PRAISE THE LORD WITH JOY AND THANKSGIVING
Psalms 33:1-9
PRAISE THE LORD
V:1. "Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. "
A. God gave us an example of how to praise Jesus when He sent the angels to
announce the birth of Jesus to the shepherds.
1. One angel preached His birth.
2. A heavenly host of angels praise Jesus in song.
B. In the Church to day, we have a preacher to preach Jesus.
1. We have a choir to sing praises to the Lord.
2. Like the shepherds, the congregation participate in the praise and worship.
C. We praise and worship the Lord because He worthy of our praise.
1. God does not expect the world to praise Jesus.
2. God does expect those who claim Jesus as Lord and Savior to praise Him.
D. It is the Lord who is the source of our joy.
1. When we consider His goodness we ought to be joyful.
2. When we consider His grace and mercy toward us, we ought to be joyful.
3. When we consider what God didn't allow to happen to us, we ought to
be joyful.
4. When we consider that God loved us so much that He sent His Son to die for our sins,
we ought to be joyful.
PRAISE THE LORD WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
V:2. " Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. "
A. God commands us to praise Him with all types of musical instruments.
1. God has gifted some with the ability to play musical instruments.
2. God has gifted some with beautiful voices.
3. Together, we lift up the Lord in praise and worship.
B. Every Christian has been gifted and commanded to give God praise.
1. No one has an excuse not to give God praise.
2. God inhabits the praise of His people. Psalms 22:3
WRITE NEW SONGS OF PRAISE
V:3. " Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy. "
A. God expects us to write new songs of praise to Him.
1. Hymn books are full of songs of praise.
2. But He expects us to find new ways to praise Him.
a. Our praise ought to be spontaneous and fresh.
b. We receive new grace new mercies from the Lord daily.
3. Every believers has experiences with God that requires new and
different praises.
B. God expect us to develop our skills playing instruments.
1. Practice make perfect.
2. Choir rehearsal is necessary to perfect our songs of praise.
3. We should give God our very best in praise and worship.
4. Every Church member ought to be involved in Praise and worship.
5. We ought to come into the Church with praise in our hearts.
C. Praise and worship promotes shouts of Joy.
1. One way to experience the joy of the Lord is perfecting
our praise.
2. Praise and worship is contagious.
THE WORD IS OUR AUTHORITY
V:4. " For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. "
A. The Bible is the only source of truth.
1. The Bible is the sole authority of our lives.
2. Our lives should be guided by the Word of God.
B. The Bible, God's Word, is complete with commands and promises.
1. Blessings follow obedience to God's commands.
2. Curses follows disobedience to God's commands.
3. God will keep all His promises to us.
4. Many of God's promises are conditional on our obedience
to His commands.
5. Obedience to God's commands is the evidence of our love for God.
GOD IS LOVE
V:5. " The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. "
A. The opposite of love is hate.
1. God hates unrighteousness and injustice.
2. We must be careful how we treat others.
3. What we measure out will be measured back to us.
4. Since God loves righteousness and justice, we ought to have the
same attitude.
B. God does not need the universe for Himself.
1. He created the universe for man.
2. He created man because of His love.
3. He created an environment suitable for man to exist because of His love.
4. Everything we see and that which is yet to be discovered was created by
God because of His love for man.
C. God's creation is maintained by Him and cannot fail.
1. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness there of.
2. All we have to do is consider how the universe operates without
failure to know that God's love does not fail.
3. God maintains the perfection of His universe because of His
love for man.
GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND EARTH WITH LOVE
V:6. " By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of
his mouth."
A. There is power in the Word of God.
1. According to Genesis chapter one, the world was originally formless and void.
2. God spoke and everything came into being.
3. I have never been in a situation where every thing was formless and void.
a. Everything I know has form, shape and takes up space.
b. Man can change the form of what God has created, but he can not
create anything new.
4. God breathed and our environment came into being.
a. God has power over everything living and non living.
b. It is His breath that give life to every living thing.
B. God has all power and nothing is too hard for God.
1. God has all power and nothing became the everything we know.
2. In the mist of "nothing" was all God needed to create every thing.
3. We have access to God's power through faith in His Word.
GOD'S GLORY IN CREATION
V:7. " He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses."
A. Genesis 1:1 state that God created the heavens and the earth.
1. It is the earth that God spends two chapters laying out His creative
process.
2. Throughout the Bible, God does not tell us very much about heaven.
3. God's focus in the 1st two chapter of Genesis appears to me to be the environment
that He created for man's habitation.
B. In this verse the focus is on God's power over man's habitation.
1. Originally, according to Genesis 1:2, water, land and the heavens were
intermingled.
2. According to Genesis 1:9, God separated the waters and formed dry land.
3. God ordered the waters to be contained in oceans, rivers, seas and streams.
C. God set man on dry land to praise and worship Him.
1. Man is the only creative being on earth, given the ability to voluntarily give
God praise.
2. Man was given the authority to rule over earth.
3. God is love and He commands us to treat everyone with love.
REVERENCE THE LORD WITH LOVE
V:8. " Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him."
A. Man was given the awesome responsibility of being the overseer of all
God's creation on earth.
1. The only way we know how to be the caretakers of the earth's inhabitants
is through God's Word.
2. God gave us His commandments for successful living.
3. Obedient to God's commands ensures our success. 1 John 3:22
B. How should we fear the Lord?
1. We fear the Lord by our obedience to His Word.
2. Every thought and action we have should be guided by the Word of
God.
C. We have a duty and an obligation to worship and praise the Lord.
1. We are commanded to worship no other gods.
2. Idol gods are nothing and have no power.
3. Idol gods are the imagination of evil minds.
4. Our focus should be on the one who created us in love.
GOD IS IN CONTROL OF HIS CREATION
V:9 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
A. Nothing made with human hands has power and authority over God's
creation.
1. The essence of God's creative powers is in His Word.
2. We have knowledge of God through His Word and through His
creation.
B. Not only has God created everything but He maintains His creation.
1. God is actively involved in His creation.
2. He is the sole authority.
3. What God began in creation in us , He will complete in the full redemption
of us after the second coming of Jesus.
4. It is God's love that redeems us from our sinful state.
PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Toll Way
Houston, Texas 77040
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