The Victory of Christ's Kingdom

We have come to the end of this glorious Psalm and have found it to be filled with many precious and wonderful insights into the experience of Christ on the cross. We have entered in to His awful experience of being forsaken by His Father, and yet we have seen Him justify God as holy. We have stood by Him as He has explained to us His feeling that He had become a worm and not a man, and yet we find Him still trusting in His Father and praying to Him even when “trouble surrounded Him and there was no one to help”. We have entered into His sufferings at the hands of wicked men who acted the parts of bulls, lions, and dogs in their hatred toward Him. We have been inside his mind when He hung on the cross feeling as though all His strength was being poured out like water and all His bones were out of joint. He knew that His Father could not deliver Him but He prayed for deliverance anyway. And after He had accomplished our salvation by the sacrifice of Himself, then His Father answered his prayers and raised Him from the dead. From verse 22 onward this psalm then becomes a psalm of praise and victory. So this afternoon we want to see what Christ’s victory consists of. It consists, 1st of all – In His being worshipped by all nations. It consists 2nd – In making every Christian spiritually rich and prosperous. And 3rd – Christ’s victory consists in His having a posterity that will serve Him.