Psalms 92

Psalms 92THEME: Song of praise for the sabbath dayThis psalm bears the inscription: “A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.” It is a song of praise that naturally follows a messianic psalm. It tells of praise and worship and adorationthat’s what the sabbath was given for. However, worship in this psalm is connected with an earthly sanctuary and actually looks forward to the day when, once again, an earthly sanctuary will be established in Jerusalem and God’s redeemed people will worship there. The worship of believers today is a little bit different. The Lord said to the Samaritan woman, “…Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father…. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him” (Joh_4:21, Joh_4:23). Believers today are made into a kingdom of priests unto God, not to serve Him in an earthly sanctuary, but to worship Him in spirit and in truth. The psalm opens on this glorious note:

Psalms 92:1

Do you want to do a good thing today? Do you want to do a good turn? All right, give thanks to the Lord right now wherever you are and sing praises to His name.

Psalms 92:2

You can thank Him in the morning; you can thank Him at night for His lovingkindness and faithfulness. I always thank Him in the morning. I must confess that I sometimes forget to thank Him at night, but I always thank Him early in the morning for a new day and for His lovingkindness that has brought me to a new day. At night, when you go to bed, you can thank Him for his faithfulness in bringing you through the day. I think it is quite an undertaking to bring Vernon McGee through any day. It is wonderful to have a God who will do that!

Psalms 92:6

The New Scofield Reference Bible says, “A stupid man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this.” They do not know about, nor understand, God’s lovingkindness or faithfulness. This is a millennial psalm which looks forward to the future, when the time of worship will once again be on the sabbath day. I don’t worship on the sabbath; I worship on the first day of the week, because my Lord was dead on the sabbath day, but He came back from the dead on the first day of the week.

Psalms 92:8

“Most high” is a millennial name for our God. This psalm is a great millennial psalm, but some verses look back in retrospect to earthly conditions. Man is pictured as brutish. He does not walk uprightly. He does not look up to God. He thinks he does, but he does not. He actually looks down and grovels in the filth of sin. He is a fool. He lacks good sense. He cannot understand because God says, “…[his] foolish heart was darkened” (Rom_1:21). The brutish man denies God, and he lives like a brute. He lives like an animallike a pig. Many people live as though God does not exist. They just eat, and sleep, and rest, and play, and work. That’s itthat’s life for them! But what a beautiful picture we have brought before us here:

Psalms 92:12

The palm tree has been an emblem of victory, and the cedar tree denotes strength and seriousness. This is a picture of the righteous who are walking in fellowship with God even today.