What will be the outcome of this conquest prophesied in Psalm 110? God will have victory, success. All the enemies of David’s Lord shall indeed be made his footstool. The rod of his strength, the word of Christ’s gospel, will go out and accomplish all that God sends it out to accomplish. This success happens because God gives the increase, the Lord adds to the church, the Father gives people to Christ.
The Psalms are the most referenced Old Testament book in the New Testament Scriptures. And of the Psalms, Psalm 110 is the most quoted or alluded to. Our Lord Jesus Christ takes up the hundred and tenth Psalm, revealing that in it king David is writing of him.
The Lord Jesus Christ in The Psalms
Some Christians argue against singing the whole Book of Psalms by saying that the Lord Jesus Christ’s name is not mentioned in them. But they forget that Christ is found throughout the Psalms. “They are they that testify of me,” Christ himself said, when he affirmed that all the Old Testament Scriptures testified of him (John 5:39). And that includes the Psalms.
The Old Testament Scriptures and The Christian
With the work of God’s grace in the hearts of his people, both Jew and Gentile, by the Holy Spirit opening the Old Testament Scriptures to us (Luke 24:44; John 17:17; Acts 16:14), and with what we learn about the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament, Christians should more clearly see Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures than the Old Testament saints did before his coming. As Paul says, we have the vail over the Old Testament Scriptures “done away in Christ” so that we with “open face” behold the glory of the Lord there (2 Corinthians 3:14-18).
We must not set aside any part of the Law, the Prophets, or the Writings as not for the Christian.
Fellowcitizens with the Saints in Israel
Many Christians today put little effort into learning the Old Testament Scriptures. They think that that they are not for Christians but for a different time and a different people. They may use them for historical background research to learn about where Christianity has came from, and as a contrast against which to teach “what Christianity is not”—e.g. how we are not under the law but under grace; how we are not justified by works but justified by faith. But they think that Christians should not get their personal religion from the the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, except for those parts that are repeated in the New Testament Scriptures.
This neglect of the Old Testament Scriptures is large part of the reason why many Christians have set aside the Psalms.
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The full “Evangelical Commentary” notes from John Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible, at the Gospel of John chapter 15. John Brown (1722-1787) was a presbyterian minister in Haddington, Scotland, and Professor of Divinity for his denomination, the Burgher branch of the First Secession Church of Scotland.
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“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world” (John 11:23-27).
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The rich young ruler was not seeking salvation—he didn’t think he needed to be saved from his sins. So, Christ directed him back to the law, the covenant of life, to learn its lessons.
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In the parables of the kingdom, Christ’s name for his Church is both a prophecy and a promise: “the kingdom of heaven.”
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Questions and answers on what godly sorrow is, what it is not, what true repentance involves, and what is the hope of the godly sorrower. “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death” (2 Corinthians 7:10).
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If true faith in the gospel is “the substance” of those things hoped for from God, then it must also be true that our faith itself (our belief in the gospel) has come from God.
The author of Hebrews further explains: saving faith is, itself, “the evidence of things not seen.” Therefore, we must conclude: true faith in the gospel of Christ is itself evidence that the believer has the things hoped for, from the hand of God.
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From The Assembly’s Shorter Catechism Explained, by Way of Question and Answer, by James Fisher and other Ministers of the Gospel. Westminster Shorter Catechism Questions 57-62 on the Fourth Commandment, with expository questions.
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“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
—2 Peter 1:5-8.