Worship: Giving God Glory (Psalm 29)

Well, it's good that you're here with us. We're glad

that you're here with us. If you have your Bible

is turned with me to Psalm twenty nine this morning,

Psalm twenty nine. So in November, typically if you're new

to Bethesda, we do a series through the psalms, and

so today starts out that series a Psalm twenty nine

is the first one we're going to look at this morning.

So if you're turned there with me, have something I

want to show you. See what this, if this brings

to your attention, Just something very simple, right, something that's

kind of maybe a lost art today, is a thank

you card? Right, you know, back growing up, I think

it was big for maybe my generations, but definitely generations

before me, that if someone gave you something, you send

them a thank you card.

If you think about thank you cards, why do we

give them? Why do we send them?

Is typically we've received something, right, whether.

It was a gift or maybe it was.

A something that someone did for us, something that someone

encourage us in some way, and so we write a

thank you card to express our gratitude. Right, Well, have

you ever thought about that for a moment? How do

we express our gratitude to the Lord for the things

that he gives us. I mean, there's no address in

heaven that we can make it right to thank you

card and put a stamp on it and send it

to heaven. No, there's ways that we express our gratitude

to God for the things that he's done for us,

the things that he's given us, the things that he

provided for us. For Israel, the way they express their

gratitude to the Lord for the things that he gave them.

With psalms hymns.

We just finished singing a song, and as we sing,

as we worship, worship is a way that we express

our gratitude to the Lord for the things that he

gave us.

Israel knew that.

And Psalm twenty nine we come to a song. You know,

there are seven different types of songs in different writing styles,

and a Psalm twenty nine is a hymn, and it's

a hymn of thanksgiving, it's a hymn of gratitude. It

was actually believed that in if you look at Psalm

twenty nine, a few things that you may see as

we begin, there's a subscript at the beginning of it

gives us a little detail It tells us that this

song was written by David. Another thing in the Septuogen,

the Sceptuigen is a Greek translation of the Old Testament.

It had a subscript, and this told us that this

hymn was sung by Israel during the Feast of Boos

or the Feast of Tabernacles.

This festival was done in the fall.

It was actually done in October, early mid October. It's

five days after the Passover, and Israel would actually take

tents and they would live and live in these tents

for a week, and it was to remind them of

living in tents in the world, and in that festival.

That would be the end of the harvest.

And so they had gotten all the crops in and

they had seen the bounty of the crops that God

had given them that year, and they sang this song

to give thanks to the Lord for what he had.

Given them that year in crops.

You know, as we think of as we come to November,

and we really come to our season of Thanksgiving in

just a few weeks, and this month is a month

where we commit to show our gratitude to others, to

show our gratitude to our family, our friends, but also

show our gratitude to the Lord.

I pray we.

Will examine and this month, Lord, what have you done

for me?

God? What have You've given me?

And how do I Lord give you thanks.

In my worship?

How when I come here on Sunday morning and we

sing songs, or maybe when you're in a car and

you're listening to the radio and you're listening to some

Christian music, I pray, song, how do end me singing

this song? Am I expressing you Lord?

Thanks?

Thanks for what you've given me and thanks for what you've.

Done for me.

Well, this morning, as we look at this hymn together,

we're going to see how we should give God glory

in our worship. Well, we're going to look at it

in kind of two parts. One is how does God

receive glory? And then secondly, how do we give God glory?

So this morning I pray that you come prepared to say, Lord,

I know you call me to demonstrate.

Thanksgiving to you for what you've given me, what you've

done for me.

Lord, help me give you glory and help me learn

how I should give you glory for.

What you've done for me.

Let's stand un, let's read Psalm twenty nine. Together, we'll

read all of it, so one through eleven, and it

says this, Ascribe to the Lord o heavenly beings. Iscribe

to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord Glory,

glory due to his name. Worship the Lord in the

splendor of his holiness. The voice of the Lord is

over the waters. The God of Glory thunders the Lord

over many waters.

The voice of the Lord is powerful.

The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The

voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. The voice of

the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon

skip like a calf in Sirn, like a young wild ox.

The voice of the Lord flashes forth like flames of fire.

The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness. The Lord

shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord

makes the dear give birth, his strips, the forest bear,

and in his temple all cry glory. The Lord sits

enthroned over the flood. The Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

May the Lord give strength to his people. May the

Lord bless his people with peace. Lord, we pray today

that Lord asks we can imagine Israel as a congregation

singing this hymn to you.

Lord.

May Lord we understand today and learn from Lord your word,

and Lord from David who wrote this hymn. O Lord,

how we are to give you glory for what you've

done for us and what you've given to us. And

God you deserve the glory today. So Lord, I pray

today that Lord, may the words of my mouth and

the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you.

Lord.

I pray you know what I've prepared, You know of

how I studied, And Lord, I pray that you give

me clarity of thought and clarity speech.

Lord.

I pray Lord today I would declare, Lord, your word,

not my own.

So Lord feel me today that you might use me.

Lord, May I decrease and may you increase. Lord, and

Lord today, may we hear your voice. May we feel

the power of your voice, and may we be moved

by Lord your word. Today, Lord, I ask that, and

not my power, but for you. In your power, Lord,

may you move to day your name. We pray, ma'am you.

May be seated.

Yeah, imagine this is a hymn again. David wrote it,

and I think it's very important. It's understand just like

we sang a song worthy of it all. This is

a song g Israel would sing as a congregation during

this feast of tabernacle. The psalm or the song if

you will, or this hymn really begins with a command.

It's a command called ascribe.

Listen to the determine. It's used three times as a

point of emphasis. Listen to what says.

Ascribe to the Lord old heavenly beings. Ascribe to the

Lord Glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord Glory due

to his name. This term ascribe, it's not a term

that we would typically use. It means very simply to

acknowledge or to attribute in the Hebrew. That word is

derived from a root word in the Hebrew that means give,

simply to give, so you can have the understanding and

understanding the root word is it means to give something

to the Lord, is to acknowl to give, to give

acknowledgement to the Lord. But it's it's really stronger just

than a simple giving something. It really comes across as

a stronger sense one and that it's a command. This

is not something that's optional for us. And you know,

I don't know about you. But thank you cards, just

like I said, as a thing of the past. But

you probably already you know probably some people in your life,

maybe family members or friends, and they come from that

generation where thank you cards were expected and and they're

the type if you if they give you something, if

you don't get if you don't send a thank you card,

they're not happy, you know what I mean. If you

don't send the text message that you got the gift

or you appreciate the gift, you're in trouble. Right well,

there's there's the idea that this is an expectation, right well,

this is the imagery of this command ascribed this This

means that there's an expectation for us that we give God.

We acknowledge God's glory. But it's more than that. In Psal,

it's used several times in scripture. In Psalm ninety six

seven through eight, it's reads that Samah says, describe to

the Lord old families of the yearth described to the

glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due

to his name. The Samah says, like God deserves glory

and this is due to who he is. It goes

on further, Actually, there's a song by Moses that Moses

sang after crossing over the red seing, and he sings

this song and in something deuteron Me thirty two three,

he also uses the same term. And this is what

it says, for I will proclaim the name of the

Lord and inscribe greatness.

To our God.

The idea for the Psalmis and for Moses is that

God deserves the glory, and he alone.

Deserves the glory.

You ever had you ever had a time that there

was you got a package in the mail, or you

got a letter in the mail, and when you when

you got in the package, you looked at it, you

realize it wasn't for you had someone else's name on it,

and you realize like, oh, well, man, I knew I

was get to package, but this is not my package.

And immediately when.

You get the package, you realize like, this was not

intended for me.

This was intended for someone else. And if I keep it,

I'm keeping it for someone that it's due too.

That's the image of this glory is God's, It's not ours,

and we are to give him glory because he alone

it's his. He owns glory. He deserves glory, and we

should never desire to hold onto something that is rightfully his.

That's the imagery of this passage scripture is that Lord,

this is yours, and Lord, you deserve the glory. But

really the danger for all of us is what we

like glory.

Don't we.

We like attention, we like fame, We like to be recognition.

If you know that I have My grandfather in nineteen

sixty five, bought a Plymouth Fury three brand new, went

to the Juder ship, picked it up when my dad

drove it back home, and he kept it all, you know,

his whole life.

And after he passed he gave it to my dad.

And if you see the car and you open up

the little glove box, it says in the glove box

Craig Barbie in it. It was his car, and he

passed it on my dad. And a few years ago

when Dad passed away, Dad gave it to me. You

know the funny thing about that nineteen sixty five Fury

is it gets a lot of attention. If when I

get it out on occasion and I drive it around,

no matter where I'm driving.

People are looking at me.

People are honking at the horn people are giving me

thumbs up. I mean, it gets a lot of attention,

and you know, for me selfishly, I could say, you know,

I want to drive that car because I like the attention.

I like when people giving me thumbs up. I like

people talking about how nice my car. They like my car.

I could drive it because I want the attention. But

really I got it out just a few weeks ago

in October second because my dad's birthday was October second.

And the reason why I drove it was not because

I wanted the glory from it. I wanted to drive

it because I wanted my dad and my grandfather to

be remembered. You see, that's the imagery. Many times God

gives us something. It could be our clothes, it could

be our academic ability, it could be our athletic ability,

it could be whatever it is on this life, and

we could use those things for our glory. Or we

can say, God, you deserve the glory from my life,

and I could use my life to get glory from myself.

Or God, I can use my life to give you

the glory that God, you alone deserve. I don't deserve

any glory. And that's the imagery of this passage is

that God deserves the glory. He alone deserves the glory,

and we should live our life to say, God, you alone,

this is your and God, I don't want to have

it for myself.

I want to give it to yourself.

But I want you to understand as we look at

this passage at the beginning, we're trying to examine how

does God receive glory?

And end this song David gives us.

David gives us a picture of how God receives glory,

and look at the picture.

Who gives glory? Here?

It says, ascribe to the Lord, Oh, heavenly beings, who's

giving God glory at this moment? It's not you and I,

It's actually the angels. He's commanding the angels in heaven

to describe God glory. To give God glory. Listen to

why they should give him glory. They should give him glory.

In verse two, ascribe the Lord glory and strength. There

to give him glory because of his strength, they were

to give him glory. Secondly, because it's due to his name.

This very echoes the voices of Moses and his song,

and they should worship the Lord. Why they should give

him glory because of His holiness. So we see these

pictures of angels in heaven giving God glory. It's the

first point there as we begin. How does God received glory?

He receives glory in the heavens? Do you know today,

right now you may have walked into this room and

you may be thought about him coming to worship the Lord.

I'm coming to be a part.

But you could have been singing all those songs and

not one point were your mind ever really on the Lord.

It was on what we're gonna eat for lunch, what

we're gonna do today?

And right now you may have missed out an opportunity

to give God glory in your worship. But can I

tell you whether you were giving God glory or not.

There was angels in heaven today and they were giving

God glory, and they recognize as Angel, he alone.

Deserves the glory. He alone, Lord, you deserve the glory.

So today, how does God receive glory? He receives glory

in the heavens. It kind of reminds me this imagery

that today sometimes we may miss out on glory, that

the angels are giving him glory. You remember in Luke

chapter nineteen Jesus is entering into Jerusalem headed to.

The cross, and he has this triumphal entry.

And as he makes his way on this donkey, they're

laying down palm branches.

And coats on the road. And you remember what they

sing or what they declare.

As Jesus comes in, they say, blessed is the King

who comes in the name of the Lord, Peace and Heaven.

And listen, glory in the highest Isn't that amazing?

The Bible says.

At that time the Pharisees looked at Jesus and tell

and tells him, Tell, teacher, and rebuke your disciples, stop

them from praising you, and listen what Jesus says.

I tell you.

If these were silent, the stones would cry out. Can

I tell you listen today, whether you recognize that God's

blessed me. God's given me many different things, and God,

I could use these things for my glory. But God,

I don't want to give use them for my glory. God,

I want to use them for your glory. Even if

you mess out on doing that. Listen, the Bible says,

the angels are heaven are giving him glory. And if

you don't do it, the Bible says even the stones

will give him glory one day. Listen today, he deserves glory.

I wander today, whose glory are you living for? Are

you living to give God glory? Are you looking to

are you living to receive glory? I wonder students today,

Maybe you be living for the glory of what you

might get from a boyfriend or girlfriend.

You may look for glory from what you.

Might accomplish in your academics or your athletics, or maybe

you want glory from how many likes or how many

followers you can get, or maybe acceptance from your classmates. Adults,

tell me how often are we looking for the glory

from others? From maybe our spouse, or maybe praise from

our coworkers for the work that we do, or maybe

our social media accounts, or maybe acceptance from friends or family.

Are you living for those things?

The glory of man? Are you living.

Saying God, I want my life to give you glory.

I want my life to join the angels and giving

you glory. You long deserve glory from my life. How

does God receive glory? Who receives glory in the heavens?

But how to give God glory? It's interesting. In verse three,

David starts another section, and in this section there's two

literary features in this section that really comes tells us

what is the point of emphasis in this passage and

three through nine, David used the voice of the Lord

seven times. Seven times. He uses this repetition to show

us how important the voice of the Lord is and

what he gives us.

Again, we're thinking about something that the Lord.

Gives us, and he gives us the power of his voice,

and how how because we know the power.

Of his voice, we should give him glory. So he

uses that.

That's one literary feature, this repetition of the voice of

the Lord. The second literary future is that in verse

three he talks about the glory of God, and in

verse nine and he ends this section, the congregation cries

out glory.

So he's showing these things that the voice of.

The Lord is attached to the glory of God in

this passage. Another literary feature, maybe thirdly, is he's using

the metaphor of a storm to show us the greatness

of God's voice.

So just think about it.

He's using this and he's it's kind of like we

looked at last week. This greater to this greater, lesser

to greater argument that the storm is, how powerful storm.

Is, but how much God's how much greater is God's

voice than the storm?

And he gives this imagery of the storm, and as

he draws the imagery of the storm, He's wanting us

to think about storms that we face, literal storms in

our faith and our that we faced in our life,

and how great much greater is God's voice than that storm?

You ever thought about that.

You've you've ever been in a bad storm. I remember

when I was a little boy back in the updating

myself and the students may not even understand this, but

there was used to be a thing called landlines. Okay,

that was that means a telephone was actually plugged into

the wall like wired, right, And when you talk to

your friends. There wasn't no such thing as cordless phones.

You had you had a corded phone and it had

like a spiral thing to it. And if you're going

to talk to somebody one of your friends, you had

this like twenty.

Foot cord and you would take that cord and you'll.

Go across the room, through the kitchen, into the hallway,

into your room.

And it was stretching.

You hold on to it and you didn't let it

go because it was going to spind all the way

back back into the kitchen.

Y'all know what I'm talking about.

And back in the day when you had corded phones,

there was this real thing that you should never ever, ever, ever, ever,

ever ever be on the phone during the storm because

lightning could come on that telephone line right if you

hit the house and come and electricute you.

At least that's what they told me.

And I remember one time a storm was coming and

we had we were in the living room and I

was probably like ten or so, and I was in

the living room. This big storm had come and you

could see it, you know, you could just see it

coming off off in the distance, and it got to

our house and it was thunder and lightning and we

were all afraid.

It was just me and my two sisters.

Mama and Daddy was at word and I remember that

storm coming in and it was shaking the house and

my sister we were also afraid.

And my sister did the unthinkable, and she called my mom.

From work to tell her that we were afraid. And

about that time, she said she called her, and she

was talking to her, and about that time, I'm not joking,

she hung up the foam. Lightning hit a tree right

outside the house. And I could tell you that whole

house shook as that lightning hit right beside our house.

It shook the building, it shook me, it shook everything.

And that was the probably the closest thing I've ever

gotten to lightning. In all of you, different places, all

of you, in different ways, has a story like that

where you felt the power of a storm, you felt

the power of thunder, you felt the power of lightning.

And in this song, Charles Burton says, the best way

for us to read Some twenty nine is in the

midst of one of those storms. And as we hear

the cracks of lightning that flash, and we see the

power of lightning struck a tree and destroy it, as

we hear the rolls of thunder shaking the houses and

shaking the trees around us, that we should think about

that great storm and the powers within the storm that's

surrounding us, and liking that that how much greater is God's.

Voice in that storm?

Have you ever thought about that the loudest lightning you

have ever seen the most powerful lightning you've ever seen.

Have you ever thought that God's voice is greater than that?

Is as loud as a thunder that you've ever felt

that shook your house. Have you ever thought, listen, God's

voice is greater in this song, That's.

What David wants you not to see. That God's voice

is greater than any thunder.

God's voice is greater than any strikes of lightning. And

in this passage, you listen to what he does. In

this passage, he starts at kind of the northern part

of Israel. The storm is in the Sea.

Of Galilee, of the Mediterranean.

See I'm sorry, the Mediterranean Sea, and it comes into

the northern part of Israel over the mountains, and that's

shapes the mountains. It moves all the way down south

Kadidesh to the desert, and that same storm moves within

the driest parts of the land. And he's saying, this

storm that's moving throughout is powerful, or God's voice is

powerful than any storm, and God's voice can move throughout

all the land. Listen to the imagery. Let's just read

it together so you can hear that. I pray that

as we read these verses, and I pray you just

think about the powerful storm that you've encountered some time

in your likelihood or your childhood, at some point.

In your life.

And as you hear these voices, if you hear these words,

think about God's voices greater than any storm, any lightning,

anything to listen to. The voice of the Lord is

over the waters. That's where it is in Mediterranean. The

God of Glory thunders the Lord over many waters.

The voice is powerful. The voice of the Lord is

one majesty the Lord.

The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, has given

imagery of lightning, breaks the tree upside of my house.

So the voice of the Lord can break the greatest

of the trees. The Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

Lebanon was the mountains the northern part of Israel. The

cedars was the greatest tree in the life of Israel.

It's seen as the greatest, strongest tree. And the Lord

shakes them. He says, he makes levin and skip like

a calf, and siren like a young lion siren. There's

Mount Hermon, and Lebanon is also the mountain. The greatest

natural thing in our world is the mountains. It's the biggest,

the grandeest element of nature in all mankind right and

all nature itself.

And the Bible says, the.

Voice of God shakes the mountains.

They tremble at his voice.

He says, the voice of the Lord shakes not only

the mountains, but look at verse seven. The voice of

the Lord flashes forth like flames of fire. It's giving

the imagery of the lightning right coming down.

King.

The voice of the Lord is stronger than any light.

And in the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness,

even in the largest part to the most driest parts

of the land. God's voice shakes Kadesh was the wilderness

Elisa verse nine, And the voice of the Lord makes

the dear give birth. I wonder today, as you kind

of think about this idea, it's showing us that God's

voice is like no other. You know what's so interesting

about Psalm twenty nine. One of the great debates about

Psalm twenty nine is the structure of Psalm twenty nine

was actually the same structure as the Canaanite hymn. The

Canaanites worship of God called Bell Bell was a storm

God in fertility God, and they had a song that

talked about their God. Bel David in Psalm twenty nine

takes the structure of that song and he rewrites to

declare God is greater than the God of Bell. You

think Canaan knights your God, your storm.

God is great.

His voice does not compare to the voice of our God,

and he rewrites that. We can kind of think of

different songs. You probably think of some songs that you

maybe have heard in your life that maybe it was

a secular song and someone rewrote it into a Christian song.

There's a song by called Hallelijah by Leonard Cohen and

Lincoln Brewster rewrote it called Another Hallelujah. Took a secular

song and rewrote it into a Christian song. Right, That's

kind of what David does here.

He takes a.

Canaan night him that was written to Bell and he

rewrites it about God to demonstrate God is greater than

any of God.

He's greater than any storm. God, He's greater than any storm.

You know, that's really the.

Danger is right in our world for every voice of God,

there's a counterfeit in our world. Right, there's a counterfeit

in our world that tries to mimic the power of

God's voice, but really no compare, right. But the danger

for us is what we can worship the counterfeit, just

like the Canaanites.

We can think, man, we've got it.

We know the God, the voice of God bail and

we think that he's greater. But in the end it's

just a counterfeit. You know, you think, well, we don't

really do that today, we don't. How about Elvis? You

think about the voice of Elvis. You know today there

are people who still worship the voice of Elvis. You

get back in today when we use people go to

concerts Elvis and he would sing and lads would fall

out into ground. Had the voice of Elvis, right, it's

still today, after all these years, still people who worship

the voice of Elvis.

There's a documentary that came.

Out a few years ago in two thousand and seven,

and it followed the lives of four Elvis impersonators, and

they lived their whole life trying to sound like Elvis,

trying to look like Elvis, had the big sideburns, right,

they even try.

To move like Elvis. And I'm not demonstrats than that, but.

They lived their whole life for the voice of a man,

a fallible man that died.

And I tell you.

That as an example, because if we're not careful, listen,

we're no different than the Canaanites. We lose sight of

the power of God's voice.

We lose sight of how powerful his voice can move

in our life.

That's greater than any storm. And yet we start worshiping

the voice of someone. Maybe it is not Elvis for you,

but for you students, maybe it is a boyfriend or

girlfriend and you whatever they say, you walk on water.

Or maybe it's a friend. Maybe it's a celebrity of

public figure and whatever they say is the truth.

Maybe it is.

A spouse, maybe it's a parent, Maybe it's a pastor.

It's dangerous.

Who has seen so many times their years of people

who follow pastor's voice and think that.

He's greater than what who God is.

We've got to be aware that there's a danger for

us to follow the voice of a man and put

too much emphasis in a man's voice over the glory

of God's voice. His voice is greater than anything. I

wonder today, whose voice do you worship? Who do you recognize?

Today?

Fear simply that God's voice is more powerful than anything

in creation, more powerful than any any creation, and that

he deserves the glory.

You know.

The beauty of this passage is here. The David is saying, listen,

God receives glory, that the heavens are giving him glory,

and why should we give him glory?

Because his voice is greater than.

All creation, and it gives us this imagery of this

storm who comes.

Into israels over the waters and.

Then comes in the north and it goes all the

way to Kadesh. The people of Visual were gathered together,

just like we're gathered together at its congregation in the church.

They're gathered together in the temple, and they see the

storm coming and they're singing, and when they see the

power of God's voice.

You know what, they.

Declare, glory, Glory, God, you deserve glory.

And in that moment in verse.

Nine, Heaven joins with the choir on earth, and heaven

and Earth are giving God glory. Can I say today

we have the opportunity, when we worship and sing, to

join with those in heaven and declare, God, there's no

voice like.

Yours, God in all creation.

There's no man, there's no voice, only you deserves the

glory for the.

Power of your voice in my life? Would you declare

that once you see it?

Lastly, and this passage of scripture, how to give God glory?

We are to give God glory in his voice.

But lastly, we are to give him glory in his kingship.

David gives us this imagery of the power of God's voice,

but he gives us the last image of why we

are to give him glory. We are to give him

glory because he is king. Look at verse ten and eleven.

It says, the Lord sits enthroned over the flood, as

the Lord sits enthroned as king. Forever, May the Lord

give strength to his people. May the Lord bless his

people with peace. As you think about this imagery of

the storm and it's coming through, and it gives us

this picture in the midst of this storm.

Where's God? Where's God? God's on the throng.

He even goes back and David remembers the greatest of

all time, the greatest storm of all time. And what

was that greatest storm? It was the flood during nay

was day. You remember that story in the Bible of

the flood came and wiped out of all creation, all

life on creations have known his family. It's the greatest

storm of all. Right, David is remembering that storm, and

what does he say, in this storm, in the midst

of that storm, where was God? God was on his throng.

You know, if you think about that just for a minute,

if you just over the last year, we saw Helene

swept over western North Carolina, and we all saw images

on social media and the news of the floodwaters and

how they came and the heleen, and people lost their lives,

people lost their homes. Still today, it's just that Western

North carolina'd ever be the same.

And you know, always after something disaster.

Like that, the question that you hear in news and

different social media was where was God? Where was God

when all that disaster took place? Where was God when

people lost their lives? Where was God when the trees

were snapped to pieces? Where was God when the homes

were destroyed? Where was God when all this happened? And

then this passage, David is remembering a greater storm than Helene,

and it was Noah, And he says, when that.

Storm came, where was God?

God was still on the throne he was still in control.

He was still and he was still in control. Can

I wonder today sometimes that we in our life, we

we we faced storms, don't we? Sometimes there are little storms,

Sometimes there's emotional storms. Sometimes we wonder when we're battling

sickness or disease, or relationship conflicts or financial issues or

whatever it may be, we ask God, where are you?

David says, we are to give him glory than in

the midst of what we're facing. Listen, he is still

in control. He's still on this throne, and he's still

worthy to be worshiped because he is in control. I

love the next part of this verse, and he says

that we should worship him because he is king and

he's still on the throne. But secondly, he's in throne forever.

It is not only is he on the throne in

the midst of our storms, but whatever comes in the future,

whatever comes in the future, he will still be on

the throne. Can I tell you today, as you when

no matter what you're facing today or what you will

face in the future, God is still on the throne,

and we are to give him glory because he is

in control. The beautiful part of this picture is it

describes you and I. We are to give him glory.

Why I'm because of the power of his voice. But

we are to give him glory because he is the

king who's on the throne. You know the interesting At

this very end of this psalm, of this hymn, David

declares that.

God wants to give you and I something.

Listen to what it says if you can see it

in this passage, This God who deserves all the glory,

this God who's who receives glory in heaven, this God

who deserves the glory for the power of his voice,

wants to use that power that he possesses to give

you something.

What is it? What does God want to give you today?

Listen what he says, as king, the Lord's strength is

in his I'm sorry. In verse ten, the Lord sits

and thrown over the flood, the Lord says, and thrown

as king forever. And may the Lord give strength to

his people. Listen to this, and may the Lord bless

his people with what peace?

Shaloon? What does God want to give you today?

In the midst of the storm, in the midst of

the trials, and the midst of tribulation. Today, the Lord

wants to use his power of his voice to give

you peace. Heard of an individual one day he wanted

to find a painting that would be the perfect picture

of peace. So he sent out messages throughout the world

to do a contest to find the greatest masterpiece. Painting

of Peace has drawn a lot of interest in thousands

of pictures came in, and one day it came down

to two pictures. And they had a time where they

brought people in and they were going to let them choose,

and they took off the first painting, and everybody's own

oh when they saw the first painting. The first painting

was a smooth mirror, smooth light reflecting.

Just quiet waters.

It was a green trees, and they had the soft

eating in sky among the shore. On the outside of

the lake was a flock of sheep and there grazing undisturbed.

Everybody saw how how peaceful that picture looked.

And they said, man, surely that's it.

The next one they took off the painting. Who in

this painting It was a waterfall castading over rocks, and

the crowd could almost feel as they looked at the painting,

there was a storm with clouds coming, and it was

exploding with lightning and thunder and rain. In the midst

of the thundering noise and the chill, there was a

tree that was hanging on the edge of that waterfall,

being battered by the storm to come, and clinging on

one of the branches was a nest of a mama

baby bird with a mama who had birds, and she

had nestled over the top of her her eggs, and

in the midst of.

The storm, she was at peace. That is the perfect

picture of peace, isn't it.

Peace is not when everything is going great, right, peace

is in the midst of the chaos around me.

I found peace in the Lord.

Can I tell you today, in the midst of your

storm today that you're facing maybe emotional storm, trial, tribulation,

whatever it may be, today, in the midst of that,

the Lord wants to give you peace as you come

here today. We came to worship the Lord.

Right. I pray today that as.

We think upon the word of the Lord and this song,

may we think about the things that God gave us,

the things that God gives us today, material things, blessings,

spiritual blessings. He's given us and may we say today, God,

what I can use the things that you give me

for my glory? But today, Lord, I want to live

my life not for my glory, but I want to

live it for your glory.

God. May I you allow me to use the things

that you give me to give them back to you. Lord.

I don't deserve them, Lord, you deserve the glory.

Would you say, simply, today, Lord, I think about today

the power of your voice. There's nothing in all creation

that compares to the power of your voice.

Lord.

I want to worship your voice as greater than anything

in my life. Maybe say today, Lord, I've been tempted

to worship the voice of someone else, a voice of

this world. Lord, I want I want to I want

to worship that your voice is greater.

Help me give you glory.

Today because there is no one like your voice God

in my life.

And then, lastly, would you say, Lord, today I want

to give you glory because you're.

A king, and you're sovereign over the fares of my life.

And God, in the midst of the trouble in my life, God,

you're the king who's sovereign control, and God, you want

to give me peace. Would you pray with me. Father,

I thank you Lord for your word. I thank you

for the power of your word. Today, Lord, I pray

today that as we see the song twenty nine and

we hear the song of your people, May this song

be the desier of our heart, that Lord, we would

recognize today the angels are singing in heaven. And may

we want to join our voices with their voices, Lord,

to give you praise and glory that God you alone deserve.

Lord. I pray today that we would have.

Hearts that would recognize the times where we worship the

voice of another. And may we recognize today, Lord, that

your voice is greater than all creation and God today

give you glory for the power of your voice. God,

we thank you today that you are still on the

throne out of what we face the rest of our life. Lord,

you'll still be in control.

Lord. Lord.

May we give you glory today for us king over

our life.

Lord. Today we look for.

Peace from you, Father, peace that we can't get on

our own, piece that only.

You can give us. Father.

Today, may we find peace in you, Lord Lord, as

we come now in this time of worship where we're

going to stand and sing. Lord, I pray that the

meditations of our heart, words of our mouth be pleasing

to you.

Lord.

I pray right now we'd lift up our voices and

give you glory for what you've given us.

Or we love you, We thank you ord for today.

In your name, we prays