1 O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
4 In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
5 The sea is His, for it was He who made it,
And His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 “When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 “For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.
11 “Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 “When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 “For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.
11 “Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”
Message: Listening like sheep
Time: The psalms were written by many different people across a period of a thousand years in Israel's history. They are thought to have been compiled and put together in their present form by some unknown editor shortly after the captivity ended about 537 B.C.
What the Lord is Saying:
The Psalmist begins this shout to the Lord, this song by thanking the Lord for our salvation. Thank you God for saving me. Therefore, we come before the Lord with thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to God with a song of praise. God is a great God and a great king. In these first 3 verses is a very simple praise to our God. We call upon his name. We come with thankful hearts. We don't come to the Lord with hearts that need. We come first with a heart of thanksgiving. Lord, I want a thankful heart.
And after praising God, I thank him for what he has made, his creation. He has crafted the depths of the earth, all the way down below to the peak of the mountains. I thank God for my salvation and I thank Him for what he has made.
Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. I come before him and kneed.
Be alert to the hearing of his voice and if it comes listen. Do not harden or look to your own way.
The people of Massah in the wilderness, states another way, was the fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
We need to be guarded against neglecting the Lord and His way. We need to be careful to always know the Lord's ways.
I don't sense anyone fears the Lord in this way. Many ignore the Lord, but many are not fearing him and his ways. They are expecting everything to be all right. The wrath of God though is evident against those that don't take any interest in following Him.
Promise: Praise God. Praise his creation. Worship Him. Stay close to Him. Don't turn away.
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