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The Seated Savior
The Seated Savior
Text: Hebrews 10.10-18
What we read in Hebrews 10 is the fulfillment of prophecy.
In one sentence he is working and performing the task of the priest. In the next he is seated at the right hand of God.
Seated because his work is accomplished.
Seated because he is honored.
Seated because he is waiting.
Seated because he is heir to another Throne.
Obviously the Crucifixion was something that we could see with Human eyes. The prophet was letting us in on what we cannot see with our eyes. Except through the eyes of faith.
That is that Jesus was seated at the Father’s Right hand.
Consider the prophecy...
The Lord said unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
David here is writing this Psalm declaring that God will bring all the healing that Israel will need. That though all creation were against them The Father has planned their salvation.
What modern Jews don’t consider is that this text is a Messianic Prophecy fulfilled in Christ.
We know this because of Apostles...
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
There were some that must have stubbornly thought that his was fulfilled in David. Problem is that David isn’t seated at God’s right hand. Christ is...
To point out that Jesus was greater than Moses or his angels the writer of Hebrews declares.
But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Jesus declares this in his own words.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Jesus was seated because His work is accomplished.
Jesus was seated because His work is accomplished.
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
When hanging on the cross one of the last words our Savior spoke before his death were.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
John 5. Jesus’ Great Proclamation and Death (28–30)
b. It is finished! Jesus’ final word (tetelestai in the ancient Greek) is the cry of a winner. Jesus had finished the eternal purpose of the cross. It stands today as a finished work, the foundation of all Christian peace and faith, paying in full the debt we righteously owe to God.
i. At some point before He died, before the veil was torn in two, before He cried out it is finished, an awesome spiritual transaction took place. God the Father laid upon God the Son all the guilt and wrath our sin deserved, and He bore it in Himself perfectly, totally satisfying the wrath of God for us.
He is despised and rejected of men;
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
And we hid as it were our faces from him;
He was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs,
And carried our sorrows:
Yet we did esteem him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities:
The chastisement of our peace was upon him;
And with his stripes we are healed.
Jesus was seated because he is honored.
Jesus was seated because he is honored.
RIGHT HAND References to the right hand in Scripture refer either literally to most people’s dominant hand or metaphorically to prominence and strength.
In patriarchal blessings, the preferred blessing was given with the right hand (Gen 48:17–20).
To speak of someone’s right hand is to speak of their power (Exod 15:6, 12; Pss 18:35; 20:6; 63:8; 98:1).
Oaths are also accompanied by a raised right hand (Isa 62:8; Rev 10:5–6).
To sit at someone’s right hand is to sit in the place of honor (Psa 45:9; 80:16; 110:1; Acts 2:33; Heb 1:3).
When Jesus returns, believers will be placed at His right side (Matt 25:31–33).
In contrast, sitting at someone’s left side sometimes metaphorically indicates the place of disfavor (Matt 25:41).
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Jesus was seated because he is waiting.
Jesus was seated because he is waiting.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
We are looking forward to a day that we do not know but we look with the same anticipation as our Savior.
Jesus was seated because he is heir to another Throne.
Jesus was seated because he is heir to another Throne.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
And the government shall be upon his shoulder:
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
To order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
From henceforth even for ever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Paul describes it...
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Jesus brings us in on the situation of David’s Throne when in Rev 22.16
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Jesus made no bones about it...
He will be coorinated one day
Application:
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Today we do not need to hurry and perform to make our Father happy for he is pleased in Christ.
We do not serve with the same hurry and scurry. We are called to sit with him.
IN PRAYER
IN THE WORD
IN MINISTRY
Illustration: Mary and Martha...
I am seated at Jesus feet...
Seated because his work is accomplished.
Seated because he is honored.
Seated because he is waiting.
Seated because he is heir to another Throne.
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