That song does not humble us and prepare
our hearts to worship. We've got a heart problem. A
big, big part of worship is humility before our great God. It fits
so well with the title of our message this evening. If you
would look in Psalm 8, the title of the message is, How Great
Our God Is. I pray that our Lord will enable
us tonight to see something, something of how great our God
is. You know, His greatness, His
excellency, His majesty is infinite. So our puny minds can't begin
to scratch the surface of how great He is. But if we'll get
some idea of how great He is, there are several things that
will happen that are good things. Number one, if we have some idea
how great our God is, we'll come to Him seeking salvation in Christ. And we'll come with confidence.
We'll come with confidence because we know only God is great enough
to save a great sinner like me. And because He's so great, I'll
be able to rest in Him, trust Him. He's able. He's able to
save and He's able to keep me saved. Second, if we get any
idea how great our God is, we will at least attempt to worship
him like he ought to be worshipped. Our God's so great, I can't worship
him. I can't praise him like he deserves
to be worshipped and praised. That's one of the great, great
difficulties in preaching. I don't care what text the Lord
leads you to, what text you use, attempt to preach Christ from
when you get done, about 40 minutes later, you haven't done it justice. But I tell you what, our God's
so great, I'm gonna give everything I got. I'm gonna give it everything
I got to talk about Him. And thirdly, if we have any idea
how great our God is, it'll give us a sense of peace in times
of trouble, in times of doubt and suffering. It'll give us
a sense of peace. We'll have that peace because
we know this. Our great God's in control of
this situation. This is not an accident or anything. This is not out of His control.
He's the one who's in control. And He's able to strengthen and
to comfort His people until such time as He's pleased to deliver
them. So let's look here at verse 1. Let's see if we might learn
something about how great our God is. David begins, O Lord,
our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has
set thy glory above the heavens. David says, and this is why I
read about the original language of this, that David says the
name of the Lord is so excellent, we just don't have a word to
describe it. There's no word David could use
because there's no word in the English language to describe
the excellency of our God. David just says your name is
excellent in all the earth. The Lord's name, David begins
here with the Lord's name, and he does that because the Lord's
name reveals the character of the Lord. And the character of
the Lord is so excellent that the only way you can describe
it is by using some of his different names used in scripture. I looked
up a website that gave 900 names or descriptions of God in scripture. I'm going to give you just just
a few that came to my mind. Elohim, God's name, Elohim, it's
the strong one, the creator, the judge of all. And that name
is in the plural form, telling us something about the Godhead,
the Trinity, three persons, but one God, Elohim. His name should
be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. Our God's excellent name is the
Almighty. He's our master. He's our father. He's the Amen. He's Alpha and
Omega. He's that rock. He's the bread
of life, the water of life. He's the only potentate, the
captain of our salvation. His excellent name is Jehovah
Jireh. The Lord will provide. That's an excellent name to someone
who's needy. His name is Jehovah Shalom, the
Lord our peace. He made peace by the blood of
his cross. His excellent name is Jehovah
Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. Jehovah Raya, the Lord, our shepherd. Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord, our
righteousness. This is an excellent name because
that's our God is excellent in his character and the glory of
those names. Describe a glory, describe a
person whose glory is higher than the heavens. Now, we don't
have any idea how high above us the heavens are, just not
even counting the third heaven. Let's just talk about outer space.
We have no idea how high those things are. Where's the end of
them? We don't know. We can't measure that far. But
God's glory is higher than that. He's more high above us than
space is from us. You think how high and glorious
our God really is. if his name's that high in glory.
In this psalm, David gives us four ways to see how great our
God really is. Number one, we see the greatness
of God because he's the creator. Verse three, David said, when
I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and
the stars which thou hast ordained. David says, when I look at those,
I see something of the greatness of God. You know, anybody who
can look at creation and say that this just evolved because
God's not, they're a fool. They're willingly being ignorant.
You look at creation, you see something of God's wisdom, how
everything works together in harmony, even though this world
has fallen into sin, how it works together in such harmony. That's
God's wisdom. You look at creation, you see
something about God's goodness. God provides for every living
thing. No matter what life form it is,
God provides for it. That's His goodness. But you
go out and you look at the heaven. You look at space. And you see
something about the majesty and the enormity of God. Space is
so immense. We don't measure it in miles.
We measure it in light years. A light year is how far light
can travel in a year. I looked it up. It's almost 6
trillion miles. And we measure space in hundreds
of light years. It's just beyond our comprehension. Look at Isaiah 40. And God created
that. That which is so immense, we
can't even measure it. God created it like it was nothing. Because however immense space
is, God is much more immense than that. Psalm 40 verse 18. To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare unto him? The workman melteth
a graven image and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold and
casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that
he hath no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeketh
unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that should
not be moved. Have you not known? Have you
not heard, hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have
you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth
upon the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are
as grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. The enormity of
space is just immeasurable to us. It's just like closing the
front curtains to God. That's how just enormous, how
full of majesty He is. And those heavens, all that in
outer space, all those, everything in the heavens, it all belongs
to God. David says when I consider thy
heavens, it belongs to Him. They belong to God because God
created them. David said they're the work of
His fingers. Now you can tell a lot about a person, about their
talent, about something about them by looking at the work of
their hands. You know, shoddy workmanship tells you something
about a person. I see those carvings Travis Williams
makes. I don't have any idea how that
can possibly be done. That's talent, creativity. I
don't know anything about it because it's not in me. But I
look at those carvings and this is what I conclude. Whoever did
that's a talented man. That's what I can conclude from
that. When you look at space, the work of God's And you see
something of the enormity, the majestic person that God is. But you also see His power and
His wisdom there. All those things in space, the
planets and the moons and the stars and the asteroids and the
comets, all the things that are out there, they all stay in their
place. Now I read this week how they've
got different shaped orbits, different kinds of orbits, and
they're all just out there. And it looks like chaos to me,
but you know, it never collides. It never, everything never crashes
into the sun. That's God's power and God's
wisdom to do that. You look at space and you get
just a hint about how little we know about God. Almost nothing. in space? Do we know anything
about it? I mean, compared to how much
there is to know, we just know almost nothing. And we're just
constantly learning something we thought was, you know, we
find out was wrong. When I was in school, Pluto was a planet. Now there's less planets for
y'all to memorize because Pluto's not a planet anymore. They call
it a dwarf planet, whatever that means. But whatever you call
it, you know what? It's right exactly where the
finger of God put it. and it's in its orbit and there
it stays. That's God's power and his wisdom. Look at Jeremiah
33. And God uses the example of space,
the planets and their orbits and the sun and the moon and
the rotation of the earth and all those things. God uses those
as a way to teach his people about his faithfulness, his covenant
of grace to his people. Jeremiah 33 verse 19. And the word of the Lord came
unto Jeremiah saying, thus saith the Lord, if you can break my
covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, that there should
not be a day and night in their season, then may also my covenant
be broken with David, my servant, that he should not have a son
to reign upon his throne. And with the Levites, the priests,
my ministers, as the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of
David, my servant. and the Levites that minister
unto me. Here's what the Lord's telling
Jeremiah. Jeremiah, if you stop the sun from coming up in the
morning and you stop the moon from coming up at night, then
maybe you start to think about stopping my covenant of grace
for my people. My people shall be saved. And this is, you know, I mean,
how foolish to think you can't stop the sun from coming up in
the morning. It's even more foolish to think that you could stop
God's covenant of grace to his people. I was telling Janet on
the way here, I wish it was a clear night, because I was going to
tell everybody to go out and look at the stars and things. But
it being cloud covered is probably better. You got there, when you
leave this building and you look up, I'm assuming it's not going
to, the sky's not going to clear while we're in here. You're not
going to see any stars. Clouds are covering it. I promise you this, they're still
there. And the night is dark and the
tribulation, the pressure you think is going to crush you.
You can't see any good in this. You can't see how God could possibly
bring any good out of your suffering and your pain and your sorrow
and your doubts and your fears. And you can't see. You trust
in this. God's covenant is still there.
He hasn't broken it. It's not been derailed. It's
not even been got a bump in the road. It's right on schedule,
even if we can't see it. Just like the stars, you can't
see them. In the daytime, you can't see the moon. It's still
there. It's still doing what it's supposed to be doing. Just because
we can't see it really doesn't have anything to do with it.
God has a purpose and he's going to accomplish it for his people.
And he uses space as an illustration to show us how powerful and how
majestic he is. He'll save his people. He's great
enough to do it. Second, back at our text, Psalm
8, God is so great that he sends his gospel through the mouth
of babes and it's still effectual. 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. Now God is so great that you'd
think he would spread his glory by choosing great men. Wouldn't
you think that? Your president comes to power
and he chooses the best and the brightest and the greatest people
he can find to be in his cabinet. God did just the opposite. He
chose the weak and the foolish and those who have no influence. He chose babes, simple, weak
babes and sucklings who are completely dependent. Why? So we'd see more of his glory
that the glory is not found in anything about the vessel. It's
all found in the message. It's all found in the person
that the gospel declares the second Corinthians chapter four.
Only God is great enough to choose somebody that can't speak. He
can't put two words together to form a sentence, to be a preacher
of his gospel. So we'll see the glory of his
name. Second Corinthians four verse
seven. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. This is the comfort for God's
people. If God can bless you through me preaching, God must
be great. He must be great. Now, all of
God's people are babes, aren't they? That's why our Lord told
his disciples, except you be converted and become his little
children, you're not going to enter the kingdom of heaven.
God's children are all babes and they all desire the sincere
milk of the word. And the way God has ordained
for his people to be fed is through the preaching of the word, by
using preachers. And God's preachers are no different
than all the rest of the flock. They're just babes. I'll tell
you how God's preacher prepares a message for his people. He
spends the week nursing. at the Word of God. That's what
being in the study is. It's nursing at the Word of God.
Brother Donnie Bell told me recently, he said, this is the life of
a preacher. You study, study, study all week
to get filled up, and then Wednesday you empty it out. You give the
message that the Lord gave, you empty it out, and before you
walk out the door, you're worried about Sunday morning. And you
go into studying, you study, you study, you study, you study,
you get filled up, and you empty it out again. And before you
walk out the door, you worry about Wednesday night. That's
what it is. That's nursing it to word of
God. So when it comes time for the worship service, God's servant
can give everybody else what the Lord's given you. But the
only way he got it the same way everybody else did, is by nursing
it to word of God. And we want to be babes. A believer
wants to be babes and we need a preacher who's a babe in this
sense. Babe doesn't know much. A baby
just doesn't know much. But a baby knows a few very important
things. A baby knows who his daddy is.
A baby knows who his mama is. Sunday night, we're in Lexington
and this new mama brought her little baby and I got to hold
that baby. And it was going well. I mean, it really was. I like
to think I got away with babies. And all of a sudden, that kid
realized, I don't know him. And then she's getting concerned
and she saw her mama and then the lid came off. She knew who
her mama is. That's where she wanted to be.
That's why God's children are. We don't know much, but I know
who my father is and I want to be where he is. I want to be
where he's preached. A baby doesn't know much. A baby
doesn't know anything about nutrition, but a baby sure knows how to
nurse. A baby doesn't know when something goes wrong. They don't
know why it's wrong. They just know it's wrong. So
you know what a baby knows? A baby knows not to try to figure
out the situation. A baby knows to cry and mama's
going to come and fix it. That's a child of God. I don't
know much about anything, but I know how to nurse. I know how
to come to God's word seeking Christ. I know how to cry out
to my father for help. I know that. I tell you how you
can comfort that baby. In the arms of his mama or his
daddy. Child of God is the same way.
The only way they can be comforted is in the arms of our Heavenly
Father. And a baby's weak. Do you know anything weaker than
a baby? A newborn baby that's just got a nurse that can't eat
solid food, not potty trained, nothing. Do you know anything
weaker than a baby? But that baby is just as strong
and just as sure as the strength and surety of his father. A baby
can't walk, but that baby can walk down the steps just as absolutely
sure of being able to go down those steps as his daddy. That's
a believer. We're so weak in ourselves, but
we're just as strong. Our salvation is just as certain
as the strength of our Father. It doesn't depend on us. It depends
upon His strength. And that's where the power of
our message comes. The power of our message, the
power that saves, the power that comforts and gives life and strength,
doesn't come from the eloquence of the power of God's preachers.
It's the name of Christ that brings salvation. It's the name
of Christ that brings assurance and peace and comfort. God is
so great. He's so powerful. He can save
and comfort his people through the preaching of weak, weak clay
vessels. That's how great our God is.
And that gospel, in the mouth of a babe, stills the enemy. You know, we have a, our country
goes to war. There's a minimum age. I mean,
you can't get in there to, I guess it's still 18, whatever the age
is. You know, we're not sending babies off to battle. That's
what God does. He just sends babes and out of
their mouth because it's not them. It's not their strength.
It's not their power. The power is the message. The
power of that message stills the enemy. Sin is stilled. Sin is done away with in the
blood of Christ that we preach. Your sin cannot harm you if Christ
died for you. His blood stilled it. And the
gospel of Christ stills the avenger. Stills the avenger of blood.
Remember in the Old Testament, the avenger of blood. He could
kill that manslayer in justice. Nobody would say a word to him
if he killed the manslayer. He's free from the law. Unless
the manslayer was in the city of refuge. Then he's safe. Christ
is our city of refuge. He has stilled the avenger. He
stilled the avenger of blood by dying in our place and satisfying
God's justice to do it. What a gospel we have. The glory,
the majesty of God is seen both in the subject of the gospel
and in the weak men who preach it. Only God could bring such
glorious results through such a cracked earthen vessel. Now,
our next two points show us the glory of God in the message of
the gospel that we preach. Here's the third thing. Here's
how you see the greatness of God. God is so great. He's so majestic. He's so excellent. That he thinks on man. And he
thinks on man to save him. Verse 4. David said, I consider
the works of the hands. Oh, how great you are. What is
man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that
thou visitest him. Now here's where true greatness
in a person can be seen. True greatness. is seen in how
kind a person is to someone who's less fortunate. True greatness
can reach way down and help those who are so far beneath us. True
greatness, true power is seen when a person helps somebody
without wanting anything in return. They're not seeking a return,
they're just helping, doing because they can. True generosity, true
riches is seen when you can afford to give and give and give and
give and still not be poor. That's where true greatness and
true riches is seen. And that's how God thinks on
men. God is so excellent. His majesty, He's just so enormous. Yet He thinks on men who are
just not even dirt clods, just specks of dust in His creation. God thinks on men. God thinks
on men who are His enemies. God thinks on men who hate Him
and never one time say thank you for all the gifts He gives
them. God is so rich. He's so great. He's been feeding ungrateful
men for 6,000 years and He's still not poor. God is so great. He has been heaping blessings
on man for 6,000 years and yet he's still rich. God can give
like that because his riches are infinite. God thinks on man
and he governs this world to ensure our survival. If man was
left up to his own nature, his own devices, we would have destroyed
this planet years and years and years and years ago. Men have
their fingers. at least two men, I guess, have
their finger on a nuclear button that would destroy this world
a hundred times over and just guarantee mutual destruction.
We wouldn't just destroy each other, we'd destroy the whole
planet in a day. You know why they never push
that button? It's not because they've got enormous restraint,
it's because God overrules. He's ruling this thing to ensure
the survival of humankind until such times He comes putting into
it. God thinks on men to preserve them. Think of that. But the
greatest glory of God is seen in this. It's the greatness of
His grace, and His mercy, and His love to His people. Now the
Lord does have a people. A people that belong to Him.
A people He belongs to them. Somebody can call God, Our Lord. That's what David said in verse
1. Oh Lord, Our Lord. Somebody, some speck of dust
like you and me has got the right, the privilege to call Almighty
God our Lord. Somebody's got that right. They
can do that because God chose a people to make His. That's
what election is. God chose a people to belong
to Him for His holy use. And those people can call the
Lord our Lord. Because He chose to make them
His. He's their God. He said, I'll be their God. They'll
be my people. They can call me their God. The
Lord has a people that Christ died for. The death of Christ
put away the sin of God's elect. And the blood of Christ bought
them. That's what redemption is all about. When we've been
redeemed, we're bought back. With the blood of His cross,
Christ bought those people and made them His. He purchased them.
Block, stock, and barrel. They belonged to Him. And if
Christ died for you, you belong to Him. You can call Him, My
God. The Lord has a people. And the
Holy Spirit gives life to those people. He comes and He dwells
in their hearts and reveals to them the Lord Jesus Christ. If
the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart, you can call Him, My Lord.
Because he dwells in you. You're the tabernacle of God.
He dwells in you. You can call him my Lord. Now God thinks on men to save
them. There's a lot of things I think
about that I never do. Either I can't do it or I procrastinate
or whatever. God thinks on men to save them.
And he doesn't just think about it. He's done it. God's greatest
glory is that he thought on men. and he visited them in mercy
and grace to save them. And that's our fourth point.
God is so great. Here's how you see how great
God is. He sent a savior who puts away an infinite amount
of sin. Look here at verse four. What
is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that
thou visitest him. For thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels, hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou
madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou
hast put 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 passeth through the paths of the seas.
All of it's put under his feet. Now there's only one person David
could be talking about there. The man, the man, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Look at Hebrews chapter two.
I know that so. I mean, not only is it just obvious,
but the word of God removes all doubt and tells us that's who
he's talking about. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 5. For unto the angels hath he not
put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one
in a certain place, this David, he's quoting David here, saying,
what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that
thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower
than the angels. For a little while you made him
a little lower than the angels. Thou crownest him with glory
and honor, and did 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, he left nothing
that's not put under him. Everything's in subjection to
him. But now we see not yet all things put under him, but we
see Jesus. See, this is who this is talking
about, the Lord Jesus Christ. But we see Jesus, who is made
a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. We
see him now crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace
of God, should taste death for every man. For it became him,
for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect
through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth
and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he's
not ashamed to call them brethren." See, this is how God saved his
people. It's through the life. death, through the resurrection
of the man, the Lord Jesus Christ. The writer of Hebrews tells us
that's who David's talking about. Now he says here he's put all
things in subjection under him. You know when God created Adam,
God put everything in this creation in subjection to Adam. Adam named
the animals because they were all in subjection to him. He
didn't have to go hunt them, they came to him and he named
them because they were in subjection to him. But when Adam sinned,
he lost that authority. Now, I know man still has some
authority over, I would say, tame animals, dogs. I don't know
how much control we got over that. I don't know. But I guess
you could kind of fool yourself saying you do. But if you think
you haven't lost that control, tell you what you do. Go down
to the zoo and find a lion. or a tiger, find those reptiles,
find those snakes. If you think there's some objection
to you, just start petting them. Before long, we're going to pull
you out of their dead. We lost that authority because
of sin. So Christ, the second Adam came,
the man came to restore everything Adam lost. Everything Adam lost
in sin, Christ restores in righteousness by a man. came death. By a representative
man came death. By another representative man
is going to come life. We are made dead by the sin of
another and we're going to be given life the same way through
the obedience of another man, another representative. By man
came sin. So by another man is going to
come righteousness. We are made sinners by the disobedience
of another representative man, a man who has our nature. Or
if we're going to be made righteous, we're going to be made righteous
by the obedience of another man, another representative man. It
has to come by a man. So God sent the Savior, the Savior
of his people in their nature, not in their sinful nature. He
sent them in their human nature. For a little while, God became
a man who was a little lower than the angels. For a while.
It's obvious to us the glory of angels is much greater than
the glory of a fallen man. And for a little while, the Son
of God covered His glory as God. He covered it in human flesh.
He appeared as a human being. He appeared a little lower than
the angels for a while for this purpose, so that He could save
His people who had fallen, fallen human beings. And as He walked
this earth as a man, the Father was always mindful He constantly
visited them. The Lord was mindful of his promise
to send a Savior. So he visited men and sending
them, giving them mercy, sending them the Savior. Scripture says
the Lord visited Sarah. And that visit came Isaac. The
Lord visited Mary and she gave birth to the Lord Jesus who brought
redemption to all of God's elect because the Lord was mindful.
The Lord was mindful of the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ and
he visited him in glory. Thundering from heaven, this
is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Hear him. The Lord was mindful of the cries
of our Savior. He always heard the Lord Jesus. He said that, Father, I thank
you. I know you always hear me. And when the Savior cried from
the garden of Gethsemane, Father, I'm going to die right here.
I'm going to die right here at the thought of being made a sacrifice
for sin. The father heard him and visited
him to comfort him, to strengthen him, to do what he came to do.
And the father was mindful of his people's need, their desperate
need of a sacrifice for sin. So he sent his son to be the
sacrifice, to be the substitute, to save them from their sin.
The father visited his son. and made him sin for his people.
And then the father visited him in justice. The Lord told Moses
that he would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
and the children and the children's children and to the third and
fourth generation. For Calvary, the father visited
his son in justice for the sin of generations of people laid
upon him. And that sacrifice of Christ
was successful. It satisfied God's justice. The
death of Christ put the sin of his people away and made them
righteous. It gave them eternal life. Christ
glorified his father by displaying his greatest glory, mercy to
sinners through salvation, through the death, the suffering, the
sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. And because of that, the father
put everything under his feet, gave him dominion over everything.
Look at Philippians chapter 2. It's really only right that he
do it. Christ is the glory of the Savior. It's only right that
the Father put everything under his feet. Philippians 2 verse
5. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought
of not robbery to be equal with God. but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men. And being found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of
God the Father. During our Lord's earthly ministry,
he already had this dominion. He had dominion over everything
in creation. He had dominion over the weather.
He could tell the wind to stop and it would stop. He could tell
the waves to stop and they'd stop. He had dominion over the
animals. He could tell the fish which
side of the boat to swim on, and when it was, they were to
jump into the net. And they did just what he said. He could tell
a fish to go down there and get a piece of money and hold it
in his mouth that he needed it to pay his taxes. He had dominion.
And now, Christ sits on the throne of glory, ruling over everything. I mean, you can't think of a
detail that he does not rule over. that he's not ordering
and directing. Nothing can happen in this creation
that's against God's purpose, against his sovereign will. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing can harm you.
Nothing can touch you. Nothing can ever happen to you
that is against the sovereign will of our God. And God made
it that way so that our all powerful Savior would rule and reign in
this creation for this purpose. to ensure the salvation of the
people that he died for. Now look back at Hebrews chapter
2. I mentioned this earlier, there's
a lot of things happen that we would call bad. We can understand
how those things can be happening by the will of God, how those
things, he can be working them out for good. We don't see it,
but it's true nevertheless. We read that here in verse 8
just a minute ago. 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 under him. It doesn't look to us like some
things are under his feet, does it? But we know they are. We know he's in control. How
do we know that? Verse nine. But we see Jesus. We see by faith the Lord Jesus
Christ. And because we see him, We have
some idea who he is. We know he's got everything under
control. Nothing could be outside of his
power and dominion. Now, back in our psalm, verse
8. David ends up right where he started. And he has to do
it that way because the glory of God is an infinite subject.
Verse 9. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how excellent
is thy name in all the earth. God is so great, He did this
great work of redemption for a people who were His enemies.
People who didn't want Him, people who despised His grace, but God's
so great, He saved them anyway. His name is so excellent, those
enemies are saved through faith in His name anyway. God is so
great, He has the capacity to love sinners even though they
hate Him. The amazing thing is not that God hated Esau, The
amazing thing is God loves Jacob and God loves other people like
us, just like Jacob. He loves those. He loves sinners. And God is so great that even
though they're dead in sins, he's got the power to give them
a new life, new spirit, give them a life that does love him. And I tell you what's the most
amazing thing of all to me. Is that of all these I wouldn't
say dirt clogs, because a dirt clog would be pretty substantial.
All these pieces of dust floating around in God's creation. Of
all of them, He was mindful of me. Mindful. He was mindful to
have mercy on me. The Lord took care of the worst
problem I could ever have. He put my sin away through the
sacrifice of His Son. He did the same thing for every
one of you to believe in. Do you reckon He's got the power,
He's got the authority, He's got the care and love and concern
to take care of these other things too? If He didn't let your sin
damage, He can let anything else destroy you. He's in control. Did I tell you
where we find peace? Not an understanding how he's
going to do what he's going to do, but just bowing to the Lord. Trusting. Trusting his character. Trusting his person. He's got
to be able to take care of me. Look how excellent his name is.
Look at his glory. He's got to be able to do everything
that's required for me. That's how great God is. I hope
the Lord will bless that to our hearts. Some understanding that
we might bow and worship. Let's bow in prayer. Our Father, we thank you for
this your word that we've just opened and looked into. Father,
I pray that you give us a believing heart, give us some understanding
of how great, how excellent your name is, how majestic you truly
are, that we might be caused to bow in silent awe and wonder
and worship you. Oh, how we thank you, Father,
that you're mindful of your people. A people who do not deserve your
least thought, but you're mindful of your people to have mercy
on them, to choose them in your covenant of grace. You're mindful
to send your son to be the sacrifice for their sin, to put them away.
You're mindful to send them preachers. Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings, your gospel goes forth in power. to save and to comfort
and to edify your people. Father, bless your word as it's
been preached, we pray, to edification, the comfort of our hearts, and
chiefly for your glory. It's in the precious name of
our Lord Jesus Christ that we give thanks and we ask this great
blessing.