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Psalms 95:3
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A Call to Worship and Obedience

1 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with apsalms. 
3 For athe Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods. 
4 1In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also. 
5 aThe sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land. 
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let aus kneel before the Lord our Maker. 
7 For He is our God,
And awe are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep1 of His hand.
bToday, if you will hear His voice: 
8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the1 rebellion,
aAs in the day of1 trial in the wilderness, 
9 When ayour fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they bsaw My work. 
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Psalms 95:3

For the Lord is a great God - For Yahweh is a great God. The object is to exalt Jehovah, the true God, as distinguished from all who were worshipped as gods. The first idea is that he is "great;" that he is exalted over all the universe; that he rules over all, and that he is to be worshipped as such.

And a great King above all gods - This does not mean that he is a great ruler of all other gods, as if they had a real existence, but that he is king or ruler far above all that were worshipped as gods, or to whom homage was paid. Whoever, or whatever was worshipped as God, Yahweh was supreme over all things. He occupied the throne; and all others must be beneath him, and under his dominion. If the sun, the moon, or the stars were worshipped - if the mountains or the rivers - if angels good or bad - yet Yahweh was above all these. If imaginary beings were worshipped, yet Yahweh in his perfections was exalted far above all that was ascribed to them, for He was the true God, and the Ruler of the universe, while they were beings of the imagination only.


 
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