Psalm 8

Psalms • Week 2

Our culture is one that is both pride based and shame based. Most of the time we are either elevating ourselves as God or thinking of ourselves as nothing. Psalm 8 speaks to both ends of that spectrum. In Week 2 of our study of the Psalms, Dave Brown unpacks this chapter and helps us to see that knowing our true place in God's presence is essential in seeing through the shame and pride based lies of the enemy.

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Psalm 8
Psalms • Week 2
May 16, 2021 • Dave Brown

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Psalm 8 NIV

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

  1. To Know our Place
  2. To Know our Savior
  3. To Know How to Worship

31% of Oklahomans report signs of clinical anxiety and depression
That's 1.25 million people in our state.

We are a pride based and a shame based culture.

We are constantly doing one of two things:
Elevating ourselves as God or Thinking of ourselves as nothing

Psalm 8:5 NIV

You have made them a little lower than the angels.

ποίημα = masterpiece

Psalm 8:2 NIV

Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Matthew 21:14-16 NIV

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise?”

We must praise God with our lips and with our lives.

Psalm 8:1,9 NIV

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

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name...”

Christ is either our Savior and Lord or He’s nothing to us at all.

Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul. —John Mark Comer