E02: Psalm 2 - The Anointed King
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0:00 Praise the Lord.
0:03 Praise God.
0:04 We thank God for another opportunity to be able to share God's word together.
0:13 This is really a privilege for sure.
0:16 Thank God for each and every one of you who was able to join us for the first podcast where we shared on some Psalms 1 and we are talking about how to be envied is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, that he does not stand in the way of sinners.
0:44 His attention and his everything is not linked to the way of sinners, the way they do their things, the way they bribe, the way they get their money, the dues they make, the way they do their business.
0:59 He's not attentive to learn and understand the way of sinners.
1:04 And he does not sit comfortably where people are scoffing and mocking God and that his delight is in God's law.
1:15 And on that law he meditates day and night.
1:18 We said that this kind of man, the Bible says that he's planted.
1:25. He's planted by rivers of fresh water.
1:32 The Bible says his leaf shall not wither whatsoever he does prospers.
1:37 This man is planted by the brooks of bliss where God has planted him.
1:43 He's established.
1:44 We talked about how this man enjoys stability and we compared him to the man who is not doing these things, who is not established in God's word.
1:58 We compared him to this man and we said this other man, the man who is not to be envied, the one who takes the counsel of the ungodly, the one who pays attention to the way sinners operate in their lives.
2:14 And that man who sits comfortably where they are scorning God and his word, that that man, he does not enjoy the stability of the first man.
2:25. That man, his life is like the chaff.
2:29 He is very unstable in all his ways.
2:32 He's like chaff that is blown away by the wind.
2:35 And we concluded, David, through prophetic, through the prophetic anointing, says, you see these people, they will not stand in the same assembly that the ungodly will not stand in the assembly of the righteous because God knows the way of the righteous.
2:52 So it depends what way we are taking whether the way of the righteous or the way of the ungodly, because the Bible says the way of the ungodly, it will perish.
3:03 The way of the ungodly will perish.
3:09 Now, today we are going to be.
3:12 I encourage those who have gone through that particular podcast.
3:15 Please go through is such a blessing.
3:21 Even as I was teaching it personally, I was being blessed by it and today is another opportunity for us to be blessed.
3:31 So I'm going to be sharing with us from the Book of Psalms, chapter 2.
3:39 All our teachings will not be based on the Book of Psalms.
3:44 We will have some alterations here and there.
3:48 But the Word of God is beautiful.
3:51 It is lovely.
3:52 In the Book of Psalms, chapter 19, the Bible talks about.
3:58 The psalmist says that the Word of God is as sweet as honey from the honeycomb.
4:04 And I believe so in Psalm 119.
4:09 Remember what I said yesterday during a podcast?
4:12 I said, the Word of God is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
4:18 And the way we live our lives here on earth.
4:21 If we want to enjoy stability, if we want to enjoy light, we are going to have to hide ourselves in the Word of God, take refuge in the Word of God.
4:30 And what is the Word of God?
4:32 Jesus Christ is the Word of God.
4:34 The Bible says the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.
4:38 That is John chapter 1.
4:41 The word became flesh and dwelt among us and we've seen his glory, Jesus Christ.
4:50 And so as we read the Word, we are not just reading a word that is like independent a person.
4:57 The Word is a person of Christ.
4:59 We learn to relate with him, we learn to talk with him, even as we see the picture of him being painted in the Word.
5:09 And today, as we go through Psalm 2, Psalms chapter 2, I pray that the Lord will help us to understand it and be blessed by it.
5:20 Let's start with a word of prayer.
5:22 I just want to pray over us so that God will help us understand the Word.
5:28 If we don't understand the Word, Satan comes and he takes the Word.
5:33 And so our lives just remain the same.
5:35 But when we understand the Word, then we are able to put it into practice.
5:41 So let us pray.
5:43 Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we come before your throne.
5:48 We thank you for giving us this opportunity, first of all, to be alive in the world and to be.
5:56 And to be able to have the opportunity, the privilege to receive your Word.
6:01 We give you praise and glory because you are a good God and your mercies, they endure forever.
6:09 We pray, Holy Spirit of the Most High God, that you give us aid, deep understanding of your Word and give us practical things that we need to do, the adjustments we need to make in our lives, to be able to make room for your Word so that your Word, when it comes into our hearts, it will be received and that our lives will really be oaks of righteousness.
6:35 God's planting that through our lives you may be glorified by.
6:40 Bless us today.
6:42 We pray that any destruction that the enemy is trying to bring to cause us not to concentrate on your word, that it may be removed out of the way.
6:51 Give us concentration.
6:53 Give us understanding.
6:54 Help us to receive the life that comes from your word.
6:59 Proverbs chapter four talks about how the Word of God that the one who pays attention to the Word of God, who who observes it with their eyes, who inclines his ears to it, who receives it in their heart, that this word becomes to them life and health to all their flesh.
7:17 We pray that as we listen to the Word of God, even if there is anyone who is sick amongst us, that the healing balm of Jesus Christ will minister to them and remove sickness out of their bodies.
7:30 As we hear the Word of God, we pray that those who are feeling like their life is dwindling and going away, that the life of God will infuse the cells of their body and life will begin to spring up in them.
7:44 Even as we hear your word, this word that you've given us, it is life to us who have found it and health to all our flesh.
7:53 Bless us, oh God.
7:54 Give us understanding.
7:56 Bless everything that we are doing.
7:58 Bless our work, bless our families, bless our children, Lord.
8:03 Bless our spouses, bless our parents, bless our siblings and those all around us because we live in those neighborhoods, oh God.
8:14 May your presence, your blessing and your peace be even in our neighborhoods.
8:19 We give you praise and we give you glory, for in Jesus name we have prayed.
8:24 Amen.
8:25 Now we are going to read Psalms Chapter two.
8:29 And this is what it says.
8:31 It says, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?
8:37 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 asunder and cast away their cords from us.
8:55 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh.
8:58 The Lord shall have them in derision.
9:03 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure.
9:11 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
9:17 I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
9:27 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathens for thine inheritance the uttermost parts of the earth.
9:36 For thy possession thou shalt break them with a rod of iron.
9:42 Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
9:47 Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings, be instructed.
9:53 Ye judges of the earth.
9:56 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.
10:09 But a little blessed are all they that put their trust Him.
10:17 This is the end of our reading for this day, and we are going to have a discussion.
10:27 We are going to discuss this particular reading, and I pray that the Holy Spirit will help us to understand it.
10:39 So looking at this teaching, we see that first of all, actually I have titled this particular teaching the Anointed King.
10:52 Now, who is the Anointed King?
10:55 Looking through this scripture, I actually see that there is an ultimate authority above all authorities.
11:02 And I hope we can all see that that God has set His King, and therefore all other kings under Him.
11:13 We even see that there's a part where he says that you ask, and I'll give the nations to you.
11:19 And as in his ultimate above all those nations and all the kingdoms of the earth.
11:25 But let us go slowly.
11:28 Jesus Christ remains the ultimate authority over all rulers, nations and powers.
11:37 No earthly king or system or authority exists independent of his reign.
11:44 Like Jesus Christ is the King of kings and he is the Lord of Lords.
11:51 Today we turn our attention to this Psalm, Psalm 2, a Psalm that speaks powerfully of our generation.
12:00 You see, this generation in which we live, many people want to be independent of God.
12:06 The whole idea of God or having someone in charge of our lives is something that is irritable to many of the people of this generation.
12:19 They want independence from God.
12:21 They do not like authority, even in many of the homes the children have.
12:28 Earlier on, children used to be taught to give reverence and respect to elders or to people who are, or to their parents, or even people who are not their parents but are elders or in positions of authority.
12:42 But it is not so these days.
12:45 People have their own truth.
12:46 People have their own rules.
12:49 People say they understand things according to their way.
12:54 They have chosen a way that is theirs are not the ultimate way of God.
13:00 So there is this fight to be independent from the rules or the leadership of God.
13:09 So this generation in which we live has those challenges.
13:15 It answers one timeless question.
13:19 This particular psalm answers one timeless question that who truly rules the world?
13:24 Like who is in charge?
13:26 Is it our presidents?
13:28 Is it our senators?
13:30 Are we the ones in charge?
13:31 Is humanity in charge of the world?
13:35 In a time when nations rise, governments change, leaders assert power, Psalm 2 reminds us that above every throne sits one anointed king, the Lord Jesus Christ.
13:52 This psalm is both prophetic and confrontational.
13:58 In fact, Psalms 2 is what they call a messianic psalm.
14:07 It looks at the ultimate reign of Jesus Christ.
14:11 Not just currently, but also in the millennial reign.
14:15 When Jesus Christ comes to reign as king, you know, he came the first time, and he came as.
14:23 As to be a sacrificial lamb for the sins of the world.
14:29 The time in which we live in is a time of mercy and grace.
14:33 But when Jesus Christ comes back the second time, he comes as king and judge.
14:38 He does not come as a lamb to be slain.
14:42 He does not come to plead with mankind.
14:44 He comes as king and as judge.
14:47 So it is a messianic psalm.
14:49 We will see that as we go along.
14:50 As we read through the psalm, we will see as we go along.
14:54 Psalm is both prophetic and confrontational.
14:57 It confronts human pride.
15:01 It confronts political rebellion.
15:04 It confronts spiritual ignorance while proclaiming Christ as an unshakable leader and ruler over the whole of mankind.
15:16 I know this is uncomfortable for many people.
15:20 Like, there are so many people in our generation, when you say something like that, they're like, no, no, no, there must be another way out.
15:26 He cannot be the ultimate.
15:29 So we are.
15:30 We are going to split this teaching in different sections.
15:35 Section one, the rebellion of the nations.
15:38 Okay, this is what it says.
15:41 Psalms, chapter 2, verse 1 to 3.
15:43 We already read it.
15:44 It starts with question.
15:46 He says, why do the heathens rage?
15:48 And that people imagine a vain thing.
15:52 The psalm opens with this question.
15:54 Not because God is confused, but because human rebellion is irrational.
16:01 Like, God is the creator of all things, is the maker of all things.
16:08 He's the giver of life and breath, and he is the source of all things.
16:15 So when you look at the way the mind of a man works and he thinks that he can rebel against God, it's just irrational.
16:27 Throughout life and lifetimes and different dynasties, human dynasties or kingships and kingdoms, you realize that every time man is fighting to get away from God, but he does not succeed.
16:44 Because this is God's world, this is God's earth, and this is God's world.
16:48 It's not just about the earth.
16:50 It's about the entire system.
16:55 God is the source of the entire system.
16:57 So it is irrational for man.
16:59 You see, they say, why do the heathens rage?
17:02 And the people imagine a vain thing?
17:04 It's a vain thing, irrational.
17:08 The nation's rage.
17:09 The word rage suggests, like noise or chaos or agitation or resistance.
17:17 The nations are resisting God.
17:19 Humanity is restless because it is resisting the authority of God.
17:25 There are people saying, I want to break away from the rules of God.
17:28 I don't like rules.
17:29 I want to govern my life.
17:32 It is my life.
17:33 No, it is not.
17:34 Because he is the giver of breath and life.
17:36 I usually say the fact that we are seated here today is a miracle by itself.
17:41 Because the source of life, he can remove life.
17:45 He can put it back.
17:46 Like he can switch on and switch off.
17:49 He is in charge.
17:51 So for you to rage against him is irrational.
17:56 In fact, that is why he talks about how those people who.
17:59 Who are submitted to Him.
18:00 I think it's in the last verse, it says, blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.
18:05 It is the one who is yielded to him is to be envied.
18:11 The one who is yielded to him is the one who is happy.
18:14 Like what we are saying in someone.
18:16 The one who is yielded to him is the Wise One.
18:19 But there is a lot of raging and there is a lot of restlessness and there is a lot of rebellion by the nations against God.
18:31 The rebellion of nations is built on an illusion.
18:35 He says it's a vain thing.
18:37 Any attempt to rule without God is empty.
18:41 It is temporal and it is doomed to fail.
18:44 Kings and rulers unite against the Lord.
18:49 This is not just political rebellion.
18:51 It is spiritual rebellion.
18:53 In fact, when you look through the different dynasties.
18:57 The other time I was just looking at the Roman Empire when it was ruling over great portions of the earth.
19:04 And how many times the kings would.
19:08 I remember, at a certain point they refused the children of Israel to come and offer sacrifices in the temple.
19:15 Then they erected one of their emperors.
19:20 They made a statue of them and put them there.
19:22 And they asked them.
19:24 They asked the children of Israel to come and sacrifice there.
19:27 There's even one who desecrated the temple and sacrificed a pig on the altar.
19:32 They've done all these things, but where are they today?
19:36 Where is Rome today?
19:38 Where are the emperors of Rome today?
19:40 Like this fight of man and his rage against God and his fight to be independent of God has never been successful.
19:51 It is the Wise One who submits to Him.
19:54 But let us go.
19:56 Humanity is restless because it resists God's authority.
20:00 They imagine a vain thing.
20:01 The rebellion of nations is built on an illusion.
20:05 Any attempt to rule without God is empty.
20:07 It is temporal.
20:09 It is doomed to fail.
20:11 Kings and rulers unite against the Lord.
20:16 This is not just a political rebellion.
20:20 They say, let us break their bands asunder.
20:23 Let us cast away their codes from us.
20:29 Let us find a way to live independent of their rules of regulation, of authority over us.
20:38 Humanity sees God's rule as a restriction, not as a protection.
20:44 They don't see it as a protection, but God's commands are not chains.
20:49 God's commands are not chains.
20:52 They are life giving boundaries.
20:55 In fact, if you go through the whole of Psalm 119, you see how David.
21:00 David is a king, he's a ruler.
21:02 But you see how David is saying that your word is a lamp unto my feet, it is a light unto my path.
21:09 He talks about how he has hidden the word of God in his heart, that he may not sin against God.
21:15 He loves the Word of God.
21:17 He says, I lie down on my bed.
21:20 Your word or your commandments are upon my mind.
21:25 I think about them, I meditate on them.
21:29 They are, I mean, when you think, when you see David, he says these commandments that people are resisting, these commandments that people are turning away from, for me they are life.
21:39 For me they are light, they are understanding.
21:43 He says the word of God.
21:44 He says that the entrance of your word giveth life.
21:51 And it gives understanding to the simple.
21:53 It brings light and gives understanding to the simple.
21:55 It is the word of God that has entered into the heart of man, that gives him light, that gives him understanding, that brings vision, that brings.
22:06 That makes the plan easy for man to walk through in life.
22:10 He said, it is that word that has entered into me, that brings light and that brings understanding even to those are simple, those who do not, those who lack understanding, those who would be regarded as the foolish in society.
22:26 When the word of God enters into them, they now become wise.
22:29 They get understanding.
22:30 So humanity sees God's rule as restriction.
22:35 It sees it as chains.
22:36 But God's commands are not chains.
22:38 They are life giving boundaries.
22:42 Modern systems may deny God, but they cannot dethrone him.
22:47 You see, you can fight God, but you cannot dethrone him.
22:53 Laws may reject Christ, but they cannot erase his authority.
23:00 In fact, if you look through history, you will realize that most of the civilizations or what brought in light in the history.
23:11 When you look at the dark ages, what brought civilization, what brought light was the word of God.
23:18 People who came and ministered the Word of God in different places are the ones who brought, who brought civilization and who brought understanding.
23:29 So let us go ahead.
23:33 God is not threatened when nations panic.
23:37 When nations are enraged against Him, God remains seated.
23:43 Heaven is not in crisis when the earth is in chaos, like you know when you're fighting against God.
23:52 Sometimes I believe God needs to give a revelation to each and every one of us of who he truly is, just who he truly is.
24:04 I mean, if just water breaking forth from the storehouses of the earth can cause such a great flood in the days of Noah, that it wipes out the whole of civilization.
24:18 Imagine that kind of God.
24:20 When you look at earthquakes and there is a shaking in the earth, you see the disasters that fall.
24:30 It is the kind of being that you are up against is just magnificent.
24:38 And the whole bit of you cannot even see him.
24:42 To go and fight him physically, I mean, that is now just something outstanding.
24:49 So for a person to be enraged against such a being and say, I will fight him, I will put my own rules.
24:56 I don't want him in school.
24:58 I don't want anyone talking about him, stand against him, we'll see if he will win.
25:04 It is foolishness.
25:05 And I think that is why God laughs.
25:08 Honestly, that is what I think.
25:10 I think that is why he laughs like he's not in.
25:13 God is not threatened by you.
25:15 He's not seated somewhere saying, oh my goodness, if this person does not worship me, I will cease to be God.
25:22 God is God.
25:24 It is your advantage that you worship him.
25:27 It is your advantage that you give him awe and worship.
25:30 It is your advantage that you bow down to him.
25:33 It is your advantage that you take a hold of his word and his rules and walk by them.
25:38 It does not threaten his authority.
25:41 It does not threaten his throne.
25:44 Because you have decided that I will rebel against him.
25:49 It is to your detriment.
25:51 It is to your heart that you do not submit to God.
25:54 And I'm not just saying you, I'm even talking to myself.
25:58 God speaks in wrath.
26:02 His response is not panic, but authority.
26:05 It's like a son who stands up and says.
26:07 A small child stands up and says, I refuse to take breakfast and says, I'll not eat today, I'll not eat tomorrow.
26:14 At some point his father is going to put his foot down and says, you have to sit at this dining table.
26:19 You have to eat.
26:21 That is authority.
26:23 That in itself is authority.
26:26 So when you're raging against God, God responds in wrath and not in panic, not in faith.
26:33 He responds in authority.
26:35 When God speaks, rebellion is silenced.
26:39 You know that Roman Empire came and it subdued it.
26:44 They desecrated the temple.
26:45 They did all kinds of things.
26:46 I think it's the Greeks who desecrated the temple.
26:51 I'm not very sure.
26:51 I think it's the Greeks that secreted the temple.
26:54 But there had been a Greek reign before the Romans came into authority over the then known world.
27:08 But you see, whether it is the Greeks, whether it is the Romans, all their power put together, all their military might put together, all their economic might put together cannot dethrone.
27:22 God could not at that time cannot today dethrone God when you ask questions.
27:27 When they said they were so mighty, they were so powerful, these great emperors, where are they today?
27:34 Where are those nations today?
27:36 Where is that authority today?
27:37 It is not there.
27:38 But God reigns forever.
27:40 He's been there before and he will be there forever.
27:44 Jesus Christ is a reigning king.
27:47 But let us go slowly so that we really understand this.
27:53 The Bible says, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
28:00 Now this is the part where we see that this is a Messianic psalm.
28:09 There is coming a time.
28:11 There is coming a time where Jesus Christ returns in his second coming to the earth.
28:17 And his feet will touch the Mount of Olives.
28:23 And he will come and reign in Jerusalem.
28:28 He will be king, and not just king over a small region.
28:32 He will be king over the whole earth.
28:35 Will be seen towards the end of this psalm how all nations must submit to him.
28:40 And those which will not submit, he will take authority over them with a rod of iron and dash them to pieces until they submit to his reign.
28:49 He's not coming in his second coming in mercy and grace.
28:53 He's coming as a king.
28:55 He's coming as a ruler.
28:57 I remember.
28:58 I think I was going through.
29:02 I was reading on my own personal Bible study.
29:06 I was reading through the book of Luke.
29:08 I think it is Luke, chapter 19, where they talk about a man who went to a foreign land.
29:14 Jesus Christ was telling a parable of his own life.
29:17 This is Jesus Christ talking.
29:19 It says, a certain nobleman went to a far country to obtain a kingdom for himself.
29:25 And then he returned.
29:27 And so this Jesus who was crucified, yes, who died, who rose from the.
29:32 From the grave, ascended into heaven, went to obtain for himself a kingdom.
29:37 The Bible says, so God exalted him and gave him a name that is above all names, that at the name of Jesus, every knee must bow of things in heaven, of things on earth, of things under the earth.
29:49 And I remember at some point he even said, all authority has been given unto me in heaven, on earth and under the earth.
29:56 And therefore every knee must bow to this.