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EXHORTATION TO WORSHIP AND WARNING TO A WAYWARD PEOPLE
TUESDAY, APRIL 9
Psalm 95:1-11
Malachi 1:6-11
 
“… worship the LORD
in the beauty of holiness.”
 
EXHORTATION TO WORSHIP AND WARNING TO A WAYWARD PEOPLE
 
This Psalm is a Hebrew song exhorting the people to worship and warning the nation from being a wayward people since the days of their forty-year sojourn in the wilderness. It surely exhorts the Church today to worship God likewise, and surely warns us of backsliding like the Israelites in the desert.
 
Spurgeon says of this Psalm: “It has about it a ring like that of the church bells, and like the bells it sounds both merrily and solemnly, at first ringing out a lively peal, and then dropping into a funeral knell as if tolling at the funeral of the generation which perished in the wilderness.” The dividing line of the two different sentiments of this Psalm, the first expressed in the bells ringing merrily and the second in the ringing falling to a funeral note is at the end of verse 7. Thus, it will form:
1. an invitation with happy reason, and
2. an invitation with grave warnings.
 
A word to the pastor or pulpit chairman at the Lord’s Day worship: It is exhilarating at the commencement of worship to call the congregation’s attention, to prepare their hearts for worship. The hortatory utterances in many of the Psalms of praise and thanksgiving are usually used. For example, Psalm 100 is a good one.
 
THOUGHT: It is important to plan a worship service from beginning to end.
PRAYER: Father, give me Thy Holy Spirit that I may do Thy work.

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