Psalms 87:2 KJV
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Barnes Notes has this to say,
"The particular allusion here seems to be to the thronging multitudes pressing into the city for public worship - the numbers that gathered together at the great feasts and festivals of the nation; and the meaning is, that he looked with more pleasure on such multitudes as they thronged the gates, pressing in that they might worship him, than on any other scene in the land....
Much as he might be pleased with their quiet abodes, with their peace, prosperity, and order, and with the fact that his worship was daily celebrated in those happy families, yet he had superior pleasure in the multitudes that crowded the ways to the place where they would publicly acknowledge him as their God."
This dispels to some degree those that like to call family times of worship or quiet times in the mountains the same thing as attending an organized church.
No doubt there is little as pleasant to our own senses as a peaceful time alone near a lake or in the forest.
No question it is a precious time when a family gathers around the family Bible and meet with the Lord together
But far superior to those, and requisite to their being what they are intended to be is the faithful and regular assembling of the people of God together in the House of the Lord.
The Lord Himself loves that!
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Barnes Notes has this to say,
"The particular allusion here seems to be to the thronging multitudes pressing into the city for public worship - the numbers that gathered together at the great feasts and festivals of the nation; and the meaning is, that he looked with more pleasure on such multitudes as they thronged the gates, pressing in that they might worship him, than on any other scene in the land....
Much as he might be pleased with their quiet abodes, with their peace, prosperity, and order, and with the fact that his worship was daily celebrated in those happy families, yet he had superior pleasure in the multitudes that crowded the ways to the place where they would publicly acknowledge him as their God."
This dispels to some degree those that like to call family times of worship or quiet times in the mountains the same thing as attending an organized church.
No doubt there is little as pleasant to our own senses as a peaceful time alone near a lake or in the forest.
No question it is a precious time when a family gathers around the family Bible and meet with the Lord together
But far superior to those, and requisite to their being what they are intended to be is the faithful and regular assembling of the people of God together in the House of the Lord.
The Lord Himself loves that!
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