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Good morning.

Everyone.

Good to be the Lord's House.

So glad that you are here.

If you're visiting with us.

We're so thankful that you are here as well.

If you would take your Bibles and turn with me to Psalm 8, Psalm 8, one of my favorite songs.

If not my all-time favorite song.

Psalm and verse number eight,

the psalmist.

Rights and verse 1. Oh Lord, our Lord.

How excellent is your name in all the Earth?

Who have set your glory above the heavens?

Out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants.

You have ordained strength because of your enemies that you may silence the enemy and the Avenger.

When I consider your Heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained.

What is man that you are mindful of him?

And the son of man that you visit him?

But you have made him a little lower than the angels and you have crowned him with Glory and Honor.

You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands.

You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea that passed through the pads of the Seas.

Lord our Lord.

How excellent is your name in all the Earth?

Let's pray together are Great and Mighty father.

We humbly bow before you Lord, in this, our Lord, as we come before you and worship you in spirit.

And in truth.

And father, we are thankful Lord for all the truths that we have some this morning together as a congregation standing upon your promises.

And probably ask you Lord, as we come to this time of preaching.

That Lord, that you would turn our eyes upon you turn our ears.

That we are able to listen to your word and father.

I pray that you would apply your word to our hearts.

I pray.

Lord, you fill me up with your spirit.

Hide me behind the cross your Jesus.

We ask all these things and you're the mighty name of Jesus Christ, your only begotten son.

Amen.

Song eight is really a transitional some and I say that because if you read the five previous song, David feels like he's in a tunnel.

He's he's going through a very difficult time.

And in those, psalms David phrase to be rescued from his enemy.

But here in Psalm 8, it is as if David is coming out into the sunshine again.

To celebrate.

Really the Excellency of God.

The Majesty of God.

And what is interesting about this song is that we noticed that David begins this song, many ends this particular song with the same words.

He says oh Lord our Lord.

How excellent is your name in all the Earth?

He says that a one.

He says it again.

And verse number 9.

And so, David places these two identical versus much like bookends on a bookshelf at the beginning.

And the end of this particular song and what David is doing.

This is called a literary device that is called and inclusio.

Until these verses are set at the beginning and the end much like within the frame of a picture much, like the book ends on a bookshelf and he does this, to signify to signal that the entire song.

The entirety of this song is about the majesty and Excellency of our God.

but, as beautiful as this song me is, What's amazing, is that many theologians believe that this is one of the earliest Psalms that David wrote, if not, the very first song that David wrote.

So, think about that David wrote, this beautiful song.

This Majestic song about God, when he was just a young man, a young teenager.

All my some scholars believe.

It'll be written this song to be written while David spent many nights out in the open fields in the pastures.

Keeping watch over his father's sheep.

I've been other theologians believe that this was written during the time of David's, just after David's, great victory, over the Giant Goliath.

But either way, wherever, or whenever David wrote, this particular song, David Penn these beautiful words.

It's very apparent that he was just struck in all in the awesomeness and Majesty in Wonder of almighty God.

I know the element that makes this song So Beautiful is that it is a song that was written in light of God's consideration of humanity.

It was written with this mindset.

That God cares for men.

He cares for mankind until this song speaks of God's gracious love and care for Humanity.

Hey, listen, God is not some distant deity.

Who is just totally unaware of his creation?

No, listen, he is very concerned about his creation.

As a matter of fact, he's so concerned about his creation that he knows a very numbers of hair that we have Upon Our Heads.

Scripture tells us this but this time also speaks of not only God's consideration of mankind, but it also speaks of the profeta, kleit concerning Christ's the coming Messiah and it tells us somewhat of his Redemptive work for men.

And so seeing these two beautiful elements in this song, really, really feel then that this song is a Psalm of worship.

It is a Psalm of Thanksgiving.

Unto the Lord, revealing the divine nature of God.

So I wanted to take a few moments this morning to examine the beautiful words of David as he describes the Divine attributes of God and here in this summer, going to see his omnipotence God's omnipotence.

His power is power in creation.

We're going to see his self existence and its self-sufficiency as Robbie taught in our Bible study.

Just previous to this service.

Someone has to consider this soft this morning, the Excellency of God.

The first thing I want you to notice with me this morning.

Is this the Lord's?

Preeminence the Lord's preeminence again.

Verse one tells us.

Oh, Lord our Lord.

How excellent is your name in all the Earth who have set your glory above the heavens.

Now whether David wrote this song Sitting among the sheep on a clear dark night or just after the battle with the lieth.

David was absolutely compelled to Worship the Lord.

Whenever David wrote this David was well aware.

There were none like the God.

He served David knew the glory of the Lord exceed the height of the heavens.

David realize God's name was exalted above all other names.

As we consider this morning briefly the extra exclamation rather.

I trust you noticed and verse 1, a distinction in the names at David mentioned in verse 1 and verse 1.

David refer to God as Lord capital L, O R D. That is the word, Yahweh or Jehovah.

And then he says our Lord lowercase.

So David was literally saying, here in verse 10, Jehovah.

Are Adonai, the name.

Jehovah is God's personal name?

It is his Redemptive name, it reveals that he is.