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WARREN WIERSBE | AUDIO BIBLE STUDY | PART 4 | GOD'S ANSWER TO MAN'S SUFFERING | "KINGSHIP" | AES | Alpha English Sermons | YouTubeToText
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foreign [Music]
how excellent is thy name in all the Earth
out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou Hast ordained strength because of
thine enemies
that thou might have steal the enemy and
when I consider thy Heavens the work of
thy fingers
the moon and the stars which thou Hast ordained
ordained
what is man the thou art mindful of him
and the son of man that thou visitest him
him
for thou Hast made him a little lower
than the angels
and has crowned him with Glory and Honor
thou mayest him to have dominion over
the works of thy hands
thou has put all things under his feet
all sheep and oxen
yea and the beasts of the field the fowl
of the air and the fish of the sea
and whatsoever passeth through the paths
of the Seas
O Lord our Lord
how excellent is thy name
now Hebrews chapter 2 beginning at verse 5.
For unto the Angels hath he not put in
subjection the world to come wherever we speak
speak
but one in a certain place testified
saying what is man that thou art mindful
of him
or the son of man that thou visitest here
here
thou mayest him a little lower than the angels
angels
thou crownest him with Glory and Honor
and it set him over the works of thy hands
hands
thou has put all things in subjection
for in that he put all in subjection
under him he left nothing that is not
put under him
but now we see not yet all things put
under him
but we see Jesus
who was made a little lower than the angels
angels
for the suffering of death crown with
Glory and Honor
that he by the grace of God
now we bow our hearts to pray a little poem
poem
several years ago that so impressed me I
wrote it in the margin of my Bible next
to Psalm 8.
the title of the poem is an Epitaph
found somewhere in space
as you know an Epitaph is a statement
in Desolation here A Lost World lies
all wisdom was its aim
it sounded ocean deeps it measured the skies
and fathomed every mystery
what is man that's life's second most
important question
a life's most important question is who
is Christ
what think ye of Jesus Christ is life's
and if you sit here today and say well
Jesus Christ is a good man or a teacher
or an example or a prophet but he's not
the Savior he's not the Son of God then
and I would implore you with all of the
love of my heart
to bow down before Jesus Christ and say
life's most important question who is Christ
life's second most important question
now you can't really separate these two
because Jesus Christ became man
the God man
and man must have been mighty important
for God to leave the Throne of glory and
come down and die on a cross for man
what is man
be rather interesting for us to go down
to the library and start picking books
off the shelf to find the answer to the question
question
Mr Darwin has written a book and he
and Mr Freud has written a lot of books
and he tells us that man is a frustrated child
child
Mr Marx has written a few books and he
tells us man is simply an economic Factor
Factor
but here in Psalm 8 God
surpasses anything any man would ever say
say
would you believe friends that in Psalm
8 God says what is man man is a king
did you get that
thou has crowned him with Glory and Honor
Honor
thou has given him Dominion
in Psalm 8 God is saying to you and me I
don't know what you are living like but
I want you to live like a king
and of course at this point somebody
comes along and says that's a rather interesting
interesting
because we certainly don't see man
living like a king today man is living
like a slave and that's right
man's living like a slave
instead of having all things under his
and up and down the busy streets of
Chicago and the narrow little Lanes of
Chicago people are frustrated and broken
and because life is so meaningless and
life is so empty they're sitting at bars
and they're using narcotics and they're
getting involved in all sorts of things
and God says you're not supposed to live
like that I've made you a king
now I want us to understand this morning
you and I are supposed to live like kings
and if one person here this morning says
Pastor where's me I'm not living like a
king then I'm talking to you
but I imagine most of us have to confess
that in some area of Our Lives
there's anything but Dominion
and glory and honor
now in order to understand the kingship
of man
we have to be introduced to three kings
in Psalm 8 there are three kings
and I'm going to invite these three
kings to come in this morning
these are not the three kings of Orient
are these are the three kings of Psalm 8.
8.
and I want you to listen to these three kings
kings
I want you to hear what they have to say
because if we understand what these
three kings have to say will understand
how we can live as kings we don't have
to go back to the same frustrations and
and the same defeats God knows how many
three kings and each of these Kings has
a message King number one would you
please come in and sit down
I once asked a class who was the first
king in the Bible they said Saul that's
wrong the first king in the Bible is Adam
Adam
you see Psalm 8 is based upon Genesis
chapter one let's go back to Genesis
in Genesis chapter 1 God made and
crowned the first king
verse 26.
and God said let us make man in our image
image
after our likeness
and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea over the fowl of the air over
the cattle and over all the Earth over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the Earth so God created man in his own image
image
in the image of God created he him male
and female created he them and God
blessed them and God said unto them be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the
Earth fill up the Earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the
sea over the fowl of the air over every
living thing that moveth upon the Earth now
now
King Adam
says this to us today
God the father created us to be Kings
now lay hold of that
we aren't the product of evolution God
created us
we aren't animals we are created in the
image of God now it doesn't mean God
looks like me
it means that it reflected in my
personality is the personality of God
God has a mind to think with and he gave
King Adam a mind and God has a heart to
feel with and he gave King Adam a heart
and God has a will to decide with and he
gave to King Adam a will he made a
person out of him
made in the image of God
and so Adam says to us God the father
created us to be Kings created
not evolved
created in the image of God
not just an animal
created for God's glory
not for his own selfish purposes
created to be God's representative ruler
on the Earth
God took a crown as it were and he put
the crown on Adam's head and he said I'm
crowning you as my representative on the Earth
Earth
now when you and I walk down the streets
or read the newspapers or watch the
television we shake our head and say I
you mean God create created man man is
not an animal he sure acts like an animal
the fact of the matter is the birds of
the air and the and the fish of the Sea
and the beasts of the Earth are better
behaved than man is
what happened
well Adam you've got the story you
better tell it to us well the story is
over in Romans chapter 5. would you turn there
there
Romans chapter 5.
you see Adam was created by God
Adam was created in God's image
Adam was created for God's glory and
Adam was created as God's ruler
I suppose when I read that passage from
Hebrews and from Psalm 8 some of you
didn't like it
thou has made him a little lower than
the angels
they'd probably shock you if we told you
what it says in the in the Hebrew thou
the word that David writes down there is
and so I get up in the morning with the
few hairs I have all tousled on my head
and I'm tired and I look in the mirror
and I say you know
you were made a little lower than God oh
oh
what happened Romans 5 tells us what happened
happened
you see folks when God put a crown on
Adam's head he said I'm giving you Authority
Authority
but you don't have the right to rule
others unless you can rule yourself I'm
going to give you a test to see if you
can rule yourself
nobody has a right to have authority
unless he's under Authority
and God the father said I have made you
I have created you to be a king
if you're under my authority you will
reign with Glory and Honor but boy if
you're not under my authority it's going
to be trouble
and so I gave him a very simple test
well let's begin in verse 17.
for as by one man's offense that's King Adam
Adam
death reigned by one
much more they which receive abundance
of Grace and of the gift of
righteousness they shall reign in life
by one Jesus Christ
what's he saying here
he's saying King Adam what happened to
your Dominion I lost it
what happened to your crown I lost it
what happened to your glory I lost it
what happened to God's image I marred it
God the father created us to be Kings
but the first man
abdicated his throne
because he wanted to be God
Satan came along and said to Adam and to
Eve oh ye shall be as God
Eve listened to it and told Adam and
they sinned
and so the first man created to be a
king became a slave
and now today that precious little baby
born into that family is born in the
and all across this world are some three
billions of people whom God the father
created to be Kings and yet they have
inherited from the first king Adam
sad to say we're not Kings today
we're slaves
and the image of God has been marred by
sin the mind doesn't think God's
thoughts and the heart doesn't love what
God loves and the will is stubborn
against God
which leads us to the second king
thank you Adam you can leave now King
the first question in the New Testament
es chapter 5 says this is the book of
the generations of Adam and you read the
Old Testament and find out that Adam's
Generations are sinners and slaves tragedy
tragedy
then you flip over to Matthew chapter
one this is the book of the generations
of Jesus Christ
brand new king brand new family
now we turn to Hebrews chapter 2.
Hebrews chapter 2 quotes from Psalm 8 to
tell us that he's talking about Jesus
you see God the father created me to be
a king
sin made a slave out of me
God the son redeemed me to be a king
look at it now in Hebrews chapter 2.
verse 6 but one in a certain place
testified saying what is man that thou
art mindful of him or the son of man
that thou visitest him thou has made him
a little lower than the Angels thou
crownest him with Glory and Honor did
set him over the work of thy hands thou
has put all things in subjection under
for in that he put all in subjection
under him he left nothing that is not
put it under him
but now we see not yet all things put
under him man is not controlling the
beasts and the birds and the fish man
can't even control his own children [Music]
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and so the writer stops and says wait a
minute is the Bible true yes the Bible
is true you've put all things under
man's feet that's what it says but we
don't see all things under man's feet
you see the second Adam came the last
Adam came I should say
the last Adam came and in his act of
obedience on the cross
undid all of the tragic damage the first
Adam had done
God the father created me to be a king
and God the son redeemed me to be a king
that's rather interesting he says here
that Jesus Christ has Dominion
it's rather interesting Dominion
he has dominion over the beasts now you don't
be interesting if one of us would try to
exercise dominion over the beasts Jesus did
did
in Mark chapter 1 when Jesus was being
tempted in the wilderness it says he was
with the wild beasts and not a one
touched him
when he rode into Jerusalem he rode on
an animal that had not yet been ridden I
wouldn't do that
he had dominion over the Beast he had
dominion over the over the fish
fishing season is about upon us now and
some of you men will be out and some of
you women will be out this summer
drowning worms and casting lures and
getting sunburned
I suggest at the end of the summer
calculate how much per pound it costs
you to get that fish
might be cheaper to go down to Fulton
Street Market and buy it
you don't have dominion over the fish
Jesus did
Peter had been fishing all night and he
caught nothing and Jesus says
cast The Net over here he caught so many
fish he had to get his Partners to help him
him
he sent Peter down to the Sea one day to
catch one fish and in that fish's mouth money
money
and Jesus just controlled the fish he
had dominion over the fish he had
dominion over the fouls
I wonder how many birds there were in
Jerusalem when when Peter denied the
Lord three times they all kept quiet
and then Jesus gave the signal and one
began to Crow when Peter had denied
him you see when Jesus was here on Earth
he exercised the Dominion that Adam had lost
lost
and so the writer says we don't see man
exercising this Dominion yet we will one
of these days
one of these days when Jesus and his
church reign in glory will exercise
Dominion but he said we see Jesus
Adam says God the father created us to
be Kings
Jesus says God the son redeemed us to be Kings
Kings
now my friend have you trusted Christ as
your savior
have you come to Jesus Christ with your
sin and your disappointment and your
failure and said I've made a mess of my life
life
but I believe you've died for me and I
believe that I can give my heart to You
O Lord and you can change me from being
a slave to being a king
John says this over in the Book of Revelation
Revelation
John wrote something like this unto him
who loves us
and freed us from our sins in his own
blood and hath made us Kings and Priests
unto God Revelation chapter 1 verses 6
and 7.
you see if you're saved today by faith
in Jesus Christ you are a king you say
how do I live like it that leads us to
the Third King go back now to Psalm 8.
we've learned that God the father
created us to be Kings
we've learned that God the son
redeemed us to be Kings
God the Holy Spirit
anointed us to be Kings when you were
saved God gave you the holy spirit of
God and when the holy spirit of God is
in control of Our Lives we are obeying
Romans 5 17. Romans 5 17 says we reign
some of our dear Bible students are
waiting for the kingdom to start
reigning can hardly wait for the
Millennium so I can Reign don't wait
start now
Romans 5 17 says that you and I as
Christians today can reign in life
through Jesus Christ how do you do this
by the power of the Holy Spirit
the holy spirit of God enables us to
Reign Over
sin Romans 6 says sin shall not have
dominion over you you shall have
the holy spirit of God enables us to
take the scepter of faith and the
promises of God and reign in life
now some of you look at me very
skeptically and you say I don't believe
it well let's take King number three
Adam was King number one God the father
created us to be Kings Jesus was King
number two God the son
redeemed us that we might be Kings David
is King number three David wrote Psalm 8.
8.
and David says God the Holy Spirit the
anointing power of God anointed us to be
Kings now go back to Psalm 8 I'm going
to give you a lesson
on the Hebrew hymn book
you see our hymnal
you've noticed as we've used it has him
Tunes to it
Come Thou Almighty King the Italian hymn
Rejoice ye pure in heart which is the
tune Marion
all people that on Earth Do Dwell which
is the old hundredth
Come Holy Ghost create her blessed which
is the men done tomb here's the Saint
Agnes tune they're different Tunes in
the book
there are different Tunes in the Hebrew
hymn book
would you notice at the beginning of
verse 9
to the chief musician
upon mooth lab in
that little Hebrew statement there Muth
lab in means the death of the Sun or in
many of the manuscripts the death of the champion
now please Don't Drift as I tell you
this is very important
the Psalms have two kinds of inscriptions
inscriptions
at the beginning of the psalm
a Psalm of David at the end of the psalm
to the chief musician upon something or other
other
the musical direction is at the end of
the psalm now the tragedy is our English
translators shoved all these musical
directions from the end of the previous
Psalm to the beginning of the next Psalm
and that's not where they belong
this little statement at the beginning
of Psalm 9 to the chief musician upon
the death of the champion belongs at the
end of Psalm 8. you say what difference
does it make
well Psalm 8 was written to commemorate
the death of the champion
now who was the champion that was killed
by David Goliath
turn if you will now keep a finger in
Psalm 8 and turn back to first Samuel 17.
17.
first Samuel 17 is the description of
the slang of Goliath now you see the
preacher is sure running around Robin
Hood's Barn today you stay with me
before you walk out I want you to know
how to reign as a king
first Samuel 17. the Philistines are on
one side and the Jews are on the other
side and Goliath is in the middle verse
4 there went out a champion there's the
word out of the camp of the Philistines
named Goliath
we have his uh his Dimensions given here
and the huge uh spear that he had and so
forth and for 40 days this loudmouth
came out and shook his fists at the army
of Israel and said if you've got
somebody over there send them to fight me
now keep your place in first Samuel 17
go back to Psalm 8.
verse 2.
out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou Hast ordained strength there come a
little David
16 year old boy not with a spear or a
sword he comes out with a slingshot and
five stones
and Goliath looked at him and said boy
you're sending out to me some little kid
that's an insult
ah but out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings God ordained strength
because of thine enemies that thou might
as still the enemy and the Avenger for
40 days this giant shot off his mouth
accusing the people of God finally David
comes out and says I'm going to shut
well back to first Samuel 17.
verse 33 they said to David Thou Art but
a youth
look at verse 44. the Philistine says to
David come to me and I will give thy
flesh notice now unto the fowls of the
air and to the beasts of the field what
did David write in psalmate thou has
given him dominion over the fowl of the
David says to him well
I'm coming to thee verse 45 in the name
of the Lord of hosts the end of verse 46
that all the Earth may know that there's
a God in Israel oh Lord our Lord how
excellent is thy name in all the Earth
you see the point
David comes out and he faces Goliath and
he takes a stone and he throws the stone
and he stuns the giant then he goes up
and takes the giant sword and chops off
the Giant's head
then that night David slips out of camp
he's a Shepherd boy and he goes out on
the hill he looks up to the heavens
and says oh Lord our Lord how excellent
is thy name and all the Earth
here I am just a Stripling a babe a
suckling and yet you gave me strength
and I silenced the enemy and the Avenger
he looked up at the stars and said when
I consider the heavens all that's up
there who Am I who am I that you pay any
attention to me why have you visited me
ah Lord I know why I know why
you made me to be a king
and you saved me to be a king you
you see sometime before this event God
God had anointed David with power
and when nobody was watching David
killed a bear and when nobody was
watching David killed a lion he didn't
tell him about it he didn't send a news
release out to United press he just kept
you see David is saying to us God
anointed us to be Kings now look what
just take the city of Chicago who are
the important people in Chicago well
size has a lot to do with it if you're big
big
you're important
if you're strong
what did David have against a giant
well you may not have strength and you
may not have size how about status boy
if you've got status you can do anything today
today
he was the shepherd boy of a poor man
named Jesse David had everything against
him he didn't have size and didn't have
strength and didn't have status but you
know what he did have the power of the
holy spirit of God
you know we make all kinds of excuses as
to why we're failing if only I had a
better job if only I had different
friends if only I didn't have this if
only I didn't we make all kinds of
excuses to why we're failing everybody
tomorrow morning when the alarm clock
goes off some of you dear people go off
to work and you're going to face in your
office or in your school room or your
factory or someplace a giant
some loud mouth oppressor
what are you gonna do about it
most of us do what Saul and his army did
we sit there and say nothing can be done
nothing can be done and Along Comes A
little old Stripling a little David
and the secret of David's strength
is found in the first and last verses of
Psalm 8 oh Lord our Lord how excellent
is thy name in all the earth when you
and I are yielded to the lordship of the
holy spirit of God we can face the giant
someday I'd like to go through the
history of Moody Church and make a list
of all the things they said couldn't be
be interesting
my friend whenever I say can't be done
I'm not reigning in life
when I say this problem's too big for me
I'm not reigning in life I'm giving in
to Goliath
and David looks at me and says look
you were annoying to to be a king when
the spirit of God came into you that is
the spirit of kingship now go back to
that job and face that problem and get
your hands in God's hand and by faith
three kinds of people in every Church
those who
make things happen those who watch
things happen and those who don't know
you came to church this morning facing a
God the father created you to be a king
God the son redeemed you to be a king
God the Holy Spirit anointed you to be a king
king
now go on out and face that Goliath by
faith in the lordship of Jesus Christ
and when
that's how the early church did
that's how men and women down Through
oh Lord my Lord
how excellent is thy name in all the Earth
Earth
why did David defeat Goliath to the
glory of God
that for the glory of David
and so there's the secret the lordship
of God the glory of God
surrendered to his lordship allowing the
Holy Spirit
to fill us and to use us and we Face
these problems the lion the bear the
Giant and by faith we whip them
that's what Romans 5 17 calls reigning
in life
oh it's a great experience tomorrow
morning when you wake up
turn yourself over to the Lord
he's the god of creation but he's the
god of Salvation and he's the god of
your everyday problems just give
yourself to him and say Lord
I want your name to be glorified through
my body today
pick up the sword of the spirit which is
the word of God go out and face the
enemy and by faith
we reign in life
now we have to close at this point but I
could introduce you to dozens and dozens
of people in this service this morning
who could walk right past that
it's worked for elderly people it's
worked for young people it's worked for
middle-aged people it's worked for
office workers and for students and for
and so you look into the mirror and say
I'm not an economic Factor Mr Marks sorry
sorry
I'm not a frustrated child Mr Freud
sorry Mr Darwin I'm not an evolving
I'm a king
because my father created me to be a
king and my savior died for me to be a
king and the Holy Spirit lives in me
that I might reign in life through Jesus Christ
Christ
Heavenly Father
I pray that we might live this truth day
by day forgive us when we have allowed
sin to have dominion
all around us sin is reigning and death
is reigning and yet thank God grace is
reigning through righteousness
through Jesus Christ oh Lord I pray for
that unsaved friend here today who needs
to trust the savior
may he come and yield
I pray Heavenly Father for that defeated
Christian who's in bondage may he find
victory in Christ today
speak to all of our hearts that we might
do your will
for Jesus sake we pray amen
amen [Music]
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