Perfect King and Eternal Priest
John 5:39 (ESV) You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.
The perfect king Our eternal priest The Messiah is...
Psalm 110 (ESV) A Psalm of David. 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!
Psalm 110 (ESV) 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. 4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalm 110 (ESV) 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. 7 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
1. Christ is the Perfect King Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
1. Christ is the Perfect King Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. LORD (Yahweh) = God s name (verses 1, 2, 4)
1. Christ is the Perfect King Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. LORD (Yahweh) = God s name (verses 1, 2, 4) Lord (Adonai) = master (verses 1, 5)
1. Christ is the Perfect King Luke 20:41-43: How can they say that the Christ is David s son? 42 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 43 until I make your enemies your footstool. 44 David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?
1. Christ is the Perfect King Acts 2:33-36: This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
1. Christ is the Perfect King 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 35 until I make your enemies your footstool. 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.
Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
Satan Christ defeated... Matt. 12:28: If it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Sin Christ defeated... Matt. 1:21: he will save his people from their sins.
Death Christ defeated... 1 Cor. 15:25-26: For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1 Cor. 15:52: the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1. Christ is the Perfect King Psalm 110:6: he will execute judgment among the nations Psalm 110:5: He will shatter kings on the day of his wrath
Jesus is Lord! Cosmic Lordship: The King is Adonai the Lord God. Personal Lordship: We should obey him as our king.
2. Christ is our Eternal Priest Psalm 110:4: The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Genesis 14:18: Melchizedek was a priest of the most high God and king of Salem
2. Christ is our Eternal Priest Jesus death on the cross paid for our sins. Hebrews 9:26: He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
2. Christ is our Eternal Priest He intercedes for every believer before God the Father. Hebrews 7:25: he always lives to make intercession for us.
2. Christ is our Eternal Priest Hebrews 10:10-14: We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
2. Christ is our Eternal Priest 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Philippians 2:10-11 (ESV) at the name of Jesus every knee will bow,... 11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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