The Messiah Resurrected –
Psalm 16:1-11 (Read
from the Bible)
David was a prophet and he was under
the anointing of the Holy Spirit, prophesying about Messiah’s future. David wrote, this psalms reveals the Messiah’s
hope, born of His perfect knowledge. The
Messiah said, “My flesh also will rest in
hope” (v. 9). His death, burial, and
resurrection were not without hope. The Messiah expressed His hope in glad
expectation. His hope was at the joyful
side of Calvary, where He would be seated with the Father (Heb. 12:2).
Psalm
16:10 “For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy
One to see corruption.” (God, the Father will not allow His Son, the Holy One
to stay in the tomb more than three days and three nights.)
(1) The Messiah anchored (held on) in the knowledge that
God the Father would not leave His soul in hell. The Messiah also knew that His
body of flesh, which would remain (stay
in) three days and three nights in the tomb, would not decay (slow
loss of healthy body) or undergo (pass through) corruption
(rotting).
(2)
Why? Because it was a perfect, sinless, and a holy body. Jesus knew that the prophecy would be
fulfilled when His soul would returned to His body, and the Father would raise
Him and seat Jesus at His right hand.
There Jesus would remain until He returned to earth, to sit on the
throne of David.
(3)
On the day of Pentecost, Simon Peter, under the anointing of the Holy
Spirit, preached the crucifixion and resurrection of the Messiah quoting from
Psalm 16:8-11 in book of Acts 2:25-28. (For Peter’s partial sermon, you might
want to read from the Bible or other translation, Acts 2:25-39).
(4)
Quoting from the Messiah’s Psalm 16, Peter reminded the people who
listened to him, that David was a prophet: “Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him (David) that of the fruit of his
body, according to the flesh, God would raise up the Christ to sit on David’s
throne” (Acts 2:30).
(5)
Simon Peter final interpreted of this great psalm 16 to the fact (truth)
that David could not have been speaking of his own death and burial because his
body still lay, decaying, in the tomb.
Instead, David spoke of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead on the third
day and is alive forever. Jesus Christ is the resurrected Messiah of Psalm 16.
Dorothy: I just wants to share this marvelous studies from
Psalm 16, the Messiah’s Resurrected chapter with you. It was so inspiring to
really see that Christ was able to express Himself in the Old Testament.
No wonder Jesus said, “Then said I,
Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O
God.” Heb. 10:7 were quoting from Psalm 40:7 “Then said I, Lo, I come: in the
volume of the book it is written of me.” And Jesus also told the religious
leaders, “Search the Scriptures; for in them . . . they testify of me” (John
5:39). Oh, I just felt like singing to
you to join with me this rejoicing song,
“He Lives!”
Rejoice,
rejoice, O Christian, lift up your voice and sing
Eternal
hallelujah to Jesus Christ the King!
The
hope of all who seek Him, the Help of all who find,
None
other is so loving, so good and kind.”
Chorus:
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He
walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way.
He
lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You
ask me how I know He lives?
He
lives within my heart.
(Alfred
Henry Ackley, Sing His Praise)
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