Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Our Lord WIll Triumph" Sunday, 18 January 2015 - Scripture: Psalm 110:1-7

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Our Lord WIll Triumph" Sunday, 18 January 2015 - Scripture: Psalm 110: (A psalm by David.)
The Lord Gives Victory
1 The Lord said to my Lord,
    “Sit at my right side,[a]
    until I make your enemies
    into a footstool for you.”
2 The Lord will let your power
    reach out from Zion,
    and you will rule
    over your enemies.
3 Your glorious power
will be seen
    on the day
    you begin to rule.
You will wear the sacred robes
    and shine like the morning sun
    in all of your strength.[b]
4 The Lord has made a promise
    that will never be broken:
“You will be a priest forever,
    just like Melchizedek.”
5 My Lord is at your right side,
    and when he gets angry
he will crush
    the other kings.
6 He will judge the nations
    and crack their skulls,
    leaving piles of dead bodies
    all over the earth.
7 He will drink from any stream
that he chooses,
    while winning
    victory after victory.[c][Footnotes:
110.1 right side: See the note at 16.11.
110.3 You will. . . strength: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
110.7 while. . . victory: Or “God will give him victory after victory.”]
"Our Lord WIll Triumph" by Paul Martin
Yes, we have read the final chapter. The outcome is sure. He wins!
What a glory to Messiah’s cross! There He “disarmed the powers and authorities,” and “he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them” (Colossians 2:15). “The metaphor recalls a Roman general leading his captives through the streets of his city for all the citizens to see as evidence of his complete victory.”* All the dark forces that bedevil the human family—conquered! Provision made; consummation coming. We eagerly anticipate the restoration of Eden’s shalom, and by faith we appropriate his victory in our hearts.
John Wesley wrote of God’s final triumph, “We have strong reason to hope that the work he hath begun he will carry on unto the day of his Lord Jesus. . . . until he hath put a period to sin and misery, and infirmity, and death; and re-established universal holiness and happiness, and caused all the inhabitants of the earth to sing together, ‘Hallelujah! The Lord God omnipotent reigneth!’”**
[* Kenneth Barker, Gen. Ed., Reflecting God Study Bible, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2000, note on Colossians 2:15, 1817. ** John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley, Albert C. Outler, Ed., Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985, Vol. 2, 499.]
Hymn for Today: "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth" by George Frederick Handel
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth;
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The kingdom of this world is become
The kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ,
and of His Christ.
And He shall reign forever and ever,
King of kings,
and Lord of lords.
King of kings,
and Lord of lords.
King of kings,
and Lord of lords, and Lord of lords,
and He shall reign, and He shall reign forever and ever,
forever and ever,
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And He shall reign forever and ever,
forever and ever.
And He shall reign forever and ever,
King of kings! 
and Lord of lords!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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