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 Psalm 8 looks back to the original creation of humanity in Adam. It relates the language of God's command to Adam found in Genesis 1 and 2. Man was a glorious creature made in the image of the Creator God. He was a marvel in a perfect world that God had made for his habitation. But something happened, and Adam and Eve disobeyed God.  In the Fall man was cursed and cast out of the garden. Even the created order was affected by man's fall into sin. Although humans remain in the image of God that image is marred, distorted with a dead spiritual nature and a mortal body destined to perish. Psalm 8 can provoke questions since man does not currently have undisputed or full dominion over the earth. Even the flood with its judgment that cleansed the earth and in a way had a second beginning in Noah, humanity remains in a fallen state of sin and the curse of death. But there was hope given to mankind in the curse God put upon the Serpent that the Seed of the woman would one day destroy the Enemy and restore mankind to the full image of the Creator.  When we look in the New Testament we see that Psalm 8 is treated as a Messianic psalm. It looked forward to the coming of the Man Christ Jesus, the Second Adam who represents those whom the Father has given him. Thus Psalm 8 is treated by the author of Hebrews as speaking of the incarnate Son of God, the Son of Man. Although we do not currently see all of mankind enjoying the rulership of the original order we do see Jesus! See Hebrews 2:5-9. We see Jesus in his incarnation who suffered our curse of death in all of its dimensions now risen and glorified. Jesus in his whole dual nature  is crowned with glory and honor. He bears the perfect image of God, and humanity is restored in him to an even more surpassing glory than the original state of man. Redeemed humans, those connected in faith to the Lord Jesus, will be resurrected in his image and will exercise their God-ordained role on the new earth in the eternal state.

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Psalm 8 is a great psalm that has often inspired worship of his name and wonderment that such a glorious Being would care for people. The psalmist is overwhelmed in his thoughts of the glorious majesty of God and the creatureliness of mankind. Such a glorious God thinks about people and reveals himself to them. God's glory is seen in the universe and it is displayed in the earth. O LORD our Lord how majestic is your Name in all the earth. These words have often lead to poem expressed in psalter renditions and hymns such O Lord, Our Lord, Thy Glorious Name and the well known hymn, How Great Thou Art.

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Jesus the Messiah is the fulfillment of the tabernacle of Israel and later the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of all that the tabernacled foreshadowed. The whole system of Hebrew worship that God instituted by Moses is an object lesson of the person and work of the Lord Jesus. John wrote, And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth. .. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:14,17)
The author of Hebrews writes in chapter 8:1-2  Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

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The Psalms have always played a central role in the life God's people, in both Israel and in the Church. They function in many ways: prayer, instruction, confession, and affirmation. They are songs expressing the range of human emotions in relation to God and others. We should read the Psalms, pray them, sing them, and connect them to the story line of the Bible. Psalm 91 is a well-beloved psalm. It has a warmth about it and express a word to God, a word about God to others, and a revelation of God in his divine speech in the last paragraph. This podcast incudes a reading of the psalm with notations of who is speaking and how each of its distinct sections embrace a creed, affirmation or confession of faith, instruction about God, and God's response to the one who trusts in him. 

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John introduced early that his purpose in writing his good news of Messiah Jesus announcement was that people would believe on the Son.  As many as received him he gave the right to be children of God. But what does this mean? How does Jesus explain what it means to receive him. John 1 and 3 give us the answer.

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John's introduction to his witness of the Messiah begins with a prologue that spells out his main idea. He first identifies the Word as preexistent in eternal fellowship with God as God, face to face. Then he moves in verse fourteen to declare the great truth of the incarnation. The Word became flesh and pitched his tent for a few years among us in order to redeem us. This required that the Word became a mortal human man who could die and be resurrected.  

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Who is Jesus the Christ? John's gospel was written to answer this question. His entire thesis is summarized in the first 18 verses known as his prologue. In these verse he sets forth the relation of Jesus to God, to deity, to time, to creation and to mankind. In the first three verses he declares that Jesus is the logos or Word of God and is Eternal.  

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Who is Jesus Christ? Whose Son is he? This is question to which we must give an answer.  What did Jesus say about himself and his relationship to the Father? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?  If so exactly how did Jesus claim deity? John's gospel gives us the answer to these questions.

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Jesus explained his own person, his mission, and the meaning of his coming, his death, burial and resurrection and his return to the Father in the words of the prophets of old. He referred and quoted or alluded to the writings of Moses in the Law, of David in the Psalms and the prophets. This is the place where and he commissions us to do the same. We should the gospel in the earlier revelation and be ready and able to present the good news of the Savior from the shadows and prophets. His command in Luke 24:44-49 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”  Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,  and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  You are witnesses of these things.  And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

We can follow their progress in the Acts as they preached the good news of salvation by faith in the crucified and risen Savior the Messiah Jesus. We are to do the same.

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Hymns have been associated with the Lord' Supper or Holy Communion since the night in which Jesus instituted this act of worship. We read in Mark 14:26 And when they had sung a hymn they went out... Mostly likely they sang from the later part of Psalm 118. A psalm associated with the Passover. 
In keeping with the Biblical purpose of singing in the worship of God in Christ Jesus the psalms, hymns and songs we sing should be a way of the word of Christ dwelling in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom with thankfulness in our hearts to God.
This message illustrates the use of hymns in three recent communion services. The songs varied in their purpose from teaching, words of institution to sung prayers to God.
The hymns recited from three recent Sundays are:
How Sweet and Awesome is the Place > a teaching followed by prayer
Service 2
Jesus Invites His Saints >a teaching and exhortation song at beginning
For the Bread Which You Have Broken > a prayer hymn to the Lord Jesus at the conclusion
Service 3
When on That Night ('Twas on that Night) a hymn of the words of institution in two parts. First 3 stanzas before the Bread and the last 4 for the Cup
The Supper requires the right people- believers
the right words the Scripture especially Jesus words of institution, 
the right elements the bread and the fruit of the vine (wine or grape juice) shared and   the people consuming the bread and wine
Prayer of Thanksgiving
 The Holy Supper is a corporate act of worshipped commanded by Lord Jesus and spiritually beneficial to his people who eat and drink in faith.

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