Psalms: The Old 100
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Open your Bible this evening to Psalm 100,
This Psalm beings with the words “Make a joyful noise to the Yahweh.” (The ESV translates it LORD). What a fitting statement after last weeks meditation on Psalm 91.
In Psalm 91 we saw that God protects his people from every evil. Everything that comes near the saint is from God for their Good.
Yes, the trails, the worst things that have ever happened to you are for your good saint.
I get so tired of hearing men who claim to know the word pervert this wonderful truth.
They say, God didn’t do that evil people did that. And they are correct up to a point.
acts two says God’s plan was carried out by evil men.
Saint the teaching of scripture is that every single thing that has ever happened to you is for your good.
You are not a victim you are more then a conqueror.
You are not helpless you have a perfect helper.
You are not lost to the evil of this world but in Christ the evil of this world serve your ultimate glorification.
The Apostle Paul said it like this in 2 Cor 4:17 “ For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.”
John Piper wrote of how the christian should respond to suffering, to sin, to the difficulties in this life, like this “see him (the christian) in lament should I now repent, YES! and then proclaim all is for my fame”
What a nation we would live in if this truth was consistently proclaimed from american pulpits to believers.
What would it look like if the world saw a generation of Christian with joy in adversity proclaiming all is for my fame.
Ever martyr that has ever died in the name of Jesus has not died a victim but a concoction. A mighty warrior for God that won the ultimate victory and had an “weight of glory beyond all comparison.”
That is the call to night in Psalm 100. Make a joyful noise to the Yahweh. because he is our shepherd.
Lets Read Psalm 100:1-5
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.
May God Bless the Reading of His Holy and Inflatable Word
Let’s pray
Transition
Transition
Let’s walk though this Psalm this evening, starting with verse 1.
Body
Body
We Are His Sheep
We Are His Sheep
1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
All the earth, indeed this proclamation is for all. All are invited to come and rejoice, but none come unless God first changes their hearts.
even those of us in the body of Isreal, the church do not come there by our own doing but because the have a new heart.
“25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.” (Eze 36:25–27, ESV)
So the saint signs for Joy because God has protected them from the world and from themselves.
and that is why we say in verse 2.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
Server the Lord,
This is the duty all beaning owe the Lord
As we just went over, no one serves the Lord unless that have been requested and the should produce Gladness.
If you server the Lord, if you have the desire for serving him be glade because yo have been changed by the power of All mighty God.
Connecting back to Psalm 91 for a moment, you server with gladness because even when all the arrows fly and and the pestilence comes because it is from God for your Good.
“Come into his presence with singing!” (Ps 100:2, ESV)
Its consistent thought-out scripture that God ordained singing as his worship.
Here are just a few examples.
“I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” (Ex 15:1, ESV)
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.” (Ps 33:3, ESV)
“Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!” (Ps 47:6, ESV)
“And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” (Is 51:11, ESV)
“Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.” (Je 20:13, ESV)
“And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” (Eph 5:18–21, ESV)
We sign because that is the natural reaction to God’s every loving faithful, goodness.
And what do we sing, the Lord he is God.
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.
He is God, He made everyone
he is owed every one service, we have called the earth to serve the LORD.
His sheep are not all they are the only ones that enter the gates
We have already acknowledged that comes and rejoices, no one is his sheep that he has not made so, and it has gone without saying until now that it is only in and through Christ that this happens.
Again, Christ is the center focal that makes all of this work.
He is the great shepherd, being called his sheep.
he said, “11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.” (Jn 10:10–16, ESV)
We are the sheep from not of this fold and we have been made one flock.
It is impossible to separate the idea of being God’s sheep from Christ as the shepherd.
The deity of Christ here, and that Jesus is Yahweh.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
The Psalmist sandwiches an exhortation to praise between to reasons to praise.
First that we are Gods sheep and then that He is a good shepherd. look at verse 5
5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
We praise because he is God and he has made us his sheep and we praise because he is God and that goodness is not going to run out.
“his steadfast love endures forever.” (Ps 100:5, ESV)
For those that tell me I need an intercessor with Jesus my reply can only be you don’t know Jesus.
He died for the sheep, hes not going to leave them every and he compaction for them will never end.
Its interesting the renge of the semantic domain of these Hebrew words here. Let me read it to you with a few in there.
For the Lord is טוֹב(Toth) “pleasant, desirable, efficient, friendly, kind and morally good”[1] his חֶ֫סֶד (ḥesed) “loyalty; faithfulness, goodness, graciousness; and godly action” [2] endures forever”
Conclusion
Conclusion
In the past, in time of ignorance as Paul said, someone might be forgiven for not understanding the immense depth of God’s love. That’s why Paul called the time before Christ the time of ignorance. But we have Christ, we have seen God’s love displayed perfectly.
Saints there is no room for belly aching, there is no room for woe is me, there is no room for the victim mentality the pushes, me me me mine mine mine. The saint is to every day enter the courts of heaven with praise and say to the Lord
“You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” (Ps 16:2, ESV)
“say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” (Ps 91:2, ESV)
“say to the LORD, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O LORD!” (Ps 140:6, ESV)
Benediction
Benediction
20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
References
References
[1]The Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2017).
[2] Ibid.
Bibliography
Bibliography
The Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2017.