Go with me back to Psalm eight. Psalm chapter eight. It is becoming more and more
confirmed to me. I sincerely say this, it is becoming
more and more confirmed to me that worship, our worship, our
gathering together here for worship is all about Him. It's all about I say this with
sincerity. I'm starting to more and more,
it seems like an obvious statement, but I'm starting to more and
more realize this. Our worship is all about Him. It's all about Him. Our purpose
in gathering together, we are here to glorify Him. We are here to praise Him. I need to be fed, and you need
to be fed. We need to be fed. But if we
can walk out of this place believing in our hearts that Christ was
glorified, firmly, firmly believing that His name was exalted, If
we can honestly say Christ was exalted and He was honored and
He was thanked for His great gift to us. We praised Him and
we thanked Him for what He did for us when He came to us and
redeemed us from all our sin, when He came and paid all our
debt. If we can walk out of here knowing
that He was exalted, we will have been fed. We will have been. I am not here and I don't need
to be here for an emotional experience tonight. Trying to get the warm and fuzzies
should not be my reason for coming. That should not be my reason
for coming. We're here to exalt Him. We're here to worship Him. We're here to lift up our praise
to Him and to honor His name, to honor His name. And if that
happens, if He ends up truly being honored and truly being
praised and truly being exalted, worshiped and exalted, if Christ
ends up being high and lifted up, then I will end up with the
warm and fuzzies. That's all the emotional experience
I'll need. I'll be fed. I'll be encouraged. I'll be edified, which that means
lifted up myself. If He is lifted up, I'll be lifted
up just because He was lifted up. I believe, I truly believe this.
I believe sometimes we set ourselves up for failure in worship. We walk in setting ourselves
up for failure in worship by coming in with all the focus
being on me. There is no true worship if the
focus is on me. And what I mean by that is I'm
focused on me and what I need, and you're focused on you and
what you need. True worship, true worship is
all about Him. It's all about Him. What we all
need is for Him to be glorified. That's what we all need. True
worship praises and thanks Him for recognizing the fact that
He has already supplied all our need, everything we need. It just magnifies Him. True worship
just magnifies Him. Now that's what David was doing
in Psalm 8. The heading at the top of my
page right here says, God's glory is magnified. by His great love
to man. All nine of these verses exalt
the Lord Jesus Christ for His goodness and His mercy to sinful
man. All nine verses. Let's read down
through these. Verse one, it says, Oh Lord,
our Lord, Do you notice how the first Lord
is capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D? The second Lord
is capital L, lowercase O, lowercase R, lowercase D. The word in all
capital letters is speaking of Jehovah, the eternal existing
God, God Almighty. The word in lowercase letters
speaks of that very same God in the form of a man. The Lord
Jesus Christ. That's who Jehovah is. The Lord Jesus Christ. He is
the eternal existing God. Verse one says, Oh Jehovah, our
Lord Jesus Christ. One in the same, God manifest
in the flesh. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent
is thy name in all the earth. How excellent, how majestic,
how glorious, how worthy is thy name. His name is his character. It's
his character. Don't turn to these, but Psalm
29 verse two says, give unto the Lord the glory due unto his
name. He said, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth? His name is the name of heaven. How excellent is his name in
earth? Give unto the Lord, the glory do unto his name. Psalm
66 verse two says, sing forth the honor of his name. Psalm
111 verse nine says, holy and Reverend is his name. It's who
he is. Isaiah nine, verse six says,
his name is wonderful. Counselor, the mighty God, the
everlasting father, the Prince of Peace. Who is that? Jesus Christ. Call his name,
Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. There
is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved.
Because of His great humility in our salvation, because He
condescended down so low to save us, He came so far, so far to
save us, because He was willing to go all the way down to the
depths of the grave for us. Because of that, God the Father
has honored Him and highly exalted Him in giving Him a name which
is above every name. The most glorious name. Verse
one says, Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in
all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens above
everything. You're above everything. Your
name is above everything. Verse two says out of the mouth
of babes and sucklings has thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the Avenger
out of the mouth of babes. What he's saying is everything
praises you. Even the mouth of babes. Our
Lord thanked the father in Matthew 11, because the father had hid
these things from the wise and prudent and had revealed them
to babes of all ages, the simple. That's who God has chosen to
have mercy on, babes. The simple, the weak, the helpless
of all ages. God's people confess, that's
what I am. I'm a babe. They all confess
that. Look with me over at 1 Corinthians
1. First Corinthians one verse 26. It says, for you see your calling
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise. What are the foolish
things? You're looking at one of them
right now. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things
of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not to bring to naught, to bring
to nothing, things that are, that no flesh should glory in
his presence. Weak, helpless babes, that's
who God's people are. But let me show you something
about what David said concerning the mouth of babes. I want all
of you kids to pay attention to this, all right? I want all
you kids to pay attention to this. Turn with me to Matthew
21. Matthew 21 verse 12, it says, and Jesus went into the temple
of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple
and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats
of them that sold doves and said unto them, it is written, my
house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made
it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came
to Him in the temple, and He healed them. And when the chief
priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He did,
and the children, when they saw the children crying
in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, They were
sore displeased. Those children were worshiping
Him. I mean truly worshiping Him. They were worshiping Him from
the heart. You are never too young to worship
the Lord. I want you all to know that. You don't have to wait till you
become adults to do this. You're not just killing time.
You are never, ever, ever too young to worship the Lord. The children were crying, Hosanna
to the son of David. God's spirit in them caused them
to cry it. Hosanna means, that's that language,
but in our language, Hosanna means, oh, save us right now. The children were crying that.
They were worshipping Him, crying, have mercy on me. I pray God
will teach all of us, especially you children, what it means to
need mercy and to ask for it. They were asking Him, have mercy
on me. Lord, save us. And that made the chief priest
and that made the scribe so mad. And, and I'm sure it was because
they thought those children were too simple. It had to have been. They had spent all that time
in school. They had attained all those degrees.
They had all that knowledge and all that ceremony and all that
form and all that law. And they just couldn't stand
and they weren't gonna bring themselves down to the simple
cry of a child. Hosanna to the son of David.
Lord, save me right now. Thou son of David, my King. This is what the Lord said to
them, all right? Verse 16, these chief priests and these scribes,
they were sore displeased and they said to the Lord, hearest
thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, yeah. Yes, I do. Have you never read out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings? Thou hast perfected praise. The Lord said, their simple praise
is music to my ears. That's the spirit in them, crying
for them, Abba, Father. He said, that's music to my ear.
Oh, I've heard it. There've been times where we've
been able to say the same thing. That's music to my ears. Sometimes
our children say the most profound things. They do. Sometimes they say the most bold
things. I hear them say things to people
and I think, I wish I had the guts to say that. Sometimes they say things that
they've heard. Seeds that have been planted.
And truths that they believe. They believe them and it just
makes you want to say amen to it. Amen. That's right. Three
or four years ago, one of the little ones here with us was
coming to the service and on the way, she asked her parents,
why do we go to church? That's a great question. Man,
I wish more people would ask that question. Why do we go to
church? They said, well, we go to church
to worship the Lord. We're going to worship the Lord.
We're going to hear about his salvation. Hear how he saved
his people. And she said, well, does everybody
worship the Lord? And they said, no, honey, they
don't. She said, why not? They said, well, they don't know.
They don't know that they need to be saved. They don't know
that the Lord Jesus Christ is their only hope of eternal life.
And she said, well, we need to tell them. I say, amen. Let's start a TV broadcast. That's
right, we need to tell them. Everybody needs to know who the
Lord Jesus Christ is. Everybody needs to know. Brother
Todd Nivert, when he was six years old, he was in Doris Mahan's
Sunday school class. She was his Sunday school teacher.
And she was teaching from John 6, where the Lord fed 5,000.
And after that, that great multitude was just so amazed by the miracle,
they all tried to lay hands on him. They were going to take
him by force because they wanted to make him their king. And the Lord wouldn't allow it.
He departed alone. And Doris asked the kids, why
would the Lord Jesus Christ not allow them to make him to be
their king? And Todd, at six years old, said,
because he already was king. Amen. We're not going to make
him king. We're not going to make him lord. He already is lord. He already
is king. He's the king of kings and lord
of lords. Out of the mouth of babes. Go with me back over to Psalm
8. Psalm 8 verse 1 says, Oh Lord,
our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth, who has
set Thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings, Thou hast ordained strength because of Thine enemies,
that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I
consider the heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and
the stars, which Thou hast ordained. When I consider the heavens.
I know that science is always changing. I know that. There is no way that they could
prove their numbers. I know that. I know that. I don't
know where they come up with this stuff. I know that. But
all that's irrelevant. We can clearly see that God's
universe is big. It's big. It's extremely big. If their numbers are at all accurate,
if their findings are at all close, then it is in line with
our God displaying His excellent greatness. I was watching something
that showed the earth, and I'm sure you've seen this too. It
showed the earth. Here we are on this earth, and you know,
we think we're something on this earth. And so we're on the earth,
and it showed the earth compared to the sun, which in our brains
we think is the center of everything, the sun. And the sun was, you know, this
big, and the earth was this big. And then it showed our sun compared
to the largest star in our galaxy, the Milky Way. And that largest
star was this big and the sun was this big. The earth is non-existent
anymore. You can't even see that. And
then it showed the, um, Milky Way galaxy that this largest
star was in next to a much larger galaxy. They say it's 100,000
light years from one side of the Milky Way to the other side.
A beam of light, it takes 100,000 years. I don't know how they
came up with that, but it's big. So they showed our Milky Way
next to this other massive galaxy. That galaxy was, I forget, 100
times bigger than the Milky Way. And then they backed out and
they showed a picture that the Hubble telescope had taken, an
actual picture. And it said in this picture,
and you could see them, they look just like these little blobs
and germs and things. They said there were thousands
of galaxies in this photograph, which all had billions of stars
inside each galaxy. And then it backed out and it
showed a picture of the sky and you could see the moon. You could
tell somebody was on earth. It was from the Hubble telescope.
And it had a little yellow box. This is the patch of sky that
we took that photo from that had thousands of galaxies that
they could see. They could still photograph the
rest of the sky and then turn around. And then go to the other side
of the earth and look down or up or whichever way it is. How accurate their numbers and
findings are is irrelevant to me. Here's the point. In my little
finite mind, when I consider the heavens, God made all that. When I consider the work of Thy
fingers, not just our moon, but all the moons and all the stars,
which Thou hast ordained. When He came to us, He didn't
just come from our sun to our earth. When I consider that you're
above this vast, you cannot comprehend how vast it is. Verse four, he said, what is
man? When I consider everything you've
created, you say, well, God created man. Well, look at everything
God created. What is man? That thou art mindful
of him and the son of man that thou visitest him. What is man? I'll tell you what man is. Nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing in
comparison to this vast creation of God's hand. Less than nothing. Less than emptiness. Just the
dust. Dust is too big. That's way too
big. That's what he said in Isaiah
4 to the nations are just dust. And man ruined whatever he is
with his sin. But in spite of man's sin against
God, and in spite of his arrogance, that ignorant arrogance, man
thinking he's something in the middle of all this incredible
vastness. Man thinking he's something when
he's nothing. In spite of that, David said,
you're mindful of him. you're mindful of him. Verse
four, what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of
man that thou visitest him, that you would visit him, visit him
in his affliction, visit him in his sin, visit him as his
substitute, that you would be his substitute. Humble yourself down all the
way to a nothings substitute, that you would do that for him.
When you see those pictures of the vastness of the heavens,
to see just how far he had to come to bear our sin, to make
that payment, you have to say, Lord, why would
you do that? When we can't even be seen. We're nothing to nobody. Why would you do that? Why would
you do that? Why would your delights be with
the sons of men? Why would you receive sinful
men? Considering everything that's
out there. Why would you even desire to
receive sinful men? Verse 5 says, For thou hast made
Him, that's Christ, a little lower than the angels for a small
span of time. For a little span of time, you
made Him to be lower than the angels. Lower than the servants
of heaven. That's who the angels are, the
servants of heaven. You made Him to be lower than
His own ministers that do His bidding. You made Him to be a
servant of the earth. Galatians 4 says, When the fullness
of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that
they might receive the adoption of sons. And because He did that,
that work of redemption, because He took that upon Himself, and
accomplished it for His people. The end of verse 5 says, God
the Father has crowned Him with glory and honor. Look what He
did. Look where He went. Crowned Him
with glory and honor. In verse 6 says, Thou madest
Him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands. Thou hast
put all things under His feet. Everything, every knee shall
bow, every tongue shall confess that He is Lord, our Redeemer,
our Savior, our King, our Lord, and our God. Verse seven says,
all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beast of the field, the fowl
of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through
the paths of the seas, everything, name something, everything that
has breath, everything. Let it magnify and praise and
extol the Lord our God. Verse nine says, Oh Lord, our
Lord. Same thing. Oh, Jehovah, our
Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Thomas said when
he felt the nail prints in his hands and reached in and touched
his side. He said, my Lord and my God. Oh, Jehovah, my Lord Jesus Christ. How excellent is thy name in
all the earth. It is, isn't it? It is. Precious name, oh how
sweet, hope of earth, joy of heaven. Wonderful. All right,
let's all stand together.