The Heart of the Bible—The Book of Psalms · Pastor Adam Wood · Psalm 45 · October 8, 2025

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Psalm 45. I just actually want you to hold your place in Psalm 45 and we're gonna just spend a little bit of time this evening in Hebrews chapter 1 as well. So if you'll hold your place here and go to Hebrews chapter 1 and kind of hold both places because I want to read both places together. Okay Hebrews chapter 1 I guess we can go ahead and go to Hebrews chapter 1 first and get a kind of a background. This is a very interesting psalm and by interesting what I mean is that it is different than the other Psalms, the other 44 Psalms, most of the other 44 Psalms that we've studied because the content is just totally different. It's prophetic from start to finish. The psalm is prophetic and so there are parts of the psalm that are not exactly easy to understand if I can put it that way because of the prophetic nature of it but you'll see why I say it's prophetic in just a minute. In Hebrews chapter 1 if you would look at verse number, let's just start in verse number 1 to pick up the context. The Bible says, God who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Notice that these are these are characteristics that alone belong to deity, right? The scriptural deity that is he who is God alone that is applied to the Lord Jesus Christ. I can't understand how somebody could read Hebrews chapter 1 honestly and come away thinking that Jesus is anything else than very God. It actually says the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person. You know what that say? Jesus is God. I mean it's it could not you know you can weasel out of it you know linguistically if you want but it is clearly stated and if that was in doubt at all he goes on to say he upholds all things by the word of his power. So those are characteristics of deity the fact that he is the creator. Verse 4 being made so much better than the angels as he had by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they for under which of the angels said he at any time thou art my son this day have have I begotten thee and again I will be to him a father and he shall be to me to me a son and again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he saith let all the angels of God worship him so to which of the angels did God ever say that to? None of them none of them. Verse 7 and of the angels he saith who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. Okay so that's that's the first part now we pivot to the second but unto the son now let's stop here a second who is the speaker we see so we see who he's talking to but who is the speaker if you would look at the context again but unto the son he Who is the he? Who is the he? Huh? God is verse 1 and you follow God spoke and then you go down to verse 5 you follow the context verse 5 unto which of the angels said he that's God and again when he God bringeth and of the angels he saith that's God of verse 1 then you get to verse 8 we're still talking about the same he God now listen carefully read very carefully what God says to the son but unto the son he God saith thy throne O God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom thus loved righteousness and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows and this is still God talking to the Sun this is nuts this is God talking to the Sun he goes on and thou Lord in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of that works of thine hands they shall perish but thou son he's still talking to the Sun remainest and they shall all wax old as the garment and as a vesture shall thou fold them up and they shall be changed but thou son art the same and thy years shall not fail again attributing the characteristics of deity to the Sun Jesus but in verse 8 the thing I want you to point out to I want you to point out is when this where this verse says unto the Sun he saith thy throne O God so this is God telling calling the Sun God okay now I want you to put that in your mind as we go back to Psalm 45 Psalm 45 and look at verse starting in verse 1 Psalm 45 verse number 1 it says to the chief musician upon Shoshanim for the sons of Korah my skill a song of this is this is a love song but it's not a love song in the sense of the love of a man and his wife but this is a love song within I hope I don't lose you here within the Godhead this cut this is kind of stuff that they don't mess up your theology all right so in this Psalm you'll see verse number look take a peek at verse 6 ahead of time look at verse 6 ahead thy throne O God is forever and ever a scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter so what we read in Hebrews 1 was quoted out of Psalm 45 everybody follow that but what do we know from Hebrews that is not initially readily apparent in Psalm 45 is that the speaker is God and he's the person to whom he is speaking is the Son that's what Hebrews tells us Hebrews 1 8 says that the recipient of these words in verse 6 is the Son so what you do is because you know that from the New Testament you take that truth and you if I can say this word extrapolate it and start at the beginning of the psalm knowing that knowing that so we're gonna start at the beginning of the psalm knowing that the person to whom the psalmist is speaking is the Son of God Jesus Christ now let's start with that in mind let's move forward verse 1 my heart is indicting a good matter you know what indict means it means to compose like you're writing something I speak of the things which I have made touching the king my tongue is the pin of a ready writer thou art fairer than the children of men now let's stop this that's where we begin thou you that's second persons second person singular so the writer of the psalm right is the author of the psalm is writing to this person this person is identified in Hebrews as the Son of God in verse 6 thou son of God Jesus Christ art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips therefore God hath blessed thee forever I'm gonna keep reading I'm gonna come back to verse 2 in just a minute because this is really gonna it's really gonna get crazy here in just a minute gird thy sword Jesus upon thy thigh O most mighty with thy glory and thy and in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness and thy right hand Jesus shall teach thee terrible things thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies whereby the people fall under thee thy throne O God is forever and ever the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter thou still talking to the Sun Jesus Christ love is righteousness and hate is wickedness therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows mark that verse or note that verse as well because we're gonna look at that verse with verse 2 in just a minute all thy garments still talking about Jesus smell of myrrh and aloes and cast you out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad that's where the song comes from out of the ivory palaces into the world of woe and you know what is thoroughly scriptural right Kings daughters were among thy honorable women upon thy right hand did did stand the Queen in gold of offer okay now let's go back to verse 2 for fun all right look at verse 2 thou art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips therefore God hath blessed thee forever now follow me in verse 2 and also read verse verse while we're here read verse 7 becaus...