“How Majestic Is Your Name”
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“How Majestic Is Your Name”

 (ID: 1553)

When the psalmist declares God’s majesty in Psalm 8, he also considers the insignificance of man and marvels that God is mindful of him. Alistair Begg examines the psalmist’s right reflection on both God and man, reminding us to have big thoughts of our Creator and small thoughts of ourselves. Viewing God and our sins rightly should lead us to be reconciled to Him through Christ.

Series Containing This Sermon

Psalms, Volume 1

Psalms 1:1–9:20 Series ID: 11901


How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The pGittith.1 A Psalm of David.

1O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your qname in all the earth!

You have set your rglory above the heavens.

2sOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established tstrength because of your foes,

to still uthe enemy and the avenger.

3When I vlook at your heavens, the work of your wfingers,

the moon and the stars, xwhich you have set in place,

4ywhat is man that you are zmindful of him,

and athe son of man that you bcare for him?

5Yet you have made him a little lower than cthe heavenly beings2

and crowned him with dglory and honor.

6You have given him edominion over the works of your hands;

fyou have put all things under his feet,

7all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

8the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.