Psalm 98:5
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
Sermons
A Summons to SongJ. O. Keen, D. D.Psalm 98:1-9
Christianity's Most Joyous FactCharles Von Gerok, D. D.Psalm 98:1-9
Genuine PraiseHomilistPsalm 98:1-9
Universal SalvationC. Short Psalm 98:1-9
Showing Our Joy in GodR. Tuck Psalm 98:5-7














It must strike every reader of the Psalms that the call to give expression to the joy felt in God is very frequent. We are constantly made to feel that the people did not readily come up to the psalmist's standpoint. Emotionally he could not raise them to his level, and their flagging and dragging seems sometimes to worry him. But the intensely earnest man, the man of cultured spiritual feeling, the pious poet soul, always has this trouble, and is always in danger of misapprehending his fellows because they seem unable adequately to respond to him. He does not realize that he may be no better standard, since he is above average, than they are who are below average. The man in advance does us all good by lifting us all higher, if he fails to lift us to his own level. If we cannot sing and praise as the psalmist does, we can all sing and praise better because the psalmist chants so nobly. Illustrate this point by referring to David, the royal psalmist, actually beginning in the tabernacle a service of song. No doubt some were heartily with him from the first, but many must have given him trouble. Some were tiresomely indifferent. They would not come, but they would give no reasons for not coming. Some opposed, and we can well imagine some of the grounds of their opposition. So it always is and always will be. We may qualify the trouble this may cause us by remembering that the signs and expressions of religious feeling greatly differ, and we cannot reasonably expect all persons to express themselves as we do. What we may look for, and work for, is some expression of what is in men's hearts toward the Lord. Let them break out into songs and music, if that will best utter their hearts. Let them abound in good works, if they like that voice for their souls better. The main thing is this - if a man has any joy in God in his soul, let him find out how to give it voice, so that God and men may know of it. - R.T.

The Lord hath made known His salvation.
Mr. Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, told me that on his first journey to England, before he started, he said to his wife, "I have dreamed a dream. I have dreamt that I shall be wrecked and be the only person that will escape; and what a thrilling story that will be for me to tell." He left home, and there was a collision, both ships were in very great danger, but by the wonderful providence of God both ships got back in harbour, and there was nobody lost whatever. So he said to his wife, "Is not this a much more thrilling story to tell? Is it not a much more happy thing to have to say, 'Saved, and all saved that sailed with me, not one of them lost'?" Oh, that we might have the privilege of saying, "Here am I, and the children that Thou hast given me."

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

People
Psalmist
Places
Jerusalem
Topics
Corded, Harp, Instrument, Instruments, Lyre, Melody, Music, Praise, Praises, Psalm, Psalms, Sing, Singing, Song, Voice
Outline
1. The psalmist exhorts the Jews
4. The Gentiles
7. And all the creatures, to praise God

Dictionary of Bible Themes
Psalm 98:5

     5273   creativity

Psalm 98:4-5

     7960   singing

Psalm 98:4-6

     5332   harp
     5421   musical instruments
     8288   joy, of Israel

Psalm 98:4-9

     1075   God, justice of

Library
The New Song
I want to carry your minds, if I can, to-night, for a little season to that last and grandest, because the decisive victory, which shall tell out the name and fame of Jehovah in all his mighty attributes, and in all his majestic deeds, when the battle shall be over for ever, and the banner shall be furled and the sword shall be sheathed, because the last foe shall be destroyed, and placed beneath the feet of the Almighty victor; "His right hand, and his holy arm, hath him the victory." My text seems,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 9: 1863

Salvation Published from the Mountains
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid: say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! I t would be improper to propose an alteration, though a slight one, in the reading of a text, without bearing my testimony to the great value of our English version, which I believe, in point of simplicity, strength, and fidelity, is not likely to be excelled by a new translation
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

Psalms
The piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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