Know God
Notes from Ky Martin's sermon on Sunday, October 26, 2025.
Sermon text: Psalm 145
God is to be praised:
Because he deserves it
Constantly (unceasingly)
The author has exploited all the vocabulary he can muster to describe this great activity, praising God for his greatness and goodness. - ESV Study Bible
Eternally
Generationally
We know God by:
His Character
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule of doing this is simple but demanding…. Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God… to let his truth make its full and proper impact on one’s mind and heart. It is a matter of talking to oneself about God and oneself; it is, indeed, often a matter of arguing with oneself, reasoning oneself out of moods of doubt and unbelief into a clear apprehension of God’s power and grace.” -J.I. Packer
His Works
Recognition
Matt 5:45 For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
1 Cor. 4:7 “What do you have that you did not receive?”
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. … The separation of gift from giver ruins our enjoyment of both.” -Joe Rigney
“The great privilege of man is to receive everything that God gives in all the ways that he gives it, and then to know it and enjoy it and delight in it, and to know him in it and to enjoy him in it and to sing about him.” -Joe Rigney
Recounting
Discipleship Questions:
Sermon text: Psalm 145
God is to be praised:
Because he deserves it
Constantly (unceasingly)
The author has exploited all the vocabulary he can muster to describe this great activity, praising God for his greatness and goodness. - ESV Study Bible
Eternally
Generationally
We know God by:
His Character
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule of doing this is simple but demanding…. Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God… to let his truth make its full and proper impact on one’s mind and heart. It is a matter of talking to oneself about God and oneself; it is, indeed, often a matter of arguing with oneself, reasoning oneself out of moods of doubt and unbelief into a clear apprehension of God’s power and grace.” -J.I. Packer
His Works
Recognition
Matt 5:45 For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
1 Cor. 4:7 “What do you have that you did not receive?”
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. … The separation of gift from giver ruins our enjoyment of both.” -Joe Rigney
“The great privilege of man is to receive everything that God gives in all the ways that he gives it, and then to know it and enjoy it and delight in it, and to know him in it and to enjoy him in it and to sing about him.” -Joe Rigney
Recounting
Discipleship Questions:
- How would you describe to someone what it means to know God?
- How is knowing God similar to knowing a person such as a friend or your spouse?
- How is it different?
- What’s the most challenging thing to you in regards to communing with God?
- Would you say that knowing God impacts every area of your life? Explain.
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