Oakwood Church

"How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer."
Psalm 19:12-14, NLT

1. Meditate on Creation

"The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship."
Psalm 19:1

1. Meditate on Creation

• The book of Nature sings the praises of God

"The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship."
Psalm 19:1

1. Meditate on Creation

• The book of Nature sings the praises of God

"Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known."
Psalm 19:2

• The book of Natureconstantly sings the praises of God

"They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world."
Psalm 19:3-4

1. Meditate on Creation

• Reflect on the Details of the world

"God has made a home in the heavens for the sun."
Psalm 19:5

1. Meditate on Creation

• Reflect on the Details of the world

"It bursts forth like a radiant bridegroom after his wedding. It rejoices like a great athlete eager to run the race."
Psalm 19:5

1. Meditate on Creation

• Reflect on the Details of the world

"The sun rises at one end of the heavens and follows its course to the other end. Nothing can hide from its heat."
Psalm 19:6

“He who forgets the humming of the bees among the heather, or the cooing of the wood pigeons in the forest, the song of the birds in the woods, the rippling of rills among the rushes, the sighing of the wind among the pines, needs not wonder if his heart forgets to sing and his soul grows heavy…
A day’s breathing of fresh air upon the hills, or a few hours’ ramble in the beech woods umbrageous calm, would sweep the cobwebs out of the brain of scores of our toiling ministers who are not but half alive. A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind’s face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best.”
~ Charles Spurgeon

2. Meditate on Scripture

"The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple."
Psalm 19:7

(1A) "The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul.
(1B) The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
(2A) The commandments of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart.
(2B) The commands of the Lord are clear, giving insight for living.
(3A) Reverence for the Lord is pure, lasting forever.
(3B) The laws of the Lord are true; each one is fair."
Psalm 19:7-9

2. Meditate on Scripture

• The only thing in this world that is consistently true and Reliable

"The instructions of the Lord are perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple."
Psalm 19:7

2. Meditate on Scripture

• The only thing in this world that is consistently true and Reliable

"Reverence for the Lord is pure, lasting forever. The laws of the Lord are true; each one is fair.” Psalm 19:9

2. Meditate on Scripture

• Our connection to God’s life, wisdom, joy, power, righteousness etc.

"They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb.”
Psalm 19:10

2. Meditate on Scripture

• Our connection to God’s life, wisdom, joy, power, righteousness etc.

"They are a warning to your servant, a great reward for those who obey them.”
Psalm 19:11

“Liberalism on the one hand and the religion of the historic church on the other are not two varieties of the same religion, but two distinct religions proceeding from altogether separate roots.”
~ J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“Over against [the pragmatist, modernist] attitude, we believers in historic Christianity maintain the objectivity of truth… Theology, we hold, is not an attempt to express in merely symbolic terms an inner experience which must be expressed in different terms in subsequent generations; but it is a setting forth of those facts upon which experience is based.”
~ J. Gresham Machen, What is Faith?