Sharon Reformed Presbyterian Church · Sermon study sheet

God's Word

Bryan Schneider · August 20, 2022

Psalm 19

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Summary

Psalm 19 first displays God's glory through the created world and then celebrates his clearer, saving revelation in the written Word.
Creation continually announces the Creator's power and artistry, calling people to wonder, gratitude, and worship rather than worship of created things.
General revelation is real but insufficient for salvation; sinners suppress its witness and need God's Word and Spirit to lead them to the Creator and Redeemer.
The Lord's Word is perfect, sure, right, pure, clean, enduring, true, and altogether righteous.
Received by faith, Scripture revives the soul, makes the simple wise, rejoices the heart, enlightens the eyes, warns against danger, and yields great reward.
God's Word exposes hidden faults and presumptuous sins, leads sinners toward cleansing and forgiveness, and guides them away from sin's dominion.
Jesus perfectly loved and obeyed God's law and is the Redeemer to whom Scripture leads, so Christians go to the Book to know their King.
The sermon urges hearers to treasure, read, hear, memorize, meditate upon, teach, and speak God's Word through practical and sustainable habits.

What does creation truly reveal about God, and what can it not reveal sufficiently for salvation?
How can enjoyment of creation become grateful worship of the Creator rather than idolatry of created things?
Which descriptions of God's Word in Psalm 19 most directly challenge my present attitude toward Scripture?
How do the Word and Spirit work together to revive, enlighten, convict, and strengthen a sinner?
Do I value Scripture more than wealth and sweetness, or has familiarity made me inattentive to it?
What hidden fault or presumptuous pattern might God's Word be exposing and redirecting today?
How does Psalm 19 lead from the law of the Lord to Jesus Christ as Redeemer?
What realistic habit of reading, listening, memorizing, or meditation would help store Scripture in my heart?

General revelation: God's universal disclosure of his glory, power, and divinity through the created order.
Special revelation: God's clear verbal disclosure in Scripture of his character, will, saving acts, and promised Redeemer.
Inspiration: The Holy Spirit's work by which God's chosen writers spoke and wrote his trustworthy Word.
Sufficiency of Scripture: The completeness of Scripture for God's glory, salvation, faith, and life without additions presented as new revelation.
Illumination: The Holy Spirit's inward work enabling people to understand and receive what Scripture reveals.
Meditation: Deliberate, repeated reflection on God's Word so that it shapes thought, affection, speech, and conduct.
Presumptuous sin: Willful, defiant transgression from which the psalmist asks God to restrain him.
Redeemer: The Lord who rescues sinners, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the perfectly obedient King revealed in Scripture.