How Great Is Our God
Psalms 8
August 26, 2018
You are probably aware that
Our society is greatly a society in love with our selves.
We are as self-absorbed as any society ever in the history of the world.
In 2009 there was a book written called “The Narcissism Epidemic” by Jean Twinge and Keith Campbell. They wrote:
“Perhaps nowhere in human history has human pride run freer, and we all see it, to our shame, than on the internet with the “me” generation. It began with blogs and myspace, then came facebook, which now has 5 hundred million users worldwide (as of 2018 that number is over 2 billion). And of course there is youtube which blatantly invites us all to “broadcast ourselves”. And twitter has given everyone the chance to broadcast a running commentary on their lives. It gives the illusion that there are dozens, perhaps even hundreds of people, who really care what you’re doing right now.”
You know it and I know it, we live in the land of “selfies”
• Constantly promoted are things like “self-love” and “self-care”
• Advertising for years has played to this dilemma constantly telling us to “Have It Your Way” and “Just Do It” and “Because You’re Worth It”
We might expect that from an unredeemed world,
This has even swept into the world of Christianity.
Probably nowhere more noticeable than in the realm of Christian music:
In 2011 a band Mikeschair released their hit song “Someone Worth Dying For”
“Am I more than flesh and bone? Am I really something beautiful? Yeah, I want to believe, I want to believe that I’m not just some wandering soul That you don’t see and you don’t know Yeah, I want to believe, Jesus help me believe That I am someone worth dying for.”
Or Hillsong’s “What A Beautiful Name”
Which sought to teach us: “You didn’t want heaven without us, so Jesus you brought heaven down.”
Or the Avalon song released in 2000 which taught us:
“We were the reason that He gave His life, we were the reason that He suffered and died”
The obvious problem is that it makes Christianity
About the worth of the sinner instead of the worth of the Savior.
It just reflects the self-love of our culture, now infiltrating the church.
And based on that love of self
It certainly makes sense why we would develop music
All about why God would want to save us,
“I mean look at us, we’re cuter than the puppies on the Sarah McLachlan commercial.”
Why wouldn’t God do whatever it takes just to have a relationship with us?
After all, He’s often described as eternally lonely, desperately wanting (even needing) a relationship with you.
After all, it was Max Lucado who taught us in his book “God So Loved You”
“On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.”
You get it right?
It’s all about the worth of the sinner.
Well let me be the first to tell you
All of that makes for HORRIBLE CHURCH MUSIC.
• That’s one of the reasons we study the Psalms.
• These are God-Inspired (God-breathed) worship songs that God gave for the
church to sing.
And in them you most certainly won’t find any songs
About how great or worthy or loveable or important man is.
You will however find the very heart of worship music,
Which is the glory of God.
That is what we find here in Psalm 8.
• It has been widely titled as “The Astronomer’s Psalm”
• It could certainly be called “The Humans don’t deserve saving, but God did it anyway Psalm”
This Psalm does nothing to inflate the human ego,
But rather magnifies the majestic God of the universe
Who chose to elevate men who most certainly didn’t deserve it.
I just called it (to be nice) “How Great Is Our God”
Let’s work through it together.
• 4 things David recognizes about God
#1 GOD’S UNLIMITED DISPLAY
Psalms 8:1
Now before we get to the specifics about God’s display of majesty,
We do first recognize that this Psalm comes with bookends.
Verse 1 begins and Verse 9 ends with the same phrase.
That’s how you know what the song is about!
“O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth”
Just a brief explanation of what is being said here.
“LORD” is the covenantal name of God.
• You’ve also heard it as Yahweh.
• It was the name that the Jews so revered that they wouldn’t even say it out loud,
• Thus they called Him “LORD”. (For your benefit, it’s often translated in all caps)
David is addressing this Psalm to the “LORD”
David also calls Him “our Lord”,
• That is the word ADONAY, which is a title only used of God which designates God as our God and Lord and master.
So obviously David is referencing the God of the universe,
Who also happens to be our God.
If you want more there go and study Psalms 95
(since it will be a couple of years before we get there)
And then David makes the statement of the Psalm.
“How majestic is Your name in all the earth”
You should simply know that the reference to God’s “name”
Is the reference to His character and His attributes.
It is all that God has revealed Himself to be.
Entire sermon series have been preached on these names, but I can give you a brief explanation to help you see what we mean.
You were already exposed to YAHWEH, which is the covenantal name given to God. It speaks of his eternal and unchangeable nature.
Beyond those, you’ve heard:
YAHWEH YIREH (Jehovah Jireh) which is the name Abraham gave when finding the ram caught in the thicket, “The Lord Provides” (Genesis 22:14)
YAHWEH NISSI which is a name coming from Moses as the Israelites went into battle, “The Lord is My Banner” (Exodus 17:15)
YAHWEH ROHI is the famous name given by David, “The Lord is My Shepherd” (Psalms 23:1)
YAHWEH SHALOM is a name ascribed by Gideon, “The Lord is Peace” (Judges 6:22-24)
YAHWEH SHAMMAH was given by Ezekiel after witnessing the glory of God depart from the temple and then through a vision, seeing Him return, Ezekiel ascribed this name, “The Lord is There” (Exodus 48:35)
YAHWEH TSIDKENU came from Jeremiah as he lived amidst a wicked people, “The Lord is Our Righteousness” (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
YAHWEH MEKADESH comes from Moses, “The Lord who Sanctifies You” (Lev. 20:8)
YAHWEH ROPHA also comes from Moses, “The Lord who Heals” (Exodus 15:26)
Beyond those names, we are familiar with:
YAHWEH SABAOTH – “The Lord of Hosts” or God of angel armies
EL ECHAD – “The One God”
EL ROI – “The God who Sees”
EL ELYON – “God Most High”
EL SHADDAI – “God Almighty”
EMMANUEL – “God With Us”
All of those names give insight into who God is,
And how God reveals Himself to His people.
When David says, “How majestic is Your name in all the earth”
He is saying,
• “How amazing You are God!”
• “How Great Thou Art”
• “How Great Is Our God”
This is also the implication in the Model Prayer when Jesus commanded:
Matthew 6:9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.”
• As you pray, take a moment and hallow all that God is.
• Recognize His greatness.
• Contemplate exactly who it is you are coming before.
David is doing that.
• This Psalm begins and ends with that statement of exaltation.
• This Psalm is all about the unmeasurable magnificence of God.
That is what is implied in the statement “How majestic”.
It is undefined, it is incalculable, it is beyond comprehension.
We get that.
But THE QUESTION of the Psalm is – Why do you say that David?
• Why do you say that God is so majestic?
• Why do you say that God is so great?
Good Christian music should fill both of those roles.
It should extol the greatness of God and explain why we think that.
Well here is why David thinks that.
It’s his first reason.
GOD’S UNLIMITED DISPLAY
“Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!”
The “heavens” David speaks of is the first heaven which we see by day,
And he is referencing what is above that.
We know that because in verse 3 David references what he is looking at, “The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;”
That is why they often call this “The Astronomers Psalm”
David is out gazing into the star-filled night.
And that alone is enough for David to stop
And talk about the majesty of God.
Do you want to know something about the majesty of God?
Then look at the stars.
Want some help?
First of all, they were created by God.
Genesis 1:16 “God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.”
They are magnificent to us, but even more magnificent
When you learn things like the fact that our sun is a star.
That should tell you something of the magnificence of a star.
Then we learn things like, most of the stars in the heavens
Aren’t even visible from earth, even with powerful telescopes.
They are literally an unlimited display.
A ball of light and power and beauty and they are without number.
And God made them all.
Not only that, but He named and sustains them.
Psalms 147:4-5 “He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.”
To know the names of every star, how incredible is the intellect of God?
Isaiah 40:26 “Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.”
God sustains those stars as well.
Often people speak of “falling stars” but those aren’t stars.
Those are meteoroids falling into the earth’s atmosphere and burning up.
The stars God made, are all there, every single one of them.
In fact, they are sign of God’s faithfulness.
Jeremiah 31:35-37 “Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the LORD, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” Thus says the LORD, “If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,” declares the LORD.”
They are a fixed order which will not depart and cannot be measured,
And that is a sign of God’s faithfulness to His people.
They won’t move until God Himself moves them in the end times.
The stars are also a means by which God measures His own goodness to humanity.
Genesis 15:5 “And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
And of course that phrase is repeated many times over.
It is God’s way of saying to Abraham
That His grace and goodness is without limit.
Stars are brilliant indicators of the limitless majesty of God.
And yet, even stars fall short of His glory.
Job 25:4-6 “How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? “If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight, How much less man, that maggot, And the son of man, that worm!”
Compared to God the moon and the stars have no brightness at all.
And that’s just a brief glimpse of what David is talking about here.
“O Lord my God, when I, in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made. I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior; God; to Thee, How Great Thou Art! How Great Thou Art!”
That is what David is doing.
And His point is that God has put His majesty on tremendous display!
And even from the New Testament we know that
This revelation reveals to us enough about God
That even the pagan born in the remotest parts of the earth
Is condemned by it.
Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
The great “invisible attributes” of God
The “eternal power” and “divine nature” are “clearly seen” there.
David certainly could, and for that he is singing
“How Great is Our God”
Now, I am aware that “science” (we should say “fallen science” or “deceived science” or “dishonest science”)
Seeks to give other explanations to the wonder of creation,
But as David points out, their arguing is pointless.
God squashes the atheist argument continually.
You’ve seen God’s Unlimited Display
#2 GOD’S UNDENIABLE DEFENSE
Psalms 8:2
This is how God continually squashes the atheist
And defends Himself in a fallen world,
It is also the second reason David cries out, “How Great Is Our God”.
How does God defend Himself from those who would seek to argue away His existence and explain away His creative power?
He does it through the mouths of infants and babes.
“From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease.”
I found this both remarkable and hilarious!
Look at a child, talk to a child.
• You may have indeed spent time in your life teaching children truths about God, but I’m willing to bet that you’ve never had to enter into a debate with a child about whether or not God was real.
• The only exception would be a child who has already been taught by the enemy.
But a child with no “education” or “brain washing”,
I’ll tell you how they come from the womb.
They are born with a knowledge of God.
They know He is real.
It must frustrate the enemy to no end,
To know that he must continue his work of deception ever harder because every time a child is born, the burden falls to him to disprove what that child already knows; that God is real.
You say, how can you say that?
How can you say that children know that at birth?
Because God wove that knowledge into the very fabric of their DNA
Romans 1:18-20 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
The issue is not that men don’t know about God,
It’s that through deception and their own sinful desires,
They refuse to honor Him as such.
• Today we have Atheists who deny the existence of God
• We have Agnostics who just sort of claim they don’t know if He is real or not.
Neither of those actually exist.
What they should actually be called is “Anti-Theists”.
They know there is a God, they’ve just chosen to rebel against Him.
God placed that knowledge in their heart; they were born with it.
Not only that, but God also imprinted His Law in their hearts.
Romans 2:14-16 “For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.”
That is called the conscience.
Point is, every child born knows of God
And knows of His righteous standards.
And this is a continual and baffling defense to a world that seeks to deny Him.
• That’s why atheists have to work so hard.
• That’s why the devil has to prowl around seeking someone to devour
The work falls to them.
And David marvels at that.
You may remember that Jesus quoted this verse as a testimony to His own deity.
Matthew 21:14-16 “And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF’?”
The children naturally praised Jesus.
I love that when the Pharisees are shocked by this and ask Jesus if He hears them (presumably that He should be shocked at such blasphemy).
Jesus just says, “Yes, I hear them. What do you expect, they’re children, and children know who God is. Sorry…”
And that also causes David to sing, “How Great is Our God”
Not only has He created the splendor of the heavens
And put Himself on display there,
But He has also poured the knowledge of Himself
Into every human heart.
That is greatness isn’t it!
But even those AREN’T THE MAIN REASONS
For this song of how great God is.
God’s Unlimited Display – God’s Undeniable Defense
#3 GOD’S UNMERITED DECISION
Psalms 8:3-8
Now here is where David hits the crescendo of unmitigated worship.
He says, (3) “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;”
• When I think about your majesty spread all over space
• And then I think about how You have poured knowledge of Yourself into every human being and made Yourself known to him,
Then I have a question.
(4) “What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?”
This is where David’s mind is blown.
God it just doesn’t add up.
I don’t get why You would take such interest in man.
That’s a far cry from “something worth dying for”
Or “we are the reason” isn’t it?
David says I just don’t get it.
Presupposed here is David’s doctrine of man.
And it is important for you to have a right doctrine of man.
In fact, if your doctrine of man is wrong,
You’re doctrine of God will never be right either.
Let me remind you just a moment about man.
We already heard Bildad in Job 25 call man a “maggot” and a “worm”.
Those really aren’t that far off.
Let’s talk about man for a moment.
We certainly know that man, like the stars, was created.
• But unlike the stars, we know exactly what man was created from.
• We know what raw materials God used…DIRT
Genesis 3:19 “By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
And the fact that man will return to dirt speaks volumes of his frailty and insignificance.
James 4:14 “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”
Psalms 144:3-4 “O LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You think of him? Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.”
Man is mortal.
Hebrews 9:27 “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,”
He is hardly significant or hearty.
No wonder the common analogy from God about man was “sheep”.
Beyond that the ignorance of man is well document. We aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer.
David even confesses in Psalm 139 about God’s works.
Psalms 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.”
Job 37:5 “God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.”
Psalms 94:11 “The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are a mere breath.”
That is to say, “they are hot air”
How about regarding the knowledge of God?
John 1:10-11 “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.”
John 14:17 “that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”
In other words, for all the things that we know and have “figured out”,
Man never figured out how to get to God.
If God hadn’t caused man to know, they wouldn’t know.
God had to literally “spell-it-out” for us.
Man is not intelligent.
But I’ll tell you what they are: they are rebellious!
Genesis 6:5-6 “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.”
Romans 3:10-18 “as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.” “THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,” “THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS”; “WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS”; “THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN.” “THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES.”
And because of this, we are even called enemies of God.
Romans 5:10 “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
And if being called enemies isn’t bad of enough.
Jesus refers to mankind as “sheep”, “vipors”, “stubborn”, “obstinate”, “foolish”, “wicked”, “evil”, etc.
Certainly Paul had a handle on what we are:
Titus 3:3 “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.”
Ephesians 2:1-3 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”
Perhaps Solomon gave the best summation of humanity:
Ecclesiastes 9:3 “This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all men. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the dead.”
They are just puny, ignorant, wicked, insignificant, maggots in the dirt.
It’s like showing up at a garage sale after lunch,
There’s just nothing there of any value at all.
And David knows this, which is why His mind is currently blown.
With you being God, and man being man, why do you care?
Well you say, what do you mean David?
What has God done for man that has so blown your mind?
Aside from the fact that
God revealed Himself to man in creation and the heart,
There is also the little fact that above all of His creation,
God chose man to be the pinnacle. God elevated man to the top.
God set glory on man.
(5-8) “Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.”
David saw that God had given man dominion.
And he couldn’t figure out why.
• Certainly we remember God giving Adam charge and the right to name all the animals.
• And even now David sees that man rules the earth, and not lions or hippos or horses or gorillas.
WHY?
It’s not because we’re stronger or smarter or nobler.
We already established that.
Why would God give man dominion over all things?
And there is only 1 possible answer: GRACE
It is because, He is “our Lord” which David announced in verse 1.
He has set His favor on us,
And chosen to do for us what we do not deserve.
AND THIS BLEW DAVID’S MIND.
But I’ll go you one even greater than that.
David marvels that God has put unworthy and insignificant man in charge of all things,
But if you’ll remember, the writers of the New Testament
Saw a problem with that.
Hebrews 2:5-8 “For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. But one has testified somewhere, saying, “WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM? “YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET.” For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.”
The writer of Hebrews just called it like it is.
• Psalm 8 says “You have put all things in subjection under His feet”,
• But we don’t see it that way today.
The Bible may say that man hos dominion, but creation is still a dangerous place for man.
• Wild animals will kill him
• The ocean will kill him
• The mountains will kill him
• The desert will kill him
• Bacteria and disease will kill him
What gives?
And you know the answer.
Adam transgressed against God, and the usurper stole his dominion.
God told Adam that if you eat of that fruit you will surely what? DIE
And there you have it.
Man has to die.
But the writer of Hebrews saw another startling reality there.
We don’t currently see all things subjected to man, but…
Hebrews 2:9 “But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.”
We don’t see all things subject to man, but we do see Jesus.
Who came as a man and suffered death for all of us.
In short, He came and paid Adam’s death.
So that through Him, we can regain our rightful position.
In fact, Paul quotes this verse twice in his epistles, and both times Paul applies the verse to Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:27-28 “For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.”
Ephesians 1:22 “And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,”
So what are we driving at here?
Well, first of all,
• It should blow your mind that God ever chose to put man in charge of all things.
• It should blow your mind that the God of galaxies would think so much of some man that He formed out of the dirt, that He would promote him above it all.
That should blow your mind.
But it should blow your mind even more
• That when that man rebelled against God and despised his glorious role that God was still gracious enough to send His own Son to redeem man back to that original position.
That is mind-blowing!
Not only did God choose a piece of dirt and give him glory,
But when that dirt acted like dirt, God did not give up on him.
Instead God paid a high price to redeem him.
And if you read that and suddenly your mind
Is filled with thoughts about the value of man,
Then you don’t have a clue how to read the Bible.
David is not mesmerized at how valuable man must be.
• He knows how valuable man is – nil
• David is mesmerized at how gracious God is.
And that brings us back to the start, and also the final point.
#4 GOD’S UNFATHOMABLE DESIGNATION
Psalms 8:9
• Maybe you had trouble singing about the greatness of God’s name in vs 1.
• Maybe the sum total of how He revealed Himself was less than amazing to you when we started this Psalm.
But now,
• After learning the splendor that is God’s through creation…
• After learning the decision of God to make Himself known to all men…
• After learning of God’s grace to elevate man and then redeem him after he stumbled…
How majestic do you think God is now?
His majesty is unfathomable…
“How Great is our God?!?”
Can you answer that?
Can you ascribe a value to Him?
• When you become aware that He is the God who provides, and shepherds and heals and sanctifies…
• When you find in Him righteousness, and a banner, and peace, and One who is there…
• When you grasp that He is the God of angel armies, and One God, and the God who sees, and God Most High and God Almighty…
• When you see that even as that He became God with us…
Can you ascribe a level of majesty to His name?
Neither could David.
So He sang, “O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!”
And I just remind you tonight:
Don’t let living in a world that thinks man is the center of it all,
Confuse you as to who deserves all the glory.
None of this is about the worth or value of man.
It is all about the greatness and majesty of our Great God.
