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The sermon interprets Psalm 89:19 as ultimately pointing from David to Jesus, the Messiah chosen from among the people. Christ’s humble birth and human experience qualify Him as the believer’s brother, husband, and sympathetic Savior, while His divine election and unique union with God establish His saving authority. His resurrection and exaltation secure the believer’s participation in His glory. Spurgeon contrasts Christ’s gracious invitation with the danger of sin and final judgment, urging every sinner—whether proud or broken—to come to Christ and trust His promise of welcome.
Theological center: Jesus Christ is the divinely chosen, fully human and uniquely divine Savior whose humiliation, resurrection, exaltation, and coming judgment define salvation and human destiny.
Applications: Come to Christ as you are · Lay aside pride · Consider Christ’s solidarity · Consider Christ’s exaltation
Primary texts: Psalm 89:19 · Revelation 22:17 · 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 shall the proudest admirer of descent and lineage dare to insinuate a word against the valor, wisdom, and the justice of the government of this monarch of the people! We do not believe that Israel or Judah ever had a better ruler than David, and we are bold to affirm that the reign of the man “chosen out of the people” outshines in glory the reigns of high-bred emperors and princes with the blood of a score of kings running in their veins. Yea, more we will assert that the humility of his birth and education, so far from making him incompetent to rule, rendered him, in a great degree, more fit for his office and able to discharge its mighty duties. He could legislate for the many, for he was one of themselves—he could rule the people as the people should be ruled, for he was “bone of their bone” and “flesh of their flesh”—their friend, their brother, as well as their king. However, in this sermon we shall not speak of David, but of the Lord Jesus Christ, for David, as referred to in the text, is an eminent type of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who was chosen out of the people, and of whom His Father can say, “I have exalted one chosen out of the people.” Before I enter into the illustration of this truth I wish to make one statement, so that all objections may be avoided as to the doctrine of my sermon. Our Savior Jesus Christ, I say, was chosen out of the people, but this merely respects His manhood. As “very God of very God,” He was not chosen out of the people, for there was none save Him. He was His Father’s only-begotten Son, “begotten of the Father before all worlds.” He was God’s fellow, co-equal, and co-eternal, consequently when we speak of Jesus as being chosen out of the people, we must speak of Him as a man. We are, I conceive, too forgetful of the real man…