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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

The Rocks That Talk Stone 1

Why do you suppose we started our trail with God is love?

And the Bible says in 1 John 4, 8, God is love.

It's not something we get from somewhere else.

God is the definition of love and He desires for all His creatures to live in love and His love and thoughts about humanity are seen, it says on the rock, in nature and within Scripture.

And then it gives 2 texts, Psalm 19 and Psalm 139.

So look at Psalm 19 for a moment why do we put Psalm 19 there let's look at it Psalm 19 Psalm 19 a very famous psalm.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork, the work of his hands.

Day into day utters speech, night into night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world.

In them he has set a tabernacle for the Sun which is like a bridegroom going out of his chamber and rejoices like a strongman That to run its race It's rising is from 1 end of heaven and a circuit to the other end and there's nothing hidden from its heat so in these first 6 verses we have a recounting of the physical activity of God in creation.

And He is involved in creating Not only the solar system and the atmosphere but tangibly the things on earth and this is This is the whole point that's made now Francis Collins who's the head of the National Institutes of Health, I think it is, he was an atheist turned Christian as a result of looking at DNA coding.

And as he looked at it, he said man, this has got to be this there's no way this could just have happened This is so Fine-tuned you might say is the word they talk about it fine-tuned.

It is so incredible that there has to be some kind of designer.

And then, he looked at the rest of the psalm.

So, first of all, he says, This physicality is something I've seen with the DNA.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.

The testimony of the Lord is sure-making, wiseness is simple.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey in the honeycomb.

Over by them your siren is worn and keeping and keeping there is great reward and Then you know It asked who can understand his errors cleanse me from secret faults keep back your servant from presumptuous sins Let them not have dominion over me.

Then I shall be blameless and shall be innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth, meditation of my heart be acceptable in my sight.

So Francis Collins looks at that first part and he goes, wait, there's a physical activity of God, his handiwork.

Then moving on, he goes, there is also God's activity in humanity and how he wanted to insert himself and his knowledge into the human system and mind, and he does that by writing his law on our hearts and minds.

That's the fingerprints of God that he wants to put in everyone's heart and mind.

And so the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul.

But not only that, it says his love and his thoughts about humanity are seen in nature and within scripture.

We also put not just Psalm 19, but Psalm 139.

And let's look there just briefly at Psalm 139.

Oh, by the way, you could sing part of Psalm 19.

You know, how many know the song for Psalm 19?

So, if I was out on the trail with somebody, I might sing them the song.

I might call my wife to sing the song with me or something.

And not only that, Psalm 139, the reason we start the trail with God's love is because people sometimes are not convinced of God's love.

And when they look into nature, they see his handiwork, they see his loving expressions, but Psalm 139 is like the ultimate psalm that shows his love.

For you formed my inward parts, you covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed, and in your book they all were written.

The days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them.

So the 1, the handiwork who created the heavens is now saying, wait a minute, he created you.

And just as he formed the foundations of the earth, the granites, which we're going to talk about in the next 2 hours here in the colloquium, just as He formed those, He formed you.

And you're fearfully and wonderfully made.

So He loves you enough to have formed you.

Verse 1 through 6, O Lord, you have searched me, you know me, you know my sitting down, you know my rising up, you understand my thought afar off, you comprehend my path, my lying down, you're acquainted with all my ways, And there's not a word on my tongue, but behold oh Lord you know it all together You have heads me behind and before you've laid your hand upon me.

So not only did he fully form us, verse 13 through 16, he fully knows us.

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth, even there your hand shall lead me, your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, surely the darkness shall follow me, even the night shall be light about me indeed the darkness shall not hide from you but the night shines as the day the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

He follows us everywhere, he's like the divine stalker but in a good way.

He follows you not just on Facebook and Instagram, he follows you every day, not just in the day but also in the night.

He fully formed you, he fully knows you, and he fully follows you.

And it's out of, well let's see what happens.

Now how many of you, if someone fully formed you, fully knows you, and follows you all over the place, How many think they would reject you because they know everything you've been doing?

If these people only knew who I was, they really wouldn't like me.

And this is the psalm I give them to read because even though you may have done all kinds of things wrong, God still loves you and He's still seeking for you and searching for you.

And that's what we see here in verse 17 and 18.

How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God!

If I should count them, they'd be more in number than the sand, and when I awake I'm still with you.

He formed you, He fully knows you, he fully follows you, and with all that information he still has precious thoughts about you.

You might not have as precious thoughts about yourself as he does.

Isn't that Incredible and then notice what it says and when I awake I'm still with you.

I Mean He's not trying to get away from you Have you ever had someone try to get away from you?

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