All Creation Sings Praises to the God of Heaven & Earth
I. Our essential starting point: Deuteronomy 4:39
A. Context: 1. Deut. 4:1-9 Diligently keep God’s statutes and judgements in your hearts all the days of your life!
2. Deut. 4:15-24 Keep yourselves from idols! (I John 5:21) Your God is a consuming fire, a Jealous God!!!
3. Deut. 4:29-31 But when you sin are in captivity because of it, “turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice, for the LORD your God is a Merciful God.” (I John 2:1-2)
4. Deut. 4:39 Here is how to keep yourselves from idols: “Therefore know this day, AND CONSIDER IT IN
YOUR HEART, that the LORD Himself is God IN HEAVEN ABOVE AND ON EARTH BENEATH; THERE IS NO
OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Pay attention to Moses’ implication: Any god less that the God in/of Heaven above and on earth beneath is a false god, an idol! All creation knows this truth inherently/creatively!!! We must be sure in our hearts that we believe this and operate out of this context!
II. All creations’ praise to the LORD: Ps 148 God’s praise is “built” into all creation!
A. From the heavens and all that is in them: Vs 1-6 #8064 shamayim=heavens. “It includes all space not occupied by our earth, and extends from the air we breathe and the winds we feel to the expanse that contains the stars. This it includes and exceeds, for where our intellect ceases to operate, and fails to find a limit to the extension of space, there faith comes in. And while before the eye of the body there is spread out an infinity of space, the possession of a super-material nature brings us into communion with a a Being Whose Nature and Condition cannot adequately be described by terms of locality or extension. The heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him.!!!(I Kings 8:27) The countless stars are not only known and numbered by Him, but are called into existence and fixed in their courses by His will and wisdom. Where He Is, there the true heaven is; and the glories of the firmament faintly shadow forth the ineffable bliss that those must realize who are brought into relationship with Him.” New Strongs Dictionary
1. Ps. 148:5-6 Why do the heavens praise Him? For He created and established them, Notice, “forever and ever.”
B. From the earth. Vs 7-12
1. Notice verse 8: “snow and clouds , stormy wind, FULFILLING HIS WORD.” Ok, no grumbling about the
weather forecast for this next week!!!
2. Vs 11 Have fun wrestling with this verse before the LORD! Remember Isa. 45 (Cyrus), and Isa 10:5-19
(Assyria)?
C. Vs 13-14 Here is all creations’ (and our) mandate!!!
1. Vs 13 All creation praises the LORD, “For His Name ALONE is exalted; His Glory is above the earth and
heaven.
2. Vs 14 And all The Creators’ strength and dominion is mediated to His people. The Israel of God. (Romans
4:13-16; Galatians 3:26-29) And notice: “A people NEAR HIM.”
D. And how does our Creator mediate all of this to us?
1. OUR CREATOR IS OUR REDEEMER!!!!
John 1:3, I Cor 8:6, Heb 1:1-3, Eph. 1:9-12- that we should be to the praise of His Glory!!! Are we basking in our inheritance to the Praise of His Glory!!!
In closing: Isaiah 44:23-24
I. Our essential starting point: Deuteronomy 4:39
A. Context: 1. Deut. 4:1-9 Diligently keep God’s statutes and judgements in your hearts all the days of your life!
2. Deut. 4:15-24 Keep yourselves from idols! (I John 5:21) Your God is a consuming fire, a Jealous God!!!
3. Deut. 4:29-31 But when you sin are in captivity because of it, “turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice, for the LORD your God is a Merciful God.” (I John 2:1-2)
4. Deut. 4:39 Here is how to keep yourselves from idols: “Therefore know this day, AND CONSIDER IT IN
YOUR HEART, that the LORD Himself is God IN HEAVEN ABOVE AND ON EARTH BENEATH; THERE IS NO
OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Pay attention to Moses’ implication: Any god less that the God in/of Heaven above and on earth beneath is a false god, an idol! All creation knows this truth inherently/creatively!!! We must be sure in our hearts that we believe this and operate out of this context!
II. All creations’ praise to the LORD: Ps 148 God’s praise is “built” into all creation!
A. From the heavens and all that is in them: Vs 1-6 #8064 shamayim=heavens. “It includes all space not occupied by our earth, and extends from the air we breathe and the winds we feel to the expanse that contains the stars. This it includes and exceeds, for where our intellect ceases to operate, and fails to find a limit to the extension of space, there faith comes in. And while before the eye of the body there is spread out an infinity of space, the possession of a super-material nature brings us into communion with a a Being Whose Nature and Condition cannot adequately be described by terms of locality or extension. The heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him.!!!(I Kings 8:27) The countless stars are not only known and numbered by Him, but are called into existence and fixed in their courses by His will and wisdom. Where He Is, there the true heaven is; and the glories of the firmament faintly shadow forth the ineffable bliss that those must realize who are brought into relationship with Him.” New Strongs Dictionary
1. Ps. 148:5-6 Why do the heavens praise Him? For He created and established them, Notice, “forever and ever.”
B. From the earth. Vs 7-12
1. Notice verse 8: “snow and clouds , stormy wind, FULFILLING HIS WORD.” Ok, no grumbling about the
weather forecast for this next week!!!
2. Vs 11 Have fun wrestling with this verse before the LORD! Remember Isa. 45 (Cyrus), and Isa 10:5-19
(Assyria)?
C. Vs 13-14 Here is all creations’ (and our) mandate!!!
1. Vs 13 All creation praises the LORD, “For His Name ALONE is exalted; His Glory is above the earth and
heaven.
2. Vs 14 And all The Creators’ strength and dominion is mediated to His people. The Israel of God. (Romans
4:13-16; Galatians 3:26-29) And notice: “A people NEAR HIM.”
D. And how does our Creator mediate all of this to us?
1. OUR CREATOR IS OUR REDEEMER!!!!
John 1:3, I Cor 8:6, Heb 1:1-3, Eph. 1:9-12- that we should be to the praise of His Glory!!! Are we basking in our inheritance to the Praise of His Glory!!!
In closing: Isaiah 44:23-24