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Psalm 45:1-2 NKJV

1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2 You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Title: The Beauties Of The Savior.

We are told very little in the Scriptures of the physical appearance of Jesus. He must have been of the ordinary appearance of that day because he had to be identified, as he was among a crowd, to those who came to arrest him. Again in John 8:57 the Jews said to Him ‘You are not yet fifty years old’, which is at least an indication he must have appeared much older than his thirty years.

But this physical appearance is of no concern to the believer. The beauty described by the Psalmist (45:2a) draws our attention and interest. The comments on this Psalm by the great teachers of the church capture the beauty of the Savior which truly and substantially thrills every believer.

Treasury of David

Title: For the Sons of Korah “ Special singers are appointed for so divine a hymn. King Jesus desires to be praised not with random ranting raving, but with the sweetest and most skillful music of the best trained choristers”.

A Song of Loves: “Not a carnal sentimental love song, but a celestial canticle of everlasting love fit for the tongues and ears of angels.”

Vs 2. Thou art fairer: “In person but especially in mind and character, the King of saints is peerless in beauty. The Hebrew word is doubled ‘Beautiful, beautiful art thou’. Jesus is so emphatically lovely that words must be doubled, strained, yea, exhausted before he can be described.”

Vs. 2 Thou art fairer: “Thus he begins to set forth his beauty wherein is the delightfulness of any person, so it is with the soul when God hath made known to man his own filthiness and uncomeliness through sin, and that only by Jesus sin is taken away; oh, how beautiful is this face, the first sight of him.”

Vs 2 Thou art fairer: “He first describes the glories, the beauties, the astonishing loveliness, of his person. Though to a carnal eye there was no beauty to desire him, his visage was marred more than any man’s and his form more than the sons of men, yet to the eye truly enlightened, he is the king in his beauty, fairer as the mediator, the Head, the Bridegroom of his church and people, than all the children of men.”

Vs 2 Thou art fairer: “O fair sun, and fair moon, and fair stars, and fair flowers, and fair roses, and fair lilies, but O ten thousand times fair Lord Jesus.”

Matthew Henry

Vs. 2 Thou art fairer: “Those that have an admiration and affection for Christ love to go to him and tell him so. Thus we must profess our faith, that we see his beauty, and our love, that we are pleased with it.”

Perowne

Whole Psalm: “Israel’s true king was not David or Solomon, but One of whom they, at best, were only faint and transient images. A righteous one was yet to come who should indeed ride in truth and equity, who should fulfill all the hopes which one human monarch after another, however fair the promise of his reign had disappointed, and whose kingdom, because it was a righteous kingdom should endure forever.”

James Luther Mays (Modernist)

“Christians have traditionally understood the psalm as a song of love between Christ and his church. This interpretation is also a safeguard against attributing the divine right of rule to any other save Christ in whose hands it is utterly safe.”

II Thessalonians 1:10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed. At the great day of our resurrection the beauty of the Savior will be the single object of our admiration. It is to our best interest and his glory for this to consume our admiration and attention now.

O could I speak the matchless worth, O could I sound the glories forth which in my Savior shine,

I’d soar, and touch the heav’nly strings, and vie with Gabriel while he sings in notes almost divine.

I’d sing the precious blood he spilt, my ransom from the dreadful guilt of sin, and wrath divine:

I’d sing his glorious righteousness, in which all perfect heav’nly dress my soul shall ever shine.

I’d sing the characters he bears, and all the forms of love he wears, exalted on his throne:

In loftiest songs of sweetest praise, I would to everlasting days make all his glories known.

Well, the delightful day will come when my dear Lord will being me home, and I shall see his face,

Then with my Savior, Brother, Friend, a blest eternity I’ll spend, triumphant in his grace.

Samuel Medley