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 If you have a Bible, please turn with me to Psalm 8. While you do that, let me just explain

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! what we're going to be looking at this weekend. I've called the series Glorious Dust, the Christian

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! Doctrine of Humanity. Glorious Dust, the Christian! Doctrine of Humanity. Our talk tonight is looking

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 at man as ruler. Tomorrow morning we'll look at man as ruined. Then we'll look at the true

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 man, Jesus Christ. And then on the Lord's Day in the morning, we'll look at man renewed.

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 And in the evening, man resurrected. So ruler, ruined, true man, Jesus, renewed, resurrected.

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 Tonight, we're looking at man created to rule. Surprise. That's what's at the heart of this

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 psalm. It's a psalm about the unexpected, the surprising. But if we miss the surprise factor,

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 then we miss the whole point of the psalm. Because the element of surprise causes David

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 to extol God's greatness in the refrain, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in

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 all the earth. We get the hint of surprise in verse 1, where we're told that the God who

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 has set his glory in the heavens has also displayed his glory, his majesty in all the earth. The

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 God whose glory cannot be contained by the heaven of heavens has displayed his majesty in all the earth.

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 Now when you hear that, when you hear that God's majesty has been displayed in all the earth,

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 what do you think of? Think of creation, don't we? We think of Mount Everest or Victoria Falls in

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 Zimbabwe or the plains of the Serengeti teeming with wild animals. We think of the Amazon rainforest

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 or the Grand Canyon. We think of a beautiful star-studded night in the Lake District or a beautiful sunset.

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 Isn't that what we think of when we hear of God's majesty displayed in all the earth?

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 Here's the unexpected thing. Here's the big surprise in this psalm. When it comes to talking about God's majesty in all the earth,

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 David talks about babies and mankind. God's name is majestic in all the earth because

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 weak little babies defeat God's enemies, verse 2, and because

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 puny little man

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 rules God's world, verses 3 to 8.

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 That's the logic of this psalm.

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 The catalyst for praise for David is not cute little babies,

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 verse 2. It's not creation, verse 3.

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 It's not even mankind, verse 4.

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 No, the catalyst for praise in this psalm is the surprise

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 that weak little babies defeat God's enemies

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 and that puny little man rules God's world.

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 The first surprise in verse 2 is obvious enough.

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 Out of the mouth of babes and infants you have established strength

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 because of your foes to still the enemy and the avenger.

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 The word here for babes is literally sucklings.

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 In the Old Testament, or for infants, sorry, is literally sucklings.

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 In the Old Testament, it's used in the context of oppression where babies are

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 vulnerable victims of war and death.

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 And yet, verse 2 says literally,

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 from the mouth of babes suckling on their mother's breasts,

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 God has established praise or strength, literally.

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 I mean, David, are you having a laugh?

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 If he would ever speak of strength coming out of a baby's mouth,

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 out of a weak, vulnerable, dependent baby.

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 It's strength going in the wrong direction, isn't it?

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 I mean, isn't a baby's mouth supposed to receive nourishment and strength,

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 not give it out?

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 Yet God reverses the direction.

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 From, out of the mouth of babes and infants comes strength.

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 The surprise factor continues in the purpose given for this strength.

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 To still the enemy and the avenger.

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 The great and mighty enemies of God that rise up proud and arrogant against him

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 are defeated not by armies of men, not by chariots and horses,

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 not by tanks and fighter planes,

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 but by weak, vulnerable children.

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 How humbling for God's enemies.

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 Now, if we had time tonight, we could look at Matthew chapter 21

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 and see how Jesus applies this verse to his own day.

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 The strength is the praise of God coming from little infants as they're running around

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 and singing,

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 Hosanna to the Son of David.

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 Save us, Son of David,

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 as he rides into Jerusalem on a donkey.

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 But I want to focus our attention on the bigger surprise in this psalm.

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 And that is in verses 3 to 8.

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 God's name is majestic in all the earth because

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 puny little man rules God's world.

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 Verses 3 to 8.

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 Weak little babies defeat God's enemies.

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 Verse 2.

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 And puny little man rules God's world.

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 Verses 3 to 8.

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 We just glance down at verse 3

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 and compare it in length to verse 4 and 5 and 6.

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 You'll notice that it's actually longer.

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 It doesn't have the parallelism of verse 4.

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 Hebrew poetry has this structure of parallelism.

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 It will say something on the first line

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 and then it will repeat the same thing on the second line

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 often with a wee bit of a surprise factor or it adds something.

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 But verse 3 has no parallelism.

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 It sort of just keeps on going

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 as if to underline the sense of awe of creation.

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 When I look at your heavens,

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 the work of your fingers,

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 the moon and the stars which you have set in place.

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 The mention of God's fingers is perhaps

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 the most striking thing in the verse.

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 God made the heavens

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 and the moon and the stars with his fingers.

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 Of course it's just a way of describing God in human terms

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 which the Bible does often.

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 But we know God is a spirit.

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 He doesn't actually have a pair of fingers.

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 But we mustn't rush to protect God too quickly here.

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 He's quite happy to be described symbolically

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 as having fingers.

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 We should let the metaphor wash over us.

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 We should meditate on the metaphor.

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 God used his fingers to create the heavens

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 and the moon and the stars.

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 Now what does that communicate to you?

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 He's an artist.

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 He's a sculptor, a painter.

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 The metaphor conveys the delicate, intricate, detailed care

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 with which God made the world.

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 But I think the metaphor suggests something else too.

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 I'm sure most of us in this room have been on an aeroplane.

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 You know as you sit at the window

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 and the plane rises, takes off and rises up above the clouds

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 and there out the window is that endless expanse of blue sky

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 for thousands of miles.

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 Or if you've never been in an aeroplane,

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 you go out in the countryside on a dark night

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 and you stand there and you look up at that canopy of stars above your head.

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 Now think about the metaphor here.

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 That endless blue sky, that star-studded night sky

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 which God fashioned and shaped in such intricate detail,

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 all of it is just at the tips of his fingers.

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 It's so tiny, so small

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 that God only needs to push and prod it

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 with the divine digits.

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 It's as if God picked up the moon like a marble

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 and rolled it between his thumb and first finger

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 and then just placed it in the night sky.

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 Or like he picked up a star like a teacher does,

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 those little gold stars for her child's homework

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 and then just stuck it on the canvas of the night sky.

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 God made the heavens with his fingers.

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 He's an artist, but he is an incredibly big artist

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 in comparison to his world.

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 He molded the endless skies with just the tips of his fingers.

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 Now if you're like me, you would think that the refrain of the psalm

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 would kick in here.

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 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,

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 the moon and the stars which you have set in place,

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 O Lord our Lord,

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 how majestic is your name in all the earth.

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 But that's not how the psalm progresses.

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 David doesn't make an exclamation of praise.

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 He asks a question.

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 When I consider the blue skies and the fact that you made them

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 in such fine detail and in comparison to you

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 they are so small at the tips of your fingers

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 and man in comparison to them is even smaller,

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 what is man that you are mindful of him?

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 There's no exclamation of praise.

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 There's just a question of puzzlement.

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 What is man that you are mindful of him

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 and the son of man that you care for him?

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 The word man here and the phrase human being

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 if you have a NIV or son of man

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 both speak of our fragility, our weakness, our humanness.

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 We are minuscule specks of dust on a rock

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 revolving around one of billions of stars

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 in but one of billions of galaxies.

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 So why would God even bother with us?

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 I mean, did you bother with the ants

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 on the pavement out there tonight

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 as you walked in here?

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 Didn't see them?

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 Insignificant?

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 Yet here is God.

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 We are even more insignificant

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 compared to the ants.

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 And here is God caring for us.

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 Do you feel your puniness,

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 your minuteness,

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 your insignificance?

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 David wants you to feel it.

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 He wants you to feel

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 how insignificant you are.

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 But he also wants you to feel something else

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 and that is

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 that though you are insignificant

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 compared to this vast universe

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 which is so small

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 in comparison to God,

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 God still cares for you.

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 Puny little you

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 are on the mind of the God

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 who cast billions of stars

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 into billions of galaxies

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 with his fingers.

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 Now again, you'd expect the refrain

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 to kick in here, wouldn't you?

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 When I consider the heavens,

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 the work of your fingers,

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 the moon and the stars

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 which you have set in place,

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 what is man that you are mindful of him

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 and the son of man that you care for him?

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 And since you do care for him,

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 O Lord, our Lord,

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 how majestic is your name

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 in all the earth.

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 But again, that's not the logic of the psalm.

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 The refrain is withheld

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 until verse 9.

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 Which means that the catalyst

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 for praise in this psalm

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 is not creation, verse 3.

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 It's not even God's care for us,

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 verse 4.

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 No, the catalyst for praise in this psalm

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 is seen in the contrast

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 between verses 3 to 5,

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 3 to 4,

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 and verses 5 to 8.

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 There's a yet, a but,

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 at the beginning of verse 5.

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 The NIV, if you have an NIV,

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 completely misses it.

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 But the ESV does get it.

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 There's a yet, a but,

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 at the beginning of verse 5.

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 When I look at your heavens,

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 the work of your fingers,

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 the moon and the stars

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 that you have set in place,

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 what is man that you are mindful of him,

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 the son of man that you care for him?

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 Yet, yet,

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 insignificant though we are,

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 yet you have made him

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 a little lower than the heavenly beings

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 and crowned him with glory and honor.

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 You have given him dominion

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 over the works of your hands,

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 and you have put all things

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 under his feet.

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 Psalm 8 is about the clash

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 of man's insignificance

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 and man's significance.

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 Man is utterly insignificant

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 in comparison to God's world,

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 verses 3 and 4.

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 Yet, man is supremely significant

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 as ruler over God's world,

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 verses 5 to 8.

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 Puny little man,

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 verses 3 to 4,

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 rules God's world,

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 verses 5 to 8.

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 And it's only when those two

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 paradoxical truths

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 are set side by side

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 that David bursts

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 into praise again.

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 O Lord, our Lord,

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 how majestic

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 is your name

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 in all the earth.

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 Well, let's take a closer look

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 at verses 3 to 5.

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 You have made him a little lower

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 than the heavenly beings

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 and crowned him with glory

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 and honor.

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 Charles Darwin said

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 that as human beings

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 we bear the image

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 of our lowly origins.

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 The 20th century psychiatrist

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 Murray Bowen said

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 man is an evolving form of life.

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 He is more related

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 to lower forms of life

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 than he is different from them.

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 Man is a biological,

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 instinctual animal,

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 an emotional,

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 reactive product of nature.

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 Look again at verse 5.

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 Yet you made him

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 a little lower

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 than the heavenly beings.

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 The word there

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 could refer to angels,

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 which I think it does,

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 or to God.

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 Hebrews 2

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 picks up this verse

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 and translates that

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 as referring to angels.

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 But whatever way

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 you translate the word,

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 Elohim,

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 it could refer to God

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 or to angels,

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 we get the sense

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 of our original state.

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 We do not bear the image

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 of our lowly origins

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 as Darwin put it.

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 We are not biological,

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 instinctual animals,

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 more related to the lower

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 forms of life

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 than we are different from them

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 as Bowen put it.

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 Rather,

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 we bear the image

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 of high

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 and holy origins.

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 we fall short

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 only a little

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 from the angels

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 in God's presence.

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 Well,

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 verse 4

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 spotlighted our humanness,

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 how insignificant we are.

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 Verse 5

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 spotlights

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 our God-likeness.

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 The words glory

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 and honor

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 are two

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 descriptives

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 that are only ever used

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 of God

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 in the Bible.

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 And here we

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 are being given

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 those descriptions.

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 And the significance

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 continues in verse 6.

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 You've given him dominion

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 over the works

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 of your hands.

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 You've put all things

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 under his feet.

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 We weren't just created

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 with this high

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 and glorious state.

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 We were given

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 a high and glorious job

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 to do.

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 Ruler

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 over all things.

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 And then David

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 lists them.

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 All sheep

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 and oxen,

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 all the beasts

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 of the field,

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 the birds of the heavens,

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 the fish of the sea,

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 whatever passes

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 along the paths

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 of the seas.

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 Do you hear the echo

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 of Genesis 1

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 where God formed

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 three realms,

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 water,

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 sky,

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 land,

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 in that order.

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 And then he filled

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 each realm

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 with fish,

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 birds,

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 animals,

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 in that order.

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 Well,

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 this psalm captures

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 all of those realms

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 but in reverse order.

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 First there are

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 the beasts

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 of the field,

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 then there are

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 the birds

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 in the sky,

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 then there are

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 the fish

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 in the sea,

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 Genesis works

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 from water

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 to sky

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 to land,

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 Psalm 8

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 works from land

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 to sky

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 to water,

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 man is given

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 rule over every realm

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 and over every creature

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 and you'll see

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 it's not just

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 the pet pony

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 or poodle,

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 it's the alligator

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 and the antelope,

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 the lion

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 and the cobra,

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 the beasts

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 of the field,

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 it's not just

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 budgies and parrots,

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 it's eagles

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 and hawks,

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 it's not just

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 goldfish

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 and turtles,

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 it's the blue whale,

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 the great white shark,

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 all that swim

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 the paths

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 of the sea,

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 not all that swim

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 the paths

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 of your fishbowl

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 in your living room.

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 Everything

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 has been placed

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 under the rule

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 of man,

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 all creatures

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 and all realms.

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 In fact,

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 the phrase

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 all things

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 or everything

00:18:08.619 --> 00:18:09.419
 in verse 6

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 may hint at even more

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 than just planet earth.

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 Do you notice

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 the phrase there

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 in verse 6

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 over the works

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 of your hands?

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 What does that recall?

00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:19.880
 Verse 3,

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 the works

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 of your fingers.

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 If this is just

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 a case

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 of stylistic

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 variety

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 and I think

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 that's the only

00:18:26.940 --> 00:18:27.599
 explanation,

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 then we have

00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:29.360
 a profound

00:18:29.360 --> 00:18:30.279
 statement here.

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 Think about it.

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 The very thing

00:18:32.180 --> 00:18:33.140
 in verse 3

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 that made us

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 feel so puny

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 and so small,

00:18:36.579 --> 00:18:36.940
 the works

00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:37.839
 of God's fingers,

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 is now

00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:39.940
 the very thing

00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:40.779
 in verse 6

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 that we've been

00:18:42.139 --> 00:18:42.839
 given dominion

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 over.

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 The stars

00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:46.019
 and the moon

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 make us feel

00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:48.660
 so small,

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 so insignificant.

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 But they are

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 ours to rule.

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 And we've done it,

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 haven't we?

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 We've been to the moon,

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 we've stuck a flag

00:18:59.359 --> 00:18:59.759
 in it,

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 we've said ours,

00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:02.500
 one small step

00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:03.079
 for man,

00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:04.059
 one giant leap

00:19:04.059 --> 00:19:04.879
 for mankind.

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 But I know

00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:07.539
 technically speaking

00:19:07.539 --> 00:19:08.299
 it was the Americans

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 and we've never

00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:10.680
 heard the end

00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:11.279
 of it since,

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 but the Irish

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 settled America.

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 So it was really

00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.500
 the Irish

00:19:18.500 --> 00:19:19.399
 who ruled the moon.

00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:20.680
 But you get the point.

00:19:21.539 --> 00:19:22.379
 We were made

00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:23.319
 to rule the moon.

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 I remember

00:19:24.819 --> 00:19:26.419
 a BBC series,

00:19:26.579 --> 00:19:26.980
 The Wonders

00:19:26.980 --> 00:19:28.139
 of the Solar System,

00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:29.279
 Empire of the Sun,

00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:30.339
 that explained

00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:31.940
 that in the 1970s

00:19:31.940 --> 00:19:32.980
 we sent,

00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:33.659
 the Irish,

00:19:33.819 --> 00:19:34.859
 we sent a probe

00:19:34.859 --> 00:19:36.500
 out into space

00:19:36.500 --> 00:19:38.119
 in the 1970s

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 that was measuring

00:19:38.919 --> 00:19:40.039
 the heat waves

00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:40.759
 coming off,

00:19:40.959 --> 00:19:42.000
 the winds

00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:43.739
 that were coming off

00:19:43.739 --> 00:19:44.659
 the sun,

00:19:45.199 --> 00:19:46.259
 travelling billions

00:19:46.259 --> 00:19:46.959
 of miles

00:19:46.959 --> 00:19:47.979
 out into space.

00:19:48.199 --> 00:19:48.979
 And that probe

00:19:48.979 --> 00:19:50.139
 is still in space

00:19:50.139 --> 00:19:51.679
 sending back signals

00:19:51.679 --> 00:19:52.879
 to Earth.

00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:54.599
 I mean,

00:19:54.639 --> 00:19:55.919
 we rule the stars,

00:19:56.139 --> 00:19:56.599
 don't we?

00:19:58.219 --> 00:19:59.000
 Is it too much

00:19:59.000 --> 00:19:59.919
 of an exaggeration

00:19:59.919 --> 00:20:00.519
 to say

00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:01.739
 that we

00:20:01.739 --> 00:20:02.539
 were made

00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:03.259
 to rule things

00:20:03.259 --> 00:20:04.079
 that even David

00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.359
 at this point in time

00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:07.239
 couldn't have imagined?

00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:08.539
 Perhaps he was

00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:09.759
 speaking better

00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:10.660
 than he realised.

00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:13.180
 But in any case,

00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:14.620
 what Samet gives us

00:20:14.620 --> 00:20:16.059
 is a magnificent

00:20:16.059 --> 00:20:17.200
 picture of man.

00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:18.460
 There is no

00:20:18.460 --> 00:20:19.160
 sniff

00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:20.319
 of Darwinian

00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.039
 lowly origins

00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:22.559
 here.

00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:23.920
 Not a sniff.

00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:24.880
 We are

00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:25.640
 the pinnacle

00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:27.480
 of God's creation,

00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:28.539
 the paragon

00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:30.200
 of all creatures.

00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.140
 We are

00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:32.519
 his vice-regents,

00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:33.120
 commissioned

00:20:33.120 --> 00:20:35.000
 to rule the world

00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:36.119
 and everything

00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:36.700
 in it.

00:20:38.940 --> 00:20:39.500
 And it is

00:20:39.500 --> 00:20:40.480
 this surprise,

00:20:40.619 --> 00:20:41.299
 the surprise

00:20:41.299 --> 00:20:42.079
 that puny

00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:43.079
 little man

00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:44.339
 rules God's world

00:20:44.339 --> 00:20:45.400
 that causes

00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:46.140
 the refrain

00:20:46.140 --> 00:20:46.839
 in verse 9

00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:47.519
 to kick in.

00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.819
 That's when David

00:20:48.819 --> 00:20:49.960
 praises God

00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:50.339
 again.

00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.099
 O Lord,

00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:51.680
 our Lord,

00:20:52.220 --> 00:20:53.019
 how majestic

00:20:53.019 --> 00:20:53.859
 is your name

00:20:53.859 --> 00:20:54.660
 in all the earth.

00:20:55.259 --> 00:20:56.400
 Weak little babies

00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:57.740
 defeat God's enemies.

00:20:58.380 --> 00:20:59.420
 Puny little man

00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:00.700
 rules God's world.

00:21:01.299 --> 00:21:02.200
 O Lord,

00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:03.100
 our Lord,

00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:04.759
 how majestic

00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:05.720
 is your name

00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:07.319
 in all the earth.

00:21:08.059 --> 00:21:08.700
 And that's the

00:21:08.700 --> 00:21:09.539
 psalm in a nutshell.

00:21:09.980 --> 00:21:10.740
 Those are the two

00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:12.259
 great surprises

00:21:12.259 --> 00:21:13.960
 that are at the

00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:14.860
 heart of this

00:21:14.860 --> 00:21:15.360
 psalm.

00:21:17.220 --> 00:21:18.259
 The question is,

00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:18.740
 what are we

00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:19.740
 to do with it?

00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:20.860
 Well,

00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:21.559
 I want to suggest

00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:22.940
 five points

00:21:22.940 --> 00:21:23.799
 of application.

00:21:25.080 --> 00:21:25.700
 Number one,

00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:27.420
 be amazed

00:21:27.420 --> 00:21:27.920
 at what you

00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:28.420
 were made

00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:29.120
 to be.

00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:30.139
 Be amazed

00:21:30.139 --> 00:21:30.859
 at what you

00:21:30.859 --> 00:21:31.459
 were made

00:21:31.459 --> 00:21:32.359
 to be.

00:21:32.899 --> 00:21:33.459
 What this

00:21:33.459 --> 00:21:34.439
 psalm says to us

00:21:34.439 --> 00:21:35.279
 this evening is,

00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.000
 do you have

00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:37.879
 a high enough

00:21:37.879 --> 00:21:38.839
 view of yourself?

00:21:41.399 --> 00:21:42.179
 Because the

00:21:42.179 --> 00:21:43.099
 world's your oyster.

00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:44.839
 It really is

00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:45.319
 your oyster.

00:21:45.459 --> 00:21:45.959
 There's not a

00:21:45.959 --> 00:21:46.799
 square inch

00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:47.819
 of the whole

00:21:47.819 --> 00:21:48.479
 of this created

00:21:48.479 --> 00:21:49.259
 universe over

00:21:49.259 --> 00:21:49.779
 which God

00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:50.419
 does not say

00:21:50.419 --> 00:21:51.039
 to us,

00:21:51.919 --> 00:21:52.599
 it's yours.

00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:53.779
 It's all

00:21:53.779 --> 00:21:54.219
 yours.

00:21:57.299 --> 00:21:57.699
 Now,

00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:58.000
 of course,

00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:58.439
 there's the

00:21:58.440 --> 00:21:59.039
 danger that

00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.600
 we take this

00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:00.340
 too far

00:22:00.340 --> 00:22:01.080
 and see our

00:22:01.080 --> 00:22:01.759
 rule as

00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:02.920
 independent,

00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:04.000
 autonomous,

00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:05.539
 from God,

00:22:05.779 --> 00:22:06.320
 rulers of

00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:06.799
 everything,

00:22:06.860 --> 00:22:07.500
 apart from

00:22:07.500 --> 00:22:07.880
 God.

00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:09.460
 Our culture,

00:22:09.700 --> 00:22:10.420
 our society

00:22:10.420 --> 00:22:11.160
 preaches the

00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:11.799
 gospel of

00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:13.360
 self-sufficiency,

00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:14.559
 autonomy.

00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:15.660
 It's a

00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:16.380
 blasphemous

00:22:16.380 --> 00:22:16.820
 message.

00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:17.220
 The only

00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:17.900
 person in

00:22:17.900 --> 00:22:18.380
 the universe

00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:18.759
 who is

00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.539
 self-sufficient

00:22:19.539 --> 00:22:20.299
 and autonomous

00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:21.779
 is God.

00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:23.880
 He alone

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:25.320
 is autonomos,

00:22:25.660 --> 00:22:27.519
 a law

00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:28.319
 unto

00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:28.960
 himself.

00:22:30.180 --> 00:22:30.660
 It reminds

00:22:30.660 --> 00:22:31.139
 me of that

00:22:31.139 --> 00:22:31.779
 famous story

00:22:31.779 --> 00:22:32.240
 of Muhammad

00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:32.660
 Ali.

00:22:33.299 --> 00:22:33.839
 He's on an

00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:34.319
 airplane.

00:22:35.059 --> 00:22:35.359
 They're coming

00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:36.039
 into land

00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:37.039
 and the

00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:37.559
 captain comes

00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:37.859
 over the

00:22:37.859 --> 00:22:38.359
 intercom.

00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:39.180
 Would all

00:22:39.180 --> 00:22:39.579
 passengers

00:22:39.579 --> 00:22:40.319
 please return

00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:40.680
 to their

00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:41.619
 seats and

00:22:41.619 --> 00:22:42.259
 fasten their

00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:42.839
 seatbelts?

00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:43.599
 And as the

00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:44.539
 air hostess is

00:22:44.539 --> 00:22:45.559
 walking through

00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:46.079
 the cabin,

00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:47.200
 she lifts

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:47.619
 down and she

00:22:47.619 --> 00:22:48.000
 sees that

00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:48.660
 Muhammad Ali

00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:49.339
 doesn't have a

00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:50.119
 seatbelt on.

00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:51.119
 And she

00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:51.359
 says,

00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:51.939
 excuse me

00:22:51.939 --> 00:22:52.259
 sir,

00:22:53.159 --> 00:22:53.599
 the captain

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:54.039
 has asked

00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:54.779
 all passengers

00:22:54.779 --> 00:22:55.319
 to fasten

00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:56.199
 their seatbelts

00:22:56.199 --> 00:22:56.599
 and he

00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:56.959
 said,

00:22:57.419 --> 00:22:57.959
 Superman

00:22:57.959 --> 00:22:58.679
 don't need

00:22:58.679 --> 00:22:59.459
 no seatbelt.

00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:00.959
 And she

00:23:00.959 --> 00:23:01.399
 said,

00:23:01.659 --> 00:23:02.159
 Superman

00:23:02.159 --> 00:23:02.779
 don't need

00:23:02.779 --> 00:23:03.479
 no airplane.

00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:06.759
 Now put

00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:07.339
 your seatbelt

00:23:07.339 --> 00:23:07.559
 on.

00:23:08.659 --> 00:23:09.199
 See,

00:23:09.259 --> 00:23:09.539
 the problem

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:10.039
 with Muhammad

00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:11.119
 Ali is,

00:23:11.619 --> 00:23:12.199
 he thinks

00:23:12.199 --> 00:23:12.799
 he's completely

00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:13.619
 self-sufficient,

00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:14.399
 independent,

00:23:14.619 --> 00:23:15.079
 autonomous,

00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:16.259
 a law

00:23:16.259 --> 00:23:17.439
 unto himself.

00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:18.299
 But if he

00:23:18.299 --> 00:23:19.119
 really was,

00:23:19.419 --> 00:23:19.899
 then he'd

00:23:19.899 --> 00:23:20.519
 need no

00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:21.019
 airplane.

00:23:22.879 --> 00:23:23.299
 And it's

00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:23.700
 the exact

00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:24.180
 same with

00:23:24.180 --> 00:23:24.599
 man's

00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:25.099
 dependence

00:23:25.099 --> 00:23:25.900
 on God.

00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:26.319
 It's an

00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:27.039
 unavoidable

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.460
 fact.

00:23:27.579 --> 00:23:27.980
 It cannot

00:23:27.980 --> 00:23:28.740
 be escaped.

00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:29.460
 Did you

00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:30.440
 notice how

00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:30.900
 God is

00:23:30.900 --> 00:23:31.500
 the subject

00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:32.019
 of all

00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:32.539
 the verbs

00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:32.960
 in verses

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:33.559
 5 and

00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:33.839
 6?

00:23:34.220 --> 00:23:34.859
 Yet you

00:23:34.859 --> 00:23:35.440
 God

00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:36.220
 made him

00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:36.740
 man a

00:23:36.740 --> 00:23:37.160
 little lower

00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:37.460
 than the

00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:37.680
 heavenly

00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.059
 beings.

00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:38.559
 And you

00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:39.160
 God

00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:40.319
 crowned him

00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.879
 with glory

00:23:40.879 --> 00:23:41.279
 and honour.

00:23:41.379 --> 00:23:41.720
 And you

00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:42.299
 God

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:43.259
 gave him

00:23:43.259 --> 00:23:43.799
 dominion.

00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:44.500
 And you

00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:45.059
 God

00:23:45.059 --> 00:23:45.639
 put all

00:23:45.639 --> 00:23:46.259
 things under

00:23:46.259 --> 00:23:46.879
 his feet.

00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:47.879
 I mean,

00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:48.460
 you can't

00:23:48.460 --> 00:23:49.079
 get a

00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:49.500
 clearer

00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:50.339
 statement

00:23:50.339 --> 00:23:51.139
 of man's

00:23:51.139 --> 00:23:51.899
 dependence

00:23:51.899 --> 00:23:53.439
 on God.

00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:55.279
 Man in

00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:56.799
 the Bible,

00:23:57.500 --> 00:23:58.039
 man in

00:23:58.039 --> 00:23:58.699
 the world,

00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:00.220
 is man

00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:00.799
 dependent

00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:01.579
 on God,

00:24:02.099 --> 00:24:02.539
 whether he

00:24:02.539 --> 00:24:02.959
 likes it

00:24:02.959 --> 00:24:03.259
 or not,

00:24:03.379 --> 00:24:03.839
 believes it

00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.159
 or not,

00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:04.839
 acts like

00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:05.379
 it or not.

00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:07.240
 Even

00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:08.379
 atheists are

00:24:08.379 --> 00:24:09.099
 dependent on

00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:09.559
 God for

00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:09.939
 their own

00:24:09.939 --> 00:24:10.519
 worldview.

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:11.259
 I mean,

00:24:11.299 --> 00:24:11.619
 where do you

00:24:11.619 --> 00:24:12.000
 get the

00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:12.480
 definition

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:13.419
 atheism from?

00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:13.879
 You get it

00:24:13.879 --> 00:24:14.679
 from theism

00:24:14.679 --> 00:24:15.279
 and sticking

00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:16.240
 an A on

00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:16.799
 the front of

00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:16.980
 it.

00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:17.660
 They're

00:24:17.660 --> 00:24:18.140
 dependent

00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:19.120
 on theism

00:24:19.120 --> 00:24:20.059
 for their

00:24:20.059 --> 00:24:20.339
 very

00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:20.880
 worldview.

00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:21.980
 Theism

00:24:21.980 --> 00:24:22.460
 is not

00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:23.160
 defined by

00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:24.099
 taking

00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:24.740
 atheism

00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:25.200
 and taking

00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:25.640
 the A

00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:26.120
 off it.

00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:28.120
 It's like

00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:28.660
 Cornelius

00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:29.140
 Van Till

00:24:29.140 --> 00:24:29.539
 who said

00:24:29.539 --> 00:24:30.059
 atheists are

00:24:30.059 --> 00:24:30.339
 like the

00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:30.880
 little girl

00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:31.940
 who wants

00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:32.500
 to slap

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:33.019
 her father

00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:33.400
 in the

00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:33.779
 face,

00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:34.200
 but she

00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:34.579
 has to

00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:35.240
 climb onto

00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:35.860
 his lap

00:24:35.860 --> 00:24:36.279
 to do

00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:36.559
 so.

00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.000
 So,

00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:39.799
 man in

00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:40.200
 the Bible

00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:40.839
 is dependent

00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:41.500
 on God,

00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:41.899
 that is

00:24:41.899 --> 00:24:42.339
 clear,

00:24:42.700 --> 00:24:43.399
 but keeping

00:24:43.399 --> 00:24:44.279
 that perspective

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:44.759
 and that is

00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:45.119
 the right

00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:45.619
 perspective

00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:46.639
 of ruling

00:24:46.639 --> 00:24:47.279
 under the

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:47.579
 ruler,

00:24:47.740 --> 00:24:48.200
 of lording

00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:48.679
 over the

00:24:48.679 --> 00:24:49.240
 world under

00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:49.819
 the Lord,

00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.079
 let's not

00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:51.579
 miss the

00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:52.059
 point,

00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:53.859
 the jaw

00:24:53.859 --> 00:24:54.519
 dropping

00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:55.639
 point that

00:24:55.639 --> 00:24:56.099
 David is

00:24:56.099 --> 00:24:56.440
 making,

00:24:56.619 --> 00:24:57.539
 the surprise

00:24:57.539 --> 00:25:00.119
 that though

00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:00.599
 we are

00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:01.539
 mere specks

00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:02.119
 in this

00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:03.099
 vast universe,

00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:04.720
 God made

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:05.879
 us to

00:25:05.879 --> 00:25:06.500
 rule it.

00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:09.480
 I love

00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:09.839
 that bit

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:11.379
 in C.S.

00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:11.899
 Lewis's

00:25:11.899 --> 00:25:12.899
 Prince Caspian

00:25:12.899 --> 00:25:13.599
 where Badger

00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:14.119
 is speaking

00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:14.899
 of Narnia,

00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:15.960
 it's not

00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:16.480
 men's

00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:16.919
 country,

00:25:17.679 --> 00:25:18.019
 but it

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.299
 is a

00:25:18.299 --> 00:25:18.879
 country for

00:25:18.879 --> 00:25:19.339
 a man

00:25:19.339 --> 00:25:20.119
 to be

00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:20.740
 king of.

00:25:22.399 --> 00:25:22.940
 This

00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:23.440
 world is

00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:24.119
 not our

00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:24.480
 world,

00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:25.339
 it's God's

00:25:25.339 --> 00:25:25.679
 world,

00:25:26.159 --> 00:25:26.460
 but it

00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:26.720
 is a

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:27.500
 world for

00:25:27.500 --> 00:25:28.279
 man to

00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:28.819
 be king

00:25:28.819 --> 00:25:29.179
 of.

00:25:30.639 --> 00:25:30.960
 It is

00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:31.279
 a world

00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:31.839
 for us,

00:25:32.059 --> 00:25:32.700
 male and

00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:33.200
 female,

00:25:33.679 --> 00:25:34.299
 to rule

00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:34.539
 it.

00:25:35.419 --> 00:25:35.759
 And there's

00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:36.200
 a sense

00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:36.619
 in which

00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:37.079
 this evening

00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:37.460
 we need

00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:37.839
 to praise

00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:38.379
 God for

00:25:38.379 --> 00:25:38.680
 that.

00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.640
 Sometimes we

00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:40.319
 rush so

00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:40.980
 quickly to

00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:41.539
 the gospel

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:42.519
 that we

00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:43.140
 forget this

00:25:43.140 --> 00:25:43.819
 aspect of

00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:44.180
 God's

00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:44.519
 common

00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:45.000
 grace.

00:25:45.660 --> 00:25:46.039
 Puny

00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:46.319
 little

00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:46.700
 man

00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:46.980
 really

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:47.379
 does

00:25:47.379 --> 00:25:47.759
 rule

00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:48.319
 God's

00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:48.700
 world.

00:25:48.819 --> 00:25:49.140
 We do.

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:49.980
 We photograph

00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:50.859
 stars and

00:25:50.859 --> 00:25:51.500
 determine when

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:52.039
 they'll appear

00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:52.599
 and disappear.

00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:54.240
 We send

00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:54.960
 robots to

00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:55.680
 planet Mars

00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:56.099
 to take

00:25:56.099 --> 00:25:56.740
 photographs

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.259
 and collect

00:25:57.259 --> 00:25:58.000
 rock samples.

00:25:58.640 --> 00:25:58.940
 We've

00:25:58.940 --> 00:25:59.319
 mastered

00:25:59.319 --> 00:25:59.720
 human

00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:00.920
 language so

00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:01.200
 that we

00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:01.879
 write beautiful

00:26:01.879 --> 00:26:02.660
 poems and

00:26:02.660 --> 00:26:03.240
 great pieces

00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:03.900
 of literature.

00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:04.940
 We've

00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:05.579
 built bridges

00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:06.039
 over the

00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:06.680
 impasse of

00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:07.380
 miles of

00:26:07.380 --> 00:26:07.799
 water.

00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:08.319
 We've

00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:09.099
 blown holes

00:26:09.099 --> 00:26:09.799
 into mountains

00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:10.380
 to make

00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:10.880
 tunnels.

00:26:11.539 --> 00:26:11.859
 We've

00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:12.519
 tamed the

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:12.880
 tiger.

00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:13.559
 We swim

00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:14.120
 with killer

00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:14.480
 whales.

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:15.380
 We've

00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:15.880
 created the

00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:16.519
 internet which

00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:17.180
 can send a

00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:17.900
 photograph from

00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:18.660
 London to

00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:19.400
 Los Angeles

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:19.940
 in two

00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:20.359
 seconds.

00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:21.519
 We've

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.220
 developed drugs

00:26:22.220 --> 00:26:22.579
 that can

00:26:22.579 --> 00:26:23.480
 cure Ebola.

00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:25.940
 There's a

00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:26.440
 sense in

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:27.140
 which tonight

00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:27.740
 we say,

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:28.440
 O Lord,

00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:29.039
 our Lord,

00:26:29.120 --> 00:26:29.920
 how majestic

00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:30.779
 is your name

00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:31.180
 in all the

00:26:31.180 --> 00:26:31.680
 earth because

00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:32.120
 you have

00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:32.759
 given us

00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:34.159
 this world

00:26:34.159 --> 00:26:34.879
 to rule.

00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:37.239
 You may

00:26:37.239 --> 00:26:37.559
 be saying,

00:26:37.679 --> 00:26:38.199
 yes, but

00:26:38.199 --> 00:26:39.439
 I'm not so

00:26:39.439 --> 00:26:39.819
 sure.

00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:40.579
 Maybe this

00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:41.319
 is David

00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:42.419
 reflecting on

00:26:42.419 --> 00:26:43.379
 Eden before

00:26:43.379 --> 00:26:43.979
 the fall.

00:26:45.219 --> 00:26:45.599
 Well, then

00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:46.039
 why does he

00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:46.459
 talk about

00:26:46.459 --> 00:26:47.119
 enemies in

00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:47.639
 verse 2?

00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:50.459
 And even

00:26:50.459 --> 00:26:51.299
 after Noah

00:26:51.299 --> 00:26:51.799
 comes out

00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:52.379
 of the ark

00:26:52.379 --> 00:26:53.179
 in a fallen

00:26:53.179 --> 00:26:53.759
 world, what

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:54.119
 does God

00:26:54.119 --> 00:26:54.579
 tell Noah

00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:54.959
 to do?

00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:55.919
 To rule

00:26:55.919 --> 00:26:56.159
 it.

00:26:56.779 --> 00:26:57.079
 And he

00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:57.399
 says, it's

00:26:57.399 --> 00:26:57.919
 all yours.

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:58.399
 I've placed

00:26:58.399 --> 00:26:59.199
 everything into

00:26:59.199 --> 00:26:59.819
 your hands.

00:27:00.219 --> 00:27:00.759
 So even

00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:01.699
 after the

00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:04.120
 fall, this

00:27:04.120 --> 00:27:04.539
 is still

00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:05.259
 the structure

00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:06.160
 of the

00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:06.640
 world.

00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:09.319
 Clearer

00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:09.840
 still we

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.319
 see your

00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:10.900
 hand in

00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:12.200
 man whom

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:12.559
 you have

00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:13.220
 made for

00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:13.920
 the ruler

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:14.940
 of creation's

00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:15.860
 glory, image

00:27:15.860 --> 00:27:16.240
 of your

00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:16.840
 majesty.

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.080
 Music, art,

00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:18.720
 the fruitful

00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.259
 garden, all

00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:21.019
 the labor of

00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:21.779
 his days are

00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:22.319
 the calling

00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:22.740
 of his

00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:23.920
 maker to

00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:24.440
 the harvest

00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:25.740
 feast of

00:27:25.740 --> 00:27:26.319
 praise.

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.140
 The

00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:29.100
 structure of

00:27:29.100 --> 00:27:30.539
 creation was

00:27:30.539 --> 00:27:31.360
 not ruined,

00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:32.160
 by the

00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:32.539
 fall.

00:27:34.259 --> 00:27:35.100
 Be amazed

00:27:35.100 --> 00:27:35.580
 at what

00:27:35.580 --> 00:27:35.860
 you were

00:27:35.860 --> 00:27:36.600
 made to

00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:36.880
 be.

00:27:37.340 --> 00:27:37.819
 Number two,

00:27:38.259 --> 00:27:38.640
 but be

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:39.180
 aware of

00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:39.440
 what you

00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:39.620
 have

00:27:39.620 --> 00:27:40.100
 become.

00:27:40.620 --> 00:27:41.100
 Be aware

00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:41.420
 of what

00:27:41.420 --> 00:27:41.740
 you have

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:42.220
 become.

00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:43.620
 Think if

00:27:43.620 --> 00:27:44.440
 you're honest

00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:45.080
 tonight as I

00:27:45.080 --> 00:27:45.440
 was giving

00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:45.799
 you that

00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:46.279
 list of

00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:46.440
 our

00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:47.100
 accomplishments,

00:27:48.100 --> 00:27:49.279
 was there

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:49.640
 a niggle

00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:49.960
 in your

00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:51.940
 mind saying

00:27:51.940 --> 00:27:53.120
 yeah but

00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:55.180
 I mean

00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:55.580
 really?

00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:58.039
 Yes we've

00:27:58.039 --> 00:27:58.759
 sent probes

00:27:58.759 --> 00:27:59.559
 into space,

00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:00.460
 yes we've

00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:00.960
 planted a

00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:01.500
 flag on

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:01.899
 the moon

00:28:01.899 --> 00:28:02.759
 but in

00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:03.659
 Larry Norman's

00:28:03.659 --> 00:28:04.200
 words I

00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:04.639
 say you

00:28:04.639 --> 00:28:05.399
 starved your

00:28:05.399 --> 00:28:06.139
 children to

00:28:06.139 --> 00:28:06.519
 do it.

00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:08.579
 Yes we've

00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.279
 mastered human

00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:10.039
 language but we

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:10.599
 also know how

00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:11.440
 to twist words

00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.019
 to tell a

00:28:12.019 --> 00:28:12.319
 lie.

00:28:13.019 --> 00:28:13.539
 Yes we've

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:14.440
 blown holes in

00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:15.779
 mountains but

00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:16.259
 we've also

00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:17.519
 blown holes in

00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:18.460
 buildings and

00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.359
 killed people

00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:19.940
 deliberately.

00:28:21.399 --> 00:28:22.179
 Yes we swim

00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:22.639
 with killer

00:28:22.639 --> 00:28:23.259
 whales but

00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:23.859
 sometimes they

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:24.559
 turn on us

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.220
 and kill us.

00:28:25.220 --> 00:28:27.180
 Yes we've

00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:27.680
 created the

00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:28.360
 internet and

00:28:28.360 --> 00:28:28.759
 can send

00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.420
 photos to

00:28:29.420 --> 00:28:30.019
 friends but

00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:30.420
 we've also

00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:31.079
 used it for

00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:31.720
 the exploitation

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:32.640
 of women and

00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:33.240
 children in

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:33.779
 pornography.

00:28:35.100 --> 00:28:35.660
 Yes we've

00:28:35.660 --> 00:28:36.400
 developed drugs

00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:37.120
 that can cure

00:28:37.120 --> 00:28:37.960
 diseases but

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:38.339
 we've also

00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:39.339
 developed chemicals

00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:40.339
 that can commit

00:28:40.339 --> 00:28:41.559
 ethnic genocide.

00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:43.640
 Yes God has

00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:44.380
 given us rule

00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:45.339
 over our family

00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:46.420
 relationships and

00:28:46.420 --> 00:28:46.900
 work and

00:28:46.900 --> 00:28:47.440
 university

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.259
 friendships but

00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:49.180
 who of us

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:50.000
 tonight can say

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.980
 that any of us

00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:52.259
 have lived

00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:53.279
 perfectly in

00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:54.120
 those relationships?

00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:55.839
 I mean let's

00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.700
 be honest while

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.400
 we were made

00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:58.600
 to fall only a

00:28:58.600 --> 00:28:59.500
 little short

00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:00.980
 from the angels

00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:03.400
 we have fallen

00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:04.779
 very far short

00:29:04.779 --> 00:29:06.339
 from what God

00:29:06.339 --> 00:29:07.200
 made us to be

00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:09.200
 and why?

00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:10.740
 Because we

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.319
 tried to live

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:11.960
 independently.

00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:12.940
 We tried to

00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:13.620
 pretend there's

00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:14.220
 no God.

00:29:14.940 --> 00:29:15.700
 We tried to be

00:29:15.700 --> 00:29:16.339
 like Muhammad

00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:17.620
 Ali fly without

00:29:17.620 --> 00:29:18.360
 a seat belt.

00:29:19.100 --> 00:29:20.160
 But man left

00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:21.420
 to himself man

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:22.079
 in rebellion

00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:22.940
 against his

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:24.200
 creator is

00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:25.200
 never a

00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:26.580
 pretty picture.

00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:29.000
 I said earlier

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.660
 that this psalm

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:30.360
 asks us the

00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:31.259
 question do you

00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:31.740
 have a high

00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:32.420
 enough view of

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:32.799
 yourself?

00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:35.059
 But this psalm

00:29:35.059 --> 00:29:35.860
 said in the

00:29:35.860 --> 00:29:36.580
 context of the

00:29:36.580 --> 00:29:37.200
 whole Bible

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.120
 asks us the

00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:39.920
 question do you

00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:40.620
 also have a

00:29:40.620 --> 00:29:41.860
 realistic view

00:29:41.860 --> 00:29:42.440
 of yourself?

00:29:44.140 --> 00:29:44.880
 Because the

00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:45.900
 reality is we've

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:46.680
 messed up and

00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:47.220
 we've messed

00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:48.059
 the world up.

00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:49.120
 Just turn your

00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:49.920
 TV on.

00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:51.180
 The world's an

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:52.420
 absolute mess.

00:29:52.420 --> 00:29:54.340
 I love that

00:29:54.340 --> 00:29:55.220
 story of G.K.

00:29:55.340 --> 00:29:56.519
 Chesterton who

00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.100
 was reading the

00:29:57.100 --> 00:29:58.039
 newspaper one day

00:29:58.039 --> 00:29:58.860
 and the editor in

00:29:58.860 --> 00:29:59.680
 a column said

00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:00.779
 what's wrong with

00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:01.320
 the world?

00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:02.500
 Please send in your

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:03.019
 answers.

00:30:03.380 --> 00:30:03.740
 G.K.

00:30:03.820 --> 00:30:04.620
 Chesterton wrote

00:30:04.620 --> 00:30:06.360
 dear sir in

00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:07.120
 regards to your

00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:08.019
 question what is

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:08.620
 wrong with the

00:30:08.620 --> 00:30:08.960
 world?

00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:10.580
 I am yours

00:30:10.580 --> 00:30:11.759
 sincerely G.K.

00:30:11.840 --> 00:30:12.279
 Chesterton.

00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:14.620
 He hit the nail

00:30:14.620 --> 00:30:15.300
 right in the head.

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:17.080
 What's wrong with

00:30:17.080 --> 00:30:17.519
 the world?

00:30:18.120 --> 00:30:18.840
 It's not your

00:30:18.840 --> 00:30:19.560
 next door neighbour.

00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:20.539
 It's not the

00:30:20.539 --> 00:30:21.039
 environment.

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.419
 It's you.

00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:23.960
 It's me.

00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.059
 Why?

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:25.859
 Because we have

00:30:25.859 --> 00:30:27.200
 abandoned our

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:27.700
 creator.

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.480
 We have rebelled

00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.279
 against him.

00:30:33.179 --> 00:30:34.440
 But though we

00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:35.019
 have rebelled

00:30:35.019 --> 00:30:35.839
 against God

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:38.240
 God has not

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.019
 abandoned his

00:30:39.019 --> 00:30:40.139
 basic plan

00:30:40.139 --> 00:30:41.759
 to rule the

00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:42.419
 world through

00:30:42.419 --> 00:30:42.879
 man.

00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:44.119
 Just like I

00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:44.779
 was saying the

00:30:44.779 --> 00:30:46.139
 fall does not

00:30:46.139 --> 00:30:47.139
 remove the

00:30:47.139 --> 00:30:48.319
 creation, the

00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.179
 created order.

00:30:50.419 --> 00:30:51.159
 And God did

00:30:51.159 --> 00:30:51.980
 not abandon

00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:52.700
 his plan to

00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:53.039
 rule the

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.519
 world through

00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:54.119
 man or to

00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:54.960
 be more precise

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:56.059
 to rule the

00:30:56.059 --> 00:30:56.599
 world through

00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:57.259
 one man.

00:30:58.079 --> 00:30:59.259
 That has always

00:30:59.259 --> 00:30:59.859
 been God's

00:30:59.859 --> 00:31:00.359
 intention.

00:31:00.679 --> 00:31:01.339
 To rule the

00:31:01.339 --> 00:31:01.899
 world through

00:31:01.899 --> 00:31:02.480
 one man.

00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:03.319
 He created

00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:03.659
 Adam.

00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:04.799
 He was to

00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.139
 rule the

00:31:05.139 --> 00:31:05.599
 world through

00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:06.919
 one man and

00:31:06.919 --> 00:31:07.559
 his bride.

00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:09.519
 But Adam

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:10.319
 failed and we

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:11.200
 failed with him.

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.079
 Which brings us

00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:12.700
 to the third

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:13.059
 point.

00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:14.139
 Be amazed at

00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:15.460
 Jesus, the

00:31:15.460 --> 00:31:16.240
 proper man.

00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:17.019
 Be amazed at

00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:18.220
 Jesus, the

00:31:18.220 --> 00:31:19.019
 proper man.

00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:20.879
 Now, before I

00:31:20.879 --> 00:31:21.519
 unpack this

00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:21.980
 point, I just

00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:22.519
 want to step

00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:23.119
 back a little.

00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.000
 I've been

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:24.539
 speaking this

00:31:24.539 --> 00:31:25.179
 evening quite a

00:31:25.179 --> 00:31:25.559
 bit of

00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:27.039
 ourselves.

00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:28.319
 Perhaps you've

00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:28.720
 been a bit

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:29.279
 uneasy.

00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:30.200
 What's all this

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:32.099
 man-centered talk,

00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.440
 Johnny?

00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.399
 I mean, isn't

00:31:33.399 --> 00:31:34.059
 that the problem

00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:34.839
 with modern-day

00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:35.460
 Christianity?

00:31:36.179 --> 00:31:37.039
 We are too

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.119
 people-centered,

00:31:38.460 --> 00:31:39.779
 too self-centered

00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:41.399
 instead of God-centered.

00:31:42.139 --> 00:31:43.019
 John Piper puts

00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:43.799
 his finger on it

00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.159
 when he says,

00:31:44.159 --> 00:31:45.279
 we evangelicals

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.079
 are okay being

00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:46.919
 God-centered

00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:47.860
 so long as

00:31:47.860 --> 00:31:49.120
 God is man-centered.

00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:51.420
 And he's

00:31:51.420 --> 00:31:51.779
 right.

00:31:52.620 --> 00:31:53.320
 But I just

00:31:53.320 --> 00:31:54.560
 want to tweak

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:55.420
 it a little.

00:31:57.080 --> 00:31:57.980
 I know what he

00:31:57.980 --> 00:31:59.060
 means, Piper,

00:31:59.120 --> 00:31:59.700
 and he's right.

00:31:59.840 --> 00:32:00.519
 There is a form

00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:01.140
 of Christianity

00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:01.800
 that's so

00:32:01.800 --> 00:32:02.840
 preoccupied with

00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:03.539
 ourselves that

00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:04.180
 God is not

00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:04.560
 God.

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:05.240
 He's just the

00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:05.960
 servant who

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:06.460
 meets our

00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:06.920
 needs.

00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:08.860
 But I want to

00:32:08.860 --> 00:32:09.940
 tweak that a

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:10.080
 little.

00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:10.920
 The reason I

00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:11.680
 can speak

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.620
 tonight, and

00:32:12.620 --> 00:32:12.960
 the reason

00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:14.160
 Sam, it speaks

00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.759
 so man-centeredly,

00:32:17.019 --> 00:32:18.100
 if I can use

00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:18.820
 that language,

00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:20.360
 is because of

00:32:20.360 --> 00:32:21.060
 the person of

00:32:21.060 --> 00:32:21.880
 Jesus Christ.

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:23.800
 See, in

00:32:23.800 --> 00:32:24.860
 Christ, God

00:32:24.860 --> 00:32:26.120
 is both God-centered

00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:26.980
 and man-centered

00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:28.279
 to the exact

00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:29.800
 same extent.

00:32:30.860 --> 00:32:31.279
 It has

00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:32.360
 always been

00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:33.120
 God's plan

00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.740
 for a man

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:36.080
 to rule the

00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:36.460
 world.

00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:38.420
 For one

00:32:38.420 --> 00:32:39.840
 man to

00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:40.279
 rule the

00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:40.540
 world.

00:32:41.779 --> 00:32:42.460
 Indeed, isn't

00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:43.140
 it interesting

00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:43.840
 that at no

00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:44.299
 point in

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:44.859
 this, Sam,

00:32:44.980 --> 00:32:45.419
 does David

00:32:45.419 --> 00:32:46.039
 speak about

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.319
 man or

00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:48.159
 mankind in

00:32:48.159 --> 00:32:48.579
 the plural?

00:32:49.179 --> 00:32:49.819
 If you have

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:51.379
 an ESV, you'll

00:32:51.379 --> 00:32:51.939
 see that it's

00:32:51.939 --> 00:32:52.439
 followed that.

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:53.220
 The new

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:54.139
 NIV, sadly,

00:32:54.419 --> 00:32:55.039
 has missed

00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:55.299
 it.

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.339
 You have

00:32:56.339 --> 00:32:57.139
 made him

00:32:57.139 --> 00:32:58.199
 a little

00:32:58.199 --> 00:32:58.459
 lower.

00:32:58.559 --> 00:32:59.179
 You crowned

00:32:59.179 --> 00:32:59.519
 him.

00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:00.379
 You have

00:33:00.379 --> 00:33:01.059
 given him.

00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:01.579
 You have

00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:01.859
 put all

00:33:01.859 --> 00:33:02.279
 things under

00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:03.799
 his feet.

00:33:04.579 --> 00:33:05.019
 You see

00:33:05.019 --> 00:33:06.399
 the singularity

00:33:06.399 --> 00:33:06.740
 here?

00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:07.859
 Of course,

00:33:07.980 --> 00:33:08.359
 David is

00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:08.919
 speaking about

00:33:08.919 --> 00:33:10.039
 mankind, the

00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:10.899
 generic mankind,

00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:11.779
 but he speaks

00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:12.879
 about generic

00:33:12.879 --> 00:33:13.359
 mankind,

00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:14.859
 in the singular.

00:33:16.159 --> 00:33:16.699
 And that

00:33:16.699 --> 00:33:17.519
 allows this

00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.839
 psalm to

00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:19.599
 therefore be

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:20.859
 applied to

00:33:20.859 --> 00:33:22.740
 a man, but

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.439
 not just any

00:33:23.439 --> 00:33:25.179
 man, the

00:33:25.179 --> 00:33:26.039
 one man who

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:27.699
 himself embodies

00:33:27.699 --> 00:33:28.939
 mankind.

00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:31.419
 The last

00:33:31.419 --> 00:33:32.899
 Adam, who is

00:33:32.899 --> 00:33:34.000
 himself the

00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:35.219
 embodiment of

00:33:35.219 --> 00:33:35.659
 a new

00:33:35.659 --> 00:33:36.339
 humanity.

00:33:36.339 --> 00:33:40.539
 and when we

00:33:40.539 --> 00:33:41.539
 read the

00:33:41.539 --> 00:33:42.179
 New Testament,

00:33:42.379 --> 00:33:42.899
 we see that

00:33:42.899 --> 00:33:44.019
 this psalm is

00:33:44.019 --> 00:33:45.480
 picked up and

00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:46.419
 used and

00:33:46.419 --> 00:33:47.039
 related and

00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:47.659
 applied to

00:33:47.659 --> 00:33:47.980
 Jesus.

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:48.819
 You could,

00:33:48.959 --> 00:33:49.240
 of course,

00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:50.019
 think of what

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:50.879
 Jesus does in

00:33:50.879 --> 00:33:51.459
 the Gospels.

00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:52.220
 He walks on

00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:52.799
 water, he

00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.039
 calms the

00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:54.519
 storm.

00:33:55.059 --> 00:33:55.599
 He is

00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:56.480
 showing in

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.399
 those miraculous

00:33:57.399 --> 00:33:58.319
 acts that he

00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:59.279
 himself is the

00:33:59.279 --> 00:33:59.779
 man of

00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:01.059
 Samia, who

00:34:01.059 --> 00:34:02.639
 literally rules

00:34:02.639 --> 00:34:03.559
 over everything.

00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:05.279
 But come with

00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:05.559
 me to

00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:06.079
 Ephesians

00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:06.859
 chapter 1

00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:08.599
 and see how

00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:09.940
 Paul picks up

00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:11.360
 this psalm and

00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:11.920
 applies it

00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:13.279
 directly to

00:34:13.279 --> 00:34:13.779
 Jesus.

00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:14.480
 Ephesians

00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:15.340
 chapter 1.

00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:30.280
 Reading from

00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:31.360
 verse 20.

00:34:31.820 --> 00:34:32.460
 According to

00:34:32.460 --> 00:34:33.120
 the working of

00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:33.860
 his great might

00:34:33.860 --> 00:34:34.440
 that he worked

00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:35.460
 in Christ when

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:36.140
 he raised him

00:34:36.140 --> 00:34:36.820
 from the dead

00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:37.680
 and seated him

00:34:37.680 --> 00:34:38.700
 at his right

00:34:38.700 --> 00:34:39.300
 hand in the

00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:40.180
 heavenly places,

00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:41.539
 far above all

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:42.059
 rule and

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:42.880
 authority and

00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:43.600
 power and

00:34:43.600 --> 00:34:44.220
 dominion and

00:34:44.220 --> 00:34:44.840
 above every

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:45.320
 name that

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:45.840
 is named,

00:34:46.240 --> 00:34:46.960
 not only in

00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:47.820
 this age but

00:34:47.820 --> 00:34:48.440
 also in the

00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:49.100
 one to come,

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:50.140
 and he put

00:34:50.140 --> 00:34:51.200
 all things

00:34:51.200 --> 00:34:51.980
 under his

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:52.519
 feet,

00:34:53.100 --> 00:34:53.559
 there's the

00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:54.220
 allusion to

00:34:54.220 --> 00:34:54.620
 Samia,

00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:55.800
 and gave him

00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:56.640
 as head over

00:34:56.640 --> 00:34:57.519
 all things to

00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:58.080
 the church,

00:34:58.480 --> 00:34:59.160
 which is his

00:34:59.160 --> 00:34:59.740
 body, the

00:34:59.740 --> 00:35:00.480
 fullness of

00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:01.360
 him who

00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:02.539
 fills all

00:35:02.539 --> 00:35:03.340
 in all.

00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:04.559
 Do you

00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.280
 notice what's

00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:06.059
 going on here?

00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:07.460
 This is an

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:08.340
 application of

00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:09.280
 Samia, but it

00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:10.519
 is also an

00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:11.640
 unwrapping of

00:35:11.640 --> 00:35:12.380
 what the all

00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:13.280
 things really

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:13.700
 meant.

00:35:13.900 --> 00:35:14.820
 It's not just

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:16.360
 this physical

00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:17.200
 universe that

00:35:17.200 --> 00:35:18.000
 is placed under

00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:18.940
 Christ's feet.

00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:20.400
 Now it is

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:21.380
 every rule and

00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:22.340
 authority, every

00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:23.019
 power and

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:24.180
 dominion in

00:35:24.180 --> 00:35:24.920
 the universe,

00:35:25.380 --> 00:35:26.460
 but notice not

00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:27.220
 only in this

00:35:27.220 --> 00:35:28.840
 age but also

00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.580
 in the age to

00:35:30.580 --> 00:35:30.920
 come.

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:32.559
 Jesus is Lord

00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:33.340
 not just of this

00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:34.539
 world in this

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.780
 age, but he is

00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:36.480
 Lord of that

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.860
 world in that

00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.680
 age as well.

00:35:39.539 --> 00:35:40.440
 Hebrews 2 says

00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:41.200
 something similar,

00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:41.739
 God has

00:35:41.739 --> 00:35:42.659
 subjected the

00:35:42.659 --> 00:35:43.379
 world to

00:35:43.379 --> 00:35:44.960
 come under

00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:45.319
 Jesus'

00:35:45.579 --> 00:35:46.119
 authority.

00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:47.159
 1 Corinthians

00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:48.339
 15 picks up

00:35:48.339 --> 00:35:49.519
 Samia and

00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.319
 says that death

00:35:50.319 --> 00:35:51.739
 itself will be

00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:52.599
 placed under

00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:53.319
 his feet.

00:35:54.439 --> 00:35:54.939
 I love that

00:35:54.939 --> 00:35:55.359
 hymn of

00:35:55.359 --> 00:35:55.960
 Francis of

00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:57.239
 Assisi, all

00:35:57.239 --> 00:35:58.039
 creatures of

00:35:58.039 --> 00:35:58.719
 our God and

00:35:58.719 --> 00:35:59.219
 King, you

00:35:59.219 --> 00:36:00.299
 know the hymn,

00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:01.460
 all creatures of

00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:01.839
 our God and

00:36:01.839 --> 00:36:02.019
 King.

00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:03.419
 And thou

00:36:03.419 --> 00:36:05.119
 most kind and

00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:06.399
 gentle death,

00:36:06.859 --> 00:36:07.500
 waiting to

00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:08.719
 hush our

00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:09.900
 latest breath.

00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:11.460
 Oh, praise

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:11.780
 him.

00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:15.260
 Death, praise

00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:16.880
 him, because

00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:17.460
 you are now

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:17.980
 under his

00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:18.340
 feet.

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:21.119
 And so here

00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:21.800
 we have the

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.559
 physical world,

00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:23.239
 the spiritual

00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:23.840
 world, the

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:24.500
 present world,

00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:25.000
 the future

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:25.920
 world, all of

00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:26.539
 it, all of

00:36:26.539 --> 00:36:27.440
 it placed under

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:28.559
 the feet of

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:29.360
 Jesus Christ.

00:36:29.539 --> 00:36:30.260
 God has left

00:36:30.260 --> 00:36:31.940
 nothing that is

00:36:31.940 --> 00:36:33.480
 not subject to

00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:33.780
 him.

00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:35.460
 Doesn't the

00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:36.360
 phrase Jesus is

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:37.099
 Lord now take

00:36:37.099 --> 00:36:37.719
 on a whole

00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:38.400
 new meaning

00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:39.599
 when you read

00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:39.920
 it in the

00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:40.480
 light of

00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.400
 Psalm 8 as

00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:42.039
 it is applied

00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:42.500
 in the New

00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:42.900
 Testament.

00:36:43.839 --> 00:36:44.299
 And so this

00:36:44.299 --> 00:36:44.940
 should alleviate

00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:45.719
 any concern

00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:46.319
 with a man

00:36:46.319 --> 00:36:47.339
 centeredness of

00:36:47.339 --> 00:36:47.819
 Psalm 8.

00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:48.619
 God is as

00:36:48.619 --> 00:36:49.659
 man centered as

00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:50.619
 he is God

00:36:50.619 --> 00:36:51.360
 centered because

00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:52.400
 of Jesus Christ.

00:36:53.099 --> 00:36:53.719
 He is, as

00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:54.339
 Martin Luther

00:36:54.339 --> 00:36:54.980
 called him,

00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:56.279
 the proper

00:36:56.279 --> 00:36:56.819
 man.

00:36:58.739 --> 00:36:59.579
 But here's

00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:00.460
 the surprise.

00:37:01.659 --> 00:37:02.380
 Who is this

00:37:02.380 --> 00:37:03.139
 proper man?

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:03.880
 Where did he

00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:04.440
 come from?

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:07.000
 He was born

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.179
 in a manger

00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:10.760
 in the dark

00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:12.059
 streets of

00:37:12.059 --> 00:37:12.760
 Bethlehem.

00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.000
 He grew up

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:14.940
 as a carpenter's

00:37:14.940 --> 00:37:15.199
 son.

00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:16.239
 He was

00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:17.780
 despised in

00:37:17.780 --> 00:37:18.619
 the town of

00:37:18.619 --> 00:37:19.239
 Nazareth.

00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:21.199
 During his

00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:22.460
 ministry he

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:23.579
 had nowhere to

00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:24.500
 lay his head

00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:25.719
 and in the end

00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:26.380
 his own people

00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:26.920
 gave him a

00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:27.679
 death befitting

00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:28.300
 a criminal

00:37:28.300 --> 00:37:29.219
 and a murderer.

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:30.360
 He was

00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:31.199
 despised and

00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:31.940
 rejected, a

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:32.940
 man of sorrows

00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:34.320
 and familiar with

00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:35.159
 suffering like

00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:36.019
 one from whom

00:37:36.019 --> 00:37:36.739
 men had their

00:37:36.739 --> 00:37:37.139
 faces.

00:37:37.859 --> 00:37:38.199
 He was

00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:39.739
 despised and

00:37:39.739 --> 00:37:41.179
 we esteemed

00:37:41.179 --> 00:37:42.059
 him not.

00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:45.759
 He was

00:37:45.759 --> 00:37:47.359
 puny, he

00:37:47.359 --> 00:37:48.179
 was insignificant,

00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:49.579
 he was

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:52.399
 despised, but

00:37:52.399 --> 00:37:53.000
 it has always

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.699
 been God's

00:37:53.699 --> 00:37:54.259
 plan for

00:37:54.259 --> 00:37:54.839
 puny,

00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:55.719
 insignificant

00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:56.679
 little man

00:37:56.679 --> 00:37:58.559
 to rule his

00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:58.980
 world.

00:38:00.379 --> 00:38:00.839
 And it is

00:38:00.839 --> 00:38:01.619
 that humble,

00:38:01.839 --> 00:38:02.279
 frail,

00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:03.640
 despised you

00:38:03.640 --> 00:38:04.800
 that God

00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:05.380
 has placed

00:38:05.380 --> 00:38:06.340
 as king

00:38:06.340 --> 00:38:07.240
 over the

00:38:07.240 --> 00:38:07.740
 world to

00:38:07.740 --> 00:38:08.019
 come.

00:38:09.040 --> 00:38:09.660
 Oh Lord,

00:38:09.740 --> 00:38:10.260
 our Lord,

00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:11.700
 how majestic

00:38:11.700 --> 00:38:12.519
 is your name

00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:13.060
 in all the

00:38:13.060 --> 00:38:13.360
 earth.

00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:16.460
 Number four,

00:38:17.180 --> 00:38:17.920
 be amazed

00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:18.460
 at what is

00:38:18.460 --> 00:38:19.260
 now yours

00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:20.080
 in Christ.

00:38:20.220 --> 00:38:20.880
 Be amazed

00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:21.340
 at what is

00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:21.980
 now yours

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:22.800
 in Christ.

00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:24.620
 When we

00:38:24.620 --> 00:38:25.120
 become

00:38:25.120 --> 00:38:25.960
 Christians,

00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:27.360
 we bring

00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:28.260
 ourselves back

00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:28.720
 under the

00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:29.140
 rule of

00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:29.820
 God's new

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:30.260
 king.

00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:30.640
 We're no

00:38:30.640 --> 00:38:31.400
 longer under

00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:32.160
 the ancient

00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:33.000
 King Adam

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:33.720
 from whom

00:38:33.720 --> 00:38:34.460
 we descended.

00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:35.320
 We are

00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:37.059
 now under

00:38:37.059 --> 00:38:38.780
 the present

00:38:38.780 --> 00:38:39.639
 King Jesus

00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:40.460
 to whom we

00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:41.079
 are united.

00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:41.900
 And because

00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:42.480
 we are now

00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:43.180
 united to

00:38:43.180 --> 00:38:43.780
 the proper

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:44.980
 man who

00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:45.680
 reigns over

00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:46.440
 all things,

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.380
 there's another

00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:48.300
 surprise here.

00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:49.500
 In Christ,

00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:50.840
 all things

00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:51.440
 have now

00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:52.860
 become ours.

00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:53.720
 Come with

00:38:53.720 --> 00:38:53.980
 me to

00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:54.639
 1 Corinthians

00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:57.079
 chapter 3.

00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:02.679
 1 Corinthians chapter 3

00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:03.980
 in verse 22

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:06.699
 Paul is speaking in the

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:08.539
 context of the celebrity

00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:10.139
 pastor cult in Corinth

00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:12.799
 but the point he makes

00:39:12.799 --> 00:39:14.940
 is applicable not just to the celebrity

00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:16.860
 pastor context but to

00:39:16.860 --> 00:39:17.719
 all contexts

00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.500
 so let no one boast in men for

00:39:20.500 --> 00:39:22.579
 all things are yours whether Paul

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 or Apollos or Cephas or the world

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 or life or death or the present or the future

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 all are yours and you are

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 Christ's and Christ

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 is God's

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 do you see that the world

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 life death the present

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 the future

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 is all yours

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 why is it

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 yours

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 because you are in Christ

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 and Christ belongs to

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 God and God has

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 exalted Christ over all things

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 so be amazed

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 at what is now yours

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 in Christ

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 what God says to us

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 this evening is what he always

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 what he intended us to be

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 he still intends us to be

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 as we are remade

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 in the person of his son

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 Jesus Christ

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 so whatever it is you do

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 whether it's baking or ballet

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 basketball

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 or the Higgs

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 Boas and particle theory

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 whatever you do

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 rule over it

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 master it

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 to God's glory

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 why

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 because it's yours

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 under Christ

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 the world is still

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 your oyster

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 because it's

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 his oyster

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 and you are connected

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 to him

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 all things are yours

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 fifth and finally

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 be amazed at what you will

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 become in Christ

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 be amazed at what you will

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 become

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 in Christ

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 in Hebrews chapter 2

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 9 to 10

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 the writer says that

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 Jesus was made a little

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 lower than the angels

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 so that he might taste

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 death for every one

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 of his family

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 in order to bring

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 many sons

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 to glory

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 in other words

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 or in C.S. Lewis'

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 words

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 the son of man

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 became a man

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 in order that men

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 might become

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 sons of God

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 the son of God

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 became a man

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 in order that men

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 might become

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 sons of God

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 and that's the final

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 surprise

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 brothers and sisters

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 when Jesus restores us

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 to a new humanity

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 and a new heavens

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 and a new earth

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 he will not

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 take us back

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 to Adam in the garden

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 the story of the Bible

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 is not from a garden

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 to a garden

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 it's from a garden

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 to a garden

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 in the middle of the Bible

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 to a garden city

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 there is a progression

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 we will be

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 co-heirs

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 with Christ

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 Adam was made

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 a little lower

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 than the angels

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 but when Jesus

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 takes us to that

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 garden city

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 we will rule

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 angels

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 isn't that what Paul

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 says in 1 Corinthians 6

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 do you not know

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 that the saints

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 will judge the world

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 do you not know

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 that you will judge

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 angels

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 Adam never judged

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 an angel

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 but you

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 puny

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 little you

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 one day

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 will sit

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 and judge

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 angels

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 oh Lord

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 our Lord

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 how majestic

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 is your name

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 in all the earth

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 let us pray

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