Psalm 19:12-14   "Who can understand his errors? cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my Strength, and my Redeemer."

"Who can understand his errors?" Who can?

I like to rationalize.

I can give excuses,

but God will not accept them.

God says,

that we cannot understand our errors.

We can just take His Word for it that we are all sinners.

"Cleanse Thou me from secret faults."

Secret faults are the problem with  many people today. They are secret from themselves - they think they are not sinners.

"Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins … and I shall be innocent from the great transgression."

What is the great transgression? is?

It is the rejection of

The Lord Jesus Christ.

Now listen to the psalmist.

This is a verse that we hear many times in a believer’s prayer.

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer."

Who was David’s Strength?

Christ!

Who was his Redeemer?

Christ!

He is also my Strength and my Redeemer.

He becomes that through the grace of God.

His Ascension.

Lord, enthroned in heav'nly splendor,
Firstbegotten, from the dead,
Thou alone, our strong Defender,
Liftest up Thy people's head.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Jesus, true and living Bread!

Prince of Life, for us Thou livest,
By Thy body souls are healed;
Prince of Peace, Thy peace Thou givest,
By Thy blood is pardon sealed;
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Word of God in flesh revealed.

Paschal Lamb! Thine off'ring finished.
Once for all when Thou wast slain,
In its fulness undiminished
Shall for evermore remain,
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Cleansing souls from every stain.

Great High Priest of our profession,
Through the veil Thou ent'redst in;
By Thy mighty intercession
Grace and mercy Thou dost win;
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Only sacrifice for sin.

Lifeimparting heav'nly manna,
Stricken Rock, with streaming side,
Heav'n and earth with loud hosanna,
Worship Thee, the Lamb who died;
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Ris'n, ascended glorified!

Wonderful Words by beloved of our Lord Jesus: George H. Bourne, 1840-1925.

Hallelujah!

Amen!

The ascension of Christ is a very Great day and Psalm 21 gives us the opportunity to give some thought to our Lord Jesus Christ's ascension.

We see Him as King in heaven, and we see the judgment that will come upon those who rejected Him.

This psalm of David, according to the inspired text, includes Christ’s coming reign as King on the earth. This psalm was undoubtedly used in temple worship.

Notice how this beautiful psalm opens.

Palm 21:1  "The king shall joy in Thy strength, O Lord; and in Thy salvation how greatly shall He rejoice!"

Although David is speaking of his personal experience, the primary interpretation refers to

our Lord Jesus Christ.

"The King shall joy in Thy strength."

In Hebrews 12:2 it was said of the Lord,

"Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, - and He ascended into heaven - and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

This verse speaks of the joy of our Lord in having wrought our salvation.

He rejoices in the power and strength that have been bestowed upon Him.

He has gone to heaven, and the angels and principalities have been made subject to Him.

He is able to save to the uttermost all those who come to God through Him (Hebrews 7:25).

Have you come to Him yet dear reader?

Can you sing of Him as your Redeemer?

I will sing of my Redeemer,
And His wondrous love to me;
On the cruel cross He suffered,
From the curse to set me free.

Sing, O sing, of my Redeemer!
With His blood He purchased me,
On the cross He sealed my pardon,
Paid the debt, and made me free.

I will tell the wondrous story,
How my lost estate to save,
In His boundless love and mercy,
He the ransom freely gave.

I will Praise my Dear Redeemer,
His triumphant pow'r I'll tell,
How the victory He giveth
Over sin and death and hell.

I will sing of my Redeemer,
And His heav'nly love to me;
He from death to life hath brought me,
Son of God, with Him to be.

Wonderful Words by: Beloved of our Lord Jesus Christ Philip P. Bliss 1838-1876.

Jesus, my Saviour, to Bethlehem came,
Born in a manger to sorrow and shame;
O it was wonderful— blest be His Name!
Seeking for me, for me!
Seeking for me, for me! Seeking for me, for me!
O it was wonderful— blest be His Name!
Seeking for me, for me!

Jesus, my Saviour, on Calvary's tree,
Paid the great debt, and my soul He set free;
O it was wonderful— how could it be?
Dying for me, for me!
Dying for me, for me! Dying for me, for me!
O it was wonderful— how could it be?
Dying for me, for me!

Jesus, my Saviour, the same as of old,
When I was wand'ring afar from the fold,
Gently and long did He plead with my soul,
Calling for me, for me!
Calling for me, for me! Calling for me, for me!
Gently and long did He plead with my soul,
Calling for me, for me!

Jesus, my Saviour, shall come from on high—
Sweet is the promise as weary years fly;
O I shall see Him descend from the sky,
Coming for me, for me!
Coming for me, for me! Coming for me, for me!
O I shall see Him descend from the sky,
Coming for me, for me!

Thou didst leave Thy throne And Thy kingly crown
When Thou camest to earth for me;
But in Bethlehem's home Was there found no room
For Thy holy nativity:
O come to my heart, Lord Jesus!
There is room in my heart for Thee.

Heaven's arches rang When the angels sang,
Proclaiming Thy royal degree;
But of lowly birth Didst Thou come to earth,
And in great humility:
O come to my heart, Lord Jesus!
There is room in my heart for Thee.

Thou camest, O Lord, With the Living Word
That should set Thy people free;
But with mocking scorn, And with crown of thorn,
They bore Thee to Calvary:
O come to my heart, Lord Jesus!
Thy cross is my only plea.

When heav'n's arches ring, And her choirs shall sing,
At Thy coming to victory,
Let Thy voice call me home, Saying, "Yet there is room,
There is room at My side for thee!"
My heart shall rejoice, Lord Jesus,
When Thou comest and callest for me.

Wonderful Words by: Beloved of our Lord Jesus Christ Emily Elliott, 1836-1897.

Jesus, my Lord, will love me forever;
From Him no pow'r of evil can sever;
He gave His life to ransom my soul;
Now I belong to Him.

Now I belong to Jesus;
Jesus belongs to me;
Not for the years of time alone,
But for eternity.

Once I was lost in sin's degradation;
Jesus came down to bring me salvation,
Lifted me up from sorrow and shame;
Now I belong to Him.

Now I belong to Jesus;
Jesus belongs to me;
Not for the years of time alone,
But for eternity.

Joy floods my soul, for Jesus has saved me,
Freed me from sin that long had enslaved me;
His precious blood He gave to redeem;
Now I belong to Him

Now I belong to Jesus;
Jesus belongs to me;
Not for the years of time alone,
But for eternity.

Wonderful Words: Beloved of our Lord Jesus Christ Norman J. Clayton, 1903-1992.

Hallelujah!

Amen!

Psalm 20:6-9   "Now know I that the LORD saveth His anointed; He will hear Him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call."

The Father hears the prayers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember that  

He said,

"… Father, I Thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. And I knew that Thou hearest Me always …" (John 11:41–42).

Christ is the One whom the Father always hears and always answers.

The "King" is for Israel. For us today He is Savior, and we pray in His Name.

"Save, Lord" is Hosanna in the Hebrew.

This is a great Hosanna psalm.

May God make it real to our hearts.

Psalm 21:2   "Thou hast given Him His heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of His lips. Selah."

When our Lord made His final report to His Father in His High Priestly prayer in John 17, He said,

"… Father, the hour is come; Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may Glorify Thee" (John 17:1).

His hour had come,

the hour when He would pay for your sins and my sins.

It was the hour when all the creation of God would see the love of God displayed and lavished as He takes your sins and my sins upon Himself and dies a vicarious, substitutionary, redemptive death for you and for me.

And it won’t end there; it will go on to the Resurrection.

The death of Christ demonstrates that God is not the brutal bully the liberal theologians talk about in the Old Testament, but that He is a loving Father who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, to die for the sins of the world.

Then the Son was raised from the dead, and He ascended back into heaven, and He has a Name that is above every other name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee will bow.

"Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may Glorify Thee."

O the wealth of meaning that is here!

This prayer, and all of our Lord’s other requests, have been and will be answered, as we see in this prayer. This is the prayer of ascension and 

He is right now at God’s right hand.

"Thou has given Him His heart’s desire."

When He was here our Lord said,

"Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world" (John 17:24).

This prayer will be answered in the future when we are with Him. He came to earth to make this possible.

The Father has not withheld the request of His Son’s lips. "Selah" -

this is what we are to meditate on.

Psalm 21:4–6  "He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it Him, even length of days for ever and ever. His Glory is great in Thy salvation: honour and majesty hast Thou laid upon Him. For Thou hast made Him most blessed for ever: Thou hast made Him exceeding glad with Thy countenance."

Dr. Gaebelein’s translation of these verses:

"He asked life of Thee, Thou gavest it Him: length of days for ever and ever. His glory is great in Thy salvation; Honour and majesty hast Thou laid upon Him. For Thou hast made Him most blessed for ever: Thou dost delight Him with joy in Thy Presence" (The Book of Psalms, page 98).

Lord Jesus Christ came to give His life a ransom for many down here.

On earth we find Him in humiliation, shame, and we find Him pleading again and again in prayer.

He agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Psalm 102:23–24 says of our Lord:

"He weakened My strength in the way; He shortened My days. I said, O My God, take Me not away in the midst of My days: Thy years are throughout all generations."

He asked for life.

He died in the very prime of life.

He was thirty-three years old.

He prayed,

"… Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from Me: nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done" (Luke 22:42).

In Hebrews 5:7 we are told:

"Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared."

How was He heard?

He died!

Yes!

But God raised Him from the dead.

Christ arose!

Low in the grave He lay,
Jesus my Saviour!
Waiting the coming day,
Jesus my Lord!

Up from the grave He arose

With a mighty triumph o'er His foes;
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever with His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Vainly they watch His bed,
Jesus my Saviour!
Vainly they seal the dead,
Jesus my Lord!

Death cannot keep His prey,
Jesus my Saviour!
He tore the bars away,
Jesus my Lord!

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Amen!

Now He lives in His glorified human body for ever and ever.

Our Lord is now at God’s right hand.

"His glory is great in Thy salvation."

Oh, the glory that should accrue to Him because He saves us by His grace.

Psalm 21:7-9   "For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High He shall not be moved. Thine hand shall find out all Thine enemies: Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them."

Dr. Gaebelein translates it:

"Thy hand shall find out all Thine enemies; Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thy coming" (The Book of Psalms, page 99).

He is the God of our salvation.

Because of His death upon the cross for sinners, He is a God of judgment.

Those who have rejected Him are His enemies.

If you do not believe in hell, the Bible teaches it, you are in disagreement with the Bible.

Some day you will find that it is true.

Hell is not a pleasant subject.

God does not take any delight in the lost.

God’s judgment is called His strange work.

His wonderful work is salvation.

God wants to save.

But if we do not come to Him His way, or if we do not want His salvation, then there is nothing but judgment that remains.

"Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of Thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them."

This verse is very clear indeed.

Fire is fire, and judgment is judgment.

Psalm 21:10-13   "Their fruit shalt Thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against Thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. Therefore shalt Thou make them turn their back, when Thou shalt make ready Thine arrows upon Thy strings against the face of them. Be Thou exalted, LORD, in Thine own strength: so will we sing and Praise Thy power."

In this marvelous gastro-intestinal spasm.

 we see Christ’s cross and intense suffering. 

He endured the cross 

"… for the joy that was set before Him" (Hebrews 12:2). 

His prayers have been answered. 

Now the King is in heaven. 

We see Him there crowned with glory and honor. 

He is there on behalf of His people. 

He is there in unspeakable joy and waiting for His manifestation and kingly glory.

I would like to give you another picture of our Saviour Lord Jesus Christ today. 

The first time He came to earth He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 

Somebody says,

"Every picture I have ever seen of Him is a solemn, serious looking Christ." 

I don’t care for the pictures that have been painted of Christ, and I know He doesn’t look like that.

He is sitting at God’s right hand, and His heart is filled with joy. 

He wants to communicate that joy to you and me. Oh, that we might get a glimpse of Him today! 

When Lord Jesus Christ was on earth, His enemies conspired against Him, 

but He trusted in Jehovah. 

Dear reader you and I must do the same as He did. We must follow His example.

In John’s vision in Revelation 12 the dragon, representing Satan, wanted to devour the manchild, representing Christ. (The woman is Israel) Before the dragon could devour the manchild, He was caught up to God and to His throne.

That is where He is right now.

This psalm gives us a picture of judgment, which is amplified greatly in the Book of Revelation. 

That is a serious picture that is given to us there. 

Apostle Paul mentions it also in

2 Thessalonians 1:7–8  "And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

This is a picture of our Lord’s coming in judgment upon His enemies.

2 Thessalonians 1:9–10  goes on to say, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the Presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power; When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day."

This is a glorious 21st psalm of the Ascension of Christ. 

What is your relationship to Him today dear reader? 

If He is not your personal Savior, if you have not trusted the One who came down here to die, then judgment for your sin is coming upon you someday. But today 

He is filled with joy seated at God’s right hand, because He has wrought out your salvation and mine. 

This wonderful ascension psalm makes very clear the  superb grace of God in Christ Jesus.

Have you any room for Jesus,
He who bore your load of sin?
As He knocks and asks admission,
Sinner, will you let Him in?

Room for Jesus, King of Glory!
Hasten now His Word obey;
Swing the heart's door widely open,
Bid Him enter while you may.

Room for pleasure, room for business,
But for Christ the Crucified,
Not a place that He can enter,
In the heart for which He died.  

Have you any room for Jesus,
As in grace He calls again?
O today is time accepted,
Tomorrow you may call in vain.

Room and time now give to Jesus,
Soon will pass God's day of grace;
Soon thy heart left cold and silent,
And thy Savior's pleading cease.

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