Oct.
9, 2017 Monday Message:
“Praise
the Lord.” Psalms 113:1a NIV
Psalm
113 begins and ends with the same words – bookends – “Praise the Lord.” In the original Hebrew, it’s
simply, “Hallelujah.”
“Hallel”
means to praise someone or something that is great. When that someone is God,
the word becomes “Hallelujah.” We translate the Hebrew word Jah or Jahweh as “Lord.” It’s God’s name, just like your
name is Mark or Tom or Mary or Martha – Jahweh.
I
found 43 places in the Bible where God says words like, “I will be your God,
and you will be my people.” God agrees to love his people and send them help,
if they agree to love and obey him. So Jahweh is the special name used by those
agreeing to love God. Covenant is another word for agreement.
While
God is great and mighty and omnipresent – “From the rising to the setting sun…”
– he also lifts up the poor from the ground and the needy from the ashes. God’s
not afraid to get his hands dirty! God will seat them alongside heaven’s
royalty. Don’t miss it!
Norton
Lawellin
Jesus
in the City Fellowship gathers next Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, 3249 30th
Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406, 10:30 AM. Pastor Michael Pilla continues our discussion
of Spiritual Gifts in 1 Corinthians 12.
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