I must say I had a bit of a interesting thought as Billy was saying, do you pray for the services? Is that for them to go longer or go shorter? I wonder what it is. Anyway, we're gonna turn to a Psalm this evening and we're gonna look at a Psalm. Now don't be worried, it's not Psalm 119. It's not gonna be that one. That might be next week, no money joking, it's not. This psalm that we will look at this evening, Psalm 100, is called a psalm of worship, or the call to worship. And that's what it gives away the theme, really, for this evening. The title that I've given this evening is Praising with a Purpose. Praising with a Purpose, okay? And it really strikes me, sometimes we come in to worship and praise God, And yet, it just seems like song sometimes. I don't know about you, but sometimes I come in and the words just flow out because I know the song. There's no thought behind it, there's no emotion. But I believe praise and worship should be with a purpose, with an end goal in sight. And Psalm 100 will help us in that. So as we ponder on this psalm and the teaching and the truth of this psalm, as I say, I've given it the title, Praising with a Purpose. Okay, so we're gonna read Psalm 100. Psalm 100, we're gonna read it all. That sounds grand, there's only five verses. So again, it's not, you don't have to worry. It's not gonna be a long Psalm. So Psalm 100 says this. Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his name for the Lord is good and his mercy is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations. What a wonderful psalm. I want to read that again because it's so short, but yet it's so packed with truth. Make a joyful shout to the Lord all you land. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his name, for the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations. This is a wonderful psalm, as I said, a great, even though it's only five verses, in fact, for those who like a bit of statistics, because I know some people do, This psalm only has five verses, there you go. Glad you came. It is around 89 words in length, depending in the New King James, depends on if you read the title or not, it's around 89 words in the King James Version, the New King James, and it is 92 words in the Hebrew. Okay, so it's not a big psalm. So we're gonna spend five minutes and look at each word. No. So it's not a big psalm, and we're gonna look at this psalm, it brings in a very big context, very big pictures, very big truths for us to hold on to. As I said, this psalm is a call to worship. As a whole, the psalm will focus more on God, it focuses on God much more than on human experiences. I don't know if you've noticed that as I read it. Even in these five verses, the focus is on God. Many people will say, but isn't that what praise and worship is all about? Worshiping God, we come here to worship God. But yet, a lot of songs is all about, Lord, bless me and help me. It's all focused on me. Well, a number of the songs anyway. Whereas here, the psalm, in this call to worship, is a focus to have our focus on God more than on our human experiences. So in one sense, no matter how you've walked in here this evening, what you're struggling with or what you're going through, what joys you're having, you can't wait for Monday morning to get to work, I don't know, whatever you have, this is a call to worship God, to come into his presence, not about your experience, not about necessarily what you're going through at this moment, but first and foremost, to focus on him. have our eyes drawn to Him, to have our hearts opened up to Him. That's what worship is all about, to worship our God. It's not just about if we can get four-part harmonies. I remember when, in the first church I was in, in St. Ives, they used to love the old Methodist hymn book, because they all got the music out, and they'd get four-part harmonies, and it was great worship, because it was four-part harmony. And I thought, no, it's great worship. I mean, that's nice, but it's great worship when you focus on God. He should be the purpose of our worship in all these things. It's more about God than about our human experiences. This psalm is designed to prepare the heart, the hearts of the congregation for worship. This whole psalm, these five verses, these 89 words are designed to prepare your heart and I would say your mind also to come into the presence of God, to engage with God, to meet with God, to experience God. And I use that word carefully, experience, because we jump off the deep end on that one, and some would say, no, we're not meant to have that experiential stuff. But yes, there is an element of experience, and we'll see that in this psalm. But this psalm is to prepare our hearts and to prepare our minds to meet with God. It's a wonderful psalm. It's a great psalm. And as I've meditated on it, it's just been a thrill to my heart. It is a psalm of thanksgiving that calls for all people to worship the Lord with gladness. I'll repeat that, okay? It is a psalm of thanksgiving that calls for all people to worship the Lord with gladness. Here's the question then. Think of one thing you're thankful for. Think of one thing that you can bring to God and say, God, thank you. I am just so thankful that you have brought this person or this thing into my life. I am so thankful that I've experienced you in this way as I, think of one thing. Even a move of God that you weren't expecting, but God moved anyway, and you go, wow, I'm so thankful. God, thank you that you reached out and you touched my life in this way. Think of one thing that you're thankful for. That's what this psalm is about. It's to bring us in an attitude of thankfulness, not an attitude of want or give me, but an attitude of thankfulness to what, all about who God is and what God is like. This calls the people, all people, and we'll see this, that's all people. It's not a select few, this is all people. all God's people from every tribe and nation and tongue, as we'll see a bit later. He calls all people who serve and love the Lord to come and worship this great and good God. Wow. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't it be, I sometimes wonder, wouldn't it be great if we got here to worship God on a Sunday morning or a Sunday night and, you know, when the band's just about to sit down, somebody goes, can we sing this one? Oh, I've got this, can we sing this one? And you just go worship. Because we're so filled with thankfulness. Sometimes, as much as I like routine and I like order, sometimes I think we need to be a bit more flexible and just let those hearts of thankfulness flow out. Not to contain it, just to let it flow and tell God how thankful we are to Him. So we've got a number of things we're going to look at here. In this short psalm, we've got the invitation to praise, we've got the instruction concerning praise, we've got the inclusivity of praise, we've got the internal motivation of praise, and we've got the intention of praise. Okay? All I's. It was a good one, that one. Right. So we're going to look at the invitation to praise. That's the first point. This is the important thing. Verse 2 says this. Verse 2, 3, and 4 says, We are His people. and the sheep of the pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his name. The first part of this invitation is come. Come. Don't stand at a distance, come. Come close, come in, draw near, come. come before His presence, to enter His gates, to enter His courts, to praise Him, to know that the Lord is God. So we've got a number of invites here, and I think it's very important. To understand the psalmist is to understand the historical context of this psalm. This is set in the context of ancient Israelite worship, where people would travel to Jerusalem to go to the temple for feasts. and to worship God. So just picture this, for example, it could be none at any time, but people from all over the known world, Jews from all over the known world would travel into Jerusalem, let's just say Passover, okay? People from all over the world would come into Passover, and they would draw into the temple. And this psalm would be said right at the very outset to encourage people to come in through the gates, the doorway of the temple, and into the courts of the temple where they would gather to worship. Okay? So basically, this psalmist is saying, come into the temple. Come into the presence of God. Come in and spend time in His presence, all of you. It doesn't matter who you are or what background you're from, come in. You're welcome. If you are His people, if you're part of His church, you're welcome to come in here and praise His wonderful name, because you know Him. So the thing is, this invite is to come in this context of people from all over the known world coming in to the temple, going through the gates, or going through, as I said, to enter his gates, the doorway of the temple, and going into the court areas, the courtroom areas that were around the outside where the congregation would meet to worship. So this is an invite to come into the presence of God. Very, very, very, very important we understand this. So entering the temple gates and the courts was equal to coming before God. So here's the reality. The psalmist has called us to come in before God. As it were, I want you to picture this. If you can think in pictures, I want you to picture this. That you and I are in the presence of the living God right now. He's here. We've entered his courts. We're called to praise his name for he is good. He is here. Now I don't know what that makes you feel, think. Perhaps your week hasn't been that good, I don't know. But God knows and you're in his presence. Our loving father knows and you're in his presence. Our good God knows. and you're in his presence. So this psalmist invites us, invites all people to come in, to be in the very presence of the living God. It also invites us to know, to know. Now this, you also have to understand that this is more than just head knowledge. Sort of the Hebrew here denotes both an internal recognition and an external acknowledgement. What does that mean? It means that I've sat down, I've thought about it, I know. It makes sense to me, I understand it, I know. And on the basis of I know, I'm gonna do something. That's what it means. Can you picture this now? That the psalmist comes in and he says, enter his gates, come into his presence, know that he is God. I'll go out and tell people. or go out and do something, or go out and serve them. There's this internal knowledge or recognition and an external service or behavior that's at play here. So there's a knowing that must be done to rationally understand and to make known. Here is the thing. We should be so full of being in awe of God's presence when we are worshiping him, we cannot help but tell people about the God that we've just met. That should be a natural overflow of worship. That's what the psalmist says. We know the God that we're in the presence of and we should be so full of awe We just can't help but go out and tell people, it just oozes out of us that we've been in the presence of God. There's this knowing and make knowing, make known who God is. I come into the presence of God, of the God I know, a desire to understand, a God whom I desire to make known. So there's just two things, I want to know, I want to know more, I want to get to know him more in a deeper sense, but I also want to have him made known to my friends or to the people I meet. There's this dual aspect to know within the Hebrew. Thanksgiving here, we're told the way to do it with Thanksgiving. Giving could refer to a couple of things. One, it could refer to a Thanksgiving sacrifice, because remember, they're in the court, they're in the temple. They would bring sacrifices, a Thanksgiving sacrifice. We read about that in Psalm 116, verse 17, and Leviticus 7, verses 12 to 15. You read about these Thanksgiving sacrifices. It could be referring to that, and that would be okay, and the question is what sacrifice are we making as a expression of thanks? What do we lay at God's feet and say, here's my sacrifice of thankfulness. You've done so much in me and for me. You've helped me this day. What can I, here's my sacrifice of thankfulness. That's one element that is speaking about, or it could be, a thanksgiving psalm. It could be that you stand and you sing out a, I was gonna say sing out a psalm, but nobody knows the tune. You know what I mean? You could sing out a psalm or quote a psalm, or you could just be oozing out the word of God. That's psalm that comes out of thanksgiving. So there's two ways that this psalm looks at this. And of course, then the other invite is to serve. Now, what's interesting here, interesting, is that some translations have worship. The word worship, not serve. The interesting thing about that is that the Hebrew doesn't have a word for worship. I find that interesting when I find that out, especially looking at this. The Hebrew doesn't have a word for worship. The Hebrew context, the Hebrew mindset was all about worshiping God with our whole being. In essence, to serve him. not just with our voice, with our actions, with how we treat one another, with our interactions with one another, with how we treat the stranger and the traveler, how we meet people and tell people about God, how we serve him, there's this action involved. So when Simon says, come before him with thankfulness and serve your whole being involved, not just your mind or your mouth, but your whole being. This is a wonderful invite into this invitation to praise includes all of you, the whole person. The instruction concerning praise, our second point, is to make a joyful shout to the Lord, all ye lands, or as some translations say, all the earth. Make a joyful shout. It's not very often you hear that in churches. We're not gonna have a time of worship and praise, so let's all shout, shall we? You don't often hear that. And I'm not trying to say I'm gonna start something new, so don't, just, you can relax at that point. But shite is an interesting concept in scripture. And it's not just, in one sense, let me just see, shite indicates that the Israelite worship was not just to be characterized by civilized restraint. You know, when we come before God, it's like, oh yes, God is good. You know, so restrained. Likewise, it's not to be uncontrolled emotion either. Let's not jump the other extreme. There has to be a happy medium here. And so what does this psalmist mean when he talks about shouting to the Lord? How does that work? Well, to try and get an idea of what might be happening in this picture here, this idea, I know some of you are fishermen. Do you ever know that burst of emotion you get when you catch a really good fish? No? That's the one that got away. Are any golfers here? No? That's good. Golf's not a sport. Football players, any football players, or football fans? You're all sitting there going, I'm not going to admit to that lot. But it's the sort of thing, if you ever see a golf player, and he tees up, and he hits that ball, he leathers that ball down the fairway, and it lands, and it bounces on the green, and it goes in, hole in one. You don't get him going, oh, well, that was a good shot, yes. Yes! There's that outburst of emotion. It's controlled emotion, but it's still emotion. And that's what shout here means. There's this, I can't help it, it bursts out of me because I'm so thankful. There's this emotive response, but it's a controlled, it's not uncontrolled emotion, but there's a controlled outburst of praise and worship and thankfulness. I just can't help it because God is so good. That type of thing, that's what the psalmist is trying to get across here. But in case you're wondering how or why, scripture, I'm not gonna go through all of the Old Testament on shout, you'll be glad to know, but here's certain phrases on the shout, okay? Again, same Hebrew word, different context. Says this, in Joshua chapter six, verse 16, shout for the Lord. Can you remember that? They were going out to walk around Jericho. They were going to walk around Jericho. And he goes, be quiet, don't say a word, but on the last day walk around seven times and then shout to the Lord. Why? Because God has given you victory. The victory is God's, it's not yours, it's his. His plan has succeeded. He has won the war. He has brought the victory. We shout for the Lord because He is victorious. And because He is victorious, we share in His victory. It wouldn't work, I thought about this, it wouldn't work if one of the priests that was meant to carry the Ark of the Covenant said to his mates, you know what, you guys carry it, I'm gonna stay back at camp, and yeah, I'll shout with you, but I'll be away over there. It wouldn't work, they had to be with God, in the presence of God, fighting the plan of God to endure in God's victory. So shout for the Lord, because the victory is his. In Jeremiah 50 verse 15 it says, raise your battle cry or shout against her. Raise your battle cry, shout. Now again, I'm not trying to encourage people when they come on Friday night to see who can shout the loudest. I'm not trying to encourage that, although why not? Let's get in and pray and let's let the cry go out. But the reality is we are to cry out, shout out against the evil and against the corrupt. We are to cry out to God for him to move. Why? Because the victory is his. Not ours, it's His. We want Him to move. We want Him to show Himself. And so we shout to Him. Zephaniah, Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 14. Shout, O Israel! Shout, O Israel! Why? Because it was all about triumph. So here you get the idea that this concept of shouting that the Psalmist will say is all to do with the victory being God's. God is the one in which we get the victory because he has won the victory. He is the one that's going to do the battle on our behalf and we can shout in triumph. Why? Because we serve a good God. It's all God-focused, it's none to do with us. And so now you begin to see how the Psalmist, this Psalm here, begins to focus more on God than on our human experiences. No matter what you're going through this evening, and I say this with an element of care, whatever you're going through this evening, you can still shout in triumph. Because the triumph is not yours, it's God's. And we come to worship God, and we come to draw near to God, and we enter the presence of God, because his is the victory, his is the triumph, and he fights on our behalf. So we are called to shout. The psalmist here will open up his chorus, inviting fellow worshipers to share in his excitement and joy. Sharing his, he's going, come guys, listen, my God is so good, come and join in on my joy and my excitement. We're coming into the presence of God and the psalmist invites us to be partakers of his joy. as we draw near to God. Come into his presence with singing. With singing. We often hear that, come into his presence with singing, and we get a bit worried, but one woman in one of my other churches said, some people, God's given the voice of a lark. For me, he's given the voice of a seagull. But God doesn't say what your voice is like, he just says come before him with singing. because it's your shout of joy and praise and thankfulness. It's you worshiping God in his presence. So this is the invite that we have. We also have the internal motivation of praise, the internal motivation. The inclusivity was for all the peoples to get involved here. It's not for a select group, but it's for all. And the internal motivation is to know that the Lord, He is God. It is He who made us and not we ourselves. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Notice it says, for He, the Lord, He is God. First thing we need to understand, that internal motivation of praise and worship is that we're coming into the presence of God and we're gonna worship He, the one who is the living, almighty, sovereign God. That's the one we're coming into the presence of. Know that He is God. There's not one thing that comes in our way that He does not know. There's not one thing that comes in our path that He is not there with us, helping us on every step of the way, even carrying us sometimes. There is not one thing that comes in our way that He's not able to help us over. He is victorious in all things. And so we, no matter what your background is, we can shout because we know that He is God. None like Him. There never has been, there never will be. Other so-called gods come and go, they promise stuff and they can't deliver, but yet this God, this God that we worship, the God of scripture, the God who revealed himself in Christ, not only promised, but prophesied, fulfilled, delivered, and is coming back again. And we're invited into his presence to worship him. What a great God. What a great God we have. So we're to know that he is God. What is the evidence that he gives for God being God? Well, the psalmist is very clear here. He says, for it is God who created us. God created us. Not we ourselves. I mean, I'm not going to get into the whole creation evolution debate, so don't worry about that. But the whole thing is, the whole reality, all throughout Scripture, the only evidence, I've said this before and it is so true, the only evidence for God being God is creation. He says in Isaiah, to whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? Who created all these things? Was it not I? creation. Look outside. Look at the wonder of creation. Get lost in the beauty of creation because this is our God who creates all things. Look at the person next to you. Go on. Look at the person next to you. Give them a big smile and go, God created you. And you're perfect. This is the thing, God created us and that's why he is God. He is our creator. He is the one who made us. He doesn't make mistakes. He is the one who redeemed us. He is the God who creates a community, a humanity and a community. We see this all throughout scripture. Not only did he create humanity, but he creates a people for himself. In the Old Testament, that was the people of Israel. In the New Testament, that's both the Jew and the Greek together as a brand new spiritual Israel. The church did not replace Israel. The church, the Gentiles, us lot, we were grafted in. That's what scripture teaches. And so here he creates a church, a people for himself, a people that will take great joy in coming into his courts to worship his name and to praise his name because he's good. He's a great God. I just can't help but sing because he's a wonderful God. Even in the midst of my tears, I can't help but sing. I don't know if you've ever been like that sometimes. There have been times that I've been going through a bit of a hard time and I've come into a service and I'm going, no, I'm not gonna sing, not gonna sing. I refuse to sing. Lord, you are so good. It is off you go. And no matter what you're going through, this song's burst out. Why? Because it's not because of the song, it's because of God. God is good. And we're called to know him as our creator. We're called as his people to worship him because he formed us. And I could go on here. And it is our dependence on him is clearly implied with this phrase that we are the sheep of his pasture. The sheep shepherd image again, as we looked at this morning. This concept that our dependence on him, we need to stay close to our shepherd, because he knows, he will guide, he will lead, he will provide, he will keep us safe. He will be with us at every point, in every way, because he is our good shepherd. This is why, this is the internal motivation. I worship God, not because I am good, but because he is good. I worship God not because I have been victorious this week, but because he's been victorious this week. I worship God because it's all about him. I just have the joy of being in his presence as his child, as do you. So we get this great picture, this internal motivation has to do with him being God, he is our creator, he is our shepherd. All these great pictures. that we have. Then we have the intention of praise. Verse four, to enter his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his name for the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting and his truth endures forever. Did you get that? Did you get the intention here, why we should praise? Here's why we praise, if I pick out certain words. The Lord is good. He is merciful and it's everlasting. His truth endures for all generations. That's why we praise. These are intentions of praise. We praise him because he is merciful. He doesn't give us everything we deserve. That's one of the biggest things I learned was justice gives me what I deserve. Mercy does not give me everything I deserve. Grace gives me what I don't deserve. And God deals with me and he says, I wanna give you mercy. And then, I'm gonna lavish grace on you. His mercy, His mercy is everlasting. We can come in here knowing that we will never outdo God's mercy. We come in here knowing we're not gonna wake up one morning and God's gonna go, well, I'm sorry, my mercy's just ran out. That's not gonna happen. We're never gonna outlive His mercy. His mercy is new every morning. And so here, the intention that we praise is in that sense that we praise because his mercy is everlasting. Every single day, we don't have to live on yesterday's mercy. We live on today's mercy. And I don't have to worry about am I, will I use too much mercy today? No, because tomorrow I get new mercy. It's everlasting, brand new, every single day, and we can worship God knowing our God is a merciful God. Yes, He's just. Yes, He's holy. Yes, He cannot bear to look on sin, and that's why I said, to know this concept that we are in the presence of the living God, I wonder what that makes you feel like, because that holiness will reveal the unholy in our lives. And yes, we can confess, and when we confess, His mercy is lavished on us, because God is merciful. He will not keep any record of wrong, but He'll tear it up and throw it away. He'll not keep a record of wrong, because He is merciful. And that thrills my heart. He is good. He is good. A recurring theme all throughout the Psalms, God is good. He is good even when time is bad. He is good even when time is tough. He is good when we're in the middle of a storm or when we're in the middle of the sunshine. He is good because He cannot be any other. He is God, He is good. And we worship Him because we know He is good. The problem is, and I was thinking about this, So, sometimes we struggle with this concept of God being good because he's not good in the way that we want him to be. But he's good in the way he's good. And his way is far, far better than the way I want him to be good, because my way is a bit more selfish. It's all about me and give me good. If you're a good God, you'd always give me this and give me that and provide this. It's all me focused to good. If I was to say God was good on my terms, but God is good and he calls me into his presence to praise him for he is good no matter what my day will bring. I often wonder what it was like for Paul and Silas to be in the inner jail, inner cell at Philippi, damp and dark, being beaten near to death. And the first thing they did was sing your good, good father, perhaps. They worshiped him. They worshiped God. Even in their situation, they worshiped God because God was good. I wonder if they thought back and went, oh do you remember that slave girl that we've seen delivered from a demon? Oh God is so good. Isn't he so wonderful the way he touches lives? What about Lydia? We met her, you remember we were on our way to pray and we met this woman who believes in God and we talked? And now there's a church going to happen in our house. Can you just picture that? And they just begin to sing because God is good. Even in the midst of a damp, dark cell when they've been beaten close to death, they still praise God. Our circumstances do not define the goodness of God. They can never define the goodness of God because God is good. He can be no other. And of course, his truth endures through all generations. And with this, I just wanna say very simply, I don't care what any government says. I build my life on this book. If this book says it's wrong, it's wrong. If this book says it's right, it's right. If this book says there's only one way to get to heaven and that's through Christ, there's no other name under, given the man under heaven by which we must be saved, the man Christ Jesus, then I will preach Christ and Christ alone, because this book says so. His truth endures through all generations. And the problem is, in our day and age, the academic world is beginning to fight over and water down and melt down and the churches are jumping on the bandwagon these days. And yet, God calls us to hold fast to his truth. Why? Because it's his truth that endures forever. Why? Because he endures forever and he is truth. That's as simple as that. That's as simple as I can put it. And so my encouragement to you is this, as we've taken this journey through this small Psalm, is come and shout to the Lord for he is good. Shout to God for he is victorious. Shout to God because he is merciful and his truth endures forever. Come into his courts. Thank him. Spend time in his presence. Kneel if you want to kneel, stand if you want to stand, just be overwhelmed. You know, I get a picture of the Pharisee and the tax collector at that point. You remember that, what Christ said? The Pharisee came in, walked the whole way up to the front and said, God, I bet you're happy, I'm on your team. And in my little words, God said, well, actually, I'm more interested about the guy at the back who won't even look up to heaven. but says, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. We come into the presence of God. God doesn't wanna know about our achievements. Our attention should be on him, on him. The one who is good, the one who is victorious, the one who bounds in truth and will endure forever, the one who we can cry out to and who will never leave us nor forsake us, the one in which we are called to shout to the Lord for he is good. This is our God. So as we draw this psalm to a close, It is fitting to say that this psalm creates a sense of anticipation in the worshipers. This psalm creates a sense of anticipation in the worshipers. I'm in the presence of the living God. Wow. This anticipation in the worshipers by making them aware of who God is, what God has done, and that they are coming into his presence and that they are about to encounter God's face. That's Psalm 100. Come into his presence, serve him, not just with your words but with your actions. Shout, let's just be overwhelmed with this controlled emotion. that God has been at work in our lives. Let us see the victory and the deliverance that comes only from God. Let us cry out to God on behalf of our country, our government, our people, our friends, our neighbors. See God at work. And when we see God at work, we shout for joy because God is good and he's merciful. Isn't that interesting? It's great, Sam. So, as we come to the end, The encouragement is this. Make a joyful shout to the Lord all you lands. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who has made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his courts with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him and bless his name, for the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting and his praise endures to all generations. Amen. We're gonna sing our final hymn together, which is, I'll just find it. Thank you for the cross. in loving praise. Turn me into light. For my sin and shame, in love He came and gave His life. ♪ Wash me in your cleansing flow ♪ ♪ Now all I know ♪ ♪ Your forgiveness and embrace ♪ ♪ Worthy is the Lamb ♪ ♪ To see it on the throne ♪ ♪ Riding now ♪ Lord, we want to say, we want to thank you that we can say worthy is the Lamb. We can come and we can praise you because victory is yours. You have conquered sin, death, and hell. You have set the prisoners free. Oh, we can shout for deliverance. We can shout for victory because victory is yours. We want to thank you that you are worthy. Lord, again, we just wanna thank you for our time around your word and may, Lord, you take away anything that's not from you, leave only your truth. And would your truth give us that sense of anticipation that we are in your presence and we long and desire to worship you, the God who is good and whose truth lasts for all generations. Lord, we ask your blessing on the rest of the evening. Amen.