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Psalm 19, without excuse!

Psa 19:1, …THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD; AND THE FIRMAMENT SHOWS HIS HANDIWORK.

David could clearly see the glory of GOD in the sunsets, the sunrise, in the starry night skies and in the moon and the sun!

Jer 10:12, HE HAS MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER, HE HAS ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY HIS WISDOM, AND HAS STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS AT HIS DISCRETION. 

Psa 19:2-3, DAY UNTO DAY UTTERS SPEECH, AND NIGHT UNTO NIGHT REVEALS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE WHERE THEIR VOICE IS NOT HEARD.

My father, before he passed on, came to faith in GOD by just looking up to the sky! IT SPOKE TO HIM THAT THIS IS NO ACCIDENT! HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THE DESIGNER THROUGH HIS DESIGN! HIS CREATION SPEAKS KNOWLEDGE TO THOSE WILLING TO HEAR!

Rom 1:20, For since the creation of the world HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE,

Psa 19:7-9, THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT, converting the soul; THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD IS SURE, making wise the simple; THE STATUTES OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, rejoicing the heart; THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD IS PURE, enlightening the eyes; THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS CLEAN, enduring forever; THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALTOGETHER.

YET GREATER THAN HIS CREATION IS HIS WORD WHICH REVEALS TO SINFUL MAN HIS GREATEST NEED, TO BE FORGIVEN! FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION SINFUL MAN IS CLEARLY SEEN

Psa 86:15, BUT YOU, O LORD, ARE A God FULL OF COMPASSION, and GRACIOUS, LONGSUFFERING and ABUNDANT IN MERCY AND TRUTH.

Eph 2:4-5, But God, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY, BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE WITH WHICH HE LOVED US, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES, MADE US ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (by grace you have been saved),

GET TO KNOW YOUR CREATOR, STUDY HIS WORD, SEEK HIS FACE, SEEK HIS TREASURES FOUND IN HIS WORD! HE IS COMING!

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Psalm 8, Our BLESSED HOPE!

Psa 8:2, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE ORDAINED STRENGTH, BECAUSE OF YOUR ENEMIES, THAT YOU MAY SILENCE THE ENEMY…

The LORD can even use little children to confound the wise priest or scribe!

AS THE CHIEF PRIEST AND SCRIBES SAW THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT JESUS DID, THEY WERE INCENSED WHEN THEY HEARD CHILDREN AROUND JESUS SAYING “HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID!”

Mat 21:16, and said to Him, “DO YOU HEAR WHAT THESE ARE SAYING?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND NURSING INFANTS YOU HAVE PERFECTED PRAISE’?”

1Co 1:27, BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE WISE, AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE THINGS WHICH ARE MIGHTY; 

Psa 8:3-4, When I consider Your heavens, THE WORK OF YOUR FINGERS, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, AND THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU VISIT HIM?

David can see the greatness of GOD in what he sees in the stars above! IF WE ONLY SEE THE MERE EDGES OF HIS GLORY AND WERE AMAZED AT THEM, who are we that HE would give us a mere glance? 

IT’S NOT WHO WE ARE BUT WHO HE IS! HE IS OUR LOVING, MERCIFUL FATHER, INFINITE IN STRENGTH AND GLORY, YET HE FEEDS EVEN THE BIRDS OF THE AIR! HE HAS VISITED US BY SENDING HIS OWN SON TO PAY FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AT THE COST OF HIS OWN LIFE! HE IS THE LOVER OF OUR SOULS!

Joh 3:16, FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 

Psa 8:9, O LORD, OUR LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL THE EARTH! 

As David started, he also ended! HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL THE EARTH! NO MATTER WHERE WERE AT WE CAN ALWAYS SEE THE LORD BY WHAT WE SEE AROUND US! DO YOU KNOW HIM? DO YOU SEEK HIM? THE TIME OF HIS COMING IS NEAR AND WE WILL SEE OUR BLESSED HOPE FACE TO FACE! BE READY AND SEEK HIM!

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Job 28, True hidden treasure! the LORD!

Job 28:1-2,4, “SURELY THERE IS A MINE FOR SILVER, AND A PLACE WHERE GOLD IS REFINED. IRON IS TAKEN FROM THE EARTH, And copper is smelted from ore. …. HE BREAKS OPEN A SHAFT AWAY FROM PEOPLE; IN PLACES FORGOTTEN BY FEET They hang far away from men; THEY SWING TO AND FRO.

Job is thinking that the earth holds many hidden treasures! Silver, Gold, Iron etc, BUT IT’S HARD WORK TO UN-EARTH! BUT, TO THE DILIGENT THESE TREASURES CAN BE FOUND!

Job 28:12-13, “BUT WHERE CAN WISDOM BE FOUND? AND WHERE IS THE PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING? MAN DOES NOT KNOW ITS VALUE, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

Pro 3:13, Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; 

Job 28:15-17, IT CANNOT BE PURCHASED FOR GOLD, NOR CAN SILVER BE WEIGHED FOR ITS PRICE. IT CANNOT BE VALUED IN THE GOLD OF OPHIR, IN PRECIOUS ONYX OR SAPPHIRE. NEITHER GOLD NOR CRYSTAL CAN EQUAL IT, NOR CAN IT BE EXCHANGED FOR JEWELRY OF FINE GOLD.

WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING IS BY FAR MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY EARTHLY TREASURE; BUT, WHERE CAN IT BE FOUND?

Job 28:28, And to man He said, ‘BEHOLD, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM, AND TO DEPART FROM EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING.

As silver and gold and all precious stones are found in the earth, TRUE WISDOM IS ONLY FOUND IN HIS WORD! THE DILIGENT, BY READING HIS WORD DAILY, WILL FIND WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING!

Pro 1:7, THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.

Jer 9:23, Thus says the LORD: “LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, LET NOT THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, NOR LET THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS RICHES; 

DON’T GLORY IN YOUR WISDOM, IN YOUR STRENGTH OR WEALTH, BUT GLORY IN THAT YOU KNOW THE LORD AND HIS WORD! SEEK THE LORD AND YOU’LL FIND ETERNAL TREASURES AND ETERNAL LIFE!

Jer 9:24, BUT LET HIM WHO GLORIES GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE LORD, EXERCISING LOVINGKINDNESS, JUDGMENT, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH. FOR IN THESE I DELIGHT,” SAYS THE LORD. 

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Ezra 3, the glory of the Temple!

Ezr 3:2-3, Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel …, AROSE AND BUILT THE ALTAR OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS ON IT, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES THE MAN OF GOD. … THEY SET THE ALTAR ON ITS BASES; AND THEY OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS ON IT TO THE LORD, …

Perfect place to start building the temple of GOD, the alter!  OUR ALTER IS THE CROSS OF CALVARY.  YOU CAN’T BE A CHRISTIAN OR HAVE A CHURCH WITHOUT THE CROSS, BUT THAT ALTER IS AVAILABLE WITHOUT THE CHURCH; FOR HE MEETS US WHERE WERE AT!

Ezr 3:10-11, WHEN THE BUILDERS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, the priests stood in their apparel with TRUMPETS, … WITH CYMBALS, TO PRAISE THE LORD, …. And THEY SANG RESPONSIVELY, PRAISING AND GIVING THANKS TO THE LORD: “FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER TOWARD ISRAEL.” THEN ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, WHEN THEY PRAISED THE LORD, BECAUSE THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WAS LAID.

GREAT JOY CAME FROM JUST LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE! YET NOT ALL WERE CELEBRATING!

Ezr 3:12, … OLD MEN WHO HAD SEEN THE FIRST TEMPLE, WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE WHEN THE FOUNDATION OF THIS TEMPLE WAS LAID BEFORE THEIR EYES. Yet many shouted aloud for joy, 

It’s estimated that the first Temple cost 5 billion dollars to build, Yet the foundation of this temple didn’t compare in their eyes!

Hag 2:3,7,9, ‘WHO IS LEFT AMONG YOU WHO SAW THIS TEMPLE IN ITS FORMER GLORY? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing? … AND I WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE WITH GLORY,’ SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS…. ‘THE GLORY OF THIS LATTER TEMPLE SHALL BE GREATER THAN THE FORMER,’ … 

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE GOLD AND THE RICHES THAT THE FIRST TEMPLE HAD; IT’S ABOUT GOD! FOR THE SECOND TEMPLE WAS VISITED BY GOD JESUS HIMSELF. WITHOUT HIM IT’S JUST A BUILDING, BUT IN HIS PRESENCE, WE FIND GLORY!