Why I’m Preaching Tomorrow
Each Sunday when we come to the moment of preaching the Bible, we are always standing on the foundational truth that God has spoken to us.
God has made himself known to us as his creatures at a level that we can comprehend. At every point of God’s revelation, he accommodates our humanity by “coming down” to show us who he is. God has done this definitively in the person and work of Jesus Christ, who became like us — and God has done this in written words, called Scripture, which is in translatable human languages that can be understood and that span across different cultures and centuries — and that written revelation, Scripture, testifies to the flesh and blood revelation of Jesus.
In other words, God gave us a book about him that shows us Jesus. … which is why we preach it every Sunday, which is why we read it at home in solitude or together in community. We come to God’s Book because in God’s Book we hear from God.
And within his Book — within the written revelation of 66 smaller books of the Old and New Testaments — there are different kinds of writing.
For example, the Book of Psalms, which we’re starting in again tomorrow, is different from the Book of Galatians, which we preached earlier this Spring. Galatians is a letter that the apostle Paul wrote to a church; the Book of Psalms, though, is an ancient collection of reflective prayers and poetry.
And if there’s one major theme that runs throughout all the Psalms, it’s the theme of kingship.
Kingship is a main theme in the Book of Psalms because, remember, the big question in the Bible overall that Psalms answers is the question: What will happen to the house of David?
God had promised King David in 2 Samuel 7 that he would have a son, the Anointed One, the Messiah, who would reign as King forever, and the Book of Psalms is here to tell us that this promised King is indeed our hope.
And Psalm 45, which we’ll see tomorrow, tells us this in a very interesting kind of way. I can’t wait to show you. And that’s why I’m preaching tomorrow.
