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Lawrenceville, IL April 5th, 1964 Reading.
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Speaking of much yesterday.
That would be nice to go on with you.
Well, I believe there's something very suitable.
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In these last three songs.
And there's much.
Good minister there. Perhaps it could be linked up with some things in the New Testament, I was thinking.
A little bit about John chapter 4 where we have worship.
Brought in, and that's really what we get in the last very end of this series of songs, getting into the presence of the Lord, the worship.
But there are things that go on before that exercise in the soul that people must go through before they get to that place. And so I believe it's it's very suitable from from that standpoint.
Psalm 132.
Lord, remember David and all his afflictions, how we swear unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob. Surely I will not come into the Tabernacle of my house, nor to go up into my bed. I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to mine eyelids until I find out a place for the Lord and habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Lo, we've heard of it at Africa.
We found it in the fields of the wood. We will go into His Tabernacle. We will worship at His footstool. Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou in the ark of thy strength. Let thy priest be clothed with righteousness, and let thy sink shout for joy for thy servant David's sake. Turn not away the face of thine anointed. The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David. He will not turn from.
Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
If my children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore. For the Lord hath chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. This is my rest. Forever Here will I dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe a priest with salvation.
And her Saints shall, shall allow for joy. There will I make the horn of David to God. I have ordained a lamp for mine. Anointed his enemies will I clothe with shame, But upon himself shall his crown flourish. Psalm 133. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head.
That ran down upon the pier, even Aaron's feared, that went down to the skirts of his garments, as a view of Herman, and as a view that descended upon the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore. Psalm 134. Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the House of the Lord.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord, the Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of sight.
Isn't it thought that this 132nd Psalm of Solomon's?
Yes.
A fact part of it is quoted. He quotes part of it in his prayer.
There it refers, no doubt, to the exercises that David passed through in regard to the bringing of the Ark of Jerusalem.
What some uses though?
Well, it says, remember David in all his afflictions David passed through.
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Afflictions for many years.
When shortly after his slaying of life.
He was brought into a Saul's household.
Because of his name and spirit and Lord upon him on account of his ways, and they will display the heart before you and the Lord honored it in the even spirit left him, but he had to be dependent upon this youth, so to speak, that could play that part well. We know that David was mentioned. Samuel mentioned him to.
So not by name, for David wasn't born yet, but he was going to raise up a man after God's own heart. Well, we can see, I think, in the exercise he passed through here, why he was a man after God's own heart.
In the 69th Psalm.
Aida David's exercises.
When I have birth, we know it's prophetic.
A large himself. And when the Lord went into the temple to drive out the money changers and merchandisers, the disciples remembered this Scripture. For the zeal of thine house had eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach fear fallen upon me.
The thine house had eaten me up. Oh, I believe David for speaking this out of his own experience, but it became a prophetic thing.
Well, the fact that they were just himself was that one of the reasons he could be called a man after God's own heart. He lived in South Denver. Yes, he always turned to the Lord and he missed his failures. But here we see something, though that was long before that, and it's very remarkable here.
Speaks about his afflictions.
Well, we know that he was anointed a king very early in his life. He was just for a youth, just in his teens probably.
Well, that was shortly after that, but he was sent down there at the army.
And of course, I believe he'd been called Saul's house before that, but he went down there and there he met Goliath. Well, he was not allowed to return to his home very much after that. But here he speaks of some exercises that he passed through before that says how he swear unto the Lord.
And vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob, Surely I'll not come into the Tabernacle of my house when I grow up in my bed.
All that gives sleep in my eyes and slumber to my eyelids until I find out a place for the Lord. Habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Well, it seems to me that that I'll lose to the great exercise that his parents had, and so they spoke of it.
In his youth, and it must have been.
The four probably he was anointed king and may have been after that. This would seem to be that when he realized that he was to be king, he made this oath before the Lord. But long before that though his parents had mourned overly state of things in Israel.
That's the Ark had never been returned to its place in the Tabernacle.
So he says here.
We heard of it at Ephrata. We found it in the fields of wood. Well Efforta, that's especially him. Africa that is. It was his home place. We heard of it there, he said.
Well, that's very.
Instructive and encouraging the parents.
And here his parents were Speaking of these things.
Concerning the condition of things in Israel, they were mourning over it. Well, David was just a boy when you heard of that, but.
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It never left him.
And so it says here you swear unto mighty God of Jacob. Well, you know David did have.
The Lord before him, why when he went down there to the.
Army. That time his father sent him down and he heard Goliath challenging them. Why he says, who is this?
Well, he was challenging the armies of the living God. That's the way David looked upon it.
Wasn't the armies of Israel, but the armies, the living God and all this. It was really the zeal of the Lord's house eating him up.
What he says here in passing through this great exercise.
I'll not come into the Tabernacle of my house or go up into my bed. I'd like to sleep in my eyelids or slung, see through my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find out. A place for the Lord, a habitation for the mighty God. Jacob. Well, his parents felt the condition of things there.
That that time that the ark was taken by the two wicked sons of Eli into the camp, they were treating it just like an idol. Why they was going to take it in there that it might save them serving their enemies. It was treating it like an idol. Oh, Lord, wouldn't allow that for those two wicked men to take it like that. And so the Philistines captured it. Well, I think you mentioned before, they couldn't hold it.
It was a burden to them.
Like woken up groups and later they it'll be a troublesome stone and it surely was troublesome to them. They were glad to get rid of it and when they sent it back, they sent it back in a way that took the.
Over ruling hand of God because of go back they put it on a cart. A new cart it was.
And they put 2 milk cows to take it back and they shut up their calves at home.
Well.
Those cows wouldn't normally go away under those circumstances, but they did lowing as they went, just like they were compelled to go. They didn't want to go, but they did, and they took it back to the land of Israel. Well.
It never was returned.
To the Tabernacle.
Oh, when it first came back, you know, some of them out of curiosity looked in it. And then if they had the chasing hand of the Lord, he wouldn't stand for that curiosity there being satisfied. So when in a man's house, well, it was in that condition, I think somewhere between 80 and 100 years before this time when David brought from Jerusalem.
So.
He had this oath before him.
Evidently, say when he was apparently when he was anointed king as a youth, he thought of this, Oh, now that's one thing I'm going to do. I'm going to find out a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
He doesn't here speak of it in this instance as the ark. Well, the ark was a symbol of the presence of Jehovah. He dwelt.
Between the cherubims, that's what's spoken of, and so that's what David here speaks of it as a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Well, it was a huge state of things. There was the ritual going on at the Tabernacle.
And.
All that kind of thing. But the ark wasn't there. Well, they couldn't carry out all that. Ritual was part of it. Day of Atonement concerned the art, but there it was. It was a separation. There was a an order of worship.
A ritual.
But the.
The one who really should have been the object of that rat Julie's place wasn't there.
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Well.
Sometimes that makes us think of conditions impressing them.
There may be a ritual, but have there been concerned about the presence of the Lord?
You know, at the time of the Reformation, a great deal was made of the Bible. Getting the Bible to the people, well, that was a wonderful thing. It was a wonderful boom, we might say, to the people to get the Scriptures in their own language. What a great deal was made of the Bible, Nothing but the Bible. But I don't think you find much said about the Spirit of God, the one who could make it good to his people.
Well, the Lord overruled and he certainly blessed all that ministry and.
Getting the Bible and the language of the people and thinking how it was done is the cost of men's lives. Many men lost their lives because they wanted to put the scriptures in the land of people.
So here was this exercise that they were. It's beautiful to see it that is a youth only had this before it.
He realized that as king, he would be responsible for.
I see when the children of Israel had been delivered from Egypt and saved from their enemies, than it was that they spoke of the habitation of God, a place where they were to worship. I was looking at Exodus chapter 15.
Verse 13.
Thou and thy mercy hath LED forth the people which thou hast redeemed.
Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. Well, they actually weren't there yet, but to them and to faith it was a reality.
And then in verse 17, it says thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place, O Lord, for thou hast made for thee to dwell in in the sanctuary, O Lord, which by hand have established, looking for the sanctuary. Well, that's that's the normal thing according to God, according to his word. But as soon as we're saved and delivered.
Then we want to find the place to serve God, to worship.
And.
Great answers to David's exercises here. Why did he want to find a place for the Lord? And why did he want to find that habitation? What was it that was in his heart to give him that desire? Well, David loved the Lord, and he wanted to worship him.
All his parents have no man brought the word of God before him and get it exercised. His heart then became a burden to him. Isn't that scripture you referred to on the 15th of Exodus? The first time it's spoken of is God dwelling in the midst of His people. He'd gone on with the patriarchs in times past as individuals, but here now I love as soon as the people are redeemed out of Egypt.
Why? Here's a song of victory at the Red Sea in the speak box. The habitation of God place for him to dwell.
All the place the Lord loves today is in the assembly. Isn't it indeed of it in Ephesians that the assemblies the habitation of God through the Spirit? Well, why? Well, He loves to dwell with His people, and when He's in our midst like He was this morning, He's the object of our worship adoration.
It has been said in connection with David.
That we get more of and deep exercises of soul with him in first Samuel, then we get in Second Samuel. That is those years that he was fleeing from Saul. He was in deep exercise and the Lord protected him.
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Well, actually got to be king. We don't find that so much. But here, of course, he, he had just, he was speaking here of being king. And we find the historically that this was the first thing he did when he became king over all Israel. He was first king in all over Judah, but the House of Saul kept all the other tribes away from him.
And he was six years there in Hebrew.
Well then finally by all Israel came united king.
Well, this is the way you find the first recorded thing he did after King King over all Israel. That is, he could now go to the place where the ark was, and he could bring it to drizzle.
Well, we were saying yesterday in the 78th Psalm why the Lord did not intend to restore it back to Shiloh. What's it happen that they had been moved, the Tabernacle had been moved from Charlotte. Apparently they found something was lacking and so they may have tried different places. It would seem like that, but the Lord tells us for such shadow. So on account of the wickedness, the way they were going on.
And he chose Mount Zion. What? Apparently David didn't know about Mount Zion when he brought there. He had to learn that later.
So, well, the first thing that he did and became king, well of course from the historical record, why we find that he first went about it in a far away that is a human way.
And.
He provided a new cart for it and he was going to bring it to Jerusalem.
Well.
Salvation all the oxygen, stop moving yourself without his hand to steady it, and Lawrence bought him.
We're doing that well. David was afraid he was displayed, but he dare not take it any farther. He had to get before the Lord again and bother.
Without doing the right thing in the wrong way.
Yes, yes. Well, oftentimes when we may be passing through great exercise, and especially in our youth, why there may be sometimes certain things the right thing exercises, but we may do it in the energy of the natural man we are without knowledge. Yes.
So David then got before the Lord, and then he finally said, well, the Levites ought to carry the ark.
Well, I don't doubt in human reason why he could think of that art being heavy. And it was an uphill journey to roll to Jerusalem. So it was a rough journey.
But he probably wanted to say the matter. That's human reasoning. But he found out though, that that wasn't the Lord, that the Levites should carry the ark. And so when he did that.
And the Levites were in their proper place, but in the Lord blessed.
In a certain sense that.
During the right thing and wrong way is a picture of what we have in modernism today. They're trying to fix up new carts, new councils. Well, a great deal of love is, yes, carry on God's work in man's way.
Of course, oftentimes God's people have exercise and they do things in man's way. And then oftentimes you may have those that are that are not the Lords, while they have their own ideas too about certain things. And we see that in these translations of the Scriptures. Well, to me, that's just the plus. Ends up then in his land, taking away the children's food.
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It's interesting to notice here and they were bringing up the ARC. First of all, they consulted not with the Greeks, the leave right to consult him with the captain's, the military forces.
I want to do things in awkward grand way.
We found out later to consult with those who were in the service of the Tabernacle Levites.
None but the Levites should bring up the art.
These things that we've been Speaking of can be read about from The First Chronicles 13/14/15.
Admires these helpful friendly that would like to read them to know where it is.
Well then, in that 6 verses we heard of it at Ephrata. That was his home place where he had been brought up.
He had heard of it there. He says we found it in the fields of wood. Well, I believe there's a nobleman new translation there that that's a poetic expression for finding it in a totally neglected state. And I believe that David says when he first.
Spoke of Gideon, he says. We sought it not in the days of Saul.
That in the days of Saul there was number exercise about there was that 40 years during the rain of salt all there was no exercise about this state of disorder.
So he felt that well, it's nice, I say, to see his inward thoughts and feelings about this thing which is so dear to the heart of the Lord.
There's one thing about the Psalms.
They are means of giving expression to exercises of soul.
And I suppose when the brethren began to.
Leave the different systems about 135 years ago or so.
They were going through deep exercises and no doubt they were able to give expression to their exercises in the words of these psalms that we've just been reading. And I believe that's the value in these psalms. We're able to find our own exercises of soul here, and these words can be used to help us give expression to them. And well, it's because.
There the exercises of David and others that may have written these songs are similar to the exercises that we can go through because this thing is connected with the principles of God and the principles of God don't change from dispensation to dispensation and.
God Center doesn't change here for for the Jews.
The center of attraction will be the Messiah. For us, it's the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, the same person.
Yes, you're speaking about exercising the Psalms and the Psalms we have exercises. Let the Lord pass through that. We do not get the New Testament, but shows.
The deep distress that he passed through and.
Even in contemplation of the cross, well, like the exercises in the.
In the 22nd Psalm.
Or Islam and get his exercise in the 16th psalms through his pathway.
Well, those are things that are not brought before us in the New Testament.
Well, I'm in this 7th course.
We will go into His tabernacles. We will worship at His footstool.
Let's start. How nice that is. We will go into his tabernacles. We will worship at his footstool. When it comes to worship, why David associates himself with all the people, He doesn't take a place of fault. We will go into his Tabernacle. We will worship these kutzp. One has thought about that and what Peter says, you know.
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About those who obtained like precious faith.
He puts himself down on a level with the simplest belief, those obtained like precious faith.
Well, that isn't at all like those who claim to have Peter's place now. They don't put themselves down on a level with the simplest believers.
This is the collective aspect being brought out here again, isn't it? We, yes, and 1St part of the Psalm. It's I.
Well, we might say in connection with David bringing the ark of Jerusalem, you know, he wanted to build a house for the Lord. He wanted to build a house.
But the Lord told him no, he wasn't above the house. He had been a man of war, a man shed much blood.
Yet though he was a man after God's own heart, why God would not permit him, because of that fact, to build him a house?
But he says your son can do it.
If we are in the good of what we're doing, Lord's Day morning when we come together for the breaking of bread.
We'll realize that we're on collective ground and we're together for worship.
But we're worshiping on the ground of what that loaf stands for. The loaf is a symbol of the of the one body looking at it in the one way. And we've come together to worship the Lord, to remember him on the ground of the one body, on collective ground. And if we know what we're doing.
We are including the whole Church of God. We're not looking at ourselves as a little company apart. I'm not looking at ourselves as a sect or denomination, but we're looking at ourselves simply as part of the whole Church of God. And we're contemplating every member of the body of Christ when we come together if we're doing it.
With the knowledge of Scripture, the Scripture knowledge that we ought to have, and so actually the worship is.
Collective worship and we're thinking of all the children of God and wish that all in the place were there with us.
But that's really his objective here. That's collected too. Now. Israel then uses the word we after that.
Well then when David brings that there and he says we will go into his tabernacles, he will worship with his footstool, and then he says.
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength, Thy speaks of the Arkansas.
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou on the ark of thy strength. Well, it's nice to see the way he speaks of that He calls upon the Lord to.
Enter into his rest.
Well, we think of what a privilege it is to be gathered around our blessed Lord, and it is a privilege. But here it speaks out from God's standpoint, thy rest, that God desires to be there too.
To be in the midst of these people.
The first seven will bring the course of determination and humiliation. We will.
Little worship and then 122nd of Psalm the 1St 2 verses.
And express I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the House of the Lord, Our feet shall stand within thy gates of Jerusalem.
Reminders of our responsibility and people 1025 now not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as a matter of some is but exhorting one another and so much remorse to see that they approach it.
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There is a lot of independency these days.
But God's principle is together.
Well, our brother Anderson referred to the 4th of John.
You know the woman, she said she knew when the Messiah come if you tell us all things, but she had no claim on the Messiah as Messiah.
But then the Lord has to tell her ye worship ye know not what. Well, really their worship what the Samaritans were Bill England, their pretense of having a mount Garrison and I take it that was where the 10 tribes worshipped. And he says ye worship. You know, my plot quote was really demon worship there. The Lord wasn't ever called.
But salvation is a Jew. But then he takes her arm to where she could have a part. The hour comes. Now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, and the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Well, there, he tells her a place she could be. She could claim that place.
And the Father seeketh such the worship in his desire.
But it wasn't in Mount Garrison or wasn't in Jerusalem.
But it was those who would worship him in spirit and in truth.
And you know, worship is connected with a spirit that is, I don't mean.
An external spirit, I'm not talking about that, but the spirit, the state of salt in spirit and in truth. He's a spirit, while we have to be of a kindred spirit, we might say, to worship, you know.
I remember.
The speaker of his older brother who is now home with the Lord, he made a very significant statement which I've often used and passed on to Brother Smith, that she took down the delivery within.
This is the substance of it, correct? There are many Saints of God who worship the Lord individually at man's table and comparative with huge states of God. And this is done that worship the Lord corporately at the Lord's state. Is that right? Yes, I believe that's right.
When David in his prayer here, he says, Let thy priest be clothed with righteousness, and let thy sink shop with joy.
He may have been referring back to Eli's time when his sons were going on so wickedly there wasn't any righteousness there and the Saints were burdened about the condition of things. So he says, let thy priest be clothed with righteousness. That is the opposite of what Eli's sons were.
And thy Saints shop for joy, no longer mourning over that condition of things, but they would shout for joy. Well, it's nice to see.
How the Lord answers that prayer thee once we get that later on.
Course before, before we get the answer, says, For thy servants David's sake, turn not away the the face of thine anointed. The Lord had promised him of his descendants there would be some to sit upon the throne. Well, David may have had his misgivings as to how they might go on. So he says, Turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Well now we cannot say as to how we are going to go on. There is a verse in the in Second Corinthians, the 1St chapter.
Where he says, I write unto you none other things than that but ye know or acknowledge.
And I trust ye shall acknowledge even here we are this afternoon.
There are certain things we know and acknowledge the truth, but we couldn't, Mr. Platt, and might not be. So a year from now. Something could come in, get between us in the morning, clouds might cover, so to speak. Get between the moon and the sun.
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And if the earth gets between the moon and the sun, why it makes it dark?
The 1St I believe so.
So well then.
The Lord answers in the 11Th verse. The Lord has sworn in truth unto David.
He will not turn from it. The fruit of thy body I'll set upon thy throne. Thy children keep my covenant, my testimony that I should teach them. Their children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore.
And then he says there the Lord hath chosen Zion, Zion with that particular part of Jerusalem that we were speaking about, where Mount Moriah where there was the Jebusite. And so over that Jebusites farm that the destroying Angel was arrested. And the prophet David Nathan told David I believe, or Maven Gaz told him, go build an Alder there.
It wasn't Davidde choice. All the gadgets, you go build an order there. And he did. Well that became the Mount Simon place where the temple was to be built.
So it says the Lord has chosen time. He has desired it.
For his habitation, here we get the word habitation. This is my rest forever. Here will I dwell, for I have desired it. So the Lord answers him and says, This is my rest.
Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.
While they would recognize that it is a rest for the Lord to be there in, the Lord says yes.
He relied, well, this is my rest forever.
That's the only place you can rest because as we were saying yesterday, Zion speaks of grace. It's the speaks of the purposes of God in grace. And I'd like to read the verse from Zephaniah, the third chapter.
Here we have.
The Lord Speaking of rest.
Jeff and I are three and 17.
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty.
He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over thee with singing.
Grace has come in and wrought, and.
In the coming days, God's earthly people, Israel, will be established and it will be only by sovereign grace. And that is the reason that God will be able to rest in it. If it's going to be on the ground of man, what man? God couldn't restroom that because it's imperfect. But what God does is perfect, and that's why He can rest in it all. What His love does, what His grace does, that's what he can rest in, and that's what we can rest into.
The Lord has never committed anything to man and in which there has not been failed. So it rests on man why there's failure connected with it. He couldn't have his rest there, but it's what His son has done. He can rest in that.
Just going to say that to you 1St of May I referred to we might call attention to fact the previous verse connected with Zion.
Direct connection with Zion is versus you're given to us.
In connection with that seventh verse.
For the night birth of 132nd song and we have a word on that verse in Isaiah 11/5.
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Regarding the righteousness.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of loin, and faithfulness that girdle of Israel.
There.
Lauren was heard about with cruising.
Righteousness.
Well, the Lord is to reign in righteousness. I will characterize his reign. It's often been said that righteousness suffers. Now we we cannot expect to find righteousness in this world.
Righteousness suffers. The Lord allows man to go on here, but there's a day coming when He will judge this world in righteousness. And so in the Millennium He will be reigning in righteousness in the eternal state. It tells us righteousness. Well, there's no evil there to put down.
So the world is looking for someone who will do things the way they should be done, but they won't find it until the Lord himself takes over.
You know.
In isn't it in the is it the 21St of Luke or he moans over Jerusalem?
No 19th.
The 41St 1St.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it, saying, If thou hast known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong, and thy peace. But now they are hid from thine eyes, for that they shall come upon me, and thine enemy shall cast a trench about the incumbency round about, and keep thee in on every side.
Well, there he beheld the city, and he mourned over.
Any sorrow that they hadn't known for the things that made for their peace. He was a Prince of Peace. They rejected him.
And so he says, these things are hidden from mine eyes. Well.
For the peace of this world and the whole day like to talk about peace long part, but it cannot be had apart from giving the Lord His place.
It cannot be brought about by men.
But when the Lord gets His place, then we have blessed results. And isn't that what we have in verse 15? Here I will abundantly bless the provision. I will satisfy the poor with thread.
Yes, I don't know that David and his prayer asked for that, but the Lord volunteers it. He will abundantly bless her provision, satisfy our pool with bread. There wouldn't be really any force, so to speak, in that day. And then he says, I will also clothe her priest with salvation.
Was not alone righteousness, but be salvation. That is, he goes beyond what David requested and then he says her St. shall shout aloud for joy. It wouldn't merely shout.
But they shout aloud.
That's a little different from the shout that they shouted when the Ark came into the camp when they were fighting with the Philistines. And that was what we might say, a shout in the flesh and trusting in what they could do and using the Ark simply as sort of an idol.
For this is the real, the real shout of praise. Yes, this is a time like we read in the 110 Psalm, Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. It will not be.
In.
That of human strength. Thy people shall be willing to have a willing heart within them.
You know it is said that.
In connection, I believe it's not 78 Psalm that they turned back. They were like a broken ball that, well, you know, if a warrior was using the bow and arrow and he pulled it back and the bow broke in his hands, well that'd be disaster. Well, that's what his people did in days of old. They were that kind. Well, they won't do that.
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In the day to come.
Well, then we get the promises to David as to his family.
And he says he will make the horn of David the bud that is there would be the.
Growth. They're sprouting.
It's of course we know the House of David is suffering at the present time and unbelief.
But there's time coming when the Lord is going to raise it up again all.
Then he says I have ordained a lamp for my reminded.
What is your significant form?
I believe Jen Liam Horn means power and the power was granted to the House of David but.
There was a time that the Lord had taken away, you know, and when they were carried captive to Babylon and.
While they returned and the remnant.
And there was one of the royal family carried them back, but they never had a king really in their own right.
While the time is coming over and that will be and that's what I think this is referring to.
And then he says his enemies will I clothe with shame.
But on himself, should his crown flourish, all there be nothing. Stand before him then.
Well, the blessing begins.
In Psalm 132, and it continues on 133.
Yes.
Well, it speaks about here how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to all together in unity. It doesn't say young young, it says youngty.
There's a difference between union and unity.
We have in our country here a union of states, but that doesn't mean that all have the same purpose of art. They're younger, but it's an outward unity. There may be a lot of striving within and all that kind of thing. Well, unity, though, is that which is brought about by the Lord, and it comes here.
From the fact, I believe that the Lord has been given His true place in their midst. We cannot get unity without that.
That is, David gave the Lord his true place.
The Lord's place among his people had been neglected.
While David says it, we found that electricity was totally neglected. So he brings it there to Jerusalem and gives the Lord his two placed the meds to his people well there. There cannot be this unity without that.
In Ephesians 2, we get there where the Spirit of God brings the people of God together. Well, that's the operation, the Spirit of God. We have it also in the 12Th of First Corinthians by 1 Spirit. We all baptize into one body. Well, that's not something that man's told to do. It's the operation of the Spirit of God. We should recognize it. We should.
Abide to it.
Well, you hear a lot these days about unions.
And of one form or another. But it's not proposed to be a unity of the spirit. Oh no, it's to be.
Just a getting together and forgetting the differences most self judgment no seeking to find by the scriptures what is according to his mind are not all that doesn't enter into it. Just get together. It shouldn't be separated.
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Well.
That is not what's spoken of here. This is something that we cannot produce.
Except we get down our knees and.
Self judgment before the war.
Commander.
Are likened to another put it like taking a half a dozen cats and tying the tail for you. You've got a union. You can throw them off her clothes and I'm showing her unity there. But that's something that counts as life rather than just like just that, right? Yes. There's no stuff. There's all of that.
There is no searching the scriptures see what is according to his mind.
Well hereafter giving the Lord his true place, then he can speak about the shunty. Well in the affordable Ephesians, why we have endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit uniting bond of peace.
It is in recognition of what the Spirit of God has done. So now we are the endeavor to keep a uniting bond of peace. We're not introduced things bring in controversy or to show how much we know or anything like that that brings in discord.
In these unions.
That are being formed today and there will be one great union finally, the phosphate church. But it's one thing sure that Christ is not going to be the center of it. He's not going to be considered at all. But even with the the farming of Israel again into one nation, one unit that will have to be something centered around the Lord too. And the Lord will have to do it over in Ezekiel 37.
We read about the.
The two sticks.
But to be taken, we joined together.
Verse 16. Moral without son of Man 51. Stick and right upon it for Judah, and for the children of Israel his companion. Then take another stick, and write upon it for Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the House of Israel his companions, and join them one to another into one stick. They shall become one inviting. 10.
Then in verse 19, after he's asked what this means, he says, say unto them thus that the Lord God, behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel spouse, and put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. That's the Lord's word. It's not man's word, even with Israel.
It'll have to be the Lord's work, and so was the church. It's the Lord's work.
In the third afflictions we have something said there about.
The question is though, being of one mind.
The 15th 1St.
Let us therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded, and if anything you'd be otherwise minded. God's reveal even this unto you nevertheless.
Whereto we have already attained, Let us walk for the same rule, Let us mind the same thing. That is, there may be things and there are things where we're not exactly 1 mind. This is born together.
And let's walk by the same rule. Well, we have, you know, the Lord is our object. That one Lord is mentioned there in Ephesians. We have the word of God.
Same.
And we have the Spirit of God as our teacher.
So he says there, if you be in anything otherwise minded, God should reveal even this unto you and the Lord before you.
Why he'll bring you into this common thoughts concerning himself.
Well, when the results of this walk in the second verse.
It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard. Even Aaron's beard that went down the skirts was farming.
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It refers us back to the anointing of aeronauts by priest.
Well, there was a special anointing oil that they were not allowed to use for any other purpose. A special anointing oil.
Which they were given the farm in the car.
But they could not use it for any other purpose, and so it speaks here about the precious ointment.
On the head of error.
Well, one is like, think of that the first thing, so to speak. And of course, you know, the Scripture speaks of us being anointed with the Spirit of God.
We have an anointing. It tells us where John Two speaks about, spoken about elsewhere.
Well, the first thing that does, so to speak, is control of thoughts, the innermost part of our being, our thoughts upon the head. Then it says it ran down upon the fear of even air, Fear.
Well, I believe that speaks of controlling our speech.
What we say.
What, so to speak, comes out of the heart so.
Then it says it went down to the skirts of his garments.
Well, the environment speaks in ways.
And so trolls our thoughts, our speech, our ways.
One is often thought about buying Bartemish and all when he called for the Lord.
Called for him. The Lord is in the multitude there, and here he was a blind beggar, and he calls to him, and the Lord stops.
And they tried to keep him quiet, of course, keep cartoon this quiet, but he wasn't. And so they say, arise, he called for thee. Well.
He heard the voice of the Lord calling him and says he cast him away his garment. He went to Jesus.
Well, he knew that that old beggar requirement was not suitable for his standing in the presence of Jesus, so he cast it away. Well, in a way that's.
The position we are when the Lord calls us, we have a weak and beggarly things of this world clinging to us, but the moment we know that we have to meet the Lord while those things have no place at all.
Cast them away and go through Jesus.
And the Lord wants to know what to do for him or he. He wanted his side healed.
So the Lord healed his sight.
And then he told him to go his way.
But he Bartimaeus, he didn't go his way. He followed Jesus in the way. He had then patients operating in his soul. He was one who was born again. He didn't have a desire to go away from Jesus. He is desire was the quality and so he followed Jesus in the way.
To follow up the thought of unity and for us, the thought of the one body, that we're one body.
This argument flows over the whole body, which is part of it, but the whole and.
We should all be going on in the power of the Spirit. We have, we have divine light, but we have the Spirit to lose the power of that light. And we should be exercised about being under the control of the Spirit, not to walk in the flesh, but walk in the Spirit.
Well, there was one accompaniment of this anointing. It was a very fragrant anointing. So when they were increased was anointed with its oil and there was a fragrance going up to the Lord. And so when the Spirit of God.
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Has that power over us where the Lord's glory is recognized and there's a desire to go on according to his word, independence upon him. They'll be afraid that's going up to him. I just fix up. Well, then in the next verse we speak of God, thanks or something coming down.
God will not be man better.
And one is often thought about.
Some men of the Lord picked up, and who had this desire to honor him?
As the one who was the head of the church.
Nothing in between.
Why? That was their sole desire. They didn't know much else.
But they wanted to give him that place.
And so that desire so wrought upon them, that there was the equivalent of this anointing here, and this fragrance ascending to him out of their lives. Well, the Lord picked up some mighty men that time, men of of wealth and education, mean of all means of one thing or another, and that meant nothing to him.
Well, there was a fragrance going up to the Lord. It was manifest in their ways and it's something like we had here in.
Back in that 126 Psalm that says the heathens say.
The Lord has done great things for that.
Yes, then, said they among the He and the Lord hath done great things for them.
So that was seen.
Well, we've said that they didn't have much knowledge as to the scripture, the.
Dispensational truth or the rightly dividing of the word. They didn't know that their great desire was honor the Lord and give Him His true place. Well, you know, oftentimes we may have an exercise about a certain step and we want to know about the maybe the third and fourth steps or the 10th step. Well, the Lord gives the light for each step at a time.
And so the Lord blessed that.
Too, that's what says here as a few of farming as a dew descended upon the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has commanded blessing, even like forevermore.
Well, there was Herman, one of the loftiest mountains there in Palestine.
And it's looked at here as one that is above the other mountains. And so it says as the dew of Herman, here's something coming down. Who comes down?
And it descended upon the mountains inside.
It disseminated this blessing.
Well the Lord honored that desire. I believe and part of those who sacrifice self in every way and give the Lord his place. He gave them blessing and open the scriptures to.
And we had those open scriptures today.
He opened up troops that have been lost sight of since the days of the apostle.
By the coming of the Lord for the Church.
Who has lost sight of immediately after the day of the apostles?
The assurance of soul salvation was lost sight of two and the heavenly calling of the church that was lost sight of two. The church was like the.
Young man there in the 20th of Acts that fell asleep under the Apostle Paul's preaching. He fell down from the third loft down to ground. Well, that was the way it really typical of what the church did. It went asleep under the Apostle Paul's preaching.
Well, the brother once said the Apostle Paul went down there and through his arms around while it said through the warmth, the love, the Apostle Paul, he was restored and so.