Psalm 95:1-7
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
For the Lord is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
Oh 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.
Welcome to Getting ready for Sunday, a podcast of first Lutheran Church. Each week I introduced the readings for the upcoming Sunday with some notes and explanation so you can be ready for worship when you arrive. I look at the Old Testament, Psalm, epistle and Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday and offer a few notes and explanation. The psalm for Sunday, November 26, is Psalm 95, verses one through seven. Oh come let us sing to the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise. For the Lord is a great God and a great king. Above all God's in his hand are the depths of the earth, the height of the mountains or his also, the sea is his fur, he made it and his hand formed for dry land. Oh, 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. This psalm, Psalm 95 is sung in our mountains service. It's so it's always interesting for me when I get to read something that I know so well having sung it, it goes,
Oh come let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise. For the Lord is a great call. And a great King above all God's love the places of the earth are in his hand, the strength of the hills is he is also thus he is his forte he made it and his hand form the dry land. Oh come let us worship and Bah, down. Let us kneel before the Lord or may occur. Foraging is our card. And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of his and Glory be to the Father and to the sun and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in Nabi gay and Ning is now and will be forever. Oh man.
It's one of my favorite ones to be able to sing when we sing those morning services. This passage is a passage of celebration, a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation, come into his prisons with thanksgiving, songs of praise. We sing the psalm or have this psalm at the end of the church here on the final Sunday of the year, to tell us help us see that when God returns when Jesus Christ comes down from heaven, it will be a joyful time for us we will make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. When he comes to us and we are in His presence, it will be with thanksgiving, and songs of praise. Because our God is a great God. He is a King above all gods. Now you might say to yourself, Wait a second pastor, there are no other gods they don't exist. Well, yes, that is absolutely true. But in in the the way of saying it from from Psalms sound, he is greater than all gods. Of course, since they don't exist, that has to be true. But for them, he's just simply saying, This true God is greater than all the gods of the nation, all the things that we trust in and why? Because in his hand are the depths of the earth and the heights of the mountains. Everything is in his power, even the sea, and the hand and the land. And so we say let us worship let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God. And He has made us His people. Now there's an interesting switch here. He says we It says we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of his hand. Which is a little weird, right? Isn't shouldn't be the sheep of His pasture and the people of his hand. Kind of an interesting switch to say that the these two things refer to the same idea is that if we're the people of His pasture and the sheep of his hand, we are His. We are His people. We are His sheep. And it refers all to the same thing. Just kind of a funny way of saying, we can sing the song because God has sent his son Jesus Christ to gather us together. He is the rock of our salvation. He is the reason we can have Thanksgiving. And as we look at the end of the church here, this psalm reminds us to look up to heaven with joy, and wait for our coming Savior. For when he comes on that day we will be able to sing this wonderful song and praise Him for His salvation. That's all we have for Are today we'll see you on Sunday bye
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