CONTENTS
Every portion of this beautiful Psalm is gospel. It treats first of Christ, and then of his people in him. Here is the Citizen of Zion described in his per - son, life, and conduct.
A Psalm of David.
The Psalm opens with an interesting question, humbly proposed to the Lord himself, Who shall be the happy person dwelling on the Lord's holy hill? Reader, remark first, that if we desire to know the Lord, that instruction must come from the Lord. Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by him. John 14:6. Next, let us attend to what is meant by the holy hill and tabernacle. In the tabernacle in the wilderness, and the church of Zion, the Holy Ghost was shadowing forth the heavenly tabernacle, the Jerusalem which is above, and both the gospel church in grace below, and the celestial temple in glory. This is, as the Apostle saith, the true tabernacle which God hath pitched, and not men. Hebrews 8:2. And when we have thus beheld the true tabernacle of God's pitching, and, not man's, we must then immediately perceive, that He, and he alone, must be the person the inquiry hath in view, who can fix his residence in this holy hill of Zion, who is himself holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens: He who hath an everlasting priesthood, who is a divine Prophet, an almighty King. So that the question is at once answered, in the very description of the place: and we already behold him, whom Jehovah hath set as King upon the hill of Zion, as the glorious One to inhabit there, even the Lord our righteousness.