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Run That Ye May Obtain

"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." I Corinthians 9:24     John Gill's Exposition

Recently, my wife and I were traveling across state to visit our grandchildren and while passing a delivery van, read this extraordinary slogan written on the back of the van. "Your last mile should be your first priority."  My mind immediately recalled Paul's words, "So run, that ye may obtain".

How easily we get caught up in daily affairs, neglecting (Hebrews 2:3) the command to watch (Matthew 24:42) and be ready (Matthew 24:44) for that final mile of the race which will usher us into the Kingdom of God (Luke 21:31). Luke made this very clear when he wrote, "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." Luke 21:34   What a sober reminder.

The writer of the book of Hebrews said, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," Hebrews 12:1

It is not only a race of patience and watchfulness, but of great resolve. Paul said, "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14

Notice it is a great resolve, "I press toward...". But it is to the the future Paul looks, "I press toward...". It's the last mile of Paul's life that he's looking to, the finish line. His present priority is set to obtain the prize which is received only after the final mile is run and we cross the finish line.

Paul knew his endurance would reap an eternal reward, it was "for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus". Christ is the prize, and Oh, what a prize He is! He will be worth it all. Therefore, "...brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:" II Peter 1:10

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"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:"   I Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves therefore,... Or be ye humbled before God, and in his sight; quietly submit to his will; patiently bear every affliction without murmuring, repining, or replying against him; be still under the rod, and despise not the chastening of the Lord; mourn over sin as the cause, acknowledge your vileness and unworthiness, and stand in awe of his majesty, considering yourselves as

under the mighty hand of God a phrase expressive of his omnipotence which cannot be stayed, and it would be madness to oppose it; and which is able to cast down the proud, and dash them to pieces, as well as to exalt the humble. His hand, upon men, in a way of chastisement, presses sore, and, in a way of punishment, presses down, and crushes to pieces; but to be under it in an humble manner is safe and profitable; such are hid as in the hollow of his hand, and are safe as in a pavilion, and comfortable under the shadow of his wings; and such humiliation and submission to him, and putting themselves under his mighty hand and care, is the way to exaltation:

that he may exalt you in due time: the Arabic version reads, "in the time of exaltation": when his time to exalt is come, either in this world, or more especially at the appearance of Christ and his kingdom. The Vulgate Latin version, and two copies of Beza's, one of Stephens's, and the Alexandrian, read, "in the time of visitation"; and so the Ethiopic version, "when he shall have visited you"; which seems to be taken out of 1Pe_2:12 sooner or later such who are humbled shall be exalted; it is the usual way and method which God takes to abase the proud, and exalt the humble; for humble souls honour him, and therefore such as honour him he will honour; and this he does in his own time, in a time that makes most for his glory, and their good; oftentimes he does it in this life, and always in that which is to come.

— John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

"God's Fulness For An Empty Vessel"
by C. H. Mackintosh

I Samuel 4 and 5   The two chapters given furnish a most impressive illustration of a principle which runs all through the inspired volume, namely, that the moment man takes his right place, God can meet him in perfect grace, great, sovereign, unqualified grace: the fulness of God waits on an empty vessel. This great principle shines everywhere from Genesis to Revelation. The word "principle" hardly expresses what is meant: it is too cold. We would speak of it as a grand, living divine fact, which shines with heavenly luster in the gospel of the grace of God and in the history of God's people collectively and individually, both in the Old and New Testament times.

But man must be in his right place. This is absolutely essential. It is only there he can get a right view of god. When man as he is, meets god as He is, there is a perfect answer to every question, a divine solution of every difficulty. It is from the standpoint of utter and hopeless ruin that man gets a full, clear, delivering view and sense of God's salvation. It is when man gets to the end of himself in every shape and form, his bad self and his good self and his righteous self, that he begins with a Saviour-God. This is true at the starting-post, and true all along the way. The fulness of God ever waits on an empty vessel. The great difficulty is to get the vessel empty: when that is done, the whole matter is settled, because the fulness of God can then flow in.

This surely is a grand, fundamental truth; and in the chapters which stand at the head of this paper we see in its application to the Lord's earthly people of old. Let us turn to them for a moment.

In the opening of I Samuel 4 we find Israel defeated by the Philistines; but instead of humbling themselves before the Lord, in true contrition and self judgment because of their terrible condition, and accepting their defeat as the just judgment of God, there is utter insensibility and hardness of heart.

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The Power of Persevering Prayer
by Andrew Murray

And the Lord said, "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint..."

"There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:1-8)

Of all the mysteries of the prayer world the need of persevering prayer is one of the greatest. That the Lord, who is so loving and longing to bless, should have to be asked, time after time, sometimes year after year, before the answer comes, we cannot easily understand. It is also one of the greatest practical difficulties in the exercise of believing prayer. When, after persevering pleading, our prayer remains unanswered, it is often easiest for our lazy flesh, and it has all the appearance of pious submission, to think that we must now cease praying, because God may have His secret reason for withholding His answer to our request.

It is by faith alone that the difficulty is overcome. When once faith has taken its stand on God's word and the Name of Jesus, and has yielded itself to the leading of the Spirit to seek God's will and honor alone in its prayer, it need not be discouraged by delay. It knows from Scripture that the power of believing prayer is simply irresistible; real faith can never be disappointed. It knows that just as water, to exercise the irresistible power it can have, must be gathered up and accumulated until the stream can come down in full force, so there must often be a heaping up of prayer until God sees that the measure is full, when the answer comes.

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A Discourse of the Cleansing Virtue of Christ's Blood
by Stephen Charnock

"And the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin."   I John 1:7

The apostle, in the beginning of the chapter, puts the saints to whom he writes in mind of the Gospel he had writ, wherein he had declared to them that Word of life which had been with the Father, and was manifested to the world, and which he now declares again, that they might have a fellowship with the apostles in the truth, and not with the false teachers in their errors; and for an incentive, assures them that the fellowship of those that kept the truth as it is in Jesus was with the Father and with the Son: (ver. 3, 1)

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ: with the Father, as the source and spring of eternal life and happiness; with the Son, as mediator, who has opened the way to us, removed the bars, and given us an access to and a communion with the Father. For by sin we were alienated from God, our sin had caused justice to lock up the gates of paradise, and forbid such guilty and polluted offenders to approach to the pure majesty of God.

The apostle, to encourage them to cleave to the gospel, proposes to them a fellowship with God by the means of Jesus Christ, his Son and our Mediator, as the chief happiness and felicity of man, and that which can only afford them a full and complete joy. And afterwards, (ver. 5, 1) 'This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all;' he prescribes to them the means whereby they may keep up a communion with God, which he infers from the transcendent excellency of the divine nature, who is light: light, in regard of the clearness of his knowledge; light, in regard of his unstained purity, not tainted with the least spot or dust of evil, not having anything unworthy in his nature, nor doing anything unbecoming in his actions.

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Behold, I Come Quickly!
by J. C. Ryle

"Therefore be ye also ready: take ye heed lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping. What I say unto you I say unto all. Watch!" Mark 13:37

WATCH against the leaven of false doctrine. Remember that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light. Remember that bad money is never marked bad, or else it would never pass. Be very jealous for the whole truth as it is in Jesus. Do not put up with a grain of error merely for the sake of a pound of truth. Do not tolerate a little false doctrine one bit more than you would tolerate a little sin. WATCH AND PRAY!

WATCH against slothfulness about Bible study and private prayer. There is nothing so spiritual but we may at last do it formally. Most backslidings began in the closet. When a tree is snapped in two by a high wind we generally find there had been some hidden decay. WATCH AND PRAY!

WATCH against bitterness and uncharitableness toward others. A little love is more valuable than many gifts. Be eagle-eyed in seeing the good that is in your brethren. Let your memory be a strong box for their graces, but a sieve for their faults. WATCH AND PRAY!

WATCH against pride and self-conceit. Peter said at first, "Though all deny Thee, yet will not I." Soon he fell. Pride is the high road to fall. WATCH.AND PRAY!

Let us watch for our own sakes. As our walk is, so will be our peace. Above all, let us watch for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake. Let us live as though His glory was concerned in our behavior. Let us live as thou every slip and fall was a reflection on the honor of our Lord. Let us live as though every allowed sin was one more thorn in His head, one more nail in His feet.

O, let us exercise godly jealousy over thoughts, words and actions, over motives, manners and walk! Never, never let us fear being too strict. Never, never let us think we can watch too much. "None of us are more than half awake!"

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Abide in Christ
by Andrew Murray

The Crucified One

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Galatians 2:20

"We have been planted together in the likeness of his death." Romans 6:5

"I am crucified with Christ." Thus the apostle expresses his assurance of his fellowship with Christ in His sufferings and death, and his full participation in all the power and the blessing of that death. And so really did he mean what he said, and know that he was now indeed dead, that he adds: "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me." How blessed must be the experience of such a union with the Lord Jesus!

To be able to look upon His death as mine, just as really as it was His upon His perfect obedience to God, His victory over sin, and complete deliverance from its power, as mine; and to realize that the power of that death does by faith work daily with a divine energy in mortifying the flesh, and renewing the whole life into the perfect conformity to the resurrection life of Jesus! Abiding in Jesus, the Crucified One, is the secret of the growth of that new life which is ever begotten of the death of nature.

Let us try to understand this. The suggestive expression, "Planted into the likeness of His death," will teach us what the abiding in the Crucified One means. When a graft is united with the stock on which it is to grow, we know that it must be kept fixed, it must abide in the place where the stock has been cut, been wounded, to make an opening to receive the graft.

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The School of Christ     by T. Austin Sparks
The House of God     Chapter V

The place of the Shekinah Glory

Looking backward at that tabernacle or that temple of old where the Shekinah glory was found, we mark that that light, that glory which linked heaven and earth like a ladder, had its expression in the Most Holy Place. You know that in the Holy of Holies, everything was curtained around and over, excluding every bit of natural light, so that the place, entered into apart from the Shekinah, would have been black darkness, without light at all; but entered into while the glory rested upon it, it was all light, it was all Divine light, heavenly light, the light of God.

The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas À Kempis

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The Imitation of Christ     by Thomas À Kempis
Internal Consolation     Book III

Beware Vain and Worldly Knowledge
The Voice of Christ
MY CHILD, do not let the fine-sounding and subtle words of men deceive you. For the kingdom of heaven consists not in talk but in virtue. Attend, rather, to My words which enkindle the heart and enlighten the mind, which excite contrition and abound in manifold consolations. Never read them for the purpose of appearing more learned or more wise. Apply yourself to mortifying your vices, for this will benefit you more than your understanding of many difficult questions.

Though you shall have read and learned many things, it will always be necessary for you to return to this one principle: I am He who teaches man knowledge, and to the little ones I give a clearer understanding than can be taught by man. He to whom I speak will soon be wise and his soul will profit. But woe to those who inquire of men about many curious things, and care very little about the way they serve Me.

The time will come when Christ, the Teacher of teachers, the Lord of angels, will appear to hear the lessons of all, that is, to examine the conscience of everyone. Then He will search Jerusalem with lamps and the hidden things of darkness will be brought to light and the arguings of men's tongues be silenced.

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Rodney (Gipsy) Smith   "God's Gipsy"
(1860-1947)

"The longer I live the more astonished I am at the reluctance of Christian people to testify concerning their own experience. If only they could summon up courage to say to some lonely neighbor, 'I love Him; do you?' the results would amaze them."

Gipsy Smith was perhaps the best loved evangelist of all time. When he gave his life's story, crowds overflowed halls and auditoriums. Born in a gypsy tent six miles northeast of London, he received no education. The family made a living selling baskets, tin ware and clothes pegs. His home was a gypsy wagon. His mother died from smallpox when he was young and was buried by lantern light. After his father accepted Christ he led Rodney (Gipsy) to the Lord at age fifteen. Two years later the young gypsy accepted the invitation of General William Booth to be an evangelist with and for the Mission, preaching to crowds of from 100 to 1,500.

He married Annie Pennock in 1879. He ministered to his own people via a Gypsy Gospel Wagon Mission, begun in Edinburgh in 1892. In his evangelistic work he was always "Gipsy." In 1886 he made the first of some thirty trips to North America. This saint of God conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Scotland for over 70 years. He twice traveled around the world as an evangelist. Tents, auditoriums, halls, none could hold the crowds of 5,000 or 6,000 or 10,000. In the Paris Opera House, he saw 150 converted from the "cream" of Parisian society.

His first wife died in 1937, and in 1938 the 78 year old gypsy married Mary Alice Shaw on her 27th birthday. This brought some criticism. But it was a good marriage; for she helped him in his meetings, sang, did secretarial work, and later nursed him when his health failed. He could sing as well as he preached. Sometimes he would interrupt his sermon and burst into such songs as: "Let the Beauty of Jesus Be Seen in Me" or his favorite:

The world says I'm dreaming, but I know 'tis Jesus
Who saves me from bondage and sin's guilty stain;
He is my Lover, my Saviour, my Master.
'Tis He who has freed me from guilt and its pain.
Let me dream on if I am dreaming;
Let me dream on, my sins are gone;
Night turns to dawn, love's light is beaming,
So if I'm dreaming, let me dream on.

Although he was a Methodist, preachers of all denominations loved him. Rodney (Gipsy) Smith died aboard ship, en route to America, 87 years old, God's gypsy to the last!

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Scripture Studies       Galatians 5:16-25   MH Comm.
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16.   This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. JG Expo.

17.   For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. JG Expo.

18.   But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. JG Expo.

19.   Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, JG Expo.

20.   Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, JG Expo.

21.   Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. JG Expo.

22.   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, JG Expo.

23.   Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. JG Expo.

24.   And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. JG Expo.

25.   If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. JG Expo.

God Does Expect Us To Be Obedient
by George Muller

"God expects that we should be obedient children, and that we should accept the Word as His will, and carry it into practice. If this be neglected, you will find that the reading of the Word, even if accompanied by prayer, meditation, and faith, will do you little good. God does expect us to be obedient children, and will have us practice what He has taught us. The Lord Jesus Christ says If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." And in the measure in which we carry out what our Lord Jesus taught, so in measure are we happy children. And in such measure only can we honestly look for help from the Father, even as we seek to carry out His will."

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Sacrifice of Love
by A. B. Simpson

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity (love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity." I Corinthians 13:13

"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." I John 3:18

The richest quality of love is sacrifice, and the noblest credential of any work is the spirit, on the part of its members, which has laid every selfish interest down at Jesus' feet, and counts all things loss but Christ. It is the spirit which holds its money, its friendships, its life, all subservient to the Master's claim, and living a dying life, at last gives life itself as a willing offering to Him who gave His life for us. In this selfish and luxurious age, it is the rarest quality found, but it is the most needed.

As the end approaches and the last tribulation draws near, the age of martyrdom will reach the climax, and the tears of sorrow and the blood of sacrifice will be transformed into the jewels of the coronation day. It demands a greater sacrifice sometimes to live than to die; and the men who will be found someday ready to die for Christ are those whose lives are now laid down in ten thousand little tests that come to us from day to day.

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Revival Averts the Judgement of God
        "A revival of religion is indispensable to avert the judgments of God from the Church. This would be a strange preaching if revivals were only miracles. And if the Church has no more agency in producing them than it has in producing a thunderstorm. We could not then say to the Church: ‘Unless there is a revival you may expect judgments.’ The fact is Christians are more to blame for not being revived, than sinners are for not being converted. And if they are not awakened, they may know assuredly that God will visit them with His judgments.
        "How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord, and pray: ‘Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?’"

Prevailing Prayer
        "Prevailing or effectual prayer is that prayer which attains the blessing that it seeks. It is that prayer which effectually moves God. The very idea of effectual prayer is that it effects its objects."

Break up your Fallow Ground
        "In breaking up your fallow ground, you must remove every obstruction. Things may be left that you think little things, and you may wonder why you do not feel as you wish to feel in religion, when the reason is that your proud and carnal mind has covered up something which God required you to confess and remove. Break up all the ground and turn it over. Do no balk it, as the farmers say; do not turn it aside for little difficulties; drive the plough right through them, beam deep, and turn the ground all up, so that it may all be mellow and soft, and fit to receive the seed and bear fruit a hundred fold."

A Revival Always includes Conviction of Sin
        "A revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the church. Back-slidden professors cannot wake up and begin right away in the service of God without deep searchings of heart. The fountains of sin need to be broken up. In a true Revival, Christians are always brought under such conviction; they see their sins in such a light that often they find it impossible to maintain a hope of their acceptance with God. It does not always go to that extent, but there are always, in a genuine Revival, deep convictions of sin, and often cases of abandoning all hope. "

The Church Must First Repent
        "A revival of religion is indispensable to avert the judgements of God from the church... The fact is, Christians are more to blame for not being revived, than sinners are for not being converted. And if Christians are not awakened, they may know assuredly that God will visit them with His judgements. How often God visited the Jewish church with judgements because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets."

When Persecution or Opposition Comes
        "Sometimes the wicked will get up an opposition to religion. And when this drives Christians to their knees in prayer to God, with strong crying and tears, you may be certain there is going to be a revival. The prevalence of wickedness is no evidence at all that there is not going to be a revival. That is often God's time to work. When the enemy cometh in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard against him. Often the first indication of a revival is that the devil gets up something new in opposition. This will invariably have one of two effects. It will either drive Christians to God, or it will drive them farther away from God, to some carnal policy or other that will only make things worse.
        "Frequently the most outrageous wickedness of the ungodly is followed by a revival. If Christians are made to feel that they have no hope but in God, and if they have sufficient feeling left to care for the honour of God and the salvation of the souls of the impenitent, there will certainly be a revival. Let hell boil over if it will, and spew out as many devils as there are stones in the pavement, if it only drives Christians to God in prayer, it cannot hinder a revival. Let Satan ‘get up a row,’ and sound his horn as loud as he pleases; if Christians will only be humbled and pray they shall soon see God's naked arm in a revival of religion. I have known instances where a revival has broken in upon the ranks of the enemy, almost as suddenly as a clap of thunder, and scattered them, taken the ringleaders as trophies, and broken up their party in an instant."

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Summary of the Inquisition

Of the multitudes who perished by the Inquisoition throughout the world, no authentic record is now discoverable. But wherever popery had power, there was the tribunal. It had been planted even in the east, and the Portuguese Inquisition of Goa was, until within these few years, fed with many an agony. South America was partitioned into provinces of the Inquisition; and with a ghastly mimickry of the crimes of the mother state, the arrivals of viceroys, and the other popular celebrations were thought imperfect without an auto da fe.

The Netherlands were one scene of slaughter from the time of the decree which planted the Inquisition among them. In Spain the calculation is more attainable. Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! We are to recollect that this number was in a country where persecution had for ages abolished all religious differences, and where the difficulty was not to find the stake, but the offering. Yet, even in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!

The numbers burned in effigy, or condemned to penance, punishments generally equivalent to exile, confiscation, and taint of blood, to all ruin but the mere loss of worthless life, amounted to three hundred and nine thousand. But the crowds who perished in dungeons of torture, of confinement, and of broken hearts, the millions of dependent lives made utterly helpless, or hurried to the grave by the death of the victims, are beyond all register; or recorded only before HIM, who has sworn that "He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword."

Such was the Inquisition, declared by the Spirit of God to be at once the offspring and the image of the popedom. To feel the force of the parentage, we must look to the time. In the thirteenth century, the popedom was at the summit of mortal dominion; it was independent of all kingdoms; it ruled with a rank of influence never before or since possessed by a human scepter; it was the acknowledged sovereign of body and soul; to all earthly intents its power was immeasurable for good or evil.

It might have spread literature, peace, freedom, and Christianity to the ends of Europe, or the world. But its nature was hostile; its fuller triumph only disclosed its fuller evil; and, to the shame of human reason, and the terror and suffering of human virtue, Rome, in the hour of its consummate grandeur, teemed with the monstrous and horrid birth of the INQUISITION!

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Psalm 24   Authorized King James Version

1. "The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah."