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When we see God up close , his majesty is a mixture of magnificence and terror. But Psalm 8 reminds us that God is not unapproachable. Join Pastor Dan Bidwell for a message about the dignity that God bestows upon his children in Christ Jesus.
Songs of Jesus4. The God Who Crowns Dan Bidwell, Senior Pastor Psalm 8 17 July 2022
We might start with a little audience participation (apart from God) name as many things as you can that you would describe as majestic.
When I think of the word majestic, I think of lions. Im fortunate to have seen lions in the wild in Africa a couple of times.
On the Serengeti, a few times we saw lions sitting up on rocky outcrops, just like Pride Rock in the movie Lion King.
But they were lions at a distance. To really feel the majesty, you need to see lions up close...
On safari in Rwanda one time, we came round a corner and there was a fresh kill on the ground a wildebeest. And so the driver started looking around for whatever had made the kill. Suddenly he stopped the car. There, in the limbs of a tree just 10 feet from the car were not one, but three lions.
They were taking a little lie down after filling themselves up on wildebeest, and they barely even looked in our direction. But there they were, up close, in real life, in all their deadly power, just feet from where we were sitting.
I was glad that we were in the car. I had been in exactly the same place the year before when our safari car got a flat tyre, and the driver and I had to get out and try to put on the spare, only there wasnt one. We had to wait until somebody came and got us. I was glad we didnt see the lions that day...
There is something majestic about lions (and something a little bit terrifying if Im honest with myself, but maybe thats part of the appeal).
In a similar way God is described as majestic in our Psalm today. And when we see God up close there his majesty is a mixture of magnificence and terror and reassurance all mixed in together...
Thats what were going to explore as we open Gods word today, so why dont we pray that God would speak to us from Psalm 8?
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Will you teach us today about your majesty, your glory, and help us to see you for who you are the king exalted above all things.
1
But will you also show us the softer side of your majesty your great love for us in Jesus Christ, and the dignity you bestow upon us. Teach us, we pray. In Jesus name, Amen.
Well, we are in the middle of our summer series in the Psalms. This series is all about making the Psalms part of the soundtrack of our life listening to them, learning from them, letting the words teach our hearts, and letting them shape our prayers as we sing the Psalms just like Gods people have been doing for thousands of years.
And todays Psalm starts by lifting our gaze to recognize/appreciate/behold the majesty of God.
Majesty (v1-2)1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1)When we think of the word majesty, we often associate it with royalty. For example, we
address the Queen of England as Your Majesty.
But did you know that tradition only started in the early 1500s during the reign of Henry VIII? Apparently when Henry heard that the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V being called Your Majesty he didnt want to be outdone so he adopted the term for himself.1
But the original meaning of the word majesty came from the Bible. Majesty was a word used to describe the grandeur of God, his greatness, his splendor, his sovereign power and authority and dignity. Majestic is a word that describes what God is like.
And I think it is important for us to appreciate the majesty of God, because it helps us have the right perspective about God, to see him as he really is, to remember the incredible power and authority that are contained within him.
C.S. Lewis captures this idea in his famous childrens book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Four children find themselves in a parallel world where animals talk, and a wicked Queen has brought an eternal winter to the land. But she is not the legitimate ruler of Narnia. The true ruler is Aslan, the great lion, as Mr Beaver explains to one of the children, Susan.
Mr Beaver said, Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.""Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
1 https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-henry-viii 2
If you were to come face to face with a lion, even a trained one, you would have respect its ability to tear you to pieces. That power is part of its majesty, and the very same reason why you should never underestimate it.
And I think that idea is contained in v1 of our Psalm, when David refers to God as Lord. There is an appropriate respect for God, when we use that name for Him the Lord, or YHWH, a name that the Israelites would not even say out loud, because they held it in such honor, and they didnt want to be held in contempt for blasphemy.
David says that this name of God the Lord is to he held out as majestic in all the earth. It is to be honored, and revered and exalted.
Jesus taught his disciples to begin their prayers in the same way
Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name
And this isnt just about words. This is about the way we think about the Lord, the place we give him in our lives. Verse 1 asks us: who is the Lord of your life?
Because its all too easy to forget the majesty of the Lord. Its all too easy to domesticate God, like a lion in the cage. We can shrink God and keep him around for when we need something, like a genie in a bottle, but other than that we can push him out of our daily consciousness, we could even forget hes there.
Does that ever happen to you? Because it happens to me.
Were going to come back to this idea of capturing the majesty of the Lord, because I think its the main take-home idea of Psalm 8.
But for now lets keep moving through the Psalm
Mindful (v3-4)
Have you ever laid down at night and looked up at the stars? I grew up in the city, so you could always see a few stars, but nothing like when you get out into the country. One of our family friends had a huge sheep ranch, and I remember as teenagers we would sometimes drive an old truck out into the middle of nowhere and just lie down in a field and gaze up at the stars. They were so bright that they would cast a shadow on a clear night, and when the moon is full it felt almost like daytime. And as you lie there looking up at the stars, you can get lost thinking about how many there are, and how far away they are, and just how small we are as humans in the universe.
3
David (our Psalmist) also grew up on a sheep ranch. And as a shepherd boy, perhaps he had looked up at the stars in wonder as well.
Because in v3-4, he describes that feeling of being very small in the universe.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4)
When David thinks about the expanse of creation, and the creator God whose hands threw stars into space, he marvels because that same God cares for us.
I love the way v4 is translated here - what is mankind that you are mindful of them.
I dont know if youve heard about mindfulness. Mindfulness is a practice that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. In a world that is full of distraction, mindfulness is all about learning to keep your attention in the present, and learning to be attentive to your body, and to thoughts and feelings and sensations without judgment. Its kind of like mediation, but you dont empty your mind, you actually listen to it. Mindfulness has been shown to foster stress reduction, increased concentration, better working memory, sense of happiness and more.2
If you want to try mindfulness, you can get free guided exercises on apps like Calm and Headspace.3 Its something that has helped me and members of my family at different times.
But I love the idea that God is mindful, right there in v4. In the midst of sustaining the universe, God does not forget us. We are always present in his mind, always under his watchful gaze, always held in the palm of his hand, always known and always loved.
David asks:
4 what is [hu]mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4)
And its an important question, isnt it? Why does God care? Why does he pay attention to us? Why does someone so important think about tiny creatures like us, on a tiny planet in the midst of a vast universe? Why is humanity so important to God?
The answer is in v5-8, an answer that takes us back to the moment that God created humanity. 2 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/07-08/ce-corner
3 https://www.headspace.com, https://www.calm.com4
Made (v5-8)
My moms first job was as a librarian, so I grew up with books. Books are our friends, my mom used to say.
And so when our kids were little, it was important for us to pass on our love of books to them. We have lots of favorite childrens books that we read together, but I also remember the different childrens Bibles that we got for them. We made it a part of the bedtime routine to read a Bible story and pray. Praise God that both of my kids are next door right now sharing Bible stories with your kids and grandkids in our Childrens Program.
But one of our favorite Bibles was The Big Picture Story Bible this one tells the story of the Bible in a way that helps you see the big picture, hence the name, and of course there are lots of big pictures too.
Anyway I thought I would read you the creation story from this book, because its done so beautifully. Sorry I cant show you the pictures online copyright.
But you can listen along and imagine.
The Bible is Gods story, and it begins with these big words: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.Do you know how God created everything?Simply by speaking words.
Imagine, making the world with words! Strong words. Powerful words.With words, God created everything! He made the stars, the sun, and the moon. He made the animals, the fish, the trees, and flowers too. Everything!And then after all these things, God created... People!Can you see Adam and Eve? God put his people in the garden of Eden.They were made in the image of God.They were to be the rulers of Gods place.Adam and Eve were very special to God.Did you know that you are also very special to God? You are special because you are made in his image too! 4
I love that!
4 Taken from The Big Picture Story Bible by David Helm, Copyright 2004, pp. 16-26. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org.
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God creates everything, but the last thing he creates is humans. And Genesis 1 tells us that God created humankind in his image. And part of that image-bearing is that he makes us rulers over the rest of creation. Look how David puts it in Psalm 8, from the end of v4:
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,and the fish in the sea,all that swim the paths of the seas.
Out of all the creatures that God made, only humans are made in his image. Only humans are given the mandate to rule over creation. Ive said before this is not a license to plunder the earth and destroy it God gives humanity the responsibility to steward and care for the natural resources that He has provided for us.
But come back to v5 with me, because we are reminded there of the very great dignity that God has bestowed upon humanity.
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
This verse tells us that we are very special to God, to quote The Big Picture Story Bible.
God has endowed us with a royal status. Humans are the crowning glory of all creation, unequaled (except perhaps by the angels, but Im going to say more about that in a moment.) God crowns humans as the rulers over the earth, ruling in Gods image, as Gods representatives on earth. Given the glory and honor that befits a queen or king...
It doesnt always feel like that, does it? Were so good at forgetting who God has made us to be. And were so good at acting in ways that are less than God has made us to be.
And thats where this Psalm takes on another dimension (when we look at it through the lens of the New Testament).
Messiah
Can you nod your head if you were taught grammar at school? 6
Back in Australia, there was a teaching movement about 30 years ago that did away with teaching grammar to kids, at least in the old fashioned way. And so generations have grown up not knowing what a noun, or a verb, or an adjective is.
Anyway, let me give you a little grammar test to see if you were taught well. Im going to give you a word in the singular, and you tell me the plural.
For example, I say child, you say children. Got it?
- I say Book, you say...
- I say House, you say...
- I say Mouse, you say...
- I say Goose, you say...
- I say Moose, you say...
- I say Person, you say...
That was fun! Why the grammar test?
If you were reading a paper Bible, or the Bible online, you would see little footnotes all the way through our passage from v4-6 that tell us that this passage can be translated with plurals, or singulars.
Our translation uses the plural the collective idea of humankind, and how God has created us put the world under our feet. Plural.
But the original Hebrew could be translated as a reference to a particular man...
And that is how the New Testament reads this passage. The writer to the Hebrews quotes these verses and relates them to Jesus. Hebrews 2:9 says it was Jesus who was made lower than the angels for a little while and is now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death.
And Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, says that ultimately all things must be put under Jesus feet, that he will be the undisputed ruler over all creation. Jesus is the perfect Adam, the only human able to rule without corruption. Humankind perfected, unstained by sin. Crowned with glory and honor.
Thats how Jesus would have read Psalm 8. How he would have made sense of his mission to leave his Fathers side in heaven, to come to earth and be born in human flesh, with all its frailty. Jesus became human to fix us from the inside. To redeem us. To restore what was broken at the fall. And to give us back the glory and honor that was ours at creation.
7
Psalm 8 reminds us that the God of all creation has remembered us, despite our sin, and has enacted a plan to remake us in his image, flawless and perfected, through Christs death on the cross.
And thats why the Psalm finishes like it started. Praising the majesty of God, and proclaiming his name in all the earth, bringing him honor and telling the world what he has done for us.
Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:9)
Will you pray with me?
8
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When we see God up close , his majesty is a mixture of magnificence and terror. But Psalm 8 reminds us that God is not unapproachable. Join Pastor Dan Bidwell for a message about the dignity that God bestows upon his children in Christ Jesus.
Songs of Jesus4. The God Who Crowns Dan Bidwell, Senior Pastor Psalm 8 17 July 2022
We might start with a little audience participation (apart from God) name as many things as you can that you would describe as majestic.
When I think of the word majestic, I think of lions. Im fortunate to have seen lions in the wild in Africa a couple of times.
On the Serengeti, a few times we saw lions sitting up on rocky outcrops, just like Pride Rock in the movie Lion King.
But they were lions at a distance. To really feel the majesty, you need to see lions up close...
On safari in Rwanda one time, we came round a corner and there was a fresh kill on the ground a wildebeest. And so the driver started looking around for whatever had made the kill. Suddenly he stopped the car. There, in the limbs of a tree just 10 feet from the car were not one, but three lions.
They were taking a little lie down after filling themselves up on wildebeest, and they barely even looked in our direction. But there they were, up close, in real life, in all their deadly power, just feet from where we were sitting.
I was glad that we were in the car. I had been in exactly the same place the year before when our safari car got a flat tyre, and the driver and I had to get out and try to put on the spare, only there wasnt one. We had to wait until somebody came and got us. I was glad we didnt see the lions that day...
There is something majestic about lions (and something a little bit terrifying if Im honest with myself, but maybe thats part of the appeal).
In a similar way God is described as majestic in our Psalm today. And when we see God up close there his majesty is a mixture of magnificence and terror and reassurance all mixed in together...
Thats what were going to explore as we open Gods word today, so why dont we pray that God would speak to us from Psalm 8?
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Will you teach us today about your majesty, your glory, and help us to see you for who you are the king exalted above all things.
1
But will you also show us the softer side of your majesty your great love for us in Jesus Christ, and the dignity you bestow upon us. Teach us, we pray. In Jesus name, Amen.
Well, we are in the middle of our summer series in the Psalms. This series is all about making the Psalms part of the soundtrack of our life listening to them, learning from them, letting the words teach our hearts, and letting them shape our prayers as we sing the Psalms just like Gods people have been doing for thousands of years.
And todays Psalm starts by lifting our gaze to recognize/appreciate/behold the majesty of God.
Majesty (v1-2)1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1)When we think of the word majesty, we often associate it with royalty. For example, we
address the Queen of England as Your Majesty.
But did you know that tradition only started in the early 1500s during the reign of Henry VIII? Apparently when Henry heard that the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V being called Your Majesty he didnt want to be outdone so he adopted the term for himself.1
But the original meaning of the word majesty came from the Bible. Majesty was a word used to describe the grandeur of God, his greatness, his splendor, his sovereign power and authority and dignity. Majestic is a word that describes what God is like.
And I think it is important for us to appreciate the majesty of God, because it helps us have the right perspective about God, to see him as he really is, to remember the incredible power and authority that are contained within him.
C.S. Lewis captures this idea in his famous childrens book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Four children find themselves in a parallel world where animals talk, and a wicked Queen has brought an eternal winter to the land. But she is not the legitimate ruler of Narnia. The true ruler is Aslan, the great lion, as Mr Beaver explains to one of the children, Susan.
Mr Beaver said, Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.""Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
1 https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-henry-viii 2
If you were to come face to face with a lion, even a trained one, you would have respect its ability to tear you to pieces. That power is part of its majesty, and the very same reason why you should never underestimate it.
And I think that idea is contained in v1 of our Psalm, when David refers to God as Lord. There is an appropriate respect for God, when we use that name for Him the Lord, or YHWH, a name that the Israelites would not even say out loud, because they held it in such honor, and they didnt want to be held in contempt for blasphemy.
David says that this name of God the Lord is to he held out as majestic in all the earth. It is to be honored, and revered and exalted.
Jesus taught his disciples to begin their prayers in the same way
Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name
And this isnt just about words. This is about the way we think about the Lord, the place we give him in our lives. Verse 1 asks us: who is the Lord of your life?
Because its all too easy to forget the majesty of the Lord. Its all too easy to domesticate God, like a lion in the cage. We can shrink God and keep him around for when we need something, like a genie in a bottle, but other than that we can push him out of our daily consciousness, we could even forget hes there.
Does that ever happen to you? Because it happens to me.
Were going to come back to this idea of capturing the majesty of the Lord, because I think its the main take-home idea of Psalm 8.
But for now lets keep moving through the Psalm
Mindful (v3-4)
Have you ever laid down at night and looked up at the stars? I grew up in the city, so you could always see a few stars, but nothing like when you get out into the country. One of our family friends had a huge sheep ranch, and I remember as teenagers we would sometimes drive an old truck out into the middle of nowhere and just lie down in a field and gaze up at the stars. They were so bright that they would cast a shadow on a clear night, and when the moon is full it felt almost like daytime. And as you lie there looking up at the stars, you can get lost thinking about how many there are, and how far away they are, and just how small we are as humans in the universe.
3
David (our Psalmist) also grew up on a sheep ranch. And as a shepherd boy, perhaps he had looked up at the stars in wonder as well.
Because in v3-4, he describes that feeling of being very small in the universe.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4)
When David thinks about the expanse of creation, and the creator God whose hands threw stars into space, he marvels because that same God cares for us.
I love the way v4 is translated here - what is mankind that you are mindful of them.
I dont know if youve heard about mindfulness. Mindfulness is a practice that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. In a world that is full of distraction, mindfulness is all about learning to keep your attention in the present, and learning to be attentive to your body, and to thoughts and feelings and sensations without judgment. Its kind of like mediation, but you dont empty your mind, you actually listen to it. Mindfulness has been shown to foster stress reduction, increased concentration, better working memory, sense of happiness and more.2
If you want to try mindfulness, you can get free guided exercises on apps like Calm and Headspace.3 Its something that has helped me and members of my family at different times.
But I love the idea that God is mindful, right there in v4. In the midst of sustaining the universe, God does not forget us. We are always present in his mind, always under his watchful gaze, always held in the palm of his hand, always known and always loved.
David asks:
4 what is [hu]mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:3-4)
And its an important question, isnt it? Why does God care? Why does he pay attention to us? Why does someone so important think about tiny creatures like us, on a tiny planet in the midst of a vast universe? Why is humanity so important to God?
The answer is in v5-8, an answer that takes us back to the moment that God created humanity. 2 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/07-08/ce-corner
3 https://www.headspace.com, https://www.calm.com4
Made (v5-8)
My moms first job was as a librarian, so I grew up with books. Books are our friends, my mom used to say.
And so when our kids were little, it was important for us to pass on our love of books to them. We have lots of favorite childrens books that we read together, but I also remember the different childrens Bibles that we got for them. We made it a part of the bedtime routine to read a Bible story and pray. Praise God that both of my kids are next door right now sharing Bible stories with your kids and grandkids in our Childrens Program.
But one of our favorite Bibles was The Big Picture Story Bible this one tells the story of the Bible in a way that helps you see the big picture, hence the name, and of course there are lots of big pictures too.
Anyway I thought I would read you the creation story from this book, because its done so beautifully. Sorry I cant show you the pictures online copyright.
But you can listen along and imagine.
The Bible is Gods story, and it begins with these big words: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.Do you know how God created everything?Simply by speaking words.
Imagine, making the world with words! Strong words. Powerful words.With words, God created everything! He made the stars, the sun, and the moon. He made the animals, the fish, the trees, and flowers too. Everything!And then after all these things, God created... People!Can you see Adam and Eve? God put his people in the garden of Eden.They were made in the image of God.They were to be the rulers of Gods place.Adam and Eve were very special to God.Did you know that you are also very special to God? You are special because you are made in his image too! 4
I love that!
4 Taken from The Big Picture Story Bible by David Helm, Copyright 2004, pp. 16-26. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org.
5
God creates everything, but the last thing he creates is humans. And Genesis 1 tells us that God created humankind in his image. And part of that image-bearing is that he makes us rulers over the rest of creation. Look how David puts it in Psalm 8, from the end of v4:
what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,and the fish in the sea,all that swim the paths of the seas.
Out of all the creatures that God made, only humans are made in his image. Only humans are given the mandate to rule over creation. Ive said before this is not a license to plunder the earth and destroy it God gives humanity the responsibility to steward and care for the natural resources that He has provided for us.
But come back to v5 with me, because we are reminded there of the very great dignity that God has bestowed upon humanity.
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
This verse tells us that we are very special to God, to quote The Big Picture Story Bible.
God has endowed us with a royal status. Humans are the crowning glory of all creation, unequaled (except perhaps by the angels, but Im going to say more about that in a moment.) God crowns humans as the rulers over the earth, ruling in Gods image, as Gods representatives on earth. Given the glory and honor that befits a queen or king...
It doesnt always feel like that, does it? Were so good at forgetting who God has made us to be. And were so good at acting in ways that are less than God has made us to be.
And thats where this Psalm takes on another dimension (when we look at it through the lens of the New Testament).
Messiah
Can you nod your head if you were taught grammar at school? 6
Back in Australia, there was a teaching movement about 30 years ago that did away with teaching grammar to kids, at least in the old fashioned way. And so generations have grown up not knowing what a noun, or a verb, or an adjective is.
Anyway, let me give you a little grammar test to see if you were taught well. Im going to give you a word in the singular, and you tell me the plural.
For example, I say child, you say children. Got it?
- I say Book, you say...
- I say House, you say...
- I say Mouse, you say...
- I say Goose, you say...
- I say Moose, you say...
- I say Person, you say...
That was fun! Why the grammar test?
If you were reading a paper Bible, or the Bible online, you would see little footnotes all the way through our passage from v4-6 that tell us that this passage can be translated with plurals, or singulars.
Our translation uses the plural the collective idea of humankind, and how God has created us put the world under our feet. Plural.
But the original Hebrew could be translated as a reference to a particular man...
And that is how the New Testament reads this passage. The writer to the Hebrews quotes these verses and relates them to Jesus. Hebrews 2:9 says it was Jesus who was made lower than the angels for a little while and is now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death.
And Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, says that ultimately all things must be put under Jesus feet, that he will be the undisputed ruler over all creation. Jesus is the perfect Adam, the only human able to rule without corruption. Humankind perfected, unstained by sin. Crowned with glory and honor.
Thats how Jesus would have read Psalm 8. How he would have made sense of his mission to leave his Fathers side in heaven, to come to earth and be born in human flesh, with all its frailty. Jesus became human to fix us from the inside. To redeem us. To restore what was broken at the fall. And to give us back the glory and honor that was ours at creation.
7
Psalm 8 reminds us that the God of all creation has remembered us, despite our sin, and has enacted a plan to remake us in his image, flawless and perfected, through Christs death on the cross.
And thats why the Psalm finishes like it started. Praising the majesty of God, and proclaiming his name in all the earth, bringing him honor and telling the world what he has done for us.
Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:9)
Will you pray with me?
8
Watch at: https://youtu.be/ShEcSFlPjJo File Downloads: https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2022/08/14/04/20/23/25da5dcb-8c85-42d0-b698-4d4eaa28226b/07.17.22%20%20Sunday%20Sermon%20Transcript.pdf