Women Worshipping and Praising in the Presence of the Lord

Psalm 100

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Psalm trivia
Psalms
Bible Book Summary
Psalms Summary
by Jay Smith

The genre of Psalms is Songs and Poetry of all kinds. It is written by multiple authors; David
wrote 73, Asaph wrote 12, the sons of Korah wrote 9, Solomon wrote 3, Ethan, and Moses each
wrote one (Ps. 90), and 51 of the Psalms are anonymous. They were written over the span of
approximately 900 years (Beginning at the time of Moses 1440 B.C. and through the captivity in
586 B.C.).

The Psalms include praises of joy, laments, blessings, and thanksgivings. They are directed at
God and they help us to express and communicate ourselves to Him. We read about the
Psalmists emotions from one extreme to another, from praising, delighting in and worshiping
God with fervor, to repentance and crying out to Him in despair.

Psalms sits at the very center of the Bible. The major themes found in Psalms are Praise, Gods
Power, Forgiveness, Thankfulness and Trust. My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and
all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever (145:21).

The book of Psalms was originally divided into five books: o Book 1 consisted of chapters 1-
41. o Book 2 corresponds to chapters 42-72. o Book 3 is chapters 73-89. o Book 4 included
chapters 90-106. o Book 5 is compiled with chapters 107-150.

Mainly, the Psalms were written to help us deliver praise to God who is worthy of such. As
psalms 150:6 reads, Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

How do we know what God wants for us in our lives? Your word is a lamp to my feet and a
light to my path (119:105).The answer is found in reading His Word, studying it, and applying
its unchanging truths to your life.

100 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands!

2 Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing!

3Know ye that the LORD, He is God; it is He that hath made us, and not we
ourselves. We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

4Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise! Be
thankful unto Him, and bless His name!

5For the LORD is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all
generations.
PSALM 100 A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING
FOR ALL LANDS
This Psalm is simply titled, A Psalm of Thanksgiving and it is the only Psalm in the collection
to bear this title. It speaks of an invitation to the whole earth to know and to worship God.It is
jubilant with confidence for the whole earth, as it contemplates the glory of that earth, when all
its people are submitted to the reign of Jehovah. (G. Campbell Morgan)

A. The what and why of giving praise.

1. (1-2) What to do: the glad praises of God.
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
a. Make a joyful shout to the Lord: Unlike the several previous psalms, Psalm 100 does
not begin with a declaration of Gods sovereignty or character. It begins with the simple
and direct exhortation to all you landsthat they should praise God with a joyful shout.
This is a call to the nations, extending far beyond Israels borders.
i. A joyful shout: The original word signifies a glad shout, such as loyal subjects give
when their king appears among them. Our happy God should be worshipped by a
happy people; a cheerful spirit is in keeping with his nature, his acts, and the gratitude
which we should cherish for his mercies. (Spurgeon)
ii. The joyful noise is not the special contribution of the tone-deaf, still less of the
convivial, but the equivalent in worship to the homage-shout or fanfare to a king.
(Kidner)
iii. All you lands: The nations must recognize who the Lord is. He is Yahweh, by whose
grace and blessings his people exist. The nations too are invited to sing hymns to the
Lord and to worship him. (VanGemeren)
b. Serve the Lord with gladness: The whole earth is invited to serve the Lord. The
Psalmist likely had in mind the service of worship or temple rituals, but the principle
applies to any service directed to God. Those who serve the Lord should do it with
gladness.
i. Serve the Lord with gladness: It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious
worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make
mankind happy. He whom the religion of Christ has not made happy does not
understand that religion, or does not make a proper use of it. (Clarke)
ii. As for the true believer in Jesus, he serves his God because he loves to serve him;
he assembles with the great congregation because it is his delight to worship the Most
High. (Spurgeon)

c. Come before His presence with singing: As in many places in the psalms, praise is
expressed in song.Singing is not the only way to praise God, but it is an important and
chief way to praise Him.

2. (3) Why to do it: praising our Creator and Shepherd.

Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
a. Know that the Lord, He is God: The praise that comes to God from His people and
all lands should be thoughtful. There are reasons to worship Yahweh, the covenant God
of Israel, and the reasons begin with the recognition that He is God.
i. To know is to have firm ground underfoot, the prerequisite of praise (cf. 40:2f.), and
this knowledge is ours by gift; indeed by command. (Kidner)
ii. Know that the Lord, He is God: Be convinced of it, ye heathens, whose fantasies
have forged false gods; and ye Jews, acknowledge the true God to be Three in one,
and One in three. (Trapp)
b. It is He who has made us: The next reason to worship God is in appropriate
recognition of His work ascreator. The idea that we could make ourselves is absurd, and
we should worship the One who has made us.

i. The sense of Gods proprietorship is the true basis of our consecration. We must
realize His rights over us before we can freely give Him His due. Those rights are
manifold in their sweet reasonableness; but amongst them all, this of creation is one of
the chief. God has a right to us because He has made us. (Meyer)

ii. Of course, if we do not need God as our Creator, then we do not need to be thankful.
Why should we? We got here by ourselves, thank you. We have no one but ourselves
to thank. (Boice)

iii. Under the New Covenant, the believer has a second and greater reason for praise:
he or she is a newcreation in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
iv. And not we ourselves: Therefore we owe him homage and service, and him only, and
not other gods, who made us not. (Poole)
v. For our part, we find it far more easy to believe that the Lord made us than that we
were developed by a long chain of natural selections from floating atoms which
fashioned themselves. (Spurgeon)

vi. Some men live as if they made themselves; they call themselves self-made men,
and they adore their supposed creators. (Spurgeon)
c. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture: The third reason to worship God is
because He has chosen a people and He cares for them as the sheep of His pasture.

B. The what and why of giving thanks.

1. (4) What to do: coming to His house with thanks and praise.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
a. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving: Now the Psalmist pictures the people of God
from all you lands(Psalm 100:1) entering through the gates and into the courts of the
temple. As Gods people approach, they should do so with thanksgiving, gratitude that
recognizes how much God has done for them.
i. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving: Publicly worship God; and when ye come to
the house of prayer, be thankful that you have such a privilege; and when you enter his
courts, praise him for the permission. (Clarke)

ii. It teaches that there is a special aspect of thanksgiving that involves the whole
people of God together and not just the private prayers of individuals. (Boice)

iii. On the word [the word used in Levit. 7:12 for sacrifices of thanksgivings],
Rabbi Menachen remarks: All sacrifices will be abolished; but the sacrifice of
thanksgiving will remain. (Phillips, cited in Spurgeon)

b. Into His courts with praise: Thanks and praise merge together, as Gods people
are thankful andbless His name.
i. It is though the gates of the City, the courts of the Sanctuary, were suddenly thrown
open, and all lands are called to serve Jehovah, to know that He is God, to enter into
relationship with Him. (Morgan)
ii. Under the new covenant, not only are the gates and courts open, but even way to the
Holy of Holies is thrown open (Hebrews 10:19).

2. (5) Why to do it: thanking the God of goodness and mercy.

 For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
a. For the Lord is good: This thanks and praise is right in recognition of Gods goodness.
He is good in His plans, good in His grace, good in His forgiveness, good in His
covenant, and good in every aspect of His being.
i. For the Lord is good: The gods of the heathen were not good. They were selfish and
capricious. You could never know when they might turn against you and do you harm.
Not so our God. The God of the Bible is and has always been good. (Boice)
b. His mercy is everlasting: The brief Psalm ends on the thought of Gods
unending mercy and truth. These are everlasting reasons to give thanks and praise to
God.

i. So long as we are receivers of mercy we must be givers of thanks. (Spurgeon)

ii. How glorious will be that day which shall behold the everlasting gates of heaven
lifting up their heads, and disclosing to view those courts above, into which the children
of the resurrection are to enter, there, with angels and archangels, to dwell and sing
forevermore! (Horne)

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This psalm is prophetic and anticipates the day when Jesus will reign. The setting is millennial, the place
is Jerusalem, the scene is the temple, and the occasion is the coronation of Jesus as priest-king of the
earth. The text of this Psalm was thought to be the beginning hymn for a thanksgiving service in which a
procession of worshipers would sing as they entered the temple. It was a call to worship.

I.Thanksgiving is about enthusiasm (v. 1)."Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. This psalm is universal as it
says all ye lands. The psalmist is careful that the joy be tempered with adequate reverence for the
object of worship, the Lord Himself. There is a song that we sing today that says, Get all excited and tell
everybody that Jesus Christ is King, Jesus Christ is still the King of Kings!
II. Thanksgiving is about worship (v. 2).The Hebrew word for worship can be translated SERVE.
However thanksgiving is not just about service, it is about being glad in service.
III. Thanksgiving is about knowing. (v. 3) Know ye that the Lord He is God. This is an issue of faith and
trust. It is not as much about us knowing Him as it is about knowing the He knows us!
IV. Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. (vv. 4-5) Enter into His gates with thanksgiving. Our praise
and thanksgiving are not based on circumstances, but on our God. This is about being happy about
who our God is and what He does and making it public.
This psalm is also prophetic in that it anticipates the day when Jesus will reign from sea to sea.

Application
It is so easy to forget from where I came and to take completely for granted all God has done for me. I
want to be a person who gives thanks in everything as this is the will of God. (I Thes. 5:18)
Psalms 100:1-5 (English Standard Version)
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come
into his presence with singing! Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us,
and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with
thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the
LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
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