Psalm 145
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PRAISING GOD’S GREATNESS
A hymn of David.
1 I exalt you, my God the King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
2 I will bless you every day;
I will praise your name forever and ever.
3 The Lord is great and is highly praised;
his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation will declare your works to the next
and will proclaim your mighty acts.
5 I will speak of your splendor and glorious majesty
and your wondrous works.
6 They will proclaim the power of your awe-inspiring acts,
and I will declare your greatness.,
7 They will give a testimony of your great goodness
and will joyfully sing of your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.
9 The Lord is good to everyone;
his compassion rests on all he has made.
10 All you have made will thank you, Lord;
the faithful will bless you.
11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom
and will declare your might,
12 informing all people of your mighty acts
and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;
your rule is for all generations.
The Lord is faithful in all his words
and gracious in all his actions.,
14 The Lord helps all who fall;
he raises up all who are oppressed.,
15 All eyes look to you,
and you give them their food at the proper time.
16 You open your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all his acts.
18 The Lord is near all who call out to him,
all who call out to him with integrity.
19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry for help and saves them.
20 The Lord guards all those who love him,
but he destroys all the wicked.
21 My mouth will declare the Lord’s praise;
let every living thing
bless his holy name forever and ever.
Intro
Intro
Intro to Psalms
What are they?
Songs — Israel’s song book
Songs — Israel’s song book
Collection written at different times
Who wrote them?
Many authors
Attributed to David (75), Asaph, Moses, Sons of Korah, others.
What are they good for?
Worship (as we worship in song/reading)
Prayer
Expression
Express emotions better than any other book
What is an emotion?
A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
Natural — by design, everyone has them
Instinctive — Subconscious
State of Mind — Feelings are thoughts you don’t think consciously (subconscious)…
In many ways, beliefs are more like emotions than thoughts.
“Our present beliefs are governed by past experiences that are linked to unconscious emotional memories.” ~ Mary C. Lamia Ph.D. (Psychologist)
Emotions are intuited from
circumstances (ex. fear, running from a bear)
mood (ex. chemicals in the body, hangry)
relationship with others (ex. how you talk to your boss versus the guy behind the counter at the gas station)
If emotions are a natural part of being human, then we want to learn to put words to our emotions and I think the Psalmists give us the best model for how to do that.
In , the Psalmist…
is joyful — EXP: David is hopeful that his joy will overflow to future generations
The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all his acts.
They will give a testimony of your great goodness and will joyfully sing of your righteousness.
loves — EXP
The Lord guards all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.
The question is, Why does the Psalmist love? And why is the Psalmist joyful?
What circumstances or relationships have caused the Psalmist to love and to be joyful?
Today we are going to look at three reasons that the Psalmist is joyful so that we can learn to express joy like he does.
BODY
BODY
BODY
BODY
The Unsearchable Greatness of God
The Unsearchable Greatness of God
I exalt you, my God the King, and bless your name forever and ever. I will bless you every day; I will praise your name forever and ever. The Lord is great and is highly praised; his greatness is unsearchable.
The Psalmist is joyful and loves God because,
He is great
His greatness is unsearchable
I exalt you, my God the King, and bless your name forever and ever. I will bless you every day; I will praise your name forever and ever. The Lord is great and is highly praised; his greatness is unsearchable.
Interesting: God is great motif
In general, in writing, you want to avoid words that are plain like ‘great’ — you use words with color like majestic
Instead of ‘He was a great knight.’ You write, ‘His splendor was beyond that of any other knight.’
In the Hebrew this word ‘great’ is more colorful than in our contemporary English language.
Exceedingly great — beyond all others
“YHWH is great” may be a reference to the gods of the nations
Clarification — How great? — Unsearchable
The LORD is so great that…
Humans are unable to fathom it — (We can taste the greatness of God, cf. the rest of the Psalm)
(read from “What can” to “has made”)
(CSB)
since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.
19 since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.
Paul says that by observing the world around us we can understand:
God’s eternal power
God’s divine nature
We perceive through the creation that has been made.
[Paraphrase story through casting of lots]
Then they said to him, “Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in. What is your business, and where are you from? What is your country, and what people are you from?” He answered them, “I’m a Hebrew. I worship the Lord, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.” Then the men were seized by a great fear and said to him, “What is this you’ve done?” The men knew he was fleeing from the Lord’s presence because he had told them.
Jonah (and the men who followed other gods) tied the worship of YHWH to the creation of the world.
The one who created all things is greater than all things.
What the Psalmist is saying is that (even though the creation tells us that God is supreme over all other so-called gods)
There is more to God than we perceive
We perceive God from the perspective of the earth and what God has created — the human perspective
But God sees from the divine perspective
Romans
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways!
He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding.
How magnificent are your works, Lord, how profound your thoughts!
This wondrous knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
The Psalmist is joyful and loves God because, of His vast unsearchable wisdom, knowledge, and power. Although, we perceive God through what He has made, through the scriptures, and through the Spirit of God, the extent of His eternal power is beyond our understanding.
That means that when life doesn’t go the way we thought it would go, when our plans fail, or when it seems like the Kingdom of this world is conquering over the Kingdom of God, we do well to remember that (), his thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are higher than our ways.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God is still in control. He is still working. And his greatness surpasses that of any.
In the middle of trial, then, we can joyfully pray:
I exalt you, my God the King, and bless your name forever and ever. I will bless you every day; I will praise your name forever and ever. The Lord is great and is highly praised; his greatness is unsearchable.
The first reason the Psalmist is joyful and loves God is the Unsearchable Greatness of God. The second is…
The Compassionate Works of God
The Compassionate Works of God
The Compassionate Works of God
The Compassionate Works of God
The Psalmist finds joy in the works that God performs in this world.
One generation will declare your works to the next and will proclaim your mighty acts. I will speak of your splendor and glorious majesty and your wondrous works. They will proclaim the power of your awe-inspiring acts, and I will declare your greatness. They will give a testimony of your great goodness and will joyfully sing of your righteousness.
The Psalmist is so moved by God’s acts that he says he will declare them to generations that follow Him so that they are not forgotten.
The Psalmist is joyful because,
God’s Acts are mighty
a victory word referring to battles won (What battles has God won in your life?)
cf. exodus, entry into the promised land, conquering of the nations who were present
God’s works are wondrous
speaks to the previous point on unsearchableness
Why does God do what He does when He does? He is wondrous.
God’s works are powerful
and inspire awe
God is good (super good)
Ethical term — Questions…
God is good
Is goodness relative to the individual? (Is David acknowledging God’s intrinsic goodness or is He declaring God good?—because that’s what many do today; we are the standard of Goodness and we judge God.)
Is goodness is objective? — God says it, so it is so.
Overview:
Modern individualism
Immanuel Kant — what benefits society (Inuit eating habits)
Soren Kierkegaard — ethics belong to the individual, but God’s purposes can override human ethics.
You have to make up your mind what is right and wrong — your beliefs, which come from your life experiences and emotional memory, determine your definition of goodness. In this way, goodness is relative.
K is right, however, that God may call us to override our ethical system, to refine it to be in line with His. This comes through the scriptures, through the unction of the Spirit, and through our experiences in the Christian life.
The distinction is important because when we talk to other people, we do well to recognize that they have had very real experiences and they have an emotional memory that has formed their definition of goodness.
They have a refined ethical system wether they realize it or not.
So, when you — for instance — challenge someone’s sin by beating them over the head with, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ you are clearly communicating to them that God is not, in fact, good, based on their ethical system.
What is needed in this situation is to help someone experienced the goodness of God, to invite them to — using the language of the author of Hebrews — taste the goodness of the Lord through His people, the church.
And certainly, to invite them to know Christ—goodness demonstrated through sacrifice, mercy, honesty, forgiveness, provision, healing
So, God is good—supremely good.
Use the verse that says we are saved by Jesus’s works not our own.
But, everyone else thinks they know good for themselves and they need to have their ethics retrained by experience and emotion.
Reminder for us: Although we may not always understand God’s heart behind His law, His standards of morality are truly good.
The Psalmist is joyful because of God’s works. So, I think we ought to look to Jesus.
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The Psalm continues:
Statement of the Lord’s Compassion
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in faithful love. The Lord is good to everyone; his compassion rests on all he has made.
Too much separation between the OT and NT (works vs. grace)
Built into the Law of God for the Israelites was compassion and mercy for the breaking of the law.
He is gracious
He is compassionate
Towards everyone
The Old Covenant was a covenant of grace much like the New Covenant.
He is patient in judgment (slow to anger)
[COMPARE WITH NT TEACHING] To His people, the LORD is…
gracious
His love is faithful
A gift that is not deserved.
Romans
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
compassionate
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also clothed with weakness.
patient (slow to anger)
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
great in faithful love
I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Grace, mercy, compassion are charachter traits of God OT and New.
To All people, the LORD is…
good to everyone
compassionate to everyone
[READ FROM ‘he causes his sun...’]
He is good to everyone
so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
God doesn’t withhold the pleasures and necessities of this world to anyone. He is good to all in this way.
God even offers grace to anyone who will follow Him.
For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
All you have made will thank you, Lord; the faithful will bless you. They will speak of the glory of your kingdom and will declare your might, informing all people of your mighty acts and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Implicit in this statement is the belief that Jesus is Lord and the implication that you will follow Him as Lord.
Psalm 145:
But, everyone means everyone. Salvation is available to any who will follow. Even though everyone will not follow, the Lord is compassionate towards all in this way.
The Psalmist is joyful and loves God because,
The first reason the Psalmist is joyful and loves God is the Unsearchable Greatness of God. The second is the compassionate works of God, specifically His salvation offered to us through the Lord Jesus Christ. And the third reason the Psalmist is joyful and loves God is for…
The Glorious Kingdom of God
The Glorious Kingdom of God
This point is important because…
We know we are saved from sin, God’s wrath, hell, etc.
But, not every Christian is clear on what we are saved to.
The scriptures teach that we are saved to God’s Kingdom. (entire books have been written…)
All you have made will thank you, Lord; the faithful will bless you. They will speak of the glory of your kingdom and will declare your might, informing all people of your mighty acts and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; your rule is for all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words and gracious in all his actions.
The Psalmist is joyful and loves God because,
God’s Kingdom is glorious
Full of glory
In context, authoritative hierarchy — God’s Kingdom far surpasses the power and authority of any Kingdom of this world. It is the supreme Kingdom. (Note hierarchies of Kingdoms in the ancient world vs. today).
God’s Kingdom is full of splendor
Splendor: Brilliance or Brightness
ILL: How was your day at the beach? It was splendid! The clouds lifted and the sun was shining and it was warm and wonderful.
Like the sun shines down on the earth, God’s glory radiates throughout His Kingdom. As a result everything is perfect and wonderful—splendid.
God’s Kingdom is Everlasting
It is forever.
Present now in the church
But, lasts forever in eternity
Conclusion
Conclusion
Psalms Great Is the, and Greatly to Be Praised (Psalm 145)
“Every one who repeats the Tehillah of David thrice a day may be sure that he is a child of the world to come”
This Psalm teaches us to take joy in God and to love God.
And it gives us a language to praise God.
Declaration that God is With His People
Declaration that God is With His People
The Hebrew’s held this Psalm is great esteem.
They named it Tehillah, meaning ‘song of praise.’
In the Hebrew Talmud it says:
Everyone who repeats the Tehillah () of David three times a day may be sure that he is a child of the world to come. (Hebrew Talmud)
The Lord helps all who fall; he raises up all who are oppressed. All eyes look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all his acts. The Lord is near all who call out to him, all who call out to him with integrity. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry for help and saves them. The Lord guards all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.
This Psalm gives us a language for the joy we have in Christ.
It allows us to see the heart of the Psalmist, to understand the joy He found in God.
And it encourages us to praise God as the Psalmist does.
Let’s praise Him now through Prayer.
PRAY
PRAY
(CSB)
PRAISING GOD’S GREATNESS
A hymn of David.
1 I exalt you, my God the King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
2 I will bless you every day;
I will praise your name forever and ever.
3 The Lord is great and is highly praised;
his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation will declare your works to the next
and will proclaim your mighty acts.
5 I will speak of your splendor and glorious majesty
and your wondrous works.
6 They will proclaim the power of your awe-inspiring acts,
and I will declare your greatness.,
7 They will give a testimony of your great goodness
and will joyfully sing of your righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.
9 The Lord is good to everyone;
his compassion rests on all he has made.
10 All you have made will thank you, Lord;
the faithful will bless you.
11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom
and will declare your might,
12 informing all people of your mighty acts
and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;
your rule is for all generations.
The Lord is faithful in all his words
and gracious in all his actions.,
14 The Lord helps all who fall;
he raises up all who are oppressed.,
15 All eyes look to you,
and you give them their food at the proper time.
16 You open your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all his acts.
18 The Lord is near all who call out to him,
all who call out to him with integrity.
19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry for help and saves them.
20 The Lord guards all those who love him,
but he destroys all the wicked.
21 My mouth will declare the Lord’s praise;
let every living thing
bless his holy name forever and ever.