PSALMS LESSON 94
We will begin by giving the 94th Psalm in metre, to show how
easily it could be sung.
THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN METRE
Chapter 95
Verse 1 "O Come, let us in songs to God, Our cheerful voices raise,
In joyful shouts let us the rock Of our salvation praise."
Verse 2 "Before his presence let us come With praise and thankful
voice; Let us sing psalms to him with grace, And make a
joyful noise."
Verse 3 "For God, a mighty God, and King, Above all gods he is. The
depths of earth are in his hand, The strength of hills is
his."
Verse 4 "To him the spacious sea belongs, For he the same did make;
The dry land also from his hands Its form at first did take."
Verse 5 "O come, and let us worship him, Let us bow down withal, And
on our Knees, before the Lord Our Maker, let us fall."
Verse 6 "Because he only is our God; And we the people are Of his own
pasture, and the sheep Of his almighty care."
Verse 7 "To-day, if ye his voice will hear, Your hearts then harden
not; As they in desert did provoke And tempt his anger hot."
Verse 8 "Your fathers did me tempt and prove, They did my working
see; And for the space of forty years This race hath grieved
me."
Verse 9 "I said, This people errs in heart, My ways they do not know:
To whom I sware in wrath, that to My rest they should not
go."
We will now begin the verse by verse study of the 95th Psalm.
Psalms 95:1 "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful
noise to the rock of our salvation."
In Hebrew the 4th chapter verse 7, the penman speaks of this,
Psalm in David. We can safely assume then, that this Psalm is of
David. This Psalm is an appeal to worship God in song and praise. It
is just as important for believers in Christ, as for the Hebrew
children, or else it would not have been mentioned in Hebrews in the
New Testament. This Scripture is like most in the Bible. It has a past
tense, a present tense, and a future tense. We have so much to thank
God for. It appears from this verse above, that the object of our
praise in song should be the Rock of our salvation. Jesus is the Rock
of our salvation. We should shout it from the rooftops, that we are
saved by the grace of God. The greatest gift in all the world, that
could be given to any one, is the gift of eternal life. This is what
we should be singing praises of.
Psalms 95:2 "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,
and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."
It was the custom of the Jewish people to come into His presence
with singing of the Psalms. The presence of God was with the
Israelites, in a very special way, in the tabernacle in the
wilderness. This same presence was in the cloud and in the fire that
led them. God is omnipresent {everywhere all the time}. This, however,
is speaking of a special presence. Many times in prayer, we are in
that special presence of God. We must remember to be in a spirit of
praise and thanksgiving at those times. Salvation of our soul is a
free gift. In fact, all the gifts of God are free. You can not
purchase the things of God. Praise causes the presence of God to be
with you. God inhabits the praises of His people.
Psalms 95:3 "For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King
above all gods."
The Egyptians were shown, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the LORD
God is above all the false gods of the earth. God swore by Himself,
because there was no greater. Elijah proved to the prophets of Baal
that the LORD, He is God. Mark 12:30 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,
and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment." Acts
4:24 "And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with
one accord, and said, Lord, thou [art] God, which hast made heaven,
and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:" I could put a
hundred Scriptures in here to show that God is God, and greatly to be
praised, and that all the gods of the earth are nothing. He is our
God, our King forevermore.
Psalms 95:4 "In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the
strength of the hills [is] his also."
God is God of the whole universe. There is no mountain tall
enough that He is not God of. There is no depth {even hell} that He is
not God of. Remember, Jesus went and took the keys of Hell and death
away from the devil. He brought captivity captive out with Him. Don't
let anyone deceive you, the devil does not control the earth or
anything else, God controls it all. The devil has just as much power
as God will allow him. In all of this, He has you in His hand. He is
as big as the universe, but small enough to care for you and me.
Psalms 95:5 "The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands
formed the dry [land]."
Genesis 1:9 "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and
it was so." Genesis 1:10 "And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it
was] good." The Scripture above shows that all of this belongs to God.
It is all His creation. The sea is at His command, as we saw when the
Red Sea parted, and when Jesus told the sea to be still, and it obeyed
Him.
Psalms 95:6 "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the LORD our maker."
All of the things we have studied in this lesson should humble us
before our maker. We should bow down before Him, and worship, and
adore Him. He is our Creator, and we are His creation.
Psalms 95:7 "For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,"
What an humbling thought to know that our God, our Creator, made
the earth as a habitation for man. How can anyone with the facts
before them, refuse Him? The only thing that He asks of us is that we
would hear and believe. How can we not believe?
Psalms 95:8 "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and]
as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
It is hard for me to believe that the children of Israel did not
believe after seeing, with their own eyes, the Red Sea part. How could
they hear the voice from heaven speaking the 10 commandments, and
still not believe? How could they see water flow from a Rock, and
still not believe? How could they see Manna fall from the sky, and
still not believe? How can we live in the earth and see all the beauty
around us that God has provided, and still not believe? How could we
neglect so great salvation?
Psalms 95:9 "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
work."
If you follow the movement of Israel across the wilderness, you
will see that, over and over, they fell away from God. They murmured
against the very God that saved them. He forgave them over and over.
As we said before, there were so many miracles done in their behalf,
that they became almost commonplace. It is like Jesus. He did so many
miracles, that if they were all written down, there would not have
been enough books in the world to contain them. How could they not
believe?
Psalms 95:10 "Forty years long was I grieved with [this]
generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and
they have not known my ways:"
For forty years they walked through the desert, and their shoes
did not wear out. No wonder God was grieved with them. I wonder at
people today who see the miracle of the earth just hanging out in
space with nothing to hold it up, and they do not recognize the God
that did this. Why are we so blind that we do not see? The problem
with this people and the people then, also, was that they had a hard
heart. They had hardened themselves against God. God wants your heart.
He loved them then, and He loves us now. He just wants us to love Him
back. To the carnal mind, God's ways are beyond finding out. The only
way to understand God's ways, is with your heart.
Psalms 95:11 "Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not
enter into my rest."
God let them wander in the wilderness 40 years, until that evil
generation perished. It is such a shame that we can not learn from
them. God's wrath is building up against those who do not know Him
now. There is very little time left to hang on the fence. The
believers in Christ will be saved from the wrath to come. Make a
decision today to love God in your heart and be saved.
Questions 94
1. What makes us believe this Psalm is David's?
2. What is this Psalm an appeal for?
3. How do we know this Psalm is for believers, as well as for the
Hebrews?
4. Who is the object of the praise?
5. What is the greatest gift anyone could receive?
6. How are we to come before His presence?
7. How was the presence of God with the Israelites in a very special
way?
8. God ________ the praises of HIs people.
9. Who were shown beyond a shadow of doubt that God was God?
10. Who did God swear by and why?
11. Quote Mark chapter 12 verse 30.
12. In Acts chapter 4 verse 24, what did God create?
13. When did Jesus take the keys to hell away from the devil?
14. How much power does the devil have?
15. How big is God?
16. What does Genesis chapter 1 veses 9 and 10 tell us about God?
17. When were two separate times, we saw that God was ruler over the
sea?
18. Why should we bow down before God?
19. God made the earth as a _________ for man.
20. What are some of the things the author thought should have been
ample evidence to make the children of Israel believe?
21. How many miracles did Jesus do?
22. How long was God grieved with the children of Israel in the
wilderness?
23. How is the only way to understand God's ways?
24. What did God swear in His wrath?
25. Believers in Christ will be saved from the _______ to come.
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