Psalm 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions “You love righteousness, and hate wickedness.” Christ Jesus is not neutral in the great contest between right and wrong: as warmly as he loves the one he abhors the other. What qualifications for a sovereign and what grounds of confidence for a people! The whole of our Lords life on earth proved the truth of these words; his death to put away sin and bring in the reign of righteousness, sealed the fact beyond all question; his providence by which he rules from his mediatorial throne, when rightly understood, reveals the same; and his final assize will proclaim it before all worlds. We should imitate him both in his love and hate; they are both needful to complete a righteous character. “Therefore God, Your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.” Jesus as Mediator owned God as his God, to whom, being found in fashion as a man, he became obedient. On account of our Lords perfect life he is now rewarded with superior joy. Others there are to whom grace has given a sacred fellowship with him, but by their universal consent and his own merit, he is prince among them, the gladdest of all because the cause of all their gladness. At Oriental feasts oil was poured on the heads of distinguished and very welcome guests; God himself anoints the man Christ Jesus, as he sits at the heavenly feasts, anoints him as a reward for his work, with higher and fuller joy than any else can know; thus is the Son of man honored and rewarded for all his pains. Observe the indisputable testimony to Messiahs Deity in Psa_45:6, and to his manhood in the present verse. Of whom could this be written but of Jesus of Nazareth? Our Christ is our Elohim. Jesus is God with us. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:27:22 +0000
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