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Sunday Sermon - Psalm 19 - “God Has Spoken”
July 21, 2024 In this weeks sermon Brett Romisch unpacks Psalm 19 to hear from God and challenged us to not only listen to God but to respond accordingly.
(upbeat music) - We hope and pray that you are blessed by the word of God as it's preached. - And good morning, Harvest. It is good to be here with you this morning if you have your Bible with you. And if you have not done so already, go ahead and open it up to that passage that RJ just read for us a few moments ago. Psalm chapter 19. Psalm chapter 19, and we're gonna be looking at this Psalm in its entirety this morning in a message titled, "God Has Spoken." When I was growing up, I was raised in a Christian home. I was blessed with parents who on a daily basis would impart wisdom. They would speak wisdom into the lives of me and my siblings. I remember many of the wise things my parents would say to us as kids, one of their many wise sayings. I think their personal favorite was one that you probably know. They said it to my brother more than me and it was slow obedience is no obedience, right? Parents, how many of you use that one? Okay, well, you're gonna use it now. So you're welcome. But there was one particular wise statement that my father would say to us that I will never forget and I say it to my kids now, even though they have no idea what I'm saying 'cause they're three and seven months old, that's okay. My father would say this to us on Saturday evenings before he would go to bed. He would come and find us. It was typically my brother and I. We would be up late into the night watching TV or playing video games or sitting around on our phones and my dad would find us in the house and he would say boys, remember Sunday morning begins on Saturday night or he would say Sunday morning is a Saturday night decision. In saying this, he was very wisely encouraging us not to waste our Saturday evenings sitting in front of the TV staying up late but to instead use them to use our Saturday evenings to prepare our hearts and our minds for church on Sunday morning, which was the most important activity that we did as a family and it should be the most important activity that you do as a family as well. And oftentimes I would hear my dad say that, I'd hear him say it over and over and over again, Sunday morning begins on Saturday night and I wouldn't actually respond. I would give my dad a verbal response like, got it dad, okay, yeah, I heard you, thank you. You told me last week, thank you. And then I end up staying up late into the night anyway and then the next morning I'd be sitting in church. I'd be sitting in the pew and I'd be bowing my head but I would not be bowing my head in prayer. I'd be bowing my head falling asleep and I'd be doing the old Sunday morning head bob, you know? That anybody ever done the Sunday morning head bob before? Thank you for being honest, if you didn't raise your hand, I'm watching you this morning, okay? If I see any head bobbin going on, you may get called out. We laugh, but to be completely honest and fully transparent with you, I regret those sleepy Sunday mornings deeply because of how much more wisdom I missed being sleepy on Sunday morning because I didn't truly listen to and respond to my father's wisdom that he imparted to me the evening before. When a wise person speaks and imparts wisdom to us, we would do well to listen and to respond. It would be foolish to do otherwise. Obviously it is foolish to not listen and not respond when a wise person speaks but I think it is especially foolish and I think we see this more often. It's also foolish to listen and then to not respond. Whether the wise person is a pastor or a parent or a mentor, right? It is foolish to listen to what they have to say, to sit in your seat on Sunday morning and listen to the wise pastor speak from the word of God and to take great notes and then to close up your Bible and to close your notebook and go home and do nothing with what you learned throughout the week. You listened but you didn't respond. And that's foolish and the Proverbs affirms this, Proverbs chapter one, verse seven, it says fools despise wisdom and instruction. They don't want anything to do with wisdom. Proverbs 18, two, it says a fool takes no pleasure in understanding. In Proverbs 29, verse nine, says if a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs and there is no quiet in him. As we turn our attention to Psalm chapter 19 this morning which C.S. Lewis so wisely refers to as the greatest poem in the Psalter and one of the greatest lyrics in the world to which I would agree. We see that it's not just a wise person who has spoken but the source of all wisdom has spoken. The one who is infinitely wise has spoken. The creator and sustainer and upholder of the universe has spoken. The one true God has spoken. And we would do well, very well, to listen and to respond. So as we work our way through Psalm chapter 19 this morning I want you to consider these questions. First, are you listening? Are you listening? Thank you, we're off to a good start here. She's not sleeping, I love it. Are you listening? And then if you are listening, how are you responding to the wisdom that has been imparted to you? Are you giving an amen and I got it and I took good notes and I'm closing my journal and I'm not gonna do any of it or are you truly responding to the wisdom that God has imparted to you in his word? David, the author of this Psalm, he listened. He listened a lot and he responded. And his response that's recorded at the end of this Psalm is profound and I'm very excited to get to it but I don't wanna get ahead of myself. So we'll start here in Psalm chapter 19. We see that God has spoken and that he continues to speak to us in two ways that the Psalmist lays out for us. Point number one this morning we see that God has spoken through his world. He has spoken and he continues to speak to us through his world. This is what theologians refer to as natural or general revelation. God has spoken and he has revealed himself generally in the world around us, the world that he has created. And in verses one and two of Psalm 19, we see that through his world, God has spoken clearly and constantly. He has spoken and he continues to speak through his world clearly and constantly. Verse one of Psalm 19 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God." And the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge. The Psalmist here refers to a specific aspect of the created order through which God speaks. And that is, as we see in verse one, the heavens and the sky above the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, and the galaxies all clearly declare God's glory. They clearly declare his wisdom. I don't have time to go into this this morning, but if you consider, if you know about it, if you don't know about it, look it up when you get home, but read about the fine tuning of the universe. And when you read about the fine tuning of the universe that God created, you see his wisdom clearly on display. The heavens and the sky above also clearly declare God's power. When you consider, for example, one of many examples, the vastness of the sun, the great star, and the fact that scientists estimate 1.3 million earths could fit inside that sun, and that's a single star. That is incredible. When you consider the number of stars in the observable universe, we don't even have a name for that number, that scientists estimate, they estimate, we don't know all for sure, obviously, but how many stars there are in the observable universe. And that number is 10 to the 25th power, which is a one followed by 25 zeros. That's your homework assignment when you get home today. Write that number down. One followed by 25 zeros, that's how many stars there are. And God, that we estimate there are, God knows exactly how many there are, and He knows them all by name. His power is clearly on display. The heavens and the sky above, they also clearly declare His goodness. That in this great and grand universe that God has created, He would also create little earth, and little me and little you, and care about us enough to lead us and guide us and sustain us and uphold us every single day. And when we messed it all up, He loved us anyway. The point where He gave His own Son, Jesus, for us. You see His goodness clearly on a display, His glory, His wisdom, His power and His goodness. The sun, moon, planets and stars, they never stopped declaring those things. They never stopped doing it. The Psalmist says these celestial beings pour out speech. It's a metaphor. It's like a bubbling spring that cannot be stopped. Every day as we look to the sky above, God speaks. He speaks. Nobody can stop it. His speech is clear, it is constant. And when day turns to night, I imagine David writing this Psalm, under the night stars, when day turns to night and the moon and the stars come out and the vastness of the universe, really comes into picture. It is as if God starts to speak louder, telling us more of His wisdom, His power, His goodness and His glory. Spurgeon says it is as if one day took up the story where the other left it. And each night passed over the wondrous tale to the next. All day, every day and all night, every night, we get to behold God's glory. And it never gets old. I do not watch, since having kids, I do not watch a lot of TV anymore. I used to, but not as much anymore, unless it's like a kids show, then I guess I do watch a lot of TV. But whenever I do watch TV, I almost always watch something new. And I think that's why I like watching sports, because it's always something new, unless you are a fan of the Detroit Pistons who just keep losing over and over and over again. I guess it's not really new. Oh, I used to make that joke about the lions, but we're going to the Super Bowl this year, so I can't do that anymore. It's the Pistons now, sorry, Nicholas. But I'll never really understand people who can watch the same TV shows over and over and over again. The thought of that is just boring to me, no offense, but it's not for me, not for me. But when it comes to watching the stars, when it comes to watching the sunrise and the sunset, I could watch that show over and over and over and over again. That show to me never and gets old. You will never ask me, hey, Brett, do you want to come see the sunset with me? And I will never say to you, no, I've seen it before. I'm always like, yes, I want to go see it again. Why? Because when I watch the stars or the sunrise or the sunset, I get to behold God's glory. I get to sit there and I get to see his wisdom, his power and his goodness on display. I get to sit there and listen to what God has said through his world and I get to know God more. And as I get to know God more, I feel an incredible sense of comfort and peace in knowing that the God who created and sustains and upholds all of this that we see in his world is the same God who created and sustains and upholds me. He's the same God who created and sustains and upholds you. And our lives are in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. It also puts me in a position of awe and reverence of who God is and it gives me a righteous fear of who he is as well. And I am so thankful for all of those things as they draw me closer to him and they draw me closer to his son, my savior, Jesus Christ. Turn in your Bible, just a couple of chapters forward to the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 26. In Isaiah chapter 40, God is comforting. He gives a word of comfort and encouragement to his people, to those to whom the prophet Isaiah is speaking. The comfort and encouragement he is providing to them is the news that salvation is coming. This is a chapter of good news. This is a chapter of comfort and encouragement. And in verse 26 of Isaiah chapter 40, I want you to notice what God instructs his people to do. And before we read this, I want you to consider, if you feel like right now for whatever reason your life is spiraling, you are struggling with some form of stress or anxiety, whatever that may look like. It may be something with your job. It's not going as you expect it to go or parenting or in your marriage or in school or whatever the case may be. You just feel this sense of, you're not comfortable, you're stressed, you're anxious, each day. Look what God tells us to do in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 26. He says, lift up your eyes on high and see. He says, look up and consider who created these. The heavens and the sky above and everything you see in them, who created these? Who brings out their hosts to the stars by number? Calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might because he is strong in power, not one is missing. Harvest family, look up and listen and respond to the God who speaks and know that he's got the whole world in his hands and that includes your life. That includes your situation. Look up and listen, do it each day, do it tonight, do it tomorrow morning and you will find great comfort there. Going back to Psalm 19 and verses three through six, we see that through his world, God has also spoken globally. It is a global message that he speaks. Verse three says, there is no speech nor are there words whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world in them. He has set a tent for the sun which comes out, like a bridegroom leaving his chamber and like a strong man runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them and there is nothing hidden from its heat. The psalmist seems to contradict himself here by saying in verse three that there is no speech and that there are no words, but then in voice four he says there is a voice, a voice that goes to the farthest corners of the earth. This is an inaudible voice and the great thing about an inaudible voice is that there is no language barrier. So whether you are from Michigan, Madagascar or Mongolia, you can look up and listen and respond to God's glory and to his goodness and to his power and to his wisdom that are clearly and constantly displayed. And the sun, you can't miss the sun as its movement each day serves as another powerful reminder of God's glory. Nobody wakes up when they're 40 years old and go outside and look at them and be like, "Was that thing up there there yesterday?" No, nobody does that. The sun is there. It is clear and it is a powerful reminder of God's glory each morning on the Eastern horizon. The sun comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber. It's another metaphor likely alluding to the groom's emergence from the place in which the marriage ceremony took place. A groom does not come out of that room all doom and gloom. He comes out with joy and exuberance and that is how the sun comes out each morning. It then runs the course that God has set it to run each day like a strong man running a race with joy. A week ago yesterday, I ran a race with some guys from harvest including the harvest strong man himself, Nickelodeo. And watching Nickelodeo run this race, it was at 10K, it had like all these different obstacles we had to climb over, watching Nick run this race, watching a strong man run that race. It was incredible, he ran it with energy. He made those obstacles look seemingly effortless. Now the only difference was about halfway through the race. Nickelodeo was no longer running the race with joy and neither was I, it was more like pain and exhaust but it's still awesome to see him jump over and take on those obstacles and that is how the sun runs. It's course each morning, it goes with energy and it just seems so effortly because it is the hands of the one true God who is over. That sun and then it sets on the Western horizon each day. It is incredible. You can't miss it. Nothing is hidden from its heat, it's a global phenomenon. You can't run from it, you can't hide from it, it is there. It is incredible and it brings glory to God. God has spoken through his world and his message is clear, it's constant and it is available to all. So nobody, nobody in this room and nobody in this world can claim ignorance. Nobody can stand before the Lord one day and one day we all will stand before the Lord. Nobody can stand before the Lord and say, God, I didn't know you were real. If only I would have known. Nobody can claim ignorance. Mankind is according to Romans chapter one without excuse if they do not believe in God because they are suppressing the truth that is so clearly in front of them. And that truth is enough to condemn them. God's message through his world. I love the way MacArthur puts it. It's enough to condemn, but thankfully, God did not stop speaking. He does not only speak through his created world. He also speaks point number two this morning through his word and his message through his word is enough to save. God has spoken and he continues to speak to us through his word. This is what theologians refer to as special or specific revelation. God has spoken and he has revealed himself specifically through his written word, the Bible. He has spoken to us generally through creation and specifically through his word. It is in his word where we learn about, where we learn more about who he is, more about what he has done is doing and will do in the future. We learn more about his plan and his purposes. And most importantly, in his word, he tells us his way of salvation. It's an important message. So listen and respond. In verses seven through nine, there are six nouns that are all but one, a synonym for the word of God, another word for the word of God. And if you look at those verses, you see them. It's the law of the Lord, the testimony of the Lord, the precepts of the Lord. Verse eight, the commandment of the Lord. In verse nine, fear is the exception, but in the second half of verse nine, you see the rules of the Lord. And then each of those nouns are followed by adjectives, six adjectives that describe the character of the word of God. God's word is perfect. It is sure. It is right. It is pure, it is clean, and it is true. And then each of those nouns and adjectives are then followed by a beautiful phrase that describes how the word of God impacts our hearts and impacts our lives as believers. In verse seven, we see that God's word revives the soul. It makes wise the simple, it rejoices the heart, it enlightens the eyes, it endures forever and it is righteous all together. I love the way David wrote this Psalm, all these nouns and adjectives and how they apply to our lives and all life. And all of this is coming together to make one great truth clear for us. And that is this, the word of God is completely sufficient. It is completely and utterly sufficient. The word of God has everything we need to live, a life of faith and service. In second Timothy three, verses 16 and 17 confirms this. You don't have to turn there, but those verses say all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness. That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work, every good work. Scripture is completely and utterly sufficient. When my wife became pregnant with our first son Brooks, we had so many people recommend and then purchase and gift parenting books for us. It seems like every person has a different favorite parenting book that they just love to give to you when you become a new parent. I'm very thankful for that. But let me tell you something, not one of those parenting books was sufficient, not even close to sufficient to fully equip us to be parents. My wife and I haven't hit with things as parents that none of those books had anything to say about. You could put all of those books together into one great grand book and it would not come close to being completely sufficient to fully equip people to be parents. And part of the issue is every book says something different. One book will say like we were trying to figure out whether or not one Brooks was little. It was okay to let him cry it out in the crib, okay? I don't need any opinions, but we were trying to figure that out. And we'd all got one book and it would be like, "Yes, it's okay to let your baby cry out in the crib." I'm like, "Okay, cool." Well, let's open up the next book and see what the next book says. We'd open up the second book and it'd be like, "Do not let your baby cry out in the crib." And it was like, "Okay, okay, that's a little much." And then we'd open up a third book to break the tie. Like should we do it or should we not? Let's open up a third book to break the tie. We'd open up the third book and it'd be like, "Don't even put your baby in a crib." You know, and it was like all very, it's all very confusing, very confusing. Now, there are a lot of good tips in those books that we utilize as parents and that's great, but none of them could fully equip us to be parents. The Word of God is completely different, completely different. In fact, the parenting book that I would recommend and that I do recommend over any other parenting book is the Bible. The Bible is the best book on parenting because it is completely and utterly sufficient and it has everything that we need to be effective parents and effective grandparents and godly husbands and godly wives and godly children. Godly employers, godly employees, it is full of wisdom for each of these areas and any other area that you can think of which is why it is so important and why I plead with you this morning to listen. Listen to what God has said, yes in his world, but also in his word and respond. And not just verbally, but with action. Going back to verse seven, I just wanna work my way through each of these verses quickly. Verse seven says, "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul." That term law, it's Torah in the Hebrew. Used here, it's comprehensive and it refers to all of scripture, not just the 10 commandments or not just the Old Testament law, but all of scripture. All of scripture is perfect, which means it is without error. No part of it is imperfect, but that word perfect also means complete. It is lacking in nothing. And what does it do? It revise the soul. I love that phrase. The word of God revives the soul. It converts. It revives and it transforms the inner eternal person. If you are here this morning and you have not placed your faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ, your soul needs reviving. The book of Ephesians says we were dead in our trespasses and sins. Your soul needs reviving and the word of God can do that. So listen and respond to the truths in God's word. The truth that you and I alike and all of us are sinners who have fallen short of the glory of God, Romans 3, 23. Listen and respond to the truth that as we see in Romans 6, 23, the wages of sin is death. That's the punishment that we deserve for our sin. But the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord. And then you're sitting in your seat and you're thinking, my soul does need reviving. What must I do to be saved? God's word tells us in Romans 10, 9. One of my favorite verses in scripture, says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Let those words revive your soul this morning. And if you hear this morning and you are a believer in Jesus Christ, let the word of God continue to revive and transform your soul. Let it be your spiritual food that restores your strength and your vigor. One of the many things that my wife and I love about this church is the expository preaching. The preachers that stand up here and I'm beyond blessed to stand up here with them, they simply tell us what the word of God has said. They tell us what God has spoken in his word. And that's all I want. And that revives my soul on a weekly basis. And I love it. I remember the first few times we visited, I would leave feeling so invigorated and so excited to serve the Lord with all my heart, soul, mind and strength because I heard straight from the word of God. I was fired up and I was ready to go. And I was ready to serve God wherever He called me to go. And then God was like, guess what? You're gonna be working full time at harvest like a year or so, get ready. Here I am. Harvest family, you need to be in the word daily. Daily. I'd even say hourly when you're at work, when you're parenting, when you're out and about, pull out your smartphone, bring your Bible with you and just read it. If you have a wife and/or children, please make your family devotions a priority. Read the Bible to your children. Make it a priority 'cause it revives your soul and it revives their souls as well. And you need to be here on Sunday morning. You need to make this a priority. 'Cause this what keeps us going. We need it. Second half of verse seven, we gotta go fast here. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The word of God is trustworthy and true. It helps us get on and stay on the path of wisdom, which Reagan talked about a few weeks ago. Verse eight, the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. I love the progression in these verses. There's so much wisdom here. The word of God, it brings life and it brings wisdom as we see in verse seven. And now in verse eight, we see that it also brings joy and it brings enlightenment. It brings discernment and obedience to the precepts and commandments in God's word lead us into faithful living where true joy is found. Without these precepts and commandments, we'd be in the dark. And that's why Psalm 119, 105 says, your word is a what? It's a lamp to my feet and a what? Light to my path. Scripture is the path to true of her lasting joy. If you're looking for joy this morning, read your Bible. If you wanna provide joy to your children, read them the Bible. You wanna provide joy to your spouse, read them the Bible. Verse nine, the fear of the Lord is clean and during forever. The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. David in verse nine breaks from using synonyms for the Torah. He says that the proper human response to listening and responding to what God has said is fear. It's that awe and reverence. It's a righteous fear because when we read God's word, we consider who God is. And when we consider who God is, especially in light of who we are, he's a holy God and we are sinners who have fallen short of his glory that causes us to have this righteous fear, awe and reverence for him. And that is what helps us live. That fear is what helps us live righteous, clean lives. And it is a permanent foundation for your life. There's some wisdom that will last forever. Fear the Lord. Have a righteous awe and reverence and awareness of who he is and how desperately we need his son, our savior in Jesus Christ. It's a permanent foundation in your life. In verses 10 and 11, it says more to be desired are they, the words of God than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned in keeping them. There is great reward, the worth of the wisdom that God has spoken in his word. It's hard to put into words, but David does his best in these verses and he uses two metaphors. He says these words of wisdom that God has spoken, they're greater than gold. But not just gold, fine gold and not just fine gold, but much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, which is good, but not just honey, the drippings of the honeycomb, which is the very best. The word of God that you're holding in your lap right now is so incredibly valuable. Do you understand that this morning? Just how valuable it is. Last week I was on vacation with my wife and her family and we were talking to my sister-in-law who had recently returned from an eight week missions trip, evangelizing on college campuses in Osaka, Japan. It was a very cool thing that she did there and she had a lot of stories to share about the wonderful things that God did on that trip, but she told us one story that to me stood out among the rest. She shared a story about a girl that they had been witnessing to and that they had befriended for a few weeks and shortly before they left, they gifted this girl a Bible and she had never had a Bible before. Apparently she had never been gifted a Bible before and they encouraged her to read it. And this girl upon receiving this Bible was overjoyed and in her excitement, she looked at those around her. She held up her Bible and she shouted, "This is my treasure." And I'm going to read it every single morning. And she did. She read it every single morning and through reading God's word and talking to my sister-in-law and others, she placed her faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. To that girl, the words that God had spoken in his word were more valuable than anything that money could buy or anything that the world could offer. She treasured God's wisdom in his words. She understood its eternal value and she was overjoyed to have it. This book is the greatest of all treasures. It is so precious and so valuable 'cause it revised our souls because it makes us wise, because it brings joy to our hearts, because it opens up our eyes to what's true, because it lasts forever and because it is righteous all together. And as we see in verse 11, God warns us of what we should do and shouldn't do. And he tells us of all the wonderful eternal rewards that we will reap if we stay faithful to do the very things that God has called us to do. So harvest family treasure this book. Don't let it sit and collect dust like trash. Treasure it and know its value. Lastly, this morning, point number three, I want us to look at David's response and what our response should be to what God has spoken in his world and in his word. And we see this in verses 12 through 14. God spoke to his world and his word and David had listened and in these final few verses, it is as if all the wisdom that David has heard hits home. It hits him right where it hurts. It hits him in the heart, in the soul. And he becomes aware of his unworthiness before such an awesome and holy God. And all he can do is pray. And he prays in verse 12, "God declare me innocent from hidden faults." You know those sins that we don't think anyone else knows about? When you consider who God is and what he says in his world and in his word, you quickly find out that we don't have any hidden faults. 'Cause he knows them, he knows them all. In verse 13, he says, "Also, Lord, keep back your servant from presumptuous sins." Those willful acts of open rebellion for all to see in light of who God is. David wants nothing to do with sin, period. The inward sin, the outward sin. He wants no part of it, which is why he cries out. Let them not have dominion over me." When we truly listen to what God has said in his world and in his word, we, like David, get a really good look at who we really are. The inward parts and our hidden faults, they come out into the light, they get exposed. Those presumptuous sins are brought to the surface and we see that we are depraved sinners in desperate need of a savior. And this is why in verse 14, our final verse for today, that David cries out that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Oh Lord, my rock and my redeemer. In other words, David says, "God, I need you." That be the cry of our hearts this morning. God, we need you. God, I know who I am. I know what I have done. And I know where I need to turn to for forgiveness. It is to you, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. It is to your son, my savior, Jesus Christ. He is my rock. He is my redeemer. He is the one who has saved me from my sins. And he is the one who is worthy of all my praise. If you are here this morning and you have been listening to what God has said in his world and in his word, and you see that your sin has been exposed and that you need a savior. I plead with you to respond this morning with action. Turn from your sin and run to Jesus and place your faith, your hope, your trust and your belief in him. Believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ. And you will be forever saved and forever safe. We're gonna close out our service this morning by responding corporately to the wisdom that God has spoken through his world and through his word. And we are going to do that by singing together a great hymn of the faith. How great thou art. And in verse one of this song, we're gonna praise God for what he has said through his world. Thy power throughout the universe displayed. And we're gonna sing together how great thou art. And then in verses two and three of this song, we're gonna praise God for what he has said through his word. That he sent his son not sparing who pled and died to take away my sins. And that one day he is coming back again to take us home. What joy shall fill our hearts. But as we sing this song, let's remember, this is just a verbal response. We're gonna do it together, but then as we go, let's continue to listen and to respond with action. To what God has said in his word and in his world. Let's pray. Father, we thank you that you are not a God who is silent, but that you are a God who has spoken. And there is so much for us to learn, Lord. So much comfort, so much joy, so much peace that comes from listening and responding to who you are and to your son, our savior, Jesus Christ. Lord, you are a great God and we proclaim together how great you are. So Lord, thank you for revealing yourself to us in some mighty and powerful ways. Thank you for showing us and telling us of your love and your grace and your mercy, things that are exemplified through your son, our savior and Jesus Christ. And it is in his name, we pray all these things. - If you want any more information about our church, you can visit our website, harvestattroitwest.org. [MUSIC PLAYING]