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Language leads us.
What we say communicates what we believe.
We are going to look at the songs in the Bible that, no matter what led people back to God.
This series intends to help us find a language rich enough that leads us back to God.
What if you were suddenly transported to a new country whose language you didn’t speak?
You would be in shock.
The signs would be in another language, you wouldn’t know what they said, asking for help would be difficult if you didn’t even know how to say “help.”
IT would be a frustrating, even chaotic feeling situation.
We understand our world because we understand the language.
We know what the signs say and we know how to communicate to others.
Prayer can feel like another language sometimes.
We understand the concept of it but don’t always know what to do with it.
It can feel like a frustrating situation.
But what if we had a guidebook to help our prayers?
To give us a language of prayer?
Even if we’ve never prayer before or if we are frustrated by prayer and it feels like prayer is just talking to the cieling, the Psalms can help.
This series is called the Language of Prayer.
We are going to take the next 5 weeks to go through 5 different psalms to talk about what we can learn from the psalms about prayer.
The book of psalms in the OT is basically a song book, containing 150 different songs to the Lord.
And the psalms are wildly different.
Some of complete praise and worship, some come from a place of anger, rejoicing, fear, frustration.
But no matter the starting place, each psalm leads us back to God and helps give us the language to do so.
That is what we will be looking at, that no matter where we start, the psalms help lead us to God through prayer.
So for this morning we are going to look at psalm 8. Let’s get back into the passage by hearing it again.
Psalm 8 (ESV)
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.
A Psalm of David.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
This psalm is a sandwich, of sorts.
It communicates it’s most important parts at the beginning and end of the psalm, telling us what it is that we are to know about God.
The psalmist begins the psalm and ends it with
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
God’s Majesty is found in all of Creation and in the middle of all our experiences .
The most majestic takes up the most of our attention.
Define a time where you have experienced something majestic.
What made it majestic?
No matter what is happening in and around us, through us by us, near us, above us, we are to know that the Lord is our Lord and His name is majestic in all the earth.
We are led from the majesty of God and led to the Majesty of God.
When we lived in Oregon we used to camp on Mt hood from time to time.
And mt hood is about 12000 feet high.
Once you get about 8000 feet up, you get to alpine level and no matter where you look and no matter your perspective, you can’t help but see the summit of the mountain.
It is everywhere.
It is all around you.
You can’t not see it.
It is majestic.
But that can be hard when plaster is literally falling on our faces.
But the psalmist helps us to see that all of creation and all situations lead to knowing the majesty of God.
And the psalm will help us find the language of prayer when we are having a hard time seeing His majesty.
Hearing the language of prayer helps us to communicate with God on His level, with who He is and how He operates.
The psalmist says that He is majestic.
Above all creation He is majestic.
Understanding majesty means that there is nothing else above that.
Nothing else is more supreme than that.
How easy or difficult is prayer for you?
What is one thing that could make it easier?
There is nothing better we can do with language than to be able to give credit and acknowledge that which is most majestic.
Let’s look at ways in which we can learn from the psalmist how we can acknowledge God as majestic and what that word helps us to understand about HIm.
God’s Sovereignty helps us to cry Majesty!
God is sovereign over creation, He is compassionate on His creation
To be sovereign over something is to have authority and agency in it.
God is the the creator, He has authority in His creation.
Look at how the psalmist describes the God of creation:
you have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
One who is sovereign is one who rules over something.
The Psalmist gives God the range of creation, of humanity, enemy and friend, young and old.
The psalmist covers the range of humanity and the range of creation.
There is not a part of creation in which God does not have a part, or as we will see, does not take part in.
The word here for “majesty” is word that is robust and isn’t just describing God in one way, it points to all the ways that God is larger than bigger than greater than.
And to hold something majestic is to see it larger than anything else around it.
When the psalmist used “majestic” is it multidimensional.
He is not just saying God is great.
To consider something majestic is to understand it's greatness in terms of size, strength, power, or authority.
God’s sovereignty, His rulership, leads us to call Him majestic.
His work in creation and His work in humanity leads us to call out the bigness of God and and cry out majesty.
Make a list of all the ways that God is majestic
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