O Lord, our Lord, how excellent

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O Lord, our Lord, how excellent
  Thy name in all the earth!
Let every people, tribe, and tongue
  Proclaim its boundless worth.
Out of the mouth of little ones
  Thou hast established praise,
That Thou may still Thine enemy
  And swiftly end his days.
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When we the universe behold,
  The work of Thy great hand—
The moon and stars which Thou ordained
  By lofty wisdom planned;
O what is man that Thou should’st care
  That Thou should’st mindful be?
The son of man Thou visitest
  In Thine economy.
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O Jesus Lord, Thou art that man,
  The One who joined our race,
Who put upon Himself the flesh
  And took a lower place.
But now with glory Thou art crowned,
  With sovereignty complete.
Now through Thy Body Thou dost rule
  With all beneath Thy feet.
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Thine incarnation, rising too,
  And Thy transcendency,
Thy Lordship, Headship, kingdom full,
  And Body here we see.
By all these steps of work divine
  Thou hast established praise.
With overflowing hearts to Thee
  Our joyful voice we raise.
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Oh, soon that blessed day shall come—
  All tongues these words shall peal!
But in the local churches now
  We have a foretaste real.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent
  Thy name in all the earth!
Let every people, tribe, and tongue
  Proclaim its boundless worth.
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Un Hermano

To Recover the Earth

God wants to regain the earth. The earth has become a crucial place, a place that Satan wants to hold and a place that God wants to regain. The battle is over the earth. Whoever gains the earth is the winner. If Satan can keep the earth under his hand, he has the victory. If God can regain the earth, He will have the victory. The Lord Jesus has not returned because the earth is still so much under Satan’s usurping. This is why God needs the church. The church must fight the battle to regain the earth, if not the whole earth, at least some stepping stones, some outpost for the Lord Jesus to put His feet upon. The earth is crucial.

This point has been fully proved by Psalm 8. Psalm 8 begins by saying, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ” It also ends the same way. There is no doubt that the Lord’s name is excellent in the heavens, but, in a sense, the name of the Lord is not excellent on this earth. His name is not excellent among so many of the fallen people. We need to pray, “Your name be sanctified” (Matt. 6:9). Oh, the Lord’s name must be sanctified on this earth. The problem is not in the heavens; the problem is here on earth.

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Message 7 (LSM)


Camille Campbell

Highland, IN, United States

That is so beautiful, that’s a great worship song.


Tolu

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth.


Israel Hwang

Ansan, South Korea

Thank you God Amen


Michelle

Austin, TX, United States

O what is man that Thou should’st care

That Thou should’st mindful be?

The son of man Thou visitest

In Thine economy.

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent

Thy name in all the earth!

Let every people, tribe, and tongue

Proclaim its boundless worth.

Amen!


Sanjay Maisi

Delhi, India

Oh, soon that blessed day shall come—

All tongues these words shall peal!

But in the local churches now

We have a foretaste real.

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent

Thy name in all the earth!

Let every people, tribe, and tongue

Proclaim its boundless worth. Amen Lord.


Maisha Parkar

Pflugerville, Texas, United States

*2) When we the universe behold,

The work of Thy great hand—

The sun, the moon and all the stars

By lofty wisdom planned;

O what is man that Thou should’st care

That Thou should’st mindful be?

The son of man Thou visitest

In Thine economy.


Shiloh Macgill

Shoreline, WA, United States

Amazing song!! So yummmy and outstanding! Amen! 🥰🥰😀


Stephen Bellingham

Irvine, CA, United States

I'm here in Irvine singing this hymn with seven brothers in Christ!

"O Lord, our Lord, how excellent

Thy name in all the earth!

Let every people, tribe, and tongue

Proclaim its boundless worth."


Nathaniel

Burlingame, California, United States

Oh Lord how excellent! Thy name in all the earth!

[Psalm 8] Verse 3 says, "When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers,/The moon and the stars, which You have ordained." David did not say that he saw the heavens, but he saw "Your heavens." We have a hymn on this psalm in our hymnal (Hymns, #1097). In the second stanza of that hymn, the writer referred to the sun, the moon, and the stars. The writer added the word sun, but this is wrong. In Psalm 8 David saw only the moon and the stars, not the sun. We cannot see the sun, the moon, and the stars at the same time. When we see the moon and the stars, we cannot see the sun.

The moon and the stars in Psalm 8 indicate that it was in the night. In the nighttime, everything is dark. But the psalmist lifted up his eyes to look at our Father's heavens. In the night he saw the moon and the stars which God had ordained. The scientific experts can bear witness to this ordination. The divine ordination of the moon and the stars is truly a wonder.

After the psalmist turned his view from the messy earth to the bright heavens, he said, "What is man, that You remember him,/And the son of man, that You visit him?" (v. 4). He turned his view from the moon and the stars in the heavens back to man on this earth. First, God remembers man. Second, He visits man. We have to understand this in a poetic way. God in the heavens remembered man before He became incarnated. Then He came to visit man by becoming a man through His incarnation. The Triune God came to visit us. Before coming to us, He remembered us. The Triune God was very busy, yet He remembered us. Then according to His remembrance of us, He became incarnated to visit us.

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