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Introduction
I have a question for you this morning.
How many of you came this morning with the intention of coming to Worship?
You may be thinking this a stupid question Pastor, as all of us come to church to worship.
It’s called a worship service.
But I ask, do we come on Sunday morning to worship?
If we are truly honest with ourselves, there are many reasons we come to church.
Some come, because it’s your turn to serve.
Tech, worship team, greeting, ushers, teaching, and even the preacher.
Some of us come because out of habit.
We always come to church, it is not something we miss.
It’s a good habit.
For the extroverts out there, you know who you are, you may come because it is a gathering of people.
Some come to Sunday morning because you need to be a part of a refreshing of the Spirit because it has been a hard week.
You come to be filled, encouraged, and equipped.
So I ask myself and everyone listening, Have we come to worship?
Do we need to prepare ourselves to Worship.
To supplement my income while I was serving part time in a church, God provided employment in a store.
Every time I came to work, there were things I had to do to prepare for work.
I had to have my steel toe shoes, I had to have my vest, name tag, and promptness for the shift.
In other words, I had to show up ready to do the job.
Do we treat our worship in the same way?
Should we be treating worship in the same way?
Are we coming prepared to worship?
So I ask the question again.
Did you come to worship?
Now that I have asked you this question, you may be thinking, what is worship?
Is it the songs we sing, Yes
Is it the prayers we offer up, Yes
Is it the giving of our tithes and offerings, Yes
I was sharing with our small group this week that we have designed our service with the following groupings.
We have a call to worship.
We have worship in songs, we have worship in prayer, We have Worship in the Word, and later we will respond in Worship.
Is Worship about us, NO
Worship is about HIM, God.
The title for this mornings message, I have taken right out of my Bible.
“Worship in the Splendor of Holiness”
This morning’s Psalm is about worship.
It is placed in this book four for a reason.
It was a part of the Psalter to remind the people as they were being drawn back to God.
As they were coming back in celebration of who God is,
what He has done,
it draws us to Worship.
This morning we are going to look at Psalm 96 and discover our call to worship.
We will discover that this Psalm as one person puts its,
The thought moves from a call to worship God as Savior (vv.
1–5) to a call to worship God as King (vv.
7–13).
But before we jump into this Psalm, let’s take a moment to Pray.
This morning, as an Act of worship, I am going to ask you to take a posture of submission to God as we are about to enter into His throne of Grace.
There are many postures that can be taken, from kneeling, sitting with hands raised, or standing.
I am asking that if you are able, to stand with me,
but feel free to take a posture of your own calling as we come to God in prayer.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, you are great in love and mercy full of compassion and we come before you with a desire and a heart to worship you.
Lord there are many distractions in our life that may take our eyes off of you and upon our lives and the circumstances we find ourselves in today.
Help us to focus on you.
God we have come to worship you, and as we look into your holy word, given to us through this Psalm may you open our eyes to see your truth for our lives today.
May it draw us closer to you as followers of the risen lord, our saviour, who by His precious blood shed on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins that we can even approach your throne of grace.
Lord Help us this morning to Know you More, Grow to more like you, and Give you the praise and glory as we worship you.
I pray this in the precious name of Jesus,
And all God’s people said AMEN
You may be seated.
I hope you have your bibles here whether in print, digital or if you are watching.
Turn with me to Psalm 96
Psalm 96 (ESV)
1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 4 For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
6 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7 Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
8 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
9 Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! 10 Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
12 let the field exult, and everything in it!
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy 13 before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
The Psalmist is calling us to Worship and he is doing this in two proclamations.
Proclamation of Praise (vs 1-3)
The first call is to proclaim to the Lord and to begin by praising Him.
He uses a method of praise in a three fold statement.
Sing to the Lord..... Sing to the Lord… Sing to the Lord.
John Wesley on Church Singing
In the year 1742 John Wesley gave these five rules on singing in church:
1. Sing all.
See that you join with the congregation as frequently as you can.
Let not a slight degree of weakness or weariness hinder you.
If it is a cross to you, take it up and you will find a blessing.
2. Sing lustily and with a good courage.
Beware of singing as if you were half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.
3. Sing modestly.
Do not bawl so as to be heard above or distinct from the rest of the congregation; but strive to unite your voices together so as to make one clear, melodious sound.
4. Sing in time.
Whatever time is sung, be sure to keep with it.
Do not run before nor stay behind it.
5. Above all, sing spiritually.
Have an eye to God in every word you sing.
In order to do this, attend strictly to the sense of what you sing and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound but offered to God continually—Courtesy
Moody Monthly.
Sing to the Lord
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