Psalms 24

He weighs the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance (Isaiah 40:12). 3. God is a glorious King (Psalm 24:10). Who is this King of glory, the Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory.

So it is with a poor soul: ease, pardon, knocking off his bolts do not content him until he enjoys communion with God, until he sees his face in his ordinances. Psalm 24:6: 'This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face' — this is the mark, the disposition of…

And hereunto add a fourth, which is near akin unto it: We must cast all our care on God, seeing that he is Lord of the earth, and we are but Pilgrims and Sojourners. David says, Psalm 24.1. The earth is the Lords, and all that therein is: The same David confesses, Psalm 39.12, H…

Christ is not only his priest, but his pattern: as he makes use of Christ's death for his salvation, so of Christ's life for his imitation. 3. A righteous man is just in his dealings (Psalm 24:3, 4). Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? He that has clean hands, etc.

Not the first: 'My Father knows what I have need of' (Matthew 6:32); my condition is not hidden from him. Not the second: 'The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it' (Psalm 24:1); his name is God All-sufficient (Genesis 17:1). Not the last: 'As a father pities his children,…

4. It's set out under the similitude of standing and knocking at a door, because the gospel brings Christ a knocking and calling hard at sinners' doors (Revelation 3:20), Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if any man will hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to h…

God requires that every base heart should be exalted, to the minding of high and heavenly things, lifted up far above these low things that cannot reach the ways of God. These gates must stand open, and be lifted up, that the King of Glory may come in (Psalm 24:7-10). And he mea…

Notable is that expression of David to this purpose, My eyes are not lofty, nor my heart haughty, but I have behaved myself as a weaned child (Psalm 131:1-2). Now you would think if a man were such a weaned humble creature, he could not tell how to speak, nor to take any great t…

Therefore that power that Satan has is not given but permitted; not absolute but limited. It is a lie, that Satan can give these things at pleasure, see these Scriptures, (Psalm 24:1) The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein, (Dani…

The seed of Jacob are wrestlers with God. God has no children still-born, they all cry Abba Father: Jacob wrestled with God in secret prayer, and ever since, all the saints in all ages have borne that name (Psalm 24:6). This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek you…

But will some say, Objection: might that be offered to God in sacrifice, which the Tyrians had scraped together by polling and unlawful shifts? For the Lord detests such offerings; because he requires a pure conscience, and innocent hands (Psalm 24:4). Now in regard of this ques…

Whereas the holy principles that actuate a true saint, have a far more powerful influence to stir him up to earnestness in seeking God and holiness, than servile fear. Hence seeking God is spoken of as one of the distinguishing characters of the saints; and those that seek God,…

She continues the comparison of opening a shut door, he, as it were, put in the key without, and she came to draw the handle or [reconstructed: slot] within (as is usual in some locks). The door is the heart, as (Psalm 24:7) called, the everlasting doors. The lock that closes, i…

The second part of the promise, is, we will enclose her with boards of cedar: Cedar was a precious wood, and durable (as has been often said) And to be enclosed with it, signifies the adorning of her, and strengthening of her more. The condition annexed to this part of the promi…

All theft presupposes a right and propriety: for where nothing does of right appertain to me, nothing can be unjustly taken or detained from me. Now here first, certain it is, that God is the great Lord and proprietor both of heaven and earth, and of all things in them (Psalm 24…

So the word righteousness is very often used in scripture for God's covenant-faithfulness so it is used in Nehemiah 9:8. You have performed your words, for you are righteous. So we are often to understand righteousness and covenant-mercy for the same thing; as Psalm 24:5. He sha…

What great person is this? And say, as in Psalm 24:8, 10, "Who is this King of glory," that God should show such respect, and put such vast honor upon him? Surely this person is honorable indeed in God's eyes, and greatly beloved of him; and surely it is a great errand upon whic…

We have here 1. To consider the estate of Christians, in the words that here describe it. 2. The opposition of it to the state of unbelievers. 3. The end of it. A chosen generation,] The Psalmist there speaks first of God's universal sovereignty, then of his peculiar choice (Psa…

O how often do we read in Scripture, that they are alone with God, pouring out their souls in complaints to him! Nothing so natural to them as prayer; they are called a generation of them that seek God (Psalm 24:6). As light bodies are moving upward, so the saints are looking up…

As soon as we are new-born, there will be a crying out for relief in prayer. It is the character of the saints, This is the generation of them that seek you (Psalm 24:6), a people much in calling upon God. And the Prophet describes them by the work of prayer (Zephaniah 3:10): My…

1. God gives us the possession of them; for he is the absolute Lord of all things, both in heaven and in earth; and whatever is possessed by any creature, it is by his indulgence; for the primitive and original right was in him. (Psalm 24:1) The earth is the Lord's, and the full…

Nevertheless, not without reason did this woman say that with the ark of God captured, the glory had departed from Israel. For in Psalm 24 that ark is called the God of glory, because God represented his benevolence by this sign, as if he covered his people with his wings and sh…

Now when pillars are attributed to the earth, we must understand this as a metaphorical expression. For in another place, Psalm 24:2 and 136:6, God is said to have founded the earth upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. But those who are about to build in rivers or i…

You have David's instance in the text, and elsewhere. It is their general character (Psalm 24:6): This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob, Selah. God's children are a generation of seekers.

Go to another sort of seekers, they are sensible of the same thing, in case of desertion it is clear, Song of Solomon 5:6. My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone; I sought him, but I could not find him. They never begin to recover, until they are first sensible of their…

4. If you do not sensibly find God, yet comfort yourself that you are in a seeking way, and in the pursuit of him. Psalm 24:6: God's people are described to be the generation of them that seek him. This is the true mark of God's chosen people, they make it their business to get…

Now this is that which Christianity drives at, that we may look after our reward with God, and escape that tribulation, wrath, and anguish, which shall come upon every soul that does evil. 2. That doctrine which establishes purity of heart and life, as the only means to attain t…

Luther says, we are always in medio rubri maris, kept as the Israelites were in the midst of the Red Sea. The Psalmist tells us (Psalm 24:2): He has founded the earth upon the seas, and established the world upon the floods. That part of the world where we dwell, would suddenly…

True saints are called seekers of God. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face O Jacob, or O God of Jacob (Psalm 24:6). Lo here a generation of them that seek God, and are not these the saints of God?

1 Consider the worthiness of the person, in regard of whom all preparation may seem too little; you are not to entertain an ordinary person, it is not a man, it is not a king, it is not an earthly monarch, but it is the King of Kings that will come into your souls to comfort the…

Fear not, O you Saints, neither sin nor Satan can dissolve your union with Christ, nor by consequence hinder you of that blessed place where your Head is. Question: Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord (Psalm 24:3)? Who shall be a citizen of this new Jerusalem, which is ab…

To the praise of the glory of his grace, that is, to the praise of his glorious grace. And his mighty Power imports no lesse then his Almighty Power; sometimes the Lord is stiled mighty and strong, as Psalms 24:8. sometimes most mighty, sometimes Almighty, no lesse is meant in a…

And their noble one shall be of themselves, and their Governor shall proceed from the midst of them, and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach to me, says the Lord? The love eternal here in JEHOVAH loves an…

The word 'world' in scripture is in general taken four ways. First, for the world as container — generally for the whole fabric of heaven and earth with all things in them contained, which God created in the beginning (Job 34:13; Acts 17:24; Ephesians 1:4); and distinctly, first…

But directly this is the same with that parallel place (Titus 1:3): according to the commandment of God our Savior, where no interposition of that conjunctive particle can have place, the same title being also in other places ascribed to him, as Luke 1:47: my spirit has rejoiced…

The innocent in hands, and the man of a pure heart. Again in another place (Psalm 24): This is the generation of those that seek God, of those that seek the face of the God of Jacob. And so does the Spirit exhort the faithful to endurance, that they take it not grievously that t…

Christ's Godhead implies excellency of being — he calls himself "I am" (John 8:28). Excellency of glory — therefore called the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:8) and King of glory (Psalm 24:7): "Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the…

But keep hearts of worth within you — I mean prepared for the presence of the Lord, as the Church says (Song of Solomon 7:13), "In our gates is all manner of pleasant fruits." The gates of a commonwealth are the gates of judicature, but the gates of a Christian is his heart (Psa…