I.　God has made Christ to sit at His right hand—Psa. 110:1-2:

A.　"Jehovah declares to my Lord, / Sit at My right hand / UntilI make Your enemies / Your footstool"—v. 1:

1.　This word, which concerns Christ in His ascension, hasbeen quoted directly more than twenty times in the NewTestament and has been quoted indirectly approximatelyanother twenty times—cf. Matt. 22:44; Mark 12:36; 16:19;Luke 20:42-43; Acts 2:33-35; Rom. 8:34; Heb. 1:13.

2.　The Lord Jesus quoted this verse to reveal His divinity asthe Lord of David—Matt. 22:41-46.

3.　The highest place in the universe is at the right hand ofGod—cf. Ezek. 47:1.

4.　Christ's ascension to the right hand of God is not merely amatter of His being in a place but of His being in a person,the Father; in His ascension Christ entered into the Father'sbeing and sat down there—Heb. 1:3b; John 16:28.

5.　This word about Christ's sitting at the right hand of Godimplies Christ's kingship—Psa. 80:17; Col. 1:17a, 18b; Rev.22:1; Ezek. 1:22, 26; cf. Isa. 14:13; 3 John 9; 1 John 5:21.

6.　In His ascension Christ was made by God the Lord, theChrist, the Leader of the entire universe, and the Savior—Acts 2:36; 5:31; 10:36.

7.　Christ is on the throne, but He is still in need of a footstool:

a.　God is endeavoring to subdue all of Christ's enemiesand to make them His footstool.

b.　Our fighting today is for the subduing of Christ's enemies—Rom. 5:17, 21.

B.　God will send forth from Zion the scepter of Christ's strengthto rule over all the nations at His return—Psa. 110:2.

II.　We need to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry inthe day of His warfare by presenting ourselves as freewillofferings to the Lord in the splendor of consecration andby being His young men who are to Him like the dew fromthe womb of the dawn—v. 3:

A.　In the eyes of the Lord our willing consecration, our offeringourselves to Him, is a matter of splendor:

1.　Although the church has become degraded, throughout thecenturies there has been a line of those who have offeredthemselves willingly to the Lord in the splendor, the beauty,of their consecration.

2.　Splendor may also be translated "adornment"; the splendorof consecration is an adornment; if we offer ourselveswillingly to the Lord, we will be beautified with a divine,heavenly splendor.

B.　Here Christ likens Himself to a plant that needs the wateringof the mild, soft, gentle dew:

1.　As Christ is on the way to carry out God's economy, Heneeds to be watered; Christ is watered by those who offerthemselves willingly to Him.

2.　Whoever volunteers himself to Christ as an offering is ayoung man likened to the dew conceived in the womb ofthe dawn for watering Christ.

C.　In order to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry in theday of His warfare, we need to have an absolute and thoroughconsecration to the Lord of our whole being with everythingthat we have for the accomplishment of His eternal economy;the fullness of one's experience of life depends on the fullnessof one's experience of consecration—Matt. 26:6-13:

1.　The basis of consecration is God's purchase—1 Cor. 6:19-20;Rom. 14:8.

2.　The motive of consecration is God's love—2 Cor. 5:14-15;Rom. 12:1.

3.　The meaning of consecration is to be a sacrifice—v. 1;Num. 28:2-3.

4.　The purpose of consecration is to let God work in us so thatwe might work for God—Eph. 2:10; Isa. 64:8; Phil. 2:12-13;1 Cor. 15:10.

5.　The result of consecration is to abandon our future—Lev.1:9; cf. 6:10-13.

D.　In order to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry in theday of His warfare, we need to rise up early in the morning tocontact the Lord so that we may enter into the womb of thedawn to be conceived as the dew for Christ's watering—Matt.6:6; 14:22-23; Mark 1:35.

E.　In order to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry in theday of His warfare, we need to live a life of the altar and thetent, keeping ourselves empty, open, fresh, living, and youngwith the Lord for His new move—Gen. 12:7-8:

1.　We need to be emptied and unloaded in our spirit, in thedepth of our being, so that we may receive Christ as thereality of the kingdom of the heavens—Matt. 5:3; Luke1:53.

2.　We need to be open vessels; the one who experiences thegreatest amount of transformation is the one who is themost open to the Lord—18:17; Prov. 20:27; Rev. 4:5.

3.　We need to receive the Spirit as the fresh oil—Zech. 4:12-14;Matt. 25:8-9; Rev. 3:18.

4.　We need to walk in newness of life and serve in newness ofspirit—Rom. 6:4; 7:6; cf. Ezek. 36:26-27; 2 Cor. 3:16; Matt.5:8; 26:29.

5.　We need to be vitalized by the Lord to be the living and functioningmembers of His Body—1 Cor. 14:4b, 31; cf. Rev. 3:1;14:4.

6.　We need to be renewed day by day with the fresh supply ofthe resurrection life to stay young in the Lord—2 Cor.4:16; Eph. 5:26-27.

F.　In order to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry in theday of His warfare, we need to fight for the brothers in onenesswith Him to cherish the churches in His humanity andnourish the churches in His divinity to produce the overcomersthrough His organic shepherding—Gen. 14:13-20; Rev. 1:13; 2:7;1 Pet. 5:4; Heb. 13:20; 1 John 5:16; cf. Acts 6:4; Rev. 1:20.

III.　God has sworn and will not change in ordaining Christ aPriest forever according to the order of Melchizedek—Psa.110:4; Heb. 5:6, 10:

A.　Christ is not only the King with power and authority (Psa.110:1-2) but also the High Priest—Heb. 2:17; 4:14; 6:20; 8:1;9:11:

1.　Christ's heavenly ministry in His ascension includes bothHis kingship and His priesthood—7:1-2; Zech. 6:13.

2.　As the King, He has the scepter to rule over the earthand to manage our affairs, and as the High Priest, He isinterceding for us and taking care of our case before God—Heb. 4:14-16; 7:25-26; 9:24; Rom. 8:34; Rev. 1:12-13.

B.　As the kingly High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek,Christ ministers God into us as our supply to fulfill God'seternal purpose—Heb. 7:1-2; 8:1-2; Gen. 14:18:

1.　In His earthly ministry Christ was a High Priest accordingto the order of Aaron for the putting away of sin—Heb.9:14, 26.

2.　Then, in His heavenly ministry Christ was designated aHigh Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (5:6, 10),not to offer sacrifices for sin but to minister to us the veryGod who was processed through incarnation, human living,crucifixion, and resurrection, signified by the bread andthe wine (Matt. 26:26-28), as our life supply so that we maybe saved to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25).

C.　As the High Priest, Christ cherishes the churches in Hishumanity and nourishes them in His divinity with His divinelove—Rev. 1:12-13; 2:1.

IV.　Christ, who is the Lord (Adonai) and who is at God's righthand, will shatter kings in the day of His anger at Hiscoming back with His overcomers and will execute judgmentamong the nations over a great land—Psa. 110:5-6;Dan. 2:34-35, 44; Joel 3:11-12; Rev. 17:14:

A.　This indicates that Christ is the Warrior to be the greatestVictor, overcoming all the nations, shattering the kings andthe head of the enemies, and executing judgment upon allwho oppose Him—Psa. 2:9, 12; Dan. 2:44; Rev. 2:26-27.

B.　He will come with His bride, a composition of all His overcomers,as His army, and with her He will fight against and defeatAntichrist and his armies—19:11-21.

V.　Christ will drink from the brook by the way and will liftup His head triumphantly—Psa. 110:7:

A.　The brook signifies the overcomers; as Christ is taking thelead to fight through to the end, He will need water to drink,and this water will be the overcomers.

B.　Christ's lifting up His head is a sign of His victory, His triumph,in overcoming all the enemies.

C.　To the enemies Christ is the Victor, but to us He is the Drinker.

D.　In this Psalm we see Christ as the King, the Priest, the Warrior,the Victor, and the Drinker (the Coming One).