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Psalm:8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.(page last updated: July 29 2019)
Today's Text:
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Today's Audio Commentary: "What is Man that You are Mindful"
Psalm:8 Reading | (⇓) |
Part 1 → What is Man, that Thou art Mindful of Him?" (⇓) | |
Part 2 → Man's First Estate and Forward (⇓) | |
Part 3 → "Thou visitest him?" (⇓) | |
Part 4 → "Because of Thine Enemies, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger" (⇓) | |
Part 5 → "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" Reprise (⇓) | |
Psalm:8 "What is Man that You are Mindful" (commentary as one file) (⇓) |
Today's Commentary Outline:
- "What is Man, that Thou art Mindful of Him?": 8:4
- What is = Primary question of Psalm 8 - In the light of everything God is = that thou art. (Image of self in light of image of God) Let us consider:
- "O LORD our Lord, how excellent (mighty/worthy) is thy name (honor/authority/character/fame/renown/report) in all the earth!" 8:1 8:9 (Name is more words. Christ shares same name as one)
- "Who hast set thy glory (grandeur/imposing form and appearance) above the heavens (ether)" 8:1 (Set before/after)
- "When I consider (see) thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained (set)" 8:3
- "What is man (mortal), that thou art mindful (mark/recognize/remember) of him?" 8:4
- "(What is) the son of man (human being (individual or species)), that thou visitest (visit (with friendly/hostile intent) oversee) him?" 8:4
- Presently? A most sorted mess!
- (To require all that Christ had to accomplish at His visit?)
- Man's First Estate and Forward:
- God + Order: "Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels" 8:5
- Common translation = God (#?) gods (#?) rulers (#?) or angels of God (3)
- In Psalms - dict:strongs H4397 mal-awk' deputy/messenger/angel (8) (most common in OT)
- ASV/RSV/WEB = lower than God. Rotherham = messengers of God. gltv = lack a little from God. ylt = lack a little of Godhead.
- Could be explained as "lower than" God/gods/rulers/angels (any/all) (man was made a "little" lower/in need of)
- (Geneva notes: Concerning his first creation) What has man done since then? Sought to be gods in their own eyes.
- God: "Crowned him with glory and honour" 8:5
- Picture = made lower (little) but with tremendous weight/significance given to him by God
- Consider the opposite that we have made of this glory and honour. (Glory and honour we give to ourselves vs glory and honour that is God given).
- God: "Thou madest him to have dominion (rule/reign/bear dict:strongs H4910 ) over the works of thy hands" 8:6
- Picture = God to have dominion over man/angels to minister to God
- Picture = man made to be the keeper/stewards over earth for God.
- Consider how opposite we have taken this dominion.
- Consider that instead of allowing God dominion over us instead that role has been stolen away by the "power of the air"/"prince of darknes"
- God: "Thou hast put all(?) things under his feet" 8:6
- "All sheep and oxen" 8:7
- "The beasts of the field" 8:7
- "The fowl of the air" 8:8
- "The fish of the sea" 8:8
- "Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas" 8:8
- All of which currently show the stress of our rebellious sin nature (our rebellion has become a curse unto them)
- Man's original design and estate given him by God was right along these lines of excellency/crowning/significance.
- Where man's rebellion has taken this design and estate is nothing less than shameful and abominable.
- And yet..... the question is now asked by the psalmist:
- Thou visitest him?" kjv@8:4:
- Who visits? Christ (Son of God/Son of Man) (To become rightful intercessor/shepherd/deliverer/king)
- Visit in what form? (note: similarity of description of man but magnified)
- Glorified
- Above all principality
- There is the smaller scale dominion and principality given man over the earth.
- There is the larger over arching dominion and principality over all creation rightfully belonging to God.
- There is the dominion and principality deceitfully stolen away by Satan placed over all man.
- There is the visitation of Christ in human form offering deliverance from God's impending judgment concerning this intollerable situation.
- We begin to understand all of this but, one major question yet remains: Why would God have done this for man despite man's rebellious second estate?
- "Because of Thine Enemies, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger": 8:2
- (Considering design/estate 1st + 2nd etc...) What now has God done?
- "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings...Hast thou ordained strength" 8:2
- (Jesus: "...perfected praise" kjv@Matthew:21:16)
- How has HE done it?
- "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings" 8:2
- The lowly/meek/hungry
- The child like
- The fool
- Why has God done what he has?
- "That thou mightest still: 8:2
- "the enemy and the avenger" 8:2
- Illustration babes and enemy/avenger
- Enemy/Avenger = those at emnity with Christ (carnal mind) (religious or not)
- Religion itself does not alter or mask essential carnal state.
- Only the child like having seen the evidences of Christ are remotely able to recognise and acknowledge this. (Perfecting of praise)
- Summary of visitation:
- What is man, that thou art mindful of him?: 8:4
- Made in Image of God
- God's image forfeited that we might be gods in our own eyes
- God did not give up on man/made a way to come back to HIM
- Christ the way, truth and life
- Tasted death in order to conquer death
kjv@Ephesians:1:21
kjv@Exodus:24:17
kjv@1Kings:8:10
kjv@1Kings:8:11
kjv@Job:38:1
kjv@Job:38:2
kjv@Job:38:3
kjv@Job:38:4
kjv@Job:38:5
kjv@Job:38:6
kjv@Job:38:7
kjv@Job:38:8
kjv@Job:38:9
kjv@Job:38:10
kjv@Job:38:11
kjv@Job:15:15
kjv@Job:15:16
kjv@Job:25:5
kjv@Job:25:6
Quoted resource: strongs 'H430'
H430 @ אלהים 'ĕlôhîym el-o-heem' Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - {angels} X {exceeding} God (gods) ({-dess} {-ly}) X (very) {great} {judges} X mighty.
Quoted resource: strongs 'H3519'
H3519 @ כּבד כּבוד kâbôd kâbôd {kaw-bode'} kaw-bode' From H3513; properly weight; but only figuratively in a good {sense} splendor or copiousness: - glorious ({-ly}) {glory} honour (-able).
Quoted resource: strongs 'H1926'
H1926 @ הדר hâdâr haw-dawr' From H1921; {magnificence} that {is} ornament or splendor: - {beauty} {comeliness} {excellency} {glorious} {glory} {goodly} {honour} majesty.
Quoted resource: strongs 'H7287'
H7287 @ רדה râdâh raw-daw' A primitive root; to tread {down} that {is} subjugate; specifically to crumble off: - (come {to} make to) have {dominion} prevail {against} {reign} ({bear} make to) {rule} ({-r} {over}) take.
kjv@Genesis:1:26
kjv@Genesis:1:27
kjv@Ephesians:2:2
kjv@Ephesians:2:3
kjv@Job:15:16 @ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
kjv@Psalms:8:4 @ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
kjv@Hebrews:1:1-3 @ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
kjv@Philippians:2:7
kjv@Philippians:2:8
kjv@Hebrews:2:9
kjv@1Peter:1:20
kjv@1Peter:1:21
kjv@John:13:31
kjv@John:13:32
kjv@Psalms:21:3
kjv@Psalms:21:4
kjv@Psalms:21:5
kjv@Philippians:2:9
kjv@Philippians:2:10
kjv@Philippians:2:11
"Because of Thine Enemies...." kjv@Psalms:8:2
kjv@Matthew:21:16
kjv@1Corinthians:1:26
kjv@1Corinthians:1:27
kjv@1Corinthians:1:28
kjv@1Corinthians:1:29
kjv@Matthew:21:13
kjv@Matthew:21:14
kjv@Matthew:21:15
kjv@Matthew:21:16
kjv@Romans:8:7
kjv@Hebrews:2:14
kjv@1Corinthians:15:24
kjv@1Corinthians:15:25
kjv@1Corinthians:15:26
kjv@1Corinthians:15:27
kjv@1Corinthians:15:51
kjv@1Corinthians:15:52
kjv@1Corinthians:15:53
kjv@1Corinthians:15:54
kjv@1Corinthians:15:55
kjv@1Corinthians:15:56
kjv@1Corinthians:15:57
kjv@1Corinthians:15:58
"O LORD our Lord, how excellent (mighty/worthy) is thy name (honor/authority/character/fame/renown/report) in all the earth!" 8:1 8:9
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