In 2 Chronicles chapter 6 and
verse 7 we read from King Solomon's prayer on the day in which the
temple was consecrated of how it was in his father's heart
to build a house for the Lord. He says in verse 7, Now it was
in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name
of the Lord God of Israel. But the Lord said to David my
father, for as much as it was in thine heart to build a house
for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart.
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy son
which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
house for my name. Lord therefore have performed
his word that he have spoken for I Solomon am risen up in
the room of David my father and I'm set on the throne of Israel
as the Lord promised and have built the house for the name
of the Lord God of Israel and in it have I put the ark wherein
is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the children of
Israel. Solomon stood in the temple before
the children of Israel on this day of the consecration of the
temple. And he prayed before the Lord
God. And I'd like to draw your attention
to the very end of his prayer and to the beginning of chapter
seven, following his prayer, when the glory of the Lord fills
the house of the temple of God. 2 Chronicles 6 and verse 40 Solomon
continues in prayer when he says, Now my God, let I beseech thee,
thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer
that is made in this place. Now therefore arise, O Lord God,
into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength.
Let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and
let thy saints rejoice in goodness. O Lord God, turn not away the
face of thine anointed. Remember the mercies of David
thy servant. Now when Solomon had made an
end of praying, The fire came down from heaven and consumed
the burnt offering and sacrifices. And the glory of the Lord filled
the house. And the priest could not enter
into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled
the Lord's house. And when all the children of
Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord
upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground
upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying,
For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. verse 1. Now when Solomon had
made an end of praying the fire came down from heaven and consumed
the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled
the house. The glory of the Lord filled
the house. The glory of the Lord. Throughout
the Bible, throughout the scriptures we read of course of the glory
of the Lord in many places. Often it is referred to, the
revelation of the glory of the Lord. The display of the glory
of the Lord. The glory of the Lord filling
his house. The glory of the Lord being seen
in the tabernacle, in the temple. Now the glory of the Lord is
almost always connected with the place of sacrifice. We see
it being revealed in the tabernacle, in the temple, when a sacrifice
is offered. It's seen when a sacrifice is
offered by fire. And here we read, when Solomon
had made an end of praying, that the fire came down from heaven
and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices. And the glory
of the Lord filled the house as the glory of the Lord is associated
with that place of judgment and of sacrifice and the display
of God's judgment when the sacrifice is offered up. God is glorious,
he's glorious in his person, he's glorious in all his doings
all his attributes, all his character, is glorious. He's glorious in
his mercy, he's glorious in his righteousness, he's glorious
in his holiness, he's glorious in his perfections, he's glorious
in his immutability, in his knowledge, in his wisdom, he's all glorious. But when we read in the scriptures
of the glory of the Lord being revealed, being revealed to man,
it is not often that this is associated simply with the glory
of the Lord as it is in himself. Yes, the Lord is glorious, but
he makes known that glory unto man in a certain way. it's made known in a certain
fashion there is his glory which he has in himself but he reveals
his glory unto man through what he has done through what he has
done he reveals his glory in the display of his mercy and
his justice in the place of judgment in the place of sacrifice So
often we read of this, when the glory of the Lord is displayed,
is revealed, is at the place of sacrifice, or at the place
of judgment. Judges in chapter 13, we read
the account of a man called Manoah and his wife, who met with the
angel of the Lord. And he knew not that it was the
angel of the Lord. And he asked the angel what his
name was that he might honor him. And the angel said unto
him, why askest thou my name, seeing it is secret? So Manoah
took a kid with a meat offering and offered it upon a rock unto
the Lord. And the angel did wondrously. And Manoah and his wife looked
on. For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord descended in
the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked
on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. But the angel
of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then
Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord. And Manoah said
unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. But his wife said unto him, if
the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received
the burnt offering and the meat offering at our hands. Neither
would he have showed us all these things, nor would as at this
time have told us such things as these. And the woman bare
a son and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord
blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began
to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshterion. And it's this couple were the
parents of Samson. And they met with the angel of
the Lord and they offered the sacrifice. And the flame rose
up to heaven. And they fell down on their faces
before the Lord. And it says that the angel did
wondrously. did wondrously at the offering
of this sacrifice. For here the glory of the Lord
was made known in a sacrifice. When Solomon built the house
that his father David had wanted to build for the Lord God. That
temple, that meeting place between God and man, that place where
he felt God could dwell and meet with man and where offerings
could be offered up unto the Lord where the people could come
to worship their God. When Solomon built this place
and when he had done an end with consecrating it when he had come
to an end of praying unto the Lord that the Lord would indeed
come and dwell in this temple which had been built for him,
which the Lord had had built through his servant and the people
that labored on his behalf. When Solomon had finished praying,
The fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering
and sacrifices. And the glory of the Lord filled
the house. It filled the house. Now where
is this glory made known? Firstly, the place. In the house
of the Lord. This house which had been built.
This meeting place of God and man. That built by David's son. King David's son. There's much
in this. There's much which is typical
of the gospel in this. Both David and his son are pictures,
are figures of Christ in the gospel. In their relationship
as father and son, They are figurative of the relationship of God the
Father and His Son. And the building of the temple,
which God prevented David from building, but would have built
by David's son, is pictorial of that temple in which God's
Son would dwell. That temple which is not built
by hand as this temple was, but that temple which is the dwelling
place of the Spirit and Christ by His Spirit. David wanted to build a temple,
a physical temple in this world, a glorious, a magnificent building
in which the people of the Lord could come to an appointed place
at an appointed time to worship their God. And God allowed this
temple to be built. But God is not a God that simply
dwells in temples made by the hands of men. God is a spirit. God cannot be contained in this
fashion. God is great. But God allowed this temple to
be built because it is a figure, a type of that which was to come. A picture of that place in which
he would dwell. A picture of that place in which
his glory would be revealed. A picture of that place in which
judgment and sacrifice would be offered up which was acceptable
unto God the Father. David would build a temple. His
son built the temple. And God entered into this temple
and filled it with his glory. Consider the timing of when this
fire came down from heaven and when the glory of the Lord filled
this temple. We read the timing. Now when
Solomon had made an end of praying, now when Solomon had made an
end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed
the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled
the house. God's glory would fill his house
when he chose to fill it. at a certain time. It happened, not just when the
temple was built, not just when the people were present to look
on, not simply when the sacrifice was prepared, but when Solomon
had made an end of prayer. When all the activity of man
had come to an end, when all the building had ceased, when
all the preparations had been fulfilled, when all the voices
had had their say, when all the activity had ceased, when Solomon
had made an end of praying, then, and only then, did the fire come
down from heaven. You see, when God's glory is
revealed, When His glory fills the house, it is when there is
nothing left of man with which that glory will be shared. It
is when man's activity has ceased. It is when man's work has come
to an end. It's when man's voice has ceased
to speak. God does not share His glory. God does not share his glory
with any. Not even with Solomon or with
David, his choice servants. Not even with the best of men. God's glory is too great. He does not share it. When the
fire came down from heaven, the glory of the Lord filled the
house. It filled it. So much so that
it says in verse 2 that the priest could not enter into the house
of the Lord because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's
house. It was full of His glory. There
was room for nothing else. There was no room for man to
squeeze in here. Either the glory of the Lord
filled the house, or the glory of man filled the house. But
the twain would not share the presence. God would not share
His glory with man. There was not some of man in
this place and some of man's glory and some of God's glory. It was filled with God's glory. All that could be seen was the
Lord's glory, His wondrous work. The fire come down from heaven
and the fire would not come down. until man's activity, man's work,
man's glory had ceased. Was Solomon wrong to build the
temple? Was he wrong to pray? No, he
prayed that the Lord would come and be present. He prayed that
the Lord would dwell in the place. He prayed that the Lord would
be glorified. But his voice and his prayer
must come to an end. before the Lord will work. The
Lord puts it into the hearts of his people to pray for that
which he will perform. But having prayed, they then
cease and he begins to move. There's none of man here. There's
none of man. This is all the activity, all
the work and all the glory of God. When God chooses to display
his glory, He does it entirely at His own hand. It's all His
work. What do you know of the glory
of God? What do you know of it? What
do you know of His glory and salvation? Has He come unto you
and revealed His glory? Do you know His salvation? Has He taught you your need of
His salvation? Has He taught you what you are
before Him? Has He taught you your need of
a sacrifice? And your need for that sacrifice
to be received at His hand? Has he taught you as he taught
the Israelites here and as he taught King Solomon? Has he taught
you your need to meet with God? Your need to be received by God? Your need for a sacrifice to
be received up and accepted by God? Perhaps you've never even
given it a thought. Perhaps the idea of sacrifice,
of atonement is something you confine in a book and confine
to history and confine to the deeds of men in the past. Perhaps
your idea of God is one of a God that loves all men, that wants
all to go to glory, all to go to heaven, that as long as you
ask him, you'll be there. Perhaps you think God is not
a God of justice, not a God that grows angry at sin. Well, the people here were taught
other things. The children of Israel knew what
they were before God. They knew that they were sinners.
They knew that they were corrupt. They knew that they were made
from the dust and to dust they would return. They knew that
they had gone astray from the day they were born. They knew
that they had despised God and His name in their hearts. They
knew that they had not worshipped Him as they should worship Him.
They knew that they had rejected Him. They knew that their hearts
desired the things of self, the pleasures and the riches of this
world. They knew that they'd run off
left right and centre desiring their own gain. desiring their
own glory, desiring their own pleasure, their own riches, their
own will. They knew that they had not given
unto their Lord what He deserved. They knew that He gave them all,
that He made them, that He sustained them, that He watched over them,
that He gave them their food and their water and their shelter,
that He brought the crops to grow, the water to flow, the
water to rain down from heaven, the sun to shine. They knew that
He gave them the food, that He sustained their life. And they
knew that this glorious God, that both created and sustained
this world and all that live in it, deserved to be worshipped,
deserved their honour and their praise. And they knew that they
had not rendered that unto them. They knew it. They knew that
their corrupt hearts went another way. And though at times their
conscience might cause them to turn unto God, to ask for His
forgiveness, to ask that they might be spared, that though
their conscience might cause them to do something for Him,
to utter a prayer, to bring a sacrifice before Him, they knew that the
occasional times in which their conscience was pricked was not
enough. No, they knew there was a God
to be reckoned with, a God of judgment, a God of justice, a
God that does right, a God whose anger and wrath burns against
the wicked. A God whose anger and wrath burnt
against the wicked in their day and generation. A God whose anger
and wrath burns against the wicked in our day and generation. A God whose anger and wrath burns
against the wickedness of men all around today. a god whose
anger and wrath burns against your wickedness, the wickedness
of your heart, each and every day. As long as that wickedness
is not atoned for, his anger and his wrath burn against it,
and his justice demands that a price must be paid. His justice demands that a sacrifice
must be offered. His justice demands that atonement
must be made. What do you know of this? What
do you know of your state before God? Your need to be right with
Him. Your need for your sins and your
wickedness and your rebellion to be washed away. Your need
to be declared just before Him, to be declared righteous before
Him. Your need for atonement to be
made for your sins. What do you know of your need?
When did you seek to enter into the house of God? and to have
a sacrifice offered up and to seek out His glory and His honor
and His praise. Well, here was a people that
came. Here was a people that knew that they must meet with
God. A people that knew that His name should be praised. A
people that knew that a sacrifice, an offering, must be offered
up in order that He might be pleased, he might be atoned,
that his wrath might be spared. So they came, and so they prayed. But when Solomon had made an
end of praying, then the fire came down from heaven. Now you
may know in time of your need, God might teach you in your heart
that you need a sacrifice for your sins. He might teach you
what you are. And there may come that time
when you begin to flee unto God, when you begin to seek Him and
to be right with Him. You may seek to change your ways
and to be right with God. You may seek to live right before
him, to turn from your wickedness. You may seek to turn unto him
in prayer and praise. But there will come a time when
you begin to realize that the best that you can do is not good
enough. that though you have turned,
that though you pray, that though you seek God, that though you
seek to live right before God, that though you seek to turn
from those wicked ways in which you once walked, you may have
begun to go to the meeting, you may have begun to listen to the
messages, you may have begun to read your Bible and to be
attentive to the gospel. But having even done all of these
things, you begin to realize that none of this is actually
making you right with God. That you still fall short and
that the harder you strive to be right, the harder you strive
to walk right, the worse your heart seems to get within. You
know now what you should be. You know how you should walk. And yet the more you know, the
worse your heart within you seems to get. The more conscious you
become of that sin within, and the further away God appears
to be. And you've prayed, you've prayed,
you've sought God, you've prayed, you've cried. But the fire doesn't come down.
You pray, you cry, you ask the Lord for mercy, but you don't
know. You haven't beheld his glory.
There's been no fire from heaven. You don't have that assurance
in your heart that the blood has been shed for you, that your
sins have been washed away. And there comes a point where
you've prayed and you've prayed, and you can do no more. And you
come to see that your doing will avail nothing, that your works
are not going to make this right, that it's not your works and
your crying and your efforts which is going to turn God's
heart, but that you must come upon your knees before him and
fall down before him and cry out that you are nothing and
you can do nothing. and fall upon his mercy, and
pray that he, for mercy's sake, might hear your cries. Solomon
cried at the end, now, my God, let I beseech thee, thine eyes
be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is
made in this place. Now, therefore, arise, O Lord
God, into thy resting place. Thou and the ark of thy strength,
Let thy priest, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let
thy saints rejoice in goodness. O Lord God, turn not away the
face of thine anointed. Remember the mercies of David
thy servant. Solomon had ceased the work.
All had been done. He prayed all he could pray.
And he says, oh Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed. Remember the mercies of David
thy servant. And when Solomon had made an
end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed
the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled
the house. Now the Lord won't share his
glory. You'll have none of our works, none of our deeds, none
of our doing. But when we're brought to an
end of ourselves, when we're brought to an end of glorying
in self, when we're brought to an end of that pride we have
by nature. When we've been broken and brought
down with a contrite spirit, when we've prayed all we can
pray and thrown ourselves upon His mercy and His grace alone,
when we have made an end of praying, then God moves. For then it's
all of God. It's all of grace. It's all of
His mercy. And the fire comes down from
heaven. And the fire consumes the offering
and the sacrifice. And then and then only, the glory
of the Lord fills the house. Now the priest could not enter
because the house was filled with his glory. It was not shared. He filled it. He filled it. Now this one who prayed was Solomon,
David's son, King David's son. It was Solomon under whom the
temple was built. And it was at the end of Solomon's
prayer that the sacrifice was burnt up from the fire which
came down from heaven. And it was at the end of Solomon's
prayer that the glory of the Lord filled the house. Now what
does this tell us? What does this point us to? Why
is this important? It's important because of who
Solomon is typical of here. Solomon here is seen as the son
of the king. As the son of his father. His
father would have a house built. that the Lord would dwell in.
And it was the Son by whom that house was built. And it was through
the Son that the Lord filled the house with his glory. The Son is typical of Christ.
He's a picture of Christ. David in this context is seen
as the Father. Picture of God the Father. Elsewhere,
of course, David himself is a picture of Christ. But in this context,
he's seen as the father. Solomon is the son. And it's
Solomon, it's at the prayer of the son that the Lord comes to
dwell in the house of which Solomon is the custodian. God would meet with his people. God would dwell with man. And
God came in the fullness of time into this world in the person
of a man. He sent his only begotten Son
into this world, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. He sent
his Son who took upon himself flesh, who was born a babe in
a manger. That Son of the seed of David
who was made flesh that son who came in a body a body prepared
for him a body prepared for him he came to do the will of his
father lo I come to do thy will a body hast thou prepared for
me in Romans chapter 1 and verse 3 we read of the coming of this
son We read of that Gospel, the Gospel of God which concerns
His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of
David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of
God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection
from the dead. Now how was He made of the seed
of David? By taking upon Himself flesh,
a body, A dwelling place in which God, the spirit God, in the person
of Christ could dwell. God came into this world and
took a body which was given to his son, and his son dwelt in
that body. And he dwelt with man. And he
met with man in that body. And that body is what is pictured
by the temple. which was built by the son of
David. The temple of Solomon, a picture
of the temple of Christ, his body. God made man, God made
flesh, God present with man. Christ himself refers to his
own body as the temple. He says to the Pharisees, that
should they destroy this temple that he would raise it up again
in three days. They puzzled thinking he meant
the physical temple. But he meant the temple of his
body. He meant the temple of his body.
That which the temple which Solomon built was but a figure of. That in which God would dwell
with man. As Christ came in the flesh,
As Christ came as the Son of God, as man, to dwell with men,
the glory of the Lord filled the body of Christ. In him the
fullness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily. The fullness of the Godhead
dwelleth bodily in the person of Christ, in his body, in his
temple. Now this is why God would have
David's son to build the temple. And this is what Solomon's temple
is a figure of. Christ and the glory, the filling
of the glory of the Lord in Christ, in his temple, in his temple. And the display of the glory
of the Lord in Christ, in his temple, in the destruction of
that temple and the rebuilding of that temple on the third day. For Christ in his body would
be nailed to a tree and in his body he would die. And in his
body the fires came down from heaven and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices which were Christ. which were offered
up unto God as God judged the sins of his people in the person
of his son. In his body, the glory of the
Lord filled the house. In his body in judgment, God
made known his glory unto man. The temple is Christ and the
glory of the Lord seen in this temple is the crucifixion of
Christ upon the cross. Oh, what a picture we have here
in Solomon's temple of the coming of Christ. Oh, what a picture
we have here of the judgment of God, of the sins of his people. Oh, what a picture we have here
of the glory of the Lord which filled the house once the fires
had come down and burnt up all the sin and all the corruption
of God's people in Christ. What glory remains, what glory
is seen when their sins and their corruptions are judged and destroyed
and they rise again in Christ, in Him, in His temple, in His
glory. There's none of their glory.
The priest could not enter because the glory of the Lord had filled
the Lord's house. None of their glory is seen here. It's all gone. It's all gone. All the glory is God's, all is
in Christ, all is because of what He has done, all is because
of that death which He suffered upon the cross, all is because
of that sacrifice which He gave up for His people freely, to
take away their sins, to wash them clean, to make them righteous. All is His glory and their union
with Him is as those who are chosen in Him from all eternity,
chosen in Him, placed in Him by God the Father. All their
glory is taken away, all that is of man is outside, only Christ
and those in Christ are in this temple, only His glory fills
it, the glory of the Lord. Yes, this is David's son here. Solomon, his temple, Christ in
his body. We're taken in this picture hundreds
of years later to that place outside Jerusalem, that place
called Golgotha, that place where the son of God was nailed to
the tree, that place where the fires of God rained down in judgment
upon his own son. This is David's son, a picture
of his greater son, Christ. as the hymn of whom we read in
psalm 110 of course when David speaks in prophecy of his son
that one that physical son who would be born of his line of
his lineage and yet his son who his His Lord for that son was
not simply the immediate son Solomon but that son is the one
who is to come of whom Solomon was the figure, the Lord Jesus
Christ. In Psalm 110 David wrote, The
Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make
thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion, rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties
of holiness from the womb of the morning. That day, that time
when the Lord would rule, that day when his enemies would be
made his footstool would come as a result of this day on which
the Son Christ was nailed to a tree in judgment. that day
in which the fires of God would rain down from heaven in judgment
upon that sacrifice, that one sacrifice, his son in the temple
of his body. And having rained down, having
judged all the sins of all his people throughout all time, he
would rise again the temple being rebuilt on the third day and
they would rise in him righteous, clean, washed, sanctified, justified
and as a result they would sit down in heaven above in ascended
glory from where he reigns till his enemies be made his footstool. It's that judgment on that day
that decides that outcome, that day in which all his enemies
shall be brought before him. Today they rail in his face,
today man casts out the name of Christ, but their judgment
is already sealed because of that day when he died. that day when he rose, that day
when he ascended and there's that day coming when they'll
be brought before his feet and he will rule over his enemies.
Have you seen this sun? Have you seen this sacrifice?
Have you seen the fire come down from heaven upon the one upon
the tree? Was he there suffering for you? Was he judged for you? Do you
see the glory of the Lord? Fill in the house, fill in the
temple, fill in the temple of Christ on your behalf. Yes the temple is a picture of
Christ and the judgment of God is that which came down upon
him when God judged the sins of his people. And the glory
of God which filled the house is that which is seen in judgment. God is glorious in himself. But
like I say, he reveals his glory to us through what he's done. And what he has done is to slay
his son for the sins of his people. Did he slay his son? for your
sins. Did he wash your sins away? For
if he did, in so doing he displayed his glory before you. God's glory is seen in judgment.
It's at the place of judgment, at the place of sacrifice that
God meets man. He did so in the temple here.
He did in the tabernacle, at the sacrifice, upon the altar. there is his mercy shown, there
his love for his own is shown, there his justice and his judgment
is shown, and there his glory is shown. Judgment meets man,
judgment meets God's people, in God's Son, in Christ, at the
cross, in glory. In Isaiah 60 we read Arise, shine,
for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee. For behold, the darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the people. But the Lord shall
arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising. Yes, in the darkness of this
world. On that day when Christ was nailed
to the tree, his light shone forth in this world when God's
justice poured down upon him. And when it did, through this,
God's display of his glory was revealed under his own. Through
this display, God's people are translated from death into life. Through His death in their place,
they're delivered from death into life. Delivered from the
first man, Adam, into the second man, Christ. Delivered from the
earth into heaven. Delivered from destruction into
everlasting glory. Delivered from time into eternity. Delivered from sin into righteousness. Oh the glory of God which is
revealed in Christ in the temple, the glory which fills the house. Now the Lord is that Spirit we
read in 2 Corinthians 3 and where the Spirit of the Lord is there
is liberty. But we all with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We behold the glory of the Lord through a glass, yes, but that
glory is beheld in the cross, in Christ, in judgment, in the
house. that place in which our flesh
is crucified with Him if we are in Him, judged, condemned and
taken away, forever done away. and that place where on the third
day having been taken down, having laid in the grave, Christ and
all his people rise again in glory, righteous, perfect, justified. The old man is gone forever,
only the new is seen. Only the new. Has your sin been
judged here? Was your sin judged upon the
cross in Christ? Will God be able to look upon
you in judgment on that day? Will He look upon you in Christ
in His Son? Will He see the blood shed on
your behalf? And will He see His justice satisfied? Or will it be that He will look
upon you in eternity to come? and pour out His wrath and justice
upon you then. Where is the glory to be seen? Would you glory before God? Would you stand and glorify in
His presence? Or do you look on and behold
the glory of the Lord fill in the house in Christ in your behalf? Oh I exhort you this day flee
unto Christ, turn from your ways and your strength, bow down before
him and worship this one in whom the glory of the Lord is revealed,
the one in whose temple of his body the glory of the Lord fills. Oh the mercy of God which is
in Christ, this mercy which is seen in this place of judgment,
in the glory of God filling his house, in Christ, in Christ crucified,
in Christ slain for sinners, in Christ glorified. Look upon
the one sacrificed for sinners and behold his glory. Now when
Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven
and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory
of the Lord filled the house. Amen.