Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Student Workbook, SW16

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D O I N G J U S T I C E A N D L O V I N G M E R C Y : C O M P A S S I O N M I N I S T R I E S

B. Human beings are crowned with glory and honor.

Ps. 8.3-7 - When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, [4] what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? [5] Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. [6] You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, [7] all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field.

1. Made a little lower than the angels

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2. Crowned with glory and honor

3. Granted dominion over the works of the Lord’s hands

4. All things placed under humankind’s feet

5. This is an allusion to the dominion of Messiah Jesus, cf. Ps. 110.1; 1 Cor. 15.24-28; Eph. 1.22; Heb. 2.8

6. Implication: All human beings, regardless of their histories or behaviors, have been created just a little lower than the angels, crowned by God with glory, honor, and dominion .

C. Human beings are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Ps. 139.13-16 - For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. [15] My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,