Title: The House of Jehovah
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Subject: The House of Jehovah. Verse: Psalm 23:1-6
David concludes with a house at the end of Psalm 23. The reason is that the house and humans have a close relationship.
However, it is explained that the house is not a royal palace or a luxurious house, but the house of the Lord. These words teach what the grace of God is through the expression of a house.
Those who live in this house of Jehovah are given to those who confess and believe in God as my shepherd.
The decisive condition of heaven is the presence of God. "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, says the LORD, for I come and dwell among you" (Zechariah 2:10).
“The kingdom of heaven is in the huts or palaces or wherever my Lord Jesus is enshrined.” (chapter 495) This hymn is an experience that Christians share in common regardless of circumstances.
I have the son of an American billionaire. "My parents gave me everything: a vacation home, money, career, education, but not love."
His parents divorced and hated each other and led a devastating life. Love is not abstract, but Jesus lives in me.
If only they could live with their loved ones, what would the uninhabited islanders be like? Although you are not like me in the flesh, you live in me by the
Even if my parents, wives, and friends forsake me, he cannot leave me forever. He and I are not in a natural relationship that we met on the way or were only formed by blood.
There is an allegorical fragment by the literary writer “Oscar Wilde”. This story is an allegorical weave of the story of Jesus' reunion afterward with some kind of person whom he had bestowed upon him in the past.
For the first time, Jesus meets a drunkard. He was a young man who had become almost like an old man. When Jesus asked why he was leading such a life, the drunkard replied:
“You lifted me up and made me walk when I was lame. However, I was told what to make a living by walking around. I've been looking for a job, but I haven't been able to find one that I'm satisfied with.
Then Jesus sees a woman becoming a prostitute and being harassed by men. Jesus speaks to the woman.
“Why did you come back to this life?” Says the prostitute: “It seemed that you rescued me from the prostitute and made me a new person.
What happiness are those who wash their feet in a whore? I started living as a prostitute again, because I was more lonely and couldn’t live.”
After that, Jesus bumps into a scene in which a delinquent is frantically beating his neighbor. Jesus asks him. “Honey young man. Why are you living like this?”
The delinquent replies to Jesus: “I was the blind man who opened your eyes. But open your eyes and see what.
It's not a world where everything you see is nerve-wracking and annoying and upsetting. In the end, I thought that a life of arguing and beating and receiving was the way I was given.
This short story uses grace as grace, and depicts a human figure who has failed to shine. The love that man has received from God is truly enormous.
We are receiving a greater grace than being saved from a prostitute or a blind man opening their eyes. But many people do not know gratitude.
Gratitude is not a word of mouth, but when you realize the grace you have received and transform yourself into a new life that is rewarded for that grace, the meaning of gratitude comes to life.
Then let's take a look at what kind of grace God bestows on us.
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First, it is comforting.
“Your staff and staff comfort me.” When David was a boy, he had the experience of winning a battle with a lion with a stick while guarding his father's sheep.
As he grew older and his faith matured, he realized how much bigger and stronger God's staff and staff than the shepherd's staff or staff.
His confession is that the shepherd's staff comforts the sheep, but God's staff comforts me. The use of the staff is also a tool of defense and discipline, but God
With his staff he guides and guards me, and with his staff he teaches and strikes me. And guide me on the right path and protect me from the attacks of the enemy.
Second, my cup overflows.
“You have set a table for me in the sight of my enemies; you have anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.”
Even though the sheep are drinking water and grazing in the pastures of the plateau where snakes lurk and wild beasts prey on, the shepherd is guarding the surroundings with a staff and a stick in his hands.
The word [my cup is overflowing] means material abundance, security of status, and spiritual satisfaction.
Third, they will dwell forever in the house of the Lord.
[I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever] This is the future hope and the hope of heaven. The house I live in right now is just a place to stay in the world for a while.
It is foolish to put too much attachment there. It is good to decorate the living environment or house neatly and comfortably.
But you must know that it is not a place to dwell forever. Paul called it the tabernacle of corruption.
I should be grateful for the eternal home that God has granted to those who are my shepherds and those who confess that God is Lord, to dwell there forever.
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