We read today about God’s sovereignty over Dagon, the Philistines’ god,(1 Samuel 5) and how it kept “falling in submission” to the One, True God Almighty. And we also read in Psalm 96:
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
John Piper, in a sermon on Psalm 96, “Declare his Glory Among the Nations”:
…don’t just declare his glory to them, and don’t just summon them to join in ascribing glory to him, but warn them that the reason they must do this is that they are depending on false gods and judgment is coming on all the nations. Verse 5: “All the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” Verse 10: “Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.” Verse 13: “He comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.” (Psalms 96:13).
In other words, when he says, “Sing to the Lord, all the earth,” and, “Declare . . . his marvelous works among all the peoples,” and, “He is to be feared above all gods,” and “Tremble before him, all the earth,” and, “All the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,” he really means all. The God of the Psalms lays claim on the allegiance of every people. All of them—in all their unimaginable diversity of culture and religion.
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