We will read in that place in the
world of God upon which the hymn we
have just seen sung is founded.
That is in the 87th Psalm.
Psalm 87.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city
of God.
I will make mention of Egypt and Babylon
as among them that know me.
Behold Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia.
This one was born there.
Yea, of Zion it shall be said.
This one and that one was born in
her.
And the Most High shall establish her.
The Lord shall count when he righted up
the peoples.
This one was born there.
Selah.
Which means, think of that.
They that sing as well as they that
dance shall say, all my well springs are
in thee.
Letter to the Hebrews chapter 12 and verse
22.
Ye are come to Zion.
It is always a most happy and a
most helpful thing to have a suitable setting
for preaching.
This evening we might seek to speak about
the blessings of the Christian life and tell
those who do not know and are not
in the enjoyment of them what a good
thing it is to belong to the Lord.
It might resolve itself into saying a lot
of things, of arguing those things out, of
trying to persuade but it would be hard
work if there was not some kind of
setting for all that.
And I think the best argument and the
best statement of that fact is found in
the very atmosphere of this gathering.
I was just thinking as you were singing
that if I had been an unsaved person
who did not know the Lord and was
not really in the enjoyment of salvation and
I had come in while that singing was
going on, I should have been compelled if
I had been honest to say these people
are having a good time.
They've got something and that really is the
best preaching isn't it.
So I say to you that whatever I
may state in words has a good strong
and genuine backing by the situation in which
we are found this evening.
And if you cannot accept the argument, if
that doesn't go down with you, the argument
of words, then just look at the people,
listen to the people.
And if you are not convinced that the
people of God have got something worth having,
well you are a very thick skinned.
You are a dying heart.
Well that's a little introduction.
The right kind of setting and introduction for
a meditation on this 87th Psalm with its
present application.
There is that.
All that is said there about Zion and
the citizens of Zion.
Here in the New Testament is the statement.
You will come to that.
That is not something in the Old Testament.
Long ago and far away there is something
here for you now.
It is present for you to know and
to possess.
Zion we are coming.
Now let us look at this 87th Psalm
and draw from it some of those things
which are brought to us in the Lord
Jesus at this very present time.
His foundation is in the holy mountain.
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city
of God.
That is the first section.
And as you see it contains some first
contrasts.
Contrasts represented by two words on each side.
Jacob on the one side contrasted with Zion
on the other side.
The tents of Jacob on the one side,
the gates of Zion on the other side.
A double contrast.
And the statement is that the Lord very
much prefers the one to the other.
Indeed it is touched in strong language the
Lord loveth this more than that.
And of course our inquiry is as to
what it is that is the foundation, the
basis of this discrimination and this partiality of
the Lord.
What is it that the Lord loves so
much more?
It is not a statement that the Lord
does not love Jacob nor the tents of
Jacob.
He does but he loves Zion and the
gates of Zion very much more.
Why?
Well you see Jacob represents the simple
pure mercy of God.
Whenever we come on Jacob, whether it be
the man himself or the people going by
his name, that which his name represents, we
always invariably find ourselves in the presence of
that which calls for and demands the mercy
of God.
The very name Jacob, the subplanter, is that
which is not for the mercy of God.
There is no hope for that.
There is no place for that.
And yet how very much of divine mercy
is exhibited in relation to Jacob.
How often in the prophets, in the prophets,
and that is significant because in the prophets
Israel had sunk into the Jacob realm again.
From the great Israel, the prince with God
position, they had fallen into the place of
men governed by the flesh, fleshly interests.
And so the name of the prophets for
Israel is so often that of Jacob.
And yet how much there is in the
prophets of God's great mercy to Jacob.
He will have mercy upon Jacob.
It's just wonderful, it's just wonderful when you
think of all that that name means.
To see how God went out to Jacob.
The patience of God, the long-suffering and
forbearance of God.
God never giving up.
Jacob was at his worst.
Yes, Jacob always symbolizes that which draws out
the mercy of God.
Jacob postulates mercy, mercy.
Well the Lord loved Jacob and showed Jacob
great mercy in such terms as patience and
long-suffering and forbearance.
Longing love?
Yes he did.
But do you think that that is all
that the Lord wants?
That, that which just demands his mercy, mercy,
mercy all the time?
That with which he has got to be
patient, long-suffering because of what it is?
Do you think that is wholly according to
the Lord's heart?
Surely not, surely not.
Then what is it that the Lord looks
for, longs for, delights in more than that?
Thank God that he's a God of mercy
and he is merciful to us in our
Jacob's state.
But don't let us conclude that because God
is so merciful to us as sinners, all
that we are in our human weakness, failure,
constant breakdown, don't let us conclude that however
great his mercy is, that that is the
thing that satisfies him fully, just to have
us as objects of his mercy.
And so he contrasts Jacob with Zion and
Zion represents something more than the mercy of
God, it represents the full response to the
mercy of God and something more.
When you come into what is represented by
Zion, then you find that which answers back
to the mercy of God, that which says
his mercy has not been in vain.
You like to change the word from mercy
to grace, you can, but the grace of
God has not been in vain.
He has not just had to go on
being merciful and merciful and merciful and that's
where it begins, but no, his grace has
begotten something, his grace has provoked something, his
grace has drawn out something.
And Zion is represented always as the place
of praise, praise, praise.
No, it was there in Zion, sons of
Korah carried on the singing, the singing.
Zion is a place of psalm and if
psalm, singing, praise is genuine from the heart,
it means an expression of appreciation of the
grace of God.
That's the true note in Christianity, isn't it?
So much of our singing and it is
really the only real singing religion in the
world.
There are dirges in other religions and awful
noises, but singing, praising, rejoicing, you don't find
it in any other religion.
It's only in Christianity.
It's made up so largely of hymns, isn't
it?
And so many of our hymns are just
the answer back of the heart to the
grace of God.
God inhabited the praises of Israel.
So Zion represents something more than mercy, it
represents that which comes back to God because
of his mercy.
It means that all that the Lord Jesus
has done, has taken effect, is really producing
something in us and the Lord loves that.
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more
than all the dwellings of Jacob.
The Lord loves Zion while he loves Jacob,
he loves Zion infinitely more.
He loves the people who have so apprehended
his mercy and his grace that they have
nothing now for which to live but to
give back to the Lord that which his
mercy merits.
That's all.
The tents of Jacob, the gates, this is
another aspect of the contrast, the first contrast.
And it is only a following out of
what I have just said because these couplets
go together, they're apart from each other.
Dwellings or tents of Jacob and gates of
Zion.
What is represented by the second couplet?
Tents, gates.
Well you see there are two distinct pictures
if only you could recognize it.
It's a transition, it's a change of position
and time all together.
When you contemplate the tents of Jacob, you
are contemplating them in the wilderness.
Every day you will find the Old Testament,
when Jacob is in tents, they're in the
wilderness.
When the people are in Zion, they're no
longer in the wilderness, they're in the city.
Different position, different time all together, almost a
different dispensation.
They have passed out of the wilderness, now
into the land, they have reached the city.
Zion is a realized thing.
They've been looking towards Zion through the wilderness,
now they have arrived.
Tents and the gates.
But what does that mean?
Well you see in the wilderness, in the
wilderness, in their tents in the wilderness, they
were learning by discipline.
Learning by experience to know the Lord.
Gaining spiritual history.
What a time of spiritual education it was.
The wilderness wasn't it?
Spiritual education under the hand of God.
What hard lessons they had to learn.
What severe blows they suffered.
Yes it was a time of testing, a
trial.
It was 40 years which always implies probation.
Time of testing to find out and to
prove and to bring to some position along
that line.
That is the implication of the tents of
Jacob.
All that they were going through in order
to learn in the wilderness.
The school of the wilderness.
Gates of Zion.
What's happening in the gates of the city?
By fear are the elders gathered together, the
mature people and counsel in a position of
that knowledge, possessing that knowledge gained through experience
which is being turned to account for the
people of God.
Gates are the places of counsels in the
Bible.
A conference of the people who know.
The judges sit in the gates.
People of intelligence are there conferring together and
making decisions in the interest of the people
of God.
They are the people who have learned and
have brought the good of their learning, of
their education, of their training into practical application
to the nation.
See the point?
Yes the Lord loved them in their tents
in the wilderness, there's no doubt about that.
But not a lot of patience and forbearance
through the 40 years.
Here in the gates of the city all
the good of their discipline, their training, their
education is gathered and turned outward to the
good of others.
And the Lord loves that you know.
He does not want us all our lifetime
to be in the wilderness learning, learning, learning,
going through it, being tested, being tried, being
brought to understanding.
He does look forward to the time when
you and I will be in a position
to turn what he has taught us to
account for others.
That's far more precious to him.
Now are you in the wilderness or in
the gate?
You people still out there wondering about learning,
slowly learning by discipline and adversity?
Or are you a responsible person in the
gate?
Those who know their Bibles of course have
the advantage over those who don't as to
this matter of gates and the councils in
the gate that I embedded for others.
In the Bible the idea of gate is
that the city councils took place there to
decide matters, to judge matters for the good
of the people.
The Lord wants people like that, like that.
You know that is what the apostle was
speaking about to the Corinthians.
People to the Corinthians.
His word to the Corinthians.
He had to say to them now look
here some of you have got difficulties between
yourselves and you're taking your matters to the
lower parts of this world.
You're going before the world to judge of
your matters.
That's a mark of immaturity.
That's a sign that you haven't got very
far on the way.
Now you ought to be able to judge
one another and judge your own effects.
And if you would judge yourselves you would
not be judged of the Lord.
You ought to be in a position to
decide these matters not take them to worldly
wisdom.
See what the Lord loves is that kind
of maturity which means that well we know
from the way in which the Lord has
taught us, disciplined us, know what we ought
to do and are able to help others.
The difference between the tent and the gate
you see.
The Lord yes he'll be very patient with
you while you're in the wilderness but don't
think that he wants that to be the
beginning of the end of everything.
He looks for the day and it will
be the day of his so-called greater
joy when you and I will be in
the gates of Zion.
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more
than all the tents of Jacob.
Then the psalmist goes on to another set
of contrasts and they begin in this way.
I will make mention of Egypt and Babylon,
Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia.
Contrasts with the whole lot.
Not each one alone but with a whole
lot put together is one word.
One name.
You can bring all the greatest names of
this world together lump them together and there's
one name that is more than all together.
Zion.
See the contrast Zion.
I think we need not stay to speak
of what these various things represent.
Egypt well we know we know what Egypt
stands for.
The power of this world.
Babylon the pride of this world.
Philistia the presumption of this world.
Tyre the commercial glory of this world.
Ethiopia the darkness of a human heart in
this world.
Over against that by contrast by prospect by
value from heaven's standpoint stands Zion.
Psalmist says here are people who are boasting.
Boasting that they they were born in Egypt.
They belonged to Egypt.
Glorying they had been born in such a
place.
They held the franchise.
Others were boasting Babylon was their native country
and city.
Oh wonderful Babylon.
Wonderful Babylon.
I was born in Babylon.
A man boasts.
Another boasts that he was born in Philistia
and so they go on.
Tyre.
Wonderful Tyre.
Read the 37th chapter of the prophecies of
Ezekiel.
You'll see what men boasted in Esther.
Tyre.
Tyre built up to the very heavens.
Exalted to the heavens.
Glory of the commercial power of this world.
Well read all.
With all your vaunting and boasting that that
is your heritage.
That is your heritage and when you have
put all those together and made all of
them that can be made and it's not
a little.
It's not a little.
When it says that Moses accounted for the
approach of Christ greater riches than the treasures
of Israel.
It did not of Egypt.
It did not mean that the treasures of
Egypt were things to be scoffed at.
Only it only puts the reproach of Christ
on a so much higher level.
Because the treasures of Egypt were undoubtedly very
great.
You know anything about the glories of Egypt
in her great days.
You know that it's no small thing and
Babylon and the rest.
Oh this is this is no small thing
to have been born there.
To be native of those places.
But when you have given them their due
and said all that could rightly be said
about their glories.
Their position.
Something that overtops them all.
Of Zion it shall be said.
Notice that sentence begins with yea.
I wish it had begun with but.
But the yea is quite as good.
It's an emphatic exclamation.
Which simply means more than all that.
Of Zion it shall be said this one
and that one was born in her.
Hmm.
The citizens of Zion.
The citizens of Zion have weighed up Egypt.
Moses was a true spiritual citizen of Zion.
Although he never literally literally came to Zion.
But he was a true citizen of Zion.
He weighed up Egypt.
He summed up Egypt.
He took the measure of Egypt for 40
years.
For 40 years he took the measure of
Egypt.
And then by a deliberate calculation he came
to a conclusion.
It's better to be in the reproach of
Christ.
Not in the final glories of Christ but
in the reproach of Christ.
Nice word.
The lowest level of union with Christ is
better than the highest level of union with
this world.
That's not an exaggeration is it?
If words mean anything that's what it means.
Far better far better to be with Christ
in his offerings than to be in all
that this world has to offer outside of
Christ.
That is the Christian's testimony.
That really is what it means when you've
rightly understood what Christ has done and offered.
It's more than all.
And after all after all the Christian, the
simple Christian who knows his or her Lord
truly looks pathetically upon these poor people of
the world.
You've got all that but I'm sorry.
You think you're having a good time and
having but I really pity you.
You really don't know anything about it.
That's what it means.
I say the citizen of Zion has weighed
up Egypt, has weighed up Babylon, has weighed
up Philistia, Tyre and Ethiopia and written it
off as a bad garden if you lose
Christ.
Paul was a great citizen of Zion.
He looked at all his heritage naturally, his
birth, his birth yes and this for life
indeed.
A Hebrew of the Hebrew, of the tribe
of the tribe, a Pharisee of the Pharisee,
everything else.
And he he looks at it all splendidly
in the face and see how much other
men make of this and how he made
everything of that himself once.
It was his life, it was his glory,
it was his ambition, it was his sphere
of interest and then he found Christ and
he looks at all that.
I count it as the very refuse compared
with Christ.
He uses the word refuse about all that
but you never do that until you've got
something with which to compare it.
This is a comparative matter.
It is something very wonderful for those who
have nothing more but if you have Christ.
If you're a citizen of Zion, well it's
poor stuff after all, it's poor fare, all
that however much it is.
Contrast.
Right between these contrasts the Psalmist puts this,
glorious things are spoken of thee, O Zion,
the city of God.
Glorious things are spoken of thee.
I would take a long time to dwell
upon the glories of Zion but there are
two things that we could just mention in
that dimension.
What would you consider to be the most
glorious thing that could be true of your
life?
If something could be said to sum up
your life at the end as really quite
truly expressing and representing the value of your
life what would it be?
Well I don't know exactly the best way
in which to put it but as I
view that it would be something like this.
To have brought satisfaction to the heart of
God.
If only, if only my life could mean
that God was well pleased.
That the good pleasure of God rested upon
my life.
That God could say well done, well done,
good and faithful servant.
I would want nothing more than that.
Nothing more than that.
Could you have anything more than that?
What could you ask for?
You see Zion is that which brings God's
satisfaction and that's the most glorious thing that
can ever be said about anything.
Glorious things, glorious things.
I would want nothing more than that.
Nothing more than that.
Could you have anything more than that?
What could you ask for?
You see Zion is that which brings God's
satisfaction and that's the most glorious thing that
can ever be said about anything.
Glorious things, glorious things.
It's only bearing out all that we've been
saying through this conference what Zion means to
God.
As answering back to him for his pleasure.
He takes delight in Zion, in her stones
and in her walls.
Yes, we call Zion precious.
Precious.
To himself and unto you that believe is
the preciousness.
It's the preciousness of Zion to God.
That's a glorious thing to be spoken isn't
it?
And dear friends you have come to Zion.
Here is the Lord Jesus who has found
the full, final, utter pleasure of his Father.
So much so that because of his life
and because of his work the Father says
my beloved in him I am well pleased.
If God could say that to you and
to me well what should we feel like?
What should we feel like?
We wouldn't sleep for a year of nights
with joy and have made us accepted in
the beloved one.
We are come to Zion.
We are accepted in the one who has
the perfect approval of God.
Oh how difficult it is for us to
believe that, to accept that, to apprehend that
and yet it's a refuge to which we
must constantly flee and harass and pursued by
the accuser who would remind us of ourselves
and our sinfulness and our failures and constantly
belabor us with the effect of an evil
conscience.
Our refuge is what?
Flee into Christ and say in him God
covers all my sin.
There is no condemnation to them that are
in Christ Jesus.
Taking the whip out of the hand of
the enemy and mashing him with it.
Justification by faith.
Made just through faith.
Accepted in the beloved.
Beloved.
So the word comes back repeatedly.
Beloved of God.
Beloved of God and that to such miserable
creatures as you.
We are come to Zion.
Glorious things.
Glorious things are spoken of thee.
And then the prospect of Zion.
For Zion as we have said is not
just a place and a thing.
It's a people.
It's a people in union with God's Son.
What is the prospect of Zion?
The prospect of that people.
Oh just contemplate again the things that are
said about the church in the ages to
come.
The church in the ages to come.
What a place.
What a vocation.
Unto the ages of the ages and the
crowning word now.
Now.
Unto him be the glory in the church
by Christ Jesus unto all ages forever and
ever.
That word church is only a synonym for
Zion.
Glorious things are spoken of thee.
We cannot dwell upon the glories that God
has prepared and given and unto which he
has called his church for the ages to
come.
Glorious things.
My dear friend if you're outside of Christ
you're missing something.
You are missing something indeed.
You're missing everything.
Whatever you're gaining now you'll lose it all
and have nothing left.
But glorious things are spoken of Zion.
The people of God.
Whatever we do not have here we've got
something that is more than all.
The Lord shall count when he write it
up the peoples.
This one was born there in Zion.
Which raises the question forthwith.
Have you been born in Zion?
Have you been born again from above?
Have you been born anew by the spirit
of God?
Have you got another place where your name
is enrolled in the Lamb's book of life?
Are you registered in heaven?
Can you, can you present your certificate of
new birth?
Have you got the credentials of this heavenly
country in your heart, in your life?
What are they?
With absolute assurance you know.
That's something.
You know.
You have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ.
You are not in conflict with heaven but
you are on happy terms with heaven.
You have peace.
These are the credentials of new birth and
many other things.
Do you know anything about that?
You know what I'm talking about?
Most of you do.
I know that it may be somebody does
not.
Let me say to you that if the
Lord Jesus when he was in this world
said to any man you must be born
again.
He meant you can be born again.
If you must you can and you can
be born again.
I know word Lord shall count when he
righted up people this one was born there.
See now think of that.
Think of that.
They that sing as well as they that
dance shall say all my bell springs are
in thee.
The citizens of thine have resources
to draw upon of which others know nothing.
They have invisible means of support.
You hear people talking about having no visible
means of support.
Well that's all right.
That's a glorious position to be in if
you're a citizen of God and no visible
means of support and plenty of invisible means
of support and no less real for them.
The Lord Jesus lived on that basis.
The wilderness satan came and said command that
these stones become bread.
But he had bread.
Bread of which satan knew nothing.
The disciples that like us were well came
to him said master eat.
But I have meat to eat that you
know not of.
Yes spiritual resources and those resources are for
the citizens of Zion.
All my well springs are in thee.
We do know something about that.
What it is to draw upon the Lord
for our life our subsistence and more than
that.
Drawings are such an abundance.
We are not just going about in a
half-starved condition.
We have enough and blessed be God it
doesn't matter how many of you come we've
got something to give.
Isn't that true?
Good thing to be in that position.
Hungry people let them come.
Let them queue up.
We've still got something to give.
Yes all the time that's the testimony isn't
it of the citizen of Zion.
We lack nothing.
We have plenty.
Always a margin for others.
We have an affluence.
We are wealthy people.
All my well springs are in thee.
This is testimony that this is what is
offered you see.
How it should be may I come to
Zion.
This is presented all this is presented to
faith.
May the Lord give us a new heart
to lay hold on this heritage of the
children of Zion.
I would want nothing more than that.
Nothing more than that.
Could you have anything more than that?
What could you ask for?
You see Zion is that which brings God's
satisfaction and that's the most glorious thing that
can ever be said about anything.
Glorious things, glorious things.
It's only bearing out all that we've been
saying through this conference what Zion means to
God as answering back to him for his
pleasure.
He takes delight in Zion in her stones
and in her walls.
Yes call Zion precious.
Precious to himself and unto you that believe
is the preciousness.
It's the preciousness of Zion to God.
That's a glorious thing to be spoken of.
And dear friends you have come to Zion.
Here is the Lord Jesus who has found
the full final utter pleasure of his Father.
So much so that because of his life
and because of his work the Father says
my beloved in him I am well pleased.
If God could say that to you and
to me well what should we feel like?
What should we feel like?
We wouldn't sleep for a year of nights
with joy and hath made us accepted in
the beloved one.
We are come to Zion.
We are accepted in the one who has
the perfect approval of God.
Oh how difficult it is for us to
believe that, to accept that, to apprehend that.
And yet it's a refuge to which we
must constantly flee and harass and pursued by
the accuser who would remind us of ourselves
and our sinfulness and our failures and constantly
belabor us with the pip of an ego
conscience.
Our refuge is hot.
We into Christ and say in him God
covers all my sin.
There is no condemnation to them that are
in Christ Jesus.
Taking the pip out of the hand of
the enemy and lashing him with it.
Justification by faith.
Made just through faith.
Accepted in the beloved.
Beloved.
So the word comes back repeatedly beloved of
God.
Beloved of God.
Beloved of God and that to such miserable
creatures as you.
We are come to Zion.
Glorious things, glorious things are spoken of thee.
And then the prospect of Zion.
For Zion as we have said is not
just a place and a thing.
It's a people.
It's a people in union with God's Son.
What is the prospect of Zion?
The prospect of that people.
Oh just contemplate again the things that are
said about the church in the ages to
come.
The church in the ages to come.
What a place.
What a vocation.
Unto the ages of the ages and the
crowning word now.
Now.
Unto him be the glory in the church
by Christ Jesus unto all ages forever and
ever.
That word church is only a synonym for
Zion.
Glorious things are spoken of thee.
We cannot dwell upon the glories that God
has prepared and given and unto which he
has called his church for the ages to
come.
Glorious things.
My dear friend if you're outside of Christ
you're missing something.
You are missing something indeed.
You are missing everything.
Whatever you're gaining now you'll lose it all
and have nothing left.
But glorious things are spoken of the people
of God.
Whatever we do not have here we've got
something that is more than all.
The Lord shall count when he writeth up
the peoples.
This one was born there in Zion.
Which raises the forefront.
Have you been born in Zion?
Have you been born again from above?
Have you been born anew by the spirit
of God?
Have you got another place where your name
is enrolled in the Lamb's book of life?
Are you registered in heaven?
Can you, can you present your certificate of
new birth?
Have you got the credentials of this heavenly
country in your heart, in your life?
What are absolute assurance?
You know.
That's something.
You know.
You have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ.
You are not in conflict with heaven but
you are on happy terms with heaven.
You have peace.
These are the credentials of new birth and
many other things.
Do you know anything about that?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Most of you do.
I know but it may be somebody does
not.
Let me say to you that if the
Lord Jesus when he was in this world
said to any man you must be born
again.
He meant you can be born.
If you must you can.
And you can be born again.
Final word.
Lord shall count when he righted up people
to this one was born there.
See now.
Think of that.
They that sing as well as they that
dance shall say all my veiled springs are
in thee.
Citizens of thine have resources
to draw upon of which others know nothing.
They have invisible means of support.
You hear people talking about having no visible
means of support.
Well that's all right.
That's a glorious position to be in if
you're a citizen of thine.
No visible means of support.
Plenty of invisible means of support.
And no less real for them.
Lord Jesus lived on that basis.
The wilderness Satan came and said commander these
stones become bread.
But he had bread.
Bread of which Satan knew nothing.
The disciples the tigers were well came to
him said master eat.
But I have meat to eat that you
know not of.
He has spiritual resources and those resources are
for the citizens of thine.
All my well springs are in thee.
We do know something about that.
What it is to draw upon the Lord
for our life.
Our subsistence and more than that.
Drawings are such an abundance.
We are not just going about in a
half-starved condition.
We have enough and blessed be God it
doesn't matter how many of you come we've
got something to give.
Isn't that true?
It's a good thing to be in that
position.
Hungry people let them come.
Let them queue up we've still got something
to give.
Yes all the time that's the testimony isn't
it of the citizen of Zion.
We lack nothing.
We have plenty.
Always a margin for others.
We have an affluence.
We are wealthy people.
All my bell springs are in thee.
This is testimony that this is what is
you see.
How it should be.
Ye are come to Zion.
This is presented.
All this is presented to faith.
May the Lord give us a new heart
to lay hold on this heritage of the
children of Zion.