Worship the King

In Psalm 96:1-6 we find the call leading us in worshiping the King. Two things about worship here…we will look at the first one today.

First, we find the what of worship. Sing, sing, sing…sing a new song. New has more to do with a freshness of worship that matches the mercies of God which are new every morning. “Fresh mercies demand fresh expressions of thanksgiving.”[1] God is constantly moving in our lives, constantly doing new things in terms of provision, protection, and manifesting His presence and we should be constantly finding new ways to express our praise and thanksgiving. Sing a new song.

But not just a new song…worship demands that we seek our song to be a universal song, “sing to the LORD, all the earth!” We want people from every nation, tribe, and tongue to join us as we praise our Savior and we are not to be content until they do! This is a song that is missional!

And then in verses 2 we find, “Sing to the LORD, bless His name; tell of His salvation from day to day.” That indicates that our song is to be a salvation song…we are singing of His amazing grace,

we are singing of His incredible mercies, we are singing of His shed blood,

His cross,

His death,

His burial,

and His resurrection. We are to sing of His salvation and to make it known…this song is to be evangelistic!

And then notice, “from day to day…” Our song is to be a continual song. We rejoice, we sing, we make much of Jesus continually…without ceasing. In the good times, in the hard times, when it is easy and when it is bad…we sing and make much of our King.

But there is something else to the what of worship and that is the call to proclaim. “Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples!” Worship is never content with just singing…you see, when we continually look up toward our King it will not be long before our King will turn our gaze out to those who don’t know Him. Remember, we do missions and evangelism because worship does not exist among all the nations. We do missions because we want others to join us in worshiping our King.