COME AND RAISE THE ROOF (5 OF 12)
Scripture: Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 95
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Come and Raise the Roof (5 of 12)
Series: The Great Invitations of the Bible
Richard Bradley
Psalm 95:1-11
I know you've heard the phrase ''raise the roof.'' This is a popular saying that usually describes someone making enough racket to literally ''raise the roof'' off of the structure. This saying doesn't seem to go with worship does it? Yet, this is exactly what the Psalmist asked worshippers to do. Notice how The Message translates this passage:
1 Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us! 2 Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!
The idea of raising the roof in worship speaks of enthusiasm. Why does there seem to be so little of that in worship today? We believers don't find it hard to be enthusiastic about almost anything else in life except worship and yet we ought to be more enthusiastic about this than anything else.
Psalm 95:1-11 1 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods. 4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. 5 The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. 7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8 ''Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.' 11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'''
Look at the three things the Psalmist said generates enthusia ...
Series: The Great Invitations of the Bible
Richard Bradley
Psalm 95:1-11
I know you've heard the phrase ''raise the roof.'' This is a popular saying that usually describes someone making enough racket to literally ''raise the roof'' off of the structure. This saying doesn't seem to go with worship does it? Yet, this is exactly what the Psalmist asked worshippers to do. Notice how The Message translates this passage:
1 Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us! 2 Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!
The idea of raising the roof in worship speaks of enthusiasm. Why does there seem to be so little of that in worship today? We believers don't find it hard to be enthusiastic about almost anything else in life except worship and yet we ought to be more enthusiastic about this than anything else.
Psalm 95:1-11 1 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods. 4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. 5 The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. 7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8 ''Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.' 11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'''
Look at the three things the Psalmist said generates enthusia ...
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