["In the Hall of the Mountain King"]
And just like, I assume it's like 20 mornings,
we're gonna play one for three.
One for the spot on the right.
You can go in there.
Yeah, you can.
You can go in there.
You're a team one.
Oh, that's cool.
Okay, then.
Oh, I remember you were on the outside.
Okay, then.
What about me? I'm in the family.
One, two, three, four, five.
Oh, okay.
You're in the family?
Yeah.
Okay.
At the end it's really still playing,
but we're gonna be in the family.
You know what I'm saying?
I got it.
What's the last one?
It is...
Oh, wait, we're out of time.
Okay.
Anyway,
the third box, of course, is the weekly coffee here at 324.
66, 131, 314.
Oh.
Okay.
Okay, great.
Father God, thank you for this day, Lord.
Thank you for giving us a day to pray for you.
We pray that our music will pour out by you, Lord.
Jesus, in my praise, amen.
All right.
I was very surprised that you got into the foundation.
I know, right?
You just finally caught it.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you.
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Page 66, and let's go ahead and sing it out on the first verse.
Years I spent in vanity and pride,
caring not my Lord was crucified,
knowing not it was for me.
He died on Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free.
Bardon there was multiplied to me.
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
Page number 66 on the second,
by God's word at last my sin I learned.
Then I trembled at the light's burn,
till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free.
Bardon there was multiplied to me.
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
Oh, the love that drew salvation's plan.
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man.
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free.
Bardon there was multiplied to me.
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
Page number 66, let's go ahead and sing it out on the last.
Now I've gifted Jesus everything.
Now I gladly own him as my king.
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free.
Bardon there was multiplied to me.
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
Great singing. Welcome to Verity Baptist Church in the Wednesday evening Bible study.
Let's open up in a word of prayer.
Father God, thank you so much for this church, Lord.
Thank you for these people who have come out here in a Wednesday evening to serve you.
I pray that our singing would glorify you, Lord.
I pray that you bless the service and the preaching to come.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
All right, turn in your song books, page number 231.
We're going to sing Sunlight.
Page 231, we're going to sing Sunlight.
Two, three, one, and let's go ahead and sing it out on the first verse.
I wandered in the shades of night till Jesus came to me.
And with the sunlight of his love bid all my darkness flee.
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way.
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin.
I have had the sunlight of his love within.
Page 231, let's sing it out on the second.
Though clouds may gather in the sky in the heat,
in the little bit dark the world may be, who may it be?
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way.
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin.
I have had the sunlight of his love within.
Now this is an exciting song. It's fast. It gets away from you.
So let's go ahead and sing it out on the third.
That's page 231 on the third.
While walking in the light of God, I sweet communion find.
I press with holy vigor on and leave the world behind.
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way.
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin.
I have had the sunlight of his love within.
I cross the wide extended fields, I journey o'er the plain.
And in the sunlight of his love I reap the golden grain.
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way.
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin.
I have had the sunlight of his love within.
Let's go ahead and sing it out on the last.
Soon I shall see him as he is light that came to me.
Be all the brightness of his face throughout eternity.
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way.
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin.
I have had the sunlight of his love within.
Great singing.
Amen. Alright, well let's take our bulletins and we'll look at some announcements real quickly.
Tonight we of course want to welcome you to the midweek service here at Verity Baptist Church.
We call it the most encouraging service of the week.
And it's nice to be able to meet right in the middle of the week and be with God's people.
Of course sing praises to God.
If you need a bulletin just raise your hand and one of our ushers will get one for you.
If you need a bulletin just put your hand up and we'll get one for you.
The verse this week, Psalm 119 35, make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein do I delight.
And that's a good verse there, we like that.
If you open up your bulletin you'll see our service time Sunday morning service 1030 a.m.
We do invite you of course to be with us on Sunday morning on the Lord's Day for church.
And then we have our Sunday evening service at 6 p.m.
And like we've already said we're glad you're here for the midweek service.
If you look at our soul winning times, our main soul winning times are on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
And then we have additional soul winning times on Thursdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
And we'd love for you of course to be a part of our soul winning time.
And if you look at the announcements there you'll see of course our series on Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday nights.
And tonight we're going to continue our series in the book of Psalms.
And we're going to be again in a very famous Psalm, Psalm 2.
We were in Psalm 1 last time we were together.
And then today we're in Psalm 2 which is a very interesting Psalm.
And we'll study that tonight.
And then we just want you to know that all the ladies are invited to a baby shower for Ms. Rizel Lee Wilson.
And that is this Saturday, August 10th at 3 p.m.
And Ms. Rizel is having a boy. She's registered on Amazon.
It is a potluck so if you can please bring a dish to share.
And if you'd like to attend you can sign up on your communication card.
And we would love for you of course for all the ladies to be a part of that.
Choir practice and orchestra is on Sunday at 5 p.m.
And then don't forget that there's a ladies weight loss accountability group.
Ladies if you'd like to be a part of that they meet on Wednesday nights at 6 15 p.m.
Right before the evening service in my wife's office.
And she leads that meeting so you're welcome to be a part of that.
And there's other things there of course for you to look at.
If you look at the back of the bulletin birthdays and anniversaries for the month of August.
This week was my daughter Lydia Jimenez's birthday on Sunday August 4th.
Also Ms. Brandy Barrett had a birthday on August 4th.
Daisy O2 had a birthday on August 5th.
Today is Abigail Deacon's birthday on August 7th.
So happy birthday to her.
And tomorrow is brother Christian Groenberg's birthday on August 8th.
And Cristiano Perez's birthday on August 9th.
Praise report, money matters, all those things are there for you to look at.
And if you are a first time guest we're glad that you're with us tonight.
We have a gift we'd like to give you.
As you walk out of the church building tonight as you go out the main foyer you'll see a little table set up.
And on that table you'll see these little gift bags.
Please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our guest tonight.
And we'd love for you to just make sure you grab one of these on your way out.
There's several resources there for you.
And if you would not mind we'd love for you to take a moment to fill out the communication card which is inserted in your bulletin.
If you need a pen you can just raise your hand and one of our ushers can bring you by a Verity Baptist Church pen.
We'd love to have a record of your attendance.
And we actually would like to send you something in the mail with a little gift in the mail.
But we need your info to do that.
So please take a moment to fill the card out.
When we're done with the announcements we're going to sing a song.
And when we're done singing we're going to receive the offering.
And as the offering plate goes by you can drop this card in the offering plate.
And I think that's it for all of the announcements.
So we're going to go ahead and take our song books and we're going to go to page number 324.
And we're going to sing three, two, four.
As we prepare to receive the offering this evening, 324, draw me near.
Let's go ahead and sing it out on the first.
I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice and it told thy love to me.
But I long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to be.
Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord to the cross where thou hast died.
Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord to thy precious bleeding sight.
324, let's sing it out on the second.
Consecrate me now to thy service, Lord, by thy power of grace divine.
With a steadfast hope and my will be lost in thine.
Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord to the cross where thou hast died.
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord to thy precious bleeding sight.
324, we're going to sing it out on the third.
The instrumentalists, if they would not mind, let's slow it down as we sing it out on the third.
Let's just slow it down a little bit on the third.
O the pure delight of a single heart that before thy throne I spend.
When I kneel in prayer and with thee my God, I commune as friend with friend.
Good, sing it out.
Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord to the cross where thou hast died.
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord to thy precious bleeding sight.
Good, sing it out on the last.
There are depths of love that I cannot know the narrow.
There are heights of joy that I may not reach till I rest in peace with thee.
Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord to the cross where thou hast died.
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord to thy precious bleeding sight.
Amen.
Good singing.
I do want to remind you, of course, that we've got mother baby rooms and daddy rooms
available for your convenience, and we do ask that you please take a moment and look
at your phone, make sure it's on vibrate or silent or off, and we'll go ahead and
have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time.
And let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do love you.
We thank you for allowing us to gather together tonight.
Lord, we pray you'd bless the offering, the gift of the giver.
We pray that you'd bless the time set aside for prayer and, of course, for the
preaching of your word.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
All right.
Well, let's go and take our prayer sheets tonight, and we'll go through our prayer
list.
If you did not receive a prayer sheet on your way in, just raise your hand and one
of our ushers can get one for you.
If you need a prayer sheet, just put your hand up and we will get one for you.
And, of course, the way that you add, I would like to remind you that the way
you add a request to the prayer sheet is through your communication card.
On the back of the card, there's a place for you to write down a request.
And make sure you mark whether it's private or public.
If it's private, only I will see it.
If it's public, we'll put it on the prayer sheet.
If you don't mark it, we'll do our best to figure it out.
We usually don't add those, however.
And we do add the request in the order that they come in, and we remove them after a couple
of weeks.
So if you want it to be there longer, you'll have to fill out another card.
And I'd like for us to take these requests to the Lord tonight.
I, of course, will pray out loud, and I'd love for you to pray with me in your mind
and your heart.
Let's bow our heads together.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do come to you tonight.
We thank you for the privilege that it is to pray and to be able to come before your
throne of grace and to be able to bring our petitions unto you.
Lord, I ask that you would hear our prayers tonight as we pray for these requests from
our church family.
And we begin with these requests regarding salvation.
We pray for Brother Warren Lauterman praying for the salvation of his co-worker, and
Ms. Brittany Lauterman praying for her mom and her family's salvation.
Brother Vlady and Ms. Antonina praying for their family's salvation.
Brother Brandon praying for his family and relative's salvation as well.
Ms. Natalie praying for her husband's salvation.
Brother Ron praying for his mom and his family's salvation.
And for Ms. Maria praying for Roman Schuyler's salvation.
And Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her family's salvation.
Ms. Docma for her daughter and her family's salvation.
Lord, we ask for these individuals.
We realize that these are people that will spend eternity somewhere, heaven and hell.
And, Lord, we ask that you would please speak to them, that your Holy Spirit would convict them.
Lord, we pray that you would use whatever knowledge they have of the truth to bring them
to a place where they'd be willing to hear the gospel.
Lord, we, of course, pray that a soul winner would communicate the gospel clearly to them.
And we pray, Lord, that everything that can be done would be done, that these individuals might be saved.
And, Lord, we pray for these that have physical needs and financial needs and praying for certain things.
We pray for Brother John Cervantes who's praying for Alex Rosales and praying for the Lord's will for Alex
and his desire to move to Sacramento or be part of our church.
We pray that you would open up those doors if that's your will and allow them to move here.
We also pray for Brother Brandon praying for his sister's citizenship paperwork to be approved so that she could move to the U.S.
And also Brother Ron Edwards praying for his finances to improve and to be able to get more work.
And Ms. Midori praying that she would be selected for a senior apartment and also for her financial situation to improve.
Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her finances.
Brother Saburo praying for his finances and work.
Lord, we ask for these individuals, we pray that you would help them and bless them and open up the right doors for them in regards to these things.
And we pray, Lord, for these that have requests regarding their personal walk with you and their faith.
And, Lord, we pray for Brother Brandon praying for his personal walk and Ms. Christine and Brother Saburo for their faith and their walk with you as well.
We pray you'd help them and bless them, help them to grow and to mature spiritually.
And, Lord, we ask that you be with them.
And then we pray for these that have health requests.
And Brother Glenn praying for his daughter Charlene's health.
Ms. Tamara praying for the emotional and physical healing of Carrie Ann.
And also Brother Ron praying for his health.
Ms. Michelle Scott praying for Brother Graham's mom to do well at her skilled nursing facility so that she can come home soon.
And Ms. Rachel Wheeler praying for healing from endometriosis and that she could be able to receive treatment.
Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her upcoming procedure on August 16th and for her health.
Brother Saburo praying for wisdom for the doctors treating his skin cancer and also for his health.
Ms. Dogma praying for her pain.
And then, of course, we pray for Little Urezi to continue to be healthy and strong.
We also pray for Jonathan Daddios for his complete healing.
We pray for Missionary Dave Camantala's wife, Angel, and how she battles breast cancer.
And, Lord, we pray for all these individuals.
We pray that you would help them and be with them, that you would guide them.
Lord, we pray that you would put your healing hand over them, that you would give wisdom to the doctors and nurses dealing with them.
We also pray for the ladies in our church that are expecting Ms. Esther, Ms. Ariel, Ms. Rizel, Ms. Rebecca, Ms. Angel, Ms. Laura Beth, Ms. Laurel.
Praying, Lord, that you would give them healthy pregnancies and no complications and no issues.
We do pray for the Daddios family, that you just continue to strengthen them and help them as they deal with the health issues of their children.
Lord, we pray that you would bless those kids as well.
And, Lord, we pray for these that have requests regarding their families.
Ms. Nicole Perez praying for her family, specifically for her children.
Raha and Chris and Liviana and Etiana.
And then, also, Brother Salvador praying for his family as well.
And then, Lord, we ask that you would hear these prayers of these that have unspoken requests.
Ms. Natalie and Brother Anthony, Ms. Kimmy, Brother George, my dad, Brother Felix, Brother Montel, also, Brother Salvador, Ms. Docma, all having unspoken requests.
And you know what their petitions are. You know what they're asking for, Lord.
We pray that you'd answer according to your will.
And then, Lord, we pray for our church here, that you would continue to bless our church and strengthen our church.
We pray for the prison ministry, that you would help that to be able to get going soon.
And also, we pray for the work being done in the Philippines for our church plants in Manila, Pampanga, and Bicol.
We pray for Pastor Stuckey there and his family, that you'd bless them and help them.
We pray, Lord, for our upcoming Family and Friend Day as we continue to prepare with music and special things, flyers and soul-winning events.
Lord, we ask that you would bless all of these things as we celebrate our church's anniversary,
help it to be a day that we could see many people saved and help the church to reach people on that day.
And, Lord, we pray for our church, that you'd continue to bless our church, strengthen our church, help our church.
Thank you for all these that are here tonight.
Pray, Lord, you'd bless their homes and their families.
Lord, I ask that you'd meet with us as we study Psalm 2 tonight.
Pray you'd give us listening ears and help us to be able to hear and understand and draw close to you as a result of what we hear.
We love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Please open up to the book of Psalms, Psalm chapter 2.
If you do not have a Bible, please raise your hand and I know you're reading your Bible.
Psalm 2, just keep your hand up and she'll come by.
Psalm chapter 2, Psalm 2, begin in verse number 1.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands of sunder and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
O declare the decree the Lord hath set 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.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the son lest he be angry and he perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this evening.
Thank you for your word and for our church.
As you please give us all a tender heart to the message tonight.
As you be their pastor, please strengthen him and fill him with spirit.
We love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Alright, we're there in Psalm 2 and of course several weeks ago we began a brand new Bible study in the book of Psalms.
We went through Psalm 1 and then of course I was out of town preaching in Arizona
and we weren't in the book of Psalms last week but tonight we're here in Psalm 2.
And I would say that Psalm 1 is one of the most famous Psalms in the Bible and Psalm 2 is as well.
And what we find in Psalm 2 and the reason that these Psalms, Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 were chosen as the first and the second Psalm
is because they really speak to humanity.
And if you remember from a couple of weeks ago when we studied Psalm 1, and I'm not going to review it because there's so much to cover in Psalm 2.
But if you remember we learned about the fact and about the individual and the focus was on a person.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly is how it begins.
Psalm 2 widens the scope and where in Psalm 1 we were focused on a person,
in Psalm 2 we are focused on people.
And in Psalm 1 we're focused on an individual and in Psalm 2 we're focused on nations.
And this is what we call a messianic Psalm.
It is a Psalm about the Lord Jesus Christ and this is also what we might refer to as an end times Psalm
because it deals with events of the end times.
I'd like to, there's lots to cover. You would think there's only 12 verses we can do this quickly but there's so much.
The book of Psalms is so dense that I'd like for us to move quickly because there's lots that I'd like to go over tonight.
But I want to begin with just a little bit, a few introductory statements about Psalm 2 because I think Psalm 2 is an interesting Psalm.
You notice there in Psalm 2 and verse 1 it begins with this very famous question.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed saying.
And then of course the Psalm goes on.
I'd like to just by way of introduction show you a couple of things about this Psalm.
Some things that maybe you can annotate in your notes and of course I always encourage you to take notes.
If you would go with me to the book of Acts, Acts chapter number 4 in the New Testament.
You've got Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and then the book of Acts.
I'd ask that you do me a favor and put a ribbon or a bookmark or something there in Acts because we're going to leave it and we're going to come back to it.
I'd like for you to be able to get to it quickly.
Acts chapter number 4.
Let me just show you some things about Psalm 2 real quickly.
This Psalm, though this Psalm does not have what is sometimes referred to as a superscription.
And we actually have not yet seen that.
We haven't seen that in Psalm 1 or in Psalm 2.
We'll see it, Lord willing, in Psalm 3.
But a superscription is a statement at the beginning of the Psalm that identifies something about the Psalm.
Most commonly, if you've read the book of Psalms, you might recognize when a Psalm right at the beginning begins with these words, a Psalm of David.
And sometimes it will say different things.
For example, in Psalm 3 it says a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.
And these are superscriptions that are actually in the original Hebrew that are there to give us some context about the Psalm.
Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 do not have those superscriptions. Not all Psalms do.
However, it's interesting because though Psalm 2 does not have a superscription identifying David as the writer like many other Psalms.
And we know that David wrote many Psalms in the book of Psalms.
The book of Acts actually identifies this Psalm as being written by David.
This is why often times I tell you that the Bible itself is its own commentary and the Bible itself is its own dictionary.
Now we read Psalm 2 and specifically verses 1 and 2,
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine the vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers set counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying.
If you notice there in Acts chapter 4 and verse 25, the Bible says in the book of Acts, Acts 4 25,
and I want you to make note of this phrase, Acts 4 25,
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said.
So here the writer of Acts, which we know is the physician Luke, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost,
tells us, he gives us this commentary, he says,
Who by the mouth of thy servant David has said, he's saying, David said these words and then he quotes Psalm 2,
Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine the vain thing?
The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
So we see here that Acts identifies for us who wrote Psalm 2 because the writer in Acts tells us that it was said by the mouth of thy servant David
and then he quotes Psalm 2 verses 1 and 2.
Let me show you another thing. Keep your finger there in Acts chapter 4.
Go back to Psalm 2 and look at verse number 2.
We've talked about this in the past before.
Again under the scope of this idea that the Bible serves its own dictionary and has its own commentary
and often times what you find is that the New Testament will quote the Old Testament
and when you find those quotations you'll often find words that are not exact words
and the reason for that is not because there's a mistake in the translation.
Of course we know that the Old Testament was primarily written in Hebrew, parts of it in Aramaic.
The New Testament written in Greek and then of course it's all been translated into English in our King James Bible.
So there's a lot of translation that's going on there
but what I want you to understand is that when we often look at these quotes and compare them
the Bible actually defines itself and serves as a dictionary in that way.
Let me give you an example here in Psalm 2. Look at verse 2.
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord.
I want you to notice here it says, and against his anointed saying, and against his anointed saying.
In fact what I want you to notice is how Psalm 2 in verse 2 at the end of it, it says against the Lord.
Notice it's capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D.
When you see Lord in all caps like that, that of course is the name of God, Jehovah God,
the I am that I am, against the Lord and against his anointed.
I want you to notice how that's translated in the book of Acts.
Acts chapter 4, look down at verse 26, Acts 4, 26.
The Bible says the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord.
I want you to notice that in Acts 4, 26 the Lord is not in all caps.
It's a lowercase L-O-R-D which is a title.
Lord is like the way we would maybe in our modern vernacular say sir
and there's a whole reason for that and I won't delve into it
other than the fact that what I want you to notice is that the New Testament translators
felt that it was acceptable to use the word Lord there in the place of God
which is why our King James translators, if you know the issue, chose to use the word Lord
and they put it in all caps to identify for us when it's actually the word Jehovah
or the four letter word for God that nobody knows how to say.
The New Testament translators felt comfortable using the word Lord in that place.
So today when you've got all these idiots who are wanting to use these new Bibles
and they want to remove the word Lord and put Yahweh and they don't know what Yahweh is
or what they're talking about. They don't know how that name was pronounced
and I realize this is maybe not something that interests a lot of you
but some of you understand these issues and are interested in these things
and here's a proof. They'll say the King James translators should not have inserted the word Lord.
Well, Luke did it in Acts 4.26 and that was under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost
so that's interesting but then look at the last part of verse 26
and against his Christ. So Psalm 2.2 says and against his anointed
Acts 4.26 says and against his Christ. The kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers they counseled together against the Lord
and against his anointed saying. Acts 4.26 the kings of the earth stood up
and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
What does this tell us? This tells us that the word Christ means the anointed.
That's what the word means. So when we talk about Christ
when we say the Lord Jesus Christ, Christ was not his last name, alright.
Christ was a title. He is the Christ and you say what does that mean?
It means that he is the anointed and of course we know that in the Old Testament
when priests were chosen they were anointed and when kings were chosen
they were anointed and they were anointed to be priests
in a Levitical priesthood or to be kings in a kingdom of Israel
but Jesus is the anointed. He is the chosen one.
He is the Christ. That's what the word Christ means.
In fact, let me just give you another example of that.
Go backwards into the book of John. You're there in Acts.
If you go back into John, I just want you to see that the Bible serves as its own dictionary
and that we should allow the Bible to define itself
and don't let people try to confuse you with what this means or that means
and tell you you got to go back to the Greek and you got to go back to the Hebrew.
Look, your King James Bible is as good as the originals
because it's the inerrant word of God.
John 1.41 says this.
He first findeth his own brother Simon and saith unto him, John 1.41.
This is Peter. After he found Jesus, he goes and tells his brother.
By the way, that's a good thing to do after you find Jesus is you go tell others.
He first findeth his own brother Simon and saith unto him,
We have found the Messiahs.
So here we have another religious term, Messiah
and notice how the Bible then defines it for us.
We have found the Messiahs which is being interpreted the Christ.
So I want you to notice that according to John 1.41, the word Christ means Messiah.
When we say the Lord Jesus Christ, we're saying the Lord the Messiah
and the word Messiah means the chosen one or the anointed one
and all these words are used interchangeably.
Anointed, Christ, Messiah, all of these are talking about the same position
which is the position that the Lord Jesus holds.
He is the Christ. He is the Messiah. He is the anointed.
Today you have dispensationalists like John Hagee who will try to say,
Well Jesus never came to be your Messiah.
Even in independent fundamental Baptist world there are dispensationalists
saying Jesus never came to be the Messiah
but they just don't understand that the word Christ means Messiah.
So if he is the Christ, he is the Messiah.
Messiah which being interpreted is the Christ
and if he is the Christ, he is the anointed one.
He is the anointed chosen one of God, that one that would come in the Old Testament.
So we see that this psalm is identified in the book of Acts as being written by David
and then we see that the psalm serves as a dictionary to define for us the term Christ.
Then I want to just quickly give you another just interesting fact about this psalm.
If you would keep your place there in Acts, continue to keep your place in Acts.
Go back to Psalm 2, look at verse 7 real quickly.
We're going to go through the whole psalm here in a minute but I just want to give you these highlights.
Psalm 2 and verse 7.
Psalm 2 says this, I will declare the decree, the Lord hath said unto me,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
I want you to notice, and that's a very important verse, we're going to talk about that in a minute,
but I want you to notice that this verse, this section of the verse,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee,
is quoted in the book of Acts in a different place as well.
Go back to Acts and this time go to Acts chapter number 13.
Acts chapter number 13 if you would.
And what's interesting about this is that Psalm 2 is the only psalm, as far as I know,
and I obviously don't know everything so maybe I'm missing something, I don't think I am,
but as far as I know Psalm 2 is the only psalm in the entire Bible
that is identified within scripture by a chapter numbering.
And what I mean by that is that the chapters and the verses were added to our Bible later on
after the Bible was completed in order to make it easy for us to be able to find verses
and be able to divide it by chapter and verses,
but what's interesting is that the actual scripture itself identifies Psalm 2 as Psalm 2.
Look at it, Acts 13 verse 33,
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus again,
look at verse 33, as it is also written in the second psalm, thou art my son, this day have I begotten this.
So notice that the writer of Acts, which is Luke under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost,
in the actual writing of the book of Acts identified this psalm as the second psalm.
So as far as we know it's the only psalm in the Bible,
it's the only psalm and it is the only chapter in the Bible that is identified by a chapter reference
and I think that's something interesting for you to maybe make a note of.
Keep your place there in Acts, we're going to come back to it, go back to Psalm 2 if you would.
Alright, well that's enough introductory statements and kind of interesting miscellaneous things there.
Now let's delve into the chapter, Psalm 2, this very famous chapter, very well known chapter,
like I said it's a messianic psalm and it is an end time psalm
and what I'd like to do is I'd like to give you four headings to outline this psalm
and I'd like to give you four different headings and you can jot these down for your notes.
The first heading that I give to this psalm is, and it would cover the first three verses,
is this if you'd like to jot it down, we see the heathens rebellion, the heathens rebellion
and this is covered in verses 1-3 and it begins in the first two verses with this conspiracy against Christ.
I want you to see it, Psalm 2 verse 1, why do the heathen rage?
Now in other places in the Bible, I'm not going to take the time to take you there
because I don't have the time to do that tonight, but you can study this out on your own.
The word heathen is used interchangeably with the word gentile
and this is referring to, of course, we're in Psalms, this is under the old covenant
and when we're referring to heathen, we're referring to people that are not God's people
and that's the same thing it means today.
Anybody who's in heathen is an infidel, someone who does not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And here, the psalmist, who we know to be David, begins with this question.
He says, why do the heathen rage? The word rage means a violent, uncontrollable anger.
He says, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
Then he says in verse 2, he says, the kings of the earth set themselves.
The kings of the earth set themselves.
This has to do with positioning.
In Acts 4 26, you don't have to go back there again, but it's translated stood up.
And the idea is that they have taken a position.
The kings of the earth have set themselves, they've stood up, they've taken a position
and the rulers take counsel together, meaning they gather together,
they are meeting together, they are counseling each other, taking counsel and advice from each other.
In Acts 4 26, it says they were gathered together.
Now notice, the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together
and they do this against the Lord.
And of course, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, that's God, Jehovah God.
Why do the kings of the earth set themselves? Why do they stand up or how they've stood up?
Why do the rulers counsel together? Why are they gathered together?
They're doing this against the Lord and against his anointed or what we saw in Acts 4 26, against his Christ.
And what the psalmist is telling us here is something that is true of his time
because when he says it in Psalm 2, he says it in a present tense.
When it's repeated in Acts, it's in a past tense, but it's also a future messianic end times prophecy.
So really, the idea is this, that this statement, the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord and against his Christ, against his anointed.
The truth is this, that it is true of all human history.
That throughout all human history, human beings and specifically the leaders of humanity
have attempted to gather together against the Lord and against his Christ.
This has been true from the beginning.
I'm not going to have you turn here for sake of time. Like I said, I've got a lot to cover tonight.
But if you remember in Genesis chapter 11, the first time we see nations and societies and cultures come about,
what is the first thing that humanity does? They join together under the Tower of Babel.
Let me just read this for you. You don't have to turn there.
In fact, I'd like you to go to Revelation, if you would, Revelation 13.
Do me a favor, when you get to Revelation, put a ribbon or a bookmark there
because we're going to be coming a lot to Revelation.
I'd like you to keep your place in Acts, keep your place in Revelation.
We're going to go back and forth.
While you go there, let me read to you from Genesis 11.
Remember the story of the Tower of Babel?
The Bible says in Genesis 11 verse 1,
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
The Bible says in Genesis 11 verse 4,
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city.
Now, here's what I want you to understand about the Tower of Babel.
It was representative, what they were doing was evil and wicked.
And it was representative of something that humanity has always had an aspiration to do.
The Bible says in Genesis 11 verse 4,
And they said, what if the people, when people first gathered into nations and cultures
and to have leadership, to have kings, what's the first thing they'd do?
They said, let us build a city, let us build a city that is representative of a one world government
because at that time, the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
If you know the story of the Tower of Babel,
it is a story that tells us how God confounded the languages and how he separated the languages.
It's called Babel because he made them to babble and he separated the nations.
But at this time, the entire earth after the flood, Noahic flood, they're all speaking one language.
They're all of one speech.
And they all said, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven
and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
So humanity had this fear that they did not want to be scattered.
They wanted to unite and they said in order to unite, we must do two things.
We must build a city which is representative of a one world government
because at that time, that city was a one world government
because the entire population of the whole world, this was shortly after the Noahic flood,
was all gathered together, all speaking one language, all in one speech
and then they said, and a tower, that's the Tower of Babel
and they said, whose top may reach unto heaven.
What is that picture?
It pictures the city, a one world government,
it pictures a tower that would reach up to heaven, a one world religion.
And mankind, from the very beginning, has had this idea that if we could unite,
if we could bring everybody together, all of the nations together,
then we could rule ourselves and we would not need God to rule us.
And we could form our own religion and we would not need God.
We could build a tower to heaven.
We could build our own way to heaven.
Now this was done in the Tower of Babel.
I don't have the time to talk about this.
One of these days, I'm going to preach a whole sermon series about this
because I love the idea, the western civilizations, ancient civilizations.
My daughter is taking a civilizations course right now in her homeschooling
and I find it interesting that you can see all throughout human history.
Human history is pretty much, especially ancient history,
it's just the story of nation after nation, kingdom after kingdom, empire after empire,
trying to accomplish one thing, bring the whole world together.
What were the Egyptians trying to do? Bring the whole world together.
What were the Assyrians trying to do? Bring the whole world together.
What were the Babylonians trying to do? Bring the whole world together.
What were the Medo-Persians trying to do? Bring the whole world together.
What was Alexander the Great and the Greeks trying to do?
Bring the whole world together.
What were the Roman Empire and their Roman peace?
What were they trying to accomplish? Bring the whole world together.
And this is what was Hitler trying to do, bring the whole world,
just unite the entire world under one kingdom.
And what is the United States of America housing the United Nations today trying to do?
Bring the whole world together.
It's been the theme of all humanity.
From day one, humanity has chosen to say, we do not need a god to lead us, we can lead ourselves.
And we don't need a god in heaven, we can build a tower to heaven.
Are you there in Romans 13?
Romans 13 speaks of the end times Babylon.
Because remember the Tower of Babel, it begins in the valley of Shinar,
and it eventually will become the place where the city of Babel in Babylon is.
But we know that that becomes a name that is just synonymous of this idea of this elite one world government.
And in Revelation we have that end times mystery Babylon.
And notice the characteristics of the end times Babylon.
Revelation 13, and we can spend a lot of time on this.
Again, I don't have the time to do it, but I just want you to see this.
Revelation 13 verse 7, and it was given unto him, this is referring to the antichrist,
to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and power was given him over, look at it, all kindreds and tongues and nations.
What is that? That is the coming one world government.
Power was given unto him, the antichrist, all kindreds and tongues and nations.
And then look at verse 8, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him.
So in verse 7, power is given unto him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
That's a one world government.
And then all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him.
That's a one world religion.
Everybody worships him except for these people whose names are not written in the book of life.
Everyone who worships him are the ones who are not written in the book of life.
The ones who are written in the book of life that are Christians don't worship him.
The book of life is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Look down at verse 16, same chapter.
Then we see that they of course create an image.
You have to worship the image, and they have this mark of the beast.
And if you don't worship the image, you receive the mark.
If you don't worship the image, you cannot receive the mark.
Revelation 13 and 16, and he calls it all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in the right hand or in the forehead, and that no man might buy or sell.
That no man might buy or sell.
Now look, Revelation, the book of Revelation, think about this, was written in the first century.
And in the first century when John, the beloved, sat on the Isle of Patmos under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost,
and he penned these words, and he said that there was coming a day when you would receive a mark
that no man might buy or sell.
I'm sure everyone who read that in the first century and for many centuries after that thought to themselves,
this is ridiculous.
How can you keep somebody from buying and selling?
I mean, I don't care what mark you put on someone.
If someone wants to buy something, they can buy it.
If someone wants to sell something, they can sell it.
But today in the 21st century, it's very clear to us how you could keep somebody from buying and selling.
That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.
I'm told later on it is number of man 666.
So we see in verse 7 the coming one world government, we see in verse 8 the coming one world religion,
and then we see in verses 16 and 17 the coming one world currency.
We will all be on the same currency before they can control whether you can buy or sell,
and whether it can be controlled, of course, by a mark, which in their day would have been hard to understand,
but in our day I think it's easy for us to understand how it would be easy to insert something like a chip on somebody's hand.
In fact, it's already happening to be able to make purchases and open doors and whatever.
That type of technology already exists.
Go back to Psalm 2.
So we see that this psalm has this view to the future,
but it applies in all of human society because all of human society has always had this idea,
and the idea has been this, this conspiracy against Christ.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord and against his anointed, or acts as against his Christ saying?
There's been this conspiracy from the very beginning, from the Tower of Babel, all traced, all through human history,
there's been this conspiracy, the Roman Empire, and of course, Daniel points that out for us,
with all of these different civilizations, Egypt, Assyria, the Middle Persians, the Babylonians, the Middle Persians, the Greek.
Of course, in the New Testament we have the Romans,
but when the Roman Empire, when the Bible, the history of the Bible ends there in the first century and the Roman Empire disappears,
of course, it's broken up into two sections, which is actually predicted in Daniel,
and you have the rise of the Byzantine Empire, same thing.
Then you have the rise of the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church,
where the popes take the place of the kings and you've got that thousand years of dark ages
when the Catholic Church rules the world, and what is the Roman Catholic Church attempting to do?
It's attempting to control the entire world, and you continue on, and you see it through history, this spirit of Babylon.
Why does it happen?
The conspiracy against Christ, verses 1 and 2, is a result of the rebellion against Christ in verse 3, I want you to notice it.
Notice there Psalm 2 and verse 3. Here's what they said.
Here's what the Psalmist tells us.
The rulers of the earth, the kings of the earth, and the rulers of the earth, they gather themselves together, they counsel together.
What is it talking about?
It's talking about your United Nations.
This is talking about your League of Nations.
This is talking about your G7 summit and G10 summit, and in Revelation there's a G10 summit where the kings of the earth all give their crown,
so the Antichrist as well.
This is talking about this idea.
It's talking about the uniting of Europe under the European Union.
These people, these leaders, are gathering themselves together, and they're taking counsel, and they're meeting,
and what are they meeting about? What are they doing?
Wouldn't you like to know what they're talking about in the United Nations?
Wouldn't you like to know what's going on in these G7 summits, and G10 summits, and G, I don't know how many of them they have,
G5 summits and whatever?
Well, the psalmist tells us what they're talking about.
Look at verse 3.
He says, when they meet together, when the rulers and the kings of the earth, they meet together,
first of all, we need to understand that they're meeting together against the Lord and against this Christ,
and this is the conversation.
Verse 3, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.
When they gather together, this is what they're attempting to do.
They want to break their.
Now, don't let the plural there confuse you, because when they're referring to their,
they're referring to the two that they're rebelling against, the Lord and his Christ.
And they're saying, let us break their bands.
They're saying, the Lord and his Christ are trying to band us.
They're trying to control us.
What is this referring to?
The laws of God.
The commands of God.
The word of God.
And they're saying, let us gather together and let us counsel together.
Let us stand together and let us unite together and let us break their, the Lord and his Christ,
their bands asunder and cast away their cords.
What's a cord?
A rope or a cable or a strand.
And they said, let us cast away their cords from us.
And mark it down.
Anytime that political leaders in this world gather together, they take counsel together.
They take counsel together to advance an agenda that goes against the Lord and against his Christ.
I'm not saying that they're saying that out loud.
I'm not saying that there's, you know, some meeting somewhere where they pass out an agenda
and they say, okay, let's all worship the devil now together and let's drink this blood
and now let's talk about how we're gonna, you know, try to remove God from society.
I'm not saying that they necessarily are saying those things out loud,
but let me tell you something, that's what they're doing.
That's why the Bible says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
When they gather together, they gather together to try to determine
how they can break the bands of God asunder, how they can cast away the courts from us,
how they can break the laws of God, and how they can try to not submit to the authority of the God of the universe.
In Luke 19, you don't have to turn there.
Actually, go ahead and turn there just real quickly.
If you kept your place in Acts, just go backwards.
You got Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts.
You go past the book of John into Luke from Acts.
Keep your place in Acts.
In Luke 19, I won't take the time to go through the entire parable here,
but this parable is about how the world, and specifically in Luke 19,
is about the nation of Israel, but how they've rejected Christ.
I want you to notice what the Bible says in Luke 19, 14,
because this is true of the Jews and it is true of every heathen nation in this world.
Luke 19, 14, this is about Jesus. Here's what it says.
But His citizens hated Him.
You understand that Jesus is the King?
Jesus is God?
Jesus is the Creator?
Jesus is the ruler of the world?
I mean, I understand that right now we're in a fallen world
and the devil is the God, lowercase g, God of this world.
But we were created by Jesus, we were created by God, we belong to Him.
Here's what the Bible says about humanity,
that His citizens hated Him and sent a message after Him saying,
and this is what humanity has been saying about the Lord Jesus Christ from day one.
We will not have this man to reign over us.
Why do the rulers gather together?
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
Why do the kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord
and against His anointing against Jesus Christ? Why?
Because they want to say, they want to stand up,
they want to raise a fist to heaven
and try to break the bands of God asunder
and cast away His cords
and they want to say and demand to the Lord Jesus Christ,
we will not have this man to reign over us.
And listen to me.
I understand that I preach sometimes these things
and some of you don't like it and I get that I'm not trying to hurt your feelings
but I'm not going to stop preaching what I know the truth is.
This is why I don't get excited about politicians.
This is why I don't get excited about political movements
and obviously I understand that some are more evil than others and I get that.
But listen to me.
All of the rulers of this world are trying to do one thing,
they're trying to raise their fists to Jesus and say,
we will not have this man to rule over us.
I mean that's the only reason that makes sense
as to why we see the politicians doing what they're doing today.
Just this week, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltz,
was announced to be Kamala Harris's running mate.
Tim Waltz is the governor of Minnesota.
He's the governor of Minnesota.
During the riots that happened there in 2020, the George Floyd riots,
he told the police to stand down and to let Minneapolis burn down.
The guy's crazy.
The guy's literally insane.
He goes around saying that Donald Trump is weird and whatever,
but the guy, and I'm not a Trump fan either,
but you've got to ask the question, this guy Tim Waltz,
when he was governor of Minnesota, he forced schools,
and I'm not going to use the words that they're using on the news
just because I have more respect for the house of God than that,
but he forced schools to stock feminine products,
feminine products that ladies would use on a monthly basis,
in boys' bathrooms as young as fourth grade,
attempting to promote this transgender, which is really a transvestite movement.
And you've got to ask yourself, why would a 60-year-old man think,
a politician, a governor, a ruler of a governor, why would he think,
you know the law, I was elected governor,
and a law and a policy that I'd really like to push
is I really want to just force bathrooms for fourth grade boys
to stock them with feminine hygiene products.
And you say, why would a governor do that?
But I'll tell you the answer to the question is because
he wants to raise his fist up to Jesus and say,
we will not have this man to reign over us.
We're going to cast away his bonds and we're going to cast away his courts.
Why would Kamala Harris attempt to push a law in 2019
which would have imposed abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy?
Why did Barack Obama, when he was senator in Illinois,
attempt to pass a partial birth abortion law?
Think about what I just said.
Partial birth abortion, where you could partially birth a child
halfway out of the canal and legally take its life.
Why?
Why would this guy, Tim Walz, who advocates for abortions as well up to birth,
why would these politicians attempt to push these laws?
And there's one reason for it is because these politicians
and these rulers of the darkness of this world and these global elites,
they want nothing but to break God's band of sunders.
They want to say we will not follow the laws of God.
We will not follow the commands of God.
We will break the band of sunders, we will cast away his courts,
and we will not have this man to rule over us.
Why would Joe Biden issue a rule aimed at protecting health care providers
and insurers and other entities who perform or pay for abortions?
Why would Bill Gates, the Bill Gates Foundation, commit to donating $280 million per year
to abortion causes until 2030?
Why?
Why is Joe Biden offering a pardon to military personnel
who were court-martialed for homosexuality?
Why did Bill Clinton decide to institute the don't ask, don't tell policy
in the military in the 90s?
Why did Barack Obama get rid of don't ask, don't tell
and say, well, you can just be an open sodomite in the U.S.?
Why would that be an agenda that they would pursue?
And the answer is this, because they want to raise their fist to heaven
and say we will not have this man to rule over us.
We will not accept what the Bible says.
We will not accept what the word of God.
Why did the 2024 Olympics, just a few weeks ago,
in their opening ceremony, mock the painting of the Last Supper?
And I'm not a Catholic and I'm not necessarily for the painting of the Last Supper.
But obviously to them it is iconic of Christianity.
And they have, and I didn't see this, actually these notes were provided to me.
My staff helped me put these together.
But having a woman wearing a silver halo-like headdress
stand at the center of a long table with a bunch of transvestite drag queens
posing on either side of them as a parody of the Last Supper.
Why? Why would you do that?
At an event that is supposed to be promoting all of the nations of the world
coming together in something healthily and athletic
to put a bunch of transvestite on TV
mocking what you think is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'll tell you why.
Because these people want to say we will break the bands of God.
We will cast this court aside.
We will not have this man to rule over us.
Why did Pope Francis, who's a heretic, who's a false prophet,
why do you say transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society?
Why did the Utah District ban Bibles in elementary and middle schools
due to vulgarity and violence?
Why is the United Nations, according to their official website,
committed to protecting the rights and dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer, intersex, LGBQI plus individuals
as a year round and never.
Jews not enough. They need all year to do this.
Why?
And I'll tell you why.
Because they want to break the bands of thunder of God
and cast away his courts.
They want to raise their fists to Jesus in heaven and say
we will not have this man to reign over us.
Why do these nations, why does the nation of Afghanistan, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives,
Mauritania, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,
Takiqistan, Turkanistan,
Uzbekistan, Yemen, Algeria, Bhutan,
Brunei, China, Cuba, Djibouti,
Kuwait, Laos, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco,
Oman, Sudan,
Bangladesh, Central African Republic,
Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya,
Lebanon, Burma, Nepal,
Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Mindanao in the Philippines,
Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
and Vietnam.
Why would all these nations have laws that either ban
or severely restrict the using of the Bible, the word of God.
Why?
The question is because for all of human history
human government has had one agenda
to look up to God and to say
we will break his bands of thunder,
we will cast away his courts
and they want to look at the Lord Jesus Christ
and raise a fist at Christ
and say we will not have this man to reign over us.
So we see this in verses 1 through 3.
The heathens rebellion.
Then I want you to notice quickly tonight
and I'll try to cover the rest of these verses quickly.
In verses 4 through 5 we see the Lord's ridicule.
Go back to Psalm 2 just real quickly.
Look at verse 4.
In verses 4 and 5 we see the Lord's ridicule.
Verses 1 through 3 we see the heathens rebellion.
Verses 4 through 5 we see the Lord's ridicule.
In verse 4 we see his laugh.
Notice verse 4.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
This is God's response.
This is God's response to the fact that
the kings of the earth set themselves
and the rulers they counseled together
against the Lord and against Christ.
God's response is this.
He that sitteth in the heavens
it is God who sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh.
The Lord shall have them in derision.
Now this verse reminds me of a couple of things.
Go to Proverbs real quickly. Proverbs 1.
You're there in Psalm. Just turn over to Proverbs.
While you turn there let me read to you from Isaiah.
The first thing is when the Bible says here in Psalm 2-4
it says he that sitteth in the heavens.
And that is a reference to the fact that
God is sitting in his throne in heaven.
And this is actually in Isaiah
brought up as a contrast
to the kings of the earth
who sit on their thrones here on earth.
Isaiah 6 and verse 1. You go to Proverbs.
Let me just read this to you.
Isaiah 6 and verse 1. This is Isaiah.
And here's what he said.
He said in the year that king Uzziah died.
Now the reason he says that is because
Uzziah was actually a pretty good king.
And Isaiah when Uzziah died
was now concerned. He was worried.
Well who's going to be the next king
that takes his place?
And is he going to be a good king?
And of course we know that there were bad kings
that came after Uzziah.
But here I want you to notice
that in his concern
and in his anxiety
of what would happen now
that Uzziah had died.
The Bible says, Isaiah 6-1
In the year that king Uzziah died
I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne
high and lifted up
and his train filled the temple.
What did he see
when he saw the Lord sitting upon a throne
high and lifted up
and his train filled the temple?
He saw him that sitteth in the heavens.
Listen to me.
It does not matter
who resides this January
in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
or who walks into the Oval Office
in January.
The Lord sitteth in the heavens
and he's high and he's holy
and he's lifted up
and he laughs
when they rebel against him
when they make laws against him
when they took prayer out of the public school
and when they took the Bible out of the public school
you say, what was his response?
Did he shake his hands and wring his hands
and was he worried and was he concerned?
He said, well what are we going to do now?
When Joe Biden
stole the presidency
or whatever you think about that
four years ago
us were angry and upset
and scared and thought, what's going to happen?
Let me tell you something, the Lord laughed.
He that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh.
He's not worried. He's not concerned.
He is high and holy
and lifted up.
Notice Proverbs 1 and verse 24.
In Proverbs 1 and verse 24 we have
wisdom
personified
and we know that the Lord
is the source of all wisdom.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
the Bible says.
Here in Proverbs 1 and verse 24 wisdom is speaking
wisdom is personified.
Here's what wisdom says.
Because I have called and ye refused.
I have stretched out my hand and no man
regarded.
But ye have said it not all my counsel
and would none of my reproof.
Wisdom, which comes from God, says
I didn't just turn my back on you.
I called. I called.
Let me help you but you refused.
I stretched out my hand but no man
regarded. I said it not all my counsel
and would none, ye have
said it not all my counsel and would none
of my reproof. What's the response?
Verse 26, I also will laugh.
It's what God says.
I also will laugh at your calamity.
What's calamity?
It is an event causing great and sudden
damage.
He says I also will laugh at your calamity.
I will mock when your fear cometh.
So though we see the heathens rebelling
and human beings have been working
their entire lives to try to
dethrone God.
Forget defund the police.
They're trying to dethrone God.
The Lord's response is this.
He laughs in verse 4.
Then I want you to notice
we see his laugh in verse 4.
Go back to Psalm 2.
We see his laugh in verse 4
and we see his wrath in verse 5.
Psalm 2 in verse 5.
Look at it.
Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath
and vex them
in his sore displeasure.
Did he keep replacing Revelation?
Let me just show you a verse real quickly
in Revelation. If you go back to Revelation chapter 6.
See these kings
of the earth, they want to mock God.
These communists
want to say
they are God.
Socialists
are just communists
a little far behind.
And this is the road
that our country is going in.
Socialism.
I mean this guy
just got chosen as
the potential vice president of the United States
made a comment saying
one man's socialism is another man's
neighborliness.
And he's promoting this idea
of socialism.
And it's all meant to
remove God, to replace
God with government.
God laughs.
We see his laugh
and we see his wrath. Look at Revelation
6 in verse 15.
Notice what the Bible says.
These rulers, these kings
they want to laugh and mock God.
And the kings of the earth
the great men, the kings of the earth
will be the politician.
So the great men, these will be like the Bill Gates
the elites, the rich
men again, the elites
the chief captains and the mighty man
and every bond man and every free man
hit themselves in the dens
and in the rocks of the mountains.
That's their little
bunkers.
That's their little mountain they've got carved up
somewhere in Colorado where they're all going to hide
during a nuclear explosion.
Verse 16
and said to the mountains
and rocks, fall on us and hide us
from the face of him that sitteth
on the throne.
Remember, he that sitteth in the heavens
high, holy and lifted up
hide us
from the face of him that sitteth on the throne
and from the wrath of the Lamb. Look at verse 17
for the great day of his wrath
has come and who shall be able
to stand.
So we see the heathens rebellion
verses 1 and 3. We see the Lord's
ridicule verses 4 and 5.
Go back to Psalm 2
Let me show you quickly
the sun's rain
verses 6 through 9
I've got to take some time to develop this because
it's important.
In Psalm 2 and verse 6
He says, Yet have I set my king upon
my holy hill of Zion
that's referring to Jerusalem
I will declare the decree
the Lord has said unto me
thou art my son this day have I begotten thee
That's a very well known phrase
it's quoted in the New Testament
and I just want to take a moment to explain it
because it's important for you to understand it
If you could go back to Acts 13 real quickly
Acts 13
This, Psalm 2
talks about this day
when the Lord had said unto me
thou art my son
this day have I begotten thee
This is a messianic psalm. It's about the Lord Jesus Christ
Acts 13, 33
quotes that and says
God has fulfilled the same unto us
their children
I want you to see the context
in that he has raised up Jesus again
This is the book of Acts
Jesus has already resurrected
the context is they're talking about the resurrection of Christ
in that he has raised up Jesus again
as it is also written in the second Psalm
thou art my son
this day have I begotten thee
What day have I begotten thee?
The day of the resurrection
Look at verse 34
And as concerning that he raised
him up from the dead, notice the context
Now, no more
to return to corruption
What is that talking about? Think about the fact that when
Jesus resurrected, he resurrected in his
glorified body, no more
to return to corruption, he said
on this wise, I will give
you the sure mercies of David
And again, that phrase, I will give you
the sure mercies of David points us back
to Psalm 2 6
I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion
This is all referring to the fact that Jesus
will one day in his glorified body
reign from the throne of
David in Jerusalem
during the millennial reign
physically on this earth
Now let me just talk to you about real quickly about this
this day have I begotten me
This is something that
confuses people sometimes and it is
more of a deeper subject, but I'll just try to
quickly explain this to you
The Bible teaches and what we believe is that
Jesus has eternally been the son of God
Jesus was not created
He never became the son of God
He's always been the son of God
In John, he talks about the fact
He's praying to his father
and he talks about the glory
that he shared with him from eternity past
So
Jesus has always been the son of God
the second member of the Godhead, the word of God
and when he
was born, because we know
that the word became flesh
and dwelt among us, we know that God
was manifest in the flesh
when he was born of Mary
as a human being
being 100%
man never ceasing to be God
100% man
100% God
the God man, the Lord Jesus Christ
when he was born
at that point, he was the only
begotten son of God
because he was the only one
that was begotten
100% God
in human flesh
of course, he's God in the flesh
100% man, 100% God
but then the Bible tells us
at his resurrection, he was begotten
again
and the reason for that is because at the resurrection
he received a different body
an updated body
than the one he received at birth
which was his glorified body
let me just show this to you real quickly
did you keep your place in Revelation?
Revelation 1, look at verse 5
Revelation 1, 5
and from Jesus Christ
who is the faithful witness
and look at it
the first begotten of the dead
and the prince of the kings of the earth
unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood
now sometimes people get confused
especially Jehovah's Witnesses, they like to jump on a verse like this
and they'll say, see, he was the first begotten of the dead
he's not the only
John 3.16 says
that he's the only begotten son
why? because he's the only one
that the Holy Ghost ever came upon a woman
and conceived a son of God
and we know that the second member of begotten
the son of God always existed
but he was begotten in that sense
when he was born of Mary
and then at the resurrection
he received his glorified body
and then he became the first begotten of the dead
why is he the first begotten of the dead?
because he's the first of many
who will receive their glorified bodies
he is the first fruit of the resurrection
but one day
there's a harvest of a resurrection coming
called the rapture
when we'll all receive our glorified bodies
and we will see him
and we will be like him
so he's the first begotten
in the sense of his glorified body
and he's the first
because one day at the resurrection
this mortal will put on immortality
and corruption
and we will all have our glorified bodies
and we'll be like Christ
that's what this is referring to
and again I can preach a whole sermon on it
I just want to cover it
I think it needs to be covered
go back to Psalm 2
look at verse 8
and I've preached about this in our declaring doctrine series
you can look up that sermon if you'd like
if you want more details on that
Psalm 2
the point is this
for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
he's the only begotten son
and he's the first begotten son
and those are referring to two different bodies
that he held
Psalm 2 verse 8
ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen
for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession
in verses 6 and 7
we see the glorified body of Christ
in verses 8 and 9 we see the millennial reign of Christ
ask of me and I shall give thee
one day
I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession
Daniel you don't have to turn there
I'll just read this for you
you go back to Revelation, keep your place in Psalm 2
go back to Revelation 2 if you would real quickly
let me read to you from Daniel 7 verse 13
Daniel 7 13 says this
I saw in the night visions and behold
one like the son of man
that's referring to Jesus
which was a common title which he used to refer to himself
came with the clouds of heaven
and came to the ancient of days
and they brought him near before him
and there was given him dominion and glory
and a kingdom and all people
nations and languages should serve him
his dominion is an everlasting dominion
which shall not pass away
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed
and the truth is this
that there is coming a day
when Jesus is going to in his glorified body
have a millennial reign
will have the glorified body of Christ
and the millennial reign of Christ
will rule and reign
and every kingdom and all people
and nations and languages
are going to be under his dominion
and by the way that's why Satan has always
tried to get human beings to come under
a one world government because Satan always
wants to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ
why do we have false bibles?
because he wants to imitate the true word of God
why do we have false gospels?
because he wants to imitate the true gospel of Christ
why do we have an attempt
to and one day at the anti-Christ
have a one world religion
because he wants to try to imitate
the millennial reign of Christ which will truly be
a one world government and one world religion
that's righteous under the guise
of the Lord Jesus Christ
and here's why it will be righteous
and look
I don't know about you
but I'm excited about that government
I'm excited about that kingdom
you may be excited about
make America great again
but I'm excited about when Jesus Christ
reigns one day
and let's make Jesus Christ king
this is why the Bible says it is better to trust in the Lord
than to put your confidence in princes
but in Psalm 2 and verse 9
the Bible says this
thou shalt break them with a rod of iron
thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel
the Bible says because look
again I don't have time to develop it
but at the millennial reign of Christ
Jesus will be in his glorified body
he will reign with Christ for a thousand years
but there will actually be human beings
still on the earth
and I preach about that extensively
other times I'm not going to get into that
you can study that out on your own
we will be ruling over these mortal humans
that are still mortal at this time
and as a result
there's going to be a justice system
that's what Psalm 2 is talking about
thou shalt break them with a rod of iron
thou shalt dash them in pieces
this is quoted a couple times in Revelation
I'm just going to show you one just because I'm out of time
but go to Revelation chapter 2
and look at verse 26
if you want this for your notes
it's also reinstated in Revelation 12.5
but look at Revelation 2 and verse 26
and he that overcometh and keepeth my works
unto the end, to him will I give power
over the nations
just talking about the millennial reign of Christ
and he shall roll them with a rod of iron
as the vessels of potters
shall they be broken into shivers
as I received of my father
you say what are the laws that are going to be passed
at the millennial reign of Christ
the laws that are going to be passed at the millennial reign of Christ
are going to be all of the moral laws
of the Old Testament
they're all going to be implemented
and it's going to work
it never actually worked on earth
not because there was a problem with the covenant
but there was a problem with the people
attempting to uphold the covenant
but when Jesus is on this earth
you want justice
that will be the government that gives you justice
you want equity
that will be the government that gives you equity
you want liberty
that will be the government that gives you liberty
the Bible says where the spirit of the Lord is
there is liberty
everything that the world thinks they want now
will actually be fulfilled in Christ
at the millennial reign of Christ
he shall roll them with a rod of iron
as the vessels of potters
shall they be broken into shivers
roll them with a rod of iron
as the vessels of potters shall they be broken into shivers
even as I received them my Father
I'm out of time but let me just finish this psalm
go back to Psalm 2 if you wouldn't
Psalm 2
in verses 1 and 3 we saw the heathens rebelling
verses 4 and 5 we saw the Lord's ridicule
verses 6 and 9 we saw the sun's rain
let me just quickly give you the end
verses 10 to 12 we see the world's reconciliation
or maybe it should be said this way
the world's only hope
is reconciliation
what is the only hope
for the people of this world
it's interesting to me because
the psalm ends with these two views
remember psalm 1 focused on a person
psalm 2 focused on people
psalm 1 focused on an individual
psalm 2 focused on society
on nations
so he begins to tell us
what is it that nations need to do
what do peoples
the peoples of the earth
nations what do they need to do
and here's what they need to do
they must submit to God
psalm 2 verse 10
be wise now therefore, oh ye kings
be instructed, ye judges of the earth
serve the Lord with fear
and rejoice with trembling
what is the advice given by God
to human government
the advice given by God
to human government is do your best
to follow the commandments of God
as best as possible
most of the society that ever did it of course was the nation of Israel
in the Old Testament
they didn't do a very good job at it
no other nations came even close to that
but you know the United States of America
did start
trying to apply
a lot of principles, biblical principles
from the Bible and I believe
that's the reason this nation
has been, was at one point
blessed like it was
because the advice
given to the peoples of the earth
is be wise now therefore
oh ye kings
be instructed, ye judges of the earth
he's talking to the leaders and he says
serve the Lord with fear
and rejoice with trembling
here's what the Bible says
psalm 917
the wicked shall be turned into hell
and all the nations that forget God
here's what the Bible says
psalm 3312
blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
and the people whom he had chosen
his own inheritance
let me tell you something, the blessing upon nations
is not dependent, look I get it
I get it
and I try to be informed and I try to
be an intelligent citizen
and I care about policies and I care about laws
and I care about all of that
but the favor and blessing
of God upon our nation
and specifically upon this people
is not dependent upon the policies
that come out of Washington or Sacramento
or Sacramento
but it is dependent
on how closely we
walk and serve
the Lord Jesus Christ
blessed is the nation
whose God is the Lord
so the advice for peoples
is to submit to God
then we see the advice to people
individually
individuals, what should they do?
the nations should submit to God
individuals
must believe on Christ
look at psalm verse 2
verse 12
I love this little phrase
it's so memorable
kiss the Son
S-O-N referring to the second member of the Godhead
Jesus who has always been the Son of God
kiss the Son lest he be angry
and he perish from the way
when his wrath is kindled but a little
blessed are all they
that put their trust in him
now what is that phrase? kiss the Son
again, there's so much in here
and there's not enough time for me to develop all of it
and I've got to do one psalm a week
or we're going to be in this for a million years
and we'll still be in it in the millennial reign
if we don't do this quickly
so I've just got to cover it all
but this phrase, kiss the Son
it's a phrase that a lot of people don't understand
and there's a lot of ways to interpret it
and I'll just give you my understanding of it
and I'll just read this to you
you don't have to turn here
I left 7,000 in Israel
if you remember this story from Baal
and from Elijah
and Elijah saying no one else is serving God
everyone is serving Baal
and here's what God says to him
he says, yet I left me 7,000 in Israel
all the knees which have not bowed
unto Baal
and every mouth which had not
kissed him
so God talks about the fact
that there were people that were still faithful to him
and they had not kissed Baal
the idea I'm thinking
is that it has to do with some ritual
some idol worship ritual
where they would kiss an idol
and that's not hard to think of
there's still people today that kiss
the Pope's fat toe
you know, and do all that stuff
so the kiss seems to indicate
some sort of homage
respect, reverence, or honor
and the advice
given in Psalm 2
to the peoples of the earth
in Psalm 2, to the peoples of the earth
is to the nations
serve the Lord with fear
and rejoice with trembling
and the advice given to individuals is this
kiss the son
lest he be angry
and you perish from the way
when his wrath is kindled but a little
blessed are they that put their trust in him
and by the way, doesn't that put
kiss the son, doesn't that put
a little bit of a different context
to Judas Iscariot
when he betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ
and Jesus said to him, betrays thou me
with a kiss
the Bible says that we should kiss the son
kiss the son
acknowledge him as your savior
give him homage, respect,
reverence, honor
and then the Psalm ends with this phrase
blessed are they that put their trust in him
isn't that salvation?
Jeremiah 17 says this
blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord
and whose hope
the Lord is
not
not hope in politicians
not hope in
governments
but hope in the Lord
that's why I'm here today to pray
Heavenly Father
Lord we do love you
and we thank you for giving us this amazing
Psalm
and there's so much more that could be said
and
maybe
a better speaker
a better preacher could do a better job
with it
but I hope that we've received
the main emphasis
and it is that this world has always
attempted to reject
the authority of God
and human nature
is to raise your
fist up to God and to say we will not
have this man to reign over us
Lord I pray
you'd help us not to have that
attitude
help us to embrace the authority of God and the laws
of God and the word of God help us to kiss
the son to give him reverence
and help us to reach
people and teach people to do the same
in Jesus name
we pray Amen
Alright well we're going to have brother Moses
come up and lead us in a final song
just want to remind you of course
that we've got soul winning this weekend
tomorrow 2pm
and Sunday 2pm
and then of course our big soul winning rally
is on Saturday morning at 10am
we'd love for you to join us for soul winning
as we go out in this community
and attempt to teach people to put their confidence
in the Lord
to put their trust in God
hope you'll join us for that
if there's anything we can do for you please let us know
sorry we have a baptism
so let's go ahead and sing
and we'll prepare for the baptism
and of course we're always excited to have a baptism
so let's get ready for that
please turn to your song books
page number 374
we're going to sing
Send the Light
page 374
let's go ahead and sing it out on the first verse
send the light
the blessed gospel light
let it shine
forevermore
page 374 on the second
we have heard the
Macedonian call
today
send the light
then a golden offering
at the cross we lay
send the light
the blessed gospel light
let it shine
from shore to shore
send the light
the blessed gospel
light
let it shine
forevermore
let us pray that
grace may everywhere
abound
send the light
Christ like spirit
everywhere be found
send the light
the blessed gospel light
let it shine
from shore to shore
send the light
the blessed gospel light
let it shine
forevermore
alright well tonight we have
Ms. Michelle Scott coming for baptism
and of course we're excited we love Ms. Michelle
and we're glad that she's getting baptized tonight
and of course we love brother Graham too
but not as much as Ms. Michelle
love her more no just kidding
but Ms. Michelle have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior
alright by your profession of faith
I baptize you my sister
in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
buried in the likeness of his death
raised to walk in units of life
God bless you
let me help you out
and all God's people send
amen
alright well God bless you thank you very much for being here tonight
of course I want to encourage you to be with us for soul winning
this weekend
church on Sunday
invite somebody to church bring somebody with you
Sunday morning Sunday night be with us next Wednesday night
Psalm 3
I ask brother Moses if he would not mind dismissing us with a word of prayer
let's pray
father God thank you for this service Lord
thank you for all the wonderful teachings out of the book of Psalm
and thank you for your gift of salvation
and baptism
I pray that you bless us as we meet again
in Jesus name I pray amen
amen