Psalms 100:5

For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. FOR THE LORD IS GOOD - as is shown by the salvation which He has imparted to His people, and in them at the same time to the whole world (Hengstenberg) (; ; ). HIS MERCY ... AND HIS TRUTH (ENDURETH) TO ALL GENERATIONS - (Isaiah 54:8). These are two features of His goodness....

Verse Psalms 100:5. _FOR THE LORD_ IS _GOOD_] GOODNESS, the perfect, eternal opposition to all _badness_ and _evil_, is essential to God. _Mercy_ and _compassion_ are modifications of his _goodness_; and as his _nature_ is _eternal_, so his _mercy_, springing from his _goodness_, must be _everlasting_. And as TRUTH is an essential characteristic of an infinitely intelligent and perfect nature; therefore _God's_ _truth_ must endure _from generation to generation_. Whatsoever he has _promised_ must be fulfilled, through all the successive generations of men, as long as sun and moon shall last. As this is a very important Psalm, and has long made a part of our _public worship_, I shall lay it before the reader in the oldest vernacular Versions I have hitherto met with, - the A

FOR THE LORD IS GOOD - For good is Yahweh. That is, He is not a being of mere “power;” he is not merely the Creator; but he is benevolent, and is, therefore, worthy of universal praise. In the former verses, his claim to adoration is founded on the fact that he is the “Creator,” and has, as such, a right to our service; in this verse, the claim is asserted on account of his moral character: (1) his benevolence; (2) his mercy; (3) his truth; (a) the fact that he is a God of truth; and (b) the fact that his truth endures, or that in all generations he shows himself to be faithful to his promises. The first of these is his “benevolence:” “The Lord is good.” As such, assuredly, God is wo

EXPOSITION THE hundredth psalm has for its title, "A Psalm of praise," or "of thanksgiving," and to this description it well answers. There is not a single mournful note in the composition. God is praised from the beginning to the end, and all the earth is called upon to join in blessing and thanking him. It has been suggested that it was probably written to be chanted by a festive procession as it approached and entered the temple (see Psalms 100:4). The whole runs on without any break or division. PSALMS 100:1 MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD (comp. Psalms 95:1,...

FOR THE LORD IS GOOD,.... Both in a providential way, and in a way of grace, and does good; he is the good Shepherd, that has laid down his life for the sheep; and the good Samaritan, that pours in the wine and oil of his love and grace, and his precious blood, to the healing of the wounds made by sin: while he was on earth, he went about doing good to the bodies and souls of men; and he continues to do good unto them, and therefore should be praised, served, and worshipped: HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING; or "his grace" e; there is always a sufficiency of it for his people; and his lovingkindness, which may be also here meant, is always the same; having loved his own which were in the world, he loves them to the end, John 13:1 AND HIS TRUTH ENDURETH TO ALL GENERATIONS; or his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, and performing his engagements; he was faithful

May the Spirit of God, by whose inspiration David penned these Psalms, bless them to us as we read them! This is entitled «a Psalm of Praise.» Note here that this is the only Psalm which bears that title; there are others which have titles very much like it, but this one is singled out from all the rest to be, in a very special sense, «a Psalm of Praise.» Martin Luther was very fond of it, and it has even been said that he composed the tune which are have just sung, and which is commonly called «the Old Hundredth»; though others attribute it to a German named Franc. Psalms 100:1. _Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands._ Do you notice the missionary spirit here? The Jews looked upon God as the God of Israel, and they had but very faint desires for the conversion of other nations; but the Holy Ghost speaks more by David than David himself may have known: Make

Psalms 100 Nothing but Praise It is Israel's voice in praise which we hear in this brief Psalm, which so fittingly concludes this series of great millennial Psalms. They exhort that all the earth should make a joyful noise unto the Lord, to serve Him and come before Him with singing. The third verse tells us that they are the speakers. All are to enter His gates with thanksgiving and come into His courts with praise. How often is this Psalm used in a spiritualized way, making the gates and the courts some church building. But we worship in spirit and in truth and not in an earthly house. The gates and courts have reference to that future temple, which will be a house of prayer for all nations....

C. A PROCESSIONAL HYMN (see Psalms 100:4). The Ps. invites the Israelites to be joyful, declares Yahweh is the only God and the Maker of all, and that He is specially the God of Israel. PSALMS 100:2. SERVE: offer sacrifice to (see Isaiah 19:21; Isaiah 19:23). Psalms 100:3. we are his: this suits the context better, but He hath made us, _i.e._ made us what we are, viz. the people of redemption, is also a possible reading....

GOOD. Compare Psalms 95:3, "great". MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....

DISCOURSE: 666 GENTILES CALLED TO GLORIFY GOD Psalms 100:1. _Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 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. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations._ IN discoursing upon short and insulated passages, we have scope for discussion upon whatever topic may come before us; but, in taking a whole psalm for our subject, we can do little more than mark the _spirit_ of it, together with its _general import_. In truth, the psalm before us, which is entitled “A psalm of praise,” requires no particular discussi