WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.679 Our sermon text today is Psalm 110, all seven verses. 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:12.240 We're in covenant theology as a series, 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.000 and what we can listen for as we read through Psalm 110 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.400 is the covenant of redemption. 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:22.260 So this is God's decree in eternity, outside of time, 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.199 and it's his decree to redeem a people. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.339 The Father will give the Son a people. 00:00:28.339 --> 00:00:30.440 So listen for that theme as we read, 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:37.060 and remember we trust that this is God's inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear, and sufficient word. 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.899 It's God's very own word for you and me, who he calls his people. 00:00:41.380 --> 00:00:43.659 So when I'm done reading, I'll say this is the word of the Lord, 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:45.780 and we'll say together, thanks be to God. 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.659 Psalm 110, starting at verse 1. 00:00:54.519 --> 00:00:55.719 A psalm of David. 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:58.479 The Lord says to my Lord, 00:00:58.979 --> 00:01:02.960 sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. 00:01:03.859 --> 00:01:07.159 The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.140 Rule in the midst of your enemies. 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:14.960 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power in holy garments. 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.579 From the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. 00:01:19.579 --> 00:01:24.000 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.079 You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 00:01:30.039 --> 00:01:32.039 The Lord is at your right hand. 00:01:32.579 --> 00:01:34.840 He will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.879 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses. 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.700 He will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:46.560 He will drink from the brook by the way. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:50.359 Therefore, he will lift up his head. 00:01:51.020 --> 00:01:52.480 This is the word of the Lord. 00:01:53.620 --> 00:01:54.700 Thanks be to God. 00:01:54.820 --> 00:01:55.420 You may be seated. 00:01:55.420 --> 00:02:05.099 The Bible says that the grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord endures forever. 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:08.039 Let's pray. 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:08.060 Let's pray. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.120 Oh God, we receive this promise. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:25.120 That the Son is seated at the right hand of the Father. 00:02:26.460 --> 00:02:28.860 You've put the rod of the King in his hand. 00:02:29.740 --> 00:02:31.480 You've made him a priest forever. 00:02:33.659 --> 00:02:37.280 And you are bringing all the nations under his feet. 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.740 We pray that the kingdom of Christ will advance. 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.620 We pray that he will rule over us with power, Lord. 00:02:46.620 --> 00:02:52.379 May you be glorified as your gospel is declared from this psalm. 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:54.500 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:55.099 Amen. 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:03.500 Well, Jack's parents were in debt. 00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:07.099 They were farmers in the 1850s. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.400 But Ireland had a famine. 00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:12.900 The famous Irish potato famine. 00:03:12.900 --> 00:03:22.140 And so, this young man, when he turned 18, he saw really only one viable option for his future. 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.180 He would walk to the port. 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:28.760 He would go to the little booth where the man was set up with a legal contract. 00:03:30.580 --> 00:03:33.560 And he would talk to them about a future in America. 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:40.979 And they explained to him, you know, this voyage from Ireland all the way to the USA to New York City is very expensive. 00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:42.539 You don't have any money. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.099 And we're guaranteeing for you work when you get there. 00:03:46.219 --> 00:03:50.319 And you'll have the opportunity to become an American citizen and buy land. 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:52.020 Maybe even claim land for free. 00:03:52.020 --> 00:03:57.740 So, Jack signed a paper and he made himself an indentured servant. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.020 He gets a free passage to the new country. 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.480 But he has to work as a slave, as an indentured servant for seven years. 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.860 And at the end of that time, his hard work earns for him redemption. 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:13.100 He's released of that bondage. 00:04:13.099 --> 00:04:18.560 America is defined by an immigrant work ethic. 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:19.480 It always has been. 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:20.680 That's how this nation began. 00:04:21.219 --> 00:04:24.740 And that's really what drives this pulse of this strong American economy. 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:32.300 And I think because we are all living in America, we need to be very careful that we have this immigrant work ethic. 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:36.100 And we try to apply that now to our view of the kingdom of Christ. 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.699 You and I, we were born in Adam's line. 00:04:41.699 --> 00:04:46.079 We were born with this massive debt and we piled on our own debt on top of it. 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:47.719 Just like that immigrant. 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:55.519 But we can easily deceive ourselves to thinking that we can just sell ourselves as a slave to God, maybe. 00:04:56.139 --> 00:05:00.159 And work hard in order to determine our own destiny. 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.879 And while that can be true in America, land of social mobility and opportunity, 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:09.180 this is not the truth of the kingdom of heaven. 00:05:09.180 --> 00:05:12.920 Spiritually, you and I are in debt. 00:05:14.019 --> 00:05:17.699 Our first parents are the ones who sold all of us into slavery. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.460 But we are hopelessly cursed under the covenant of works. 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:26.780 And the kingdom of God, you're going to want to say amen after this. 00:05:26.860 --> 00:05:29.240 The kingdom of God is not the USA. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:30.819 Thank you. 00:05:30.819 --> 00:05:34.920 You can't buy your way into the kingdom of God. 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.199 You don't work for your redemption. 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:46.259 If your good works were what determines your redemption, you and I would be hopeless, right? 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:53.379 Well, one of the glorious pictures, it's really a metaphor for God's eternal decree to save a people. 00:05:53.819 --> 00:05:55.719 It comes from David. 00:05:56.779 --> 00:06:01.639 And if there's anyone who knows and has put it in the records of history, I cannot save myself. 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:02.539 I am a sinner. 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:03.699 It's King David. 00:06:04.379 --> 00:06:05.620 We know David's story. 00:06:06.379 --> 00:06:07.500 Praise God it came from him. 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:12.579 If it came from someone like Daniel, you know, or Ezra or someone very admirable, Joseph, 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.620 I would have a hard time believing that this could also be for me, but it comes from David. 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:18.319 So let's take comfort in that. 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:27.819 Psalm 110 that we just read is the most quoted or alluded to psalm in all of the New Testament. 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:34.240 So do you see the New Testament authors by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit are pointing back and saying there's significance here. 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:35.579 Pay attention to this. 00:06:35.579 --> 00:06:37.759 This is meaningful for the new covenant. 00:06:38.159 --> 00:06:44.120 24 different times in the New Testament is Psalm 110 quoted directly or alluded to. 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:51.379 So beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the question I invite you to contemplate today is this. 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:55.199 What determines your redemption? 00:06:56.659 --> 00:06:59.399 What determines your redemption? 00:07:00.579 --> 00:07:03.439 There's not a more important question you could think about for an hour. 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.699 Everything's at stake. 00:07:06.819 --> 00:07:08.860 What determines to define redemption? 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:14.560 What determines whether you are pardoned from the penalties of God's violated law? 00:07:15.459 --> 00:07:20.300 What determines whether you are ransomed from your bondage to sin? 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:21.860 You need to know the answer to this. 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:27.420 So my first point for you is this. 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:35.840 It pleased our triune God to express his eternal decree by way of covenant. 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.819 That's the language of our confession of faith. 00:07:39.819 --> 00:07:42.719 It pleased the Lord to condescend. 00:07:43.019 --> 00:07:49.479 As Ryan put it in Sunday school, it's like God stoops down and he expresses this to us by way of covenant. 00:07:50.819 --> 00:07:52.759 So look again at the heading of this psalm. 00:07:52.859 --> 00:07:54.179 It's Psalm 110 verse 1. 00:07:54.259 --> 00:07:56.059 We're told it's a psalm of David. 00:07:56.559 --> 00:07:59.039 You got to keep the characters correctly in your mind here. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.000 So David's the one writing this. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:03.660 And the first words say this. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.780 The Lord. 00:08:05.080 --> 00:08:05.780 That's Yahweh. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:06.340 Jehovah. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.480 That's the God of Israel. 00:08:07.640 --> 00:08:10.520 So David's beginning this psalm by declaring God's name. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:11.620 Yahweh. 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:13.000 That's one of the characters. 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:15.160 David's the human author writing it. 00:08:16.180 --> 00:08:18.240 Yahweh says to my Lord. 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:19.620 The great King David. 00:08:19.700 --> 00:08:23.520 The one who had all these messianic promises attached to his name and his line. 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:29.079 That great King David has a Lord that's other than Yahweh. 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:30.199 What's going on here? 00:08:33.579 --> 00:08:37.259 This isn't only complicated or hard for us if we read it like that. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.379 This was hard for the Jews when Christ walked on the earth. 00:08:40.779 --> 00:08:46.439 In Matthew 22 verse 42 and in the other gospels, Jesus takes them to this. 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.319 He says, oh teachers of the law, look here. 00:08:50.059 --> 00:08:52.039 Whose son is the Christ? 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.159 Christ means the anointed one, the promised Messiah. 00:08:56.439 --> 00:09:00.699 If then David calls him Lord, how is he David's son? 00:09:02.099 --> 00:09:07.259 Jesus is basically saying, oh, you masters of the law, come back and look at Psalm 110. 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:08.939 Look at all of the old covenant. 00:09:09.719 --> 00:09:11.240 I want you to study this. 00:09:12.199 --> 00:09:13.439 And it silences them. 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.139 They don't have any ways of explaining it. 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.360 Christ had to be that full revelation to show what's going on. 00:09:19.339 --> 00:09:20.959 So who are the parties here? 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.759 Well, one is the Lord, Yahweh, God, the God of Israel. 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:27.019 And he says to David's Lord. 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.240 And Jesus is revealing in the new covenant, I am David's Lord. 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:34.400 Yes, I am from the line of David. 00:09:34.680 --> 00:09:36.220 I am the son of David. 00:09:36.280 --> 00:09:37.680 I will sit on the throne of David. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.740 I will be the king over all of God's people. 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:43.000 But I'm also David's Lord. 00:09:43.900 --> 00:09:47.780 Outside of time, I'm the one that David got somehow a glimpse. 00:09:47.779 --> 00:09:50.740 And this is how that revelation came out on the page. 00:09:51.740 --> 00:09:57.879 So we need to now walk through this psalm with that correct New Testament interpretation that Jesus gave us. 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:01.740 We need to read this psalm as father in dialogue with son. 00:10:02.699 --> 00:10:06.559 God the father in dialogue with God the son in eternity past. 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.059 Before Jesus took on a body. 00:10:08.059 --> 00:10:10.639 Are you still with us? 00:10:12.139 --> 00:10:13.459 This is so beautiful. 00:10:13.599 --> 00:10:16.179 It's so beautiful because this is what Jesus comes to reveal. 00:10:17.779 --> 00:10:24.339 So the father says to the son, I will promise you so many things that we're going to walk through. 00:10:25.019 --> 00:10:26.859 But you got to ask to, okay, hold on. 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:33.100 Your first point was that it pleased our triune God to express his eternal decree by way of covenant. 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:33.820 I heard father. 00:10:33.899 --> 00:10:34.399 I heard son. 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:35.639 Where's the Holy Spirit? 00:10:36.419 --> 00:10:41.919 Well, in Sunday school, we're seeing all these other places where we can bring in what God has revealed. 00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:44.539 So one example are the servant songs. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.960 One of those is Isaiah 42.1. 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:50.000 God says, behold my servant. 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.720 So that's God the father referring to his son as a servant in this covenant. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.540 Whom I uphold. 00:10:57.040 --> 00:10:59.340 My chosen one in whom my soul delights. 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.480 That's the language of the father describing his son who would become a servant. 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:08.279 And he says, I have put my spirit upon him. 00:11:09.560 --> 00:11:14.500 Isaiah 61.1 says, the spirit of the Lord God is upon me. 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:16.160 Now it's the son declaring it. 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.560 Because the Lord has anointed me. 00:11:20.540 --> 00:11:22.399 So the spirit of God is everywhere. 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:23.600 God is one. 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:25.399 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:34.159 Covenanting together is the language God has given us to understand what the father promised the son and sealed by the spirit. 00:11:35.579 --> 00:11:36.939 Okay, still on this first point. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:37.959 When did this happen? 00:11:38.980 --> 00:11:41.319 Well, Titus chapter 1 verse 2 says, 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.620 God who never lies promised the hope of eternal life when? 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:47.920 Before the ages began. 00:11:48.680 --> 00:11:51.240 This is when God promises the hope of eternal life. 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:53.140 When does it happen? 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:54.500 2 Timothy 1.9. 00:11:55.060 --> 00:11:59.280 God's own purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus when? 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.680 Before the ages began. 00:12:02.379 --> 00:12:08.200 So this inter-Trinitarian covenant, it takes place before the ages began according to scripture. 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:13.740 What can we call this intra-Trinitarian dialogue before time began? 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:20.700 Well, the Bible metaphorically calls this the covenant because he says, look at verse 4 of Psalm 110. 00:12:21.140 --> 00:12:21.960 Verse 4 he says, 00:12:22.400 --> 00:12:25.379 The Lord has sworn he will not repent. 00:12:25.780 --> 00:12:27.040 The Lord makes an oath. 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:29.220 That's covenantal language. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.879 So God calls this an oath-bound promise. 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:36.259 It's a commitment with legal sanctions. 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:44.019 In church history, they've come to describe it as the covenant of redemption. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:49.740 And it's helpful for us to continue using the same terms that the church has used over the centuries 00:12:49.740 --> 00:12:52.340 because we're in dialogue with the larger church. 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.159 We're understanding it in the same way that those who have gone before us have. 00:12:56.899 --> 00:12:59.419 One definition by J.B. Fesco I think is helpful. 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.100 What is the covenant of redemption? 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:06.100 He says it's the pre-temporal, before time, intra-Trinitarian. 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:07.580 There's Father, Son, and Spirit. 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.360 Oath-bound promise to redeem a people in Christ. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:15.940 That's what the covenant of redemption is. 00:13:17.620 --> 00:13:19.100 I just want to comfort you. 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:23.980 The fact that God's plan to redeem us is before the ages began. 00:13:24.620 --> 00:13:27.920 And it's attached to God Himself, Father, Son, and Spirit. 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:29.700 And God does not change. 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:30.620 God is immutable. 00:13:31.100 --> 00:13:33.080 This is grounds for such hope. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.000 Such security. 00:13:35.860 --> 00:13:40.100 Thomas Boston, 1800s Scottish pastor, he wrote, 00:13:40.520 --> 00:13:43.860 God's decree to redeem you is eternal. 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:50.620 If the divine decrees were not eternal, God would be changeable and imperfect. 00:13:51.020 --> 00:13:51.980 So it's impossible. 00:13:52.540 --> 00:13:55.040 God has decreed to redeem His people. 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:56.579 And it will happen. 00:13:57.719 --> 00:14:00.719 So brothers and sisters, take comfort in this first point. 00:14:01.819 --> 00:14:05.719 God decreed to redeem you from all eternity. 00:14:06.439 --> 00:14:08.719 And He bound up this promise in Himself. 00:14:09.379 --> 00:14:10.579 And God is immutable. 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:12.959 You are secure. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:19.679 It pleased our triune God to express His eternal decree by way of covenant. 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:23.139 So now I want to walk through what is this covenant. 00:14:23.379 --> 00:14:24.319 What did God promise? 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:25.059 What's in it? 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:27.000 This is our second point. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:27.559 Number two. 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:33.919 In the covenant of redemption, the Father promised the Son victory over His enemies. 00:14:34.599 --> 00:14:37.139 Let's see the rest of verse 1 and verse 2. 00:14:37.139 --> 00:14:39.860 The Father says to the Son, 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:46.080 You will sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:53.519 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion to rule in the midst of your enemies. 00:14:54.379 --> 00:14:57.139 So for David, this language is so loaded. 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:00.159 You know, Zion was not even part of the kingdom. 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:05.399 I mean, he had to go as a scrappy soldier with Saul as a disgraceful king before him. 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.959 And they had to conquer Zion, take the hill, and establish this as the fortress of God. 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:12.059 And here's where the temple would be built. 00:15:12.539 --> 00:15:15.500 So from here we would have the office of king and priest. 00:15:15.939 --> 00:15:16.899 And God would rule. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.559 And in David's mind, this is a promise for someone from the line of David to be there, 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:23.399 ruling as a king and a priest. 00:15:24.659 --> 00:15:28.159 And that God Himself promises to make all of the enemies, 00:15:28.259 --> 00:15:31.100 all those who want to oppose the theocracy of God, 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:35.920 He will make them a footstool under the feet of this kingly priest. 00:15:36.700 --> 00:15:37.860 What a glorious promise. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.420 Let's cut this diamond that we have in these verses with more diamond, 00:15:44.540 --> 00:15:45.560 more parts of the scripture. 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:49.159 So here we have the Father saying to the Son, 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.820 Son, you will go on a mission for me. 00:15:53.820 --> 00:15:56.000 The Son says, 00:15:56.140 --> 00:15:59.860 Father, I will go to the world to do your will. 00:16:01.060 --> 00:16:06.000 Notice how Jesus describes this mission in Matthew 13, verse 38. 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:07.280 Jesus said, 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.160 This field is the world. 00:16:10.800 --> 00:16:12.640 The good seed is the sons of the kingdom. 00:16:13.180 --> 00:16:15.120 The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 00:16:15.140 --> 00:16:16.960 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. 00:16:17.640 --> 00:16:19.840 The harvest is at the end of the age, 00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:21.460 and the reapers are the angels. 00:16:21.460 --> 00:16:24.000 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:27.940 so it will be at the end of the age. 00:16:29.500 --> 00:16:34.259 The world is described as this field that belongs to God. 00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:36.040 And God's saying, 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:37.639 I'm going to send you, my son, 00:16:38.379 --> 00:16:40.120 into this mission field. 00:16:40.920 --> 00:16:41.900 In this mission field, 00:16:42.040 --> 00:16:43.879 you have your people that will be like the wheat. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:45.340 You're going to harvest them out of the world. 00:16:45.620 --> 00:16:47.180 And there are others that will oppose you. 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:48.000 They will hate you. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.259 And for them, 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:52.419 they will be cut and thrown and burned like the chaff. 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.799 This is what God is promising his son. 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.039 You will rule over all the world one day. 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.120 On that great day of the Lord, 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.480 all will look to you as the king. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.539 Some will be a gracious people 00:17:06.539 --> 00:17:08.400 that bless you for being their savior. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:10.460 Others will oppose you to the end, 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.779 and they will be crushed under your feet. 00:17:12.779 --> 00:17:16.399 This is what God decrees. 00:17:18.019 --> 00:17:20.920 Victory for the son over God's enemies. 00:17:22.059 --> 00:17:23.399 And Thomas Boston again wrote, 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.059 whoever, whatsoever God decrees comes to pass. 00:17:27.639 --> 00:17:28.579 It's infallible. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.599 Isaiah 46.10 says that 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.859 God declares the end from the beginning, 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.039 from ancient times, 00:17:35.399 --> 00:17:36.660 things not yet done. 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:37.680 And he says, 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.099 my counsel shall stand. 00:17:40.500 --> 00:17:42.460 I will do my pleasure. 00:17:42.779 --> 00:17:45.579 This is God's decree. 00:17:46.299 --> 00:17:48.019 Let's see how the new covenant now 00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:49.960 sheds light on this decree. 00:17:50.639 --> 00:17:53.000 That the son will rule over all of God's enemies. 00:17:53.660 --> 00:17:55.359 Hebrews 10.13 says that 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:56.980 our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:17:57.139 --> 00:17:59.279 having crushed the serpent's head on the cross, 00:17:59.639 --> 00:18:00.460 he ascended. 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:02.200 He went up. 00:18:02.639 --> 00:18:04.619 And he is waiting until his enemies 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:07.299 should be made a footstool at his feet. 00:18:07.299 --> 00:18:08.859 So the son now, 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.079 as the kingdom advances on earth, 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:11.680 is waiting. 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.299 And the father is the one doing the work 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:15.639 by the ministry of the spirit. 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:17.059 Through the church, 00:18:18.159 --> 00:18:19.599 his kingdom is extending. 00:18:21.099 --> 00:18:22.960 Well, who are the enemies of God? 00:18:23.099 --> 00:18:24.919 Who are these enemies that will be brought low 00:18:24.919 --> 00:18:26.139 before the feet of the king? 00:18:26.779 --> 00:18:28.119 Romans 5.10 says that 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.200 while we, to the church, 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:31.180 while we church, 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.919 were enemies of God, 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.940 we were reconciled to God 00:18:34.940 --> 00:18:36.680 by the death of his son. 00:18:37.220 --> 00:18:38.380 He's conquered us. 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:41.880 He brings us now in humility before his feet. 00:18:43.019 --> 00:18:44.480 His death purchased us 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:46.700 to belong to him as his possession 00:18:46.700 --> 00:18:48.460 and him as our king. 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:51.240 The last one on this point is 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.500 Corinthians 15.25-26. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.019 Now the church, 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.140 having been brought under the kingdom of Christ, 00:18:59.259 --> 00:19:00.060 being at his feet, 00:19:00.420 --> 00:19:01.300 belonging to him, 00:19:01.299 --> 00:19:03.480 Christ will reign 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.200 until he has put his enemies under his feet. 00:19:06.899 --> 00:19:09.980 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:13.579 So we reign with Christ in a spiritual sense now, 00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:14.899 but we will die. 00:19:15.399 --> 00:19:16.960 We still long for that great day 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.460 when there will be no more death and dying. 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:21.259 But in the meantime, 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.799 his kingdom is real. 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:24.299 It's inaugurated spiritually. 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:27.419 So we describe the victory of Christ 00:19:27.419 --> 00:19:29.700 as an already spiritual victory, 00:19:29.700 --> 00:19:31.960 though it's not yet consummated. 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.420 That great day is still coming 00:19:33.420 --> 00:19:35.100 and we long for that day. 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.720 So in the covenant of redemption, 00:19:38.299 --> 00:19:39.759 the father promised the son 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.380 victory over all of his enemies. 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:44.860 Number three, 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:45.980 in the covenant of redemption, 00:19:46.180 --> 00:19:48.059 the father promised his son 00:19:48.059 --> 00:19:51.019 a people that will love him. 00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:54.579 In the covenant of redemption, 00:19:54.579 --> 00:19:56.680 the father promised his son 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.460 a people that will love him. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:00.799 Look at verse three, 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:02.440 Psalm 110 verse three. 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:05.680 The father says, 00:20:06.879 --> 00:20:08.119 thy people, son, 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.900 shall be willing in the day of thy power, 00:20:11.139 --> 00:20:12.859 in the beauties of holiness, 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:14.339 from the womb of the morning, 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.279 for thou hast the dew of thy youth. 00:20:18.139 --> 00:20:19.900 Now there's some Hebrew poetry here. 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:21.720 The womb of the morning, 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:23.280 the very beginning of the day. 00:20:23.600 --> 00:20:25.519 It's describing that great day of the Lord. 00:20:25.940 --> 00:20:26.940 From the very beginning, 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:30.880 you will be like the dew. 00:20:31.259 --> 00:20:33.300 You will be like that transparent, 00:20:33.580 --> 00:20:36.200 clear, refreshing, pure light 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:37.519 that comes from heaven, 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:39.700 refreshed, preserved. 00:20:40.660 --> 00:20:42.780 The son will take on a flesh, 00:20:43.120 --> 00:20:44.640 but he'll be an eternal, 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:46.640 glorified king forever. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:48.500 He will be beautiful. 00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:51.980 And his people will behold his glory. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.519 The decree of our Lord God here, 00:20:56.619 --> 00:20:58.099 it is just like that dew. 00:20:58.460 --> 00:20:59.819 It's like the womb of the morning. 00:21:00.299 --> 00:21:02.420 God's decree is light. 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:03.660 It's most pure. 00:21:05.019 --> 00:21:08.700 1 John 1 says that God is light 00:21:08.700 --> 00:21:11.220 and in him there is no darkness at all. 00:21:11.220 --> 00:21:13.640 So here in this, 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:15.920 in this intra-Trinitarian covenant, 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:19.420 God the Father is the covenant Lord. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:22.240 And he's speaking to his son 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.940 who willingly takes the position 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:26.779 in this covenant to redeem 00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:28.079 as the vassal servant. 00:21:28.860 --> 00:21:29.799 The father is the Lord, 00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:31.500 the son is here to serve 00:21:31.500 --> 00:21:32.920 and do what the father tells him. 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:36.240 The reason I emphasize that 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.740 is because what does that make us? 00:21:40.779 --> 00:21:43.120 These are the parties of this covenant of redemption, 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:44.480 father and son, 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:46.279 sealed by the spirit. 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:47.039 What about us? 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:48.539 How do we fit into the story? 00:21:50.300 --> 00:21:51.300 Verse 3 says that 00:21:51.300 --> 00:21:54.140 your people will be willing 00:21:54.140 --> 00:21:55.880 on the day of your power. 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.340 God the Father will give to the son 00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:01.020 a people as a reward. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:03.060 Not robots, 00:22:03.560 --> 00:22:04.760 not pre-programmed, 00:22:04.760 --> 00:22:05.000 you know, 00:22:05.100 --> 00:22:06.420 vessels that are just going to be there 00:22:06.420 --> 00:22:07.460 because they had to. 00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:09.320 No, the father promises 00:22:09.320 --> 00:22:10.260 to give the son 00:22:10.260 --> 00:22:11.700 a people who love him, 00:22:12.040 --> 00:22:13.720 who willingly offer themselves 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:15.440 like volunteer soldiers. 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:19.300 This is good news, folks. 00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:22.200 We are the reward in this covenant. 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:24.280 We are not the servants. 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:27.039 Christ became the servant 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.859 and the father gives his people 00:22:28.859 --> 00:22:29.779 to his son 00:22:29.779 --> 00:22:32.160 as a reward for his obedience. 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:35.299 In a sense, 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:36.539 it's not even about us. 00:22:36.619 --> 00:22:37.180 Do you see that? 00:22:38.059 --> 00:22:39.660 This is between father and son 00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:42.079 because God is love. 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.259 I'm trying to distinguish as well 00:22:46.259 --> 00:22:48.039 the covenant of redemption 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:49.599 from the covenant of grace. 00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:51.539 Now in the covenant of grace, 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:53.139 Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:22:53.140 --> 00:22:53.220 Lord, 00:22:53.860 --> 00:22:55.080 well, what does that make us? 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:56.360 We're his servants. 00:22:56.840 --> 00:22:58.040 But we're willing servants. 00:22:58.180 --> 00:22:58.740 We're joyful. 00:22:59.780 --> 00:23:00.860 We're safe sinners. 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:01.960 Of course we want to serve 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:02.740 this good king. 00:23:03.580 --> 00:23:04.720 But in the covenant of redemption, 00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:05.860 the father is the Lord 00:23:05.860 --> 00:23:07.660 and the son is the servant. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:14.580 Second London Confession says, 00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:16.980 the father gave the son 00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:19.439 a people in eternity 00:23:19.439 --> 00:23:21.460 whom in time, 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:23.039 that means in history, 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:24.619 the son redeemed. 00:23:25.439 --> 00:23:26.500 And those he redeemed, 00:23:26.699 --> 00:23:27.299 he calls. 00:23:27.659 --> 00:23:28.240 Those he calls, 00:23:28.299 --> 00:23:29.019 he justifies. 00:23:29.139 --> 00:23:30.419 Those he justifies, 00:23:30.659 --> 00:23:31.720 he sanctifies. 00:23:31.919 --> 00:23:32.919 And those he sanctifies, 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:34.939 he will one day glorify. 00:23:35.579 --> 00:23:37.079 Praise God for this promise. 00:23:38.779 --> 00:23:39.799 It's like the son says, 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:40.139 father, 00:23:41.139 --> 00:23:41.720 I want, 00:23:41.879 --> 00:23:43.240 I want to be a king 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:43.879 over a people 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:45.299 that will be joyful 00:23:45.299 --> 00:23:46.159 to join my army 00:23:46.159 --> 00:23:46.759 and to fight 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:47.960 and to follow me 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:48.720 and march with me. 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:50.159 I want a people 00:23:50.159 --> 00:23:51.019 that can share 00:23:51.019 --> 00:23:52.480 in our love. 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:54.899 I want the oppressed 00:23:54.899 --> 00:23:55.680 of this world 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:56.619 to feel like 00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:57.399 they are adopted. 00:23:57.799 --> 00:23:58.940 They belong to us. 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:00.319 They belong to God. 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.539 In Isaiah 42, 00:24:03.679 --> 00:24:03.859 1, 00:24:03.919 --> 00:24:04.759 we get this insight. 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:06.179 The servant, 00:24:06.379 --> 00:24:06.939 the servant, 00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:07.559 the son, 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:09.139 he will bring forth 00:24:09.139 --> 00:24:10.480 justice to the nations. 00:24:11.579 --> 00:24:12.480 Isaiah 61, 00:24:12.639 --> 00:24:13.379 verse 1 says, 00:24:13.460 --> 00:24:14.500 he will bring good news 00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:15.139 to the poor. 00:24:15.899 --> 00:24:17.159 The father has sent the son 00:24:17.159 --> 00:24:18.859 to bind up the brokenhearted, 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:20.240 to proclaim liberty 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:21.139 to the captives 00:24:21.139 --> 00:24:22.519 and to open the prison 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:24.000 for those who are bound. 00:24:24.879 --> 00:24:26.339 The father says to his son, 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:27.179 oh son, 00:24:27.679 --> 00:24:29.059 your people will see 00:24:29.059 --> 00:24:30.720 the beauty of your holiness 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.259 as their savior. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:34.720 Their hearts will ache for you. 00:24:37.019 --> 00:24:38.000 In Ephesians 1, 00:24:38.059 --> 00:24:38.639 4, 00:24:38.740 --> 00:24:39.220 we're told that 00:24:39.220 --> 00:24:40.899 the father chose us, 00:24:41.659 --> 00:24:42.000 Christians, 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:43.819 the father chose you 00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:45.519 in Christ 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:47.099 before the foundation 00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.940 of the world 00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:49.559 that we should be holy 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:50.799 and blameless 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:51.599 before him. 00:24:52.399 --> 00:24:53.679 He did this in love. 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:57.859 My point was that 00:24:57.859 --> 00:24:58.960 in the covenant of redemption, 00:24:59.059 --> 00:25:00.799 the father promised the son 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:01.440 a people 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.960 that will love him. 00:25:04.859 --> 00:25:06.200 You want to be this people. 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.279 This is who we want to be. 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:09.500 And here's the test. 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:11.259 Do you love the son? 00:25:12.399 --> 00:25:13.440 Do you love him? 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:15.579 Then you belong to him 00:25:15.579 --> 00:25:16.859 because the father 00:25:16.859 --> 00:25:18.519 gave you to his son. 00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:22.259 We're still tempted 00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:23.059 to think like that 00:25:23.059 --> 00:25:24.200 immigrant work ethic 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:25.919 where I can sell myself 00:25:25.919 --> 00:25:26.740 and work for God 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:27.779 and earn his love. 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.900 Augustine confessed, 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:32.480 the confession of evil works 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.700 is the first beginning 00:25:33.700 --> 00:25:34.539 of good works. 00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:36.440 Grace is given 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:37.839 not because we have done 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:38.440 good works, 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:39.460 but in order 00:25:39.460 --> 00:25:40.720 that we may be able 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:41.799 to do them. 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:42.519 See, 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:43.740 under the covenant of works, 00:25:43.900 --> 00:25:45.240 we were unwilling 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:46.839 to surrender to God. 00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:48.059 Under the curses 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:49.000 of the covenant of works, 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:49.779 we are proud 00:25:49.779 --> 00:25:51.079 and cold-hearted. 00:25:51.779 --> 00:25:52.799 And we love sin. 00:25:54.139 --> 00:25:55.819 But God makes us willing. 00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:58.119 He makes us eager 00:25:58.119 --> 00:25:59.299 to confess our sin 00:25:59.299 --> 00:26:00.379 and depend on God 00:26:00.379 --> 00:26:01.440 as our Savior. 00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:03.660 So that's the promise 00:26:03.660 --> 00:26:04.259 for you today. 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:05.899 God makes you, 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:07.700 whom Jesus Christ 00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:08.379 has redeemed, 00:26:08.899 --> 00:26:10.379 willing to follow him. 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:12.420 If you ever question 00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:13.079 your salvation, 00:26:13.579 --> 00:26:14.819 be reminded of that question. 00:26:15.139 --> 00:26:16.960 I willingly follow Christ, 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:17.619 joyfully. 00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:19.099 Who else could I follow? 00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:21.439 Because in the covenant 00:26:21.439 --> 00:26:22.039 of redemption, 00:26:22.239 --> 00:26:23.659 the Father promised his Son 00:26:23.659 --> 00:26:26.359 a people that will love him. 00:26:27.139 --> 00:26:27.959 Praise God. 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:30.079 Fourth point here 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:30.739 is that the covenant 00:26:30.739 --> 00:26:31.379 of redemption, 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:33.219 it was a covenant 00:26:33.219 --> 00:26:35.279 of works for the Son. 00:26:36.899 --> 00:26:37.939 What determines 00:26:37.939 --> 00:26:38.579 your redemption? 00:26:39.459 --> 00:26:40.779 You can't work for it. 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:42.379 Well, guess what? 00:26:42.699 --> 00:26:43.779 Someone else had to. 00:26:44.899 --> 00:26:45.179 Therefore, 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:46.319 the covenant of redemption, 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.519 it was a covenant 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:49.139 of works for the Son. 00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:52.740 Notice what God says 00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.500 here in verse 4. 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:55.099 The Lord has sworn 00:26:55.099 --> 00:26:56.400 and will not repent. 00:26:56.539 --> 00:26:57.839 Thou art a priest forever 00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.079 after the order 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:00.519 of Melchizedek. 00:27:02.099 --> 00:27:03.220 The Father says, 00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:03.500 Son, 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:05.819 you see the rewards 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:07.119 I promise to give you. 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:09.180 I promise to make 00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:10.000 all the nations, 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:11.059 all your enemies 00:27:11.059 --> 00:27:11.940 will come and bow 00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:12.559 at your feet. 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:14.639 But there's a problem. 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:15.140 God is holy. 00:27:15.140 --> 00:27:17.080 God is holy. 00:27:17.580 --> 00:27:18.180 And this people 00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:18.800 I'm going to give you, 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:19.740 they are not holy. 00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:22.920 They need a priest. 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.360 These people need 00:27:24.360 --> 00:27:25.060 a mediator. 00:27:26.020 --> 00:27:27.120 And it can't be someone 00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:28.400 from this cursed line. 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:30.340 It can't just be a Levite 00:27:30.340 --> 00:27:31.380 like every other priest. 00:27:32.460 --> 00:27:34.140 It cannot be a man 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.880 to stand between God and man. 00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:37.200 It must be you, 00:27:37.540 --> 00:27:38.340 God the Son. 00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:40.919 And you're not only 00:27:40.919 --> 00:27:42.139 going to be a priest, 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:42.659 you're going to be 00:27:42.659 --> 00:27:43.579 a kingly priest. 00:27:43.699 --> 00:27:44.859 It's different than 00:27:44.859 --> 00:27:46.379 the system that Israel knows. 00:27:47.439 --> 00:27:48.839 You will be a kingly priest 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:49.839 that ransoms them. 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.579 The Father says, 00:27:52.679 --> 00:27:52.919 Son, 00:27:53.179 --> 00:27:54.879 your work in this covenant 00:27:54.879 --> 00:27:57.000 is not only to be a priest. 00:27:58.279 --> 00:27:59.859 Your work is to be 00:27:59.859 --> 00:28:02.099 the sacrifice as well. 00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:05.459 We get a hint 00:28:05.459 --> 00:28:06.559 at the Son's response 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:08.440 in Isaiah 52, 13. 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:11.339 The Father says, 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:11.919 Behold, 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:12.839 my servant, 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:14.799 he's speaking of his own son, 00:28:15.659 --> 00:28:16.279 my servant 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:17.419 shall sprinkle 00:28:17.419 --> 00:28:18.519 many nations. 00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:20.319 That's the work 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:21.259 I need my servant, 00:28:21.639 --> 00:28:22.059 my son, 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:22.619 to go do. 00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:24.639 And the Son says 00:28:24.639 --> 00:28:26.079 in the words of Isaiah 50, 00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:27.700 6 and 7, 00:28:28.639 --> 00:28:29.059 Father, 00:28:29.460 --> 00:28:30.960 I will give my back 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.460 to those who strike. 00:28:33.139 --> 00:28:34.359 I will give my cheek 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:35.819 to those who pull out 00:28:35.819 --> 00:28:36.319 the beard. 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.460 I will not hide my face 00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:39.759 from disgrace 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:40.940 and spitting. 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:42.079 Father, 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.859 I will fulfill the mission, 00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:45.419 the work you give me 00:28:45.419 --> 00:28:46.440 in this covenant. 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:48.159 And I will do this 00:28:48.159 --> 00:28:49.339 trusting your word. 00:28:50.099 --> 00:28:51.659 Also from Isaiah 50. 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.259 Picture Jesus 00:28:53.259 --> 00:28:54.440 praying this to the Father. 00:28:55.179 --> 00:28:56.519 Isaiah 50, verse 7. 00:28:56.899 --> 00:28:57.960 Oh Lord God, 00:28:58.059 --> 00:28:58.839 you help me. 00:28:59.319 --> 00:28:59.559 Therefore, 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:01.299 I will not be disgraced. 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:02.000 Therefore, 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:03.659 I will set my face 00:29:03.659 --> 00:29:04.759 like a flint. 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:06.460 I know that I shall 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:08.440 not be put to shame. 00:29:09.299 --> 00:29:10.160 It's the Father 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:11.440 who sustains Him. 00:29:14.379 --> 00:29:15.799 This was decreed 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.039 before the ages began. 00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:20.500 J.C. Ryle 00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:21.400 pointed this out. 00:29:21.879 --> 00:29:23.259 All of Christ's sufferings 00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:24.160 on the cross 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.440 were foreordained. 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:26.799 They did not come 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:28.000 on Him by chance 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:29.220 or by accident. 00:29:29.539 --> 00:29:30.559 They were all planned, 00:29:31.099 --> 00:29:31.680 counseled, 00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:32.720 determined from 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:33.500 all eternity. 00:29:33.500 --> 00:29:34.620 The cross 00:29:34.620 --> 00:29:36.019 was foreseen 00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:37.519 in all the provisions 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:38.299 of the Trinity 00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:39.860 for the salvation 00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:40.900 of sinners. 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:43.059 God set up 00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:43.900 the cross 00:29:43.900 --> 00:29:45.079 from everlasting. 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:49.339 In the words of 00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:50.740 Hebrews 12, 2, 00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.819 it's like the Son says, 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:52.220 Father, 00:29:53.360 --> 00:29:54.460 it's for the joy 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:55.680 that you 00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.259 have set before me 00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:58.759 that I will 00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.839 endure the cross 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:01.299 and I will despise 00:30:01.299 --> 00:30:02.199 the shame 00:30:02.199 --> 00:30:03.679 and I will do it 00:30:03.679 --> 00:30:04.339 for that people 00:30:04.339 --> 00:30:05.259 you promised me. 00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:07.500 The Son will obey 00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:08.139 His Father 00:30:08.139 --> 00:30:10.240 for you, church. 00:30:12.879 --> 00:30:13.859 Thomas Boston, 00:30:15.179 --> 00:30:15.799 God's decree 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:16.659 to redeem you 00:30:16.659 --> 00:30:18.319 is most wise. 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.500 God says 00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:20.619 He will not repent 00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:21.259 of it. 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:22.059 Verse 4, 00:30:22.539 --> 00:30:23.959 God sees all the things 00:30:23.959 --> 00:30:25.139 together and at once. 00:30:25.339 --> 00:30:26.379 Nothing God decrees 00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:27.380 could ever 00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:28.460 have been 00:30:28.460 --> 00:30:29.480 undermined. 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:32.640 Romans 11, 33 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:33.060 says, 00:30:33.220 --> 00:30:34.100 Oh, the depths 00:30:34.100 --> 00:30:35.160 of the riches 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:36.260 and the wisdom 00:30:36.260 --> 00:30:37.320 and the knowledge 00:30:37.320 --> 00:30:37.880 of God. 00:30:38.540 --> 00:30:39.420 This is the only 00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:40.200 response we can 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:40.820 come up with. 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.440 How unsearchable 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:43.940 are God's judgments 00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:45.540 and how inscrutable 00:30:45.540 --> 00:30:47.080 are God's ways. 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.360 Praise God. 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.839 The covenant 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:53.459 of redemption, 00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:54.839 it was a covenant 00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:55.559 of works 00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:56.500 for the Son. 00:30:59.399 --> 00:31:00.679 It was His work 00:31:00.679 --> 00:31:01.519 that determines 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:03.000 your redemption. 00:31:04.619 --> 00:31:05.500 My fifth point 00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:06.059 here is that 00:31:06.059 --> 00:31:07.000 after fulfilling 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:07.539 the covenant 00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:08.159 of redemption, 00:31:08.379 --> 00:31:09.500 the incarnate Son 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:11.479 will then be glorified 00:31:11.479 --> 00:31:12.919 as the ruler 00:31:12.919 --> 00:31:14.099 of the world. 00:31:15.199 --> 00:31:16.279 After fulfilling 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:17.279 the covenant 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:17.899 of redemption, 00:31:17.900 --> 00:31:19.480 the incarnate Son 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.060 now taken on flesh, 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.360 He will be glorified 00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:24.280 forever 00:31:24.280 --> 00:31:25.840 as the ruler 00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:26.500 of the world. 00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:27.759 This is what is 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:29.000 promised in verse 5 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.400 and verse 6. 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:32.660 The Lord at that 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:33.380 right hand 00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:34.660 shall strike 00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:35.440 through the kings 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.300 in the day 00:31:36.300 --> 00:31:37.000 of His wrath. 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:38.340 He shall judge 00:31:38.340 --> 00:31:39.200 among the heathen. 00:31:39.620 --> 00:31:40.420 He shall fill 00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:40.980 the places 00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:42.300 with dead bodies. 00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:43.700 He shall wound 00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:44.720 the heads 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:45.860 over many countries. 00:31:45.859 --> 00:31:48.299 This is the prophetic 00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.379 idiom of David, 00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:50.359 the warrior shepherd. 00:31:51.299 --> 00:31:52.139 David had seen 00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:53.319 a bloody battlefield. 00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:55.019 He'd seen crushed heads. 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.819 He'd seen a king 00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:57.659 on his horse 00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:59.319 splattered in blood, 00:32:00.139 --> 00:32:00.919 galloping around, 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:02.119 celebrating a victory 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:02.619 of battle. 00:32:03.919 --> 00:32:04.839 That's the image 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:06.779 David gives 00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:07.719 the people of God 00:32:07.719 --> 00:32:09.199 inspired by the Holy Spirit. 00:32:09.619 --> 00:32:10.740 This is Christ 00:32:10.740 --> 00:32:12.419 in His glorified state. 00:32:12.420 --> 00:32:16.420 It's like the Father 00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:17.759 is promising the Son, 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:18.980 Son, you will suffer. 00:32:19.580 --> 00:32:20.740 You will be that priest 00:32:20.740 --> 00:32:23.560 from this line of priests 00:32:23.560 --> 00:32:24.860 that no one can even 00:32:24.860 --> 00:32:26.060 have a comparison to 00:32:26.060 --> 00:32:27.480 that will endure forever. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:29.480 You will suffer 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:30.960 as the sacrifice. 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:32.240 But Son, 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:34.480 you will be victorious. 00:32:36.060 --> 00:32:37.340 I will bring your enemies 00:32:37.340 --> 00:32:38.240 at your footstool. 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.220 You set up my right hand 00:32:40.220 --> 00:32:41.539 and I will strike 00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:42.500 through the kings 00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:43.799 on your day, 00:32:44.380 --> 00:32:45.460 on your great day, 00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:47.059 the day of God's wrath. 00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:48.700 You will be victorious 00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:49.720 in battle. 00:32:50.299 --> 00:32:50.920 Your kingdom, 00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:52.740 none can touch. 00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:53.700 All creatures 00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:55.259 that oppose the triune God 00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:56.100 will be slain. 00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.000 We will pour out 00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:58.640 our wrath 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:00.339 on those who abuse 00:33:00.339 --> 00:33:00.980 your bride. 00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:03.120 Our zeal 00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:04.180 for holiness 00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:05.220 will be unleashed. 00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:05.740 unleashed. 00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:07.960 The whole world 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.440 will see the glory 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:10.360 of God. 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.000 You will be glorified 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.160 and our justice 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.480 will be as magnificent 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:18.900 as our grace. 00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:22.680 That's the image 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:23.579 of Jesus Christ 00:33:23.579 --> 00:33:24.600 on His great day, 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:26.920 guaranteed by the Father Himself, 00:33:27.380 --> 00:33:28.519 sealed by the Spirit. 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.000 It will come to pass. 00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:34.519 Zechariah 6.13 says, 00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:35.240 It is He 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:36.220 who shall build 00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:37.440 the temple of the Lord. 00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:39.420 That's the role 00:33:39.420 --> 00:33:40.079 of the priest 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:41.460 in the order of Melchizedek. 00:33:41.579 --> 00:33:42.559 This priest 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:43.220 that will rule 00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:45.039 from God's kingdom 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:46.119 over all the world. 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:47.220 But not only 00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:47.879 will He build 00:33:47.879 --> 00:33:48.440 His temple 00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:49.160 as a priest, 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:50.359 He shall be 00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:51.559 the bearer 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:52.920 of royal honor. 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:54.400 He will also be a king. 00:33:54.879 --> 00:33:55.720 And He shall sit 00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.339 and rule 00:33:56.339 --> 00:33:57.099 on His throne. 00:33:57.379 --> 00:33:58.180 And there shall be 00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:58.839 a priest 00:33:58.839 --> 00:33:59.680 on the throne. 00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:01.079 The two offices 00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:01.799 are combined. 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:02.839 The king 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:03.639 is a priest. 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:04.680 And the priest 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:05.360 is a king. 00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:06.259 And it's all 00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:07.160 in the one person 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:08.240 of the Son. 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:10.260 And the council 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:11.039 of peace 00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.280 shall be between 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:12.920 them both. 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:15.660 This is what God 00:34:15.660 --> 00:34:16.800 decrees for His Son. 00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:19.220 You will suffer, 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:20.559 but you will be victorious. 00:34:20.780 --> 00:34:21.519 And from the kingdom 00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:22.079 of heaven, 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:23.059 you will rule 00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:24.000 over all the world 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.680 as the mediating priest 00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:27.360 and also as the king, 00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:28.800 ruling over the hearts 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:29.460 of your people. 00:34:30.300 --> 00:34:31.019 And those people, 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:31.619 you will see them 00:34:31.619 --> 00:34:32.299 be persecuted 00:34:32.299 --> 00:34:32.960 and suffer. 00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:34.359 We'll use that 00:34:34.359 --> 00:34:35.319 to sanctify them. 00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:35.980 And one day 00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:37.059 in the great day 00:34:37.059 --> 00:34:37.519 of the Lord, 00:34:37.619 --> 00:34:38.279 you will return 00:34:38.279 --> 00:34:38.839 in judgment 00:34:38.839 --> 00:34:39.779 and you will make 00:34:39.779 --> 00:34:40.699 all things right. 00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:43.480 This is God's decree 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.500 before eternity began. 00:34:47.420 --> 00:34:48.279 Thomas Boston wrote, 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:49.500 the decrees of God 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:50.179 to redeem 00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:51.420 His people 00:34:51.420 --> 00:34:52.079 are free. 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:54.699 God's covenant 00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:55.299 of redemption 00:34:55.299 --> 00:34:56.039 depends on 00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:56.940 no other 00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:58.039 but all 00:34:58.039 --> 00:34:58.859 flowing from 00:34:58.859 --> 00:34:59.539 mere pleasure, 00:34:59.859 --> 00:35:00.500 the mere pleasure 00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:01.460 of God's own will. 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:02.820 God has made 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:03.500 no decrees 00:35:03.500 --> 00:35:04.199 suspended 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:06.159 on any condition 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.159 besides Himself. 00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:11.460 There is nothing 00:35:11.460 --> 00:35:13.099 man can come up with 00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:14.480 to stop the kingdom 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.099 of Christ 00:35:15.099 --> 00:35:16.199 from coming in power. 00:35:17.059 --> 00:35:17.800 There is nothing 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:18.739 that we can do 00:35:18.739 --> 00:35:20.539 to become unredeemed. 00:35:21.659 --> 00:35:22.840 We will be willing, 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:24.139 willing servants, 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:25.260 willing followers 00:35:25.260 --> 00:35:26.139 of King Jesus. 00:35:26.539 --> 00:35:27.639 We will depend on Him 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:28.260 as our priest 00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:29.300 mediating for us, 00:35:29.420 --> 00:35:30.300 interceding for us, 00:35:30.300 --> 00:35:31.120 daily 00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:32.600 because God decreed 00:35:32.600 --> 00:35:33.380 that this would happen. 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:34.920 We cannot undo it. 00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:36.700 There is no more comfort 00:35:36.700 --> 00:35:37.539 than we could have 00:35:37.539 --> 00:35:39.019 than trusting in this 00:35:39.019 --> 00:35:40.400 eternal decree of God. 00:35:41.980 --> 00:35:42.860 In that office 00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:44.380 of being a royal priesthood, 00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:45.539 that is who Christ is. 00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:46.740 That is what we are told 00:35:46.740 --> 00:35:47.580 the church becomes 00:35:47.580 --> 00:35:48.800 in 1 Peter 2.9. 00:35:49.220 --> 00:35:49.980 You church, 00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:51.560 you are a chosen race, 00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:52.720 a royal priesthood, 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:53.920 a holy nation, 00:35:54.260 --> 00:35:54.840 a people 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:56.519 for His own possession 00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:57.940 that you may proclaim 00:35:57.940 --> 00:35:59.400 the excellencies of Him 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:00.280 who called you 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:00.940 out of darkness 00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:03.840 into His marvelous light. 00:36:04.900 --> 00:36:05.820 He is the one 00:36:05.820 --> 00:36:06.880 who determines 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.880 our redemption. 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:12.679 My sixth observation here 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:13.039 is this, 00:36:13.099 --> 00:36:13.759 that in the covenant 00:36:13.759 --> 00:36:14.440 of redemption, 00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:16.259 the Father promises 00:36:16.259 --> 00:36:17.259 refreshment 00:36:17.259 --> 00:36:18.500 and honor 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:20.400 to His obedient Son. 00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.260 In the covenant 00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:22.920 of redemption, 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.700 in Psalm 110, 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:26.200 that is the last thought 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:26.980 we are left with. 00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:28.579 The Father promises 00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:29.260 His Son 00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:30.760 refreshment 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.039 and honor 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:34.139 for His obedience. 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:36.880 We are told 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.559 in verse 7, 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:38.660 He shall drink 00:36:38.660 --> 00:36:40.139 of the brook 00:36:40.139 --> 00:36:41.380 by the way. 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:43.840 Well, there is David 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:45.500 on the desert plains 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:46.539 of Israel 00:36:46.539 --> 00:36:48.519 going days and days 00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:49.220 without finding 00:36:49.220 --> 00:36:49.900 fresh water. 00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:50.639 Maybe He had some 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:50.940 on Him 00:36:50.940 --> 00:36:51.539 or a cistern, 00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:52.920 but there is living 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:54.180 waters flowing now 00:36:54.180 --> 00:36:55.480 and the King 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:57.240 can take a breather. 00:36:57.559 --> 00:36:58.160 On His way, 00:36:58.240 --> 00:36:59.280 He will refresh Himself. 00:37:00.579 --> 00:37:01.340 The Father is 00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:02.820 encouraging His Son 00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:04.240 who will gladly 00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:05.180 obey His Father. 00:37:06.059 --> 00:37:06.440 Son, 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:07.760 when you finish 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:08.680 the work I gave you 00:37:08.680 --> 00:37:09.680 to do in this mission, 00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:12.000 you will rest 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:12.960 and drink. 00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:15.360 Just as God 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:16.240 finished His work 00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:16.800 of creation 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:17.480 and rested 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:18.220 as ruler 00:37:18.219 --> 00:37:19.779 with His world 00:37:19.779 --> 00:37:20.759 as His footstool. 00:37:21.399 --> 00:37:22.059 Christ will say, 00:37:22.139 --> 00:37:22.819 it is finished. 00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:23.980 He will be ascended 00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:24.679 at the right hand 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:25.219 of the Father 00:37:25.219 --> 00:37:26.599 and He will rest 00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:27.459 as a priest. 00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:28.939 His work is finished 00:37:28.939 --> 00:37:30.099 and the world 00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:31.079 is His footstool. 00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:34.059 You will have a body, 00:37:34.259 --> 00:37:34.420 Son. 00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:36.119 You will be raised 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:36.779 from the dead. 00:37:37.299 --> 00:37:37.920 You will be seated 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.000 at My right hand 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.619 where there is fullness 00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:41.659 of joy 00:37:41.659 --> 00:37:42.360 and pleasures 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:43.219 forevermore. 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:44.420 And you will enjoy 00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:45.279 refreshments 00:37:45.279 --> 00:37:46.440 from the river 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:47.900 of divine pleasures. 00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:51.320 this is God's decree 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:52.099 for His Son. 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:53.820 The Son 00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:55.200 knew this joy 00:37:55.200 --> 00:37:56.079 of one day 00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:56.920 having His bride 00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:57.440 with Him 00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:59.059 in His Father's palace. 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:01.720 This was the decree 00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:02.280 of God 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:03.599 to accomplish it. 00:38:04.619 --> 00:38:05.519 Thomas Boston wrote, 00:38:05.660 --> 00:38:06.119 the decrees 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:07.539 of God are constant 00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:09.300 and He by no means 00:38:09.300 --> 00:38:10.440 alters His purpose 00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:11.180 as men do. 00:38:11.680 --> 00:38:12.579 God has sworn 00:38:12.579 --> 00:38:13.880 to save you 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:15.780 in our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:15.940 Christ. 00:38:17.080 --> 00:38:18.519 The Father knows, 00:38:19.300 --> 00:38:19.840 My Son, 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:21.060 He shall do this. 00:38:21.720 --> 00:38:23.960 My Son shall succeed. 00:38:26.600 --> 00:38:28.300 My Son shall succeed 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:29.840 because I have decreed 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:31.080 this mission for Him 00:38:31.080 --> 00:38:33.040 and my mission for Him 00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:34.720 in my eternal decree 00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:35.780 is unchangeable. 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:38.220 And then we're told 00:38:38.220 --> 00:38:39.380 in verse 7, 00:38:40.300 --> 00:38:41.780 I shall lift, 00:38:42.640 --> 00:38:43.000 I'm sorry, 00:38:43.120 --> 00:38:44.840 He shall lift up my head. 00:38:46.580 --> 00:38:47.960 So that's the last promise. 00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:48.860 The Father says, 00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:51.080 your head will be bowed low, 00:38:52.140 --> 00:38:52.980 fulfilling this mission 00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:53.580 as a servant, 00:38:53.720 --> 00:38:55.000 but we will lift up 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.240 the head of the King 00:38:56.240 --> 00:38:57.340 over all the nations. 00:38:58.200 --> 00:38:59.080 In John 19, 00:38:59.160 --> 00:38:59.720 verse 30, 00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:00.660 Jesus said, 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:01.460 it is finished 00:39:01.460 --> 00:39:02.519 and He bowed His head 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:04.060 and He gave up His spirit, 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:04.940 trusting, 00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:07.460 verse 7 of Psalm 110, 00:39:07.660 --> 00:39:08.800 that His head 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:10.660 shall be lifted up again. 00:39:12.660 --> 00:39:13.820 The Father promised this 00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:15.180 and nothing that the Lord 00:39:15.180 --> 00:39:16.559 endured was a surprise. 00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:18.960 J.C. Riles again pointed out, 00:39:19.080 --> 00:39:20.480 not one throb of pain 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.380 did Jesus feel, 00:39:21.660 --> 00:39:23.620 not one precious drop of blood 00:39:23.620 --> 00:39:25.280 did Jesus shed, 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.500 which had not been 00:39:26.500 --> 00:39:27.800 appointed long ago. 00:39:28.780 --> 00:39:30.120 Infinite wisdom planned 00:39:30.120 --> 00:39:30.840 that redemption 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.820 should be by the cross. 00:39:33.420 --> 00:39:34.400 And infinite wisdom 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:35.100 brought Jesus 00:39:35.100 --> 00:39:36.900 to the cross in due time. 00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:38.840 Christ was crucified 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:40.920 by God's determinate 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.860 eternal counsel. 00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:48.600 Well, we saw last time 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:49.320 how we were born 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:50.120 east of Eden 00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:51.100 under the covenant 00:39:51.100 --> 00:39:52.140 of works with Adam. 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:54.900 Adam sold your freedom 00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:57.140 and in bondage to sin 00:39:57.140 --> 00:39:58.539 we piled on our own sins 00:39:58.539 --> 00:39:59.160 as well. 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.900 And no matter how hard 00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:03.120 and how long we work 00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:04.600 for our own redemption, 00:40:05.220 --> 00:40:06.059 it's a debt 00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:07.760 that we simply cannot pay off. 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:11.020 We're told in Philippians 2 00:40:11.020 --> 00:40:12.280 that our Lord Jesus Christ 00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.520 became the Father's servant. 00:40:15.100 --> 00:40:16.660 He made himself low. 00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:18.640 He lived on earth 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:19.840 under his own law. 00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:22.200 It's the law that binds you and me. 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.280 And he did this to redeem you, 00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:26.740 his people. 00:40:26.739 --> 00:40:32.859 I love how this one musician put it. 00:40:32.959 --> 00:40:33.399 He said, 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:35.559 As the people of God, 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:36.779 all we can do now 00:40:36.779 --> 00:40:38.379 is sing a new song 00:40:38.379 --> 00:40:39.079 to the Lord. 00:40:39.819 --> 00:40:41.019 May tongues be loosed 00:40:41.019 --> 00:40:41.679 and praised 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:43.500 and sing the triumph 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:44.199 of our King 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.500 who ransomed Adam's race. 00:40:46.759 --> 00:40:47.939 He trampled down 00:40:47.939 --> 00:40:48.959 the canceled sin. 00:40:49.219 --> 00:40:50.559 He rent the veil 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:51.379 and saved. 00:40:51.799 --> 00:40:52.939 Became the record 00:40:52.939 --> 00:40:53.959 of our debt 00:40:53.959 --> 00:40:54.739 and triumphed 00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:56.359 or the grave. 00:40:56.739 --> 00:40:58.599 What determines 00:40:58.599 --> 00:40:59.319 your redemption? 00:41:00.879 --> 00:41:01.959 God the Father, 00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:03.399 God the Son, 00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.199 God the Holy Spirit, 00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:07.379 covenanted before 00:41:07.379 --> 00:41:08.859 he even created 00:41:08.859 --> 00:41:10.319 time and space 00:41:10.319 --> 00:41:12.039 to redeem you 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:13.379 by the work 00:41:13.379 --> 00:41:14.319 of Jesus Christ. 00:41:15.339 --> 00:41:16.059 All glory 00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:17.079 be to God. 00:41:17.799 --> 00:41:18.339 Let's pray. 00:41:18.339 --> 00:41:18.419 Amen. 00:41:18.419 --> 00:41:18.459 Amen. 00:41:18.459 --> 00:41:18.500 Amen. 00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:18.579 Amen. 00:41:18.579 --> 00:41:18.619 Amen. 00:41:18.619 --> 00:41:18.679 Amen. 00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:19.000 Amen. 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:19.079 Amen. 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:19.119 Amen. 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:19.159 Amen. 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:19.179 Amen. 00:41:19.179 --> 00:41:19.239 Amen. 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:19.299 Amen. 00:41:19.299 --> 00:41:19.319 Amen. 00:41:19.319 --> 00:41:20.299 Amen. 00:41:20.299 --> 00:41:20.399 Amen. 00:41:20.399 --> 00:41:20.479 Amen. 00:41:20.479 --> 00:41:20.500 Amen. 00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:20.519 Amen. 00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:20.559 Amen. 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:22.399 Amen. 00:41:22.399 --> 00:41:22.479 Amen. 00:41:22.479 --> 00:41:22.500 Amen. 00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:22.519 Amen. 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:22.559 Amen. 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:22.579 Amen. 00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:22.619 Amen. 00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:22.639 Amen.