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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 0:00I discover new things about God.

Steve Webb 0:03What 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 0:51The 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,