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Psalm 2
“The Messiah King”
Introduction: Good morning, Redemption Church.
It is a great morning indeed.
Today there are certainly children who will be born with the total worth and dignity they deserve being made in God’s image, which would not have been born two days ago.
For 50 years, Christians worldwide have been praying for mothers and their unborn.
On this Lord's day, there is much rejoicing.
I want to make a few comments about the overturn of the Roe V Wade decision.
First, I want to say that this is not primarily a political issue; it is a Christian moral issue.
In the earliest days of the church, Infanticide was prevalent.
If a child were born who had any defect that would make it difficult for the family to raise the child, families would take the child out and leave it in the wilderness to the elements to die.
One of the earliest Christian sermons written is called the “Didache,” which literally means doctrine.
The Didache was written between 70 AD and 150 AD, and it explicitly forbids leaving children to the elements.
It then advocates that the church must care for those who cannot care for themselves.
This issue does not go back to 1972, but it goes back far into the annuls of history.
God has created man and woman in his own image.
This is what makes humanity distinct from all other forms of life in creation.
We have dignity because we all are representatives of God’s image.
Second, the overturning of Roe V Wade is a monumental victory for morality and the lives of the unborn.
However, it is not the end of the fight for life.
Now the real work begins.
If any expecting mothers are watching on the live stream who are debating getting an abortion because you are worried about raising a child or providing for one, please reach out to us.
We want to help.
We are not blowing smoke; if there is anything that we can do to help you keep a child and raise it in the knowledge of the Lord, please reach out to us.
We love you and are here to help.
With that being said, Praise the Lord in the highest heavens, praise the Lord all that has breath let us praise the Lord for he is good, he is faithful, and his steadfast love endures forever.
His faithfulness endures for generations from children’s children to children's children, Hallelujah.
If this is your first time joining us at Redemption Church, we are in a brand-new sermon series called “Summer in the Psalms.”
This is week three.
In week one, we learned about the overview of the Psalter.
All 150 Psalms tell a complete story of redemption for God’s people.
The Psalms also teach us how to be an ideal citizens of God’s kingdom.
Last week we jumped into Psalm one.
For a reminder, Psalm one and Psalm two are connected and were probably written as one poem, but somewhere in the course of history, they were separated.
Psalm one tells us of the “blessed man.”
This blessed man is the ideal citizen of God’s kingdom.
He doesn’t listen to the advice of the wicked, he does not walk in the way of the sinners, but he meditates upon God’s law.
He is a lifelong student of the Torah.
He delights in all of God’s word, and as a result, he is living a beautiful tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season and is ultimately blessed.
Psalm two takes a shift.
It is as if the Psalmist is going to zoom out of this “blessed man,” and the Psalmist will give a cosmic picture of all of human history.
Psalm two is going to give us a look at who this blessed man really is and we are going to learn about his enemies and his people, and God’s plan for him as the Messiah King.
Read the Passage: Psalm II
1 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree:
The LORD said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Pastoral Prayer: Most Sovereign Lord who has made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
You have chosen the way that things shall be.
You have set the course of human history from beginning to the end; there is nothing and no one who is outside of your plan.
When I look around at the world, I scratch my head in astonishment at how broken and how fractured the world is.
I turn on the news and see violence, bloodshed, slander, sexual immorality, and, much worse, school shootings, terrorism, and the like.
This cannot be all of life.
Teach us from Psalm 2 what it looks like behind the veil, show us what is going on in the world, and teach us to love your son and serve him, lest we perish in his wrath.
Blessed are all who take refuge in the Messiah, King Jesus.
Jump In:
Psalm 2 is very important.
It is important because it is the second most quoted scripture from the Old Testament.
This should tell us something.
You would think that the New Testament writers would quote passages from Deuteronomy about loving your neighbor or courses from exodus about God delivering power.
But this is not what happens.
The New Testament writers always quote Psalm 2 because it reveals Jesus as the ultimate and true king over all the earth, and all who oppose him are fleeting.
Today's Sermon in a sentence: God’s Messiah-King will rule and reign in spite of the nation's plans to rebel against him.
In Acts 13, the Apostles quote Psalm two and attribute it to David, so for me, that is enough to believe that David was the author of this Psalm.
There is something else that is special about this Psalm.
It is a coronation, Psalm.
When a King would be anointed before taking the throne for the first time, this Psalm would be read as they poured the oil over his head, and he would immediately go and take his seat.
This Psalm is like a play, broken into four scenes.
In your bible, notice the four stanzas of three verses each.
Each stanza is identical in length.
This is a divine play; we will break it up according to scenes.
1. Act One: the nations rebel (1-3_
2. Act two: The Derision of God (4-6)
3. Act three: the Son speaks (7-9)
4. Act Four: a final warning to rebels(10-12)
Act One: The Nations Rebel (1-3)
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