Thursday
Evening Bible Study
January
5, 2017
Introduction
Do people see Jesus? Is the gospel
preached? Does it address the person who is: Empty, lonely, guilty, or afraid
to die? Does it speak to the broken
hearted? Does it build up the church? Milk – Meat – Manna Preach for a decision
Is the church loved? Target 3300 words
Video = 75 wpm
The English word psalm comes from a Greek word that means “a poem
sung to musical accompaniment”, or in particular, “stringed instruments”.
The Hebrew name is tehillim, which means “praises.”
The book of Psalms is the hymnbook of God’s people.
It’s also the “Him” book as well. It’s all about Jesus.
The writer of Hebrews quotes from
Psalm 40:8 when he writes,
(Hebrews 10:7 NKJV) Then I
said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the
volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”
The author was talking about Jesus.
We’re going to see a lot of Jesus
in the Psalms.
Soul Music
Music touches the soul. It’s
“soulish” in nature. It touches the emotions.
We’re going to find every kind of
emotion possible expressed in the Psalms.
For every sigh there is a Psalm.
For most of us, this is what makes
the Psalms so wonderful. We can identify. We can relate.
If we were honest, even darkest
most depressing Psalms describe the very things we go through day by day.
It is my prayer that as we continue
on this journey through the Psalms, we won’t just look at these songs
academically, with our mind, but that we may also grow as worshippers.
Psalm 103 - Reasons to Praise
: A Psalm Of David.
:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
:1 Bless the Lord, O my
soul
Bless – barak – to bless,
kneel, praise.
It is in the form of a command.
Lesson
Choosing to praise
David is commanding his soul to praise God. He’s commanding his entire
being, his soul, to get into the act. He’s talking to himself.
We can fall into a trap of thinking that certain things can only be done
when we “feel” like it.
It’s a huge mistake to think that “love” is simply an emotion you feel.
Real love is a choice you make. It’s a choice to value another person and to
express that choice with appropriate actions – whether words or actions.
Praising God is the same thing.
Expressing worship to God shouldn’t come from a sense of
“feeling it”, but from a sense of choosing to do it.
Illustration
There was a story about a little boy who went to Sunday School. When it came time for the whole class to
stand up and sing, Johnny stayed in his seat.
The teacher asked Johnny to stand with everyone else. He didn’t.
The teacher asked again. Finally,
Johnny stood up, but said, “I may be standing on the outside, but I’m still
sitting on the inside!”
When it comes to singing or giving praise to God, frankly
sometimes we feel like Johnny. We may
reluctantly stand up with everyone else, but inside we’re still sitting down.
God says through Isaiah,
(Isaiah 29:13 NLT) And so the
Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but
their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made
rules learned by rote.
Psalm 103 shows us how to get our “inside” praising God to match what we
are doing on the outside.
The healthy Christian will learn to give praise to God, even when their
circumstances are difficult.
Job is a great example of someone
who had learned to praise God in the most difficult of circumstances.
After learning
that his flocks had been destroyed, his servants had been killed, and all of
his children had died …
(Job 1:20–21 NKJV) —20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell
to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he
said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and
the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
forget – shakach
– to forget, ignore, wither
benefits – gemuwl
– dealing, recompense, benefit
:2 forget not all His benefits
Lesson
Choose to remember
Some things we want to forget.
Illustration
THE SENILITY PRAYER
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never
liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Some things we will never forget.
For Texans, it’s the Alamo. For the Great
Generation, it was Pearl Harbor. For our generation it’s 9-11.
We need to remember what God has done in our lives.
David will remind us of some of the things we need to remember…
:3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,
:3 Who forgives all your iniquities
Lesson
Forgiveness
Have you ever done something so horrible that you began to think that you
could never be forgiven?
Have you ever done something so bad that you began to think that the shame
you were feeling was going to kill you?
God forgives sin.
He can do this because He has paid the penalty for our sin.
(Isaiah 53:6 NKJV) All we like
sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all.
We might think that the worst part of Jesus’ crucifixion
was the nails through His hands and feet.
The most difficult part of the cross was having the weight
of the world’s sins heaped upon Him.
Sometimes Satan deceives us into thinking that our particular sin was so
horrible that we could never be forgiven.
Or perhaps we will think that because we’ve done this certain sin so many
times, that God must be tired of forgiving us.
What we fail to recognize is the enormity of the price Jesus paid for us.
If we look at our sin in terms of money, we might think
that God could never forgive us because we’ve racked up a debt of $532,363.
Yet Jesus paid trillions and trillions of dollars to cover
the price of our sin.
Further down in our psalm, David will write,
(Psalm 103:12 NKJV)
As
far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
If David had said, “as far as the north is from the south
…” then we’d be able to calculate just how far God is willing to remove our
sins from us. You can measure the distance between the north and the south
poles, a distance of 12,430 miles. But if you are trying to measure the
distance from east to west, you’re going to need a longer tape measure. There
is no end to going “east” and no end to going “west”. God has infinitely
removed our sins from us.
:3 Who heals all your diseases
Lesson
Healing
He has provided for our healing through His suffering.
(Isaiah 53:5 NKJV) But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His
stripes we are healed.
Though this includes physical, mental, and emotional
healing, the ultimate healing is spiritual.
“But” you say, “I’ve asked Jesus to heal me, and I’m still not healed.”
Some say it’s your fault because
you lack faith. I don’t think that’s
always the case.
The story isn’t over yet. He hasn’t
healed you yet. For some of you, He may
want to heal you today. For some, the
healing may come tomorrow. For all believers,
complete healing will come when we die.
Not everyone will receive this ultimate healing.
Those who choose to reject Jesus will not be healed:
(Isaiah
66:24 NKJV) “And they shall go forth and look Upon the corpses of the men Who have
transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all
flesh.
For those of us who trust in Jesus, we will be completely healed at death…
(Revelation 21:4
NKJV) And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be
no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the
former things have passed away.”
This isn’t just some sort of cop-out for those who aren’t
healed in this life. It’s the truth.
Towards the end of their lives, both my dad and my mom
were experiencing a lot of pain.
My mom and dad are no longer suffering.
:4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with
lovingkindness and tender mercies,
:4 Who redeems your life from destruction
redeems – ga’al
–act as kinsman-redeemer, ransom, do the part of a kinsman
destruction – shachath
– pit, destruction, grave; pit (of Hell)
Lesson
Salvation
The Bible says that the penalty of our sin is death, eternal separation
from God. When Jesus died on the cross,
He paid the penalty or ransom for us so we wouldn’t have to go to hell.
Jesus told a story about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. Both men died.
(Luke 16:22–26
NKJV) —22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to
Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in
torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus
in his bosom. 24
“Then
he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he
may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented
in this flame.’ 25
But
Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are
tormented. 26 And besides
all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who
want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
Hell is not a place you want to spend eternity.
When we believe in Jesus and accept His free gift of
forgiveness, based upon the fact that He died for us, we are no longer
condemned to hell, but now welcomed into heaven.
Is that a good reason to bless God?
:5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your
youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
:5 your youth is renewed like the eagle’s
renewed – chadash
– to be new, renew, repair
Lesson
Renewal
Sometimes when you are going through a difficult time, you can feel as if
nothing will ever change.
The truth is, God will give us times of “renewal”.
The renewing comes from our relationship with God. It comes when we learn to slow down, come to
Him, and find rest in Him.
Isaiah used language similar to David’s…
(Isaiah 40:29–31
NKJV) —29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the
youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall
mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
When you are overwhelmed, learn to wait on Him.
:6 The Lord executes
righteousness And justice for all who are oppressed.
Here’s another reason we can praise Him – because in the end, God will
bring justice. He will fix everything
that is wrong.
:7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.
:8 The Lord is
merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
:9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger
forever.
:7 He made known His ways to Moses
Moses was given the blessing of getting a good glimpse of what God was like.
It happened when the Israelites had once again rebelled against God in the
wilderness.
Moses seemed to be taking too long on Mount Sinai getting God’s
commandments, so the people decided to build a golden calf to worship instead.
When Moses returned, he pleaded with God not to wipe out the people, and
God showed mercy to the people.
Then Moses asked if he could get a glimpse of God’s glory.
God hid Moses in the cleft of a rock, and described Himself as He passed by
Moses.
(Exodus 34:6–7
NKJV) —6 And the Lord passed
before him and proclaimed, “The Lord,
the Lord God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means
clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Though God will judge men’s sins, God is first and foremost merciful,
gracious, and patient.
This is how God revealed His ways to Moses.
:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us
according to our iniquities.
:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His
mercy toward those who fear Him;
:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our
transgressions from us.
:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins
Lesson
Merciful
“Justice” is getting what you deserve.
“Mercy” is not getting what you deserve.
“Grace” is getting what you don’t deserve.
If you happen to be driving 40 miles an hour in a 25 mph zone, you run the
risk of being pulled over by one of Fullerton’s finest.
“Justice” is when the officer writes you a ticket.
“Mercy” is when he pulls you over, warns you, and doesn’t write a ticket.
“Grace” is when the officer takes you out to breakfast and pays for your
meal.
God is just, but He’s also gracious and merciful. Here the emphasis is on mercy.
Illustration
Pressing Your Luck
Patrick O’Reilly was lucky. Since the day he had found that four leaf
clover, everything good seemed to come his way. He had met the wonderful Rosie,
and after a whirlwind romance, they were married. And now, a year later, he was
the proud father of beautiful twins, a boy and a girl. At work, the story was
the same. He had been promoted and had received a substantial raise, and now
the firm had come up with a profit sharing plan. Patty was certain his good
fortune was due to his 4-leaf clover. Everywhere he went, he was certain to be
carrying the talisman in his suit pocket. One morning, Patty could not find the
clover. He searched the house, but it was not there. In panic, he tried to
recall when he had last seen it. He finally recalled it was in his gray suit
that he had dropped off at the dry cleaners. He rushed to the cleaners only to
find that the work had been completed and his suit was ready to be picked up.
He searched the suit and found the 4-leaf clover, still in one piece but now
flattened from the dry cleaning. From that day on, Patty’s fortunes changed.
Life was good but was no longer perfect. The little inconveniences were always
there. He had a flat tire as he was driving to an important meeting. The twins
developed measles when his boss and his wife were over for dinner. No, Patty’s
life had changed. He still carried the amulet, but he was certainly not living
under the silver lining he was used to and had come to expect. Finally, he had
had enough. He visited the parish priest to see if he could help him understand
what had happened. “This certainly was to be expected,” he was told. “You
should have known ... One should never press one’s luck.”
Yet in reality this is not how
God works.
We tend to think that every bad circumstance must have been caused by some
sin in our life.
While this is true some
times, it’s not true all the time.
If God was up in heaven dealing out penalties for every sin you ever
committed, you would have died a long time ago.
When Israel
was in the wilderness, rebelled against God, and made a golden calf, that
should have been it. God should have
wiped them out. Instead He was merciful.
He doesn’t deal with us according to our sins.
:13 As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
pities – racham
– to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection,
have compassion
:14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
:14 He remembers that we are dust
dust – ‘aphar
– dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish
The Bible says that God formed man from “dust” (Gen. 2:7)
(Genesis 2:7 NKJV) And the Lord God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living being.
The Bible also says when we die, we will return to the “dust” (Gen. 3:19)
(Genesis 3:19 NKJV) In the
sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you
return to the ground, For out of
it you were taken; For dust
you are, And to dust you shall
return.”
Illustration
FROM DUST
A little boy came home from Sunday School and went into his room to change
clothes. When he emerged, he asked his mother, “Is it true that we came from
dust?” His mother replied, “Yes, dear. God made us from dust.” The kid ran back
into his room and came out all excited. “Mom, I just looked under my bed, and
there’s somebody either coming or going!”
God remembers that we are but dust…
Illustration
A visiting pastor waxed eloquent
during the offertory prayer. “Dear Lord”, he began, with arms extended toward
heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. “Without you, we are but
dust...” He would have continued but at that moment, a very obedient little
child (who was listening!) leaned over to mom and asked quite audibly in a
shrill little voice, “Mom, what is butt dust?”
Lesson
He knows your limits
He knows what we’re made of.
You may be surprised to find out that you’re flawed, but God isn’t.
You may be surprised to find out that you can’t get all the things
accomplished that you want to accomplish, but God isn’t.
You may be surprised that you could do such a stupid thing like you just
did, but God isn’t. He knows what you’re
made of.
Some of us expect more of ourselves and of others than God does of us. He understands.
:15 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the
field, so he flourishes.
:16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it
no more.
:17 But the mercy of the Lord
is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His
righteousness to children’s children,
:18 To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His
commandments to do them.
While our physical lives only last a few years, God’s mercy goes on and on.
:19 The Lord has established
His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all.
:20 Bless the Lord, you His
angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.
:21 Bless the Lord, all you
His hosts, You ministers of His, who do His pleasure.
:21 His hosts
His angels. His army.
:22 Bless the Lord, all His
works, In all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!
:22 Bless the Lord, O my
soul!
David has commanded the angels, the “hosts”, all of creation to “bless”
God.
If they can all bless God, then we can command our own “souls” to bless Him.
Songs:
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Tran: A E B/D#
C#m A E Bsus
B
Chorus:
A E
Bless the Lord O my soul
B/D# C#m
O my soul
A E Bsus4
B
Worship His holy name
A C#m
Sing like never before
A B C#m
O my soul
A B
A E A
E
I'll worship Your holy name
Verse 1:
A E
The sun comes up
B C#m
It's a new day dawning
A E
It's time to sing
B C#m
Your song again
A E
Whatever may pass
B C#m
And whatever lies before me …
A2 E
Let me be singing
Bsus4 B
E Esus E
When the even - ing comes
Chorus
Verse 2:
A E
You're rich in love
B C#m
And You're slow to anger
A E
Your name is great
B C#m
And Your heart is kind
A E
For all Your goodness
B C#m
I will keep on singing …
A2 E
Ten thousand reasons
Bsus4 B E
Esus E
For my heart to find
Chorus
Verse 3:
A E
And on that day
B C#m
When my strength is failing
A E
The end draws near
B C#m
And my time has come
A E
Still my soul will sing
B C#m
Your praise unending …
A2 E
Ten thousand years
Bsus4
B E
Esus E
And then fore - vermore
Ending Chorus:
A E
Bless the Lord O my soul
B/D# C#m
O my soul
A E Bsus4
B
Worship His holy name
A
C#m
Sing like never before
A B C#m
O my soul
A B
E
I'll worship Your holy name
A E
Bless the Lord O my soul
B/D# C#m
O my soul
A E Bsus4
B
Worship His holy name
A C#m
Sing like never before
A B C#m
O my soul
A B
C#m
I'll worship Your holy name
A B
C#m
I'll worship Your holy name
A B
(A)
I'll worship Your holy name
(A) E B/D# C#m
A E Bsus B
A C#m
Sing like never before
A B C#m
O my soul
A B
C#m
I'll worship Your holy name
A B
C#m
I'll worship Your holy name
A B
(A)
I'll worship Your holy name
(A) E B/D# C#m
A Bsus B E
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)/ Words and Music by Matt
Redman / ©2011 ThankYou Music / 10,0000 Reasons.doc
Psalm 104 – Bless the Creator
:1 Bless the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, You are very
great: You are clothed with honor and majesty,
:1 Bless the Lord, O my
soul!
Again, the psalmist is commanding his own soul to give God praise.
This time, the focus is going to be on God as our Creator.
We praise Him because He’s the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
:2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who
stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
:2 Who cover Yourself with light
We sing a song with the lyric, “He wraps Himself with light…”
God is all about light.
(1 John 1:5 NKJV) This is the
message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and
in Him is no darkness at all.
(1 Timothy 6:16
NKJV) who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom
no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power.
Amen.
:3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the
clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
(Psalm 104:3 NLT) you lay out
the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.
:4 Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire.
angels – mal’ak
– messenger, representative; angel
spirits – ruwach
– wind, breath, mind, spirit
ministers – sharath
– (Piel) to minister, serve, minister to
:4 His ministers a flame of fire
Angels are often connected with fire.
When Samson’s parents were visited
by the Angel of the Lord, they were told about the son that would be born to
them, and they made a sacrifice to God…
(Judges 13:20 NLT) As the
flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the fire. When Manoah
and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground.
When Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind to heaven …
(2 Kings 2:11 NLT) As they were
walking along and talking, suddenly a chariot of fire appeared, drawn by horses
of fire. It drove between the two men, separating them, and Elijah was carried
by a whirlwind into heaven.
When Elisha was surrounded by Syrians, he wasn’t afraid like his servant
was …
(2 Kings 6:17 NLT) Then Elisha
prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes
and let him see!” The Lord opened
the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around
Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.
The angels are part of God’s creation.
The author of Hebrews quotes our passage
(Hebrews 1:14 NKJV)
Are
they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will
inherit salvation?
Angels are part of God’s creation, and their purpose is to
“minister” to or serve believers.
:5 You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it
should not be moved forever,
:6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood
above the mountains.
:6 The waters stood above the mountains
The writer is talking about the flood of Noah, when the water covered the
mountains.
:7 At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened
away.
:8 They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the
place which You founded for them.
:9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not
return to cover the earth.
:9 they may not return to cover the earth
God created the rainbow as a sign that He would never again destroy the
earth by a flood.
(Genesis 9:14–15
NKJV) —14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow
shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you
and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a
flood to destroy all flesh.
:10 He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills.
:10 He sends the springs into the valleys
Not only did God create everything, but He also maintains everything.
There are some who teach that God created everything, and then moved away
somewhere and isn’t involved with His creation.
Not so.
The Psalmist is going to talk about how God cares for His creation.
:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench
their thirst.
:12 By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the
branches.
:13 He waters the hills from His upper chambers;
(Psalm 104:13 NLT) You send
rain on the mountains from your heavenly home…
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
:14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the
service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth,
:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his
face shine, And bread which strengthens man’s heart.
:16 The trees of the Lord are
full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,
:17 Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir
trees.
:18 The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge
for the rock badgers.
:18 wild goats … rock badgers
At Ein Gedi (“spring of the young goats”) in Israel, you can see both rock
badgers as well as wild goats …
Video: Ein Gedi Goats
:19 He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
:19 the moon for seasons
(Genesis 1:14 NKJV) Then God
said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
:20 You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the
forest creep about.
:21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
:22 When the sun rises, they gather together And lie down in their
dens.
:23 Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening.
:24 O Lord, how manifold are
Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your
possessions—
:24 In wisdom You have made them all
There is intelligence in the design of creation.
In contrast, Charles Darwin suggested that all life came about through the
process of natural selection and chance random mutation.
No design whatsoever.
Darwin’s theory leaves no room for an intelligent Creator putting thought and
purpose into the world around us.
When you look at the information that is encoded in the DNA of a simple
cell, it’s hard to believe that someone can think there was no “coder”
programming the living cell.
Getting down to the cellular level,
we find that there is quite a bit a lot of complicated things happening, things
show intelligent design.
Video: Truth Project – Molecular Machines
Lesson
Intelligent Creator
That’s the whole point of this psalm.
There is a real God who has made everything. He acts with wisdom, with intelligence.
He’s made a beautiful world and deserves our thanks and praise.
In contrast to this, the Bible says
that God is the Creator.
Animals and people aren’t some sort
of cosmic mutational mistake, they show actual intelligence in their design.
With today’s technology, the
greater the microscopes, the more detailed investigation we can conduct.
What you see is not the product of
chance random mutation, but very intricate, intelligent design, such as the
investigation in how to build a simple worm…
:25 This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming
things, Living things both small and great.
:26 There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan Which You
have made to play there.
:26 There is that Leviathan
Leviathan – livyathan –
leviathan, sea monster, dragon
Giant squid can grow to be bigger than a school bus.
Could there have been real sea monsters?
Who knows? I have actual footage…
:27 These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due
season.
:28 What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are
filled with good.
:29 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they
die and return to their dust.
:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of
the earth.
:31 May the glory of the Lord
endure forever; May the Lord
rejoice in His works.
:32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they
smoke.
:33 I will sing to the Lord
as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
:34 May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the Lord.
:35 May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise
the Lord!
:35 May sinners be consumed from the earth
Sinners are out of harmony with the Creator.
:34 May my meditation be sweet to Him
Proper response to a Great Creator is not just praise, but careful thought.
Songs
Verse 1 - Dave
Chorus - All
Verse 2
Chorus
Refrain – “Name above all names...”
Chorus
A
The splendor of the King
F#m
Clothed in majesty
D2
Let all the earth rejoice
All the earth rejoice
A
He wraps Himself in light
F#m
And darkness tries to hide
D2
And trembles at His voice
And trembles at His voice
A
How great is our God
Sing with me
F#m
How great is our God
Dmaj7
And all will see how great
E A
How great is our God
And age to age He stands
And time is in His hands
Beginning and the End
Beginning and the End
The Godhead, three in one
Father, Spirit, Son
The Lion and Lamb
The Lion and Lamb
A
Name above all names
F#m
Worthy of all praise
Dmaj7
My heart will sing
E A
How great is our God
How Great Is Our God / Words & Music by Chris
Tomlin, Jesse Reeves & Ed Cash / ©
2004 worshiptogether.com / HowGreatIs.doc