“Truth for Truckers” *June 13, 2014* Psalm 133 “The
Blessings of Unity”
The
beauty of unity of the brethren is the theme of this brief but picturesque
Psalm. It utilizes two vivid word pictures to depict the realities of brothers
and sisters in the LORD living in harmony one with another. Which brings to
remembrance all of the ‘One anothers’
of the New Testament, especially in the book of The Acts of the Holy Spirit
where it appears numerous times.
The first verse in this Psalm opens with
an attention getting ‘Behold’ calling
for special focus by the reader upon the truth to follow: ‘How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity.’ The function word here is unity, which was the key to successful
fellowship in the O.T. and now for the local New Testament church for “How can two walk together except they be
agreed”? (Amos 3:3)
The Lord Jesus Christ in John 17, His High
Priestly Prayer before the Cross, spoke of this necessity no less than five
times as He requested from His Father ‘That
they may be one’ in v.11, twice in v.21, in v.22 and finally in v.23. Paul,
in I Corinthians spent the first five chapters zoning in on unity in the church
at Corinth showing that it is the first priority for without it there is
nothing but a rebellious group of self-seeking individualists.
David, in this Song of Degrees, gives
these two powerful illustrations, ‘The
precious ointment...that ran down...Aaron’s beard...down to the skirts of his
garments’ when he was anointed by Moses for his ministry to God as high
priest, and ‘The dew of Hermon...that
descended upon the mountains of Zion’ .
Both of these illustrations show the
permeating abundance of flow, covering the entire surface upon which they fell.
The emphasis of ‘Going down’ is here
three times using the same Hebrew word showing the rich diffusion of the
anointing oil, a symbol of the Holy Spirit in the work of unity, and the full,
and complete manner in which the oil and dew were spread over the objects upon
which they were blanketing. This is how God wants the saints to ‘Dwell together in unity.’ In full and
abundant fellowship which completely covers their lives, yes, in fact it should
be just as profuse and rich in likeness as these two appropriate illustrations
used by David.
‘For
there the LORD commanded the blessing, for there the LORD commanded the
blessing, even life for evermore.’ It was upon ‘The mountains of Zion’ that the LORD pronounced the blessing of
old. And, not far from there on Mount Calvary the Lord Jesus Christ suffered
providing to those who receive Him the ‘Life
for evermore’ spoken of here in this Psalm. This is the foundation of the
ultimate blessing prophesied of here in Psalm 133 underlining the eternal
blessing to everyone who believes.
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