For the Lord’s Renown!
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn in them with me to Psalm 135 as we continue to make our way through the fifth book of the Psalms. Every verse of this psalm either echoes or quotes or is quoted by some other part of Scripture. The psalmist himself rummages through the inspired Scriptures of the Old Testament and pulls together themes out of the writings of Moses in Exodus and Deuteronomy, phrases from other psalms, and then other psalms turn around and quote this psalm and it's cited again elsewhere. It's filled with Scripture. It's a reminder that Scripture itself is perfectly capable of supplying us with all the material, the truth, the theology that we need to sing back to God in praise, to express our thanksgiving, to come before Him and bless His holy…