Sermon Title: ASCRIBE TO THE LORD
Scripture Text: PSALM 29:1-2
Sermon Series: SUMMER IN THE PSALMS
Sermon Notes:
PSALMS 29:1-11 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.
8 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
11 The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.
PSALMS 103:15-16 NIV
15 As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
“Worship matters. It matters to God because he is the one ultimately worthy of worship. It matters to us because worshiping God is the reason for which we were created.” — Worship Matters (Bob Kauflin)
PSALMS 29:9 NIV
9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
I. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP
HEBREWS 10:25 NIV
25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
PSALMS 29:1-2 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
PSALMS 29:1 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above you heavenly hosts.
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
PSALMS 29:2 NIV
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
“The place of worship is not about where we are but where God is.”
II. THE PURPOSE OF WORSHIP
PSALMS 29:1-2 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
“The purpose of worship is not to get something out of it. The purpose of worship is to ascribe something to God.”
PSALMS 29:1 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
PSALMS 29:1-2 NIV
1 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
PSALMS 29:11 NIV
11 The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.
1 CORINTHIANS 16:2 NIV
2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
“If we haven’t learned to be worshipers, it doesn’t really matter how well we do anything else.” -Erwin Lutzer