• 95th Psalm Jehovah’s Godhead and power over all nature and compels Israel to serve Him.
    Psalm 95 and 96 is the message preached at the beginning of the Tribulation.
  •  96th Psalm the subject is compelling all the nations of earth to join His service, because the Messiah comes to judge both the Jew and Gentile
  • 97th Psalm Jehovah God reigns the entire world and the idols are deserted and Crist is glorified.
  • 98th Psalm God does marvelous things and has given deliverance to Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen His salvation, Messiah has returned to earth at the end of the Tribulation.
  • 99th Psalm shows the Lord ruling sitting between the cherubim. The Lord is seen as great in Zion. Moses and Aaron are among His priests and Samuel is among those who call upon the Lord.
  • 100th Psalm reveals the whole earth worshiping the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom.
I. Psalm 95 is calling on people to acknowledge the Lord as the great King above all. Psalm 95:1
  1. The truth is stated that God is the rock of our Salvation and therefore is to be praised. Messiah is presented as the Savior.
  2.  God’s salvation is given as the reason to worship the Lord.
    Worship begins with thanksgiving, a thankful Christian. He will be praising God.
    ILLUS: A Man’s mother was a thankful woman. You could not speak with her for more than a few minutes until she is saying how blessed she is.A. When he talked with her she was in a rest home. She told him how blessed she was to be in a new room with a window where she could look out and see birds in the afternoon.
    She said she was blessed because God answered her prayers. She was earlier in a room with a cantankerous woman who played the TV all night and had a bitter and mean spirit.
    She said God answered her prayers and the woman she is now with a sweet lady, a true thankful Christian. B. We are told to come and sing before the Lord and to make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. (v1)
    Often our singing is simply going through the motions. We do not sing with the enthusiasm
    This Psalm should remind us of what a wonderful thing it is to be saved and of the sacrifice Jesus made for us, show how much it means with our singing.
    Verse 2 beckons us to come before His presence with thanksgiving. Like Hebrews 10:19-26 the Lord is calling us to assembly ourselves together in worship.
    The verse says “make a joyful noise unto the Lord with psalms.” The word “presence” means in Hebrew “face.” The statement literally means to stand before His face being in His very presence.
    True worship is aware of God presence and is addressed to Him. Further, you cannot worship God without thanking Him for his salvation.
    True worship first acknowledges that God gives us salvation and secondly we express our thanksgiving to Him for salvation. (V1-2)
  3. The greatness of Jehovah God is the reason He should be praised, because He is the great King above all gods. V3.A. This statement about being the great King over all gods means little to us, but it was understood by the Jews who had a history of worshiping false gods and idols.
    Thus, God is compared to the pitiful idol gods of man’s invention, shown to be nothing. All false gods are vengefully and do not show mercy and grace.
    The cults and churches that have a works based theology have little to praise their false gods for. Their gods demand works and strict obedience. They do not show mercy and grace.
    If you displease them, if you fail, they reject you immediately. You see, they require those that worship them to be righteous in them.
    Yet, our true God and Creator is a loving God. Paul made that clear in Romans 5, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)
    Romans 3:10 proclaims the true state of man, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
    “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
    False religion tells man that he can become righteous by doing good works. But if the man falls short, his god will disown him. B. The Gentiles and Israel worshiped false gods of the sun, moon, star and idols made with hands. Yet God is the creator of all things….He made the sun and stars. Thus God is THE King above all.
    C. The evidence of the greatest of God is seen in His creation. (V4) God’s power over the universe is absolute.
    God sees and controls even what man cannot see as the interior of our earth. His power is keeping the earth together.
    The greatness of God is seen in that He freely offers salvation to those who do not deserve it.
    He offers those that believe to be the children of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. His blessings, mercy, and grace proclaim His greatness.
    In Job 22:25 it says, “Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense” (Job 22:25) The word “strength” is the same word translated “plenty” in Job 22:25.
    It refers to treasure and seems to speak of the riches of the mountains.
    D. Both the sea and the land are God’s as He created them with His hands. (V5)
  4. Because Of God’s greatness and being our Creator we are called to worship and humble ourselves before Him.A. Worshiping God and humbling ourselves before Him is hard for some people, it goes against our pride. B. But the fact is….we are His, made by Him for His purpose. Is the thing made greater than its creator?
    Who are we and where did we come from? Are we not God’s own creation and who are we compared to Him?
    He spoke the universe into existence. His greatness and power demands that the sensible thing to do is accept who we are and worship God.
    What power does a man have? NONE.
    C. Jehovah is our God….believe or not, accept it or not…the fact is we are His people in His pasture the earth.
    All we have, even the breath we breathe, comes from God. What do you have that God did not make?NOTHING! (V7a) We are His sheep in His hand.
II. Because God is our creator…We are to listen to His voice. (V7b)
  1. A. God’s message is clear. Do not harden your heart against Him to provoke Him. (V8)A. The illustration is when God delivered the Children of Israel from Egypt from their captives, they murmured against Him and showing they were ungrateful.
    God directed them through the wilderness towards the promise land….they complained showing no respect for God. All they were interested in was food and the comforts. B. God had promise them a land flowing with milk and honey….could they not endure a little difficulty in getting to God’s promise place for them?
    Is’t interesting that God brought the Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt performing great miracles, and promised to give them a land of milk and honey.
    Yet, at Kadesh-Barnea when the 8 of spies returned and reported it was a wonderful land, but was inhabited with mighty giants, they refused to go into the land and to let God honor His promise.
    Folks, they had seen the miracles of God yet would not accept His greatness and power. Joshua and Caleb beckoned the Israelites to go and take the land.
    He said “let us go at once, and possess it, for we are able to overcome it.”
    The men of the Israel replied “We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
    Preachers today find the same attitude, proclaim the promises of God, and few believe and accept God at His word.
  2. B. Even when the children of Israel saw God’s mighty hand …they the tempted God by their murmurings. Instead of seeing God’s power they instead wanted God to prove Himself to them.
    My friend, men are doing the same today.
    Instead of recognizing our wonderful and graceful God was….they tempted Him and wanted Him to prove Himself to them.
  3. God speaking in Verse 10 Referring to the wilderness wandering of Israel which as the result of the unbelief and hardening of their heart God put up with them. (v10)
    It grieved God to see their rejection of His mercy and grace, and of the great blessing He was offering them.A. All who at Kadesh Barnea who would not believe the good report brought by Joshua and Caleb…they died in the wilderness and never saw God’s blessings and promise. B. They believed the skies that had no faith and would not believe God and accept His promise.
    Does it not address the sinfulness of man, that he willingly believes the false report and rejects God’s truth?
    They had no fear of God and no respect for him. They used their own faulty wisdom and it killed every one of them.
    C. The same thing is happening today. Men reject God’s promises with little or no thought as to who God is.
    They will not bow themselves and humble themselves to God’s wonderful will and purpose for their lives.
    Instead like Israel…some are wandering around in their own power, confused, desolate of spirit and without hope.
    D. Men who harden their hearts against God and His truth are in grave error….making a fatal mistake in not accepting the “ways of God.”
  4. D. The last verse is a chilling one. (V11)A. God hates pride in man. He says, “Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.” B. There is no salvation for the proud. God says “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. . .” (Proverbs 6:16-17)
    C. God says, “And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” (Isaiah 13:11)
    D. Jeremiah warning unbelieving Judah saying, “Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.” (Jeremiah 50:31)
    Pride and unbelief will bear its fruit and reap its just reward.
Paul addresses this gross sin… “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” (James 4:6)
The question is simple and the answer should be clear… do we want the blessings of God that comes from accepting who we are and stopping to fight with God.
Or will we choose to reject Him, to relish in our pride and have the wrath of Almighty God fall on us.
I think the wise man knows what He should do…. I think the fool will not be changed.