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Psalm 110 - Jesus Our Messiah and King and Priest · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. Today we are in Psalm 110, Psalm
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  110, and this is a Psalm of David.
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  It is an incredible portion of Scripture that from the Old
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  Testament is one of the clearest indications of the coming
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  Messiah. So when you think about the Old
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  Testament and you think about what is said, especially in the
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  Gospels, in the New Testament about Jesus, there seems to be a
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  little bit of a disconnect between what the children of
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  Israel thought would happen and what actually did happen.
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  And so the question has been all right, Is it because they just
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  didn't understand the word of God?
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  Is it because the path that Jesus was going to walk, who he
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  was, everything in relation to him like that was hidden from
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  them all? All of that, all of those
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  questions come into play. And So what we're going to look
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  at today is a really, really clear indication from Psalm 110
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  that Jesus was always intended to be both man and God, that
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  this was known by David, this was preached by the disciples.
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  And we'll look at three different portions of scripture
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  in the New Testament that talk about this particular passage,
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  actually ones that we have already gone through in our time
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  on Tabernacle Talk. And so I'll connect those
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  episodes there as well. But this is just an amazing
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  Psalm. So I'll read it.
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  I'll look at maybe what David would have been looking at
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  within his own life and how that would have appeared to him.
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  And then the Messianic or the the Jesus applications of this
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  passage, Psalm 110 and verse one.
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  This is the declaration of Yahweh to my Lord.
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  Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your
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  footstool. Yahweh will extend your mighty
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  scepter from Zion. Rule over your surrounding
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  enemies. Your people will volunteer on
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  your day of battle in holy splendor.
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  From the womb of the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to
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  you. Yahweh has sworn an oath and
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  will not take it back. You are a priest forever.
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  According to the pattern of Melchizedek.
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  The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings on the day
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  of his anger. He will judge the nation's
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  keeping up courses. He will crush leaders over the
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  entire world. He will drink from the brook by
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  the road. Therefore, he will lift up his
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  head. All right, You hear that?
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  You're like, man, that was all over the place.
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  What is happening? Well, let's look first at what
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  David here would have been talking about here.
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  There is really from the first an understanding that David is
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  talking about a future ruler that the Kingdom that God has
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  promised to David. David knows I'm not going to be
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  here forever. God has promised that one from
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  my household will reign on this throne forever.
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  You can read about that in Second Samuel Chapter 7.
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  And so he says, because God has promised that I am making, I am
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  talking about the declaration of God to this person.
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  And here David calls this person from his lineage that God is
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  making this declaration to. He calls this person my Lord, my
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  Adonai, my Master, the one in charge of my life.
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  And so he says, this is what Yahweh says to the one who is
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  the Master, the Lord. And David says, this is my my
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  Lord. This is the declaration of the
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  Lord Yahweh to my Lord. So here there's a difference
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  between these individuals, but there's something really,
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  really, really special about this.
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  Who later Jewish individuals would call this individual the
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  Messiah. It comes from the Hebrew word
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  mashiac. It's the anointed 1.
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  And so this is what God is saying to the Messiah.
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  And he starts off in verse #1 sit at my right hand until I
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  make your enemies your footstool.
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  That is, God is going to give the Kingdom to this individual,
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  and He will give this individual the Kingdom when God has subdued
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  all of his enemies. And what a joy that Jesus, He is
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  one that He didn't come to this earth to fight us, to destroy
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  us, to come and conquer us by force.
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  Instead, he laid down his life. And in his death for our sin,
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  and in his burial and in his resurrection, he has shown
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  himself to be worthy of all of our praise.
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  He has shown himself to be God. And so as a result, he's worthy
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  of our adoration and our worship.
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  But the Lord has said that right now he is working to subdue all
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  the enemies of Christ, that all of them would be his footstool.
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  It's something that you rest your feet on.
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  I don't know if you guys have siblings.
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  I have three younger siblings. And so certainly there would be
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  times, you know, you you'd sit in a chair and you'd, you know,
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  rest your feet on someone. I'm sure there's a Disney movie
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  or something where some tyrant king has someone else that's
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  sitting under and it just makes it so your feet don't have to go
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  all the way to the floor. You can kind of recline a little
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  bit. And God says, I'm making you a
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  recliner, Jesus. And the, the footstool, the foot
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  portion, the thing that's lifting you up is even your
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  enemies. And I think about what we
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  learned a couple months ago in Ephesians, that we were the
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  enemies of God. I was an enemy of God.
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  And now I, who was the enemy of Christ, of the Messiah, Now I
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  have been made his footstool, that I am there to serve King
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  Jesus. And I think man, I don't know
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  that David knew this. He might have given what we read
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  in Psalm 22, but Jesus's feet are nail scarred and for all of
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  eternity, he, he bears these wounds for us that we see him
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  who we have pierced, but he was pierced for us.
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  And the fact that we as humanity inflicted those wounds on him,
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  it didn't make him run away, but instead it made him like love us
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  and forgive us. And he said Father forgive them
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  because they don't know what they're doing and owed to be a
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  footstool for nail scarred feet that were pierced for me.
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  I I love that thought. So God is is the one that he is
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  exercising dominion over the enemies of Jesus so that the
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  Kingdom is delivered to him. And certainly Jesus himself will
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  land that final blow at the Battle of Armageddon.
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  But you can read in First Corinthians 15 when Paul talks
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  about this portion at length and he says that the last enemy that
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  will be defeated is death, and that as all of creation is
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  subjected to Jesus, then Jesus delivers it to the Father.
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  And he says, look, what if you will, look what we have done and
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  what, what a joy that the unity of our God, our triune God makes
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  it so that they are loving and, and generous and giving to one
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  another and exalting of each other.
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  And that's how we're called to interact with one another, that
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  we're called to encourage each other and lift each other up and
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  do things for each other and give gifts to one another
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  because that's even what our Triune God does.
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  All right, that's verse #1 I promise not all of these verses
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  have as much packed into them as as that first verse does.
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  Verse #2 Yahweh will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, rule
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  over your surrounding enemies, that the Messiah would reign not
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  just over Israel, but over all of here, the surrounding
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  enemies. And then we'll read at the end,
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  over all of the world, Jesus will reign.
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  There's a great old hymn, I can't remember offhand who wrote
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  it. Seems like something Isaac Watts
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  would have likely written. Jesus will reign.
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  Where are the sun does its successive journeys run?
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  His Kingdom spread from shore to shore, till wound, till moons
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  shall wax and wane no more. That's got a little bit older
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  language, so I got tongue tied a little bit.
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  I will throw Jesus shall reign in the in the show notes.
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  There's a great version done by the music group Enfield that
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  they wrote a little chorus. He shall reign with glory,
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  crowned with grace and love. Bless his name and praise the
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  sovereign King. He shall reign forever with his
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  chosen bride, and all the earth shall sing that Jesus is the
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  King. Love, love that song verse #3 I
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  love this verse. He says your people will
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  volunteer on your day of battle and holy splendor from the womb
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  of the dawn. That's the very beginning of the
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  morning at earliest light. The dew of your youth belongs to
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  you. What's being said here is that
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  Jesus's people, the Messiah's people, they will be eager to
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  fight for him. They will be happy to join in
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  what He is doing now. The Jewish people certainly
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  thought about what we would think of as the day of
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  Armageddon, what's often called the day of the Lord in the
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  prophets. But here I I think of what Jesus
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  has actually done for us and what he has called for us to do.
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  And it is you are called to fight a battle today, but it's
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  not a battle of swords or guns or political domination over
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  someone else. No, you have been called to
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  fight the holy fight, putting on the spiritual armor of God, that
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  as you have the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of
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  salvation, the belt of truth, the sword of the spirit, the
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  shield of faith, your feet shod with the preparation of the
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  gospel of peace, as you have that Holy Spirit armor on.
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  And you fight against Satan and you fight for the souls of
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  mankind and you fight against what Satan is trying to do in,
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  in discouraging and disarming and disheartening God's people
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  that you venture into battle against the spiritual forces of
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  wickedness. And we are to be the volunteers
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  in that battle. May God not have to like drag us
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  into conscription to say, listen, you're a Christian.
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  I saved you. I saved you from hell.
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  I put you into my Kingdom. I gave you, I give you the
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  church, I give you your brothers and sisters and the Lord.
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  Will you please do something? Will you please engage in this
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  battle? May we volunteer from here, the
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  womb of the dawn, from from the break of dawn, may we say, God,
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  I want to do what you have called me to do today.
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  Verse #4 Yahweh has sworn an oath and will not take it back.
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  You are a priest forever, according to the pattern of
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  Melchizedek. This is something that would
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  have struck Israel as really, really weird.
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  Kings were not priests. No one from Davidde lineage
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  could ever be a priest. Not in the Aaronic priesthood.
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  Well we went through at the end of last year the book of Hebrews
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  where over and over and over again the writer of Hebrews
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  references this verse to say Jesus was a priest and he wasn't
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  like the fallen sinful evil priest like Israel had.
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  Instead Jesus was a perfect priest.
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  He was the priest that did not have father or mother, like
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  Melchizedek did not have father and mother, and like Melchizedek
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  endured forever. So Jesus endured forever.
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  If you have questions about that, you can go look over at
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  especially any of the Tabernacle talk episodes on Hebrews 7 and
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  8. It might be Hebrews 6 through 8
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  deal with that at length and so you can look over at that.
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  So here Yahweh says to the Messiah that you are a priest
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  forever. I actually read a a great little
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  book called Prophet, Priest and King by Doctor Al Mohler from
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  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary last week.
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  At the time of my recording and that book in particular, the
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  best section of it was the section on the priesthood and
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  who Jesus is. For us, a priest is one that
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  goes between the people and God. He's the one that makes
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  sacrifice so that the God does not destroy the people for their
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  wickedness. And he's the person that takes
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  gifts from the people to God to thank him and to glorify him.
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  And yes, Jesus is all of those things.
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  Jesus is the one that prays for us, that intercedes for us as a
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  perfect priest does, and He is the one that is our model in
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  his, in his prayer life and in his worship for how we are
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  priests. We are a Kingdom of priests, as
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  Peter tells us in First Peter Two.
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  We are mirroring what the children of Israel were supposed
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  to be, which was a Kingdom of holy priests and you can read
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  about that in the book of Exodus.
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  So here Yahweh says to the Messiah, you are a priest
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  forever according to the pattern of Melchizedek.
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  And can I tell you, your high priest will never fail you.
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  His sacrifice will always be acceptable.
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  There will never be a day when God's like that sacrifice wasn't
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  very good today or it didn't get put in on time, or that was the
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  wrong sacrifice and so you are going to be condemned.
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  No, Jesus, our perfect high priest, makes it so that always
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  and forever we are justified before our God and he prays for
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  us before the Father, and he denounces Satan's accusations
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  against us. We have a great high priest.
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  Then verse 5 through 7 says the Lord is at your right hand.
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  He will crush kings on the day of his anger.
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  He'll judge the nation's heaping up courses corpses.
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  He will crush leaders over the entire world.
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  You might, as I might. When we read these verses, we're
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  thinking of evil doers, like a Hitler or Stalin or Mao Zedong,
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  and we go, oh, well, I don't really like the way that those
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  words make me feel. No, no, no.
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  Think about the And again, this is imperfect because humans are
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  imperfect. But think about the Allies
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  coming and destroying the evil Axis powers.
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  Think about those that have liberated and freed people from
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  oppressive rulers. And here that is what is being
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  said, that Jesus, he conquers evil, sinful, oppressive, wicked
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  rulers and instead God's good reign and rule.
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  They they cover the entire Earth now the Anniverse 6th.
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  There he will crush leaders over the entire world.
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  This will of course ultimately take place at Armageddon.
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  But I think over the course of human history you can even think
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  back to the barbaric actions that used to just be normal and
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  commonplace in the world. But as even Christianity itself
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  has shaped the global mindset of what is right and wrong and how
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  lives are to be valued and to be cared for, Christians were ones
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  that helped make many of the hospitals in the Roman Empire in
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  the first couple centuries after Christ.
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  You can think about the effect that Christianity had even on
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  sexual ethics of care and love and consent and appreciation.
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  All of that came out of the Christian mindset that the
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  marriage relationship is to be a picture of the love of Christ
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  and His church. And so Jesus, even to this
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  point, has crushed leaders over and over and over again.
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  And though this world is still very imperfect, very sin flawed,
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  there will come a day when Jesus makes all things right.
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  Then verse #7 He will drink from the brook by the road.
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  Therefore, he will lift up his head.
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  When you think about that portion, it's talking about the
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  drinking from the brook by the road.
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  Solomon, as he is going to his coronation, he drinks from the
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  brook Gehan. So you would drink from the
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  Gehan Spring as part of an enthronement ceremony.
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  So that is in his coronation, He is recognized by that.
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  And also you only drink when your enemies are defeated, when
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  you have time and space and safety to be able to do that.
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  And so that is what Jesus does in his victory.
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  He is able to have simple refreshing.
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  So with all of that being said, what a amazing Psalm.
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  And I hope that some of these thoughts would be an
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  encouragement to you today. That it would come for your
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  heart. Knowing you have a great high
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  priest. Knowing that you have the king
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  that will crush all evil. That you are to be a person that
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  volunteers for the work that he does.
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  That you would want to be the footstool of the pierced feet
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  that were pierced for you and knowing that your God is just
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  and that there is a judgment day coming.
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  Turn to Jesus, worship him, serve him, follow him, tell
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  other people about Him because the day is coming when there
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  will be no more opportunity to turn to Him.
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  So turn to Him now while there is still time.
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  Thanks for tuning in. Looking forward to next week and
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  Psalm 111.