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Good morning.

Please turn in your copy of God's word to the Book of Psalms.

we are concluding our Summer, break in the Psalms.

Psalm 133.

Will be our text for today.

Children, as we get ready to take up this reading, I want you to listen for what happens to the priest.

And what comes from the mountain.

or Herman specifically as the mountain is called and pay attention because you will have a little assignment after after we read Psalm 133.

A song of a sense of David.

Behold, how good, and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity.

It is like the precious oil upon the head running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron.

Running down the edge of his garments.

It is like the Dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Zion for there.

The Lord commanded the blessing life.

Forevermore.

No children.

I want you to

I want you to draw two pictures.

Two pictures.

The first I want you to draw a priest.

Being Anointed with oil.

What that means is he has oil that's being poured on top of his head.

So draw a picture of a priest.

If you don't know what a priest looks like, just draw the picture.

Draw a picture of a pastor with oil being poured on his head.

and then, draw a picture of Of a mountain.

With do, which is like little bitty.

They're not quite raindrops cuz they don't fall from Heaven, but with like clouds of of water around the mountain, okay?

This song.

It's one of those songs that we are very familiar with and it's familiar to us because it speaks of pleasant things and as the psalmist writes in the beginning of this song, It Doesn't just speak of pleasant things.

It speaks of good things and particularly the good that it is, and how pleasant it is to dwell together in unity.

This is no doubt.

A favorite song in our denomination to sing, it has a nice encouraging and cheerful tune that goes with it.

And so we are, as we've been thinking about the life of Faith over these last few weeks.

In the song, we come to this key part, which is unity in the faith.

and so, we're going to take this up under three headings The first being the benefits of unity.

The second, the disruptions of unity and then third the maintenance of unity.

So let's begin with the benefits of unity and it is good for us to consider at the outset of this, what the psalmist or how the psalmist describes The unity of dwelling the unity of Believers noticed that he says it is good.

He says, behold how good it is and two points you to other.

Other areas in scripture where this term is used in this same.

Sort of way, I want you to think back to Genesis chapter 1, And recall that refrain that that often follows God's creative works.

Is said that he made evening and morning or he made the sun moon stars and it was evening and morning the fourth day and God saw that he had created that it was good.

And he repeats that he repeats that a total of six times, but it is good and the one time that we find in Genesis in those opening accounts of Genesis chapters 1 & 2. The first thing.

That God declares to be not good.

Is Adam being alone.

So that's the first thing that we need to acknowledge that.

That Unity is a good thing.

It's a good thing.

We might even say that Unity is a very good thing.

Put the song That's goes on and he also declares that Unity is a pleasant thing or as some translations put it Unity is a delightful thing.

So it's good and it's Pleasant and it's not pleasant in some cliche sort of sense but it is delightful.

It is encouraging.

It it builds up the soul.

And it's good for us to have this.

Have this at the front of our minds as we go to to consider this issue.

because sometimes, Sometimes Unity doesn't seem very good or rather, the pursuit of unity doesn't seem very good and the pursuit of unity doesn't always seem Pleasant or delightful.

What scripture declares very plainly that it is good and it is delightful.

So that's that end goal that arriving at Unity.

That is described them as being good Pleasant.

And delightful.

So the first thing that we that we need to note here under the benefits of unity as first that this is a Unity Unity is a thing that comes from gone it comes from God to man.

And we see this in a couple of different ways, notice how the psalmist describes the oil, being poured on the head of the priests than in this tax, she's referring to the priest.

The specific priest of Aaron.

That it is, it is like that occasion when oil was poured.

And if you recall on that occasion, there were a couple things taking place first, it was the Lord who set apart Aaron and his sons to serve as priest.

It was the Lord who commanded the particular, right?

That would be involved in ordaining.

Those men to serve in that office.

It was the Lord who gave the prescription?

What the oil would be like that they would use for anointing.

And all of this comes from the Lord.

Now we can add another element to it.

Paul often likes to use the imagery of a body for the church and when he does that, he starts with the head and he describes the head of the body as Christ and the rest of us all United together form the rest of the body with Christ as the head.

And so if we take that, if we take the imagery of the church as a body and we understand this anointing that's being described as describing one, our Union with Christ and then the benefits that we partake of, as a result of being united with Christ, then it means and we should see here that as the oil is poured upon the head, that ultimate priest who was not from the line of Aaron.

But from The order of Melchizedek that as that anointing oil is poured upon his head, it flows down and it touches the rest of his body as well.

Now we should also learn from this, that Unity not only comes from crying but it is abundantly given no.

Sometimes in today's and in our world today, when anointing with oil is used, we're not very generous with the oil.

We might take like maybe a capful and then just like poor, the little cap full Under head.

But what this is describing is that there is so much oil being poured on the head of the priests that it's running down and it's not just running down his head and into his beard.

But it goes from his beard to the rest of his garments.

It is a generous giving of unity.

but it's also describes the pleasantness that is this unity and end, we see that particularly In the use of oil.

And I want you to think about this, the, the oil that was used, which we find we find this, given in Exodus chapter 30, it was, it was a combination of olive oil with a variety of spices that would have been a pleasing Aroma to all to all those who witness it and were present either in the priest present or present as the ordination was taking place.

I'm sure there's a certain sense in which its sensory its sensory experience is a pleasant experience, but we also need to remember the context in which this anointing took place in Exodus 30, it was a context of worship.

And so what we learn from this then is that Unity true Unity, which comes to us, from God, from our Triune God, through the mediator ship of the Lord Jesus Christ, it comes to us through the vehicle as it were of worship.

No. It's not to say that.

That you can only experience Unity within the time confines of public worship.

But it's that that's where it starts.

And why is it that?

That's where it starts well because it is in worship that we meet with God in a unique and special way it is in worship that God promises to be with his people in a way unlike his presence at any other time.

In any other place.

You see.

We maintain that God is omnipresent right?

Which means that God is present everywhere and yet when God's people Gather for worship.

They enjoy a unique presence of God.

And so this Unity flows through partaking in this unique presence of God.

And there are all sorts of benefits that come to us as a result.

One.

Is that we have our sinful Hearts corrected, right?

Our sinful Hearts 1 there more sinful than we realize.