Psam 87

10/26/2018 Psalm Studies
Psalm 87
A psalm of the sons of Korah
1.       His foundation is in the holy mountains.
                According to Spurgeon’s Treasury of David,  God chose to found His earthly temple upon the mountains of Zion.  These were made holy by the fact that God chose them.
                Like the mountains around Jerusalem, God also lends His attributes for the strength of the church.  He founded the church on His own power.
                Surely the writer had long contemplated the mountains and then he starts the passage with a burst of wonder and adoration. The mountains of Zion are there to witness.
       2.  The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.  ( Psalm 78:67 says He rejected the tent of Jacob).
                dwellings - mishchan (meesh-kahn) a place of residence, a tabernacle, a dwelling place.  This is from the root word shachan which is shekinah, “abiding in the presence and glory” of the Lord.
Verse two is clear that God has the greatest love for Zion, His elect nation, which descended from his servant Jacob.  He favors Jerusalem and makes a display of it.
                This speaks of the importance that each believer identifies himself with the church, where His love is revealed most, that is the place our delight is to found.  We prefer the assembly of the church rather than our own dwellings.  What power and strength there is in the church, there our God and Savior reigns.
        3. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God!  Selah
                The glory of Jerusalem!  The people speaking of Jerusalem!  This is a type of the most glorious things of all.  The church is so excellent a subject to be spoken of in the places man congregates!  Hephzibah, “for my delight is in her”, the bride of Christ,  the city of beauty, the eye of the world, the Lord chose to dwell in you.
       4.  “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me; behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:  this one was born there.”
                This is referring to the regenerate cities, the cities that bow before the Lord.
       5.  And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her; and the most high Himself shall establish her.”
                Each one born in her is precious in His sight, each one not lost in the multitude.  The same holds true of those born into the church, renewed in the image of Christ!  We are individuals he sees in the body of Christ, the church.
       6.  The Lord will record, when He registers the peoples:  “This one was born there.”  Selah
                The registry of the Lord counts His chosen both in life and death.  His registration includes those we have disowned and excludes those we owned.   We are not judges, and many times, we see people differently than the Lord sees them.  It is alarming as to why we think we can made judgments of people.  We cannot.  Only He can do that.  Oh, to be written in the Lord’s registry by the Lord Himself!
        7.  Both the singers and the players on instruments say, “All my spring are in you.”
                What a beautiful verse!  All my springs are in you Lord!  You are my comfort, strength, joy, life, and everything, the springs of my life!  Oh, that I could express that to be the powerful sentence that it is!  Blessed be the name of the Lord!


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