Psalm 110, the scripture says, 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. The Lord has sworn and will not
repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge
among the heathen. He shall fill the places with
the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over
many countries. He shall drink of the brook in
the way. Therefore, shall he lift up the
head. The title of the message this
morning is The King and His People. The King and His People. David
writing this psalm says, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou
at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. David writing this psalm, no
doubt has reference here to the Messiah, his promised son. If you go over to Psalm chapter
89. Psalm chapter 89 and look at
verse 3. See the promise of God to David
that David's son would be king forever. He said, I have made
a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn unto David my servant. Listen, thy seed will I establish
forever. and build up thy throne to all
generations." Now we know that David had many sons and Solomon
ultimately became a very great king. But his throne was not
forever. His throne was taken down just
like every other king after him of David's line. But this has
reference to another son. David's son which is Christ who
is also David's Lord in Matthew chapter 22 our Lord Jesus Christ
is speaking with being asked multiple questions by the Pharisees
they tried often to bring him down and He answered every one
of them, but he said let me ask you a question he said Christ
Whose son is he? And there being intelligent,
they whipped off an answer without question. David's son. We know
that. He's David's son according to
that scripture that I just read to you in Psalm 89. David's son.
And then the Lord brings this text. And He said, How then shall
David's son, how did David by the Spirit then call his son
Lord? The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
This is no doubt speaking of Christ. This text, the Messiah
Christ to be David's son and is David's Lord. This is a promise
of God. This is a promise of God. Not
only to David, but rather to Christ. The Lord said unto, not
David, the Lord said unto my Lord. This is the Father speaking
to the Son. Jehovah saying to the Son. Sit thou at my right hand. The
Messiah, Christ, David's Son and David's Lord, because He was God, It was God
promising this to Christ. And here Jehovah extends this
promise to His Son, My Lord. The Lord said unto My Lord. Now
when was this decree given? This is a decree of God. When
God swears something, it is forever. God is not like us. He is immutable
in His promises. In His decrees, they are unchangeable. And God swore to Christ, I will
make you king. You are king. When was this decree? It was an eternal decree that
Christ should be Lord. It was from eternity. The Father
said, His Son, His eternal Son. Remember the scripture that says,
Thou art my Son. This day have I begotten thee. What day is that? That's the
eternal day. He is the eternally begotten
Son of the Father. So in the eternal covenant and
decree to the Son is this, Sit thou at my right hand. Sit thou at
my right hand. Before there was ever a sinner,
before Satan fell, God in divine wisdom and sovereign love made
Christ to be king over all things. Over all things. This was the
decree of God. That He should be the ruler,
that He should be the Savior, the Redeemer of all the elect
of God. That God put everything, I want
you to see this, that God put everything into the hands of
His Son. Nothing was left outside the
power and reign of His Son, Jesus Christ. Go over to Psalm chapter 2. Psalm chapter 2, see it again
in another place. Psalm chapter 2, in the first
few verses it talks about the heathen imagining a vain thing
and they desiring to break their bands of him. Look at verse 6. Listen to God's decree. Yet, I don't care how men rage,
I don't care what men say, or what men think, or what men feel. This is so. Yet I have set My
King upon My holy hill of Zion. I will decree the decree. Thou art My Son, this day have
I begotten Thee. Do you not see that who is sitting
on the throne now? Who is King? Who is King? Jesus
Christ is King. He is Lord of all things. All things are put into His hands. He who was from eternity, who
dwelt in the bosom of the Father, He who had His eyes set on the
sons of men, He is the delight of God. He is the omnipotent,
eternal, beloved Son of God. And God says to My son, I have
set you on My throne, and no one shall disannul this decree.
It is a decree I have decreed. Who shall disannul the decree
of God? So now then we've established
this. Who's king? Who's king? Jesus Christ is king. By what authority? God's authority. There is no higher authority.
He's king. That's just a fact. That's not
to be debated. That's not to be wrestled with.
That is a cold, hard truth. It doesn't move. He's king. But let me ask you this, what
in the world is a king without a people? What in the world is that? That's
a mockery, isn't it? For Christ to be set as king
but not be given a people is a mockery to his kingship. You can run around and put a
crown on your head and you can say, I'm king. King of who? Well, I don't have a people,
I'm just king. Well, you're a fool. That's a fool. That's not a king,
that's a fool. He's a king of himself. What
good is that? Everybody claims that. I heard about this young man. He seemed to be faithful in the
gospel, seemed to love the gospel, seemed to be saved by the grace of God. Then his father, a strange father,
came to him one day and says, oh, by the way, son, your grandfather,
your grandfather is a ruler in Africa over a tribe, people,
and he died. And we're going to go to his
funeral. So that boy went to his funeral and come to find
out they were there to anoint that man king. Now, He's king,
so he comes back. He forsakes the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Doesn't want to have anything
to do with it. He's got riches. But you know where he lives?
He lives in California. So he's a king by a distance. He's a king in name only. He's not there ruling that country.
He's just trying to receive the benefits from it. He's no king.
He has no people. He has no people. King without
a people is a mockery. And I'll tell you, this world
loves to say Jesus is King. But they refuse to acknowledge
He's been given a people. They refuse to acknowledge it. They would say He rules from
all eternity. But He was a King without a people
to rule over. He is a Savior in general, but
not a Savior particularly. That's a mockery. travesty against
the Word of God. This would be a mockery to have
an eternal decree of God and scepter of God and power of God
and yet have no people. But here in this text we see
that Jesus has not only been given the scepter, but he has
been given the people. This is good. This is good news
because if Christ had not been given a people to save, there
would be no salvation for any of us. There wouldn't be any
salvation. Notice this. In verse 3, what
does he say? What are the first two words?
Thy people. Thy people. He who is sitting
on the right hand of God, he said, Thy people. shall be willing
in the day of thy power. And when God set up Christ to
be King and Savior, He said that He would have a people all His
own, that they would be His willing subjects. And now I want us to
see three things about these people. Three things about these
people. First of all, I want you to know
this. They are a people given of God. They are a people given of God. Second of all, they are a people
purchased by Christ. And thirdly, they are a people
conquered by Christ. And I know that each one of these,
if you're a believer in Christ, each one of these are special
because this speaks of us. I'm so glad that God testifies
because I have so many doubts and fears and troubles that the
flesh overwhelms us. We feel as though God may have
left us, but these words of the gospel are comforting. to know
that these things are not temporal. These things like salvation are
not based in time, but rather are decrees of God from eternity. They cannot be moved. They cannot
be changed. They are forever. You know this? If you are the people of Christ,
you will always be the people of Christ. You are always His
people. You are His people. And you always
shall be His people. This is a decree. A decree of
the living God, Thy people. There He is. And first of all,
there He is by gift. By gift. This is what we call
the sovereign election of God. The election of the Father from
eternity. I like this. Paul terms this
in 1 Thessalonians 1 and verse 4. He calls it the election of
God. It is. It's an election of God. If you want to know where the
book stops, it stops at God. God in eternity, when He was
alone, dwelling all by His self, in His perfect persons, decreed,
purposed, and loved a people. He did. Out of His own free grace,
He loved them so much, He loved them. And I like this because
we have to put things in order. And in eternity there's really
not order. It's not 1, 2, 3, 4. It's an
eternal now. And so everything God purposed
in time, He had decreed from eternity. It is though in His
eyes it is already done. And so God from eternity purposed
to save a people. He also calls it in Romans 11,
7, the election of grace. In 2 Thessalonians 2, Beloved, we
are bound to give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of
the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning. Now why
did God choose you? Why did God choose you? Well,
we know it's grace. We know it's because of grace.
But for what purpose? What purpose did God choose you
for? To salvation. That's what God purposed you
for. To salvation. Now these elect were given to
the king out of eternal, immutable love of the father to his children. and that through Christ their
King they would be accepted blameless and without sin. Ephesians 1. Ephesians chapter 1. One of the most blessed chapters
in all of Scripture. I know it's avoided by heathen,
but it's not by us. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places, in Christ, according as He hath
chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blame before Him, in love, having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ
to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will, to the
praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted
in the Beloved. He hath made us accepted. This
is all as a result of eternal love. I have loved thee with an everlasting
love. Is that not the best thing ever? If you are loved of God, you
were loved and are loved for eternity. There is no variation
in His love. There is no up. There is no down. There is love at its highest
and fullest degree for eternity. That's how much God loves. That's
how much He loves His people. He purposed them to be holy and
accepted. And Jesus, who was appointed
King of the Father, God gave this people to Him. So much so,
the Scripture says, in Christ. Do you get that? In the Ephesians,
He said, you have all spiritual blessings, where? In Christ. According as He had chosen us,
in Christ. before the foundation of the
world, in whom you have obtained the inheritance. Do you not see
this? That this is a union. A union between the King and
His people. God put us in union with Christ. And at that eternal moment, Jesus
Christ accepted the people and became fully responsible for
all their salvation. All that God decreed by Jesus
Christ. That's how He said we should
be made holy. By Jesus Christ. Not Jesus Christ plus your works.
Not Jesus Christ plus your will. Not Jesus Christ plus your good
deeds. Jesus Christ alone, by Him, God
said you should be made holy. That's good news. That's the
best news ever to a sinner. To a sinner. He was appointed to be our surety. To be our representative. And
as he was sent into the world, do you know the first thing,
the declaration of the angels concerning this king? Thou shalt
call his name Jesus. Jehovah saves. Not Jehovah saves possibly. Not Jehovah possibly saves. No,
Jehovah saves. That's His name. For, this is
why, He shall save who? His people. His people from their
sins. Because His people would be born
altogether in sin. His people would be of Adam's
race of ruin and rebellion. Even so was Jesus anointed to
be king, to bring his people from ruin to glory. How? By being their representative
man. Jesus said in John 6, all that
the Father giveth man. Who doesn't understand that?
Have I lost anybody so far? You got a king, you got his people,
people given. And Jesus says of these people
given, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Him that cometh to me, I will
in no wise cast out. Why? I'm their king. They're
my people. I won't cast them out. This was
the decree of God, that I should save them. And this is the will
of Him that sent me. That of all He hath given me,
I should lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day.
Now that sounds like a king. That sounds like a king, doesn't
it? Doesn't sound anything at all
like us. Well, we're the people. That's okay. You sound exactly
the way you're supposed to. He's the king. He makes decrees. And he follows through with his
decrees. He is a sovereign king. Jesus. is God's anointed king
from eternity has given him a people and listen, he must save his
people. Do you not understand that his
very dominion, his very glory, his very throne depends upon
the success of his mission. The very glory of God rests on
the success of this king. Remember, who anointed this king?
God anointed this king. So then who is responsible then
if he fails? God would be. So then Jesus, He says, He must
save. You remember in John 10, He said,
I came to lay down my life for who? The sheep. The sheep? Not for everyone, just the sheep. And He said, other sheep have
I, which are not of this fold. You know what He was thinking
of you? Can you imagine that? You specifically He thought of. His people. Other sheep that
are not of this fold, them I also Must. I must bring them for the
glory of God. I must bring them into the fold.
And they shall be one fold and one shepherd. There shall be
one fold, one shepherd. Isn't that the way it is? That's
exactly the way He said it is. Second of all, these people are
purchased people. These people are purchased. Go back to your text. And look at this. Now as the
Lord is sent, He sees this in verse 2, The Lord shall send
the rod of thy strength out of Zion. And He did. Christ is the rod of His strength.
He was sent out of Zion. He was sent to His people. And listen what He was commanded
to do. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. You see, Christ's
people who were given to Him of God, His elect, His precious
people, the people He must save, these people that were set up
from everlasting to be His people and whom He delighted, the truth
of the matter is, we by nature were not His friends. His people by nature were His
enemies. His enemies. To our shame, we were the enemies
of God. Listen, Paul said this in Colossians
chapter 1. He said you were sometime aliens
and enemies in your mind. Have you ever heard this? Well,
when did the Lord save you? Well, I've been saved all my
life. Well, that's just too long. Because you were not sometime
alienated. You had to be sometime alienated. You were sometime enemies of
God in your mind. No, never were. Then you're never
saved. You've never been redeemed. If
you've never been an enemy in your mind, you've never been
redeemed and made a friend of God. That's like saying, well,
when were you resurrected? Well, I was always alive. Then
you've never been resurrected, have you? You had to be dead
in order to be, it's qualification for resurrection, isn't it? You
gotta be dead. Well, in order to be his people,
there's a qualification. You must first be his enemy.
And that's what we are by nature. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. And we being children of Adam
were born dead in sins to see, and we could not see our need
of a savior. You know what's wrong with people
who don't have any interest in the gospel? They don't see their
need. Ah! Not again! I don't want to
hear it again! I don't have any need! I have
a need! You have a need? You that were
enemies in your mind, I know you have a need. You have a need. But we didn't have a need at
first. We all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. We, by nature, were unclean and
could by no means clean ourselves. We, by nature, were dead and
were not able or willing to come to Christ. No man can come unto
me, Jesus said. Oh, that must stick in the craw
of every Arminian that ever lived. No man can come unto me except
the Father which has sent me draw him. It's true. God's elect
needed not only a king to rule over us, but we needed a savior
to redeem us. The elect of God as that certain man in Luke chapter
10. You remember the Good Samaritan,
the parable the Lord gave? I believe it's probably a real
story, but you remember that man who was stripped and robbed?
The man left for dead? That's who we are. By nature,
that's who we are. Stripped of all righteousness,
stripped of all goodness, and left for dead under the condemnation
of God. And as the law, those two men
pictured, the Levite and the Pharisee, they were the law.
They pictured the law. And what could they do to this
poor man? He was bloodied, and he was beat,
and he was dead. What could they do? Nothing.
You remember, if they touched Him, they themselves would be
defiled. They could not touch Him. And
the law, friends, could not touch us except it defiled itself. The law could not help us. There
is no help from the law. The law can only look in condemnation
to us and demand our death. That is all the law can do. But
you see the good Samaritan. Now the Jews and the Samaritans
were what? Enemies. Enemies. That Jew that was beat down on
that road another day would have killed that Samaritan. Had no
thought about it. Didn't even care. If that Samaritan
was in the same condition he would have walked by, spit on
it, and left it. He was an enemy. But now, you
see the man stripped, you see the man buried, you see the man
dying, and who comes but the Good Samaritan? Which is a picture
of who? The King, Jesus Christ, coming
to His enemies. He binds His wounds and takes
Him in and says, Whatsoever He charges, I will repay it. Oh, what a gospel message that
is. Whatsoever sins we have been
charged with, whatsoever crimes we have committed, Christ said,
I will repay. I will repay. In the prophecy, He said, I came
to restore that which I took not away. He didn't take it away. We took it away. And He restored
it. He restored it. How could he do that? Because
he was the only sinless son of God. Because he was alone able
to honor the law that we could not. And he alone was able to
satisfy the justice of God by his one offering as king. He had power not only
to rule in the midst of His enemies, but He had the responsibility
to redeem them from all their sins. In Hebrews it said He has
made a surety. What's a surety? It's a guarantee
of a better covenant. How then should He redeem us?
Look at your text. Remember we got a king? He's
given a people, and these people are by nature His enemies, but
He is sent to redeem them, to save them, not only to rule over
them, but to bring them in. Look, verse 4. The Lord has sworn
and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever. Who
in the world could save us but a priest? Who in the world could
enter in with the sacrifice but a priest? And what kind of priest
is this King? He is an eternal priest. He is after the order of Melchizedek
who had no beginning and no ending in scripture. He is a picture
of Christ who is our eternal high priest. And how then should
this priest atone for our sin? Verse 7. He shall drink of the
brook in the way. What does that mean? This brook
has reference to the Brook Kittron. Brook Kittron. I'll familiarize
you with it. If you'll go to 2 Samuel. Go to 2 Samuel. You remember
that Absalom rebelled against his father and David was being
cast out, chased by Absalom. In chapter 15, In verse 23, we
see David fleeing. And all the country wept with
a loud voice. And all the people passed over. The king also himself passed
over the brook Kidron. And all the people passed over
toward the way of the wilderness. What does this have reference
to? Well, see the fulfillment of this in John chapter 18. Go
over to John chapter 18. See the fulfillment of this. Remember, David being a type
of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is rejected, he is cast out. And now he goes over this brook,
Kittron. We'll look at John chapter 18
and notice what John says as he's moved by the Holy Spirit. Verse 1. When Jesus had spoken
these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook,
Kittron. The same one. Where was the garden? into which he entered and his
disciples. When David as king was cast out,
he went over this brook. And I want you to understand,
this brook was no sparkling stream. It was no crystal clear water
where you take your kids and you throw your fishing line in
and it looks so pretty and it's all beautiful. This was a sewage
ditch. We don't have plumbing. They
didn't have plumbing like we have today. This restroom is
back here. They're going down. They're going
out. They're going into a big sewer vat somewhere else. We
don't smell any of that. This was the sewage from the
temple worship where they had killed and slaughtered at least
two animals every day. And when they slaughter them,
the dung pours out from the animal. And it drained somewhere. They had a drainage ditch. And
this was the drainage ditch for the blood and the dung of the
sacrifices. This is the brook that David
crossed over, smelling the stench of the sacrifices. And it is
the same brook the Lord Jesus Christ went over before his death. It is a picture of His tasting
death for us. It's a picture of what our King
must have endured in order to save us. In order to save us, He must
Himself be made sin for us. He must endure the justice of
God in the stead of His people. He came to be our kinsman redeemer. We had lost everything like Naomi. You remember her husband sinned
and she lost everything. How was it restored? Boaz! Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer, our
Lord, came as a man in order to represent us. And by His blood,
He redeemed us from all the debt we owed to God. The Father imputed
our sins to Christ, and He suffered the full measure of them. He
drank of this filthy brook of our sins, and God poured out
vengeance on His own Son to the fullest degree. Our king, our
king was made lower than the angels, crowned with suffering
that he should taste death for every man. So we have a king, we have a
people given, a people purchased. You, his people, you've been
bought with a price. And you are not your Now how do you know that? How
do you know this is yours? Because you have now been conquered. You are not only a people given,
a people purchased, but you are a people conquered. You who were
enemies of God in your minds. Now, now you've been given a
new heart, a new nature, And you who were unwilling are now
made willing. Should we praise then our will? Oh, I was willing. Praise God
for my free will. No, you were made willing in
the day of his power. You are made willing in the beauty
of holiness. What is that? The womb of the
morning. He's talking about the new nature
created in you. That holy nature that God made
in you. And it is by that you are made
willing. I am willing. I am a willing
servant of Jesus Christ. I am a willing subject of Jesus
Christ. You bet. But I know this, I was
born not of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of
God. I give no praise to my will because my will fluctuates. I
don't know about yours. Mine fluctuates. I'm willing
one minute and unwilling the next. Why? Because I got two
distinct natures who are struggling with each other, constantly warring
against each other. And one totally desires only
to serve Christ. The other desires to run as far
as he can from Christ. And these two are constantly
warring inside me. We are made willing. We were
once willing to sin. Now, we're willing to serve.
We're willing to bow to Christ and to believe on Him. Do you
realize the impossibility of faith? Faith is not something
you can generate. It's something that must be created
in you. It must be the work of God in
you to believe on the Son of God. It is no mere act of decision
or will. It is an act of God. This is
the work of God, that you should believe on Him whom He has sent. And I'll tell you, anybody who
comes in that has not been conquered, this was not a cooperative effort.
My salvation was not cooperative. I was conquered. My old man was
put down and a new one was put in place. It happened all without my will.
It happened in a day of grace. And if God will ever save you,
that's exactly what he'll do for every one of his people. Every
one of his people. Jesus shall rule in the midst
of his enemies, but they shall be willing in the day of his
power when he comes in the irresistible call of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And this is true of us. We who are his people are made
holy. And this high priest, this king
who saves us, where is he? Where is he? We see that the decree was from
eternity should be king, but I tell you that has been accomplished
at the resurrection. Matter of fact, you can go into
Acts chapter 2 or chapter 4, I can't remember exactly. Peter
tells, I think it's chapter 2, Peter tells this text here about
the exaltation of Christ. Sit thou at my right hand. See,
who has sat at the right hand of God for eternity now as a
man sits at the right hand of God for eternity. What? To ever
live to make intercession for you. Why? Because the king will have his
people. and not one of them will be lost. You as people, you should
hang on to that, and you shouldn't let that go. Yeah, but I don't, what did your feeling have to
do with his kingship? What did his, what your feeling
have to do with you being chosen, redeemed, and called? What did
it have to do with it? What then does it have to do
with keeping you? Not a darn thing. I'm His. And He is mine. Now you hang on to it. I pray God will bless you.