Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
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… of days. Let's just allow the psalmist to give to us instruction here. Here he says to us, Shout to the Lord all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come into his presence with singing. O give thanks to the Lord. Call upon his name. Make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him. sing praises to him, tell of all his wondrous works. O magnify the Lord with me, and come, let us exalt his name together. One generation will commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. In Psalm 71, he says, I am now an older man, and I have been led by you from my youth and I still proclaim your mighty deeds. And so it is the longing of my heart, the psalmist says, that I will continue to proclaim your wondrous works until the generations that are yet to come will understand and believe these things. Now generational transitions are understandable to us. more so in the time in which we live than perhaps even in earlier centuries. …
Psalm 100, maybe the first Psalm that any of you memorized. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Enter his gates with thanksgiving. His courts with praise. Those withs are important when it comes to obedience to the third commandment. When we come to worship, we should come with a sense that we are meeting with the living God and he is holy and he is good. And fourth, we should praise him in everything we do and say not limited to the speech everything we do and say think first corinthians 10 31 whether you eat whether you drink or whatever you do do all to the glory of god now you might be thinking is it really this broad is the third commandment which seems to apply to speech primarily is it really this broad in everything that we do or say? Well, we shouldn't be surprised because last week, or two weeks ago rather, we learned that idolatry is more than just worshiping a statue or an inanimate object. Anything that takes God's place in our affections becomes an idol. Paul even calls covetousness, idolatry. …
… that he is the sustainer of life, that he is eternal, that he is infinite, that he is unchangeable, that he is true to all of his promises, and so on. That we are his people, the sheep of his pasture, that we've been called out of darkness in order that we might declare the praises of him who brought us into this new dimension. One of the hymn writers does it well. "'Tis what I know of thee, my Lord and God, that fills my heart with praise, my lips with song. "'Tis what I know of thee, I know you.'" And that kind of knowledge is not theoretical. It's experiential. It's practical. Because the worship of God—and there's a good conference on this. It's called doxology and theology. The worship of God is theological rather than psychological. That worshiping God involves declaring his greatness. Again, Calvin, there is a great difference between music one makes to entertain and the psalms, which are the songs sung in the church in the presence of God and the angels. …
… that he is the sustainer of life, that he is eternal, that he is infinite, that he is unchangeable, that he is true to all of his promises, and so on. That we are his people, the sheep of his pasture, that we've been called out of darkness in order that we might declare the praises of him who brought us into this new dimension. One of the hymn writers does it well. "'Tis what I know of thee, my Lord and God, that fills my heart with praise, my lips with song. "'Tis what I know of thee, I know you.'" And that kind of knowledge is not theoretical. It's experiential. It's practical. Because the worship of God—and there's a good conference on this is called doxology and theology. The worship of God is theological rather than psychological. That worshiping God involves declaring his greatness. Again, Calvin, there is a great difference between music one makes to entertain and the psalms, which are the songs sung in the church in the presence of God and the angels. …