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Dear church, good morning.
Thank God we have another chance to praise God.
He is indeed good.
He is indeed loving.
He is indeed worthy of all our praise.
Recently, people talk about worship in a selfie world.
And I thought about it, yes, we do take a few selfies these days eh?
This time a went to blue mountain you thought a girl looking at you.
Then she goes 7/3 face, and some hand gesture, and you thought do I know this girl, then she (raise up a phone), oh… you are taking a selfie, I see.
The world of selfie people takes something that is not about them and make it about them through the lens of their camera.
But doesn’t a world a selfie also has some effect on our worship today?
Our sinful hearts want to fill up the frame of God’s glory with our face.
Our flesh wants to distract us from the infinite worth of holy God who invited us into his presence and behold him and be made like him.
We want to songs to be sentiment over substance, we want music preference over meaningful proclamation, we prefer our sermons to be useful to me rather than a worship to God.
To be sure, our faces are in the frame, but they are a speck of sand on the beach of a cast ocean of his beauty and holiness.
But thank God, he gave us Psalms.
He tells us our God is a different God that a God’s purpose to meet our needs, different from a gospel to make us loved, significant, validated, entertained a charged up.
Instead, we are created for Him, we are created to worship him.
We are created to sing a new song for him.
We are created that no matter what circumstances we are in, to be joyful because of him.
Here we are told to worship him with joy, we are told to sing him a new song, we are to make noise, using instruments to worship him.
Let’s pray,
Dear Lord, so easily we could be distracted from our worship.
But father, help us know it’s about you, help us know you alone is worthy of our praise, help us to concentrate and fix on you Jesus today.
Thank you Lord.
Sing a new Song (1-3)
Today we would also select a we will be preaching from the psalms.
It is our prayer that despite sometimes things that looking down, despite the future seems unclear, that we will be a people of praise, as God is doing a new thing in us.
Let’s first look at Psalm 33 1-3 “Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!
Praise befits the upright.
Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.”
See here, we are to be joyful in front of God.
Shout for joy can mean yelling for joy because we are happy.
Long time ago I was eating with my family and we saw a famous singer eating in a corner.
My sis was so excited, her eyes are shining and asked for autograph.
I was so embrassed, they were not happy as well.
But my sis, just excited and joyful and can’t stop talking about it.
This maybe the same sort of excitement, but maybe even more.
God the creator and redeemer is so much more worthy.
What cause it, contrasting to only startstruck, yes God struck but also we felt the weight of sin and God’s forgiveness, his goodness and generiosity.
Psalm 32 1-2 “Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
His kindness, his grace takes your breath away.
Worship is about get carried away by God and shout praises to God.
Not only are we to shout for joy, in verse 2 and 3 And we use music, that’s why every week we have worship team with us singing our heart to him.
Worship should be accompanied by instruments who is also created by God.
A pastor put it right, “Singing is the Christians way of saying, God is so great that thinking will not suffice, there must be deep feeling; talking will not suffice, there must be singing.”
How to do music in church?
First, it calls us for freshness.
THis is the idea of our topic, sing a new song for him.
Believer’s in every generation experience God’s grace for themselves, and thier musicians write new songs with creative joy.
“As God gives us fresh occasion, so do not content yourselves with old songs and psalms, but make new one suited to the ocassion.”
I was reading the bible with family every night, and when we encounter a new chapter of bible, nearly every time we could find a new song on youtube.
And all these songs spoke to us.
But also the new songs since I’m introduced in Meadowbank Service, thanks for all the brothers and sisters that lead us in singing.
It spoke to my heart in a new way.
But not only fresh, but also with musical excellence.
The psalmists calls on the musicians to “play skillfully”.
I wonder how many of us here knows an instrument.
Have you ever occur to you that this talent is not only for our own enjoyment, but for God.
And to be skillful is to honour God and help people praise him.
Will you consider serving in this area?
If so, let us know.
And lastly, worship should also be enthusaistic and heart.
“Loud shouts” can sometimes mean a war cry or a cry of alarm.
It shows again the energy, emotion and enthusiasm that is proper and fitting when we are cheering for such a great king and great God.
“Men shout at the sight of thier kings (or their favourite sports team), shall we offer no loud hosannahs to the son of David?
So let us sing with fevor, with freshness and play skillfully.
Every week when we come here, let’s sing praises to Lord with a new song, loudly, heartily.
His creative word (4-9)
After this call of worship, the psalmists gives us cause for worship.
In verse 4-19 the pslamist fans the coals of our heart with another three main reasons for praising God.
It is hard to get excited about nothing.
The joy and energy of verse 1-3 are rooted in the truth and theology of verse 4-19.
Great worship grows out of great doctrine.
And the first cause of worship is through his word.
Psalm 33: 4-9 “For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.”
First we parise God’s word because it is truth.
The words of God is so true and that it is one with his actions in faithfulness.
“In all this we find the true secret of our confidnece, and so our joy .
The word and the work of God are eve one.
Hiw words never returns to Him Empty.
More than that, this truth loves rightesousenss and justice.
His word is not amoral, but his goodness spread over all the earth.
The God is not destached from the human condition, he is what we understand as good.
There is no spot in it where the traces and footprints of God’s love may not be discerned, if only the eyes and hearts are open.
God’s word are not only about is moral qualities, but also the power of the word, that he brought the existence of the world.
He spoke, and it is done.
This goes way back to Genesis, where his glory is reflected in his work of creation.
The more we study the world around us, the more clearly we see God’s character displayed.
The order in the universe displays God’s order, and the beauty in the world displays the goodness of God’s heart.
The earth could have filled with endless terrors, but instead God filled it gnerously with grace.
And he today still holds us together.
Wonder if you have been travelling aroud this holiday?
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