SERMON SPOTLIGHT * 6/15/25
Righteousness and Peace come together in Jesus our King and Priest! Below is an outline summary of the sermon for your further study and deeper reflection.
SERIES: Summer in the Psalms, Vol. 3
TEXT: Psalm 110
TITLE: Jesus, Our King and Priest Forever
PREACHER: Tom Wilkins
BIG IDEA: Jesus has become our King and Priest, so we freely give ourselves to Him and His kingdom.
POINTS:
I. Jesus, Our King (Vs. 1-3)
II. Jesus, Our Priest (Vs. 4-7)
SERMON EXCERPTS:
All quotes and text emphasis are taken directly from the pastor’s notes.
“As a people, we have a problem with kings.”
ILLUSTRATION: Google search of AI “No Kings Day”
“It sounds like we don’t like kings. But 1 Samuel 8 tells a very different story… we crave kings… we love kings… we love kings that give us what we want. The people demanded “Give us a king to judge us.” and God told Samuel to give them what they want. They ‘have rejected me from being king over them.’”
“We have a problem with kings. But in Psalm 110 we have been given a King… the very King that we desperately need!”
“Psalm 110 has the following Structure: Biblically, an oracle is a divine message from God Himself that is spoken/written by a man (in this case, King David) to the hearers/readers (that would be us)
Vs 1 - A Divine Declaration - followed by
Vs 2-3 The Explanation
Vs 4 - A Divine Declaration - followed by
Vs 5-7 The Explanation”
“Verse one says several things: 1. ‘The LORD speaks to my Lord:’ (Capital letters and then lower case letters)”
“David hears what no man ever deserved to hear. Yet YHWH permits it. He permits a mortal ear to hear, and a human pen to record what should have been a ‘secret conversation’.”
“And we know that this clearly is Jesus as we look into what is next: 2. ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool’.”
“First, the phrase ‘sit at my right hand’ is seen elsewhere in Scripture, like Ps 45, 1 Kings 2, Matt. 25, and combined with ‘footstool,’ we discover that this is enthroning in honor and majesty and in victorious triumph as seen in Joshua 10:24-25 - where the commanders of the army would place their feet on the necks of defeated kings. Vs. 2 adds further emphasis to this Kings rule as ‘The LORD sends forth from Zion [His] mighty scepter.’”
“The word ‘until’ in this second part of verse 1 makes it clear that this King’s rule over his enemies has begun, but will, one by one, put His enemies underfoot - on their neck - in a final glorious and righteous act of judgement - His victories will be completed! Vs. 2 will describe His rule as ‘in the midst of your enemies!’ It is ongoing with end-times certainty of victory over every single last enemy of God and His saints. He is the King at war now, anticipating the day that enemies are finally his ‘footstool’.”
“None other than Jesus Himself alludes to and directly quotes Psalm 110:1, asserting He is the one whom David spoke of. Jesus’ words are recorded in the 3 synoptic gospels. [below]”
“If Jesus said that what David wrote was in reference to himself, Jesus’ testimony would be sufficient! …and, yet, adding to the sufficient self-witness of Christ, the witness of Scripture goes on in Acts 2:29-36 (Peter says that this is Jesus).”
“After a little of study who David is calling his “Lord” in Ps 110:1, it becomes abundantly clear that “my Lord” is the Messiah. David’s Lord is Jesus Christ, the Son of God!”
“Psalm 110 makes much of Jesus. Psalm 110 is lifted up higher and higher by Scripture itself. And this Psalm preaches Jesus… Jesus who is the Lord… the King who sits in power over all!”
“Verses 2 and 3 provide further explanation of this King's rule. We find in verse 3 that God’s people FREELY offer themselves up for their King in these battles that are being waged. In “holy garments,” they are dressed in honor of their King.”
“‘From the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.’ The last part of Vs 3 is a bit more difficult to interpret, but likely means those who honor and give themselves to the King are doing so with a daily renewed energy for the fight and honor.”
“Something amazing is now spoken to Jesus our King. God speaks again to His Son. He declares an irrevocable oath to His Messiah King - ‘You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.’ Jesus, Our King is also Our Priest to God - and He will represent us to God. He intercedes for us. HE is our King who is being represented to us. HE is our Priest who represents us to God.”
“Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7 make it clear that this priest, Melchizedek, was before the law. He was not making intercession to God under the law… He was a type and foreshadowing of Jesus, the greater King and Priest of Psalm 110 that would usher in a better and eternal covenant.”
“According to Hebrews 7:2, his name means king of righteousness and being from a town called Peace, he was the king of peace. - Melchizedek was the king of righteousness and peace!”
“Righteousness and Peace come together in Jesus our King and Priest! In Psalm 110:4, God is declaring that a GREATER priest than that of Levitical priesthood… completely outside and greater! - Jesus, my Son, who is on My Throne forever is Our GREAT HIGH PRIEST forever!”
“Sinners cannot approach a Holy God without a mediator, without an intercessor, without a priest that brings a bloody sacrifice as offering to God as a sign of atonement for their sin. The whole priesthood, tied to the law that proved our guilt, was put into place to teach us, to reveal God’s Holiness and our sinfulness. There is no other way for sinners to come near a Holy God.”
“So, the priest represented us to God through the daily sacrifice. OVER AND OVER AND OVER Hebrews 10 describes this daily sacrifice as a shadow (a sign) of what was to come. In fact, the act of these priests could never remove our sin.”
“Our original hope was tied to the Law of the Levitical Priesthood, yet in the end, sinners like us were hopeless without forgiveness! BUT, now eternal hope is being prophesied in Psalm 110 and FULFILLED in the coming of our GREAT HIGH PRIEST - JESUS! And He, under His new and better covenant, brings us in His righteousness before God! Our KING and PRIEST became Our Lamb that shed His blood for our forgiveness and eternal peace!”
“We desperately need Jesus Our King-Priest, because of the wrath of God.”
“In our fallen condition, we seek to be our own mediator, but we need someone who will bring us before God in righteousness. We believe that we don’t need a King-Priest. This will lead to our destruction. We both willfully will not see and blindly cannot see apart from the power of the Gospel to open our eyes to our King and Priest, Jesus. YET, our application is first found in Vs 3 [Read Vs 3 with me]. Willing and Freely (there is a Gladness in our response to King Jesus)”
QUOTES:
C.H. Spurgeon - “Jehovah said unto my Adonai: David in spirit heard the solemn voice of Jehovah speaking to the Messiah from of old. What wonderful intercourse there has been between the Father and the Son! From this secret and intimate communion spring the covenant of grace and all its marvellous arrangements. All the great acts of grace are brought into actual being by the word of God;... How condescending on Jehovah’s part to permit a mortal ear to hear, and a human pen to record his secret converse with his co-equal Son! How greatly should we prize the revelation of his private and solemn discourse with the Son, herein made public for the refreshing of his people I Lord!”
John Calvin - “Having the testimony of Christ that this psalm was penned in reference to himself, we need not apply to any other quarter for the corroboration of this statement…”
Martin Luther - Psalm 110 “is the very core and quintessence of the whole Scripture. No other psalm prophesies as abundantly and completely about Christ.”
Dane Ortland - “Christ is your king, representing God to you, but he is also your priest representing you to God.”
ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE:
Matthew 22:41-46
Mark 12:35-37,
Luke 20:41-44
Who is Melchizedek?: Genesis 14, Hebrews 7
APPLICATION:
1. We need Jesus, Our King, because we were made for Him.
2. We need Jesus, Our Priest, because He is holy!
The height of our pride leads to believe that we don’t even need a king. (“we are a government of the people”… or better yet a government of me). What in the world is a monarchy anyway? Who needs that? In our fallen condition, we cannot see that we are in the battle for our lives, our eternal lives. We were made for THE King. Yet, in our sin (1 Samuel 8:7), we reject God as our king and we demand a temporary earthly king who will get us what we want. Worse, we live as if we are the king over our own lives, and everyone around us is our subjects.
Q. We see Christ as King, but what is the importance of having Him as our priest? Why do we even need a priest? Why do we need this HIGH KING and PRIEST? Answer: Because of Verses 1 and 5-7! The King reigns and is coming in just, righteous, fury, and wrath upon all His enemies (sinners). Without this Priest-King (of righteousness and peace), we are justly “shattered” and crushed. We need a righteous Priest to bring us before the righteous King!! Death is demanded. Blood is called for and requires a priest… a mediator… an intercessor between us and God.
Knowing that we belong to the King of Heaven (turning away from our self-ruling and away from the kingdom of darkness) Vs. 3 - We freely offer ourselves as willing sacrifices for our King and Priest Jesus out of worship of Him for He sacrificed Himself for us.
SONGS FROM THIS SUNDAY:
Behold Our God
Your Great Name We Praise
My Soul Will Wait (Psalm 62)
From Everlasting (Psalm 90)
Before The Throne Of God Above
NEXT WEEK’S PASSAGE:
Psalm 16
THE BOOK OF THE QUARTER:
