Jesus always had perfect love (Psalm 18:1) for His Father. He always found refuge in God (18:2) and called upon the Lord for salvation (18:3). On the cross, “the cords of death” and the “cords of Sheol” reeled Jesus in (18:4–5). In the mysterious agony of the cross, God did forsake His Son to death, but Jesus never gave up hope as He cried out for help (18:6) to “My God, My God” (Matthew 27:46). The Father heard His Son, and though He allowed His Son to taste death, Jesus’ cry reached the Father’s ears (18:6). Then God shook the earth out of anger at the unjust killing of His Son (18:7). The devil and Christ’s enemies had overcome Jesus in death, but the Father rescued Him from them in the Resurrection “because He delighted” in His only-begotten Son (18:17–19).

Psalm 18 is a psalm of David, a servant of the Lord. Jesus is the ultimate Servant of the Lord. The superscription says this psalm is a “Song . . . on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hands of all his enemies.” Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of this, when on the first Easter He was delivered from His enemies—even death. Jesus did not deserve to die because of His perfect righteousness, so God rewarded Him with everlasting life (18:20–24), which He now shares with us through the Gospel!

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