About 200 years ago, there was
a freed man that owned 40 acres of land. And he said, it's too
far to go to church, I'm building a church. And to people at that
time that looked down on him, people in our day may look down
on him. They had a lot of things to think about this freed man
who owned property and said he's gonna worship the Lord. And they
tried to bargain with him. Try to convince him of some things.
And he said, the gospel does not beg for a truce, it demands
surrender. Warning or a blessing? A warning
or a blessing? We're going to be in Psalm 2
today. Let's read it. 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 asunder and
cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision.
And then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them
in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon the
holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the
Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee. ask of me and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, 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 ye perish from the way when his
wrath is kindled but a little." Well, if we could get a hold
of that. How much wrath of God would it take to wipe me off
the face of this earth for eternity? Just a little. Just a word. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in Him. I'm going to lay down a two-edged
sword today. It's either going to be a warning
or a blessing. I don't know what it's going
to be for you. People love to exalt those men old. Old Brother
Barnard. You know when Old Brother Barnard
went to Ashland in 1950, he was my age. I guess I'm Old Brother
Kevin. People don't call me Old Brother
Kevin, do they? You know what that man said? He goes, I don't
know if God will save you, but you better seek Him. Oh boy,
people get mad. Mad. Arrogant, prideful sinners
would get mad. Preachers, so-called preachers,
so-called pastors would get mad. What are you talking about? That's
the Lord we're talking about. You bow to Him. We're going to
see it today. There's 12 verses here. There's
four parts. Three verses each. And you can either look at this
as the voice of truth. Boy, that's damning. That crushes men and
women. It'll put you down where we ought
to be. Flawed flesh is grass. That ain't
nothing that we are. Cut grass. We see the voice of
wrath. God's saying what He's going
to do to those heathen. The heathen that rage. The heathen
that go against His anointed. He said, touch not mine anointed,
didn't He? We're going to see his wrath. And you're going to
see the voice of the king himself said he's going to take an iron
rod and bust every one of them like a potter's vessel. And then
you're going to hear a warning. You serve him in fear. You rejoice with trembling. And
you kiss the sun. All 12 of those verses is an
absolute slay to somebody that don't know him. But to the child of God, I had
a saber that was gifted to me out of Germany, a cavalry saber
when I left 191 Air Cav. They got together and bought
it for me. It only had an edge on one side. His sword has an
edge on two sides. I say the same thing no matter
what I say. If I'm like Jonah and I give
you eight words, God will not return him void. If he put the
word in my mouth for his people, one will come up and cuss me,
one will come up and hug me. I've seen it happen over and over
again throughout my life. The child of God sees this as
truth. We see Him as holy. A King of kings. A Lord of lords. That's my Lord and my God. What He does is right. And we're
going to see Him promising to save His people. Break us, Lord. Break me now. I pray He come
into every soul in this building today and break your hearts.
Maybe it's been scuffed up, it ain't never been broke. I pray
to break your hearts. And then we're going to sing to Him. We're
going to rejoice with trembling, serve Him with fear, and we're
going to kiss His Son. Because that's why it all happened.
That's every bit of it. My pastor used to say, meat's
good. We need meat. We need to eat meat, don't we?
We also need some salad. You need some vegetables. You
need some green beans and mashed potatoes. And you need some dessert
every now and then too, don't you? The Lord applies that meal
to His sheep as He sees fit. I thank God I don't have to do
it. I ain't that smart. I ain't that capable. I don't
have cameras set up in y'all's houses. It ain't in me. He's able. Who's sufficient for
these things? He is. Verse 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 asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Why do the heathen rage? Are tumultuous. Why do they make
loud noises? Why do they get excited? Why
do they get confused? I don't understand. That's raging
against God. Do you know that? I need to know. Why? How? How? How? Like them guys with the blind
man. How? They're confused. They don't know what the answer
is. That's raging against God and His anointing. Why are they
disorderly? Why do they imagine vain things,
empty things? The kings of this earth. Well,
that don't have nothing to do with me. Ain't no royalty in
Pike County, Kentucky. You mean the king of the holler?
King of Pike County. That don't have nothing to do
with me, does it? That's every man, woman, and child in this
nation. I need to be respected. I know some stuff. I have worth. You're the kings. I'm the kings,
he's talking about. That's us in our natural state.
We who are rulers and judges. They take counsel together. Man
likes to take counsel together, don't they? They like getting
committed together. We're going to sit down and we're going to
discuss some things. I'm going to put what I know out on the
table and then I'm going to get y'all's opinion on it. We get
some advice from other men and women. We don't take direction,
we take counsel. That's our natural state. Why?
Why people do that? Against the Lord, capital L,
capital O, capital R, capital D, against the Lord of hosts
and against His anointed. That's why they're doing it.
Let's get a committee together. That's against God and it's against
His anointed. Kevin, I don't think you're right.
It don't matter if you think I'm right. What's God say? This is the pattern for small
children. This is the pattern for boys
that can shave. This is the pattern for religious
leaders. All of them outside of Christ, they go along to get
along. They lay aside their differences and they'll say, the enemy of
my enemy is my friend. To go against the Lord first
and against his anointed. We see those patterns all the
time, don't we? We looked at the institution of marriage a month
or two ago. The Lord did that to declare
some things. Primarily, Christ and His bride. He's the head of the church.
And then to show us under shepherds and the flock, it's the same
thing. And in our homes, there's a husband and there's a wife.
It's the same thing. It's systemic. That means it's
equal all over. It's the same thing no matter
how you look at it. The Lord doesn't change, huh? Same thing with this. They counsel
together, wicked men, ragers, vain people, little children. They plot together to get their
parents to do what they want. Do you know that? When I was
a kid, I'd ask my best friend growing up, I'd say, you go ask
my mom if you can spend the night. Why don't you ask her? Now, she'd
more likely say yes if you do. We devised a plan, didn't we?
What's that called? Sowing discord. Rage. Vanity. If that's a little kid,
that's exactly right. These so-called churches around
the globe today, we're going to have a prayer meeting, we're
going to petition God until he caves in and he does what we
want him. Vanity. Taking counsel together. I've seen this happen in God's
church. The heathen, raging, come in
and they get everybody on their side. Y'all know about that?
Let me tell you about this. Go get to his man. Let's give
him a severance package. Let's get him out of here. Get
him moved. We'll get somebody else in here. And we'll have
counsel to find out who that next one is. Vanity. You would have a better
chance of success by ganging up on a volcano. Did you know
that? You gonna beat God? You gonna
defeat something that he's put into place? That he wants to
do? We don't even use those words.
He wills? I'm gonna do this. You gonna stop him? Go stick
your hand out in front of a tsunami and see how it works out for
you. It ain't gonna happen. Each individual sinner, that's from
little children, to churches, to religion, everything else,
each individual sinner in vanity, in rage, excitement, anger, confusion,
you go against God and his anointed. I did too. That was me, and I
did it under five points. I was a stomped cow, fighting
God every day. David's not speaking of himself
here, but this isn't just, it was his case. That's coming after
David, wasn't it? And it's the case for his child
of God, that same thing, just like marriage, just like everything
else, it's the same in every case. The heathen go against
the child of God, and you work, and you home, and you whatever.
families. They go against his preachers,
but they're going against Christ the anointed. That's who they've
got a problem with. Don't take it out on them, they've
got a problem with Christ. Christ said, if the world hate
you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. The Lord
told his prophet, they aren't mad at you, they're mad at me.
The heathen rage and vain thoughts against God's children, against
His watchmen. They rage against the Lord and the closest thing
they have to do rage against Him is His people and His prophets
in this day. Who else are they going to take
it out on? They only see temporal things, don't they? Like our
brother showed us this morning. We knew he was going to be in
Psalm 2 this week, right? We looked at Psalm 1 last week,
and I said, if Lord wills we'll be in it, I didn't pick it. How
could somebody stand up in front of those people? The whole world
against you. I thought it was Elijah. Eight hundred and fifty prophets
of Baal, and a king, and a bunch of onlookers. And he mocked them.
Laughed at them. Maybe he's going to the bathroom.
Yell at him. Give him a minute. Maybe he's asleep. Wake him up.
Mocked them. How could somebody do that? Be
not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee.
That's the Lord was with Christ. They are. They're one. The Lord's
with His preachers and His prophets of old, His apostles, His disciples,
and He's with His people. People, fear not, I'm with thee.
That's our only hope, isn't it? Verse 2. Let us break their bands
asunder. Here's what they're doing. What
are these kings and rulers going to attempt to go against God
and His Christ for? And His preachers and His children?
Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from
us. They're the bands of the law
of Christ. We want the bands of the law of Moses, don't we?
That's doing something. You're just saying your yoke's
easy. The bands here means his yoke.
His yoke. Service to him. Believe on God
and love your brethren. What? I gotta do something else.
Ain't you got a day? Ain't you got some praying I
can do? You got a reading schedule I
can read the scriptures every day? Can't I do something? Believe
on God and love his brethren. That's his yoke, isn't it? Service
to Him and service to His people, believing on Him, loving Him.
They rage in vanity, waiting to break that yoke. We'll see
it in a bit, but being the Lord's, having His yoke put on you, you're
going to pull something. Did you know that? You drive
up Central Valley, California, you see a whole mess of cows.
You ever seen one of them out there with a yoke on it? And not do
it, just stand in the field? No, if you're unevenly yoked,
As he's talking about the marriage, if a marriage is yoked, you're
pulling something. You're accomplishing something.
You're doing something. If he's put his yoke on you, you're believing
on him and you're loving your brethren. That's what it is. They want
to break the bands, the yoke of Christ, set themselves as
kings making up their own yoke. Well, they cry, we will not have
this man reign over us. What man? The God-man. The sovereign
of the universe. It says in verse 3, let us break
their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. Cast
away their cords. Get rid of the rope, the reins. Make ourselves God's like unto
us. We'll make God just like ourselves. Turn over to Genesis
chapter 3. This is chapter 3, verse 4. And the serpent said unto the
woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the
day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open, and
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. You know something. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, it looks fine to me, and that it was pleasant
to the eyes, ooh, it's pretty. and it was a tree to be desired
to make one wise. I want wisdom. She took of the
fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with
her, and he did eat. After he ate, we found out that
he was naked, didn't we? That's when they saw it. They want to
be wise. I wanted to be wise. When I was
a little kid, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up,
but I knew I wanted to be grown up. I want to know some stuff. I want to have some freedom to
do some stuff. I want to get out of this house. I want to
be wise. I want to be to determine the
bands. I want to decide what the bands
are. I want to decide what the yoke is. I want to decide what
needs to be done and by whom. I want to be a ruler. I want
to be a king, don't I? I want to hold the reins. We want to hold the cords, don't
we? Y'all know what horses and reins are, don't you? You get
a bit in the bridle and from that comes the reins. And that could
be one man riding a horse and he holds the reins. You can have
two men on a horse. One of them can hold the reins.
You can have a stagecoach with three teams of horses and a whole
bunch of people in a stagecoach. One man can hold the reins. Is
that right? You can't have two pulling two
different ways. Only one can hold the reins. You parents,
you hold the reins. You hold the reins of your children.
Husband, you're the head of the wife. I'm going to have to get
a count of what's preached out here. Did I show Christ in the
scriptures? Did I tickle somebody's ear and
give them something to chew on and make you all warm and fuzzy
with lies? I have to account for that. But all that pictures,
every bit of it, it all pictures the Holy One of Israel who rules
and reigns all things. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. We mean a sovereign God. Somebody
told Barnum one time, they said, your God's a monster. He said,
well, you better get ready to meet a monster then. That's who
it is. He's sovereign in all things.
What's the seeming result? Seemingly. If you give man the
reins, I'm going to make some decisions. I think we ought to
be doing this. Okay, here's the reins. Have at it. Seemingly,
that's not the case with the Lord Sovereign all the time.
He doesn't change. What's the result of that? Turn
over to Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 4 verse 25. who
by the mouth of thy servant David hath said, why did the heathen
rage and the people imagine vain things?" We're about to get a
commentary on Psalm 2. The kings of the earth stood
up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against His Christ. For of a truth against the holy
child Jesus whom thou hast anointed Both Herod and Pontius Pilate
and the Gentiles and the people of Israel were all gathered together. They took counsel together, didn't
they? "...for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done." We're taught to pray, Lord, deliver
me from evil. Don't let me attempt to take
the reins. Don't let me have my way. Lord, Your will be done. in the armies of earth and heaven.
What's going to happen? God, let me go. I would, I'd
take reins. You can ask that woman right
there. That's as sweet as I can be. You know what gets termed gentle
man? It ain't that somebody's gentle all the time. They have
the capacity to be gentle. They're a hard, vicious, warring
man that has the capacity to be gentle. God, let me go. What would I do? What would I
have done? Back in our text, that's the
voice of truth. That's two-edged sword. People used to fight against
that. That ain't me. You say, Lord,
that's me. That's me. That's who I am. I
won't take the reins. I'm nothing but vanity. And I
rage. That's the voice of truth. All
men and women born of Adam Every one of us. And the wrath's going
to come to that. Judgment's going to come to it.
Here's the voice of wrath. Verse 4. He sitteth in the heavens,
shall laugh. I'm going to take the reins.
Okay. The Lord shall have them in derision.
It's comical to go against the Lord. People say, Kevin, you
make too lot of things. The Lord didn't. He laughed,
didn't he? We read of Pharaoh killing all the firstborns. I ain't going to have that man
reign over me. I'm going to kill every one of them." And then
he stood back and said, look how good I did. I did it. I accomplished the task at hand. I'm king. Why is that funny? You was raising Moses in your
house. Your daughter was. You bounced him on your knee.
He scuffed his knee. You pick him up and hug him a
little bit. Oh yeah. You think of how proud he was. I'd have
killed every one of them babies. God's going to laugh. Pharaoh,
king, you think you're going to do something? He tried. Man attempts at the cross. It's going to be allowed until
it accomplishes the sovereign will of God. Man's attempts. What we think, seemingly, we
have the reins. It's going to be allowed until the Lord sends
that trial or that success, which is a trial or anything else,
until it satisfies Him. Acts 2.23 says, "...Him being
delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken..." God purposed for Christ to go to the cross.
He said He was going to save His people. "...Ye have taken, and
by wicked hands have crucified and slain. He has the reins, but you're
still a horse." Ain't that man's problem? God has the reins. Mankind's the horse. But judgment will come. Look
here in verse 5. Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath
and vex them in His sore displeasure. This is who we're dealing with.
The Lord doesn't have to battle mankind. He doesn't sweat. He
doesn't labor. He doesn't war with and attempt
to destroy man. He needs to speak. Despite all the attempts to undo
the Lord's will that we have, hears his holy word. He speaks
wrath to them. My pastor preached a message
in 1974 called, Goodbye God. That's what man screamed. We're going to get rid of you.
If I stopped right there, y'all go out of this place, either
mad saying that ain't me, or the child of God would go out
of here so wounded, and so down, and so depressed, and so doubting,
they couldn't keep their head up, I couldn't make it through
the week. Verse 6. This has to take place. You have to be brought down.
It ain't all dessert. Verse 6. Yet, yet have I set, in the Hebrew
that is anointed, yet have I anointed my King upon my holy hill of
Zion. That's either a warning or a
blessing. You ain't one He has anointed His king on Zion. He
has said it. For it's a blessing. My gods in heavens. He's sitting
on His throne above. That's where He's at. Christ,
the Father's anointed, is set on His holy hill of Zion. What's
that? His church. He's the king of His body, His
people. He's ahead of us. And there's no undoing it. I
can't mess this up. I don't fear other men. I don't
fear principalities. I don't feel powers. I look to
myself, I'm afraid. Where's your king? I ain't afraid
no more. That's right. You just say amen.
I cussed him, yet God. He sent a king over me. Hope
rejoicing. That's a message of warning and
despair. and should be doubt." That's to cast doubt for the
heathen, but for His people, what a blessed promise. You can't
do nothing. Yet, I have set my King, I have
anointed my King on Mount Zion. Here's the voice of the King
Himself, verse 7-9. I will declare the decree. This
is Christ speaking. The Lord said unto me, Thou art
my Son, capital S. 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 to
pieces like a potter's vessel." He's going to judge. The heathen
for thine inheritance. Those that still want to break
His bands, those that want to throw off His ropes, they're
going to be broken to pieces. You ain't going to win. Turn
over Psalm 89. Psalm 89, verse 20. I have found David My servant,
and with My holy oil have I anointed him. with whom my hand shall
be established, my arm also shall strengthen him." Who's gonna
keep David on his throne? Lord did. Who gave him strength?
Lord did. The enemy shall not exact upon
him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat
down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him,
that rage against him. But my faithfulness and my mercy
shall be with him. and in my name shall his horn
be exalted." David, you're going to be king. Oh, what a cushy
life. You're going to have servants
and ballets and people rubbing your feet. No, it just said he's
got enemies. Well, he ain't warm and fuzzy.
People hate him. Hate him. And the Lord's going
to deal with it. His faithfulness and His mercy. The Lord said,
My faithfulness and My mercy. It ain't your faithfulness. It
ain't your choosing to be merciful. I decided to let God have mercy
on me. What hogwash? Nonsense. It's His. It's with
Him. He gave it to David. And in My
name shall His horn be exalted. When David blew his horn, what
did he say? Boy, look at everything I did. God did it. This is who God is. All those wicked ones, they're
going to be destroyed, back in our text. Christ is going to
do this for His people and for His namesake, His Father's namesake. But how grateful we are, that's
the warning. How grateful we are, He broke
us. He come to us with that rod of
the Word. And He popped us good and smashed
us like a broken potter's vessel and gave us a new creation. Isn't
that right? He said, and whosoever shall
fall on this stone shall be broken. This ain't health and wealth
and success and whoop-de-doos and wooshy-gooshy feelings and
everything else. You're going to be broke. You're
going to be weeping. We're going to see at the end.
but on whomsoever it shall fall." This stone of Christ, it's going
to grind to powder. It won't be a new creation. Just crushing,
crushing those that rage, those that carry on in vanity, those
that go after His anointed. They hate the Lord. Crushed.
But when the Lord shows us that to us, we're falling on Him. We're not pushing against His
Word, against His Scriptures. We're falling on Him. Lord, You're
right. I'm wrong. You're right and I'm
wrong. Now we see the voice of the preacher.
See the voice of truth, the voice of wrath, the voice of the King
Himself, God Almighty, the Lord. And here's the voice of the preacher,
verse 10. Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings. Be instructed, you judges of
the earth, you who sit in judgment. I'd never do that, sitting in
judgment. I think we all do this. Kings, you be wise. Be wise. You listen. Serve the Lord with
fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He be angry
and ye perish from the way when His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. What a message. Three things all men are warned
to do. Warranted to do. And three things,
praise the Lord, His people get to do. We get to do. You better serve the Lord with
fear. What a warning. We get to honor
God. Serve His people. Because we
love Him. Because He first loved us. What a pleasure. What a gift. To get to serve Him. Isn't it? Serve the Lord with fear. Rejoice
with trembling and kiss the Son. Fear. How do you serve the Lord
with fear? That is honor. That is respect.
And that's reverence. That starts out just as a child.
It starts out as a physical fear. I'm the sinner. I'm the chief
of sinners. And God's right to kill me. Uh-oh.
I'm afraid of Him. Yalk me. And then as time goes
on and we see his son, his work at Calvary, what he did in and
for his people, and it's done forever and over and over and
over again, he doesn't change. And he says, fear not. Come unto
me. Let's reason together. Now we
honor him. You can badmouth God. No, you
ain't either. If you know him, you ain't. That hasn't spoken much of our
day, has it? And so God is love. He is. Any love that's true is
His. But He also says He's angry with
the wicked every day. When we see who we are, when
Christ has been revealed to us who He is, there's going to be
fear. Period. You're going to serve
Him in fear. There's not much fear in our nation because we
have so many rights, don't we? Do you know that? Who says that?
Oh, we got rights. Worst thing that ever happened
to you. They don't have any fear of the police. There's no fear
of rulers. There's no fear of moms. There's
no fear of dads. Remember what I'm talking about?
It goes from the home, to public, to nations, right? It's the same.
Mom and dad ain't scary no more. The police ain't scary no more.
We call our president by his first name. Mock him. God set
that man down there. You know that? Make fun of him? That's the rulers God put over
you. Read Romans 13. We make fun of it. We see that
lady over in England, the sovereign they call her. She's queen. People
come up and kiss her hand and respect her. They come into her
home and they act right. And they say, I'd never do that.
I'd never kiss her hand. I wouldn't bow to that woman. There's no fear. There's no honoring,
no respect. Rejoice with trembling. Rejoice
with trembling. Not hooting and hollering, not
carrying on and waving your hands to Jesus with trembling. You going to rejoice? You rejoice
with trembling. God said it. Rejoice with trembling. Do I
smile? Of course I do. I walk outside and look at that
sun. There's birds chirping. My God, make them birds. I think
yesterday I was just stuck on that. The Lord feeds the sparrows.
Every little bird flying around these hills, He feeds them. Now
they ain't in the nest, and He don't have a care package of
worms that He just drops in their mouth, do they? They got to go
down on the ground. They got to get down to get it. You want
to get fed, you get down. That's what He said to the birds.
Oh, can I see that? Think of my brethren, pray for
them. Oh Lord, you've been merciful to me, you've been merciful to
them, let us rejoice with you. But you're the one that did it,
and that honor and that fear of serving Him, praying for our
brethren, we do it with trembling. We rejoice with trembling because
we know He's done it. That's the magnitude of that. I tried
to think of a way to describe rejoicing with trembling. I kind
of thought of somebody winning the lottery, and they're like,
Then one time that lottery was $900 million, and Cameron said,
you buy a ticket? I said, no. I'd have to hire all my friends
to watch my kids. I'd be scared to death somebody'd kidnap them.
And likely so. I wouldn't want to win it. I
didn't buy a ticket. Uh-oh. Things just changed. I held that
firstborn child of mine in my arms. I was happy. Oh, I rejoiced.
I praised to God for that. There's a new creation. I'm a
new dad. Never have been before. What
do I do? You get to a job, you don't know
the rules yet. You don't know what right looks
like. You ain't never been around it.
You're happy to have a job, but you don't go popping off in the
mouth every day, do you? You hush. You listen. You learn. God's going to teach His people. That's the same in a home. That's
the same at work. That's the same in a nation. Same for God's
church, isn't it? Don't you say? I stand amazed
in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder, and wonder,
how He could love me a sinner, condemned, unclean. You happy
God saved you? Absolutely I am. Makes me cry. the wisest man ever walked the
face of this earth, born of Adam. God said so. He said this, keep
thy foot when thou goest into the house of God and be more
ready to hear than give the sacrifice of fools. They do not consider
that they do evil. Why don't they consider they
do evil? For God is in heaven and thou art upon the earth.
They don't know Him. We serve God in fear and we rejoice
in trembling because we know who He is. We don't call His
by His first name, come in, high-five Him, and say, give me the remote
control, I'm watching what I want. No, that's not honor. That's
not fear. That's not trembling, is it? All men are without excuse. We are commanded to serve Him
with fear and rejoice in His mercies with trembling. That's
what this is. This preacher's saying, you serve
Him with fear, you rejoice with trembling. We're commanded. And
to kiss the Son. Kiss the Son. I serve Him because
He saved my life. Eternally. He gave me a new creation. He gave me a spirit. He gave
me His spirit. He gave me His saving faith. Like Naaman the leper. You need
rugs? Get them. You need money? Take it. The Lord gave it to
me. This world is nothing. It's going to burn. Take anything
you need. Serve Him. Honor Him with fear.
And I rejoice. And I tell people, and it ain't
some happy doo-dah party when I tell somebody who God is. Let
me tell you about this dude named Jesus. Some man said tennis shoes
one time, and I saw my pastor talk to him. Whoo! He said, that's
God you're talking about. You're on earth. He's in the
heavens. Better get right. Better seek Him. Better honor
Him. and to kiss the Son. We that
serve Him because He first loved us, we rejoice because of the
creation He's put in us. Why do we do that? Well, how
did all that happen? Because of the Son. And we kiss
Him. We honor Him. We glorify Him. We magnify His
name. He's shown in these Scriptures
and He's exalted and man's abased. Kiss the Son. Jonah kissed Him,
didn't he? Kissed him on the cheek. Why'd
he kiss him on the cheek? Equals. You're a king. I'm a king. You judge, I judge. You're a ruler, I'm a ruler.
Oh, that's nice. Kissed his cheek, didn't he?
What happened to him? Another kissed the son as well.
Another one honored him in fear, served him in fear. And another
one rejoiced with trembling. Rejoice with trembling. Turn
over to Luke 7. I'll let you go. Luke 7, verse 36. And one of
the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. Simon the leper. And he went
into the Pharisee's house and sat down to meet. And behold,
a woman in the city, which was a sinner, she raged against God,
she lived in vanity, went against his anointed. which was a sinner
when she knew that Jesus sat at me in the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind
him, behind him. You want to stand before God? I'll get behind him. Don't he
love you? Of course he loves me. I'm his
son. I'm God's child. I'm his preacher. I'll get behind
him. I'm going to hide my face. and stood behind him, verse 38,
and stood at his feet behind him, weeping, weeping, trembling,
and began to wash his feet with tears, serving him, and did wipe
them with the hairs of her head, humbleness, and kissed his feet. She served God with fear. She
rejoiced. You think she's happy to be there?
Oh, it made her go there. Run her off. Let's make fun of
her. What are you doing? Knock it off. She's rejoicing
with trembling, with her tears, and anointed them with the ointment.
She kissed his feet. And when the Pharisees, which
had bid him, saw it, he spake within himself, didn't even say
it out loud. Does God say He knows the heart
to man? Well, I didn't say that. Did you think it? He said within
himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have
known who and what manner of woman that is that touches him,
for she's a sinner. Oh, if he'd have knew who that
was, he'd be sitting in judgment, wouldn't he? And Jesus answered,
saying to him, Simon, I have some what to say to thee. I'm
going to tell you something. And he saith, Teacher, Rabbi,
Master. Isn't that what Judas said? Master
is it I? Lord is it I? Lord is it I? King
is it I? Master is it I? Master, say on. You've got something to say to
me, shoot your shot. Say it. There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors, and one owed 500 pence and the other
50. And when they had nothing to
pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which
of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose
that he to whom he forgave the most. And he said unto him, Thou
hast judged rightly. He rightly judged. And he turned
to the woman and said unto Siloam, he turned
to the woman, looked her in the eyes, said, I'm going to tell
you something. Seest thou this woman? I entered
into thine house. I came in your house and thou
gavest me no water for my feet. You didn't serve me with beer.
But she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the
hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss. You didn't
serve me, you didn't rejoice in me, and you didn't kiss me.
But this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to
kiss my feet." Not my face, not equals, bowing to Him, kissing
His feet. Wherefore I say unto thee, her
sins, which are many, you call her a sinner, are forgiven. Sins forgiven. For she loved
much, but to whom little is forgiven. The same loveth little. And he said unto her, all that
was said to Simon, and he says to his child, there's a lot of
commotion going on, isn't there? Looks like wars, looks like raging.
He said unto her, thy sins are forgiven. And they sat at meat
with him, began to say within themselves, who is this that
forgiveth sins also? They mocked him. And He said to the woman, Thy
faith has saved thee. Go in peace. Psalm 2 is a two-edged sword.
It is absolute condemnation to them that are outside of Christ,
to those He hasn't revealed Himself in. And you ought to be scared.
This is serious business. Life and death. Not just life
and death in the body. I've done that. You get used
to it. You get numb to it. Eternal life and death. But to
His people. We read three verses and we say,
that's us. We read three more verses and we say, Almighty God's
on His throne in heaven. He does what pleases Him. We
read three more verses. That's my God speaking. That's
the Christ. And then we get to serve Him
with fear. Not doing cartwheels. Not entertaining
folks. Not tickling men's ears. We get
to rejoice because that's who it is. I agree with Him. I'm
trembling. eternal life and death. And we
kiss the son. We come to him kissing his feet.
Who he is, what he accomplished, him becoming me. Him bearing
that wrath that he must put out. He bore it completely. And that's one. is where her warfare is accomplished.
She's received double for all her sin. That's one. Sin is paid
for. What's the other double? What's
the other side of the double? You ain't ever going to sin again.
That old man is nothing but sin. That new man is a new creation
made after him, his child, and it's perfect and it doesn't have
the ability to sin forever. What a thought. That's rejoicing,
isn't it? I stand amazed. Let's sing that.