Praising the Lord

Q: What does the Bible say about praising the Lord?

The Bible emphasizes the importance of praising the Lord as an expression of gratitude and acknowledgment of His goodness. The Bible teaches that praising the Lord is an essential aspect of our relationship with Him. In Psalm 145, David expresses his determination to praise God every day, indicating that praise should be a constant practice in the life of a believer. Throughout Scripture, we see numerous examples of God's worthiness to be praised due to His goodness, mercy, and sovereignty. As stated in Psalm 150, 'Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.' This highlights the universality of praise as a response to God's goodness and greatness in our lives.

Q: How do we know God deserves our praise?

God's character, His actions, and His faithfulness throughout history demonstrate His worthiness of our praise. The worthiness of God's praise is grounded in His character and the multitude of blessings He bestows upon us. As noted by Henry Mahan, John Gill points out that a 'sense of justice' should compel us to praise the Lord for His merciful and kind nature. God's goodness is evident in His creation and ongoing provision for mankind. Moreover, when we understand God's sovereignty and His role as the Almighty King, it leads us to recognize that true praise arises from a heartfelt acknowledgment of who He is—merciful, loving, and just. Thus, praising God is not simply a duty but a natural response to understanding His greatness and goodness.

Q: Why is daily praise important for Christians?

Daily praise cultivates a grateful heart and strengthens our relationship with God. Daily praise is vital for Christians because it serves as an act of worship and acknowledges God's presence in our lives. Praising God daily helps to align our hearts with His truth, transforming our perspectives and attitudes. It counters negativity, as noted in the sermon, since you can't complain and praise God simultaneously. Regular praise fosters a joyful spirit and can even lift us above life's trials and burdens, creating a more profound sense of peace. As emphasized in Psalm 145, personal commitment to praise not only enriches our faith journey but also draws us closer to God and encourages us to share His greatness with others.

Q: What role does understanding God's character play in praise?

Understanding God's character allows us to praise Him authentically and meaningfully. Recognizing and knowing God's character is fundamental to authentic praise. As Mahan points out, praise cannot be truly offered by those who do not know Him as Sovereign and Almighty. When believers reflect on God's attributes—His mercy, justice, righteousness, and love—they are better positioned to offer heartfelt praise. In the sermon, David's determination to bless God's name illustrates the connection between knowledge of God's character and the depth of our worship. The more we comprehend who God is and what He has done for us, the more deeply our praise will resonate in truth and spirit.

Psalm 145 And you just hold that. I'm going
to bring some thoughts tonight. This is a disjointed message,
I think. I don't have my usual three points
as an introduction and three or four points for the message.
We're just going to look at the subject, praising the Lord. Now,
if I ask you tonight, and if I ask myself, and what I ask
you, I ask myself, do you pray? Do you really pray? Most of you
would reply in the affirmative, yes, preacher, I do pray. If
I ask you, do you pray every day? I think most of you would
answer, yes, I do pray every day. I may not have organized
prayer every day, but I do pray. I couldn't live without prayer,
without communion with God. But suppose I ask you this, suppose
I ask you and I ask myself this question, do you praise the Lord
every day? Do you praise the Lord every
day? Praise God. Now, too often the
answer would have to be, in my case, in your case, no, I do
not praise the Lord every day. But are we not wrong in this
matter? And is not praise, is not praise, now think about it,
as vital as prayer? Is not praise as vital as prayer? Is not praise a vital part of
prayer? Actually, can we really do much
praying without praising God, huh? Now you read the scriptures
that have to do with prayer, and can we really pray without
praising God? Does not the prayer the Lord
gave the disciples start this way? Our Father which art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Isn't that praising God? And
isn't that the way he said to start your prayer? Matthew Henry
said this, they that pray do well. They that pray and read
do better. But they that pray and read and
praise God do best of all. Men ought to praise God. God
is worthy of our praise. Actually, John Gill says a sense
of justice ought to make us praise the Lord. It's right to praise
God. He ought to be praised. He's
worthy of praise. We ought to praise God in return
for the multitude of blessings that he's given to us and benefits
that he's given to us. The Lord is good and greatly
to be praised. Look at verse 9. The Lord is
good to all. And his tender mercies over all
his work. God's been good to us. God's
been good to you. He's been good to me. And he's
worthy to be praised. And then this. Note this. I've
never seen this before. Spurgeon brought this out. Praise
is characteristic of a true child of God. Now, he said a man who
pretends to love God can read the Bible. A man who pretends
to love God, a hypocrite, a false professor, can attend church.
A man who pretends to love God can give up some bad habits.
A man who pretends to love God can even fast and pray. But to
praise God with all the heart can never be performed by a hypocrite. That's right. He can't do it.
There's no way that a man who is a hypocrite can praise God
with his heart. That is only a mark of a true
son who can, in adversity and trial and burdens and the heat
of the day, can praise his Father. Praise is characteristic of a
true child of God. And then note this. Here's something
else offered by another writer. Praise is beneficial to me. Somebody said, and this is poetical,
nothing will oil the wheels of the wagon of life like praise
in God. You ever try to push your lawnmower
when the wheels were rusting? I'm not old enough to know how
to drive a wagon. Some of you fellows are. They've
ridden in wagons, you know, horse and wagon. One of the things
that fellows tell me they used to do, be sure to oil the wheels,
because it makes the journey so much more pleasant. And this
fellow says, nothing will oil the wheels of the wagon of life
like praising God. Nothing will lift us above the
trials of life like praising God. Nothing will lift us over
the burdens and the heat of the day like praising God. Why? Because
praise will end murmuring. You can't murmur and praise God
at the same time. Praise will end complaining.
You can't complain and praise God at the same time. Praise
will drive out discontent. Praise will make doubt and fear
to vanish. You find as you praise the Lord,
you get more assurance and more confidence. It is when we murmur
and complain and find fault that we fall into depression and doubt
and fear. Praise will replace hard feelings.
You can't praise God and hate your neighbor. Praise will dispel
criticism. You can't praise God and criticize
me. You can't do it. There's no way
that you can praise God and find fault with his creatures. And
praise will make you and me happier, holier, and heavenly. And when I'm praising God, I'm
in tune with the kingdom of God. What does the scripture say?
Well, start, the heavens declare the glory of God. The heavens
declare the glory of God. All thy works shall praise thee,
O God. And out there on the bulletin
board I've had for over a week, and I hesitate to take it down
because I love it so much. Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord. When you're praising God, you're
in tune with his universe. For creation is a temple in which
everyone ought to speak of the glory of God. Then the angels
cried, glory to God in the highest. That's the way they preceded
their announcement of the birth of Christ. Glory to God in the
highest. The seraphims, Isaiah wrote,
cried, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is
full of his glory. The Son of Man came and cried,
Father, glorify thy Son in order that thy Son may glorify thee. Turn to Revelation 19 and listen
to the redeemed in glory. In Revelation 19, verses 1 through
3, after these things I heard a great voice of much people
in heaven saying, what were they saying? Hallelujah. Salvation
and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. For true
and righteous are his judgments. He hath judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged
the blood of his servants at her hand." And again they said,
hallelujah. Hallelujah. Even God's judgments
are to be praised. Even God's wrath is to be praised.
Even the punishment of the wicked is to be praised. Almighty God
is worthy to be praised. Back to our text. And then over
to Psalm 148. Listen to these psalms. Psalm
148, verse 1. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye
the Lord from the heavens. Praise him in the heights. Praise
ye him, all his angels. Praise ye him, all his hosts.
Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light.
Praise him, ye heaven and heavens, ye waters that be above the heavens.
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded and they
were created. Look at Psalm 149. Praise ye
the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song
in his praise in the congregation of the saints. Let Israel rejoice
in him that made him. Let the children of Zion be joyful
in their king. Let them praise his name in the
dance. Let them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and the harp. For the Lord taketh pleasure
in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation. Let
the saints be joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their
bed. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth. Two-edged
sword in their hand. Look at Psalm 150. Praise ye
the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary.
Praise Him in the firmament of His power. Praise Him for His
mighty acts. Praise Him according to His excellent
greatness. Praise Him with the sound of
the trumpet. Praise Him with a psaltery in heart. Praise Him
with a timbrel and dance. Praise Him with stringed instruments
and organs. Praise Him upon the loud cymbals.
Praise Him upon the high-sounding cymbals. Let everything that
hath breath Praise the Lord. A few things I want to point
out from the text. First of all, this psalm of praise,
this song of praise, is a personal praise. Now if you'll notice
in the first five verses, five times David uses, I will, I will. In verse one, I will extol thee
my God. Verse one, I will bless thy name
forever. Verse 2, Every day I will bless
thee. Verse 2, I will praise thy name. Verse 5, I will speak of the
glorious honor of thy majesty. Now that's the opposite of the
song of the rebel. In Isaiah 14, Satan said, I will
ascend into the heavens, I will Exalt my throne. I will sit in
the high place. I will ascend above the stars
I will be like God, but David is saying I will extol my God. I Will bless his name. I will
bless thee. I will praise thy name I will
speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty and thy words. I
can't speak for others and neither can you But I am delighted to
be able to say That I'm going to praise the Lord my occupation,
my resolution, my determination. We rejoice when others join with
us in praising the Lord, but we can only speak for ourselves.
And this has to be determined in our own hearts. Like Paul
said, I'm determined to know nothing among you save Jesus
Christ and him crucified. I can't speak for other preachers.
Let them preach what they will. Every servant is answerable to
his own master. But I can speak for myself, and
like Paul said, I'm determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ
and Him crucified. Joshua could not speak for the
rest of the children of Israel. He said, but as for me and my
house, we're going to serve the Lord. And David is saying here,
it's a personal matter. He's not saying, we're going
to praise Him, we're going to praise Him. You can't force a
man to praise God. But you can say, I'll praise
Him. I will praise Him. I'll praise Thee in life, I'll
praise Thee in death, I'll praise Thee as long as Thou givest me
breath. And I'll say when the death do
lies cold on my brow, if ever I praise Thee, my Jesus, it is
now." But here's a clue. In verse 1, I will extol Thee,
my God, O King. I will extol Thee, O God, my
King. There's no praising God aright. until a person has been brought
by the Spirit of God to this point. Now listen to me. You
can't praise a weakling. You can't praise a weakling.
You can't praise one who cannot perform his will. The only one
who can really worship God is the man who has recognized God
as an Almighty God. And the only one who can really
praise God is the man who sees him as a sovereign Lord, Lord
of Lords and King of Kings. I will extol thee, my God, O
King, O Monarch, O Ruler, O Sovereign. Paul said, let's come boldly
before the throne of grace. But remember, it is a throne.
Even grace is in throne. God says, I'll have mercy on
whom I'll have mercy. I'll be gracious to whom I will
be gracious. So to properly praise God, we've
got to know him as God. I will extol thee, O God, my
King. Then note this, I will bless
thy name. I will bless thy name forever
and ever. It is not blind, uninformed,
unintelligent praise that David brings. David said, I'll bless
thy name forever and ever. I will bless thy name. David
knew his name. Like Paul said, I know whom I
have believed. I know who he is. I know his
name. I know his attributes. I know
his character. I know his way. I know him. I
can intelligently praise him because I know who it is I'm
praising. Turn to Psalm 103. I've told
you this before, but I'll tell you again. Over at Pollard Baptist Church
one time, Brother Wells asked me to get up and read a verse
of Scripture. Brother Barnard was there to read a passage of
Scripture, and I read Psalm 103. I went back and sat down. I was
sat down by Barnard, and he turned to me and he said, Did you ever
look closely at that seventh verse you read? I said, I guess
so. Let me see. He made known his
ways unto Moses, his acts to the children of Israel. He said,
look carefully at that. Barnard could get the colonel
out of the nuts, you know. He didn't give people just the
husk. He got some meat there. And he said, you know, note something
different there. He made known his ways to Moses. He made known his purpose to
Moses. He made known his glory to Moses.
He made known his name to Moses. Moses knew who God was. Moses
walked with him. God had revealed himself to Moses.
He made known his ways to Moses, to the children of Israel, his
acts, judgments, his mighty power. He took Moses into the council
room. Moses knew God. You wonder why
the children of Israel could rebel and how they could see
these things and still not bow down, how they could behold the
majesty of God and still not adore him? They didn't know him.
Not the people of Christ there. He said, You don't know me, and
you don't know my Father. You don't know my Father. They
were going about worshiping. They were using the name Jehovah,
the name God. They didn't know his name. They
didn't know his name. Moses knew him, and David knew
him. David said, Our blessed thy name,
thy name, the God we praise is holy, the holy God. The God we praise is righteous,
shall not the judge of the earth do that which is right? He shall
declare his righteousness, justice, The Lord, we praise, is merciful,
plenteous in mercy, delights to show mercy. The God, we praise,
is love. God is love. The God, we praise,
is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The God, we praise, is the God
of the atonement. The God, we praise, is the God
of eternal glory. The awesome, holy, and reverent
is his name. I said on television Monday night
when I made the tapes, and I think this is one of the keys of our
problems in this day. Preachers and churches are heavily
engaged. in all type of activities to
get people busy, busy, busy. Keep them busy, keep them coming,
keep them working, keep them laboring, keep them walking,
keep them doing all these activities. We're engaged to keep people
busy, and God is saying, be still, and know I'm God. Be still. God is saying, be still. Martha
was in there in the kitchen. Oh, she's working. The Scripture
says, cumbered about with much cash. And the meaning of that
is over-occupied. Over-occupied. Serving the Lord. I believe she loved Christ. I'm
not saying she didn't. She was serving the Lord. That's
what she was doing. She said that to him. She came
in there and Mary was sitting there at his feet. Mary was always
at his feet. Four or five times in the New
Testament you read, and that was Mary who sat at his feet.
That was Mary who kissed his feet. That was Mary who broke
the alabaster box and poured the precious ointment on his
feet and wiped his feet with the hair of her head. She was
always at his feet. Martha was busy. She came in there and she
was upset. She said, Lord, Lord, and these
disciples said this one time, don't you care? Don't you care
if we perish?" You remember when they said that out at sea when
the waves got rough? She came in and she said, Lord,
don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the laboring,
all the work, all the work? Bid her to get up from your feet
and come help me. And our Lord looked at her, and
I believe he would rebuke this church-going society in which
we live, with all of its activities and all of its over-occupation
and all of its trouble and anxiety and all of its rushing to and
fro. And he shook his head and he said, Martha, Martha. Martha,
I said twice, I called her name twice, Martha, Martha. You are
troubled and anxious about many things. many things. But Martha Mary has chosen the
good things. It will never be taken from us.
And that's all he said. And I know this, if you can ever
find your place, if I can ever find my place out of this hustle
and bustle of religious activity, While we're trying to get people
busy, God's saying, be still and know that I'm God. While
we're trying to get people active in all of these religious enterprises,
the Scripture's saying, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord.
Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage. Wait on the
Lord. I say unto you, wait on the Lord. Just how much do you think you
can serve God or add to his glory? Now think about it. There's a
whole lot he can do for me. There's really not too much I
can add to him. Christ said I didn't come to
be ministered unto. I came to minister and to give
my life a ransom for many. And I believe these folks that
are rushing out into the world serving God if we could just
shut them up in a barn somewhere and let them stay there for four
or five years till God does something for them, and then let them out. Till God, you can't teach till
God teaches you. You can't bless people till God
blesses you. That's right, no way in this
world. You'll just mess up everything you set out to do. You'll butcher
the gospel, you'll butcher God's people, you'll butcher those
who want to be his people. You know the Apostle Paul, as
brilliant as he was, as brilliant as he was, As mature as he was,
he's over 40 years old and God saved him. Over 40 years old. Brilliant. The most brilliant
man of his day, recognized even by the rulers as being a brilliant
man. In fact, one of them said, you've
studied so much you've lost your mind. But before God ever turned
him loose on the public, he sent him down into Arabia for three
and a half years, alone with the Lord. He spent all that time
alone with God. And then he had something to
say. He had something to say. I confess unto you, I started
preaching long before I was ready to preach. I know that now, but
the people that were pushing me back then, I had confidence
in them. I did what they told me to do.
But a man's not read to preach till God sends him forth. And
I'd love to be able to straighten out some of the messes I made
back there when I didn't have sense enough to come in out of
the rain. You can't, like old Ralph said one time, you can't
tell what you don't know anymore, you can come back to where you
ain't been, and I hadn't been. And I was trying to tell folks
about things I hadn't seen, and hadn't experienced, and hadn't
heard. Because I read it in a book, but you can't learn to plow in
school, you got to get behind a mule. You can't learn to swim
in this auditorium, you got to get in deep water. That's right,
get in water over your head, then you learn to swim. Great
soldiers aren't made in West Point. They're made out there
where the guns are exploding and the wounded are falling and
the smell of battle is around them. That's where you become
a coward or a soldier. That's right. To praise God aright
is to intelligently know Him and describe to Him those attributes
that are His. To intelligently know Him. Give
him the titles that are his. I want you to turn to 1 Chronicles
16. Listen to David. In 1 Chronicles 16, beginning
with verse 25, 1 Chronicles 16, verse 25, "...for great is the
Lord, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above
all gods, for all the gods of the people are idols, but the
Lord made the heavens." Glory and honor in his presence, strength
and gladness are in his place. Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds
of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give
unto the Lord the glory due under his name. You can't do that unless
you know his name. bring an offering and come before
him. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Fear before
him. See, this is not running around
here shouting and carrying on and cutting up. This is fear.
Walk before the Lord in fear. Come before his presence. Worship
him. The world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
Let the heavens be glad. Let the earth rejoice. Let men
say among the heathen, The Lord reigneth. The Lord reigneth. Let the sea roar and the fullness
salve, let the fields rejoice in all that is therein. Then
shall the trees of the woods sing out at the presence of the
Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth. O give thanks unto
the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy endureth forever. And
say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation. Gather us together
and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy
holy name and glory in thy praise. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
forever and ever." And all the people said, Amen. Praise the
Lord. I want you to note just briefly
now in verse 1 of Psalm 145, the word B-L-E-S-S, blessed. And you know, I'll close with
this, in verse 1 he said, I'll extol thee, O God, my God, O
King, I'll bless thy name. Verse 2, every day will I bless
thee and I will praise thy name. And down here in verse 10 it
says, all thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints
shall bless thy name. Now this will help, you listen.
Sometimes the word bless, I will bless the Lord, bless the Lord,
oh my soul. Sometimes the word bless is used
interchangeably with the word praise. There is a difference. And the difference is important.
And here's the difference. I know he said, verse 10, all
thy works shall praise thee, but thy children, thy saints,
shall bless thee. You can praise a man and not
bless him. you might praise a great musician.
I'm thankful that I can praise Marty and Carolee and Mike and
Alan, Ronnie, and I can also bless them. But you might praise
a great musician. He's talented. He plays well. And not bless
him. He may be arrogant. He may be
unkind. He may be wicked. So you don't
bless him. You say, I praise him. He's talented. He has power in his fingertips. But he's got a filthy mouth.
He's got a wicked heart. I don't want to be around him.
I don't want any part of his company. But he's good. To bless one like blessing God
is to adore him. It's to kneel down in love and
delight. Even the heathen may say, God
is powerful, God sent the rain. You hear them say, after a good
hard rain, well, we sure thank the good Lord that it rained.
Well, that's right, and then he'll turn around and curse out
his nation. Well, he's praising the power of God to make the
vegetable grow. Well, thank the good Lord we
had a good crop. Thank the good Lord that we had
this, that, or the other, you know. All thy works shall praise
thy name. It rains on the just and the
unjust, but thy people Thy people don't just praise thee, O Lord,
they bless thee. And to bless one, this word bless
in the Greek lexicon says to adore him, to kneel down in love
and delight. That's what it means. So David
is saying here, I will love thy name, I will greatly delight
in thy name, I will adore and rejoice in thy person. David
studied the character of God, and the works of God, and the
words of God, and then he says, not only will I praise Thee,
but O God, I adore Thee. Through all eternity to Thee,
my song of joy I'll raise, but O my God, eternity's too short
to utter all Thy praise. And then down in verse 4, he
said, one generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts." This is witnessing, this is missionary
work. What a delight to tell our children of the greatness
of our God. and to tell our children's children
of the greatness of our God. We tell them of the greatness
of His power, all things were made by Him. We tell them of
the greatness of His justice and His righteousness and the
greatness of His grace, for God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, and the greatness of His love. Nothing
can separate us from the love of God and the greatness of His
glory. the greatness of his glory. You
know, unsaved people, unregenerated people, they see a whole lot
of the things we see, and they hear a whole lot of those things,
and they mentally understand. But the difference is, the unregenerated
cannot see the glory. That's right, they can't see
the glory. The disciples were not the only
ones that beheld him. When the word was made flesh
and dwelt among us, while Pilate beheld him, he said, Behold the
man! A lot of people beheld him, but
they beheld There is a difference. The Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. Well, they said this is the carpenter.
Peter said this is the Son of God. There's a difference. The unsaved
world can't see the glory of his incarnation, nor the glory
of his death, nor the glory of his return.
I see these little silly bumper stickers warning, in case of
the rapture, this car be without a driver. That silly stuff makes
me sick, nauseated. To talk about the glory of his
return, the scripture says every eye shall see him. He's not going
to sneak in here. Every eye will see him. When the Lord of glory descends
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump
of God and the dead incarcerized, every knee shall bow and every
tongue shall confess in heaven, earth, and hell that he's Lord
to the glory of God the Father. The glory. The glory. Our Father in Heaven, we thank
Thee for the Word. We repent of our ingratitude. We repent, O Lord, that we have
not and do not praise Thee as we ought. We repent and mourn
over our ingratitude, our murmuring, complaining, We ask thee, O Lord,
that thou would reveal thy name unto us, thy ways unto us, not
just thy acts and judgments and power, but thy purpose, the glory
of Christ, the glory of thy purpose, that all things work together
for good to them who love God, who are called according to his
purpose. What shall we say to these things if we know them,
if we believe them? If God be for us, who can be
against us? And we can praise thy name in
the darkest valley. We can praise thy name on the
roughest road. We can praise thy name in the
deepest sorrow. We can praise thy name, O Lord,
on the bed of affliction. We can praise thee in the day
of failure or in the day of success. We can praise thy name. Change
and decay all around me I see. O thou that changest not, abide
with me. Put a song in my heart and then
thy praise shall be on my lips. For Christ's glory and praise
we ask these things. Amen. Let's sing number 32. Blessed be the name. Stand, please. All praise to him who reigns
above, his majesty supreme. who gave his son for man to die,
that he might man redeem. Blessed be the name, blessed
be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name,
blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord.

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How do we know God deserves our praise?

Why is daily praise important for Christians?

What role does understanding God's character play in praise?

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