Let Us Shout Joyfully To The Rock Of Your Salvation

PSALM 95:1-8
“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
”‭‭Psalms‬ ‭95:1-8‬ ‭NKJV‬
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Shouts, songs, gratitude, and praise erupted from those gathered to worship the Lord. While there are many examples of silence and stillness in God's presence illustrated in Scripture, there are equally as many examples of raucous worship.
Both peaceful silence and enthusiastic praise are appropriate expressions of worship to our wonderful, most powerful creator, our Almighty God.
A hardened heart is as useless a hardened loaf of bread or a lump of hardened clay. With exception to God’s grace, nothing can restore it and make it useful.
In verse 8, the writer is warning us against hardening our hearts as Israel did in the wilderness by continuing to resist God's will (EXODUS 17:7).
The Israelites had been so convinced that God couldn't deliver them that they lost their faith in Him.
Some people become stubborn, so set in their ways that their hearts become hardened and it becomes impossible for them to turn fully to God.
It doesn't happen immediately, but it is the result of a series of choices to disregard God's will.
If one continues to disregard God’s will long enough, he or she risks being tossed aside like useless bread or clay.
We all have this ideal way of how to serve God and live our daily lives, but your ideal way is not necessarily God’s way. It’s not what you think that counts, it’s what God thinks that counts; His way is the only way to our Father in heaven (JOHN 14:6).
When we are walking the wrong direction, whether knowingly or unknowingly, we will feel distanced from God; prayer and worship will become difficult and heavy. But while walking with God, we will experience peace, joy, and walk will be light.
We believers are all individual parts of one body and Jesus is the head (1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27).
Any part of the body that is disobedient to the head will cause the whole body to malfunction.
If your head instructed your left leg to move forward, but instead your right hand clinched its fist, you are not going anywhere.
Furthermore, the hand does not instruct the leg, nor does the eye instruct the ear; all parts receive instructions from the head, and are individually subject only to the head.
My brethren, that is the same for the body of Christ the church. ”And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.“
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭11‬-‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
The whole congregation is subject to the head and all fall into at least one of the five categories of the five fold ministry of Christ. Each member is individually gifted to operate within the body by the leading of the Spirit , that the whole body comes together in unity of the faith.
For “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many.“
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭4‬-‭14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
There is no place for rebellion, nor procrastination, nor pride, or selfish ambitions, for we are all one in Christ.
Therefore, soften your hearts, humble yourselves before God and put your trust in Him; seek His will and do it; don't risk being tossed aside like a useless loaf of stale bread.
It’s not always easy, in fact, we humans can do nothing good in our own power. But God sent us believers a helper. Jesus said, ““If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, a teacher, and a guide, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
‭‭John‬ ‭14:15-18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
We all have a choice; it’s God’s way or my way.
God’s way, by the leadership of the Holy Spirit that leads us to life everlasting, or my way, the way of my flesh that leads us to death.
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:16-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.