Anchor Your Soul in His Majesty

Where does my soul find an anchor when the currents keep pulling me under?

The sermon opened with the picture of a soul adrift, waves and current carrying it along, and Hebrews names Psalm 110 as the anchor. The hope set before us is not a feeling or a mood, it is a person seated at the right hand of God right now.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil, where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 6:17–20

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Psalms 110:1

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalms 110:4

Where do I turn when I am worn out and the work still needs doing?

The sermon dwelt on the dew of the morning, a king who stays in the vigor of youth with no transition plan. Your dad at seventy still knew dentistry but could not hold the hours; a wise counselor at the top of his game begins to feel the body fail. Jesus has no evening coming for him and is not diminished when you come to him empty.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Psalms 110:3

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Psalms 110:7

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

Judges 15:18–19

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:28–31

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:28–30

How can a man standing in front of me in flesh and blood be called David's Lord?

Jesus asked the Pharisees whose son the Christ is, and they gave the right answer: David's. Then he quoted David calling him Lord, and no one could answer him a word. The sermon said he did not explain the riddle then; he went to the cross and rose again and embodied the answer in himself.

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.” He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Matthew 22:41–46

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Psalms 110:1

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath. He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

Psalms 110:5–6

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

John 8:58

…concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh, who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,…

Romans 1:3–4

Why would anyone follow a king like this freely instead of under compulsion?

The sermon kept coming back to the people offering themselves on the day of his power, no arm twisting, no confessions at gunpoint. The king who shatters his enemies looks great in the willing joy of the people who rally to him.

Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies. Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Psalms 110:2–3

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Revelation 19:6–8

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:1–2

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:7