Psalms Greatest Hits Psalm8: July 7, 2024

The Book of Psalms is the largest and perhaps most widely used book in the Bible. It explores the full range of human experience in a very personal and practical way.

Its 150 “songs” run from the Creation through Israel’s early leader’s to it’s government, exile, and historic periods.

The amazing subject in the Psalms includes different topics, such as jubilation, war, peace, worship, judgment, messianic prophecy, praise, and lament.

The Psalms were set to the accompaniment of stringed instruments and served as the temple hymnbook and devotional guide for the Jewish people.

The Book of Psalms was gradually collected and originally unnamed, perhaps due to the great variety of material. It came to be known as Sepher Tehillim—“Book of Praises”—because almost every psalm contains some note of praise to God.

As I started to put this together and thought of the greatest psalm’s there were so many that I had to choose the one’s that have been very dear to my heart and your’s can be different and that is A, OK.

I’m going to choose 4 psalm’s that are special to me and will look at one each week. They will not be in any special order and I know that you will have some that will be very special to you.

Psalm 8, Psalm 1; Psalm 23 and Psalm 91.

So let’s begin with Psalm 8

Psalm 8:1–9 (NKJV) 1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen— Even the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

This Psalm is very dear to me because it show’s me how special we are to Father God.

It begin’s with praise and it end’s with praise.

Psalm 8:1 (NKJV) 1 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

God’s name is excellent or Awesome, His glory or His presence is above anything. He is the only one who is worthy of praise and worship.

Psalm 8:2 (NKJV) 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

God choses the low or little things of this world to show Himself off.

1 Corinthians 1:26–31 (NKJV)

26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.

27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence.

30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

Psalm 8:3 (NKJV) 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

Consider: To think about, give thought to, reckon, view, regard, study, look at, count, weigh, turn over, deliberate, think, believe, conceive, analyze, chew over, contemplate, discuss, evaluate, examine, hash out, meditate, mull, mull over, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate,...

WOW! I guess God is saying to go ahead and look at His creation and see Him for who He is.

Then the psalmist come’s out with this statement:

Psalm 8:4 (NKJV) 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

What is man, what is our purpose, our reason for being here.

Many believe that the reason is to worship God and bring pleasure to His heart and that is true.

Revelation 4:11 (KJV) 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

But I believe, You have to always go back to the first time something is spoken about. This is the law of first mentioned.

Genesis 1:26–28 (NKJV) 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

We we’re created in the image and likeness of God to yes love Him and worship Him, but also to bring Him pleasure as we walk and talk with Him.

We we’re created to be able to commune with the creator of all things and this is because of His great love for us.

God came down to the garden to hang-out with His Man.

Genesis 3:8–9 (NKJV) 8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

God has given us something that He has not given any other being and that is free will. God did not want puppet, He wanted a being made in His image and likeness to love and be loved back, FREELY. WOW!

I believe that just like Jesus was shown all the kingdom’s of the world in a moment.

Luke 4:5–8 (NKJV) 5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”

So I believe that the Apostle Paul was shown all that God has reserved for us.

2 Corinthians 12:2–4 (NKJV)

2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—

4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

And that is why he made some amazing statement’s like this.

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV)9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Luke 12:32 (NKJV) 32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Psalm 8:5–8 (NKJV) 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Look at this verse from the original.

angels is Elohim or God

Psalm 8:5 (NASB) 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Again we are made in the image of God and just below God. One day it say’s that we will judge angels.

1 Corinthians 6:3 (NKJV)3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Right back to the “law of first mentioned”

Psalm 8:6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen— Even the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

Psalm 8:9 (NKJV) 9 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

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