SF215 - GOD'S WHO'S WHO (Psalm 24 1-5)

GOD'S WHO'S WHO

TEXT: Psalm 24:1©5

INTRODUCTION:

God's heartfelt desire is for a people who He can use and

bless.

It is God's plan that we be such a people.

However, we must first recognize and understand what type of

people it is that God can and will use.

That is what Revival is all about. It is "Jesus living out

His life in His people."

Literally the word revival means "to awaken"; "to make alive

again"; "to rekindle".

We have become spiritual Rip Van Winkles.

If we are to experience Revival and become the type of

people God can use.

Indeed if we are to find ourselves as one of God's "Who's

Who."

WE MUST RECOGNIZE:

1A. GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY (vv.1©3)

1B. Over Geology (v.1a)

©The unexplainable inversion of the geological column.

Unexplainable without a world©wide flood.

2B. Over Biology

©All living creatures are the Lord's.

Illustration:

Wishbone in starlings.

Mans heart beats two billion times in a 70 years.

Human brain contains storage = computer the size

of Texas.

3B. Over Cosmology

©The heavens cannot be explained short of the miracle

of God's creation and power.

Illustration:

©Earth's sun 865,000 miles in diameter = 109xearth

©11,000 degrees at surface/36 million at center.

©Orion 1 million x the size of our sun.

"It took a miracle to set the stars in space

It took a miracle to put the earth in place..."

4B. Over Anthropology (v.1b)

©God is God whether man recognizes Him or not.

©Humanism is man elevating man to be god and demoting

God to the level of man.ÜjÜŒ

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5B. Over Theology (v.3)

©All other ©ologies are misunderstood if theology is

misunderstood.

©Incorrect Theology makes a:

Monkey out of Biology and Anthropology.

Big Bang out of Cosmology and Geology.

Illustration:

Once it was a tadpole beginning to begin

Then he was a frog with it's tail tucked in

Next he was monkey swinging in a cyprus tree

Now he is a professor with a Phd.

2A. MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY (vv.4©6)

1B. Physical Chastity (v.4a)

©Clean hands = Pure life

Psalm 140:23©24

"Search me, O God, and know my

heart;

test me and know my anxious

thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in

me,

and lead me in the way

everlasting."

©Clean hands = Surrendered Body

Romans 12:1

1. Eyes © what you watch, read.

2. Hands © what you touch and handle.

3. Feet © where you go.

4. Tongue © what you say.

2B. Moral Purity (v.4b)

©Pure heart = God©controlled thought life.

Philippians 2:5

"Your attitude should be the same as that of

Christ Jesus."

Philippians 4:8

"Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever

is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure

about such things."

ÜjÜŒ

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3B. Spiritually Honesty (v.4c)

Illustration:

"Across the River Zambesi, below the Victoria

Falls, is a bridge which spans the widest chasm

and overlooks the most terrific turmoil of waters

to be seen on and river in the world. That bridge

was made by building out an arm from either shore

and uniting the two outstretched arms in the

center above the roaring stream. Neither arm

could have reached to opposite bank by itself;

and two were needed to meet each other. Such are

penitence and pardon which form the bridge across

that tumultuous stream, and those stupendous falls

which separate the soul from God. Pardon without

penitence is impossible, and penitence without

pardon is useless." (Pulpit Helps 10/88,p.13)

4B. Sincere Seeking (v.6)

"...seek Him..."

"...seek your face..."

CONCLUSION: