God is Good

Kevin A. Purcell

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God is good and so we are called to praise God in 7 imperatives.

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Introduction

God is Good, All the time!

All the Time

All the time, God is good

All the time, God is good!

Yes He is!

Are you ever tempted to doubt that God is good?

Who doubts the good ness of God?

When do most doubt it

Why do we doubt it

chose as their favorite Psalm

for good reason

easy to see the simplicity of praise

7 commands to praise God

Ends with 2 reasons to praise God

One preacher outlined like this:

3 ways to praise

2 ways to know God

An invitation to worship

2 Reasons to worship

Psalms, Volume 2: (Psalms 42–106): An Expositional Commentary Psalm 100: The Psalm for Giving Thanks

It is a striking fact about the one hundredth psalm that it is the only one in the Psalter explicitly identified as “a psalm for giving thanks.”

Thanksgiving in context of confession of sin - thanks for salvation/forgiveness more than thanks for gifts, healing, provisions

Psalm 100:1–5 CSB

1 Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his— his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name. 5 For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.

Called a “Psalm of Thanksgiving”

part of a larger context

Read the 89th Psalm and you see many of the questions in that Psalm answered in the 90-106th Psalms

Also, 95th Psalm and this Psalm have many parallel ideas.

Serves as book ends of all about the worship of God as king

This is a simple Psalm explaining worship of YHWH!

What is the heart of worship?

Knowing God More Deeply

The Tone of Our Worship

Psalm 100:1–2 CSB

1 Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

How does the tone of these verses compare to the tone of your worship?

expressive

outward - can’t shout quietly

natural outer reaction to inner experience

Worship should be expressive. But how do we achieve that? Not instant or put on.

We see also...

The Source of Our Worship

Psalm 100:3 CSB

3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his— his people, the sheep of his pasture.

KNOW = less about intellectual knowledge and more about confession

confess a few things about God

He made us - creator

We are his - master

We’re his people - relationship as his special creation, unique in all creation

We’re his sheep - he is care giver, guide, protector (Psalm 23)

Our tone is expressive because our God is worthy! So...

The Invitation to Worship

Psalm 100:4 CSB

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.

What are gates/courts? - location in temple

This is about going deeper in worship

thanksgiving - same word as title - confession of sin more thank thanks for stuff

praise - that inspires us to unbridled praise

Result of all this is last command

thanks

bless his name - name = character

Verse 5 gives us...

The Reason to Worship

Psalm 100:5 CSB

5 For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.

God is Good, all the time!

All the time, God is Good!

Yes He is!

Is it right for us to judge God’s goodness?

not judgment

acknowledgment that he defines it

We are not judging whether he is good

We are admitting that he is the example of goodness

How do we see that exemplified by God? Parallelism:

faithful love and faithfulness

endures forever through all generations

Closing illustration: Symphony of a broken orchestra

https://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/2018/july/beautiful-symphony-uses-400-broken-instruments.html