He Shall Reign Forever

Theme: A song for the King

Scripture: Psalm 72

Objectives: (From the D6 Fusion Sunday School Lesson book)

Know: Jesus’ reign will be righteous, eternal, universal, benevolent, and glorious.

Think: View my life as service to the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Do: Honor, serve, and submit to Jesus as King.

B1 Introduction

C1 This Psalm is labeled “Of Solomon,” but it is probably “For Solomon.” Note the last note of the Psalm. Others believe the ending reflects the Psalms from 42-72 as David’s Book of Psalms.

C2 Most likely a prayer by David for his son, Solomon, as Solomon is crowned king.

C3 It is Messianic.

C4 One summary of the Psalms can be found here.

C5 This Psalm is thought to be the inspiration of Isaac Watts’ poem Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun.

C6 For most of the Psalm is a series of requests for the king.

B2 A summary

C1 That the king may

D1 Have God's justice

D2 Have God's righteousness

D3 Have agriculture blessed

D4 Help and bring justice to the afflicted and the poor

D5 Punish the oppressor

D6 Have an eternal reign

D7 Bring growth, health, and blessing

D8 See an increase in righteous people

D9 Rule the whole world

D10 All bow their knee to him

D11 All leaders and people serve him

C2 The king will

D1 Rescue the poor

D2 Deliver the afflicted

D3 Have compassion (and doing something to help) the poor, helpless, those who have no one to help them

D4 Save them from oppression and violence

D5 Love their lives

C3 That the king may

D1 Live a long time

D2 Have gold

D3 Have prayers offered to him

D4 Have people praise and bless him forever

D5 Have plenty to supply everyone's need

D6 Have his name endure forever

D7 Have all nations be blessed by his reign

C4 Praise God forever

D1 He alone can do miracles

D2 Be praised as God forever

D3 Is a wonderful and mighty creator

B4 Questions

C1 What kind of king is this?

C2 Do you know or have you read of any king who is like this?

C3 How could this Psalm not be just of Solomon?

B5 Psalm 72:1,

C1 The word for judgment, justice, is מִשְׁפָּט mishpat. It means to render a decision.

C2 Why is this important for a king?

C3 How can we apply this to any leader, pastor, Christian, or decision?

B6 Psalm 72:2-7,

C1 The Lord Jesus is the Prince of Peace, who will bring peace. Why do people reject Him when they are asking for peace?

C2 How can we be at peace in this life?

C3 How can we encourage God’s peace in the world?

C4 Why is it important that the king give justice to the poor?

C5 How do present day leaders fail in this?

C6 How will He save the children of the needy?

C7 How would you explain abundance of peace?

C8 These verses foretell the coming Millennial Peace when Jesus reigns on David’s throne in Jerusalem:

D1 Isaiah 11:6-9 NKJV - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

D2 Isaiah 9:6-7 NKJV - For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of [His] government and peace [There will be] no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

C9 Why can’t any world leader ever bring peace?

C10 How do these 2 verses bring peace?

D1 John 16:33 NKJV - "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

D2 Romans 5:1 NKJV - Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

B7 Psalm 72:8-11,

C1 Why will all fall down (bow) in His presence, before Him? Compare:

D1 Isaiah 45:23 NKJV - I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth [in] righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath. (This is quoted in Romans 14:11).

D2 Philippians 2:10 NKJV - that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth.

C2 Why is there a mention of other kings? Will there be other kings?

B8 Psalm 72:12-16,

C1 Many heretics preach a social gospel for the world’s salvation. What is the difference in these two quotes: (Quotes were found here)

D1 Vance Havner: If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

D2 Bill Clinton: I have always cherished the Methodist Church because it gave us the great gift of personal salvation but also the great obligation of social gospel, and I took that very seriously and have tried, tried to be guided in my own life ever since as an advocate for children and families, for women and men around the world who are oppressed and persecuted, denied their human rights and human dignity.

C2 How does the Bible describe the Gospel?

D1 John 6:29 NKJV - Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.

D2 John 20:31 NKJV - but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

D3 John 20:31 NKJV - but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

C3 How will Messiah’s justice and help for the needy be different, or are they?

C4 Why will Messiah’s kingdom see no hunger?

C5 How else will His kingdom be different?

B9 Psalm 72:17-20,

C1 How can this king live forever?

C2 Why doesn’t He become corrupt like most countries’ leaders?

C3 How will the whole earth be filled with His glory?

C4 How can the church and, more specifically, each Christian reflect the life and wishes of this King?

C5 How do we serve this king today?

C6 Who is this king?

B10 Next week

C1 A Lasting Love

C2 Theme: A Song of Enduring Love

C3 Scriptures: Psalm 89

Happy Resurrection Day!

Or

Happy Easter!

I’m sure there are more.

B1 Some benefits of Jesus’s resurrection

C1 A fulfillment of a promise

D1 Psalm 16:10 NKJV - For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D2 Acts 2:27 NKJV - For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D3 Acts 13:35 NKJV - Therefore He also says in another [Psalm]: 'You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D4 John 2:19-21 NKJV - Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

C2 Proof of Jesus’s sinlessness: Romans 1:3-4 NKJV - concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, [and] declared [to be] the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

C3 Proof of Jesus’s deity: Romans 1:3-4 NKJV - concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, [and] declared [to be] the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

C4 To give salvation: Acts 5:30-32 NKJV - "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. "Him God has exalted to His right hand [to be] Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. "And we are His witnesses to these things, and [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

C5 To exalt to the Father’s right hand: Acts 5:30-32 NKJV - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. "Him God has exalted to His right hand [to be] Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. "And we are His witnesses to these things, and [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

C5 To judge the world with righteousness: Acts 17:31 NKJV - because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

C6 The highest authority under the Father: Ephesians 1:19-23 NKJV - and what [is] the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all [things] under His feet, and gave Him [to be] head over all [things] to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

C7 Creation hopes in Jesus’s resurrection: Romans 8:19-22 NKJV - For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected [it] in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

C8 The new creation of the saints, the believers. Jesus was the first, the believers, the church, is next: 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV - Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

C9 Jesus has all the rights of the firstborn: Colossians 1:15 NKJV - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

C10 To turn us away from sins, to the Jew first, then to us Gentiles: Acts 3:26 NKJV - To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one [of you] from your iniquities.

C11 Shows us the Jesus is the one to put our faith in: Romans 4:24-25 NKJV - but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

C12 Proof of our justification: Romans 4:24-25 NKJV - but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

C13 Showing us to live a new life, one of righteousness: Romans 6:4 NKJV - Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

C14 Showing us that after resurrection, there is no more death. Jesus is already raised; ours is coming: Romans 6:4, 9 NKJV - Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ... knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

C15 No longer under the authority of Mosaic Law: Romans 7:4 NKJV - Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

C16 A promise for our resurrection: Romans 8:11 NKJV - But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

C17 We have to believe in His resurrection to be saved: Romans 10:9 NKJV - that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

C18 The believers who have died will be raised to a new body like Jesus’s. The living believers will ascend, never to die: 1 Corinthians 15:52 NKJV - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

C19 Delivers us from the wrath to come (hell): 1 Thessalonians 1:10 NKJV - and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, [even] Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

C20 Jesus can now show light (understanding) to both Jews and Gentiles: Acts 26:23 NKJV - that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles.

C21 To reign over the Gentiles (He would have to live forever to be able to accomplish this): Romans 15:12 NKJV - And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope.

C22 Fulfillment of Old Testament Scriptures:

D1 Mark 12:26-27 NKJV - But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the [burning] bush [passage], how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ? "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

D2 Daniel 12:2 NKJV - And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

D3 Job 19:25-27 NKJV - For I know [that] my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this [I know], That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. [How] my heart yearns within me!

D4 Ezekiel 37:12-13 NKJV - Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. "Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

D5 Hosea 13:14 NKJV - I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.