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SAA Notes
Psalm 110 is one of the great Messianic psalms. The New Testament book of Hebrews quotes from this psalm extensively. God’s coming Christ was to be a priest of the order of Melchizedek. Jesus quotes this psalm in Luke 20:41-44. David proclaimed that his descendant who was to be God’s Christ after him was his LORD!
SJA Notes
* God Above, the works of Your hands are faithful and just, all Your precepts are trustworthy.
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;”
What kind of fear does this speak of?
God’s people don’t fear the Lord God has a sheep fears the wolf.
But God is a holy God, full of justice and righteousness. Our God is the Lion of Judah who roars from heaven and all the earth is His footstool.
Wisdom begins with a holy and reverent fear of the Lord.
We fear the Lord because He is GOD and we are man.
We fear the Lord because He is just and completely able and intentional to enact His justice.
We fear the Lord because this is the God who created all things with His word alone. Because God in the Person of the Son, our King Jesus, is God’s word become flesh. Because He commanded the storm to cease and it did. Because He brought back people from the dead. Because His plan was that He would send Himself to the cross, to become curse – Perfect Son separated from Perfect Father as the full wrath of God came down upon God as man.
We fear the Lord because His word tells us to.
This is the beginning of wisdom.
The best start to fearing the Lord, gaining wisdom, is to find out about Him – And we do that by reading His word!
* God of Wonders,
Please help us to fear You rightly today, help us that we might grow in Your wisdom.
Amen.