Turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 2. And yes, I know it’s Psalm 2, not Psalm chapter 2, as I said this morning. Thank you for those of you that reminded me that I’m far from perfect. Psalm 2, the second Psalm in Psalter.

If you notice, the beginning of that song, that last song we sang, comes from Psalm 2. Why do the nations rage? And we’ll see that here in our text this evening. We’re in Psalm 2, I preached Psalm 1 the last time we were in the Psalms, which was about a month ago now. And there we saw and we began with, why is Psalm 1, Psalm 1?

These Psalms were ordered at some point, so why was that one chosen first? Why is Psalm 1, Psalm 1? And we realized that it is Psalm 1 because it speaks about the most important issue for any person. That is, are you in the congregation of the righteous or not? Are you walking in the way of the fool or in the way of the righteous? And so, as we consider that Psalm and why it’s first, Psalm 1 addresses matters of first importance. And so, as we see Psalm 2 here this evening, Psalm 2 doesn’t follow too far behind Psalm 1 in matters of importance.

Psalm 1 deals with the most urgent matter for the individual. You must know where you are going. Psalm 2 says that you must know where history is going. You must know where this world will end up. You need to see the whole picture. You must understand that this world has been promised to someone. It’s been promised to the Messiah.

And as I was studying this psalm, an illustration that I found that one of the commenters used, I think really gets to the heart of the matter as you see this material presented in this psalm. What is this psalm getting at? And the commenter said this.

He tells of a birthday party for one of the little girls in a kindergarten class. And the girl’s mother had decorated the room and provided party favors and went to put on a nice party. But one of the boys in this kindergarten class became jealous because the gifts and the main attention of the night were not his. And he was well on his way to making a mess of this party, being a nuisance of a little kindergarten boy. And then one of the mothers walked over and knelt down to this little boy, and she turned his chair so that she had to look directly at him, and she said, Johnny, this is not your party.

And I think that gets to the idea here in Psalm 2. This is not your party. This world is not about you. The whole story of history is not about you. The world doesn’t revolve around you. And this idea flies in the face of the common spirit of our age, the prevailing thought in our world. Everybody believes everything is about them, including us.

We are the kings and queens of our own little world. Just drive around in traffic in the middle of the day and you’ll find out. Most people aren’t even aware you’re even there. That’s just the world everybody lives in. They’re concerned with what they can see in front of them, and that’s about it. It’s as if everyone, including you and me, believes the world is ours. It’s my world, and you’re all just living in it. And aren’t you so fortunate that you’re part of my life today? That’s how we often think and live, whether we realize it or not.

But Psalm 2 has a dose of reality for us. It’s not about you. The world is not yours. The world is God’s and he’s given it to his son. And you are the fortunate one who is allowed to live in his world. And that’s the perspective that we need to have. We keep our focus on ourselves, what’s going on in our life, the problems we have, they seem like a really big deal. Because my world is crashing down. And this problem must be everybody’s problem. But when we zoom out and we look at the world as it really is, that it’s his world, and all of history is moving towards something that’s not me, well, maybe my problems aren’t quite such a problem as I thought. Maybe they’re not quite as big a deal as I was thinking they were.

And sometimes we do have big problems. And oftentimes, they are too much for us to handle. But they’re not too much to handle for the one who really owns the deed to the world, the one who everything is really about. In light of eternity, our troubles are less than nothing.

Psalm 2. Psalm 2 is a psalm of David. And you might think, well, wait a minute. Well, how do you know that? It doesn’t say a Psalm of David like most Psalms of David do. In the superscription there, there’s no author named. So how do we know it’s a Psalm of David? Well, I’m glad you asked. In Acts, we see the divinely inspired apostles, Peter and John, tell us that this is a Psalm of David. In Acts 4, we’ll come back to Acts 4 here in a moment, but in Acts 4, verses 25 and 26, The Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father, David, your servant said, why did the Gentiles rage and the people devise vain things? The kings of earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered against the Lord and against his Christ.” And they’re quoting Psalm 2 and they tell us, this came by the mouth of David. So I’m going to take that as pretty authoritative from the mouth of the apostles who attribute it to the Holy Spirit. So, this is a Psalm of David, and it makes sense when you look at the topic.

It’s a kingly psalm. It’s a royal psalm. And many historians believe that this was a psalm that could have been sung or read at the coronation of the kings of Israel. And it makes sense, because it’s a good reminder for those kings who the true ruler really is. It’s a good reminder for them as they take the throne of Israel, who is really on the throne of Israel. And this psalm, again, is a warning to those kings. Those kings are not without their own ruler. There is one who rules over all. So as we look at this psalm, we really see four stanzas, as most of your Bibles probably have it spaced out in four different sections there.

And what we see in these four stanzas here, these four verses of this psalm, you see number one, the first three verses there, God’s enemies. God’s enemies. You hear from what God’s enemies are thinking and saying. Secondly, verses four, five, and six, you see God’s response. Thirdly, verses seven, eight, and nine, you have God’s decree. And lastly, the last three verses, you see God’s king. So God’s enemies God’s response, God’s decree, and God’s king. And that’s how this psalm is structured. So I’ll read our psalm here this evening, Psalm 2, all 12 verses, and then we’ll dig into what this psalm has to say to us.

This is Psalm 2. This is the word of the Lord. Why do the nations rage and the peoples meditate on a vain thing? The kings of earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against Yahweh and against his anointed, saying, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord mocks them. He speaks to them in his anger, and he terrifies them in his fury, saying, but as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion. my holy mountain. I will surely tell of the decree of Yahweh. He said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will surely give the nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall shatter them like a potter’s vessel. So now, O kings, show insight. Take warning, O judges of the earth. Serve Yahweh with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son lest he become angry and you perish in the way. For his wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in him. This is the word of the Lord.

As we see here in the first opening section of this psalm, We see God’s enemies. God’s enemies are described and then they’re quoted. Here we see a hostile world. We see the nation’s rage and the people’s meditate or they plot or plan a vain thing. Kings and rulers conspire against Yahweh and against his anointed king. And whether it’s congresses or judges or democracies or dictatorships, whatever the form of government of the nations, they all have one thing in common. And it’s what we see Jesus describe in the parable of the 10 minas in Luke 19.

In verse 14 he says, but his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him saying, we do not want this man to reign over us. And that parable is very similar to Psalm 2. It’s God’s ruler put in place and the nations hate him. The nations despise him and will do anything to get out from under his rule. The nations hate God and they hate his king.

And really, Psalm 2 is a follow-up to Psalm 1. Many commentators think they could actually be two parts of the same psalm. I don’t think quite that far, but they do very much go hand in hand, because what you see here in the first section of this psalm is what is described in Psalm 1, verse 1. How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers. What do we see here to open this psalm? The counsel of the wicked. The way of sinners, the seat of scoffers. This is what happens when the wicked get in power.

And the word there for anointed in verse 2, against Yahweh and against his anointed, that’s the word Messiah. It’s his Messiah. And we know who that is. In the New Testament, that word is Christ, and as we read from the book of Acts earlier, the apostles actually translate it into Christ, just so that we understand what they’re talking about. Turn with me to Acts chapter 4, because in Acts chapter 4, the apostles, by quoting Psalm 2, they show us that the greatest revelation of the reality we see in the enemies of God in Psalm chapter 2 shows up in the form of Herod and Pilate, those wicked rulers that wanted to overthrow God’s anointed king.

In Acts chapter 4, starting in verse 23, let me read how the apostles use and illustrate Psalm 2. Starting in verse 23, they say, “so when they were released, so this is the apostles who were arrested for preaching the gospel, and then after their release, this is what they have to say. They went on to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, so they’re speaking to God here, oh master. It is you who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father, David, your servant said, why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples devise vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.”

“For truly,” so they quote Psalm 2, and then they’re gonna give you an illustration of this is what this looks like. “For truly, in this city, there were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, your anointed, your Christ, your Messiah, the one Psalm 2 is speaking about. both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your purpose predestined to occur. And now, Lord, take note of their threats and grant that your slaves may speak your word with all confidence while you extend your hand to heal, and signs and wonders happen through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. And when they had prayed earnestly, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak the word of God with confidence.”

The apostles there apply Psalm 2 to their present situation. Guys, this is what this looks like. This happened in this city. The nations rage. The peoples plot a vain thing. They hate God and they hate his Messiah. Just look what happened. The nation’s rebellion is ultimately against Jesus Christ. And when we see the wicked nations and wicked rulers of the world, including our own, rule wickedly, turning God’s word on its head, turning God’s design on its head, What they’re doing is hating God and hating His law, hating His ruler. They’re living out Psalm 2.

The apostles here in Acts 4, they declare that the hostile world in Psalm 2 describes is also a very persecuting world because not only do they hate The Lord’s anointed. Not only do they hate the Messiah, the Christ. Verse 29 there, and now Lord, take note of their threats and grant that your slaves may speak your word with confidence. The anointed is out of the way. The Christ is no longer on earth. Have the nations stopped? Have the nations stopped their vain plotting and planning against the ways of God? No. They’ve shifted their focus from the Messiah to the Messiah’s people. So when you read of the hate of the Messiah here in Psalm 2, that by association includes the persecution of God’s people.

So as this Psalm implies that the Messiah’s people, because they are associated with God’s anointed, they too will face Persecution. They will pay a price for belonging to the one that the world hates. And this hate may vary in intensity from time to time, at different times throughout church history, in different places of the world. This hate from the nations against God’s way and God’s chosen king has looked differently. And it’s been very violent and vicious at times.

I was reading of a story in communist China in 1949, not even that long ago. And in one account, a man that went by the name of Brother Yun, he was part of the underground church in communist China. In his home area of Nanyang, he describes how the communist Chinese government treated people just because they were Christian. He says, believers were crucified on the walls of their own churches for refusing to deny Christ. Others were chained to horses or vehicles and dragged around the city till they died. The pastor of the church was hoisted up by a rope through a makeshift crane and then dropped to the ground because he would not renounce Christ. And it didn’t work the first time, so they did it again until he died.

See, episodes like that and many, many others fill our history, the church’s history, and even our current century is filled with brutality. Look at nations in Africa and the way that Christians are slaughtered at rates never seen before, partly due to the fact that Christianity is growing so fast, but at the same time, persecution is growing. Hatred for the Messiah spills over to the Messiah’s people.

This psalm implies that this rebellious world, this persecuting world, is an insane world. It’s insane. It’s not according to logical thinking. That’s why this psalm starts with the word why. The word why is mentioned once, but it’s intended to carry over to the next four clauses. There’s really four why questions here. Why do the kings of earth take their stand? Why do the rulers take counsel against Yahweh and against His Messiah? Why do the nations rage? Why do the people meditate on a vain thing? That word for meditate there means to muse or to plan or to plot. It’s this obsession that they can’t move past until they do something about it. All of these are questions to a logical thinker. Why would they do these things? Are they insane? Yes, they are.

The Psalmist, David, can hardly believe what the nations are willing to do to upset God’s ways. What kind of suicidal maniacs have so much rage against God that they’re willing to go to the lengths that they go to? Don’t they know how this story ends? And that’s the point of the rest of the Psalm. So if you’re going to get a right view of God’s kingdom, you need to get an accurate view of the world. Because this psalm that is about God’s kingdom starts with God’s enemies.

Even though this rage that we read about doesn’t always show up at its full fury, we in America have been some of the most privileged Christians in the history of Christianity. And so while we may not face the terrible persecution that so many others have, that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t have enemies, even here. The nations, those who are not God’s people, they hate the Messiah and they despise his people. And we know this because this is what the Messiah told us. The one this Psalm is about told us this very thing.

In John 15, verses 18 to 19, if the world, the nations that are talked about in Psalm 2, if the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. Because of this, the world hates you. The world hates you because you’re his. Because the one that they truly hate, you belong to him. So don’t miss this aspect of this psalm that’s about God’s kingdom. This is our first stanza of this psalm, God’s enemies.

But next we see God’s response. The enemies say, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us. God’s ways are so restrictive, why would we follow them? A bunch of old-fashioned Christians, why would you do the things that you do? And what’s God saying? He says, starting in verse 4, he who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord mocks them, and he speaks to them in his anger, and he terrifies them in his fury, saying, but as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain.

You get the picture of that response there? God is not fazed a bit. The mighty politicians and rulers and dictators in their military uniforms, the terrorists with bombs strapped to themselves trying to do as much damage to God’s people as they can. God is unfazed. God is not impressed. This paints quite a picture of God for us. If you have a view of God that makes him out to be big, tolerant, pacifist, a big softy, then you’re not gonna understand what this psalm is getting at. And these verses will probably offend you if that’s your view of God. Because this psalm implies that while the nations do everything they can to work against what God has designed, what God commands of them.

God laughs. He mocks them. We as Christians, we’re not supposed to mock people, right? God righteously mocks them. He’s making fun of them. He’s sitting in heaven making fun. Look at these guys. This is ridiculous. To think that a few arrogant kings and rulers could destroy God’s kingdom. To think that the Romans could stamp out Christianity before it spread too much. To think the Jews of Paul’s day could silence these new sects that were popping up and ruining their good business. God laughs. And after you hear these plotting kings in verse three, you need the picture of God laughing at them to refocus you on the truth. Because if your focus is on the scary things of this world, you don’t have the whole picture. And God doesn’t just laugh, he answers them in his anger. But as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain.”

They say, let us break away their fetters. Let us get rid of these Christians, these ones that follow God. Let us do these things. God says, but I. The one who does what really matters, I have set up my king. These puny little rulers of the earth think they’re going to overthrow the God of the universe.

It’s like the movie series, The Avengers. In one of those movies, one of the characters, Loki, who’s one of the Greek gods that is one of the superhero characters, he comes up to the Hulk and tells him to stop. And the Hulk, who is many times his size, looks at him and Loki says, stop, I’m a god. You need to listen to me. So the Hulk picks up Loki and thrashes him to a pulp and stands over him and says, You puny God. Who does he think he is? Who does he think he’s talking to? That’s the picture here.

Who do these rulers of the world think that they’re talking to? They’re going to overthrow God’s ways, overthrow God’s kingdom. God mocks their puny rebellion. He’s already installed his king on his mountain who will rule the world. When he says my king here, he’s talking about who he mentioned in verse two, my anointed, the one I’ve chosen, the Messiah, the Christ.

So no matter how much this world doesn’t like it and tries to overthrow it, too bad. God wins. And there’s nothing that anybody can do to thwart God’s plan. Yes, they plot and they scheme and they persecute. God laughs and God wins. So that’s God’s response, our second section of this psalm here.

And next we have God’s decree. Not only does He speak to them out of His anger, next we see that there’s a decree here. There’s a plan. There’s a purpose. A decree is something God decided before He created anything. Part of his creation is what he’s already decided is going to happen with his creation.

Psalm 2 verse 7 through 9, I will surely tell you of the decree of Yahweh. He said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will surely give you the nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall shatter them like a potter’s vessel.

You can see here we have a third person speaker now. God was just speaking and now you have another voice. I will tell you of the decree of Yahweh. He said to me. Now originally this is David and this is two of the kings of Israel. but they serve as a type looking forward to the true king.

So we know that ultimately this passage is about the true king of Israel. And we know that specifically because he says, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. And in a sense that was true of the kings as his chosen rulers, but ultimately it’s the son, the anointed king of Israel. We know that he is the only begotten, the one who has the nations as his inheritance. And Yahweh has appointed him to rule. And he’s installed him. He’s installed him as king upon Zion.

He is the rightful king. God has installed him there. And you see the scope of his rule. I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth. This will be an international worldwide kingdom. Then he tells us the force of this king, the power this king has. In verse nine, you shall break them with a rod of iron. You will shatter them like a potter’s vessel. These ones that are plotting against you You will shatter them. Again, this is Jesus, the true King.

And again, just like we saw in the picture we saw of God, Jesus, if your picture of Jesus doesn’t sound like this, you think, well, he’s all love and kindness. Why does he sound so vicious here? Well, first, that’s not a, biblical picture of Jesus, because yes, Jesus is love and kindness. He’s the most loving and kind we’ve ever seen. But that’s not all he is. He is righteous and just. And because he is just, he therefore has wrath against sin.

And secondly, you need to understand verse nine in light of verse three. The nations that want to tear apart the rule of God’s king. This is what God’s king must do. When the time comes to fully enforce and realize his kingly rule, Christ will not be welcomed with open arms, not by everyone. Christ will return to a God-hating, Christ-defying world. The kingdom, the kingdom of Yahweh and of His Christ, it’s not gonna come because the world welcomes Him. And the world just evolves into the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ. It’s not just gonna magically turn into that. Read about what happens when He returns.

The beginning of Revelation. The nations are gonna mourn when Christ appears. Here, he’s coming to break them like pottery. Christ is not coming back to a golden age world that loves him. He has his followers, but they are the remnant. The nations rage, and that’s what he’s returning to. Those that picture themselves with a more fanciful, optimistic eschatology, that’s just not what the Bible says.

Those with a premillennial eschatology these days, the insult now is that it’s loser theology because you just think the world’s not gonna keep getting better and better until it turns into the kingdom. That’s just a loser mindset. Which I don’t understand how that’s the characterization. This is Christ’s kingdom, and it comes when Christ appears and imposes his reign by force. That’s what we’re reading about. I am quite optimistic about that. It’s going to be great.

So to get the picture of God’s decree here in these three verses, God’s decree is that he has a king in verse seven, that his king has power in verse eight, and that he has overwhelming force in verse nine. That’s the decree. That’s what God has decided before history began. That’s where all of this is headed. Like it or not, God’s already decided it. That’s the grand finale. He’s gonna come back and he’s gonna break apart these nations that refuse to bow the knee to the true king. God’s decree is what controls history.

The will of God for Jesus Christ is in verses seven through nine here. This is how it happens. God’s decree cannot be broken and His hand cannot be stopped. This will happen. This is the decree that determines what will take place. It’s God’s decree. And something we need to understand about this is the certainty of this decree. Because it’s God’s decree, the certainty that this will happen needs to shape how you view the world.

It needs to shape how you view events around the world. And it should inform how you look at politics and the different tragedies and disasters we see in the news all the time. You may not know how to make sense of what’s going on in the world. You might ask the why questions that this psalm starts with. Why is the world like this? Why do the nations rage? Why is everything falling apart around the world? You need to know where history’s headed. You need to know who’s in control.

You can know what the decree is and how it will shape everything because nothing in the world that’s ever happened or ever will happen falls outside of what Psalm 2 describes. That is what keeps God’s people glued together, no matter what happens. When communist China comes and destroys your village and your church and slaughters its people, those people had hope. They know how it ends. They know who the king is. That’s why they didn’t deny Christ. Because this needs to shape how you view everything. Our hope is in the coming king. That is God’s decree.

And lastly, this psalm describes for us the coming king. So the fourth section here is God’s king. Verses 10 through 12. So now, O kings, show insight. Take warning, O judges of the earth. Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun, lest he become angry, and you perish in the way. For his wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in him. Here we see the command of the gospel.

Here God speaks directly to the nations again. He spoke to them in his anger. And here he’s addressing those rulers of the first few verses here. And here he’s speaking out of mercy. They don’t deserve this opportunity he’s giving them. And these rebels, they are called to make the only reasonable response. The only response that is not insane. There’s two incentives. To repent and follow the true king. To serve Yahweh with fear and kiss the sun.

There’s two incentives here. One, there’s danger to avoid. Your life depends on it. Lest he become angry and you perish in the way. And then, for his wrath may soon be kindled. That’s why you should do this. Because his patience doesn’t last forever. His wrath is coming. So the first incentive is the danger to avoid.

The first reason why they should repent is, guys, he’s coming back. The second reason is the joy that comes with it. How blessed are all who take refuge in him. This is why it’s insane to rage against God’s ways. to plot in vain, to try to overthrow all that God has instituted and all that God has decreed. You guys are missing out on the blessing. How blessed are those who take refuge in him? What are you doing?

So this danger and delight are given to them as the reasons why they should repent. And what must they do to avoid this danger and to experience this joy? What are they called to do here? Are they to pray a prayer? Are they to invite Jesus into their heart? No. Serve Yahweh with fear. Meaning, become slaves of Christ. Become a slave of the true King. That’s where redemption is found, and that’s where blessings are found. Serve him. It’s not especially appealing to the kings and rulers of the earth to become slaves, but that’s the point. It goes against everything in your prideful, sinful heart. But serve him. And they are to kiss the Son.

Kiss Yahweh’s anointed Messiah. A kiss is a sign of submission. In this day, when kings conquered other kingdoms, they would come back and report to their people, king so and so, king of whatever land, kissed my feet. That’s how they reported controlling victory over another king. They were to come and bow the knee and kiss the feet of the true King. That’s what you see here. And God gives everyone the same demand. Give your total submission to the Son. Come and kiss the Son.

Everyone of us must do this. Every one of us will do this. One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus, the anointed, the Messiah is King, Master, Ruler, Lord. Everyone will bow. His wrath will soon be kindled.

See, Psalm 2 has a similar message to Psalm 1, just with a different focus. Psalm 1 warned us, make sure you’re in the congregation of God’s people. Make sure you’re one of God’s people. Make sure you’re one of His children. Psalm 2 tells us that the world is His, and you’re just living in it. Make sure you submit to the true King.

So if you’re here tonight and you have not submitted your life to Christ, if you’re holding back part of your life, you haven’t totally bowed and kissed the Son, you need to come and you need to submit your life to Christ. He is coming again. His wrath will soon be kindled in each and every one of us. needs to submit to the true King of Kings.

I want to close tonight with a video, and this is a video that we used with a youth group a couple years ago, and we sang Psalm 2. We would sing along with this video, and this is a rendition of Psalm 2. It’s kind of more of a chant, and it, I think, gets to the idea, as you hear it sung, of how this psalm is to be taken. how this psalm is to be understood. It’s very close to word for word for the psalm. It’s by a man by the name of Brian Sauve, and I think, again, that the setting of this song really gets at the heart, the command of Psalm 2, to come and repent before the king of kings. So this, again, was a song written for Israel to sing, perhaps at coronations of the kings, but at very least in the worship of God. and the recognition of his king. So, I think you’ll get the full feel of this psalm when you hear it sung like this.

Why do the heathen nations rage, and foolish peoples plot in vain? The kings of earth, they set themselves. In league their rulers all conspire. ♪ Against the Lord, against the king ♪ ♪ And his anointed one they say ♪ ♪ Let us asunder burst their bonds ♪ ♪ And cast from us their cords away ♪ ♪ He who in heaven sits shall lie ♪ The Lord will mock them all to scorn Then he will speak in wrath to them A terror he will vex them sore And say to them, yea, yes, for me My king I’ve set on Zion’s hill His sure decree I will declare All that the Lord has said to me You are my Son, and on this day I have begotten Thee, and so ask me, and I will surely make The nation’s Thine inheritance The ends of earth he shall possess And he shall break the kings of men With iron rod as water’s clay Shall break them into pieces then ♪ Now therefore, O ye kings be wise ♪ Be warned, ye rulers of the earth ♪ Serve thou the Lord and serve with fear ♪ Rejoice with trembling, fear with mirth ♪ Kiss ye the sun that’s in his wrath ♪ Ye perish there along the way.

Kiss ye the Son. He’s coming back. His wrath may soon be kindled. We all need to submit to the King of Kings.

Let’s stand and close in a word of prayer. Our God, we thank you for this passage of your word. We are humbled by what you have to say about the nations of this world, about those who refuse to submit to Christ, to your king, to your anointed one. Pray that each one of us hears the warning in this psalm, that we are truly Submitted to Christ, but pray that we make sure that that’s true of us We thank you for who you are and your mercy and grace and in giving us The opportunity to repent I pray that no one here wastes the opportunity that you’ve given We pray all these things in Christ’s precious name