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1. Spiritual Disciplines: Celebration & Thanksgiving Psalm 100
2. Spiritual Disciplines
4. Celebration & Thanksgiving Celebration
Chagag (Heb.)
To make a pilgrimage, feast
let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me (Ex. 5:1)
5. Celebration & Thanksgiving Celebration
Examples of Biblical celebration
Feasts of Israel (Lev. 23)
David danced before the Lord (2 Sam. 6)
Wedding feast at Cana (John 2)
6. Celebration & Thanksgiving Celebration heartily done makes our sorrows seem small, and we find in it great strength to do the will of our God because His goodness becomes so real to us.
Dallas Willard
The Spirit of the Disciplines
7. Celebration & Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Yadah (Heb.)
To acknowledge, to praise, to confess, to express gratitude
Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His works with joyful singing. (Ps. 107:22)
8. Celebration & Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Eucharistia (Grk.)
Good grace (lit.)
Grateful expression
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (Phil. 4:6)
9. Celebration & Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is intrinsically linked with praise, for when one declares Gods attributes and works, he cannot help but be thankful for these.
10. Celebration & Thanksgiving Together these 2 terms call us to:
surface our deep acknowledgement of Gods person & provision and
passionately express our grateful response to Him
11. Celebration & Thanksgiving The calendar of the Old Testament was highlighted by the 3 great harvests and called for 3 celebratory feasts and heartfelt expressions of thanksgiving.
12. Celebration & Thanksgiving
Feast of Unleavened Bread (7 days)
Passover/First Fruits
Barley Harvest
Feast of Weeks (1 day)
Pentecost
Wheat Harvest
Feast of Trumpets (21 days)
Day of Atonement, Tabernacles
Fruit Harvest
16. Psalm 100 Big Idea:
God's people are invited to approach the Lord with joy in this popular psalm. We can serve Him gladly because He is the Creator, and we can worship Him thankfully because He is good and faithful.
18. Psalm 100
22. Psalm 100 A Psalm for Thanksgiving.
Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name. For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting, and His faithfulness to all generations.
23. Psalm 100 Sung in the temple with the sacrifices of praise
Known as The Jubilate
Last of the eight Enthronement Psalms (93-100)
24. Psalm 100
THE BIG SIX
Yahweh is God
He is our creator
We are His people
The Lord is good
His lovingkindness is everlasting
His faithfulness endures
25. Psalm 100
BIG IDEA
The people of God are invited to approach the Lord with joy and celebration, serve Him gladly, and worship Him thankfully.
26. Psalm 100
Joyful Service (100:1-3)
Grateful Worship (100:4-5)
27. Psalm 100
Joyful Service (100:1-3)
A Psalm for Thanksgiving
4 commands
Shout!
Serve!
Come!
Know!
28. Psalm 100
Joyful Service (100:4)
3 more commands
Enter!
Give thanks!
Bless His name!
29. Psalm 100
Joyful Service (100:5)
Why 7 commands?
He is good
His lovingkindness lasts
His faithfulness is for all generations
31. Psalm 100
THE BIG SIX
Yahweh is God
He is our creator
We are His people
The Lord is good
His lovingkindness is everlasting
His faithfulness endures
32. Application
33. Application Communion
Thanksgiving is intrinsically linked with praise, for when one declares Gods attributes and works, he cannot help but be thankful for these.