Let Everyone Praise The Lord!!!

Good morning Church!

Announcements:

The last week of July will be our VBS. Our theme this year is Zoomerang! If you plan on helping during VBS, please see Keshia today, so that she can get your shirt sizes. Otherwise, we are going to order so many shirts in different sizes, and it will be a first-come, first-serve basis.

We are also asking for donations of pool noodles. These will be used to make certain decorations for VBS, so if you would like to donate, that would be awesome!

Sunday evening Bible Study at 5:00 PM on Revelation!!!

VBS School Supply List is in the foyer.

We have a goal of building 100 backpacks for our VBS kids. Any backpacks that are left over will be taken to DWS.

Praise Reports:

Daily Bible Study with coworker!!!

Prayer Requests:

Tithes

Children’s Church

Doxology:

This is my Bible. It is God’s Holy Word. It is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, and I will hide its words within my heart that I might not sin against God! Amen!!!

Open Bibles To: Psalm 117.

I am very excited to get into the Word of God today! Are you excited? Let’s take 10 seconds and show God how excited we are for a Word!!!

Psalm 117 NKJV

1 Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! 2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!

The title of the message today is, “Let Everyone Praise The Lord!”

The aim of the message today is to show how praising God can have a spiritual impact on our lives, as well as others around us.

Context

The other psalms that we have looked at so far, as well as the one we are going to look at next week, are quite a bit longer than this psalm. Psalm 117 is not only the shortest psalm of all the psalms, but it is also the shortest chapter throughout the entire Bible.

Though it may be short, it presents one of the most powerful messages in Scripture. To some degree, its two verses summarize the entire Bible: all people of all nations should praise the Lord because of His great love for humanity.

Normally, we would take a few moments to dig into the history of the text and its characters. We would provide some level of cultural, historical, or textual context to the passage at hand, but we do not know who wrote Psalm 117, nor do we know its original setting. But its purpose and message are clear: it is a purely evangelistic psalm that invites the entire human race to praise the Lord. Ultimately, It will find its fulfillment in heaven, where the redeemed of all ages and all the earth will praise God throughout eternity.

Content

Praise Is Our Response

Psalm 103:1–5 NKJV

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Hebrews 13:15 NKJV

15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

Ephesians 1:3 NKJV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Praise Is Our Reward

Psalm 28:7 NKJV

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.

Psalm 145:3 NKJV

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.

Psalm 139:13–14 NKJV

13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

O Happy Day! O happy day! When Jesus washed my sins away. He taught me how, to watch and pray, and he taught me how to live again...

How many songs, can I sing to exclaim, Your wondrous love, and beauty so rare. What could I say, if You brought down the rain? Every day, I’d fight through the pain, my heart would still say, “Your name is Jesus....”

Praise Is Our Rallying Cry

Psalm 9:1 NKJV

1 I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works.

Psalm 105:1 NKJV

1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!

Psalm 51:12–15 NKJV

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You. 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

Acts 16:22–30 NKJV

22 Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 23 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.” 29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Colossians 3:16 NKJV

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Commitment

Revelation 5:13 NKJV

13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!”

Revelation 7:9 NKJV

9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,