Hearing the Lord’s Speaking and having the Embroidered Garment for our Wedding Day

After praising Christ the King in His fairness, victory, kingdom, and virtues, the psalmist praises Christ the King in praising the queen, who is a type of the church, the wife of Christ, as revealed in the Epistles (see Psa. 45:9-15). This psalm – Psa. 45 – is the highest and greatest of all the psalms; it […]

praising Christ in the sweetness of His virtues and praising the church as the queen in her beauty

In Psalm 45 there is an extensive praising of Christ as the King and the church as the queen. The psalmist praises Christ in the sweetness of His virtues, especially in verse 8, “All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia; from palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad“. What a poetic […]

My heart overflows with a good matter; I speak what I have composed concerning the King(Psalm 45)

This week we are coming to Psalm 45 where we see Christ as King and the church, the believers, and the overcomers as the queen. Christ as the King is praised both directly (His fairness, victory, majesty, kingdom, and sweetness) and indirectly(by praising the church, the overcomers, and the believers as the queen). I love […]