CHAPTER 95

A PSALM OF DAVID: A PSALM OF PRAISE TO GOD

¹O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation. (Psalm 94 portrayed the wilderness journey. Now the first fingers of dawn are about to break upon the Millennial morn. The long night of Israels weeping is about to come to an end. Israel has seen the Earth under the Antichrist. Now she will see the Earth under Christ.

The joyful noise that we are to make is the singing of hymns of praise [96:13].)

²Let us come before His Presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms. (We are given here a wonderful directive by the Holy Spirit concerning the approach of the Believer to the Lord. It is to be with thanksgiving and singing.)

³For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. (Creation Rest, Redemption Rest, and Millennial Rest are all based upon the Person and Work of Christ. Faith brings us into these Rests; unbelief excludes us.)

⁴In His Hand are the deep places of the Earth: the strength of the hills is His also. (This means that God is Lord over Hell, and also over the entirety of the Earth.)

⁵The sea is His, and He made it: and His Hands formed the dry land. (Over and over again, the Holy Spirit refutes the lie of evolution. God is the Creator of all, and He deserves worship by all.)

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. (This Verse is the great invitation to come to Jesus. He is Gods Rest an ineffable Rest. How wonderful is the Grace that invites sinners to share Gods Rest! This is a Rest that never can be disturbed; its wonders are developed by the God of Glory [Heb., Chpts. 34].)

⁷For He is our God; and we are the people of His Pasture, and the sheep of His Hand. Today if you will hear His Voice (this Passage is quoted in Hebrews 3:711 and 4:7; what a privilege to say, He is our God and that we are the people of His Pasture; as well, the expression, the sheep of His Hand, refers to our being made by Him; it has a far greater meaning than if a shepherd purchases sheep; in this instance, it means that God created the sheep the sheep of His Hand; accordingly, we are admonished to hear His Voice, the voice of the Shepherd),

⁸Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness (the wilderness was a proving time for Israel; regrettably, they failed!):

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. (Israel tempted the Lord in the wilderness, and refused to believe, even though they saw His Work.)

¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people who do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways (Israel challenged God to provide a table for them in the desert and, when it was provided, declared that Pharaohs was better, so they desired to appoint a captain to return to Egypt! [Num. 14:34]):

¹¹Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (The greatest sin of all just may be the sin of faithlessness. The entire fabric of the Plan of God demands Faith. Men forsake God because they dont believe God. In the Wilderness, Israel showed unbelief. They died because of that unbelief and could not enter into Gods rest.)