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Series: Worship
Sermon: Why Singing and Shouting?
Bible Verses: Psalms 47
By: Jeff Piepho
Date: 2-26-2010
Purpose of Life: ________________________ and participating in the ____________________ of God.
Why do we come together and sing/clap/shout for worship?
Part of the reason we come together as a Church and sing praise is: the Bible ___________________________
to do it! But there is a lot to it than that.
DIRECTIVES FOR CHURCH WORSHIP:
- ____________ our hands (v 1)
- ______________ with joy (v 2)
- _______________ instruments (v 5)
- _______________ (v 6, 7)
____________________, including gentiles, are directed to clap, praise and shout with joy to God.
Point of verse 3-4: God is the one _________________________ what nations will rise and fall,
who the little ______________ will be.
VERSE 5 IS ALLUDING TO THREE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:
#1: ANCIENT ____________________ VICORIES AND KINGS RETURNING HOME WITH A PRIZE
"Ascended" - talks about ascending up to __________________. Taking the proper place of a King.
A Biblical example of this is bringing the Ark of the Covenant back ______________________.
#2: SHEKINAH GLORY - THE PHYSICAL__________________ OF _______ AMONG HIS PEOPLE
When we sing and praise God we are reminding ourselves - at one point God's Shekinah Glory _____________
everyone and literally ____________ God's people forward!
Knowing _______________ is to be _________________________ the Shekinah Glory that Israel experienced.
#3: THE _______________ AND ______________ OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE ULTIMATE GLORY
OF GOD AND KING.
Shouts and loud trumpets signify the ________________ of Christ to Earth!
Jesus ascends __________________ every other _________________ and King!
THE NATURAL _______________________ DURING THESE SCENES IS _____________________.
CONCLUSION:
When we come together to sing we not only enjoy singing about our God, but we
_________________ and __________________ events like Jesus arriving on Earth and our
King being praised by all people (the three things referenced by verse five).