Psalm 145: God Is All
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Psalm 145 offers a wonderful picture of God's mercy, love, and compassion toward His people. Today, W. Robert Godfrey looks closely at this psalm and its celebration of the Lord's goodness.
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W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.
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| 0:00.0 | In Psalm 145, we read, The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast |
| 0:07.7 | love. |
| 0:08.7 | This is what the Lord revealed to Moses. |
| 0:11.9 | This is what is celebrated throughout the Old Testament. |
| 0:14.6 | It's celebrated in the Psalter over and over again and really brings us to the heart |
| 0:19.8 | of biblical religion. That for his own, the Lord is gracious and really brings us to the heart of biblical religion, that for his |
| 0:22.1 | own, the Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. |
| 0:28.1 | What a wonderful picture of God's character. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind on this Friday. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:40.3 | Yesterday and today we're learning to love the Psalms with the help of Ligonier's chairman, W. Robert Godfrey. |
| 0:47.3 | Throughout the Psalms we see lament, sorrow, fear, but also comfort, praise, and hope. To this point, we've really only had a taste of |
| 0:58.2 | this series, so I do encourage you to take advantage of today's special resource offer. |
| 1:03.5 | When you make a donation in support of renewing your mind at renewingermine.org before |
| 1:08.4 | midnight tonight, both the series and the hardcover companion book |
| 1:12.6 | will be yours as our way of saying thank you for your generosity. Well, today Dr. Godfrey |
| 1:18.4 | takes us to the final portion of the Psalter and shows us how the entire book has been leading |
| 1:23.7 | to this crescendo of praise. |
| 1:35.8 | We come now to the last Psalm in book five of the Psalter, Psalm 145. |
| 1:39.6 | I promised you last time I explained how that can be. |
| 1:49.1 | My theory, and it's just my theory of how the book is composed, is that we have this recapitulation of the history of Israel in book five, and then we come to the last five Psalms of the |
| 1:56.2 | Psalter, each of which begins, each Psalm begins with praise the Lord and ends with praise the Lord. |
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