but we've got some extras.
We'd love for you to just take one.
It's our gift to you.
So we started in Psalm 1,
and this is our eighth week this summer
going through the Psalms.
And so this will be our last one
until next summer, Lord willing.
Psalm 8 is one of the most glorious,
most famous Psalms
out of all 150 in the Psalter.
Psalm 8.
Well, as I read Psalm 8
and you follow along,
we believe that this is God's
very own word for his people.
It's God's inspired, inerrant, infallible,
clear and sufficient word.
And so as I read this,
after we're done, I'll say,
this is the word of the Lord
and the people of God say,
thanks be to God.
Psalm 8.
To the choir master,
according to the Giddeth,
a Psalm of David.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name
in all the earth.
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babies
and infants,
you have established strength
because of your foes
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars
which you have set in place,
what is man
that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man
that you care for him.
You have made him
a little lower
than the heavenly beings
and crowned him
with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion
over the works of your hands.
You have put all things
under his feet,
all sheep and oxen
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens
and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along
the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name
in all the earth.
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
You may be seated.
The Bible says that
the grass withers
and the flower fades,
but it's the word of the Lord
that endures forever.
Would you pray with me?
Father, please show us
how all of Scripture
testifies of the gospel
of Jesus Christ.
May his gospel
ring forth
clearly
with the power
of your Holy Spirit
through Psalm 8
and that your purpose
will be done
in each soul
for the glory of Christ alone
we ask.
Amen.
Beloved congregation
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when God
is your Lord,
worship
is warfare.
Last time we had
an open air service,
one of our brothers here
said,
we need to keep doing that
because it's warfare.
When we are worshiping
publicly,
unashamed of the gospel,
it's spiritual warfare.
We don't know
what's happening
in the spiritual realm.
But look at verse 2
in Psalm 8.
Verse 2 says,
God has enemies
and there's an avenger.
That's Satan.
He wants to spoil
everything God has done.
But yet,
Psalm 8 verse 2
says that God
has ordained,
God has established
his praise.
And it's through
his praise
out of the mouths
of babies
that he attacks
the enemy
and silences him.
Well,
there it is.
Worship
is warfare.
I was trying to
imagine,
what if this exact
congregation right here
got surrounded
by enemies?
And then,
our strong men,
we have many strong men here,
one by one
came to the front,
but then came one
appearing as an angel
of light
and began to recall
all the sins
of each of these
strong men
till each one
takes the back seat again
and fades away.
Well,
I picture out of this
congregation
comes one of our
littlest children.
And from those mouths
in a squeaky,
high-pitched voice,
Jesus loves me,
this I know,
for the Bible
tells me so.
And at the name
of Jesus,
one little word
from an infant
shall fell
that enemy.
And that,
that one
that was the accuser
that appeared
as the angel of light,
it reveals to be
a pulley on the dragon,
whips around
and runs away
at the name
of Jesus
who loves his people.
So,
I hope that this
is less of a sermon
of teaching,
it's more of a sermon
as worship
and worship
as warfare.
As we go through
Psalm 8,
I want to bring up
five questions to you
for reflection
and then one
exhortation
from Psalm 8.
So,
number one,
doesn't all
of creation
move you
to declare
God's majesty?
The superscription
is also part
of inspired scripture.
and there's a Hebrew
word that they decided
to not even translate,
just leave it.
And it's,
do you see it
in the superscription
right above Psalm 8?
It's the gideth.
And that word
is translated
winepress.
But it's probably
a melody
that was familiar
and when you think
of the winepress
in ancient Israel,
that would be
a time of the harvest.
That would be
a time of joy
and abundance.
And you can see
people singing
even as the sun
is down
and the stars
are coming out,
they're stomping
those grapes
and the red juice
is flowing.
O Lord,
our Lord
is the lyric
to this glorious,
joyful melody.
How excellent,
how majestic,
how exceedingly good
is your name
in all the earth.
The first book
of the Psalms,
this first cluster
of Psalms
from the pen
of King David,
they tell of a king
who's being accused.
Isn't that comforting
that as the king's
own heart and flesh
fears the men
all around him,
the enemies
and the foes,
the king is encouraged
by looking at
the faithful people
of God
singing this melody,
O Lord,
our Lord,
how majestic
is your name
in all the earth.
God ordains
his strength
even for that
accused king
out of the mouths
of babes
and infants
who are praising God.
Faith like a child
brings strength
to the people
of God.
Hasn't that been true
in your experience?
Well,
then,
this glorious
Psalm picks up
momentum
and
nothing is beyond
the reach
of the imagination
when it comes
to Psalm 8
declaring the majesty
of God.
Look at verse 3.
King David,
the harp-playing
psalmist,
says,
I look at your heavens,
the work
of your fingers,
the moon
and the stars
which you have
set in place.
King David
was a shepherd
when he was younger,
so you can almost
picture him out there
in the pasture
late at night.
Everybody in his home
forgot that he was
even part of the family,
but he's out there
all alone
laying with his back
on the dewy pasture
looking up.
There's no light pollution,
there's no artificial light
anywhere.
And the majesty
of God
is on display.
Maybe now
in the midst
of the congregation
these little babes
and infants
that come close,
they ask him,
how did those stars
get there?
How come the moon
travels that way?
And do you see
the answer in verse 3?
It's because God
has set each one
in their place.
That's the childlike faith.
That's the answer.
It's that
this is all
the work of God's fingers.
If that was true
true in ancient Israel,
you would think
that perhaps now
with scientific advancements,
we would realize
well Christianity
and this Judeo-Christian
God of the Bible
of the Psalter
is very archaic.
And all of modern science
dispels
those false notions.
In the 1990s,
the Hubble telescope,
which is a giant telescope
about the size
of a school bus,
it was set to fly
about 340 miles
above the Earth's crust.
And the pictures
that the Hubble telescope
take reveal even more
God's majesty
rather than denying it.
Just one example
is what's called
the Whirlpool Galaxy.
If you want to,
be blown away,
look up HD photos
taken by the Hubble telescope
of the Whirlpool Galaxy.
This galaxy is 31 million
light years away.
We don't even know
enough about science,
most of us,
to even appreciate
how far that is.
31 million light years away.
This one galaxy
has 300 billion stars.
You think there's a lot
of people in the world?
There's about 8 billion
people in the world.
This one galaxy
has 300 billion stars in it.
How did all those stars
get to be
in this Whirlpool Galaxy?
And how did their light
travel 31 million years
from there
until Earth
so that it could even
be viewed?
It's because God said,
let there be light.
So to speak,
the light traveled
from the mouth of God
at 300 million miles
per second.
And the Whirlpool Galaxy
was formed.
Doesn't that sound big?
Well,
this one galaxy
is only one
of hundreds
of billions
of other galaxies,
and that's only
within the known cosmos
of God.
Let me give you
a comparison
of how big
one billion is
compared to one million.
We're throwing out
these astronomically
large numbers.
One million seconds,
if you had to estimate,
how much time
would pass
with one million seconds?
It's only 12 days.
One billion seconds
is 31 years.
Modern science
does not deny
the majesty
of our Creator.
If anything,
it humbles us
even smaller
than what
ancient David
would have thought
looking up
at the stars.
That's why
we can say
like that wonderful poem
by Milton Vincent,
Beholding the heavens,
I now understand
God measured them all
with the breadth
of His hand.
He fashioned
the trillions
of stars in the sky,
the sun and the moon
He established on high,
all heaven and earth
which He made
in six days,
show daily
and nightly
His merit
of praise.
Now look at verse 1.
We think that the stars
reveal the majesty
of God.
Verse 1 says
that God set
His own glory
above the heavens.
Isaiah 40 verse 22
says that God
sits on His throne
above the horizon
of the cosmos.
This was our call
to worship
that God
stretched out
the heavens
like a piece
of cloth.
You see how much
more majestic
God is.
Then we can even
fathom
or put into words
one of the most
beloved hymns
of the church
is
How Great Thou Art
and How Great Thou Art
is written
about Psalm 8.
And that's exactly
what we declare
when we sing it.
Oh Lord my God,
when I in awesome wonder
consider all the worlds
Thy hands have made,
I see the stars,
I hear the roaring thunder,
Thy power throughout,
the universe displayed.
Aren't you moved
to declare
the majestic name
of our God?
Don't you want to worship
this majestic God,
creator of all?
Well the second point
of reflection is this,
when you do see
the majesty of God,
don't you marvel then
by contrast
at your place
in this universe
that He's created?
See,
God set His glory
even above
those heavens
and then you look
at yourself
like David,
look what he says
in verse 4,
what is man?
Who am I
that you are mindful
of a guy like me?
Or even the son of man
that you care for him?
Isaiah 40, 22 says
man is like a grasshopper
before God.
But yet,
this psalm tells us
that God does care
for His creation.
Every single one,
not a hair can fall
from our head
without the knowledge
of the Father
in heaven.
Milton Vincent's poem
goes on to say,
so wondrously caring
is God
every day,
creating,
sustaining
my life
every way.
Each breath I intake,
every beat
of my heart,
all pleasures
well tasted
are His
to impart.
In fact,
for this purpose
He brought me to be
that I might
His glory
and kindliness see
and cherish Him
fully
in all of my days
obeying with pleasure
whatever He says.
Well, David
takes his eyes
off of the heavens
and he looks
at the earth next
in verse 5.
He says,
you have crowned man
with glory
and honor.
He says,
I look at all
the other beasts,
all the other creatures.
None of them
have a soul.
No other creature
is called an image
bearer of God.
When God made
all the creation
He says it is good
but when He made
Adam and Eve
He says it is
very good.
Do you marvel
at this majestic God
who cares
about you?
not only
has He made you
in His image
He has placed you
over His creation
in a special role.
Look at what He says
in verse 6.
You have given
man dominion
over the works
of your hand.
In verse 7 He says
all sheep,
oxen,
and the beasts
of the field.
In verse 8 He says
it's also the birds
of the heavens,
the fish of the sea,
whatever passes
along the paths
of the seas.
Oh Lord,
our Lord,
how majestic
is your name
in all the earth.
The nation of Israel
was doing spiritual warfare
by calling out
specifically
how God
is majestic
in all His creation.
What comes to your mind
when you think of
all that God
has created
that declares
His majesty?
What comes to mind?
When we rehearse
this together,
we're worshiping God
and we're doing this
as spiritual warfare.
That simple little pigeon
in Israel,
that pigeon declares
the majesty of God.
The piranha
in the Amazon
declares
the majesty of God.
The palatopis
off the beach
in Australia
declares
the majesty
of God.
What else declares
the majesty
of God?
Well, the penguin
on an iceberg
in Argentina
declares
the majesty
of God.
The porcupine
in a Canadian forest
declares
the majesty
of God.
There's a pike fish
right now
in a lake
in Mongolia
that declares
the majesty
of God.
We worship God
by looking at
all that He has made.
And when we
praise God
for His majesty
in all the creation,
His spirit
is winning the war.
His kingdom
is advancing
as we worship Him.
I thought about
picking on
the poodle
in Paris
but that was
just too obvious.
But even the poodle
would declare
the majesty
of God.
You want a couple more?
Okay.
No one said yes
but okay.
Well, the panther
in the Brazilian jungle
declares
the majesty
of God.
The panda
in a forest
in China
declares
the majesty
of God.
And even for those
who fear snakes,
yes,
even the python
in subtropical
India
declares
the majesty
of God.
Anywhere we travel
or walk
or visit,
any hike you go on,
it's declaring
the majesty
of God.
You can say
this is my
Father's world.
He shines
in all
that's fair.
In the rustling grass
I hear Him pass
and He speaks
to me
everywhere.
The third point
of reflection.
The more you
marvel at creation,
doesn't it make
you want to know
your majestic
creator?
You want to
declare His majesty
but don't you
want more than that
too?
You want to
know Him.
Look back
at verse 1
again.
He says,
O Lord,
our Lord.
And He's not
just repeating
the same word.
In the Hebrew
He says,
O Yahweh,
our Adonai.
Yahweh is
the unspeakable
name of God.
It's not even
including the
vowels.
It's just
Y-W-H.
It's the name
that should not
be spoken
because of fear
of taking the
Lord's name
in vain.
So when you
behold all of
God's majesty
and all of
creation,
you say,
that's Yahweh.
I can't even
say His name.
But yet,
He says,
O Lord,
O Yahweh,
our Adonai.
And Adonai
was the word
they could say
when they speak
of God
without it being
irreverent.
So yes,
this majestic
Lord that is
transcendent,
He is our
Adonai.
He's our
covenant keeping
God who draws
near to us.
We marvel at
His creation,
but we want to
know Him.
We want to be
able to call
Him by His
name and
worship Him.
But see,
the psalm,
He's always got
this tension
going through it
because He says,
God has set
His glory above
the heavens like
it's out of His
reach.
All of creation,
it's pointing to
how majestic God
is almost
beyond the
grasp of
any sinful
human.
In fact,
it is beyond
the grasp
unless God
were to do
something.
This is what
the church has
always recognized
and declared
of God.
Nehemiah 9.6
says,
You alone
are the Lord.
You made
the heavens,
even the highest
heavens,
and all their
starry host,
the earth and
all that is in
it, the seas and
all that is in
them.
You can just
hear the longing
of God's people
as they're coming
back from exile.
We want to
know You,
Lord.
We see all
that You have
done, and You
have been faithful
to us as our
Adonai.
We want to
know You.
In verse 5,
He says,
You made man,
this is interesting
how He words it,
You made man a
little lower
than the Elohim.
You made man a
little lower than
those heavenly
beings, those angels
and spiritual
beings.
Now, He could have
drawn the comparison
looking down,
couldn't He?
He said,
You have made man a
little above the
beasts.
But that's not
where He sets man's
sight.
He says,
You made man a
little lower than
the spiritual beings,
and on top of that,
You crowned him with
Your own glory and
honor.
We can find some
good help here from
classical theism,
from men like
Thomas Aquinas,
who synthesized what
the church believed
of God in the
Middle Ages.
Thomas Aquinas
looked at Psalm 8,
and he says,
Okay, here we have
man that is formed
out of the dirt,
like Adam was made
from the dirt that
God put,
and then God breathed
with the Holy Spirit
a spirit and a soul
into Adam.
And that's exactly the
picture we see here,
that Adam was put over
all the animals,
but yet on top of that,
he was made spiritual
like those heavenly
beings.
So man has this
position of being
earthly,
but yet being spiritual.
There's no other
creature that God
made that is that
way, that has a
body and also has
a soul.
Nehemiah echoes
this in that same
passage, Nehemiah
9, 6, he says,
God, not only did
you create everything,
you gave life to
everything, and
what's more,
multitudes of
heaven worship
you.
That longing to
worship God
belongs to
spiritual beings.
Man longs to
worship the
creator as the
heavenly beings
worship him
as spirit.
The more you
marvel at creation,
doesn't it make you
want to know this
true God, this
creator?
And as you want to
know him, you're
met with that
reality that I
can only tremble.
I want to
worship him, but
I'm so small.
I am like a
grasshopper.
And you're
overwhelmed with
fear.
Scottish
pastor Eric
Alexander, he
said, the fear
of the Lord is
just the proper
reaction of
sinners to
God's infinite
holiness, or of
creatures to God's
infinite majesty.
As we grow in the
knowledge of God, we
will learn to truly
tremble before his
great glory and his
burning purity, and
see this is indeed
the beginning of
wisdom.
Well, because we are
spiritual creatures,
here's the fourth
point of reflection.
Don't you long for a
new creation in which
you truly can feel
closer to God?
We are spiritual
beings.
Don't you have that
inner longing to be
closer and feel even
closer to God, the
creator?
There's a problem
with Psalm 8.
The problem is
this.
It cannot be
speaking of Adam, and
it cannot be speaking
of any son of Adam.
Let me try to make
that case for you.
Before Adam sinned, did
he have any children?
Were there any born of
the seed of Adam that
were sinless, born
sinless unto the
earth?
No.
Well, then how can
verse 2 be referring
to Adam?
Look at verse 2.
The promise in Psalm
8 verse 2 is that God
will silence his foe and
the avenger from the
mouths of babes and
infants.
Well, there were no
infants in the Garden
of Eden.
On top of that, did
Adam silence the foe and
the avenger?
No.
He did just the
opposite.
He failed.
Adam did not guard and
keep the temple dwelling
presence of God in
Eden from the serpent.
Instead, Adam joined the
rebellion, fell to sin.
And Adam brought a curse on
all of the first creation.
Did Adam, look at verse 6
in Psalm 8, did Adam have
all things put under his
feet?
Adam never did.
Yes, he was supposed to
name the animals, but here
comes the rebellious serpent,
and the serpent wins that
battle against Adam.
So the psalmist asks in
verse 4, what is man?
What is Adam that you
should care about him or
the son of Adam?
Who's the son of Adam?
It's everyone born of Adam.
Why should God care for
anyone under the curse of
the first creation sin through
the first federal head?
That's why you and I have
problems.
In Psalm 8, it elevates the
majesty of God, but it also
exposes us before this
majestic God as sinners
standing in need of God to
do something on our behalf.
We are spiritual beings that
long to worship our creator,
but yet we're fallen sinners in
Adam.
We need a new creation.
Some of you are feeling that
now, and though you are part
of the new creation in Christ,
you still feel that distance
from God.
I just want to encourage you
right now.
You get to pray.
You and I get to pray to this
mighty God, the creator.
And we get to hear his word
ministered to us by his spirit.
Martin Luther felt that.
He felt, he knew he was saved
forensically, but yet he felt
distance from God.
He struggled so much throughout
this whole life.
And he devoured God's word and
translated the whole Bible into
German.
And Martin Luther said this about
prayer and your fellowship with
the Lord on a daily basis.
Martin Luther's conclusion, see if
you agree.
We don't pray for God to make us
want to read the Bible.
We read the Bible, and God uses
that to make us want to pray.
We want to fellowship with God.
We get to pray, but it's a
spiritual battle as long as we
are in this body of flesh, under
the curse of Adam, on this world.
But you have a soul, and it's
your soul that longs to worship
God like the heavenly beings.
And it's that soul that is united
to your Savior, Jesus Christ.
Christ.
Well, Jesus is foreshadowed in Psalm
8.
God says, I will make my majesty, my
exceeding good name known to all
the earth.
I will do it.
It will not come from the son of
Adam.
It will come from the seed of woman.
The sons of man will forever be
slaves to the serpent.
But Genesis 3.15, like our older
children are memorizing, God
promised in the curse of the
serpent, I will put enmity between
Eve's offspring and Satan.
And from Eve's line shall rise up
one, my one seed that shall crush
Satan's head, and Satan shall
bruise his heel.
We long for a new creation.
We long to feel closer to God.
Trust Him.
Trust this majestic God will come to
save.
If, Augustine said, if you ever are
longing, be ever praying.
So the last, the fifth and last point
of reflection is this, that Psalm 8
can only be fulfilled if the majestic
God Himself does it.
Do you see, here's what you need to
reflect on, do you see Christ in Psalm
8?
Let's march through this.
Psalm 8 verse 5 says this,
God made Him a little lower than the
heavenly beings.
How was this fulfilled in Christ?
Philippians 2.5 says that though Jesus
Christ is God, He did not count equality
with God a thing to be grasped.
Psalm 8.4 says, how mindful is God of
man and how much does God care for the
fallen line of Adam?
Philippians 2.7 answers that question.
Taking on the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men.
Psalm 8 says, it will be sinners on
earth who will praise the majestic
name of God.
And when Jesus Christ walked this earth
and He was casting out demons,
in Luke 9.42 and 43, the Pharisees
and scribes, they were the foes and the
avengers.
They were plotting to kill Jesus and as
they were plotting against Him, Jesus
interpreted Psalm 8 for them and said,
God has ordained praise for me out of
the mouths of these babies and infants.
And He did that and fulfilled that to
strengthen your faith.
God silenced Satan once and for all.
Taking on the form of a man by being
crushed on the cross.
Putting death to death for our sins.
Philippians 2.8 says that in human form,
God humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death, even death on a
cross.
How majestic is the name of our great God.
Our hymn says it so well,
and when I think that God,
His Son, not sparing, sent Him to die,
I scarce can take it in.
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
Psalm 8 verse 5 says that God crowned Him
with glory and honor.
God crowned Jesus Christ the new man,
the firstborn of the new creation,
the second Adam,
with glory and honor.
Hebrews 1.3 interprets this for us,
that Jesus Christ is the radiance of the glory of God,
the exact imprint of His nature,
and He upholds the universe by the world,
by the word of His power.
After making purification for sins,
Jesus Christ sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high.
Jesus has fully and finally fulfilled
all that God promised in Psalm 8,
so that you can call Him your Lord.
Philippians 2.9 says that God
has highly exalted Jesus
and bestowed on Him
God's majestic name
that is above every name.
Psalm 8.6 says that God has given Him dominion
over the works of His hands
and put all things under His feet.
Because the new creation
is inaugurated spiritually
by the finished work of Christ,
you can approach this great God,
our Creator.
You can know Him.
You can enjoy fellowship with Him spiritually,
though it's a battle
with the remaining flesh.
So here's our exhortation.
It's the first and the last verse
of Psalm 8.
The exhortation for us,
if you know Christ,
is to worship His majestic name
in this life
in preparation for the life to come.
David calls all of God's people
to sing it.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is Your name
in all the earth.
We worship His majestic name
in spirit now
with all of creation
confirming the gospel truth
that our Creator came
to save sinners like us.
And we can declare again,
this is my Father's world.
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King.
Let the heavens ring.
God reigns.
Let the earth be glad.
You will feel distant from God
in this life
from time to time.
you will feel
spiritually cold
in worship.
And it's good
that we long
to be closer
and closer
to God,
our Creator.
When you worship Him,
you are fighting
in the battle.
We need to fight
to worship our God,
fight against our own flesh
in private
and in public.
Worship is warfare.
I love how
Don Whitney said,
can we expect
the flames
of our worship of God
to burn brightly
in public
on the Lord's day
when they barely
flicker for Him
in secret
on other days?
Worship
on this earth
will always be
warfare for us.
Hebrews 2, 5, and 6
says that there is
a world to come.
There is a new heavens,
a new earth.
And it says that
God will not subject
the world to come
to angels.
That's why
Jesus Christ was
lower than the angels
becoming a man,
becoming a mediator
because it's to Him
that God will entrust
that new world
that is to come.
God has set
Jesus Christ
on His throne
of glory
above the heavens.
And soon
He will usher in
this new world.
And in the meantime,
we worship God
in spirit,
believing the truth
of all that He has
revealed and fulfilled
in Jesus Christ.
How majestic
is the great name
of our Lord.
We worship now
as a fool
before the world,
trusting that
He will come
from heaven
with all of His glory
unto the whole earth
one day very soon.
Philippians 2, 10
says that when
He does come,
you know this,
every knee
will bow
in heaven,
on earth,
and under the earth.
Why will they bow?
At the name
of Jesus Christ.
Worship the majestic
name of God
in this life
in preparation
for that great,
glorious life
with Him
that's to come.
What will that be like?
Well, when this life
is over for you,
Christ Himself
will usher you
into His heavenly realm.
Psalm 45,
verse 5,
describes what that
will be like this way.
It's with joy
and rejoicing
that you will be brought
and you will enter
into the King's palace.
How majestic
is the great name
of our God.
Psalm 16, verse 11
says that
when you're there
in His glorious presence,
there is fullness of joy
at the right hand of God,
our pleasures
forevermore.
So you worship
His majestic name
now by faith.
By faith,
you know His kingdom
is coming.
Your spirit inside of you
longs for that.
And one day,
our faith will be made sight.
How great is our God.
The hymn says that
when Christ shall come
with shout of acclamation
and take me home,
what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow
in humble adoration
and then proclaim,
my God,
how great
thou art.
So we worship
this majestic name
of our Lord now.
It's a battle,
but it's preparing
our souls
for the world
that is to come.
If God has revealed
His majestic name
to you,
as the Father
foreordained,
as the Son
came to fully reveal,
and as the Spirit
now comes to minister
the fullness of God
to you,
then you praise
the majestic name
of the Lord,
our God,
now in preparation
for all of eternity.
Glory be to God.
Would you pray with me?
O Lord,
our God,
may the majesty
of your most excellent name
be on display
in our lives
and in this congregation.
We pray from Jude 1, 12,
that through Jesus Christ
our Lord,
the only God,
our Savior,
to you alone
be all glory,
majesty,
dominion,
and authority
before all time
and now
and forevermore.
Amen.