Psalm 95 this evening will be
our study. And I'm taking the title for
the message from what is said in verse 6. Psalm 95, look at
verse 6 again. Oh come, oh come, come to the
Lord Jesus Christ. Come to Him and let us, let us,
let us, believers, and let us worship. Worship Him. He's worthy
of our worship, is He not? Let us worship Him. Let us bow
down. Let us submit, surrender, and
let us kneel, kneel in our heart before the Lord. He's our maker. He made us, not we ourselves. He made us. He made us. Know you that the Lord, He is
God. It is He that made us. Psalm
100 verse three. It is He that made us and not
we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep
of His pasture. He made us. He made us. He created us. So I'm entitling
the message from the words there in verse 6, Oh come let us worship. Let us worship. Isn't that why
we're here this evening? When we come together and we
meet together as believers in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
we come here to hear a word from thee and we come here to worship.
We worship God around the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come
and let us worship and let us bow down, submit, surrender before
the Lord. The Lord, he's our maker. He
is our Maker. He made us. He created us. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
Creator, our Savior, our Redeemer, our King. He's our all in all. In Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and we are complete in Him. The reason
that we meet together to preach the Gospel and to teach His Word,
which incites, inflames, stirs and inspires our hearts to worship
the true and living God. And we do so when we come together
in His name and we hear His gospel. Doesn't that inspire you and
stir your heart to worship Him, to bow before the Lord, our God? You remember the story of the
woman at the well to whom the Lord revealed Himself unto. And
He said, the Father seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and
in truth. There can be no true worship
apart from the truth of the gospel. We only worship God around the
true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the only place a
sinner will truly worship is at the throne of the absolute
sovereign God. The only place a sinner will
really worship is at the throne of the absolute, sovereign, almighty
God. Look right across the page, Psalm
97 verse 1, the Lord reigneth. Let the earth rejoice. The Lord
reigns. Well, I don't like that. Well,
I do. Let the earth rejoice and the
multitude of the isles be glad. I like the lesson that the Lord
taught that pagan king, Nebuchadnezzar, that we just read. He does according
to his will in the army of heaven. All the habitants of the earth
are reputed as nothing. And he does according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the habitants of this earth
and none can stay his hand or none can say in him, Lord, don't
do that. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? And whatever he does, whenever
he does it, it is right. He never makes a mistake. He's
too holy to do anything that is wrong. Now, with that introduction,
let's go back to verse 1. O come, O come, let us, let us
who believe the gospel, let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make
a joyful, a joyful noise to the rock The rock of our salvation. Now I love singing the old, I
like the old hymns. I like singing those old hymns.
Oh, worship the king. Let us come and adore our king. Our God is king. All them old
gospel hymns, some of them 200 or 300 years old, some of them
older than that. and God's people have been singing praises unto
the Lord for a long, long time. I love songs that are glorifying
unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and I love to make a joyful noise
unto the Lord. I'm not much of a singer, but
what breath I have, I love to sing praises to the Lord, don't
you? Sing praises to the Lord. We've
seen this several times. Look back at Psalm 92 verse one,
Psalm 92 verse one. It's a good thing, Psalm 92.1,
it's a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises
unto the name of the Most High God, to show forth thy love and
kindness in the morning, thy faithfulness every night. It's
a good thing. It's the right thing to do. Sing
praises unto the Lord our God. And here's another reference.
Look at Psalm 96 right across the page. Psalm 96 verse 1. Sing, oh sing unto the Lord a
new song. That's that new song of redemption. They sung a new song worthy is
the Lamb. Sing unto the Lord all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord Bless his name, show forth his salvation
from day to day. Declare his glory among the heathen,
his wonders among all people. Oh, sing, sing unto the Lord. When Paul writes the letter to
the Colossians, he writes, here's what he writes, Colossians 3,
verse 16. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly, in all wisdom, admonishing one another in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts
to the Lord." Singing with grace and thanksgiving in your heart,
we sing as unto the Lord. We worship as unto the Lord.
And then, look what it says, let us make a joyful noise. We rejoice in the Lord Jesus
Christ and we have no confidence in the flesh. Let us make this
joyful. Rejoice in the Lord always and
again I say rejoice. And we sing and we praise and
we worship the rock of our salvation. The foundation and rock, the
bedrock. of our salvation is Christ. All
other ground is sinking sand. Christ, the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking, sinking, sinking sand. He is
the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, upon this rock I'll
build my church. Remember? We're gonna see that
Sunday, Matthew 16. Upon this rock I'll build my
church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
David writes this in 2 Samuel 22. or he says this, it's recorded
to him. 2 Samuel 22, 47, the Lord liveth
and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the rock of my salvation. He's the rock of my salvation.
He's a rock of our strength. He's a rock of our redemption.
He's the cause of it, the first cause of it, the last end of
it. Psalm 62 says, in God is my salvation, my glory, the rock
of my strength, and my refuge is in God. Trust in Him at all
times. He is our rock. We lean upon
Him. We rest upon Him. He's the rock. Christ is the loftiness of our
salvation. He is the loftiness of our salvation. Turn back one page. Psalm 91
verse nine. Psalm 91 verse 9, because thou
hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most high,
thy habitation. So Christ is the lofty place
of our salvation. And then Christ is the strength
of our salvation. As David said in Psalm 27, the
Lord is my light and my salvation. He is the strength of my salvation. He's the cause of my salvation.
And then, Christ is a shelter. He's the shelter of our salvation.
He is the shelter that is salvation. Let me just read this to you.
For Lord, thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from
the enemy. Psalm 61 verse 3. Thou hast been a shelter. He's
a shelter. We sing that song. A shelter
in the time of storm. He's our refuge and He's our
shelter. He's a rock of our salvation. And then Christ is a victory
of our salvation, isn't He? Turn one page, Psalm 98 verse
1. Thanks be unto God who has given
us the victory of our salvation. How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation? Sing unto the Lord, Psalm 98,
1. Sing unto the Lord a new song, for He hath done marvelous things.
His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten Him the victory.
We have the victory over sin. He put it away. The victory over
death. He said, I am he that liveth
and with dead, behold, I am alive evermore. He said, because I
live, you shall live. Christ is our victory. He's the
captain of our salvation. He's the rock of our salvation. Unmovable. Unchanging. He's the same yesterday, today,
forever. He said, I'm the Lord. I do not
change. Now look at verse 2. That being so, let us come. Let
us come, don't stay away. Let us come, come unto Him. O
come ye, let us sing. Let us come before His presence. We come before His presence.
Remember our study in the book of Hebrews. Let us therefore
come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. Let us come. Let us
come unto Him. Let us come before his presence. Who can stand in his presence? None can stand. You remember
Psalm 24, who shall ascend, who shall stand? None but those in
Christ. Those in Christ. And he said,
come before his presence and do so not with dread, not with
fear, but we come with thanksgiving. We come with a thankful heart
in everything, in everything give thanks for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you and make a joyful noise unto
him with a psalm. And that's what we're reading
this evening. We're making a joyful noise unto the Lord, reading
and studying this psalm. Come before his presence with
thanksgiving. This word come in verse 2 means
to come with haste. It means to come right now. It
means to flee to him. It means to seek his face. You
remember Psalm 27 said, When thou saidest, Seek ye my face,
my heart said unto me, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. You see, he
makes us willing in a day of his power. So it means to come
with haste. It means to come right now. When's
a good time to come to Christ? Right now. How do we come? By
faith, looking to Him. We flee to Him. We seek His face.
We seek salvation where it's found, in Christ alone. I can think of some other scriptures
where the Lord tells us to come. He said, ho everyone that is
thirsty, come ye to the waters. You remember Isaiah 55? Come
without money, come without price. How about Matthew 11, 28? You
remember that verse? All you who are laboring and
heavy laden. He said, come unto me. Come to
Christ and rest. Rest in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now in verse three, four and
five, We have some reasons are given why we should come to the
rock of our salvation, why we should come with singing, why
we should come with rejoicing, why we should come with thanksgiving
unto the Lord. Verse 3 says, 4. Now that word
can also be understood as because. Because the Lord is great. Now
how great is the Lord? There's none beside Him. He said,
I'm the Lord. There's none beside me. There's none greater than
our Lord. Is there? None greater than our
Lord. For the Lord is great. And He's
not only a great God, but He's a great King. And He's above
all. He's above all. The word God's
there. Notice it's a small g. He's above
all. He's above all. Above all. Psalm 97, it gives a reference
there. Let me read that to you, verse
9. For thou, Lord, art high above
all the earth. Thou art exalted far above all
gods. There's none higher than the
Lord. He is the most high God. That's why we come with thanksgiving.
That's why we come with worship. That's why we look to the rock
and rest upon the rock of our salvation. Our Lord is a great,
great God and a great king. Everything about him is great.
All of his attributes are great. His great love, his great mercy.
Everything about him is great. So great salvation. Everything
about him is great. He's a great God. And he's a
great king. He's king of kings and lord of
lords, isn't he? He's great in every way. Whatsoever
the Lord please, that's what he did in heaven, earth, sea,
and all deep places. He's great in his person, isn't
he? He's great in his person. Psalm 96 verse 4 says, For the
Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He's to be feared
above all gods. All the gods of the nations are
idols, but the Lord made the heavens and the earth. Honor
and majesty are before Him. Strength and beauty are in His
sanctuary. Give unto the Lord all ye kindreds
of the people. Give unto the Lord glory and
strength. Give unto the Lord the glory
due unto His name. Bring an offering. Worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness. You see that in verse 9, Psalm
96 verse 9. Everything about His person is
great. Everything about His mercy is His great mercy wherewith
He loved us. His love is called great love,
everlasting love. His grace is called great grace. In that chapter 3, with great
power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ and great grace was upon them all. Where sin
abounded, grace did much more abound. That as sin hath reigned
unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto
eternal life. And the Lord Jesus Christ, His
salvation is called so great salvation, is it not? There's
no other salvation but Christ. Neither is there salvation in
any other. Any other name but the Lord Jesus
Christ? Paul writes this in Titus chapter
2, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior Jesus Christ. He's a great God. He's a great
Savior. He's our Lord Jesus Christ. And
then more reasons to worship Him and praise Him and come with
thanksgiving and make a joyful noise and rejoice in Him. Not
only the great God, but He's a great King. King of kings,
Lord of lords, and he's above all. He's above all. He rules and reigns as the sovereign
king above all. In his hands, in his hand are
deep places of the earth. The strength also of the hills
is his. The heights of the hills, the
heights of the mountains. How high is the highest mountain?
20,000 feet? 20,000 feet, 25,000 feet. How deep's
the deepest ocean? Probably that much, 20,000 feet
deep. His hand are in the deep places. In the heights of the hills,
everything belongs to the Lord. He created it by the word of
His power. There's no place in the depth
of the ocean or the height of the mountain where God does not
dwell. He's everywhere present, is He
not? And He's the Creator of all things. The sea, verse 5,
the sea is His. All the oceans, you think of
the oceans. They tell me that two-thirds
of this world is made up of water. You ever think about, you look
at that Gulf Stream and all that rain that comes out of the Gulf
of Mexico? comes over these mountains and
it rains and rains and down in the river, in the creeks, down
the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, right back into the Gulf,
and it comes right back again. We never run out of water. It's
just a continuing cycle. How does all that happen? The
Lord made the waters, the ocean, and the sea, the dry land, and
everything, everything about it. He created all things. The
sea is His, His hands formed it, and He made the dry land. The earth is the Lord's, and
the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein,
all belong to Him. He's the creator of all things,
the sustainer of all things. He made all things by the word
of His power. Let me read this to you in Genesis
chapter 1. And God said, let the waters
under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and
let the dry land appear. And it was so. It was just so. And God called the dry land earth.
And the gathering together waters called he seas. And God saw that
it was good. And God said, let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth.
And it was so. The Lord preserves the seed.
It's so important about, you know, they have great vaults
in different places in the world where they preserve seed. That's an amazing thing. We never
run out of seed. And you can take a, I planted
some tomatoes. Just bought some seed. I put
that little seed in a pod and that plant comes up and that
plant will grow and grow and grow and have tomatoes. And how
many seeds are in that tomato? From that one little seed. comes
those tomatoes and tomatoes and they're full of seeds. How does all that happen? And
the Lord said it was so. The Lord creates all this thing. Now, we don't worship nature. We worship the Creator who made
all things. We worship the Creator who made
all things so wisely and so good Look at verse 6, O come. Now
here again, he said, come. Don't stay away. The Lord said,
come, come. And let us, again he said, let
us. Let us who believe the gospel,
let us who are singing with thanksgiving and rejoicing in our heart and
finding salvation in Christ, the rock of our salvation. Let
us come and worship him. Let us come and worship him.
One day we'll really worship him like we want to and like
we ought to. Here we struggle with worship. I'll just be real honest with
you, I do. And the reason we struggle with worship is because
of this sinful flesh. But one day, this robe of flesh
will drop and rise to seize the everlasting pride and shout while
passing through the air, farewell, farewell, sweet our prayer. We won't be praying anymore,
we'll be worshiping the Lord in spirit. and in truth without
the hindrance of this flesh, without the hindrance of this
world. Oh, come let us worship. Let us bow down. Now, you can
bow down physically and you can kneel down physically. A lot
of people do that in religious circles, don't they? The Muslims
do that. The Hindus do that. I'd say a
lot of Christians, they're so-called in Christianity, they bow the
knee. That's not the real issue. The
real issue is, have you bowed in your heart? Have you bowed
in your heart? Remember that story I told you
about little Johnny in grade school, whom the teacher corrected? Little Johnny stopped running
around, and the teacher said, little Johnny, Johnny, sit down,
Johnny. Oh, I don't know. Johnny, I said, sit down. He
said, OK, teacher. And then Johnny said, but I want
you to know I'm standing up on the inside. You see, he was sitting
down, but he was standing up on the inside. A lot of people
in religious circles, like those pharisees, they do things to
be seen of men. They bow the knee or they bow
this way or that way, but they never bowed in the heart. bowed
in the heart. He's neither of them of a broken
heart, save as such as be of a contrite spirit. O come, let
us worship and bow down, let us kneel in our heart before
the Lord our maker. I want to confess him now. He
is all our salvation. He's all our salvation. Come,
come let us worship the Lord. Let us worship the Lord. Over
and over again he says that. Psalm 96 verse 9, I'll worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 97 verse 7, Psalm 97 verse
7, confounded Be all they that serve graven
images that boast of idols. Worship Him. Worship Him. Worship Him alone. Look at Psalm
99 verse 5. Exalt ye the Lord our God and
worship at His footstool for He is holy. He is holy. Worship the Lord. Worship the
Lord. He gives us some reasons why
we should worship the Lord. He is our Maker. He is our Maker. He has made us, not we ourselves.
I read a moment ago in Psalm 100 verse 3. In the original
creation, the Lord is our Maker, our Creator. In Genesis 1, He
said, let us make man in our image and in our likeness. Let us, Father, Son, Holy Spirit,
make man in our image. In our image. in our likeness. Genesis 2 said, the Lord God
formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into
his nostril the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
But what happened in Adam's sin? He died. He died spiritually. He is alive physically, but he
died spiritually. His spirit was dead. But in the
new creation, he gives us life, spiritual life, makes us new
creatures in Christ. We are His workmanship created
in Christ Jesus. He makes us new creatures. We're
born again by the Spirit of God, and that Spirit of God lives
in us. We have a new nature, a new man, it's called in Scripture.
Now look at verse 7. He gives us more reasons to come
and worship Him and bow down before Him. He's not only the
Lord our Maker in verse 6, but it says in verse 7, He's our
God. He's our God. Remember Thomas confessed him,
the Apostle Thomas confessed him as my Lord and my God. And this Thomas confesses him
too. He is my Lord and he is my God. And we, we are the people. We are the people, the people,
the people of his pasture. That means we're his sheep, that
means he's the good shepherd. and we're the sheep of His hand.
Today, hear His voice. Right now is the time to hear
His voice. He is our God, God over all, blessed forever. The
Lord Jesus Christ is called Emmanuel, God with us. Therefore, we love Him because He first
loved us, and we desire to worship Him. We seek as such to worship
Him. We are the people of His pasture,
or the people of His field, He belonged to us and we belong to Him. My beloved is
mine and I am His. Remember? He chose us in that
eternal covenant of grace. We are called here the sheep
of His hand. The sheep here are His elect. The sheep here are
the ones he chose in eternity. The sheep here are the ones that
the Lord Jesus Christ gave his life for. As the good shepherd
giveth his life, he lays down his life for the sheep. He's
called the great shepherd of the sheep. We're going to see
that in our study. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 20,
the God of peace brought again from the dead, the Lord Jesus
Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of
the everlasting covenant. He's a good shepherd. He's a
great shepherd. He's the chief shepherd who's
coming back. And every believer can say with
David, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. My God shall
supply all your need according to His riches in glory. His sheep,
it says there in the last part of verse 7, today if you will
hear His voice. When's a good time to hear the
voice of the Lord? Now this is not talking about
hearing some audible voice. This is talking about the voice
of the Lord as revealed in the book. That's how God speaks to
His people through His Word by His servant. His servants preach.
His servant preached the word. We hear his voice in the word,
don't we? We hear his voice this evening. He's given us this psalm. And his sheep, he said, my sheep,
they hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.
A stranger they will not follow. Those who say they are sheep
and are not will not hear the shepherd's voice. will not hear
the shepherd's gospel. Our Lord said to those pharisees,
you believe me not because you're not of my sheep. His sheep hear
his voice, and they do follow him. He gives us an example here. You remember from Romans 15,
whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our
learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scripture
might have hope, And he gives us an example of
those who refuse to hear his word. Today, if you will hear his voice,
don't harden your heart against his voice. How do you harden
your heart? Refuse to hear. Refuse to hear. Refuse to believe the word of
truth. Don't harden your heart as those
people did in the wilderness in the day of temptation. Forty
years. when your fathers tempted me,
they proved me, and they saw my mighty works. When they were
thirsty and complained, God told Moses to smite that rock, and
water came out of that rock. When they were hungry and complained,
the Lord sent them manna from heaven forty years, six days
a week. manna from heaven. The Lord gave
them a cloud by the day for shade, a fire at night to warm them,
to give them light. He provided for them. Their clothes
did not wear out. Their shoes did not wear out.
He provided for them. Even though they provoked Him,
they tempted Him, and they saw My work. Forty years long, verse
10, was I grieved with that generation. and said it is the people that
do err in their heart. Their heart was not right with
God. The heart of man is deceitful above all things. Our heart by
nature is just like their heart, hardened, dead, desperately wicked,
and they did not know my way. It's only as God gives us a new
heart that we know who He is. Unto whom I swear in my wrath,
that they should not enter into my rest. What kept them out of
the land of promise? Unbelief. And this is quoted
in Hebrews chapter three and Hebrews chapter four. They entered
not in because of unbelief. May God grant us faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And may God give us ears to hear
a word from him. And may God give us a heart,
a heart love for the Lord Jesus Christ.