Psalm chapter number eight, this is the Cheth Psalm, eighth letter. It's pictograph is a fence, and we don't have any ink back there for me to, and I was gonna stop and get something, didn't have time to do it today. But that eighth letter is a fence, is it's pictograph. And it means to separate out, It speaks of that which is private or that which is set apart. It speaks of life, grace, and protection, God's provision. And indeed, that's what we find here in Psalm 8. It declares Christ Jesus as our protector. He is the one that fences us in, keeps us, reminds us of his description of the sheepfold in John chapter 10. that he knows his sheep, and they're in his fold, and he calls on them, and they hear, and they come to him. They know his voice. Psalm 8 is, we read there in its title, it is to the chief musician upon Gittiath. And Gittiath is the word for wine press. wine press. And there are two other Psalms that are written on Gethsemane besides Psalm 8, Psalm 81 and Psalm 84. And both of these, Psalm 81, it speaks of God's watch, care and provision for Israel. even though they rejected him for it. That's what Psalm 81 tells us about. Psalm 84 is a psalm of praise and rejoicing of who God is and how he provides for us. And likewise, we see that here in Psalm 8 as well. If you've got a Scofield Bible, Scofield believes this is a psalm of judgment here, he says, in his, description of it. I don't see that at all. I don't see it as a psalm of judgment here at all. And given the other two that's in reference with it there on the psalm, the psalm of Gethsemane, it speaks of God's provision for us and it's psalms of praise, especially here in psalm eight. We see that, that reality of, this praise of who our God is because of his power, because of his sovereignty, because of his omnipotence. We see this is a song of praise here because he is the God that reigns and is absolutely sovereign over all that he reigns over. We begin reading here in verse one. He says, O Lord, our God, or O Lord, our Lord, rather. O Lord, our Lord. That's O Jehovah, our Adonai. Jehovah, our Adonai. How excellent is thy name in all the earth. Who has set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy habits, the works of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, 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, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands, hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beast of the field, the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea. O Lord, our Lord. O Jehovah, our Adonai. How excellent. is thy name in all the earth. Oh, Jehovah our Adonai. Here, there's a great deal here, this passage, this Psalm is quoted from in the New Testament. We see verse two, for instance, quoted by the Lord in Psalm 21, verse number six, I'm sorry, Matthew 21 and verse number 16. And then we see verses five through eight there, quoted by Paul in Hebrews chapter one, and then again, in Hebrews chapter number two, very next chapter. I went blank there for a second, Hebrews chapter two. And he quotes basically verses five through eight in those two sections of verses there. And so there's a great deal of this passage is quoted in the New Testament. And again, this is a psalm of praise concerning the power of our God and concerning His provision for His people, especially the provision of our salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, that being told to us there, verses five through eight. And so this is a beautiful psalm that David has written here for us. concerning the power and the wonder of our God. Oh, Jehovah, our Adonai, how excellent is thy name. How excellent is thy name. Indeed, how glorious our God is and how little we can display of that glory in our worship and our praise for Him, and yet He deserves all that we can pour out to Him. There's no place He is not. His glory shines out and radiates everywhere. I was reading a passage that Charles Spurgeon wrote on this and he was talking about if we could walk among the solar system and walk among those planets that are in our solar system, he said we would get there and every step we would take and every Everywhere we would turn and everywhere we would look, we would see the glory of God. He said, you go to the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean and that sand that is laying perfectly flat and no movement at all. And he said, even there, you see the glory of the power of our God. No matter where we are, He is there. And His glory shines out in every place. The first Russian cosmonaut that entered into space said that he got up there and he said, I don't see God anywhere. And then Mr. Shepard went up there. And as soon as he entered into space, his first words back to mission control was, I see God everywhere. Oh God, oh Jehovah, I don't know. How excellent, how excellent is thy name. He is everywhere present. Turn with me over to Psalm 139. Psalm 139, David here in this passage speaks here of our Lord's omniscience, His omnipotence, and His omnipresence in this passage of Scripture. and tells us some wonderful details concerning these three attributes of our Lord that, by the way, are incommunicable attributes. He does not share them with anybody else. These belong only to Him. David writes here in Psalm 139, beginning in verse number seven, he says, Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me. He is everywhere present and his glory His glory is on display. His glory is on display. We can look at the creation itself, and I love looking at some of those telescope pictures of some of those nebulae that are so far out, we can't see them with the naked eye. We have to have the telescope to reach out there and even see those things that are billions of miles from us, and it's just marvelous to see all the colors and the wonder of all that he made there, and the stars. We look up at night and we see all of those stars shining, and we're told by the use of telescope, we only see about 1,200 and something in our night sky, and even though that looks like a whole lot more than 1,200 stars, there's really only about 1,200 stars that we can see with the naked eye. But we take a telescope and we can find out, oh, wait a minute, there's more than 1,200. They are, as far as we know, they are without number. There's no way we can number them. However, the scripture tells us God knows the number of them and He knows the name of each one. He knows exactly how many they are and He has a name that He has given to each and every one of those stars. and his description in the book of Genesis there of his creation of them, and he made the stars also. That's all it says. That innumerable lot of stars that are shining in the heavens of our universe that God knows the number of, that God knows the name of, His description of His creation of those beauties, the wonders that they are, is simply He made the stars also. That's what we look to, that's what we see. When we look out and we see the wonder of that. But what's more wondrous, what's more wondrous than the beauty and the vastness and the The giant realm of this universe, what's even more wonderful, what's even more beautiful, what's even more astounding is us. And how he has made us. He made the stars also. Genesis 1 tells us. But man, he molded it. He made it from the dust to the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. He took time, you see, in the creation of us. And it's only in modern science that science has been able to figure out the absolute intricacy of the body of an individual, even our eyeball, is absolutely astounding in how the Lord has put it all together. Our DNA tells so much information that they're still trying to figure out all the parts of it and everything that it shows. And the more they study it, the more they find out about it, the more they find how wondrous it is. Creation, power of our God. Oh, Jehovah, our Adonai, how excellent. How excellent is thy name. How excellent is thy name. He goes on to tell us our verse two, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, the cause of thine enemies, that thou mightest steal the enemy and the avenger. He says, use children. to speak truth to those that would stand against him. And go to Matthew chapter, yeah, Matthew chapter 21. Matthew 21. Matthew 21, verse 15 and 16. This is the Lord's second purification of the temple. He went in and drove out the money changers and turned their tables over. Verse 13, he says to them there, it is written, my house It shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. And when the chief priest and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were sore displaced. The children were crying out. The children in the temple that day recognized who he was. And they were crying out to him, Hosea, to the son of David. They were calling him Messiah. And that upset the priest and the scribes there. It made them mad because these kids were calling him Messiah. Verse 16, it said unto him, hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, yea, have ye never read out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, thou hast perfected praise. Very quotes here from this very Psalm, Psalm chapter eight. The adults weren't going to praise him, the children would. The children would acknowledge who he was. Out of the mouths of babes. and sucklings hast thou ordained straight because of thy enemies, that thou mightest steal the enemy and the avenger. Jerry Clower used to tell a story about a little girl coming home from Sunday school. One of their neighbors, Jerry described him, I don't remember where he told his name, I don't remember his name. I'm sure it was a made up name. Said he was walking, saw a little girl walking by and hollered at her and said, asked where she'd been. She'd been to Sunday school this morning. He said, what'd you learn about? She said, well, we learned about Jonah the whale. And he proceeded to tell the little girl about how Jonah, being a full grown man, was much too large for any whale to swallow and that the gull of the whale was just not big enough to swallow a man. And so that Bible has to be telling a lie there. A little girl said, well, the Bible says it. It said it happened to Jonah, and I believe it happened to Jonah. And one of these days, when I get to heaven, I'll just ask him about it. And the fellow that was asking her said, well, what if Jonah's not in heaven? What if Jonah's in hell? And she said, then you ask him. The children were praised. When the rest of the world will not see, the children will praise him. I was reading of an account of Whitefield, George Whitefield preaching. George Whitefield preached all the time. He preached on the street corners and preached out in the woods and wherever he could get a crowd, he preached and preached seven days a week. And he was not always welcomed in his preaching. We read of his preaching now and we read of the things that he said and the things that he wrote. And it's just astounding some of the messages that man brought and wonder the blessing of the Lord and how it moved eventually on the hearts of the people and a great many people were saved because of this man's preaching. But it wasn't always like that. There were times where he was absolutely hated But there was a group of children following him around all the time. And they were always there. And they would sit at his feet while he preached. And they were always listening, always attentive. And he would describe the people that would get mad at him and throw things at him and throw dirt at him and throw manure at him and throw vegetables at him, whatever they had that they could get in their hand and throw at him and said how often he would hit those children. And they would sit there and take it and just listen. and praise the Lord at what they were hearing. And he said, then there were times when it would hit me. And he said, the tears that would well up in those children's eyes as they watched the hatred of those people that were out there toward the word of God. And he said how it tore his soul up to watch those little kids enduring, wanting only to praise the Lord. Wanting only to praise the Lord. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. Because of thine enemies thou mightest steal the enemy and the avenger. Well, I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. How powerful our God is to create All that is created and created out of nothing. Ex nihilo, He just spoke it. He didn't take other things and put it together to make. He spoke it out of nothing and it was. He said, let there be and there was. Everything He made, simply speaking it into place. To make the vastness of the universe to make the wonders of the heavens and all that is in this earth and all the life that he put on it, simply by saying, let there be. Let there be. Let there be. And there was. Creating out of nothing all that we see before us. How powerful. How powerful is our God. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that thou visitest him, and all the vastness and all the glory and all the power and all the wonder about what our Lord has made and just the simple size of it all, that He would think of us on a speck of dirt that's called the earth in comparison to the rest of this galaxy, even. I mean, just from the standpoint of our galaxy, our sun, if we're outside of the Milky Way galaxy, our sun is barely visible, let alone us. Just outside of our galaxy. You know, God didn't just create our galaxy, he created the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of galaxies. and the trillions upon trillions of stars in those galaxies. And out of all of those, he saw us, he created us, he made us. For it is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou visitest him. that we would be made even in His image, image bearers of God. Every single one that is born here upon this earth is an image bearer of God. We bear forth His image. Which by the way, when disciples were debating on the taxes to be paid, The Lord, they've got a coin there, and the Lord said, who's in description is on the coin. And they said, well, Caesar's. And he said, well, give that which is Caesar's to Caesar, and give that which is to God, God. The coin belonged to Caesar. You belong to God. His image is stamped upon us. We belong to him. We belong to Him, created in His very image. but not just created in His image, but that He would desire a relationship with us, that we might know Him, that we might praise Him, that we might glorify Him, that He might know us, that He would bless us, that He would enjoy with our lives, that He would give us eternal life, that we would ever be in His presence. Oh, what is man that thou art mindful of Him? prepare and provide such graces for us. How excellent is His name. That He would visit us. And how? How did He visit us? By Christ Jesus our Lord. That's how He visited us. The God of heaven, robed in flesh, dwelt among us, provided Himself as our Savior, to take from us our sins, to make us His own, to give us eternal life. How excellent is His name. How excellent is His name. Oh, Jehovah, our Adonai. Oh, Jehovah, our Adonai. Notice there, verse five, Down through verse eight, these verses here particularly speak of our Lord Jesus. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou has put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beast of the field. the fowl of the air, the fish, and the sea whatsoever passes through the paths of the sea. Now this does have application to man himself. This is how God created Adam in the garden. It's what he intended for us there in that creation he's given us. But Paul takes these very verses over here in the book of Hebrews and applies it to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'd say Paul's interpretation lies better than the description of just being man in general. It fits man in general, but I think it goes beyond that in the description of the Lord Jesus Himself. Hebrews chapter number 1. Hebrews chapter number 1 and verse number 4. Hebrews 1 and verse number 4. He says, being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Speaking of the Lord Jesus, he's much better than the angels. Now, he was made a little lower than the angels, but he far outshines them. Go over here to chapter 2 and look here what he says, verse 6. Hebrews chapter 2, verse 6. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man? Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou visitest him. Thou mayest him a little lower than the angels. Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and didst 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 that is not put under Him, but now we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, 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 unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctified and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." Our Lord Jesus. as mentioned here. By Him, we are visited by the Father. By Him, God has provided for us life. By Him, He has given unto us that eternal presence with Him. By Him and by His death for us and resurrection from the grave, we are given that eternal life that we can ever be in the presence of our God whose excellent name shines forth throughout all of His creation O God, O Lord, our Lord, O Jehovah, our Adonai, how excellent, how excellent is thy name. How excellent is thy name. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name on all the earth. Let's all stand, we'll do this.