Psalm 95:1-11

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Summary

• God made and owns all things (and gives us instructions about how to respond to this fact).

Scripture

Psalm 95:1-11

A call to praise the God of the earth.

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Psa 95:1 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! Psa 95:2 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs!	Praise and worship to God. Why?
Psa 95:3 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods. Psa 95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. Psa 95:5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.	Because he is the great God who made all things; all things belong to him. God and Creation

A call to acknowledge God's lordship, by submission and obedience.

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Psa 95:6 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker, Psa 95:7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. ...	Praise and worship to God, because 1) he made us, and 2) he takes care of us. Worship Sheep, Shepherd
... Today, oh that you would hear his voice! Psa 95:8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, Psa 95:9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. Psa 95:10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways." Psa 95:11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."	Don't be like Israel in the wilderness, who rebelled and lost the opportunity to enter the land/rest. We read in Hebrews 4 that this concept of "rest" in the land of Canaan was a picture of something far greater - the eternal rest that God's people look forward to. Putting God to the Test - This was not to be done. It implies a questioning (and perhaps denial) of everything God is! Israel abandoned the true God; therefore God abandoned them. Abandoning the True God

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The name "Yahweh," when present in an Old Testament passage, represents the Hebrew name for the God of the Bible.

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