Jesus Revealed in the Psalms
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Review and Introduction
Review and Introduction
So far this month we have looked closely at the pre-incarnate (or before he was on earth as a baby) Jesus.
We are building a Foundation, a Foundation built in the Old Testament and confirmed in the New Testament.
As we have learned that Paul stated very clearly that Jesus was present at creation.
from the letter to the Colossians
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
He “Jesus” is that image. As creation was being put together, Jesus just wasn’t standing by watching God the Father put all of the universe together.
Vs. 16
Col1.16
16 For through the Son everything was created, both in the heavenly realm and on the earth, all that is seen and all that is unseen. Every seat of power, realm of government, principality, and authority—it was all created through him and for his purpose!
Jesus created everything… both in the heavenly realm and on earth.
“Every seat of power” — The Lord sees our country. Now that’s unfortunate. That Jesus sees the US… in all of its current mess!
With all of our fighting with all of our division, with all of our hate.
Our focus is ALL wrong. We have wandered away from our calling. Instead of winning others to Christ we are driving them away with our attitudes, with our lack of love for our fellow image bear-ers of God.
We are way out of bounds...
And you, who once...
Col 1.21-23
21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
There are some conditions to this reward...
Continue in the faith
Be stable and steadfast in dealings with Jesus and with others
Not leaving, always proclaiming, always being ready with an answer because of the Fatih that lies within you.
Understanding that this Gospel, this Good News has been established… as the the only way past our sins, as the only way to be reconciled from our past sins to God.
Understand that Paul became a minister of the Gospel by the hand of Christ himself.
We are ministers of that same Gospel. WE are responsible for the contents of that Gospel.
We are responsible and accountable to God for our missionary work.
There is no skirting our responsibilities!
Wow… I’m not sure how that I dumped all of that on you.
This being our last week in this series , somethings just had to be said. So there you go.
I did want to spend some time in the Book of Psalms.
I’m specifically looking for Psalms about Jesus.
Big Question: How does Jesus appear to us in the Psalms? And… What do you think of the Christ?
Let’s look at the last question first...
Jesus was very strategic in using the Psalm’s. He stated and used them to establish who he was...
Ps 110.1-3
1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.
I want to un pack this for a minute or 4...
Ps 110.1
1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
He is bowing to Jesus… King Jesus!!
So… What do you think? Who is this Jesus? I hope that you can without a doubt say.
He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
He was present and active in Creation
He was the object of the Law
He was an integral part of plan of the Prophets and Patriarchs.
And Christ used the Psalms extensively to establish Himself in the Old Testament.
In fact… The Psalms as a group summarize the Old Testament.
The New Testament accepts that Jesus Christ is the expected one… He is the anointed one!
36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Peter has declared in verse 36 that God has made him both Lord and Christ .
Paul made it clear in Acts 17.3
3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
Some of them got it and many of them didn’t...
5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
POINT #1 [APPLICATION] Sometimes our decisions are met with disagreement. In spite of that Jesus is still Lord.
The next place I want to look at is the Book of Hebrews.
This is a very misunderstood book, with unknown authorship that combines the psalmist thoughts with those of the writer of Hebrews… probably Paul.
First the the Psalm...
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
This psalm theme is the greatness of Christ and the place of man within our universe.
This Psalm exclaims that Jesus is the “son of man” who was made “for a little while lower than the angels.”
Through the incarnation but now has been crowned “with glory and honor” through his resurrection and ascension.
6 It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?
7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
8 putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
The author of Hebrews carefully weaved to his message.
7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
Heb 2.9
9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Jesus chose to become, for a little while lower than the angels… He poured himself out and left behind some of the His “God-ness” and took on His “Human-ess.”
But He was crowned with Glory and Honor because of His suffering and death he tasted death for all of us.
I do want to get to the first part of the BIG QUESTION?
BIG QUESTION: How does Jesus appear to us in the Psalms?
The Psalms help us shape our response to God in the trials and joys of life?
They also reveal to us something of the inner life of Christ.
Here are a couple of examples...
In the upper room, when he declared his betrayer was the “one who is dipping bread into the dish with me,”
Ps 41.9
9 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
The words of the Psalmist sometimes foreshadow the events that would happen in the future… sometimes hundreds of years in the future.
Psalm 109 is a Psalm of David… It is a lament. It is a crying out of David’s soul.
But listen for the similarities that it has with the death of Jesus.
Ps 109
2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
3 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
8 May his days be few; may another take his office!
Explain…
Jesus likely had Psalm 41 in mind, verse 9 of which paints more fully the pangs of his soul: “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.”
We actually could go along here for a long time… The Psalms, with all of their poetic flowery words in full of guidance and truth.
POINT #2 - Jesus lays the ground work in the Psalm’s for his death, resurrection.
POINT #2 - [APPLICATION] -Past history and performance goes along way in predicting the future.
In a prophetic psalm, David foreshadows or sees ahead to the death of The Christ.
the act of the soldiers casting lots for Christ’s tunic to Psalm 22:18
Ps 22.18
18 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
Is later fulfilled in John 19.24
John 19:24 (ESV)
24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be...”
Finally Christ gives up… He completely is at His physical, emotional, spiritual end...
From Ps 22.1
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
From Christ’s human-ness he repeats the psalmist. In a gut wrenching way.
He is saying… Father not me, can’t you provide like you did Abraham and Isaac a ram in thicket. Why have you turned your back on me completely?
This of course comes to pass at Jesus cruxifixction.
John 19.18
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
With more time there are about 70 more passages that directly foreshadow the coming Christ.
For now let’s return to the BIG QUESTION:
Big Question: How does Jesus appear to us in the Psalms? And… What do you think of the Christ?
I hope that we have answered our questions about the Psalms and Jesus more completely… There is lots more to do here.
Let’s pray