Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - An Eternal Session
We've all heard the expression, 'Court is now in session' and have some idea of what it means to be in session; but how does this relate to Jesus now, in His Kingdom, and in eternity? Is he holding court to judge the validity of your faith ? If He is in court, what is He doing? If it's not court, what type of session is He holding?
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today, the full lesson from Jeremy Thomas. Here's a hint of what's to come.
SPEAKER_00:But if you ever get frustrated, you know why. It's because behind the political powers that be are demonic forces that are stirring up the political powers of our world to cause chaos and bring confusion and oppression into our lives.
SPEAKER_01:Things go wrong. Every day, every hour, sometimes end upon end, time upon time, it just doesn't seem like we can catch a break. Things go wrong. Sometimes it happens to us in circumstances beyond our control. Other times it's because of us. And in these times that things go wrong because of our own poor decisions, our mistakes or errors. What do we do? How do we get right? How do we forgive ourselves and seek right relationship with our God? Well, for the Christian, it's very easy. Maybe you bow your head, maybe you close your eyes, maybe you don't, but in a moment of time, you can say, Father God, and you can start talking to him. But you know, it wasn't always this way. In times past, especially for the Jews in the Old Testament, you would have to go to the priest at the temple in Jerusalem. That was a chore. That was a hardship in many ways. And so we are spoiled. And all of our good fortune in this respect, of being able to call upon the Father God, our Creator, at any moment of time is a result of our high priest, the God man Jesus Christ, being in session, being able to hear us, understand us, sympathize with us, and then respond.
SPEAKER_00:So we want to basically go into the Old Testament and explain the imagery of what's called the session, which is what I mean by that is he's sitting at the right hand of the Father. I mean in his hypostatic union, the resurrected humanity connected with his undiminished deity in one person, sitting at the right hand of the Father currently. And we viewed this from the standpoint last week of a tactical military maneuver that he carried out at the ascension. We read it very quickly, right? Oh, we read through the ascension in Acts 1, 9 through 11, but also in Luke and also in Mark. As they watched him, go up and then disappear into a cloud. Right? And the two angels who said, Why do you stare? You know, this one who has departed from you will return in exactly the same manner, right? Speaking of the second coming, and he will descend out of a cloud and come to earth. So we know the nature of the second coming based on the nature of the ascension. But at the point that he disappeared into a cloud, no one ever has seen him on earth in his resurrection body. People saw him in vision, like Stephen when he died, or Paul on the Damascus Road. But we mean in the types of appearances that he made to Mary Magdalene in the garden or to the twelve in the room that was closed, those types of appearances. Nobody's ever seen the Lord Jesus Christ and his resurrected humanity on earth since the ascension. And so if we are to know anything about where he is now and what it is like there and what he is doing there, we have to go based on scriptural passages. So that's what we want to do, and we want to mainly focus on three passages, all from the Old Testament and all picked up by New Testament authors and used. These passages are Daniel 7, Psalm 2, and Psalm 110, the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament. So the session is uh tremendously important, even though it's not tremendously emphasized or discussed in Christian circles anymore, uh, for whatever reason. So let's talk about the session. The first uh, oh, let's start this. Let's talk, I'll only put down four points because I didn't know how to put all this on PowerPoint. So I just put the four main points. The first two points mainly focus on his kingship, the last two focus on his priesthood. Jesus is a king priest. Now everybody should know this on in a basic way, just from the book of Hebrews, right? But uh, this is a unique type of individual that was foreshadowed by a man in the Old Testament known as Melchizedek. Remember that guy? Melchizedek, Genesis 14. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, and Melchizedek blessed Abraham. So there was a, and Melchizedek was a king priest. Now you know in Israel they didn't have king priests, they had priests that were separate from kings. You had a priestly line, that's the the Levites, right? Even today, if you see a Jew with the name Levi or Kohen, which is from Kohan, you know you're talking about the priestly tribe. But um that was in Israel, and they separately they had a kingly line. That's the line of David, right? David was not a Levite, he's from the house of Judah. So in Israel, these two offices of priest and king were kept separate. But when Jesus comes, something transpires in which he takes up the role of one who is both king and priests, which follows not the Levitical pattern, but it follows the Melchizedekian pattern. And so this is significant for the whole world because Melchizedek preceded the Jewish race, and therefore it looks at God dealing with all people. So to bring these two together in one person requires us to look at the session and understand a bit more about this king priest. Just so we don't get lost in the details. One more comment, and then we'll look at the first point, and that's that he is currently the rightful king, what I call the king de jure. De jure is Latin for legal. Okay, he is legally the king, but he's not the king de facto. In other words, he is not now the king in fact, he is not now ruling in his kingdom. Okay, so that's important to understand that he is currently in the place seated at the right hand of the father as the rightful king, the legal king, but he's not now currently exercising that that kingship. He will return to do that on earth, right? But he is, okay, he is acting as high priest right now. So with those things said, let's look at the first point. Let's turn to Daniel chapter seven. Just before Hosea, and I think after Ezekiel. Daniel chapter seven. Daniel was taken captivity to the Babylonians, right? And he was a young boy, probably no more than fifteen or sixteen, seventeen years old. When he was taken, and he had enough Bible doctrine in his soul to stand up to the pressures to become a Babylonian. And uh he stood in the face of that, and he rose to be the number two man in all of Babylon because he was able to continue to trust the Lord through the difficulties of living in a pagan empire. And he received lots of visions. Two of these visions are corollary or parallel, and that's chapters two and seven. Chapter two is that great dream that Nebuchadnezzar had repeatedly that he that bothered him, right? It was a metal statue with a golden head, silver chest and arms, bronze waist and thighs, and legs made of iron, with feet of iron mixed with clay, right? That great image, and then a stone would come and strike the statue at the base, and it would obliterate the whole stone, and that stone would then grow to fill the whole earth. And what it's picturing is the five kingdoms. The five kingdoms. Four Gentile kingdoms, the head of gold. Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold, right? He signified the Babylonian Empire. Medo-Persia was the silver, Greece was the waste of bronze, and then Rome is the legs of iron and iron, feet, you know, that are iron mixed of clay. That's Rome. So there's your four great Gentile kingdoms, what Jesus called the times of the Gentiles in Luke 21, 24. This is a time in history from the days of Daniel, continuing to our own day, when Gentile imperialism is the rule of the day. Okay? So Gentiles have been given the right to rule, but following that will be a fifth kingdom, and that's the kingdom, the stone kingdom, pictured in Daniel 2, which shatters all the Gentile kingdoms, and it fills the whole earth. So it replaces those same kingdoms, it's in the same sphere, and we're still awaiting that, and of course, Christ in his session relates to this. That's Daniel 2. Now, Daniel 7 is parallel, right? Again, we're going to see four beasts, and then we're going to see the Son of Man. So these two, Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are parallel stories. And yet Daniel 7 does not talk about a metal statue and depict them that way, but by four animals, followed by a son of man who comes to rule. So let's look at it. Daniel chapter 7, verse 2. Daniel said, I was looking in my vision by night. Behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. Now, this is part of the vision that he's seeing, right? So it's imagery and it's significant. We often just pass by that portion, but but it's significant because what does the great sea represent in Scripture? First of all, the Jews were afraid of the sea. They were not sailors. In the ancient world, the Phoenicians were the sailors, which is the background for why Jonah setting sail to run away from the Lord and not go to Nineveh is so significant. Jews didn't like to get on boats. But he would rather get on a boat than he would go to Nineveh. But that story for the Jews is that they always viewed the seas as something that was easily stirred up and chaotic, as very dangerous. Of course, the great sea monsters and beasts and things in the sea that could kill too. So they were fearful of the sea. And the great sea represented in the Bible, it came to represent metaphorically, Gentile nations. Because the Gentile nations are just like that. They're chaotic. They're confusing places to live. They're difficult places to live. They're dangerous places to live. So the Great Sea represents Gentile nations, but what is stirring up the Great Sea? The four winds of heaven. Now, the four winds, it's not by doubt that, you know, just by circumstance, let's say, that spirit beings are referred to as spirits, which is connected to the wind, right? Our wind, our breath. And these spirit beings, these in this case, demons, demonic beings are the four winds that are stirring up Gentile nations. And this shouldn't be a surprise. Daniel chapter 10 talks about angelic warfare between Michael and a demon over the airspace of Persia, modern-day Iran, and that there's these conflicts, these great angelic conflicts that are taking place, but definitely there are demonic beings that are behind the political forces, the political powers that be in Gentile nations. And that's what's being described here in verse 2. The chaos of the Gentile nations is being stirred up by demonic beings that are behind the scene. Now we couldn't know this except for the Bible, right? We're grateful to know this. It's not just people doing things. Behind these political powers in our world, behind the cultures of nations, are demonic forces stirring things up. Now, out of that great sea, verse 3, you have four great beasts coming up, different from one another, and they're all pictured as animals. So we'll just briefly go through in verse 4. The first was like a lion, had wings like an eagle. Not a lion, but like a lion, okay? And wings of an eagle. Now this signifies again Babylon, just like the head of gold. Verse 5, you see the second beast resembling a bear. It was raised up on one side, had three ribs in its mouth. So not a bear, but resembling a bear, like a bear. And this signified Medo Persia. Verse 6, third, right? The third one, as he keeps looking, looks like a leopard. It has on its back four wings of a bird. This is Alexander the Great and his four generals, right? And his rapid conquest. And then, of course, verse 7, he keeps looking and he sees a fourth beast. Now, this one's not like anything that we have in our world, like a lion or a leopard or something like that. This one is just a dreadful and terrifying, extremely strong, large iron teeth. It's not likened to any exact animal that we know of in our world. He says different from all the beasts that were before it had ten horns. These are ultimately ten contemporary kings that will rule the whole world. So we're moving toward globalism at this stage, and this will eventually be the condition, ten spheres of rule in our world. And he's contemplating those horns in verse 8, and it says, Another horn, a little one, came up. This is going to be the Antichrist, right? And three of the first horns are pulled out, so he's going to defeat three of these kings. And he utters great boasts and so forth. He's talked about elsewhere. This is the individual known as the Antichrist. Then we have this setup in verses 9 and 10 in the throne room of God, the God the Father taking his seat. And you read a bunch of descriptions of his judgment base. His throne is ablaze with flames, wheels burning with fire, river of fire flowing out from before him, thousands and on thousands attending him, the court sat, books were opened. So obviously, legal uh judgment is about to ensue, particularly on that eleventh horn, as described in verses 11 and 12. But let's so let's come now to verse 13 to see how it transpires and relates to the session of Christ, which he is now currently seated at the right hand of the Father. Daniel says, I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man was coming. Now, this is the origin of the term son of man, and we know this is the Messiah. This, in fact, is the term that Jesus used to refer to himself over 150 times. It's the most common title he used to refer to himself. What does this title mean? It's rooted here in Daniel 7, and it means the son related to mankind. The son related to mankind. In other words, if we trace his genealogy as Luke did, Luke chapter 3, verse 23 through 38, we find that his genealogy is traced all the way back to Adam. Adam is the very last person named in Luke chapter 3. And it's the genealogy of a Messiah through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David, all the way back. He takes us all the way to Adam there. So this is the origin of that term, the Son of Man. And you see him in verse 13, he comes up to the ancient of days, he's presented before him, so he's presented before the Father, and to him that is to the Son of Man, the Son related to mankind, was given dominion, glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and men of every language might serve him. That's global, right? That's every person on earth, or people from every people group on earth. His dominion is an everlasting dominion. His dominion is one which will not pass away, and his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. So again, we have the five kingdoms, right? You have four animal kingdoms, and then you have a fifth kingdom. Is it an animal kingdom? No, it's a son of man kingdom. In the Bible, in Genesis, God creates on the sixth day animals to inhabit the land, and he makes man. And he makes man in his own what? Image and likeness. See, man is the only thing that's made in God's image and likeness. What is the significance that the four Gentile kingdoms, Babylon, Medo, Persia, Greece, and Rome, which are we still live under these regimes today, why is it that they are picked as pictured as animals? What's the significance of that versus the significance of the fifth kingdom pictured as being the kingdom of a son of man, a human kingdom? The significance seems to be that these four kingdoms are less than the fifth kingdom, in the sense that they are oppressive, they're not fit places for humans to live, that what we basically live in now are beastly kingdoms. Kingdoms that oppress man, that attempt to dominate man, control man, suppress man, unfair, corrupt, chaotic systems. That's what you live in. So if you ever get frustrated in this world with the political powers of being, we have more freedom than any country on earth, even though we're losing it, but still we have more. But if you ever get frustrated, you know why. It's because behind the political powers that be are demonic forces that are stirring up the political powers of our world to cause chaos and bring confusion and oppression into our lives. That's why. Now, one day, what this vision is telling us is that's all going to be over. Because there's another kingdom that's going to come, and it's not signified as an animal or beast kingdom. It's a son of man kingdom, meaning it's a humane kingdom. It's a kingdom where man, designed in the image of God, is fit to live. The conditions on earth will be fit. There won't be injustices economically, there won't be suppression and oppression, there won't be human trafficking, there won't be kidnapping, there won't be murder, there won't be mayhem, there won't be all the mess that we have today, because the world will be in a condition that is fit for us to live in. And so this is really good news. And the good thing, another thing you can notice is that it says that all these are going to be destroyed at the end of verse 11. I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn, that's the Antichrist, was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain, his body was destroyed and given to the burning fire. He's the last ruler of these Gentile kingdoms, and he's given to the flames. But verse 12, as for the rest of the beasts, this is you know, the lion, the leopard, you know, and so forth. Their dominion was taken away. In other words, Babylon's over, right? Medopersia is over, right? Greece is over, right? I mean, it came and went off the scene. But it says something interesting here. It says, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time. One of the strangest sayings in all the book of Daniel is the last part of verse 12 there. What does this mean that an extension of life was given to them? I mean, Greece is over, right? In one sense, yes. But in another sense, no. In another sense, all of the kingdoms, Babylon, Medopersia, and Greece, continue. And that's because each of these four kingdoms has contributed something to human governments and rule. So let's briefly state what they are. Babylon developed a fractional reserve banking system. The fractional reserve banking system. So they were world economic players. They wanted to borrow money, or I'm sorry, receive money, okay, and lend it out at a greater percentage than what they actually had, okay, called fractional reserve banking, which is essentially a form of theft because it manipulates inflation. So that's what they contributed, the world economic system. We still function on fractional reserve banking around the world. The Babylonians invented that. Then you had the Persians, the Medes, and the Persians, the Persians of which came to dominate. What did they contribute? Globalism. I mean, they conquered everything and were of a globalist spirit. They wanted to unite all of mankind under one government. Do we still have this concept among us today? This idea that we need to move toward a one-world system. Sure. That came from the Persians. They contributed that, and see, it is extended. See, this is the extension of life. It remains with us today. How about Greece? Human rationalism and the human mind as autonomous and ultimate. Not revelation from God is ultimate, but human rationalism is ultimate. The human mind is ultimate. And if it's not just one intellect, we'll say it's corporate, the corporate intellect. The corporate world, global thinking. Which today we would just put in political terms and say this democracy. Democracy. This would be the idea that you combine the human mind with the globalist spirit to produce a global democracy because we want everybody's opinion, which is what a democracy is, right? Now America's not a democracy, right? We're a republic, which is very distinct. We're a constitutional republic. Not a democracy, but the world can the politicians ever stop talking about being we're democratic nation? It's like, hello, McFly, are you in there? We're not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Okay? But the world is seeking to put all this thing together that was contributed by the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks. And then what did Rome supply? Law. Our legal structure is based on the Roman legal structure and military, military strength and prowess. What do you need to hold it all together? You have to have military. And this is when it talks about the Antichrist and Daniel 11, it talks about him going forth to conquer and conquering and all this war. Why? Because he's trying to bring about a one-world system that incorporates all the elements of Babylon, Medo, Persia, Greece, and Rome. And but yet, as we just saw, it's going to be going to be destroyed. But will the kingdom of the Son of Man in verse 11, verse 14, will it be destroyed? No, it says his dominion is everlasting dominion, which will not pass away. His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. So he is the Messiah, the Son of Man, is sitting and waiting to receive this dominion. Verse 14. To him was given dominion. Well, he's still waiting for that. But that's one of the things he's doing at the session. He's waiting to receive dominion. And you know, you can go to Revelation 5, the throne room, you know, or for the throne room, the seals, and he begins to break the seals. You can go to Revelation 11 when he comes forward, and it's a parallel passage. It's when he's coming forward to accept the kingdom. And then, of course, you can see him in Revelation 19 coming to earth to take the world and establish his kingdom, this fifth kingdom, the Son of Man kingdom, the one fit for man to live in. So we're waiting on this. So what how then does the imagery here in Daniel 7, 9 through 14 relate to the session? Charlie Clough said, this is a quote, I forgot to put it here, but it's a quote. One way the New Testament uses this imagery is in teaching that Christ received full authority over the earth when he arrived at the Father's throne. Do you remember saying, uh, do you he, I think he said this to the high priest, do you not know that I've received full power, authority over all? What was he talking about? He was talking about he has more authority than Caesar, that he is the authority. And when he received at the Father's throne, he's sitting in a position, right, where he's just waiting to return to establish his kingdom on earth. He goes on, Clough goes on, just as the Son of Man figure in Daniel was given dominion and glory and a nation, Christ was given glory and honor at his session. He was given that glory and honor at his session. Now he's not exercising it. He hasn't returned to set up the kingdom, right? We'll look at this in Hebrews also. Hebrews chapter 2. We do not yet see all things subjected to him. But what one of the addendums, this is an important point to recognize at this point, as we go through these four kingdoms and then the fifth kingdom, is that all these kingdoms function in the same sphere. And what I mean to do is point out here the error of all millennialism. All millennialism says the kingdom is now. When they look at Daniel 7, what they're thinking is you've got these four kingdoms, right? And then Jesus came in the first century, and his kingdom they would say, well, it's not going to be here, it's in heaven, and it's right now. Like this is the kingdom. Now, this is all the kingdom there ever will be. Um that's essentially a fatal flaw, right? Exegetically, because um the reason those four kingdoms have to be destroyed is so his kingdom can come and function in the exact same sphere on earth. They say, well, it's just in heaven. Um, I mean, if this is the kingdom to you, the kingdom of God, I mean, maybe you have some mental problems. Um, because this does not seem like the descriptions of the kingdom of God that are rampant through the Old Testament, time of peace and righteousness and joy, and nobody being sick or being, you know, born with you know deformities. You know, all these things are said to be the nature of the kingdom. I don't see anything like that, do you? I see exactly the opposite. See, we still live in the times of the Gentiles, and so it's just careless exegesis to think that um this fifth kingdom is not going to also be on earth. Um, another thing is that why don't you just turn to Luke chapter 4? Luke chapter 4. It seems like uh Satan knew that Jesus was the heir of all the kingdoms of the world. He was going to come and set up his kingdom on earth because we have in the temptations he offers him the kingdoms of this world if he'll just bow down and worship him, right? So that the devil seems to be a premillennialist. Wow! Satan is a premillennialist. Where did he get that from? The Bible. Okay, some people have worse theology than the devil, and they're Christians. This is scary, folks. Uh the devil said to him in verse 6, 4-6. Well, let's go to 4-5, sorry. And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to him, I will give you all this domain and its glory, for it's been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Who did we say was behind all those nations and in Daniel 7, stirring up the nations, causing chaotic confusion? We said, Well, the devil and his minions, right? And this is what he's saying. Hey, this whole thing's been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if you worship before me, Jesus, if you will bow down to me, Satan, and you will worship me, it shall all be yours. Some people say, Well, he couldn't do that. Well, sure he could. They they they these kingdoms have been handed over to him. Who handed them over to them? Adam. Adam did that in the garden. And he is, throughout the Bible, referred to as the prince of the power of the air, the ruler of this age, the God of this world, right? All descriptions of his position of rule. But here he's offering them to Jesus. All Jesus has to do is bow down and worship Satan. Now Jesus knows that he's ultimately going to receive the kingdoms of the world and they'll become his, right? But is he going to accept it from Satan on the condition that he worships Satan? Instead, he's going to go to the cross, pay for our sin, he's going to rise again, ascend, and receive it from the Father, just like Daniel 7 said, that he would be presented before the ancient of days, and from the ancient of days he would receive the kingdom, not from Satan. So Satan seemed to think that he wanted to, you know, give Jesus the kingdoms of the world at his time, but it was not time. Jesus was patient. He waited on the promise of the Father. Let's go to Psalm chapter 2 for the second major point. The idea that the session is depicted in the royal psalm of David. Many of the Psalms, of course, speak or are David speaking, but it's speaking through David about Messiah. It's not speaking about David specifically. In other words, David was being used as a prophet, and he was a foreshadowing of the Messiah. Sometimes people try to find a significance in the life of David. In this one, you don't find one. So this is exclusively about the Messiah. It's considered a royal psalm because the Messiah would come from David. Particularly in verse, I mean, you can see everybody in an uproar. I wonder why they're in such an uproar. Is it possibly because there's demons and you know, Satan's minions behind the nations? Stirring them up to be contrary to God? Sure. Verse 2, the kings of the earth take their stand, the rulers take their counsel together against Yahweh and his anointed. That's the Messiah, the anointed. Messiah Mashiach means anointed. So against Yahweh and his Messiah, saying, Let us tear their fetters apart, cast their way their courts from us. In other words, they want the world to themselves and God to leave. He who sits in the heavens does what? He laughs. If you didn't know God laughs, God's laugh he does laugh. Says so right here. He's laughing about this silly plan. He's scoffing at them. Then he will speak to them in his anger. He will terrify them in his fury. And we come to verse 6 and 7, which relate directly to the session. But as for me, now this is Yahweh speaking, right? As for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain. And his who's his king? The Messiah, who we know we know as Jesus, right? And where is he installing his this king? Where? Upon Zion. My holy mountain. Now, this isn't in heaven. This is on earth. It's Mount Zion. You know, like it always is in the Bible. Mount Zion, you know, that place? And that's what he's talking about. He's installing his king on Mount Zion, just like Daniel 7 predicted, so it will be. Now verse 7, I will surely tell the decree of the Lord. In other words, this is something that God has decreed. It's part of the plan of God. It's an immovable peace in the plan of God. There are certain pieces that are that are immovable. Take for example something like the rapture. I mean, you can pray against it all you want to, but is it still going to happen? Sure. Why? Because it's a fixed, immovable peace in the plan of God. You can pray against his kingdom coming, but it's again a fixed immovable peace in the plan of God. So as for me, he says, I've installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain. I will surely tell the decree of the Lord. He said to me, now wait, something happened. In verse 6, who was speaking? That was Yahweh, right? Let's just say the Father. But here in verse 7, something changed in the middle of verse 7 when he says, He said to me, You are my son. So who's speaking now? Jesus, the Messiah, right? He said to me, You are my son. So we've had a shift in speaker. Today I have begotten you. Now the begottenness here does not have to do with the incarnation. A lot of people think it does initially. They think, oh, this is the birth of Jesus or something like that. No, this is the resurrection. The day that he was resurrected, that's the day he was begotten into his office as the rightful heir or king. Okay? That's when he became the rightful heir or king at his resurrection to rule the world. So on that day, that was the day that the Father said to the Son, You are my son, today I have begotten you. You are the heir of the kingdom to come. Okay. Ask of me, verse eight. Now we're back to a different speaker. It's which speaker again. So verse 6 is Yahweh, verse 7 is the Messiah, and verse 8 is back to Yahweh. And Yahweh is saying to the Son, Ask of me, and I will surely give you the nations as your inheritance, and the very ends of the what? Earth as your possession. Earth. Where is he going to set up his kingdom? On earth. I mean, otherwise, why would he need to shatter and destroy everybody like he's going to do in verse 9? On the earth. Just have your kingdom in heaven and leave them to the earth, you know. But no, he's going to set up his kingdom on the very earth. Notice one of the things that Jesus is doing in his session there in verse 8. The Father says to the Son, Ask of me. What does the word ask mean? What are we doing when we ask for things for God, from God? We're praying. Aiteo is one of the Greek words for ask or request, prosecute, proseukami, another one. There are six different Greek words for prayer, and they all have this basic idea in them, asking. And what the Son is doing in his session right now, one of the things he's doing is he's asking the Father for his inheritance. Give me the nations. Now, from the right hand of the Father. He's praying. He's asking for the Father to give him his inheritance, the nations, to give him the earth as his possession. So that's one of the things that's transpiring in the session currently. In verse 9, it speaks of when he comes to remove his enemies from earth, set up his kingdom. You shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall shatter them like earthenware. Now, um, if you like, I think hold your place here and go over to uh Revelation chapter 2. Revelation chapter 2, the seven churches, right? Seven churches of Asia that Paul, I'm sorry, P uh John. I'll get to him eventually. John wrote to the seven churches of Asia while he's on the Isle of Patmos, the last book in the New Testament canon. In chapter two, I think it's verse 26, 27. You'll notice that this Psalm that we were in, Psalm 2, verse 9, was quoted right here to this church. Verse 26, he who overcomes and he who keeps my deeds to the end, to him I will give authority over the nation. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces. See, one of the no, I believe all believers are overcomers, but what's being described is the fact that you, me, us, we're given motivation here to overcome in the Christian life, because guess what? We are going to receive authority over the nations with the Messiah. And we are going to rule them with a rod of iron alongside the Messiah. He's the king of kings, right? Which means he's the highest king. But we will also function as kings, and let's just say queens, kings and queens on the earth, with him during his messianic reign. That's not currently happening, right? But it is to happen. So that's a nice uh touch that we have brought in in Revelation 2 to describe our ultimate position and place with the Messiah as the one who will rule in the messianic kingdom with him. So that's the royal psalm of David. It tells us that in his session, he's praying for his future inheritance. It involves him taking over the earth, and we come to know in the New Testament that we too will reign with him in that kingdom. So both of those points relate to his kingship and relate to his future position as king, even though he is currently rightfully the legal king and has all authority. But let's look at the third and fourth point, also both relating to his priesthood, okay, and we'll look to Psalm 110. Psalm 110 is the most quoted psalm in the New Testament. Psalm 110 verse. Like Melchizedek was before the Jewish system got started. So it's a return to something pre-Jewish here in Jesus' uh king priesthood. Now this is a a psalm that actually the Lord Jesus Christ dealt with the Pharisees on, and they struggled with this saying. So verse 1, the Lord says to my Lord. This is a Davidic Psalm. So David is saying this, right? David is saying, the Lord says to my Lord. And one of the big questions is, well, who could be David's Lord? I mean, David was the king. Who's higher than him? Who's higher than the king? Well, evidently somebody is, right? Somebody in verse 1 is higher than him. And he refers to him as my Lord, my Adonai. Okay, that Hebrew word Adonai, this title for God. And then there's another figure in verse 1, right? And that's all capitals there. Do you have that in your Bible? Like all capitals, Lord, L-O-R-D, in all caps, which is always uh Yahweh. It's signifying to us the tetragrammaton. The four letters that signify God, God's name. Y H W H Yahweh. Okay, we add some vowels in there so we can pronounce it, but there's none in the Hebrew. It's just Y-H-W-H. Okay. So you have Yahweh, and he's saying to Adon, and this is what David is listening in on this conversation. Yahweh says to Adon, sit at my right hand. So we have two figures here that are both higher than David, and David observes the conversation. It's evidently between Yahweh the Father and Adon the Son, right? The Father than the Son. And the Father says to the Son, Sit at my right hand. Now that's the session, right? That's it. That's what happened when he went up at the ascension and he disappeared into the cloud. The next place he was was right here. And this conversation is the conversation that David heard. And that he prophetically recorded for us here. He saw the Father saying to the Son, Sit at my right hand. But notice there's a time frame until he's going to be sitting there until, there's your time word, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet, which means to totally subjugate his enemies. That subjugation, has that happened? Has the subjugation of God's enemies happened in this world? No. We're waiting for the second coming. That's when this will happen. That's when the subjugation will happen. So he's going to be sitting at the right hand of the Father until the second coming, and that's when he's going to get up and he's going to come back, right? And he's going to literally take over the earth and set establish his kingdom. So verse 2, the Lord will stretch forth your strong scepter from Zion. Here we are again in Zion, right? Called in the other passage Mount Zion. It's on the earth. It's a place that we know of today. Rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people will volunteer, and now we get into the Jewish people who are involved. Your people will volunteer freely in the day of your power. In holy ray from the womb of the dawn, your youth are to you as the dew. And then verse 4, we have it. Melchizedek. So king in verses 1 through 3, priests in verse 4, right? He is a king priest. But notice in the session there, the session in verse 1, he's going to be sitting there. As we saw in Psalm 2, he's praying that the Lord will give him the nations as his inheritance, the earth as his possession. He's praying, and he's waiting. Okay? So these are some of the things that he is doing in his current session. Now he's also, as we'll see in Hebrews, uh Psalm 110.4 says in Hebrews that he is now a priest. So we might as well look at Hebrews 7.21. Hebrews 7. In fact, if you don't, if you don't come to Sunday school, uh Ken Bryan is doing a series on Hebrews. We got through chapter 3, so you're still in time, maybe, to understand chapter 6. I'm not sure. You may have to back up and go listen to the previous lessons because I don't know if you can understand chapter 6, the really controversial section, unless you understand chapters 3, 4, and 5. Right, Ken? Yeah, we're putting a plug in for that. Okay, really important. And um, in the book of Hebrews, right, Jesus is better than everything. He's better than the angels, he's better than Moses, okay, he's better than the old priesthood, okay, the Levitical one. And that's that's what he's saying here. And there's a lot of applications to that. That's why I want you to come to the class at 9 30 next week. But notice chapter 7, verse 21. Here's where he quotes that Psalm 1104. He says, in 21, for they indeed became priests without an oath, but he with an oath, through the one who said to him, and here it is, Psalm 110, verse 4, the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, you are a priest forever, so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. See, these two things are going together. This priesthood that Jesus now operates in at the right hand of the Father in his session, he's functioning as our priest, our great high priest. How many of you go to Jerusalem and go to a Levitical priest? Nobody? Good, because that system is over. It's been replaced with another system. Look at chapter 7, verse 12, while we're here. Well, 11 and 12. If perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, as they administered the Mosaic law and the sacrificial system, right? He says, for on the basis of it the people received the law. He says, if that if that could lead to perfection, what further need was there for any other priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek? I mean, what would be the point? Okay. But then he says, verse 12, for when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. Okay, so in other words, you had a Levitical priesthood, right? It was functioning up until the cross. Okay, but that priesthood has now been changed, right? Who's the priesthood now? Jesus, it's a Melchizedekian priesthood. Now, if you change the priesthood, what does verse 12 also say you have to change? The law. Now, question, are we therefore under the Mosaic law? No, because the priesthood's been changed. The only ones who could administer the Mosaic law were the Levitical priests. So if they're not administering it today, guess what? You certainly cannot function under it because they're the ones who administer it. But if we are under a different priesthood, a Melchizedekian priesthood, then that means we're under a different law. In the New Testament, in Galatians 6.2, it's called the law of Christ. It's also called that in 1 Corinthians 9.21. James calls it in James 2.12 the law of liberty. That's definitely not the Mosaic law. It's a new law that's being administered by a new priesthood, a Melchizedekian priesthood. And of course, as we saw in verse 22, it's based on a covenant. It's based on a covenant. How many of us are under the Mosaic covenant, the one that was made at Mount Sinai? Zero. Zero of us. Is that a bad thing? No, that's a good thing. We're under a better covenant, verse 22 says. It's the new covenant, right? I'm blending with verse point four here, but take a look at chapter 8, verse 1. Chapter 8, verse 1. Now, the main point, which would be important, right? The main point in what has been said is this we have such a high priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. He sits at the helm of the universe, folks. That's why Ken was saying earlier, hey, these uh Jews who were in Rome at the time, and they were the subject of a lot of persecution because of things about Nero's fire and all that. They don't need to fear all that. The one they need to fear is the one who sits at the helm of the universe. See? That's the real issue. Okay. He's sitting there in session, a minister in the sanctuary, meaning he's carrying out his high priesthood. He's ministering in that sanctuary, the heavenly one, and in the true tabernacle, not the one on earth, see, but the one with which the Lord pitched, not man. Okay. Now, verse 6, we'll just come down. We don't have all year. He's contrasting with the Mosaic system. Verse 6, but now he has obtained, that's the Messiah, Jesus, has obtained a more excellent ministry than Moses in that priestly system. By as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, is he or is he not the mediator presently of a new and better covenant? Well, I mean it says he is. In fact, he used the perfect tense. Means he's been doing it and he is doing it. Okay? Which has been enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant, the Mosaic, had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to seek for a second, right? He says, for finding fault with them, he says, and he begins to quote Jeremiah 31, Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. And you say, Well, it's not been affected with the house of Israel and Judah, so it's not in effect. No, it's in effect. It's just not fulfilled yet. It went into effect the moment that he died on the cross, right? And that put an end to the Mosaic legal system and the Levitical priesthood that administered that Mosaic covenant. And it put into effect a new covenant based on better promises that has a new law called the law of Christ. And yet still, that doesn't mean the new covenant's fulfilled, because the new covenant can't be fulfilled until God restores Israel and Judah.
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SPEAKER_00:But it is, it is most definitely in effect. I mean, you have to go to your high priest. I hope you go to your high priest. When you confess, guess what you're doing? You're going into the very throne room of God. It's as if you're present, and I've told believers in the past, I may not have ever said it here. When you confess, it's not like you go, I'm sorry for saying. No, no, no. You're walking in the true tabernacle. You are actually going in there in a spiritual sense. How should you act in that temple? That tabernacle. Respectful? Right? You're in his house. This is no joke. And he's allowing you to come into his house and to confess nasty, horrible, terrible things that you and I have done, right? And he cleanses us from that. Amen. Right. This is a great gift that he's doing. This is the true tabernacle. This is what's going on. He's functioning in his high priesthood there. Right now. And so he is a priest in his session, okay? And uh I blended that a little bit with point four so we could get through. But I um, you know, you can see that, of course, as a high priest, he's administering a new covenant, right? Now, that doesn't mean again the new covenant is fulfilled. It can only be fulfilled to Israel and Judah. We know that. And that'll all happen at the second coming. But he is currently our high priest, and he is the king legally, but he's just not exercising that kingly rule yet. But see, he's there now, and he's praying to the Father that the father will give him his possession of the earth, Mount Zion. And he will come and he will sit on David's throne, and he will rule forevermore. Daniel 7 said it's an everlasting dominion. See, right now we live in next to the pit of hell. Literally. I mean, where are all the people going who are not believers in the Lord Jesus Christ? They're gonna go to hell. They're gonna go to the lake of fire ultimately. That's their ultimate destiny. And a lot of them rule this world, whether it's here, Iran, Russia, wherever. They're being there's a lot of upheaval in their lives because of the demonic influence around them. And that's why it's so chaotic. But you know, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father. He's taken the strategic position being far above all princes and principalities of darkness to return. What do we say about one of the main one of the main goals in military strategy is take the high ground. If you can get the high ground, you can fight your enemy downhill. It's easy. I gave the example of Gettysburg, right? The North took that hill. No matter how many soldiers Lee ran up that hill, they just shredded them to pieces. 50,000 men died in that battle, the highest casualty of any civil war that took place. And and why? Because they had more guys? Nope. Because they had the high ground. Lee had more guys, and they shredded them. It was a turning point. And what happened when Jesus took the high ground on the day of his ascension and he sat down at the right hand of the Father? He took the high ground. Now look, you have been placed in him. Ephesians 1 3 says, We are seated in the heavenlies in Christ. That's our position. We have the high ground. This is why when it comes to the armor of God and it says, get up, put all the full armor of God on, right? You know, it goes through the armor. And it only has one offensive weapon, and it's the sword, which is the word of God, right? And the rest of them are all defensive. And the thing in the battle, as you read the armor of God, isn't that we're taking ground, it's that we're holding ground. You already have the high ground. You already hold it, you already have it. Now the only thing is, day by day, just like the South kept fighting the North, all the North basically had to do after Gettysburg was hold their ground. They had basically won the war. It just took two years of skirmishes to finalize. And that's the same thing for us. We've already won the war. Okay, because you've already believed in Christ and you're seated in him in the heavenlies in Christ. Now you have daily skirmishes, you fight that off. Meanwhile, Jesus is up there. He's your high priest, he's functioning on your behalf. You bring your sins to him, you confess, right? He takes care of all that, right? He's a minister in the new covenant and new laws. All these commandments in the New Testament, you know? That's all part of the law of Christ, right? The law of liberty. The law of liberty says this: walk by the Spirit, Galatians 5. It doesn't say do whatever you want to do. That's not freedom. That's not liberty. Who in this world is a founder of America, let's just say, let's go back to the founders of America. Do you think that they meant by freedom and liberty, do whatever you want? Or do you think they meant follow the Constitution? That's exactly what they meant. Freedom is living within boundaries. It's not doing whatever you want. And we've been given the law of Christ, and the boundaries are laid out by life by the Spirit. What does the Spirit produce? Love. It's manifestations of joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness. See? That's the parameters. When we are living freely, that's how we're living. We're not doing whatever we want. Doing whatever you want is slavery. Slavery to your sin nature. That's not going to help you at all. You become a slave then. But when you live by the Spirit, you enjoy freedom. Who doesn't want love in their life? Real love. Unconditional agape love. Who doesn't want freedom, like in the sense of peace? You like peace? I like peace. Who doesn't like joy? Do you like joy? Do you like kindness? Do you like gentleness? Do you like self-control? Or do you like people who are out of control? Argumentative fighters, haters. You know, like what? Deceit, manipulation. Those are all the things of the flesh. We want to live by the Spirit because these are the parameters he's laid down under the new covenant system of life by the Spirit. And when we live that way, we enjoy the greatest amount of freedom that any human can enjoy, even if our surroundings are chaotic around us. Because they are. Guess what? We can have peace in this world. Jesus said, right? John 16, 33, in this world you will have tribulation, but take courage, I've overcome the world. Can you have courage? Can you relax? Can you have a clean mental attitude? Sure you can. How? Live by the Spirit. That's how. And thereby fulfill the law of Christ. That's how you do it. And so all this is a setup for ultimately one day, guess what? You and I are going to, when he comes back, we are going to reign with him in his kingdom. We're going to reign over the nations. You'll finally, you're going to be a part of the political system. Maybe you didn't aspire to be in a politician. I didn't. But you're going to be a part of his administration. But the great thing about it is you're going to be in a resurrection body. And what that means is you're not going to sin. You're not going to be unjust. You're going to rule perfectly. Because you'll be in a new body that doesn't have any sin and never will sin. And this is a crazy world to think about, right? That we're going to that place. But that's the Son of Man kingdom, see? That's the humane kingdom because everybody who's in rule will be perfect people. And it's strange to say, but those people are you and me. How are we going to get there? Grace alone. Not because I'm going to learn enough from the mistakes of other politicians to become a great politician. But because of his grace, he's going to raise me and make me like Jesus Christ. And that's what we have to keep remembering. Keep remembering. Keep remembering. Because all this stuff down here in the world will cloud your mind. It'll cloud your thinking. It will depress you. It will oppress you. It will bring you down. It will frustrate you. No. You have to keep going back to this and saying, no, I'm going to remember every what he has said. And I'm going to wait while Christ in his session. Patiently like him.
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