Grateful PraisePsalm 113

Grateful PraisePsalm 113

Hallelujah (v1)verb ‘halal’ + name ‘YH’

Hallelujah (v1)‘YH’ = YHWH

God’s personal nameMeans “I am”

Hallelujah (v1)‘halal’ = to praise, to boast

in prayer, speech, song, danceincludes awe of who God isincludes thanks for what God’s

done

Hallelujah (v1)similar to “worship”

declaring God’s goodness and greatness to Him and to one another

Pre-req’s for Worship (v1-3)

① Submission“servants/slaves of the Lord”

Psalm 95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Pre-req’s for Worship (v1-3)

① Submission② Knowledge

“name of the Lord”Essentials Bible StudyTozer’s “Pursuit of God”

Pre-req’s for Worship (v1-3)

① Submission② Knowledge③ Consistency

“from this time forth and forever”“from the rising of the sun to its setting”

Inspiration for Worship (v4-9)

God’s Greatness (v4-5)“high above all nations” = sovereign“glory above the heavens” = God’s power, size, majesty > the universe’s

Our Universe93 billion light years across

80 billion galaxies

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars

(= 5 quadrillion)

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars(5 x 1015 = 5 quadrillion)

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars

(= 5 quadrillion)

Inspiration for Worship (v4-9)

God’s Greatness (v4-5)“high above all nations” = sovereign“glory above the heavens” = God’s power, size, majesty > the universe’s

Inspiration for Worship (v4-9)

God’s Greatness (v4-5)God’s Grace (v6-9)

Inspiration for Worship (v4-9)

God’s Greatness (v4-5)God’s Grace (v6-9)

What’s Amazing: He’s Both!

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Great AND GraciousPsalm 113

Just AND Justifier Romans 3:23-26

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Unapproachable Sovereign AND Approachable Daddy

1 Timothy 6:15–16 ...He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see...

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Unapproachable Sovereign AND Approachable Daddy

Romans 8:15–16 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Terrifyingly GloriousAND Tenderly Loving

Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Terrifyingly GloriousAND Tenderly Loving

Revelation 21:3–4 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them...

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Terrifyingly GloriousAND Tenderly Loving

Revelation 21:3–4 ...and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Great AND GraciousJust AND JustifierUnapproachable Sovereign

AND Approachable DaddyTerrifyingly Glorious

AND Tenderly Loving

Glorious Paradox: God is both...