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David – a Portrait of ChristPsalm 16

A Mikhtam of David

1 Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You. 2 I said to the Lord, "You are my Lord; I have no good besides You." 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight. 4 The sorrows of those who have bartered for another god will be multiplied; I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood, Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

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5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot. 6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me. 7 I will bless the Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

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8 I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. 10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. 11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

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17 And [Jesus] said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?” And they stood still, looking sad. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?”

Luke 24:17-18

19 And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.”

Luke 24:19-21

26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

Luke 24:26-27

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me…

(Jesus)

John 5:39

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.”

John 4:34

“I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”

John 17:4

•Jesus’ reliance upon the Father (16:8)

•Jesus’ rescue by the Father (16:9)

•Jesus’ resurrection to the Father (16:10); and

•Jesus’ reign with the Father (16:11)

Outline of Psalm 16:8-11

I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. (Psalm 16:8)

Jesus’ Reliance on the Father- His Life -

John 4:34“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.”

John 6:38“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”

John 14:31“but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me…”

“For [God the Father] has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted [Jesus]; nor has He hidden [forever] His face from him; but when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

Psalm 22:24

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. (Psalm 16:9)

Jesus’ Rescue from the Father- His Death -

Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

James 4:14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. (Psalm 16:10)

Jesus’ Resurrection to the Father- His Resurrection -

Job 19:25-2725 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. 26 Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; 27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!

29 Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 And so, because he was a prophet and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE, 31 he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that HE WAS NEITHER ABANDONED TO HADES, NOR DID His flesh SUFFER DECAY [quote from Psalm 16:10]. 32 This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 2:29-32

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. (Psalm 16:11)

Jesus’ Reigning with the Father- His Ascension -

Life Lessons from Psalm 16

1. Like our Savior, we must fully rely on God

Psalm 73:25-2825 Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27 For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You. 28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works.

‘I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold, I’d rather be His than have riches untold, I’d rather be led by His nail pierced hand-

than to be the king of a vast domain Or be held in sin’s dread sway;

I’d rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today.

I’d Rather Have Jesus

Life Lessons from Psalm 16

2. Only those who desire to God will truly belong to Christ

Matthew 12:50“For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Life Lessons from Psalm 16

3. No believer needs to fear death

1 Corinthians 15:20-2320 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming…

6 Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required. 7 Then I said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."

Psalm 40:6-8

4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin…11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:4-6, 11