What can we learn from the resurrection of Christ?

John Snyder explains in this video that when we think of the Resurrection, one of the sweetest chapters that talks about this is in Psalm 110. Here, David speaks as a prophet. He explains that he loves this passage because we see an exalted, victorious Savior.

If we think of the people who live under the weight of sin, Christ entices them to Himself with greater pleasure than sin could ever give. The Resurrection is a great picture of the present glory of our resurrected Lord. 

1 Corinthians 15:56-57 (NKJV) - "The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

When we think of the resurrection and the exaltation of Jesus Christ, one of the sweetest places in the scripture that speaks about that, in my opinion, is the 110th Psalm. There are many places that we can look we can look at Revelation 5 we can look at the vision of Christ in Daniel chapter 7, but Psalm 110 David speaks as a prophet and David gives us something here that we don't find anywhere else in Scripture We have here what the Father says to the Son when the Son sits at His right hand. David writes this, the Lord said to my Lord, that is, God the Father says to the Son, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. I love this passage not only because we hear what the Father says to the Son but we see what the resurrection and exaltation of Christ has for Christ. I mean what's his present glory?

What's he doing? Is he just waiting for things to be completed? And in Psalm 110 we see a very active exalted Savior. He's not passive. The world and all of its rebellion is being placed under his feet.

He's stretching out his scepter, the expression of his rule. And it says here that he will stretch it out over the camp of his enemies and he will rule in the midst of his enemies. Very different than the way we rule. A man may gather an army and take over a piece of territory and he knows that his rule is complete when he's pushed all of his enemies out of his borders, but Christ rules at the heart of his enemies. So we think of an intelligentsia or academia, a man like C.S.

Lewis captured by Christ by greater arguments. We think of the halls of power in the New Testament. Rome is beginning to crack down on the Christian church but Paul is able to write and say greet those believers in Caesar's own household. If we think of people who live under the power and the temptation of sin and its pleasure, Christ entices them and draws them to himself with greater pleasures than sin offers. In the Psalm we see Jesus ruling not only in the midst of his enemies but from the heart of his church, the gospel going out.

And no matter how weak, no matter how many enemies the church may seem to have, she is the instrument for his great conquest. He gathers an army. He doesn't draft them, he doesn't force them. It says that they become Volunteers in the day of his power not one of them is clean or pure But they become like their king and they're robed in white It says he is also a priest King guaranteeing the favorable reception of every one of his people before his throne as he intercedes for them and If we think when we read this psalm that there will be some aspect of sin that's left unconquered They're some part of our culture not purified some part of your own soul when you look in the mirror every morning as a believer and you see sins that are still there, they still offer such violence to Christ's claims. Then you read in this Psalm and you see that there will be a battlefield in the end and there will be a stream, a brook.

And if he ever grows weary, the Father has provided for him everything he needs, like a man that stoops down and takes a drink and he's refreshed and he continues the battle until all is laid at his feet. Psalm 110 it's a wonderful picture of the present glory of the resurrected and ascended Lord. You