WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Psalm 132, a song of ascents. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.420 In Ephathah, we found it in the fields of Jer. 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.740 Let us go to his dwelling place. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.500 Let us worship at his footstool. 00:00:39.579 --> 00:00:44.740 Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. 00:00:45.519 --> 00:00:52.500 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy for the sake of your servant David. 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.019 Do not turn away the face of your anointed one. 00:00:56.020 --> 00:01:01.620 The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back. 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:05.659 One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne. 00:01:06.180 --> 00:01:13.320 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne. 00:01:14.460 --> 00:01:16.300 For the Lord has chosen Zion. 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:18.540 He has desired it for his dwelling place. 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:20.879 This is my resting place forever. 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:23.659 Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. 00:01:23.659 --> 00:01:26.399 I will abundantly bless her provisions. 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:28.420 I will satisfy her poor with bread. 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:33.219 Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy. 00:01:33.899 --> 00:01:36.060 There I will make a horn to sprout for David. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:38.219 I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. 00:01:38.759 --> 00:01:43.759 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine. 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.000 This is God's holy and authoritative word. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:54.900 This psalm is about how we should seek the presence of God and the reign of Christ the King over our lives. 00:01:55.519 --> 00:02:01.879 In the first half of the psalm, verses 1 to 10, we see Israel's prayer that God would reign in their midst. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.400 And in the second half, verses 11 to 18, we see God's answer. 00:02:06.740 --> 00:02:10.020 His promise that he would reign in their midst. 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:14.680 So let's first look at Israel's prayer in verses 1 to 10. 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:21.800 The psalmist begins by asking God to remember his servant David in verses 1 to 5. 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:25.600 Remember, O Lord, in David's favor all the hardships he endured. 00:02:25.980 --> 00:02:28.460 How he swore to the Lord and vowed to the mighty one of Jacob, 00:02:28.540 --> 00:02:30.480 I will not enter my house or get into my bed. 00:02:30.540 --> 00:02:35.900 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord, 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.400 a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.760 This is an allusion to 2 Samuel chapter 7, verses 1 to 3, 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:48.719 where King David expresses to Nathan the prophet his desire to build a temple for God. 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.360 And there he says, you know, see now I dwell in a house of cedar, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.180 but the ark of God dwells in a tent. 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.560 And apparently, according to Psalm 132, 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:06.860 David had sworn not to enter his own house until he had found a place for the Lord. 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:10.260 A dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. 00:03:10.980 --> 00:03:16.880 The mighty one of Jacob is a title for God that is sometimes associated with the ark of the covenant 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:18.620 because the ark was known. 00:03:19.320 --> 00:03:23.500 Ark was kind of the physical representation of God's presence. 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:25.200 It represented God's footstool. 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:29.020 And so it was sometimes referred to by God's name. 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.960 And so later in verse 8, it refers to the ark of your might. 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.060 That's a parallel to this mighty one of Jacob. 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.980 And this is kind of, this is why actually David's one of my favorite characters in the Bible. 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:44.620 He had an intensely personal relationship with God. 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:46.640 He loved the Lord. 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.800 He was a man after God's own heart, though not without his failings. 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:57.080 And when a pestilence was raging throughout the nation because of David's own sins, 00:03:57.340 --> 00:04:02.719 because he took a census, which showed that he was relying on the number of his army 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:07.860 rather than in the power of the Lord, when God judged the nation with the pestilence. 00:04:07.860 --> 00:04:13.740 And when David saw the angel of the Lord kind of executing God's judgment on the, 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:18.360 and when he saw the angel of the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite, 00:04:18.819 --> 00:04:20.800 you guys probably, some of you probably remember the story. 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:26.680 He goes there to build an altar to the Lord and to worship him there and to plead on behalf of his people. 00:04:27.660 --> 00:04:32.139 And so he offers to buy the place, the threshing floor from Araunah. 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:37.379 Araunah, of course, is, you know, in the presence of the king, says, 00:04:37.379 --> 00:04:38.560 Hey, you could take it for free. 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:42.480 You know, I give it to you, you know, as a gift to the Lord. 00:04:42.719 --> 00:04:46.860 But David insists, No, but I will buy it from you for a price. 00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:51.480 I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord, my God, that cost me nothing. 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:54.120 Like that was kind of David's heart. 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:01.480 He was eager to make costly sacrifices to God because he wanted to demonstrate his love for God, 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:02.719 his commitment to God. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:09.880 And David could not, according to this psalm, rest his eyes in the comfort of his palace, 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:12.840 knowing that the ark of God remained in a tent. 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:18.260 He saw the incongruity of it, the wrongness of that picture, 00:05:19.020 --> 00:05:24.220 that he should dwell in the comfort of his own home when the ark of God sat without one. 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.280 And so he vowed to correct it. 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:34.099 And even though God tells David that he wanted his son Solomon eventually to build a temple, 00:05:34.359 --> 00:05:37.119 God nevertheless commanded David for this desire, 00:05:37.219 --> 00:05:40.359 for having this desire to want to house the ark of the Lord. 00:05:42.059 --> 00:05:46.819 And so the psalmist, having recalled the favor that David enjoyed from God, 00:05:47.239 --> 00:05:51.659 now asks the Lord, out of his steadfast love and faithfulness to David, 00:05:51.979 --> 00:05:54.099 to return to his dwelling place in Jerusalem. 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:56.300 In verses 6 to 10, he says, 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:59.000 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.140 We found it in the fields of Jair. 00:06:01.620 --> 00:06:03.660 Let us go to his dwelling place. 00:06:03.780 --> 00:06:05.160 Let us worship at his footstool. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.160 Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, 00:06:08.379 --> 00:06:09.620 you and the ark of your might. 00:06:10.140 --> 00:06:12.220 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.280 and let your saints shout for joy. 00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:16.460 For the sake of your servant David, 00:06:16.840 --> 00:06:19.620 do not turn away the face of your anointed one. 00:06:19.620 --> 00:06:29.939 And verse 6 is kind of recounting the journey of the ark of the covenant. 00:06:30.819 --> 00:06:34.000 It's uncertain what Ephrathah refers to, 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.899 because it could refer to a couple different things, 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.639 but it may refer to Shiloh, 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:44.399 which in 1 Samuel 1, verses 1 to 3, 00:06:44.500 --> 00:06:46.259 is associated with the Ephrathites. 00:06:47.339 --> 00:06:50.519 Shiloh was a city within the territory of the tribe of Ephraim, 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:52.680 where the ark of the covenant resided 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.240 after the conquest of Canaan in Joshua 18. 00:06:57.039 --> 00:06:59.800 So that's where the ark was first found. 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:01.419 So verse 6 then would mean, 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:01.759 you know, 00:07:02.039 --> 00:07:04.519 we heard that it was in Ephrathah. 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:06.039 We had heard of it in Ephrathah. 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:10.780 And then, however, because of Israel's unfaithfulness, 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.760 the ark was lost, captured by the Philistines. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.260 But then God brought judgment on the Philistines 00:07:16.260 --> 00:07:17.340 on account of the ark, 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.240 and so the Philistines returned it. 00:07:19.860 --> 00:07:21.740 And then when they returned it, 00:07:22.140 --> 00:07:27.340 it was taken to Kiriath-Jerim in 1 Samuel 6, 21. 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:29.939 That's another name for the fields of Jair, 00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:33.900 meaning town or land of forests. 00:07:33.899 --> 00:07:37.259 And it's from there that David brings up 00:07:37.259 --> 00:07:38.579 the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. 00:07:38.699 --> 00:07:41.699 So verse 6 is kind of recounting the journey of the ark, 00:07:42.259 --> 00:07:45.919 God's presence from Shiloh to Kiriath-Jerim 00:07:45.919 --> 00:07:47.159 and finally to Jerusalem. 00:07:47.979 --> 00:07:51.679 And anticipating its arrival to Jerusalem, 00:07:53.679 --> 00:07:55.679 the psalmist says in verse 7, 00:07:55.799 --> 00:07:58.019 let us go to his dwelling place. 00:07:58.539 --> 00:08:00.419 Let us worship at his footstool. 00:08:00.420 --> 00:08:05.160 And apart from a few word variations, 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.080 the verses 8 to 10 are identical to 2 Chronicles 6, 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:10.259 verses 40 to 42. 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:13.160 That's where Solomon is praying 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.520 at the dedication of the newly built temple. 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:19.220 So it's very possible that this psalm was composed 00:08:19.220 --> 00:08:21.860 for the occasion of dedication of the temple. 00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:26.160 And it's kind of, 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:28.540 the psalm is talking about the kind of 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:31.319 transference of the ark. 00:08:32.659 --> 00:08:34.120 And so he's praying, 00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:35.659 now arise, O Lord God, 00:08:35.740 --> 00:08:36.980 and go to your resting place, 00:08:37.060 --> 00:08:38.180 you and the ark of your might. 00:08:38.860 --> 00:08:40.340 You know, let your priests, O Lord God, 00:08:40.379 --> 00:08:41.620 be clothed with salvation. 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.800 Let your saints rejoice in your goodness. 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:44.560 O Lord God, 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.720 do not turn away the face of your anointed one. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.820 Remember your steadfast love for David, your servant. 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:52.960 So it's praying that God would show favor to his people 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:54.140 by dwelling among them. 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.100 And then that's the people's prayer. 00:08:58.760 --> 00:09:00.620 And then in the second half of the psalm, 00:09:00.680 --> 00:09:01.920 we see God's answer, 00:09:02.260 --> 00:09:04.840 his promise that he will reign in their midst. 00:09:06.379 --> 00:09:08.220 And there's a lot of parallels 00:09:08.220 --> 00:09:10.960 between verses 1 to 10 and 11 to 17. 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.180 And these parallels emphasize 00:09:14.180 --> 00:09:16.500 the connection between the people's prayer 00:09:16.500 --> 00:09:17.480 and God's answer. 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:21.759 So verse 2 recalled how David swore to the Lord 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:23.940 to build a temple for him. 00:09:24.659 --> 00:09:26.019 And then verses 11 to 12, 00:09:26.139 --> 00:09:28.300 recall how the Lord swore to David 00:09:28.300 --> 00:09:31.159 a sure oath from which he will not turn back, 00:09:31.820 --> 00:09:33.500 that he would have set someone 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:34.960 from his line on the throne. 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:36.759 If your sons keep my covenant 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.440 and my testimony that I shall teach them, 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.100 their sons also forever shall sit on your throne. 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:43.600 So similarly in verse 7, 00:09:43.659 --> 00:09:44.379 the psalmist says, 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:46.920 let us go to his dwelling place. 00:09:47.420 --> 00:09:48.800 And then in verse 8, 00:09:48.860 --> 00:09:51.159 arise the Lord and go to your resting place. 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.580 That's paralleled by verses 13 and 14, 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:56.440 where the Lord himself says he has chosen Zion, 00:09:56.680 --> 00:09:57.700 his dwelling place. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.200 And he says that this is my resting place forever. 00:10:01.659 --> 00:10:02.560 Here I will dwell. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:06.619 Verse 9 prays for the priests 00:10:06.619 --> 00:10:07.979 to be clothed with righteousness 00:10:07.979 --> 00:10:10.739 and the saints to shout for joy. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:12.399 And then in verse 16, 00:10:12.500 --> 00:10:13.939 God promises her priests, 00:10:14.099 --> 00:10:15.339 I will clothed with salvation 00:10:15.339 --> 00:10:17.759 and her saints will shout for joy. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.939 And then verse 10 finally asks God 00:10:20.939 --> 00:10:23.439 not to turn away his face from David, 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:24.399 his anointed one. 00:10:24.959 --> 00:10:26.199 And then in verse 17, 00:10:26.379 --> 00:10:27.059 God answers, 00:10:27.419 --> 00:10:29.519 there I will make a horn to sprout for David. 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.100 I prepared a lamp for my anointed. 00:10:32.439 --> 00:10:35.059 So sprouting horn is a metaphor 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:36.519 for strength and power. 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.740 And lamp represents David's kind of 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:41.259 and his lines reign, 00:10:41.419 --> 00:10:44.679 dynastic reign that will never be put out. 00:10:45.199 --> 00:10:46.679 And so these extensive parallels 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.439 between the first half and second half of the song 00:10:48.439 --> 00:10:51.799 teach us that God is a promise keeper. 00:10:52.439 --> 00:10:54.480 He answers the prayers of his people. 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:55.960 He will keep all of his promises. 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.240 The trouble is, 00:10:59.340 --> 00:11:00.460 even though God promised 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:02.019 to put someone on the throne 00:11:02.019 --> 00:11:04.400 out of David's line forever 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:06.340 in 2 Samuel 7, 00:11:06.940 --> 00:11:09.879 Israel failed to keep their end of the covenant. 00:11:10.460 --> 00:11:12.379 Because if you look again at verse 12, 00:11:12.540 --> 00:11:13.259 it says clearly, 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:15.259 if your sons keep my covenant 00:11:15.259 --> 00:11:18.100 and my testimony is that I shall teach them, 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.759 their sons also forever shall sit on your throne. 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:22.600 But Israel and their kings 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.060 did not keep the covenant. 00:11:24.059 --> 00:11:25.879 And the royal succession of David 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:27.819 came to an unceremonious end 00:11:27.819 --> 00:11:28.899 with Zedekiah, 00:11:29.059 --> 00:11:31.659 who was the last king to reign in Judah 00:11:31.659 --> 00:11:35.819 before they were all exiled to Babylon. 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:38.799 And the promise, however, 00:11:39.139 --> 00:11:40.239 stands, 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:41.179 the promise of God 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:43.539 to have someone from David's line reign forever. 00:11:44.119 --> 00:11:46.179 And so that promise is fulfilled ultimately 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:47.579 in the coming of Christ, 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:48.779 Christ the king, 00:11:48.859 --> 00:11:49.659 the messianic king. 00:11:49.659 --> 00:11:53.279 And that's why he's described in Matthew 1 carefully 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.439 as a descendant of David. 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:57.600 He's the one who ascends 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.399 the eternal heavenly throne 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.959 by dying on the cross, 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:02.360 being raised from the dead, 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:03.819 and ascending to heaven. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.299 And it's by pledging our allegiance to Jesus 00:12:07.299 --> 00:12:08.279 as our king 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.059 that we are grafted into Israel 00:12:11.059 --> 00:12:13.239 and the promise of Psalm 132 00:12:13.239 --> 00:12:15.879 becomes ours to cherish forever. 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.500 And the Jewish people understood this, 00:12:21.599 --> 00:12:23.219 the fulfillment of this in the New Testament. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.379 This psalm is quoted in Acts 7, 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.679 verses 44 to 50, 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:31.000 in Stephen's speech 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.199 just before his martyrdom. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.200 But he recalls there 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.080 that even though Solomon built a house for God, 00:12:40.620 --> 00:12:43.660 that God himself says, 00:12:44.040 --> 00:12:44.820 Heaven is my throne 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:46.340 and the earth is my footstool. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:48.360 What kind of house will you build for me, 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:49.020 says the Lord? 00:12:49.500 --> 00:12:51.200 What is the place of my rest? 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.540 The temple was not the ultimate place 00:12:53.540 --> 00:12:54.300 of God's rest. 00:12:54.940 --> 00:12:56.440 Jerusalem was not the ultimate place 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:57.259 of God's dwelling. 00:12:57.900 --> 00:12:59.360 That's fulfilled in Jesus, 00:12:59.560 --> 00:13:00.160 the new temple. 00:13:00.420 --> 00:13:01.360 And in him, 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:02.800 it's fulfilled in us, 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:03.899 the body of Christ, 00:13:04.319 --> 00:13:05.319 the temple of God. 00:13:05.740 --> 00:13:07.279 That's why 1 Corinthians 3 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.519 describes us as God's temple 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.059 and that God's spirit dwells in us. 00:13:13.819 --> 00:13:15.500 So then there's a couple ways 00:13:15.500 --> 00:13:19.259 that I think we could still hold on to this psalm 00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:21.379 and seek the dwelling place of God. 00:13:22.259 --> 00:13:26.740 If Christ is the fulfillment of this psalm, 00:13:26.959 --> 00:13:29.620 one, we ought to pledge allegiance to him 00:13:29.620 --> 00:13:30.479 and follow him, 00:13:30.579 --> 00:13:31.939 knowing that it's only in him 00:13:31.940 --> 00:13:35.940 that we can be citizens of his kingdom. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:37.560 And then secondly, 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.480 if we are the temple of God, 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:42.620 then it is true, 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.900 as it says in Matthew 18, 20, 00:13:45.160 --> 00:13:49.120 that when we are gathered in Christ's name, 00:13:49.280 --> 00:13:50.720 that God is among us. 00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:52.600 So then in the same way 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.180 that these people, 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:55.540 the Israelites, 00:13:56.280 --> 00:13:57.440 just because for them, 00:13:57.540 --> 00:13:58.260 think about it, right? 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:01.240 The ark was the physical manifestation 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.679 of God's spiritual presence. 00:14:05.319 --> 00:14:07.059 So they longed for that. 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:08.819 When the ark was gone, 00:14:08.899 --> 00:14:10.019 they felt his absence. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.179 They felt the lack of the assurance 00:14:13.179 --> 00:14:14.759 of God's presence among them. 00:14:15.259 --> 00:14:17.100 When they were cut off from the temple, 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:18.139 cut off from Jerusalem, 00:14:18.379 --> 00:14:19.039 when they're in exile, 00:14:19.139 --> 00:14:20.539 they felt his absence, 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:22.299 that God's not among them. 00:14:22.299 --> 00:14:23.639 And so for us, 00:14:23.699 --> 00:14:25.659 we should long for the presence of God. 00:14:25.740 --> 00:14:25.899 One, 00:14:25.959 --> 00:14:28.159 we should recognize the privilege 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:29.799 that we are the dwelling place of God, 00:14:30.099 --> 00:14:32.620 that the spirit of God himself dwells in us 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:34.679 so that we can experience this reality 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:35.639 at all times, 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:39.799 even without a physical temple. 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:41.659 But then two, 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:43.500 this is especially true 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:44.899 when we are gathered in his name 00:14:44.899 --> 00:14:46.159 as the people of God, 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.120 because they are specially, 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:49.500 God's presence is made known. 00:14:49.659 --> 00:14:51.259 He's manifest in a more powerful 00:14:51.259 --> 00:14:52.419 and palpable way. 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:54.639 And so we should long for that. 00:14:55.079 --> 00:14:57.699 We should long to be together 00:14:57.699 --> 00:14:58.439 with God's people, 00:14:58.519 --> 00:14:59.299 the body of Christ, 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:00.139 the family of God, 00:15:00.199 --> 00:15:01.459 the dwelling place of God. 00:15:02.500 --> 00:15:05.600 And so have the assurance 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:06.819 of his presence among us. 00:15:06.959 --> 00:15:10.539 And so this makes me really yearn 00:15:10.539 --> 00:15:12.179 for the gathering of the church again. 00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:15.659 And let's pray for that together 00:15:15.659 --> 00:15:17.359 and pray for, 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:21.259 and to pray that we would not 00:15:21.259 --> 00:15:22.839 lose sight of that privilege 00:15:22.839 --> 00:15:24.899 and not to take it for granted.