“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Psalms 119: 129

Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul keeps them.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

The testimonies of us, the bride, the church should be safeguarded within Christ through the true word of God.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that our, the bride, the church's head is Christ

Next what we are meditating upon is that in 1 Chronicles 28: 1 – 3 Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the leaders of Israel: the officers of the tribes and the captains of the divisions who served the king, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor.

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it. 

But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.’

In the above-mentioned verses, David assembled at Jerusalem all the leaders of Israel: the officers of the tribes and the captains of the divisions who served the king, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor. Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it. But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.’ Then David said in 1 Chronicles 28: 4 – 8 However the Lord God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for He has chosen Judah to be the ruler. And of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel. 

And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. 

Now He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father. 

Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he is steadfast to observe My commandments and My judgments, as it is this day.’ 

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.

When we meditate upon the above-mentioned verses, our Lord Jesus Christ manifests as the king of Israel and he is changing Israel as his people and his brothers, and he is showing this as a pattern, and he is making all the leaders of Israel to gather in Jerusalem and rising and standing on his feet shows the soul which has been saved. Our soul after salvation Christ alone should be the leader of everything and manifests as the head. In such a soul only the life of Christ can manifest forever and that the Lord is showing as a pattern using David. For the Lord to dwell within us and for the word of the Lord to be within us and to make us as his church so that before others our testimonies should be without the stain of blood, and he is explaining this clearly. That is, our testimonies should not be the cause for shedding of others blood. Therefore, my dear people when we meditate upon the words of the Lord to make us as his church and for the Lord to arise within us let us submit ourselves.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

       - To be continued