Waterbrooke Family, This Sunday, we studied Psalm 45, which is a “love song”. This is one of the greatest and most joyful psalms in the Bible. It was written to celebrate the marriage between the King and his Bride. The words contain effusive praise for the King and what He is like as it invites the bride to embrace the abounding joy of her impending marriage. Often, in fairy tales, the handsome prince finds a fair maiden languishing in poverty and abuse in some far-away corner of his kingdom. He discovers her and seeing her true hidden beauty (that others have either neglected or envied), He rides in and rescues her and makes her his own royal queen. In the Scriptures, this is no fairy tale. It’s the story of King Jesus and God’s plan of redemption. Christ comes and redeems His bride, the church. The trajectory line of every Christian shifts radically when we discover how safe and how loved we are in the eyes of our King. Jesus never found our hidden beauty and fell in love with us. Jesus knew us when we were in our sins. Yet, we are meant to see, to believe, and to celebrate that though we are and were sinners, we have been sought, bought and made to be His precious bride. Our destiny has changed radically. If you are feeling unloved and unworthy, you need to come and see this Sunday, how Christ views you according to Psalm 45 and why you should rejoice in the glory of your King. Together, let’s be filled with the joy and love of Christ that overflows from this psalm and beckons us into His gracious, eternal, and forgiving love. Our sermon is called, The King of Love.

In Christ, Kevin Dibbley, Senior Pastor