Sermons,
by Steuart Adolphus Pears (9780217870627)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HOUSE OF GOD. ' God is in the midst of her: she shall not be moved.' -- Ps. xlvi. 5. This Psalm contains the expression of that which was the leading idea, the vital principle of David's kingdom -- to have God established in the capital of the nation; still more to have God set up in the hearts of His people, as He was already in the heart of the king. This was the purpose of his life; the end for which he felt himself called and anointed to be king in Israel. Of the care and the energy with which David carried out this purpose, we have some account given in the book of Chronicles, in which narrative much that is otherwise interesting in his history is passed over, and our whole attention called to the establishment of the Ark of God at Jerusalem. We read there of theanxiety with which he inquired after the place which God would choose to set His name there; of the zeal with which he inspired all Israel to join in bringing back the Ark, ' at which no inquiry had been made all the days of Saul;' and of the impulsive enthusiasm of his own conduct on the occasion. There, too, is described the arrangement of Priests and Levites for the public service; and the profuse preparation of materials for the building and decoration of that house which he so earnestly desired to erect to the glory of God. All his conquests, all his acts of government, his sins and his sorrows, his own personal fortunes and those of his children, are in this narrative put aside that we may learn in fuller detail and with stronger emphasis what was the great work of his life, the central idea of his government. It is true that his notion of the worship of God was not such as we have learnt from Him Who teaches that God is a Spirit, that His worship is not a matter of place or of form. An...

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