Psalm 139

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Psalm 139

• I praise you because I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made

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Psalm 139

• A contemplative psalm
• Maybe even a philosophical one

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Psalm 139

• Whats it all about?
• Gods omnipresence
• Gods omniscience

- Omni all / presence presence - Omni all
/ science knowledge
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Psalm 139

• God is Omniscient
• its a fact
• but thats not quite what David is saying
• David is saying
• God is omniscient because hes omnipresent

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Psalm 139

• An intimate, personal, all-knowing God

two possible reactions

• Fear
• Denial
• run-away and hide

• Joy
• Love
• Praise

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Psalm 139
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Psalm 139

• v1-12 Gods Omnipresence
• v13-16 Davids place in Gods universe
• v17-24 Davids reaction to this

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Psalm 139 1-12

• O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.  
• You know when I sit and when I rise you perceive
  my thoughts from afar.
• You discern my going out and my lying down you
  are familiar with all my ways.
• Before a word is on my tongue you know it
  completely, O LORD.
• You hem me inbehind and before you have laid
  your hand upon me.
• Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty
  for me to attain.
• Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I
  flee from your presence?
• If I go up to the heavens, you are there if I
  make my bed in the depths, you are there.
• If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle
  on the far side of the sea, even there your hand
  will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
  
• If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and
  the light become night around me," even the
  darkness will not be dark to you the night will
  shine like the day, for darkness is as light to
  you.

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Psalm 139 13-16

• Youre amazing
• 100 trillion cells
• (100,000,000,000,000)
• 46 chromosomes in each cell
• (23 pairs)
• Each one of those is made up of DNA
• DNA is made up of four different bases (ACGT)
  which form the genetic code

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Psalm 139 13-16

• 3.2bn bases make up you!
• 20,488 genes
• Each set of three bases in gene 1 amino acid
• String of amino acids a protein
• Proteins make cells
• Cells make tissues
• Tissues make organs
• Organs make bodies
• But what does David say?

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Psalm 13917-24

• If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away
  from me, you bloodthirsty men!
•  They speak of you with evil intent your
  adversaries misuse your name.
•  Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and
  abhor those who rise up against you?
•  I have nothing but hatred for them I count
  them my enemies.
•  Search me, O God, and know my heart test me and
  know my anxious thoughts.
•  See if there is any offensive way in me, and
  lead me in the way everlasting.

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Psalm 139

• I praise you because I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made