but l-o-r-d with a small o-r-d
in the text. And this is a different Hebrew
word. This is a different Hebrew word. And the same wording note
is used in opening and the closing of this precious psalm. The Hebrew
word for the second word, Lord, there is pronounced Adan. And it means to rule. Jehovah,
the self-existent one, who rules? It means sovereign. That is,
controller, human or divine, Lord, master, owner. So this
psalm states in a very distinct way that our God is sovereign,
that He is sovereign. He's Jehovah the self-existent
One, and then He's called the One who rules, the One who controls,
the owner of all the world. The word excellent in our text
there, O Lord, Our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth. The word excellent in our text
is pronounced Adir in the Hebrew. It means great or majestic. Great or majestic. We see a pattern here. David
the psalmist is glorifying Jehovah the self-existent one who's absolutely
sovereign and who is great or majestic. And it goes on to say
in the Hebrew, great one, majestic one. He alone is the great one. He alone is the majestic one. Now this psalm, Robert Hawker
says, is pure gospel from beginning to end because it celebrates
the glories of Jesus as the sovereign monarch of his people, the sovereign
monarch of his people. and is the sovereign monarch
of heaven and earth. Hawker brings forth this, under
the spirit of prophecy and with an eye to Christ, the psalmist
expresses his astonishment at the incarnation of Jesus and
then soars in the loftiest strains of adoration and joy at his wonderful
glory. Of who he is, of who he is. And we also see David praise
and glorify the majesty, power, and providence of God over all
things in this world. Note in verse one again, it's
a Psalm of David. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent
is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the
heavens. Unable to express the glory of
God, David utters a note of exclamation, oh Jehovah, the self-existent
one, our sovereign ruler. Oh my, we need not wonder at
this because no heart can measure, no heart can measure, no tongue
can utter half the greatness of Jehovah. He is so great, beloved. He's so great. We in our finite
minds, which we are, we're finite beings, We cannot grasp the greatness
of He who is infinite. He is infinite. Our understanding
of Him is so little, and yet He reveals that to us. He gives
us that knowledge of who He is, revealing it to us by the Holy
Spirit of God through His Word and through the preaching of
the Gospel. And the whole of creation, the whole of creation
is full of His glory. Full of His glory. It radiates
with his excellency. The excellency of his power.
The excellency of his goodness and his grace. And everywhere, there is no place
where God is not. The fabric of the universe leans
upon His eternal arm. Upon His eternal arm. Visible
and invisible. And yet He is universally present.
And there's not one place where His name is not excellent. As
God ever works and is everywhere, there's no place where God is
not. Think of this. Walk the silent valleys. Walk
the silent valleys. where rocks and mountains enclose
you on either side, rising like a tower before you. We used to
live in the mountains. Sister, you guys went on a trip
down to North Carolina, up in those majestic mountains, and
you see God's beauty and creative work all around you, all around
you. But Mark, Walk the silent valleys,
where rocks and mountains enclose you on either side, rising like
a tower before you, until you can see but a strip of the sky.
We've been in some forests where all you can see, if you just
look up, is just this little piece of the sky. But all around
you, trees. It's magnificent. And you tremble. You tremble as you observe God's
creative work. And His sustaining work is all
around you, too. Brother John, you're a hunter.
You go out in the woods and hunt and you see that. You see different
animals that God provides for, takes care of, sustains. And we see that all around us,
all around. We see that in the spring when
the trees are in full bloom and the apple trees are blooming.
And later on they got apples on them. We see His creative
work all around us. all around us on full display.
Descend to the lowest depths of the ocean. Descend to the
lowest depths of the ocean where the water lies still undisturbed
and sand is motionless. Today, in light of this, I pulled
up some deep water footage they have of creatures under the water
that they can only now see. And they're even finding different
species that they didn't even know existed. but God knew they
were there and God has sustained them and they magnify his glory. They magnify his glory. Descend
to the lowest depths of the ocean where the water lies undisturbed
and the sand is motionless and you will behold the glory of
the Lord and the various creatures found in those depths. Who created them? Who sustains
them? the Lord, the one who's spoken
of here. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how excellent
is thy name in all the earth. Even though no one sees these
creatures, the Lord does. And they magnify his glory. I
remember hearing about someone said, what about a flower that's
in the middle of nowhere where no man has even tread? And it's
sitting there. in its glory and splendor. What
does it do? It magnifies the glory and splendor
of the Lord. The Lord sees it. He sees his
creative work even though no one else does. And it magnifies
his creative glory, beloved. They tell how excellent he is. Fly to the highest heavens to
glory. And there you will see a multitude that no man can number,
praising the greatness of Jehovah's name. Angels falling down before
Him and dive into the deepest hell, and God's greatness is
magnified in His terrible vengeance on sin. There is nowhere that
He is not. Nowhere. If He has revealed Himself to
us, then we can understand what Job was saying. Turn if you would
with me to Job chapter 9. Job chapter 9. If he's revealed
himself to us, then we can understand a little
bit about what Job says here. What Job's speaking of when he's
speaking of the greatness of God and asking how can a man
be just before God and then what follows. Job chapter 9, then
Job answered and said, I know it is so of a truth, but how
should a man be just with God? Well, we know only through Christ. If he will contend with him,
he cannot answer him. One of a thousand, he is wise
in heart and mighty in strength. Who hath hardened himself against
him and hath prospered? No one. Which were moved at the
mountains, and they know not. which overturneth them in his
anger, which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars
thereof tremble, which commandeth the sun, and
it rises not, and sealeth up the stars, which alone spreadeth
out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Ay, this is our sovereign God,
which maketh Arcturus, or Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers
of the south, stars in the sky, which doeth great things past
finding out, you can't plumb, the wondrous things of our great
God, and wonders without number. He get it by me, and I see him
not he passes on also, but I perceive him not Behold he taketh away
who can hinder him who can hinder the Lord? Who can hinder his
mighty work no one? No one Who will say unto him
what doest thou? No one Turn if you would to Jeremiah
23 verse 23 God is everywhere and contemplate how great He
is, beloved. He's omnipresent. God is at hand
in all places, and we can never hide anywhere from His presence.
Never. He hears everything and sees
everything. All things. There's nothing hid
from Him. Look at Jeremiah 23, verses 23
and 24. Am I a God at hand, saith the
Lord? Not a God afar off? He's not a God afar off, is he?
And his people know that he's not a God afar off. He's right
with us. And he said, I'll never leave
thee nor forsake thee. Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him? Saith the Lord, do not I fill
heaven and earth? Sayeth the Lord, there's Jehovah
again, the self-existent one. He sees all and hears all, the
plotting of men and women at all times. Nothing escapes his
watchful eye, nothing. And his glory exceeds the glory
of the heavens. And he rules upon his set everlasting
throne. And none can stay his hand. He
penetrates us and knows all our thoughts. Knows our intentions. It's incredible. And this is the one. This is
the one who has redeemed us. This is the one who has redeemed
us. This is the one who's purchased our souls at Calvary's cross.
He is the mighty God, God Almighty. And he has saved his people from
their sins. And God's people say, Hallelujah. What a scene. Hallelujah. What a scene. Turn, if you would,
to Hebrews chapter two, the apostle to the Hebrews. In the second
chapter fully shows that not man in general is spoken of here,
but man, Christ, Jesus in particular. Look at Hebrews chapter 2 verses
6 to 10. And this will tie in with the
following verses. This will tie in with verse 2. But one in a certain place testified,
saying, What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son
of man that thou visiteth him? Thou madest him a little lower
than the angels. Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and
didst set him over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all
things in subjection under his feet, for in that he put all
in subjection under him. He left nothing that is not put
under him. But now we see not yet all things
put unto him. But we see Jesus, who is made
a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man. For it becometh him, for it becometh
him, for whom are all things, and
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make
the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
Now with that in mind, let's go back to verse 1 in Psalm 8
here. And it says, "...who has set
thy glory above the heavens." Well, Gil brings out that this
is Christ. This is speaking of Christ. And I'll read you what
John Gill says about this latter part of the verse. It says, who
has set thy glory above the heavens, meaning his son, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the brightness of his glory in whom is all the fullness
of the Godhead, the glory of all the divine perfections and
the setting of him above the heavens, designs the exaltation
of him at the right hand of God, where angels, principalities
and powers become subject to him. And he was made higher than
the heavens. And it was in consequence, and
by virtue of this, that the gospel was spread throughout the earth.
For upon Christ's exaltation, the Spirit was poured down upon
the apostles, and they were endowed with gifts, qualifying them to
carry the gospel into each of the parts of the world." How excellent is Christ's name
in all the earth. How excellent. How excellent
is He in His incarnation. Ponder this. is our Savior in
His incarnation. He is the perfect, sinless man. How excellent is He at His birth.
How excellent is He in His humble life. In His humble life. How excellent is He in His preaching. How excellent is He in the miracles
which He performs. How excellent is He in His passion
and in His death, the sinless, perfect sacrifice. How excellent is He in His resurrection
and in His ascension. And these are celebrated through
the world by His people, by those who are in glory and by those
who are here on earth. And His name is excellent to
us. Excellent. Excellent. Think of this. No name is so
universal. No name is so universal in the
Lord Jesus Christ. No power and influence is as
great as his. Nothing compares to him. The
Lord Jesus Christ, who is the sovereign of the universe and
the savior of his people. None compare to him. Look at verse 2. Out of the mouth
of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
The best comment on this blessed verse is that which the Lord
himself gives in Matthew 21, verses 15 and 16. Turn there
if you would. Matthew 21, verses 15 and 16. When the chief priests and scribes
saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying
in the temple and saying hosanna to the son of David, they were
sore displeased. These religious folks were getting
bent out of shape because these people were saying hosanna to
the son of David. And said unto him, hearst thou
what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, yea,
have ye never read, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise? These are his people. These are his people. Hawker
comments on verse two, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou has ordained strength because of thine enemies, but thou mightest
still the enemy and the avenger. Hawker brings comment upon this
verse two about, and as in the person of our glorious head,
so in the instance of all his redeemed, how is the praise of
Jehovah perfected when babes in Christ are bought out of the
kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. How is praise perfected? When
His people are brought out of the kingdom of darkness and into
the kingdom of God's dear Son. How is the accursed enemy and
avenger overthrown? Each time and in every instance
a poor sinner is made willing in the day of God's power by
the Holy Spirit of God. Here the prayer is taken from
the mighty And the lawful cop to deliver.
Turn, if you would, to Isaiah 49. Look at this wonderful portion
of Scripture. Wonderful portion of Scripture. It says in verse two, because
of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
When is the enemy and the avenger still again? When a sinner is
made willing in the day of God's power. When we're bored again
by the Holy Spirit of God. And the prey is taken from the
mighty. and the lawful captive delivered. Now, the law had a
claim upon us, didn't it? We were lawfully held captives,
beloved, by God's law. Look at this wonderful text here
in Isaiah 49, verses 24 and 25. This is wonderful. This made
my heart just sing today when I saw this. Shall the prey be
taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? Well,
the answer, justice would answer, I have demands upon them. But
remember, God's justice is satisfied for the believer in Christ, in
Christ. And look at what the next verse
says. But thus saith the Lord, Jehovah, the self-existent one,
the same one spoken of in our song. Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall
be delivered. Remember beloved were translated from the kingdom
of darkness to the kingdom of his dear son For I will contend
with him that contended with thee and I will save thy children Our Lord dies upon the cross
Satisfying justice the man that God's justice satisfying all
the demands of God's justice and all all the demands of God's
law And he crushes Satan at the cross I will contend with him
that contended with thee and I will save thy children and
he has saved God's people hasn't he saved those who the father
gave him from eternity and his name is so excellent and so mighty
and his strength so mighty that he easily vanquishes and Silences
his foes and those of the church, too He silences the foes of his people
and the foes of his church, which is his people, the elect of God. Let's look at verses three and
four now in Psalm 8. When I consider thy heavens and
the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou
hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him in the
son of man that thou visited him? Now, the carnal mind, the
carnal mind, sees God in nothing at all. They don't believe Him. They don't see Him in anything. Just talk to folks. You'll find
out real fast. And I'm not talking religious
folks. I'm talking, well, even religious folks. They'll let
you know quick. But folks who have no interest in God at all,
they don't see God anywhere. The carnal mind is enmity with
God. They don't see God in His Word. Even if they read, I've
told you before, before I was saved, I read the scripture,
I didn't see anything. Nothing. They don't see God in his word.
They don't see God in his works. They don't see him in his ordinances
or in his creation. But the spiritual regenerated
mind sees him in everything. We see His hand at work in our
lives constantly. We see His hand at work in providence. We see His hand, His mighty hand
at work in our salvation. We see Him at work in everything,
in natural things, in looking to the heavens. We look to the
heavens. Oh, we see His work. We see His
handiwork. We look to mountains. If we're
in the mountains or if we're on a river fishing, we see His
majesty. We see Him in everything. We'll
be driving down the road and see something and it'll just
strike us. This is wonderful. This is wonderful. My God made that. My King made
that. Oh, it's wonderful. We see Him
everywhere. We see His hand, His creative
hand at work everywhere. We we look at the earth and we
see his work. We look at the creatures upon
the earth And we see we look at the insects and we see his
handiwork I was observing the other day waiting for Vicki to
come get me and and there was ladybugs covering the post guys
Covering the post and I could have sat there for an hour looking
for those things and watching they're beautiful They're stunning
And I see His handiwork right there, His creative handiwork
right before me. And you praise God for it, that
He gave you the opportunity to see that which is wonderful.
That He gave us the opportunity to see His work when we were
blind to it one time. I remember looking at stuff and
saying, oh, that's beautiful. But now I look at it and say,
that's beautiful because my King made that. My Lord made that. And it thrills our hearts. It
lifts our hearts up. We see Him in His work all over. And we see Him in His work, don't
we? There was a time when we didn't see Him in His work. Now
we see Him all over. Old and New Testament. The Old
Testament, the Law and the Prophets, they testify of Christ. We see
Him everywhere. And the New reveals Him. Who
He is. We're left in awe. We see Him
in the ordinances, when we take the wine and the bread, we see
Christ, we remember the great things that the Lord has done
for us. There was a time when we didn't
see Him. It's wonderful. It's He who has
made us to differ. It's He who has made us to differ.
And it says, Thy heavens, the believer in Christ sees the heavens
in their relation to God. when I consider thy heavens.
Verse three, thy heavens. The believer in Christ sees the
heavens in their relation to God. They see it all as the work
of his hands. They see his glory in that work. And what does it do? It leaves
us standing there speechless and in awe of his greatness. And we can look back at a time
when we didn't see that. And we praise God that He's revealed
Himself to us. David is here in these two verses. When I consider thy heavens and
the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou
hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and
the son of man that thou visiteth him? David is here in these two
verses singing in wonder and awe at the contemplation of the
greatness of God. The greatness of God. He who
is the Creator. of all things, the stars, the
moon, all which he has ordained." And note David says he's ordained
them in their places. Now remember, David lived in
a time when he didn't have streetlights and all that. Can you imagine
that night when he looked up and saw that night sky? It probably
took his breath away. I know I've experienced that.
There used to be a place we went to in Oregon where you go out
and there was a lake and there was no lights around there. And you go down by the lake and
you'd look up and you could see that Milky Way and the streams
going through. It just left you breathless.
It magnified the greatness of our Lord and Savior. So imagine
David looking up and seeing this. And he considers, then he He
contemplates that the stars and the moon are all in the places
where God's ordained them to be. And then, when he considers the
greatness of God's creative work, and then considers what man is
and compared to that? He who is the creator of all
things, the stars, the moon, all which he has ordained to
be in their place when he considers the greatness of God's creative
work and then considers what man is compared to that, we are
like a grain of sand in comparison to that. We're like a grain of
sand in comparison to that. Think of that. Think of the vastness
of the universe. that we see, or that we look
up in the night, and then the vastness of what they've looked
at would tell us, and there's even more that they can't even
look at. We're like a grain of sand. Go to the beach and pick
up some sand. We're like a little grain in
comparison to all his wondrous works. And David's in awe that God would consider us. that God would consider us. It
leaves David in awe. He's lost in adoration to our
great God and king. So let us stop and ponder this.
The greatness of God's creative work is in no way comparable
to his greatness. The greatness of God's creative
work is in no way comparable to his greatness. The greatness
of his redemptive work is in no way comparable to his greatness.
And His redemptive work is great. Isn't it not, beloved of God?
It's great. But it's nowhere comparable to
His greatness, to His majesty. His greatness exceeds all and
everyone. This is our God. This is our
Savior. Again, while He's considering
the vast powers of God's creative work, Again, he's lost in wonder,
in recollecting the mercies of redemption, that God would be
mindful of sinners, that he who made so magnificent a world and
the stars in the sky would condescend to look upon man. But the wonder
of wonders here that the psalmist is contemplating is that God
himself, in one person of the Godhead, should pass by the nature
of angels and take upon him the seat of Abraham. And this speaks of one man, beloved,
The man Christ Jesus who died upon the cross for his people.
Who's our mediator. The one and only mediator between
God and man. The man Christ Jesus. This is
why the psalmist breaks out in praise and wonder of God's love
to his people. And this ties in with our next
two verses. Look at verses 5 and 6. For thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands,
and thou hast put all things under his feet." These wonderful
verses speak of Christ. Gil brings forth, this speaks
of the hyperstatic union, which is a fancy theological word of
saying the combination of divine and human natures in the single
person of Christ. They call it a hyperstatic union. Now think upon this verse. Back
in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 we read this, but we see Jesus who
was made a little lower than the angels. Huh. For the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor. He, by the grace of God, should
taste death for every man. So Gil brings out that this is
speaking of Christ. And this ties right in with verse
4. What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of
man that thou visiteth him? For thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. Thou
mayest have dominion over the works of thine hands, and thou
hast put all things under his feet. Both Gill and Hawker bring
out that this is Christ. Some commentators say, well,
this is man, but this is the man. This is speaking of the
man, the man Christ Jesus. Hebrews 2 9 again I'll read it
but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he
by the grace of God should taste death for every man Christ was
made low when you consider his nature his place his estate and
reputation in life in comparison to he to who he was in eternity
past so think of his life His nature, he's the God-man,
his place, his estate, and his reputation, and his life in comparison
to who he was in eternity past. He's the Word. He's the Word,
the second person of the Trinity, the Most High God. And he was
made frail, mortal flesh and was in the form of a servant
in his human nature. He who dwelt on a high and lay
in the bosom of the Father descended into the lower parts of the earth,
was formed in the womb of a virgin, and when born was laid in a manger
and lived and talked with sinful mortal men upon the earth. The
perfect man, the sinless man, dwelling with sins. Dwelling
with sins. He who was Lord of all. He who
is God over all the earth in the fullness of it. He had nowhere
to lay His head. Now we got places to lay our
head. Each night we'd pillow our head. He had nowhere to lay His head.
He whose glory was the glory of the only begotten of the Father,
the Son of God. The Word of God, the second person
of the Trinity. He who was God and is God became
a man and was despised and rejected of man, beloved. Was a man of
no reputation, living as our substitute and fulfilling God's
law for us as our substitute as he died upon Calvary's cross. He who was the Lord of life and
glory was crucified and died, becoming obedient to death, even
the death of the cross. Why? To redeem us from our sins. To redeem us, to purchase his
people, to save his people from their sins. And here before us
we have the nature of Christ's humiliation expressed by being
made low. The degree of it is lower than
Elohim, lower than God. Now think of this, though, Hawker
brings this out. He comments, Hawker comments, he was equal
to him in divine nature, but inferior to him in human nature.
And turn, if you would, to John 14, 28, and it speaks of this,
because he came as a servant, beloved. He came as a servant.
He's still God in the flesh, but he came as a servant. to
redeem His people from their sins. He came to do God's will.
And what is God's will? That His people shall be saved
from their sins. Look at John 14, 28. You have
heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you.
If you loved Me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the
Father, for My Father is greater than I. He's in the servant position. Christ was made lower than the
angels by assuming human nature. Think of this, we're afflicted
with affirmatives. The angels are not. We are subject
to sorrow and grief. The angels are not. The angels
always behold God. And when Christ died, he cried
out this, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? So let's consider verses five
and six in light of what we've looked at. For thou has made
him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory
and honor. Then look at verse six. Thou made us seem to have
dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou has put all things
under his feet. Who is the one who has all dominion?
And if you would, John chapter 17, John chapter seven, who's
the one who has all dominion and all power in salvation and
providence? Who's the one? The only one is
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He has the power and the authority,
and we see that proclaimed from the lips of our Savior in John
chapter 17, verses 1 to 5. Look at these wonderful words,
in light of that. In light of Psalm 8, verse 6,
Thou madest Him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands.
Thou hast put all things under His feet. And then read John
17, verses 1 to 5. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up His eyes to heaven. and said, Father, the hour has
come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
also may glorify thee. As thou has given him, what?
Power. How much power? Power over all flesh, that he
should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee. They have an intimate, they've
had God revealed to them, they've had Christ revealed to them,
that they might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ
whom Thou hast sent. The one who came to redeem His
people. The one who came as a servant. I have glorified Thee on the
earth. Look at this. This is wonderful. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. Does that really say finish the
work? Yes, it does. That means our salvation is complete.
I finished the work. He lived the perfect life. Now
he must die as the sinner's substitute. Oh my, this is good news for
sinners. I have glorified thee on the
earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. He
had a mission. He came to redeem his people
from their sins. And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee
before the world. Our Lord was bought to this lowest
state, as one commentator said, for a little while, for a little
while. And this refers to his life and
his death, his time in the grave. The word, the second person of
the Trinity spoken of in John chapter one was bought low by
Jehovah, the Father. He preordained him to come to
this world. He prepared a body for him. Jehovah sent him in the fullness
of time. He was made of a woman, made
under the law, and Jehovah the Father ordained this. Jehovah the Father ordained his
sufferings. Jehovah the Father ordained his
death. And through all this, It was
done with Christ's full consent. Now, think of that. It was done
with his full consent. And one commentator said with
his free goodwill, only God has free will. He can do whatever
he pleases. And he came to save his people
from their sins and beloved. He came willingly. Now, let now let us let that
sink in. He came to save me from my sins. Christ did that. What a Redeemer. Let's consider verses 7 and 8.
They're tied in with verse 6 as well. Thou madest him to have
dominion over all the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all
things under his feet. There's only one who has all
things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, yea, and
the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish
of the sea. and whatsoever passes through the path of the sea.
Our Lord beloved is King over all. He is King over all. He
rules supreme. And how delightful it is for
the believer to see here proclaim the sovereignty of our great
Savior. The sovereignty of our great Savior. All things are
under his feet. All things. And he himself proclaimed that. Turn if you would to Matthew
28. Christ Himself proclaimed that. Matthew 28. This is why
we know that this is speaking of Christ. Because you and I
don't have all power, do we? Christ does. He's got all power. All power. Look at Matthew 28,
verse 18. Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is
given unto me where in heaven and earth In heaven all power
Our Savior has all power so let us think upon this our soul is
in the hands of the one who has all power That'll bring up Such
comfort to the believer. Such comfort. Religion tells
you what you've got to do. You've got to do this, you've
got to do that to be saved. Grace preachers proclaim, look
to Christ. The one who has all power. And
the one who has saved his people from their sins. And the one
who keeps us. He has all power. All power. It's all his. Where's our Redeemer right now?
Well, 1 Peter 3.22 boldly proclaims this, who has gone into the heaven
and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and power
being made subject to Him. That ties right in with Matthew
28.18, 1 Peter 3.22, who has gone into heaven and is on the
right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being
made subject unto Him, all under His feet. This is our Savior. This is our Redeemer. This is
our King. Now let us close with the last
verse where we see David close this psalm with this wonderful
proclamation. And it is no wonder he closes
with this as we contemplate what we study tonight. The psalmist,
after singing the wonders of God's redemption in the person
of Christ, bursts forth in adoration in an exclamation of wonder and
praise, and again extols Jehovah in the covenant mercies of redemption
as the object of adoration through all the earth by those who are
His people. And when we consider that our
God rules and reigns over all things, that He is absolutely
sovereign, when we consider the humiliation of Christ, that He
left the glories of heaven to redeem His people from their
sins, when we consider the power and the authority and the dominion
that our wonderful Redeemer now has, we will sing out with David,
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth. And the believer says, Amen.
Gracious Heavenly Father, oh, we've looked at tonight the wonders
of Thy power and Thy sovereignty, the wonders of our great Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, God incarnate in the flesh, and it leaves us
in awe and wonder to know that this was all planned and purposed
by Thee, the self-existent One, that Christ Jesus our Lord, our
great God and Redeemer, came to this world to redeem us, to
purchase us, to save we who could not save ourselves. And we know
as we read these precious words that the work is finished. Oh,
what rest and comfort that can bring God's people to know that
this work is done. It's not dependent upon us, but
it's all about what you've done, Lord Jesus Christ, for us, for
your people. Oh, may thy word go forth with
power. May you be pleased to draw in one of your lost sheep,
if it so pleases you and will give you the glory and honor
and praise and may you be magnified and glorified through the preaching
of thy word in Jesus name. Amen.