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Psalm chapter 19 verse 7

the law of the Lord is perfect

reviving the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple.

This is such a great verse, it's the hinge verse in Psalm 19.

What I mean by that is that for the first six verses we see a picture of God's

glory in creation about how the heavens declare his glory, the sky proclaims his

handiwork and how the world is just speaking, shouting really all the time from the

rising of the sun to it's going down

everywhere in the world we see creation shouting the glory of God and the goodness of

God and the wonder of God and the wonder of God.

But then you get to verse 7, and as you're almost thinking there's no way you could

get any higher than this when it comes to God's revelation of himself it goes even higher and

basically the Psalmist takes God's revelation in the world and says what's even

greater is God's revelation of himself in his word.

And you see the law of the Lord is perfect reviving the soul.

And that just begins a whole litany of descriptions of God's word as his testimony and the precepts of the Lord,

the commandment of the Lord, and fear of the Lord and the rules of the Lord.

And you see these adjectives it's perfect it's sure right pure clean true better

than gold that all kinds of gold sweeter than honey

and hearing your word, we're warned and refined great reward.

And so verse 7 just shifts this whole psalm to say greater than God's revelation of himself in the world

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