Psalm 24 Part 2 Either God Created All Things Or We Are the Product of Random Circumstances

Psalm 24:1-2  A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2  For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 

King David, also called the sweet Psalmist of Israel, begins this Psalm as guided by the Spirit of God.

There is a strong message that all people in the world need to hear.

Hebrews 1:1-3  God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 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; 

There is only One, True, Living God of heaven who created all things, who governs His creation by the power of His Word.

How did God do this? 

He established laws of physics that govern all planetary motions, regulates the movement of the sun, moon and stars and seasonal changes. 

It is fascinating to study the laws of physics, thermodynamics and motion and to realize how God perfectly balanced all of these things so that we can live on earth.

Our planet spins around on its axis at about 1,100 miles per hour and the laws of motion state that all things not anchored to the ground, should fly off into space.

Yet, we do not even feel this rapid spinning motion of our planet. 

Why? Because God gave us just the right amount of gravity to keep us in place and to support life as we know it.

Our planet hurtles through space in its orbit around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour and we are orbiting our sun which travels through space at 561,000 miles per hour.

We have a precises 365 days in a year, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours for each day.

We have a 7 day week, and a 12 month year.

All of these things work together perfectly.

How can all of these things coordinate like a well oiled machine?

Because God set it all in place and He put all the perfect governing mechanisms  in motion to regulate His creation with clear design, precision and organized repetitions.

Why not a 25 hour day? 

Why not an 8 day week? 

Why not 70 seconds in a minute or 50 minutes in an hour? 

Why not 370 days in a year?

Because nothing else will work. 

God's creation mechanisms are flawless and function as they do in order to facilitate life on earth 

John 1:1-4  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  The same was in the beginning with God. 3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

John's prologue to the gospel bearing his name begins by telling us that another name of the LORD Jesus Christ is "The Word."

As the Word of God, Christ is God and He created all things, and nothing exists that He did not create.

He is the One who gave life to all living things! 

Psalm 42:1-2  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 

The Psalmist declares what is true about God because he had a relationship by faith, believing God's Word and promises to de true.

He expresses something that each Christian should seek to cultivate. He had an intense longing to commune with God, to know Him more intimately and a thirst to worship Him in accord with His Word.

The Psalmist calls God "The living God" who stands in contrast to all false, man made gods.

Men make idols or statues out of stone, wood, or metal and then they foolishly fall down before their lifeless lumps of material and worship them.

Often, these idols have human features that the Psalmist and prophets of God rightly mock, for it is absurd to think of bowing down to some idol created by your hands and believing it can hear you or help you in any way.

Psalm 115:3-9  But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. 4  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5  They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6  They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7  They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8  They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. 9  O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 

Here is an example from the Psalmist.

Idols are the works of men's hands and they are made from wood, stone, silver, gold, ivory.

They have eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear.

They have noses that cannot smell and mouths that cannot taste.

They have arms, legs, and hands that cannot move, cannot touch or feel anything.

In contrast, the LORD is the One, True Living God who created all things and who rules over it all.

His eyes do see and His ears are attentive unto the prayers of His sheep. 

He does know us and care about us.

Jeremiah 10:10  But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. 

The phrase "The living God" is used thirty times in the Bible, with fifteen found in the Old Testament and fifteen in the New Testament.

The One True God is the self existent God, the One who always existed, who presently exists and and who shall always exist because He is the God of eternity. 

He is an everlasting King and He will judge the earth in righteousness and all sinners and wicked people will tremble when He comes.

First day of creation.

Genesis 1:1-5  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 

God commanded the light into existence and He called period of light Day and the dark period night.

The second day of creation.

Genesis 1:6-8  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 

God created an opening or what we night call, the atmosphere around earth, giving it the name of firmament.

This expanse or open are of air separated the water vapor in cloud form, from the solid waters of the oceans.

The clear skies about us God gave the name of heaven.

The Bible describes the earth's atmosphere as the first, heaven, and space where the sun, moon, and stars exist as the second heaven.

The third heaven is call the abode of God (See 2 Corinthians 12).

The third day of creation.

Genesis 1:9  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13  And the evening and the morning were the third day. 

God did a lot on the third day of creation.

He separated the waters from the land so that dry land appeared.

God gave the name "seas" to the waters and "land" to the dry ground.

He commanded the earth to produce grasses, herbs and trees in abundance, each species reproducing after their kind. 

The words "after their kind" reminds us of what we know to be true about creation.

These words gave rise to the Linnaean classification system widely used in biology, but it has been corrupted by evolutionists who added imaginary "evolutionary trees" to the classification by physical traits.

An oak tree will never reproduce anything but another oak tree. 

A burning bush will never reproduce anything except another burning bush.

Fescue grass can only reproduce more fescue grass.

An eagle can only reproduce another eagle.

A cat can only reproduce another cat and a dog can only reproduce another dog.

A robin can only reproduce another robin.

An ape can only reproduce another ape and a human can only reproduce another human.

These are observable, incontrovertible facts about the creation we see, and no immense amounts time will alter the outcomes.

Evolution is a lie of the Devil designed to deceive people into thinking that God does not exist and that God will not hold sinners accountable for their sins (See Romans 1:18-31).

The fourth day of creation.

Genesis 1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 

God assigned the proper functions to the sun, moon stars and constellations.

Their function was to govern the 24 hour periods of day and night on the earth, to regulate life so that we have periods of activity and period of rest.

The sun, moon and stars inform us of the days, weeks months of a year and of seasonal changes.

Specifically, God created the sun to dominate the period He called day, and the moon to rule over the night.

The stars and the constellations they form seem to be created both for our pleasure and to remind us of God, as many of the constellations do.

The fifth day of Creation.

Genesis 1:20-23  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21  And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 

God created all the aquatic life forms on the fifth day. He also created all the birds.

Genesis 1:24-31  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25  And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31  And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 

Evolutionary theories are the great lie of Satan designed to cast doubt upon the existence of God, the power of God and His ability to keep His promises.

On the sixth day of creation God made all land animals and He created man.

It is clear from the text that God gave man a soul and made him a moral, rational being.

Thus, God created man in the image of Himself, that Adam might reflect the image of God into this newly created world.

God blessed Adam and gave him authority to govern His creation, and to reproduce and fill the earth with more people.

God originally gave Adam herbs and fruit to eat, and the animals also ate green grasses and herbs to eat.

The question people must grapple with is found in verse 1.

Do you believe God or not?

Do you believe that all things came into existence by themselves, in a totally random, unpredictable way?

Do you believe that God was the only one present at creation, and that His account of the origin of all things is true?

My answer and your answer to these important questions will determine where we will spend eternity.

Hell is for the Devil and unbelievers.

Heaven is for those who trust God and believe His Word.

Bob