The gates were seats of authority (Ruth 4:11). Battering rams were set against the gates (Ezekiel 21:22) and the gates were broken down and burned with fire(Nehemiah 1:3).
Idolatrous acts were performed at the gates (Acts 14:13). The gates were shut at nightfall (Joshua 2:5) because they were the chief point from which the enemy attacked (Judges 5:8). The gates of a city were very significant. Whoever controlled the gates of the stronghold ruled the city. These gates were opened during the day to allow the citizens to come and go, but were generally closed and barred at night as a safety measure to keep out enemy attacks. “The Beautiful Gate” of Herod’s temple (Acts 3:2) was made of brass and required twenty men to close it. The gates of the ancient cities are not as we imagine today’s gates, but massive gates made of stone, iron, brass, or wood frequently sheeted with metal. The Old Testament provides us with an image of a stronghold surrounded by thick walls, a draw bridge, and fortified gates. So these principles apply to us tearing down our personal strongholds. There are important facts that were known in Bible times to conquer a fortified city.
This principle is the same in the spiritual that was revealed to us in the natural. The Bible shows us clearly in the Old Testament that the vulnerability and strength of a fortress or stronghold always rested in its gates. It is important to feed the spirit not the flesh so we are to guard our borders. Our five senses are the doors and gates that allow information to enter. How we take in information and process it is how things enter through the doors and gates of our soul. Guarding our doors and gates are extremely important. They alter how we perceive God, His character, promises and who we are in Him and the authority that we have through Christ Jesus. These are the strongholds that formed through our life experiences and are contrary to the Truth of God’s Word. Identifying and tearing down our strongholds is essential to walking in the fullness of God’s victory and power.Įxamples of stronghold thought patterns are fear, doubt, negativity, expectations or rejection or betrayal, performance based mentality, victim thinking and so many more. Our distorted thinking patterns and faulty core beliefs are the strongholds that hinder our agreement with God’s Word. Psalm 24 The King of Glory A Psalm of David.A stronghold is a fortified dwelling encamping around our belief system.
Sharper Iron is underwritten by Lutheran Church Extension Fund, where your investments help support the work of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Two pastors engage with God’s Word to sharpen not only their own faith and knowledge, but the faith and knowledge of all who listen. Timothy Appel, looks at the text of Holy Scripture both in its broad context and its narrow detail, all for the sake of proclaiming Christ crucified and risen for sinners. Even in the great variety of the Psalms, each one points us to our Savior, Jesus Christ.
#BIBLE GATES HOW TO#
In the Psalter, God speaks His Word to us and teaches us how to speak back to Him in prayer. Join Sharper Iron during the month of July to study several Psalms. We welcome Him with joy, not only now in Word and Sacrament, but especially on the Last Day. Similarly, the Holy Spirit opens our hearts to receive Jesus as our Savior. Psalm 24 calls upon the gates of the tabernacle to open wide to welcome the LORD as the King of glory. Such righteousness is not our own doing, but it is God’s gift to us through His Son Jesus Christ, who has lived entirely without sin for our sake.
#BIBLE GATES FREE#
The one who ascends with Him on His hill is holy both inside and out, having remained free from idolatry. The LORD comes to His sanctuary as the Creator, Owner, and Preserver of all things. Psalm 24 may have been composed for the entrance of the ark of the covenant into the tabernacle. David Boisclair, pastor at Bethesda and Faith Lutheran Churches in north St.
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