{"id":1625,"date":"2012-07-11T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-02-09T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T16:43:06","slug":"psalm-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/07\/11\/psalm-146\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 146"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20146&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">Psalm 146<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This marks the beginning of the five \u201cHallelujah Psalms\u201d that close the book of Psalms. Each of these psalms begins and ends with \u201cHallelujah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim here is to present ourselves to God and Him alone. There is no alternative to Him (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%2012.1-2&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">Romans 12.1-2<\/a>). What follows through the rest of this psalm, verses 3-10, are reasons for us to present ourselves to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Since you are called to imitate God, based on this psalm, what would your life look like? If we are called to do this ministry, what part does government play in our life? Is government meant to be only the enforcer of laws (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+13&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">Romans 13<\/a>)? If the church did her part, which means all individual Christians, then the social needs of mankind would be met. What happened?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a92012 Teach for God Ministries. Used by Permission.<\/p>\n<p>Permissions: You are permitted and encouraged to reproduce and distribute this material in any format provided that you do not alter the wording in any way and do not charge a fee beyond the cost of reproduction. For web posting, a link to this document on our website is preferred. Any exceptions to the above must be approved by Teach for God Ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Please include the following statement on any distributed copy: By David R Williamson. \u00a92012 Teach for God Ministries. Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/\">www.teach4god.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 146 This marks the beginning of the five \u201cHallelujah Psalms\u201d that close the book of Psalms. Each of these psalms begins and ends with \u201cHallelujah.\u201d The claim here is to present ourselves to God and Him alone. There is no alternative to Him (Romans 12.1-2). What follows through the rest of this psalm, verses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/07\/11\/psalm-146\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Psalm 146&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[316,318,317],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-help","tag-orphan","tag-strangers","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}