Psalm 95:
"First, the people offer a hymn that serves as a call to worship and prayer; then the priest or prophet answers with a warning that the worshipers must not fall prey to hardness of heart as did their ancestors.
This ever-present tendency to harden one’s heart is likewise applicable to God’s revelation in Christ, as the author of Hebrews observed (Heb. 3:7-11).
O come, let us sing unto the LORD:
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
vs.1
This ever-present tendency to harden one’s heart is likewise applicable to God’s revelation in Christ, as the author of Hebrews observed (Heb. 3:7-11).
Verses 1-11: This psalm, with its references to the wilderness wanderings, may have been composed by David, for the Feast of the Booths, or Tabernacles.
I. Positive Call to Worship (95:1-7a).
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. vs.2
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: vs.8
--We must praise God in concert, in the solemn assemblies.
--Hardness of heart is at the bottom of all our distrusts of God and quarrels with him.
vs.7,8: To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation...
*That is a hard heart which receives not the impressions of divine discoveries
*and conforms not to the intentions of the divine will,
*which will not melt, which will not bend."
O 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.
vs,6,7
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II. Negative Warning of Wrath (95:7b-11).
Verses 1-2: “Let us” reveals a corporate emphasis in worshiping God. Praising the Lord by oneself is not sufficient; God’s people also need to praise Him in community.