Honey From The Rock

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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
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SHALL BE CALLED "LORD"

This entry was posted on 12-22-2009 and is filed under MESSIANIC PROPHECY.

Star #11 in "Stars of Hope in the Old Testament Sky."

"The LORD says to my Lord: 'Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool" (Psalm 110:1 NKJV).

This is interesting and instructive. Here we find God calling Messiah by His own name! This psalm, the 110th, is one of the most quoted psalms in the New Testament. It pictures Messiah as King (vs. 1-3), Priest (v. 4), and Judge (vs. 5-7). Here we see God calling Messiah by His own name, and Messiah, the Son of God, sharing the kingly authority of His Father. Jesus quotes this verse in Matthew 22:44 in trying to make the Pharisees see that He, the Son of David, was also the Lord of David, i.e., the Messiah. The verse is also quoted in Mark 12:36; Luke 20:41-44; Acts 2:34, 35; and Heb. 1:13.

The angel told the Bethlehem shepherds, "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11). Christ is the Greek word for Messiah. Messiah is Lord. Jesus is God (see John 1:1, 14). When Jesus said "I and My Father are one" (John 10:30) He knew what He was talking about. They were one in name, one in aim, and one in nature (divine). Jesus was Lord before His birth, at His birth, and even now as He sits at the right hand of God.

Hymn: "Silent night! Holy night! Son of God, love's pure light! Radiant beams from Thy holy face, with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth." (Joseph Mohr)