I Will Praise Him 2
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Last week we began a series on Praise and Worship. The first part of the series I want to focus on the aspect of “Praise” what it is, how it relates and differs to worship, how are we supposed to Praise according to the Bible.
Just briefly let me cover a couple of highlights from last time:
At it’s simplest “Praise” means to demonstrate or vocalize God’s merit and worth. Praise is the response due to God from all creation.
The major differences between Praise & Worship
Praise is more about an expression
Worship is more about an intimate relation and reflection
Today I want to delve a little deeper into this idea of PRAISE.
Read: Psalm 98:4-6
Read: Psalm 98:4-6
4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp; With the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
Introduction:
Introduction:
Margaret Jenkins Harris a member of the Iowa Holiness Association wrote that praise song we sing often copyrighted over 100 years ago:
Refrain:
I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His blood can wash away each stain.
3 Blessed be the name of Jesus!
I’m so glad He took me in;
He’s forgiven my transgressions,
He has cleansed my heart from sin. [Refrain]
Praise is often expressed in testimony:
Psalm 98 is a powerhouse of praise. It’s testimonial praise: It tells us how we ought to praise.
You might remember that I told you last time there are at least seven major Hebrew words that we translate into the English word Praise.
We looked at two last week:
yāḏâ (Ya- Dah) - Such as in Psalm 9:1 I will praise (yāḏâ) thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works. yāḏâ means To Express praise -to make a public confession of the attributes and acts of power of God. - it’s focus is on the content of praise, spoken out-loud.
hālal - [haw-lal'] To boast, extol, sometimes seen as to be clamorously foolish. the root meaning is connected with making noise. Found in verses like Psalm 145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise (hālal) thy name for ever and ever.
Our passage today includes the word praise but it has the same Hebrew word twice in a row. Look at this.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp; With the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Make a joyful noise -
Make a loud noise -
Dr. Garen Wolf points out in his book Church Music Matters that “Beauty is a concomitant of God’s orderly creation” and when God created music it was very good and beautiful (Gen. 1:31) Some scholars, although Wolf claims they are misguided, say that the music of the Bible was harsh and ugly, in other words, just clanging and banging with no real rhythm or reason.
Wolf, on the other hand argues that the Bible never makes a positive comment about noisy songs or harsh ugly music.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; For I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
I remember growing up and a car would drive by with the bass thumping and the windows rattling and my parents would say something like, “That’s not music that’s just noise.”
So how do we reconcile that with our text to make a joyful noise and to make a loud noise?
both of these words really mean to break out, or to shout out - this was always organized and within context of the song - it wasn’t just everyone doing their own thing causing a cacophony of senseless noise.
Now those aren’t the word for praise but I wanted to address them
Rejoice and SING PRAISE…SING unto the LORD....
That is the third Hebrew word for praise:
3. zāmar - (ZAW-MARR) it means - To offer praise to God using one’s voice as an instrument.
So the Psalmist says to make a loud noise or to just break out and rejoice sing for joy and sing praise or zāmar
We do that every once in a while - someone will start a chorus or a song and we just break out in song.
This whole Psalm, as I mentioned earlier is one power house of praise its a rising crescendo of Praise and adoration to God.
We don’t know the history of the Psalm itself -but Psalms weren’t written for history, they were written to Praise and Worship -
The Psalmist is obviously remembering a great victory God has won for them and he is begining a spontaneous Praise Service.
And He is asking everyone to join Him and I WILL PRAISE HIM 2
But just singing with you voice wasn’t going to be enough to cover it -
The Psalmist continues
zāmar (Sing Praise) in Psalm 98:4 and then goes right on and says zāmar (Sing ) unto the Lord with the harp, and then he lists other instruments the trumpet, cornet,
He is wanting orchestra accompanied praise -
I sometimes love those who arrange a song and either begin acapella or partway through the song stop the accompanist and sing acapella it just grabs your attention and you say Whoa somethings going on here...
David is saying don’t just sing but start the music with it let your praise rise higher and higher go up a key
Notice the idea of praise piled on top of praise -
I WILL PRAISE HIM using my voice and music - now if you can’t play an instrument you can still zāmar you can lift your voice and sing - you can still praise
Tremper Longman says, “This song bursts at the seams as it praises God....”
But even this wasn’t enough for the Psalmist he wants the praise to go even higher - to rise to even greater points -
Look at verse 7-8 its a personification
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. 8 Let the floods clap their hands: Let the hills be joyful together
Research in the field of bioacoustics (is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion and reception in animals (including humans)
has revealed that every day we are surrounded by millions of ultrasonic songs.
Did you know, for instance, that the electron shell of the carbon atom produces the same harmonic scale as the Gregorian chant?
Or that whale songs can travel thousands of miles underwater?
Or that meadowlarks have a range of three hundred notes?
Supersensitive sound instruments have discovered that even earthworms make faint staccato sounds!
Arnold Summerfield, the German physicist and pianist, observed that a single hydrogen atom, which emits one hundred frequencies, is more musical than a grand piano, which only emits eighty-eight frequencies.
Science writer Lewis Thomas summed it up it this way: "If we had better hearing, and could discern the [singing] of sea birds, the rhythmic [drumming] of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of [flies] hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet."
Adapted from Mark Batterson, All In (Zondervan, 2013), pp. 118-119
https://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/2013/september/2093013.html
Just take the praise up a notch and let everything use everything they have to Praise to extoll to show the worth and value of OUR GREAT GOD!!!
How Great is our God
Sing with me how great is our God
Then all will see how Great is our God
How great,how great is our God!!!
I WILL PRAISE HIM I WILL PRAISE HIM
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain
Give Him glory all ye people
For His blood can wash away each stain!!!