Psalm 145: God Is All
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The closing psalms create a crescendo of praise to which the entire book of Psalms has been leading. Today, W. Robert Godfrey takes a close look at the celebration of God's goodness in Psalm 145.
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| 0:00.0 | In Psalm 145, we read, |
| 0:08.5 | This is what the Lord revealed to Moses. |
| 0:11.2 | This is what is celebrated over and over again throughout the Old Testament. |
| 0:15.0 | It's celebrated in the Psalter over and over again, |
| 0:18.8 | and really brings us to the heart of biblical religion. |
| 0:22.0 | That for his own, the Lord is gracious and merciful, |
| 0:25.3 | slow to anger and abounding instead of fast love. |
| 0:29.0 | What a wonderful picture of God's character. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind on this Thursday. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:41.9 | All week we have been learning to love the Psalms. |
| 0:45.1 | Dr. Robert Gottfried has been guiding us through this biblical song book |
| 0:49.5 | in it we see lament, sorrow, fear, but also comfort, praise and hope. |
| 0:56.5 | Today Dr. Gottfried takes us to the final portion of the Psalter |
| 1:00.0 | and shows us how the entire book has been leading to this crescendo of praise. |
| 1:08.3 | We come now to the last Psalm in book five of the Psalter, Psalm 145. |
| 1:16.0 | I promised you last time I could explain how that can be. |
| 1:19.7 | My theory, and it's just my theory of how the book is composed, |
| 1:25.2 | is that we have this recapitulation of the history of Israel in book five. |
| 1:31.1 | And then we come to the last five Psalms of the Psalter, |
| 1:36.3 | each of which begins, each Psalm begins with praise the Lord |
| 1:42.0 | and ends with praise the Lord. |
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