Psalms 146-147

Psalm 146

Main Idea: We must hope in God alone because He is our Helper!

Psalm 146

1. We must hope in God alone! (v. 1-5, 10b)

Psalm 146

Man will disappoint because he is...

• Finite (3-4) • Sinful (3)

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:7

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

Psalm 118:8-9

Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose

heart turns away from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:5

1. We must hope in God alone! (v. 1-5, 10b)

Man will disappoint because he is...

• Finite (3-4) • Sinful (3)

God will never disappoint because...

2. He alone is our Helper! (v. 5-10a)

• The Ancient Helper (5a) • Our Helper (5b)

Psalm 146

"Unless Jehovah be his God no man can find

confidence in the fact that he was Jacob's God."

Charles Spurgeon

1. We must hope in God alone! (v. 1-5, 10b)

Man will disappoint because he is...

• Finite (3-4) • Sinful (3)

God will never disappoint because...

2. He alone is our Helper! (v. 5-10a)

• The Ancient Helper (5a) • Our Helper (5b)

What kind of Helper is He?

• Creator (6a) • Covenant Keeper (6b)

Psalm 146

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his

covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:24

1. We must hope in God alone! (v. 1-5, 10b)

Man will disappoint because he is...

• Finite (3-4) • Sinful (3)

God will never disappoint because...

2. He alone is our Helper! (v. 5-10a)

• The Ancient Helper (5a) • Our Helper (5b)

What kind of Helper is He?

• Creator (6a) • Covenant Keeper (6b)

• Rescuer (7-9) • Ruler (10a)

Psalm 146

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever

believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but

in order that the world might be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not

believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the

only Son of God.

John 3:16-18

1. We must hope in God alone! (v. 1-5, 10b)

Man will disappoint because he is...

• Finite (3-4) • Sinful (3)

God will never disappoint because...

2. He alone is our Helper! (v. 5-10a)

• The Ancient Helper (5a) • Our Helper (5b)

What kind of Helper is He?

• Creator (6a) • Covenant Keeper (6b)

• Rescuer (7-9) • Ruler (10a)

Psalm 146

Main Idea: We must hope in God alone because He is our Helper!

How do we hope?

1. Community (1a)

2. Choice (1b)

3. Commitment (2)

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

Psalms 146-147