After a little praying, searching and reflection, this was the word that the Lord placed on my heart this morning. It is His message in the second Psalm. It is yet another of many messages about our hope and where it is founded. It is a message about the kings of this fallen
world who exalt themselves against and persecute God’s people, trying to take away their freedoms.
The message is very simple and concise. They try a lot to take away from God’s people that which He has given to them. But in the end God only laughs at the futile attempts of the
leaders of this world. In the end the LORD always wins.
The message for us today is that we need to continue to reverence and to acknowledge the sovereignty of the LORD our God, point to Him as our source and encourage the people of this fallen world to do the same.
Now let’s read this message of the LORD as found in Psalm 2.
THE MESSIAH’S TRIUMPH AND KINGDOM
1 Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed,
saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of
iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’ ”
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. - Psalms 2:1-12
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