testimony, encouragement of others, and service to what he declares about himself. This corporate dialogue in which we as God’s people respond to God’s revelation is the sacred rhythm of covenant worship that begins with the call to worship. God reveals himself in Psalm 100: ‘Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who made us …’ (v. 3). This revelation of God as Lord and Creator immediately leads the Psalmist to exhortations for further exaltation: ‘Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts
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