Psalm 8
June 5, 2022
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“The truth of God’s limitless power would be absolutely terrifying were it not paired with the truth of his limitless goodness.”

~ Jen Wilkin, contemporary author, teacher and speaker

“Nourish right conceptions of the majesty of God in your minds. Let us consider that we are drawing to God, the most amiable object, the best of beings, worthy of infinite honor, and highly meriting the highest affections we can give; a God that made the world by a word, that upholds the great frame of heaven and earth; a Majesty above the conceptions of angels; who uses not His power to strike us our deserved punishment, but His love and bounty to allure us… Let us view Him in His greatness, and in His goodness, that our hearts may have a true value of the worship of so great a majesty, and count it the most worthy employment with all diligence to attend upon Him.”

~ Stephen Charnock (1628-1680), English minister and writer

“Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God’s majesty.”

~ John Calvin (1509- 1564), French pastor and key figure of the Protestant Reformation

“God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.”

~ Sam Storms (1951-present), American pastor and author

“There is…great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.”

~ J.I. Packer (1929-2020), a British-born theologian and profess

Sermon Passage

Psalm 8 (NIV)

¹ LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
² Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
⁷ all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
⁸ the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!