Meeting God in the Ordinary: The Threshing Floor
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The threshing floor of Ornan boasted no magnificence of size or beauty of construction. There was just the rock, and I suppose a composition spread upon it of hard clay or cement, that the feet of the oxen might the better tread out the corn. That was all it was, yet when the temple with all its glory crowned the spot, God was never more conspicuously present than on that bare ungarnished threshing floor. [00:08:09]
Meet God in a barn, saith one, why not? Does that astonish you? God met Adam in a garden, Abraham under a tree, and Noah in an ark. There is less of man in the open field than in the cathedral, and where there is least of man, there is at least an opportunity to find most of God. Meet God on a threshing floor, why not? [00:11:29]
Moreover, it was a place of ordinary toil, not merely a floor, but a threshing floor in present use, with oxen present, and all the implements of husbandry ready to hand. It was so ordinary and so every day a place that none could have been more so, as if the Lord would say to us, I will meet you anywhere. [00:11:29]
Every place is holy where a holy heart is found. This ought to gladden the solitude of godly men. God is with you, therefore be of good cheer. If you are on board ship or if you are wandering in the woods, or are banished to the ends of the earth, or a shutout from the sabbath assemblies of God's house, yet wherever you seek him he is found, and every place is hallowed ground. [00:12:24]
The temple of glory is built on the threshing floor of affliction. I do not thrust forward this observation as though it were of great weight, but even if it were but a fancy so far as the type is concerned, the thought conveys a truth in a pleasing manner. But much more this was the place where justice was most clearly manifest. [00:24:03]
David went out to meet with his God and make confession before him. Oh sirs, the lack of many of you is that you have never yet beheld sin in its consequences, sin in its guilt, sin in its doom. God is angry with a sinner every day. Men do not fly to God till fear puts wings upon their feet. [00:30:13]
David's confession is very frank and full. David says, is it not I, even I it is that have sinned. Go thou sinner to the Lord with thine own personal confession. Shut thine eye to thy fellow man and say, Father, I have sinned. Cry with the publican, God be merciful to me, a sinner. [00:31:07]
Ornan's threshing floor was then the place where sacrifice was offered and accepted. Hastily they piled the altar of unhewn stones. They brought up to it ox after ox that had been lately threshing out the corn. The blood flowed in plentiful streams, and the sacrifice was laid upon the wood. [00:34:45]
Calvary is the trusting place between God and penitence. Now we have reached it. This is the site of the temple, this is the temple not made with hands once destroyed but build it up in three days. The person of the Lord Jesus crucified and raised from the dead is that place where God meeteth guilty confessing man and striketh hands with him. [00:34:45]
The wounds of Christ are the windows of the heart of God. If falcons believe in Jesus Christ, by faith presenting him again to God as thy sacrifice, then God will meet with thee. But what did David see air long when he had laid his bullock on the altar? A flame descended from the Lord, like a flash of lightning it came and the sacrifice was consumed. [00:34:45]
Make your entire being a living temple for the living God. Begin now, the foundations are laid, you would not dream of building on any other for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, the divine Moriah of Christ's person, the sacred place of his sacrifice, is this mount wherein God shall be seen. [00:46:22]
Make your bodies to be the temples of the Holy Ghost and your spirits the priests that sacrifice therein, in acts of holiness, piety, charity, and love spend all your days. Let your houses be churches dedicated to his fear and love and let the chambers be holy as the courts of the tabernacle in the wilderness. [00:46:22]
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Meet God in a barn, saith one, why not? Does that astonish you? God met Adam in a garden, Abraham under a tree, and Noah in an ark. There is less of man in the open field than in the cathedral, and where there is least of man, there is at least an opportunity to find most of God. Meet God on a threshing floor, why not? [00:11:29]
Moreover, it was a place of ordinary toil, not merely a floor, but a threshing floor in present use, with oxen present, and all the implements of husbandry ready to hand. It was so ordinary and so every day a place that none could have been more so, as if the Lord would say to us, I will meet you anywhere. [00:11:29]
Every place is holy where a holy heart is found. This ought to gladden the solitude of godly men. God is with you, therefore be of good cheer. If you are on board ship or if you are wandering in the woods, or are banished to the ends of the earth, or a shutout from the sabbath assemblies of God's house, yet wherever you seek him he is found, and every place is hallowed ground. [00:12:24]
The temple of glory is built on the threshing floor of affliction. I do not thrust forward this observation as though it were of great weight, but even if it were but a fancy so far as the type is concerned, the thought conveys a truth in a pleasing manner. But much more this was the place where justice was most clearly manifest. [00:24:03]
David went out to meet with his God and make confession before him. Oh sirs, the lack of many of you is that you have never yet beheld sin in its consequences, sin in its guilt, sin in its doom. God is angry with a sinner every day. Men do not fly to God till fear puts wings upon their feet. [00:30:13]
David's confession is very frank and full. David says, is it not I, even I it is that have sinned. Go thou sinner to the Lord with thine own personal confession. Shut thine eye to thy fellow man and say, Father, I have sinned. Cry with the publican, God be merciful to me, a sinner. [00:31:07]
Ornan's threshing floor was then the place where sacrifice was offered and accepted. Hastily they piled the altar of unhewn stones. They brought up to it ox after ox that had been lately threshing out the corn. The blood flowed in plentiful streams, and the sacrifice was laid upon the wood. [00:34:45]
Calvary is the trusting place between God and penitence. Now we have reached it. This is the site of the temple, this is the temple not made with hands once destroyed but build it up in three days. The person of the Lord Jesus crucified and raised from the dead is that place where God meeteth guilty confessing man and striketh hands with him. [00:34:45]
The wounds of Christ are the windows of the heart of God. If falcons believe in Jesus Christ, by faith presenting him again to God as thy sacrifice, then God will meet with thee. But what did David see air long when he had laid his bullock on the altar? A flame descended from the Lord, like a flash of lightning it came and the sacrifice was consumed. [00:34:45]
Make your entire being a living temple for the living God. Begin now, the foundations are laid, you would not dream of building on any other for other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, the divine Moriah of Christ's person, the sacred place of his sacrifice, is this mount wherein God shall be seen. [00:46:22]
Make your bodies to be the temples of the Holy Ghost and your spirits the priests that sacrifice therein, in acts of holiness, piety, charity, and love spend all your days. Let your houses be churches dedicated to his fear and love and let the chambers be holy as the courts of the tabernacle in the wilderness. [00:46:22]
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