Psalms 95

Thus the Lord is King. And 2. He is a great King (Psalm 95:3). A great King above all Gods.

The great ground that makes God expostulate with the hearers of the Gospel, and that makes them come under the complaint, (John 5:40) "You will not come to me that you may have life," and (Matthew 23:37) "How often would I have gathered you, and you would not;" and for substance…

Now sometimes we are said to tempt God, and sometimes Christ, and sometimes the Spirit of God. 1. In Scripture we are said to tempt God, as Psalm 95:9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. We tempt God either explicitly, or implicitly.

Fourthly, he expects our amendment, many years together (Luke 13:7): Behold, these three years have I come and sought fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Fifthly, the Lord suffered the manners of the Israelites forty years in the wilderness (Psalm 95:10; Acts 13:18). Sixthly,…

For this was an extraordinary matter as I said before, that the Prophet was charged to defame his own nation by so solemn an edict, for which cause it is added, that it should be for the last day, that so they might be had in detestation forever; or, because that when the great…

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: For all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. The wickedness of that perverse rebellious generation in the wilderness, is ascribed to the hardness of their hearts; Psalm 95:7-10,…

It is said (Matthew 2:10-11) that the wise men when they found Christ, rejoiced with exceeding great joy, and presently, they fell down and worshipped him. Neither is this posture peculiar to worship in times or upon occasions of extraordinary joy and sorrow (unless in the degre…

When God was angry, and Zipporah angry, it was best for him to be quiet. The lot of his public work, was cast in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness (Psalm 95:8). But, as if all the mutinies of murmuring Israel, were too little to try the meekness of Mose…

And thus sometimes we are said to tempt God, and at other times God is said to tempt us. 1. We are said to tempt God, when we put it to the proof, whether he will be as good as his word, either in the comminatory or promissory part thereof (Psalm 95:9). When your fathers tempted…

But if we resist God when he warns us, whether through his word or through some remarkable deed, calling us to himself, or if we are too sluggish in responding and continue in our vices, then we are said to harden and stiffen our hearts. From where the prophet in Psalm 95 admoni…

2. There is an erring out of obstinacy, impenitency, and habitual contempt of the lawgiver. This is spoken of (Psalm 95:10), It is a people that do err in their hearts. To err in mind is bad, to err out of ignorance; but it is a people that stubbornly refuse to walk in the ways…

We have hearts that love to wander (Jeremiah 14:10). We are sheep that need a shepherd, for no creature is more apt to stray (Psalm 95:10). It is a people that do err in their hearts; not only ignorant, but perverse, not in mind only apt to err, but love to err.

It is the supper of a king, therefore sumptuous and magnificent. Psalm 95:3: The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. Where should there be state and magnificence but in a king's court?

Then he gave me a book of Jesus' inditing, to encourage me the more freely to come; and he said concerning that book, that every jot and tittle thereof stood firmer than heaven and earth (Matthew 24:35). Then I asked him what I must do when I came; and he told me I must entreat…

We generally see the same thing, in that sinners are so earnestly pressed to make use of the present time. Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts (Psalm 95), quoted and urged in (Hebrews 3:7-8). They are admonished to seek the Lord while he may be found, to cal…

2. As sin is a blackness contrary to the innocency that the Law requires, and as it blots and defiles the soul, it is a Macula, a spot, a filthy and deformed thing, abasing the creature, making the creature black, crooked, defiled, like the skin of the Ethiopian, or spotted like…

They are disfranchised from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them. Psalm 95:10-12: Because they have not known my ways, therefore have I sworn in my wrath they should not enter into my rest; a fearful word indeed. God has sworn it, and there is no revoking the o…