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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
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
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
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
I want to un pack this for a minute or 4...
Ps 110.1
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!
Peter has declared in verse 36 that God has made him both Lord and Christ .
Paul made it clear in Acts 17.3
Some of them got it and many of them didn’t...
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...
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.
The author of Hebrews carefully weaved to his message.
Heb 2.9
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
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
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
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
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
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