Psalm 124

The Lord The Defender of His People

Psalm 124:1 ... 

  1   “If it had not been the Lord who was on our  side...”

         Let the people now say — 
 

Psalm 125:1-2 …

1   “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion:

     Which can not be shaken cut endures forever.”

2  “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people,

     both now and forever more. 

4   Do good, O Lord, to those who are good – and to those who are upright in their   

     hearts.

5   But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the Lord will lead them 

     away with the doers of iniquity.

     Peace be upon Israel.   [All God’s people].

Psalm 132:13-14 …

13    For the Lord has chosen Zion, He has desired it for His dwelling:

14    This shall be my resting place forever and ever.

 

This beautiful picture describes three of the most important and blessed provisions from God to His people:

“Stability, security, and rest.”  

 

The world craves and seeks to get these things in different ways, but never finds them in their truth or most abiding form.  Yet there is place where all three may be found. God's  spiritual dwelling place for all people is found as a mountain, Zion, and it is an actual  city in Jerusalem.  Mount Zion pictures "stability," ... all other mountains and hills will be shake or removed, (Isaiah 54:10).  Mount Zion can not be shaken--it is unique among all other mountains.  God has set it apart for His own dwelling place. 

Jerusalem pictures "security."  Anyone who has ever traveled to Jerusalem can conform, that no mater at what point you approach the city, you must pass through mountains to reach it - for they surround it on all sides.  Likewise the city of God always surrounds His people. 

Stability. and security, offer us "rest."  Never ending rest.  God has declared, "This is my resting place forever and ever..."  Sharing in God's dwelling place, we are surrounded by His presence,  we naturally enter into His presence ... and we are at rest.
Amen.

 

Concluding Exhortations

Hebrews 12: 22-29

²² But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, ²³ to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, ²⁴ to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

²⁵ See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? ²⁶ At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”^c ²⁷ The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

^{28 "}Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, ²⁹ for our “God is a consuming fire.”

  Deut. 4:22

 "But laid out before us now is a greater mountain – ‘Mount Zion’, ‘the city of the living God’, ‘the heavenly Jerusalem’"