We come this evening to a universally beloved psalm. Psalm 8 is one of the best; according to the commentators, it is the only sustained hymn of praise formulated entirely in the second person in the entire OT. It praises God for the excellence of His name, and then describes the glory of man as the servant of God and ruler over all the works of God's hands. As we will see, this exalted posture of man is true by creation, but finds its fullest fulfillment in the mediatorial reign of the man Christ Jesus over all the works of God's hands, all without exception. This psalm, then, is protological and eschatological. That is, in English, it refers to how things were at the first, at creation, and how things will be at the end, at the consummation. It is saturated with glory, and in an age where man has been desecrated, it is a wholesome corrective. We live in an era where nothing is sacred. The word "sacred" was deleted from the Declaration of Independence by the Enlightener Benjamin Franklin. But the eighth Psalm highlights just how glorious, just how noble, just how sacred man is — man in right relationship to God and thus to the earth and its creature and all the works of God's hands. Let me put the psalm's main point like this: The glory of God has, in the Son of Man, become the glory of man as well.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
