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Psalm 110 is the single most quoted Old Testament passage in the entire New Testament. Jesus quoted it. Peter preached it at Pentecost. The book of Hebrews built its greatest argument around it. And yet most of us have never spent serious time in it. That changes today.
We begin right where David begins — verse 1.
"The Lord says to my lord: 'Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'"
Imagine this: David, by the Spirit, is given a glimpse behind the curtain of heaven. He overhears a conversation — the Father speaking to the Son. And he is so overwhelmed by what he hears that he grabs his pen and writes it down.
But this verse raises a question that stumped the greatest religious minds of Jesus's day. David was the king of Israel — the most powerful man in the nation. And yet he refers to someone he calls "my Lord." Someone he bows to. Someone greater than himself. Who is David talking about?
Jesus himself answered that question in Matthew 22, silencing the Pharisees with one simple observation: if the Messiah is merely David's descendant, why would David — the king — bow to him? The answer the New Testament gives us is this: Jesus is both. He is the son of David in his humanity, born into David's family line. And he is the Son of God in his divinity — eternal, pre-existent, Lord before David ever drew breath.
And where is he right now? Seated. Reigning. Ruling at the right hand of the Father.
In a world that feels chaotic and out of control, Psalm 110:1 has one word for us:
The throne is not empty.
