Psalm 110

I wonder if it's possible that some of
our friends or some of us may be involved in religion, even involved in what we call
sound doctrine. may be said of us what Isaiah
said of those in his day, Lord, who have actually believed our
report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed. I listened to a tape. A man sent
me a cassette tape two or three weeks ago. of a friend of mine preaching,
a man whom I've known for a number of years. He and I are almost
the same age. He may be a few months older
than I. And he was preaching on a subject
that I was considering using here next Sunday. The seven names of our Lord,
Jehovah. whether Charlie Payne preached
on that a few weeks ago or months ago. Jehovah, Sid Kenu, Jehovah, Rea,
Jehovah, Shalem, Jehovah, Shema, seven names of Jehovah. Some
of you have it written in your Bibles. And it was an interesting message.
It used a lot of personal illustrations. And it was interesting knowing
him. He's a well-read man and a well-educated
man and a good pulpiteer. And he talked to the congregation
to which he was preaching about our friendship and told he'd
known me since he was first called to the ministry, which is 40
years. But he came to the heart of that
message. I mean the very center, soul,
and the heart of that message. Paul listened to it. He nodded
his head. He knows what I'm talking about.
I mean the heart of it. What is the heart of that message?
Jehovah said to him, the Lord our righteousness. I'm telling
you something now. Here's a man my age who's pastored
some big churches. I'm talking about seven, eight
hundred people. He's preached in the First Baptist
Church of Atlanta, all over the South. And while he spent four or five
minutes or six minutes on the other names, he spent one minute
on the Lord Our Righteousness. One minute. And I can almost
quote verbatim what he said. He said, now, here's the name
Jehovah Sidkenu, and he spelled it. T-S-I-D-K-E-N-U, which means
the Lord our righteousness. And he said that means that the
Lord is our standard. Jesus Christ is our measuring
rod. It is his life against which
I put my life. And his life is the scales in
which my life is weighed. He said, now, many of you people
watch television, and that's your standard of right and wrong.
And you watch television, everybody's doing it, and you say, it must
be all right. But what you've got to do is look at Christ,
and that'll determine how you're supposed to live. And when we
stand before God, His life will be our measuring rod for our
lives. We put our lives against His.
Now he said, we're going to the next point. Well, I'll tell you,
I hope there's not a 10-year-old, 12-year-old, 13-year-old boy
or girl in this church that doesn't know better than that. I hope,
I hope, I pray, I cry before God, Lord, who hath believed
I before? I've preached two meetings for
that gentleman. Did he not hear a thing? Is it possible we hear words
and we don't hear the message? Is it possible? that we're ever
learning and never coming to knowledge of the truth? Is that
possible? I got to reading over here in
Luke 24 today about these apostles who were, turn to Luke 24, and
these apostles who were walking along on the road to Emmaus, and the Lord Jesus Christ, they'd
been with Him for three and one half years. I mean, the Lord
of Glory, our Master, our Messiah, they had run and sat across the
table from Him. They had walked the field with
Him. They had spent nights listening to Him. They had heard Him speak
to the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the people. He talked confidentially
and privately with them. He spent hours before the cross
telling them, John 13, 14, 15, 16. all these things, and here they
are walking along this road, and after he arose from the grave,
and he walked along beside them, their eyes were beholden, they
didn't recognize him, he said, why are you so sorrowful? And
they said, well, verse 18, one of them whose name
was Cleopas, Cleopas, answered and said to him, Are you a stranger
in Jerusalem? You've not known the things which
have come to pass there in these days? He said, What things? And
they said unto him concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was
a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God and all the people,
and how the chief priest and our rulers delivered him to be
condemned to death and crucified him. But we trusted, we thought,
that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. Besides
this, all this, today is the third day since these things
were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished,
astonished, which were early at the sepulchre, they found
not his body. And they came saying that they
had also seen a vision of angels which said he was alive. And
certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre and
found it even as the women had said, but him they saw not. And
then said he unto them, O fools, O fools, and slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have spoken." What prophets?
What prophets? Well, you see, this, what we're
reading now wasn't written. This Matthew through Revelation
wasn't written. This is the New Testament. He's
talking about all these prophets. You haven't believed the word
of God. You haven't believed what God said. Have you even
heard what God said? Oh, fools and slow of hearts
to believe all that the prophets have written. And then he said
here in the next verse in Luke 24, he said, Ought not the Christ,
the Messiah, ought not the Christ to have suffered these things?
Isn't this what is written? Isn't this the message? Isn't
this what the prophets wrote? Isn't this the Passover I told
you about? Isn't this the smitten rock?
Isn't this the brazen serpent lifted up? Don't you see that?
The lamb? I told you about the lambs, and
you didn't hear me, he said? Oh, not these things. Christ
has suffered these things in the innermost glory, so begin
in Moses. We'll go over it again. We'll
go over it again. And beginning at Moses, where
did he begin? He began at Genesis 1-1. That's
where he began. Moses wrote the first five books
of the Old Testament. So he said, we'll go back and
start all over. And start all over. And beginning
at Moses, he expounded unto them in the Scriptures the things
concerning himself. I tell you, if you're here tonight
and you don't hear anything else, haven't heard anything prior
to this, hear that right there. all the scriptures, the things
concerning himself." You see, one of the weakest points in
today's pulpit, besides not preaching Christ, but one of the weakest
points in today's pulpit is their failure to see the message of
the Old Testament, and that's Christ, the person and work of
Christ. That's the message of the Old
Testament. Charlie, God's revealed that to you in a unique way,
a very unique way, that the message of the Old Testament is the person
and work of Christ, and there's a unity of Old and New Testament. The Old presents Christ in prophecy
and promise, in picture, in pattern, in type, in all these things. And the New Testament is Christ
revealed in person. He came to the earth in person,
fulfilling all of those pictures and types. Do we see that? And
then look, going down, so he revealed himself to them in verse
43, and he took fish and ate it. Look at verse 44. And he
said to them, these are the words which I spake unto you while
I was with you. This is what I preached to you.
This is what I taught you. This is the message I've tried
to convey to you. While I was with you, that all
things must be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses,
in the prophets, in the Psalms even. concerning me, me. The Old Testament is not a history
of Israel, it's His story. It's history, alright, H-I-S-T-O-R-Y,
His story, that's what it is. It's a hymn, H-I-M, hymn book,
am I getting across to you what I'm saying? It's Christ. From
page one to the last page, it's Christ, Christ, Christ. The Old
Testament. He said, concerning me. And then,
oh, that I had the power to do this. Then opened he their understanding. Have I been so long time with
you, he said, and thou hast not known me. Have I been so long
with you, and thou hast not known me. And then he opened their
understanding that they might understand the Scriptures. The
Scriptures. You see, turn to Acts chapter
13. Let me show you a scripture here.
Acts 13. And this is Paul preaching at
Antioch, that Jesus is the Christ. Paul at Antioch. Acts 13, verse
26. Acts 13, 26. Now this Old Testament,
it's not a love story or a history book or a Bible facts or proverbs. It's Christ. It's Christ. Christ in surety, Christ Redeemer,
Christ Messiah, Christ our Priest and Sacrament, it's all Christ.
And here he says in Acts 13, now watch this, men and brethren,
verse 26, children of the stock of Abraham and whosoever among
you feareth God, to you is this word, is the word of this salvation
sent. Are they that dwell at Jerusalem,
and their rulers, because they knew him not? Nor yet the voices
of the prophets. They didn't know Moses, and Abraham,
and Isaiah's voices, and their words, which are read to them
every Sabbath day. They're read every Sabbath day.
And here they're read every Sunday. In these other churches they're
read every Sunday. Are we hearing them? They heard them, but they
didn't hear them. He said they have ears, but they
can't hear. And they read it, but they can't see it. And they
recite the doctrines, but they don't have hearts to understand
it. They read these things, he said, every Sabbath day, and
they fulfill the very things they read in condemning Him.
They fulfill the very things they read every Sabbath day in
condemning Christ Jesus. And though they found no cause
of death in Him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be
slain. And when they had fulfilled all
that was written of him, written where? In these Old Testament
scriptures. When they, you think about this,
here's people sitting in the synagogue, in the temple, every
Sabbath day, reading these scriptures, reading them, teaching them to
their children. And then the Lord Jesus Christ
about whom this is all written. See, they got bogged down in
the ceremonies. They got bogged down in the rituals. They got
bogged down in the days. They got bogged down in the law.
They got bogged down in all these traditions and mechanics and
form of religion and missed the person. Now that's the danger. That's
that we get bogged down in the mechanics and the theology and
the traditions and the preachers and the teachers and the mechanics
and all these things, and the person walks right in. And we
don't see him. We don't know him. So they nail
him to a tree. And lo and behold, in nailing him to that tree,
they fulfilled all that was written which they had been reading. And then they took him down from
the tree and put him in a grave But God, they weren't through
with Him, God raised Him from the dead. And we're not through
with Him either. God raised Him from the dead. I want you to turn to Psalm 110. I want to show you an example
of what I'm talking about. And this, you can take this anywhere
in the Word, but the reason I'm here in Psalm 110, I'll tell
you a little background of this. I started back this week writing
our Bible class lessons in the Old Testament. We've been off
of them for several months now because I've been too involved
to really get down to writing again. But I did the last two
days. And we've gone up to the middle
of the Psalms. And I got to Psalm 110. And honestly, honestly, it's the most blessed
thing. It's an example of what I'm talking about here. Christ
in the Old Testament. Psalm 110 is just like a bright
shining light if you've got eyes to see. Let's read it, Psalm
110. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit
thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of his 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 beauty of holiness from
the womb of the morning thou hast to do of thy youth. The
Lord hath 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 his head." Now then, suppose
I live back in this day. Suppose I live back in the day
when David wrote that. I had those scriptures. And I
read that. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou on my right hand. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. The Lord hath sworn and will
not repent. Thou art a priest forever. after
the order of Melchizedek. You know, that would be mysterious
to me. I suppose you lived back in those
days. You didn't have a New Testament.
You didn't have Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James. But you lived in the days in
which David wrote that. How mysterious. What questions
would surround every sentence But there's no excuse for us
in the day in which we live under the preaching we've heard not
to understand that psalm and not to enter into it wholeheartedly
and believe it and rest in the promise of that psalm. There's
not any reason. And I want us to look at it.
Now here's one reason. I want you to write these scriptures
down. Here's one reason why this psalm, along with some others,
stands out so boldly. So boldly. Because of the many
times it's referred to in the New Testament. Now write these
scriptures down. Let me read them to you. You
don't need to turn. Just write them down. I want you to look
at them later. Matthew 22, 44. Now I'll read it to you. Matthew
22, 44. And it quotes verse 1 here. The
Lord Jesus Himself is speaking, and He says here, In verse 40
of Matthew 22, or verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ, the Christ? What do you think of the Christ?
Whose son is he? And they said, The son of David.
And he said unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him
Lord, saying, And you know what Christ does? He goes back and
quotes this psalm, and applies it to himself. He said, how then
does David say, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my
right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Now that
shows me the importance, Paul, of that Psalm 110. My Lord, Jesus
Christ, speaking to his arch enemies, the Pharisees, to show
who he is and his person and work, goes back and picks up
Psalm 110. Let me show you again. In Acts
2, now here's Peter preaching in Acts chapter 2 at Pentecost. Here's Peter in his first sermon
on Pentecost after the resurrection. The first great exposure that
he had to those multitudes. And he quotes Psalm 110 in Acts
2, 34 and 35. Listen to this. David, he said, for David is
not ascending into the heavens, but he said himself, the Lord
said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thine
enemies thy footstool. That's an important psalm in
Peter on Pentecost. Declares that to the whole Jewish
world. Quote Psalm 110. And then in
Hebrews 1.13, Hebrews 1.13, if Paul is a writer of Hebrews,
whoever the writer is. But here, when he starts this
book and talks about the excellency of Christ, the excellency of
Christ above Moses, above the tabernacle, above the priesthood,
above all things, he quotes Psalm 110. He says in verse 13, But
the witch of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right
hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Alright, look back at Psalm 110,
are you still there? And in verse 4, do you know how
many times this is quoted in the New Testament, verse 4 of
Psalm 110, the Lord has sworn and will not repent, thou art
a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek? Alright, let
me just give you the scripture, Hebrews 5, 6. Hebrews 6.20, Hebrews
7.17, and two or three other places. Thou art a priest forever
after the daughter of Melchizedek. When the writer of Hebrews is
showing the excellency of the priesthood of Christ above the
Aaronic priesthood, he goes back to Psalm 1.10 and quotes it three
or four times. Thou art a priest forever after
the daughter of Melchizedek. Now, I've shown you the importance
of this psalm, and I've shown you how the Old Testament, how
even our Lord and His apostles and the writers of Scripture
go back and pick up the Old Testament as proof of Christ's person and
work. Let's look at it. Let's show
an interest. I'll tell you, if a man doesn't
know these things and hasn't laid hold of these things, hasn't
in his heart grasped and laid hold of the person and work of
Christ and the righteousness of Christ and the glory of Christ
and the redemption of Christ, it would be worth it if he quit
his job and sold his home and camp on the doorstep of somebody
that knew the answers and sat there until he found out who
God is and who Christ is. Now he'd just pay him. It would
be a good investment. Just totally commit himself,
I'm going to find God. I'm not going to flounder around
and miss Christ. Oh, Paul said, I may win Christ
and be found in Him. I just can't afford to miss Christ.
All right, let's look at Psalm 110. The Lord said. The Lord
said. Oh, that we might understand
a little of that. The power of the Word of God
said it. God said it. God said, let there be light.
And there was light. God said. The Lord said. You
know, that's enough. The Lord said it. That's enough
for the believer. And I'll tell you this, all the
great works of grace are brought about by the Word of God. God
said, God spoke. He said, I've spoken it, I'll
bring it to pass. Even Jesus Christ is called the
Word of God. And God said, what did God say? I'm so tired of tuning in to
television and seeing two ladies sitting across the table discussing
the home and the church and spiritual matters and not a Bible in sight.
And they're telling me, well, this is what I think. And this
is what I believe. And I'm tired of hearing what
people think and what they believe. I want to hear what God said.
God said. God said. And most preachers
I listen to just use the Bible as a stage. prop or something. They won't
look religious by waving the Bible or holding it here, you
know. Open it, feller, and read it. Let's see what God said. I've got to build my hope and
confidence on what God said. And God said, what God said,
God said to my Lord. Now David knew the Lord our God's
one God. Now my friends, I'm not denying
That God is one God. The Lord our God is one God.
And yet, He's revealed as Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I can't understand
that. I can't explain that. No way
in the world I can explain that. That Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, came to this earth and yet He never left the bosom of the
Father. I can't explain that. But I can't
explain how God made the world out of nothing. Can you? I can't
explain how a little microscopic seed planted in a woman's womb
becomes a full-grown baby. Can you explain that? If you
can't explain earthly things, how do you expect to understand
heavenly things? I can't explain how you can put
a grain of corn in the ground and a few weeks later you're
eating four or five roast nears off of it. I can't explain that.
The only way I can explain those things is God. God. And David here knew that God
is one God, and yet he discerns between the Father and my Lord. He said, the Father said to my
Lord, my Lord. And that's what Thomas called
him, my Lord and my God. Do you see that? I don't understand,
I just know it so. I and my Father are one. The
Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Father. I and
my Father are one. That denotes two personalities,
are one. If they're the same one, he said,
I and my Father is one. He said, I and my Father are
one. And then he said this, he said, the Father sent me into
the world. The Father sent me. So the Lord,
the Father said to my Lord, what did he say? He said, He said
to my Lord, my Lord, my surety, my redeemer, my everlasting covenant
head, my representative who came down here in the form of a servant
in the likeness of flesh, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh,
and by his obedience gave me a righteousness, and by his death
gave me perfect standing before the justice of God. God the Father
said to my Lord, you sit, bow. Sit thou at my right hand, until
I make thine enemies thy foots too. Now God said let there be
light, and there was light. And God said this, and it shall
be. Because God said it. Now this
is an often quoted passage. I read it how many times? Our
Lord referred to it, Peter referred to it, Paul referred to it. What
does it say? It declares this. That Jesus
the Christ, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the representative of His
people, He has successfully completed and finished what He undertook
to accomplish on earth. He has successfully completed
and finished what the Father designed in all eternity and
sent Him down here alone to accomplish. He by Himself purged our sins. And from the cradle, from the
manger, In every jot and tittle, every second, minute, hour, day,
week, month, and year that he walked on this earth, and died
on that cross, and went to the tomb, and arose again, and ascended
to heaven, everything that he did was perfectly performed and
finished. And the Father said, now, sit
down! Sit down. Sit down. He said, I finished
the work you gave me to do. Now, glorify thou me with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was. He sits as our
representative. He sits as our mediator. He sits as our righteousness. He sits because there's nothing
left to be done. That's why he sits. He sits because
everything's saved. There's no reason to be alarmed.
He's not up looking through the curtains. He's not walking the
floor wondering if it's going to take him. He sits. Serenely,
confidently, patiently. He sits. And he sits at the right
hand because of omnipotence waits to do his will. That's exactly right. He sits.
No Old Testament priest ever sat. There wasn't a chair on
the premises. He never sat because he never
finished what he came to do. He spent his whole existence
from the time he was a son of the high priest till the time
his son took his place and never sat down in his business. He walked and stood. But my Lord,
when he ascended to glory, the Father said, sit down at my right
hand and I'll make your enemies, every one of them, If they can't
bow to you as their head, then I'll make them your footstool. That's what I'll make them. I'll
put your feet on them. Now that's what that means. Now
I know if I'd have lived back there when David penned that,
I didn't have all that information. But I got it now because he's
come. And he's fulfilled it. I see it. Now look at verse 2. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion, rule thou in the midst of thine enemies."
Well, I know what Zion is, that's the church. Is that not the church?
Zion the church? Well, what is this rod of thy
strength then? I'll tell you what it is. He
said to them, the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand, I'll make thine enemies thy footstool, and the Lord shall
send the rod of your strength out of the church, out of Zion.
That's the gospel. That's what that is, illustrated
by the rod of Moses. God told Moses, go down to Egypt,
take that rod and go down to Egypt. And Moses with that rod,
that's the power of God in that rod. And he smote the sea and
it divided. He smote the rock and it gave
water. He smote the Egyptians. He took that rod everywhere he
went and he accomplished the will of God and did the work
of God. And even so, the church, He takes
the rod of his strength, which is his gospel, and goes forth
into all the world, and he is elect to save by hearing that
gospel. That's exactly right. I'm standing
here with the rod of his strength. See, my Lord came down here and
suffered and died, and went back to glory, and he said to his
disciples, now, all authority is given unto me in heaven and
earth. You go preach the gospel. And he that believes that gospel
will be saved. And he that doesn't believe it
will be damned. That's what he told them. He said, he that heareth
you, heareth me. 1 Corinthians 15, Paul said this. In 1 Corinthians 15, he said,
I declare unto you the gospel by which you are saved if you
believe what I preached unto you, unless you believe in vain.
That's the rod of history. The gospel, Paul said, is the
power of God. unto salvation. Moses went down
into Egypt with a rod, the rod of power, the rod of strength,
and brought a whole nation out. And God's church goes into all
the world with the rod of strength, the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and people are delivered out of Egypt by that gospel.
That's right. All right, look at verse 3. And
thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. All right,
watch it now. Whose people? Well, who's he
talking to? The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
on my right hand, for I make your enemies thy footstool. And
the Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion, and
your people, your people. Where did he get the people?
The Father gave them to him. He said, oh, let my Father give
it, and he'll come to me. I'm not preaching heresy. I'm
preaching the Word of God. Like I said on television Sunday,
somebody said, well, that's predestination elections, Presbyterian doctrine
or Primitive Baptist doctrine or something. No, it's Bible.
It's just Bible. Our Lord six times in John 17
prayed for those which thou hast given me. All that my Father
giveth me will come to me. He said, you don't believe because
you're not of my sheep. My sheep, hear my voice. My Father
gave them to me. That's where I got them. They're
my people. They're my sheep. It's my church. Christ loved
his church and gave himself for it. My people. And he said, the
Lord said to my Lord, your people will be willing. The disposition
of the people, willing, extremely willing. Willing. Willing to
do what? Willing to turn from their idols
to the living God. Willing to forsake their thoughts. I'm willing. I'm willing to forsake
my religious tradition. Aren't you? I'm willing to shuck
it. Paul was. He said, I count it but done.
I'm willing. I'm willing. I'm willing to bow
to Christ. I'm not having any struggle with
that. Are you having any struggle with bowing to Christ? Well, I'll
bow for you then. I'll bow seven times for you.
Job said, I'm going to sacrifice for my children just in case
they don't. I'm willing to bow to Christ. I'm willing to receive
Him. I'm willing! Are you willing? I can't find any help in the
law. Every time I look at it, it convicts me. I can't find
any help in my religious experiences and decisions I made. I can't
find any help in anything or anybody. I'm like that woman
with the issue of blood. We've tried everything and it
didn't work. I'm willing to go to Him, aren't you? When are
His people willing? Watch it. In the day of thy power. That's when they're willing.
When somebody operates on their heart other than themselves or
their preacher or their mama or their daddy or some soul winner
in the day of your power when you operate on them. And you know the sword he uses
to operate? God said, the Word of God. That's the sword. That pierces
the heart, between the bone and the marrow. That goes down to
the deepest place. They're willing. Oh, Paul said,
I know you're God's elect because my gospel. There's the rod of
strength out of Zion. My gospel came to you, not in
word only, but in power. You're not just a Calvinist,
you're a Christian. You're not just a doctor unless
you're a devotee. Huh? Christ. You bowed to Him. You're willing. The Gospel brought
you down and made you willing. You're willing. Your people shall
be willing. People say, you Calvinists don't
believe a man can be saved even if he wants to. He wants to. He wants to. I don't have any trouble with
the whosoever wills. I have trouble with whosoever
wants. They won't bow to Christ. They won't come to Christ. People
will come to the front. They'll come to a pool. They'll
come to a law. They'll come to a church building.
They'll come to a preacher. They'll come to a priest. They'll
come to anything. They won't come to Christ. But
His people will, and they'll come willingly, extremely willingly,
extremely willingly. They come and they follow His
feet and adore Him. They see in Him, look at this,
in the beauty of holiness. Not theirs. That poor preacher
I listened to this afternoon. Oh, I tell you, God's people
are arrayed in the beautiful garments of His holiness. That's
how we are arrayed. I don't know about you, I'm not
getting much better. I know we grow in grace, and
we grow in the knowledge of Christ, and we grow in some faith, and
a little compassion, and affection, and love, and understanding,
and all these things. But I tell you, before God, I
only have one righteousness, and that's His. One holiness,
and that's His. And I'm not setting my life up
against His or being weighed by His. I'm in His. His righteousness
is mine. His life is mine. His holiness
is mine. And I'm arrayed in the beauty
of holiness. In the beauty of holiness. I
tell you, this holiness we talk about looks good to us because
we ain't really ever seen holiness. But I tell you, it doesn't look
too good to God because He is holiness. But I tell you, when
I'm arrayed in Christ's holiness, When I'm sanctified in Him and
made righteous in Him, even God admires my beauty. Arrayed in
His holiness. That's right. Oh, I preach that
growth, spiritual growth, and a growth in grace. And I want
to grow. I want to be more like Christ. But I'll tell you, man at his
best states vanity. At his best states. And when
I've done everything I'm supposed to do, I'm just an unprofitable
servant. I know that. All right, there'll be willing
in the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning thou
hast the dew of thy youth. Yes, sir. How many of them are
there? They're Dr. Dew of the morning. That's how
many there are. A number no man can number. All
right. Look at this next verse, and I'll come to a close. The Lord has sworn and will not
repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Now then, here is the center,
heart, and soul of our faith right here. Christ Jesus is the
King-Priest of the everlasting covenant by an eternal oath of
Jehovah. Did you notice here in verse
4 it says the Lord has sworn? The Lord has sworn? You know
it must be a most solemn, sure matter which leads the eternal
God to swear. But God has sworn. He said with
an oath. He confirmed it with an oath.
And back yonder the Lord said, let there be light. The Lord
said, sit thou on my right hand. But here the Lord has sworn.
And he says, and he's not going to change. The Lord has sworn and he's not
going to change. will not repent. He has confirmed
it with an oath. Well, listen to me. Southern
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Camelites, Christians, Presbyterians,
Catholics, Church of Christ, Church of God, Mormons, whatever
you are, listen to me. Almighty God has taken an oath.
Almighty God. This is a serious matter. You
know, I never, I never, I try not I'm not going to say I never
swear. I try not to swear, and I know you don't either. But
if something was serious enough, if it was a life or death situation,
I was in a courtroom, I would. I'd swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth, nothing but the truth. It had to be pretty
serious though. And I'm telling you, this is pretty serious.
We got sworn, and he said, it's not going to change. That this
woman, my Lord, who sat on his right hand, is a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. Now then, Aaron, there was a
priesthood in the Old Testament. You read about it. Aaron was
the priest. His sons, the sons of Levi. But
they are very limited types of Christ. They're pictures of Christ,
but very limited. I'll tell you why. Number one,
they were just men. And he's the God man. Number
two, they lived and they died. And he was never born and he'll
never die. And then there were many of them,
but just one, he's just one. And then they offered many sacrifices
and he only won. And they offered animal blood
and he gave his own blood. And they served on earth and
he serves in heaven. And their sacrifice won't put
away sin. He puts away all sin. And they
were never finished with their work, and he's sitting down.
So where are we going to find a high priest to really picture
our Lord? Well, you write down this scripture
and study it later. Genesis 14. But Abraham, he's
the father of the faithful. He was coming back from the slaughter
of the kings. And the scripture says there met him From where
I don't know, and after he met him, where he went, I don't know.
But a man named Melchizedek, and he's called the King of Salem,
Hebrews 7, 1-4, he's called the Priest of the Most High God. He says he's without father or
mother, he's without pedigree, he's without beginning or end,
and that's just Melchizedek. And he blessed Abraham. And he
gave him bread and wine, and he disappeared. And he never
was heard from again. His was an exceptional priesthood
because no one preceded him and no one succeeded him. He came
and he went away. He was seen once, but that was
enough. He blessed Abraham and went his way. My high priest,
without beginning or end, having neither mother or father, or
beginning or end of days, king of peace, king of Salem, the
priest of the most high God, from all eternity, with an eternal
priesthood, came to this earth. And by his life and by his death,
he blessed me. He gave me bread and wine, bred
his body. and whined his blood, and he
went away. But that was enough. That was
enough. What was it? Esau said, I have
enough. I have enough. And that's what
he's saying here. You're not a priest like Avon.
Too many limitations. You're a priest forever, forever
and forever, after all the Melchizedek. Now then, have you got a priest? You got a priest? You better
have. Now, Tom came out of a religion
that's got a lot of priests, and none of them can do you any
good. But having a high priest over the house of God, let us
come boldly before the throne of grace, that we may find grace
and mercy to help in time of need. God has sworn, and I won't
change. All right, verse 5 through 7
quickly talks about The Lord at thy right hand will strike
through the kings in the day of his wrath. As there is a day
of grace and patience, there's going to be a day of wrath. I
tell you, this makes me tremble even to think about, to look
at, but kings. He said in the day of his wrath,
he'll strike through kings. What's kings of the earth who
oppose the king of kings? They're nothing. And even the
heathen, he'll judge among the heathen. He'll fill the places
with dead bodies. He's going to wound the heads.
Thou shalt bruise his heel, and he shall bruise thy head. Of
many countries, all who will not have Christ to be their head
will be destroyed.

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