Psalm 8, identified as a Messianic Psalm, reveals God's glory in creation and His profound care for humanity, particularly through the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. The sermon traces David's contemplation of the heavens and man's place within it, contrasting human frailty with divine purpose, and highlighting how the New Testament applies these verses to Christ's humility and ultimate dominion. It emphasizes that while man, through sin, fell from his intended dominion, Jesus, the Son of Man, was made lower than the angels to suffer death for all, ultimately to be crowned with glory and honor, fulfilling God's plan for humanity's redemption and future reign.
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I want to read a very short Psalm tonight, Psalm number eight, Psalm number eight, which is one of those old Psalms we used to learn off by heart when we were children. In England years and years ago, all the youngsters had to learn this Psalm in the ordinary school, I don't mean in Sunday school, that was part of the, one of the things we had to learn amongst many, many, many other scriptures. Tell me, O Lord, our Lord, our excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mayst steal the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, What is man that thou mindful of him, and the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and is crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madeest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep, a dockson, yea, and the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea. and whatsoever passes through the clouds of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth.
May God bless to us that reading from his precious word. Shall we pray? Blessed God, we thank thee again for this wonderful book, and we thank thee for these Psalms written so long ago. three thousand years ago, and we have them in our hands today. These Psalms that were written a thousand years before the Son of God came into this scene to dwell among us, but how wonderfully they describe his life and work and ways and death and resurrection. We thank thee then for this book, the Bible, and we pray that we might treasure it more and more day by day as the days go by for thy glory and thine honor.
We pray, Lord, that thy word tonight might take effect in our lives. We want to be more like Jesus every day. We want, Lord, that the word of God should, the reading of it and the studying of it and the preaching of it should bring us closer to thee that our lives might count for Jesus every day and every hour. We seek thy blessing in our Savior's precious name. Amen. Now, the last time I was speaking here, in the evening, we spoke from Psalm two, and we said we would try and take for our studies as I speak evening what we call the Messianic Psalm.
The Messianic Psalm. There are a number of Psalms, about sixteen Psalms, called the Messianic Psalm. That is to say, they're about the Messiah. They were written... A thousand years before the Lord Jesus came. For they're about him. They prophesy about him. Think of Psalm twenty-two. Could there ever be any description of crucifixion more realistic than Psalm twenty-two written years before that awful, torturous method of execution was invented? And written in the pages of Scripture, because it was written about the Son of God.
Now the second of the Messianic Psalms is Psalm eight. The next one, the third is Psalm sixteen and then Psalm twenty-two and so on. Right through the Psalms you get these. Now you will find that every one of these are quoted in the New Testament as referring to Christ. I imagine that's why we call them Messianic Psalms, because the New Testament confirms the fact that these words written here, although they may not to us seem, they may apply to David very, very much. The New Testament tells us that primarily they apply to the Son of God when he was here on earth, because they are quoted and applied to him in the New Testament.
We'll come to that presently. as we proceed. This is only a short psalm of nine verses. Verse one and verse nine are just about the same. O Lord, our Lord, our Lord, our Lord, our excellent is thy name in all the earth. And verse nine, O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. I imagine that David In his younger years, as a shepherd, spent many nights outside. And in this psalm, he talks about, When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained.
I like to feel that this is the psalm of David. as he contemplated the wonders of God's starry heavens, and as he contemplated the greatness and the glory of God, who has set thy glory above the heaven, then his thoughts journeyed and he thought of man, and the insignificance of man. What is man that thou, what is man that thou mindful of him? How can it be that the great God of heaven should even think of near man. That's what David is saying. Of course, it may not have been when he was a shepherd boy. It might have been later when he was being driven and haunted by King Saul, and he lived nights and nights and years out on the mountain, sleeping on the hillside, his very life in jeopardy and peril, escaping from King Saul.
And some of those nights, perhaps, he talked about, I'll lie me down and sleep, you know. What wonderful faith he had in God when his life was at stake all the time. But some of these nights as he looked up and beheld the wonderful heaven. I heard a man say the other day that the most wonderful place he knows to consider the stars at night is at Park of the Pound. It is a nice place to consider the stars. Some nights they're wonderful. But I can assure you that out there in these eastern lands, they're brighter. when we lived in Greece, we had no air conditioning. I remember the first time I walked into an air conditioning building was in Cairo, in Egypt.
A big store in one of the main roads there, they call a road Sharia. And in Sharia, I don't know the name, in a great store, I went in one day, and oh, how cold it seemed. I'd never experienced air conditioning before. And we hadn't got that in Greece. We used to sleep on the roof. We had flat roofs. And we used to have camp beds up there and carry up our bedding each night. And all through the summer, we used to sleep on the roof. Never fear about rain in Athens because it never rains all summer. It's a very dry climate. And it's not a humid climate, either.
And I remember lying there looking up to the wonder of the heaven. And this is what David seems to have done. When I consider thy heaven, O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, God's name. Now we know a lot more about God's name than David did. David had the Old Testament scriptures. We have the Old Testament and the New Testament. And we know more about the name of God now than David ever knew. And we knew more of what that name means.
But when David considered the scriptures he had, the peditude, the writings of Moses, and the history of the early days of the children of Israel, and the triumphs of God as he brought them out of Egypt and so on, and he says, How excellent is thy name! In all the earth thou hast set thy glory above the heavens. God seemed to be a long way off. God seemed to be a way up there beyond the heavens, now set by glory above the heavens. There again we have learned so much in the New Testament as we open the book of Revelation.
And the door was opened in heaven, chapter four, verse one, and John went up, come up hither, and he went up into heaven in that great vision, and he saw the glory of heaven and the Lamb upon the throne, and he saw the glory above the heavens, which we're going to see one day. But David contemplated it all. He thought about it. I think David was a wonderful character. He failed horribly. He failed miserably in the later years of his life, as we all know. He was a human being like you and I. And he failed.
As many men are failing around us today, we read in our papers day by day, but David failed. But David was a man, God said, after his own heart. And as a young man, I think he was a young man who set his mind to serve God. He set his mind to put God first and to magnify and glorify God throughout his life. And God gave him this wonderful gift. He not only was a musician and could play the harp and compose these wonderful tunes to which these sounds were sung. But he was a poet.
All this was written in poetic form. And David wrote these wonderful poems. wonderful sounds. God's name and God's rule. God's name excellent in all the earth, and He set His glory above the heavens. God's rule, when I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars that Thou hast ordained, here we see God ruling in the universe. And how much we're learning today. We have telescopes and apparatus today for piercing right out in the far recesses of space.
And we're learning more and more every day. David had nothing like that. But he realized that it was God that controlled the whole thing. And then he brings in this verse. What is man that thou art mindful of him are the son of man that thou visitest him. Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. Now that's what God did with man. Let's go back to Genesis chapter one. God never intended man to be a, as we see some drunkards lying in the gutter and and living on Skidrow and like that, that was not God's plan for man.
God had a wonderful plan for man. It says in Genesis one and verse twenty-seven, so God created man in his own image, in the image and likeness of God. In the image of God created him. male and female created he them. And God said, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth on the earth.
That was God's plan. that man should have charge. He wasn't afraid of wild beasts. They were afraid of him. They obeyed him. God put him in charge. It's only when sin came in. And when he disobeyed God and had his own way instead of God's way, when sin came in, then the picture changed. But man is still... the ruler. God had made him the ruler. It's significant to know, and I don't know why, that when he picked out Nebuchadnezzar, that he then came, and he called him his servant, in order to bring discipline upon his own people that had obeyed him, It's significant that he said to Nebuchadnezzar, now, wheresoever the children of men are, I put them in your hand.
You're the ruler. You've got charge. And he quoted all these things that he'd have dominion over the earth and the animals and put strength to say he never told Nebuchadnezzar he had dominion over the fish. I don't know why, but he did to Adam. Even the fishes of the sea, Adam had charge over them. And they're big. Now how we failed, how far we've come through sin, how far we've dropped through sin. Sin came in and death by sin. But this was God's intention for man. We, the human race, the sons and daughters of Adam, have failed miserably.
But that was man's rule. But there's another side to this sound. Another side altogether. This Psalm is quoted in Hebrews chapter two. Now we read Hebrews chapter two. And Hebrews chapters one and two. In fact, the whole of Hebrews is about the Son of God. Chapter two verse five. for unto the angels as he put not, as he not put in subjection the world to come wherever we speak.
But one, in a certain place, that was Psalm eight that we have been reading. One, in a certain place, this is why we say it's a Messianic Psalm. It's quoted in Hebrews two, and we'll see in a moment, it's applied not only to Adam and his race, but it's applied to Christ. the Son of Man, the Son of God. But one in a certain place, verse six, testified, saying, What is man that thou mindful of him, or the Son of Man that thou visitest him? Thou madeest him a little lower than the angels, thou crownest him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of thy hand.
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. Now it's hard to know where it changes from man, the natural man, and when it changes to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Son of man. Can I say of the natural man, There is nothing left that's not put under him. Seems hard to say that today.
God did put it under him, but because of sin man has fallen from his highest date. But I can say it about the Son of God. Let's read on verse eight. For thou has 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, but we see Jesus. Now here the Lord Jesus comes into Psalm eight, the Son of Man, did thou visitest him? We had a heavenly visitor, do you know that?
The Son of God came down from heaven to visit us, and he visited the sons of men in the person of his own son, beloved son, the Lord Jesus Christ. So he says, forget all about man. Forget about the meanness and the failure of man. And let's look at the one that never failed. Let's look at the Son of Man, the Son of God. We see Jesus, who himself was made a little lower than the angels. Now we must read, in connection with this, we must keep your finger there, and we must read in Philippians chapter two, because that's where we get the story of how he stepped down from that tremendous glory in heaven.
Philippians chapter two, and verse... Five, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no repudiation, and took upon him the form of a servant. Here the Son of God made seven steps down from the throne of heaven to the cross of Calvary. He was in the form of God. A man asked me one day this week, he should say, couldn't quite make out. He was a little bit puzzled how the Lord Jesus could make everything.
And I read him from John one, the verse five verses. In the beginning was the word. All things were made by him without him was not anything that was made. Or Colossians one, verse fifteen. He is before all things. All things were made by him, whether it be thrones or dominions or principalities and powers. All things were made by him and before him, and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. For this eternal one, O Lord, O Lord, how great is thy name.
Thy glory above the heavens, the Son of God, the eternal Son, the eternal Word, we see His glory above the heavens, He thought it not a prize to be grasped at, to be equal with God, for He was God. And He made Himself of no reputation. Step number one, Step number two, He took upon Him the form of a servant. Step number three, He was made in the likeness of men. Step number four, He was found in fashion as a man. Step number five, he humbled himself. Six became obedient unto death.
And seven, even the death of the cross. He could not have stepped down from a higher pinnacle of glory than he did. And he could have not gone to lower depths of shame and despair and woe than the cross of Christ, the cross of Calvary. Even the death of the cross. We see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus. Now follow it. We see Jesus, who was made a little Lord and the angels were born, isn't it? For the suffering of death, for the suffering of death. This eternal Son of God of whom we're reading in mystery, shall I say, in Psalm number eight, He left the glory of heaven, His name above the heavens, His glory above the heavens, and He came down and visited us.
Lower than angels, because He came a man. What for? For the sufferings of dead. And so in Psalm eight we get the cross. I used to have a habit years ago of putting a little red cross, you know, wherever the cross was there somehow in inference in the Bible. But there it is. Lower than the angels for the sufferings of death. The cross is there. That's why the Son of God visited our earth. That's why he came down to dwell among us with one specific and grand, great purpose that he might go to the cross and meet the claims of God's throne against us, and bear our sins in His own body on the tree, and to make a just and righteous basis whereby God could receive sinners into heaven.
We could never get into heaven. I used to have a great friend when I lived in Greece called Dr. Mataninus, a man whom I loved with all my heart, a great Bible teacher. And I used to hear him say, talking in the Greek language, he used to say, God had a great problem. God had a problem up there in the eternal ages, in the glory of heaven. It says that the Son of God in that day before the world was made in Proverbs eight, that he looked down upon the course of time and... His delights were with the sons of men.
And Metallinus used to say, I imagine this picture in heaven. The son went to the father and said, I want those sons of men in heaven. And when he suggested sons of men, sinners in heaven, the throne of God cried out, impossible, you can't come. Impossible, the door is shut. Sinners could never enter heaven. We're outside forever. And then God and the Father and God the Son set down in the eternal council chambers of heaven. And we read in Psalm forty. I think it's a picture of that great council, that great debate that took place in heaven.
And the great decision that was made in Psalm forty, he says, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of you. I believe that in heaven there's a library. When it talks of volumes, it means they're tomes up there, library books. And I'm looking forward to a day when I'm going to pull some of these books up and read the story of a past eternity in heaven. We don't know anything about it. We just get little pinnacle glances, glimpses into heaven. the great glories of the past eternity. But there was a, I can't talk about days really, but we can't understand it any other way. But there came a day in the history of heaven when the sun sitting upon the eternal throne said, Lo, I come to do thy will.
I was reminded of this. Years ago I was living in Scotland. And it was the present Queen Victoria of England, Victoria II. It was Elizabeth, I mean the present Queen Elizabeth of England, as Princess Elizabeth. It was her twenty-first birthday. And she was touring South Africa with her own parents. And she made a speech, and I listened to it as it came over the air. And she said, on this, my twenty-first birthday, I dedicate my life. to the service of the British Empire. That's just what she's doing. I dedicate my life to the service of the British Empire.
But there was a day in the history of heaven when the Eternal Son said, I dedicate myself to the will of God, to Winston sinners, and to open the gates of heaven that they might come to dwell with me in heaven. And so the Son of Man visited them. We see not all things yet put under his feet. Not yet. We shall. But not yet. There's a world. In our last talk, Psalm number two, the Psalm of the King, We found the first part, that Psalm we said, was divided into four sections. We get the voice of the people, we get the voice of God, we get the voice of the Son, and we get the voice of the Holy Spirit.
But in the first voice, it's the voice of the people. Why do the heathen raise, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth and the rulers have set themselves together, saying, Let us break their bands of thunder and throw off the bands and the rule of of God and of heaven. And that's what they cried at Calvary. The rulers and the kings joined together. Let me read it correctly in Psalm two. And they said to him, Let us break their bands of thunder and cast away their cords from us. They took counsel against the Lord and against his anointing, against the Son of God.
When he stood before Pilate, the rulers and the kings, They took counsel against him to put him to death. And the world has not changed. And we don't yet see things put under his feet. We see not yet all things put under his feet. But what do we see? Oh, what a wonderful story we Christians have. We're not telling this story. We were talking this morning of Acts one, and I don't know whether you noticed it. We didn't get around to speaking about it, but the disciples said, And will thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? That's all they were thinking about.
A kingdom to Israel? The Lord said, It's not a kingdom to Israel. That's not the point. How many times when he talked them about, they said, Can I sit on the right hand, and I sit on the left hand in the glory? He said, That's not the point. Listen, he said, The son of man's going up to Jerusalem. They're going to spit in his face. They're going to mock him. They're going to scourge him. They're going to crucify him the third day. He's going to rise again. It's not a kingdom I'm talking about. It's a cross. We don't yet see the kingdom. We don't yet see all things put under his feet. But we see Jesus lower than the angels for the sufferings of death.
What we gaze at today is a cross. A cross of Calvary. And all our hope for time and eternity is wrapped up in the cross of Calvin. Oh, friend, tonight, if you've never yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, let me tell you, there's no other hope for heaven except through the cross. There's no other way to get to that wonderful thing we've talked about, thy glory, about the heavens. You'll never get there if you don't come God's way. He who left the glory above the heavens and went down to the lowest depths, to death, even the death of the cross, he went down there that he might raise you from the lowest depths and take you to himself in the glory of heaven.
But it all came about by the cross of Galilee when he hung those six long hours in pain and shame and agony and bore our sins in his own body on the tree. So he says, we don't see everything under his feet yet. But we see Jesus made Lord and angels for the sufferings of death. We're gazing at a cross. No one our hopes depend upon them. And now, of course, he has been through that audio. And as we've gone back to Philippians two, we'll find there's seven steps up, up to the glory of heaven. God has highly exalted him.
giving him a name which is above every name that is the name of Jesus, every leech about, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth. And every tongue confesseth Jesus Christ his Lord to the glory of God. We see him crowned with glory and honor. Yes, he says, but he came down here that through the grace of God he could taste death for every man. Now let's go on a little bit, because it's so fitting with Salmaid to read this. For it became Him, for whom all things, for whom are all things. Now, we were saying that His fingers made the sun and the moon and the star.
We were saying that all things were made by Him. Without Him was not made anything that was made. It became Him for whom are all things. and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their suffering, as captain of their salvation, perfect through suffering. For both he that sanctifies them they were sanctified are all, one for which God, he is not ashamed to call us brethren. What a wonderful thing. What is man that thou mindful of him? The Son of God was so mindful of man, that he visited us.
He came down where we were, and he went to the place called Calvary, our wonder of wonders now. He called us Brethren. Did he, the Son of God, could call us, we don't call him brother. We can't do that. He's our Lord. But he calls us Brethren. This is grace beyond anything you can conceive, written in here, for which he's not ashamed to call us Brethren. saying, I will declare thy name under my brethren. In the midst of the church will I pray, sing praise under thee. We'll see that when we get to Psalm twenty-two, another Messianic Psalm. And again I will put my trust in him.
And again, behold, I and the children which thou hast given me. Look at Romans chapter eight, just a moment. Romans chapter eight. verse eighteen verse sixteen the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the sons of god in in paul's writing the word is always sons in john's writing the word is children wherever you get sons in john translated and make it children it says in john one verse twelve As many as received him gave, to them gave he power to become, it isn't sons of God, it's children of God.
But when Paul writes, it's not children but sons. Paul writes and uses sonship in the full dignity of the term, the son, as an heir. But John writes about the family and he talks about the children. So he says, the Spirit beareth witness, wait a minute, yes, the Spirit beareth witness that we are the sons of God. And if sons then heirs of God, heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, what is man that thou mindful of him? How mindful he was of us, that we the sons of men now become the heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. What a wonderful thing.
If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be glorified together. For I reckon the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory which should be revealed in us. For the earnest, look at this, the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. We see not yet all things put under his feet, but we see Jesus. who was made Lord and the angels for the sufferings of death, crowned with glory and honor. But we wait for the day when all things will be put under His feet. And then, this speaks to me, the manifestation of the Son of God.
I see in this one of Scripture, I see a coming day of great glory. the Son of God reigning throughout the universe, and all things put under His feet, and every tongue confessing Him as Lord, and He is all in all. And then He's going to manifest to our wondering universe, He's going to manifest the sons of God. For the earnest expectation of the creature or the creation, the whole creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Before a wandering universe, why the men mock at us today. They think we're crazy because we believe in Jesus Christ. And they despise us and reject us. How many have died for Christ? How many great rulers have put the Christians to death? But God... in the coming day is going to manifest us, you and me, as the sons of God. And these that mock and laugh at us today, they've laughed away their opportunities of salvation, thinking they know more than God and that we're fools. God is going to show the universe what he will do for the poor sinner down in Skid Row that will believe in him and be saved.
He's going to show the universe. what he's going to do for that man, the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject of vanity, not willingly by reason of him who was subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation... growneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Now, and not only they, but ourselves also, which are the first fruits of the Spirit, even we within ourselves, even we ourselves, grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption.
And what's that? The redemption of our body. There's a glorious day come. when he's going to redeem and change these of our bodies and fasten them like unto his own glorious body and manifest this to all the universe. He says all the creation is groaning. We don't hear those groans, but he does. Creation is groaning and waiting until that day when the Lord Jesus takes his own place as the captain of salvation and manifests those whom he's not ashamed to call brethren as the sons of God in that great day.
Let's go back to our psalm. Psalm eight. When I consider thy heavens, the works of thy hand, the moon, and the stars which thou hast made, what is man doubt mindful of him, or the son of man? And now Christ comes into the picture. We've seen it from the from Hebrews. He is the one. Thou hast made him a little lower than angels. Crown him with glory and honor. Thou hast made his hymn to have dominion over the works of thy hand. He gave that to Adam, but Adam failed. And now he's given it to his son. To have dominion.
We saw in Psalm two when we were speaking last time that he said to the son, or the son declares, he says, I will declare the decree, the Lord has said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I'll give me the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost part for the world for thy possession. And in that day God will give him all the universe. And he has the dominion over the work of his hand. Thou has put all things under his feet.
And in that day sheep and oxen and beasts of the field and follow the air. We know very well in the millennial time, God will take the sting away from the serpent and the adder and the asp and so on. And the child says, play with the serpent and we will no longer be afraid of wild beasts because the Lord Jesus will be doing what Adam failed to do. We failed to control the brute beast creation because of our sin, but the Son of God has control. And God is going to give him the uttermost part of the earth for his inheritance. And he's going to reign supreme over all.
So what do we see now? Never mind man in his impunity. What is man that mindful of him? What is man? He's nothing. But the Son of Man, what is He? The eternal Son of God, come down here from the glory of heaven, that He might take the sons of men. I love to put it this way. The Son of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men might become the sons of God. So there's a great day coming. I'll just one more thought when our time is nearly up. When the Lord Jesus... rode into Jerusalem on a court, the fall of an hour, so on what we call Sunday before Easter, found Sunday.
You remember he drove in, sitting, and they said, tell the daughters, and I'm reading from Matthew, tell the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king cometh upon unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ark, the call of a court, the full of an ark. And the disciples went and did, as he commanded them, they brought the ark and the court, put on them their clothes, and they sat him there on, and a very great multitude spread their garments in the way. Others cut down branches from the trees and stalled them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and they followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David.
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? Who was it? The Son of Man visited us. This is the eternal Son, whose fingers made the stars and moon and put them in place, rising in humility, into his own city. And when he got into the temple, he cast out those that sold and bought in the temple, over through the tables of money changers, and the seats of them that sold, delved, and sat under them. It is written, My house should be called the house of prayer. You have made it a den of thieves.
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple. And he healed them. Ah, but look. And when the chief priests saw the wonderful things that he did, surely they should have said, This is the Son of God. This is Messiah. What did they say? When they saw it, the things that he did, I listened. and they heard the children crying in the temple saying, Hosanna to the son of David. When they heard that, they were just pleased. They were just pleased. And they said unto him, Here is thou what these say? And Jesus said unto them, Yea, have ye never read Salmate?
He didn't say have he never read Salmate. He said, Have he never read Salmate? out of the mouths of babes and supplings thou hast perfected praise. Thalmy quoted about the Son of God as he drove into Jerusalem on a colt the fold of an hour. The children who had heard the song as they came along the road, Hosanna to the highest, they were still singing it, and they got to the temple, they were still singing it. Blessed is he, Hosanna to the son of David, The children were crying there, and Jesus said, have he never read out of the mouths of babes and such and thou hast perfected praise?
And he left them and went out of a city into Bethany. And there he lodged. There he lodged the nights of that last week, before he went up finally to meet the disciples in the upper room. According to the Garden of Gethsemane and from Gethsemane to Calvary. But there on that last night, out of the mouths of babes and suckling, Psalm eight, thou hast ordained strength. So I say again, this is a Messianic Psalm. The words are written about the Son of God. So they're about David. For the deeper meaning is they're about the Son of God.
May God bless these. perhaps random remarks, but they're about the glory of God's beloved Son. I'm going to read a verse to you. We won't sing it, and we know it so well, but I think these words that we sing so often and so well describe just what I've been saying tonight. Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds thy hands of me, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Went through the woods and forest glades I wander, and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down from lofty mountain grander and hear the broken feel the gentle breeze, then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee, how great thou art. but it says we see Jesus who was made Lord and the angels for the suffering of death listen and when I think that God his son not sparing sent him to die I scarce can take it in that on the cross my burden gladly bearing he bred and died to take away my sin then sings my soul my Savior God to thee How great thou art.
How great thou art. When Christ shall come. Now this is the glory and honor. When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation. And take me home. What joy shall fill my heart. Then I shall bow in humble adoration. And there proclaim my God. How great thou art. When I consider thy heaven, the work of thy hands, O Lord, our Lord, our excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory above the heaven.
O Lord, our Lord, our excellent is thy name in all the earth. Shall we pray? Blessed God, our Father, we thank you for this wonderful little psalm about the glory of thy beloved Son. Wrapped in mystery in those words about David. Wrapped in mystery in those wonderful thoughts that that shepherd boy had. As he lay out at night and looked at the wonder of thy creation, the moon and the stars which thy was made. And he considered thy glory. And he considered purely man in his weakness. and he marveled at thy wondrous glory.
We thank thee for taking this up by the Holy Spirit, by the writer of Hebrews, and telling us the hidden, deep, real meaning of this sound that he was really writing about the Son of God. We see not all things put under his feet, but we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than angels, for the suffering of dead, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. Lord Jesus, we bow at thy feet. We thank thee for coming down from the glory of heaven. We thank thee for going to that cruel, cruel cross, and there bearing our sin in thine own body on the tree.
Oh, Lord, how we wait to see thee. We tell thee that we love thee now. We praise thee now as well as we can, Lord, as from time to time we need to worship thee. But what will it be by and by? when our minds are set free. And we can concentrate without any interruption upon thyself. And we can gaze upon thy face. And we can see thee sitting upon the throne of glory. And we can bow at thy feet. And we can join ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands singing. Glory and majesty and honour and dominion and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne.
O Lord, we would say glory and honor and majesty be under him that hung upon a cross and died for us in shame outside the city wall at Calvary. Except our praise, we thank thee for enlightening us and showing us some of the meaning of these words in this Psalm tonight. We seek thy blessing, Lord, every one of us would bow at thy feet now. There's a glorious future, the manifestation of the sons of God. We wait for it. Creation groans as it waits for us. We know that day is not far off. Help us to keep going on, we pray, thee. Help us not to falter. Help us not to doubt thy plans, thy ways for us and thy future for us.
Help us to keep going on, trusting thee day by day, and looking back all the time to Jesus. Our little Lord and the angels. or the sufferings of dead.