INTRODUCTION
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. 2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
1 A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
"Let US...(1:26), brings the animals to Adam to be named, 'walks' in the garden...calls to Adam (3:8-9), he asks them questions (3:11-13, 4:9; 16:8). He is grieved by human wickedness - 6:6-7.
1. He is NOT a 'cosmic principle' - but a living, active BEING - thinking, feeling, approving of good, disapproving of evil... interested in His people.
1. Creats the Heaven and the Earth...bring order out of chaos....
2. Creats mankind - creating Adam out of dust, Eve from Adam's side...
3. He Is lord over all of Creationg ... cursing the ground, subjecting mankind to death...
4. He floods the earth in judgment - ch. 6-8
5. He confounds the language and scatters the builders of Babel, 11:7-9
6. He overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah -- 19:24-25, turns Lot's wife into a pillar of salt.
7. Abraham ...."the Judge of all the earth" - 18:25,
8. Melchizedek: "God Most High, maker of heaven and earth' - 14:19-22 RSV
9. He is present everwhere - observing ALL that men do -
11. Hagar calls her son Ishamel = "God hears",
12. God's own 'name' is El Shaddai - God Almighty....
13. "Is anything too hard for the LORD? - 18:14 (concerning a son in old age).
a. His Presence....
b. His power....
c. His Knowledge...
a. (Elihu's thought) = "with God is terrible majesty" - 37:22.
b. To read them is to become awed and reverent!
a. Isa. 40:12....
a. Assyria.... brought to judgment
b. Egypt...brought to judgment.
c. Babylon... brought to judgment.
Their 'forces' and 'resources' far more than mine, yet humbled before the great and majestic God we serve...
a. Think of the size, the nearly 5 million peoples, the vast sky...
b. God MADE it, organized it, preserves it, sustains it, and will some day destroy IT!
c. It is 'God's footstool' -
a. Pharoah -
b. Sennacherib...
c. Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 4)
d. Pilate... Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Clinton......
a. countless....
b. 'eternal'......
c. YET ordered......
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. (KJV)
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? (KJV)
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. (KJV)