Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth--let your cry ring out, and sing praises! Sermons
I. WHAT MAY WE THINK THE LORD REMEMBERS? See two things. (1) That he had to be very gentle and merciful toward us. (2) That he had to keep his promise to help us. Remembers his mercy and truth; his loving kindness and faithfulness. See what persuasion to new "mercy and truth" is in such quickened memory. 1. The exercise of the passive graces purifies and ennobles character, and makes us more able to exercise them, and more anxious to find objects on which to exercise them. Do some act merely for a person, and you may find it tiresome to have to do it again. But show a kindness, be merciful, pitiful, tender, gracious, and you will want to be all these over and over again. 2. Every claim upon a man of truth is an establishing and confirming of his truth, and makes him more determined that men shall have absolute trust in his word. If it be thus with men, how much more so with God! II. HOW MAY WE VENTURE TO QUICKEN THE LORD'S MEMORY? By telling him freely what is in our memories concerning his dealings. This is the way of love. The lover tells his loved one his memories, and that is the best quickening of hers. - R.T.
The Lord hath made known His salvation. Mr. Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, told me that on his first journey to England, before he started, he said to his wife, "I have dreamed a dream. I have dreamt that I shall be wrecked and be the only person that will escape; and what a thrilling story that will be for me to tell." He left home, and there was a collision, both ships were in very great danger, but by the wonderful providence of God both ships got back in harbour, and there was nobody lost whatever. So he said to his wife, "Is not this a much more thrilling story to tell? Is it not a much more happy thing to have to say, 'Saved, and all saved that sailed with me, not one of them lost'?" Oh, that we might have the privilege of saying, "Here am I, and the children that Thou hast given me."( C. H. Spurgeon.) People PsalmistPlaces JerusalemTopics Aloud, Break, Burst, Cry, Forth, Glad, Joy, Joyful, Joyfully, Joyous, Jubilant, Loud, Music, Noise, Praise, Praises, Praising, Psalms, Rejoice, Shout, Sing, Song, Songs, Sounding, Voice, Yea, YesOutline 1. The psalmist exhorts the Jews4. The Gentiles 7. And all the creatures, to praise God Dictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 98:4 5332 harp Library The New SongI want to carry your minds, if I can, to-night, for a little season to that last and grandest, because the decisive victory, which shall tell out the name and fame of Jehovah in all his mighty attributes, and in all his majestic deeds, when the battle shall be over for ever, and the banner shall be furled and the sword shall be sheathed, because the last foe shall be destroyed, and placed beneath the feet of the Almighty victor; "His right hand, and his holy arm, hath him the victory." My text seems, … Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 9: 1863 Salvation Published from the Mountains Psalms Links Psalm 98:4 NIVPsalm 98:4 NLT Psalm 98:4 ESV Psalm 98:4 NASB Psalm 98:4 KJV Psalm 98:4 Bible Apps Psalm 98:4 Parallel Psalm 98:4 Biblia Paralela Psalm 98:4 Chinese Bible Psalm 98:4 French Bible Psalm 98:4 German Bible Psalm 98:4 Commentaries Bible Hub |