A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”A Psalm of David. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.A Psalm of David. Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
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… thinking about it and reliving it. It ends up souring your future. But God knew that life wouldn't always be fair. He said in Psalm 110, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. He didn't say until your enemies go away, you never see them again. He said they will become a footstool They may still be there, but now they're not stopping you. They're under your feet An enemy to a footstool means it changed positions It used to be over you, but now it's under you You used to think about it all the time and give it so much attention and why did this happen? But now you're at peace. You're enjoying life pursuing your dreams Instead of it raining over you you rain over it What happened you repositioned it You couldn't get rid of it, but you put it where it belonged under your feet It used to be controlling you Intimidating you even defining you but now it has no power over you See god doesn't eliminate every enemy He may not take away the offense the hurt the injustice but he has given you the power to take it off the throne of your life and put it under your feet. …
… For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. Or is he quoting from there? Psalm chapter, where's that one? Psalm chapter 110, verse 1. And then he comes to a conclusion. Therefore, let all Israel be assured of this. God has made the Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. What I want you to see as we read through this first Christian sermon is that it is packed full of Old Testament Scripture. This sermon had authority in Acts chapter 2 because it was saturated with the Word. You've got just about half of the verses that are describing the sermon here that are direct quotations from the Old Testament. Peter knew that if he was going to stand to speak with authority on this particular day, he had a responsibility to stand and to use the Word of God. That was where the authority would come from. …
… Yahweh says to Adonai. That's what it says in Psalm 110.1. Now notice of all the important superscriptions among the Psalms where it often will give an author. This may be the most important. It's just there in two words. It says of David. This is crucial. David is writing Psalm 110. Now, why is that important? Because it means that it's not someone in David's court who is saying, Yahweh says to my Lord, in which case he's probably just talking about David. No, that's why Jesus underscores David himself in the Holy Spirit. You see what Jesus is doing? He wants to make absolutely crystal clear. This psalm that I'm about to quote from was by none other than the great and mighty King David. And he didn't do it by accident. He wrote and he sang and he said this in the power of the Holy Spirit. So think about what David says. King David, in all of his great splendor as the king over Israel, Now, the Lord, Yahweh, says to my Lord. …
… He is at the right hand of God. He's been exalted to heaven to the Father's right hand, as Psalm 110 verse 1 says, the Lord said to my Lord, "'Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool.'" Christ died a substitutionary death that pleased God. God raised Him from the dead. God exalted Him to His right hand, which validates the efficacy of His work on the cross. That's not all. There's a fourth feature. He is now at the right hand of God interceding for us. Christ won't turn against us. He intercedes for us as a merciful and faithful high priest. In John 11, 42, He said, I know, Father, that You always hear me. I can't resist reading a few verses out of John 17 that take us right into His intercession. Verse 13, John 17, this is Christ's intercession. Now I come to you, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. …
… Paul goes on in the third statement in verse 34, who is at the right hand of God. Who is at the right hand of God. It's an echo of Psalm 110.1. The Lord said to my Lord, God the Father says to God the Son, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies the footstool. In Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 says, after he had made purification for sin, he sat down at the right hand of God. That's his exaltation. His death, his resurrection, and his exaltation are all affirmations that Christ would never condemn us. He died for us, paying in full the penalty. He rose, the Father indicating that His sacrifice was complete. And then the Father sat Him at His right seat because He had accomplished the purging of the sins of His people. And then one more, who also intercedes for us. He's not going to condemn us. He died for us. He rose for us. He was exalted to heaven because of the perfection of His sacrifice. …
… Everything in creation bows to Christ. Verse 13 says, To which of the angels has he ever said, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet? And the answer is to no angel. So Christ is superior to angels. And the Jews understood the angels were heavenly beings. They were associated with the work of God. They were associated with the law of God. They worshiped the true God in holiness. So who is greater than the angels? If you're going to suggest that this Jesus Christ is our Savior and He is our Redeemer, He's got to be greater than men, because men can't redeem themselves, and He is that, and He's also greater than angels. But the lingering question among the Jews is, how could this man Jesus be greater than the angels when he was a man and died? How could he be the perfect Savior? How could he be the Messiah and be executed, killed? In fact, in 1 Corinthians 1.23, the Apostle Paul says, the death of Christ on the cross was a stumbling block to the Jews. …