This series explores selected Psalms, starting with an introduction to the book of Psalms and its theological significance. It focuses primarily on Psalms 1, 2, 37, and 49, while also touching on imprecatory elements found in these and other Psalms. The series aims to help listeners understand the Psalms' relevance for Christian life and worship today.
Jim Osman continues his exploration of Psalm 145, focusing on the themes of God's goodness, grace, and mercy. He emphasizes that God's goodness is not just a moral quality but encompasses practical and beneficial aspects. Using the example of Exodus 34:6-7, which describes God's compassionate and gracious nature, Jim underscores that God's goodness is a demonstration of his righteousness. He explains that God's patience and kindness are not contradictory to his justice, but rather demonstrate his goodness. Jim also highlights the universal scope of God's goodness, noting that even the wicked experience his undeserved kindness. He concludes by encouraging the congregation to praise God for his abundant goodness, both in this life and in the future, as they will experience it fully in eternity. The episode concludes with a call to prayer, inviting the congregation to give thanks to God for his abundant grace and goodness.
27 Sept 2026
Yahweh's Unsearchable Goodness (Psalm 145:7-10)
Jim Osman continues his exposition of Psalm 145 by turning from God's greatness to His goodness, and he starts by defining terms. What does it actually mean to call God good, given how loosely English uses that word for everything from pizza to a football game? Osman works through the Hebrew range of the term before landing on a fuller definition: God is the perfect sum, source, and standard of all that is wholesome, virtuous, beneficial, and beautiful, a goodness that is entirely underived and infinite.
From there he walks through the three aspects of that goodness David lays out in verses 7 through 9. In verse 7, God's goodness is abundant in measure, pouring forth in a way David describes as continual and uncontrollable, like a bubbling spring. In verse 8, His goodness is gracious in character, and Osman traces this verse straight back to God's self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34, tying David's language to one of the most quoted descriptions of God in the entire Old Testament. In verse 9, that goodness is universal in scope, extending even to the wicked, though Osman is careful to distinguish, quoting J.I. Packer, that God is good to all men in some ways and to some men in all ways.
The message closes by confronting a hard question directly: how God's judgment of sinners fits with His goodness rather than contradicting it, and why believers will spend eternity praising Him for both.
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13 Sept 2026
Three Ways to Praise Unsearchable Greatness (Psalm 145:3-6)
Jim Osman continues in Psalm 145 with a picture of a God whose greatness cannot be searched out, known truly but never exhaustively, in any single attribute. He grounds that idea in Grudem's point that believers will never fully understand even one thing about God, not just God as a whole, and shows why that calls for a lifetime of praise rather than a passing thought.
From there Osman turns to verses 4 through 6 and three concrete ways David describes for praising an unsearchably great God. The first is teaching the next generation to love and praise Him, which Osman argues is the calling of fathers specifically, not something to hand off to Sunday school teachers or Christian schools. The second is personally meditating on God's word and works until His splendor becomes genuinely attractive to the heart, not just known in the head. The third is warning others of God's fearsome judgments, from the flood to Sodom and Gomorrah to the final judgment, as a necessary part of presenting the gospel honestly.
Osman challenges listeners to examine whether their own worship is shaped by daily meditation on God or whether it only shows up once a week, and he calls parents to make the praise of God the defining rhythm of their home.
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