February 16, 2016
Worship: Behold Our God by Sovereign Grace Music
Who has held the oceans in His hands?
Who has numbered every grain of sand?
Kings and nations tremble at His voice
All creation rises to rejoice
Chorus
Behold our God seated on His throne
Come, let us adore Him
Behold our King—nothing can compare
Come, let us adore Him
Verse 2
Who has given counsel to the Lord?
Who can question any of His words?
Who can teach the One who knows all things?
Who can fathom all His wondrous deeds?
Verse 3
Who has felt the nails upon His hands?
Bearing all the guilt of sinful man
God eternal, humbled to the grave
Jesus, Savior, risen now to reign
Tag
You will reign forever
Let Your glory fill the earth
"Behold Our God" Sung by Ryan Baird. Words and music by Jonathan Baird, Meghan Baird, Ryan Baird and Stephen Altrogge. © 2011 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries.
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Witness:
I chose this song because it fits well with the tenor of the
passage I am studying. This song truly is a humbling song. It asks a series of
rhetorical questions in which the implicit answer is “no one but God.” This is
the method God used with Job after all the futile questions and comments were
made by Job’s friends and Job’s continual protestations of innocence (which to
their charges he was) and desiring to know why these things happened to him,
who served God so faithfully. God used a series of rhetorical questions to
convey His sovereign control over all things.
This is also a truly vertical song. Many songs are horizontal in
nature and deal with the self and not the Sovereign. This song is a call to focus
our gaze on our Sovereign God and Him alone. All blessings that are perceived,
all confidence that is received, all hope that is conceived, and all promises
that are believed; are from Him and to Him and for Him, our strong and mighty
God – the LORD of hosts!
BEHOLD OUR GOD
Isa 25:9
It will be said on that day,
"Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he
might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
let us be glad and rejoice
in his salvation."
Isaiah 25:9 ESV
WORD:
Ps 24:7-10 NIV
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates;
be lifted up,
you ancient doors,
that the King of
glory may come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD strong
and mighty,
the LORD mighty
in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates;
lift them up, you
ancient doors,
that the King of
glory may come in.
10 Who is he, this King of glory?
The LORD
Almighty —
he is the King
of glory.
Selah
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Ps 24:7-10
7 Open up, ancient gates!
Open up,
ancient doors,
and let the
King of glory enter.
8 Who is the King of glory?
The LORD,
strong and mighty;
the LORD,
invincible in battle.
9 Open up, ancient gates!
Open up, ancient
doors,
and let the
King of glory enter.
10 Who is the King of glory?
The LORD of
Heaven's Armies—
he is the King of
glory.
Interlude
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by
Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All
rights reserved.
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I.
Who is the King of glory? - v. 8
A. The LORD
strong and mighty
B. The LORD mighty in Battle
II.
Who is He, this King of glory? –
v. 10
A.
The LORD Almighty or Hosts
B. He is the King of Glory
The song many have learned and sung in Sunday School
or VBS or somewhere as a child is true!
“My
God is so big and so strong and so mighty.
There
is nothing my God cannot do!”
Video of the song being sung: https://youtu.be/Le7rhwtFhP8
We have seen that He is the
hero God who is the strong and mighty warrior. He is mighty and powerful in
battle. Implied is the fact that He is the victorious God. This is the God who
approaches the city and requests and demands that their doors be opened that He
may enter in and sit down on His rightful throne. This is the one who brings
peace, comfort, and protection to His people.
Truly the people of God can say,
“greater is He who is in [me] than he who is in the
world”! (1 John 4:4).
Did we not bow before the
King of Glory and let Him in? Is it not now our desire to say with the hymnist,
“Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing my great
Redeemer’s praise”?
Does not our mind agree with the words of Matthew
Henry,
Let the word of the Lord come into the innermost
and uppermost place in our souls; and, if we had 600 necks, we should bow them
all to the authority of it.”?
(from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole
Bible, PC Study Bible Formatted Electronic Database Copyright © 2006 by
Biblesoft, Inc. All Rights reserved.)
And then with faith, we will declare to ourselves:
Take, my soul, thy full salvation;
Rise o’er sin, and fear, and care;
Joy to find in every station
Something still to do or bear:
Think what Spirit dwells within thee;
What a Father’s smile is thine;
What a Savior died to win thee,
Child of Heaven, shouldst thou repine?
Haste then on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer,
Heaven’s eternal day’s before thee,
God’s own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission,
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.
Taken from the hymn; Jesus, I My Cross Have
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