Psalm Chapter 19, If God Exists, There Should Be Evidence, bibliographic tests, S.P.A.M.S, MAPS, Empirical forensic historic science

1. Psalm 19
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4. The Heavens Declare
the Glory of God
This NASA Picture
Has Been Called
“The Eye Of God”
How Does That Apply To Us?

5. Please open your Bibles to Psalm 19

6. God’s Witness in Psalm 19
• Psalm 19 is Divinely divided into 2 sections;
– Vs. 1-6, Witness of God’s World
– General revelation
– Vs. 7-14, Witness of God’s Word
– Special revelation

7. Psalm 19:1, The Work Of His Hands
• NAU Psalm 19:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their
expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2 Day to
day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals
knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out
through all the earth, And their utterances to the end
of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun, 5
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It
rejoices as a strong man to run his course. 6 Its rising is
from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the
other end of them; And there is nothing hidden from
its heat.

8. Testimony Of God’s Work
• NAU Psalm 19:1 …The heavens are telling of the
glory of God; And their expanse [the
firmament, expanse, sky] is declaring the work
of His hands.
• I brought in an actual piece of His work!
• Here is one of God’s rocks.
• If this was the only piece, how could we
explain it’s existence.

9. “If something exists now, then
Something exists necessarily.”
• If there was a time when there was absolutely nothing
in existence.
• What would be in existence now?
• Absolutely nothing. You cannot get something from
nothing. Nothing produces No thing.
• The world does exist (and it is passing away), that
demands that there has to be something that has
always existed. And, that Something must be self
existent. An uncaused cause, an uncreated Creator, a
First Cause.
• The universe exists, is dying a heat death, is expanding,
had a beginning. It is an “effect” and therefore had to
have a cause.

10. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• I believe there are only 4 possible
explanations for this rock.
• I.C.E.S
• No that’s not how we spell the plural of “ice”
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Eternally existent
• 3. Self existent
• 4. Created

11. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• 1. Illusion
• Absolutely no evidence for your existence as just
an illusion. Or that we share dreams.
• An illusion requires a sender and a receiver. An
illusion can’t be to just itself. Illusions don’t have
illusions. Only minds have illusions.
• Where do illusions come from? Who generates,
coordinates, and sends them?
• Christian Science, Eastern Religions, Word Faith

12. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Eternally existent
• Norm Geisler presents “S.U.R.G.E.”
• Second Law
• Universe is expanding
• Radiation echo
• Great mass of matter
• End of infinite time is impossible

13. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Eternally existent
• The first cause must be immutable, the entire
universe is changing, therefore it can't possibly
be eternal. It would have already changed
completely and died a heat death.
• It is logically impossible that time could be
passing, and still be eternal. It would have
already passed away in eternity past.”
• NAU Malachi 3:6 "For I, the LORD, do not change…

14. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Eternally existent
• 3. Self existent
• This is a logical contradiction, requiring existence before
existence. “It” must be, before “it” is.
• The “Big Bang” doesn’t help. It is impossible for sterilized
water and hot rock to become a tomato. Let alone a farmer
or philosopher. Mutation and survival of the fittest, only
remove or destroy genetic code. Evolution has no means to
write or increase genetic information. It is deductive and
destructive. Birth defects!
• If nothing ever existed, then nothing would be.
• Do you know what “nothing” is?
• Aristotle said, “Nothing” is what rocks dream about.”

15. Is The Cosmos Self Existent?
• Carl Sagan used to always say,
• “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will
be.”
• Self Existence and Eternally Existent
• Blind faith in why there is something rather
than nothing

16. “If you exist, then Something exists
necessarily.”
• You are not self existent, eternally existent, or
an illusion, therefore you require a First Cause
who has personhood, is more powerful than
your “terrarium” and is self existent.
• I “am” therefore God/First Cause exists.
• I will have to paraphrase this, Ravi Zacharias
was once asked by a college student, “How
can I prove that I exist?”
• Ravi 's answer was “Who shall I say is asking?”

17. 4 Explanations for This Rock
• So, the universe is real (not imagined). It had a
beginning, will end, so it cannot be eternal. It
is an effect, requiring a cause, and could not
have caused itself before it was.
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Eternally existent
• 3. Self existent
• 4. Created

18. I.C.E.S.
• The universe is contingent, dependent, derived, not self-existent,
had a beginning, and is going to end. What started
this effect?
• A big bang requires a Big Banger. Nothing bangs without a
cause. Gases expand with 600 times more force than their
gravity exerts on each other in attraction.
• Empirical science cannot answer the question of how all
space, time, matter, and energy started. Because we
cannot set up an experiment and start multiple universes,
to test our theory.
• Single events in the past require forensic, or historic
science. We examine the physical evidence, eyewitness
testimony, and recorded information. The Bible passes the
3 bibliographic tests. (S.P.A.M.S), Science, Prophecy, Archeology,
Manuscripts, Statistical Probability

19. I.C.E.S., The Bible Declares A Creator
• The Creator of the universe must be self-existent, immutable,
omnipotent, alive, and a person. Also, outside of, and independent
of, the time, space, material universe.
• Manmade gods whether of wood or stone, or of the philosophies
and religions of men are not the God of creation.
• The God of the Bible is the only Creator of all things, and His Word
declares it;
• NAU Isaiah 43:10…understand that I am He. Before Me there was no
God formed, And there will be none after Me. 11 "I, even I, am the
LORD, And there is no savior besides Me… [Deuteronomy 4:35,
Isaiah 44:8, 1 Samuel 2:2, Psalm 86:8]
• NAU Isaiah 46:9 "Remember the former things long past, For I am God,
and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10
Declaring the end from the beginning And from ancient times
things which have not been done…

20. Testimony Across Time
• NAU Psalm 19:2 Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.
• Gen 1:16-19 God made two great lights…the
fourth day.
• Gen 1:27-31 God created man in his own
image… the sixth day.
• Every human is accountable

21. Testimony Across Languages
• NAU Psalm 19:3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.
• Acts 17:25-28 neither is He served by human hands, as
though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to
all life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from
one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of
the earth, having determined their appointed times,
and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they
should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him
and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28 for in Him we live and move and exist…

22. Testimony Across Distance
• NAU Psalm 19:4 Their line has gone out through
all the earth, And their utterances to the end
of the world. In them He has placed a tent for
the sun,
• How far?

23. Testimony Across Distance
• If a trip of 1,000 miles cost $.01
• A trip to the moon would cost $2.38
• A trip to the sun would cost $930
• A trip to the nearest star would cost
$260,000,000
• NAU Psalm 8:3 When I consider Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers, The moon and the
stars, which You have ordained;

24. Ps 19:4 Their Line?
• NAU Psalm 19:4 Their line has gone out through
all the earth…
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• Meaning: a line…
• Usage: circumference*(1), line(16),
measuring line(3).
• DLK adds, we use a “measuring line” to test,
evaluate, and as a witness of straightness.

25. Testimony Everywhere The Sun Shines
• NAU Psalm 19:6 Its rising is from one end of the
heavens, And its circuit to the other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
• There is no place you can hide.
• NAU Psalm 104:19 He made the moon for the
seasons; The sun knows the place of its setting.
• NAU Deuteronomy 4:19 …the sun and the moon and
the stars…those which the LORD your God has
allotted to all the peoples under the whole
heaven.

26. Denying Him Deserves Judgment
• NAU Job 9:7 Who commands the sun not to shine, And
sets a seal upon the stars; 8 Who alone stretches out
the heavens And tramples down the waves of the sea; 9
Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, And the
chambers of the south; 10 Who does great things,
unfathomable, And wondrous works without number.
• NAU Job 31:26 If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor, 27 And my heart became
secretly enticed, And my hand threw a kiss from my
mouth, 28 That too would have been an iniquity calling
for judgment, For I would have denied God above.

27. The Sun, Moon, And Stars Testify
• NAU Psalm 136:7 To Him who made the great
lights, For His lovingkindness is everlasting: 8
The sun to rule by day, For His lovingkindness
is everlasting, 9 The moon and stars to rule by
night, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
• NAU Psalm 19:4 …through all the earth, And their
utterances to the end of the world…

28. If You Have Seen The Sun
• If the sun has shined on you, you are
accountable for it’s testimony about God.
• If you saw a burning bush it would only be
natural, logical, and scientific to assume there
was someone/something that caused the
burning.
• It would be unnatural, illogical, and
unscientific to assume there was no
one/nothing that caused the burning.

29. Psalm 19:1b, Cause & Effect
• Psalm 19:1 …The heavens are telling of the
glory of God; And their expanse is declaring
the work of His hands.
• Every work must have a worker.
• Paintings have painters.
• Buildings have builders.
• Every effect must have an adequate cause.

30. Isaiah 45 Identifies The First Cause
• NAU Isaiah 45:12 "It is I who made the earth, and
created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens
with My hands And I ordained all their host.
• NAU Isaiah 45:5 "I am the LORD, and there is no
other; Besides Me there is no God…6 That men
may know from the rising to the setting of the
sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the
LORD, and there is no other, 7 The One forming
light and creating darkness… [Isaiah 45:18,22-25, Job
12:7-12]

31. A First Cause Is Required
• Powerful
• Personal
• Provider
• Apart from the Effect
• Our DNA is an error correcting, digital code. Digital
code requires a sender and a receiver, a method of
communicating, an agreed upon protocol. Paul
Revere's ride encompassed all that in simple code.
• The requirement of a First Cause is so basic and
essential that….

32. Men Are Without Excuse
Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world
God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and
divine nature-have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse.
NAU Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives
the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the
moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs
up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of
hosts is His name:

33. Innocent Native Rhetorical ?’s
• NAU Romans 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON
THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."
• 14 How then will they call on Him in whom they
have not believed? How will they believe in Him
whom they have not heard? And how will they
hear without a preacher?
• NAU Romans 10:18 But I say, surely they have never
heard, have they?
• Indeed they have; "THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT
INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE
ENDS OF THE WORLD."

34. God’s Witness in Psalm 19
• Psalm 19 is Divinely divided into 2 sections;
– Vs. 1-6, Witness of God’s World
– General revelation
–Vs. 7-14, Witness of God’s Word
–Special revelation
–NAU Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is
perfect, restoring the soul; The
testimony of the LORD is sure, making
wise the simple.

35. Witness of God’s Word
• God’s Word says;
• NAU Psalm 19:8 The precepts of the LORD are
right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment
of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
• You may be asking, “Well, what else does
God’s Word say?”

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ooff tthhee gglloorryy ooff GGoodd,,

38. RRoomm 66::2233
FFoorr tthhee wwaaggeess ooff ssiinn iiss ddeeaatthh,,
bbuutt tthhee ggiifftt ooff GGoodd iiss eetteerrnnaall
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YYeett ttoo aallll wwhhoo rreecceeiivveedd hhiimm,, ttoo
tthhoossee wwhhoo bbeelliieevveedd iinn hhiiss
nnaammee,, hhee ggaavvee tthhee rriigghhtt ttoo
bbeeccoommee cchhiillddrreenn ooff GGoodd

40. SSiinnccee mmeenn aarree wwiitthhoouutt eexxccuussee..
WWhhaatt wwiillll yyoouu ssaayy oonn JJuuddggmmeenntt
DDaayy??
WWhhaatt wwiillll yyoouu ssaayy ttooddaayy??

41. Now Is “The Day Of Salvation”
• NAS 2 Corinthians 6:1 And working together with
Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace
of God in vain--
• 2 for He says, "At the acceptable time I
listened to you, And on the day of salvation I
helped you"; behold, now is "the acceptable
time," behold, now is "the day of salvation "--

42. IInn CCoonncclluussiioonn
• When you are
questioned about
God’s existence
remember the ICES
caps on our world;
• 1. Illusion
• 2. Created
• 3. Eternally existent
• 4. Self existent

43. TTHHEE EENNDD
• Psalm 19, The World and the Word