What Is Man Part One.mp3

Part One of "What Is Man?" Psalm 8. Oh LORD our Lord Oh Yahweh, The I Am That I Am our Lord. The Almighty GOD is the Sovereign Majesty and at the same time is personal to people because we are made in His likeness and image. We are not animals. We are created are like GOD. See Genesis 1:26 We are each an eternal spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body. See Ist Thessalonians 5 :23 The Creator Name of GOD is Elohim, a plural word which seeks to convey the overflowing inifinite majesty and glory and power of GOD. It also indicates GOD as being Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Elohim is the Name of GOD as the Creator of all and Judge of all, He Who overflows in Divine Majesty. Selah Psalm 8:3 The immense unfathomable universe is described as being merely the work of GOD's fingers. He didn't even need to use His entire hand! He ordained and set in place the moon and stars. There was no random big bang! There is no such thing as evolution! These are man made nonsensical theories made by people to try and disprove to their own eternal consciousness that there is not really a Creator and Judge: Elohim. Psalm 147:4-5 Our Heavenly Father has determined and knows the exact number of the stars and both gives and knows each individually by name. His understanding is infinite and beyond measure. Selah See also Isaiah 40:28 Despite the wonder of wonders that Elohim has created in the stellar heavens and upon the earth, the focus of the creation narrative in both Genesis chapter 1 and Psalm 8 is man : the pinnacle of GOD's creation. Genesis 1:16 says that "GOD made the stars also", almost forgotten to be mentioned, and in Psalm 8 this is reiterated in telling us that these are just the work of His fingers. It's like He flicked them into place in a milli second. The supreme emphasis and focus of the Creation narrative is NOT on the universe or the creatures and plants etc of the earth itself but on mankind. Man is the pinnacle of GOD's creation. Genesis 1:26 starts with the word "Then". The pattern in the text up to verse 26 has been "And GOD said. Psalm 8:4 also is the emphasis : What is man that you are mindful, always thinking about and caring about him? In Job7:17 Job asks the same question: What is man that You make so much of him, and that Your very heart, Your passion is set, fixed obsessively upon him. Human beings are the pinnacle of GOD's creation. GOD's heart, mind, attention, focus, passion and obsession is with people. Psalm 8:5 states in the Hebrew text that GOD made man a little lower than Elohim, with a capital "E", which is GOD Himself. Some of our English translations stick to the original Hebrew text and some don't. Tragically the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament treats the word "Elohim" as if it has a small "e", elohim, which can be translated as "heavenly beings" or "angels". But the original text was in Hebrew. Man is created in the likeness of GOD Himself meaning that we have the capacity for intimacy and fellowship with GOD Himself. This is why Satan hates human beings so much. Satan/Lucifer wanted to "be like the Most High" See Isaiah 14:12-14 Angels are GOD's servants, they do not fellowship with Him. GOD gave His beloved man the crown of glory and honour. ( Psalm 8:5) Selah We will continue this study tomorrow but to finish, please consider this statement : No one can claim to worship and glorify the majesty of GOD while treating His supreme pinnacle of His creation with contempt. Selah Shalom shalom