Psalm 100:1-5The Message
A Thanksgiving Psalm
100 1 All of you, up on your feet now
—Shout & applaud for the lord!
2 Bring a gift of laughter,
sing yourselves into his presence.
3 Know this: God is God, and God, God.
He made us; we didn’t make him.
We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.
4 Enter with the password: “Thank you!”
Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
Thank him. Worship him.
5 For God is sheer beauty,
all-generous in love,
loyal always and ever.
- 1611 KJV was published
- 9 yr. Later Puritans broke away from the church of England’s persecution
- Pilgrims left England to worship freely
- Teaching their children to read from the Bible
- Dec 21 1620 - 102 people landed at Plymouth Rock after 65 day journey
- During the winter 51 died
- March 1621 Squanto arrived & taught the Pilgrims how to tap maple trees, plant corn with fish & ID good & poisonous plants
- William Bradford declared 3 days of Thanksgiving after a successful harvest
- Now they were responding to scripture
- 200 years later (1863) Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday for thanksgiving
- David’s Problems - Reasons not to give thanks
- Forgotten by his family
- Lonely shepherd
- Lions & bears
- Three times Saul threw a javelin
- His best friend Jonathan leaves him on his own
- Saul took an army to find him
- David in the Achish (enemies) court
- Home destroyed Wives taken & His own men talked of stoning him
- Guilt of adultery & murder
- Denied the right to build the temple
- Amnon is murdered by Absalom
- Son Absalom takes the throne
- Absalom is killed by Abner
- Psalms 93-99 a continuous series that the Lord is King
- Celebrating with rejoicing & song
- Psalm 100 doxology
- A Psalm 100 Praise; or thanksgiving.
- This is the only psalm bearing this precise inscription.
Who God is - Worship
What God has done - Praise
What God has done for you - Thanksgiving
- Ps 100 is thought to be a Psalm of David
— His Psalms break out with a shout of Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving like Love is not a holiday, It is a WAY of LIFE
Seven Commands to Praise
1. Make a joyful noise – Be Enthusiastic
2. Serve the Lord with gladness – Be In Celebration
3. Come before his presence with singing – Release the joy with song.
4. Know ye that the Lord, he is God – Be informed
5. Enter with Thanksgiving & praise – Demonstrate appreciation with thoughts, words & action
6. Be thankful unto him – Continually practice gratitude.
7. Bless his name – Honor Him with your life.
Seven Reasons for Praise.
1. v.3 - He is God.
2. v.3 - He made us
3. v.3 - We are his people; therefore, he is our God
4. v.3 - We are his sheep; therefore, he is our shepherd.
5. v. 5 - The Lord is Good.
6. v. 5 - His mercy is everlasting
7. v. 5 - His truth endures to all generations.
Thanksgiving is a time for:
1. Relationships v. 1
- Everybody come together
- Relationships form ideas
- Relationships develop values
- Relationships establish lifestyles
2. Rejoicing - v.2
- This is not over vegging out with football
- Note : Israel had 7 days of celebration
- Pilgrims took 3 days
- We have one day
- We who have the most spend the least amount of time ingiving thanks
3. Reflecting - v.3
Leviticus 23:41-43KJV
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
- David Jeremiah - Turning Point
- Dale Carnegie Writes about an exercise to make sure that you never become a thankless person
- Take a sheet of paper
- Make a list of all the good things you have despite all the problems you have
- Then in your mind imagine each one of those things being taken from you
- Imagine what your life be without them
- When you fully realize the emptiness gradually give those things back to yourself one by one
- You will be surprise how much better you feel
- It is impossible to be thankful & negative at the same time
- When you are grateful you are not angry, resentful or bitter
- You are not critical, judgmental or vengeful
- That does not mean you will never become any of these things
- It’s that they can’t be both there at the same time
- If you are grateful sadness, depression anger can’t stay in your soul very long
4. Restoring - v.4
- Where are we going what are we doing?
- Our priorities get out of sink with who we are in Christ
- We become our own focus
- Gratitude is acknowledging that Christ is Lord
- It is Christ that died for us
- It is Christ’s blood that cleanses us from all sin
5. Remembering v. 5
- Think & Thank come from the same root word
- Barbara Ann Kipfer “14,000 Things To Be Happy About”
- Just a list of items & thoughts
- It celebrates all the little things that make life worth living
- Sold one million copies
James 1:17KJV
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
You Are So Blessed
- When you realize America is one of a handful of places on earth where you can drink water out of the tap or flick a light switch and the lights will come on.
- When you can go to a store and buy almost anything you want.
- When you call the police you do not expect brutality to show up at your door.
- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won’t survive the week.
- If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people around the world.
- If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
- If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
- If you own just one Bible 1/3 of the world do not have excess to a Bible
- If you attend church without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
- If you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He is your
Savior you are part of a very small minority in the world
- If you prayed yesterday and today you are in the minority because you believe God does hear and answer prayers.
- You are so blessed in ways you may never even know.
Close
- Realize what Christ has done
- Savor Life
- To escape disappointment give praise
