A Psalm for Thanksgiving

Psalm 100

We are going to see three things this morning:

– We have been made to joyfully shout, serve and sing.

– We have been made by God and for God.

– We have been made to give God thanks.

Psalm 100 prior to V. 1 (this is a part of the original Psalm)

A psalm. For giving grateful praise.

A psalm for Thanksgiving. (NKJV)

– We have been made to joyfully , and .

Psalm 100:1-2

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

1 Pet 2:9

Ps. 100:2

Worship the Lord with gladness…

Worship =

Serve the Lord with gladness

Psalm 100:2

…come before him with joyful songs.

Heaven, to where the faithful are headed, will be filled with joyful singing.

– We have been made by God and for God.

Ps 100:3

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us… Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.”

– AW Tozer

Isa 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.

Isa 46:9

…I am God, and there is none like me.

Ps. 95:3-5

For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Ps 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

Ps 100:3

It is he who made us, and we are his…

Ps. 139:13-14

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 100:3

…It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

– We have so much to be for.

Ps 100:4-5

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Ps. 100:5

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Ps. 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Ps. 107:1

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.

We have been made to joyfully , and .

We have been made God and God.

We have been made to give God .