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The author of this Psalm is not known. Psalm 100 is also a Hymn psalm in a section of Enthronement Psalms. This is the last psalm in this section (93–100) of Enthronement Psalms. It serves like a concluding hymn on this section focused on God’s sovereign rule over all things.
I. A call to give thanks to Yahweh (vs. 1–2)
A. The KJV translation jokes made at church services help us misunderstand this text. It is not a joyful noise made by the tone deaf. It is a loud, celebrative, joyful shout!
B. See 1 Kgs 1:32–48
C. Long Live Melech Yeshua!
D. Who is surrender to King Jesus? All the earth. Every ethnic group.
And the foreigners who convert to the LORD, minister to Him, love the Yahweh's name, and are His servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it, and who hold firmly to My covenant–I will bring them to My holy mountain and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. (Isa 56:6-7 HCSB)
E. All nations must recognize that Yahweh alone is God
F. Yahweh’s people exist by His grace and blessing. They trust in Him
G. The nations are invited to sing hymns to Yahweh and to worship Him
H. Submission to King Jesus’ rule is a joyous and grateful act in loving response to His covenant promises
I. The Bible is about the Promise/plan of God; Promises concerning
1. Redemption 2. Messiah
3. Kingdom 4. Revelation (of who God is)
5. Rescue 6. Salvation, deliverance from sin
J. “Gladness” is a result of serving, trusting, and obeying the Creator, Redeemer, and King
Through him [Jesus] then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. (Heb 13:15 ESV)
K. Worship is service, and it is work, and requires effort. But you don’t have to beg a real believer to worship the God of the Bible. He/she wants too!
L. See Ps 95:6, 96:8
II. A call to celebrate the covenant between God and His people (vs. 3)
A. We are commanded to know something, actually to confess it
B. We are to know and confess that Yahweh is our covenantal master
C. We are to know and confess that Yahweh alone is the true God of the universe
D. We are to know and confess that Yahweh is our God, we are accountable to Him
E. We are to know and confess that Yahweh is our creator, not man or chance
F. We are to know and confess our privileged position as believers: God is our Father, we
belong to Him, we relate to Him with the same closeness a sheep has to its shepherd.
H. What does a shepherd do for his sheep? Psalm 23; Luke 15:3–6; John 10:1–18
III. A second call to give thanks to Yahweh (vs. 4)
A. Come to public worship, you must go through the gate to enter the Temple court
B. The court of the Gentiles, Women, Israel, Priests, Holy of Hollies
C. It is assumed a real believer will come to public worship with praise and thanksgiving
a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, and the voice of those saying, Praise the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His faithful love endures forever as they bring thank offerings to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD. (Jer 33:11 HCSB)
D. A thank offering was voluntary, set by the individual worshiper
E. How far into the courts can we go, since Yeshua has come and died?
Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (Heb 10:18–26 NASB)
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility (Eph 2:14 ESV)
H. Thanksgiving focuses on what He has done for us in prayer (actions), Praise for who He is (attributes)
IV. A second call to celebrate the covenant between God and His people (vs. 5)
A. Yahweh alone is good, not any man
B. Yahweh has (hesed) covenant love for His people that never ends
C. Yahweh keeps his promises faithfully to every generation of His elect
Then the LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed: Yahweh--Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. (Exod 34:6–7 HCSB)
D. Jesus does not lose one of His sheep. Jesus is the good Shepherd
E. Like His Father, He keeps all His promises (I will never leave or forsake you)
Lessons to live by:
• Grateful statements and praiseful statements go together in our prayers to the God of the Bible. We remember what He has done, and who He is.
• Corporate worship is not optional for a real believer. Those who are not providentially hindered know the importance of corporate worship. Make-believers and Holy day Christians have no idea what a covenant relationship with God looks like.
• The promises are very important in the Bible. They are what we grab a hold of with our faith without seeing the final end.
• We have much to be grateful for and many things for which to praise God
• Long Live King Jesus!
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