You make him to rule over the works of your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
Psalm 8:6 LSB
Before we consider man, let's consider Jesus Christ the God/Man.
Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Matthew 28: 18
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. Colossians 1:15-16
For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. Colossians 2:9
Could it be that Psalm 8 is a messianic prophecy? Could Psalm 8 be all about Jesus?
I love Jesus. I think Jesus is amazing, fascinating, wonderful, glorious, wise, powerful, creative, kind, gracious, clever and the list goes on and on…. It is easy for me to see Jesus in all the praise and splendour of His divinity and too also see Him as the ultimate human prototype.
I can’t help but think of the creation account and God’s great creative wisdom and to know that was Jesus and then to consider all the hopes and potential of human kind and see it realised in Jesus.
MAIN POINT:
Jesus is the meeting point of God and man, of divinity and humanity and Jesus fulfils the duties of man's dominion by ruling as the ultimate crowned one (King of kings) and then by sharing His reign and rule with His followers (Matthew 19:28-30).
God has revealed His majesty
God has made Himself known. v.1
God has revealed Himself in His creation. vv.3, 7, 8 (Ps. 19)
God reveals himself in humanity. vv. 2, 4, 5, 6, (Gen. 1)
God has revealed himself in His redemption plan. v.4-6
God’s plans for humanity are fulfilled in Jesus. (Col. 1)
Psalm 8:5 You have made him a little lower than God (Phil. 2)
Please forgive the chaos of my mind this morning, it’s my birthday and I was surrounded by very very active grandchildren since before sunrise.
Psalm 8
The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity. For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4 What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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Matthew 19
28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
Psalm 19
1 The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
2 Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.
4 Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
Genesis 1
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Colossians 1
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Philippians 2
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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