Thanks to the Lord!
131 year aniversary at Kings Mills Baptist Church. Praise to God for His provision and preservation.
Introduction
Celebrate God’s Perfection. (v.1-6)
Great Praise for ever because He is God (v. 1-3)
David does not so much tell what he would do himself, as stir up and urge all others to this religious service of offering to God the praises due to his name. The design with which he declares God to be beneficent to the children of men is, to induce them to cultivate a pious gratitude.
This is made still more manifest in the verse which follows, where, in speaking of the greatness of God as unimmeasurable, he intimates that we only praise God aright when we are filled and overwhelmed with an ecstatic admiration of the immensity of his power. This admiration will form the fountain from which our just praises of him will proceed, according to the measure of our capacity.
Declaring God is praise to God (v. 4-7)
Here he insists upon the general truth, that all men were made and are preserved in life for this end, that they may devote themselves to the praise of God. And there is an implied contrast between the eternal name of God, and that immortality of renown which great men seem to acquire by their exploits. Human excellencies are eulogized in histories; with God it stands differently, for there is not a day in which he does not renew remembrance of his works, and cherish it by some present effect, so as indelibly to preserve it alive upon our minds.
Celebrate His provision and protection (v. 7-16)
Gushing Praise coming out in singing (v. 7)
As the verb נבע, nabang, means properly to gush out, some suppose, that, as applied to speech, it means not simply speaking, but an overflowing utterance, like water rushing from a fountain, and the verb ירננו, yerannenu, in the close of the verse, answers to this, meaning to shout, or sing aloud.
The Lord is good to all!
The Lord is good to all!
The truth here stated is of wider application than the former, for the declaration of David is to the effect, that not only does God, with fatherly indulgence and clemency, forgive sin, but is good to all without discrimination, as he makes his sun to rise upon the good and upon the wicked. (Matt. 5:45.) Forgiveness of sin is a treasure from which the wicked are excluded, but their sin and depravity does not prevent God from showering down his goodness upon them, which they appropriate without being at all sensible of it.
The works of God declare His majesty.
Care fo His people (v. 14-16)
The Lord preserves and protects.
Communication of His Truth (v. 17-21)
Close in proximity, close in powerlessness (v. 17-18).
145:17–21. David extolled the LORD for being righteous and loving. (On all He has made; cf. vv. 9–10, 13.) Therefore God answers the prayers of the needy—those who fear Him and love Him—when they call to Him. Therefore all should praise His … name (v. 21; cf. v. 1). Once again God’s greatness and grace are reasons for praise.