Now in this psalm, there's a
lot to be seen, a lot of teaching, a lot of the Lord's wisdom condensed
into these seven verses. And so let's do what I believe is always necessary
for us If we're honest with ourselves, we're very simple-minded. We
come like little children, just learning the basics still, after
so many years, just still learning the basics. And we have to break
down these things. To rightly divide the word of
truth is to break down into the basic simple elements. What's
being said, who's being talked about, and there's three players
really, three characters. Identified in this psalm. So
let's identify who they are First of all, the Lord Jesus Christ
is exalted in the very beginning of it to the throne the throne
of the universe the throne of heaven and Then you have his
people submitting to him as sovereign And we see that In verse 3 And
then you have his enemies in the last few verses of the chapter
being destroyed by him from his throne. He sovereignly makes
a difference between sinners. Some are going to submit and
be willing and honor him and serve him and love him and believe
on him. And some are going to be utterly
destroyed. And from his sovereign throne, he makes the difference.
And so we see this and the father is mentioned too in verse one,
but the focus is on the son and his exaltation. So let's see
now what's happening in the psalm and in the process we'll see
more about these different players, these different characters. We'll
learn further the identity of who's mentioned in the psalm.
So verse one, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right
hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Now that's very
simple language. Someone's being told to sit down
until, for a length of time, until something happens. And
that thing is simple too. Very simple language. There's
a lot happening in this verse, in this one verse. The one who is to have all of
his enemies put under his feet. The one who is exalted to sit
on the very right hand of God. The word Lord in all caps there,
the first Lord is Jehovah. And then the second where it's
just a capital L, there's a reason why that, because the all caps
is Jehovah. That's the original word Jehovah
God. And then Lord with just a capital
L is the Lord Jesus Christ. It means ruler. It means sovereign.
So he's being told to sit down on the very right hand of Jehovah
on the very throne. That's where John saw him in
the book of Revelation. We know he's there right now on the right
hand of God and he ever makes intercession for us from there.
And so we can have no doubt as to whom this refers because our
Lord told us Matthew chapter 22, we've got to turn over there
and look at it now Matthew 22 It's important that we see this
We're given some insight here because of what's happening in
the psalm we identify better and in more detail Who is mentioned
in the psalm? Somebody's being exalted somebody
sitting down on the very right hand of God and somebody is going
to have every enemy that they have and put under their feet. All right, let's find out who
it is. We know who it is. Matthew 22, 41. While the Pharisees were gathered
together, Jesus asked them, saying, what think ye of Christ? And
then he got a little more specific. What do you think about this?
Whose son is he? Whose son is he? And they say unto him, the
son of David. He saith unto them, How then
doth David in spirit call him Lord? Saying, The Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies
thy footstool. If David then call him Lord,
how is he his son? And no man was able to answer
him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him
any more questions. That's a banner day, isn't it,
right there. Nobody ever asked Christ another question after
that. He shut them up by asking them
a question that they couldn't answer. It's a simple question. Our Lord's use of this psalm
is, you see how instructive this is? He asked this question of
them, whose son is he? And David answered the question.
But he says that he uses this quote from our psalm, Psalm 110
verse 1, to say to them, to not only show them that they're wrong
in answering the way they did, although what they said was correct.
And there's a whole lot of that going on in pulpits. Correct
things being said that are yet wrong. There's true things that
are not the truth. It's not what they said. What
they said was true. It's what they didn't say. That's
usually the case. The son of David. That's not
good enough. That's not a good enough answer.
And he taught them that, he showed them that. Our scripture tonight
in Psalm 110 is the answer to the question, what think ye of
Christ? Do you see that in the way that he used it? He answered
the question with that psalm, with that verse of that psalm.
Whose son is he? The Pharisees gave an earthly
answer. They gave a faithless answer.
Anybody who can trace a genealogy could have said he's the son
of David. The genealogy is right there. for everybody to see. It's recorded. That's a faithless
answer. Anybody can trace that out. But
they could not answer the simple question, and remember who they
are now. These are the Bible experts of
the day. These are the religious big shots. They couldn't answer the simple
question, if Christ is David's son, then why does David call
him Lord? How can he be David's son and
David's Lord? You know the answer to that,
don't you? It's a simple yet very profound
answer that the eternal Son of God was born of a woman, came
in human flesh, and walked among us. God's eternal, coessential,
well-beloved, only begotten Son, His name is found among the names
of a human genealogy. Without controversy, great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh.
You see, what did I say a while ago? We're still just learning
basic truth, aren't we? Do you realize that God walked
on this earth in a body? God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.
Christ showed the Pharisees once again that their thinking was
refuted by the word of God. Had they just known the scriptures
and bowed to the scriptures, they would have known who he
was. But he said, you search the scriptures, you know the
scriptures, but they are they which testify me and you won't
come to me. And we need to know something about
when this was said. When did God the Father say to
Christ, the Son, the second person of the Godhead, when did he say
to him, sit down on my right hand? And now I'm misspeaking. I know when I say when, because
there's no when in eternity. But we have to understand things
in perspective of succession, don't we? Because we're creatures
of time. We can't think outside of that
right now. Something can't happen unless
it happens before something or after something else. It just
can't. Not to us. So we have to think
that way. When did he say that? God the
Father told his son to sit down. You know when he did? When his
work was done. That's when you sit down, when
you're finished with what you're doing. And that work was the redemption
of me You if you're one of the ones that the father gave to
his son in the eternal covenant of grace We can't talk about
David's son and David's Lord sitting down until we talk about
what he accomplished The work that was finished that is the
occasion of him sitting down Listen to Hebrews 1 1 I'm gonna
have you turn to Hebrews also, but but listen to Hebrews 1 chapter
1 verse 1 listen to this God, who at sundry times and in diverse
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things as a man. He speaks as a man. He inherits all things as a man,
and not just any man, but representative man, representative of all of
his people, by whom also he made the worlds. who being the brightness
of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down. Not before, not until, but when
he had by himself the work of Christ alone. The
atonement for sin for all of his people. The obtaining of
eternal redemption for all those he represented as high priest.
All those he prayed for in John 17. That's his high priestly
prayer. He's coming into that Holy of
Holies now with something to offer. And he prays for those
that the Father gave him, not the world. The high priest didn't
go into Holy of Holies for the world. He went for the Jews,
for God's people. And our high priest went in for
God's spiritual Israel. and no one else. And everyone
he represented, he went in on their behalf. And when he purged
our sins with that precious sin-atoning blood, then he sat down on the
right hand of the majesty on high. So you see the occasion
of Psalm 110.1. A lot going on in that one verse,
isn't there? A lot going on. Turn to Hebrews
chapter 10. I believe this will be a blessing
to you. I hope it will. Hebrews chapter 10. And verse 11. In most of the book of Hebrews,
Paul is contrasting the old covenant with the new covenant. The old
order of things under the old covenant where all of the priests
ministered in the tabernacle and in the temple. And listen
to verse 11, Hebrews 10, 11. Here's the old covenant. And
every priest standeth daily ministering And offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins. Not one sin was ever
taken away by the blood of a goat or a bull or a lamb. That's just
a picture now. That's a shadow. But this man,
verse 12, the Lord Jesus Christ, David's son and David's Lord,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God And here's our verse, from henceforth expecting,
Paul said, till his enemies be made his footstool. Paul understood Psalm 110 verse
1, didn't he? He knew what God was saying there.
By God's grace. Why did he sit down? For by one
offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Is
he your high priest? Then you're perfect. You are
holy in the sight of God because of that precious blood he shed
for you. And as high priest, he represents
a people now. Every high priest has always
represented a specific, distinguished people. And his foes being made his footstool
is a direct accomplishment of his cross. It is among the many results
of the victory of our Savior's cross. You see, his death on
Calvary was not an example or an attempt. It was an accomplishment
on the Mount of Transfiguration. What did our Lord Jesus Christ
speak with Moses and Elijah about? The death that he should accomplish. He vanquished our every enemy
because all of our enemies are His enemies. All of His foes
are going to be made His foes. Well, guess what? Mine too. They're
the same ones. And He perfected forever every
sinner that He sanctified with that precious sin atoning blood.
And don't ever let anybody tell you any different. Our Savior
was and is and always has been successful in everything He's
ever done. If he came down here to redeem
you, you're redeemed. And it don't have a lot to do
with what you do or don't do. In fact, it don't have anything
to do with that. He either redeemed you or he
didn't. And if he did, you can say with Paul, who can condemn
me? My Savior died for me. If David called him Lord, what
are you going to call him? You don't need to make him Lord.
He is Lord. The Father has highly exalted
him. What you and I need to do, like David, is just calling that
from our heart. Verse two, the Lord shall send
the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst
of thine enemies. Now think about this verse the
Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. There's
all caps again. That's Jehovah God the Father Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies God is establishing his son as the Lord of all He hath
exalted him to be Lord of all people all nations all Everybody
and think about that verse and look at Psalm 2 Psalm 2 is a
is an expansion of what David said in Psalm 1 10 to Listen to it Rule vow and right
in the midst of your enemies. That's what God said. I'm gonna
put you I'm gonna set you on the throne and everybody's gonna
hate you for it But you're still gonna be on the throne. You're
always gonna be on the throne. I And there are consequences. His throne, because God has highly exalted
him and given him a name above every name, everyone is affected by that.
You're either going to kiss him or you're going to be destroyed
by him. That's right here in Psalm 2. Look at it. Why do the
heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? You know why? Because
Christ is on the throne. That's why they rage. Sweet little
Jesus standing in the corner waiting to bless you, nobody's
mad at Him. It's King Jesus they hate. That's why when they nailed
Him to a bloody cross, they put up there, here's why we're doing
it, because He's the King. The kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against
His anointed, His anointed King. Saying let us break their bands
asunder and cast away their cords from us. We don't want to be
restrained We don't want to be told what to do We don't we will
not have this man to reign over us. We said in one of the parables
our Lord told He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the
Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath and vex them in his sword is pleasure yet Yet
you see that word yet in spite of all your raging. I In spite
of all your spitting and your beating and your murderous black
hearts against my son, I've set him on my holy hill and he's
king whether anybody likes it or not. Upon my holy hill of Zion, I'll
tell you who will like it. I will declare the decree the
Lord has said unto me Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee. Ask of me and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye king. Be instructed. You
think you're somebody? You think you're the king of
your life? Be wise. Be instructed. Be taught something. There's
one king, and you're not it. And I'm not either. It's not
me. It's not you. You judges of the earth, what's
wisdom? Serve the Lord with fear. The fear of God is the beginning
of wisdom. Submit! Servitude! and rejoice. Somebody's actually
going to be happy that he's on the throne. Who? Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. Rejoice with trembling. Kiss
the sun. Not a Judas kiss of betrayal
but a kiss of love and affection and commitment and allegiance lest he be angry you perish from
the way this is not an invitation an invitation usually doesn't
have consequences really does it if I invite you over to dinner
you can come or you can maybe you got something else going
on if I invite you over to dinner or I'm gonna kill you that's
not an invitation that's a threat That's probably not going to
happen. But this is a command. Kiss the son lest... It's not just you're invited
to kiss the son. It's kiss the son lest... He be angry and you perish from
the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all
they that put their trust in him.
Do you trust anybody? You see that in our verse here,
the Lord shall send out the rod of thy strength out of Zion.
Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. He's gonna turn some
of those enemies into friends. We're all, the carnal mind is
enmity against God. And that was all of us by nature. Verse three, 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. Let's take these three or four
phrases here one at a time. In the first part, I want us
to see the relationship between our will and his power. We have a will, but we don't
have any power. This is His power and my will. You see the relationship between
the two? He exerts power and I become willing. It's not complicated,
is it? Very simple. His power affects my will. And we see this in all of God's
Word. Religions talk about we must exercise our free will and
come to Christ. But the scripture says no man
can come to Christ except the Father exert power. You see that? That's what our
Lord Jesus Christ was saying in John chapter 6. You're not
going to be willing except in the day of His power. No man
can come to me except the Father which has sent me. Draw him.
It's going to take the power of God to bring you to Christ.
Do you see that here? That's clear and plain and beautiful. Only by His power can we believe
on Him and come to Him. Faith and repentance are His
gifts. Jeremiah said in Lamentations 5.21, Turn thou us unto thee,
O Lord, and we'll be turned. Do you realize what he's talking
about there? That's repentance. When is the sinner going to turn
to God? When He turns you. That's when. You're gonna be
willing, you're gonna turn from yourself like Paul did. It's
all behind me, everything that I am and everything that I've
ever done and everything I ever trusted in, everything that ever
meant anything to me. I cast it behind my back as done
that I may win Christ and I press toward him. I'm turned. How'd
that happen, Paul? God turned me. It happened in
the day of his power. I was willing. I didn't turn
against my will. I wanted him. I still want him.
There's nothing I want like I want him, Paul said. There's a reason
why. It's the power of God on display
in my wretched heart. In the beauties of holiness,
if you ever see what I just said, you'll never see anything more
beautiful than that. And God breaking the heart of
a wretched, vile sinner. Breaking the heart of a rebel
and making him a son. Behold what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the
sons of God. That took some breaking. That took some turning. That
took some power. It took a death in a way, didn't it? But how
beautiful. Behold. Behold the love in the
beauties of holiness. Ah, when God comes in power and
a sinner is willing, willing to bow to his authority, willing
as Saul of Tarsus to leave everything he was and everything he did
and count it all done that he might win Christ. That's a beautiful
thing. If you ever see how God saves
a sinner, you'll see something of the holiness of God and you'll
never see anything more beautiful than that. Thou hast the dew of that, from
the womb of the morning you have the dew of your youth. How can I even talk about it?
Youth. Youth. Youth is a wonderful and desirable
thing. There's only one thing wrong
with it in the case of men. Youth rarely carries wisdom with
it. But our Lord Jesus Christ is
the wisdom of God. And always young. The morning I was talking to
somebody just the other day this Sunday, I believe it was. about how you get up early in
the morning and there's just something about it. There's no
other time like it. From the womb of the morning,
thou hast the dew of thy youth. When is the dew in the morning? And it's so beautiful in the
early morning. There's just something about
it when the sun is shining on that early morning dew. And it
just lasts for a little while. And this is a picture in the
Scripture of our Lord Jesus Christ. He never grows old, though he
has been from the beginning. And you know what? And this is
probably selfish of me to even say it. But you know what's really
beautiful to me about that is I'm going to be just like him.
I'm kind of getting old now, you know. I'm starting to feel
it. I'm starting to see it. But one day I'm going to have
the due of my youth, too. Only better yet, I'm going to
have the due of his youth. Aging is a consequence of the
curse And my Lord Jesus Christ has
no sin and he suffers no consequence of the curse except at Calvary
and he took my sins and suffered all of the Consequence of the
curse once for all and did away with all sin of his people and
it's over For him and me He bore my sin and put it away,
and he suffers no consequence of the curse, and neither do
I. Well, neither will I. I still suffer a little bit of
it, don't you? It's sad, isn't it? It's sad
to see the consequences every day, to feel them. But it's just for a little while,
my friend. Just for a little while. Because
He who is forever young is my Savior. And included in that is I'm going
to be forever young. You see this is really not me
that's aging. Not really. This is just the body of this
death. Soon I shall be changed. Paul said, Our Lord shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious
body, the one who has the due of his youth, and always has,
and always will. I will be like him. According
to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things
unto himself. There he is on the throne again. On the throne. Verse four, The Lord hath sworn
and will not repent. This is permanent. This doesn't
go away. This doesn't change. The earthly
priesthood was changeable. Paul spoke about that at length
in the book of Hebrews. But this is a declaration, a
decree of the Lord that he's not going to go back on. It doesn't
change. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
now this is interesting in many ways as I said there's a lot
there's a lot in this this chapter no other king in God's economy
and he's the king the Lord said sit down now right here on the
throne and just wait soon there will be no rivals to this throne
of yours I've set you my king on my holy hill of Zion And every
sinner is going to bow sooner or later. Sooner would be good
for you and me. Every sinner is going to bow.
And he's just, that's just, he's expecting that, we're expecting
that, God has declared it, but he's also a priest. In God's
economy, no king was ever priest, nor could be. King Uzziah tried
to perform that which pertaineth only to the priesthood, and God killed him in a horrible
way. But we see Christ exalted, declared
Lord, acknowledged to be sovereign by all of his people, and most
importantly his Father, but also an eternal priest, never before
and never again. Is a mysterious person who's
mentioned way back in Genesis 14 He appeared unto Abraham you
remember and took tithes from him and he blessed Abraham And
he's described you can read in Genesis 14 about that it just
briefly mentions him really But he's described in Hebrews 7 1
in more detail and let me read it to you Of course you can turn
there if you'd rather look at it sometimes looking at this
at the Scripture it sinks in better doesn't it you can kind
of see the relationships of words and how the context But also,
I know, you know time is a consideration So I just want to start reading
it Hebrews 7 1 for this Melchizedek King of Salem, you know, that's
a king of peace That's what that word a king of peace Priest of
the Most High God. What did a priest do? He made
peace. He offered sacrifice. He made
appeasement, atonement, atonement. Peace between God and the sinner.
Christ has made peace with the blood of his cross. He's the
King of Peace. Priest of the Most High God who
met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him. Now, Some say Melchizedek is a mysterious picture of Christ. Some say it's Christ himself
in a pre-incarnate appearance there in Genesis 14. I tend to
believe that because he's the king of peace. He's the priest,
not a priest, the priest of the Most High God. He blessed Abraham. He didn't
say, God bless you. He blessed him himself. And as the priest there, he's
mentioned as the priest in Genesis 14 also. This is not in my notes,
but I need to mention this. But he doesn't offer a sacrifice
there. You know what he does? He gives Abraham bread and wine. He didn't offer sacrifice because
he is the sacrifice. Our Lord Jesus Christ offered
sacrifice but when he sat down with his disciples he broke bread
and gave them wine. This Melchizedek blessed him,
verse 2, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first
being by interpretation king of righteousness. Now who's that? And after that also King of Salem,
which is King of Peace. Without father, without mother,
who else ever came into this world without father and mother? Even our Lord Jesus Christ didn't
come into this world without a father and mother, in a sense
at least. But back then he was without
father and mother. He hasn't been born yet. He hasn't
even been born into this world yet. Without descent, having
neither beginning of days nor end of life. I think there's
only one that can be. I mean, I guess it could be some kind
of mysterious angel. But I don't think an angel can
be priest of God. A priest has got to be one of
us. I believe this is Christ. Without father, mother, without
descent, neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made
like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. Now consider
how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham
gave the tenth of the spool." Melchizedek, if you want to say
he's a picture of Christ or Christ himself, either way the teaching
is clear either way. Christ is not just another priest
in the line of earthly priests, but he is the eternal high priest
of his people. Paul distinguishes Christ from
the priests of the Old Testament in three ways, among others.
But these three main ways I want to talk about tonight. And he
uses Melchizedek to do that. To distinguish Christ is different.
First of all, the Old Testament priests were temporary. Turn
over there to Hebrews with me. Let's read these. We've got a
little bit of time. And I believe this is very important with regard
to to our verse Hebrews 722 the Old Testament
priests were temporary and Christ is eternal and there's you say
well that's just okay that's kind of obvious but there's there's
very important consequence of that let's read it in Hebrews
722 by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament
a better covenant And they truly were many priests because they
were not suffered to continue by reason of death. Aaron was
a priest for a while and then he died. And then there had to
be another one. But this man, because he continueth
forever, he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore? Here's why this is important.
It's just obvious to say that men are mortal and Christ is
eternal. Yeah, but don't forget this part. Wherefore he is able
also to save them to the uttermost. Aaron can't save me, but he can. Because he's the eternal priest.
Seeing that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for us. That's important. He's my priest
right now in the presence of God. The eternal priesthood of
Christ. Now, secondly, their sacrifices
were shadows. They were pictures they could
never take away sin. We read that a minute ago. In fact, let's
read it again. Hebrews 10, we'll read a little
bit more, I believe, than we did there. Hebrews 10, 11, since
we're in Hebrews, every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, Sat down on the right hand of
God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool For by one offering he hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified see there. There's consequence to all of
this. It's not just interesting facts The fact that he is the
eternal priest means that I'm saved to the uttermost because
he sits right now Making intercession for me That's real important
to me And secondly, the fact that his sacrifice was a much
better, it was better sacrifices than those in the Old Testament. It actually took away, what did
John say? There's the lamb that takes away
sin. He just said no sacrifice ever took away sin. Well, John
said that one did, that one does, that one will. That's consequential to me now. His sacrifice, what he offered,
he must have somewhat to offer. He obtained eternal redemption
for his people once for all with that perfect sacrifice. And then
thirdly, they went into an earthly tabernacle and he went into the
Holy of Holies, not made with hands, into the very presence
of God. And he entered for us as our
representative and priest and opened for us a new and living
way. Here's another consequence. Access to God for sinners. That's what we lost in the garden.
That's what the whole purpose of the priesthood is. To open
the way. Open the way. Nobody could go in there in the
Old Testament, but the high priest only Once a year not without
blood, but now Christ read Hebrews 10 19 Same chapter a little further
down having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he has consecrated
for us through the veil that is to say his flesh and And having
an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with
a true heart and full assurance of faith. You can come to God
in full assurance if you come by that blood, if your faith
is in his precious blood. Having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience and our bodies washed, with pure water so you
see how he distinguishes there the priesthood in these last
few verses in the in the chapter of psalm 110 describe how the
Lord Jesus will deal with his enemies this is the third player
here fourth if you count the father
telling him to sit down he came to this earth our Lord Jesus
the first time meek and lowly lying in a manger And as he grew
up, he grew in favor with God and men. And he walked about
and did nothing but good. Everywhere he went, and it says
he wouldn't break a bruised wreath or quench the smoking flax. He
was long-suffering and kind and tender. But when he comes again, it's
not gonna be like that. It's going to be judgment and
wrath, and also to save, to save us, sure enough, finally and
ultimately, even from this evil world, even
from the presence of sin, from the infirmities of sin,
from the limitations of sin. But there will be the destruction
of every enemy. And it says here in these verses,
he shall judge. He shall judge. And the judge
of all the earth must do right. And the right thing is putting
you in hell. Unless you're washed in that blood. Every crooked
way is going to be made straight. Every mountain will be brought
low. And think about this. Every sin will be punished. Every sin that hadn't already
been punished in full at Calvary upon our substitute. Every sin
will be punished. Every injustice will be made
right. This sounds like a terrible day
and it is in a sense, but it's a good day too. Don't you want
to see everything made right? Every injustice, every corruption,
every deception, every hidden offense, No hidden offense can
escape his notice or about his presence when he comes. It's
over. And he's pictured in the final
verses taking a drink from a brook in the way. In the way. He was always in the way. As a man on this earth, he was
in the way. He said, I must be about my father's business. Don't
you understand that I must be about my father's business. But
Lord, you need to stop and eat. My meat is to do the will of
him that sent me. He's in the way. He's just taking
a drink. This shows his humanity. He stoops and takes a drink at
the brook and carries on in the way. This may speak of him drinking
the cup of God's wrath in full. And so being exalted as a result
because he lifts up his hand when he's drunk. And certainly here, whatever
it signifies specifically, the general picture is pretty clear.
He bows down and then he raises his hand. You have to bow down
to drink, but then he raises his head. And so with our Lord
Jesus Christ, there was a bowing down. Oh, he humbled himself
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
But then God highly exalted him and gave him a name which is
above every name. And in both his humiliation and
in his exaltation, he's my Savior. Because he bowed to his Father's
will and drank the cup that the Father gave him to drink, I'm
saved. And because he has been lifted
up and given a name above every name and is highly exalted and
sits on the throne, I'm saved. And one day we'll reign with
him, the scripture says, not as rivals. All that's over. We're going to be exalted with
Him in due time. And the sufferings of this present
life, Paul said, are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us. Because my Savior reigns, I'm
safe, I'm secure. He bowed, and He was lifted up,
and I'm saved. Let's pray.