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Psalms 100:2
Serve the Lord with gladness, not in the fear and terror of the Law, but with the joy flowing from true faith; come before His presence with singing, with shouts of homage to the mighty and merciful Ruler.
Serve the Lord with gladness, not in the fear and terror of the Law, but with the joy flowing from true faith; come before His presence with singing, with shouts of homage to the mighty and merciful Ruler.
Verse Psalms 100:2. _SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS_] It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make ma...
SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS - That is, In your worship, and in all your acts of obedience. Let there be joy in this service. Let it not be with the fear of slaves; not as a matter of compulsion and f...
Psalms 100 Nothing but Praise It is Israel's voice in praise which we hear in this brief Psalm, which so fittingly concludes this series of great millennial Psalms. They exhort that all the earth sh...
C. A PROCESSIONAL HYMN (see Psalms 100:4). The Ps. invites the Israelites to be joyful, declares Yahweh is the only God and the Maker of all, and that He is specially the God of Israel. PSALMS 100:2....
THE LORD. Jehovah's self. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ with _eth_. PRESENCE. See note on Psalms 95:2....
DISCOURSE: 666 GENTILES CALLED TO GLORIFY GOD Psalms 100:1. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord...
PSALMS 100 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Invitation to All the Earth to Come In before Jehovah and Worship. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 100:1-3, Invitation to Worship, based on Jehovah's Claims as Creator and S...
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS - (.) There, where rebels are concerned, the expression is, "Serve the Lord with fear;" here, where...
BOOK 4 The Pss. in this book, as in that which follows, are mostly of comparatively late date, and suitable for use in the worship of the sanctuary. The two books seem to have been conjoined at one ti...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ *THANK-YOU, GOD! PSALMS 100 JESUS SAID, "*THANK-YOU, FATHER". (MATTHEW 11:25)...
עִבְד֣וּ אֶת ־יְהוָ֣ה בְּ שִׂמְחָ֑ה בֹּ֥אוּ ל
Psalms 100:1 THE Psalms of the King end with this full-toned call to all the earth to do Him homage. It differs from the others of the group, by making no distinct mention either of Jehovah's royal ti...
UNIVERSAL PRAISE Psalms 100:1 If we could enter into the spirit of this psalm, every day would be a Thanksgiving Day. The psalmist invites all the earth to enter into the courts of God's house with j...
This is the last song of the series, and forms a fitting conclusion to the movement which commenced in Psalms 93:1. There the Divine assumption of the throne and government was the subject. Here it is...
I will understand, &c. That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my endeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments: not trusting in my own strength, but relying on thy coming to m...
No service can be real, that is not free, and performed with gladness. Think, my soul, with what freeness, and gladness of heart, thy Jesus entered upon his service, when he cried out, at the call of...
Psalms 100 is the summons to universal worship of Jehovah with gladness and praise. Jehovah is good. Verse 5 (Psalms 100:5) gives in principle the great truth so often laid down as Israel's hope His m...
SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS,.... Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with...
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Ver. 2. _Serve the Lord with gladness_] The Cabbalists have a proverb, The Holy Ghost singeth not but out of a glad heart. Cheerfu...
_Make a joyful noise unto the Lord_ Partly, with voices, and songs of rejoicings, and thanksgiving; and partly with musical instruments, as the manner then was; _all ye lands_ That is, all the inhabit...
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Psalms 100:2 Serve H5647 (H8798) LORD H3068 gladness H8057 Come H935 (H8798) presence H6440 singing H7445...
Psalms 100 Psalms 100:1 : The lands are required to receive the good tidings from heaven, which implies that they are to cast off and reject their own gods. They are to turn from idols to serve the l...
May the Spirit of God, by whose inspiration David penned these Psalms, bless them to us as we read them! This is entitled «a Psalm of Praise.» Note here that this is the only Psalm which bears that ti...
CONTENTS: Call to praise God in consideration of His being and His relation to us. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: True worshippers should be joyful worshippers. If we serve Him in uprightnes...
Title. _A psalm of praise,_ or thanksgiving. Chaldee, “for the sacrifice of confession.” The subject appears to be general, and has received no particular application. There is not the slightest groun...
_Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands._ WORSHIP Worship is at once the duty of all duties, the service of all services, the joy of all joys. I. It is founded on knowledge (verse 3). 1....
_Serve the Lord with gladness._ GLAD SERVICE I. There are essentials which God and our own nature require in order to render spiritual service with gladness. 1. There must be reconciliation with Go...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 100:1. This hymn is not explicitly a psalm celebrating God’s kingship, but it brings the collection of kingship hymns to a close with its enthusiastic call to come before th...
INTRODUCTION This Psalm completes the series of Royal Psalms, and “may be regarded as the Doxology which closes the strain. We find lingering in it notes of the same great harmony. It breathes the sa...
EXPOSITION THE hundredth psalm has for its title, "A Psalm of praise," or "of thanksgiving," and to this description it well answers. There is not a single mournful note in the composition. God is pra...
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness (Psalms 100:1-2): Now if you can't serve the Lord with gladness, it's better that you not serve Him. It is a shame and a d...
1 Kings 8:66; 2 Chronicles 20:27; 2 Chronicles 20:28; 2 Chronicles 31:2;...