Let us turn to the word that
we read in Psalm 21 and drawing your attention for a while this
evening to the words that we have here at verse 6, Psalm 21,
6. For thou has made him most blessed
forever. Thou has made him exceeding glad
with thy countenance. In particular the first clause,
Thou hast made him most blessed for ever. We have an alternative
in the margin, Thou hast set him to be a blessing for ever. And the reference here is to
the Lord Jesus Christ and His exaltation. He has ascended into
the highest heavens. And his session there now at
the right hand of God where he ever lives to make intercession. I want us to think then of Christ
set for a blessing. Taking really the alternative
reading rather than what we have in the text. Thou hast made him
most blessed, we read in the actual text. But there in the
margin, thou hast set him. to be a blessing for ever. Now, the psalm that follows this,
Psalm 22, is of course quite clearly a Messianic psalm. Speaks of the Lord Jesus. We're
familiar with the opening words. We find them again in the Gospel,
in Matthew. Matthew 27, the sufferings of
the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross and how he takes up and
utters these words as he feels so derelict in his own soul as
he makes the great sacrifice for sins. My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me and from the words of my roaring? But it's not only the opening
words of that 22nd psalm but also it is said that what we
have at the end of the psalm is a reference to another of
those seven sayings on the cross verse 31 where he says shall
come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born
that he hath done this and that last clause We have the word
this added in the translation as is indicated by the use of
italics. Literally, the psalm ends with
that statement, He hath done. And the commentators say that
the reference is to that saying upon the cross when the Lord
said, it is finished. He hath done. It is finished
and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. Psalm 22 is a remarkable
psalm and it speaks so clearly concerning Christ and all that
he suffered there upon the cross. Verse 16. They pierced my hands
and my feet. It's such a graphic description.
of what he experienced in that cruel death of crucifixion. And as Psalm 22 is messianic,
so also are the preceding Psalms. The Psalms that we read, Psalm
20 and Psalm 21, they form a pair and they also speak to us quite
clearly of the Christ there in verse 6th of the 20th Psalm. Now know I that the Lord saveth
his anointed. His anointed is the Psalm of
David and David was the one who was of course anointed, anointed
to be king. We're told we have the historic
account there in 1st Samuel chapter 16 when the prophet Samuel is
directed to the family of Jesse and Jesse's sons are brought
before the prophet and then David inquires whether all of the sons
have been presented to him. In 1st Samuel chapter 16 and
there at verse Verse 11, Samuel says to Jesse,
Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth
yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel
said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down
till he come hither. And he sent and brought him in.
Now he was ruddered, and with all of a beautiful countenance,
and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint
him, for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of
oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the Spirit
of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. And then Samuel
rises up and departs and returns to Ramah. Well, David is that
one then who is the anointed one. There in that word of the
6th verse in Psalm 20, Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed,
the anointed King. And that one who is also spoken
of then here in the 21st Psalm, The King shall joy in thy strength,
O Lord, and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice. And then again at verse 7, The
King trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most
High he shall not be moved. We see very much one then who
is the anointed and anointed to be the King. But there is
one greater than King David. The Psalm speaks of David's greatest
son as does the 22nd Psalm. It's not wrong for us to desire
that we might discern and see something of Christ here throughout
the Book of Psalms. Did He not say to the Jews in
His own day, Search the Scriptures, in them ye think that ye have
eternal life, and these are they that testify of me? And here we see Christ in His
offices, in His threefold office. He is that One who is the King,
yes. but he's also that one who is
a prophet and besides that we see him also as that one who
is a priest and he is the one that he said before us here in
the words of the text Thou hast made him most blessed for ever
nor thou hast set him to be a blessing for ever yet have I set my king
upon my holy hill of Zion. The words again of the psalmist
there in the second psalm. Who is that king? That king of
whom we read so much here in the psalms, that one who is a
kingly prophet, that one who is a kingly priest, it's the
Lord Jesus Christ. And we do see how there is so
much overlapping with regards to these offices. We think of
that threefold office and it's all prefigured, as it were, in
the Old Testament because there were those offices amongst God's
ancient people, Israel, and they're a typical people, aren't they? Ethnic Israel, a type of God's
spiritual Israel, a type of the Church. And God did appoint that
they're would be a priestly office, and it's centered in the tribe
of Levi, the sons of Aaron, the Aaronic priesthood. But God would
also raise up men to be prophets, to utter His words, to declare
His truth. Now the prophets would come and
say, Thus and thus saith the Lord. And then in due time, they
were to be kings. And Saul becomes the king, and
it's David, of course, who is chosen and anointed to be king
in the room and in the stead of Saul, the great Davidic line. Oh, there were then priests. and prophets, and kings, and
they're all prefiguring that one in whom all those offices
come together, and we do see, even in the Old Testament, some
overlapping of the offices. Although they are quite distinct
offices, and we'll see that again presently, but I think of the
language that we find right at the end of the Old Testament
scriptures in the prophet Malachi. And there in the second chapter,
of that book, we find the Prophet reproving the priests. What does he say in chapter 3? No, chapter 2, I should say.
Chapter 2. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. This commandment is for you. And what is it? God has a word
of reproof. He says again at verse 4 in that
chapter, You shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord
of hosts. My covenant was with him of life
and peace, and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he
feared me, and was afraid before my name. The Lord of Truth was
in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips. He walked
with me in peace and equity, and he turned many away from
iniquity. For the priests' lips should
keep knowledge, and they should seek the Lord at his mouth, for
he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. Here we have an overlapping
really, because what is being spoken of is surely the ministry
of the prophets. It's the prophet who should be
speaking truth, and it's the prophet's lips that they should
be looking to for the word of the Lord. And yet, those words
are being addressed to the priests. And it's significant that it's
there at the end of the Old Testament because there was once a Kaminoom,
all of those offices, would meet together, that one who is the
true priest, not after the order of Aaron
but after the order of Melchizedek, that one who is the great prophet,
that one in whom all the prophetic office finds its accomplishment,
that one who is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And so
as we come to consider the the words before us tonight in the
text that has made him most blessed forever, that has set him to
be a blessing forever. I want to think really of his
work as a priest, although there'll be some overlapping in these
offices, because I want to think of what the priest does and the
office of the priest. What does he do? Well, He makes
sacrifice, he makes prayer, and he pronounces blessing. And is he not that last aspect
of the priestly office that we see in the text? Thou hast set
him to be blessing, or blessings, it's in the plural really, thou
hast set him to be blessings forever. But to follow that threefold
division for a while, so first of all to consider the way in
which these priests would offer sacrifices. That was the chief
office really of the Old Testament priests. And it was very much
confined to the sons of Aaron. In Exodus 28 and verse 41, Aaron
and his sons are to be separated Moses is
instructed by God's anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify
them that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. All such a definite word of command
is given there in that 28th chapter concerning these men the brother
of Moses Aaron and his sons, and his sons' sons, and down
the generations, anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify
them. Repetition, and not vain repetition,
because there's no such thing as vain repetition in God's Word. As we've said many a time, the
Lord Jesus tells us that men must give account for every idle
word. And so God's Word contains nothing
of idle words. Where we find any repetition
of words, we do well to take account. And those men were to
be separated to that office. They were to make sacrifices.
And it would be a solemn thing for anyone else to make the sacrifice. What do we read in Hebrews 5?
No man taketh his honor unto himself but he that is called
of God as was Aaron. And there was Aaron, he is to
serve at the brazen altar. All the sacrifices that we find
in the book of Leviticus and of course the Levites were the
descendants of Levi that particular tribe and it was of the tribe
of Levi that Aaron came but the priesthood itself is confined
just to Aaron's descendants but the Levites were also there serving
all about the tabernacle and then subsequently after Solomon
had built the temple they would serve about the temple of the
Lord But only the priests were to make those sacrifices spoken
of throughout Leviticus, the burnt offerings, the sin offerings,
the trespass offerings. But then Christ comes, the fulfillment
of that priestly office. But Christ is not of the tribe
of Levi, but of the tribe of Judah. And nothing was spoken
in the Old Testament concerning priesthood in relation to Judah's
tribe. No, Christ is after a different
order. He's a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. And he has come to make that
one great sacrifice. once and for all, as the priest
of Aaron would be, always sacrificing morning and evening sacrifices,
attending to all the great feasts of the Lord, there on the great
Day of Atonement, that day in which the high priest was allowed
to enter into the holiest of holies. He must go there with
the blood of sacrifice and sprinkle the blood upon the mercy seat
and before the mercy seat. And so He came year in, year
out, sacrifice after sacrifice. But now Christ has come and made
one sacrifice for sins forever. And isn't Christ spoken of here
in Psalm 20, the previous Psalm? And verse 3, Remember all thy
offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice, Selah. All that sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ has been accepted once and for all
and Christ is not only the one who as the priest has made the
sacrifice but of course as we know He Himself is the sacrifice,
He is the Lamb Slain from the foundation of the world. All
before ever God created the world. Before ever sin entered into
creation, God had that purpose. There was a purpose to fulfill.
Because man would sin, there would be the fall. And there
would therefore be that wondrous revelation of God in the person
of His only begotten Son. And Christ would come as that
great sin offering, the Lamb slain. from the foundation of
the world. And has not God accepted that
sacrifice? Has not God set his seal upon
that sacrifice? Because Christ has been vindicated.
He has risen again from the dead. Look at what we have here. previously in this 21st Psalm
verse 3 thou preventest him literally thou goest before him it's the
old the old meaning of the word prevent it's one of those words
of course that has over the years changed in its meaning it would
be used back in the 17th century as meaning to go before but now
of course to prevent is to put some obstacle in the way to prevent
one from going forth but here we have that old-fashioned meaning
thou preventest him that goes before him with the blessings
of goodness thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head he asks
life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of days for
ever and ever." And here there is that reference then to the
great truth of his resurrection from the dead. Though he dies,
and he was laid in the tomb, but Christ is that one who was
now being raised again from the dead. The previous 16th Psalm In verse 9 there, in the following
verses, my heart is glad, my glory rejoices, my flesh also
shall rest in hope, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption, thou
wilt show me the path of life. in thy presence is fullness of
joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore and remember
how those words at the end of Psalm 16 are taken up in the
preaching of the apostles both by Peter in Acts chapter 2 the
day of Pentecost he refers to Psalm 16 and the resurrection
of Christ and then Paul is doing exactly the same there in Acts
13 when he preaches at Antioch in Pisidia he makes reference
to those words of the 16th Psalm, having their accomplishment,
their fulfillment in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, He is the One
who has made the great sin-atoning sacrifice. He has died. And He
has died just for the unjust, to bring sinners to God. Oh,
He has made reconciliation, the great truth of substitutionary
atonement. And God has vindicated Him He's
declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. He asked life
of them, and thou gavest him even length of days for ever
and ever. All the blessings that are there
in the Lord Jesus Christ, thou hast set him to be blessings. Why only on Thursday were we
not considering those words at the end of Philippians 3? And now in His resurrection, the people of God have their
resurrections. That's the wonder of it. That's the blessing. All blessings are in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Thy dead men shall live, He says.
Together with my dead body shall they arise. or because I live he shall live
also he is the resurrection and the life the blessings that come
then through his priestly office the sacrifice that he has made
and how God has received that sacrifice and there's an end
to all sacrifices and so we say with the Reformed Church of England
that the doctrine of the Mass, the doctrine of transubstantiation
is a dangerous deceit, a blasphemous fable. It's a very denial of
the blessings that God has laid up in the person and work of
the Lord Jesus. But then also, these priests,
they present prayers. They don't just serve God, at
the brazen altar there's also the golden altar that we read
of in the in the book of Exodus where we
have the furnishings of the tabernacle there's the golden altar where they burn the incense and the
incense arises and it reminds us of the prayers prayers of
the people, the prayers of the priests. And again, who was to
serve at the Golden Altar? Only the priests. It was the
prerogative of the priests to serve God in all the various
services of the tabernacle. And we have the solemn account
of how the King Uzziah was struck down because he presumed to intrude
into that priestly office. You probably read the account.
We have it there in the 26th chapter of the second book of
Chronicles. Very solemn portion really concerning
what was visited upon a king. because of his presumption in
the service of God. At the end of that 26th chapter verse 16 we're told concerning
this king Uzziah when he was strong his heart was lifted up
to his destruction for he transgressed against the Lord his God and
went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar
of incense And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
fourscore priests of the Lord that were valiant men. And they
withstood Uzziah the king and said unto him, It paineth not
unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests,
the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the
sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine
honor from the Lord God. Then Uzziah was wroth and had
a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was wroth
with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead
before the priest in the house of the Lord from beside the incense
altar. And Azariah, the chief priest,
and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, he was leprous. in his forehead, and they thrust
him out from thence, yea, himself hasted also to go out, because
the Lord had smitten him. And Uzziah the king was a leper,
unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, he
was separated, being a leper, for he was cut off from the house
of the Lord, and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging
the people of the land. They had to have a regent because
the king was no fit to fulfill his right office as the king. The prerogative of the priest,
you see. And what of the Lord Jesus Christ? Isn't Christ also very much a
praying priest? Always a praying priest. And
we see as a praying priest. Why, we see him as a kingly priest. He is that one who is of the
order of Melchizedek, who was king of Siloam, and priest of
the most high gods. God has set his king upon his
holy hill of Zion, so different to Uzziah. There was a king who
was presumptuous, but here is one who is a priestly king and
a kingly priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. And thou as a kingly
priest, all his prayers they certainly prevail. And do we
not read of his prayers in these Psalms? There in Psalm 20 the
Lord hears thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God
of Jacob defends thee. Oh how this one praise. Again at verse 6 of that Psalm,
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed, he will hear from
his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. He is heard in all his prayers,
in all his praying. Even when we see him in all the
sufferings that are spoken of in the 22nd Psalm, it again the
assurance is there that he will be heard when he prays look at verse 24 he hath not
despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath
he hid his face from him but when he cried unto him he heard
oh he is heard in all his praying and he was very much a praying
man whilst here upon the earth. What prayers! Oh, what prayers,
who in the days of his flesh were told when he had offered
up prayer with supplication and strong crying and tears unto
him that was able to save him from death and was heard in the
defend. Oh, the fear of God was in his
heart as a man, as a real man. and how he prays, how he would
spend whole nights in prayer unto God and now he has entered
into that aspect really of his priestly office he prayed here
upon the earth and we have the record of that remarkable prayer
of Christ in the 17th of John his high priestly prayer and
then he goes on to make the great sin atoning sacrifice but having
done that risen from the dead, he has ascended on high, he has
entered heaven itself and there he ever lives to make intercession.
Oh, he is a praying priest and that's the one that we are to
look to, that's the one that we have to plead in all of our
praying. There is the only one by whom we can gain any entrance
into God's presence. How presumptuous to imagine that
we can approach of ourselves and we have to invoke that name.
And you know, it grieves me when I hear people pray, and in their
prayers they make no mention at all of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even when they come to close, if you hear any so-called prayers
on the radio, when they have prayer for the day, or thought
for the day, or whatever they might call it, no mention of
Christ. And you say an Amen, it's not
a prayer at all. There's no prayer. that ever
prevails in the high courts of heaven, but is presented in and
through the mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is our
Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, and He
is the propitiation for our sins. As He is a priest, you see, He
is an Advocate. He pleads the cause of His people. And here we see in this fourth
verse how he prayed he asked life of thee and thou gavest
it him even length of days forever oh what blessings thou hast set
him to be blessings forever wherever we are whatever situation we
find ourselves in We can come, we can cast all our cares upon
God, we can plead the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Anywhere,
everywhere. And yet sometimes I fear, well
I can only speak from my own experience, how slow, how slow
to cry. How slow to cry. I say I know
words I'll stink again. Words flow apace when you complain
and fill your fellow creatures ears. with us a tale of all your
cares. And we should be those who are
enjoying the blessings that are in our Lord Jesus Christ. He
is set here in the text for blessings. He has made the great sin atoning
sacrifice. We can plead the precious blood
whenever we sin against God. We can run again to that fountain
that's been opened sin and uncleanness, plunge ourselves in that crimson
fountain and know that in Christ we will be acceptable and God
will hear us in all our prayers because Christ is in heaven and
you know when it says he ever liveth to make intercession I
don't think that we're to think that he is always actually engaging
in prayer, His very presence there, His session there at the
Father's right hand, the fact that He's in heaven, that's our
plea, that He is before the throne of God and He takes our poor
prayers and He makes them prevail. All those broken prayers, those
half sentences, words failing us, those sighs, those cries,
those groanings, He takes them and presents them and they prevail.
Blessings. And He sent for blessings. But
really the great emphasis of the words that I announced at
the beginning for our text is the fact that the priest in the
Old Testament was one that was to bless the people. Yes, they
made sacrifices. Yes, they served at the golden
altar of incense. They made prayers in that sense.
But they also were there to bless the people. And here is one,
you see. Thou hast set him to be blessings
forever. Think of the language that we
have there at the end of Numbers chapter 6, that great Aaronic
Blessing, as we call it. The words that the priests were
to pronounce over the children of Israel. We sometimes use it
at the end of a service of public worship. We identify with the
Old Testament. I know our normal practice would
be to use the Great Apostolic and Trinitarian Blessing there
at the end of 2nd Corinthians. But these words at the end of
number 6, The LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron,
and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the
children of Israel, saying unto them, The LORD bless thee, and
keep thee. The LORD make his face shine
upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The LORD lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace. and they shall put my name upon
the children of Israel, and I will bless them." Or the blessings
of the priests. And observe, it's a three-fold
blessing. It's a Trinitarian blessing,
really. It's the blessing that comes in a three-fold name. The
Lord. The Lord. The Lord. and then they shall put my name
upon the children of Israel. It's the Trinity. It's the Father,
it's the Son, it's the Holy Spirit. So it's not just that we have
a Trinitarian blessing there at the end of 2 Corinthians,
we have it there at the end of Numbers chapter 6 also. And it's that blessing that comes
from the Lord God Himself. and all that blessing comes to
us in and through Him who is the only mediator Him who is
said before us in the words of the text Thou hast set Him to
be blessings forever and ever all they were they were blessings
that were to be pronounced upon the upon the children of Israel
remember that long chapter in Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy 28 And there, in the first part
of the chapter, we have the blessings. And they're great blessings.
It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto
the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments, which I command thee this day, that the Lord
thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall
come on them, and overtake them. is thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the Lord thy God, and then they follow. Blessed shalt
thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed
shalt thou be the fruit of thy bud, and the fruit of thy ground,
and so on. Blessings upon blessings. And they reach right through
to verse 14. The first 14 verses. But then at verse 15 we have
the curses that come for disobedience. And the curse is run right the
way through to the end of the chapter, 68 verses in all. This is Old Testament, you see,
and there's more cursing, nearly four times as much cursing there
in Deuteronomy, than blessings. Deuteronomy, as you know, I'm
sure, literally means second law. the law is given there in
Exodus chapter 20 at Mount Sinai but when they wandered 40 years
through the wilderness and they're on the verge of the promised
land Deuteronomy 5 the law is repeated so Deuteronomy is a
law book it's a law book and really there's no blessing
under the law is there? All the blessings come only in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that doesn't mean there's
no gospel in the Old Testament. There is gospel in the Old Testament,
of course there is. The very book of Leviticus is
a gospel book. All the ceremonial laws, all
the sacrifices, it's all typical, it's all pointing to the gospel,
pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ. and the priest of Aaron are types
of that great priest who was to come and think of the blessings
that we see in that little psalm that psalm of degrees psalm 133
behold says David O good and O pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity in the next two verses
it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon
the beard even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts
of his garments as the Jew of Hermon and as the Jew that descended
upon the mountains of Zion for there the Lord commanded the
blessing even life for evermore. Oh there's blessing you see there's
blessing in the priestly office in the kingly office in the prophetic
office, but all that blessing is in the Lord Jesus Christ who
was set to be blessings forever more. Oh, it's forever and forever. Verse 3 again, Thou preventest
him, went before him with the blessings of goodness. Thou settest
a crown of pure gold on his head. He asked life of thee and thou
gavest it him. even length of days forever and
ever all the blessings are in our Lord Jesus Christ the blessing
of the Lord the wise man said it make us rich and he addeth
no sorrow with it all Lord thou blessest and it shall be blessed
forever where God blesses It's a blessing that can never be
rescinded. And Isaac knew that. When Jacob
stole the birthright from his older brother Esau, and then
Jacob had caused the supplanter, he'd deceived his father, he'd
obtained a blessing. And Esau comes and realizes what's
happened and he wants that blessing. the blessing of the birthright
but what do we read? Sad in so many ways and yet so
so solemn, so instructive there in Genesis 27 and verse 33 Isaac
trembled it says, Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, O
where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me? And I have
eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him. Yea, and
he shall be blessed. And when Esau heard the words
of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter
cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my
father. And he said, Thy brother came
with suppleton, and hath taken away thy blessing. God's blessing
cannot be rescinded. That's the lesson there. When
God blesses, those whom He blesses are blessed forever. Where are
they blessed? Only in the person and work of
Christ who is set to be blessings forever. Oh I do, I like that prayer of
Jabez. you know it's there in the first
book of Chronicles you come to Chronicles there we have all
those lists of names so and so begat so and so, so and so begat
so and so it goes on chapter after chapter there in the opening
part of the first book of Chronicles but then if we just ignore all
that we can so easily miss the significant words that we find
in chapter 4 concerning Jabez. There in 1st Chronicles 4.9,
Jabez was more honorable than his brethren. And his mother
called his name Jabez, saying, because I bear him with sorrow. His name means sorrowful. And
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that thou wouldest
bless me indeed. and enlarge my coast, and that
thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me
from evil, that it may not grieve me. And God granted him that
which he requested. Oh, that thou wouldest bless
me indeed. He was a true Israelite, was
Jabez. Remember out there at Peniel
where the angel wrestled with Jacob, and Jacob wrestled with
the angel. And what did Jacob say as the
day began to dawn? I will not let thee go, except
thou bless me, or that thou wouldest bless me indeed. What is the
office of the Lord Jesus? He is that one who is prophet,
king, and priest. And what was the very last thing
that the Lord did before His ascension. We have it there at the end of
Luke. Luke 24 verse 50. He led them out as far as to
Bethany and He lifted up His hands and blessed them and He
came to pass while He blessed them. He was parted from them
and carried up into heaven. or the very last thing that the
Lord does as He departs, as He enters heaven itself He blesses
His people, He is set for blessings and it's our privilege, is it
not, to come under the ministry of His words and to desire that
the Lord would come and bless His words to us or the Lord then
be pleased to own the text in our hearts, in our experiences
that was made him most blessed forever, that was set him to
be blessings forever. Amen.