Psalm 8

Q: What does the Bible say about the sovereignty of God?

The Bible teaches that God is the sovereign ruler over all creation, controlling everything according to His will. The sovereignty of God is a central theme throughout Scripture, asserting that God reigns supreme over all things. As stated in Psalm 8, God is our Lord and ruler, demonstrating His divine authority. Philippians 2:9-10 affirms this sovereignty, indicating that every knee will bow to Jesus Christ, highlighting that His lordship is established by God Himself, not dependent on human acknowledgment. Despite the rejection of His authority by many, He remains Lord over all because His sovereignty is not contingent on human recognition or consent. This truth brings comfort to believers, affirming that every aspect of life is under God's control, including the events of history and our personal lives.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to acknowledge Jesus as their Lord?

Acknowledging Jesus as Lord signifies personal submission to His authority and the recognition of His role in salvation. For Christians, acknowledging Jesus as Lord is crucial as it reflects a profound submission to His authority and the recognition of His divine role in salvation. As preached, no one can truly call Jesus 'Lord' except by the Holy Spirit, highlighting that this acknowledgment is a spiritual revelation. This personal relationship with Christ as Lord signifies that He is not merely a savior but the sovereign ruler of our lives, guiding and nurturing us according to His perfect will. It underscores the believer's reliance on His leadership and grace while establishing a transformative relationship characterized by trust, obedience, and joy. This acknowledgment provides believers with assurance of Christ's continual presence and faithfulness, assuring them that they are under His divine care.

Q: How does Psalm 8 reflect God's care for humanity?

Psalm 8 highlights God's extraordinary care for humanity by showing His mindfulness and the special honor He grants to mankind. Psalm 8 reveals God's profound care for humanity, encapsulated in the rhetorical question, 'What is man that you are mindful of him?' (Psalm 8:4). This question expresses the marvel of God's attention towards us despite our insignificance in the vastness of the universe. The psalm further illustrates that God has crowned humanity with glory and honor, designating us with a unique role as caretakers of His creation. This special status, marked by divine intimacy and significance, stands as a testimony to God's grace. The psalmist acknowledges that God not only thinks of humanity but also visited us in the person of Jesus Christ, demonstrating the depth of His love and commitment to redeem us. Therefore, this acknowledgment of God's care envelops the believer in a sense of purpose and belonging within His creation.

Q: What does it mean that Jesus is crowned with glory and honor?

Jesus being crowned with glory and honor signifies His exalted status as the Son of God and the ultimate authority over all creation. The phrase 'crowned with glory and honor' refers to Jesus’ exaltation as the Christ following His incarnation and sacrificial death. As expressed in Psalm 8:5, He was made a little lower than the angels and yet was appointed the mediator of God's glory. This acknowledgment reveals that, although He took on human form, He retained His divine nature and purpose. The New Testament supports this by declaring that God highly exalted Christ and bestowed upon Him a name above all names (Philippians 2:9). This crowning signifies not only His victory over sin and death but also establishes Him as Lord and ruler, asserting His authority over all things in heaven and earth. Therefore, recognizing Jesus’ glory and honor is essential for Christians as it affirms their faith in His deity and His sovereign action in the world.

Father, this is that which you have ordained. for the salvation of men's souls
and for the edification of the body. That is the preaching of
your word. And Lord, I beg you, I ask you
that you would speak in spite of the vessel, this earthen vessel. No amount of preparation is enough
and sufficient to accomplish anything but only through your
power, through your presence, through your Holy Spirit can
anything good come of this time together. But Lord, I ask you,
I plead with you, because it's your word and because it's your
glory at stake and because these are your people, not because
of me. Because these are your people,
I ask that you would take your word and anoint it for their
good, for my good. In Christ's name we ask these
things because of him. Amen. Turn to Psalm 8, the eighth psalm. Psalm 8. Once again, I want to
do an exposition or a verse-by-verse study of the whole passage of
Scripture. I've said it before, and I'll
say it again, that the more I consider this thing of preaching, and the more I talk to men whom
I esteem very highly in the ministry, and other men, I ask their opinion,
their feelings of this thing of preaching. The more convinced
I am that this is the best way to preach, expositional or verse-by-verse,
my pastor, I was talking to him not too long ago, and he made
this statement. He said, The thing you can be
certain of when preaching verse-by-verse is that every doctrine will be
covered. You don't have to worry. about
dwelling too much on this and leaving this out, because God
is too precise in his Word. He is too wise, and he gives
it all right down the line there, if we have ears to hear and eyes
to see. So there is no danger of leaving
any part of God's counsel out or his doctrine out when you
preach verse by verse, because God gives it. He doesn't mince
words, so to speak. And God's sovereignty, man's
responsibility, and everything in between will be dealt with,
will be brought out in expositional preaching. So I intend to do
a lot of that here, already have, and intend to continue to do
so. Perhaps at some point I'd like
to do studies on Sunday evening, or
maybe the midweek service on select psalms. You can't go wrong
studying the psalms, can you, Henry? You just can't do it.
I enjoy it. I've said this, that sometimes
you don't quite know where to go in the scriptures to read.
You're trying to find something to read, and you don't know where
to go, where to start. You're just at a loss for something.
So where do you usually turn? I mean, almost always. You run
over to the psalm, and whether you've prepared yourself or whatever,
you'll find something that meets your needs. The psalmist David
seems like he's looking into our hearts, and it seems like
he went through everything that we have. And he has. He did.
So there's something there in the psalms for us every time
we look at them. So Psalm 8 here is a is one of
those good psalms, and one I've always enjoyed. Psalm 8, verse
1. Now, this is to the chief musician. Psalmist David penned this. By
the way, the word psalm means . . . Now, the Church some time
ago didn't believe in music. They just didn't think it was
appropriate for so-called God's house. They didn't believe in
music. But what they failed to overlook was that the word psalm
means music. The word itself means an instrumental
song with words put to it. David played the lute and the
harp and so forth. He was a musician. And he penned this psalm for
the chief musician, whoever that was, I don't know, but it says,
do you have up there right under the number of the psalm, upon
Gitteth? Some say that that is referring
to Goliath the Gittite. Some say that that is referring
to right after when David slew the giant. I don't know. That's
just what some say. But come on in. We're in Psalm
8. But verse 1, this is penned by
David, he says, O Lord, our Lord, O Lord, our Lord, God Christ
is our Lord, our ruler, our sovereign king, the one who reigns and
rules over us, who has us in his hand. He is our Lord, whether
men acknowledge him or not. He is our Lord, and we don't
make him Lord. Not like this world likes to
think, make Jesus your Lord. Oh, no. God already beat men
to that. He made him Lord a long time
ago. A long time ago, God made Jesus
Lord and Ruler over all things, and he's our Lord. He's all men's
Lord, whether they acknowledge it or not. Always has been, is
right now, always will be Lord. Our Lord, though, there's a special
sense in which a believer can say this. He doesn't belong to us, but
there's a sense in which he is our special Lord. He is ours,
that he is a sense in which he has manifested himself to us
in such a way, and I hate to use the term because this world
uses it so loosely, he is our personal Lord. He comes to us
in a personal way. He deals with his people like
that, in a personal revelation, a personal manifestation of himself. And he's our Lord. This is the
most blessed privilege a man can have, to be able to truly
say that the Lord of the universe is my Lord. Not all men say this,
do they, Rick? Uh-uh. They don't say that. They
don't acknowledge. They do not like to retain God
in their knowledge. We will not have this man to
reign over us. We'll have a Savior, yeah, but
we'll make him Lord at our convenience. But the child of God, the believer,
rejoices in the fact that he's my Lord. That's the way I want
it. That's the way the believer wants it. And that's the most
blessed privilege a man can have. It's a gift to be able to truly,
from the heart, call him my Lord. My Lord. What does the scripture
say? No man can truly say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy
Spirit. No man can truly say, that is
from the heart, Terry, truly say it and mean it in its truest
sense, Lord, my Sovereign King. So it's the greatest blessing and privilege
a man could possibly have. It's a personal revelation. And
he says, O Lord, the sense that he says this twice, O Lord, our
Lord, O Jehovah, Eternal One, our Sovereign Ruler, Controller
and and owner of all things. Oh, Lord! We can't expound upon
this as, well, you've felt it, you've prayed it before yourself,
but you can't describe it. What can you say about a man's
personal crying out to his Lord? Oh, Lord, my Lord. And David, a man after God's
own heart, You just have to experience the same thing he went through
to be able to enter into this. And he says, O Lord, our Lord,
how excellent, excellent is thy name. Look at it. How excellent
is thy name. What name? Well, what name? Well, Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide." What
a wonderful name. Hasn't he provided for us everything? David said, I've been young and
now I'm old. I've never seen God's seed forsaken
or his seed begging bread. Never seen it. Hasn't he provided
for us everything we need? There's no reason to think that
he won't continue to do so. Because he's Jehovah-Jireh. That's
his name. The Lord will provide. He will. I like the wills and the shalls
of the Bible. And that's his name, Terry. The
Lord will provide. Not only everything we need in
this life, all the things necessary for this life, but everything
we need to inhabit eternity. Eternal life. Righteousness. Righteousness. Jehovah-Rapha. What a name! Jehovah Rapha, the
Lord that healeth. Our Lord himself was quoting
Isaiah 61. The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon me because he has anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek. He sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison to
them that are bound. and the healing of his people.
This is talking about spiritual. Spiritually speaking is what
this is talking about. We need healing from this sickness called sin,
don't we? We need healing. We need to get
rid of this plague. It's a plague in our bones. It's
a plague in our bones. It's killing us. It's killed
us already. But it will take us right on
down to hell unless Jehovah Rapha intervenes, the Lord that healeth. And he heals us physically. Garnet,
if you're going to be healed of your problem, it's the Lord
that's going to do it now. He'll use means, yes, but he's the
one that does it. He uses these means indirectly,
but he's the one. He says, I kill. He says, I wound. I heal. I kill. I make a lot. Jehovah Raphael, that's an excellent
name. Jehovah Nissi. You've got these in the back
of your bulletin. Jehovah Nisi, the Lord our banner. Who is the one that we proclaim
here? Jehovah Nisi, the Lord our banner. He's the one that we lift up.
He's the one we exalt. He's the one we proclaim around
here. He's the one who we raise up
and exalt. He's the one, not ourselves,
not our free will, Him, Jehovah Nisi. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord
our peace. Christ said, My peace I give
unto you. Oh, not as the world gives unto
you, a false peace, a temporary peace, but My peace I give unto
you. The peace that only He can give
that comes with salvation itself. Rest from all your doings. Rest from all your self-righteousness.
Only the peace that He can give. Jehovah Shalom. That's an excellent
name. An excellent name. Jehovah Raya. Psalm 23, the Lord my shepherd. Ah, the Lord is my Jehovah-Raya. I like being thought of as a
sheep. You know, a sheep's a dumb animal. I mean, dumb, a dumb,
dumb animal. Ah boy, but I like being a sheep
because I've got an all-wise shepherd that cares for me, and
that's exactly where I want to be. I want to be under his care,
and I want to be—somebody said this, you know, you preach God's
sovereignty in such a way that you make man a puppet. Well,
I'm not so sure that's not too bad. If God's got me on a string,
then I'm all right, right? If he's got a hold of me and
I can't do anything except what he determines, I'm okay. I'll be God's puppet. That's
fine with me. Well, he's my shepherd, Doug. He leads me where he will. He guides me, provides for me,
keeps me, protects me. Jehovah-Rea, that's an excellent
name. Excellent. Jehovah Sidkenu. Jehovah Shema. The Lord is present. He's present. Always, ever present. Jehovah Shema. Well, that's an excellent name.
O Lord, our Lord, he says, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth. How excellent. I'll tell you
another name that I didn't mention. Jesus Christ. There's none other
name given among men, under heaven, on earth, whereby we must be
saved. That name is the name that's
above every name. The greatest name ever to be
uttered, Jesus, that is, Savior, Christ, the Messiah, our Lord. Jesus Christ, our Messiah. And look at it, he says, in all
the earth. How excellent is thy name in
all the earth. That name, Jesus Christ, no name
is spoken by more tongues than that name. No name. It's spoken
by more people in more languages. No book is translated in more
languages than the Scripture, than God's Word, and He's called
the Incarnate Word. He's called the Word. Jesus Christ. No power and influence is so
widely felt as that of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nowhere. Look at
it over in Philippians chapter 2 with me. Philippians chapter
2. You know the Scripture probably
by heart. Philippians chapter 2. Verse 9 says, God has highly
exalted Christ, and given him a name which is above, which
is far more excellent than any other name, that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, and will bow, of things in heaven
and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every
tongue should confess to that name, that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of the Father." That's an excellent name, and
it's excellent in all the earth. Nowhere, no name is used so widely,
and the influence and the power of it felt so much, so greatly,
as the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, look at this, verse
1. Now, you've set your glory above
the heavens. You've set your glory above the
heavens. Now, the glory of God, we know
it here by God's grace, the glory of God is his person. His person is far greater and
more significant, more magnificent than the celestial creation and
what he created, the moon, the stars, and so forth. We'll see
in a minute. Listen to this, what Matthew
Henry said. I like this. Listen. He said, The Lord's presence
is infinite. That is, he is always everywhere. The Lord's presence is infinite.
His brightness, that is, the glory of his person, his brightness
is indescribable. His majesty is awful. I like
the terms I used to use back then, the awful majesty of God. Men don't talk like that now,
do they? His majesty is awful, that is,
fearful. His dominion, boundless. It's everywhere. There's no bounds
to it. His sovereignty, incontestable. Who can say, what have you done,
like Isaiah said? What man can say, what have you
done? O man, who art thou that replies
against God? Why have you made me thus? Well,
God's glory, he said he set his glory above the heavens, and
God's glory chiefly is his person, but it's also his work, his mercy
and his grace as seen in the gospel. of sending his Son down
here. That's his cheapest glory, and
he set that above his creation, above the heavens. He set his
glory, that is, his redemptive glory, how he saves unworthy
sinners. He set that above the very creation
of all things. He set it above all things, and
we see that. We admire God's creation. We
go out in the nighttime, we admire what God has done, or in the
daytime, we admire these things. But our admiration should be
greater for what things he has done for us eternally, what things
he has done for us internally. The salvation of our very souls.
Look at verse 2. He says, Out of the mouth of
babes and sucklings hast thou ordained or founded strength
because of thine enemies. Turn over to Matthew 21. Keep
your place there. Over to Matthew 21. We quite
often quote that scripture, perhaps wrongly. I've done it many times
and still do it. When we hear a young person say
something with some wisdom to it, we say, Well, out of the
mouths of babes and sucklings. Well, that's true in a sense. But I believe that the scriptures
teach here that that he's talking about believers, adult believers
or young people that are knowledgeable, that know the Lord, who consider
themselves to be just babes, just babes in Christ, nothing.
I don't know anything, am nothing, never will be, just a baby. I
don't know anything. Well, this is what the Lord,
this is the way the Lord describes us in Chapter 21, verse 15, says
the chief priest and the scribes saw the wonderful things that
Christ did, and the children crying in the temple and saying,
Hosanna, hallelujah, praise to the Son of David. And these old
priests and scribes were displeased, and they said unto him, Do you
hear what they're saying? And Christ said unto them, Yeah.
Have you ever read? Haven't you ever read it? Out
of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected. Then look
over at Luke 10. The disciples had just come to
Christ and were rejoicing that the devils were subject to their
name, and Christ said, Don't rejoice in this, but you rejoice
that your names are written in heaven. In verse 21, he lifted
up his voice to heaven in prayer, and he said, He rejoiced in spirit. He doesn't say that very often
about our Lord rejoicing in spirit, but it says it right here. He
rejoiced in spirit, and he said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth. I thank you that you hid these
things from the wise and the prudent, mature men in the scriptures. I thank you that you hid these
things from those wise and prudent. and you revealed them unto babies. Joe, are you anything but a baby?
Not me. I don't feel like I'm anything
more than just a baby, ever learning. And what did Christ say anyway?
Except you be converted and become as little children, you'll not
even enter the kingdom of heaven. So this is the attitude we've
got to continually keep. And it says, out of the mouths
of babes and sucklings, those that consider themselves to be
nothing and are nothing, God has ordained strength. Strength! Boy, you're talking about somebody
that feels the truth of this scripture. Goodness gracious.
Oh, man, every time before I get up to preach, or teach, whatever,
I read Jeremiah. where he says, Lord, I'm just
a baby. I can't speak, I'm just a baby.
But he said, say not that I'm a child, but you go where I send
you. Who made man's mouth? Well, I
feel that strongly. And there's one sense that this
can refer to little babies. Mary, you and Stephen are going
to go through this soon. You're going to hear that little
baby cry for the first time, and you're going to see the glory
of God. You're going to hear the glory of God Almighty when
you hear that part of you, I mean something from nothing. Come
out and it's you. You're looking at you. And it
cries. And I said this before, but when
Hannah came out of the womb and I wasn't that concerned about
whether she was a boy or a girl or whether she was deformed or
perfect, whatever, I wasn't that concerned. I just wanted to know
that she was alive. And the thing that gave me, that
caused me to rejoice more than anything was when I heard that
little voice. when she starts crying. She's
alive. She's alive. And you'll hear
the glory of God, if it's His will, if it's His will, by His
grace and His mercy. You'll hear the glory of God
come out of the gooing of that baby. And you know what? Chiefly, I think this is talking
about a baby. You know what baby I'm thinking
about? There was a baby about 2,000 years ago, laying in a
stall, a little baby, laying in a stall. And you know these
Pentecostals, they want to talk about an unknown tongue. I believe
this is the only time. This is the only credence I'll
give to gibberish out of the mouth of that baby. When that
baby was good and gone and gibberish, undiscernible, it was praise
to God Almighty, I guarantee you. He never uttered an idle
word. The idle words are sin. This
baby can't sin. He's the perfect son of God himself. And that gooing? God understood. God understood out of that mouth
of that baby. And look at it. He says, out
of the mouth of that baby, in light of that, that baby. He's
ordained strength, hasn't he? Out of the mouth of that child.
Because of the enemy. That's the reason he's sinning.
That's the reason he's sinning. Because of the enemy. That he
might steal the enemy. Look at it. That thou mightest
steal the enemy. I bet you when Satan heard that
voice the first time, even though a little seemingly helpless,
insignificant little baby in a manger, when Satan heard that
voice, it made him shiver. It made him shiver in his boots.
The salvation of God. Like the devil said, you know,
We know who you are! You're the Son of God! Are you
going to get rid of us now?" They tremble, don't they? He's
ordained strength out of the mouth of that baby because of
the enemy, that he might steal the enemy and the avenger. Verse
3. The psalmist says, "...when I consider thy heavens, the work
of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained."
You know the heavens, the stars. I think it was Spurgeon that
said, Matthew Henry, why didn't God talk about the sun? The sun
eclipses the moon and the stars as far as glory goes. Well, he
thought perhaps David was walking outside on a real clear night.
And I know you've all done it, walked outside, maybe especially
up on the hill where Rick is. You've probably got a brilliant
view of the sky, and all those stars come out when it's a real
clear night. It's glorious, isn't it? It's
beautiful. It's a sight to behold. And David, perhaps, was walking
out at nighttime, looking at the sky, and he said, When I
consider this, when I consider the heavens And the work of your
fingers, he said, it's as if God had a bottle of glitter,
you know, the glitter that you used to play with as a kid or
kids play with now? And that was God's stars. He
had a little bottle of stars that are planets, really, large
planets. And he just took those out. sprinkled
the universe, dusted the universe with stars, and named them all.
He knows the name. When I consider this, your finger
work, the moon and the star, you know you pointed to moons
for seasons? It's miraculous, isn't it? The moon It's for a
light at night, but it's for the seasons. I don't understand
it. Some of you maybe have studied into it. Steve, some of you. But I know it controls the tides
and so forth, doesn't it, and the season. The moon does. Marvellous. And the stars have a purpose. Somebody said that When you see
a star, actually it's not even burning. It's long gone out. Isn't that so, Steve, that most
of the stars that you see have burned out years and years, even
thousands of years before? But you're just seeing it finally.
When I consider the stars which you've ordained, then here's
what I have to ask. Verse 4. What am I? What is man? 4. What is man that
thou art mindful of him? What is man that thou art mindful
of him? Listen to this. Sherry already
got this. I gave her a preview. There's
more than two billion people on the face of the earth. Two
billion. That's a lot of people. More
than two billion people upon this face of this earth. Well,
if you would take this earth—it's a huge planet, a huge planet—if
you would take this earth and put it inside the sun, if you
could open up the top of the sun and put this earth in it,
you could put millions of planets the size of the earth in the
sun. It would take millions of planets to fill up the size of
the sun. Well, if you took billions of
suns billions of planets the size of the sun and tried to
fill up our solar system. It would take billions. You couldn't
do it. And they say that there are infinite number of solar
systems in the universe. So you can take millions of planets
the size of the earth and stick them in the sun, and it takes
billions of suns to fill up our solar system, and there are an
infinite number of solar systems in the universe, and all of this
is in God's hand. Now, what is man? The tower of
my home. What does that make us? Well,
I'm somebody. I don't know about you. What is man? An infinitesimal,
molecular speck in the universe. A speck. What is man? that thou art mindful of him."
And then he goes on to consider this even greater, "...and the
Son of Man that ye visit him." Not only Henry does he is mindful
of us, not only did he just up in one day say, well, I'm going to think on the planet
earth. I'm going to think on these people
down here. I'm going to think on I'm going
to think on it. Not only that, but he said one
day, glory of all glories, I'm going to go down there and deal
with them and become one of them, a speck. I'm going to go down
there and become a speck. Why don't earth possess God to
do that? Well, the song I sung last time. For what earthly reason? I was
the reason, you were the reason. Man, that put it in perspective,
the greatness, God's glory and redemption, does that put it
in perspective? What would possess God to come down here, to come
to this level? It wouldn't be worth stepping
off and putting out of His way. The Son of Man, God visited us. Even though man would rebel against
God, he visited him. He visited him. His name was,
once again, Jesus Christ, the God-Man. And think of it. He came down here and was spitting
his face. Spitting his face. What is man
that you would think of him? and that you would visit him,
and that you would put up with us after we spit in your face."
Man, couldn't. Can't enter into it, can you?
Can't do it. Verse 5. Well, he made man a
little lower than the angels. A little bit lower than the angels.
and crowned him with glory and honor." Well, I said this, that
Adam must have been a magnificent creature. He was. He was. I'd
like to have seen him. We still see a semblance of that
first man in some people. There are still some real large
and robust and handsome people on this earth. I'm not one of
them. Henry, Joe, we're not one of
them, are we? There are still some gloriously
beautiful human beings, women, men, just beautiful creatures. There is no animal that can compare
to the beauty of a human being. We still see something of God
in his creation of man. And he made him a little lower
than the angel. He created man, the Adam, a handsome, strong
man, and Eve. But they were a little bit lower
than the angels and the celestial beings in that they were bound
to the earth. They couldn't fly around. They
were bound. They were a little bit lower than the angels because
they were confined to a body of flesh. Yet he was crowned
with glory and with honor. He was made in the very image
of God himself, which the angels were not. He was a real magnificent
creature in the image of God. He made him minion over the works
of his hands. He put all these things under
Adam's dominion. He told him to subdue the earth,
to subdue it. Made him to have dominion over
the works of God's hands. All creeping, crawling, walking,
flying, swimming creatures, they came to Adam. They had to come
to their king, Adam. That's the way in which he's
a type of Christ. All creatures must come to him."
And just as all creatures came to Adam to be named, I'd like
to have seen that, wouldn't you? Lining up, walking by Adam. Next. And they heard his voice. They
weren't afraid either. They weren't afraid. Come on, come on. The
elephant, that big beast, come over here. And he named him. All of them lined up and walked
by Adam. You know, I thought about this. I've got to bless
him thinking about this. They cheered when they heard
this man's voice. The fear of man was not in the animals before
sin. Oh, no. He says he named them
and so forth. And Noah had a sense of that.
I've often wondered if Christ had a real close rapport with
the animals like that, the Creator himself. If he walked out into
the woods and animals flocked to him. But anyway, when this
marvelous creature, Adam, came walking through the woods, a
deer or something, a lion, run up to him. to have him pet him.
They cheered at his voice, cheered at him, marveled. They were under
his dominion, though. God put all things under this
man's feet. Verse 7, All sheep, oxen, yea,
beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the
sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea, whatever
Adam wanted, he got. They were all, all things were
under his dominion, and even so, even now, the fear of man
is in all creatures, and rightfully so, because man's worse than
a beast. He's worse than a beast. The
fear of man, and now men, when they hear, when animals hear
man's voice, they dread it, don't they? They run from it. He was
king of the earth for a while. Adam was. But now he's no more
than a beast. Well, this isn't talking about
Adam, though. This is not talking about Adam. Oh, no, this is talking about
the second man, the Lord from glory. All things were written
in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms. concerning
Jesus Christ. So let's look at it in a different
way. This is talking about the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, as
he referred to himself. Look at it. Read it again there
in verse 5. It says, God made Christ a little
lower than the angels, just a little bit, in that he was confined
to this earth. He was, as a man, in a body,
a little lower than the angels, a little bit lower But he crowned
him with glory and honor such as no man has had before." This
man, in this man, is set for the defense and salvation of
Israel, of God's church, for the glory of God himself. The
glory and honor of God himself is in this man. Verse 6, And
God made him to have dominion. God has made him both Lord He
made him to have dominion over the works of God's hands. He
has dominion, Christ has dominion over all of God's creation, for
the scripture says all things were created by him and for him,
expressly for Jesus Christ. For him. They weren't even created
for Adam. But eternally speaking, they
were created for Christ, for his glory. All things were created
by him and for him, and Christ himself said, All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth." Well, he says he made him have
dominion over the works of his hands. He put all things under
his feet. All things under his feet. What
does the Scripture say? He's now seated somewhere. He's
seated on a throne, expecting. He's expecting, Mary, until his
enemies become his footstool under his feet. That's where
God's going to put all things, has put all things. Verse 7. All sheep, who's that? That's us. All sheep are his. He is the great shepherd, and
oxen Dumb old ox and the beast of the field, that is the unbeliever.
There he is, too. There he is. Natural men, they're
brute beasts at best, consumed with worldly lusts, and no better
than a wild dog, consumed with worldly lusts. Well, there still
he is. They're under his feet. There he is, and they're soon
going to be slaughtered, going to be sacrificed on his altar,
aren't they? That's what Scripture said. All
sheep and oxen, yea, beasts of the field. Verse 8, the fowl
of the air, the angels, the cherubims, the seraphims, all the celestial
beings, the fowls of the air, the angels, and so forth. And
it says, the fish of the sea, what's that? Underneath the water,
the demons, the devils in hell, there he is. They fly, they do
his bidding, there he is. They're under his subjection,
under his control. I said it, Christ said, all power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth. David said it, if I
go down to hell, that's where you're right there, too. Well,
verse 8, the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever
passes through the paths of the sea. It's said of him that he
is far above all principality. in all power, in all might, in
all dominion, in every name that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come. God has put all things
under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things. It's talking about Christ, there's
no doubt about it, the head over all things. So what more can
be said? What more can be said than verse
9, just to repeat himself? Look at verse 9. O Lord, O Lord,
Lord Jesus Christ, Lord, Ruler, Sovereign, Controller of all,
our Lord, how excellent is thy name, your person and all that
that entails, all that your name describes in all the earth. in all the earth. O Lord, our
Lord, how excellent is Thy name. There is none other name given
among men whereby we must be saved but the name of Jesus Christ."
And that psalm clearly speaks of Him, I believe. Stand with
me in all this business. Our Lord, words are useless after hearing your word. The
prayer of the psalmist, the man after your own heart, this is
our prayer, Lord. We pray that you might make it
real to us. O Lord, our Lord. How excellent is thy name in
all the earth. Amen.

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What does the Bible say about the sovereignty of God?

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What does it mean that Jesus is crowned with glory and honor?

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What does the Bible say about the sovereignty of God?

Why is it important for Christians to acknowledge Jesus as their Lord?

How does Psalm 8 reflect God's care for humanity?

What does it mean that Jesus is crowned with glory and honor?

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