Welcome to Gospel and Life. The Psalms can be extremely helpful in showing us how we can practically and authentically experience God in our lives.

Today on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller explains how the Psalms can help us grow in our desire for God and deepen our experience of God.

This scripture this morning is from Psalm 111. Praise the Lord. I will extol the Lord with all my heart in the counsel of the upright and in the assembly.

Great are the works of the Lord. They are pondered by all who delight in them. Glorious and majestic are his deeds and his righteousness endures forever.

He has caused his wonders to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and compassionate. He provides food for those who fear him. He remembers his covenant forever.

He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations. The works of his hands are faithful and just. All his precepts are trustworthy.

They are established forever and ever in acted in faithfulness and uprightness. He provided redemption for his people. He ordained his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. This is the word of the Lord.

During the summer we have been looking at various Psalms. This one at first glance seems to be a traditional generic recitation of the great things God has done for his people Israel.

There is more to it than meets the eye. If you are reading through the book of Psalms and you should, you will quickly notice that Psalm 111 and 112, which we have not read, look a lot alike. Not only are they both 10 verses each, but there are remarkable links between the two.

Psalm 111 describes God, the great God, Psalm 112 describes a great life, a great human beings, a great flourishing happy life.

The links between the two are unmistakable. Verse 3 says, as you can read right here, his righteousness and dearest forever. Verse 3 if Psalm 112 says they are talking about Godly people, their righteousness and dearest forever.

Verse 11, part of me 8 and 9 talks about God's precepts being established forever is the word that means unshakable.

If you go over to verse 8 and 9 in Psalm 111, we will read part of it in a minute. It says that the righteous are unshakable. Godly people are unshakable.

So what is very clearly being laid out, if you read them together is this, if you want the life of Psalm 111, if you want the flourishing, if you want the thriving, if you want the character, look at this in a bit.

Of that life, if you want the life of Psalm 111, you need to know the God of Psalm 111. They are linked. They can't be separated.

To truly know the God of 111, at least the life of 112, to really have the life of 112, you need to know the God of 111.

And therefore, even though we can't read 112 and treat that too, we don't have the time in our space, yet verse 10 is a key link between knowing God and flourishing life.

And so let's notice three things that this Psalm teaches. It talks to us about a powerful involved God, a supernatural-changed life, and the way to connect the power of God to your life.

It talks about a powerful involved God, a supernatural-changed life, and then how to connect the power of God to your life.

This describes what I call a powerful involved God. There's much here. First of all, it talks to us about God's ability to create.

Verse 2 says, greater the works of the Lord, they are pondered by all who delight in them. The Hebrew word there for works is a word that usually refers to the stars and the heavens and the earth and the sky, the things he's created.

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