O Come Let Us Worship And Bow Down; Let Us Kneel Before The Lord Our Maker, For He Is Our God - Part 2010

"O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. For the Lord is a Great God, and a Great King above all gods. In his Hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, "It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways: unto whom I sware in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest." (Psalm 95:1-11)

What David the psalmist is saying here is that the same Lord who is our maker is also our God. Not another person within a unity of three, or a third of God as modern day religious culture teaches, but rather, that after His kindness and love toward man, God willingly became our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7) Thus, we who believe in His goodness and grace and mercy by faith, can rest assured that God has a purpose for our life.

But before we can understand His purpose, we should understand who God is. That His Name in this current dispensation of grace is JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins ... Emmanuel, being interpreted, God with us. (Matthew 1:21-23) To wit, God in Christ redeeming the world unto Himself. (II Corinthians 5:17)

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (II Corinthians 5:17-21)

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood." (Acts 20:28)

Do you remember who fathered Jesus in the womb? Luke (who was a physician) wrote that the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary so that she could bring forth a son. (Luke 1:35) If the scriptures stopped there, we could be led to believe that Jesus and the Father are separate, and not one. But thankfully, and for our sakes, the scriptures did not stop at that point.

Indeed, Jesus told His disciples, "I and My Father are ONE!" (John 10:30) Jesus told His disciples that "if ye have seen Me, ye have seen the Father." (John 14:6-12)

"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)

"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (I Timothy 3:16)

This is why we praise God in song, making a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. This is why we come before His presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. this is why we bow before Him declaring that He -- Jesus is indeed Lord of heaven. As Peter (standing with the eleven) said on the day of Pentecost -- "This same Jesus whom ye have crucified is both Lord and Christ." (Acts 2:36)

Both the Lord God from heaven robed in flesh as the son of man, but also, as well, still the prophesied Christ. The first Adam, earthy, but the second Adam, the Lord from heaven. For the Lord Jesus is a Great God, and a Great King above all gods. (Psalm 95:3) The King of kings and Lord of lords. (Revelation 1:8)

Yes, Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending -- He who was and is and is to come is inviting us to the greatest wedding feast ever, and all He asks is that we believe in Him, and are water baptized in His precious Name -- the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:36-41) He does the rest, filling us with His gift of the Holy Ghost. And those spiritual gifts increase when our faith desires the spiritual, the Lord giving severally as He will. Giving according to the measure of our faith. Giving to those who continue to flow His Word through to others so that no one is without His free gift of salvation.

This is why those who believe know that there is so much to be thankful for ... because the Great Shepherd wept to bring us salvation, just as He did in the Garden of Gethsemane before the cross. In this dispensation of grace, we have been given ample opportunity to enter into the rest which He has promised to those who choose to love Him -- our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:29-31)

Don't wait another day to cry out to the Lord of hosts. Ask the Lord Jesus to save you, and sanctify you, and justify you and make you whole again. Study the New Testament for His instruction and guidance. Pray without ceasing and rejoice evermore.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (I Corinthians 5:17) Stand in the offering plate.