But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
3 sermons cite this verse
… In Habakkuk chapter 2, you've heard it before. He says, the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silent before him. And then the 100 Psalms come back and says, make a joyful noise unto the Lord. So what is it? I'm confused. Am I supposed to be quiet? Or am I supposed to make some noise? Psalms chapter 46 says, be still and know that I'm God. Then Matthew chapter 28 says, go in all the world. So am I supposed to be still? Am I supposed to be quiet? Am I supposed to make noise? What am I supposed to do? In the two texts that we have before us, as we compare Joshua chapter 4 with Genesis chapter 19. In Genesis chapter 19, God says to Lot and to his family, escape to the mountains. Don't look back behind you. And then when we come to Joshua chapter 4, God said to the children of Israel, hey, I don't trust your memory. I don't trust that you get where you're going and not remember who bought you. So God said, put down 12 stones. And when your children ask you, what do these 12 stones mean? That you'll be able to tell them that these stones commemorate the day that God dried up the Jordan River and we walked through on dry ground. …
as we gather in the name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our risen Savior and our ascended King, as we gather in his presence before the one who is Lord of all the nations and King over all the earth. We recognize tonight that as we represent in some measure the nations of the world, we do good to set an example to our world by being silent in your presence, by endeavoring to be still and to know that you are God. For our world is in turmoil. The earth groans and creaks. Man's inhumanity to man is unabated despite the passing of time. Empires of our world rise and crash into oblivion. Others emerge out of the ashes and reestablish themselves. And you, O God, breathe from heaven, and the things that man has erected topple and crumble. And men and women's hearts fail them on account of fear, causing them to make idols of their own contriving, to worship at shrines of their own making. And how, when Jesus moved amongst the people of his day and stood and looked on Jerusalem and grieved over it, how often he said, Would I have gathered you as a hen gathers its chicks, but you would not come to me if only you had known what makes for peace. …
The Epiphany is a season especially set apart for adoring the glory of Christ. The word may be taken to mean the manifestation of His glory, and leads us to the contemplation of Him as a King upon His throne in the midst of His court, with His servants around Him, and His guards in attendance. At Christmas we commemorate His grace; and in Lent His temptation; and on Good Friday His sufferings and death; and on Easter Day His victory; and on Holy Thursday His return to the Father; and in Advent we anticipate His second coming. And in all of these seasons He does something, or suffers something: but in the Epiphany and the weeks after it, we celebrate Him, not as on His field of battle, or in His solitary retreat, but as an august and glorious King; we view Him as the Object of our worship. Then only, during His whole earthly history, did He fulfil the type of Solomon, and held (as I may say) a court, and received the homage of His subjects; viz. when He was an infant. His throne was His undefiled Mother's arms; His chamber of state was a cottage or a cave; the worshippers were the wise men of the East, and they brought presents, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. All around and about Him seemed of earth, except to the eye of faith; one note alone had He of Divinity. As great men of this world are often plainly dressed, and look like other men, all but as having some one costly ornament on their breast or on their brow; so the Son of Mary in His lowly dwelling, and in an infant's form, was declared to be the Son of God Most High, the Father of Ages, and the Prince of Peace, by His star; a wonderful appearance which had guided the wise men all the way from the East, even unto Bethlehem. …