Psalm 110:1-7 The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.… I. THE PERSON TO WHOM UNIVERSAL DOMINION IS ASSIGNED. II. HIS SOLEMN INAUGURATION TO HIS REGAL DIGNITY (ver.1; Psalm 24:7-10). III. THE ENEMIES ARRAYED AGAINST HIS RIGHTFUL CLAIMS (ver. 1). How strange a collocation of words is "enmity against God," and God in Christ! Behold His purity, His meekness, His wisdom, His kind teachings, His generous sufferings for men; the freeness and copiousness of the blessings which He has to bestow upon all who will ask of Him; and say, is there a stigma upon human nature so deep, so dark, as this, — that it is enmity to God! IV. THE MEANS OF THEIR SUBJUGATION. 1. The rod of His power. 2. Granting days of power. 3. The willing co-operation of His people. V. THE GLORIOUS RESULT (ver. 3). 1. Behold this beauty of holiness among the nations. Wars, oppressions, injuries, cease. The earth, tossed and swept for ages by the storms of night, is quiet, imbibes the vivifying dew of Divine influence, and catches the glory of the brightening truth of revelation. 2. Behold it in civil society; in the beautiful order and harmony of pious families; in the charity and kind offices of Christian neighbourhoods; in the reciprocal reverence and confidence of rulers and their subjects. 3. Behold it especially in the Church. There, indeed, it is eminently appropriate; for, "holiness becometh Thine house, O Lord, for ever." It is seen in her ministry; for her Priests are clothed with salvation," and their "lips keep knowledge." In her doctrine; for the compass, the depth, the height, the harmony, of the whole system of the Gospel being understood and professed, errors and partial views are banished. In her members; those are truly elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. (R Watson.) Parallel Verses KJV: {A Psalm of David.} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. |
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