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Beloved Psalm 100 is the only psalm with the title, “A Psalm of Thanksgiving. 

 

A Psalm for giving thanks. 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

Beloved this Thanksgiving the psalmist invites all the earth to enter into the courts of God’s house with joyful songs. Here in this psalm the Whole church, nay, the whole earth, is called upon to praise Jehovah: for creation, redemption, His providence, and for his’s grace; and all the blessings connected with the whole. This Thanksgiving let us make a joyful noise to the LORD, for all that he has done. Beloved please notice Psalms 100 does not begin with a declaration of God’s sovereignty or his character. It begins with the simple and direct call to all the earth to praise God with a joyful shout. All people are invited to join the celebration. No one is left out. 

Listen to me worship is responding to all that he is and all that he has done, that’s why we have a joyful shout. A joyful shout is not merely noise for its own sake. Our world is filled with noise, much of it harmful or distracting. A joyful shout is a bold declaration of God’s glorious name and nature, with shouting, clapping of your hands, and other outward expressions of praise. Listen a joyful shout is remembering you were dead in your trespasses and sins  a joyful shout is remembering     you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air,  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— that’s a joyful shout  "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” – Psalm 73:26that’s a joyful shout. 

When we remember we were dead “but God shows his love for us in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8That’s a joyful shout.  For consider your calling, brothers and sister: not many of you were wise according to this world standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” – 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 Beloved that’s a joyful shout.  In the Bible, the people of God are to engage in worship with a sense of excitement. Listen to me you cannot worship the Lord without your emotion, why, because it is not just intellectual exercise. Listen your worship; my worship is all that we are responding to who he is, and what he has done. 

That’s why we should serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Verse 2. 

  (Spurgeon said:

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