FEBRUARY 24, 2008 – “SAY IT OUT LOUD”
TEXT: Psalm 96:1-4
I. (vs.1-2a & 4) SAY IT OUT LOUD BY
PRAISING HIS NAME
(Psalm 96:1-2) “Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the
Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name…”
(Psalm
98:1) “Sing to the Lord a new song, for
he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked
salvation for him.”
(Lamentations
3:22-23) “Because of the Lord’s great
love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.”
(Don McMinn) "Praise is acknowledging and celebrating the person and work of God."
(Psalm
67:3) “May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.”
(Psalm
96:4) “For great is the Lord and most
worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.”
(Psalm
146:2) “I will praise the Lord all my
life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”
(Psalm
96:5) “For all the gods of the nations
are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.”
(Psalm
96:10) “Say among the nations, ‘The Lord
reigns.’ The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the
peoples with equity.”
(Psalm
96:13) “They will sing before the Lord,
for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in
righteousness and the peoples in his truth.”
(Psalm
150:6) “Let everything that has breath
praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.”
(Hebrews
13:15) “Through Jesus, therefore, let us
continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that confess
his name.”
(Matthew
5:16) “In the same way, let your light
shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven.”
(Don McMinn) "Our praise can create an environment in which God makes His presence known."
(Psalm
9:11) “Sing praises to the Lord,
enthroned in
(I
Peter 2:9) “But you are a chosen people,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may
declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful
light.”
II. (v.2) SAY IT OUT LOUD BY PROCLAIMING
HIS SALVATION
(Psalm 96:2) “Sing to the Lord, praise his name;
proclaim his salvation day after day.”
(Oswald Chambers) “Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the Gospel of God.”
(Isaiah 12:2) “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and
not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my
salvation.”
(Eugene Peterson) “We can’t save ourselves by pulling on our bootstraps, even when the bootstraps are made of the finest religious leather.”
(Romans 10:9) “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus
is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will
be saved.”
(Ephesians 2:8)
“For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God…”
(John Stott) “Evangelism means announcing or proclaiming the good news of Jesus.”
(John 3:16) “For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.”
(John
15:13-14) “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.”
(Steve Sjogren) “Genuine loving turns acquaintances into real friends and helps them fall in love with Jesus.”
(I Timothy 2:4) “…who wants all men to be saved and to come
to a knowledge of the truth.”
(Michael Green) “There is no true evangelism if the name, the teaching, the promises, the life, the death, the resurrection, the kingdom, and the mystery of Jesus Christ the Son of God are not proclaimed.”
(Psalm 96:2) “Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim
his salvation day after day.”
(I Corinthians
9:22) “To the weak I became weak, to win
the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I
might save some.”
(Tom Bandy) “God never called you into the church. God called you into the mission field.”
(Matthew
28:19-20) “Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
(Romans
6:23) “For the wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
III. (v.3) SAY IT OUT LOUD BY DECLARING
HIS GLORY TO ALL PEOPLE
(Psalm 96:3) “Declare his glory among the nations, his
marvelous deeds among all peoples.”
(Psalm
77:11-14) “I will remember the deeds of
the Lord; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on
all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Your ways, O God, are holy.
What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you
display your power among the peoples. ”
(
(II Corinthians
5:20) “We are therefore Christ’s
ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on
Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”
(A.W. Tozer) “God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.”
(II
Corinthians 3:18) “And we, who with
unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his
likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the
Spirit.”
(John
15:8) “This is to my Father’s glory, that
you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”
(Oswald J. Smith) “The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
( “We need ‘bifocal’ vision, a balance of being concerned close to home and committed to world evangelism.”
(Acts
16:9) “During the night Paul had a vision
of a man of