"revelation" Tagged Sermons
1. God’s ____________________ in Holy Scripture is essentially clear in its basic message.
2. It is precisely because of its light-giving character that the Word of God is able to guide us in the paths of ________________________.
1. The second commandment forbids the worship of false ___________ under a ________________ form (vv. 4-5a).
2. The second commandment forbids the worship of the ____________ God under visible form (vv. 4-5a).
3. At its root, the second commandment prohibits all worship that is founded on man’s _____________________ rather than on God’s ___________________ !
1. General Bible truths about ______________.
2. Holy angels were frequently called upon to be bearers of new __________________ from God.
3. Holy angels ______________ God for His mighty acts of ____________________, and they provide God’s people with an example of praise to God.
1. The unchanging _______________________ of God’s Word (vv. 16-18).
2. The gibberish of pagan _____________________ versus the clarity of Divine ____________________ (vv. 19-20).
3. The gloomy _______________ of those who reject the LORD and the _____________ of His Word (vv. 21-22).
1. The revelation of Yahweh’s covenant indictment (vv. 1-2).
2. The rebellion of God’s covenant people (vv. 2b-4).
3. The ruin of the rebellious (vv. 5-9).
4. A faithful remnant preserved by grace (v. 9).
1. Take to heart God’s universal demand for repentance (v. 30).
2. Behold, the Day of Judgement is coming (v. 31)!
3. The resurrection of Christ certifies Him as the agent of God’s judgment on Judgment Day (v. 31).
1. The character of the Christian’s trials (v. 6).
2. The purpose of the Christian’s trials (vv. 6-7).
The vague, general theism that surfaces around the holidays gets tested against Psalm 19’s own argument, which turns out to be about God’s mighty work in salvation, not merely creation’s testimony to a Creator. Salvation comes first, and obedience follows from it, not the reverse. Evidentialist apologetics, built on general revelation alone, cannot get you to that gospel.
Against naturalistic and humanistic accounts of Israel’s religion as just another ancient near eastern cult, its real uniqueness gets insisted on, drawing on Van Til’s view of revelation. God’s sheer grace toward Israel in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 is the two-sided key to understanding it rightly.