Psalm 110, The Glorious Son: Inheritance (2)

Sometimes the oldest son was not faithful and lost his right to the inheritance.  Jesus is the faithful Son of God.  Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant … but Christ as a Son over His own house (Heb. 3:5-6).  He was the heir by decree of the Father.  He was and is faithful as Creator and Sustainer of all things.

·       He was declared faithful through His role in the Godhead.  While mysterious, the Bible is clear that the Godhead consists of three distinct Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The Son is that Person of the Godhead who makes visible manifestations on earth.  In OT days it was through “theophanies,” God-appearances.  If God appeared as the shekinah, the glory that shone at Mt. Sinai, the Son was that visible glory.  We know this because Hebrews tells us the Son is the brightness of glory and the express image of His person (1:3).  When God appeared, with two angels, to Abraham (Gen. 18:1-3), Christ was the One who took on that form.  God is, by nature, invisible.  When He manifests Himself, and He did this many times in the OT, He did it through the Son.

·       His most powerful declaration of faithfulness was the Incarnation.  This was not a theophanie, God taking on a form for a specific occasion.  This was the Word becoming flesh (Jn. 1:14), becoming one of us, from birth to death.  He lived a righteous life, a sinless life.  Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, and having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Heb. 5:8-9).

o   His faithfulness extended to Calvary.  He died as we do (Hb. 2:9), becoming obedient to the point of death, even death of the cross (Phil. 2:8).  Through His death He reconciled all things to God (Col. 1:19-20).

·       Evidence of the faithfulness of the Son was also seen in His exaltation to the right hand of power.  Because of His obedience in the incarnation God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow … every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Phil. 2:9-11).  He awaits at the Father's right hand, while the Father completes the Inheritance for the Son: Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool (Ps. 110:1).  From there He is exalted, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him (1 Pt. 3:22).

Thus, Jesus is the faithful Son, the heir of all things.  And notice what it says: when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high (Heb. 1:3).  By the grace of God, I am part of the inheritance God is giving to His Son.  He is giving Him the nations.  Some will apparently have to be forced to submit.  But because Jesus purged our sins at the cross, He offers freely, to all who believe, the right to become children of God, to be joint-heirs with Christ.  He is the faithful Son of God.  I see no other logical move but to bow the knee to Him now, and to confess Him as Lord.  Will you join me and many others?