Psalm 100

Psalm 100 is a Praise Psalm. Next week we will end our study of the Psalms with a Psalm of thanksgiving…

Are we a people who worship? Psalm 100

Psalm 100 ESV

A Psalm for giving thanks. 1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

is a simple Psalm, Yet is has many important truths in that we should think about.

One of the commentaries I read this week said this Psalm is what the church should look like, the Commentator said, three verbs describe this Psalm. Rejoice, Know, and Spread.

Let’s Start with that Idea of Rejoicing. Rejoicing-to feel joy or great delight.

The Psalmist say make a joyful noice, and I have heard this verse misrepresented many times. Some of used it to shame people who have bad voices, Some have used it to be loud, but I believe its the position of one’s heart in worship. To truly express by mouth and instrumentals all we have to the Lord.

This call of joyful noise is to all the earth. All the earth is commanded to shout his praises. To rejoice. To be glad. Keith Green has the song where he says this is the day this is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice we will rejoice and be glad in it. We should serve him with great gladness. Live your life like this Psalm when it comes to worship.

Two Verses can help shape the way we serve and worship the Lord.

Colossians 3:17 ESV

17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

A heart that has been changed by God does all things in the name of Jesus giving thanks to him. I wonder what our life would look like if we just lived that way.

Goal of all things in the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Total worship to the Lord.

In this praising we want to know the Lord.

Know what specifically. Well the Psalmist says we are to Know three things.

Know that He is God. We don’t worship ourselves we worship God. We want to know the God we praise. We come to worship together to worship the one true God not ourselves.

And in that worship we acknowledge that he made us…

If God did not make us we would not be here. Its a simple as that. God made everything. And we should know that…

Finally we are his..

Incredible truth here. We are his for a few reasons, but as Christians we are his because we were bought with a price.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV

20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

He has those in the fold from all over the earth.

Revelation 7:9 ESV

9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Everything is under God’s control.

and so when we come and enter into worship we do it with thanks giving, and we do it with praise.

Finally the Psalm ends with the Lord being good, and his love is steadfast and it endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

This Psalm talks about the whole earth worshiping him. But in order for that to happen he uses you to take the gospel to the world. You must Spread the Word.

Romans 10:5–17 ESV

5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

The worship of God extends to telling people about Jesus. And in the act of worship we tell people about God.

and something great about worship is it extends to the generations… God’s faithfulness was not just for Adam, or Noah, or Abraham, David, Josiah, the disciples, the reformers, for the great awakenings, for us, it extends generation, and generation to all generations.

This Psalm is much like doxology that many know…

Praise God from whom all blessings flow..

Praise him all creatures here below.

Praise him above, ye heav’nly host.

praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

I want to pray tonight that we are a church like this..