Please be seated. Our meditation psalm today is Psalm 96. Please turn there with me. We note that the name of the human author of this is not preserved for us. If God had wanted us to know, he would have told us. So we concentrate then upon the fact that like every other psalm, this is the word of God. And so let's give it heed as we read it. Oh, sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to Jehovah, bless his name. Proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his wonders among all peoples. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples. Give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come into his courts. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Tremble before him, all the earth. Say among the nations, Jehovah reigns. The world also is firmly established, it shall not be moved. He shall judge the peoples righteously. Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad. Let the sea roar and all its fullness. Let the field be joyful and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord, for he is coming, for he is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth. Now this is a psalm we fairly frequently sing from. It is one that's kind of in the rotation of those psalms that we sing during the time that we take up God's tithes and our additional offerings. It is one that is full of worship and praise. It's obviously so. And we see the name of the Lord, the name Jehovah, exalted here. There's very little speaking of God. There's much speaking of the Lord, of Jehovah. He is the one who is eternally unchanging. He is the one who is holding to his covenant and to his covenant love. In our main room Sabbath school class today, we will be looking at Shorter Catechism question number four. What is God? God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. In his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. And all of that is reflected here in this psalm. His name, that is the revelation of his holy character, is to be proclaimed everywhere. It's not just for Scotland and Ireland. It's not just for the Jews. It is not just for America. It is for everywhere. And every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. Now, there are many other gods, there are many other false ideas about God, but only Jehovah is the one who is real. All the gods of the peoples are idols. They may sincerely believe in them, but I may also sincerely believe that the world is flat. And believe it or not, there are people out there that the internet has empowered to push this along. It's a blatant falsehood, we all know it, but so are the idols of the peoples. He is the one who has done great things. He's made the heavens and we see honor and majesty, strength and beauty there. We've had several examples of this in recent weeks. We saw the splendor and the awe-provoking solar eclipse just a little over a month ago. Here in Bell Center, where we were in totality, you could see the shadow coming up Elizabeth Street, and then as it receded, away it went a few minutes later. Many of us got to see the northern lights, and many of us took pictures of their beauty and splendor. And so it is God who has made all of these things. Some of you know I find astronomy rather interesting, and some of you perhaps do too. And you enjoy looking at the photos that NASA supplies from the Hubble or the Webb telescope. There's a new one going up fairly soon that promises even more. And we see the glory and the beauty of what God has made. The vastness of it as well. The distances, we can't really fathom. God's made that all for His glory. This great God not only does glorious things in creation and way out there in space, but he does so on the earth as well. Everything that happens is in his hand. The world is firmly established and it shall not be moved. Now this doesn't mean that the world is at the center and it does not orbit the sun. There have been some who've attempted to use this as a proof text for that. It means that nothing is out of control. That's what it means there. The heavens are rejoicing, the earth is glad. It's not just people, it's all the creation that glorifies God. And all this comes about through our Lord Jesus Christ. We see here that he is the one who saves his people. He is, well, we see here that Jehovah saves, and by the way, that's what the name Jesus means. It comes from the Hebrew name Yehoshua, which means Jehovah saves. And so he is spoken of here in this psalm, even merely by his name. We hear people saying, well, if we sing the psalms, we can never sing about Jesus. No, he is all through this and every other single psalm. Sometimes more obviously, sometimes a little more hidden, but he is in every psalm and that's what he himself has said in Luke 24, verse 44. So as we look at this psalm and as we sing familiar words to a familiar tune, let us not allow the familiarity of the words and of the tune to make us just go on spiritual autopilot, let us praise and revel in the fact that this great God who has made all things for his own glory has also given us the Lord Jesus Christ that we may share in enjoying and in glorifying him. So we'll sing now from Psalm 96 using version B.