Well I want to turn your attention
this week to another psalm, Psalm 146. Psalm 146. And I want to begin by asking
you a question. Why do you do what you do? Why do you do the things that
you do? It may be because of compulsion. Somebody forces you to do it. Somebody says, unless you do
such and such a thing, such and such another thing isn't going
to happen. You do it because of being compelled to do it.
Or perhaps you do it because of the reward that you will get.
I mean, those of you that go to work, I'm almost certain that
even on the best days when you're really enjoying your job, the
overriding reason you go and do your job is because they reward
you for doing it. You don't just do it for pleasure. You do it for a reward. And you
might do something, especially if you're younger, because all
those around you are doing the same thing. Oh, I want to do
such and such a thing. Why? Because everybody around
me, everybody I know is doing all these things. He's dressing
that way, he's having these gadgets, he's doing these things. Peer
pressure. Or then perhaps there's the guilt
of not doing it. I don't really want to do that,
but oh, I'll feel guilty. People will make me feel guilty
if I don't do it. perhaps you might even do what
you do because of love for the one that you do it for. That's
nice, that's good, that's a good thing. Or how, I tell you, as
a parent, there's nothing quite
like having somebody do something for you because they love you.
Or you do it just because you just plain like doing it. Well, let's turn our attention
to the praise of God. What about the praise of God?
Do you praise God? And why do you praise God? Do
you praise God? We say we come here to praise
the living God. What is it to praise God? What is it? What do we do when
we come together to praise God? Well, think for a moment about
praising people. You know, we praise people, don't
we, all the time. We praise people. We praise musicians. If you go
to a concert and you hear a concert pianist play an absolutely fantastic
concerto, you praise that person because you think, wow. the work
and effort and genius and study and years and years that have
gone into that and there you go and sample thirty minutes
of it and it's what you praise them for what they do or sports
people you praise sports people for what they do for the for
the achievements for the prowess for what they've done for the
preparation you see at the olympic games you see one one event and they win it and
they win the gold medal. But it's not just that, it's
the years of preparation and the hard work getting, you praise
them for it. Or leaders, in certain situations,
it's hard to find leaders that are worth praising, but you praise
leaders. We praise managers when a business
is well run, we praise them. We praise highly skilled people. We praise highly skilled doctors
and nurses who achieve incredible things in some situations. We
praise engineers, we think of the achievements of somebody
like Brunel in the 1800s and the wonderful things that we
can still see that his genius produced and those around him
and people like him. We praise people for what they've
done, for the skill that they've displayed, for the strength that
they've shown, for their power, for their wisdom, for their achievements
and all the things that result from it. We praise people for
those things. Well, so it is with the praise
of God. We praise him for who he is when
we've seen something of who he is. We praise him for the character
that his word displays he has. We praise him for the attributes
that he has of holiness and of justice and of saving grace. We praise him for his wisdom,
the depth of the wisdom of God. We praise him for his accomplishments
in saving a people whom his justice must condemn. He must condemn
sin, and yet he has saved his people. He has accomplished salvation. He hasn't left it open to an
option or a chance. He's saved his people, and he's
made dependable promises. He's utterly reliable. This is
why we praise him. These are some of the reasons
that we praise him. Is that why you're here this
morning? Is that why you're here? Are you here to praise God? And
is that why you're here? Because of who He is? Because
of the magnificent things that you've heard that He has done?
You want to come. You want to praise Him. You want
to celebrate His person and His work in the Lord Jesus Christ.
You want to, I know this sounds trite and inadequate, but you
want to let him know, he knows all things, but you want to let
him know that you worship him. It's worth coming aside from
this world. You want to let him know that
it's worth taking an hour to come and to worship the living
God. You want others. You're not afraid of others knowing
that you consider him worthy of praise. You consider this
God worthy of praise. And all because you want to be
here. You want to be here. You know
when they were bringing things for the temple? You read the
books of Moses and there's all the instructions about bringing
the artifacts for the temple, to make the tabernacle. And God put one restriction on
everything that was brought. He said it must only be brought
willingly. Bring these things, but bring
them willingly. You want to be here to praise
Him. You want to come here to do these things to praise Him.
If you're here because of compulsion, or because of reward, or because
of peer pressure, or of the guilt of not being here, that's not
the right attitude in which to come. It's because you want to
be here. You want to be here. Let's read
this psalm, Psalm 146. Praise ye the Lord! Praise the
Lord, O my soul! While I live, I will praise the
Lord, I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the Son of Man, in whom
there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth. In that very day his thoughts
perish. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein
is, which keepeth truth forever, which executeth judgment for
the oppressed, which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth
the prisoners. The Lord openeth the eyes of
the blind. The Lord raiseth them that are
bowed down. The Lord loveth the righteous.
The Lord preserveth the strangers, he relieveth the fatherless and
the widow, but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. The Lord shall reign forever,
even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord. That's the title of this message.
Praise ye the Lord. Praising God. First of all, who
is it that praises God? Who is it that truly praises
God? Look at verse 1. Praise ye the
Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. It's an exhortation. It's telling
myself, it's saying to my soul, praise the Lord, praise Him.
Telling my soul, which is so earthbound, to look up. to set
my mind on things above, where Christ is, and to cry praise
the Lord, hallelujah is the word in the original, hallelujah,
praise the Lord, to proclaim His worth. And what is it to
proclaim His worth? It's worth-ship, it's worship,
it's to worship Him. This is truly to worship Him,
to proclaim the worth of God. In Revelation they sing, Revelation
chapter 5 and verse 9, they sing, Thou art worthy. Those multitudes
around the throne, they cry, Thou art worthy, for Thou were
slain and has redeemed us to God by Thy blood. Is that a cause
for praise? Yes, it is. But is this a general
calling, this exhortation to praise the Lord? Is it an exhortation
to all men without exception to praise the Lord? Because can
all men without exception praise the Lord? No, look at verse two.
While I live will I praise the Lord. I will sing praises unto
my God while I have any being. It's not. It's a call to those
who live. It's a call to those who have
being. It's a cause to those who have
that life and that being of the Spirit of God within, that only
the Spirit of God gives. John 10 verses 27 and 28, Jesus
says, my sheep hear my voice and they follow me. They won't
listen to a stranger. And he says, I give unto them
eternal life. And it's this gift of life that
comes. And those people that have been
given the gift of life, They're the ones who praise God. God's
people praise Him. Those who are chosen in Christ
from before the foundation of the world, when the Spirit of
God comes and quickens and calls with an irresistible call and
gives them life, these are the ones who praise God. These are
the ones who say, as long as I have that life within me, as
long as I have that life of the Spirit of God within me, I will
praise the Lord. Because you see, if you read
it just thinking about natural life and physical life, how few
do, how few, tiny, tiny number of those alive have any knowledge
of this praising of the Lord and singing praises to God while
I have my being. It's the being of the new man
within, that gift of the Spirit of God that he gives to the elect
of God when the Spirit comes and regenerates them. This is
the Israel of God that truly prays God. These are those who
are taught of God's Spirit to fear Him, to know something of
their sin, to know something of their offense, to hear the
gospel. of His grace, to hear that gospel,
to believe the truth of the gospel of grace. These are the ones
who praise the Lord, O my soul. The natural man in his natural
state, the religious man in his religious state, what we might
call the songs of praise man, if you ever watch that BBC program
which is many, many people's weekly dose of religion, the
songs of praise man cannot praise God. Sons of praise, they don't
know what it is to praise God. They cannot praise God. Why?
Because they do not have the life of God. They do not have
the being. While I have any being, they
don't have that being of the new man within. If you don't
have that, you do not praise God. If there's no spiritual
life there, if there's been no spiritual birth, What did Jesus
say to Nicodemus? You must be born again. You must
be born again. Because without it, you cannot
see the things of the Kingdom of God. You cannot see or know
the Spirit of God. You know nothing of it. They
don't praise Him. They don't praise Him. Is that
really you this morning? Are you like songs of praise,
man? who cannot praise the living God. But those who live spiritually,
those who have a spiritual life within, they praise God. We're the true circumcision,
said Paul to the Philippians. We're the true circumcision.
We worship God in the spirit. We worship God by that being,
that life. I will praise, while I live I
will praise the Lord. I will sing praises while I have
my being. Those with that being, they worship
God in spirit and in truth. They rejoice in Christ Jesus.
They have no confidence in the flesh. They truly worship. How
is it with you this morning? Do you know that you ought to
be praising God? Do you know that? That you ought
to be praising God, we're His creatures, we should be praising
Him. But that you don't, really? What should you do? What should
you do? Call upon Him, says the Word
of God. Call upon Him. Seek Him while He may be found. This is why the scripture gives
these exhortations. Come to Christ, believing. Who
praises God? those he's given spiritual life.
They praise him. As long as they have that being
which is from God, they will praise him. And why do they praise
him? Look at verses 3 and 4, the rationale
for praising God. Put not your trust in princes,
nor in the son of man in whom there is no help. His breath
This is the breath of the natural man, goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth, as we were seeing in 1 Corinthians 15, about us
in our natural state being of the earth, he returneth to his
earth. In that very day his thoughts perish. That's natural man, that's
this creation, that's the best of this world all around us.
Do you praise them? Do you praise it? Why do you
praise God? I saw a news item where somebody
was showing pearls, and there were some very impressive pearls.
But there was one that was absolutely enormous. Talk about the pearl
of greatest price. It was worth so much money. It
was so much. The others looked impressive
until you looked at this one. And then you saw how big and
how great it is. A complete contrast. What the
psalmist is doing here, he's contrasting the very highest
aspiration, the very highest attainment of man and of princes
and of the son of man. But there's no help in them.
There's no eternal help in them. There's only temporal help. There's
only fleeting help in them. But in God, there's eternal help. In God, he is eternal. He is
unchangeable. Put not your trust in princes,
but contrast. Look at our God. Why does it
need to be said? Why does it need to be said?
It's so obvious, isn't it? Because we're so readily We're
so ready to jump to praising mere flesh. We'll look for political
leaders. We've just been having elections
and how people look for political leaders to praise and how, don't
we find, you know, how the hope and the hype is built up and
then three or four years of them being in office goes by and everybody
wants rid of them because every single one of them fails to keep
their promises, whoever they may be. whoever, without exception,
who they be. Everybody's so ready to praise
flesh, even though all the evidence is that flesh isn't worth praising
or trusting or following. All of them, entertainers. They're
all sons of Adam. They're all fallen, corruptible
flesh. They're all sinners without Christ
and without any hope in this world, as they are. They're all
dead in trespasses and sins. Why depend upon them? Because
it says, end of verse 3, there is no help in them. There's no
help in them. They're unable to improve your
eternal state. they're unable to do it. At the
very best, as we read Ecclesiastes chapter 1, and you can read more
of Ecclesiastes, at the very best, it's vanity. His breath
goeth forth, he returneth to his earth. In that very day,
his thoughts perish. That's the state of the vast
majority of people that live. Whatever you think you've thought
or achieved or come to in this world, you're going to die. And
this world will remember you no more. It will remember the
very best things that you've done no more. There are very
few whose achievements leave a mark on history. No, there's
no help in them. They're unable to improve your
eternal state. They're at best vanity, just
like Ecclesiastes says. The best men die and return to
the dust, and their thoughts perish with them. But God is
not so. Our God is not so. He is not
like that. Contrast him. Isaiah 55 verses
8 and 9, God says, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. You know how different? For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. It's not
a... It's such a vast gulf that it
cannot be described, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts. God is infinitely higher and
holier than we are, but the natural man cannot see it. as the testimony
of the Scriptures is. Psalm 50, verse 21. This is the
testimony of God against the natural man. This is what God
says. Thou thoughtest, you thought,
that I was altogether such in one as thyself. You thought that
God was just like a person. How many people think that? But
it's not true. God's thoughts are so much higher.
God's ways are so much higher. So what is the motivation then
for praise? Yes, there's that contrast with
the things of man, but look at verses five to seven. Happy is
he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in
the Lord his God, which made heaven and earth, the sea and
all that therein is, which keepeth truth forever, which executeth
judgment for the oppressed, which giveth food to the hungry. The
Lord looseneth the prisoners If you look back at Psalm 144
and verse 15, the verse there says, happy is that people that
is in such a case, and he's been extolling the blessings and benefits
of the salvation of God, happy is that people that is in such
a case, yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Happy. Happiness is that which, how
would you describe it? It's that which wells up inside,
isn't it? It's a feeling that is inside.
Happiness inside, wells up inside. But it's stimulated by external
things. It's things outside of you that
make you happy, or make you sad. But the feeling of happiness
is internal. And in this world, yes, there's
happiness. But mostly happiness, as one
once said, depends on the hap of life. The things that happen. What happens? Sometimes things
happen and they make us feel happy inside. And other times
things happen and they make us feel sad inside. But verse 5,
eternally happy. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help. eternally happy. This isn't a
fluctuating, fleeting thing, happenstance, but depending on
things that happen. This is dependent on the one
who is unchangeable. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help. Which God? Don't lots of people
say, yes, yes, we've got God for our help. You know, you've
got some extremes of doctrine, but yes, we've got God for our
help. No, this is the God of Jacob. This is the God that Jacob
believed. This is the God of Jacob. This
isn't the idol of the imagination of the fallen man. This is true
God who was revealed to Jacob. It's the God of Jacob. This is
God's covenant name to his people in Christ. Do you believe the
God of Jacob? Jacob was a sinner. His name
means cheat, twister. And yet God made him Israel,
a prince with God. And to be the God of Jacob, this
is God's covenant name in Christ, because he's the God of those
who are sinners by nature. He's the Messiah. This is who
Jacob met. This was Jacob's God. How do
we know God? He who has seen Christ has seen
the Father. In our Lord Jesus Christ, the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God shines in the face
of Jesus Christ. This is the Messiah who fed Jacob
all his life. Happy is he that has the God
of Jacob for his help. Do you have the God of Jacob?
Do you have the Messiah? who fed Jacob unchangeably all
those years ago, and yet is the same today? The Messiah who fed
Jacob all his life? Is this the one who is the Angel
who redeemed Jacob? The Angel, capital A, the Angel,
not just any angel, God's messenger, God's Messiah who redeemed Jacob? Is this the one who came and
wrestled with Jacob in the form of a man? He wrestled with him
all night long? This is the God of Jacob. The
one who came in the form of a man and wrestled with him all night
long. And Jacob wouldn't let him go
until he blessed him. He saw him face to face. This
is the God whom Jacob saw face to face. And as we, by faith,
see that light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ, is that what it is to have the God of Jacob
for your help? You know him. And therefore,
what does that do? There's a happiness inside that
the hap of life cannot alter. Nothing that happens Whether
it be the highest, what the world would call blessing, or yet the
deepest despair of tragedy, nothing can change that settled state
of inner soul happiness. Happy is he that has the God
of Jacob for his help. Is this a cause for praising
God? Of course it is, to those who know it. All of Jacob's spiritual
posterity, the children, as Abraham has that seed which has like
precious faith as Abraham, so Jacob, that we all come with
that same precious faith as he had. And if we have that in him,
we have that same happiness. We have that same happiness.
This is the God of that people whom he has called, whom he has
chosen, his elect, his church. Those who are Israelites indeed,
for they're not all Israel, who are of Israel, just the physical
descendants, but those that have this same faith and this sight.
Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help. He's the
God who helps his people. The God of Jacob for his help.
Think of this. Psalm 46 verse 1 says, God is
our refuge and our strength, a very present help in times
of need. He's the God of Jacob, who is
Christ. Christ is the God of Jacob. He's
that man, Isaiah 32 verse 1, a man shall be as a hiding place
and as a cover from the tempest, from the storm that comes. A
man, the storm of the judgment of God against sin, a man shall
be as that hiding place and that shelter from that storm of judgment
and that is Christ. He is our refuge and our strength,
a very present help. in time of need. Oh, that day
of judgment will be a time of need, but how his people will
shelter under the protection and the refuge that is the Lord
Jesus Christ, the God of Jacob. And he helps his people. Where
does he help them? How does he help them? He helps
his people out of a sad state of sin. Do you know anything
of the state of sin that you're in before a holy God? Do you
know anything of the true misery of your soul if you're outside
of Christ and without God and without hope in this world, and
nothing other than the fear of death facing you? In truth, things
might happen fleetingly, but actually, in truth, you've got
nothing to look forward to other than the fear of death outside
of Christ. You have no hope, but in Him,
oh how He helps us. out of that sad state of sin
and misery and the fear of death. There were those in the Gospels
that came to Christ and cried out for help. The Syrophoenician
woman with her daughter, she came. She wasn't a Jew, she wasn't
an Israelite. She came and she cried, as the
bleeding heart cries, Lord, help me. What could she cry? Nothing. Lord, you must do this because
I... No, Lord, help me. Lord, help me, I'm in desperate
need. There was a man who cried, who
could see certain things, but he knew what a sinner he was,
and how he had such an evil heart of unbelief. And he said, Lord,
help thou mine unbelief. I believe, but help thou mine
unbelief. Cried out to God for help. The
God of Jacob is the help of his people. There was the man of
Macedonia, in the vision that Paul had in the Acts of the Apostles,
and he called out to him, come over and help us, help us with
the gospel of Christ, with the truth of Christ in the gospel
of his grace. So the prayer of the believer
is as it says in Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 16, grace to help
in time of need, grace to help. The God of Jacob for his help
This is the same one that makes his people happy. Happy is he
that hath the God of Jacob for his help. And he also gives them
hope. Look, whose hope is in the Lord his God. Where is that
hope? It's in the Lord his God. Is
this God of Jacob your Lord and your God? Is this Lord Jesus
Christ, your Lord and your God? When the risen Christ appeared
to the disciples and Thomas wasn't there. Thomas said, I will not
believe unless I see and touch the nail prints and the spear
wound in his side. And a week later he appeared
to them and Thomas was there. Come here, Thomas. Come, stretch
out your hands. Feel, touch my hands. Touch where
the nails went. See where the spear went in.
And Thomas' reaction? He falls to his knees at his
feet before this man, this risen Lord Jesus Christ. And what does
he cry? My Lord and my God, my Lord and
my God, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Lord who is
his God. Is this God of Jacob, this Lord
Jesus Christ, is he your Lord and your God? Do you see him?
You'll be happy, you'll be happy, you'll have You'll have praise
welling up inside as you see him and rejoice in him. Do you
see him? You see him with the eye of faith.
And where do you get it? It's the gift of God. It's not
something you can work up yourself. It's not something that you can
will yourself. He must give it. But pray that
he gives you that eye of faith. Happy, happy is he that hath
the God of Jacob for his help. Because he gives you hope, whose
hope is in the Lord his God. And happiness and hope in these
things of God result in praise. Who is Christ? He's the God of
Jacob. Look, verse 6. He's the God of
Jacob, which hath made heaven and earth. the sea and all that
therein is, which keepeth truth forever. This God of Jacob, who
is he? He is Christ. Because Christ, Colossians tells
us, chapter 1 and verse 16, that all things were created by him
and for him. Hebrews chapter 1 and the first
three verses tell us that it's by Christ that God made the worlds. That He upholds all things by
the word of His power. The truth of doctrine is in Him
which keepeth truth forever. Truth. What did he say? Jesus
said this, he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but
by me. The God of Jacob is our Lord
Jesus Christ, which keepeth truth forever. The truth of true gospel
knowledge is in him and him alone. Those who believe they can know
God in their doctrine and their practices and their traditions
know nothing. You must know him in Christ.
that I may know him, said Paul, and be found in him, not having
mine own righteousness, but that which is by faith of Jesus Christ,
to know him, to keep his truth, to know the one who is the way,
the truth, and the life, who is the word, eternally unchanging
truth. Verse seven, which executeth
judgment for the oppressed. He is the one into whose hands
all judgment has been handed. He is the one who is, we're just
doing in the Nedworth choir, we're doing a performance of
trial by jury, you know, the Gilbert and Sullivan thing. And
there's a line they keep saying, he's a very good judge, he's
a very good judge. And of course, it's all just
trivial and a little bit nonsensical and a bit fun poking at the establishment. But you know, God, God is the
judge of all the earth. God is the judge with whom we
have to do, which executeth judgment for the oppressed. He is right. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? There are things that perplex
us, but this is what the eye of faith says. Shall not the
judge of all the earth do that which is right? He gives food
to the hungry. This is the God of Jacob. He
gives food to the hungry. When Jacob's descendants wandered
from Egypt back to Canaan, forty years through the promised land,
he gave them food. Our Lord Jesus Christ gave them
food. He gave them food in the wilderness.
He gave them manna from heaven and quails. when he came as a
man to the earth and he walked the land of Palestine and the
Sea of Galilee and he fed 5,000 and then 4,000. He fed them. He gave food to the hungry. He
looseth the prisoners. And you know those verses that
he said when he preached in the synagogue at Nazareth, this day
in your hearing is the scripture fulfilled. The Lord has anointed
me to preach the gospel, to proclaim truth, to release the prisoners,
to give liberty, he looseth the prisoners. This is our Lord Jesus
Christ, doing things that are right and just. Food, literally
giving those things, feeding five thousand, and literally
giving liberty from the bondage of sin to his people. What's
the root cause? Who has this motivation? Those
that have spiritual life. But look in verses eight and
nine. The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind. The Lord raiseth
them that are bowed down. The Lord loveth the righteous. The Lord preserveth the strangers. He relieveth the fatherless and
the widow. But the way of the wicked he
turneth upside down. This is speaking. of the sovereign,
gracious salvation that God has accomplished. This is speaking
of his Holy Spirit coming and enlightening. He is the one that
opens the eyes of the blind, spiritual blindness, where all,
where that people who lived in darkness, the people who dwelt
in darkness, have seen a great light. Why? Because God, by His
Spirit, has come. And in those who are sinners
and dead and dry bones, He has opened their eyes, the eyes of
the spiritually blind, to give them the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He is the one
that raiseth them that are bowed down. He's given life to those
who are dead in trespasses and sins. He's given those who are
in spiritual darkness blazing spiritual light. He's lifted
them from under a burden, bowed down under a burden of sin. He's
lifted them from under it. He's loved them. Look, the Lord
loveth the righteous. The Lord loveth those who are
self-righteous or righteous in themselves. No, the Lord loves
his people with an everlasting love and makes them righteous
in Christ. This is speaking of sovereign
grace. This is speaking of eternal salvation. Look over at verse
9. The Lord preserveth the strangers. The strangers, the Gentiles.
Those who are not the natural children, the Lord preserveth
the strangers, the Gentiles, the aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel. He preserves them, he calls them,
his salvation is for them too. For God so loved the world of
sinners, the world of his elect sinners. Without distinction
of race, the strangers he preserved, the fatherless He relieveth the
fatherless and the widow, the fatherless. He's given them the
adoption of children, whereby his children cry, Abba, Father. He's married his people. He's
married his people to a true husband, an eternal husband.
He relieveth the widow. He's married his people to that
true husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. Finally, the confidence
of true faith. The confidence. Verse 10. The
Lord shall reign forever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye
the Lord. The eye of God-given faith. You
can't see anything that can change these circumstances. If you have
the faith of the children of God, you know the truth of these
words, you cannot see anything that can change these things.
And what does that give you? That gives you confident hope.
It gives you confident hope in God, who is your God. He's your
God, O Zion. The Lord shall reign forever,
even thy God, O Zion. Are you citizens of Zion? Are
you? I trust we are, in the Lord Jesus
Christ, citizens of Zion. Even thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations, he shall reign for ever. Therefore, what's the conclusion
of the whole psalm? Therefore, final words again,
as it started. Praise ye the Lord. Praise you
the Lord. Does praise well up inside when
you think on these things? This is what true praise is.
Those who don't know anything of the God of Jacob, for their
help, they don't truly praise him. But those who do, that's
what true praise is. To come together, knowing what
he's done, knowing what he has eternally accomplished for his
people. That causes that people to be happy. to be happy, to
know that He is their help in all situations. Therefore, praise
ye the Lord. Amen.