King Jesus

Psalm 110 is the most quoted Psalms in the NT and it is totally about Jesus. Some of the Psalms we have studied point us to Jesus while also referencing the king of that particular time, but this Psalm is written by David and it is about Jesus and no one else. In fact, Jesus refers to it in Matthew 22:41-46.

In those verses Jesus asked the Pharisees a question, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” The Pharisees answered, “The son of David.” Jesus said, “How then is it that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, ‘The LORD said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet?’ If David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” The religious leaders couldn’t answer him.

Now, let’s point out a couple of things. First, Jesus acknowledged the source of this Psalm as being David, but He said he wrote it ‘in the Spirit.’ In other words, Jesus believed in the Spirit’s inspiration of the Scripture! So, should we!! But Jesus also asked a question we must wrestle with…who is the Christ? Who is the Messiah? Who is Jesus? Our eternity is settled by how we answer these questions! I want to share three things from this Psalm regarding Jesus…worship must be based on God’s revelation…we must see Him as He is revealed in the Word so that we can worship Him as we are called to worship.

Let’s dig into the first stanza tomorrow!