SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
2/17/2012 9:33:31 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Christ
the Warrior
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm
45:3-7a
Message
of the verses: We began to look at
Psalm 45 in yesterday’s SD, which is a Messianic psalm and just for a bit of
review I want to again quote what Dr. Wiersbe wrote at the end of his
introduction: “The writer presents four
pictures of our Lord and in so doing also described His bride.” We looked at the first picture yesterday and
will move on to the second and see how far we can get today.
The
Victorious Warrior (vv. 3-5): “3
Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty!
4 And in Your majesty ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth and meekness
and righteousness; Let Your right hand teach You awesome things. 5 Your arrows
are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the
King’s enemies.”
We see in verse three something
that is not evident as much as it should be in the Church today, and that is
the militant side of the Christian faith, so let us look back at Genesis 3:15
in order to see where this all started:
“And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed
and her seed; He shall
bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.’” As soon as man fell and sin entered into the
universe we see God begin to fight against the devil as stated in this verse
from Genesis. We must remember that the
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world is also the Lion of the tribe
of Judah: “and one of the elders said to
me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has
overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals’ (Rev. 5:5).” Now let us look at another reason why that
Jesus suffered and died on the cross: “13
You were dead because of
your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ,
for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against
us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, He disarmed the spiritual rulers
and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the
cross (Col. 2:13-15 NLT).” When you look
at Genesis 3:15 and Col. 2:15 you see the promise and the fulfillment of the
promise, and it was done by the Lion of the tribe of Judah. That is not all for when we look at
Revelations 19:11 and following we will find that Jesus Christ is going to
return to the earth and destroy all of His enemies by putting the antichrist,
the false prophet into hell and the bind Satan for 1000 years as He rules from
David’s throne in Jerusalem. We see in
these verses a side of our Lord that people sometimes have a hard time looking
at, but we must remember that not only is God love, but He is just also. We also see the truth of Psalm 45:4b in the
verses I have quoted for “His right hand will accomplish awesome things.”
As believers in Jesus Christ we do
not fight with human weapons, but with spiritual weapons. “3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the
flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses (2Cor.
10:3-4).” Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12;
Rev. 1:16 and 19:15 show that believers use the Sword of the Spirit which is
the Word of God as our weapon and this is exactly what Jesus used against Satan
in His temptation (Matt. 4 & Luke 4, also Mark 1).
We also see in verse four that Jesus
is fighting on behalf of “truth and meekness and righteousness. Dr. Wiersbe says “and it is difficult to
believe that anyone would want to oppose that kind of war. As God’s people share His love, serve others,
and declare the Word, they are ‘waging peace’ and seeking to reconcile men and
women with God (2Cor. 5:14-21). The
Father has promised to give His Son the nations of the earth for His
inheritance (Ps. 2:8-9), and He will keep His promise.”
The
Righteous King (vv. 6-7a): “6 Your
throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of
Your kingdom. 7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.”
In these verses we see the deity
of Jesus Christ, for the psalmist is speaking of Jesus Christ when he writes
“Your throne, O God.” Some have tried to
say that Jesus Christ is not God, but when one searches the Scripture they will
find that Jesus Christ in indeed the second person of the godhead, and that He
is indeed God. 8 Philip said to Him,
"Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." 9 Jesus said to
him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me
has seen the Father; how can you say, ’Show us the Father’ (John
14:8-9).” There are many other verses,
especially in John’s Gospel that show this truth and all one has to do is think
of why it was that Jesus was crucified, and remember that it was that He claimed
to be God come in the flesh and that is exactly who He was and is.
When we think about what the Kingdom
of God is we have to realize that there are three parts to the kingdom of God,
and the first part is what we call the Church Age where Jesus rules from heaven
sitting at the right hand of God and
then He will come to earth to rule here on earth which is what has been
promised by God to the Jews and this is called the millennial kingdom or the
1000 year rule of Christ on earth as seen in Revelations, and then we will have
the eternal kingdom, which is also described in Revelations. Jesus is ruling and will rule in all of the
aspects of the Kingdom of God for that is what God promised Him 1 A Psalm of
David: The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand Until I make Your
enemies a footstool for Your feet." 2 The LORD will stretch forth Your
strong scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of Your enemies’
(Psalm 110:102)”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: The
verses that came from Colossians 2 are what I am thinking about today as I said
fulfills what God promised in Genesis 3:15, but just thinking about all it
involved for me to become a believer in Jesus Christ is actually so great and
so wonderful that it is hard to take it all in.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
1. Praise the Lord for such a great
salvation that He has provided for me.
2. Continue to seek to learn
contentment as I am having some difficult lessons with my quest to be content.
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