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The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
Psalm 20:1-2

When the soul has to pass through the trying hour of temptation, it needs help from the sanctuary. And nothing but help from the sanctuary can ever stand it in any stead. All other help leaves the soul just where it found it. Now why does the Lord send help from the sanctuary, but because the soul to whom help is sent, has a saving interest in the Father’s love, the Savior’s blood, and the Spirit’s teachings–a saving interest in the eternal covenant transactions of the Three-One Jehovah. Help is sent him from the sanctuary, because his name has been from all eternity registered in the Lamb’s book of life, engraved upon the palms of His hands, borne on His shoulder, and worn on His heart.

He was in the sanctuary when his covenant Head stood up on his behalf, and in the Lord’s book all His members were written when as yet there was none of them. He was then virtually in the sanctuary before all time, and he will be personally in the sanctuary after all time. But he must be “made fit to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.” As he is predestinated to inhabit that sanctuary, he must have a nature suited for its holy delights. Now it is receiving help from the sanctuary that fits him to inhabit it. Communications of life and grace out of it make him a new creature, and produce spirituality and heavenly-mindedness. The breath of heaven in his soul draws his affections upward, weans him from earth, and makes him a pilgrim and a sojourner here below, “looking for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Heb. 11:10).

To the reader…

Are you passing through the fire of temptation, and have you already sought help everywhere, yet remained just where you were? That is the experience of so many. All other help leaves the soul just where it found it. There is only one help that truly helps: the help the Lord sends from the sanctuary.

And why does He send it? Not because of anything in you, but because the soul has an interest in the Father’s love, the Redeemer’s blood and the Spirit’s teaching. Such a name is engraved upon the palms of His hands and borne upon His heart. Call upon Him, then, in the day of trouble. The help He sends not only keeps you standing, but also draws your desires upward, weans you from the earth and makes you a pilgrim looking for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl