Grateful Praise Psalm 113. Hallelujah (v1) verb ‘halal’ + name ‘YH’

Grateful PraisePsalm 113

Grateful PraisePsalm 113

Hallelujah (v1)

verb ‘halal’ + name ‘YH’

Hallelujah (v1)

‘YH’ = YHWH God’s personal nameMeans “I am”

Hallelujah (v1)

‘halal’ = to praise, to boastin prayer, speech, song, danceincludes awe of who God isincludes thanks for what God’s

done

Hallelujah (v1)

similar to “worship”declaring God’s goodness and greatness to Him and to one another

Pre-req’s for Worship (v1-3)

① Submission“servants/slaves of the Lord”

Psalm 95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.


① Submission② Knowledge

“name of the Lord”Essentials Bible StudyTozer’s “Pursuit of God”


① Submission② Knowledge③ Consistency

“from this time forth and forever”“from the rising of the sun to its setting”

Inspiration for Worship (v4-9)

God’s Greatness (v4-5)

“high above all nations” = sovereign“glory above the heavens” = God’s power, size, majesty > the universe’s

Our Universe93 billion light years across

80 billion galaxies

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars

(= 5 quadrillion)

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars(5 x 1015 = 5 quadrillion)

10,000 galaxies5,000,000,000,000,000 stars

(= 5 quadrillion)



“high above all nations” = sovereign“glory above the heavens” = God’s power, size, majesty > the universe’s



God’s Grace (v6-9)



God’s Grace (v6-9)

What’s Amazing: He’s Both!

Glorious Paradox: God is both...

Great AND GraciousPsalm 113

Just AND Justifier Romans 3:23-26


Unapproachable Sovereign AND Approachable Daddy

1 Timothy 6:15–16 ...He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see...


Unapproachable Sovereign AND Approachable Daddy

Romans 8:15–16 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God


Terrifyingly GloriousAND Tenderly Loving

Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.



Revelation 21:3–4 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them...



Revelation 21:3–4 ...and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”


Great AND GraciousJust AND JustifierUnapproachable Sovereign

AND Approachable DaddyTerrifyingly Glorious

AND Tenderly Loving


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Grateful Praise Psalm 113. Hallelujah (v1) verb ‘halal’ + name ‘YH’