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 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 Jew 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 the head. Amen. Amen. And let's just look to the Lord, please, in a word of prayer. And we'll pray that the Lord will come and that He'll bless this wonderful psalm to all of our hearts. Let's pray. O God, our Heavenly Father, we cry to Thee for heaven's help. Lord, we pray that Thou wilt give us help from the sanctuary of heaven. O Lord, we just ask that Thou wilt draw graciously near and bless us as we gather around Your Word. And we just ask, O Lord, that Thou wilt help the preacher in all his weakness and all his feebleness, and that Thou wilt also help the congregation. Lord, that Thou wilt bless us and do us good and, as we often say, Lord, feed us on the finest of the wheat. Father in heaven, we just ask that not only will, Lord, we be able to understand the Word of God, but, O Lord, we pray that we might be enabled to respond to it. Ah, Lord, that's the key to it all. Lord, that's what really matters, our response to the Word of God. So, Lord, in whatever way we need to respond tonight, Lord, will thou help us to do that. We commit ourselves to thee, Lord, remembering this mission that we have mentioned, Lord, that will soon begin. We thank thee, Lord, for the privilege and the opportunity to be able to help with this mission. And, Lord, we would just ask that thou wilt remember this mission We pray, Lord, that it might be a time when souls will be saved. Oh, God, we pray that it'll be time whenever new names will be written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. Bless the mission, we ask of Thee, dear Lord. We just ask that Thou will bless Thy two servants and help them as they preach the everlasting gospel. Lord, even help us tomorrow, we pray, as we would seek to transport the hall and the chairs to the site of the mission. We just pray you'll undertake. And Lord, we just pray that you'll, Lord, give strength to each one involved and that each one might work together, Lord, for the glory of God and the furtherance of the gospel. For it's in Christ's name we ask it. Amen. Amen. Today is Yom HaShoah. Yom HaShoah. You're wondering what on earth Yom HaShoah is. Well, Yom HaShoah literally means Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day. And if you were in Israel right now, you would know all about Yom HaShoah, you would have realized that it has begun. Because at sunset today in Israel, this great day of remembrance has started. It will go through until tomorrow night at sunset. There will be Quite a few different elements to this day of memorial, different aspects to the day. One of the most interesting is that tomorrow morning at ten o'clock in Israel, there will be sirens that will go off for two minutes. Sirens. And whenever those sirens go off, the nation of Israel comes to a standstill. And you will find that even the public highways will become still. And people driving their cars will stop their cars at ten o'clock as the sirens go off. And they'll pull their cars in and they will get out of the cars. They'll stand with their heads bowed for the duration of those two minutes. People walking on the pavements will stop. They also will bow their heads in respect to the victims of The Holocaust. Now, you're perhaps wondering, well, how come there is two Holocaust memorial days? Because at the end of January, didn't we have a Holocaust memorial service one Sunday morning? Well, that memorial day in January is more of a global commemoration. This particular memorial day, which has begun tonight, this evening, is a memorial, a commemoration day that is more of a national commemoration for the nation of Israel. And Israel remembers all that her ancestors, her forefathers came through during Hitler's terror and murderous regime. Now, the Holocaust took place from 1939 until 1945, through the years of the Second World War. But amazingly, in the year 1948, Israel became a nation again. Three years after the end of the brutal Holocaust, when six million of her people had been murdered, Israel was back on her feet again. What a change! What a turnaround! Who would have thought it? And today, You consider Israel today? Israel's at the forefront of everything positive that happens. Many scientists today, many of the leading world scientists today are Israelis. Many of the cutting-edge technological developments that are introduced into hospitals today were first thought of in Israel and invented in Israel. And we haven't even touched on the fruit-producing capabilities of the nation of Israel. Isn't Israel known as the fruit bowl of the world today? This is one of the main areas where Israel exports goods to the world. This is one of the main areas of employment for the nation of Israel. What a turnaround! What a change back! In the years of the Second World War, Israel was on its knees, as it were, right down in the valley, right down in the gutter, we could say, almost extinguished, almost exterminated by Hitler. And like a phoenix from the ashes, Israel has risen again. But tonight in Psalm 110, we see someone else who has experienced a great turnaround. This great change has taken place in Psalm 110, because in this psalm we have the Lord Jesus Christ And He is exalted. He is seated at the Father's right hand. His sufferings and His agonies are over. Here is Christ, the One who is resurrected, the One who has ascended, the One who is now glorified. And what a change has taken place here. Oh yes, He did experience the ridicule and the mockery of the masses as he stood to be judged by Pilate. And the cry of the people was, away with him, away with him. Still the same today, by the way. A lot of people still say that. Away with him. Away with him. No time for him. But that was the cry, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Crucify him! We will not have this man to reign over us. Oh, he experienced all that ridicule and humiliation. And then he went to the darkness of Calvary and to all that was involved in drinking the bitter cup of our filthiness and our wickedness and our perversion. And He paid the debt in full at the cross. Oh, that was the negative in the sense. That was the downside. But the flip side of the coin is that tonight He occupies heaven's highest position. And as we worship here tonight, and as Israel commemorates her dead, we look to the One who is risen. We look to the One who is adored by the hosts and the multitudes of heaven. Oh, by many in this world He is despised and rejected. His name is a swear word to most people. But I tell you, in heaven His name is revered and it is worshipped and it is exalted. And in Psalm 110 we have a lovely picture of the exalted Savior. One of the reasons why I felt it would be good for us tonight to consider Psalm 110 was that this is the most frequently quoted Old Testament passage found in the New Testament, quoted throughout the New Testament, Psalm 110. There is no other Psalm, indeed, there is no other Old Testament passage that is so frequently quoted in the New Testament as Psalm 110. Surely that should cause us to turn aside, as it were, You remember Moses at the burning bush? I will now turn aside and see this great sight. And tonight, as it were, we're turning aside and seeing this great sight. We're looking at Psalm 100. And I want us particularly tonight to focus on the very first verse. Verse 1, I want you to notice that there's a lovely conversation here. Here's a beautiful, divine conversation. It's a conversation between The Lord and my Lord. Can you work it out? You look at verse 1 again. The Lord said unto my Lord. So here's a conversation. Well, who is the Lord? That's God the Father. God the Father. Or Jehovah, we could say. The Lord. So, God the Father said unto my Lord, Who is my Lord? Who's that? That's God the Son. The Lord Jesus Christ. So, here we have God the Father speaking to God the Son. Now, let's try to put it into context. When does this conversation take place? It takes place the moment that Christ returns to heaven after His passion and His resurrection. This is speaking about His ascension. The Lord Jesus has ascended into the heights of heaven into the third heaven, God's dwelling place. He has left His disciples behind at the Mount of Olives, and He has ascended back to heaven. And when He comes into the throne room of heaven, this is the conversation that begins. This is the message from God the Father. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool." What a beautiful conversation. You know, God the Father and God the Son, on a number of occasions in Scripture, had conversations. And I want you to turn with me to a couple of those instances If you'll turn to John 11, and we'll read from verse 41. John 11 and the 41st verse. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was led. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always, but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." Here we have this sacred conversation. John 12. If you go over to John 12, to the very next chapter, again there's another conversation between the father and the son. Verse 27, Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this cause gave my aunt of this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The people, therefore, that stood by and heard it said that it thundered, others said, and the angels spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. What a wonderful conversation. John 11 and John 12, but also Psalm 110. I wonder, dear friend, have you ever had a conversation with Jesus Christ? Have you ever spoken to Christ? You see, here we have God the Father speaking to God the Son. The Lord said unto my Lord. Have you ever spoken to the Lord Jesus Christ? Have you ever experienced the privilege and the joy and the comfort of speaking one-to-one, personally, with the Son of God? Do you know what it is to have that intimacy with Christ? If you don't, if you have never had a conversation with the Lord Jesus Christ, if you have never spoken to Him personally, my, you are missing out. You're missing out. There's a whole lot of talking goes on in our world, you know. Far too much of it. So much hot air. And the tragedy is that so little of the talking that goes on in our world is talking to the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, those of us who are saved tonight by the grace of God, those of us who are redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, this is our privilege. We can have this conversation with Him. We can commune with our Savior. We can talk with Him night and day. He's always there, always listening to us in the home, at the workplace, as we're out and about in the car, wherever we are. We can speak with our Savior. But what a tragedy not to be able to do that. If you're not in that position tonight, if you've never experienced what it is to converse with Christ, just as God the Father conversed with Him in Psalm 110 and in John's Gospel, well, tonight can be the night of your salvation. And then you'll be able to Have a conversation with him, with Christ, as often as you desire. What a comfort it is. You see, this world is a veil of tears, isn't it? There are many difficulties, many hardships, many afflictions. Maybe there's a child of God in the meeting tonight and you're in the furnace of affliction, as the people of God often are. I don't know what your affliction is tonight, but I know one thing. You can tell the Lord about it. Maybe you can't talk to anyone in the church even about it. Maybe it's something that you feel that can't be shared with any other person. But you can share it with the Savior tonight. And you can bring your frustrations and your discouragements to him. So here we have this conversation. But there's completion as well, not only conversation here, but completion. You see, if we go back to Psalm 110, There's completion here. You'll forgive me for not being able to turn the pages as quickly as I would like to get back to Psalm 110, but we've got there eventually. Psalm 110. And you notice the second phrase. Sit thou at my right hand. Sit thou at my right hand. You see, this is what God the Father says to God the Son when he returns from finishing redemption's work on earth, sit thou at my right hand." Sit. You see, that word sit tells us that the Saviour's redemptive work is complete. That it's finished. We all enjoy sitting down. I'm actually jealous of you tonight because you're sitting down there and I hope you're comfortable. But you're sitting down there and poor me has to stand up here. But don't worry, I'll survive. I'll be all right. But I'll tell you one thing. I'm looking forward to sitting down later on when the work's finished for the day. And every one of us, whatever work we're involved in, When it comes to the end of the day, there's nothing we enjoy more than sitting down. That's why we have sofas in our homes and chairs in our homes, recliners, whatever way you like to relax. Would you like to sit down when your work's finished? Well, here we have the Lord Jesus Christ being told to sit down, as it were, because His work is finished. And here we have a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ seated at the Father's right hand, His work completed. And the work is completed. The work is finished. Was that not what Brother Kenny Johnston from Coleraine preached to us during that week of meetings, it is finished. Tetelestai in the Greek. It's actually just one word. It's all one word in the Greek. And it simply means finished with an exclamation mark at the end. Finished. Christ began the work. Christ Continue the work and Christ finish the work. The work is all his. And it's now completed because he is sipping. He is seated at the father's right hand. Completed. The work is complete. And if you're saved in the meeting tonight, let me say this. You are complete. You are complete. Did you know tonight, Christian, that you're the finished article? How do I know that? Because of Ephesians chapter 2. Sorry, Colossians chapter 2. Ye are complete in him. Ye are complete in him. My, that's comforting, isn't it? Isn't that comforting to those of us who can so readily see our shortcomings and our failures? What a comfort it is to know that at God's right hand, seated at his right hand tonight, there is one who has made us complete. In him we are complete. There's completion here. Christ is told to sit. Sit thou at my right hand. But there's consummation here as well. The consummation. Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Here we have God the Father. And he speaks to his son, and he not only tells him to sit, but he tells him to sit until he makes the enemies of Jesus, the enemies of the cross, as Paul the Apostle put it, until he makes those enemies the footstool of Christ. I don't know whether you have a footstool in your house or not, but it's very comfortable, isn't it? To be able to not only sit down and rest, but to be able to rest your feet, to be able, as we say, put your feet up, put your feet up. Praise God that there's coming a day whenever Christ will put his feet up. Whenever the enemies of the cross will be destroyed. The enemies of the cross from outside the church, who have sought to destroy the church. But the enemies of the cross inside the church as well, who have sought to destroy the church. The enemies on the outside, the enemies on the inside. All the enemies will be wiped out. And God the Father says to His beloved Son, There's coming a day whenever all your enemies will be defeated. It's coming. It's certain. Not all the forces of hell can hold it back. It's inevitable. It's unstoppable. Oh, what a comfort that is. To think that there's coming a day whenever the Lord Jesus Christ will be able to put all his enemies under his feet. You see, down here in this world, the enemies of Christ trample upon him. But you know, there's coming a day in heaven whenever Christ will trample upon His enemies. Oh, what a day that will be. What a blessed day that will be. I wonder in that day, will you be His enemy? I wonder on that great day, whenever those of us who are saved will rejoice with our Savior and we will fall at His feet and cast our crowns before Him. I wonder on that day, will there be someone from New Buildings Independent Methodist Church who has sat on to the sound of the gospel? But sitting on to the sound of the gospel isn't enough. And on that day, you'll be treated as one of His enemies. You'll be treated like one of his enemies. Yes, you have sat under the gospel. You have heard the gospel, whether this is for the first time tonight or for one of many times. Perhaps you have heard the gospel endless times, countless times. And you might count yourself to be respectable. But on that day, whenever Christ is crowned, on that day, whenever his enemies become his footstool, you'll be like the murderers. You'll be treated the same. You'll be like the pedophiles on that day. You'll be like the drunkards, the homosexuals, the atheists, the blasphemers, the liars, You'll be in the same group because you're the enemy of Christ. You see, everyone who is unconverted is the enemy of Christ. But my prayer at the close of tonight's meeting is that if there's anyone in the meeting tonight who is unconverted and lost and perishing and you're the enemy of Christ, my prayer is that you'll become his friend. even tonight. I don't know whether you followed the election campaign over the past week but I was just noticing the conservative slogan. I wonder did you see it? What does it say? Time for change. Time for change. Do you not think, dear friend, that it's time that you changed? Do you not think that it's time tonight that you changed from being the enemy of Christ to the friend of Christ? Oh, may the Lord give you the grace to do that this evening.