Relentless, Consistent, Everlasting, Committed Love
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 136. As you turn there you’ll notice how many phrases and how many similarities there are between this psalm and the psalm that we studied last Lord's Day Evening, Psalm 135. There are a few items I want to draw to your attention, some of them that you will see in the psalm itself as we prepare to hear the reading of God's Word. In the Jewish tradition this psalm was known as “The Great Hallel.” Now you’ll recognize from that word, “hallel,” our English version of it, “hallelujah.” That means that in the Jewish tradition this was known as the great psalm of praise, or hallelujah, is to praise the Lord or to praise Jehovah, the one true God, the God of Israel. The psalm's antiphonal. That's…