HOW MAJESTIC IS YOUR NAME (1 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Psalms 8:1-9
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How Majestic Is Your Name (1 of 4)
Series: Psalms of Praise
Jeff Strite
Psalms 8:1-8:9
OPEN: Psalm 8 is an intriguing Song of Praise to God. It begins and ends with the words that inspired a popular worship song. I'd like you to sing it with me:
"O, Lord, our Lord how majestic is Your Name in all the earth
O, Lord, our Lord how majestic is Your Name in all the earth
O, Lord, we praise Your Name. O Lord, we magnify Your Name
Prince of peace, mighty God - O, Lord God Almighty (sing through twice)
This Psalm was written by the Shepherd boy whom God made into a King. By a boy who became the man known as the man after God's own heart. A young man that we know by the name of David.
You can almost imagine him (as a young man) laying on a hillside. His father's sheep are bedded down for the night, and David looks up into the night sky and begins to be filled with wonder.
ILLUS: Abraham Lincoln once wrote: "I never behold (the heavens filled with stars) that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up, into the heavens and say there is no God."
There's something about a clear night filled with a huge moon and bright shining stars that creates a sense of wonder in most people. And this is probably what inspired David to write:
"When I consider 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, the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:3-4
ILLUS: A father told of taking his family to the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. He said the sky seemed more brilliant than they had ever seen it, and the stars were so close you felt as if you could touch them.
Their 3 boys decided that they would put their sleeping bags out on the ground so they could go to sleep watching the stars.
The man and his wife had just settled down fo ...
Series: Psalms of Praise
Jeff Strite
Psalms 8:1-8:9
OPEN: Psalm 8 is an intriguing Song of Praise to God. It begins and ends with the words that inspired a popular worship song. I'd like you to sing it with me:
"O, Lord, our Lord how majestic is Your Name in all the earth
O, Lord, our Lord how majestic is Your Name in all the earth
O, Lord, we praise Your Name. O Lord, we magnify Your Name
Prince of peace, mighty God - O, Lord God Almighty (sing through twice)
This Psalm was written by the Shepherd boy whom God made into a King. By a boy who became the man known as the man after God's own heart. A young man that we know by the name of David.
You can almost imagine him (as a young man) laying on a hillside. His father's sheep are bedded down for the night, and David looks up into the night sky and begins to be filled with wonder.
ILLUS: Abraham Lincoln once wrote: "I never behold (the heavens filled with stars) that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up, into the heavens and say there is no God."
There's something about a clear night filled with a huge moon and bright shining stars that creates a sense of wonder in most people. And this is probably what inspired David to write:
"When I consider 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, the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:3-4
ILLUS: A father told of taking his family to the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. He said the sky seemed more brilliant than they had ever seen it, and the stars were so close you felt as if you could touch them.
Their 3 boys decided that they would put their sleeping bags out on the ground so they could go to sleep watching the stars.
The man and his wife had just settled down fo ...
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