Praising God With a New Song -- A Study of Psalm 149

   This psalm is one of a grouping of “praise psalms” that encompass the last five chapters of the book of Psalms. They all begin and end with the same admonition to praise the LORD. 

   This leads us quite naturally to discuss and contemplate the theme or subject of worship. Worship is recounting, extolling, and magnifying God for who He is and how He has revealed Himself to us. In other words, worship is about God, it is never about us.

   More specifically, worship makes God the object. Man must never be the object of the songs we sing in our corporate time of worship. We can certainly sing about what we pledge to do as a result of our salvation but, even that is in the context of thanksgiving toward God.

   One reason that truth has been largely forgotten is that the Bible, the very book that reveals who God is, has become neglected in pulpit ministry. Pastors have unwittingly compromised the spiritual growth, the very faith of their congregants by not teaching the Bible.

   When the Bible is not taught, God is not known biblically and Christians become easy prey to existentialism and other cultural influences. Consequently, personal  experiences become their barometer for truth. Our personal experiences that we claim are of or from God might be true but how will we know if we do not understand what the Scriptures teach?

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