Dwelling in Unity

Psalm 133:1-3

The psalmist opens up by saying how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

It not always often when brethren get together that things are good. The Psalm says How good and How pleasant. it’s not only a good thing, but a pleasantly good thing.

I want you to note it’s something that believers in God do.

There is something special mentioned here in the about oil running down aarons Beard, or Mount Hermon — A little about Mount Hermon

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Geographic Overview

At 9,230 feet (2814 meters), Mount Hermon towers over its neighboring peaks and can be seen from dozens of miles away on a clear day. It serves as the northern border of Bashan, east of the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee. South and west is the fertile Huleh Basin, and farther west lies upper Galilee and the Phoenician coast. Syria (biblical Aram) and its capital, Damascus, lie to the east. North of Mount Hermon is Lebanon.

Mount Hermon can receive 60 inches or more in annual rainfall—nearly double that of Mount Carmel to the west (Rasmussen, Atlas, 30, 36). The abundant moisture coupled with colder temperatures means that Mount Hermon is covered in snow for much of the year. Winds carry the mountain’s cold temperatures southward through the Rift Valley, at times even as far as the Dead Sea (Baly, Geography, 48). The base of Mount Hermon is home to some of the largest karst springs in the Levant and the main headwaters of the Jordan River (Rainey, Bridge, 40).

like Aaron’s beard or Hermon. We are covered or unified by precious Spirit of God when we meet together in his name.

Hebrews 10:19–25 (KJV 1900)

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”)

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

I want you to recognize four things about our salvation or new life in Christ and how it relates to the Church.

it’s experiential

it’s physical

It’s individual - Martin Luther said “ We are saved by faith alone; but not by faith that remains alone.

It’s communal

“C. s. Lewis said “it takes a Community to know and individual” how much more would this be true of Jesus Christ? Christians commonly say they want a relationship with Jesus, that they want to get to know Jesus better. You will never be able to do that by yourself. To know Jesus better you must be deeply involved in the church, the christian Community, with strong relations of love and accountability. Only if you are part of a Community of believers seeking to know and love Jesus more will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.