Priest Upon His Throne

Pastor Martin continues his sweep through the Old Testament period of preparation, showing how God added bolder strokes to the prophetic portrait of the coming Messiah-King. Beginning with the Davidic covenant in 2 Samuel 7, he traces the king motif through Psalm 2, Psalm 110, Isaiah 9, Micah 5, Jeremiah 33, Daniel 7, and Zechariah 6 and 9, demonstrating that the Old Testament builds inexorably toward a king from David's seed who would also be the mighty God, who would build God's true house, sit as priest upon his throne, ride lowly upon a donkey, and reign in righteousness to the ends of the earth. The Jews were inexcusable for missing such a king of grace.

Pastor Martin expounds Ephesians 1:20-22 as the third major epistolary passage for Christ's present kingship. In the middle of Paul's prayer that the Ephesians may know the exceeding greatness of God's power toward believers, the apostle asserts that the Father raised Christ, seated Him at His right hand far above every rule and authority and name, put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church. Martin walks through Christ's exalted position (figure, plain language, and time-span) and His exercised power, showing that these Ephesian believers in Nero's day were to view their King as enthroned now, drawing comfort, direction, and warning, while unconverted hearers are called to flee to the enthroned Savior whose hand still bears the scars of the cross.