Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, we'll open our Bibles to Psalm 150 as we wrap up our year-long study in the Psalms.

In this final study, Paul helps us see how Psalm 150 really is the perfect ending to the Bible's hymn book. To hear the entire collection

of these Bible studies, visit paultrip.com slash psalms. Here's Paul Tripp with Psalm 150.

I have just been personally blessed, convicted, helped, guided, left in wonder and all of the body of truth that's in the Psalms. I can remember every Christmas my mom and dad would take us to hear the Messiah, that great

celebration of the person and work of Jesus.

And it culminates with the hallelujah chorus. And the tradition is that no matter where the crowd is,

no matter what concert hall,

when the hallelujah course begins,

the entire audience stands.

And I remember my mom saying,

after you've heard the whole Messiah, there couldn't have been any other thing written than the Hallelujah Chorus.

It's the only way this thing could have ended.

Well, I want to say the same thing about Psalm 150.

It is the best possible ending to this amazing book of the Word of God. I have just been personally blessed, convicted, helped, guided,

left in wonder and all of the body of truth that's in the

Psalms. We're at the end of our journey through the Psalms. What have the Psalms shown us?

We'd have Psalms confront us with our our self-focused self-sufficiency.

We have had psalms that meet us in our discouragement.

We've had psalms remind us that God is still in control.

We have seen psalm after psalm point us to Jesus.

There are psalms about parenting, psalms about temptation, psalms about confession. There are psalms that expose our foolishness and point us to

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