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All right, we will go to Psalm 2, Psalm 2. Give me just a moment here while
I grab my notes. And we will turn to Psalm 2. As we have started a series on
select Psalms, we looked last week at the first six verses
of Psalm 2. And so we'll come back to that
here in just a moment. All right, in the prayer list,
there should be an outline if you wanna follow along. It's
on the back side down at the bottom. There should be the second
half of the notes. And if you'd like to follow along
there or fill in the blanks, you're welcome to do so. But
we've entitled this study of this psalm, Serve the Lord with
Fear. And it's a royal psalm. There
are many other royal psalms. And again, this is because of
the reference to the Messiah as King, the Anointed One. So it's a Royal Psalm, along
with Psalm 18, 20 and 21, 45, 72, and then there are several
others that are Royal Psalms. We are breaking this down into
a four-point outline. Human Rebellion, verses one through
three, Divine Reaction, verses four through six, Divine Rule
in verses seven through nine, and then Human Responsibility
in verses 10 through 12. We looked last week at human
rebellion. We see in the first scene, we
see why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
This is verse number one. So this word rage, this word
rage means, as you see there, to make a tumult. It's quoted
in Acts 4, verses 25 and 26 of the religious and civil authorities
who are persecuting Peter and John. And Peter and John, in
their prayer, they quote from Psalm 2, saying, these civil
and religious authorities who are persecuting us for preaching
the gospel, they are doing a vain thing. They are raging against
you, Lord. So they pray from this very Psalm. It's a root
word that means to snore like a horse. It can literally mean
to riot, to gather for the purpose of causing turmoil, destruction,
violence, And again, those who crucify Jesus raged against him. We are familiar with riots, sadly,
all too much in our society today. And we've experienced that even
close to where we live. And there have been various riots
through the years. But that is, in a sense, the
word here. Why do the heathen riot against
the Lord? and the people imagine a vain
thing. So vain means, as we looked at
last week, empty, foolish, wasteful. It is a foolish thing to do.
It is a wasteful, vain, empty thing to do, to riot, to rage
against the Lord. Psalm 38.12, They also that seek
after my life lay snares for me, and they that seek my hurt
speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Proverbs 24, verse 2, For their hearts studieth destruction,
and their lips talk of mischief. We even looked last week at Isaiah
59, 1 and 2, actually all the way down to verse 4, we won't
quote those tonight. But we see that who is leading
this raging, who is leading this imagining a vain thing? It is
the kings of the earth. Verse two, this is the leaders.
This is the nobility. This is the influencers, so to
speak. This is the rulers. And they
are leading this rage, they're leading this rioting, this tumult,
this rebellion, this defiance against the Lord. And they're
trying to gather others with them. And they have set themselves
in direct defiance and rebellion and willful disobedience. And
they take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed. They plan, they plot, they strategize. all in an effort to try to stop
the will of God, to stop the work of God, to upset God's redemption
plan, to destroy, to take captive people and to take them into
their deceits and their destruction, and to cause doubts and discouragement
and depression among believers. It's a plot, it's a plan, it's
a strategy, and we see the schemes as we read that the devil is
a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. We
know that there are principalities, powers, that there's spiritual
wickedness in high places, all as a part of the ideologies and
the false religions and the rebellious thoughts and actions. Behind
all that is a satanic inspiration. So as people give themselves
over to false religions, as they give themselves over to wrong
ideologies, to humanism and naturalism and Marxism and evolution and
all the different isms and ideologies, as they give themselves over
to those false ways of thinking and worshiping, those wrong views,
those sinful thoughts, those false religions, those lies,
as they give themselves over, they are actually placing themselves
in the influence, under the influence of Satan. Yes, there's the world,
and yes, there's the flesh that Satan is using, but Satan is
behind. We look at what goes on in some
parts of the world right now, particularly the Middle East,
and the brutal ways of these terrorists. The people of Canaan
and the way they behave, their sins, are very comparable to
what we see from Hezbollah, from Hamas, these brutal terrorists
and what goes on in Afghanistan and the Taliban. It's inhumane. That is a despicable, perverted,
extreme form of raging and imagining a vain thing. But that's what
these ideologies, these wrong teachings, these false religions,
this is what they can lead to. especially when there's not government
that fears God, that punishes the wicked and rewards the good.
And it's against the Lord and against His anointed. I had a
very good question after the study last week. And so let's
touch on that here for a moment. But notice what they say in verse
two. They take counsel, they plot, they strategize against
the Lord and against His anointed. The Lord being God himself, the
Lord God Jehovah, but we also see, and against his anointed.
We have to understand that this is God in the person of Jesus
Christ, but the psalmist, by the inspiration of God, makes
mention of two persons of the Trinity. God the Father and God
the Son. Who is the anointed? This is
God the Son. So the question was, in verse
three, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords
from us. A good question, why is there
a plural in verse three? Well, because the psalmist is
taking and identifying two persons of the Trinity, one God, three
persons, one essence, three persons, He is identifying the Lord God,
Jehovah, God, the Father, and the anointed one, the Messiah.
And he is separating those two persons for emphasis for this
point. It's a inspired account, of course. So in verse three, the plurals,
their bands, their chords, is a reference to both the Lord
God, Jehovah, God the Father, and against His Son, Jesus Christ. Now, specifically, when did the
kings, the rulers, mankind rebel and defy against the Anointed
One, the Messiah, Jesus Christ? Well, of course, during His earthly
ministry at the crucifixion, right? during his time here on
earth. So there's a moment of separation
for identification, for emphasis, where the defiance and the rebellion
is specifically toward Jesus Christ, and that's obviously
then a reference to the crucifixion. So what do we see here in Psalm
2, in verse 3, in verses 2 and 3? We're seeing a prophecy of
the crucifixion. that would take place, obviously,
in the New Testament. So we see their bands and their
cords, because there is obviously rebellion against God the Father,
but also in a very real and personal sense, as Christ, the God-man,
God in human flesh, suffered and died as a man on the cross,
shed Real blood for our sins. Died a death. Not that God died. God did not die. But Christ suffered
a human death. He did not see corruption, though,
we read later in the book of Psalms and repeated in the New
Testament. I don't believe that Jesus went to hell and preached
to the fallen angels in hell. I don't believe that. I know
that there are some good Bible scholars who believe that. Jesus, of course, rose on the
third day, ascended back in the glory 40 days later. So we see
that for just a brief time here in this inspired account, we
see that separation of two persons of the Trinity for emphasis,
for identification purposes. And what are the bands and the
cords? These are God's word, his law, moral order. Even it's a rebellion against
those who follow God. and follow the Messiah. It's
even a rebellion against those who follow after. That would
mean saved people, genuine believers, Christians. Even they are seen
as the enemies of progress, right? They're seen as the prudes. We
as believers are seen as enemies because we keep God's law, obviously
not perfectly, we're sinners saved by grace, but ultimately
it's a rebellion against God, against his word, against his
law, against his moral orders, even against God's design biologically,
his creative design. We see attacks against God's
very creative design. We have a administration running
for president right now that is in their platform. They are pushing for, promoting,
and celebrating various levels of perversion, including the
attempt, they can't obviously do it successfully, but even
the attempt to rewrites God's design for creation when it comes
to male and female, when it comes to marriage, when it comes to
gender, even performing mutilating surgeries. That's how rebellious
man can be in trying to break the bands and what they see as
bands and cords instead of seeing These as bands of love, as we
read in Hosea 11, 4, I drew them with cords of a man, with bands
of love. And I was to them as they that take off the yoke on
their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. But instead, they should
see these bands as bands of love, and they should see the yoke
of Jesus Christ. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and have ye laid, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. and
ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and
my burden is light. That's a call to salvation. The
divine reaction, we see in the next section of verses here,
we see the divine reaction. We'll just quickly go through
these points. But we look last week at he who sits. This is
the enthronement of God in the heavens. This is speaking of
his throne, his sovereign rule and reign. He will laugh, there
is divine contempt, mocking and scorning, derision against those
who rebel against God. He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. Verse five,
then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in
his sore displeasure. This, of course, is speaking
of the judgment of God, the holy wrath of God, his righteous anger,
his divine judgment. And God sets Jesus as king on
Zion, the hill of God's holiness. Zion can be specifically a reference
to the Temple Mount, but obviously to the city, the temple, and
the whole city of Jerusalem. And I put last week at the end
of our time a picture of the, or a fairly current picture of
the Temple Mount, where one day the third temple will replace
any mosque. or Muslim holy place. We know
that belongs to God, not to the Muslims. So that brings us to
divine rule. So we see, yet I have set my
king upon my holy hill of Zion. Jerusalem, even prophetic to
the millennial kingdom, But verse 7, I will declare the decree,
the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee, ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in
pieces like a potter's vessel. This is a fairly difficult passage
to interpret just from the standpoint that God is eternal, Jesus Christ
is eternal. But we see here that there is
a decree. The Lord, capital letters, all
capital letters, L-O-R-D, this is Yahweh, Jehovah, has said
unto me, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Jehovah's
Witnesses say that that means that Jesus was a created being.
No. Jesus has been the eternal Son of God. God the Father, God
the Son, God the Holy Spirit are eternal. Jesus Christ has
been the Son of God for eternity. He has been King for eternity.
But there had to be a time and place in our time, we think in
terms of time. God is not bound by our time.
Is it November that we have a time change and we fall back? That's
coming up here. God's not bound by our timetable.
We live by seconds and minutes and some of us are more schedule
freaks than others. Some of us are very schedule
oriented and we have everything mapped out. And some of us are
just like, whatever happens, what happens. Whenever I show
up, I show up. There had to be a time where
God decreed that man would know and hear and receive, right?
So what was true from eternity past, there was a time where
God decreed and man became knowledgeable of this decree. We could begin
with Genesis 3 in verse 15. The serpent will have his head
crushed, right? The seed of the woman will be
crushed. but the serpent's head will be
crushed. We can go all the way to Genesis
3.15 and we can see that beginning of the gospel and even in the
skins that were used to clothe Adam and Eve. And then we can
see in what sacrifice that Cain and Abel were supposed to bring.
And Abel brought the right one by faith. We see already this
revelation of God's redemption plan, and then we come all the
way to the monarchy. Was there a time where David
was anointed king? But when did he actually get
coronated as king? It was some years later, wasn't
it? And I think he spent, what, seven years in Jerusalem without
the entire kingdom, and then 33 years, I think it was. as
King of all of Israel. So it's as if we're saying there
was an anointing. Obviously from eternity past,
Jesus Christ has been the Son of God. From eternity past, He
has been King of kings and Lord of lords. But there was a decree,
there was a time when this was revealed to man, similar to when
David was anointed king, but then he was coronated some years
later. So there was a coronation day. And that coronation day includes
the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
And of course, there is a millennial kingdom when he will rule and
reign on the throne of David. So we are seeing the Abrahamic
covenant. We're seeing the Davidic covenant.
We're seeing that Christ is eternal. But there was a time of coronation
where it was, in a sense, revealed to man. through scripture, and
obviously in the person of Jesus Christ, God incarnate. I know that's a lot to kind of
wrap our minds around on a night when we're probably tired from
a busy day at work, and I know that's a lot to try to swallow,
but this is the decree of God from eternity past,
declaring Messiah, Jesus Christ, as God's Son and King. It's a
statement of eternal reality, of God's declaration of Jesus
as the Son of God from eternity past, authorizing Him as King
and authorizing His rule. Though the Messiah would die
on the cross first, He is still King and always has been and
always will be. But there was a way in which this was divinely
revealed. In the Abrahamic Covenant, and
specifically the Davidic Covenant, the Messiah would be a servant,
excuse me, the Messiah would be a descendant of David. We
could go to 2 Samuel, and verses 8 through 16 of 2 Samuel 7. So
the Davidic Covenant required that the Messiah be a descendant
of David. And that was through Joseph and
through Mary. And so the Davidic covenant is
fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and again, his kingdom will once
for a thousand years be on the earth, and then it will be eternal
in the new Jerusalem, the new heavens, the new earth. This
is the only place in the Old Testament that the father-son
relationship of the Trinity is revealed or referenced, the only
time in the Old Testament. In Hebrews 1, 5 and 6, this passage
in Psalm 2 is quoted. In Ephesians, excuse me, in Hebrews
1, 5 and 6, the reference, the quote from this Psalm is in reference
to the birth of Jesus Christ. In Acts 13, verses 33 and 34,
this Psalm is quoted in reference to the resurrection of Jesus
Christ. So we've seen in Acts already
that the Apostles quote in prayer from this psalm. In Acts 13,
this psalm is quoted, is referenced, and then in Hebrews 1, this psalm
is quoted. We can see how important this
psalm is in the prophecy, in the identification of Jesus Christ
as the Son of God, God in the flesh, as the Anointed One, the
Messiah. And then, not sure if I have
the right place here. I think I went too far, maybe,
in the divine rule. But we have also this word begotten,
this word begotten. And I'm gonna have to come back
next week and have a third part, but that's fine. Verse seven,
I will declare the decree the Lord has said unto me, thou art
my son, this day have I begotten thee. So we have begotten. What is this word begotten? We
see it in the Hebrew, and then we see it also again in the New
Testament, in the original Greek. And in John 3 and verse 16, for
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. We're talking about the same
basic meaning here. We're talking about not, and
as the Jehovah's Witnesses would say, they would say this word
begotten here means that there was a time where Jesus Christ
was created. The Mormons, similarly, they
would say that there was a time where Jesus was created because
he's the spirit brother of Satan. But this word begotten is not
a reference to a creative act. It's already been declared that
the Anointed One has been always God, always the Son of God. But
this word begotten is a reference to the relationship as the unique
one and only Son of God, uniquely the Son of God, and it's a reference
to the Trinitarian relationship. This day have I begotten thee.
This day I have declared, I have revealed, to mankind, whom the
anointed one has been sent to pay the penalty for our sins,
to save us from our sins, to give us a home in heaven, to
experience forgiveness. He says, this has been revealed. This day have I begotten thee. I have revealed Christ. This is prophetic to his death,
burial, and resurrection, his ascension into heaven, seated
at the right hand of the throne of God, and it is there that
he is preeminent. What is this saying? He is the
preeminent one. He is first. He is the one whom
we should completely orient our lives around. He is first place. He is our first priority. He
is by whom we should Order our lives. And of course, we know
that the written word of God is the revelation of Jesus Christ,
who is the living word of God. We know that there were two other
specific times where there was a declaration of Christ as the
son of God. What were those two other times?
Not sure, I think I'm either behind or ahead. I can't remember
where I'm at now. I got mixed up on my outline,
sorry about that. I have a set of notes here, and
I have an outline that I put in the bulletin. I apologize
if those are mixed up. But where were the two other
times in the New Testament where it was very specifically that
there was a declaration? Sam? His baptism, and where else? Mount of Transfiguration. Where
God audibly declared, this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased. I just think it is extremely
fascinating how all of, I love how scripture, obviously one
author, God used 40 human authors, but this is a revelation from
God, divinely inspired, and it all perfectly fits together. Scripture interprets scripture,
scripture does not contradict scripture, because one author,
God himself, inspired. So Psalm 2 is prophetic. It's quoted in the New Testament
and it also references to these declarations, these decrees from
eternity past that are revealed in God's redemption plan and
literally, audibly, physically can be heard by man. This is my beloved son in whom
I am well pleased. In Hebrews and in Acts, specifically
quoted in regards to the birth of Jesus and the resurrection
of Jesus. We'll have to stop there. This
psalm is rich. I apologize. I know I got some
things mixed up and I didn't get the outline completely done.
We'll come back one more time, Lord willing, and finish up the
last part, the last scene in this great psalm. But it is such
a rich psalm and so deep in Messianic truths and prophetic truths that
help us, that encourage us in our walk with the Lord, in our
faith, that we serve the one true and living God, the Lord
God, Jehovah. We serve the King of kings and
the Lord of lords, and praise God for that. In the midst of
great turmoil and wars and everything else that's going on, we need
to keep looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our
faith. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for
your word, for this great psalm. I feel like I've only scratched
the surface and done Not a very good job, really, in trying to
explain, but Lord, we thank you for these truths that are anchors
of the soul, that help us, Lord, in times of great turmoil and
consternation and when there's wars and fighting and fears,
help us, Lord, to remain faithful to your word, strong in the Lord
and the power of your might. We thank you for these truths,
these principles, these commands, these promises, these prophecies
that we can lay hold of. And that, Lord, we rejoice in
that you are the author and the finisher, the completer of our
faith. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for being
here.
Serve the Lord with Fear, pt. 2
Series Studies in Psalms
| Sermon ID | 1010241328531630 |
| Duration | 27:49 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | Psalm 2 |
| Language | English |
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