God's King Reigns - Psalm 2

Psalm 2 “Then he [Jesus] said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”” (Luke 24:44 ESV) Nations Rebel ~ Psalm 2:1-3 Psalm 2 Anointed One ַ‫ִיח‬%ָ‫( מ‬Mashiach) = Messiah χριστός (Christos) = Christ Jesus the Christ / the Messiah “Sovereign Lord … who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,” (Acts 4:25-27 ESV) Nations Rebel ~ Psalm 2:1-3 Psalm 2 “We do not want this man to rule over us.” (Luke 19:14) “… scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.” (2 Peter 3:3 ESV) “And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him [Jesus] who was sitting on the horse and against his army.” (Revelation 19:19 ESV) Nations Rebel ~ Psalm 2:1-3 God Responds ~ Psalm 2:4-6 Psalm 2 “Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.” (Isaiah 24:23 ESV) “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.” (Zechariah 8:2-3 ESV) “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (John 15:18-19 ESV) “… the Gentiles want … sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;” (1 Peter 4:3-4 ESV) “And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,” (Acts 4:24 ESV) “For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” (Acts 4:27-28 ESV) “And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,” (Acts 4:24 ESV) “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” (Psalm 2:1 ESV) “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:2 ESV) Nations Rebel ~ Psalm 2:1-3 God Responds ~ Psalm 2:4-6 Messiah Reigns ~ Psalm 2:7-9 Psalm 2 “… Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house …. I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son….And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”” (2 Samuel 7:11-16 ESV) “And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’” (Acts 13:32-33 ESV) “And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’” (Acts 13:32-33 ESV) “… God has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”” (Acts 17:30-31 ESV) “And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.” (Daniel 7:14 ESV) “He [God] raised him [Christ] from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet …” (Ephesians 1:20-22 ESV) “She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,” (Revelation 12:5 ESV) “From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.” (Revelation 19:15 ESV) Nations Rebel ~ Psalm 2:1-3 God Responds ~ Psalm 2:4-6 Messiah Reigns ~ Psalm 2:7-9 Rebels Rebuked ~ Psalm 2:10-12 Psalm 2 “For in Jesus all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,” (Colossians 1:19-22 ESV)