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Today’s Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 146-148 NCV

Executive Producer

John Train

Podcast Introduction

It’s Psalms Wednesday. We’ll read chapters 146-148. We’ll also have a time of prayer. I’m calling this episode “The God Who Can Be Trusted.“

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Summary

Psalm 146 praises God for his trustworthiness. Oh, how I agree with that! I have discovered this to be so very true in my own lifetime. So many times, He has demonstrated that He is always there, always able, always loving, always true. 

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Steve Webb 0:00
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Steve Webb 0:03
What do you know it’s time for another edition of the Lifespring! One Year Bible and it’s coming to you from Riverside, California. I’m your OG Godcaster. Steve Webb podcasting since 2004. It Psalms Wednesday, we’ll read chapters 146 through 148. and we’ll also have a time of prayer. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and I’ll have contact information at the end of today’s show in case you got anything to say to me, before we read, let’s pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for our time together, we pray God that as we read today, you would bless us. Thank you for the Psalms. Lord, they teach us so much about how to praise you, how to worship you, and even how to just talk honestly to you. I pray God that you would teach us today in Jesus name. Amen. Are you ready? Let’s begin.

Steve Webb 0:51
The last five chapters or songs of the book of Psalms beginning with this Psalm 146, are known as the Hallelujah Psalms. So what does hallelujah mean? In the simplest terms, it means praise the Lord. But there’s so much more to it than that. Listen to this from Bible study tools.com. The word itself is a transliteration into Greek of two Hebrew words halaal and Yawei. Hall all means to extol the greatness or excellence of a person, object or event. It’s often translated to praise, but who are you to praise? Yahweh is the covenant name of God, so to say, hallelujah is saying, extol greatness to our covenant keeping God and so the final five psalms are all about that to extol greatness to our covenant keeping God. Well, what does extol mean? From Merriam Webster it means to praise highly to glorify. So are you beginning to understand Hallelujah means to celebrate, to praise to glorify, to lift up the name of God, to rejoice in to offer up to him all the honor he so rightly deserves. James Montgomery Boice, the commentator wrote, In the earlier songs we have studied the writer’s griefs, shames, sins, doubts and fears. We have witnessed the people of God and their defeats and victories, their ups and downs in life. We have encountered rebellious words in struggling faith, all that is behind us. Now, in these final Psalms, every word is a praise.

Steve Webb 2:30
Psalms chapter 146. Praise the Lord, my whole being praise the Lord, I will praise the Lord all my life, I will sing praises to my God as long as I live. Do not put your trust in princes or other people who cannot save you. When people die, they are buried, then all of their plans come to an end, happier those who are helped by the God of Jacob. Their hope is in the Lord their God. He made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in it. He remains loyal forever. He does what is fair for those who have been wronged. He gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free. The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up people who are in trouble. The Lord loves those who do right. The Lord protects the foreigners. He defends the orphans and widows, but he blocks the way of the wicked. The LORD will be king forever. Jerusalem, Your God is everlasting. Praise the Lord.

Steve Webb 3:30
Like the other hallelujah Psalms, Psalm 147, has no title and like the others, this psalm begins and ends with hallelujah or praise the Lord.

Steve Webb 3:43
Psalms chapter 147. Praise the Lord. It is good to sing praises to our God. It is good and pleasant to praise Him. The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem. He brings back the captured Israelites. He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. He counts the stars and names each one. Our Lord is great and very powerful. There is no limit to what he knows. The Lord defends the humble but he throws the wicked to the ground. Sing praises to the Lord, praise our God with harps. He fills the sky with clouds and sends rain to the earth and makes grass grow on the hills. He gives food to cattle and to the little birds that call he is not impressed with the strength of a horse or with human might. The Lord is pleased with those who respect him with those who trust His love. Jerusalem praise the Lord, Jerusalem praise your God. He makes your city gates strong and blesses your children inside. He brings peace to your country and fills you with the finest grain. He gives a command to the earth and it quickly obeys Him. He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. He throws down hail like rocks. No one can stand the cold he sends then he gets is a command and it melts. He sends the breezes and the waters flow he gave his word to Jacob is laws and demands to Israel. He didn’t do this for any other nation. They don’t know his laws, praise the Lord.

Steve Webb 5:15
In Psalm 148, all of creation is called upon to praise God, every creature in all the universe of this song commentator G. Campbell, Morgan wrote, what a wonderful song this is, look over it again. and note the fact that there is no reference in it from first to last to the mercy or pity or compassion of God. But that’s because there is no reference to evil in any form. Hallelujah indeed. and beloved, lest you think that this is only an enthusiastic cry based on emotion, thank again, Revelation 511 through 13 says it will indeed happen. In Revelation five, the apostle John wrote, then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000, and 1000s of 1000s, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength, and honor and glory and blessing. and every creature which is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever.

Steve Webb 6:34
Psalms chapter 148. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the skies. Praise him high above the earth. Praise Him, all you angels. Praise Him all you armies of heaven. Praise Him Sun and Moon, praise him all you shining stars, praise him, highest heavens and you waters above the sky. Let them praise the Lord because they were created by His Command. He put them in place forever and ever. He made a law that will never change. Praise the Lord from the earth, you large sea animals and all the oceans, lightning and hail, snow and mist and stormy winds that obey Him. Mountains, and all hills, fruit trees, and all cedars wild animals at all cattle, crawling animals and birds, kings of the earth and all nations, princes at all rulers of the earth. Young men and women, old people and children. Praise the Lord because He alone is great. He is more wonderful than heaven and earth. God has given his people a king, he should be praised by all who belong to him. He should be praised by the Israelites, the people closest to his heart, praise the Lord.

Steve Webb 7:44
Beloved, Psalm 146 praises God for His trustworthiness and oh how I agree with that. I have discovered this to be so very true in my own lifetime. So many times he’s demonstrated that he is always they’re always able, always loving, and