Transformative Power and Mercy: A Call to Praise

The psalmist can't understand why everybody doesn't praise God when he thinks of God in his greatness and his glory and especially when he thinks of him in his wonderful salvation. Not after how the psalmist was a man who knew the whole situation he knew what men and women were like. [00:03:02]

The Bible comes as a great message to such persons asking them to awaken to begin to look and to see and put self now it's the last thing we want to do isn't it with regard to these metals we are not often our prejudices and we cling tenaciously to them. [00:06:22]

The Bible in other words makes this argument it says if we really only observed life as it is if we only work out the argument well we'd be bound to believe in God now he tells us that in many ways take for instance the whole argument from creation. [00:08:23]

The psalmist goes under the next thing he tells us that we are so blind about by nature and so fail to observe is the wonderful nature of this salvation the character of this salvation and that's the thing that he deals with in these verses 35 to 38. [00:16:54]

The first thing about this great Christian salvation is that it is the work of God in the son now he puts it here you see he he God turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water Springs now the first thing we have to say about this work therefore is that it is a miracle. [00:20:08]

The change that God works in the soul is a complete change I needn't keep you with this neither you can't imagine a more complete change than a wilderness and standing water dry ground water Springs it's the complete antithesis it is an entire and a complete thing now that's Christianity. [00:30:02]

The tragedy about the man who's not a Christian is that his life is purposeless he doesn't know where he's going, he doesn't know what he's doing the whole of life is uncertain if that's why he lives as he does because he has a purpose he's going round and round in circles and it is never going to end. [00:46:55]

The satisfaction of becoming a Christian what am I talking about what I'm talking about intellectual satisfaction I assure you that there is no intellectual satisfaction in the whole wide world but this but your very complete intellectual rest and satisfaction I don't speak about myself in this pulpit. [00:44:16]

The Christian life is marked by rest and satisfaction, as God provides for our needs and fulfills our deepest longings. This rest is the end of our wanderings and striving, as we find peace and purpose in Christ. [00:40:12]

The psalmist argues that creation itself is evidence of a Creator. The beauty and complexity of the natural world are not the result of chance but the fingerprints of God. Observing and reasoning about the world should lead us to acknowledge God's existence and power. [00:09:21]

The psalmist urges everyone, especially the redeemed, to praise God for His enduring mercy and goodness. This call to worship is rooted in the recognition of God's blessings and deliverance in our lives. Ignorance and a lack of wisdom are the reasons many fail to praise God, as they do not observe and understand His works. [00:02:32]

The miraculous nature of salvation is akin to turning a wilderness into standing water. This transformation is not a result of human effort but the direct action of God, resulting in a complete change of nature and a new life in Christ. [00:22:48]