Psalm 8 - How Majestic is Your Name!

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0:29 Psalm chapter 8. Verse one, let's read through the psalm just nine verses. Oh Lord our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth You've set your glory above the heavens out of the mouth of babies and infants You have established strength because of your foes to still the enemy and the avenger When I look at your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have set in place What is man that you're mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor You've given him dominion over the works of your hands You've put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen and also the

1:12 beasts of the field the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea Whatever passes along the paths of the seas. Oh Lord our Lord. How majestic is your name in all the earth? Obviously you can see that this psalm begins and ends with the very same refrain Oh Lord our Lord how majestic the word majestic refers to the radiant splendor the revealed splendor of our God who is Beyond our imagining and all that he says and does and David is just making this declaration and marveling it at how majestic The Lord is and and and and then right away in verse 1 David begins to recount the majesty of the Lord saying you have set your glory Above the heavens and the heavens refers to everything God has created and basically what

2:10 David is saying here is that you exceed all that you have created and you know when we look at everything God has created and we can look with ways that David couldn't look when he was the earth because he didn't have things like a Hubble telescope or you know satellites in orbit that can you know look deeper and farther into the recesses of space than then they ever could before and he you know he was subject to just his naked eye and the moon and the stars and it was enough to overwhelm him you and I can see so much more so much more so many more galaxies and and planets and stars and suns and things like that and yet I believe it is just as true as it ever was God your glory exceeds all that you have made you

2:54 have set your glory above the heavens what a wonderful thing or way I should say to begin to praise the Lord you know just to just to magnify the Lord God remains infinitely greater than all he created then David mentions One of the most incredible things about God's majesty, look at verse 2. Brings it back down to earth and out of the mouths of babies and infants you have established strength because of your foes to still the enemy and the avenger. And you know what this simply means? It means that God uses the weak to defeat the mighty. That's what it means. And of course this was a concept David was all too familiar with. because as a young teenager, he went up against a man who was a much older and much more seasoned warrior, a

3:52 man we know by the name of Goliath, and yet David had victory over that man who should have beaten him to a pulp, you know, and probably would have in any other circumstances except that the Lord was involved, and David knew that the victory God was expressing in his defeat of Goliath was a way of saying, see my majesty, behold my majesty.

4:19 I can cause this little scrawny teenager to put a stone in his sling and cast it at this man with such incredible accuracy that it knocks him silly and he falls to the ground long enough for David to run over and then put him to death. and in so doing bring a great victory for the nation of Israel over the Philistines that day.

4:47 And you know what God is saying through that? Check it out. Check out this majesty. And that's what David is saying. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength. Who in the world would establish strength through the mouth of babies or infants? Well, nobody. Because it's impossible. You know, they're just babies. They just, they just, they blabber. We were enjoying listening to our grandson, Benjamin, who's about six months old now, and he's starting to get into that babbling stage, you know, which is so cute. You know, ba -ba -ba -ba -ba -ba ba. And of course, we sit and just laugh at him, you know, and he has this captive audience from all of us. But you know... There's nothing

5:38 strong about it. It's just the blabberings of a baby. And yet, here it says, out of the mouths of babies and infants, you have established strength in such a way as to put down the strong. You know, this essentially happened when Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem in what we call the triumphal entry. The enemies of the Lord wanted Jesus to tell these parents to silence their children who were singing praises and saying, Hosanna, these little children. And Jesus basically quotes the same idea that is through the mouths of babies and infants, that God has established strength to basically shut down the enemies of the Lord. This is an incredible thing, but it's part of the way God works Let me show you this

6:40 statement from first Corinthians chapter 1 it says God Chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong He chose the lonely things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are So that no one may boast before him and so that he might show his majesty right By the way, that's why God chose you And then David goes on and he thinks and this is this is one of those statements that I have a picture in my mind He he says when I when I look at your heavens and your Bible may say when I consider the heavens the work of your fingers You know, the moon, the stars, and so forth. I have to

7:35 ask you, God, what is it about man that you even take notice of this scrawny little ant on the face of this planet? And you know, I can see in my mind's eye David as a young man sitting on a rock taking care of his father's sheep out in an open field and just looking, just looking up at the sky. Maybe it's evening and he can see the stars now. And he sees the grandeur of it all, and he's just thinking to himself, you know, I sit here and I ponder the greatness of what you have created, and I think, good grief.

8:13 What is man that you even take notice? Look what he goes on to say about man, though. He says, yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Man has been crowned with glory and honor, and we're made a little bit lower than the heavenly beings. And, of course, that speaks to the fact that we were made in God's image, which separates us from all other walks of life. Verse 6, you have given him dominion over the works of your hands. In other words, over all creation. You have put all things under his feet, and that means you've given dominion to man on the earth.

8:56 And then he lists some of the things that man's been given. given dominion over the sheep and the oxen and the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas and so on and so on and so on and so on. And he makes this statement about how you've given him dominion over all these things. And I believe that man's dominion, David's kind of looking at the dominion that man has now. I believe man's dominion was so much greater at first. In other words, when God put Adam and Eve here on the face of this planet, I believe the dominion He gave them was absolute. He gave them dominion over the earth.

9:40 They were the first king and queen of this earth. And the intention was that their children would live in the same way, in total dominion over the creation that God had made. However, you and I both know man abdicated the authority and dominion that God gave him over, you know, this earth in a larger sense, and it was given over to the enemy who is now the prince of this world.

10:11 And that's one of the reasons why we look at man today and we don't see him with full dominion. We don't have full dominion. There's still some remnants of our dominion that we can still take hold of, but we don't have full dominion, not anything close to what Adam and Eve had. Nothing even close. Let me show you an incredible passage from Hebrews. This is one of the most mind -blowing passages, I think, in the Bible. But there is a place where someone has testified, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Obviously, the writer of Hebrews is quoting this Psalm. You've made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned Him with glory and honor and put everything

10:55 under His feet. Now look at what the writer of Hebrews goes on to say. In putting everything under Him, God left nothing that is not subject to Him. But look at this statement. Yet at present, we do not see everything subject to Him. What do we see? We see Jesus. who is also made a little lower than the angels, obviously speaking of his incarnation, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. This is an incredible passage, isn't it? Because it tells you and I, after quoting this very psalm, that there was nothing that God did not put under man's feet. Nothing. In fact, I believe I believe that Jesus came back during his earthly ministry.

11:49 I believe Jesus showed us even some of the dominion that man lost. Even dominion over the wind and the waves and things like that. Yeah, of course, that's because he's also God. But remember, the passage in Hebrews says there was nothing that was not under man's dominion. Nothing. And yet, he says, at present, we don't see that, do we?

12:13 What do we see? We see Jesus. We see Jesus. Who has won back that dominion for us? Now it hasn't been given to us completely yet, but it's in Him. So when we need dominion over something, what do we do? We pray in the name of Jesus because it is through Him that we are getting back. to the dominion that was once ours but was lost because of disobedience and rebellion. The psalm ends with, O Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You've been listening to Through the Bible with Pastor Paul from Life Bible Ministry. For the complete library of Pastor Paul's teaching and full transcripts, visit LifeBibleMinistry .com. We hope today's teaching has encouraged and inspired you. We look forward to you joining

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