Songbook of Hebrews

We're gonna read from God's word now.

So if you'd like to turn to Psalm Psalm eight, and then we're gonna read from Hebrews two. We're having a think over these summer Sundays about some of the songs that are quoted in the book of Hebrews. It's been our main series for some time and we're looking at some of these Psalms that are quoted all over Hebrews And we've done 45. We did 22 last week, and we're gonna think about Psalm eight today. So Psalm eight, and then we'll turn on to Hebrews two.

For the director of music, according to Gittith, a Psalm of David. 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. And then Hebrews Hebrews two verse five to nine.

It is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come about which we are speaking, but there is a place where someone has testified. What is mankind that you are mindful of them, a son of man that you care for him? You made them a little lower than the angels. You crowned them with glory and honor and put everything under their feet. In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them.

Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them, but we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone. Father, help us. Help us to look at this amazing we've sung such amazing songs and amazing words, and we want those words not just only on our lips, but in our hearts. And we pray that this psalm, this your word would create in us a singing, joyful people. Please, in Jesus' name.

Amen. Now, yes, I am getting of that age. I went the other day to a hearing test. I would like to just tell you my hearing is like a 30 year old man. Anyway, and I went to the the loudest rock concert ever recorded.

So, there we go. Anyway, I went for a hearing test. And, one of the tests is, if you've had one, you'll know, is listening to what in this case, a woman saying sentences, but they increase the background noise as she speaks. Each time they do a bleep and they increase the background noise. And your hearing is as good as you can make out what she's saying above the din in the background.

And it comes to a point where you can sort of hear her voice, and you can take the odd word perhaps, but you don't quite know what the meaning is of the sentence that you're saying, and then they stop that. Now that's very similar, I think, to what CS Lewis, the great writer, the great Christian writer, wrote about the longings that people have in the heart, the desires that we have, that and and that sense of beauty that we sometimes get where we suddenly think there's there's something more than this world. He puts it this way absolutely beautifully. He said, the scent of a flower we have not yet found. He says, the echo of a tune we have not heard.

He says, the news from a country we've not yet visited. There is that that smell, and you can't quite put your finger on it, but you know it's greater than where you are, and that echo of a tune, and the news from a country we've not yet visited. Well, Psalm eight is a song, and that's why it's worth turning to it. It's a song, and It's a song about people. It's a song about you and me.

It's a song about humanity. And it's beautiful, and it's positive, and it's extremely optimistic. It's a song about who you are, who we are as a people, what we can do, what we can achieve. It's a song that gives us a glorious future for humanity. It's not depressing at all.

There's a glorious future here. It's a song that shows us the original design that we were created for and our original purpose. And it's a song, if you wanna put it like this, it's a song that sort of presses the the reset button to restore us to the manufacturer's settings. But there's noise. There's some there.

There's noise, and there's noise that stops us hearing this song. And so there are echoes of this song that we experience in our life. There there's a smell of the flower that we experience, but we can't get the whole song because there's too much noise in this world. There's ambulances going. There's noise of war and disaster and disease and death, and there's confusing messages all around us.

And there's pride in our hearts and selfishness in our hearts. And those noises sort of blast out the song. So many of our teachers and our influences tell us that we're actually on the road to destruction as a as a race, that there really isn't any hope for us. Even Brian Cox, professor Brian Cox, if you know him, you see him on the TV all the time. He he sort of smiles with a with a short term encouragement that we ought to be about saving the planet and we're daft if we kill the planet that we're living on.

But he also says we ought to be about colonizing the the universe and going to live on other planets. And so there's a short term hope he's trying to give us or come on, let's work it out. But then he says this, if humanity manages to survive its own political stupidity, if it manages to colonize space and outlive the Earth, which will eventually be toasted and incinerated by an expanding sun in a few billion years, if we even do that, we still face an absolute inescapable cosmological end. There's not much hope in that, is there? There's no hope in that.

It's rather a depressing song to sing, isn't it? It may take a long time, but in the end, there's no hope. Now this psalm is totally different to the influencers and the teachers of our day. It's encouraging us, listen, listen hard, listen above the noise, listen to another, a more ancient, a deeper song that will touch our heart, that will cause us to long. And if we don't keep tuning into this song, I think it's saying, it will fade in our hearing, and the background noise will dominate and will be led to personal destruction.

So let's get into this song. First of all, I want I want you to see the introduction to the song, and this is my first point. The director of music. Do you see it there? The director of music.

For the director of music, according to Gittith, a psalm of David. Now no one really understands what Gittith is. It's probably a musical term, but it doesn't really matter. I want to focus in on those first words to for the director of music. The director of music, it actually means the overseer or the leader.

Some translations are really like, has got the choirmaster. The choirmaster. Now music is a powerful thing. We've just sung some very powerful songs. It's a very powerful thing.

And and life can take on very different feelings, doesn't it, when we listen to music, depending on the music we listen to. And I I think that's one reason why the biggest book in the Bible is a songbook. It's the Psalms that we're in, and this is Psalm eight we're looking at. You wanna make sense of life, I think this Psalm is gonna tell us. You need to listen to the choirmaster, the director of music.

Let the director of music lead you in the singing. In Job 38, a book in the Old Testament, God asks Job, it's a great question, where were you, Job, when I I laid the foundations of the earth? You know, we come out with all our questions. Fine. You've got some answers, have you?

Well, let me ask you this question. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? And then he says, where were you, Job, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Then listen. While the morning stars sang together, and all the angels shouted for joy.

I love that verse. As God was working on creation, he had music in the background. It's a good thing to do if you're working to have music in the background. He had music in the background. The angels were singing.

At the formation of the earth, music was going. Music was involved. Angels were singing and shouting joy. That's really in the in the the warp and woof in the DNA of everything that God created music. Now who's the director of music here then?

Well, I'm sure David had some bloke. It's like a fin or something. You know? But I don't think this is I don't think this is the fin. Right?

For fin. It'd be odd, wouldn't it? The Gittith. Oh, yeah. That might work.

Yes. Finn the Gittith. Yes. I quite like that, actually. Yeah.

Her husband likes that. He can now call her the Gittith. Anyway, forget all that. That's all nonsense. The director of music, it's something bigger than than someone who just leads the music.

I I I think who's who leads the music of the universe? Who who who directs the angels? Who is the chief musician who makes everything harmonize? Who is this? Spurgeon, the great, Victorian preacher says, in all the holy songs of his saint saints is Jesus, the chief musician.

Another great preacher, Andrew Bonner, said, it is Jesus who led the praise of the great congregation. They're absolutely right. The only way of tuning into this song is through Jesus. He's the choirmaster. He's the director of music.

The only way we're able to sing this song that is positive and purposeful and full of joy and full of victory and full of hope and life for humanity. The only way to sing this song is to allow the director of music to lead us in singing, to follow him, to listen to his voice, and then there will be excitement about what we are and where we're going and our future. A real positive future for humanity. Singing in a choir, whatever your voice is like, is a very moving thing, isn't it? It's why people go to big concerts and sing.

I don't know whether you've ever come across, Jacob Collier. Have you ever seen Jacob Collier? He's deeply moved. I would I would love to go to one of his concerts. He's an amazing musician, and what he does is he gets an audience, and he has, you know, vast audiences, and he gives them a note, ah, and then ah, and then ah, and then he swells it up and down.

And the whole audience are in a choir, not singing words, but singing notes, and he raises it up. And people are in tears. They're absolutely they say it's a spiritual experience singing in a choir. Hey. Are you on your own singing a a dirge, or are you allowing the choirmaster to point to you and raise you up so that you sing in this universal choir?

That's the first point. Here's the second point then. The fundamental tune, the theme to this song, or you could say, if you if you're sort of more modern, the drum and bass. You need a good bit of drum and bass, don't you, to thump away, to give the rhythm, and your heart is in in in with the beat. Or the thrilling melody on top of the drum and bass that swells up in in, the universe.

The fundamental tune. Look at it. Verse one. Lord, our lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth? You have set your glory in the heavens.

Now notice he starts and finishes with the same thing. Verse one, lord, our lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth? Verse nine, lord, our lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth? God is the beginning and the end of this song, an eternal god with an eternal song. God is everything.

And we are we can sing this song about humanity joyfully. We can sing this meaningful song full of hope for ourselves. And if we're going to sing it, we need to start here with the drum and bass, with the melody line. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. It's not just simply a beautiful way of beginning and ending the song in poetry.

It is that. But there's a theological statement here. It's a fundamental understanding. It tells us how we see the world, how we're meant to see the world, how we're meant to see creation all around us. When you look at the world, when you look at the earth, what do you see?

Is the question. When you didn't look at the eclipse, what did you see? Yeah. You because you weren't meant to look at it, even though some people did apparently. Well, one of the things I heard over and over again was, we're just small.

It we're a rock, and there's a great big ball of gas, the sun. It's one smaller rock, the moon, going in front of a ball of gas. As we've said, when you look at the what do you see? Just a rock with a ball of gas? Or as I've already said, it's easy to become overwhelmed with the horrors that are going on in the world, the sufferings, the injustices, the wars, the death, the suicides, the blaming of people.

They dominate the headlines and they fill our thoughts. What do you see when you look at the world? A rock and a ball of gas. It's interesting that I heard one BBC reporter who was in Spain, so he saw the full eclipse. And it was lovely to hear him.

He was almost crying. I don't know whether you heard it. He was saying, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's fantastic.

I've never seen anything like it. That was the report. The first report of this news item was him saying, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. The next was a woman that killed her baby.

The next was a suicide. The next was the fires. The next was look at the climate change that's going on. From beauty to drawn to the horrors, David lifts our eyes higher. The first and greatest reality about this world he wants us to see is not human rebellion or human disasters or even sin or even selfishness.

It is the majesty of God. His name is majestic in all the earth. If we're to sing the song of the universe, that's what we gotta see first. God's majesty is the ultimate reality to interpret us and the world around us. Psalm 19, Dan referred to it in his prayer.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day, they pour forth speech. Night after night, they reveal knowledge. And then he goes on and on and on.

Their voice is heard around the world, around the earth. That's what you're meant to see when you look up. Be led to the majesty of God. How quickly we imagine that we can understand reality without understanding that basic truth. We become, don't we, experts in this field and experts in that discipline, and we think we master technology, and we think we master medicine, and economics, and philosophy, and we speak so confidently about life, and morality, and truth, as though God is just simply another idea to put alongside our great thoughts.

Well, Psalm eight stops us in our tracks and says, you can't think like that. Before we ask what we know about ourselves and about the universe, we must ask who God is and he's majestic. That's what it says. Have you come to see who God is? Not just a concept that we put into our philosophy.

He's majestic. The word means magnificent, powerful, excellent, and glory. He's majestic, and he has glory. The word means grandeur and splendor and radiant goodness. He's majestic.

He's glorious. When you understand who he is, he takes up your world. When you understand who he is, the moon is removed, and there's just the sun. He's glorious, breathtakingly wonderful, he's saying. You understand who God is?

Why have we made God a little thing that to to debate over? Why have we made God something that we put in our own minds, something small and malleable, and that we've created in our own image? God is so much bigger. He's majestic. When you stand and see the eclipse, the total eclipse, then you're meant to say, wow.

This is wonderful. Who did this? As we were praying earlier. This is the living God whose glory is above the heavens. Our version says, you have set your glory in the heavens, but it really should say, you are set your glory above the heavens.

Even the heavens cannot contain him. His glory stretches beyond the heavens. The heavens are are really beyond our imagination anyway, and when you think how big they are. I mean, it really stretches our mind to think that the sun is 93,000,000 miles away, and yet we can't look at it. But David is saying, yeah.

Okay. Think about the power of the sun. God is above it. He's higher than it. He's more glorious than it.

He's more majestic than it. David says, look higher. The universe doesn't contain him. He contains the universe. And notice the word, lord is used in two different ways.

Lord, capital l o r d. That's the name for the covenant God. That's the name in the Old Testament. That is Yahweh. That is how he revealed himself to Moses.

I am who I am. He's the only one who is the I am. He is the I am who I am. The self existent one. The one who depends on no one but himself.

He is the I am. The one who simply is. But he's not just that. He's the lord, the I am, but he comes into covenant. He comes into relationship with mere people like you and me.

He's the relational god. That's the name. That's his name. Yahweh, the relational god. The the New Testament name is father.

He's father. He's he's that's the the equivalent of Yahweh. He's father god. And god, he keeps his promises, and god enters into relationship with people. That god, majestic, above everything.

Lord. And then he says, our lord with small letters. It's ruler, it's king, it's master, the one who governs everything in creation, the one who rules isn't some tribal deity that some people believed in. This is no local god. This is no religious invention.

This is the lord who masters everything. So when we want to find out who we are, if we're ever going to sing a song of hope and of joy, then we have to start not with ourselves, but with the I am. That's where we start. The great philosopher Descartes, the seventeenth century philosopher, said, I think, therefore, I am. He started in the wrong place, however meaningful he was trying to be at that point.

He started in the wrong place. And today, we start in the wrong place trying to find who we are. You know, I am whatever I say I am. Only God can say that. Stop pretending to be God because you're certainly not that.

I am whatever I wanna be. No. You're not. I am what I feel. I tell you, you go down that route, and there'll be a total eclipse of the heart.

The Bible begins with God. Before there was a universe, there was God. Before there was a time, there was God. Before there was humanity, there was a God. Before there was you, there was a God.

Before there was me, there was a God. And he alone, the eternal one, the self existent one, the I am, the glorious majestic one, he is the framework for explaining yourself. You'll never ever have a real understanding about anything, about anything you do, about anything you are, about anything in your life. You'll always be in the dark. You'll always have an eclipsed view.

All that you touch, all that you see, all that you taste, all that you feel, all that you love, all that you hate, all you distrust, all that you save, all that you give, all that you deal, all all that you buy, beg, borrow, or steal, all you create, all you destroy, all that you do, all that you say, all that you eat, everyone you meet, all that you slight, and everyone you fight, all that is now, and all that is gone, and all that is to come, and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon, says Pink Floyd. Wasn't me. Sounded good though, didn't it? You'll never understand in other words, there'll be an eclipse of the heart, of the mind, of the eyes until you get the fundamental drum and bass Drum and bass. That's what we wanna hear in the next song.

I don't know what it is. Flick bass, heavy drum, nice melody. Okay? Once you've got the drum and bass and the melody in place, then the eclipse goes away. But how do we do that?

How do we get that in place? Well, here's my third point then. Who hears and sings this song? Well, we're told in verse two. Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger.

See what he's saying? Proud, hard, cynical ears cannot hear this theme. They will not join the song. Those who just cannot see the majestic, glorious creator will not sing this song. They are deaf.

They are deaf to this. They've they've they've become deaf very early in life if they can't see this. There are some that look up at the at the world or look at something like the eclipse, and they say, we have explained enough. We have explained enough about the universe to conclude that we don't need God to explain the universe. Well, if they're in that situation, they'll never sing this song.

You can only sing professor Brian Cox's song, and he was in a rubbish band originally, if you know that. What was it called? Can't remember. Tears for Fears, was it? Anyway, forget it.

People say we're the measure of the age. People say that we can go back to a fraction of a second before the universe began. We've split the atom. We know the human genome. We can place telescopes in space that take us back billions of years because of the light thing.

We've come of age. It's very interesting, actually. On the one hand, these people say that we're nothing. We're not important. We're only dust.

But on the other hand, we're clever enough as dust to know that there was no creator. No song, no meaning, no nothing. In the book of Hebrews, which we had been going through, Hebrews chapter 11, there's a lovely sentence. Hebrews chapter 11 verse three, and it says, by faith, remember faith is trust, by faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. In other words, the universe isn't an accident, and faith isn't there meeting some unreasonable leap into the dark.

It's a it's a humble word. It's a trust. It's saying when I look at the universe, I can see that someone formed the visible out of the invisible, that there was a god behind the universe. He formed it. Faith is just saying, I trust that.

I see that. It's a reasonable position to hold, and that's the humble position that I'm going to bow down to, that I'm not the creator. I'm he's the one. It's not an accident. Only the proud and those who think they're clever dust will not have that trust and will not sing this song.

Look at verse two again of Psalm eight. Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemy to silence the foe and the avenger. It almost sounds absurd. But it's exactly how God works throughout the whole Bible if you know this majestic one. He chooses what appears to be weak to shame the strong, that appears to be foolish to shame those who think they're wise.

He chooses to do that. That's how the kingdom of God always comes in. He chose a very elderly couple who were childless to begin the millions of people that would he would covenant with. He chose Moses who was a reluctant speaker to confront pharaoh. He chose David, the youngest shepherd boy, to bring down Goliath.

He chose fishermen to be his apostles and disciples. The the supreme example is, he chose a crucified Messiah to save the world. The world looks for power and strength, and God reveals himself through humble dependence, trust in him, seeing who he is. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the children were singing. Hosanna to the son of David.

And the mean religious people were furious at that song, and they tried to silence the singing. Stop that singing. And they had to go at Jesus. They said, you silence those children singing Hosanna to the son of David? And Jesus quotes Psalm eight.

And he said, have you never read? Of course, they had. You know, we do you not know your own scriptures? From the lips of children and infants, Lord, you have called forth your praise. You see what Jesus is saying there?

The praise that belongs to Yahweh God in Psalm eight is offered to Jesus, and they're right. The children, the infants, understood what the religious experts didn't see. The infants, the children could sing the song where proud lips could only grumble and complain and try to shut up the song. The scholars rejected him, the children and infants received him with joy. God silenced the wise through the praise of the children.

The greatest obstacle to knowing God has never ever been a lack of intellect. It's been pride. That's the obstacle really. Pride that thinks you don't need him. It's those who can't praise creator god because they're too busy praising themselves and their cleverness.

Jesus said, unless you change and become like a little child, you will never enter the kingdom of God. You sort of think, well, why why aren't I in the kingdom of God? Well, you have to become like a little child, an infant, one who trusts, one who's not in control and knows it. So there you go then. There's the the baseline.

There's the the drumbeat in place. There's the melody of this majestic theme playing. And and how do we hear it? Well, we have the ears of a child. We have ears that are humble.

And in that, then David looks around, and he sees the fingerwork of the majestic one. And then he asks the question, and this is my fourth point, what is mankind? What are we? Look at verses three and four of of Psalm eight. When I consider your heavens and the works 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. Notice again, he's asking the question from a humble position. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, the stars, which you have set in place, He stands beneath the the black sky. Who knows? He may have been watching an eclipse.

I don't know. But he sees the bright the sun and the stars, and then he sees the moon. And the moon is hanging over Judah, and he's seeing this event. And he says, that isn't an accident. That's artistry.

That's why we're taken up with it. That's telling me something about a song that I need to get in tune with. There's something bigger here than a rock and gas. David doesn't worship creation. Creation leads him to worship the creator.

Creation beautifully points beyond the beauty of itself to the god who made it. And then without warning, David asks this great question. What is mankind? That you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them. Now the word mindful is an amazing word.

It's just wonderful. It doesn't mean occasionally, God sort of thinks about the creatures that he's made. You know, he's he's set up the universe and he's up to other things that are more important in the world, and then he might come back and say, oh, yeah. I forgot about them. Now, yes, I'm mindful of them.

It's not that. He's not a distant God that created you and then shoves off somewhere. Mindful means that he's absolutely looking, understands you, working in you, giving you providences in your life that you may bring glory to his name, even bringing sufferings into your life so that you would start to see that you're not in control, but he is working in your life. This is a mindful god who knows you, who remembers you, who understands your situations, who cares, who loves. Many people, when they look out at the vastness of the universe, say, well, we're so small.

We don't matter. We're just specks. That's the that's the strange thing, isn't it, about secularism? In one hand, we're just dust with specks. On the other hand, we're clever enough to know that there isn't a God.

Try to say that. I know, but it's so important to get that. David says, if God is so great, starts with god, if he's so great, what is he caring for me for? Why is he caring for me? And he goes back to god's explanation of humanity.

He goes back to the revelation. The Bible tells us that humanity is dust, but we're not mere dust. Dust touched by God, dust shaped by his fingers, dust shaped by him. Dust breathed into the breath of life from God. Your thoughts are not just chemical reactions.

Your loves are not just evolutionary instincts. Your conscience is not just a survival mechanism. Your soul is not an illusion. Your life is not just an accident. Look what he says in verses five to eight.

You, that's the majestic God, remember. You have made them. You made them. You made them a little lower than the angels. And listen, crown them with glory and honor.

You made them rulers over the works of your hands. You put everything under their feet, all the flocks and the herds and the animals of the wild, the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the sea. He's showing us that God gave us beautiful responsibility over that which he made. We didn't make it, and we can't destroy it, by the way. He made it.

It it it shows our beautiful position. This is the first song of humanity. This is what we were meant to be, ruling in joy over all of his creation, God's creation, ruling under him. The beautiful thing. That's the first song of humanity.

And, of course, we see bits of the truth of that in our ruling. But it's at this point, it leads me to my fifth point, the background noise. And this is where the book of Hebrews quotes Psalm eight, and it tells us something very important to help us sing this song. Hebrews chapter two verse six says this, that there is a place somewhere, there is a place where someone has testified. It's David.

It's Psalm eight, and then he quotes it. What is mankind that you are mindful of them? The son of man that you care for him. You made them a little lower than the angels. You crowned them with glory and honor, and you put everything under their feet.

In putting everything under them, God left nothing that was not subject to them. That's the original design, but look at these words here. Yet, at present, we do not see everything subject to them. That's how he made us. That was the purpose and design.

You have great responsibility. You have great joy. You are of great importance, yet at present, we don't see everything subject to them. We don't see everything subject to people. There are tsunamis, and there are heat waves, and there is drought.

We're not crowned with honor and glory, are we? We're crowned with shame and guilt. Isn't isn't that what we're suddenly finding, you know, yesterday? People hounding someone who may well have been living a lie and obviously what he seems to be. And now we're hounding him, now he's dead.

And now everybody's saying, we're all guilty. How we treat people, how we push people, if you know those stories. We're full of shame and guilt, and we cannot rule ourselves, yet alone creation. Humanity has rebelled against this creator. How ridiculous that dust would do that.

And we've exchanged the glory of God and the majesty of God for our little idols, our phones, and so many things that we are taken up with rather than God. And it was interesting on Whinney Hill in Cheshington. I went up there. There were lots of people from Cheshington up Whinney Hill watching the watching the sun, but so many were just reading texts on their phones. And and you might say, no.

Were they looking at it on their phone? No. Because I was nosy enough to see what they were doing. You know, there was another cat jumping off of whatever. Extraordinary.

We've exchanged God's glory for idols. We filled the world with our pride and our violence and our sin, and we're heading to return to dust. Dust you are from and dust you will return. That's it. Now it's interesting in Hebrews 10, the NIV's got it right here because it says in Psalm eight verse four, and then it quotes it here in Hebrews, What is man that you are mindful of him?

The son of man that you care for him. And the son of man is meant to make us think about Jesus. That's the name he used for himself. He is the perfect human. That's what Hebrews had been arguing, and we've done all that, so I'm not going to do that.

He's the perfect image of God. He's the last Adam, the proper Adam. He's the one that shows us what humanity was always meant to be like. And the writer of Hebrews takes David's words, and he says something astonishing. We don't yet see everything subject to humanity.

There is a noise around us that's taking away from us this song, but we see Jesus. Now when you put Jesus into the picture, you start to hear the song. Look what he says in verse nine of Hebrews. But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everything. Everything turns on those four words.

With all the din and all the noise that will take away from this song, suddenly, the amplification goes up. Someone turns up the verse. There's a loud guitar noise. The drum thunders in. The bass roars in.

The singer comes. The choirmaster raises the voice, but we see Jesus. Puts everything to bed. Everything that Psalm eight has been preparing for suddenly comes into glorious focus. You wanna know what humanity is, what you are, your place, but we see Jesus.

Our hearing comes back like little children. Hosanna to the son of David. Hosanna to the son of man. Suddenly, we're taken up with the one who cares for us, who is mindful of us, who came to die for us as we're told, and we saw all of that in Hebrews. The one who subjected himself below the angels, the one who subjected himself to death in order to deal with that enemy, the one who rose again, the one whose praise and glory is in the universe.

You're meant to wow at that point, made a little lower than the angels. Who? The choirmaster, the director of music, so that he could swell and bring the choir and bring the angels to lean over heaven and say, wow, what grace, what understanding, what forgiveness. Who is this God? Who is he?

How majestic is his name in all the earth? And the swell goes up, and the angels that were singing at creation sing a new song. Not just creation song, but redemption song. Redemption song. A choir master of a new humanity.

My sixth point, back to the song. Verse one of Psalm eight. Lord, our lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have set your glory in the heavens. Verse nine, Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

Between those two verses, the song reminds us. That's how we get an understanding of who we are. We look at the heavens and marvel. We look at ourselves and despair. We look at Christ and we have hope.

He's the true man, the true future, the true glorious one crowned with honor and glory. You see that in the Gospels. We're going to do Luke's Gospel, start Luke's Gospel in September. You'll see him calming the storm, healing the sick, raising the dead, making the blind to see and the deaf to hear. He's the man who rules.

When you know him, the song remains in your heart. There is no eclipse of the heart then. There is joy in the Son's presence. Until we join David's song, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name, you know what you're about, and all that you do and all that you say and all that you are will be eclipsed. So I'm inviting you.

Come on. Sing the song. Get the rhythm. Get the rhythm of the universe. Get in tune with the universe.

Listen. Watch. See. Hear the drum and bass. Let it move your heart.

Get your heart in rhythm with a boom. Boom. Jesus is lord. Jesus is lord. Jesus is lord.

Got it? But how does the heart go? Boom. Boom. Boom.

Boom. Jesus lord. Jesus lord. Jesus lord. Jesus lord.

Jesus Lord. Jesus Lord. Jesus Lord. Jesus Lord. What is your heart?

Where's your heart? Offbeat? Stopping? Or praising God for the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's bow our heads and pray.

We're about to, sing these these words. Creator god who shaped the earth and heavens, your glory shines in all that you have made. You spoke the word who broke into the darkness. All earth replies, majestic is your name. And who am I, though made below the angels, that you my king are mindful of my ways As moon and stars sing out their joyful chorus, I lift my voice to join with them in praise Father, we thank you for this glorious song which, resets us in our humanity and which reminds us what life is about and who the author of life is and what we were made for.

And we were made to join in this joyful chorus of praise to humble ourselves under your mighty hand and to sing both the song of creation and the song of redemption through our Lord Jesus. And yet we're sorry that so many hours in our weeks, we are not mindful of you and we are not mindful of these things. That the songs of this world thrill our hearts more and, we can live so much of our lives without even reference to you, our creator. And we pray you'd forgive us for not singing this song. We are we are sorry, and we thank you for the Lord Jesus made lower than the angels, to lift us up, to forgive us, to put the right song on our lips again.

And help us please, we do pray we need this perspective constantly, so help us Lord. In Jesus name, Amen.