Psalm: The LORD said to my Lord
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Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
We will return to the theme of rejoicing saints when we get Psalm 150
Tonight we will examine the most quoted Psalm
So please Open to Psalm 110 this evening. Psalm 110. We will read all 7 version we will exceptionally look at verse 1-4
Before we read I wanted give a short list of some, of the vast theological topics in the first 4 verses.
The concept of the trinity is introduce from the being as the read need to deal with the statement the YHWH speaks to Adoni.
The kingdom so God that the right and power of Adoni’s reign is another topic
Also, the type of his reign, the now and not yet of the kingdom of God
The number, duty, and attitude of God’s elect is dealt with here in verse 3.
and the the office of Priest and King and in one person in verse 4, I mean, who is Melchizedek anyway?
All of these realities are wrapped up in God oath and decree make then a sure thing.
Let’s read Psalm 110:1-7
1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” 2 The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! 3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. 4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. 7 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
May God Bless the reading of His Holy and Infallible Word
Let’s Pray
Transition
Transition
As we have said, several times in this series, every text points either directly or indirectly to Christ. This evening we have a text that most certainly directly point to Christ. Jesus makes direct application in the Psalm to himself, this text is inescapably about Christ. Of course there is application here in the Psalm to David as well, but only in as much as David is a shadow of Christ.
Lets start with verse 1.
Body
Body
YHWH said to Adoni
YHWH said to Adoni
1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
YHWH, Adoni
How that fits David and how it doesn’t
Jesus said, “David called him his Lord”
Only a God appointed King
The action is current, David doesn’t say, YHWH will say to Adoni. says,
The Hebrew word is Nay-oom It means decree
The LORD YHWH Decrees of Adoni, you will sit at my right hand.
Thinking of the trinitarian nature of statement,
The Father Decrees of the Son.
This is the decree of the Lord an no one can change that.
Sit at my right hand!
This King executes his office from the thrown room of God.
“until I make your enemies your footstool.”
We should not be taken back by the word until, as if Christ waited to rule.
This is the now and not yet, that we were talking about earlier
All authority has been given to me.
Transition
Transition
Unless we should worry about the word until, we again see the affirmation of the Son’s current Lordship in verse 2.
Scepter Stretched Out
Scepter Stretched Out
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!
The word here, sends is Yis-Lah, it is to extend to it full reach.
What a comfort to the saint this statement is. You rule in the mist of your enemies. The Kingdom is at hand and when the said faces trial and they will come, never ones is the rule of the King to be questioned.
“. Moreover, as he does not reign on his own account, but for our salvation, we may rest assured that we will be protected and preserved from all ills under the guardianship of this invincible King. Doubtless our condition in this world is connected with many hardships; but as it is the will of God that Christ’s kingdom should be encompassed with many enemies, and that too with the design of keeping us in a state of constant warfare, it becomes us to exercise patience and meekness; and assured of God’s aid, boldly to set at nought the rage of the whole world.” [1]
This the whole world rages but it cannot prevent Jesus from being king. Jesus is not going to be king, the kingdom of this world are not to become the kingdom of our God, they are now.
What we are seeing is all the enemies put under his feet. The enemies of the king are not an indication that he doesn’t rule.
Oh that the saints would life like this was true, if we life every day in the light of Jesus’ lordship and not with eyes on the enemies in this world
We could go boldly anywhere, with no fear of men.
We could with the apostle clearly say, we fear God and not man.
We could love the church, the manifest Kingdom of God in this world moire deeply, more humbly, and more beautiful.
This is why we have been in Scripture all this months seeking Christ in the text. Because we love to tell the old old story of the king who came in glory.
Transition
Transition
That response of the saint is exactly what David is talking about in verse 3
“Your people will offer themselves freely”
“Your people will offer themselves freely”
3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.
The people of God know their King rules and when he says go they go with abandoned fears, abandoned self desires, they go for their king.
The phrase “on the day of your power” could be translated when you lead your armies. Calvin actually prefers that translation.
Get he picture David is painting
The King says, this is the battle i want fought and every servant of this king jumps to there feet grabs their sword and marches for with full confidence of victory.
Lord forgive us for our sluggishness you have provided such a great victory yet how many times when you say go we reply with Lord I want a different fight.
When you understand that the Lord sits on this throne and the power of his rule goes out every where it is the power by which you over come that self, and take up that cross and follow that king.
And from where do this
Think about the picture. The king says GO and the saints seem the rise up from everywhere, like the dew in the morning. There is no rain, its not clear how they got there but they are everywhere.
One moment there was a carpenter and 12 guys, the next, the whole roman empire was Christian. Here we are 2000 years later and there are 2 billion people on this planet that call them selves Christians.
Like the dew of the morning these ones clothed in “holy garments” come and God’s process to Abraham, that his seed will be like the sand of the sea” is being fulfilled.
Transition
Transition
But how are they clothed, how are they adopted, because he is not only their king by God’s decree, his is also their high-priest by the oath of God himself.
The LORD YHWH has sworn will he not fulfill it?
Verse 4
The LORD has Sworn
The LORD has Sworn
4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”
This Oath is set at the same time as the decree of his Kingship.
The decree of God is unchangeable
The Oath, is that same picture, and unchangeable thing
As sure as his is King his is Priest.
This is something David could never be, it was forbidden for the King to take on the role of priest. Remember what happened to Uriah when he tried to be both king and priest.
Why is it important that this is the Oath of God and that it will not change?
As Calvin explains “... it is the very turning point upon which our salvation depends; because, but for our reliance on Christ our Mediator, we would be all debarred from entering into God’s presence.” [2]
There are no other priest after the order of Melchizedek, he is the only one and he was decreed to be this priest before time.
No one has a prior claim to that title or Job.
Before David was King, Christ was sitting at the right hand of God.
Before Aaron was High Priest, Christ was by the oath of God Priest forever.
Forever, his place ad intercessor always was and always will be.
The LORD has sworn and it will not change.
Conclusion
Conclusion
So take comfort saint, you priest and your King have never not being on the throne, and never not be the intercessor for God’s people and he always will. Did you have enemies past present future? Your Kings mighty scepter was it and will be. Have to sin yesterday, today and will you tomorrow? Don’t worry, your High Priest will and has interceded for you.
Benediction
Benediction
20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
References
References
[1]John Calvin and James Anderson, Commentary on the Book of Psalms, vol. 4 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 301.
[2] Ibid, 306.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Calvin, John, and James Anderson. Commentary on the Book of Psalms. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010.