Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

So I'm chapter 133, behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.

It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron,

running down on the collar of his robes. It is like the dew of Herman which falls on the mountains

of Zion. For there the Lord has commanded the blessing life forevermore.

Oh, there is so much here. This is such a good and such a needed chapter for us to hear and

meditate on and pray according to. I'll just summarize like this picture of good and pleasant

dwelling in unity between the people of God, between brothers and sisters in Christ,

the New Testament. It's like and there's so many pictures this psalm could compare unity to,

like trees and a forest or stars in the sky or fish in the ocean. So many different

pictures of unity and diversity. So why is it like oil coming down on Aaron's beard?

And it's beautiful because we'll just think about what brought the people of God together in

Jerusalem in the Old Testament. It was celebrations at the tabernacle or the temple where they were

offered sacrifices for their sin to reconcile them to God. And the priests represented by Aaron

would offer those sacrifices. And you look back Exodus 30 talks about how this oil would be poured

over the priest's head and would run down onto his beard all the way down on his robes,

which by the way over his breastplate you would find 12 stones representing all 12 tribes of Israel

who were all represented by this priest as he offered sacrifices on their behalf. So it makes

beautiful sense. This good and pleasant unity was made possible among all of God's people by God's

grace. He was forgiving their sins and restoring them to unity with him, which was paving the way

for the deepest kind of unity we can have with anyone else. And we know based on the New Testament

greater priests than Aaron has come. Jesus has come. And instead of offering some other sacrifices

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