In the sermon titled 'What Do You Think About the Christ?' by Jason Dohm, the focus is on Matthew 22:41-46 where Jesus poses a critical question to the Pharisees about the identity of the Messiah. The Pharisees answer that the Messiah is the Son of David, but Jesus challenges them by quoting Psalm 110, where David calls the Messiah 'Lord,' indicating his divinity. This passage is pivotal because it underscores the dual nature of Christ as both human and divine, a concept essential for understanding the true nature of salvation. The sermon highlights that while the law provides guidance, it is powerless to save; only through recognizing Christ's divinity and humanity can one be reconciled to God. Jesus' question to the Pharisees, 'What do you think about the Christ?' serves as a profound evangelistic tool, urging individuals to consider the true identity of Jesus. The sermon concludes by encouraging Christians to live with joy and confidence, knowing that Jesus, seated at the right hand of God, has all authority and that his enemies are being made his footstool. This understanding empowers believers to boldly engage in the Great Commission, discipling nations with the assurance of Christ's ultimate victory.

Our passage today is Matthew 22 verses 41 through 46. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He? They said to Him, The Son of David. He said to them, How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord?

Saying, The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool. If David then calls him Lord, How is He His Son? And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. So the sermon title this morning comes directly from the text. It is the question that Jesus asks now that it's his turn to do the asking.

And it's the question, what do you think about the Christ? It's the most important question in the world. It's the question that will determine whether you spend eternity in heaven or in hell. Last week, the Pharisees were still doing the asking. And this lawyer of Pharisee had come.

They gathered together in verse 34. And a lawyer had come from this group, this gathering, to ask Jesus a question. And he asks, which is the greatest commandment in the law? And The answer that Jesus gives is great for Christians. And he answers rightly.

And the answer is that the great commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. And then he continues to say, the second is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself. And for Christians this is food to the soul. This helps us to understand the law of God rightly. And It actually would tear down all of our pride and humiliate us before God.

But it would help us to stay out of this mode where we are slavishly serving the law of God and yet having no love for God in our hearts, or no love for our neighbor in our hearts. So it's so helpful, wonderful, nourishing to Christians. But For non-Christians, for people who have not put their trust in Christ, it's only a benefit to them. Jesus' answer only helps them if it helps them to understand their predicament. In other words, if you come to this question and Jesus' answer to it, and you're not crushed by the weight of the great commandment and the second commandment, then you just go away redoubling your efforts and trying harder to love God with all, all, all, and to love your neighbor as yourself.

And this is why in Mark's account in Mark 12, 38, after Jesus has given this answer about what is the great commandment. He says to this expert in the law, to this scribe, to this lawyer, He says you are not far from the Kingdom of God. In other words, all the answers about law cannot bring you into the Kingdom of God. It does not do that. Matthew Henry says this.

Many are so full of the law that they forget Christ. As if their duties would save them without His merit and grace, it concerns each of us seriously to ask ourselves, What think we of Christ? All these questions have been put to Jesus in this chapter. Just one question right after another. By the Sadducees, by a disciple of the Pharisees, by a lawyer, and they're nibbling around the edges.

They're not getting to the heart of the matter. They're not getting to the core of our faith. They're just nibbling around the perimeter. The need of the hour is not prioritization of the law. That's a good question and the answer is helpful.

Praise God that this man asked this question and that Jesus answered him in a way that would benefit the church forever and ever and ever. The greatest commandment is to love God and the second is like it to love your neighbor at yourself. But it's not the need of the hour for Jesus' hearers. Clarity on the doctrine of the resurrection is not the need of the hour for Sadducees, although they had a wrong doctrine of the resurrection and it needed to be corrected. Whether you should pay your taxes to Caesar or not is not the need of the hour.

The need of the hour is, what do I do with this sin? How can I be saved when I find in myself that I have not obeyed the great commandment or even the second commandment? What now? What do I do with this sin? No one can be saved by the answers to any of these questions.

They're asking him question after question after question and he's giving the perfect answer but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because the answers to all of these questions fall short of telling you what it takes to be reconciled to God. The law cannot do that. It's helpful to understand the law rightly, that behind every law is love for God and love for neighbor, but law will never save you. It's powerless to do that.

Paul argues that in the book of Romans. Law is not designed to bring salvation. Law is designed to make sins utterly sinful. So that you know who God is, and you know who you are, and you know that there's a problem that must be solved in order for you to be saved. As we go to this text, let's begin in prayer.

Father, I thank you again for the text that you have us in. And that you would be so kind with these men who are just nibbling around the fringes, asking questions about important things, but not about the most important things that you would redirect and come to the core of our faith and the heart of the matter. Your identity as the Messiah. Oh God, teach us, cause this to be a great blessing that has us leaving here loving you and bowing down to you. May it be so in Jesus' name, Amen.

So in verse 34, in response to the Sadducees being silenced by Jesus, the Pharisees know this creates an even greater problem than they've been having with Jesus. Because Jesus is picking up momentum here. So they are gathering together to figure out what to do about that. And they ask Jesus a question, Jesus answers. And then while they are still gathered, so here when we begin in verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered together, it's just right on top of verse 34.

That's why they gathered together. And then before they have the opportunity to disperse and go their way, Jesus, knowing that the greatest issues haven't been addressed asks them a question. What do you think about the Christ? We talked about the doctrine of the resurrection, and we've talked about taxes, and we've talked about law. Now, what do you think about the Christ?

What do you think about the Messiah? Jesus here is completely disengaging himself. In other words, there are no overt claims to be the Christ here. He is just saying the Old Testament talks about the Messiah. What should you know about the Messiah?

What should you know about the Christ from the Old Testament? So in a sense, he sets himself aside to just say, what does the Word of God teach about the Christ? Do You have eyes to see who the Christ really is or don't you. Now what's Jesus doing here? What is he doing with this question?

Turn in your Bibles to Proverbs 26. I think Proverbs 26 helps us to understand exactly what Jesus is doing with this question. Proverbs 26 verses 4 and 5. Proverbs 26 verse 4. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes." Now normally this is interpreted to mean sometimes you should answer a fool and sometimes you shouldn't. And I think that's true, and I think that may be part of what is being taught here, but I think other things are being taught here. I believe the real, the most full meaning of what these two verses teach can be found in the second half of each sentence. The first half is exactly alike. Both verse 4 and verse 5 begin with exactly the same words.

One is a do not and the other is a do. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him. In other words, when you are confronted with a fool and Jesus has been confronted with fools, this means morally corrupt people is the definition of a fool from Proverbs. And these are morally corrupt men who have been asking the question so far. So what Proverbs 26.4 is teaching is when you are confronted With a fool, you don't want to be like him in your answer.

Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him. Don't allow the fool to set the ground for your response. Don't come to the level of the fool in your response to him. But do answer him according to his folly. In other words, attack the fatal flaw of the fool, whatever it is.

So you're not to be like him in your response, but you are to find out his folly. Find out the fatal flaw that the fool is advancing, and attack the fatal flaw. Because if you don't do that, he'll be left thinking that he's wise in his own eyes. This is what Jesus is doing in Matthew 22. He's not responding in kind.

His questions are nothing like their questions. They're fundamentally different from their questions. But he is attacking their fatal flaw, which is they don't know who the Christ is. They don't know what Psalm 110 says about the Christ. He's already done the same thing in chapter 21.

In Matthew 21 verse 25 he asked another question. The baptism of John, where is it from? From heaven or from men? Now, these men are coming to Jesus with questions and it's to trap Him, it's to harm Him, it's to discredit Him, it's to set Him aside and derail Him. Jesus isn't asking questions of them for any of those motives.

And so, he's not like them. He's not answering a fool according to their folly. He's not being like them, but he's attacking their fatal flaw. He's not leaving them wise in their own eyes. He's showing them where they're off track.

In Matthew 21, it's because they hadn't interpreted John the Baptist rightly. John the Baptist was the forerunner of the Messiah. Here in Matthew 22, it's that they don't understand what Psalm 110 says about the Messiah. So he asks a second question and he goes right to their point of error. Whose son is he?

So they have an answer for the first question. What do you think about the Christ? And they have an answer to the second question, whose son is he? And it's the answer that everybody knows. The people are shouting the answer to this question in chapter 21.

We've just come out of chapter 21. The people are shouting the answer to this question. It doesn't take an expert in the law. It doesn't take a lawyer, a scribe, a Pharisee, a Sadducee. All the people have been shouting the answer to this question.

In the triumphal entry, they're shouting it. In the temple, the next day, as Jesus is teaching and healing, the children are shouting it. Hosanna to the son of David. So that's the easy answer to the question. And it's out there on the hook.

It's the bait on the hook. And they lunge for the bait. And They give the easy answer to the question. He's the son of David. Messiah equals son of David.

And It's ridiculous the number of Old Testament texts that say that a son of David will be the Messiah. There's no need to take the time to do that. Now with a concordance in ten minutes you could come up with ten places in the Old Testament and say the Messiah will be the Son of David. It's everywhere. So they give this answer that's so prevalent in the Old Testament.

Now turn to Psalm 110. Psalm 110 is what Jesus quotes. And Jesus says that David in the Spirit calls the Christ Lord. In other words, it's King David, but it's not just King David. It's inspired King David, who's being moved by the Spirit to give infallible, perfectly pure, without error, prophetic word from God.

So David, in the Spirit calls him Lord. And Jesus is going to argue, how can this be if it's the son of David? Now, Psalm 110 verse 1, this will surprise you, is the most quoted Old Testament verse in the New Testament. More than Any other Old Testament verse, the New Testament, Jesus, Paul, Peter, Luke and Acts, quotes Psalm 110 verse 1. So this, if you weren't convinced before this week that this is an absolutely pivotal verse, that something major swings on this verse.

Just know that the New Testament quotes this one verse more than any other Old Testament text. And Psalm 110 is universally accepted as a messianic Psalm prophecy. In other words, everyone agrees that this is about the Messiah. This is about the Christ. Which is why, when Jesus asks this question, nobody argues, oh no, no, no, Psalm 110 is not about the Messiah.

There is none of that. They are left speechless, but they are not left saying, no, You don't even know what Psalm 110 is about. Everybody agrees that Psalm 110 is about the Messiah. Now, we're going to read this, and I want you to just look for the word Lord as we read it. Psalm 110, a Psalm of David.

The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Till I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people shall be volunteers in the day of your power. In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the mourning you have the dew of your youth.

The Lord has sworn and will not relent. You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The Lord is at your right hand. He shall execute kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the nations.

He shall fill the places with dead bodies. He shall execute the heads of many countries. He shall drink of the brook by the wayside. Therefore, he shall lift up the head." The word Lord, L-O-R-D, appears five times in these seven verses. Five times.

And we miss the significance of it because we're Englishmen. Well, former Englishmen. We speak English. We're not Englishmen. We speak English.

In the Hebrew, there's three different words. Every one of them translated L-O-R-D, Lord. So If you're not a good Hebrew, you might miss a lot of what Psalm 110 is saying. But Jesus isn't speaking to Englishmen or Americans who speak English. He's speaking to good Hebrews.

In verse 1, you see, Lord, L-O-R-D, all caps, every letter capitalized. This is Jehovah, which literally means the existing one. I am that I am. Jehovah was in the burning bush. Tell them I am sent you.

Then it appears immediately again, Lord, L-O-R-D, just the first L capitalized. And this is the Hebrew word Adon, which just means Lord or Master. It's almost always used for a human. A couple of times it's used for God, but this second Hebrew word is used for a master. Someone who is in authority, but it's a man.

So the Lord said to my Lord, my master, could very well be human master, and that's normally how it's used. Now, by itself this is incredibly significant. If you just look at Psalm 110 verse 1, what Jesus is quoting in isolation, it's incredibly significant. Because whoever this is, this Messiah, this Christ, is the master of the greatest king of Israel. God Almighty is inspiring David to give scripture and David is seeing his master.

Now you know from other texts that this is the son of David. This is the problem that is presented here. This Messiah, this Christ, is the son of David from a dozen other Old Testament texts, everywhere in the Old Testament. But when David speaks of this son of his, he says he's my master. And Israel's never known a greater king.

Never known a greater king than King David. David vanquished all of his enemies. God gave him peace all around in the end because none of these other countries could stand against David. But it doesn't end there in Psalm 110. In verse 5 you see Lord again, L-O-R-D, capital L.

This is the third Hebrew word. And this is Adonai. And it's the word used for God instead of Yahweh. Because the Jews didn't even want to say Yahweh proper with all the vowels because it was such a holy name. This is what they used to show reverence to God.

It means God. It only means God. And you can tell from verse 5, this is the one who is seated at the right hand. This is the lower case Lord spoken of in verse 1. And yet, he's seated at the right hand and he's Adonai.

He is God. And he is Adonai. He is God. Psalm 110 couldn't say in more clear terms that the Messiah of Psalm 110 is God, is Adonai. So you end up with Jehovah says to Adonai, sit at my right hand.

God says to God, come here and sit at my right hand until I make all your enemies into your footstool. This Messiah, this Christ is ruling over kings, is judging kings, is executing kings, is governing nations. He's the King of Kings. He's the Lord of Lords. And in verse 4, it says, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Melchizedek is this high priest in the book of Genesis that comes out of nowhere. He is the high priest of God most high. Abraham tithes to him. The Christ is going to be a high priest too. He is going to stand between Jehovah and mankind and mediate between the parties and he won't be a Levitical priest Melchizedek is before Levi is even born he won't be a Levitical priest it's a different order of priesthood This is what Psalm 110 says about the Christ, about the Messiah.

The more I study these passages, The more I come to understand that these experts in the law are without excuse. They are without excuse. The Old Testament doesn't teach everything about Jesus, but it teaches so much about Jesus. Now you and I might be able to claim an excuse. We don't know the law and the prophets and the Psalms like these men knew it, but these are experts in the law who have poured over this and poured over this and poured over this and they ought to know better.

Consider Isaiah 9 verses 6 and 7. Just another prophecy about the Messiah And Isaiah 9 verses 6 and 7 is another one of those texts that everyone would have been agreed applies to the Messiah. Listen to this, For unto us a child is born, Unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end upon the throne of David and over His kingdom. To order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward even forever the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

You come to Psalm 110 or you come to Isaiah 9 or you come to many of these other texts about the Christ, about the Messiah in the Old Testament, you have to say This isn't just a man. Verse 45, Jesus asks his third question, If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son? How can it be that if the greatest king of Israel has a son, that this great king would call him master? Jesus is not denying that the Christ is the Son of David. He's not trying to overturn their first answer.

He is just trying to show that their first answer wasn't complete. Yes, the Messiah, the Christ is the Son of David, but He is not just the Son of David. He is not only a man. He is also God, like Psalm 110 says. He is also God like Isaiah 9 says.

He is the son of man. Jesus has been calling himself that over and over and over and over and over and over in the book of Matthew. Referring to himself as the son of man. He is that. He comes from the line of David.

And Matthew starts that way with the genealogy. It's all men in the genealogy. He's the son of man. But he's also the son of God. And the disciples, as they've been with Jesus, and as they watched him walk on water, In Matthew 14, they got in the boat and said, You are the Son of God.

In Matthew 16, when Jesus is asked, Who do the people say that I am? There's a range of answers, but who do you say that I am? And Peter says, you are the Son of God. Jesus calls Himself the Son of Man again and again. But when the men who have lived with him and watched him walk on water and heal the sick and raise the dead when they are asked, they say, this is the Son of God.

And they are only saying what Psalm 110 has said and Isaiah 9 has said and other Old Testament texts have said. It's hard to understand, but it's clearly taught. In other words, I've been a believer for more than three decades now, And as I begin to consider what it means that the Son of Man can also be the Son of God, my brain stretches every time. You hit the limit. You hit the limit.

And you're really aware of the limit when you start talking about the incarnation and what it means that God would leave heaven and take on flesh. But just because you hit the limit, and just because your brain stretches when you think about it, doesn't mean it's not clearly taught in the Bible. It's there. It's there repeatedly. Did they understand this?

Did these accusers and Questioners of Jesus understand that the Messiah the Christ would also be God turn in your Bibles Let's go back to Matthew and now we're going to take a sneak peek into Matthew 26 Just fast forward to Matthew 26 just for a minute to see what the chief priests asks Jesus as he is on trial in Matthew 26. In Matthew 26, very late in the chapter, beginning in verse 63. Matthew 26, 63. Jesus has just been falsely accused. They brought in men to accuse Jesus, but none of those accusations have really stuck.

That brings us to verse 63. But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to him, I put you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said to him, It is as you said.

Nevertheless, I say to you, here after you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the power, and coming on the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest tore his clothes saying, he has spoken blasphemy. What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard this blasphemy. The high priest understood that the Christ was to be the Son of God.

And he wanted to know whether Jesus would claim this for himself. It wasn't that these experts in the law didn't know. It was that they would not ascribe this to Jesus. So if Jesus would claim what they knew, They would call him a blasphemer and they would put him to death. Some of the last words of your Bible, Revelation 22, 16, listen to this, Revelation 22, 16, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you of these things in the churches.

I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning star. I am the root of David. In other words, David came from me. As the Son of God, as the one through whom all things were made, by whom all things were made, for whom all things were made, David was given a life. I am the root and offspring of David.

I am the God of David, the God who made David, and the Son of David. The bright and morning star. This is the great point where every other religion and every cult jumps the tracks. This is it. Now, there are other false teachings.

There are other things that other religions have wrong, that other cults have wrong. It's not their only theological deficiency where they depart from the Scriptures, but it's at the heart of it. What do you think about the Christ? And they answer that question wrong, and it takes them down a hundred other different rabbit trails but it begins with what do you think about the Christ some deny the deity of Christ that he's God Some deny the humanity of Christ that He is man. But either one completely destroys redemption.

If you take the deity of Christ away, you do not have a Redeemer. If you take the humanity of Christ away, you do not have a Redeemer. We're sinners. This is our problem. Not that we don't know about the doctor of resurrection, or we don't know what to do about taxes, or we don't know the prioritization of the law.

Our problem is that we're sinners. And something's going to have to be done with this sin. And the Bible tells us what's going to be done about our sin. The wages of sin is death. The wages of sin is death.

Spiritual death. Eternal death. Deserved death. God is just. And our sins require justice.

And there's going to be justice because of the nature of God. There will be justice. And so the only hope for sinners is a substitute. Someone to stand in the way, But it has to be a substitute that's tempted in every way and yet without sin. If there's a substitute, there can never be a substitute with sin.

Or that one would have to die for his own sins. He can't die for your sins with sin? And so that can't just be a man. Because just a man is born with indwelling sin. And so from the first day of life, He can't be a substitute if he is just a man.

And so he has to have a different nature. It has to be a man So that he can come and live the life that you were bound to live, that you were required to live. That God demands that you live. But it can't be just a man. Or he can never be acceptable as a substitute on your behalf.

Who are the two most prominent cults? The Mormons. Here's where the Mormons jump the tracks. In Mormonism, Jesus is just an advanced man. Jesus was just like you once upon a time.

And if you behave yourself, You'll be just like him in the future. This is Mormonism. So behave and you too will be like Jesus one day. This is completely against the teaching of the Bible, Old Testament and New. And the fundamental flaw is at the identity of Jesus Christ.

Jehovah's Witnesses. This is another very prominent cult. They believe that Jesus was created. He is not eternal. They believe that Jesus is not God.

That before He was incarnate, that He was the Archangel Michael. Then He was born. Now He is Jesus. Name change. But not God.

By missing the identity of Jesus Christ, they've stripped redemption out of their religion. You cannot be saved unless Jesus is both God and man. You cannot be saved. In Acts 4 verse 12, Peter says this, Nor is there salvation in any other, For there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved. There is only one name by which we must be saved.

There is only one name by which we must be saved. Only one name and it's Jesus. And it's not a rebranded Jesus, a reconstituted Jesus, a reimagined Jesus, a reinvented Jesus. It's Jesus Christ of the Old and New Testament. You can't just slap the name Jesus on something else that doesn't come out of the Old and New Testament and say now we can be saved.

It doesn't work that way. That makes this a tremendous question for evangelism. What do you think about the Christ? Because it gets right to the heart of the fatal flaw in most people's religion and their thinking. What do you think about Jesus?

It cuts, it goes around rock layers and millions of years. It goes around, I'm a good person, or at least gets you to the point where they'll say I'm a good person. What do you think about Jesus Christ? Who was Jesus Christ? It's a tremendous evangelism question.

And that's what Jesus is doing here in Matthew 22, is evangelism. He's gone right to the fatal flaw in these men's doctrine and in their lives to say, who's the Messiah? His question silences the Pharisees. They're not able to answer him a word. Now these are not men who have been lacking for words in the Gospels.

But now they're not able to answer him a word. Now these are not men who have been lacking for words in the Gospels. But now they are not able to answer him a word. And it says that No one even, from here to the end of his life now, no one even dares to ask him a question. They're scared to question him anymore after this.

In our parallel text in Mark 12 verse 37, Mark records something that Matthew doesn't, and the common people heard him gladly. The Pharisees will not ascribe to Jesus what Psalm 110 ascribes to him, what Isaiah 9 ascribes to him. But the common people hear him gladly. What does this mean for us? So, most of us here are professing Christians.

And hopefully this isn't the fatal flaw in our thinking, in our faith. So what does it mean for us? Three things. Probably more, but I'm going to talk about three things. First, what do you think about the Christ is the question that everybody has to settle.

What do you think about it? Who is Jesus? Who is Jesus? You start with that question and everything flows from there. You get the answer right, You'll bow your knee.

If you really understand who Jesus is and you get the answer right, you'll bow your knee to Him. You'll be saved. You'll be born again. I'm not talking about intellectual assent. I'm talking about being given eyes to see who Jesus Christ is and ears to hear the Gospel.

Matthew Henry says this, There Jesus shall sit till they all be made either his friends or his footstool. To this day there Jesus sits at the right hand of God the Father. And everyone, everyone will either be made his friend or his footstool. There are no alternate destinies. God will have mercy upon you and make you his friend.

Or God will put you beneath the feet of His exalted Son. That's it. A or B? Paul says this in Philippians 2 verses 9-11. Philippians 2, 9-11.

Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. God has exalted him. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess. God will be glorified either in showing mercy or in showing justice, one way or the other.

You'll either be his friend or his footstool. And on the day when you're taken into heaven, it will only be by His grace and He'll receive glory because of His grace because you never deserved it and yet He's brought you to heaven. And He'll be praised for eternity because you know that you did not do this, but this is what God has wrought. Or, for those who reject Him and will not place their trust in Him, they'll trust themselves, they'll hope for the best, and God will be just. And he'll be praised forever because he's a just God, because he doesn't overlook sin.

Either way, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he is Lord. Number two, Psalm 110 has been fulfilled. It was prophetic when David said it, but it has been fulfilled. Jesus Christ has been invited to sit down at the right hand of God the Father. And His victory is won, and the redemption of His people is irrevocably secured.

Irrevocably. It can never be undone. It has been done past tense and it can never be undone. He is victorious. His people have been redeemed and that redemption will never be reversed, threatened, harmed.

Threatened, harmed. Turning your Bibles to Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10, 11-13. And every priest stands ministering daily, and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But this man, capital M, But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. From that time, waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Jesus Christ is the Son of Man. He is the only one who could stand as high priest between God and man.

And He has been exalted. The priests pointing to Jesus offered repeatedly day after day the sacrifices they never took away sin. It was one sacrifice for all time. Jesus offered himself up and he sits at the right hand. And if you are his, nothing can ever pluck you from his hand.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Number three, lastly. Just in light of this, all Christians should live with such joy and such confidence.

Jesus our Lord is at the right hand of Almighty God. Adonai is sitting next to Jehovah and his enemies are steadily being made his footstool. All of his enemies are being subjected to him. Jesus is Lord. He is the King of Kings and He is the Lord of Lord and His enemies will be dealt with accordingly.

Yes, people rage against God and against Jesus Christ. Institutions rage against Him. Governments rage against Him. Christians have joy and confidence. This is so momentary.

When you see a person raging against Jesus Christ, or an institution, or a government, think of how momentary that is. He's at the right hand of God. He is exalted by Jehovah. Adonai is sitting beside Jehovah. He's been exalted and his enemies are being made his footstool.

There's no reason for a Christian to be disquieted when people are raging against God. Even governments, even kings of the earth, let them rage. It's momentary. Jesus Christ has been exalted. He is Lord.

We should have joy and confidence. Everything is in His hand. Everything is in his hand. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. So therefore, go!

Go! Go out there and disciple the nations, because all authority has been given to him. His enemies are being made his footstool. I have more joy and more confidence in the Great Commission now, today, after studying this text than I've ever had. Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God the Father and His enemies are being made His footstool.

So we can go with a smile on our face and proclaim the Gospel and know that those who rage against it, it's momentary. This is already a settled matter. There's nothing up for grabs now. God is sovereign and He has exalted His Son and they're sitting together and they're taking history to where God always knew He would take history. Christian, all be full of joy today.

Be full of confidence in your God today. And now that Jesus Christ has been given all authority in heaven and on earth, go, just go and disciple the nations and baptize them and teach them all things that he has commanded. Let's pray. Father, I do thank you for this text. I thank you that all of your enemies are being made into your footstool.

God give us joy in your sovereignty that Jesus Christ has been exalted, been given the place of honor, and now all of his enemies, though they might rage for a day, are being made his footstool, will be his footstool. I thank you for your word. Help us to be transformed by it. Oh, renew our minds, God. In Jesus' name, Amen.