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CPT: The wonder of creation declares God’s glory.
Purpose: To describe the reality of God and encourage the church to live their lives committed towards the God of reality.
CPS: Everything we see and experience in creation points to the reality of God.
Introduction
Is God real?
Today, we are exploring the reality of God.
Over these next six weeks, we are going to look at different question about God.
My hope is that this will equip you as people ask you these God questions.
We will take a look at six different questions about God.
Is God real?
Is the Bible true?
Do all roads lead to heaven?
How can a good God allow suffering?
Which is right: evolution or creation?
What will heaven be like?
If you are a believer in Christ, this will encourage and strengthen you as we look at the reality and reliability of the Christian message.
If you are someone seeking or still looking to understand who God is, I believe this will be an encouraging time to seek out answers to these questions.
But none of the other questions about God make sense without a God that exists in reality.
Is God real?
We all wake up to quite an odd experience, don’t we.
I mean, really the ultimate question we need to ask, which relates to our question today, is why is there something instead of nothing?
Think about everything that needed to happen for you to make it here today.
Your heart had to beat, your body had to function.
I mean everything within your body had to be designed to such precision that you would wake up, use your muscles, and move out of bed.
Getting our of bed is often a big struggle for me.
But not only that, but everything around you had to work for you to make it to church.
Gravity had to be fine-tuned enough so it would keep you flat on the ground, and not floating away.
The air around you needed to be breathable.
The sun needed to be just warm enough so your skin wouldn’t melt off, but you also wouldn’t freeze to death.
Even right now, we are on a piece of land on a globe that is circling around a huge ball of fire we call the sun.
It’s crazy!
And we just say, “Oh, it’s just a typical day.”
What are we to make for the fact that we exist surrounded by an amazing creation?
What does the creation have to do with the existence of God?
We will look at that through Psalm 19, verses 1 through 4.
Scripture Reading
Psalm 19:1–4 (CSB)
1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour out speech; night after night they communicate knowledge.
3 There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.
4 Their message has gone out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
Pray
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Transition
Everything we see in creation points to the reality of God.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
Text: Psalm 19:1-2; Psalm 8:3-4; Romans 1:19-20
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As David looks up into the heavens, he writes this Psalm.
In verses 1 and 2, he writes about the beauty of the heavens.
He says this in Psalm 19:1-2:
David looks up into this wondrous night sky.
There are no lights from a city blocking the view.
When you look up, its just an amazing array, a canvas of artwork painted across the sky.
The expanse of all the beauty that he sees says specific things.
“Day after day they pour out speech; night after night they community knowledge.”
David hears a message from creation that pours out knowledge to humans everywhere, if they are listening.
At the end of last year, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into space.
It reached its destination in space in January 2022.
It is the most advanced telescope ever launched into space, and promised to give better images of the cosmos than we have ever seen.
The first images from the Webb Space Telescope were released to the public this past summer.
This one image really caught my attention.
It is this beautiful array of what they describe is the formation of a star.
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.
Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.
What is amazing is that the more we look into the heavens, the more we explore and seek out answers, the more wonder and glory we see of a Creator who put the universe into being.
My wife and I, we both met in high school.
We both went to a high school that specialized in the arts, and we were both art majors.
When you learn art, you learn to carefully observe things, to look carefully for long periods of time at something and attempt to draw or paint it on your canvas.
The teach you things about color theory, how one color compliments another color, how you can use contrast to bring out certain colors.
They teach you about dark areas and highlights, about shading, so you can be careful to bring out the best artwork that you can.
We studied the best works of art in the world, the best that man has put together on canvas.
There is nothing that compares to the beauty and majesty of God’s work of art in creation.
It’s why David asks this question in Psalm 8:3-4:
I think this gets to the heart of the question, is God real?
With such a grand creation around us, with the beauty of all that we see, what is a human being in the middle of all this?
If there is a Creator, does he care about a human being?
When you talk with an atheist and push them towards the question about the existence of God, an atheist turns agnostic pretty quick.
Really, at the heart of the matter is, if God exists, does it even matter?
This is the problem with true atheism, the belief that there is no God.
We are small people.
I am smaller than others.
But take even your tallest person, your Shaq or your Yao Ming, they are tiny, small compared with the vastness of the universe.
We are small people living in a small area on this small planet in the middle of a vast universe.
To come up with such a conclusive answer that there is no God, you would have to have all knowledge, all wisdom.
You would have to know every nook and cranny of reality.
In essence, you would have to be God!
Second, to say there is no God would be to ignore the evidence.
This is what is interesting.
The more you observe the creation of things, the more you learn about the Creator.
Where do things come from?
A primary component of life on earth that we know of is carbon.
We know that all carbon-based lifeforms come from something.
Have you ever walked down the road and a cow just appears out of nowhere?
What I mean is just spontaneously, in mid-air, just “poof,” and it’s there?
No, of course not.
We know that cows come from other cows.
Chickens come from other chickens, humans come from other humans, and so on.
Suppose you were to play that backwards.
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