Carcasses in the Wilderness

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming this morning to look together at Psalm 95 with its celebration of worship and warning against the behavior of the wilderness generation. We are doing this because Psalm 95 is a big deal in Hebrews 3-4 — such a big deal that, I think, we need to know what's going on in the Psalm in order to rightly understand the Hebrew writer's argument. Thus, we are going to take a week to look at Psalm 95, which is based in large part on Numbers 13-14 — the account of Israel's unfaithfulness that led Yahweh to swear that the wilderness generation would not enter His rest. What we'll see this morning from Psalm 95 is the truth that worship demands that we listen to the word of God. The Psalm breaks down into two invitations, two calls to worship — both with reasons, and the second one with a warning.