O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
O come, let us sing to the Lord and make a joyful noise and shout to Him as the rock of our salvation. This praise is to be offered by coming before His presence with thanksgiving and gratitude and with psalms. The call to worship continues with thanksgiving and praise because He is worthy as the great God and great King above all gods.
The reason for praise is His sovereignty over the earth and sea as Maker, with the deep places of the earth in His hand and the strength of the hills belonging to Him. The sea is His because He made it, and the dry land was formed by His hands. The fitting response is worship by bowing down and kneeling before the Lord our Maker. His people are the sheep of His pasture, of His hand and care, and must hear His voice today without hardening the heart.
The warning recalls the provocation and temptation in the wilderness, when the fathers tested God at Meribah and Massah and saw His work. God was grieved forty years with a generation erring in heart and not knowing His ways, and swore in His wrath they should not enter His rest. The Rock of salvation is Christ, and the church and the faith built upon Him stand firm through Satan's attacks and cannot be overthrown. As the Rock of salvation God is a present help in every time of need, giving believers reason to stand firm and rejoice even while suffering to do His will.
The Sabbath brings this message of worship and belonging to God as great King and Creator to His people today. The verse belongs in morning worship with singing, reading the Word, bowing in prayer, and a short address that refreshes the soul. It means thank offerings are to come up before God morning and evening in united family worship with supplication and prayer. Family worship is of first importance and is not to be governed by circumstances, done only occasionally, or neglected for a large day's work, lest children learn to look upon prayer as of no special consequence. The verse is given for reading and heeding in connection with the woe upon those who call evil good and good evil, who are wise in their own eyes, who justify the wicked for reward, and who have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
O come, let us sing to the Lord and make a joyful noise and shout to Him as the rock of our salvation. This praise is to be offered by coming before His presence with thanksgiving and gratitude and with psalms. The call to worship continues with thanksgiving and praise because He is worthy as the great God and great King above all gods.
The reason for praise is His sovereignty over the earth and sea as Maker, with the deep places of the earth in His hand and the strength of the hills belonging to Him. The sea is His because He made it, and the dry land was formed by His hands. The fitting response is worship by bowing down and kneeling before the Lord our Maker. His people are the sheep of His pasture, of His hand and care, and must hear His voice today without hardening the heart.
The warning recalls the provocation and temptation in the wilderness, when the fathers tested God at Meribah and Massah and saw His work. God was grieved forty years with a generation erring in heart and not knowing His ways, and swore in His wrath they should not enter His rest. The Rock of salvation is Christ, and the church and the faith built upon Him stand firm through Satan's attacks and cannot be overthrown. As the Rock of salvation God is a present help in every time of need, giving believers reason to stand firm and rejoice even while suffering to do His will.
The Sabbath brings this message of worship and belonging to God as great King and Creator to His people today. The verse belongs in morning worship with singing, reading the Word, bowing in prayer, and a short address that refreshes the soul. It means thank offerings are to come up before God morning and evening in united family worship with supplication and prayer. Family worship is of first importance and is not to be governed by circumstances, done only occasionally, or neglected for a large day's work, lest children learn to look upon prayer as of no special consequence. The verse is given for reading and heeding in connection with the woe upon those who call evil good and good evil, who are wise in their own eyes, who justify the wicked for reward, and who have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.