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Introduction
Big Idea: Worship God for there is no one like him
Song lyrics vs. listening for the beat (all songs SAY something)
Talk about nostalgia and sharing songs with our kids
Our lives are like songs praising someone or something (they say something)
What should the song of our lives be about?
The 96 psalm is a song that answers that question.
Worship God
Singing as a form of worship
What is worship?
Worship is rightly and gladly acknowledging God as he deserves.
Acknowledging=declaring the inherent worth of something.
Worship is not helping God or adding to him.
Rightly=believing and responding to biblically true things about who God is.
So to honor God as tolerating some evil thing is not worship.
Imagine someone who related to me based upon a faulty belief that I am good at basketball.
Image someone relating to Lebron James based upon a faulty belief that he was bad at basketball.
Gladly=the affections of the heart are stirred up in response to these truths.
You cannot worship God begrudgingly or by going through the motions
Let’s say you go to your child’s recital.
The entire time you are bored, checking Facebook, doing other things.
Your kid asks you how you liked it afterward and you say it was great.
Should your kid believe you?
No.
You do not really find worth in the performance because you did not find joy in it.
Worship that is joyless, emotionless, going through the motions is not worship because it does not rightly acknowledge who God is.
Joyless worship declares that God is boring.
God is not worship.
Why do we sing?
We are to express in action the affection for the truth of who God is.
One such expression is song.
We sing about that which we love.
For example, consider the response of characters in movies after meeting their soul mate.
For example, consider the songs of patriots for their country.
Song is an expression of love for something.
Why new songs are needed
Because God is infinite and inexhaustible, an infinite amount of songs are fitting to describe and celebrate who he is.
If you hate new songs, it is because you have too small a view of God
What the psalmist is going to do in this psalm is describe some reasons for worshipping God.
Let’s look at them.
Worship God because of his saving works
God deserves worship for saving his people
For saving his people from Egypt
For saving David from his enemies
God’s greatest saving work was the cross
He saved his people from their sins
That’s why Christian worship must be centered on the work of Jesus.
We must magnify God for his work of salvation.
Christ-less worship songs are deficient for rightly expressing worship to God for what he has done.
True Christian worship focuses on all that God has done for us through Christ.
Worship God because he is greater than other gods
God should be feared about all other gods.
Fear=honor.
No other god deserves to be feared.
Only the one true God.
The God we are speaking about of course is the one true God, the triune God, the God who is Father, Son, and Spirit.
Because other gods are worthless
Other gods are powerless to save and powerless to satisfy.
Because God is the only creator
The one true God is not powerless.
He has total power.
He created the universe!
Because God is full of glory, power, and beauty
Other gods lack the glory and strength and beauty the true God has.
God is infinitely glorious.
Allah lacks the beauty and glory of the true God.
The gods of the hindus lack this beauty and glory.
Naturalism lacks the beauty and glory of the true God.
Worship God, all people
Worship as ascribing to God his true qualities
We do not add to God or help him in anyway with worship.
Worship is about ascribing to God what he already has.
All people are called to worship God
God is creating worshippers for himself from among all nations.
Even here in the Old Testament we see that God had a vision for worship that went beyond the nation of Israel.
Missions exists because worship doesn’t.
The whole motivation for taking the gospel to the ends of the earth should be primarily for the reason that there are people in foreign tongues who are not yet praise God for all that he has done for us in Christ.
Jesus deserves the praise of every language and tongue.
There are people in our city who are not rightly and gladly acknowledging Christ as he deserves.
Let this drive our evangelistic efforts.
All people are to tremble before God.
Why?
Worship God as judge of the earth
Worship God as King
Who sustains the world.
God is a King who’s realm is completely and totally secure.
Nations come and go but this King’s reign is permanent.
Who will judge all people fairly.
God does not play favorites with justice.
He will be completely and totally just.
He is a good judge and a good King.
Notice who responds in praise to the reality that God is a good judge and king?
All creation rejoices
The heavens, earth, sea, field, forest and all that is in them
God created creation to sing.
Not that there is a literal song, but the universe declares the greatness of God.
The song of the universe is that God is amazing.
But, notice, there is something that the creation is longing for as it displays God’s glory.
Creation longs for sin to be undone by the Great Judge
The universe is not as it should be.
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