Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

Self - Joke - Laughing is good, even if the jokes are not.

Because as we will learn in … God himself laughs

Sermon Series Topic - … what or who God is laughing at?

Text

Transition: If you haven’t done so already, please turn bibles to ,

Prayer…

What we learn from is four-fold…

Overview:

The Nations are Raging

II.

The LORD is Laughing

III.

The King is Reigning

IV.

Blessed are all who take refuge in King Jesus

The LORD is Laughing

The King is Reigning

Blessed are all who take refuge in Him

I.

The Nations are Raging

Who is raging?

Who is plotting?

Verse 1, The nations & peoples of the earth.

All peoples, Verse 2 says, Kings and rulers and all their armies.

All mankind raging and plotting together.

This means all mankind.

Who are they raging against?

Verse 2, The LORD & His Anointed (Yahweh & His Messiah)

Yahweh: Israel’s “National God.” (Explain)

Yahweh is not just a National God.

He was the God of Adam long before he was the God of Abraham.

He is God who created all the world.

He is God alone, in Heaven, there is no other God before him.

He is the creator of the philistines, the Hittites, Jebusites, Wichitans, and any other designation of people groups you can think of, because Yahweh is the creator of all the earth and of all human beings who inhabit the earth.

And so the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain against their creator and the one whom their creator has chosen to be be King over them.

The text calls this chosen king “The Anointed/Messiah” which indeed comes from Israel.

The Messiah is not just an anointed King.

But the anointed King.

Saul and David were both anointed King by Samuel, but neither of them were the Messiah.

Because the Messiah would be “The last and final king”, who would never die.

He shall be king forever.

The Messiah, or in Greek, the Christ would rule forever.

So, “When we say Jesus Christ, we are saying that Jesus is the Christ.

That is not just his last name, it is his title.

He is the Messiah.

He is the last and final king.

Who cannot die, lest he be merely a King like Saul and David who both died and decayed in the grave.

So if Jesus died how can he be the King of ?

That is the greatest hurdle for every jew in the new testament, how can Jesus be the Christ if he died like David?

And We’ll answer that question later.

For now, let’s understand the title Messaiah or Christ.

The Christ is not merely Israel’s King.

Not just the King over the Jews, but the King which comes from the Jews.

When Yahweh’s Messiah comes, He shall rule over all the world that Yahweh himself created.

All that is Yahweh’s will be given to his Christ to rule over.

So, To rebel against the Christ’s authority is to rebel against Yahweh himself.

Verse 3 answers our last question.

What is all mankind plotting to do?

Here we find a Piel Verb Stem: Hebrew will add stems to verbs in order to esxpress the type of action.

Here we have the Piel Stem: So, it is not just “Let us break their bonds”, but “Let us burst /shatter them apart”.

The Piel stem is an intensifier.

Kind of like our exclamation mark in english.

Their action is a violent and vicious action.

They wish not just to remove themselves from Yahweh and his Christ’s dominion, but to usurp their authority.

They believe they can overthrow the Christ’s Kingdom and thus overthrow Yahweh himself.

This has been true since Satan.

Verse 3 sounds like something Satan would say.

Once an angel in Heaven referred to as Lucifer, wishing to sit upon the throne of God and take Yahweh’s place as ruler of the world, but he was cast down.

All of fallen mankind, who follow Satan do the same and say the same thing as verse 3.

Adam and Eve ate the fruit, believing themselves to be like God able to discern what is good and evil, without submitting to God’s command, they needed to only trust God that they were not yet ready, not yet mature enough to make such distinctions between good and evil.

Their disobedience was a statement saying, “I know better than you God.” Which is to place themselves above him.

To burst and shatter the chords of Yahweh’s authority.

As if they could rule better than him.

This thought was and is today, Satanically influenced.

How many in here are tempted to believe the same lie?

I know better than you, God.

Many of us have lived much of our lives this way, many of us have lived most of last week this way.

When we struggle with finances, God I know better than you.

When our homes are not as they should be, God I know better than you.

When our sexual desires begin to overwhelm our thoughts, God I know better than you.

When our culture tells us we have the right to cast off his authority on our life, God I know better than you.

All such things are Satanically influenced as was the temptation in the Garden.

Here is , The Kings and Rulers of the earth who set themselves together against Yahweh and against his anointed are wanting to burst and break the authority of God over their lives.

Israel likewise despised the commandments of Yahweh and chased after false god’s.

In , the apostle Paul, drawing from Dueteronomy 32, says these false God’s are not gods at all, but demons that set themselves up as gods receiving worship.

Thus all nations who worship false gods and all principalities who receive their worship are under judgment!

Allegiance to a false god and king is Cosmic Treason!

Idol worship is not simply a compilation of “alternative worldviews”, it is treason against the King and rebellion against their creator.

The people who claim, you can decide for yourself what is good and evil

Decide for yourself if you are boy or a girl or something else altogether

Decide for yourself if you will practice christianity, islam, hinduism, Buddhism, or none of the above.

Just one of the many options for you to choose from.

As if you were creator and Lord of your own life.

Even fast food restaurants want you to believe, that if you are lord over what goes on your burger, somehow you are lord of something special.

Worship to any other god is false worship, either to yourself or to another, and it is a sort of plotting and planning to cast off the claim of Yahweh upon your life.

But, God was the God of Adam before the God of Abraham.

All mankind, including you and me, were made to worship and serve Yahweh, our creator, and his king, the Christ.

Yet, we all rage against his worship, and plot in vain how we might escape his authority.

The first book of the New Testament quickly shows us that Israel is no better than the rest of us, they had become like the raging nations at the very birth of Yahweh’s King.