anybody who wants to believe in God can believe in God and if a man does not believe in God it is not because he has intellectual difficulties it is because he has moral difficulties and I want to make that very clear and very plain unbelief never comes out of the head unbelief always comes out of the heart the Bible says in another Psalm Psalm 14 the fool hath said in his heart there is no God profound truth simply stated This is Love wor worth finding with Pastor teacher and author Adrien Rogers would you take God’s word and

find please Psalm chapter 19 the 19th Psalm and when you found it look up here and uh I want to read to you from a little leaflet that has been handed to me the title of this leaflet is an invitation to the intellectual Elite I wonder if you’re a part of the intellectual Elite uh this says if you accept that number one God is a myth humankind’s future is in its own hands number two prayers are what you say to yourself success in life depends upon human effort three humans are part of Nature and developed in it what purpose

there is in life humans make when you die your life is over forever only your ideas can survive next humankind is responsible for what it does there are no sins crimes cannot be forgiven by religious rights next the time to live is now the the place to live is here and the way to be happy is to make yourself and others happy now this this uh little leaflet has been presented by uh the American atheist Association in Austin Texas and so if you believe that it all just happened there is no God there is no such thing as Sin and that uh man is the

sum the substance the center and the circumference of everything if you believe that according to her you are a part of the intellectual Elite well I want to ask you this question today can an intelligent man can an intellectual believe in God that’s the title of the message can an intellectual believe in God with that in mind I want us to look here in Psalm 19 and I begin in verse one I’m going to read the whole Psalm before I’m finished but first of all the first six verses the heavens declare the

glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork day unto Day utth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge there is no speech no language where their voice is not heard their Lon has gone out through all the Earth and their words to the end of the world in them he set a tabernacle for the son which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race his going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the

heat thereof now God has spoken and anybody who wants to believe in God can believe in God and if a man does not believe in God it is not because he has intellectual difficulties it is because he has moral difficulties and I want to make that very clear and very plain unbelief never comes out of the head unbelief always comes out of the heart the Bible says in another Psalm Psalm 14 the fool hath said in his heart there is no God now number one there is the Declaration in the skies you have it the Declaration in the skies

look in verse one the heavens declare the glory of God that’s the Declaration in the skies the very Skies the elves tell you that God exists the heavens above us tell us that God exist and what do they what do they tell us about God well first of all they tell us about God’s glory the heavens declare the glory of God several years ago Joyce and I took a vacation down to the Bahamas and I wanted to be alone with her and just to have some just some think time and we found a little cottage there on a beach and it had a little

dock out in front of it and it was absolutely wonderful there was no air conditioning in that Cottage and and we had to leave the windows open and fight mosquitoes all night but nonetheless it was wonderful that little dock out there we went out at night time there’s no television nothing like that no telephone uh as a matter of fact no automobiles on that little island just you the foot paths and to get from place to place we had a little boat that you had to go with a little outboard motor it was wonderful but the most wonderful

thing about the vacation the thing we remember more than anything else we went out on the dock out there in that Caribbean water and uh lay down on our backs and looked up at the stars and for about well I don’t know how long an extended period of time just the two of us on our backs on that dock just looking at the sky folks if you haven’t done that in a long time I want to recommend it just get out somewhere where there’s no ambient light around where there’s nothing else just just uh just the candleabra of heaven and just

look up at God’s stars and think about those Stars think how fast his mighty universe is and and and you will be filled with a sense and awe that David must have had as a Shepherd boy when he looked up and saw that those heavens and he wrote here in psalm 19 the heavens declare the glory of God but not only do they speak of the glory of God they speak of the greatness of God look if you will in verse one again the firmament that’s another word for the heavens showeth his handiwork that is all of this is the work of God God

created it all he made it out of nothing what great incredible power is seen in the creation of this universe now you know that out of nothing nothing comes and this is the great stumbling block from the for the atheist if he doesn’t believe in a self-existing god he has to believe in the self-existing universe or else he has to believe that nothing times nobody equals everything it’s it’s really kind of uh intellectually contradictory not to believe in God the Bible never argues uh the fact of God

the Bible just presents God in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth why because we all know that out of nothing nothing comes a very eloquent and gifted preacher said one time and I love this he said God stepped from behind the curtain of nowhere and stood upon the platform of nothing and spoke a world into existence you know man can’t create anything all the scientists can do is rearrange what God has created we’re talking about intellectuals and believing in God can an intellectual believe in

God ever so often you will hear people say something like this you will hear people say you know the trouble with religion is there’s so many religious wars these religious people are fighting everybody and all the wars in the world are caused by religion and all of the people who’ve died have died as a result of religion I I want to give you something folks and I want you to listen very carefully to this because you need to be very careful when you say that people are dying as a result of belief in God in the 6,000 years of recorded

history in religious wars about three million people have died and that’s regrettable but about three million people did you know that Hitler and Stalin alone both who rejected the idea of God Hitler and Stalin alone are responsible for the death of 57 million people the conservative estimate 3 million all religious wars 57 million of those who say there is no God so don’t let anybody put that on you that if you believe in God that somehow you are a part of the trouble of all of this dissension and all of this problem

in the world as a matter of fact we’re talking about all religious wars we are talking about people from Muslims and Hindus and Oriental religions if you talk about religious wars that involve Christians those who are quote Christians and a quote about 1.8 million if you talk about those who are Bible believing what we call Evangelical Christians less than a quarter of a million but you’re talking about uh you’re talking about people like uh uh n and Darwin and Hitler and Stalin and Carl Marx 57 million have been

slaughtered and the number is growing no listen friend uh an intellectual can be an intellectual and believe in God the Great intellectuals have believed in God and when you look at the heavens they declare God’s glory when you look at the heavens they declare God’s greatness and when you look in the heavens they declare God’s goodness look if you will in verse two day unto day at Earth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge now what does that mean it means there’s a fixed order in the

universe day follows night and night follows day there’s Beauty there is order there is Harmony and you can say thank God his mercies are new every morning what a good God we serve God is a glorious God God is a great God God is a a good God and the light and the warmth of the son speak of the light and the warmth of God’s grace to look up in those stars is something to rise in the morning and see the sun rise there something you’d have to feel sorry for an atheist who would see a Sunset and have nobody to thank for it wouldn’t you

you just have to feel sorry for it so there is go there is the Declaration of the Skies the heavens declare the glory of God if you’re enjoying this message from Adrien Rogers and would like to dig a little deeper into today’s topic we’d love to send you this free companion Bible study use the link above to request yours not only is there the Declaration of the Skies but there’s the revelation of the scriptures that’s the second way we know first of all God’s word written in the heavens and number

two God’s word written in the Bible the revelation of the scriptures now continue to read if you will look if you will in verse 7 here’s the second way that you can know God the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart the Commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes the fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous allog together more to be

desired are they than gold yay than much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb more more over by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward you see you can know about the fact of God by studying the heavens but you can never know the heart and mind of God by looking at the stars you need more than that kind of natural Revelation you have to see not only what God has wrought but you have to see what God has taught you have to have the Bible you have to have uh the the word of God to explain to you

this God that you see in general in nature and so uh the psalmist speaks not only of the Declaration of the Skies but the revelation of the scriptures and first of all he speaks of the virtue of the scriptures look in verse 7 the law of the Lord is perfect perfect converting the soul the only way that you can be saved is by the perfect word of God being born again not a corruptible seed but of Incorruptible by the word of God it is the word of God that converts the soul it’s the word of God the entrance of his word that gives

light and the Bible says it’s perfect this speaks of the inherency of the scriptures every sentence every syllable every jot every pin stroke were put there by the mind and the purpose of God it is absolutely perfect and Jesus said the scriptures cannot be broken then notice also in verse 8 the Commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes now that means there’s no mixture of evil no mixture of error uh there are over 6,000 promises in this book and every one of them is yay and amen in the Lord Jesus

and not a one of his promises has ever failed ever been broken then look in verse 19 the fear uh verse n the fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever what does that mean there are no seeds of corruption in God’s word word it will last and last and last it’s been several millenniums since David wrote this and we’re holding it in our hands today it’s last this the Earth passes away the flower of the field Withers but the word of our God endures forever it is The Incorruptible word of God the Bible is

never out of date it applies to every age it never be needs to be updated or revised thank God for the inherent infallible Incorruptible word of God that’s the virtues of the scriptures now once you see the virtue of the scripture then you can understand the value of the scripture look if you will in verse 10 as we talk about the value of the scripture more to be desired are they than gold yay than much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb uh the scriptures are precious to a True Believer there’s

nothing more precious than the word of God and a man cannot truly love God without loving the word of God this is the value of the scripture not only is it precious it’s protective look in verse 11 of this same chapter moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward uh protection is better than cure the word of God will keep you from so many hurts so many harms if you’ll only bathe your soul in its truth and walk in its light it’s precious it is protective it is

profitable look in verse 11 in keeping of them there is great reward you want to be rewarded you want to be wise take the word of God that is pure and clean and right and righteous it endures forever and live by it what fools we are not to saturate ourselves with the word of God so how has God spoken to us well there’s the Declaration of the Skies there’s the revelation of the scriptures but now wait just a minute we’re still not finished even though you might walk out one night and see the stars and say

there’s a God and believe it and you might pick up this book here somebody preach this book and you say yes I believe the Bible is the word of God you’re still not home yet there’s still one more thing that you need to to to really know God first of all the Declaration of the Skies the heavens declare the glory of God and then the inspiration of the word of the Bible the word of God is perfect converting the soul but thirdly and listen carefully there must be the illumination of the spirit when you get uh when you get the

holy spirit of God who takes what you see objectively in nature and what you see objectively in the word of God and then subjectively and spiritually he interprets that to you then you can know God so look and see how this Psalm ends look at it now beginning in verse 12 on through verse 14 who can understand his erors cleanse thou me from Secret faults now he’s talking to God he’s praying to God keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me then shall I be upright

and I shall be innocent from the great transgression now here’s the here’s the bottom line of the whole thing let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight oh Lord my strength and my redeemer now this is what I call the illumination of the spirit these last verses beginning in verse 12 and tells us how God the Holy Spirit takes what we see in nature and what we see in the Bible and how God then begins to apply that to our hearts and if you have the first two without the third one

you’re still not going to be there but if you’ll now let the illumination of the spirit take what God’s word uh in the heavens and God’s word uh in your hand the Bible and put God’s word in your heart then friend you’re going to see something very wonderful and very beautiful now let me show you what the holy spirit will do for you today okay now just look beginning in verse 12 what will the holy spirit of God do well first of all the Holy Spirit there’s the conviction of the spirit look in verse

12 who can understand his errors you can’t do it you don’t have what it takes only the holy spirit of God can help you to understand uh we you see before we can know God we’ve got to be clean of sin and and who can convict us of sin your old carnal dirty heart is not going to expose your old carnal dirty heart uh as a matter of fact the Bible says of the holy spirit in the New Testament in John chapter 6:18 when he has come he will reprove the world of sin now you move from the conviction of the spirit to the cleansing of the