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John MacArthur traces hymns from Luther-era Germany to Isaac Watts and Henry Lyte, all rooted in Psalm 103, then expounds the psalm as pure gospel worship.

## Key Takeaways

- Worship begins in the soul: the believer must instruct his own soul to bless the Lord.
- Remembering and cataloging God's benefits and mercies is a discipline that fuels joy and praise.
- God's forgiveness and loving kindness are described as infinite, as far as the east is from the west.
- Psalm 103 is a model of pure gospel praise and a source of joy for believers across generations.

## What the video covers

- Opens with the history of hymns inspired by Psalm 103, starting with Johann Grumbach's 1525 hymn, which came out of the Reformation debates in Leipzig.
- Joachim Neander's conversion and his 1680 hymn 'Praise to the Lord, the Almighty' show how the gospel changed lives and produced worship.
- Isaac Watts (1719) and Henry Lyte (1834) continue the lineage, with Lyte's 'Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven' noted for use at coronations.
- MacArthur describes Psalm 103 as the Old Testament anticipation of Romans, a psalm of pure, gospel-centered praise focused on Yahweh.
- The psalm contains no complaints, petitions, or historical circumstances, only joyful, thankful worship from one who grasps eternal salvation.
- The psalm begins and ends with four 'alls' and with a personal call to worship, moving outward to call all creation to praise.
- Psalm 103 closes Book Four of the Psalter, with Psalms 104-106 echoing its opening 'Bless the Lord' call.
- Traditionally attributed to David in old age, the psalm is presented as wisdom from a long record of God's providences.
- MacArthur structures the psalm into three calls to worship: an internal call (vv. 1-5), an external call to the people of God (vv. 6-18), and a cosmic call to creation (vv. 19-22).
- The worship it describes is internal and heartfelt, not dependent on musical or external aids, and grounded in remembering God's benefits.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Reformation-era hymns and their origins
2. 04:00 Hymns by Neander, Watts, and Lyte
3. 07:30 Psalm 103 as gospel praise and worship
4. 11:30 Structure of the psalm and its calls to worship
5. 15:20 The internal call: blessing the Lord with the soul
6. 22:20 Remembering God's benefits and the treasure house of grace
7. 30:00 God's forgiveness and loving kindness
8. 37:00 Calls to angels and creation to worship

Answers

## Questions about this video

What is the central focus of Psalm 103 according to this talk?

MacArthur argues Psalm 103 is pure worship riveted on Yahweh, containing no complaints or petitions. It celebrates the eternal salvation and blessings the believer receives.

Which hymns does the talk trace back to Psalm 103?

The talk traces hymns by Johann Grumbach (1525), Joachim Neander (1680), Isaac Watts (1719), and Henry Lyte (1834), all of which are based on Psalm 103.

How does MacArthur structure the psalm?

He divides the psalm into three calls to worship: an internal call to the soul, an external call to God's people, and a cosmic call to angels and all creation.

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It was 1519. The city was Leipzig, Germany, about two centuries before Bach. A powerful force had been unleashed from Germany in the form of Martin Luther, whose hymn we sang earlier. He was summoned to a church in Leipzig to face the Roman Catholic master of debate, Johann Eck.

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Luther had denied penance. He had denied purgatory. He had denied indulgences, and he had fully rejected papal authority.

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Eck was to put Luther on trial, particularly to denounce his heresy, and his heresy was sola scriptura, scripture alone.

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The debate led to Luther's teaching being banned by a papal declaration in the year 1520.

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Listening carefully to the debate, and what was essentially a heresy trial, was a young man by the name of Johann Grumbach.

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He happened to be Eck's secretary. After listening to the discussion, he embraced the faith of the Reformation.

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He embraced the gospel, eventually, even though at that time Luther himself had not yet been converted.

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Grumbach became a gospel preacher in 1525. He wrote a hymn that has endured to this very day.

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It was translated from German into English in 1863.

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The hymn says, "My soul, now praise your Maker. Let all within me bless his name who makes you full partaker of mercies more than you dare claim. As high as heaven's above us, as dawn from close of day, so far since he has loved us, he puts our sins away. Praise him forever reigning, all you who hear his word. Our life and all sustaining, my soul, oh, praise the Lord."

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1525.

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It was 1680. Joachim Neander, another German poet, had lived a dissolute, sinful, and wicked life.

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He and some of his friends decided to go to a local church for the purpose of mocking the preacher.

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Instead of mocking the preacher, he came under conviction under the message, believed the gospel, and was converted to Christ.

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He eventually became the assistant pastor to that very preacher whose preaching brought him to Christ, and he had the wonderful responsibility every Sunday in that church of preaching the 5:00 a.m. service. May God be praised.

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You only live to be 30. That's why there are no more 5:00 a.m. services.

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But in his 30th year, he wrote these words: "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation. Oh, my soul, praise him, for he is thy hope and salvation. All ye who hear, now to his temple draw near. Join me in glad adoration."

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It was 1719. Isaac Watts, who wrote about 750 hymns, including the beloved "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," wrote these words.

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"Oh, bless the Lord, my soul. His mercies bear in mind. Forget not all his benefits. Who is to thee so kind? Thou bless the Lord, my soul. His grace, his love proclaim. Let all that is within me join to bless his holy name."

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In the 1800s, there was a useless young man. That designation was given to him by his father, who had personal insight.

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Obviously, he was what you would call an ancient Scottish flake. He was dissolute. All he wanted to do, his father said, was fish and hunt.

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He became orphaned. His name was Henry Lyte.

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In 1816, Henry Lyte was at the bedside and watched the struggle of a dying unbeliever.

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He saw death's cold reality, and he left that scene to go home and find a Bible.

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He read the Bible, became converted to Jesus Christ, began to preach the gospel, played the flute, spoke Latin, Greek, and French, and wrote poetry. Here is his best poem from 1834.

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"Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven. To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who like thee his praise should sing? Praise him for his grace and favor to our fathers in distress. Praise him still the same as ever, slow to chide and swift to bless. Praise him. Praise him. Glorious in his faithfulness."

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That has been sung at many coronations.

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Why all this history? All those hymns and many more are based on Psalm 103. So open your Bible if you have one. If you don't, God have mercy on your sinful, shriveled-up soul. Psalm 103.

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Now, we have just gone through the melancholy look at the Psalms. This is the opposite of that. This is a psalm of pure praise, gospel praise, eternal praise.

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Psalm 103. Let me just tell you a little bit about it. I want to give it to you, if I can, today as a gift for the rest of your life. We would need much more time than is allotted to embrace it fully, but I want you to get an understanding of it so that you can make it a part of your life on a regular basis.

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It is full of gospel truth. Psalm 103, as far as I'm concerned, is the Old Testament anticipation of the book of Romans.

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It is pure worship. It is riveted on Yahweh, Yahweh the Lord. The only name of the Lord that appears here is Yahweh. That is the only name used here, and it refers to his essence as the great I AM, the eternal one.

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It is riveted on him and him alone and focused on his salvation blessing. There is no mention of any historical circumstance. There is no mention of an enemy. There are no requests. There are no petitions. There are no complaints. It is sheer, pure worship to Yahweh.

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There are no clouds on the horizon. There are no notes of disappointment. There is no sadness. It is joyous, thankful, overflowing worship rising from the heart of one who comes to grips with the reality of eternal salvation.

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It is a great place to go to fight for joy.

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No more pure outburst of gospel praise and salvation worship occurs in Scripture. This is an all-in psalm. It begins with four "alls" and it ends with four "alls."

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It begins with a personal call to worship, and it ends with a personal call to worship, and in between it traverses the infinite universe and calls everything in existence to worship.

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It is only for believers. It is only for the saved. It is only for the redeemed.

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Three times it refers to those who fear the Lord, and then refers to the believers as those who keep his covenant and remember his precepts to do them.

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Psalm 103 closes Book Four of the Psalter. There are five books in all. This closes Book Four along with three other psalms: Psalms 104, 105, and 106, which all start the same way. "Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord." And even in Book Five, Psalm 107 begins the same way, as if the blessing echoes into the next section.

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Some ancient sources say it was written by David, and it was written in his old age.

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Old age is the best time to praise because you have the longest record of mercies. You have the longest record of providences. That I can say from my own personal experience, and I know this is AARP day at the sing conference with my friend John and I here. There's something to be said for getting to this point in life, because you have accumulated a massive record of the providences of God, a massive record of the experiences of his gracious provision.

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The entire song is offered as worship to God. God is the I AM. That is his name.

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He is the one true eternal God. He never had a beginning and never has an ending. He alone is absolute reality. Everything else he made. He is constant, independent, sovereign. He is truth, love, light, life, beauty, perfection, holiness, and joy.

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This is a tribute to Yahweh. He alone is worthy of praise. And, of course, he is the triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Now, the psalm has three calls to worship, and I just want us to look at them with a kind of overview in our time together this morning. The first is an internal call.

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It's an internal call. Verses 1-5: "Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget none of his benefits, who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loving kindness and compassion, who satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle."

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It starts with a command for the believer, the worshipper, the true worshipper, to speak to his own soul and tell his soul, "Bless the Lord, oh my soul." This is where all true worship starts: in the heart, in the soul.

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There's no organ playing. There's no praise band

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who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loving kindness and compassion, who satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

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Starts with a command. with a command for the believer, the worshipper, the true worshipper to speak to his own soul and tell his soul, "Bless the Lord, oh my soul." This is where all true worship starts in the heart. In the soul,

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there's no organ playing. There's no praise band. Nobody is strumming. There are no low lightss.

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There's no smoke. There's no moody darkness. This cry is the soul of the believer crying out to himself and saying, "Bless the Lord, oh my soul." This is internal, intimate, personal heart worship. This is the bubbling over of a soul that is

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reflecting on God and his character and his saving grace. The song is in the heart before it's ever heard outside. The song is in the heart before it ever shows up in the room.

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This is worshiping. And the heart can only go as high in worship as it can go deep in theology.

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The elevation of your worship is directly correspondent to the depth of your theology. Superficial knowledge of God leads to superficial worship.

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We are instructed here to call out to our own souls to bless the Lord without regard to any external aid, without regard to anything inducing it.

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It's just the sheer contemplation of what it means to belong to him. And that comes in the second statement. And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Then bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget none of his benefits.

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What does it mean all that is within me? Well, it's very much like loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. It calls for you to collect together all your faculties, mind will emotion

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everything that is in you. Again, there are no circumstances given with regard to the writing of this psalm.

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There is nothing that externally prompts this. This just needs to rise up in the heart of a believer anywhere, anytime, or better, everywhere, all the time.

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It is the sheer joy and delight and love and gratitude to God that cannot be repressed.

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And what causes the explosion of worship in the heart? His benefits. Verse two, forget none of his benefits. That is my command to my soul.

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Benefits is a good translation. Some translate it sufficiencies. But notice how exhaustive this is.

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Forget none of his benefits. That is a command to my soul. Forget none of his benefits. Note every benefit. Catalog every mercy, every grace. Do not miss any of them.

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As a little kid, I used to sing a song, count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. It's kind of a trivial way to grasp this idea. This is how

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you'd live your life. Just a constant unending recognition and remembrance and cataloging in your own soul of all that the Lord has done for you.

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And that's why I said earlier, the older you are, the the longer the list, the the older you are, the the more spontaneous your praise becomes because you have seen his mercies which are new every morning for decades of life.

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This is the fountain of praise. It's the human heart. We are those who worship in the spirit, says Paul to the Philippians. We worship in the spirit.

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and we remember the benefits that the Lord has given to us. Live your life and rec record in your mind every benefit the Lord gives to you. Look for every grace, every mercy, every good gift, every providence, every answered prayer,

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every kind word, every time a believer comes to you and ministers grace to you and in that believer Christ comes to you. Fill up your life with remembering all the benefits of your salvation.

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Forgetting is fleshly. Forgetting is carnal. Forgetting is sinful. Is that too much to ask?

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Please remember his benefits. He doesn't remember your sins. The benefits from God come nonstop.

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No one has ever lived who could catalog them all, who could remember them all.

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So, none of us comes close to worshiping God the way we should. Even at the very start, in our own souls, we fall short.

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And yet, to worship like this is what God deserves, and it's what he commands.

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It demands such a God centered mind that you never miss a heavenly gift so that you live constantly in sheer joy.

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The reason we don't have joy is because we don't live like that. Even the psalmist would fall short of cataloging every benefit the Lord ever deposited into his life. But he helps us with a list. The first one

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comes in verse three. Who pardons all your iniquities. Start with complete pardon for your sin.

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Because that's the essence of the gospel, isn't it? This is the first of God's gifts to the penitent believer who's a true worshipper. Forgiveness.

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This is salvation. This then is the door to the full treasure house of divine grace and mercy. This is the beginning.

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This is the first gospel statement here. The forgiveness of sin. God forgives all the sins of those who come to him. The good news is not just about a better life, a happy life, a fulfilled life.

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It's not about fixing your circumstances. It's about the forgiveness of sin. It's about the reality that you're on your way to hell.

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But the Lord mercifully will forgive your sins if you repent and come to him.

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And of course through the provision that Christ has made on the cross. Start with that. Just start with remembering God's forgiveness for your sins.

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And then you can remember the promise who heals all your diseases. Now what does that mean? Some people see that as controversial. It shouldn't be because whatever forgiving all your iniquities means healing all your diseases must mean the same. The all has to be the

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same in both. So therefore, since he actually does forgive all our iniquities because of the sacrifice of Christ, he must also actually heal all our diseases. So this is not some promise of physical healing because we all know he

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doesn't heal all our diseases or we would never die. What is he talking about? He's talking about the diseases of the soul. He's he's talking in language that should sound a little bit like Isaiah chapter 1 where we read in verse 5, "Where will

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you be stricken again as you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick.

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The whole heart is faint from the sole of the foot even to the head. There is nothing sound in it. Only bruises, welts, raw wounds not pressed out or bandaged nor softened with oil." In other words, you are a sick individual.

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I like to think that he forgives all your sins and healing all your diseases means that he transforms your nature.

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And one day of obviously we will put all sickness behind us in the time of glorification.

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Just remember to thank the Lord for that benefit. The benefit of forgiven sins and a transformed nature.

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The next line in verse four, who redeems your life from the pit, from shiel, from the grave, from hell.

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Some translate this destruction. This is justification. You have forgiveness here. You have justification here. You have redemption here. He redeems your life from destruction. Redeemed by we know the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So what you're doing now is you're literally taking apart the reality of salvation into its component elements and thanking the Lord for each and every one of those.

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Having done that, it says in verse four, who crowns you with loving kindness and compassion. Let me take that word loving kindness and and let me say it in another way that I think might give it a more significant meaning to you.

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Committed love. Committed love. That's what it's talking about. Committed love. He crowns your life. He literally tops off your life with committed love. Now, we're we're past justification and we're into the wonderful realm of sanctification where the Lord is doing everything to crown

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our lives with expressions of his love and compassion. Committed love expressed by determined acts of his will on our behalf.

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Compassion is the emotional side of God. He loves us. He loves us with emotion and he loves us with his will. We are crowned like royal sons and daughters with the benefits of God's eternal committed love and compassion.

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But all those eternal benefits come after he has cared us for cared for us on the physical side. Verse 5 says, "He satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle." We see in these five verses

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really the picture of a a person who has been basically justified, redeemed, forgiven in the process of being sanctified, being ministered to by the Lord and being satisfied with all the grace gifts that he gives believers. So your youth is youth is renewed like an

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eagle. That simply means that as eagles grow old and remain strong, that's going to happen in your life on a spiritual level. So the Lord has given you much to remember. All that regarded your salvation, all that regards your

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sanctification, and all his wondrous provision for you. That's where worship starts. It starts in your heart. The the worship call then in verse six moves out. We'll speed up a little bit at this point.

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And we find that the worship call in 1:5 is internal. And here is the worship call that is external.

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The psalmist calls for all the forgiven, all the justified, all those being sanctified, all the redeemed to join the worship. The personal praise then moves into corporate praise. This is where it goes outside the heart and it becomes a

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kind of congregational worship. Not induced again by any particular event but just the coming together of all the people of God with grateful hearts. Verse six, the Lord is literally is ever working total righteousness. Not only is God always

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working in perfectly righteous ways according to absolutely righteous principles, undeviating correctness in all his decisions in exact judgment, he is providing that righteousness to those who have their whole lifelong been captives to sin.

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His judgments, his his deeds are always righteous. And they started that way back in the time of Moses when he first declared his redemptive purpose and then gave the scripture to the sons of Israel. Then more blessings follow. We

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find in verse eight, we'll just let me just read a brief portion of this and won't have time to go into detail, but let me read verses 8 to 12. Here are some of the benefits that we corporately

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need to praise the Lord for. The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness.

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He will not always strive with us, nor will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his

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loving kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

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What do we find there? His compassion, his grace, his patience, his abounding in committed love.

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Verse nine, just a note, he will not always strive with us. That's a courtroom term. He will not always indict us. He will not always bring us into court to render us guilty. He will not sit in judgment on us as sinners. He

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will not keep his anger forever, which is a way of saying his anger has a limit and he will not put an indictment against us forever. This connects with the fact that he's already forgiven us our sins. Verse 10, he has not dealt

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with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. That's why he doesn't indict us. He doesn't bring us into court.

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He doesn't reward us according to our iniquities. I often think about that. Our iniquities are many. His judgments are few. Our sins are heavy. His discipline is light.

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We are weak, but he doesn't crush us. He only wounds us. Our sins have been continual and persistent. His blows are occasional and slight.

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Our guilt is provocative. His patience is tender and merciful. Calvin said, "He wonderfully blesses those he might justly destroy." His loving, complete forgiveness of all our sins is so vast that two illustrations are chosen, and they're the perfect illustrations. There could

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be no more perfect ones than these. His committed love to us is so great. His forgiveness is so great that he loves us to the degree that can be expressed by the height of the heavens. Verse 11, as

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high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. That's repeated in Psalm 36, Psalm 57, Psalm 108. That very same imagery. As high as the heavens.

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What does that mean? That's trying to communicate to you the vastness of the love of God. Now, in ancient times, they they wouldn't have known what we know today. Just the latest NASA information is pretty fascinating. Going at 186,000

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miles a second, if you went to the heights of heaven, NASA tells us that they can see as far out as a certain point. And at 186,000 miles a second, you could reach that point, which they would see as the end of the heavens or

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the end of the universe in, you ready for this? 225 trillion years. But what they don't know is since God is infinite, so is his dwelling place.

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That's how vast his committed love to you is. That's how incomprehensible his committed love to you is.

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And then he removes our sins as far as the east is from the west. That is another illustration of infinity.

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Th those are lines that go in opposite directions and never intersect. Our our ingratitude and our stubborn sinfulness would exhaust the patience of anyone except a God who loves us infinitely and has removed our sins infinitely away.

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No wonder Micah says, "Who is a pardoning God like you?" Why is he so compassionate?

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Verse 13, because he's a father and he has compassion on us, his children, compassion on those who fear him. He himself knows our frame. He's mindful that we are but dust. He knows that we have propensity to sin. He understands

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our weakness. He knows the fallenness of our will. He knows the strength of our sinful impulses. He knows the violence of our selfishness, the readiness of our disobedience, the easy disruption of our prayer, and the fragile character of our

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joy. His love is so vast. It not only is as high as the heavens, but it's even beyond that. Look at verse 15 and following.

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As for a man, his days are like grass. As the flower of the field, so he flourishes. When the wind is passed over it, it is no more, and its place acknowledges it no longer. But the loving kindness of the Lord is from

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everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children's children generation upon generation to those who keep his covenant and remember his precepts to do them.

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Just that contrast between man who's like grass or like a flower of the field fades away when the wind passes by and its place acknowledges it no longer. Compare that to the loving kindness of God. That's the committed love, the same term, which

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is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him through all generations. What is that saying? Listen to this.

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This is staggering truth. Not only is his love for us infinite, not only is his removal of our sins infinite, but he has loved us from everlasting to everlasting.

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What is that saying? He loved us in eternity past. We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. He didn't set his love on us when we were living in this world and embraced his son. He set his love on us in eternity

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past and wrote our names in the book of life because we constituted the bride that he would give to his son.

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He loved us from everlasting to everlasting. If you're looking for something to rejoice about, how about starting there with an incomprehensible infinite love and a love that is eternal going back and going forward. He loved you before you existed. He loved you before anyone

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existed. You are loved in the sun and the sun is eternal. God's love is passionate, emotional, parental protective vast constant omnipotent infinite and everlasting love. He has always loved his own. There is no time with God.

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Who he loves, he has always loved and will always love. They are the ones that he has drawn to himself. They keep his covenant and remember his precepts to do them.

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Honestly, nothing more clearly demonstrates our remaining sin than the ease with which we forget the benefits of our salvation.

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Then the call to worship expands. It starts out internal, then goes external, embracing others, and now it goes universal.

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The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his sovereignty rules over all. Bless the Lord, you his angels, mighty in strength, who perform his word, obeying the voice of his word.

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Bless the Lord, all you his hosts, you who serve him doing his will. Bless the Lord, all you works of his in all places of his dominion. We'll stop there.

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There's a king far greater than David. There's a king who reigns over all. And therefore, the psalmist extends the call to all to join the worship. Starts with the angels. Bless the Lord, you his angels. And he gives four

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characteristics of angels. They are his. They are strong. They are obedient. And they serve. They render perfect worship.

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Their voices are never silent. But if they were struck dumb, the redeemed saints would praise God. And if all intelligent creatures should keep silent, the inanimate stones would cry out. And the sun and the moon and the stars and the planets would have a voice

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to fill the universe with praise. And that's why he calls on them in verse 21.

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Bless the Lord all you his hosts. Deuteronomy 4:19 talks about the hosts of heaven, the sun, the moon, the stars.

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And consider Psalm 148, which is such a magnificent psalm to add to what we've seen in 103. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens, in the heights, all his angels, all his hosts. Praise him, son and moon. Praise him all stars

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of light. Praise him highest heaven and the waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord for he commanded and they were created. He established them forever and ever. He made a decree which will not pass away.

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Praise the Lord from the earth, sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and clouds, stormy wind fulfilling his word, mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl.

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Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth, both young men and virgins, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone be exalted.

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His glory is above earth and heaven. Calls all creation to praise the whole universe to praise the Lord.

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That's the fortisimo, isn't it? Then he goes back to the pianimo. Bless the Lord. What?

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Let him start with me. It was 1974 and um there was a little boy born in England born to a very dysfunctional family, tragic family really. His father committed suicide when the little boy was seven.

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He didn't know, he said, why his father died until he was 10. His mother remarried.

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She remarried a man who turned out to be a very abusive father and made life so miserable for the little boy and the rest of the family that the father was imprisoned.

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That struggling little boy raised in a very abusive family went to a mission service where the gospel was preached and he was converted to Christ.

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That little boy in order to praise the Lord who saved him started writing music.

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He wrote 10,000 Reasons. His name is Matt Redmond and he based it on Psalm 103.

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Since 1525 to 2011 and beyond, Psalm 103 continues to be at the heart of our worship. ship.

Topics: Psalm 103 John MacArthur Christian worship hymns Martin Luther Reformation gospel Psalms sola scriptura praise

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