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Sunday, June 25, 2017

A Green Olive Tree in God's House - Psalm 52:8

David  was trusting God to keep his covenant loyalty to him because God keeps his word. He is faithful. 

"A green olive tree"; which is a very choice and fruitful tree has:

  • fatness in it
  • produces an excellent oil
  • is beautiful to look at
  • delights in hot climates and sunny places
  • is found on mountains
  • we read of the Mount of Olives in the Bible
  • is ever green and durable
  • its leaves and branches are symbols of peace
All of the above characteristics are also applicable to truly righteous persons and believers in Christ who are:

  •  the excellent of the earth
  • are filled with the fruits of righteousness
  • are fat and flourishing
  • have the oil of grace - the anointing which teaches all things
  • are a perfection of beauty - made perfectly comely through Christ's comeliness
  • thrive under him - the sun of righteousness
  • grow in the mountain of the Lord's house - the church
  • their grace is incorruptible
  • their leaf withers not
  • they are rooted in Christ and ever continue
  • they are the sons and daughters of peace
  • their last end will be eternal peace.  

                                                                                                                                           adapted from  Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
A green tree is the emblem of prosperity.
I am safe and happy...I have been kept unharmed, like a green and flourishing tree...protected in the very courts of the sanctuary - safe under the care and the eye of God. A green tree is the emblem of prosperity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     adapted from Barnes Notes
Those who by faith and love dwell in the house of God, shall be like green olive-trees there. And that we may be as green olive-trees, we must live a life of faith and holy confidence in God and his grace.                                                                                                                                                                                              Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary

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