Psalms 66:13-15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is sweet and profitable to go up to God's house, under the leadings of God's Spirit, at all times, and upon all occasions; and it is doubly sweet when, after sickness or detention from God's ordinances, we are permitted once more to enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Reader, have you known what it is to be kept back by various causes; to have pined for the enjoyment of ordinances; and at length to have been blessed in the renewed privilege? Psalms 42:1-2. But how vast are our advantages, over our elder brethren in the old church. They went up with the burnt-offerings of the temple service, the legal sacrifices of the blood of rams and other beasts: and although, these were offered (when offered properly) by faith with reference to Christ; yet, blessed be our God! we draw nigh in the blood of Christ, as a Lamb without blemish and without spot. We have the substance; they had but the shadow. Precious Lord! thou art indeed become an High Priest, and by thine own blood thou hast entered, once for all, into the holy place, there to appear in the presence of God for us. Hebrews 9:11-12.