cannot help but love
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him in return and if we love him we trust him and if we trust him we'll do what he says
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because we know that he has not only his eternal glory in mind which is preeminent
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and so we are commanded to love God and the second greatest commandment is like it that we should love
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our neighbor as ourself. Who is our neighbor? All of humanity. Everyone who bears the image
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of God, including the child in the womb. Continuing in your notes, beginning to exposit verse 1
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and 9, we'll see one major theme of our text, the global majesty of God. I've written the
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following psalm chapter 8 begins and ends with the statement oh lord our lord how majestic is thy
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name in all the earth everything else in this psalm is meant to serve this statement our god's
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name is majestic in all the lord how majestic is thy name in all the earth the majesty of the name
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of God, the glory of our God is not sequestered to one small region of the globe. He is not
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limited in his known glory to the city of Jerusalem. God is not merely known and famed
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and glorified in one region as opposed to the other. Our Lord, our Lord, how majestic
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In part, not exclusively, but in part because the glory of God is globally seen, manifestly, revealed, or you might say reflected.
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In the beginning, in the God that was given to Adam and Eve, multiply and to exercise, to subdue dominion over what?
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In Genesis, the judgment of God that came down, in part, it was because of man's arrogance that he thought he could ascend to the heights of God, his majesty and glory, by building a tower.
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Well, but also part of what God was judging man for in Genesis chapter 11, the Tower of Babel, was that man was refusing to obey one of the first commands that God gave to the creatures to multiply and fill the earth.
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Man said, let us not spread out across the earth, but let us stay here.
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let us stay here together because together isolated in this this area we might be able to
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do something great we might be able genesis 11 says the narrative to make a name for ourselves
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see the the cultural mandate to be fruitful multiply and fill the earth was so that man
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as god's image-bearing creatures tasked and endowed with the ability to reflect his glory
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In Genesis chapter 11, we see the great perversion,
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the great twisting, the great reversal of that.
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That man said, instead of spreading ourselves out
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over the face of the earth to make a name for God,
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we'll stay together and make a name for ourselves.
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He says, as tall as the Tower of Babel may have been,
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because Genesis 11 tells us that God had to come down
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He confuses their languages and sends them out by force
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to be fruitful and to multiply and to fill the earth.
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That the man who God would cover the whole earth
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the glory and majesty of God is covering the whole earth.
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Because we reflect, as image bearers, His glory, His majesty.
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But even more so, God is accomplishing this in terms of his special grace.
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Not merely through the cultural mandate, but even more so, not as a substitute,
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but alongside it, in addition, through the Great Commission.
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no longer just mankind, this universal neighborhood,
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subtraction by addition he was always divine but added to himself a second nature
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flesh this god the son of god he he condescended he descended but the one who descended in his
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incarnation he has ascended to the highest place to the right hand of god where he is now
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the ruling and reigning and he bears a rod of iron the rod the scepter of righteousness
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to the increase of his government there will be no end he is ruling and reigning and even now
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systematically one by one eternal decrees of god his enemies are being made a footstool for his
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feet and the last of these enemies that he will deal the death blow to his death itself
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this is christ and he has promised to build his church to advance his kingdom notice isaiah says
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the increase of his kingdom the increase of his government will know no end it is increasing even
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now as a mustard seed slowly becomes a great tree that's branches cover the and all the beasts of
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the field find refuge and shade and the birds of the air make their nests as a mustard seed that
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starts small grows slowly eventually becomes significant or as leaven a little bit of leaven
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over time is gradually worked into the whole batch of so is the kingdom of heaven and christ
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is the king he is advancing his kingdom and he is doing this through the church in special grace
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terms by the great commission as we go and make disciples of all nations baptizing them into the
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name of the triune god and teaching them to be obedient to all of christ's commands and yet in
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our text today we see that he is also doing this in common not merely through the great commission
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which is preeminent it's primary it's foremost but also through the cultural mandate that as
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human beings, God in his sovereignty, in his providence, even among the unregenerate, even among
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the pagan, God is working and willing in such a way orchestrating that his image-bearing creatures
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would be fruitful, and that they would multiply, and that they would disperse and spread out over
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the face of the whole earth, and that by virtue of his image-bearing creatures, mankind growing,
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increasing, multiplying, and filling the earth, his majesty would be declared and seen in all
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the earth. We see this confirmed even furthermore in Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1 says that
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the majesty of God, the supremacy of God, the glory of God is clearly seen even to the unbeliever.
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Creation itself testifies to at least two attributes of our triune God,
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This is seen by all people, even the unbeliever, by virtue of what God has made,
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by virtue of his physical, material, earthly creation.
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And the pinnacle of this earthly creation that displays his majesty, his divine power and eternal glory the clearest is what?
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In other words, what we see in Psalm chapter 8 is this.
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even for the pagan, according to Romans chapter 1
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Wherever a human being made in the image of God can be found
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rich, poor, wherever a human being can be found
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even among those who are lying and suppressing the truth and deeds of unrighteousness.
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Even those who don't want to see the glory of God.
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They cannot help but see it when they see you and me.
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It has been clearly displayed in all of creation,
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the majesty of God while treating creation with contempt.
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When this text speaks to the glory and dignity of humanity,
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Or the son of man that God should care for him, be benevolent towards him?
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When the Bible, when our text today speaks of that dignity of image-bearing creatures,
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that intrinsic and inherent dignity of mankind, notice,
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it refuses to discriminate between color, gender, or age that creation might be.
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The implicit implication, rather, from this text is clear.
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Good preaching has application, not just exegesis, not just interpretation, application.
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You cannot assist the elderly human being in their attempts at suicide
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and glorify the majesty of God at the same time.
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and suck them out of their mother's womb with a vacuum cleaner
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and glorify the majesty of God at the same time.
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and glorify the majesty of God at the same time.
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And you cannot unjustly convict the white police officer
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and glorify the majesty of God at the same time.
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Now, the way we treat our neighbor, the way we love our neighbor reflects the way we glorify, love, and honor our God.
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See, Psalm chapter 8, it doesn't give any contingencies, no conditions, no hindrances, no pauses, no fine print.
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Psalm chapter 8 doesn't say that the majesty and glory of God can be seen
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in the intrinsic and inherent dignity of his image-bearing creatures, dot, dot, dot,
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if or once they reach a certain age, or if they have a certain melanin pigment in their skin,
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or if they achieve a certain economic status, or, no.
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the majesty and glory of God is seen clearly revealed by what he has made and chiefly in
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the pinnacle of his creation namely his image bearing creatures at whatever stage of life
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or whatever category whatever whatever economic class whatever ethnicity they might be wherever
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a human being is found the glory and majesty of God is seen. Romans chapter 1 verse 18 through 25
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we've already dealt with it but just for us to to hear it from the text the word of God
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verbatim says this for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
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who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to them
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Right now, as some of you are looking at your notes,
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can say, I clearly manifest, revealed, showed this picture on my phone. But many of you would,
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with a clear conscience, have the excuse to say, but I didn't perceive it. I didn't see it.
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But see, notice Romans chapter one, it doesn't just say that these things have been clearly
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revealed, clearly shown. They've been clearly perceived. So that what? Well, the call of
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Romans chapter 1 is this, so that all men are without an apologetic, an excuse.
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Verse 21, picking back up, although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,
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but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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Therefore, God gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie.
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The lie that the serpent said to Eve in the garden, you can be like God.
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See, both Psalm chapter eight and Romans one here,
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even the unbeliever is ultimately standing condemned a dead man walking in this life
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underneath the just condemnation of God because because God has displayed himself
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by what he has made chief in all of creation but chiefly in the creation of his image buried
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creatures and not only has God displayed this but they have in fact perceived this this is
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the doctrine of natural revelation or general revelation and from natural revelation that
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doctrine we have natural law that on the hearts of men we have the moral law of god even the
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unbeliever knows that murder is wrong why because they perceive that there is a god in heaven who
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will judge both the quick and the dead and that he is righteous and holy and worthy of our obedience
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and our worship they know this because of what god has made and they know this because they
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themselves were made in the image of God with a moral compass, with a conscience. They are sinning
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against their own conscience. The law of God, brothers and sisters, know this. The law of God
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did not come in, it was not merely introduced into humanity, into human history at Mount Sinai.
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This is the first time that the law of God was written on tablets of stone, but the law of God
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is eternal as God himself is eternal. The law of God has always been, there has always been a moral
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law of God as eternal as the counsels of eternity, the mind of God, as long as the mind of our
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triune God has existed, so his law has existed. And long before Mount Sinai, long before tablets
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of stone, long before the prophet Moses, the law of God, although it was not yet written on tablets
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of stone, it was perceived in the heart of man. It was. This is natural law stemming from natural
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revelation. People made in the image of God have a conscience. They know the difference between
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right and wrong. But notice what's interesting is this, that the law of God, because of natural
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revelation and natural law, every single human being from the beginning of human history,
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starting with Adam and Eve, had the law of God written on their hearts. But through the fall of
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man, as sin was introduced, as the image of God was then not utterly lost, but tarnished,
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a vestige of the image of God still remains, but as the image of God was tarnished by sin,
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the law of God written on the hearts of man was still there, so that Romans 1 rings true,
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it was still there, but the conscience became weaker. The law of God became, we could argue,
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still there and still clear enough to condemn man and his sin if he does not turn in faith
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to Jesus Christ. So still clear enough on the hearts of men, even unregenerate men,
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clear enough to justify God when he judges, but blurred because of sin. And so what we see is
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this, the law of God comes to the hearts of men in the beginning of creation through sin. The image
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of God is tarnished and the law of God is in a sense blurred, not entirely, but in a sense blurred.
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Then the law of God comes, not on tablets of human hearts, as it did in the very beginning, but now on tablets of stone.
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And then with the new covenant, the law of God comes back to the tablet of the heart, but now with clarity.
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Now ringing loud and clear, so that the unbeliever is without excuse, and the Christian far more.
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This is what Hebrews, the author speaks of when he says
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if they will be justly punished, justly condemned,
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how much even more those who do not obey the gospel.
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So both Psalm 8 and Romans chapter 1, they are clear.
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God's general revelation, natural revelation through creation
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leaves all people, unbeliever and believer alike,
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God's creation especially his creation of mankind speaks not only to his existence but also his
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majesty and glory that he is worthy of obedience and worship in the same way that a person cannot
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worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating God's supreme earthly creation with
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contempt a person also cannot worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating God's supreme
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creation with idolatrous affection see romans 1 it introduces a another category the psalm 8 says
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you you cannot show contempt for god's image bearing creatures you cannot show contempt for
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your neighbor and claim to be loving god at the very same time romans 1 says you also cannot with
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idolatrous affection worship your name to worship god at the same time you cannot dismiss your
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neighbor in complacency in apathy in absence of affection you cannot be silent evil persists
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because good men do nothing and even further evil persists because good men say nothing
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you cannot be complicit you cannot be complacent you cannot neglect to love your neighbor
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and glorify the supreme majesty of God at the same time and you cannot exalt in an idolatrous
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fashion have idolatrous affection for your neighbor and claim to worship and magnify
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the glory of God at the same time over under both jail we were talking about that last night
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parks and recreation uh there's there's a episode where um there's someone from venezuela and he's
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you know of course being comical when he says you know if you overcook fish right away in venezuela
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jail if you undercook fish believe it or not jail overcook undercook all right so same same kind of
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thing using some comedy as as an illustration same thing if you undervalue the dignity of man
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if you idolatrously overvalue the dignity of man.
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and worshiping the creation instead of the creator himself
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you cannot esteem and glorify the majesty of God.
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There's no discrimination in our text that says one portion of humanity reflects the glory of God and another portion does not.
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Our text does not say that one ethnicity reflects the glory of God and another one doesn't.
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Our text doesn't say that the rich reflect the glory of God and the poor do not.
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Our text doesn't say that men do in a way that women don't.
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But the closest our text gets to discrimination, if you will, is verse 2.
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Now, it's not discrimination, as I've already labored to say.
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It's not discrimination in the sense of saying this portion reflects the glory and majesty of God, and other portions don't.
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But what it does seem to imply is that perhaps this portion of humanity, if anything,
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If there's any specific portion of the mass of humanity that does not exclusively reflect the glory and majesty of God, but perhaps reflects the glory and majesty of God the clearest, it's the infant.
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Out of the mouth of babes and infants you have established strength because of your foes.
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To still, that is to silence, to shut the mouths of the enemy and the avenger.
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This verse says that God has adversaries and enemies.
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A lot of times this kind of preaching, this kind of doctrine, this kind of Christianity and theology,
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He says, you know, if you only sing hymns in the church, one of the problems that you'll experience is this.
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When you preach the word of God, there is militant language.
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It inspires and charges Christians to be courageous and to fight.
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And if you only sing hymns, you don't really prepare the people for the sermon.
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for the preaching and Doug says this he says because hymn writers weren't fighters with the
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exception of maybe a couple Martin Luther being one of them on the run for his life
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a mighty fortress is our God very few hymns have that kind of language most of the hymns are are
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sweet they're beautiful they're biblical they have rich theology but there's there's a whole
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theological category, if you will, that tends to be missing.
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as the battering ram. That's what Christ is saying. I will build my church.
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It will advance. It will increase. And the gates of hell will not prevail against
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it. Remember, the gates, I've said it before, the gates are
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my church. He doesn't say, I will sustain my church and the offensive weapons of hell won't
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prevail, right? That would be a picture. If we were to imagine, that would be a picture of the church
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on the ropes. But Jesus is in the corner, encouraging us, giving us tips along the way.
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And he said, you're going to make it all 10 rounds. That's not what Jesus says. He doesn't
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say, I will sustain my church and hell's blows ultimately won't knock the church all the way
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down. No, he says, I will build my church. Hell, its gates, its defense. Hell is on the ropes,
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and the church is the battering of Christ, the king, that's going to ultimately break
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the gates of hell down. Now, that kind of language is foreign to us. And again, going back to Doug
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Wilson, part of the reason why is because we sing hymns as we worship the Lord through song,
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or in many churches today, we don't even sing hymns.
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We sing, you know, basically any kind of pop song
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on the radio that doesn't have curse words in it.
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by warriors, by fighters, by soldiers, by generals.
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of course, the biggest advocacy for singing the Psalms
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is that you're singing the Holy Spirit-inspired songbook for worship.
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that were inspired by the third member of the Trinity.
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But in the secondary sense, in terms of their human authorship, right?
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Because inspiration of the Holy Spirit does not eradicate human authorship.
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Writings of Paul, although fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, differ from Peter.
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You can see the human author, his personality, those aspects coming out in the text,
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You see the Holy Spirit, his hand, his inspiration, in the sense that they're infallible and eternal and immutable.
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David the man after God's own heart, the repenter.
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But you also see David, the conquering king, the warrior, the one who, in one-on-one combat, single-handedly slayed a giant.
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you have established strength because of your foes
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I mean, there's a psalm, precatory psalms that talk about bashing the heads of the babies of the enemy against the rocks.
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You preach that sermon in the church today, you better have sang that psalm that morning or people are going to, you're going to be in trouble.
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Otherwise, you're going to get thrown off, thrown out, get the hook.
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So all that being said, it's this warfare language, but notice the weapon.
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See, that's what I want us to see right here at the very end.
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It's going to silence the mouth of the avenger, of the foe, of the enemy of God.
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The enemies of God are going to be silenced, stilled, rendered completely impotent.
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What is God's infinitely wise strategy in accomplishing this task?
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How is God in one foul swoop going through the violence and still the attacks of all his enemies?
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Only the infinitely wise God would come up with such a plan.
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If I pose this, if we didn't have, if you didn't already know the answer that I'm getting to here in just a moment.
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If I just started today and I didn't tell you what text I was preaching.
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And I said, church, what is one of the chief strategies that God says he's going to employ in order to render all of his adversaries impotent?
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I mean, be honest, who would answer the mouth of babes?
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There's something that's going to come out.
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There's something that does come out of the mouth of infants and nursing babes
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that silences the acute, that silences God.
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So that what comes out of the mouth of these little human beings
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has such strength that it establishes the strength of God.
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God establishes His own strength by the mouth of babes.
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And it is so strong, so pervasive that it overcomes the enemies of God.
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which shows that these little ones are made by God like no other being.
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Mankind is made only a little lower than the angels.
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They are fashioned in the womb by God and crowned with glory and majesty,
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In other words, their supreme place in creation is so profound
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they are bearing witness to the incomparable dignity in creation,
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and therefore they are bearing witness to the majesty of God in all the earth.
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God does not wait until an infant is rational and independent
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God is praised and strength is established by the mere truth
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that a human being who has been made in the image and majesty of God is here.
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Let all the adversaries of God hear the crying of the infant and tremble.
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If they treat God's supreme creation with contempt, apart from repentance and forgiveness of sins,
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they will be silenced in the fire of hell for eternity in the same way that they have sought to silence 60 million people in their mother's wombs.
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We thank you that, Christ, you are a conquering king.
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Christians having children and raising them in the
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May the increase of your government never cease.
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You rule the nations in equity, justice, fairness, wonder and beauty.
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Oh, what grace it is to us, the church, to belong to such a kingdom.
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And that we, with trembling and appropriate fear, would be able to say we love the king.
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