As we spend some time exegeting Psalm 95 today, we will utilize the inductive study method to extract the truth from God’s Word. Remember, the inductive method includes observation, interpretation and application. Or we could put it another way: After we pray first—asking God to open our eyes to see the wonderful things He has for us in His Word—then we ask three very important questions: 1) What does the Bible say? 2) What does the Bible mean? And 3) how does God want me to apply His truth? If you noticed, there is no attribution in the title of this psalm. That means we are uncertain as to who wrote it and when it was written. Dr. Warren Wiersbe writes:

The annual Feast of Tabernacles was a joyful event as the people looked back on their ancestors’ wilderness wanderings, looked around at the bountiful harvest, and looked up to give thanks to the Lord (Lev. 23:33-44). It has been conjectured that this psalm was written for this feast after the exiles returned to Judah from Babylon.

If this conjecture is right, this psalm was one of the later psalms written, placing its writing at about a thousand years after the events it references. And here we are, twenty-five hundred years later, and we’re still talking about it. Why are we still talking about it today? In Romans 15:4, the apostle writes: “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” So today, we will consider the four main truths from this passage that have been given to us for our instruction and encouragement.