Nano9018: A Christian Voice Nanosermon
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I’m Stephen Green and in this Christian Voice Nanosermon we’re going to be blessed by a verse from the longest psalm in the Bible. It’s Psalm one hundred and nineteen and verse eighteen:
Psa 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Every single verse of this great psalm praises the law of God, saying something good about his commandments, his statutes, his precepts, his Torah, his instruction for mankind.
And here the psalmist prays for vision to see the depth and the wonder of God’s law.
How many separate laws?
There will be a surprise at the end of this nanosermon, but let’s start with the obvious, and ask how many separate laws of God do we find in the Torah?
The correct answer is not ten, it’s six hundred and thirteen. The Rabbis separate the six hundred and thirteen mitzvot, or laws, into four categories:
The two biggest categories, surprisingly, are the sacrificial laws to do with the ancient temple, and the ceremonial laws, devoted to ritual cleanliness.
Next are the moral laws, to do with personal behaviour, and the civil laws, which govern how society is to work.
Sacrificial & Ceremonial Laws
Each of those categories contains wondrous things.
The sacrificial laws prophesy the sacrifice of Jesus and our redemption. That’s a wonder, how God set in place a plan for our reconciliation to himself. And remember, the psalmist never even saw their fulfilment in Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah.
The ceremonial laws show how Israel was to be different from the nations, separated for service. Jews follow most of those today and many Christians see the dietary laws as a way to eat more healthily.
Moral & Civil Laws
The moral laws provide a pattern for godly living, and they are intertwined with the civil laws, showing how we are to interact with each other.
If God is our creator, he had both the right and the duty to spell these laws out, so human society would function in peace with a degree of order and thereby hold together.
That there could be a Creator with such a loving intention is wondrous in itself. And if we approach God’s laws with our eyes open and in humility, not sitting in judgment on them, but learning and studying them instead, then we shall see wondrous things.
As you read your Bible, you will realise there is so much wonder you had not yet seen.
The laws of nature
Now then. There is yet another category of God’s law showing us wondrous things. And that is the laws of nature.
To consider, as the writer of Ecclesiastes puts it, how we grow in the womb, from the miracle of conception to the miracle of birth, is to behold wondrous things.
In Psalm eight, the psalmist is in wonder when he considers the heavens.
Proverbs chapter eight teaches us that God’s laws, all the laws of nature, personified there as his ‘wisdom’, was put in place, as it had to be, before anything was brought forth. To study nature, as Christians have done down the ages, without forcing it into an evolutionary grid, is to behold wondrous things.
’See what God has already given’
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said of this verse: ‘We do not so much need God to give us more benefits, as we need the ability to see what He has already given.’
Psa 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
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