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sweat. Why is it, why is it that you've perfected praise? Or where do you draw strength from out of the the mouth of babes and sucklings? Because the mouths of babes and sucklings, little children, they tell the truth. They're honest. They don't understand politics. They don't understand, you know, being deceptive and using guile and being real sneaky to try to get what they want. It's just very blunt and very forthcoming of what they want. And if they see something, there's no filter. They're just gonna say whatever comes to their mind. So when you get praise from someone who's not trying to be deceptive, not trying to, you know, not doing it, holding anything back, hey, that's a great, that is, that is honest, that's genuine, that's sincere, you know you're getting real praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, right? So what was happening when Jesus quotes Psalm 8, the chief priests and the scribes, now are these the friends of Jesus? No, of course not. We know that these are the enemies, right? They hear the children crying in the temple. And what are they saying when they're crying out in the temple? They're not weeping crying. They're crying out saying, Hosanna to the son of David. So they're glorifying the excellent name of Jesus. Hosanna to the son of David and respecting him and glorifying him and giving him praise in the temple. And the chief priests are mad about that. We see how this fits in perfectly with Psalm 8, too, because it says, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, I saw ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. And in Matthew 21, Jesus, this very thing happens, that Jesus receives that praise. Jesus receives that strength from the children who are crying, Hosanna, and his enemies don't want to hear it, right? But this shuts their mouth. This stills the enemy. This stills the avenger, right? Because they have nothing to say about that. Jesus points that out. They've got, what do you say to that? But even just from, you know, obviously having the benefit of having all of God's Word and being able to look at the New Testament, we can see how clearly now, because we're only into verse 2 in Psalm 8, and I said, this is a psalm that's all about Jesus. So verse 1, we saw the excellent name. Verse 2, we're seeing this passage that Jesus quotes about himself from Psalm 8. And this isn't written anywhere else. This is the quote that it's coming from. Look at verse number 3, when I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, now we're talking about, he's looking at creation. He's looking at the heavens. He's looking at the planets, the stars, everything that exists. He's looking at this stuff. Well, how about in John chapter 1? You know this passage, very famous. Verse number 1, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. So what's the subject matter here? The Word, right? And we know later from John 1 that the Word was made flesh, and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. We know that the Word is talking about Jesus Christ. He's the one who is the only one that's begotten of the Father. And it says in verse 3, all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. So the creation we see is attributed to Jesus Christ in John chapter 1. Well, in Psalm 8 3, you know, we're considering the heavens and, you know, the work of thy fingers. Now I believe the Father commanded the creation, and the Son did the work. That's because the creation is also attributed to the Father as well. And you can see verses that they'll back that up, and I think they could both, they're both true while you have both working at it. You know, one speaking and hear the work of his fingers. Now obviously still the song is more poetic. It doesn't mean that Jesus is literally like taking a ball of mud and slapping it together with his hands or something like that, right? It's a figure of speech that we understand. Obviously we don't know exactly how God brings things into being, so I don't want to get too deep on that. But very clearly here, verse 3, we could still say we're talking about the same thing here.