"Children of Zion"

Many songs sing about being "children of Zion." Who are these people? Our forefathers rightly identified them with those who are believers, who have been "born of God." But, the term shows how both the Lord and his church are involved in begetting children to God. The Lord is the father, and the church is the mother, because it is through her that the Lord will bring about the birth of the Spirit. In other words it is by the Spirit and the word.

"...this man was born there" (Psa. 87:4-7).

On these words Dr. Gill wrote in his commentary:

"...but it designs many persons in each of those countries that should be born again, of water, and of the Spirit, of the incorruptible seed of grace, by the ministry of the word; who, because they should be regenerated by means of the Gospel preached in Zion, therefore are said to be born there; and besides, being born again, they are admitted members of Zion, and to all the privileges of Zion, as true born Israelites; and are brought up there, are nourished with the sincere milk of the word, and nursed with the breasts of Gospel ordinances there administered; and so Zion, or Jerusalem, the Gospel church, is truly the mother of them all, ( Galatians 4:26)."

That is Old Baptist doctrine.

I am so glad to be a child of Zion! Are you?

Hymn

"Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken, Zion City of our God" (here)

"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect..." (Heb. 12:22-23)