I want to preach tonight briefly to really to prepare us for the prayer meeting. I want to preach on the messianic psalm about Jesus, for he is our king priest. Psalm 110, follow with me. Let me just read it. It's short, it's brief. I'm going to lay it before you and then I'll preach through it briefly to prepare us for prayer. Psalm 110, a psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. The Lord will stretch forth your strong scepter from Zion, saying, rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people will volunteer freely in the day of your power. In holy array from the womb of the dawn, your youth are to you. like the dew. The Lord has sworn and he will not change his mind. You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The Lord is at your right hand. He will shatter kings in the day of his wrath. He will judge among the nations. He will fill them with corpses. He will shatter the chief man over a broad country. He will drink from the brook by the wayside. Therefore, he will lift up his head. Lord Jesus, we come to you tonight. We ask that you would help me to preach you in your glory rightly and faithfully. Help all of us to behold the king and his beauty, the priest and all of his glory, that we would trust in him and love him and obey. and worship you, Lord Jesus, with the highest honors that you deserve. In Jesus' name, amen. If you were given the task to share the gospel only from one scripture from the Old Testament about Jesus, and the fullness of who he is and his person and work and glory and whole redemptive plan, where would you go? Hint, hint, a good one would be Psalm 110. I think, I don't know for sure, I'll ask him in glory, but I think this may have been our Lord's most favorite Psalm. It is the most quoted Old Testament text in all the New Testament. It is quoted all over the New Testament, not only directly, but even in direct allusions or even faint echoes as well. The language permeates the New Testament from the lips of our Savior, to Paul, to Peter, to John in the book of Revelation. There was an account, an occasion in the Passion Week, when Jesus took the initiative to prove his deity that he deserved worship with the Jewish leaders on Tuesday of the Passion Week. And out of all the scriptures that our Lord could have gone to, to prove that he is God, and to prove that he is Savior, and to prove that he alone is the one who can redeem sinners, He said in Matthew chapter 22, it's a wonderful account. Jesus said this, what do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he? And all the Jewish leaders said, well, he's the son of David. We all know that. And Jesus said to them, then how does David in the spirit call him Lord? Saying, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies A footstool for your feet. If David calls him Lord, how is he his son? And they're trapped. They're trapped because this one who is the son of David is actually the Lord over David, which means he's God. He's king. He is the one who deserves worship. That is where our Lord went. undoubtedly a favorite psalm, undoubtedly memorized by our Lord Jesus. I believe in Psalm 110 we have the entire redemptive career of the Messiah outlined right here in these seven verses. We have the redemptive career of our Lord. He is man because he's a priest. but he is also God because he is the one who will rule and reign from Zion and he will dash all of his enemies to pieces. He is man, he is God, he is savior, he is priest, he is deliverer, he is king, he is warrior, he is conqueror, and those are just a few themes that come out in the psalm tonight. I almost feel like we ought to take off our shoes for the place in which we are in the word is holy ground. It is cited in the New Testament more than any other Old Testament text. Matthew Henry, the very top quote in your outline, Matthew Henry said, Psalm 110 is pure gospel. And I think he is absolutely right. It is written by David, Acts chapter two on the day of Pentecost, Peter is preaching and Peter is going to quote Psalm 110 and not only apply it to Jesus, but Peter said, David wrote it. And not only does he say that David wrote it, he said that he wrote it by the Holy Spirit, by the, so we not only have the Davidic authorship of the Psalm, but we have the divine inspiration of the Psalm proven in the scriptures. Fascinating. I was talking to a Jewish man yesterday. He had the Hebrew kippah on in downtown Clayton. I've seen him week after week. His name is Shmoley. We've had some good conversations together. I've told him that I've prayed for him, gotten to speak of Jesus as my Jewish Messiah and Savior and Lord. And I said, Shmoley, email me. I want to treat you to a lunch and hear a little bit of your story. He emailed me yesterday. And I said, well, we're gonna go get lunch together. And I am really excited to tell him what I've learned from Psalm 110. Because all through Jewish history, all of the early rabbis, the early Jewish translations, the Aramaic translation before the time of Christ, all agreed every verse of the Psalm here is pointing to Messiah. Guess what? Jesus comes. What do you think the Christians do to their Jewish friends? Your Hebrew scriptures right here are pointing to your Messiah Jesus. They say, no, no, no, no, it doesn't refer to him anymore. Now the standard Jewish interpretation of this psalm is not Messiah. It's referring to King Hezekiah when Sennacherib came to Jerusalem. I don't think that fits, but I find it interesting that this was one of the favorite evangelistic scriptures in the early church for their Jewish friends. This psalm is foundational for many of the New Testament doctrines, like the kingdom of God. like the atonement, eschatology, end times, the role of Jesus as prophet, priest, and king. So, with all of that as introduction, I do want to preach it, but I want to give this very simple plea tonight that you'll hear this carefully. Come and kiss this Christ. Worship this warrior. Come and bow down before him, and I want to show you why as we look into the word together. In your outline, you see it there in Psalm 110, we come to the messianic psalm about Jesus, and it's going to prophesy about Jesus in three marvelous ways. David wrote it a thousand years before Jesus was born. divine inspiration. What do we learn about Jesus? Number one, he is your king. He is your king. Now, when we listen to verses one through three, let me just kind of bring you in. I feel like we're being a little bit rude because we're eavesdropping on an inter-trinitarian conversation in verse one. It's like a conversation between God the Father and the second person of the triune Godhead. And you and I are listening in. Verse 1, David the king is writing about Yahweh speaking to David's Lord. The Lord said to my Lord, what does God say to God? Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. Maybe no wonder this was one of Jesus's favorite Psalms, because it is talking about his kingly position, his authority, his regal dominion, the authority given from God the Father to the Son of God. Oh, come, come and kiss the Christ and worship this warrior. Sit at my right hand. When God says to Messiah, sit, it means rest. It means the work is done. It means that your majesty is put on display. Well, how can he sit? Hebrews. Chapter 1, verse 3 tells us, when he made purification of sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. How can he sit in his kingly glory? How can he sit down, whereby his work is finished, when he made purification for your sins? And back to Psalm 110, sit down at my right hand is God the Father saying, this is my exalted, most honored place in all of the universe. You are at the most honored, the supreme, the most exalted position, the right hand of God. And you're seated there. Your work is done. I love Hebrews 10. Verse 13, which talks about how Jesus made a singular sacrifice of redemption in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 13, waiting from that time onward until all of his enemies be made a footstool for his feet. For by one offering, he, Messiah, has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Son, sit at my right hand. Your work is done. The place of supreme honor and majesty and worth and dominion and kingship and preeminence, God the Father says to one, Jesus, sit. Sit. Until, until, the Father says to the Son, until I make all of your enemies a footstool. Now, you and I, this is not a footstool like in your living room when you get on the couch and you've got a wooden table. That's not the idea here. We have to read the Bible through the context of the ancient Near Eastern world, kind of with the ancient Near Eastern lens on. A king in the ancient world, when he was a victorious leader, He would bring his enemies, and they would kneel on a platform before the victorious king, and that king who triumphed over his enemies, he would put his foot on the neck of that king who was a defeated foe. God the Father says, son, sit at my right hand until I make all of your enemies a footstool for your feet. Your foot will be on the necks of all of your enemies. What do you mean enemies? Who are they? All unbelievers who oppose the gospel, who refuse the truth, who reject his kingdom, who ridicule his blood, who remain unforgiven. God the Father has made a promise to the Son But he goes on. Look at verse two. Often a little bit less familiar, but look at verse two. The Lord will stretch forth your strong scepter from Zion. What does that mean? Your strong scepter from Zion. And he'll say, rule in the midst of your enemies. That's the same language as we read in Isaiah chapter four. Those who are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded for life. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over all of her assemblies a cloud by day and smoke and brightness of a flaming fire, for all the glory will be a canopy. What is Isaiah chapter 4 talking about? What is Psalm 110 verse 2 talking about? It is God making a promise to the Son that you will stretch forth your strong iron scepter of kingship and you will reign over your enemies. You will reign from Zion. What does that mean? Well, David is the king. It means one thing. He is the king in the city of Zion. There is coming another messianic king, a greater king, a greater David, who will reign from Jerusalem over Israel and over the nations. What does God say in verse 2? He will say, rule in the midst of your enemies. This is a strong word for rule. This is not merely just sit as a king. It's the same language as Revelation 17, verse 14. All of the enemies will wage war against the lamb and the lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and king of kings. And those who are with him are the called and the chosen. and the faithful. Son, son, sit at my right hand. All of your enemies will one day be a footstool under your feet, and you will have a strong scepter that God will give you, and you will be the king ruling from Mount Zion on this earth over all of the nations. What does that kingdom look like? Verse three, your people, Messiah, your people will volunteer freely in the day of your power and holy array from the womb of the dawn, your youth are to you like the dew. And depending on what English translation you have, you might think that sounds a little different than what Jeff you're reading. The Hebrew is very difficult and the English translations are all a little bit different in verse three. I think the big picture of verse three is this. In the kingdom, when Jesus is the reigning king from Mount Zion over the whole world for that thousand year kingdom, there is a host of volunteers who will rally to their leader. They will follow their leader. And the end of verse three says, they will be in holy array from the womb of the dawn. Your youth are like the dew. It's a picture of Messiah going to war. He's going forth in vigor and holiness and glory. And there's a bunch of people following him with energy, youthful, youthful energy. Verses one to three teach that our Savior is the King. You say, Jeff, I know Jesus is in heaven right now. You're right. And he's at the right hand of God. You're right. But he has not yet returned to earth, Revelation 19. And he has not yet taken the throne to reign from Jerusalem over the nations, Revelation 20. That hasn't happened yet, but it will. You and I are living right now in verse one. He is sitting at the right hand until. God makes all the enemies a footstool for his feet. What a glorious king! What a mighty king! The question for me and you tonight is, are you a citizen of this kingdom? Have you responded to this king? Have you bowed before him? Have you come to worship him? It does no good to acknowledge he is a son of David. You must acknowledge he is Lord over David. And therefore he is divine. And therefore he is the son of God. And therefore he is the only king who deserves all of my worship. Christian, you've come to Christ. You've come to him by faith. A very practical application for you as you leave this place tonight and go home is Colossians 3. Set your mind on things above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God the Father. Colossians 3 verse 1. Oh, come and kiss the Christ. Worship this warrior. Jesus is your king. But in the psalm, verse 4, I think the whole book of Hebrews is a sermon on Psalm 110, and in particular, verse 4. And this is your outline. Number 2, Jesus is your priest. Verse 4, back to the psalm, the Lord has sworn he will not change his mind. You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The language is very, very similar to the Davidic Covenant Psalm, Psalm 89, verse 35. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will never lie to David. His descendants will endure forever. And the throne of David will endure like the sun before me. The throne of David? The covenant that God made with David? Oh, he is a king. But God has also made a promise that you're a priest. You're a priest. Not according to the Levitical order of the tribe of Levi and Aaron, the high priest, not of that order. It's of a whole different order altogether, a whole different priesthood. That's the whole argument, by the way, of Hebrews 5 to 7. God has a wise and a perfect and a glorious plan that what you and I need is not only a perfect king to rule over us, but we need a priest who can make atonement for our sin. Melchizedek, was a real man. You can read about him in Genesis 14. But he was a priest in the city of Jerusalem called Salem in that day. He was like a foreshadow. He was like a faint picture, an image of another priest of his kind that would come in the future. And that would be Jesus. You're a priest forever. If you and I We're living in the biblical times, perhaps, and we attended our Hebrew synagogue, and we had our Hebrew Bibles, and we would know all about the priests. We would know that very, very well. And we would know that the priesthood, well, the priests are not eternal because they are prevented from continuing by death. They die. And the priesthood runs in the family. but not with this priest. This is a greater priesthood. Jesus is not from the lineage of Levi. He is from the line of Judah. But a greater priestly line, that is the line of Melchizedek. The book of Hebrews teaches that you have a perfect priest. You have a living priest. You have an eternal priest. You even have an interceding priest. You have a saving priest. This is amazing. Hebrews chapter seven, verse 16. says that Jesus and his priesthood is better because his is built on an indestructible life. Isn't it great to know that your Savior is a priest who gives you a salvation that is built on his indestructible life? He's qualified to be your Savior. Have you been washed by this priest? I love this little phrase in Hebrews chapter 7. He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through him. Is he your priest? Have you come to this one who not only makes a sacrifice, but who is himself the sacrifice? Who does not just redeem you with the blood of an animal. He redeems you with the blood of God. Our priest brings you a better hope. a better hope through which you can draw near to God. And you know that right here today, I have a savior, a king priest in heaven, praying for me, pleading the merits of his blood. When Satan brings accusations against you and me, he is praying, he is pleading, he is carrying on His perfect, finished, once-for-all work of redemption as He pleads the merit of His blood before the Father. Come. Come and kiss the Christ. Come and worship this Savior. Where else would you go? Where else would you go? Where else would you be forgiven? Where else would you go to have a perfect, divine priest who can wash all of your sins away? If it's not Jesus, where else are you gonna go? He is king. He is priest. In your outline, very quickly, third, he is warrior. He is warrior. And I think, sadly, the commentaries spend so much time on verses one to four, verses five to seven get really scrunched and kind of summarized and left out. But there's so much truth here. Because the scene here, let me put it in New Testament language. We leave Hebrews, if you know what I mean, we leave Hebrews and the priesthood, and now we go to Revelation. We are going to see here the scene of Armageddon. Verses 5 to 7 in the psalm teach Revelation 19, when Jesus returns and he will destroy all the kings and all the enemies who go on in their rebellion. He will even destroy the Antichrist himself. The work of the priest is done. He sits at the Father's right hand. The Father has guaranteed that you will put your foot upon all of your enemies as your footstool. Verse 5. Don't—this is a little bit gory, but listen. Verse 5. The Lord is at your right hand, Messiah. The Lord is at your right hand. And what will Messiah do, verse 5? He will shatter the kings in the day of his wrath. What's that? That's, that's the fulfillment of Psalm 2. Why are the nations in an uproar? Why are the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers against the Lord, and they want to get rid of his authority. The Lord will terrify them in his fury. The divine counsel in Psalm 2, O kings, show discernment. Take warning, O judges of the earth. Worship the Lord with reverence. Why? Because there's a day coming when the day of grace will be over, and he will come to shatter all of his enemies. Shatter. I mean, don't miss that verb in verse 5. The Lord will shatter. I think there's a lot of prophetic language in that little phrase, in the day, in the day of his wrath. Much more on that in Zephaniah, Joel, Zechariah, so on. Well, what does that mean, Jeff? What do you mean Messiah's gonna shatter kings? That hasn't happened yet. We long for that day. We know he will make all wrongs right. We know that he will avenge the innocent. We know he will. What does that look like? Look at our psalm, verse 5. No, no, no, verse 6. He will judge among the nations. Joel 3 talks about that. Matthew 25. says when the glorious son of man comes, he will sit on his glorious throne and he will judge the nations. He will judge all the nations. And what does he do? Verse 6, he will fill them with corpses. I mean, he's going to destroy all of his enemies. I mean, not one will escape. He will fill The nations with corpses he will shatter. End of verse 6. Look at your Bible carefully. I've not found any English translation that has a singular. I think they're all plural. We all have, he will shatter the chief men or the rulers or something. The Hebrew doesn't say that. The Spirit of God led the hand of David to put a singular there. The Messiah is going to shatter the chief one who is ruling over the nations in rebellion. You know the book of Revelation. Who is the leader over the world and over the nations. He's the Antichrist. He's the man of sin. Even a thousand years BC, we learned that Messiah will return and he will shatter the Antichrist, the man of sin, over a broad country. Harmageddon. It could, let me be fair, it could refer to shattering Satan, the chief one. It could. But I think in the context, it's probably more the man of sin, the Antichrist. And then, when he returns, verse 7, he will drink from the brook by the wayside, and he will lift up his head. That means the work is done. He's refreshed, like Gideon when the war was complete, and he drank water of refreshment. This is a picture of Messiah saying all of his work It's done. It's done. What a gospel. What a king, what a priest, what a warrior and the choice for every boy and every girl, every child, every man, every woman. You either believe in Jesus and you're saved by him or you ignore him. reject him and you're crushed under his feet when he returns. How could you return? How could you refuse such a glorious God? How could you refuse such a powerful deliverer, such a conquering warrior? How could you escape? I mean, we have every persuasive reason to hurry to Calvary, to run to the Savior, to make sure that you are reconciled to this God. There is no escape apart from Him. But there is all loving forgiveness and salvation in Him. Oh, what a King. He comforts all of his citizens. And as a king, he must be Lord over your life. May it be that you and I would put all of our trust in him, even tonight as we go from here, affirming and worshiping the Messiah, the king, the priest, the warrior, the one that we are called to come and to kiss the sun lest he be angry and you perish in the way. On the back of your outline, or maybe the next page, it may be, I want to close with this. You and I know that hymn. We sing it here. All hail the power of Jesus' name. Let angels prostrate fall. Written in 1779 by Edward Peronet, two stanzas that are often not sung I think they're a fitting way to conclude. Hail him, ye heirs of David's line, whom David, Lord, did call, the God incarnate, man divine, and crown him Lord of all. The God incarnate, man divine, and crown him Lord of all. Let every tribe and every tongue before him prostrate fall, and shout in universal song the crowned Lord of all, and shout in universal song, the crowned Lord of all. What a psalm, but what a savior. What a savior. Let's pray. Let's worship him together tonight.