Take your Bibles and turn with
me to Psalms 110. Psalm 110. I know this, God's Word is not
going to return unto Him void. I know, according to the Scriptures,
and I truly believe this, that the preaching of the gospel is
the power of God unto salvation. This is the means by which God's
going to call out His people. This is the only message that
any sinner will ever hear by which God will grant life. This
is the most important thing that we can ever do. It's what we're
doing right here. Everything else in this world
pales into nothingness. No matter, I don't care, I don't
care, I don't care. Nothing is as important as hearing
the gospel. To fail to hear the gospel is
absolutely to the damnation of a man's soul. I pray that God
bless the message today. I believe when He said, my word's
not going to return void. It's going to accomplish the
purpose for which it was sent. I pray God have mercy on us today.
Psalm 110. 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, thou hast the due of thy youth." Hundreds of years before the
Lord Jesus Christ was made flesh. And that's what the scripture
says. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and
the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh. He actually came into this world. God assumed flesh. Holy flesh. Conceived by the
Holy Spirit, God Almighty walked upon this earth in flesh. John said we saw Him, we touched
Him. Our hands have handled the Word
of Life. The Spirit of God Here is going
to relate a conversation that was spoken by Jehovah. Now here's a mysterious thing. I'm just going to be up front
with you. Whenever we see, and I've told you this so many times,
and if you don't have a Bible, please get next to somebody that's
got one, because I want you to look. I don't want you to just
listen to what I'm saying. Listen to what I'm saying, but
look in the scriptures and see what I'm saying. Whenever you
see capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, that means Jehovah,
God. God, triune God, Father, Son,
Spirit, God. And whenever you see capital
L, little o, little r, little d, that sets forth God in human
flesh, the Lord, the Adonai, the Messiah. That was the way
that the translators, they knew that it was a different word.
It was a different title. And that was the way they wrote
it, Freddie, so that we would understand. When it says LORD,
if it's all capital, it's talking about Jehovah, the unapproachable
God who is absolutely a consuming fire, unapproachable by anything
but holiness. And when they'd write the other
title, capital L-O-R-D, it meant God in human flesh. Now I want
us to consider for just a minute the glory of what the Holy Spirit
has said unto us this morning. I want us to listen to a conversation
where Jehovah was speaking to the Messiah. Jehovah in human
flesh. You say, well, I can't understand
that. I don't understand it either. I'll agree with you. It's way
over our heads. But I'm telling you, this is
the way it is. One of these days, by God's grace,
we're going to understand it. We're going to see Him as He
is. But suffice it to say, let us
hear this glorious conversation. How can God Almighty be approached
only in one who is God? and man. There's got to be a
mediator. How do you approach a judge? If that judge is only approached
in a mediator, how are you going to approach him without a mediator?
Now listen to what the Word of God has to say. Psalm 110 verse
1. The Lord, Jehovah, the I Am,
the Father that no man has seen, but the Son, God who is Spirit,
the One who has spoken from heaven concerning His pleasure with
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord. Now look at it, said unto my
Lord, said unto God the Son, As the Messiah, Jehovah said
to Jehovah made flesh, he who is the glorious head and
surety of his people. Here's what he said, sit thou
at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Now, Psalms, I looked this up, I tried to get as close as I
could. I would say somewhere, according
to my sources, somewhere between a thousand and eleven hundred
years before the Lord Jesus Christ was made flesh, these words were
written. Here, Almighty God, is speaking
to the Messiah. Jehovah is speaking to the Messiah. One God. One God. Manifested in three persons.
Father, Son, Spirit. Jehovah is speaking to the Messiah
concerning the finished work and the reward of the work of
the Messiah hundreds of years before his incarnation. Prophecies had been given concerning
his obedience, his sacrifice, and usually you'll find that
those prophecies always were set forth concerning the present
or Done. Listen to Psalm 22, 18. They
part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture. And in time, they did. But the scripture, that's Psalm
22. Hundreds of years before they
do it. Spoken of as done. This is what they've done. Listen
to Isaiah 53. Isaiah, the prophet, Old Testament. Isaiah 53, 4-6, "...surely He
hath borne our griefs." He didn't say He shall, though He would. in time. But He hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem Him stricken,
smitten of God, and wounded. But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes
we're healed. And all we like sheep have gone
astray, and we've turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." And at the cross,
He was actually made sin. So we behold this glorious declaration
of Jehovah before the Lord Jesus Christ ever assumed flesh, saying
to him in the book of Psalms a thousand years before, the
Lord Jehovah said unto my Messiah, My surety, my priest before God,
here's what he said, sit thou at my right hand. No priest ever was told by God
to sit down except this one. You know the priest in the Old
Testament, there was no chair in the holy place. Why? They
were never done. The blood of bulls and goats,
will that ever put away one sin? 1,500 years of sacrifices. I wonder how many tons and tons
and tons of blood were shed. But by the shedding of the blood
of bulls and goats, no man. But here, this one, this priest,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, one, himself, he sat
down. Done. Finished. He had glorified the Father on
earth with His loving obedience, perfect obedience, never deviated
in word, thought, deed. This is my beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. He had finished the work of the
Father. that work that the Father had
given Him concerning the redemption and salvation of His people,
and the defeating of all the enemies of God's people of sin
and Satan and death. By one sacrifice, He finished
it. And the Father said, Sit down.
Sit down. Sit thou at My right hand until
I make thine enemies thy footstool. Sit down as the representative
of the bride. Sit down. You've redeemed my
sheep. The church, you sit until I make
every rebel to be laid beneath your feet. And having completed
the work Finished that work of Jehovah, Jehovah had two great
promises that he gave him out of these scriptures. Now listen
to these two great promises. You sit down, and then he said
in verse 2, here's the first promise he gave him. He said,
the Lord. Now this is the same Lord that's
speaking in verse 1, the Lord Jehovah. Here the Lord says. In other words, this is what
Jehovah is saying, I am going to do this. The Lord shall send
the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst
of thine enemies. Jehovah has told the Messiah,
based upon your work, upon your obedience, upon the completion
of the work that I gave you to do, This is what I'm going to
do. I'm going to send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. What does that mean? That means
that he's going to send the glorious gospel. The rod of the strength
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The message that honors him. The gospel is concerning the
Lord Jesus Christ. And Jehovah said, I'm going to
send that glorious gospel, that proclamation of what you've done,
I'm going to send it out of Zion. I'm going to send it out through
my church. How's he going to do that? He's
going to raise up some preachers. That's what he's going to do.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord is going to
be saved. How are they going to call on whom they've not heard?
How are they going to hear without a preacher? God has been pleased
by the foolishness of preaching. Not foolish preaching, I've told
you that before, but what the world considers foolishness. You mean to tell me that the
only thing that is necessary for the salvation of a sinner
is the preaching of a gospel? That's exactly what I'm telling
you. That's exactly what I'm telling you. And all of this
other stuff that the world comes up with is just fluff. That's
all it is. It's just silliness. Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to send the rod of your strength, the rod of your
power, the message of the gospel, and I'm going to send it out
of the church. Romans 1.1 declares, this gospel
is the gospel of God. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. It is
the gospel of Christ. That's what I just quoted, Romans
1.16. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It's the power
of God unto salvation. To everyone that believeth, to
the Jew first, also to the Greek. For as the Holy Spirit, this
gospel is revealed to be the ministration of the Spirit of
God. He takes it, blesses it, gives
a man a new heart, teaches him the gospel, teaches him of Christ. Whenever you hear the gospel,
I'm going to tell you what you're going to hear. You're going to
hear of the honor and the glory and the power and the strength
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who has honored the Father. He's going to send the rod of
Christ's strength, the gospel, as it's preached through His
church. And then what the Father has
said is, I want you to rule. in the midst of thine enemies."
Two things are said here, ruling in the midst of his enemies.
Almighty God, by his glorious declaration of Christ, through
the preaching of the gospel, is going to rule in the midst
of this world and his enemies. He's going to absolutely be unhindered. He's not going to be hindered.
By any means, through the preaching of the gospel, who's going to
stop him? Who's going to stop him? If there's
one of God's elect in this room this morning, and Almighty God
is pleased to save him, I'm going to tell you something, all of
hell can't stop him. Who's going to stop him? You're
going to rule in the midst of thine enemies. His Word is going
to accomplish the purpose for which God sent it. Almighty God
is going to rule in the midst of His enemies, secondly, those
who are objects of His mercy, who He's eternally loved and
chosen in Christ. When they were born in Adam,
you know who they are? They're enemies in their mind.
I've told you that before. Not in God's mind. Not in God's
mind. But their enemy is in their mind.
They hate God just as much as any rebel that's ever been born
in this earth. They hate Him. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. But let me tell you what God's
going to do. Because of the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ, having
put away their debt at Calvary, justified them by His blood.
Who? All that the Father gave Him.
Now here's what happened in Calvary. The Father had given Christ to
people before the foundation of the world. He gave them to Christ to be
the surety. You save them. You redeem them. You save them.
And Christ went to the cross with them, in Him. And He bore
their guilt. He was made sin. For them, I
lay down my life for the sheep. That's what he said, John 10,
15. You may say, well, I think he died for the sins of the whole
world. I've told you, I said, well, God didn't say that. Man
said it, God didn't say it. I'm telling you now, by his strength,
he bore their guilt in his own body. And he was forsaken of
God. Where sin was found, the law
demanded justice. And He bore their guilt, and
by His strength, He put it away. And the Father has promised Him,
You're going to rule in the midst of your enemies. Almighty God, by His power and
strength, is going to come to them And he's going to tell them,
as he passed by that baby that was, you know, he was out there
in the field and his navel was uncut and he said he saw that
baby in his own blood and he said, live. Live. Like he told
Ezekiel, can these dry bones, these dead bones, can they live?
Lord, you know. He said, you preach to them.
You preach to them. And I will cause them to live.
Almighty God is going to save his people. Rule in the midst
of thine enemies. And then lastly, listen to this
promise. The second promise. Here's what
Jehovah said to the Messiah. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the
womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth. Now here's
what God has to say. Thy people. Here's what God has
to say. The Lord Jesus Christ has a people.
That's what He said. Thy people. Given Him by the
Father. And here's what He's promised.
You're gonna have them. You're gonna have them. I gave
them to you. You redeemed them. You bore their
guilt. And you're going to have them.
I give him a word. I promise you. Thy people shall
be willing. You know what that means? That
means they're going to be volunteers. You said, well, I thought you
said that no man has a free will. He doesn't. His will is bound up in trespasses
and sins, but God's going to give him a new will. God's going
to make a new man. He's going to make a new man
that's got a new heart. I'm going to put a new spirit in you. I'm
going to change you. Thy people shall be volunteers. willing to believe, where before
they didn't, willing to come, willing to love, willing to seek,
willing to obey, willing to follow, as they're led and taught by
God's Spirit. Father has promised the Son,
this is the way it's going to be. Thy people shall be willing. When? In the day of thy power,
whenever it pleases God, That's what Paul said, when it pleased
God who separated me from my mother's womb and saved me by
His grace. When did God come to Paul, Saul
of Tarsus in power? You know that. On the road to
Damascus. When did He come to you? Whenever
it pleased Him. I used to remember thinking as
a kid, I think what I'm going to do, this is the way I think
I'm going to do it. I think I'm going to live my life just as,
you know, there's a lot of fun I want to have in this world.
But I think just before I die, and you're going to think this
is foolish. You know what I'm going to say. Just before I die,
I'm going to give my heart to Jesus. I don't want to go to
hell, don't get me wrong. But I'm going to sow my seed
and my oats, and I'm going to just do what I want to do. And
whenever I decide, okay, I guess I'm getting ready to leave this
world. I guess I better get things right and turn over a new leaf.
Oh, what a foolish thought. In the day of God's power, thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power whenever the
Spirit of God comes. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power in the beauties of holiness. What does that mean?
That is in the splendor and honor and ornament of Christ's holiness. Whenever God's people are moved
upon by the Holy Spirit of God, made willing in the day of thy
power, you know what they're going to see? They're going to
see the beauty of His holiness. They're going to see that the
Lord Jesus Christ is the one that is deserving of all the
honor and glory and praise. Listen to Isaiah 33, 17. Thine
eyes shall see the King and His beauty. They shall behold the
land that is far off. They're going to know that the
blessed privilege that they have now revealed to them. They've always had it. They were
always sons, but they didn't know it. Oh, but in the day of
His power, When they're made willing in the day of His power,
they're going to behold, I am what I am by the one who is altogether
beautiful. The beauty of His holiness. He
paid my debt. He bore my guilt. He put away
my sin. And I didn't do anything but
rebel against Him. He saved me by grace. And gave
me faith to believe it. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power in the beauties of holiness from the womb of
the morning." Now that right there, I'll bear it out here
in the last part. I'm going to tell you, there's
an illusion given here concerning the dew, the dew, regular dew. I mean you go out there early
morning and you see dew. Here again, I'll see it, thou
hast the dew of thy youth. From the womb of the morning,
it has reference to the spectacle of seeing dew on the ground. Just as the dew is formed, is
produced, it's conceived in the womb of the morning. marvelously
displayed by the breaking of the rays of the sun. That's when
you see it. You go out there and you think,
when did that dew start? I went to bed, you know, but
I woke up this morning and there was a heavy dew on the ground. How did it get there? God made
it. God made it. God produced it. It's a product of God's hands.
And just as the dew is the product of God's hands, they that are
born of God are born of His hand and not by their own flesh. Thou hast the dew of thy youth. Continuing with the same thought,
just like from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of
thy youth. Just continuing with that context
right there. The willingness of God's people,
that is them beholding and seeing the beauty of Christ's holiness
when they're made willing in the day of His power. The Holy
Spirit reveals here the surety that Christ is going to have
his people. Now I'm going to show you and then I'll stop this
morning. Thou hast the dew of thy youth. Let me tell you what that's saying
and then I'll prove it. What that verse, thou hast the
dew of thy youth, what it's saying is, Lord, you're going to have
your people according to God's promise. You're going to have
your people. Those that you have bought, paid for with your own
precious blood. Listen to Micah 5.7, and I'll
show you how the dew is speaking of God's people. Micah 5.7, and
the remnant of Jacob. Now who's that talking about?
Well, that's talking about the elect. Jacob have I loved. That's what he said. Esau have
I hated. Now the remnant of Jacob, the hucksters, the tricksters,
Those that Almighty God has set His affection on. The remnant
of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as dew. D-E-W. From the Lord. From the capital
L, capital O, capital R, capital D. The remnant of Jacob shall
be in the midst of many people as a lot of folks in this world.
How many? A lot of folks in this world.
How many of them are the dew? from Jehovah unto the Lord, as
many as Almighty God is pleased to show mercy. How did they become due? God
chose them. Was there any merit in them,
Jeff? No. He did it according to His good
pleasure. And this is what He said, You're due unto My Son. You're due unto My Son. I'm going
to honor my son through you. And the remnant of Jacob shall
be in the midst of many people as due from the Lord, as the
showers upon the grass that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for
the sons of man. Here's what God has promised.
God the Father has promised, thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness, From the
womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth. You have
them. You've always had them. And I'm
going to tell you something else. You're always going to have them.
You give them by your strength eternal life. I give unto them
eternal life. And listen to this. They're never
going to perish. One of these days, we're going
to see him as he is. Lord, bless these words to our
heart for Christ's sake. Amen.