God Promises His Love Saves Us

Psalms 146:7-9 He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free, 8 the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous. 9 The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
 
THIS psalm and the last four psalms begin with Praise the LORD. When we consider God and our relationship with him, our mind must be continually set to praise his name. We can become too focused on what’s wrong with the world and what’s wrong in our own lives. The Bible speaks to that in many passages. But praise the LORD! The Bible teaches how God makes the wrong right. One summary of the Bible could be, “God tells us what’s wrong, and God tells us the right will remove the wrong.”
   God’s love is God’s reason God’s righteousness removes sin. The Bible’s most quoted verse is John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” People know that because it assures them of eternal life. But too many have a false assurance. They read, “God so loved the world.” and then stop. They interpret God’s love for the world as God’s love for everyone regardless of their sins and unbelief. “He loves me for who I am.” Is their own saving assurance. But this kind of uncorrected love will not make the wrong in our hearts right.
   Take notice the psalm tells us the LORD loves the righteous. That’s the full meaning of John 3:16. The Lord Jesus tells us God’s love will be perfectly fulfilled when those who believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life. And John 3:17-18 underscores repentance of sin and faith in Jesus is God’s assurance, not our own. God’s love gives us the way to come out of our sin through the confession of Jesus’ saving work. The wrong in us becomes right in us through God’s power.
   Paul highlights the extent of God’s love in Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Yes, praise the LORD! Jesus gave himself to the cross to uphold the cause of the oppressed, to feed those hungry for God’s Word, to free sin’s prisoners and teach the blind to see the truth.
   In faith, praise the LORD he will frustrate the way of the wicked. From generation to generation a great tide of evil sweeps over various nations. Many countries have only 1% Christians. Oppression is not satisfied until the oppressed are gone.
   That’s why we praise the LORD for his love. His righteousness will rule the earth. The evil will disappear. V 3 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
   Praise the LORD. His love will make all things right. V 10 The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.