The work of the God of Jacob The work of Messiah Remarkably the same

1. Praise Finale
psalm 146
The work of the God of Jacob
The job description of Messiah
A song about freeing slaves,
healing the broken hearted
and feeding the hungry
the good news
part 1

2. Jesus entered a synagogue on the Sabbath …
and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah
And when He had opened the book, He found a
place where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor

3. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor
He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind
To set at liberty those who are oppressed
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
Luke 4:16-19

4. A year of Jubilee proclaimed from Leviticus 25
Isaiah 61 fulfilled
and all the themes of Jesus ‘mission statement’
are found in the first of the praise finale songs
Psalm 146
A mission statement of the Messiah

5. The largest category of Psalms
are lament Psalms
but these last 5 in particular are all joy
A joyful praise

6. psalm 146
1
Praise the Lord.
Not a throwaway word like wow! or awesome!
but Hallelujah, a word of honor to God
to start and end each of the phrase finale songs
An inclusio phrase for Psalms 146-150
ending the Psalms
aka Hallelujah!

7. psalm 146
A command to self
and a resolve
Praise the Lord, my soul.
2
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as
I live.

8. psalm 146
Praising wrongly
3
Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
4
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Putting trust wrongly
in celebrities may reduce
one’s trust in God

9. psalm 146
Who is Blessed?
5
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.

10. psalm 146
He is the maker
6
He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
he remains faithful forever.

11. Isaiah 61
The spirit of the Lord God is upon Me
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor
He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted
To proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord

12. psalm 146
He helps the helpless
7
He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
.
He fights for the oppressed
and provides for them

13. 8
the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
.
Even the righteous may be needy
and troubled
no one gave sight to a blind
person till Jesus

14. psalm 146
He helps the helpless
8
the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
.
Even the righteous may be needy
and troubled
no one gave sight to a blind
person till Jesus

15. psalm 146
He sustains the helpless
9
The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
.

16. psalm 146
He does not help the wicked
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
.

17. psalm 146
He is forever
10
The Lord reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.

18. Psalm 146 begins the praise finale
with the work of God which
is also the work of Messiah
This was pointed to by the Year of Jubilee from
Leviticus (inscribed on the Liberty Bell)
and also points to one of the closing chapters of
Isaiah 61
(Marvel even has a super hero named after the
passage in Luke where Jesus reads Isaiah
Luke Cage)

19. The work of the God of Jacob is praised
but reads the same as the job description of Jesus
The God of Jacob delivered from slavery
was faithful and long suffering
care for the widow and orphan
and sought his people, a bride

20. The work of Jesus carries the work of God
to the ends of the earth in the gospel
In his work on the cross delivered from slavery to sin
is faithful and long suffering
makes a people who were not his people
to be his own and his bride
and changes them from the inside out
feeling the deepest needs of the soul
with himself as the treasure

21. psalm 146
ends (as it started)
with a second person plural imperative
10b
Praise the Lord.
A Hallelujah inclusio!