Help from Almighty God
"The
LORD
hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend
thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
Zion."
-PSALM
20:1, 2 [KJV]
When
the soul has to pass through the trying hour of temptation, it wants
help from the sanctuary. And nothing but help from the sanctuary can
ever stand it in any stead. All other help leaves the soul just where
it found it. Now why does the Lord send help from the sanctuary, but
because the soul to whom help is sent stands interested in the
Father's love, the Saviour's blood, and the Spirit's
teachings—interested in the eternal covenant transactions of the
Three-One Jehovah. Help is sent him from the sanctuary, because his
name has been from all eternity registered in the Lamb's book of
life, graven upon the palms of His hands, borne on His shoulder, and
worn on His heart.
He
was in the sanctuary when his covenant Head stood up on his behalf,
and in the Lord's book all his members were written when as yet there
was none of them. He was then virtually in the sanctuary
before all time, and he will be personally in the sanctuary after all
time. But he must be "made meet to be a partaker of the
inheritance of the saints in light." As he is
predestinated to inhabit that sanctuary, he must have a nature suited
for its holy delights. Now it is receiving help from the sanctuary
that fits him to inhabit it. Communications of life and grace out of
it make him a new creature, and produce spirituality and
heavenly-mindedness. The breath of heaven in his soul draws his
affections upward, weans him from earth, and makes him a pilgrim and
a sojourner here below, "looking for a city which hath
foundations, whose builder and maker is God" [HEBREWS
11:10].
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
6th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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