Now those here this morning who
study the Scriptures and are acquainted with God's Word know
that this psalm, Psalm 110, seven verses, sets forth the person
and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's what this psalm is all
about. And you know that. You've looked at it before. You've
read it before and you've studied it, and I've preached from it
before. But how can the preacher, how can I show to all of our listeners that to
study this psalm written so many, many years before Christ came,
so many, many years, written by David, written under divine
inspiration, written so many, years before Christ came to the
earth. How can I show you that to look
in this psalm is to look into the face of Christ Jesus? Well, look at verse 1. The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy Now turn to Matthew chapter 22. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us what this scripture
is saying. This passage which David wrote
so long before he came, he shows us right here in Matthew 22 what
this scripture says. Now look at verse 41 of Matthew
22. Now while the Pharisees were
gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, now these Pharisees
were the religious leaders, the rulers, the teachers of the Jews,
religious moral men, studied the scriptures. He asked them
this question, what think ye of Christ? What think ye of Christ? What is this question? What think
ye of the Messiah? What do you think of the Christ,
the Redeemer? All the Old Testament scriptures,
all the way back to Genesis 3.15, talks about a coming Christ,
a coming Redeemer, Messiah, the seed of woman. Moses wrote about
Him. He said, He'll be a prophet like
unto me. And Moses wrote about him, said he'll be a priest like
Abram. David wrote about him, said he'll be the son of David,
the lion of the tribe of Judah, root of Jesse. Isaiah wrote about
him. All through the Old Testament
scriptures, the Christ, the Christ, the Christ, the Messiah is coming.
You remember they asked John the Baptist, are you the Christ?
No, he said, I'm not the Christ. Are you that prophet? No, I'm
not that prophet. The woman at the well said to
our Lord Jesus, the Messiah's coming. And when he comes, he'll
tell us everything. Samaritan Jews, Pharisees, publicans,
Sanhedrin, whomever, scribes, all talked about a coming Messiah,
a coming Christ, one who would come, they thought, to restore
David's kingdom. to restore again the glories
to Israel on this earth. They didn't know anything about
his coming to redeem sinners, die for sinners, and to establish
a covenant kingdom in the name of the living God. But anyway,
he asked them, he said, well, you're teachers of the Scriptures. You fellows read the Bible. You
fellows teach the Word. And what do you think of Christ?
Listen, whose son is he? Well, they replied, he's the
son of David. Now, that's a good answer. That's an accurate answer.
Let's go back to Matthew 1. Matthew chapter 1. He's the son
of David. He's the son of David. That's
what the Scripture said. Matthew 1, verse 1. This book, the book of the generation
of Jesus Christ, the son of David. The son of Abraham. That's right. He's the son of David. Look at
Luke. Let's turn to Luke. Luke chapter
1. These fellows said, they said,
what do you think of the Christ? He was the son of David. Look
at Luke chapter 1 verse 30. Here's the angel telling Mary
that she's going to bear a child. This is the virgin Mary engaged
to marry Joseph, but not having known him or any man, she said.
And the angel said in Luke 1.30, the angel said unto her, Fear
not, Mary, thou hast found favor with God. And behold, I shall
conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and call his name
Jesus. He shall be great, and shall
be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give unto
him the throne of his father David. The angel said that. The Son of David. And then, if
you will, over to Isaiah 9, this is a scripture with which most
of you are familiar. Isaiah 9. We read verse 6. Let me read verse 6 and 7. Isaiah
9, verse 6. It says, For unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon
his shoulder. And his name, this son, this
child given, shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. And of the
increase of His government and peace, His reign and rule and
peaceful kingdom, there'll be no end. Upon the throne of David
and upon His kingdom to order it, And to establish it with
judgment and justice from henceforth even forever, the zeal of the
Lord of hosts will perform this, the throne of David, son of David. Now, go back to Matthew 22 again. Our Lord asked these disciples,
well, what do you think of the Christ, the Messiah, the coming
Redeemer? Well, He's going to be the son
of David. And the next verse, listen, verse 44. Verse 43, "...then
he saith unto them, Then how doth David in spirit call him
Lord? Saying, Thee, Lord, said to my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy
footstool." You see why I read this? Our Lord. I'm preaching
Psalm 110. But what I'm showing to you is
what the Lord Jesus showed to them. This is what David's talking
about. The Lord said to my..." Now Christ
said in verse 45, now how? How, if David calls Him Lord,
how can He be David's son? How can this offspring of David be David's Lord, sitting at the
right hand of the majesty on high, and be David's son? These fellas couldn't handle
it. These men were scholars. These men were students of the
Old Testament Scriptures. These men, they couldn't handle
that, not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God. And verse
46 said, And no man was able to answer him. Neither does any man from that
day forth ask him any more questions. And actually, Most of the people
of this world can't answer that. How can he be David's Lord and
God and David's son? Because they deny the deity of
Jesus Christ. He's the God-man. Mary, now watch
this. That angel said, Mary, you're
going to have a son called to be the son of the highest. He
sat on the throne of his father David. She said, Mary said this,
how can these things be? I don't know a man. And the Holy Spirit, I mean the
angel said this to her, the power of God is coming upon you. The
Spirit of God is coming upon you. And that holy thing, that
holy thing, no ordinary child. He is a child, but he is the
Son given. That holy thing which shall be
born of you shall be called the Son of God. And Mary said, My
soul rejoices in God my Savior. My Son is my God. Now that's
the problem. My Son, the fruit of my womb,
is none other than my God and my Savior. And that's exactly
what the Lord is saying here to these Pharisees. He said,
now, you tell me, how can He be David's Son and be David's
God? And the answer is this, great
is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth,
born of Mary, crucified on the cross, buried and rose again,
ascended to heaven, seated at the right hand, is none other
than God Himself who made this world. God Himself. You say, well, it's Father, Son,
Holy Spirit, but there's one God. The Father, the Son, the
Holy Spirit is a manifestation of one God. There's one God.
The Lord our God is one God. God was in Christ. God became
a man. God visited this earth. The Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. The
glory as of the only begotten of the Father. He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father. I and my Father are one. That's
right. So go back to my text. This is what it's saying. The Father said to my Savior,
my Redeemer, my Christ, my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, the
place of acceptance, of majesty, of power, until I make all thine enemies
thy footstool." You see that? He became a man, made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem them that are born under the
law. And I tell you, listen to me now, as God, He satisfied. As man, He obeyed
and suffered. As the God-man, he both satisfied
all that God required, every jot and tittle of the law, of
the commandments he fulfilled. What is a jot and a tittle? I
don't know a great deal about Hebrew and Greek, but I do know
that there are certain little marks in the Hebrew that if you
leave off that little mark, it changes the whole word. It's
just one little tittle. One little jot, one little tittle,
would leave off the whole word, would change the meaning of the
whole word. And he fulfilled the law as a man, so perfectly
for us, he didn't leave off a mark, not a jot or a tittle. Now, won't
you do me a favor, you sit in there, get out your pen and a
piece of paper, write it in the back of your Bible, I want to
show you something. What a jot and a tittle, how important this
is. Every jot and every tittle. was fulfilled by our Lord. Now
do this. Write the word TITTLE. But now
leave off the JOTS. Leave off the crossing the T
or dot and I. Just start T straight line, I straight line, T, T straight
line, E. What's that word look like? Just
line, line, line, line, E. But now put the TITTLES in. Cross
the first T. Dot the I. cross the next two
Ts. Oh, when you put the Johnson
and the Tittle, it becomes a word, didn't it? Before you put the
crossing and the dotting, it didn't make any sense. It wasn't
a word at all. You didn't see anything there, just line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line, line,
line, line, Like those fellas in the days of Christ, Christ
said, you heard it said by them of old times, thou shalt not
kill. I say unto you, to hate is to be guilty of murder already.
That's a tittle. That interprets the law. The
law goes a lot deeper than shooting a man. It goes right down here
when you want to shoot him. To commit adultery, Christ said,
you've heard it said by them of old time interpreting the
law, thou shalt not commit adultery. I say unto you, to want to is
to be already guilty. Oh, that's too tight. That's
the jots and the tittles. That's what makes it meaningful.
T-I-T-T-L-E. Put the jots and the tittles
in. Our Lord fulfilled them. That's right, God-man. All right,
look at verse 2. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. Now, he's talking about the Messiah. He's risen, he's exalted, he's
accepted, he's within the veil, he's the forerunner, he's seated.
The work's finished. The Lord who made him the Messiah
and the Redeemer is going to send the rod of his strength
out of Zion. Who's Zion? Zion's always the
church. I've set my king upon my holy
hill of Zion. Zion's the church. What's the
rod? It's the gospel. The gospel of
Christ. The good news of Christ. That's
the rod that God sent out of Zion. The rod of power, the gospel
which we preach. Let me show you something. Turn
to Isaiah chapter 11. Isaiah, see if I can make good
on this. I say that the rod of his strength
today is the gospel. The rod of his strength going
out of Zion, that's the only strength we've got. That's the
only power we've got. The gospel is the power of God
unto salvation. Without our gospel, we don't
have any power. Without our gospel, we don't have anything to say.
We don't have anything to do. We don't have any way of reaching
the multitude. But the gospel is the power of
God unto salvation. God hath chosen by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. Look at Isaiah 11. And there shall go forth There
shall come forth, Isaiah 11-1, a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
a branch shall grow out of his roots, and the Spirit of the
Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the
fear of the Lord, and shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after
the sight of his eyes, nor reprove after the hearing of his ears.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth, and shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth. With the breath of his lips shall
he slay the wicked." That's that rod. It's the power of God unto
salvation. It's the gospel of Christ. It's
the revelation of Christ. It's the truth out of the mouth. Tonight I'm preaching from Romans
10. What saith it, this gospel? It's in your mouth. It's in your
heart. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth Jesus to be Lord. The Lord said to my Lord, sit
on my right hand. Exalted, preeminence, I'll make
thee enemies of your footstool. And down there in Zion, I'm going
to send the rod of your strength and your power. Send it out. And you'll reign. That's right,
look at that. You'll reign through the gospel. Now let me show you
something here. Turn to Exodus chapter 4. Exodus chapter 4. Now here, I
want to show you our weakness and our strength. Show you our
helplessness and our power. The Lord had said to Moses, that
he was going to go down into Egypt and lead out 2 or 3 million
people who for 400 years had been in captivity, slavery, and
bondage. God said to my people, now you
go to Pharaoh and tell him to let them go. Moses, he was one
man, 80 years old, a shepherd, the meekest of all men. That's a tall order, isn't it?
Go set them free. Go set the captive free. Go deliver
my people. Go face the powers and forces
of the world. And Moses said, verse 1, chapter
4, Moses answered and said, Behold, they'll not believe me. They
won't believe me. They won't listen to me. They
won't hearken to my voice. They're going to say, the Lord
has not appeared to you. You're a fool. God hasn't said anything to you.
You don't know God. Lord, they're not going to listen
to me. They're not going to hear me. And the Lord said, what's
that in your hand? He said, a rod. Old Moses standing
there with his shepherd rod, barefooted. And the Lord said,
what's that in your hand? He said, it's just a rod. He
said, cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground.
It became a serpent. And Moses fled from it. And the
Lord said, Moses, put forth your hand, take it by the tail. And
he put forth his hand and caught it. It became a rod. And Moses
took that rod and went to Egypt. And he touched the sea and it
turned to blood. He touched the sun and it quit shining. He touched the sea and it divided. He touched a rock and it gave
forth water. A rock. But the power of God
was in that rock. And I'm telling you this. I go
and preach. I preached to two churches last
week. One of them didn't hear me. One of them did. But who made the difference? This rod of his strength that
goes out of Zion is the gospel. And I'll tell you, it's just
a rod. It's just a man speaking. And you say, well, they won't
hear me. You're right, they won't. But they'll hear him if he's
pleased to open their ears. They won't hearken unto me. They'll
say, you don't know what you're talking about. You haven't seen
God. Those who've seen Him will know it. And you can take that
gospel and touch the deaf and they'll hear. And touch the blind,
they'll see. And touch the dead, they'll walk.
And touch sons of rebellion, and they'll become sons of grace
and love. It's the gospel. It's the power
of God. That's what it is. Moses was
just as helpless as you are and helpless as I am before men. But when God Almighty sends forth
the rod of His strength and His gospel, He'll quicken the dead. And He'll rule in the midst of
all. There are no enemies so great
over which He doesn't rule. No forces. Don't worry about
them. Don't worry about them. Alright, look at verse 3, quickly.
And thy people, you see, you take this rod of His strength
and use it. And your people, His people,
they're not my people, they're His people. Where did he get
his people? The Father gave them to him from
before the foundation of the world. Where did he get his people? He went to Calvary and bought
them. Paid the price. You're not your own. You're bought
with a price. He bought you. You're his. Where
did he get his people? The Holy Spirit right here when
the gospel is preached, He makes them willing. They become his
people willingly, lovingly, obediently. They're following, Thy people
shall be willing to repent, to believe, to trust Christ, to
walk with Him. When? In the day of His power. In the day of His power. It's
going to take His power though. I sure hope Brother Mahan will
say something that will bring my friend to know Christ. I've
been saying that for 44 years. Your friend hadn't heard. He
hadn't listened. God's got to give him ears. My
brother Mahan says something. God would say something. Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. I always preach
the gospel. I've been up here, I didn't preach
the gospel. The fact that men hadn't heard it doesn't mean
it's not the gospel. It's the gospel. Thy people shall
be willing. Thy people shall be obedient.
Thy people shall follow Thee. His people. The rest of them
won't. They go their way. Their way. But Thy people are
willing. Watch it now. In the beauty of
holiness, He makes them, He sanctifies them. He chose us that we should
be holy. He chose us that we should be
holy. He didn't choose us because we were holy. We were the greatest
of sinners, the chief of sinners, the worst of all. He chose us
that we should be holy in the beauty of His holiness, that's
what. You read over there in Ezekiel
16 about that baby that was born, is deformed and not wanted. And the mother and father just
stood out in the field. And the Lord said, I pass by.
Your mother was a Hittite and your daddy was an Amorite. And
in the day you were born, you weren't washed or swaddled at
all, but you were cast out into the open field to the loathing
of your person. Smell, stink. And I passed by
you and I saw you, polluted in your blood, the worst of all. And it was a time of love. You
didn't love me. You didn't know me. You didn't call to me. I
loved you. And I said, And you lived. And you rose up. And I made you beautiful. And
your hair grew and your breasts fashioned. And I dressed you
with earrings and beautiful dress. And you stood there in all of
my beauty. My comeliness. The beauty of
holiness. He found me. He gave me life. He loved me. He called me. He
clothed me in the beauty of His holiness. That's right. From
the womb of the morning, that's where we're born. First time
I was born of the flesh, second time I was born of God. Oh, and
born, I was born to die, I'm dying slowly. My years are numbered
here, because I was born of the flesh. But when I was born of
Him, by His power, In the beauty of holiness, from the womb of
the morning, I was born with the dew of youth on my forehead.
And it will never go away. You're looking at an eternal
Son of God. And I'm looking at never die. Never die. That's what gives
us the grace to die, John, when we know we'll never die. That's
what we're talking about this morning. That's the hope. The
dew of youth. Thy youth is renewed like the
eagles. Will never grow old. Never grow
old. Alright, verse 4. He says, The
Lord hath sworn and will not change you. Who's he talking about here?
My Lord. The rod of His strength. The one who has the people. You
are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. I wish
I had time to deal with that, but I tell you this. In the Old
Testament, there were three essentials for worship. Three essentials
for an atonement, an atonement, reconciliation. One was a mercy
seeker. Number two was a priest. Number
three was a blood offering. That's right. There was no, it
could be no atonement without The mercy seat without the priest,
without the atonement, the blood. Well, we have all that right
now. Our mercy seat is Christ. He tabernacled among us. And
He set forth as a mercy seat. And He's our priest. That's what
we read at the start of the service. Seeing we have a high priest
over the house of God, let us come near in His blood. But Aaron and his sons They're
not very good pictures of Christ. They'll do until something better
comes along. And something better did. God
sent Melchizedek, having neither mother nor father, having neither
pedigree or heritage or beginning of days or end of days. A priest
forever! King of Salem! The Lord's priest. No priest. This had to be Christ. No priest
is a king. And no king is a priest. But Melchizedek, John, is a king
priest. A king priest. And when he met
Abraham, after the slaughter of the kings, he blessed him. But Melchizedek, the king priest,
did not offer a lamb. Here's a priest without a lamb.
Here's a priest without blood. He blessed Abraham and gave him
bread and wine. That's Christ. It's His blood.
This is my body broken for you. This is my blood shed for you.
Oh, He's a priest forever. After
the order of Melchizedek, He has an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore He's able to save to the uttermost them that come
to God by Him. Why would you look for any other
way when God said this is my way? Why do we preach works and righteousness
and good deeds and making decisions and coming to the front and doing
the best you can when God says all these things here to us?
Why do we do that? Because we are blind, that's
why, and deaf and dumb and dead in trespasses and sin. But thy
people, thy people, they are going to know, they are going
to be willing in the beauty of holiness, true holiness, from
the womb of the morning with the due of youth, because they
are going to trust Him who is a priest forever, who has His
own blood as our atoning sacrifice, who is at the right hand of God,
who doesn't minister. Can you imagine someone going
to one of these priests down here and confessing his sins? And having that man sprinkle
water on him or say words and absorb him? I have a priest! He's at the right hand of God.
He's Jesus Christ the righteous who has His blood. Why do we... Oh, why? No use asking why. There's no answer. There's no
answer. Alright, verse 5. The Lord at
thy right hand... Well, the day is coming when
He'll strike through kings in His wrath. You know, the Lord
at thy right hand is a comfort to us. The Lord at thy right
hand is a terror to unbelievers. I wouldn't want him as my enemy.
Kiss the son, lest he be angry. I wouldn't want him to be my
enemy, would you? God's given all judgment into his hands.
This is not a trial by jury. It's a trial by judge. And God
has committed all judgment to the Son. That's right. There's a day coming when God's
going to judge this world by that man, Christ Jesus, whom
He raised from the dead. And the Lord at thy right hand
is a comfort to us, but it's a terror because He's going to
strike through kings in the day of His wrath. Now, preachers keep on preaching. Like I heard this fellow Last
night on television, or Saturday, from the Christian church down
here, and he said God loved the Pharisees as much as He loved
the disciples. Now you keep telling people that
now. Keep on. Keep on telling them that. And
when He rises in His wrath and judgment, and casts them in condemnation
from Him, I want you to stand up and say, but don't do that,
Lord. You love them like you love your disciples. That's not fair. It's not fair
to a lot of people, is it? Not right to a lot of people.
You say, well, they'll fire me. Let them fire you. Walk away
a servant of God. But they won't hear me. That's
all right. They wouldn't hear Him. Isaiah said, Who hath believed? I report. For whom is the arm
of the Lord revealed? That's all right. His people
will. Thy people shall be willing,
thy people shall hear, thy people shall come, thy people shall
love thee." He can't do anything for the rest of them. He's going
to smite them through in the day of His judgment. Right. The
Son is. We're talking about the Lord
at His right hand. And He'll judge among the heathen. Pagans. Men are blind because they want
to be blind. There's nobody blind like a man
who won't see. I will not. You will not come
to me that you might have life. He'll judge among the heathen.
He'll fill the places with their dead bodies. He'll wound the
heads over many countries. And then, verse 7, here's the
victorious, conquering King of kings and Lord of lords. He shall
drink of the brook in the way. The battle is over, the victory
is won. The king, the captain of our
salvation returns home and he stops and takes a drink. John Gill says he drinks of the
brook of pleasures for the joy set before him. He endured the
cross and despised the shame and he'll drink of pleasures
forevermore. Cool, refreshing drink. and he
lift up his head, so shall my head be lifted up above mine
enemies. The Lord has given me the victory. That's what it says in it. Oh, the Lord said to my Lord,
my Messiah, my Christ, sit down at my right hand and I'll send
forth the rod of your strength out of Zion And your people shall
be willing in the day of your power and the beauty of holiness
in the womb of the morning because you are a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Our salvation and redemption
and eternal life is not in our hands. It's in His hands. We
trust it upon Him. We trust it upon Him. We leave it upon Him. He's got
the victory. And we have the victory in Him.
all right let's say the closing