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Commentary on Psalm 23
The talk explores Psalm 23, emphasizing its significance in spiritual beginnings and its unchanging divine message amidst varying human circumstances. The analysis details three themes: the Lord's dominion over the physical universe, the purity required to ascend the divine mountain, and the invitation for the King of Glory to enter human hearts through humility and spiritual renewal. These themes collectively underscore a call to holiness and communal responsibility to meet God’s mercy and works.
- Psalm 23: The central text of the talk, examined for its spiritual implications and its threefold message of divine dominion, purity, and the invitation for divine presence.
- Pseudo-Ages (pseudo-Augustine): Quoted to support the interpretation of God's rule over the physical universe.
- Book of Job: Referenced to illustrate the theological point of God holding the earth in nothingness.
- First Book of Samuel and First Book of Kings: Alluded to in discussing themes of divine anointment and leadership in the context of the Old Testament.
- Jewish Midrash: Cited to describe a story regarding Solomon and the ark, emphasizing the necessity of humility and divine favor for spiritual openness.
AI Suggested Title: Psalm 23: Path to Holiness
Let's seek thy place. Who is the king of yours? You have to believe that every beginning and what is our spiritual life, but not a constant beginning point or again.
[01:12]
And every beginning that becomes, and has become, to clear things, the importance of the beginning point. And I think there's something to be made. get us to where see the adversaries of that. So the necklace is the opportunity that the Lord is opening up for and for weakness. The words of the Lord always remain the same, but other human circumstances, they change all the time. And it will clear find us in a different situation. And I think that this from Vietnam had not missed it for us, I'm still getting this out of debt. It starts, the first, you know, it has these three different, I would say, paragraph.
[02:20]
The first is that solid proclamation of God as the creator of the earth and as the guide and ruler of the human history of the human race the earth is the Lord and the fullness there the earth is the Lord that means that this physical universe there where we live, nature is, the last analysis, the Lord, [...]
[03:29]
who it is, that is John, that means not here, born, but here, and the vocation, effectively, Dr. Guglielm, of this physical human race, the girl, and it's foolish, is young, that means the curriculum, was for us, for our Christian years, Lydia, in this name of Germany, is for the Jews, and that he was the name of child they have done as the father of that character as the one who comes to judge and to redeem the king of mercy upon us so it is here told me he has made two loaves while it is the Lord Jesus Christ the curings and he is the Lord of this this universe we both and its fullness.
[04:31]
Not only that, also the world. We have said that before this table is what the empowerment of St. John appears as the goodness. Wouldn't you see this world, this world of pups, this problem, this world which lives under the law of God, under The law of men, which is the symbol of human history, and all of them are the catastrophes, and they constantly be called the human race. The history of mankind is a history of catastrophes. He has founded it upon the sea, established it upon the drugs, but that is certainly not a statement of geography, of geophysics, but it is a statement of the theological nature.
[05:40]
He has founded it upon the same, established it upon the world. Who, as Job says, holds the earth in nothingness, holds the earth up in nothingness. He is the one who is the God of Christ. The one who is greater and more powerful than all the valley tree and the nothingness. The waters, as it were, are a human haggot and a human belonging. And human nothingness. They come at the level that the world has been killed indeed by the infinite mercy on them. Then comes the second chapter of the song, who shall stand into the mountain of the boat. This earth and this world, all this particular nature as present as the human scene of human history, in this chapter, in this chapter, under the rule of the government.
[06:58]
Then the first question is, what here, who shall have taken into the mountain of the Lord? What is the mountain of the Lord? It's really the whole universe. All this is the mountain of the Lord. Because don't you need a step? Who shall stand in his holy bread? What is the holy bread? Now again, the earth is the Lord's. And the foolishness of them, the world in their natural way of death. And who shall slend his holy face? He that has clean hands and a pure heart. Who has not lifted his soul to explain things? No one has he sworn to stupid. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is the generation of them that seek after him, that seek life-faced, the face of God, object.
[08:11]
So it's a question here of those who shall ascend and who shall stand in this your holy place. And the answer to that is, for men, for nature, is a discouragement. Cleanness, purity is divided. Cleanness and purity. Indeed, he has clean hands. Of heart, he has a pure heart. Who does not lift up his soul out of the brain, that means he does not strong out of the brain. So his trial is balanced, he has not taken, he has not sworn, This whole being becomes that is what is involved in every book. It is the inner or the internal being of man, which is played in an absolute way.
[09:14]
So in all these three four screens, purity is required. Holiness and sanctity. That each shepherd sing the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness, misericordia, and mercy from the God of his salvation. So is the regeneration of them that seek after him, that seek thy face, the face of the God of Jacob. That is, therefore, after the establishing the fact of God's rule over the uterus, physical miracles, and the wonders and the second is the Lord that said the Lord of those who are scared who seek out in the face of God and that is the God of Jacob that is the generation of those who were really the chosen people and then comes a third category and that is lift up to the heads
[10:27]
This is now a new faith and a new, this is the gates, the eternal gates. That means the gates of the city of man. Gate brought down is always the place where man leads and lives, moves in society. In the state, lift up to your heads. All he takes is mankind. The next human race. And the king comes. Do not accept. Cannot stand with a holy place. But God comes. The king of glory may come. Who is the king of glory? the Lord's strong and mighty, the Lord's mighty impact.
[11:31]
That is the first to the proclamation of the name of the Lord, the Lord's mighty impact. That is Yahweh as the one who is Lord over life and death. And who, as I said, moves the powers of the heavens and moves and destroys Those who resisted, who happens, is the lowest of my mind. That is the first who comes, who wants to appear in this before that's entered through the gates. These gates have to be lifted up. Again, another time, the same question is asked again. Who there is the king of truth? And then comes the second answer, the Lord of hosts. He is the King of hosts.
[12:33]
The Lord of hosts. The Lord of hosts. He is the King of hosts. And this Lord of hosts is the Lord of hosts. He is the one who wants the whole of mankind to be invited to glory. becomes inner highest and peace on earth to make out his good pleasure. And this is the Lord of the King. We have the interesting, in the Jewish redrash of this last theme, certainly this song, the end of the song, and that song that I was but someone that wanted to have the ark brought through the gate of the temple.
[13:35]
That is the same. Even though what happened, the ark, much smaller than the gate, did not pass. Ever then, because he who invisibly Your wound on the arm did not want to blow himself to enter through the gate. Then Solomon shouted, lift up your heads, you eternal gates. And the priest blowed the trumpets and quants, and the Levites sat. But the question was delivered, who is the king of the Lord? And again Solomon shouted, lift up your heads, but the arm could not be moved. Only Mac Solomon said, Lord, remember your anointed one.
[14:37]
Be merciful to David's servants, and look favorably upon his repentance. Then the arm not carried anymore on the shoulders of the priests, flew into at the same time the gates opened from one edge of the horizon to the world. So the healing of glory comes, and we as Christians, we see of course again in this beautiful picture, the fulfillment which is found, the exorbitant which is found, which is also beautifully, the fulfillment we answer, which is lovely. that the king of glory enters in the king of the lord of hosts. And the lord of hosts is, we have spoken about them before, it is the one who first enters upon the scene, the great hunter.
[15:49]
At the beginning of the first book of Samuel, the first book of kings, where the Samuel is born. Samuel, an oil state. So there where the scripture begins, introduce us to the kingdom of the anointed one, David, the Lord of the Testament. And then in his cleanness and prayer, the dream of the Lord, the Lord of the Lord. A unique house which is not the book of the cosmos, is this world of it, subject to duty and duty and ambition and all its things, but the hopes. The hopes to form your even loving obedience to will, the will of the Father, the will that is their sanctification.
[16:54]
the way that his mercy. He, this thing, enters through the gates. He enters through the gates first in this way that he honors himself. He becomes man. He becomes one of us. He takes upon himself honesty. And this is the way in which he enters through the gates into this thing. We are a generation of those who see, yes, after the face of the God of Jacob. But all of our sins, we cannot, with pure hands, and with pure heart, and with pure striving, and being spared in the holy place. God himself loves himself, becoming man and dying for us outside the gate. of the Holy Spirit.
[17:56]
And then he enters and he says, peace be to you. And he appears to his apostles with the closed doors, the closed doors, and enters there as with him of peace at the risen sacrament. And they will see him. And the gates also in that way are opened. And what are these gates? They are the gates of that faith and of their inn, the Lord of Christ put them. They are at the gates of their heart, in which they agree and let in the Lord to wash their feet. In that, you know, of the change of heart, they let in the next day leave, and they lift up their hands and pray, and leads to the step of the spirit who feels the whole heart, who feels that the whole earth, the one who guessed that the earth is the beginning of the earth.
[19:09]
Fulfillment of that sentence, which this whole earth's sound started, that dominion, as terror, at the end of the spirit is dominion, but clearly, of attack. So this work, I think, and this time has for us at the beginning of the new year a good and wonderful week, because we also and also a holistic community always stands there suddenly as . And we hear, we hear of the majesty of God proclaiming, as it were, the Lord, of holiness and we see our responsibility and we see the seriousness of what is demanded of us. Be holy as I am holy.
[20:11]
That is really the law of the temple. That is the law of the holy place and we know it. We live in this holy place and still we also experience that we, out of ourselves, we are unable to fulfill the door of this holiness. We are constantly limited to our, to the state of foreign nature. The old man, in which we find ourselves, we are constantly caught up, as it were. Perhaps then, when we are at the end of it here, as this would work, When we look back, God, we have lived the monastic life we have. I think we can sincerely say that we have been a group of people who look, who seek the Lord to advance your door.
[21:21]
We have heard again and again the law of the Statue. That's what I've just written. Reluctions, violins that wound in common. And we know that we have believed. We know that in many ways we have given in to the limitations of our creature. We have a problem and let all receive our sins. And we realise, of course, that therefore we are children of that, children of that. There is that tremendous danger for us that we take the name of God and then, as the descendants of the generation of the most who stand in the sanctuary that they should not take the name of God.
[22:24]
Way of force, that is that commitment of our own sacred religious depth, and using it for our own personal ambitions, this tremendous sacrifice, and that has caused the great danger. Then we realised, you know, that we may even have done that, that we may even have taken the name of God in vain. Still, the Advent season comes along, and the King of the Lord is there, and he knocks at the gate, and he will also live here. You've got it. eternal days, that the King of glory may enter me.
[23:26]
And that is this moment, that is the beginning, I believe, because the afternoon comes again, and he wants that the gates to be built. And again, I've said the gates, and I think we should take that through, where I see the gates, is that place in the the city where people meet. People are not in a private function, but in a public function. Judgment is done in gates. Justice is administered in gates. What is restored or expedited from the community at the gates. Therefore, the high gates is that place where The common we, the community, lives and acts. Now that that is the tremendously important force that we realize that the entering of the King of the Lord into our cities, through the gates, that means to be Vida Komunis.
[24:40]
But the Vida Komunis now I mean not simply as the title of rules. as an observer. Something where everybody doesn't, you know, what is extremely so cool, I suppose. But the people who listen to that, to all the deepest things, they are beneath person to person. They are beneath, even one can say, in the life of the King of Glory. But of that King of Glory who humbles who came and sit there and constantly comes under our roof. And he is our common life. He is the one whom we constantly should share. And in him we should meet one. That I think is so important.
[25:43]
When you look towards the future, Christ, you heard this after the season, that's the meaning of it, will be born again in our heart. But on which part, it's the Lord of the Lord, the one who comes back, but who's born of the Lord, and therefore is our brother, leads us on our plane, leads us there where we are. We do not have to ascend to the mountain, Lying them out. We cannot. But there where we are, he comes. And then he has the humble servant way, this king. There the gates may be. And those gates, of course, are the gates of understanding, of healing, of beautiful tolerance, of patience,
[26:45]
with one another. That is what makes our heartless living lives. And that is what paradoxically but truly lives. Because it already says that. Honestly, our mother stems you. It's our teaching. It's that humility. Humility is the way to more openness of heart. It isn't right. You can't read a thousand books. You follow one after the earth. Say, now here, this is that. This is that. This is that. And with that. Imposedly, you want to extend yourself. You think by that you lift up the gates so that they reach for the horizon to the earth. It is not that. You can't do that.
[27:46]
They've been stiffing up and remain loud. Some of us have been closed against, you know, the real heart, as it were, of things and of reality. It's not there. But it's the opening of our ability that leads us to war. For the opening of our ability to the king of glory, as leads to the woman who died for who washes out. And then he did that now, he said, thou should do the same to one. And that is the way in which you should be seen. Washing one out of one another street. That is the victim of each other king. And then he can enter in the Lord of hosts. So through this, Adam seemed to everything we can of, so in your personal, mutual, not the leading relation, steep contact.
[28:51]
Take the initiative on it. Don't always wait for it. Or don't say that a steep thing, and that where distance, and so on, is your absolute obligation. Very often to structure this fantasy, deliver steep contact. Especially with the host whom you may have. Avoid it. Whether you show the kind of cold strokes out. Do away with it. Do that coldness the King of Lord will ever enter. It's too loud. It doesn't do it. But if you, in this way, take the initiative. Look at who being in there and is waiting. Just for little, see. who didn't gesture attention, of loving attention, of interest. If you ask me, yes, now, how should we come to him?
[29:54]
What should we talk about? You must talk about the King of Law. You'd want him to let him in. Don't talk about the things that belong to him. To do his body, he used to say that things are not happening backwards. It's not that we say acting, it's not just an external kind of superficially joking with one. Superficial joking can be sometimes just a screaming, just a hiding away. It can mean a statement and a bleak. And they need to know it would be just one of these things in between. Lift up our hearts to blame things. And that is, of course, not the Lord of the Sanctuary.
[30:56]
No, the meeting in the witches that God has given us. He called it the year that Christ the Lord has established among us when he brought the apostles' feet and said to the apostles, now you watch That's also the way we should meet together. That's also the things we should talk about. God's eternal destiny.
[31:26]
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