Do Not Trust Princes: Praise the LORD Who Helps the Oppressed. Psalm 146 begins with a personal vow: “Praise ye
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Sandor Viczian
Do Not Trust Princes: Praise the LORD Who Helps the Oppressed.
Psalm 146 begins with a personal vow: “Praise ye the LORD,” and a commitment to praise God as long as life remains. It warns against putting ultimate trust in princes or any human help, because man’s breath departs and his plans perish. In contrast, it blesses the one whose help is the God of Jacob—Creator of heaven and earth—who keeps truth forever. The psalm celebrates the LORD’s righteous care: He executes judgment for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry, sets prisoners free, opens the eyes of the blind, raises those bowed down, loves the righteous, preserves strangers, and upholds the fatherless and widow—yet turns the way of the wicked upside down. It ends with a kingdom proclamation: the LORD reigns forever, calling Zion to praise Him through all generations.
Psalms 146:1 – 146:10
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the Lord his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:
8 The Lord openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
9 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…
In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;
In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.
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