Come To And Go Tell - Pastor Greg Jones

Mar 08, 2026

Devotional

Day 1: The Divine Invitation to Come and Worship

The call to come is a divine invitation from God Himself. It is an appeal to enter His presence with hearts full of gratitude and voices ready to praise. This summons is not based on our worthiness but on His greatness and His desire for relationship. We are invited to sing, to make a joyful noise, and to bow before the Rock of our salvation. This is the foundational call of the Kingdom. [01:13]

Oh come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalm 95:1-2 (KJV)

Reflection: What distractions or burdens are you carrying that make it difficult to wholeheartedly accept God's invitation to "come" into His presence with thanksgiving and praise?

Day 2: Entering His Gates with a Heart of Thanksgiving

Our first duty in God's presence is to offer thanks. This is not a mere suggestion but a command rooted in who He is. He is the source of every blessing, from the breath in our lungs to the salvation of our souls. A heart of thankfulness is the proper posture for approaching a great God. It shifts our focus from our circumstances to His unchanging character and goodness. [11:52]

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psalm 100:4 (KJV)

Reflection: As you reflect on your story, from where God brought you to where you are now, what specific act of His faithfulness are you most thankful for today?

Day 3: Recognizing the Absolute Greatness of Our God

God's greatness is beyond measure and without rival. He is the Creator and owner of all things, from the deepest seas to the highest mountains. There is no power, no entity, and no circumstance that can compare to His majesty and authority. Understanding His supreme greatness puts every challenge and fear in its proper perspective, under His sovereign control. [16:00]

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalm 95:3-5 (KJV)

Reflection: When you consider a current challenge that feels overwhelming, how does the truth that "the sea is his, and he made it" change your perspective on His ability to handle it?

Day 4: Heeding His Voice in the Midst of Many Others

Countless voices compete for our attention, each with its own agenda. Yet, there is one voice that matters above all others: the voice of our Shepherd. He calls us to Himself, not to burden us, but to guide us into His rest and His ways. The warning is clear: we must not harden our hearts but actively choose to listen and respond to His call today. [26:00]

Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.
Psalm 95:7b-8 (KJV)

Reflection: Among the many voices vying for your time and energy—from work to media to personal ambitions—what is one practical step you can take to better prioritize listening for God's voice this week?

Day 5: The Call to Move from Coming to Going

The Christian life involves both a "come" and a "go." We are called to come to Him for worship, rest, and salvation. But we are also commanded to go into the world to tell others, to teach, and to harvest. It is a movement from a "me" mentality to a mission mindset. Obedience means responding to both sides of His call with a willing heart. [35:24]

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV)

Reflection: Where is one place in your everyday life—your neighborhood, workplace, or family—where God might be prompting you to "go and tell" about His goodness?

Sermon Summary

Psalm 95 issues a bold, simple summons: come, worship, and submit. The Psalm opens with an urgent call to sing and make a joyful noise to the rock of salvation, inviting immediate approach to God with thanksgiving. That call contains layers—an invitation to rest for the weary, a summons to repentance, and a communal pull toward worship in spirit and truth. The text stresses the must of thanksgiving when entering God’s presence: gratitude stands as the right posture before greatness.

The passage then asserts divine sovereignty in concrete terms. God owns the sea, formed the dry land, and holds the deep places of the earth; creation belongs to the Creator. That ownership reframes storms, trials, and seasons of feeling lost: even when surrounded by overwhelming waters, the claim remains that the storm and its elements answer to God’s authority. Hearing that truth reorients fear into trust and trembling into worship.

A sharp pastoral warning runs through the reading: hardening the heart during divine leading provokes grief and exclusion from rest. The wilderness rebellion of Israel offers a cautionary example—refusal to repent and stubborn insistence on one’s own way frustrate God’s promises. The call to come therefore pairs inseparably with a call to listen; hearing God’s voice demands obedient response.

The summons also includes movement outward: coming to God must lead to going for God. Worship that stays inward and self-focused misses the mandate to tell, teach, baptize, and harvest. The text insists on both dimensions—come and go—because true worship yields mission. Finally, the text presses for attention that cuts through agendas and distractions. Pure devotion requires submitted wills, open ears, and readiness to have personal plans interrupted by sovereign direction. The living word calls for thanksgiving, submission, obedience, and missional witness in a world that needs a visible, obedient people of God.

Key Takeaways

1. Answer the call to come The invitation to “come” reaches the weary with promises of rest and renewed sight. Coming requires entering God’s presence expectantly, allowing the current of God’s life to reveal what the eyes alone cannot see. Obedient arrival opens access to revelation that reframes struggle into provision and purpose. [07:08]
2. Worship with thanksgiving always Entering God’s gates with thanksgiving becomes the defining posture of true worship, not mere ritual or duty. Gratitude recognizes divine sovereignty and cultivates humility, displacing grumbling that hardens hearts. Regular thanksgiving trains the soul to remember God’s prior mercies when fresh trials arrive. [11:03]
3. Remember God owns all creation The claim that the sea and earth belong to God turns chaos into subject matter for trust. Sovereignty over the visible world undermines despair when circumstances feel boundless and uncontrollable. Meditation on divine ownership reorients fear toward worship and confidence in providence. [17:27]
4. Hear and obey God’s voice Hearing God functions as both invitation and warning; refusal to listen leads to spiritual stagnation and missed rest. Active listening requires humility, quick repentance, and willingness to realign plans under God’s word. Obedience keeps covenantal promises living and prevents the hardening that severs blessing. [25:24]
5. Go out and tell others Coming to God must lead to going for God; inward devotion without outward witness betrays the call. Mission flows from encounter: worship that does not move toward the lost lacks the fullness of its purpose. Courageous obedience to go extends grace into neighborhoods and hearts beyond the gathered assembly. [35:24]

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[00:00] - Welcome
[00:47] - Reading Psalm 95
[03:05] - Opening Prayer and Expectation
[05:54] - The Call to Come and See
[11:03] - Enter with Thanksgiving
[17:27] - God’s Sovereignty Over Creation
[25:24] - Hear the Voice; A Stern Warning
[35:24] - The Call to Go and Tell
[39:15] - Remove Distractions; Obey the Call

Bible Study Guide

Based on the sermon summary and transcript provided, here is a Bible study discussion guide.

Bible Reading
Psalm 95 (KJV)
1 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Matthew 11:28 (KJV)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV)
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Observation questions

According to Psalm 95:1-2, what are the specific actions and attitudes we are called to have as we approach God?
What does the Psalmist declare about God's ownership and power in verses 3-5? List the specific things mentioned.
What warning is given in verses 7-8, and what historical example from verse 9 is used to illustrate the consequence of ignoring this warning?
What two distinct calls—one to "come" and one to "go"—were highlighted as the main theme of the message? [02:40]

Interpretation questions

The call to "come" is described as a "divine invitation from God" that includes a call to repent and a call to rest. [05:24] How do repentance and rest work together when someone answers God's invitation to come to Him?
The message emphasized that entering God's presence with thanksgiving is a "commandment" and our "first duty to God." [11:03] [14:46] Why is thanksgiving so fundamentally important as a posture for worship, rather than just a feeling we have?
The warning against hardening one's heart is tied to the idea that "God often calls to us in the midst of our problems and our issues and our trials." [08:01] Why might a person be more prone to harden their heart during a difficult season rather than turn toward God's voice?
The message stated that "worship that stays inward and self-focused misses the mandate." If the ultimate purpose of "coming" is to fuel "going," what does this reveal about the nature of true worship?

Application questions

The easiest thing is to come to Him, but the hardest thing is to go tell. [35:40] What makes it so difficult to obey the command to "go and tell" others, and what is one practical step you can take this week to overcome that difficulty?
There are so many voices vying for our attention. Everybody's got an agenda. [26:17] What specific "agendas" or distractions most often compete for your attention and make it hard to hear God's voice? What would it look like to "dispatch those things" out of your life? [39:53]
Even in the midst of troubles and trials, it belongs to God. It's all His. [24:05] When you are in a season that feels like being lost at sea with "nothing but water around you," [21:43] how can you actively remind yourself of God's sovereignty over that very situation? What truth from Psalm 95 can you hold onto?
Hearing God functions as both an invitation and a warning. What is one area of your life where you feel God is inviting you to come closer to Him, and what is one area where He might be warning you against a hardened heart?
God's call isn't just for us to be saved but to reach out there. [34:58] Who is one person in your life—a neighbor, coworker, or family member—that God is placing on your heart to "go tell"? How can you begin to pray for an opportunity to share with them?

Sermon Clips

58s

#GodIsSupreme

“We have to come to him. But once we come to him, he's gonna tell us to go. Amen. The hardest thing for us to do is to go tell. It's hard. I know it is. It's easy to come to him. It's easy to hear that. Come here. Just hear my dad say that, come here. I can do that. There's both sides to the call both sides to the call. I'm telling us now, in these last days, god is calling us to hear his voice more than ever before. Amen. Should be easy to worship.”

49s

#GiveGodThanks

“It it it it it drives me crazy when our when the world starts thinking that they they they own something when really nobody owns anything. It's all his. The earth is his and the fullness thereof. Now, I never I'd read this verse a million times probably but it never stuck in my brain because I'm my own I'm always thinking about the earth is his and the fullness thereof but verse five says, the sea is his. And he made it. It adds that to it. The sea is his and he made it. Amen. And and it says, and his hands formed the dry land.”

33s

#HumbleToGod

“You know, here here's the reason why. This this is not just this is not just a commandment to do something that we shouldn't already be doing anyway. It should be in your heart to give god thanks. There's not a person in this room he hadn't blessed. Matter of fact, I'll take it a step further. There's not a person in this room, and and this is rocket science right here, that he didn't wake up this morning and give you breath to breathe.”

33s

#FocusOnGod

“Can I tell us there's so many parts I could be preaching in through all of this? Amen. There's gotta be there's gotta be something on the inside of his people that wants to worship and love and adore and magnify. Amen. But it goes deeper than that. There's gotta be something in us that wants to submit our way to his way and kneel down before him and and realize that we are nothing but he is everything. Be like John and say, I must decrease, but he must increase.”

36s

#BeObedient

“There's so many voices vying for our attention. So many voices vying for for us to come to them. Everybody's got an agenda. Everybody's got an agenda. I'm not going to talk about em but everybody's got one. I can name stuff. I could name stuff. I I have been I have been in enough committee meetings to know that that everybody has an agenda.”

47s

#ItsAllHis

“I've I've got one. I number one, I've got a mandate from god to win the world. Number two, I got a mandate from god to to to to feed the sheep. Amen. It's a constant thing, and and so we have this agenda, and everybody's vying for our attention. But can I tell you, there is no greater attention that you can put other than what's belongs to god? You gotta put your attention on the king of kings and the lord of lords and the one who owns the seeds and the one who owns the earth and the one who owns the fullness thereof. We gotta put our attention on him and realize he's in charge of it all. Amen.”

31s

#JesusIsWithYou

“Lord, I'm I want to be what you want me to be. I want to desire the things that you desire, god. I want to do what you want me to do, god. I want to be obedient to that word more than I ever have been before. Lord, I feel that call in this room right now. There's some that are hesitant in this room to be obedient to what you're calling them to, lord. Lord, I pray that your spirit would push a little bit today.”

37s

#ThankfulInHisPresence

“We've all been there. We've all had it happen in our lives to where it just seem like, man, I can't do anything that seems right. I can't get there. I can't get over that hump. Come on, somebody. I can't get to that place that I'm looking for, but I'm gonna tell you, even in the midst of troubles and trials, it belongs to God. Come on, somebody. It's all His. ”

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Come To And Go Tell - Pastor Greg Jones

Devotional

Day 1: The Divine Invitation to Come and Worship

Day 2: Entering His Gates with a Heart of Thanksgiving

Day 3: Recognizing the Absolute Greatness of Our God

Day 4: Heeding His Voice in the Midst of Many Others

Day 5: The Call to Move from Coming to Going

Sermon Summary

Key Takeaways

Youtube Chapters

Bible Study Guide

Sermon Clips

Come To And Go Tell - Pastor Greg Jones

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