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122 Psalm 122.

Psalm 122.

And begin reading a verse number one.

Simon says, I was glad when they said to me let us go into the house of the Lord.

Our feet have been standing within your Gates Old Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together where the tribes, go up the tribes of the lore to the testimony of Israel to give.

Thanks to the name of the Lord for Thrones are set there for judgment.

The Throne of the House of David.

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

May they Prosper.

Who love you?

Peace.

Be within your walls Prosperity within your palaces for the sake of my brethren and companions.

I will now say peace.

Be within you because of the house of the Lord, Our God will seek your good.

Let's pray together.

Heavenly Father Lord, we just are thankful Lord for this gathering together.

During this meet, at the midweek service, we ask you Lord to meet with us.

In a very special way as we consider this particular Psalm this evening and Lord, I pray that you would help us to gain some truth from this and apply these truths are heart.

I pray.

Lord for your continued blessings upon the youth and the adults as they are at Youth Camp.

Prague on your for your protection upon them.

And Lord I pray God that you would just meet with us in a special way as we enter into a time of prayer.

In just a moment Lord help us to pray fervently and lift up those who stand in need father, we love you with all these things of Christ name.

Amen, this particular song is called a song of degrees.

There's a several Psalms that are considered to be in this category.

A Psalm of degrees, they start in Psalm 120 and go all the way to Psalm 134.

They were Psalms that were sung by Jewish pilgrims, as they made their way to Jerusalem to observe the mandatory Feast given to them in the law.

The songs were sung as the worshippers made their way to the holy place.

Of Jerusalem to worship.

And there were called songs of degrees because Jerusalem sat on a hill and no matter where you came to make that pilgrimage, you were always ascending.

And so, they were songs of degrees are rescinding higher and higher at geographically speaking, but also they're called songs of the grief.

Because the Psalms really were the songs of Sindh.

The heights of the glory and Majesty of God, the Psalms were designed to not only glorify the Lord, but also they were designed to help prepare the hearts of the saints of God for worship in the Tabernacle and later on in the temple.

This particular song talks about the place of worship that being in Jerusalem, it talks about the purpose of worship and that is the Lord.

And then it talks about the power of worship in that it brings gladness to the hearts of the worshippers David Rice.

Again, in verse number one, I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the house of the Lord, the word glad they're means to cause to rejoice.

It gives reason to rejoice, and when you think about it, there are several things that is mentioned in the Old Testament that was Santa bring gladness to the heart.

Several things that were mentioned.

Number one, I'll just share a few of those things.

Number one, wine wine, Psalm 104 and verse 15 says and wine.

That makes glad the heart of man.

Proverbs 27 verse 9, point, mint and perfume, makes glad the heart, it says ointment, in perfume Delight, the heart.

Now, that was especially true in those days.

When not everyone took showers everyday, you could not do that.

And so if you lived in these times you were glad that your spouse or the person that you love had a little boy, Matt and perfume on the cover, up the body odor.

Proverbs 15, 20.

Says a wise son.

Makes a father glad but a foolish man despises his mother.

How about a kind word?

Proverbs 20?

And 25 says anxiety in the heart of man causes depression but a good word makes it.

Glad How about the increase of righteousness?

Proverbs 29 in verse 2, when the righteous are in a 40, the people Rejoice, they are glad, but when a wicked man rules, the people groan, and then Second Chronicles chapter 21, verse 27, says the Lord and his salvation is something that makes us glad.

It's then they returned every man of Judah and Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy for the Lord had made them Rejoice over their enemies.

I think you'd agree with me that this is one of the primary reasons why we ought to be glad we why we ought to rejoice.

When you come to understand that you have been redeemed by God's grace, you have been forgiven of your sins, you have been then adopted into the family of God.

You have much reason a lot of reasons for gladness into rejoice in these versus David's houses, that he has found a reason for gladness and going into the house of the Lord.

That's we know not everyone.

Shares this same emotion.

As it pertains to going into the house of the Lord.

If they did.

His house would be full.

Every time we open these doors.

Summer, glad when it's time to go to church.

But yet some are sad.

When it's time to go to go to church and then the others are just plain mad that it's time for sure, but David found overwhelming joy in going to the house of the Lord.

And, you know, this the same should be true of each and everyone of us.

We don't worship a tabernacle.

We do not worship at a temple.

We worship in the New Testament under the day of Grace, we worship as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit lives within us.

We do we do not have to make a pilgrimage to to meet at a tabernacle or Temple where the Holy Spirit dwells in the holy of holies.

He dwells now within us.

so, when we come together, It should definitely make us rejoice, whether it be at Wednesday night or a Sunday.

This song gives us really some valid reasons why Going to church should make us.

Glad notice number one, the purpose for going, the purpose for going David mentions two primary purposes for going to worship number 1, and verse for to hear God's precepts to hear, God's precepts to hear his statues to hear of his law.

His word And this verse David speaks of the testimony of Israel.

The testimony of Israel is mentioned their inverse for this is a reference to God's command to Israel to gather at the Tabernacle and later on at the temple for the three great Jewish feasts.

Number one, they were to meet and make this pilgrimage for the Feast of unleavened bread.

Also, the Feast of Pentecost and then also, the Feast of Tabernacle, the Feast of unleavened bread is also known as Passover.

So, the Jews made their pilgrimage to the place of worship because they knew doing so honored, the word of the Lord.

And folks, listen, when the primary reasons, we are to come together in a place to worship is to hear and to heed God's word.

Loveless in the Bible.

Therefore should be at the heart of everything.

We do everything we do every service I should be centered around the word of God.

Every service should be.

I we should have the the the preaching in the teaching of God's were So, we come to worship to hear God's precepts to hear.

God speak through his word, but we also worship as David says, don't want to hear God's precepts.

But to Harold God's Praises, David says that they are also going there.

As it says in verse 4 to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

The ancient Jews made their way to the Tabernacle.

I think about this at Great personal cost.

They made their way to the tavernacle at great difficulty to offer their praises to the Lord.

And it did so because they believed, he was worthy to be praised.

He was worthy to be praised because of the grace that he has shown them.

He had paid the price.

And they praise His name.

I think about that aspect for us today in modern times, it did not take too much effort for most of us to get here today or any other Given Sunday.