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,
and will be forever!
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. 2/17/2012 11:03:20 AM
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