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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 114

  Psalm 114 Main Point: Jesus is the earth-shaking king who produces life-giving water from the rock that is Himself. When I was in my early twenties I visited my dad’s hometown, a place he had been working a bit again as a builder. I went with Lyssa, my wife of just a year or so and stopped in a restaurant connected to a large retail place built by the company my dad worked for. When I walked into the restaurant the person at the counter very warmly greeted me with, “Hi Don!” I’m not Don, I’m William (actually Bill or even Billy to the folks in Howard City and Lakeview but that’s probably another story about names; rest assured my name is William even if I have been called many other names through the years. But I digress.). Don, my father is 20 years older than me. But apparently he looks young and I looked older. It was not an isolated incident. I unsurprisingly look like my father. I still do. Monday I asked some young theological students about the name of God used in Psalm 11...