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Cons to all of us here at harvest and um, as, and I'll speak on behalf of my fellow pastor shear. Um, given the opportunity, I can't think of a better group of people to serve to. Uh, I'm so thankful that God has placed me here when he did. I love all you so much. Um, alright, let's, let's now that we're done messing around, let's get down to business. Uh, go ahead and take it and turn your Bibles to Psalm chapter 110. So I'm, I don't sin always. We start back here in the hopes that like one really convicted center's gonna come and sit on this front row, but it never does. So it just skewed on a spouse. Psalm 110, um, one big announcement real quick. There's some tee shirts over there on the table. Take one of those. If you want to make a donation for it, you can go get your free tee shirt that may or may not be a ploy to get you closer to the IGA project board. So you can go and look and see what's being done, what still needs to be done. See if there's something on that list that grabs your eye. You think you could do. If there is, talk to pastor Tanner about that next Sunday though. And this is, this is a big announceable. Please don't miss this. One of the most important things that we do all year when my favorite things that we do all year on November the 10th, next Sunday, we're going to be celebrating orphan Sunday. So this is what that means. This is something that, uh, different churches from different denominations around the country you're going to be doing this weekend and next week. Um, there is a legitimate orphan crisis, not only in the United States, but also around the world. The book of James says that true religion is taking care of orphans and widows in their affliction. And we take that literally, we believe that we as the people of God are to serve those who are less fortunate and orphans. Make it to the top of that list. So next week we're going to be preaching a sermon on orphans or liturgy is going to be around the themes of what the Bible says about orphans. And then just as a way of literally putting our money where our mouth is, 100% of the dollars that we take up next week will be put in a special fund to help families adopt children. So there's a organization called life song and they're really good about that. I mean we have a, we haven't had a fun with them. And so all of the money, all of the offers that we take up next week will be put in our life song account. And when a family at harvest wants to adopt a little boy or a little girl, we use that money to, to help them do that. Because as many of you, Mmm. And here have been through the adoption process or being close to somebody who's been through the adoption process. It's expensive and unnecessarily expensive, but we don't want that to be something that prevents one of our families from doing what God is calling them to do. We believe everybody should be helping the orphan crisis in one regard or another, whether that's adopting a child, giving your extra money to a family who would like to adopted child volunteering, serving what have you. We'll be discussing some of those options next week. Very special Sunday. Please don't miss it. Um, Psalm 110 so we're doing a sermon series on the Psalms and we're going to break it up with orphan Sunday. We'll probably come back and preach one more song on November 17th and then after that we're getting into advent. So I know Halloween's just over with. Um, November 1st, um, I was over at my sister and my brother in law's house and, um, practicing some music and they fix spaghetti. So I called my wife and I said, Hey Nikki, you want to come over here and eat some? Or they invited you over to eat supper? And he says, no, I'm actually here watching a, well it's not really a Christmas movie and that's all I needed to hear in my ears. Just shut off after that. Like, I don't know what it's like in your house, but November 1st is Christmas season at the the Troutman household. So like you go to, I'm sure like you're already hearing like Christmas music on the radio, the whole thing. And not opinion. That's entirely too early. But we joined the church historical in a tradition called advent. Um, what advent is, is basically we're saying that Christmas is too important to celebrate in one day. Plus we don't have just one coming of Jesus to celebrate. We've got two comings of Jesus to celebrate. So not only are we going to celebrate his first calming as a baby in a manger, we're going to celebrate his soon to be second coming as a conquering King where he comes to establish his rule in the world. And that's, that's advent. And it's a 40 day celebration instead of a a one day celebration. So we, we, the way we do that here at harvest is all of our sermons, liturgy, music in the month of December is geared towards the first and second coming of Jesus. And just celebrating that season just wanna make you aware of that that may be different than um, what you're, what you're used to. We just think that Christmas is too important. The first and second coming of Jesus is too important to just celebrate on, on one day. So, um, I hope that's given you all enough time to serve, to turn to Psalm 110 if he didn't make it there, there's always Bible scattered across the room there. Bookmark to the passage that we're going to be studying together today. I encourage you to read along. We like to keep our noses in these books. We pull the point of our messages from this Holy book. And so you get more out of it. You really do. I believe if you follow along with the word of God opened in your lap or on your device. So Psalm 110 is a special song. Our theme this year, our whole vision for 2019 has been knowing Jesus, not just knowing about Jesus. And we set out to do that at the beginning of the year by walking through the book of John and just observing the life of Jesus, getting to know the guy. And then after that we did a sermon series. We called stories about Jesus to show you that not just the new Testament, it's about Jesus. The old Testament is to, Jesus said that all the profits, the law and the prophets bear witness about him. So we wanted to show you with specific stories in the old Testament how those stories point us to Jesus. Now as we visit the Psalms like we do every year, we're picking out messianic Psalms, Psalms about the Messiah, and Jesus is the Messiah. And Psalm one 10 is one of those. We looked at Psalm 16 first that's the one that says in your presence is fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. It's got that passage in there that says you won't abandon your Holy one to Sheol or to the grave. You won't let your Holy one see corruption. And we learned from acts chapter two and acts chapter 13 Alice, I believe that that that song was about Jesus and the fact that God wouldn't abandon him to the grave. We looked at Psalm to where we see Jesus as this conquering King one who sits in the heavens and laughs and we looked at passages in the new Testament where that it shows us that that song is about Jesus. Also someone 10 is is really special and if you're just reading through the Salter, if you're just reading through the book of Psalms and you come across Psalm one 10 some of the language is probably gonna sound familiar because this passage is quoted more than any other passage of scripture in the new Testament. So often as you read through the new Testament, you'll find quotations from the old Testament because that was their Bible when Matthew was alive. The book of Matthew hadn't been written. You get that. So like the new Testament is we have, it didn't come until hundreds of years, like under one cover that we can call this the Bible until a hundred years after Jesus lived. And so their Bible was what we call the old Testament. And as you're reading through these epistles and you're reading through the life of Jesus, they'll say as it is written, and then they'll quote a passage from the old Testament or as it says in the prophet Moses, and then it'll have a passage and of all the passages that are quoted in the new Testament, Psalm one 10 is quoted the most. And we touched on this a bit when we talked about a dude, NEM, Mel kiss a deck. If you miss that message and encourage you to get on a website and, and listen to it, we're going to talk about it a little bit today just as a review, but it was the most quoted passage in all the new Testament and it's a special kind of messianic Psalm. So I say what we've looked at so far this year are messianic Psalm, Psalm 16, Psalm two and now Psalm 110 and so like when you look at these Psalms, they have like a historical context and then they have uh, a greater meaning past it, right? So if we just take a look at Psalm 16 for example, when David was writing the song and he said, you want abandon ma[inaudible] you won't let your Holy one see corruption. When David was writing that down, he wasn't thinking about Jesus, right? Like he was thinking about himself. He was thinking about him as, as the anointed one of God, the King of Israel. And what you see is like when these patterns begin to repeat themselves, you say, Hey, there's something more to it than that. And Psalm two, when God says, today you're my son, have become your father. That was a reference to a prophecy about the Davidic[inaudible]. And when you see this pattern over and over and over again, you say, wait, this, there's probably more something to at more than that. You find its fulfillment in the new Testament, they call it topology that's um, can be a sticky subject because you can really get into the weeds with, with typology. I don't know if you've ever been to a church or a service like that where they start really breaking the stuff down. Like they'll, they'll go to the smallest details and try to describe a meaning to it. So like, um, a rehab Scarlet cord represents the blood of Jesus and this particular covering of the tabernacle represents this. And there's seven lamps because, and I'm not sure how helpful all of that is, but in a broad sense, like topology is a thing. The Davidic King type is a thing. When you see prophecies about the Davidic King, the line of David fond their fulfillment in Jesus. Like that's something that we pay attention to. And that's what you saw in Psalm two. Psalm 16, someone 10 is different because it's not a type, it's not a shadow, it's the real thing. Here's what I mean by that. This passage is not first about David, and then later a fulfillment of that can be applied to the Messiah or that the new Testament applies to the Messiah. This passage is about the Messiah. There's no double meaning here. This is just about Jesus, and let me show you how I know. So we're going to read Psalm 110 together first and then we're going to break it down piece by piece. And then at the end we're going to pray through the Psalm together to show you how you can use this in your daily walk with Jesus. So let's read Psalm one 10 verse one this is the declaration of the Lord to my Lord. Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord will extend your mighty Sceptre from Zion rule over your surrounding enemies. Your people will volunteer on your day of battle and Holy splendor from the womb of the Dawn. The Dew of your youth belongs to you. The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back. You are a priest forever according to the pattern of well, kiss a deck. The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush Kings on the day of his anger. He will judge the nations heaping up corpses. He will crush leaders over the entire world. He will drink from the Brook by the road. Therefore he will lift up his head, church, pray together, dude. What a beautiful song and what a difficult one to understand on the surface. The Lord is[inaudible] begin to peel back the layers and we see how your word is, is woven together. And so many, uh, of the threads of scripture intertwined in this passage, how, how beautiful it is. I pray, Lord, that I'm, you would give us some level of understanding of the depth of meaning that's here. And we can leave knowing a little bit more about this song, which would lead us to know a little bit more about Jesus, which would lead us to know you more. We asked all this in Jesus's name. Amen. So this Psalm is different because it's not like first a prophecy about David that's later applied to Jesus that finds a fuller meaning later on. Like this prophecy is just about Jesus. And let me tell you how I know. If you look at Psalm one 10 we didn't read the little superscription up at the top, a Psalm of David. Does your Bible have that? It's like in really small letters, like maybe you got to put your glasses on up at the top. So that is actually part of an inspired scripture. Not every word on this page is inspired scripture. Now before you start throwing stones at you at me, let me tell you what I mean. So like the part that says the priestly King and my Bible, this little heading here that was added later by an editor to kind of help us to navigate this thing. The verse numbers, one, two, three, four, five. When David wrote this song down, he didn't sit there and write numbers out in the margins. Those were added later to help us navigate this thing. So when I say certain disarm 110 you don't, I don't, I don't have to say turn to that one. That's about two thirds of the way towards the back. That's about the Lord said to Milo, do you know it's what I'm talking about? Go there and then we'll all read together. No, we can just see Psalm 110 that was added later. Little superscript at the top that says a Psalm of David that was not added later. Matter of fact, all of the old Hebrew manuscripts have that particular phrase and it's terribly important. And let me tell you why it changes the way that you would read. Verse one verse one says, this is the declaration of the Lord, L O R D, all caps. That's God's name. Y'all way said too. This is a declaration of the Lord too. My Lord. A more general term, sometimes applied to God, but sometimes also just applied to somebody who is your superior. Maybe the way that they still use the word Lord in England today, it'd be like your, your, your superior, your master. So this is the leg relation of the Lord y'all way the name of God to ma, Lord. Now, if this was a scribe or minstrel in the service of the King or one of the musicians that worked at the temple, one of the other people, they wrote Psalms, then that could be referring to anybody who was his superior. He might be referring to David there. He may be referring to another King. But the fact that this song was written about David gives us a big hint as to who this is, because who is the master of the King? And it can be God, right? Because God's the one addressing it. So if God is speaking to someone who is David's master, who can it be? But like Jesus pose this exact question and it's recorded in Matthew and it's also recorded in Mark. As a matter of fact, let me just just read it for you. So this is Matthew 2241 well, the Pharisees were together. Jesus questioned them. What do you think about the Messiah? The anointed one, the chosen one of God whose son is seen. They replied, David's. He asked them, how is it then the David inspired by the spirit calls him, Lord, the Lord declared to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. If David calls him Lord, how then can he be his son? No one was able to answer him at all from that day. No one did to question him any more. And that's a good question, right? Like if this is David's, if the Messiah is David's son, then is David calling him Lord? And this passage has to be referring to someone greater than the King.[inaudible] God, y'all way is calling him Lord. It leaves us with only one conclusion. This is the son of God, the Messiah that the Psalm is talking about, and God makes a declaration, sit in my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Now your translation may have that in quotes, and if it does, I think that's correct because what we have in this passenger, two Oracles are Acular statements that theologian theologians call it from God. So this is God speaking like from God himself, verbalizing the words. And then David writes it down. You ever wonder how like the Bible got to be like it is and that would be a series in and of itself, but just specifically how do we know what words are or scripture and like how did God deliver those words? If these are God's words written by man's hand, how did God actually deliver that? How did he make that happen? You were thinking about that. So there's a few different ways that happens. Sometimes God just speaks and he says, write down what I tell you. You see that in the book of, in the book of Jeremiah, God gives a prophecy to Jeremiah. Jeremiah dictates it. Baruch writes it down. The destroy it no big deal because God just dictates it again and then Jeremiah tells Baruch and Baruch writes it down, and poor Baruch, he's the only one that's out because he had to write it twice. You've got'em in the book of Daniel. God comes to Daniel and he says to Daniel, I want you to write down what I show you later. Half of the book of Daniel. Daniel writes it down in the book of Daniel makes it very clear that Daniel doesn't even understand what he's writing. He's like, God, what's this all about? And God's like, nevermind that. Just seal it up. That's not for you to understand. So Daniel didn't even know what he was writing, the significance of what he was writing, but he knew it was the words of God. Now that's what you have here in verse one and in verse three in our Iraqi color statement, God speaking and saying, write down what I speak. That's why it says in verse one this is the declaration of the Lord. Y'all away to my Lord this in quotes, this is God's declaration. Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. You have that again and I'm sorry. Verse four the Lord is swore to Knowth and he will not take it back. And then God says, you are a priest forever. According to the pattern of milk is a day. Those two statements are words straight from God's mouth. What about the rest of the song? Because a big portion of our Bible, it wasn't just dictated God the father to ascribe as it word or write it down. A lot of times it was letters of correspondence and one person to another. Somebody was just writing a history or in the case of the Psalms, let me just write in a song. A lot of places like let's take Psalm 23 for example. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not one, it makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters, like I don't think that David is coming off of a hard day with meeting with his counselors and moving his troops around and rationing provisions and doing what Kings do and he goes back to his chambers and he sits down and rubs his eyes and Joseph, he puts on his nightgown and lays down in this bed and God like knocks on the roof. Like David, you're not done yet. I've got one more song for you to write. Is it David Lee rolls the covers back, right? And he gets up and he goes over to his writing table and he gets his Quill out and he's like, all right, God. And God goes, all right, the Lord, the Lord is my shepherd.[inaudible] is my shepherd. I don't think that song was written that way. I think that that was just an overflow of David's love for God and his memories about being a shepherd and him making that connection and he wrote it down and God did it in such a way that he inspired him. So then it was the actual words of God. Verbal plenary inspiration. There's your big word for the week, verbal plenary inspiration. These people are pushed along by the Holy spirit, like a boat pushed along by the winds. And so that's what you have in the rest of someone. 10 someone's ends unique because you have two different types of inspiration in the same passage. You have an Oracle from God and then you have David sitting and reflecting on that Oracle and writing his reflections on it so you can divide the Psalm this way. The first. Oracle is verse one and then David's reflections of verses two and three. The second Oracle is[inaudible] four and then David's reflections in verses five[inaudible] seven okay, let's start to break it down piece by piece. This is the declaration of the Lord to Lord. Verse one sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Even the way that David writes this Psalm shows that this is about the Messiah and that the Messiah is greater than King David. We can pull that out of this song. They the the Messiah then is not just David's son. It's, it's more than that. It's pulling a piece from Psalm two. It's, it's God's son. Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. It was a common practice back in the day. If you conquered another King or another city state, then the rulers would lay on the ground and you would actually come and put your foot on their neck. You see this in the book of Joshua, so like that practice led to the idiom, the expression making your enemies a footstool for your feet. And so this is the image that God, the son, the David's Lord is going to conquer all of his enemies. Verse two, the Lord will extend your mighty Sceptre from Zion. Zion was a literal Hill, still exists today as where Jerusalem is. It's on a, the mountain of, of, of Zion, um, to rule over your surrounding enemies. Your people will volunteer on your day of battles as a strong and mighty King who's not going to be opposed. And yet people are willing to volunteer to his service in Holy spender from the womb of the Dawn. The Dew of your youth belongs to you. Does anybody want to attempt to decipher that one? Because I'm, I spent a lot of time on it and I kept running into people saying, well, the Hebrew here is just really obscure and we're not quite sure what it means. So take that for what you will. Mmm, we can get a little bit from it there. Um, Holy splendor when with the Don, do you have all that stuff? Yeah. The guy named Willem a van GIM mirin. How's that for a name? He had this to say about this passage and I think it's pretty good. In spite of the textual problems, we may infer from the military language that the Royal troops are in spite of the textual problems. We may infer from the military language at the Royal troops or numerous. The people come voluntarily on the day of the battle as in the days of Deborah judges five, two and none. They consecrate themselves. They're fully prepared. They place themselves at the service of the King. They will have be as abundant as do at Dawn. They are youthful and hence Valeant for battle. The King's army has prepared strong in numerous and whatever the specifics. I think that's the sense that that the author that Dave is trying to get us all across the armies of the Messiah are going to be numerous and full of vigor and unstoppable. The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back. Here's the second Oracle. The proclamation from God's mouth as it were, you are a priest forever according to the pattern of no kiss a deck. Now, this is big hairy topic that we dealt with a few weeks ago. And then if you miss that message and encourage you to go back and, and listen to that on our, on our website and the stories about Jesus sermon series. But let me just give you a quick review here. Mel Kisa deck was a guy, you see them in Genesis chapter 14. Abraham, who's the father of all the Jewish people meets and he gives him a tithe of everything that he has. Um, and then ABR or then McKissick blesses Abraham, which is very significant. It's basically shows that no, because the neck is greater than than Abraham. Now kiss the next name literally means the King of righteousness. He was King of a place called Salem, which is almost certainly[inaudible] st Lem like later called Jerusalem. So he was the King in Jerusalem before the Davidic line was even established. Salem literally means peace. He's the King of peace. He's the King of righteousness. He's greater than Abraham. Who in the world is this? Right? And so like Psalm one 10, he's mentioned here and the only other time he's mentioned is Hebrews five, six and seven. And this figure is like essential to the teaching of the book of Hebrews. Yeah. What's significant for'em our time here today is the fact that Mount Kislyak was not only a King, he was also a priest. And that's a big deal because not anybody can just be a King and a priest in the law. The divisions between the, my, I call them theocratic offices, the office is appointed by God and in the Jewish people, which was a prophet, priest and King, there were clear divisions. You couldn't really be more than one. Um, for numerous reasons. The most obvious is genealogy, right? Like the Kings came from first Benjamin than Judah and the priests, they come from Levi and you can't be a priest unless you come from the tribe of Liba Saul trot that that's why Saul was succeeded. Bye David. God left Saul because he tried to be a King and priest. And so David's probably thinking that right? Like he remembers his predecessor, Saul, who was stripped of his title because he tried to be a King and a priest. And in the law it says that Kings are supposed to right a copy of the law with their own hand for their own personal use and read it every day. And David is a faithful King. I'm certain he did that. I'm certain he sat down with the scrolls that would have had the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers and Deuteronomy and what the Quill and his own piece of parchment and would have made his own copy and then read it every night. And as he did, I'm sure he read about this Mel a that guy, every report pretty often, right over and over and over again. What in the world is going on? Seoul? God stripped him of his title because he tried to be a priest and a King. And yet here in Genesis 14 here's a priest scheme, he's greater than my father Abraham. And then God says, mom, Messiah will be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. And then it all makes sense. And then he gives his reflections. The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush Kings on the day of his anger. He will judge the nations heaping up corpses. He will crush leaders over the entire world. He will drink from the Brook by the road. Therefore, he will lift up his head. This, this image of the last day of, um, of what we would now call the second coming of Jesus here in and[inaudible] conquering language. The big takeaway though is that the Messiah's priesthood would be different than the existing priesthood. Cause like when you read through the old Testament, Mmm. What we try to do today is pick out the parts that are convenient and then we leave the ones we don't like, right? Like start to bifurcate the law and we all love the 10 commandments in Exodus 20. But then you get to like Exodus 21 and 22 and it starts talking about, you know, the, the ceremonial pieces. Like this is how you put the temple together. This is how you're supposed to slaughter an animal when you sacrifice them, when you, where garments makes sure that they're, Mmm, not like a cotton polyester blend, right? Like it has to be of one type. You don't breed your cattle with another kind. And I'm sure you've heard all of this stuff from your unbelieving friends. Well, if you really believe the Bible, then why do you have tattoos? Because it says that you can't have markings on your body. And why do you eat catfish? Cause that's a fish without scales. That's like, well, the main reasons I'd have a hard time being Jewish by the way. They can't eat catfish. So, um, what do you do with all that? Right? Like[inaudible] so like one of the modern solutions, what we try to do is we say, well, there's actually three different types of laws in the old Testament. There's moral laws, there's ceremonial laws and there's, there's cultic laws are laws of, um, laws of practice around like, and so it's like the only ones that really matter are the moral laws. You leave the ceremonial laws and all the others behind and you just pull the moral ones out like the 10 commandments. Okay. Yeah. The problem with that is essential too. All of the laws in the old Testament, it's the priesthood. Like it's essential if you don't get that, just like read the first five books of the Bible and you can't go very far at all without having regulations about this is how long a priest is supposed to serve. And this is how the priest is supposed to cut up the sacrifice. And this is how the grain offering is to be received and this is what to do on the day of atonement. And the reason all that's in there is because the priesthood is essential to the law. And what that means for us as a new priesthood means a new law. So the fact that Jesus is priesthood, it's better, greater older then leave as priesthood means that his law is greater too. Because this is the argument of Mmm. The author of Hebrews and Hebrews seven he basically says that the Levitical priesthood isn't good enough. Like got Levitical preschool. They start at he's 50 the retires and then here comes another one and then that priest has to go and he has to make sacrifices for his own sense first before he can make sacrifices for the sins of the old other people. And then we all know, we all just intuitively know that there's no way that this lamb or this goat can actually pay for the sins of the people. The law was not sufficient to save. It was only sufficient to condemn, to show us our error, just to show us how far the gap was between us and God and the fact that Jesus is Jesus is a priest of another order means that there's a new law. We no longer have the old Testament law that we follow. We have the law of Christ. It's a better perfection of what you have in the old Testament. Just like it doesn't completely abolish it, right? Like we're not just doing away with the old Testament and needed anymore. Jesus came to fulfill the law. He says, in other words, Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the old Testament law in himself. And now we're under the law of Christ. And just like the priesthood is, Mmm. A reflection, but an imperfect reflection of Jesus. Perfect priesthood. So the law is, and just like the priests would offer sacrifices over and over and over again to try to pay for the sins of our people. We have a greater[inaudible] who offered one sacrifice once for all time for since of the world. So he recognizes this, he sees that the Messiah is a King and also a priest and he reflects on it in two things. I think we're running, we're running out of time. So I just want to go ahead and wrap up two things I want. Mmm. Well let's call it three things that I want you to see from this song. First, I want you to recognize the way the themes of the Bible are all woven together. So essential to understanding the Bible is understanding its themes, the, the threads that kind of run through the whole of of scripture. And in this passage alone, you have the theme of priesthood, the theme of of Zion, the theme of the kingship as an office, the theme of a Davidic line, you see a glimpse of the final battle or the last day and the way these all converge together in Psalm one 10 is so important. I think that's the reason it's the most quoted passage in all of the Bible. If you can get that, like if you can read Psalm one 10 and you see all of that and you understand all of that, then that's a good indication that you understand your Bible, that you've kinda got the big picture and friends. That's why it's important that we actually read our Bibles. That's why verses of the day can be so dangerous. It's a good thing to read your Bible, but when it's like the only Bible digestion you get are like the ones that are cross ditched on your pillows and the ones you've got pinned on your refrigerator, then then you miss the whole like you missed the big picture. You don't see these themes. You don't see the convergence of kingship and priesthood and how monumental that is and you don't see what it means that that Jesus was the lion of the tribe of Judah and all of the meaning that's parked behind that. You've got to see it as a whole in the Psalm shows us that. Next thing I want you to see is that Jesus was the plan from the beginning. So this isn't just an inference of a theme, but a blatant declaration that the Messiah was coming, one that was greater than David. We see this way back and then finally, this is maybe a callback to last week, but something I want you to continue to reflect on. Jesus is a mighty ruler. We should look forward to and pray for the day when Jesus, his kingdom comes. Let me just ask you real quick, how do you think of Jesus? Like what? When you picture Jesus in your mind, like what? What comes to mind? Because I don't think that us in our culture, I don't think we really have a problem with Jesus as priest, right? Like the Jesus that's interceding for us and at the right hand of the father who offers up his blood as he pleads the merit of his sacrifice. Like the song that we, that we just, that we just sing, like we don't have a problem with that aspect of Jesus, but when we start talking about like, I dunno, verse six, he will judge the nations heaping up corpses. He will crush leaders over the entire world. Like that's not one of those who here has that verse cross stitch on a pillow, right? Nobody, because the funny thing is you go back 2000 years and it was reversed because Jesus in his first coming, he didn't come as a conquering King, right? Like he came as a suffering servant and they killed him for it because the Jews 2000 years ago, they wanted a conquering King, right? And like now waiting for the second coming, what we need is a conquering King who will come and put an end to sin and suffering and death. And we don't want that, right? Like we want Jesus to come back little Jesus meek and mild, right? Like, no, he's done did that and he's already paid for the sins of the world and he offers the merit of his blood to all who would accept him. But it's about time. This thing comes to an end, right? And if that sounds weird to you, you're not reading your Bible because you have people like John saying, Lord Jesus, come quickly. At the end of the visions that he saw in revelation, we should desire the new heavens and the new earth that Jesus is coming to establish as a conquering King. He's going to heap up the corpses of his enemies. He's going to shatter them like pottery with an iron rod. Our culture has a problem with that Jesus, and that's half the problem with th th the the, the, the theological errors that, that we see today, the, the, the way that the church has lost cultural influence. How do you think of Jesus in our me-centered culture, it's so hard for us to think of Jesus as our King. We run the risk, I think of having too low, have a view of God. What can God demand of you? What are you willing to give? Got it. What are you willing to sacrifice for him to offer in service to him? If your immediate answer is not every thing, then you have too low of a view of God. What? Cruel. Jesus is priest. We have a hard time with Jesus is King. If you'd given him everything, are you to give him everything? Is there anything in your life that Jesus isn't allowed to touch and do you look forward to and pray for the day when Jesus comes and establishes is everlasting kingdom here, that's a way with sin and death. Conkers as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in our time together with like we do every week with these songs and just pray through it. So this is the declaration of you, God, the father to my Lord Jesus Christ. Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. And Lord, we know now that Jesus has died and was buried and raised to walk in new life in the feed. It's sin and death and has ascended and now sits at your right hand waiting the day when you father will extend your mighty Sceptre from XY on telling Jesus to rule over surrounding enemies. Your people will volunteer on your day of battle. Lord, I get a glimpse of Christ coming on a white course with the host of heaven behind him and the dead and Christ arising from the graves to meet him in the air for the great battle in Holy splendor from the womb of the Donda. The Dew of your youth belongs to you, Lord your, your troops will be more numerous than the Dew on the grass in the morning. You've fallen full of vigor. Lord, you've sworn an oath and you will not take it back. Jesus is a priest forever according to the pattern of no cause. The like, not only is Jesus a conquering King, but he's a King priest. He makes intercession for our sins and conquers our enemies. Lord, you are. Jesus is at your right hand. Father Jesus will crush Kings on the day of his anger. He will judge the nations heaping up corpses. He will crush leaders over the entire world. He will drink from the Brook by the road and he will lift up his head. His strength will be renewed day by day. Oh God. As we live here in, in, in this broken fallen world, I pray that you would give us the strength and the vigor to fight your war, knowing full well that our weapons aren't yeah made of steel and gunpowder or what have you learned are, are weapons, our weapon. It's the good news of Jesus Christ, the light of the world that pushes back the darkness in between now and when Christ comes again. I pray that you would grant us success and seeing so saved the Lord when we say with Jesus, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. People would respond that they would turn from their sins and they would trust in you so that they can with David and with all of your heavenly hosts and with your believers here, rejoice on the day of your coming. Yes. This in Jesus' name.[inaudible] guys, if you would stand with us as we get rid of worship together before we leave.