{"id":381,"date":"2016-10-12T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:16:59","slug":"the-strength-of-god-in-frailty-psalm-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"The Strength of God in Frailty (Psalm 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1118\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/The-Strength-of-God-in-Frailty-Elder-Matthew-Davis-1011162016530.mp3'>The Strength of God in Frailty<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Strength-of-God-in-Frailty-Elder-Matthew-Davis-1011162016530.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"The Strength of God in Frailty\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"The Strength of God in Frailty\\\" from Covenant Reformed Church GV by Elder Matthew Davis. 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Genre: Other.\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"Elder Matthew Davis\",\"album\":\"Covenant Reformed Church GV\",\"genre\":\"Other\",\"year\":\"2016\",\"length_formatted\":\"40:28\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1.jpg\",\"width\":196,\"height\":242},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<blockquote><p>1 \u00a0O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth,<br \/>\nWho have set Your glory above the heavens!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personal Praise vs Imperative \u2013 Oh YHWH OUR Master<\/p>\n<p>This Psalm of praise overwhelmingly focuses on the Covenant God.<\/p>\n<p>It points us directly to Him using YHWH Adoni &#8220;Jehovah Lord&#8221; a combination of the most reverent name YHWH the Great I Am, the revealed God of Abraham.\u00a0 The God whom we Know, because HE has entered into a relationship with us. From opening verse to the closing, YHWH\u2019s presence is interwoven into the passages, as repeatedly the words YOU &amp; YOUR (14x) speak to God&#8217;s knowable, observable blessings.\u00a0 Most of all it is PERSONAL.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength,<br \/>\nBecause of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See Isaiah 49 and Psalm 127<\/p>\n<p>Having expressed the glory of the LORD the weakest of those reflecting His image, are revealed for the powerful presence they truly are.<\/p>\n<p>Strength \u00a0\u05e2\u05b9\u05d6 <strong><em>\u02bf\u014dz <\/em><\/strong><strong>Masculine <\/strong>strength which has been (\u05d9\u05b4\u05e1\u05b7\u05bc\u05aa\u05d3\u05b0\u05ea\u05b8\u05bc\u05ab) a <strong>Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt of the wonder of children, or the demands they place upon the parents who shepherd them.\u00a0 But most of us see not strength in our children but rather the helpless meek and poor in stature.\u00a0 But this is because we do not focus on the covenant promise and blessings they are.\u00a0 In the wilderness during the feast of tabernacles for seven days the camp was still, and in the midst of stillness the cries of children, both from distress and at play are often the loudest.\u00a0 In the midst of all trials, all historical advents of plague, sickness, and death, the hope and promise of the future which the Lord has spoken is most circumspect in our covenant children.\u00a0 Christ being the greatest child of this promise.<\/p>\n<p>We should see Luke 2:46-50; Matt 21:16; Romans 1:18\u201321; 1 Cor 1:26-31<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3 When I consider Your heavens,<br \/>\nthe work of Your fingers,<br \/>\nThe moon and the stars,<br \/>\nwhich You have ordained,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prospect of living in a tent, seeing the works of the Lord\u2019s hands at night shaded by leafy branches during the day also reflects upon the blessings of the Lord. \u00a0Beginning at the glory of God and moving down to the heavens and then man, the details as we move from creation and the universe in general and see now the image of God within humanity reflect the order within creation with God at its head, and man as the head over the creation.<\/p>\n<p>The Master craftsmanship of skilled fingers, is the Lord of all creation.\u00a0 There is no work of art, no intricate detailed mechanism or man made thing greater than the work of God.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to consider, ponder, or be witness to the heavens is a reference to the understanding which flows from God to man as a work within creation.\u00a0 But man looks at the creation apart from himself and sees the incomprehensible, the psalmist here observes these wondrous works, and feels small.\u00a0 He reconciles them as from God, ordered and sustained \u2013 thus ordained. \u00a0Genesis 1 is clearly reflected here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is man?<br \/>\nWhy is he worthy of your attention?<br \/>\nWhy are his offspring of any benefit or worth?<br \/>\nHow is it, God has entered into a relationship with us?<\/p>\n<p>Because of the book of Hebrew\u2019s relationship to this passage (Heb 2:6-8)) there is a desire to see Christ here in these passages, certainly the prophetic nature of the inspired words point to Him, but there is also a deep sense of humility here.\u00a0 What am I?\u00a0 Who am I? Perhaps simply the desire to question everything.<\/p>\n<p>The tendency of the corrupt human spirit is to reject the demonstrable proof of God especially in our own wicked hearts.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s talk about what man is.\u00a0 He is created to demonstrate all of the goodness, hope, truth, love and pleasant nature of the living God.\u00a0 He is above the animals while he is below the heavens, they as part of creation are under his dominion. \u00a0Man is what God intended him to be despite sin, misery and death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,<br \/>\nAnd You have crowned him with glory and honor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Blessing of the LORD toward His people are both general and specific.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the illumination from Hebrews chapters 1 and 2 we would not know today the true potential of the human condition.\u00a0 If God had not chosen to show us how and what we can and will be, we would remain without hope.\u00a0 But in these words the Spirit spoke to encourage us, and in Christ they are demonstrated in fullness of power, with a clarity which we, apart from the illumination of the Spirit of YHWH, could not begin to grasp.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;<br \/>\nYou have put all things under his feet,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Blessing of the LORD toward His people are both general and specific.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, \u201cLet 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.\u201d So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, \u201cBe 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.\u201d (Genesis 1:25\u201328, NKJV)<\/p>\n<p>7 All sheep and oxen\u2014 Even the beasts of the field,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of Creation subject to God, but also to man whom God created. \u00a0Ultimately this is manifest in the person of Jesus Christ, who being fully man demonstrated the proper nature of human dominion over the creation, and continues to do so until His triumphant return.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Blessing of the LORD toward His people are both general and specific.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So at the end of the Psalm we come to the beginning of our PRIASE.\u00a0 To the one who was and is and is to come. To the master craftsman whose intricate design is more precise than any manipulation of the creation within the creation. Christ Jesus our Lord. \u00a0He has created us for relationship, maintained a deep personal connection to us, and through the reflection upon all these things, given us the template to properly worship Him.<\/p>\n<p>The next time you are alone looking at creation, wondering at the stars and moon, thankful for the food you eat, impressed by the complexity of the world we inhabit. \u00a0When a child is born, or crying; when you see children being children. \u00a0Think on these Words and claim them as your prayer of PRAISE.\u00a0 \u201c<strong>O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Romans 8:27\u201330<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.<\/em>\u201d <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elder Matthew Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 \u00a0O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! Personal Praise vs Imperative \u2013 Oh YHWH OUR Master This Psalm of praise overwhelmingly focuses on the Covenant God. 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