Thank you. You may not realize this, but the church choir or the worship team is not there for your entertainment, or at least they shouldn't be.

Throughout Scripture, all of God's people are encouraged to sing to the Lord. And what we sing

and how we sing matters a lot. Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg looks at Psalm 100 to

help us understand the significance of worshiping God together through song.

I want to read the 100th Sam. I've decided that instead of me roaming around the Bible, as we set the context for this conference,

that we allow the scriptures themselves, having sung that we want God to speak to

us, then we want it to be the Bible that frames both our understanding of what we do,

our ability to do it, and the manner in which we do it. So Psalm 100, a Sam forgiving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth.

Serve the Lord with gladness. Come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God.

It is he who made us and we are his. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him. Bless his name.

For the Lord is good. His steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all

generations. Amen. A brief prayer, an old Anglican prayer. Father, what we know not, teach us, what we have not, give us, what we are not,

make us for your son's sake. Amen. Well, I don't apologize at all for turning to one of the best known and best loved of all the Sands

in the entire Book of Sands. Some of us are familiar with it as the Jubilati Dale because of our

Anglican background, as we have sung it routinely as part of the prayer book service.

Most of us are familiar with the Hundredth Sam in its metrical version as composed by William

Keith and sung routinely to the tune of the Old Hundredth. Incidentally, William Keith was not only a contemporary of John Knox, but also a friend

of John Knox.

And it's hard for me not to feel some kind of distant pride in letting you know that it

was a Scotsman that gave us this magical version which we've come to love so very much. He could have been Irish, but that would

have been difficult for him, and so he's fine. The Psalm is very clear. It invites all the people

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