Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen:
but we are risen and stand upright.

King David’s Assurance

The King, God’s Anointed, speaks in that capacity, and through that ordained office, he gives assurances to the people of God.

Look Closer at what we might call an Oracle of Assurance.

The Kings after the prayer of the people says, “Now I know these things, your prayer has shown me…

that Jehovah saves his anointed, his chosen”

That He will hear from heaven with saving strength of his right hand. Here we understand that hearing means acting, it is not just passively acknowledging the prayer as received but moving in response to that prayer.

Then we come to the key verse of our message in vs 7-8, Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.  They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

The King knows there is victory when the people of God remember their God. Once again it is the name of God, revealed in that conversation and consecration at the burning bush that brings God together with His people. Their God is not far away and unknowable, they did not and could not ascend to Him, but their God, Jehovah come down to them and revealed His name and in that revelation, there is power, and there is victory.  Remember my name, Jehovah your God.

The king goes on and says we will remember the name of our God, but in contrast those who can’t or won’t call upon God, those who depend upon the strength of men, upon chariots and horses, they will be brought down and will fall, but God’s people who remember, they are risen and stand upright.

Once they King finishes his response then army of Israel is prepared to go forth in the name of the Lord.

King Jesus’ Assurance

Originally this Psalms was for the king of Israel as the nation prepared for war. The people blessed and prayed for the King and the King responded in confidence and faith through that prayer, in God’s salvation and strength for the coming battle.

But don’t leave this Psalms in the Old Testament, for like many of the Psalms it speaks both historically to the people of David’s time, prophetically to the people of a coming time and practically to us in our time.

We have no King named David, but we have a greater King named Jesus. And it is with His voice today and in the future that we should hear this response when we pray.

God Jehovah did save His anointed when He brought Jesus back from the grave. And our resurrected savior and coming King sits at the right hand of the Father and hears the prayers we pray.

And as we pray we must remember. Remember who God is to us. In the OT God revealed Himself to his people through his name, but in the NT God revealed himself to us through His son.

In Hebrews 1:1-12 Paul wrote about our King, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
… But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

This is who we must remember, God the Father is revealed in Jesus the Son as “the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person.” There is power in remembering the name of God but there is greater power in remembering the Son of God, risen, ruling and interceding for us at God’s right hand.

When we pray our King is moved, if David was prepared for war by the prayer of God’s people, then imagine what King Jesus will do in the battles of our life when we pray in His name.

Song, There’s just something about that name

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus; there's just something about that name
Master, Savior, Jesus, like the fragrance after the rain;
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all Heaven and earth proclaim
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away
But there's something about that name
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away
But there's something about that name