From: Beverly French [frenchb@vcss.k12.ca.us]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:45 AM
To: Heritage
Subject: January 30, 2005 Greetings

"You are fairer than the sons of men;
 Grace is poured upon Your lips;
 Therefore God has blessed You forever."  Psalm 45:2

The New King James Version entitles this  The Psalm of the Great King. The Psalmist starts out in the first verse telling how his heart is overflowing with the good theme of his composition.  He is writing of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.  Then as if the King Himself appeared, he addresses his words directly to his Lord.

"You" 'are fairer than the children of men; fairer than all mortals; fairest of all humanity' are other translations.  Of Christ's perfection we see in
Scripture:

Promised in Isaiah 40:5,
"And the glory (majesty and splendor) of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it." The Amplified Bible

Fulfilled:
"And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth." John 1:14  The Amplified Bible

Hebrews 2:10 says,
"For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings."

And in Hebrews 5:9,
"And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him."

Again in Hebrews 7:28,
"For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever."

Then Psalmist goes on to say, 'Grace is poured upon Your lips'.  Last week we looked at the wisdom of guarding our tongues and being slow to speak. But the words of Christ are wise, pure, true, precious and powerful.  Let's look at Scripture concerning His word.

They are imperishable:
Jesus speaking, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."  Mark 13:31

They are gracious:
"And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips..." Luke 4:22

They are mighty:
"And they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority." Luke 4:32

They are spiritual and life giving:
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to your are spirit and are life."  John 6:63

They are words of judgment:
"He who reject Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day."  John 12:48

They are divine:
"He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me."  John 14:24

To those who keep Christ's word, there are His promises of:: Eternal life: Jesus speaking, "Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death."  John 8:51

Divine fellowship:
"Jesus answered and said to him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him.'"  John 14:23

Psalm 19 tells us God's words are perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant, pure and sure.  Then verse 10 says, "They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;  Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb." And so they are!

I close once again with 2 Timothy 1:14:
"Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you."

All praise and honor to our Lord Jesus Christ!  Amen.