Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving: Joyful Worship to the LORD Our Maker Psalm 100 calls every nation to joyful worship
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Jesus Christ.
John 1:17
Sandor Viczian
Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving: Joyful Worship to the LORD Our Maker
Psalm 100 calls every nation to joyful worship because the LORD alone is God and worthy of praise. It teaches that true thanksgiving is not mere emotion but an act of obedient approach—entering His presence with gladness, song, and gratitude. The psalm grounds worship in theology: God made us, we belong to Him, and His people are like sheep under His faithful care. It points away from self-rule and reminds us that we are not our own, so humility is the doorway to real joy. The chapter closes by declaring the unchanging character of God—His goodness, enduring mercy, and truth that remains through all generations.
Psalms 100:1 – 100:5
1 A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
5 For the Lord [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…
In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;
In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.
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