June 29, 2020
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Reading along with us in Psalm? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalm 110 (ESV)
Sit at My Right Hand
A Psalm of David.
1 The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”.......Continue Reading
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Prophetic
The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.”
6 As He also says in another place:
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”;
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
This Psalm is well-known because Jesus references this Psalm when answering the religious leaders in Matthew 22:41-45 (c.f., Mark 12:35-37, Luke 20:41-44). It is this teaching that is foundational to Paul’s teaching in Romans 1:3-4.
Jesus, when references this makes two major assertions. First, the author of the Psalm is King David and not someone else speaking about David. Secondly, he says that he was speaking by the Spirit. This speaks to the divine origination of the scriptures.
We read this together as a family several evenings ago and had a long conversation about this chapter and the reference to Melchizedek.
For me, when I think of verse 6, it reminds me that even when the world seems chaotic and that wickedness reigns that it is God who will execute judgment among the nations.
This is the Psalm that Jesus references to defend HIs deity and address the Jewish mindset that railed against the thought that He was the Son of God. If David is not talking about himself here, He must be referring to someone other than God the Father, the Lord, who also is God, my Lord. It is important to recognize the places in Scripture, especially in the Old Testament, that speaks of a distinction in the Godhead because Jesus’ claim to be Savior is based in His claim to be God. And the rest of the Psalm is therefore about Him and not David. And He will bring justice on the earth and make war against those who are wicked. But He is not only God and King, but He is a priest but not in the line of Aaron or Levi, but in the order of Melchizedek. He too was a king and priest who ministered in the days of Abraham. His origins were unknown in the same way that Jesus’ origins were not of this world. But it is as priest that Jesus can mediate our relationship with God and represent us before God as an atoning sacrifice.
1 The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”