Six From Psalm 63, Part 2

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Title: Six From Psalm 63, Part 2 ------------------- Date: 5/27/2001
Keywords: "physical" "spiritual"
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Passage: Psalm 63:2*

I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.

Questions

1. What does this verse mean?

 

2. How could its message help you battle pornography?

 

Practical help

Here's a theological brainteaser. David, the writer of this psalm, claims he has seen God in the sanctuary. Problem is, the Bible says that God is spirit, and not visible to the naked eye. What gives?

A clue, which bears upon our struggle against pornography, appears in the New Testament. When the ascended Jesus knocks Saul off of his mount, he asks, "Why are you persecuting me?" Jesus was crucified long before Saul came onto the scene. But Saul had persecuted believers, and for Jesus, that was as good as hounding him.

Christians are the body of Christ, his physical representatives in the world. As a result, one way to lean on God is to lean on them. Ask for the support of a fellow believer in your battle against pornography. Perhaps God's "power and glory" will follow.


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Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.