Psalms 110:1 "The LORD said to my Lord, (now we think that in just about every translation that the first LORD mention here is all capitols. The second is merely the L is capitalized, and the o-r-d is in the small case. So what we really have here is God the Father, says to God the Son) Sit at my right hand, (He’s not going there for all eternity, but rather just for a period of time) until I make your enemies your footstool." Again those who choose to walk in unbelief and those who practice wickedness, iniquity, evil and lawlessness. Oh they may sound very religious, and under their favorite kind of legalism or bondage and even attend their favorite place of worship to drink of the spirit of the world but they're all going to be his footstool. Those who we find later have willfully stood still become slothful and even have become an Apostasy while still within the first covenant which is our first degree for training in our need for salvation and righteousness. And the learning of the ministry of dependency on the Holy Spirit for growth in righteousness and the need or desire for more of the knowledge of God. Which has the sole purpose as that of the old for Israel, that being the ministration of death.
We think the enemies here include all the satanic host, as well as all of Christ’s rejecting humanity - they are going to be finally under His foot , a footstool. He’s going to have complete domination. Now let’s move from here up to Matthew chapter 22, and drop down to verse 44. This is Christ in His earthly ministry, He uses this verse in Psalms Himself. But to pick up the flow of these verses let’s begin at verse 41.
Matthew 22:41-46 "While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42. Saying, What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They said to him, The Son of David. 43. He said to them, How then does David in the spirit (that is by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ that was in him) call him Lord, saying, 44. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool? 45. If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son?" (now look at the next verse) 46. And no man was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions."
They were absolutely stumped! Well what should they have known? That He was the Son of God. But by virtue of the promises made to David that He would come through the lineage of David, yes, the Scripture does speak of Him as the Son of David. But we see, that’s not what Psalms 110:1 was speaking of. That Psalms was speaking of the very Godhead, and David had nothing to do with bringing that about except through the flesh. Now let’s look at the next one which is in Mark chapter 12 and verse 35 to again to pick up the flow.
Mark 12:35a "And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,…"
We know this shakes people up, and we don’t do it purposely, but we see everybody is so locked into tradition. All they can think of is what they’ve heard over the years and generations and what they’ve been taught and had passed down to them. Then this simple layman comes along, and says, "Now wait a moment, everything that Jesus said, He said to the Hebrews under the Levitical Law with its statues and ordinances of man as their promised Prophet like unto Moses." That’s when people get all shook up. They will say, "Well He went to the Gentiles." No, He didn’t, as there is not any record except for two individuals, the Canaanite woman, and the Roman centurion. Other than that there is nothing in our New Testament where Jesus ever dealt with Gentiles. He couldn’t because of His covenants. The covenants were made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As those covenants were to come to the full, then yes, He would become the object of trust to the whole world, but not until. So here again, where is Jesus dealing with these Pharisees? In the Temple. How much access did the Gentiles have to the Temple? Almost none. Now reading the verse again.
Mark 12:35-36a "Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? 36. For David himself said by the Holy Ghost…." See how plainly all of this fits together? When Paul writes back there in Timothy we think it is, "that all Scriptures is inspired of God, and is profitable." Well that word ‘inspired’ is probably better translated, "God breathed." What person of the Godhead breathed the Scripture? The Holy Spirit, and then the Lord Himself gives credit, that even David wrote as the Holy Spirit prompted him to write. So all of these things must be taken into consideration. Now reading on.
Mark 12:36 "For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool. 37. David therefore himself called him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly." But who had trouble with these sayings? The Pharisees. They couldn’t swallow any of this, but the common people not in authority just soaked it up. Then in verse 38, Jesus just sort of puts the frosting on the cake doesn’t He?
Mark 12:38-39 "He said to them in his doctrine,(teachings) Beware of the scribes, (in other words the intellectual elite, the Pharisees and Sadducee's) which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces. 39. And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:" But the point was made, "Who was the Lord that was invited to sit at the LORD’s right hand?" The Son! Now remember the vast majority of the Hebrews could never accept the fact that anything good came out of Nazareth. Remember that was their saying. "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" We remember that was the whole thrust of Matthew chapter 16, when Jesus confronted the Twelve just shortly before the crucifixion, "Whom do men say that I am?" These men had three years to witness Him and His ministry, to witness His sinlessness. To witness His miracles and power over even the raging Sea of Galilee when He stood, and said, "Peace be still!" And what did the disciples say? What manner of man is this that even the winds obey His voice."
We'll see that this is the whole concept even in this little situation that they were to understand Who Jesus really was. He wasn’t just the carpenter’s son, but rather He was the Creator! He was the One Who that one day would satisfy all the demands of a Holy and Righteous God by taking upon Himself the sins of the whole world. He was the One Who would be raised from the dead in power and glory, and then ascend to the Father's right hand, but would not sit there forever, but only, "until." Now the next Scripture we’ll look at will be in Luke chapter 20, and let’s just drop in at verse 39.
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