Father, we thank you that we are in your house. We thank you that we're with your people. We thank you that we're around your word. We pray this would be all about you. As we are together now, we pray that you would be faithful to your promise and be with us. We know that you are always with us, but we want a tangible knowledge of your presence. the Holy Spirit helping us to concentrate, to listen, to receive your word. And may we receive it in our hearts. May you meet us at our point of need. May you bless us and help your word to take root in our lives so that we might not just be hearers, but that we be doers also. Oh Lord God, pour out your Holy Spirit upon each one of us. Help me, oh Lord God, in the power of your Holy Spirit to proclaim your word, to explain your word, to share, to preach what you have laid on my heart from your word. May it be of you. May you keep me from saying anything amiss. May you help me to say what I say clearly in a way that can be understood. And most of all, we pray the Holy Spirit would use it in power and in might in our hearts and our lives now and forevermore. In Jesus' name we've prayed. Amen. I don't know if you've heard someone say to you, who do you think you are? I'm never sure if that's a compliment or if that's a challenge. Who do you think you are? Well, that's sort of in the back of our minds as we go through this Psalm 8, as we go into this new year. We've likened the Psalms to Spotify or a streaming service a little bit. It's our playlist, it's God's playlist for God's people as they go through life together. And over this holiday period with our children at home and we've been doing a little bit of traveling together, we don't have arguments but we have discussions in the car whose playlist should be played. And within our family, there's this great degree of diversity in our likes and dislikes. And so my children put together their playlist according to their preferences. and I put together my playlist according to my preferences, and apparently my century is not their century, and we get on just fine. But the playlist of the Psalms has been put together really carefully. It's been collated by God. The Holy Spirit worked. And so these were not just thrown together in random. And part of the reason we're going to be going through the Psalms consecutively and having a break and going through another series and coming back to them, I want us over a period of time as we go through the Psalms to see the wonder of how they're put together and why they're put together in this way. And it's not at random, it's not just an afterthought, it's not just this song, this song, that song. The Lord, through the power of the Holy Spirit, inspired it. And so as we finish Psalm 7, verse 17 reads like this. I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness. I will sing praises to the name of the Lord Most High. And all these previous Psalms we've sang and looked at, from 1 through to 7 so far, we've seen complaint, we've seen instruction, we've seen lament, we've seen difficult times. And the psalmist says at the end of this one, I'm going to praise, and boy does he do that. Psalm 8 is David singing praise. Psalm 8 is more than David singing praise. Psalm 8 is David giving a psalm, providing the psalm to the choir master so that all the people could sing praise to the Most High. Psalm 8 does just that. David answers what he says he will do in verse 17 of 7. He is singing God's praise. He tells us why we should be joining him in the chorus. There's no problems set out in Psalm 8. There's no challenges. There's no dark clouds. There's no sadness. There's just delight in the Most High. And then this psalm is bookended. We talked about bookends before. I think we talked about bookends in 1 Corinthians 12, 13, 14. These bookends. And the bookend makes the psalm a circular psalm. It starts as it finishes, and it finishes as it starts. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. It starts with that. And it finishes with that. And as we go through this psalm, I trust that when we get to the end of it, we are wanting to join the psalmist, we are wanting to join David, we're wanting to join the Jews of old, we're wanting to join the church of the centuries, to shout out, to cry out, to praise the Lord, and say together, our Lord, oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. This is the psalm of David, and David was the king of Israel. And he was the person that they would have referred to as their majesty. But in this psalm, we have David, one of the most successful kings of Israel, one of the greatest kings of Israel, arguably the greatest kings in all time. And here is this king, and he is singing praises to the Lord. Now you need to note here that in verse one, Lord is written there twice. And the first time it's written all in capitals. And the second time it's written with a capital L only, and the rest of it in lowercase. And you should be asking yourselves, why is that, if you don't know? If you do know, you will know that when we see Lord written in uppercase, it comes from the Hebrew Yahweh, the Lord. the one who is, the great I am who I am, the life giver, the perfecter of promises, the king of kings and the Lord of lords, the great and holy one, Yahweh. And David starts this psalm by referring to the Lord, oh Lord, oh Yahweh, oh great one. And he's doing more than this, he's doing more than just announcing the Lord. But He then brings us, He brings the people, He brings Himself into it. And He brings us into relationship with this Lord as we sing, and He says, Our Lord. Our Lord. And that's the Lord from Adonai, which means Lord, Master. Yahweh is not impersonal. Yahweh, the great I Am, is a personal God, and David knows Him. And as David writes this psalm, as the choir sing this psalm together, as we repeat this psalm, we are coming together and we're saying, our Lord, Yahweh, our Lord, our Master. This isn't impersonal. And then what's really interesting here and what's important for us all to know is David here who writes this psalm would outrank everybody. When King David walked into a room, he would be announced. And people, I'm not sure what the culture of that day would have been, but if the King of England walks into a room now, he is announced. The protocol would have it that If he comes to speak to him, you refer to him as your majesty, and you must bow or acknowledge his presence in that way. And that's what David would have been used to. Maybe he'd been used to a trumpet fanfare, and David would come in, and here is David, and he is the same as everybody else, and he's referring to Yahweh as our Lord. Despite his position, despite his grandeur, despite his wealth, despite the mighty man that he was, he saw himself as the same as everybody else before God. And God is their master, and God is his master. And so as we go through this psalm this morning, I have five headings for you to help us as we work this through. And the first heading is that very phrase that I've already said, your majesty, your majesty. When was the last time you said your majesty? Some of you married men might have affectionately referred to your wife as your majesty or cynically, I don't know. Very few of us have actually come into the presence of a king or a queen to refer to them as Your Majesty. It's not something that we use every day. But in reality, it is something we should be, as God's children, using every day, because as we come to the Lord, as we come to Yahweh, as we come to the Lord, our Master, we should think of Him as Your Majesty. And David starts this psalm by outlining the majesty of God. Oh Lord, our God, how majestic is your name in all the earth. The word majestic there is just pregnant with meaning. It's exploding with meaning. It's shorthand really for all the attributes of God himself. in TBT, and I think it's the second one. We look at God and the attributes of God, and we spend a lot of time going through the attributes of God. And when we think of God being majestic, how majestic is Your name, David was thinking of His glory through to His grace. He was thinking of His power and His might. He maybe have come up with some long Hebrew words for omnipresence and omnipotent and all-powerful and almighty and invisible. Everything that God is, His steadfast love, His holiness, everything that makes Him Yahweh is bound up in this word, majestic. And David is saying there is no one quite like God. There is no one like Yahweh in all the earth. And David's a poet here. David is a great poet, a great songwriter. And doing what songwriters and poets do when they can't explain something, they paint a picture. They paint a picture with words to help us understand things. I don't know if any of you were out on Friday evening. Friday evening, I think I was with Jacob, we were both in the car, and both of us looked and almost said together, look at the moon. And the moon was like a little tiny crescent, and above it, just a bit to the right, and above it was Venus, a bright, bright star shining, and it was striking. And David, in this picture language, is saying, look, you've set your glory above the heavens. Yeah? He's saying, look, let's think of God and who He is, and how do we comprehend the majesty of God? Well, go out at nighttime when the sky is clear and look at the stars, and you will see something of the glory of God. On a clear night, you see thousands of stars. There's some argument and disagreement about how many thousands of stars you can see with the naked eye. Some of the less optimistic people, or the partially blind, can see 2,500. It can go up to 6,000. We're not going to argue here. But he is talking about God who put all those stars into space. Day four of creation, God put. 200 billion trillion stars. Or should I say estimated? We don't know to the last number how many exactly there are. But that is a scientific estimation of how many stars there are in the universe. 200 billion trillion stars. Now, I thought I'd ask Google how long it would take to count that number, because I thought that might help us to understand it. It's a too big a number to count. I don't know if you've seen the Milky Way. But sometimes on a dark night, or when it's dark, there's no light pollution, you'll see a whole cluster, a mass of stars together in a big array. And that's like, it's like a cloud of stars, and that's called the Milky Way. To count that, doing one star a second, would take you 4,750 years, just to count the Milky Way. This screams of God's glory. This screams of the greatness of God. And the psalmist, he talks about the magnitude of the stars and the wonder of it. And this screams out of God's glory. And then he takes a contrast. He goes to another extreme. And he brings us to an infant, to a child, to a baby. He says, out of the mouths of babes and infants you've established strength, because of your foes still the enemies and the avenger. And God's glory of the stars is contrasted in God's glory in these infants. And there's two aspects of that. I just want to start thinking about an infant. We delight in seeing a baby, don't we? And then when you look at a baby, one of the things that I love looking at as babies is their feet. They're just so tiny. And their toes are so perfect. And if you look at a baby's hand, it's just all so perfect. And it was created and it was made and there's a wonder in that And this baby, this child has just spent nine months developing in its mother's womb And it pops out And generally speaking they pop out without much problems God has planned this, God has worked this all through And yes for sure that there's pain and challenges with a child But as it comes out and it's there and it's there and it's beauty and it's simplicity is frightfully weak. I used to work on pig farms and I was just amazed at how robust a little baby piglet was. It would get shot out, about 12, 13, 14 at the same time, and then the next thing they'd be doing is fighting for milk. And they'd be up and running and away and independent. Have you ever seen a day-old baby independent? They just do nothing. apart from squawk and fill their nappies and squawk some more and eat and then squawk some more. And yet still us as parents and family and friends, we go and go, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it beautiful? It's just there in the weakness of a baby, there is a wonder of the creator. But there's more to this here. And there's a picture here that there was people who were coming against God and his people in David's time. And David and his people, they were weak and helpless of their own, but God established them. and they were able to overcome. And in their weakness, God spoke of their strengths. And similarly, as we're going to see, we can go there now if you like. If you go to Matthew 21, in verse 16, Jesus quotes this particular verse. The religious people of the day, the people who thought they were quite special, were belittling, and they were, undermining what the children were saying. There's some little children and then they were calling God and calling Jesus who he was. And they said to him in verse 16, that's the Jewish people that the leaders, hear what these are saying. And Jesus said to them, have you read Psalm 8? Don't you remember Psalm 8? Out of the mouse and infants and nursery babes you have prepared praise. And there was the youth, the tiny little young ones, and they were confounding the old ones in their weakness. God had allowed them to be a witness. And you see, this is a wonder of what's going on here. In the one hand, in the might of the universe, God is saying, look at me. And in the other hand, in the weakness of a little baby and a little child, with God enabling them, God is saying, look at my glory. Look at the glory of God, from the contrast from the greatest to the weakest. And friends, this speaks into our situation as we go into 2025. We can stand secure. We may feel nothing as a church. We're few in this great land of North Cyprus. We may feel tiny and insignificant within our school, within our family. We may seem tiny and insignificant and weak with all the pressures of the concerns of this year ahead. Friends, the God who put the stars into space will establish and strengthen us. And when the Lord who puts the stars into space and just holds them there, takes you and I as weak insignificant things, He can strengthen us to confound the great and the mighty. 2,000 years of Christianity has tried to be stamped out by regime after regime after regime. oppressiveness, wickedness, martyrdom, abuse. And the church thrives and the church grows. And the weak confound the mighty of this world because the God who flung the stars into space is holding His people in the grip of His hand. And 2025 is going to be no different. But just go back to Jesus, and there were those Jews and they were complaining, and there was those infants and they were praising. Are you going to go into 2025 as a complainer or a praiser? Are you going to exalt the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the creator of the heavens and the earth, or are you going to moan and groan because you don't think things are working out quite as you think they should be? You see, the psalmist moves on from this pointing out of who our majesty is to our insignificance. Verses three and four. David, as a shepherd boy, would have seen some amazing starlit nights. We live just on the side of the mountain looking towards Lefkosha. And I like it when you have a power cut. Forgive me, it's wrong. But when the power's cut in Lefkosha, the stars suddenly shine brighter, yeah? Because of the light pollution, you can't see so much. David didn't have light pollution. David would have been like, I don't know if any of you have been out to the Carpaz at night time, I'm sure many of you from Africa have been out in the village, and when night falls and the sky is clear, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of stars. And David knew what this was like. David knew what it was like to look out and stare up at the stars. And he says it poetically here in verse three, when I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, that's amazing, yeah? When I look at your heavens, yes, we can see 2,500 stars, but we've just already been told that there's 200 billion, trillion stars, yes? And that's the work of God's fingers. The work of God's, they're building a new road, yes? They're trying to build a new road. They're not using their fingers for that. They've got some big excavators, yes? If we want to do something big, we need big tools to do it with. We can't really do much. God just put them into space and holds them there. The moon and the stars which you have set in place. I have managed to set a picture in place on our wall. Yeah, that's quite good of me. I got the picture and I set it in the wall. I can't take any credit for the artwork, someone else did that. I can't take credit for the nail, I bought that. I had to have a hammer to bang it in, but I set it in place. Now mark the contrast of that with God, who on day four of creation, with his fingers, that's to help us understand it, we don't know what God quite looks like, but just think fingers, and he puts all those stars there and sets them in place. In our tiny little solar system, which to our minds, blows our minds, would take us 4,750 odd years, counting each star a second, within all that melee, the Earth is set in exactly the right place. The right place so that you and I can breathe. The right place so that you and I are not crushed by gravity or floating off because there is no gravity. It is perfectly, perfectly placed and every other star in the universe is perfectly, perfectly placed and set. And despite David being a great king, he was nothing in comparison to the glory of this creation. And so we need to ask ourselves, who are we in the light of that? There's estimated just over 8 billion people in the world right now. Who are you in regard to that? Who are you in comparison to the universe? Who are we before the God who created the universe? who just flung those trillions of stars into space with his fingers. Who are we? I love mountains. And oftentimes when I'm in the mountains, I look at these great mountains and I think, who am I? Who am I in comparison to this? And yet, in our insignificance, we have a significance. Because David goes on in verse four and says, what is man that you are mindful of him? What is the son of man that you care for him? Can you get this? The God, the creator, who put all those stars into space with his fingers and sets them there in perfect place, he is mindful of you. He knows you. He cares for you. He knows every hair on your head. He knows the thought that's going through your mind right now. And so again, friends, as we go into 2025, we can stand secure no matter how we feel or what we fear because the God who put all the stars in space is mindful of us and cares for us. Do you get that? You see, we think of our problems as being big. Well, think of the stars, they're bigger. You may have heard of the children arguing in the playground, yes? And it starts off with one being stronger than the other, and they end up saying, my dad's bigger than your dad. Jacob used to have to say, my dad's taller than your dad, and he'd always win. But it's this idea of you go to something bigger for yourself. And here is the psalmist saying, the biggest, the best, the only creator of the world is mindful of man. And he cares for him. And so I want us to realize that yes, in the one hand there is a total insignificance within regard to ourselves with who we are in comparison to the universe, who we are in comparison to the population of the world, who we are in comparison to anything, but at the same time in our insignificance there is a great significance I want us to see our significance in this psalm. We see it in verses 5 through to 8, but I just want us to read to start off with 5 and 6. And listen, this is deep. He talks, doesn't he, and says, what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him? And then he goes on and says, and yet you've made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You've given him dominion over the works of your hands. You've put all things under his feet. Now, there's a lot to unpack here. There's a lot to get through here. There's a lot to get our minds around here. David's significance is not because he is the great king. Yes, he was the Lord's anointed. Yes, he was a great king. Yes, he was a great warrior. Yes, he was a great poet. Yes, he was a fearless shepherd. There's lots of things that we could say about David's attributes, but that's not where David's significance was here. The fact why David was significant is in what God had done. The wonder of this psalm is David's not just talking for himself, but he's talking of all mankind. He's making a commentary, as it were, on Genesis 1, and that's why we read that passage in Genesis 1 in verses 28 through to 31. But you see, our significance as humans is seen and borne out by our creation. And just like salvation, it's not something that we've achieved, it's something that's been given to us. So friends, let's get our heads around this. Yes, in our insignificance, we have a significance, but this significance is because of what God has done. Let's go to verse five again. And yet you have made him. You have made Him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned Him with glory and honor. You have given Him dominion over the works of your hands. You have put all things under His feet. Where is the significance of the human here? Where is the significance of man here? You have made him. You have given him. You have put all things. The significance is in the Creator God, and as He created mankind, He made them for a reason and a purpose. Now some translations put that, verse 5, and have it as made a little lower than God. And that's because the word used there, heavenly beings, in our translations can also be translated God. The original allows for both. Now if you look at the early, the Septuagint, that's the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, that's the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrews. We read there that the word that's used there in Greek is very clearly for heavenly beings. And when you cross-reference it with Hebrews 2, which we read earlier, the context there is talking about angels. And so, I just wanted to take this in our minds for a moment. Angels are special creations of God. They were made before the world was made. Angels are spiritual, angels are immortal, angels are holy, and angels are in the presence of God. And mankind in one sense is not at their level, but what David is saying, look... You've been given a special job. Mankind has been given a special job. In Genesis 1, 26, it puts it like this. God has made all the different things. He's created the heavens and the earth. He's thrown all the stars into space. The sun and the moon are there shining. The birdies are flying. The animals are there. And he's looking on this and he says, let us make man in our image after our likeness. That's mind-blowing. And that's what David is saying to the people. That's what this psalm is about. There's a wonder, there's something amazing in this psalm. In some ways these verses is commentary on this passage in Genesis. Let us make man in our image after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, over the birds of the heaven, over the livestock, over the earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Friends, we were created in the image of God. No other animal, no other created being is like that. The angels didn't have that pleasure or privilege. We are crowned with God's glory and honor. We've been given a job to do. We've been put over all things on this earth. We are God's representatives on this earth. We have been given so much. We've been put in charge. When I worked at the bank, people liked to find out what their title was. And in finding out how their title was, they'd look at the organization chart to work out how many people they were in charge of. Friends, when God created man, he made them the CEO of the world. We were to be in dominion over it. We've been put in charge. That's why we have farms. And controversially, that's why we have zoos. You don't see the animals going to a zoo to see human beings locked up there and say, oh, we'll be entertained by them. The animals are under us. God put us in dominion over them. Now there's a great responsibility to that, and with that responsibility we could argue for or against Zeus, but this is not what it's about. But what I'm wanting to say, and what this passage is saying, is we, as God's human beings that He created, He made us a little lower than the heavenly beings, but then he crowned them with glory and honor. He's given them dominion over the works of his hands, that all things have been put under his feet. We have been created, and we've been created special, and our special nature that we've got is something that God has done for us. Now, this psalm does not deal with sin. It doesn't deal with the fall, but we can see from this psalm that we can only be in God's high calling if we hold God as our creator. It all gets messed up and it all goes wrong when we want to be equal with God or greater than God. And that's where it goes wrong. And this is why David in this psalm is putting people in their right places. Who do you think you are? For so many of us, we rebel against God and we put ourselves greater than God and it all goes wrong. But God gave us such great privilege as he created us in his image. He gave us great privilege as we had dominion over these things. This is what he's done for us. But when we rebel against our creator, it all goes wrong. To put it negatively, we could put it like this. When we deny God, we lose our dignity. That's why evolution is such a hideous lie. That's why the world is in such a mess, because the world is denying God, denying the Creator, denying the I AM, replacing it with itself. And there is a mess. And if we want to find meaning without God, we lose meaning. We lose dignity. And that's exactly what happened to Adam and Eve at the beginning. Man has a conferred dignity from God. We have a sense of worth and value and a significance that is from God. And an illustration I heard to explain this was like this. The moon works because the sun shines. The moon works because the sun shines. We see part of the moon, don't we? And we see the part of the moon that's reflecting the sunshine. The rest of the moon is there, but it's just a dirty rock. It doesn't look very particularly special. But it looks amazing when it's shining back. And the full moon that you see in the sky is shining back, but it has no glory of its own. It has no light of its own. It's merely shining back, reflecting the sun. And that's what man is like, that's what man should be like. The glory of man and the wonder of man is when we reflect back the glory of God. When someone sees something of the image of God in us, God is glorified. That's not our light, that is not our glory, that is God's glory being bounced out, being mirrored out, being reflected out. And so the significance that this psalm is talking about, that man has, is yes, God is mindful of us, and God cares for us, and God does this because he created us, and he created us in his image, and he gave us this job to do, but this only works, the significance is only there when we shine back God's glory. And so I want to see this psalm in the significance beyond the psalm. And then what do I mean by this? Because this is the limitation of what David would have thought. We don't know how David saw things going forward. But we can look at this psalm from our New Testament perspective and we can look back on it and we can see more than what David was just seeing then. And so our significance beyond the psalm As we look at this Psalm 8 from the New Testament's perspective, it opens up even more. The source of our significance in creation has been marred by the fall. But friends, we have a greater source of significance than our fallen creation, and the greatest source of significance that we can have is in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, this psalm is quoted several times in the New Testament, and we read from Hebrews 2, and it's quoted there. And I want to go back there and I want to read there from that passage from verse six through, or probably seven. Now putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, let's talk about Jesus, at present we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the sufferings of death so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone. Adam and Eve. Adam was made in the image of God. And everything was in his subjection. And he was a little lower than the angels. But rather than staying crowned with the glory and honor that he had then in his sinless life, he sinned and he fell short of the glory of God. And every single one of us since then has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God until Christ came. And Christ came, and when he came into this world, he was made a little lower than the angels, the Son of God. God himself came into this world fully man in our nature. Can you get that? We get excited by the thought of the fact that we were made in the image of God, and then we have this mind-blowing thought that God himself, the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, was humbled and subjected and made man. Born as a baby. The hands that threw the stars into space became a baby that needed a mother to nurse and care for, and a father, a stepfather, if you like, to provide for. What a humbling. And this God-man Christ, He was made lower than the angels. And how was He glorified? How was He crowned with glory and honor? He was crowned with glory and honor when He suffered death. The wages of sin is death. And the perfect Christ took the wages of the sins of His people. He took it and He ate it up. And that was His crown and His glory, the suffering of death. And He was doing it so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone. anyone here this morning who's trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, their sins were laid on Christ, and His suffering then was paying the price for your sins. Jesus became our race. Christ shared our nature. Jesus Christ, God's Son, came into the world to do what Adam failed to do and do what we failed to do. He lived the perfect life and was the perfect sacrifice so that the way of salvation could be made possible. And Paul tells the Ephesians in chapter 1 in verses 18 to 22, he goes through and he tells us that Christ was raised from the dead. Christ didn't stay dead, he rose from the dead. Why did he rise from the dead? Because the sacrifice was complete. Death could not hold him. Sin, the devil, and death had been vanquished. Victory had been won. The price had been paid. The great exchange had been made. And the words of the psalm are put here in verse 22, and he put all things under his feet, and he gave him his head over all things to the church. Our significance now, believer, is in Christ our Savior, in Christ our big brother who is head over all things and head over this church. Have you ever queued in a public office in Cyprus? Have you ever had troubles with the international office? Have you ever needed to get something sorted at the tax office? You very soon learn in Cyprus that it's all about who you know. If you know the right person, and my friends here from Nigeria, you tell me the same, you say, when you go back, it's not about your qualifications, it's about who you know. Friends, as you go into 2025, Is you going to 2025 trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? You know the boss of all. You don't just know the muda of that particular building. You don't just know the mayor of that territory. You don't just know the president of that country. You don't just know the head of the UN. You know the great I Am, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the God who threw the stars into space and holds them there. And He is in control of everything, and He is even in control of death. 1 Corinthians 15, and again, a quote from this psalm. In verse 26, the last enemy to be destroyed is death. Christ destroyed us. For God has put all things in subjection under His feet. That's our God. That's the God that David was pointing to. That's what we can look back on. That's what we can see. And so the question we need to ask ourselves now, the final point as we've gone through those various points is this, where does that leave us now? So, I bring the question to you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? You are nothing, and God is everything. But there's more to it than that, because if we're trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, you have everything in Christ. You are nothing and God is everything, as the psalm shouts out. But also the psalm brings to us, who know Jesus as our Savior, this hope. We have everything in Christ. And so this psalm leaves us in great hope as we go into 2025. No matter what we face, it's not about our strengths. It's about God's strength. It's about God's glory. It's about God's power. No matter what we face, it's not about our saving ourselves, but it's about the salvation that we have in Christ, the hope that we have in Christ. And surely this just brings us back to the beginning of the psalm again. And what can we but do is to worship the Lord again. Not just worshiping the Lord as the God who with his fingers flung those 200 billion trillion stars into space and set them there. But he made a way of salvation. He brought each one of you who are trusting in him into his family. He cares for you. He knows you. He's given you a task. He's giving us an eternal hope. Even death, the last enemy, has been destroyed by Christ. And so no matter what 2025 holds for us, whether they're joyous times or difficult times or a mixture of both, or whether there's new birth or whether there's death, there is hope in Christ. And so we come to the last line. And I want us to say it all together. Oh, Lord. Our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. I think that was a practice. I think we can do better than that. Our Lord, oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. Amen. We're going to sing our closing hymn together.