Come, Let Us Sing to the Lord

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1. Observe

   What physical postures of worship appear in verses 1-6?

   • Only silent stillness
   • Singing, shouting aloud, coming with thanksgiving, extolling with songs, worshiping, bowing down, kneeling — a variety of bodily expressions
   • Only kneeling
   • Only sitting

2. Observe

   What happened at Meribah and Massah, and what was the consequence?

   • Israel praised God
   • Israel tested and proved God, hardened their hearts, didn't know God's ways for forty years; consequence: God swore in wrath they would not enter his rest
   • No consequence followed
   • The events never occurred

3. Interpret

   Why is "today" so significant?

   • It refers only to one specific date
   • Because the moment of God's address is the moment for response — postponing the response is itself a form of hardening; the heart that hears "today" and resolves to obey "tomorrow" is already drifting toward the wilderness generation's posture; the present voice of God requires present response, because the heart's capacity to respond degrades each time a clear summons is deferred
   • Today doesn't matter
   • Only the past matters

4. Interpret

   What does "saw my work" yet hardened (v. 9) reveal about witnessing and faith?

   • That seeing always produces faith
   • That witnessing is sufficient for belief
   • That witnessing God's acts does not automatically produce faith — the wilderness generation saw the Red Sea, daily manna, the cloud and fire, and still hardened; faith requires not just visual evidence but a soft heart willing to draw the right conclusions from what is seen; this means miracles, answered prayers, and visible providence are no substitute for the inward response of trust; the same evidence can produce wonder in some and resistance in others
   • That God's works are irrelevant

5. Apply

   Where might one be hardening their heart now?

   • Hardening is impossible for believers
   • Hardening doesn't affect believers
   • In areas where one knows what God is asking (a relationship to repair, a sin to confess, a generosity to extend, a calling to obey) and is resisting, postponing, or rationalizing; hardening is not dramatic apostasy but the small accumulating refusals to respond to known summons; honest self-examination should identify the specific places where God's voice is being deflected, since these are exactly where the psalm's warning lands
   • Hardening is purely external

6. Apply

   Can joy and warning coexist in worship?

   • No — they undermine each other
   • Only joy belongs in worship
   • Yes, and the psalm models exactly this — the same God who invites joyful shouting also warns against rebellion; healthy worship holds both, refusing the false choices of merely happy worship (which loses urgency) and merely solemn worship (which loses delight); the God being worshiped is both rock of salvation and judge whose voice must be heeded today, and both notes belong in the response to him
   • Warning destroys worship

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