Psalm 89:19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty… I. OUR SAVIOUR'S EXTRACTION. 1. Christ, by His very birth, was one of the people. True, he was born of a royal ancestry. Mary and Joseph were both of them descendants of a kingly race, but the glory had departed; a stranger sat on the throne of Judah; while the lawful heir grasped the hammer and the adze. 2. His education, too, demands our attention. He was not taken, as Moses was, from his mother's breast, to be educated in the halls of a monarch. He was not brought up as the lordling, to look with disdain on every one; but His father being a carpenter, doubtless He toiled in His father's workshop. 3. When our Lord entered into public life, still He was the same. What was His rank? He was a poor man — "one of the people." II. HIS ELECTION. God chooses sovereignty, but He always chooses wisely. 1. First, we see that justice is thereby fully, satisfied by the choice of one out of the people. 2. Thereby the whole race receives honour. He made us, originally, a little lower than the angels, and now, despite our fall in Adam, He hath crowned us with glory and honour. 3. But let us take a sweeter view than that. Why was He chosen out of the people? Here, Christian: what dost thou think is the sweet reason for the election of thy Lord, He being one of the people? Was it not this — that He might be able to be thy brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? 4. Christ was chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us. III. HIS EXALTATION. 1. It was exaltation for the body of Christ to be exalted into union with the Divinity. That was honour which none of us can ever receive. Of no other man shall it be said that the Deity tabernacled in him, and that God was manifest in His flesh, seen of angels, justified of the spirit, and carried up to glory. 2. Christ was exalted by His resurrection. Out He came, and the watchmen fled away. Startling with glory, radiant with light, effulgent with divinity, He stood before them. Christ was then exalted in His resurrection. 3. But how exalted was He in His ascension! Up He climbs to that high throne, side by side with the Paternal Deity. "I have exalted one chosen out of the people." 4. The last exaltation of Christ which I shall mention is that which is to come, when He shall sit upon the throne of His Father David, and shall judge all nations. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. |
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