Freedom is Good News Part 148

Our Savior, our King, the Anointed one of God is the one who will take to Himself a bride at the conclusion of this age.  We have been looking at Psalm 45 in regards to this topic and have covered the verses that apply to “the groom”.  Let us now consider His bride.

I said last week that we do not know whom the Psalmist was writing about – the bride and groom of his day has not been revealed to us; although we do know that the groom is a king!  We have seen indications that these verses have implications concerning the ultimate wedding of the future and have in view the wedding of Jesus Christ and the church.

What does this Psalm have to say about the bride – the bride of Christ!!

Verse 10 says this, “Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: forget your people and your father’s house.”  There is a threefold admonition given to the bride: listen, consider and give ear.  The psalmist is serious about what he is going to say.  The first word is from a Hebrew term which means “to give undivided attention”.  The second word means “to observe or perceive” and the third literally means “to stretch forth the ear”.  I guess we’d better take notice of what comes next!

On the heels of this threefold admonition the bride is told to “forget your people and your father’s house.”  Strong words for a new bride.  But this is no ordinary bride; this bride is the church.  Everyone alive today has a lineage that goes back to Adam.  We have what may be called an “Adamic nature” and it is this family line and this father that we would do well to forget.  The Apostle Paul uses the words “the old man”, for the Adamic nature and he tells us in Romans 6:6 that “the old man has been crucified with Christ that the body of sin might be done away with”.  In Ephesians 4:22 Paul tells us to, “Put off the old man which is being corrupted by deceitful desires, … and put on the new man, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”  And again in Colossians 3:9, “…. You have taken off the old man with its practices, and have put on the new man, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”  So forget your family.

This is reminiscent of one in the lineage of Christ.  Her name is Ruth.  You would do yourself well to read this very short 4-chapter book.  It is filled with faith, hope and love.  It has suspense, relationship and romance.  And so much more!!  Ruth is a Moabitess whose Israelite husband has died and her widowed mother-in-law urges her to return to her family.  Ruth’s reply is beautiful, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go and where you lodge I will lodge.  Your people shall be my people and your God my God.  Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried.  May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death separates me from you.”  Wow!!  There is no need to guess about this young lady’s faith. 

More on this next time.  Good news to you all!