KNOWLEDGE, Holiness, Gratitude-Psalm 99-100

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Video (10/20/24): KNOWLEDGE: Holiness. Gratitude. (Psalm 99-100). Prayer: Psalm 100:1-5.

KNOWLEDGE. “Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” “For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations” (Psalm 101:3b, 5).

  • How do you know what you know?
  • How important is knowledge?
  • Is all knowledge useful and beneficial?
  • What is more important than knowledge?

Holy, Holy, Holy (Ps 99:1-9). “Let them praise your great and awesome name—he is holy.” “Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his footstool; he is holy.” “Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy” (Ps 99:3, 5, 9).

Holiness prompts Gratitude (Ps 100:1-5). A psalm. For giving grateful praise.

“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.” “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name” (Psalm 100:1, 4).

HOLINESS, the primary attribute of God. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory” (Isa 6:3). Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come” (Rev 4:8).

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* What does it mean that God is holy? (Psalm 99) How is God holy?

  1. God’s name is holy (Ps 99:1-3).
  2. God’s judgment is holy (Ps 99:4-5).
  3. God’s forgiveness is holy (Ps 99:6-9).

* What should you do because God is holy? (Psalm 100)

  1. Worship God loudly and joyfully (Psalm 100:1). 1 Thessalonians 5:16.
  2. Serve God gladly (Psalm 100:2). 2 Corinthians 9:7.
  3. Thank God consistently and continually (Psalm 100:4). 1 Thessalonians 5:18.
  4. Love God intelligently and intimately (Psalm 100:3, 5). Love God for who He is, for to know God is love God. So…

* …how do you come to know that God is God?

  • * “Love the Lord your God with…” (Mk 12:30).
  • * “…my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge” (Hos 4:6).
  • * “Do not conform to …, but be transformed by …” (Rom 12:2).
  • * “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).
  • * “… whatever is … think about such things” (Phil 4:8).

* How might your biblical knowledge help deceive you?

  • * “…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” (Gen 2:17).
  • * “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it” (Gen 3:6).
  • * “Desire without knowledge is not good— how much more will hasty feet miss the way!” (Prov 19:2)
  • * “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?” “You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know” (Job 38:2; 42:3).
  • * “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering” (Lk 11:52).

* How might your biblical knowledge help you?

  • * “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.” “The wise store up knowledge..” (Prov 12:1; 10:14).
  • * “The discerning heart seeks knowledge…” The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge…” “…rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge” (Prov 15:14; 18:15; 19:25).
  • * “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Prov 1:7; 10:9).
  • * “Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge” (Ps 19:2). “Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?” (Ps 94:10) “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain” (Ps 139:6).
  • * “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you” (Mt 13:11; Lk 8:10).

What is the “best” knowledge?

  • * “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better” (Eph 1:17).
  • * “…to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God” (Eph 1:17, NLT).
  • * “For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge…” (1 Cor 1:5).

How does Psalm 99, 100 point to Christ?

  1. Jesus is the holy God. “…he is holy” [x2] “God is holy” (Ps 99:3, 5, 9).

 * “Christ Jesus…has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption” (1 Cor 1:30).

  1. Jesus is God. “Know that the Lordis God” (Ps 100:3a).

  * “The Son is the image of the invisible God…” (Col 1:15).

  * “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (Heb 1:3).

  1. Jesus is the Creator God. “It is he who made us” (Ps 100:3b).

  * “…through him all things were made…” (John 1:1-3).

  1. Jesus is the Good Shepherd. “we are..the sheep of his pasture” (Ps 100:3c).

  * good…great…overseer (Jn 10:11; Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 2:25).

God wants more than fans (Ps 100:1); He wants followers (Ps 100:2a). God wants you to serve him not just with emotion (Ps 100:1) but also with motion (Ps 100:2a), the motion of obedience. Spiritual maturity is not measured by glorious singing (Ps 100:1) as much as by glad serving (Ps 100:2a).

You don’t have to be sad to be sanctified. You don’t have to be gloomy in order to be holy (Ps 100:1-2).

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