{"id":2517,"date":"2007-07-26T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/spurgeon\/?p=111"},"modified":"2007-07-26T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T22:59:13","slug":"psalms-1138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/07\/26\/psalms-1138\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 113:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;That he may set him with princes.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Psalms 113:8<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. &#8220;Among princes&#8221; is the place of select society. &#8220;Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.&#8221; Speak of select society, there is none like this! &#8220;We are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood.&#8221; &#8220;We are come unto the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.&#8221; The saints have courtly<br \/>\naudience: princes have admittance to royalty when common people must stand afar off. The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. &#8220;For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.&#8221; &#8220;Let us come boldly,&#8221; says the apostle, &#8220;to the throne of the heavenly grace.&#8221; Among princes there is abundant wealth, but what is the abundance of princes compared with the riches of believers? for &#8220;all things are yours, and ye are Christ&#8217;s, and Christ is God&#8217;s.&#8221; &#8220;He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?&#8221; Princes have peculiar power. A prince of heaven&#8217;s empire has great influence: he wields a sceptre in his own domain; he sits upon Jesus&#8217; throne, for &#8220;He hath made us kings and priests unto God, and we shall reign for ever and ever.&#8221; We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity. Princes, again, have special honour. We may look down upon all earth-born dignity from the eminence upon which grace has placed us. For what is human grandeur to this, &#8220;He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus&#8221;? We share the honour of Christ, and compared with this, earthly splendours are not worth a thought. Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than ever glittered in imperial diadem. Union with the Lord is a coronet of beauty outshining all the blaze of imperial pomp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That he may set him with princes.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Psalms 113:8<br \/>\nOur spiritual privileges are of the highest order. &#8220;Among princes&#8221; is the place of select society. &#8220;Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.&#8221; Speak of select society, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}