The sermon interprets Psalm 89:19 as ultimately pointing beyond David to Jesus, the humble yet divinely chosen Christ. Christ’s real humanity makes Him the accessible friend of sinners and gives humanity profound dignity, while His resurrection and ascension establish His present exaltation. Spurgeon urges sinners to come to Christ just as they are, trusting His mercy rather than their own preparation. He closes with a serious warning that the rejected Man of Sorrows will return as the righteous Judge of all.
Theological center: The incarnate Christ is the chosen and exalted God-man whose humiliation, resurrection, ascension, and return accomplish salvation and judgment.
Applications: Come to Christ as you are · Do not despise Christ · Christ is truly human · Tremble before judgment
Primary texts: Psalm 89:19 · Matthew 25:32 · Matthew 11:28
“I have exalted one chosen out of the people.” Psalm 89:19 ORIGINALLY, I have no doubt, these words referred to David. He was chosen out of the people. His lineage was respectable, but not illustrious. His family were holy, but not exalted. The names of Jesse, Obed, Boaz, and Ruth awoke no royal recollections, and stirred up no remembrances of ancient nobility or glorious pedigree. As for himself, his only occupation had been that of a shepherd boy, carrying lambs in his bosom, or gently leading the ewes great with young—a simple youth of a right royal soul and undaunted courage, but yet a plebeian—one of the people. But this was no disqualification for the crown of Judah. In God’s eye, the extraction of the young hero was no barrier to his mounting the throne of the holy nation, nor shal…