The sermon is based on Psalm 100, which is characterized by joyful commands to worship God. It emphasizes that worship should be a joyful and glad act of obedience, not a burdensome duty. The psalm is structured around commands to shout joyfully, serve with gladness, and come before God with singing, each followed by reasons rooted in God's nature and actions. God's goodness, faithfulness, and creative power are highlighted as reasons for worship. The sermon stresses the importance of understanding worship as a privilege (a 'get to' rather than a 'got to'), emphasizing that believers are set free by Christ to obey joyfully. The concept of Christian nationalism is briefly addressed, asserting that all creation, including nations, must joyfully obey God. Jesus Christ is portrayed as the fulfillment of the temple imagery in Psalm 100, being the true temple where all nations are invited to worship. The sermon encourages believers to be thankful, recognizing their identity as God's sheep and the eternal nature of His loving kindness and faithfulness.

Psalm 100 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 loving kindness is everlasting, and his faithfulness to all generations.

May God bless the reading and now the preaching of this, his perfect word. Amen. Amen, you may be seated. The old 100th The old one hundredth. Here is a psalm of the joyful triumph over all the earth of the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Martin Luther summarized this psalm perfectly when he wrote, This psalm is a prophecy concerning Christ. It calls upon all to rejoice, to triumph, and to give thanks, to enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts and sanctuary with praise, because by His gospel and the preaching of the remission of sins that kingdom of Christ is established and strengthened which shall remain and stand forever." End quote. That kingdom of Christ is established and strengthened forever. So how is this psalm structured? Well last week we observed that Psalm 100 repeats itself twice.

If you weren't here last Lord's Day, I'll give a brief review. We have here in the Psalm twice, three commands, and then a reason why we obey those commands. Three commands and then the reason why. Verses one and two, shout joyfully, serve the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful singing. Why?

Verse three, because the Lord Himself is God and He made you and you are the sheep of His pasture. That's very much reason to obey verses one and two. It's the same thing that happens in verse four. Three commands and then verse five, the why. Verse four, enter his gates, give thanks to him, bless his name.

Why? Because the Lord of verse 3, the creator of verse 3, the shepherd in verse 3 is good and faithful forever. Verse 5 says so. The theology of verses 3 and 5 are the fuel for the doxology of verses one, two, and four. When you hear God command you to shout joyfully and to serve gladly and to come with joyful singing that is not supposed to be to you a giant burden on your back.

It's the Lord's Day again. I gotta shout joyfully and serve gladly and come bless his name. It's not the way it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be what a burden I must carry all the way through Sunday. I guess I just got to worship the Lord today.

I just got to. It's not a get, it's not a got to, it's a get to. I get to come. I get to worship this God. Why?

Why is it a get to? Because of the truth that He is God and that He has made me and that I'm His sheep, and that I belong to Him, and the one I belong to, He is good. He is so, so good. You do carry a burden when you come in here on Sunday morning. You do carry a burden.

And it's not the commands of the Lord. You carry the burden of your sin when you come in here on the Christian Sabbath. And the Lord of Psalm 100 severs that burden and he puts it in his tomb and he says to you, every Lord's day and every day, it is finished. I am risen triumphant and your Sin is under my feet, my child, my sheep. So now go and live free.

Free, free to do what he commands. The Lord of Psalm 100 takes away your burden, He sets your spirit free, He pardons your sin, He makes you born again, so that verses one, two, and four are not burdens, but delights. I get to, not got to. That theology, those truths about God, those truths in verses three and five change everything about your doxology your worship your obedience to the Lord in verses one, two, and four. So let's briefly look at those commands that we covered last Lord's Day.

Let's look at those real quickly right now. Just by way of reminder, first, Shout joyfully all the earth. We began last week with the first set of the three commands starting in verse 1. Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth. Shout joyfully to the Lord.

Your obedience Christian is to be a joyful obedience. And now notice again, the way that this psalm is saturated with that idea. Verse one, joyfully. Joyfully. Verse two, gladness and joyful.

Gladness and joyful. Verse four, Thanksgiving. It's just saturated with this notion of joyful, happy obedience. Your obedience, Christian, is to be a happy obedience. Now children, children, you did really good job last time, so let's give it another go.

You nailed it, especially this row. Good work last week. What were Adam and Eve like when God made them? In what condition did God make Adam and Eve? Answer?

Oh, again, the same row. Where are you at, children? Besides these people. Let's say it again. He made them holy and happy.

That's the catechism answer. Holy and happy. God has made you beloved children to be holy and happy. From the infant to the aged. Holy and happy by His grace.

And so the charge at last Lord's Day was to first take out the log that is first in your own eye, parents. Take out the log of your complaining and your sour attitude. Put away that despondency inside of you. Confess that sin to the Lord and your children and your spouse, and then look to Jesus. See him on the cross, crucified for you, see him raised up victorious over your sin, over your guilt, over all that sourness that was in your heart, see him victorious over all of that and rejoice.

That risen Jesus is King and that risen king has rescued you, and that risen king has made you a sheep of his pasture. That risen king of Psalm 100 calls you to obey him gladly, joyfully, happily. So get the log out of your own eye first, look to King Jesus, show your children what it means to confess your sin, disciple them, get the log out of your own eye and then in freedom go and take the splinter out of theirs because you love them. And when they don't obey you with a happy heart after you've confessed your log, you need to drive the foolishness far from them. When they do not obey you with a happy heart, you must discipline them.

You must spank your children if they are not obeying you happily. Drive that foolishness far from them. Remind them of the gospel. Call them the happy obedience. Why?

Because Jesus Christ has risen from the dead. And His resurrection is your resurrection. Children, His resurrection is your resurrection. And He raised you up, Christian. He raised you up, children, to be holy and happy.

Lazarus came out of the tomb, moaning and groaning. Oh, you called me out of the tomb. How dare you? He came up walking out of the tomb. Whoa!

Whoa! It smells really bad in there. Holy and happy. Your obedience Christian is to be a happy obedience because happy are the people whose God is the Lord risen from the dead. From the dead.

Shout joyfully. Shout joyfully, all the earth. Notice there at the end of verse, or at the end of that first phrase, the end of verse one, all the earth. Notice the extent of this command. Who is to obey this psalm?

Who is to shout joyfully? All the earth. So This is not a command merely for Christians. This is a command for all of creation, all the earth. Why?

Because 2, 000 years ago, Jesus came into the world, He was offered the nations by Satan, Jesus rebuked Satan, then He went to a cross and died, was raised up triumphant so that all the nations are now his. So that as he ascended with all authority in heaven and on earth we are told to go into the world and preach his gospel and make disciples in the name of the triune God Father Son and Spirit. Why? Because Psalm 100 must be obeyed to the ends of the earth. Because all nations belong to the Lord Jesus.

Because all nations must kiss the Son lest they perish. Because all the earth belongs to Jesus Christ and they are to joyfully obey Him. Psalm 100 is about Jesus Christ's everlasting triumph over the earth and how we should joyfully respond. Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth. Now just an aside for just a moment if you've ever been confused about this big phrase Christian nationalism.

If you've ever wondered how should I think about the world, the nations obeying Jesus? How should I think about the magistrates of Iowa or the magistrates of America, the magistrates of any nation? How should I think about their relationship to God? Psalm 100. They are to shout joyfully to the Lord.

They're in part of all the earth. They are to shout joyfully to the Lord and to serve the Lord with gladness and to come before the Lord with singing. They're very much included. Every legislature, Every governor, every representative, every judge, president, mayor, every ruler in our land and every ruler in every land is to happily obey the triune God. Yahweh, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, all the earth.

You don't need to be confused anymore. Command number two. Now I know this is supposed to be review, and I'm sorry, it took me so long for the first point. Number two, go a little faster. Serve the Lord with gladness.

Serve the Lord with gladness. Now the path towards gladness and the path towards God are not two separate paths. They're the same path. Joy in this life and obedience to Jesus in this life, they're not enemies. They're not enemies.

They're the best of friends. Joy in this life and obedience to Jesus are not separate directions, the same. And the Book of Common Prayer nails it. The Book of Common Prayer describes this service, this slavery to Jesus Christ as quote perfect freedom. Perfect freedom.

You got to serve somebody. It's not whether you serve somebody or not, but who you serve. And in service to Jesus Christ, you are finally free. Free to be holy and happy. Free to be glad.

No longer captive to chains of doom and gloom. Slavery to Jesus is perfect freedom. Serve the Lord with gladness. Number three, come with joyful singing. That's the end of verse two.

Come before Him with joyful singing. Now why do we sing in our Lord's Day worship service here at Crossroad. Why? Do we sing because it's just some idea that we thought would be kind of cool? Let's all get together and kind of sing something.

That might work. Is that why we do what we do? No. We sing because God says to sing. Because the Lord who made us says, do this.

This is what my creations and particularly my new creations do. He is Himself God. It is He who has made us. He is the Lord and He says, Come and sing. And so we come with joyful singing.

So children sing. Women sing. And men? Doubling sing. I said it last time, but I think it bears repeating in our day.

It doesn't matter men if you're flat. It doesn't matter men if you're sharp. It doesn't matter if you're tenor, bass, or if you don't know what you are. It matters that you sing with joy. Because He who has set you free from your sin, He who has raised you up in freedom, has set you free indeed.

And free men sing. Free men lead their households in the worship of Almighty God. Free men make war. And they do so beginning with song. Your worship is warfare, men.

Let's do battle. Free men sing. And boy, do we have a song to sing, don't we? Free men and Men, women, children, we have a song to sing. Verse three, 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. What a song. He made me and He remade me through the blood of His son Jesus, through the blood of His cross and the power of His resurrection. He made me and He remade me through the blood of His Son Jesus, through the blood of His cross and the power of His resurrection.

He made me and He remade me as a sheep of His pasture. And oh, if only verse 3 was believed in our land. We live, you live in a land full of people rejecting the Maker. And so what happens? What happens in America?

What happens in Iowa? You reject verse 3 and so you seek to make yourself. If you reject the Maker, it is He who has made us. No, no, no, I will make me. I will make me.

When you reject the Maker, you try to remake yourself. So you pump puberty blockers. You chop off sexual organs. Gay men trying to have babies through. Surrogacy.

Everything we can do to reject God and His creative order and instead embrace slavery. Anything we can do to reject verse 3 and say, no, I myself am God. I'm God. That's what we're doing as a nation. Listen to this.

The truth is we make horrible gods. You are not God. You're a horrible God. You are a loser of a God. You're an abomination when you try to be God.

You need to stop if that's you. To quote Pastor Toby Sumter, when you try to be God, All you do is destroy people. And all you do is harm people and yourself. But it is such good news to hear the message of Psalm 100, the Lord is God and you are not. The Lord is God.

We did not make ourselves, He made us. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture, and of course, this reminds us of Jesus, who gave His life for the sheep, so that He might not lose a single one. Jesus made us, and by His blood He has remade us, and He has given His life for us, and like a good shepherd, He feeds His sheep." That's why we shout joyfully. That's why we serve with gladness. And that's why we come to Him with singing.

Because the Lord who is God says come. Beloved, He says come. He says come in verse 2, and he says it again in verse 4, come, come, enter my gates with thanksgiving and my courts with praise. Enter his gates and his courts. What a glorious thing, The Lord God says, come.

Yahweh says come. The Father says come. The Son says come. The Spirit says come. Come with your sin.

Come with your guilt. Come with your shame. And I will bear it. I am the sacrifice. I am the blood offering.

I am the bread of the presence. I am the presence I am the temple come to me into my temple That's what this psalm is saying come to me come to the temple Many scholars and theologians agree that verse 4 is full of temple language. I don't think it's very hard to see. It's full of references to the Old Covenant Temple, namely, words gates and courts. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

Gates and courts referring to the temple. Come into the temple, enter his gates, enter his courts with praise. Why? How? Because the Lord Jesus himself is the temple.

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled, temple among us, John says. And before he was crucified, Jesus said, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up and raise it up he did Jesus Christ is himself the temple he has torn the curtain in two he is the sacrifice he is the offering he is rightness with God he is the presence of God He is God and He says to you this morning, Come. Come. And I find it striking. Who is told to come?

Who is invited into the temple of Almighty Yahweh? Look again at verse 1. Who is invited? Who is commanded to come? All the earth.

All the earth is told to come. All the earth is told to come to the temple of Yahweh. And Jesus is the fulfillment, the accomplishment of this command. He is joy to the world. He is the root of Jesse, Isaiah 11 says, the banner over the world to whom the nations streamed to.

Jesus ascended and he said, all authorities mine over the earth. So go and make disciples, Go into all the earth and get what's mine. Go and bring the nations to me. Bring them to the new and true temple of Yahweh that they would enter my gates with thanksgiving and my courts with praise. For Jesus Christ is the root of Jesse, the standard who the nations all stream to, who the nations all come to, even you.

This old covenant prophecy in Psalm 100 is fulfilled in the new covenant where Jesus is himself, the new and true temple. And we see it in Revelation chapter seven. Revelation chapter seven, after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cry out with a loud voice saying, salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, and all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God saying, amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever amen enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise all the earth Now notice the use of the possessive words there. In verse 4, His gates, His courts. Let me ask you a question.

Whose temple? Whose gates? Whose courts? His! Yahweh!

The triune God, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, this is His worship we're talking about. And His worship gets to be defined By him. You don't walk into the temple that's not yours and say I'm gonna do things my way. No, no, no. It's his temple.

His gates, his courts. When it comes to the worship of God, shouting joyfully, serving gladly, coming with joyful singing. Beloved, we are to be regulated by the one we worship. These are his gates, these are his courts, and so everything we do in his gates and in his courts must be according to his will. God regulates, God sets the terms of our worship of Him.

We're not to come into the presence of God each Lord's day together with some novel idea of how to worship God that day. No. You're not to approach the worship of God like an entrepreneur. Hey, I love me some entrepreneurs. Nothing wrong with entrepreneurship.

But when it comes to the worship of Almighty God, you are not to be an entrepreneur. We don't need some novel new idea. You have all that you need for life and godliness right here. God says give public reading, give public attention to the reading of God's Word. That's why your worship guide is saturated with Bible.

God says, sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. That's why we sing what we sing. God says, preach the Word, administer and partake in the sacraments. We do what He says by His grace because it is His worship. And, this is big, and they are His courts.

His courts. Which means that you don't worship Him unless you worship Him His way and His way is through Jesus Christ, His Son, and His Son alone. Do you know what that means? That means that unless you worship Jesus Christ, you aren't worshiping the one true living God. John 5, 23.

He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. Understand Psalm 100 in light of John chapter 5. You don't get in, you don't enter into heaven except through His gates.

You don't enter into glory and everlasting peace with God apart from His courts. Namely, His Son, Jesus the Christ. So there are not multiple paths to God. You came in here thinking There's a plurality of paths to rightness with God that doesn't square with the Bible There is but one path his name is Jesus the Christ he is the way the truth and the life No one comes to the Father except through Him. So the worship of Hindus and Buddhists is the worship of pagans.

The worship of Islam is the worship of pagans. The worship of Judaism is the worship of pagans, for there is no Christ in it. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. His courts. Second, give thanks to Him.

Give thanks to Him. I've mentioned it before, but these three commands in verse four, they mirror the first three commands given in verses one and two. But they're in reverse order. Okay, they're in reverse order. We call that a chiasm.

Makes you sound really smart. A chiasm. And so the first command in verse one matches with the final command in verse four. The second command in verse two matches with the second command in verse 4. And the third command in verse 2 matches with the first command in verse 4.

It's a chiasm. Which helps you understand what's going on here. When I repeat all of these same commands, you've got to remember what came before. So that word come at the end of verse two is the same word for Hebrew, enter his gates and courts in verse four, and now give thanks to him, there in verse four, is extremely similar to verse two, which says, serve the Lord with gladness. So both are offering language.

Again, both are kind of temple language here. This is an invitation to come into his temple and now to serve the Lord with gladness and to give him thanks. We're giving thanks to the Lord. Now this tells you something. Just like we talked about a few minutes ago, your obedience is to be happy, yes?

Your obedience is also, your worship is also to be characterized as thankful. Thankful. We're to be a thankful people, not a pouty people. Pouty people. Children, can you listen to me right now?

Does it please your parents when you pout? Does it please your parents when you... I see a head going, no it does not. Well done young man. No pouting does not delight your parents very much, does it?

What does it normally get you when you pout? I know when it gets the brown girls spanking. It gets you disciplined. And why are your parents spanking you for pouty faces? Because a pouting face, children, reveals a pouting heart.

A heart that is the opposite of thankful. An ungrateful heart is revealed by a face that pouts. It doesn't start here. It starts right here in your heart children. And what comes out on your face is what's in here.

And so your parents look at you and they say, that's not okay. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. I must tell you that that's not the right way to live. Ungratefulness is in your heart when pout comes out on your face. But a heart that has been changed by the grace of God, a heart that is full of gratitude, A heart that knows that you have received infinitely more than you deserve.

A heart that sees Jesus on the cross bearing your sins in your place. A heart that knows that Jesus' righteousness has been imputed to you by faith. A heart that has been made new is a heart that overflows with thankfulness because you have so much to be thankful for. It's too much grace in the life of the Christian to have a pouting face. I think I kind of rhymed.

Too much grace for a pouting face. We are to be a thankful people, children, adults. We are to be a thankful people, not a pouty people. So in your prayers, in your prayers, do you first pause to thank the Lord for who He is and what He's done? Or do you just move right to the petitions?

I'm not saying it's wrong to sometimes just go right to the petitions. But it's your regular habit to just start with the petitions. I need this, I need that, I need this, I need that. Is that what you normally do? We are so quick to get right to intercession and petition, but beloved, if you but started with adoration and Thanksgiving Do you not know that your petitions and your intercessions would be all the better?

You would begin with Thanksgiving for all that God is and all that he's done for you And you would come it would bring to mind all the ways he's answered your prayers, all the ways that he has met you where you are, all the ways that he has saved your life from the pit, and then you go to the petitions and the intercessions, that changes everything. Look at what he's done. Oh man, he's given me a son. How will he not then give me all things? It fuels intercession and petition.

It will only make your prayers better if you but started with adoration of thanksgiving. We are to be a thankful people There is no other sane response And to be Thanksgiving what it is him who has given us his son So how might you be thankful? How might you give thanks to God? What are ways that you might tangibly express thanksgiving? Psalm 100 has already told you.

Shout joyfully, serve the Lord with gladness, and come. We give thanks by living out Psalm 100. We give thanks on the first day of the week, corporately on the Lord's Day. And then we go out with a new song in our mouths, as sheep of His pasture, as free men, free women, free children, free to give thanks to God. And free to bless His name.

Free to bless His name. That's the end of verse 4. That's the end of verse 4. Bless His name. Again, this is synonymous with verse 1, shout joyfully, bless His name.

Listen to this Christian, He has put His name upon you at your baptism. And He reminds you of His name that you now bear, having been baptized in the triune name, he reminds you of your baptism, he reminds you of the name that you now bear every time you take part in this table. Every time. I put my name upon you. You're my beloved child, in whom I'm well pleased for the sake of my son Jesus.

The Father put His name upon you, Christian. You bear His name as a sheep of His pasture. He's marked you out as His own, and He brings you to His table to remind you of it every single week. Bless Him for it. Bless Him for it.

Say with the seraphim and the four living creatures, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. Packer says it this way, quote, He blessed you, bless him in return. Bless his name, his character, his person. Whatever he does, be sure that you bless him for it. Bless him when he takes away as well as when He gives.

Bless Him as long as you live under all circumstances. Bless Him in all His attributes from whatever point of view you may consider Him. Bless His name." End quote. Why? Why?

Why bless His name? Why give thanks? Why enter His courts with praise? Because He's good. Because He's good.

Because verse 5, for the Lord is good. His loving kindness is everlasting, and his faithfulness to all generations. The Lord is good. This is who God is. He is the definition of goodness.

James 1, 17, every good thing given, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow. He made all creation and it was good. Why was it good? Because it came from him who is good. He made man and he was good.

Why was man made good? Because man came from He who is good. He made woman and she was good. And then Ecclesiastes 7.29, God made man upright good, but man sought out many devices. But man did evil.

The woman listened to the serpent and ate. She gave to her husband and he too ate. And in that bite, with Adam, all died. The goodness of God, exchanged for death and slavery to sin, but oh hallelujah, the fall of man did not change who God is. The fall of man did not change the unchanging, everlasting goodness of Yahweh.

For this good God came into that same garden. God came down to man. And even in the midst of the curse, in Genesis 3, he promised a final Adam who would undo all that that first Adam had done, a seed that would crush the head of the serpent, a son to triumph over your sin. And in the goodness of God, in the faithfulness of God, that Son was born. That Son was given.

His name is Jesus the Christ, and He was crucified for the propitiation of your sins and for the sins of the whole world, according to the Scriptures. And He was buried, and he was raised up according to the scriptures and he ascended on high victorious over your sin victorious over the curse just as God had promised he kept His promise. God kept His promise. He was faithful. He is faithful to all generations.

Beloved, I want you to understand this. The sinfulness of man, your sin, could not change who God is. He is good and his faithfulness is everlasting. He has kept his promise, he's kept his covenant. And so you may ask, why do we obey?

Why do we obey Psalm 100? Why do we call this God, Lord? Because of who He is. He is good. He is God and He is faithful.

He saved me not on any basis of any goodness in me, not on the basis of any faithfulness in me, but according to his goodness, according to his faithfulness, his grace, his mercy. I have nothing to show him of any merit in me except for my sin that merits damnation. But oh, the love and kindness and goodness of God, that because of who He is and what He has done, He saved me through the blood of His Son. He made me a sheep of His pasture. His loving kindness is everlasting.

His faithfulness to all generations. So sinner, you may trust him. You must trust him. There is more faithfulness in this Savior than there is failure in you. There is more cleansing power in the covenant-keeping Christ than there is corruption in you.

There is more goodness and righteousness in Jesus Christ crucified, risen, and reigning than there is evil and sin in you. Trust Him. Repent and believe in His name. For His loving kindness is everlasting. His loving kindness is everlasting.

This is a hard question, not really. What does the word everlasting mean? Lasting forever. His loving kindness lasts forever. His faithfulness, his loving kindness towards you Christian, it doesn't run out.

It won't stop for you Christian. It doesn't stop. We are so many generations past when this was written. You know, this was written a long time ago. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of generations have gone on since these words were written down in Psalm 100.

Do you know that we are not any closer to running out to all generations? We're not any closer to exhausting His faithfulness? Nothing. It is but a drop in the bucket. He is faithful forever.

So the psalm begins with the extent of his triumph. Do you remember how the psalm begins? All the earth. The extent of his triumph over all the earth, and the psalm ends with the extent of his goodness and grace forever. Over all the earth and forever.

What a psalm! What a psalm over all the earth and forever, for all generations God will keep His covenant triumphantly with His people. With you Christian. And if you do not know Him this Lord's day, if you do not know Him, He says to you this morning, to you sinner, come. Come and be welcomed to Jesus Christ as Son.

Repent and believe on His name. And He will take that heart that once only knew sin and bitterness and lust and gloom and death. He will take it, He will replace it, and He will make you new forever. That's a promise. And you might ask this morning, but how do you know, Pastor?

How do you know that He will take me? You don't know how bad my sin really is. You don't know just how far I've fallen into depravity. If you only knew... You're right.

I don't know. But the Lord of Psalm 100 knows far better than you do. And He says to you this morning, come, Repent and come because He's good and His steadfast love endures forever to all generations, even yours. Even yours. Hebrews 13, 8.

For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let's pray. Our Father, I pray that out of a multitude of words, that this your word would remain, and you would make this people a happy, glad, thanksgiving people. That Lord we would walk out of here full of gratefulness and gladness, trusting you. We thank you for your Son who is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

We ask that you would give us the grace to trust Him more. Thank you for making us the sheep of your pasture and for feeding us here in just a few minutes from your very own table. We thank you in the name of your Son and for His name's sake. Amen.