I'm thankful for that. People
that don't feel comfortable to be here and there's people from
California and different places that watch us. And I'm very grateful. I have a lot and a lot of downloads
off of Sermon Audio. I heard one of the preachers
tell his congregation how many they had and I've never done
that. But I may start doing that. Let you know how many people
actually download the sermons off of here and how many people
listen to them, where they go? Man they go, I don't know how
many people download them just in England alone. And several
places in Africa. So it's a wonderful way to get
out the gospel. Wonderful way to get out the
gospel. Alright, let's read this second psalm together. Why do the heathen rage and the
people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves
together and the rulers take counsel together against the
Lord and against his anointed. say, Let us break their bands
asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth
in the heaven shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure. Yet I have set my king upon my
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, O ye
kings. Be instructed, ye judges of the
earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and
rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the way. With his wrath is kindled but
a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in him. I'm thankful it's all in his
hands. Alright, let's look back here at the second Psalm. and
you know this is David being set upon his throne and even
though he had a lot of opposition but for those of us who can see
and know and with eyes of faith we clearly see this talking about
the Lord Jesus Christ this is the psalm of the Messiah the
King And what it does, it sets forth the rage of the wicked.
Oh, it sets forth the rage of the wicked. And against the Lord
Jesus Christ, God's anointed. And they rage against the purpose
of God. God's purpose to exalt His Son. They don't want that to happen.
And they certainly don't want the ultimate reign of Christ
over all of His enemies. But it's going to happen. It's
going to happen. points to this tonight and the
first was this verses 1 through 3 there's an evil evil conspiracy
of demons and men to reject the rule of God Almighty God says
this why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain
thing vain means it's just useless it's empty The kings of the earth
set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against
the Lord and against his anointed the Lord Jesus Christ and said
let's break their bands asunder cast away their cords from us
what they're saying to us is we'll be our own God We'll rid
ourselves of God Almighty and all the restraint that God puts
on us. And we'll be free to commit and
live any way we want to in this world. We want to, you know,
we'll go after our own will, go after our own ways, go after
our own thoughts, go after our own opinions, and go after our
own abominations. And God says what a vain, what
a foolish thing that is to even think that, even think that.
And you know you got lots of people in the scriptures that
tried it. It says the kings of the earth and the rulers gathered
together. You know who was the first one to ever tried to overthrow
God? Said we'll not have him to reign over us. You keep Psalm
2 and look in Isaiah 14. Satan was the first one who tried
to overthrow God. And he never even done anything
but thought it. Show you the omniscience of God.
Isaiah 14 and verse 12. O how thou art fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, and Lucifer means day star, sun of the morning,
how thou cut down to the ground which disweakened the nations.
Now listen to this, for thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend unto heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God, I will sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides
of the north. And I will ascend above the heights
of the cloud. I'll be like the most high But
God said yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of
the pit. Oh God throwed him down Put him
down And I tell you what he was Lucifer
when he got here he became Satan and And then Adam tried it. Oh, when Satan come into the
garden, he told Adam and Eve, he says, you know, you don't
need to pay attention to God. Why God does this? Because you
know the difference between good and evil and you'll be as God
yourself. You'll be as God yourself. And that's where man fell into
sin through Him. And man ever since then, apart
from the grace of God, has always said, we will not have this man
reign over us. We'll be our own gods. Huh? And I tell you what, we'll be
gods ourselves. And they rejected, rejected the
rule and the reign of God over themselves. And I'll tell you
what, men still despise it. And then I'll tell you another
place they tried it at. They tried it at Calvary. They
tried it at Calvary. I want you to look and keep this
and look in Acts chapter 4. I want you to see this. This
is the very verses over here that they're talking about. Acts
chapter 4 and verse 25. You know men, Satan tried it. He tried to overthrow God. We don't want God to reign over
us. We'll get rid of Him. Adam tried it. Oh, we'll be gods
ourselves. That's what was promised to be
a God Himself. And then men tried it at Calvary. When they said, we'll have this
man not to reign over us. We have Caesar to be our king. We don't want Christ. But look
what it says down here in verse 25. who by the mouth of thy servant
David hath said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people
imagine vain things? 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 thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
listen to this, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done. So they done just exactly what
David said here. That's what they prayed, they
stood before God and said this is what David was saying. And
I tell you beloved this conspiracy, and there is a conspiracy. led
by the Antichrist. And Antichrist is already in
this world. He was in the world back in the
days of Christ. He was in the Antichrist. And
I tell you, led by Satan, led by this world, and I tell you,
and it continues right on today. You know where you see it at
in the pulpit? You see it in the pew. Be and
stand and destroy and deny the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Paul said, I warn you, don't
you know, Satan through his subtlety beguiled our mother Eve. And
I warn you, don't you be beguiled from the simplicity that's in
Christ. Don't you? That's singularity
in Christ. And he said, and it's no marvel
that he's got false prophets and ministers of righteousness,
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. And I
tell you what, they set up to destroy a sovereign Christ, a
sovereign Lord. And you know what they put in
his place? Man's great big will. You know what the religion's
been in this United States, all over the world for years and
years and years. It's called humanism. Humanism. Man delights in knowing how smart
he is, how strong he is, how wise he is, how successful he
is, how intelligent he is, how powerful he is. And preachers
stand in the pulpits, and the proved people sit in the pews,
and they listen to that foolishness, and they listen to people enthrone
man's will, and they tell man that God's done all he can do
for you now. done all He can do. And He's
waiting on you. And I'll tell you what, He's
waiting on you. When you're willing, He'll be
willing. God wills to save you. And He wants Christ to come into
your heart. He's done all He can do. Now
it all depends on you. And the cooperation of man. But oh my, how vain, how foolish,
how futile is men to think like that. And yet that's the message
of this day and this age. In light of what God said in
His Word, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. He said in the
day of His power. His people are made willing.
God does according to His will in the armies of heaven and among
the inhabitants of the earth. And I read the other day where
Christ come out in Revelation 19 with the armies of heaven. Sitting on that great white horse
and on His thigh was written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I tell you what, God says
this, He said the Lord does as He pleases in the Heaven and
in the earth and in the seas and all deep places. I'll tell
you, where in the world's man get this idea that God's different,
that He presents Himself in His Word? But I'll tell you, salvation,
and I know it and you know it, but the only way you can know
it is experience. Salvation and eternal life depend
entirely and solely upon the will of God, not the will of
man in no way. Never anyway. I tell you what,
you know what God said? He says this, you know He says,
not him that willeth. It's not him that willeth. It's
not the fellow that's running. Running all over the place for
Jesus. Running up and down the aisles
for Jesus. Going all over the East, the West, the North, the
South for Jesus. Running everywhere for Jesus.
He says, not of him that willeth or runneth, but it's God that
showeth mercy. Oh my, by His own will, by His
own will began He us with the what? The word of truth. So that's
how salvation is. Our Lord says you will not come
to me that you might have eternal life. Oh I'm telling you beloved,
our God, our God is the one that created this world. And His Son,
He created it by His Son. And He rules over this creation.
He rules over the creation that He made. Mother Earth doesn't
do it. Mother Nature doesn't do it.
And they can talk about climate change till the cows come home.
But there ain't nothing gonna change in this creation as long
as God's running it. When we live where we live, we're
going to have four seasons every year. God said that there'll
be seed time and harvest, winter and summer. Now how long do you
reckon that'll last? God said, till I get here. I tell you, man has lost his mind. But you know where he lost it
at? He lost it in the Garden of Eden. And you're talking about,
I was looking at something from 1987. And I added it up, and it's 25
years. And I said, Lord, where did that
time go? Where'd it go? And you think
that we're just a shadow, but God's in the heavens, and He
created a world out of nothing? Just spoken into existence? And
then, He's the God over Providence, and Providence means that He
just governs this world the way He wills to govern it. He raises
up kings. He sets down kings. He raises
up nations. He sets down nations. He said
that as the rivers of water are, even so the heart of the king
is in the hands of the Lord. He turned it whichever way. Huh? Oh, I don't know. And here's
the kicker. He's the Lord over salvation
too. Salvation is short, the short
and sweetest version of it is. Old Jonah found out the hard
way. He said, this I know, salvation
is of the Lord. And I'll tell you what, beloved,
and when people organize efforts against God, and religious men
and preachers or anybody else will never alter the fact that
our Lord says this all that the Father giveth me shall come to
me and him that cometh to me I ain't casting him out and we
know that all things work together for good to them that are called
of God love God according to his own purpose and I said you
know for whom he did foreknow Them he also did predestinate.
Them he did predestinate, them he also called. Them he called,
he also justified. And to make it even better, he
said, they're already glorified. What are we going to say to these
things? If God be for us, who in the world is going to be against
us? Listen, now that's that conspiracy. But you think God's up there
biting his fingernails? walking across the banners of
heaven said oh my goodness what am I going to do with this bunch?
You think that's what he's doing? Oh my, he's got his hands on
his head, you know, oh what's going to happen? No, no, look
what he says here, verse 4. He that sitteth in the heavens,
he's just sitting down, sitting down, he's going to laugh. The
Lord's going to have them in the regions. You know, here's
the situation. It says, He sitteth. He sitteth
in the heavens. He ain't a, you know, He's unmoved. He's unperturbed. He's not impressed. He's not shook up. He's not worried. He's not threatened. He is sitting. He's just sitting there. Man
down here is like a bunch of ants and worms just crawling
all over one another. Those slimy worms. That's the
worms standing up saying, I'm a better worm and you're a better
worm. And I'm going to destroy that worm. And I'll get rid of
that worm. And I'm going to do this and that. And just a bunch
of worms standing up talking about how great they are. That
God's sitting in the heavens. He's not alarmed. He ain't upset
about the mutiny on this earth. This earth always had a mutiny
against him. He sets down. You know why? Because
his purpose is already accomplished. It's not going to be accomplished.
It's already done. He says the things that's not
been done yet as if it's already been done. He declared the end
from the beginning. Did you know that? That's what
he said he did. He said, I'll tell you what, I told you what
the beginning was going to be. But I'll tell you what, you know
what I did before I declared that? I said, this is what I
want the end to be. So whatever, I'm going to decree
everything that's going to happen to get that place right there.
Huh? Oh, you think everybody's mutiny
and carrying on? He sits on an absolute sovereign
throne. And he laughs. He laughs. And you look at his quiet dignity. As he sits there on that throne.
That omnipotent throne. Omnipotent God. He don't even
take the trouble to get up off his throne. He just sits there. Huh? He ain't gonna rise up and
do battle with a bunch of raging people. He don't have to. He
just laughs. He said, how absurd, how unrational,
how irrational, how futile are the claims and boastings of weak
and frail creatures against God. You know, if you all seen a dog
out here, you ever seen a dog howl at the moon? If there's
a dog howling at the moon, does it change the moon any at all?
Men can howl at God all they want, and it will change him. Then shall he speak unto them in his
wrath, in his own good time, in his own pleasure. You know
what he's got to do? He's just got to speak. He's
just got to speak. He just got to speak. He don't
have to lift a finger. He don't have to lift a hand.
He don't have to move off His throne. All He has to do when
He says, then He shall speak. Then He shall speak. And I tell
you one thing when He speaks, He don't talk about compromise.
He don't talk about cooperation. But it says here that He shall
speak to them in His wrath. I'd rather anybody be mad at
me as God. Old Thomas Watson said, God will
either be your worst enemy or your best friend. And that's
the truth. And you know, all he got to do
is just speak. And when he does, he's going
to speak in wrath. And he's going to tell them,
despite your ambitions, despite all you getting together and
getting the wisdom of your counsels together, despite the malice
of your hearts, despite the unanimous opinion of all the earth and
hell itself. Look what he said in verse 6. in spite of everything that you
hate about me and want me off of this earth. He said, yet have
I set my king upon my holy hillside. Go ahead, go ahead, get mad,
get upset about it. I'm still going to set my king
on his holy mountain. And I tell you what, I done told
you, you know, he comes in there, he's king of kings and lord of
lords. Listen, all things are delivered
into His hands. All power over all flesh is His. All authority is given unto Him
in heaven and in earth. And our Lord said, even I quicken
whom I will. And I tell you what, He shall
not fail. He shall not be discouraged.
And I know this, that the pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His
hands. God's anointed is appointed and shall not be disappointed.
That's what I just read down there. Big, big bold letter.
And I tell you what, our Lord says you may rage, you may resolve,
you may take counsel, you may boast of the power of your will.
But God said, I set my king, I decreed him to be king and
set him on his throne. I tell you what, I designed him
to be king and I decreed him to be king. God's will is going
to be done no matter what man says or does. And oh, I'm so
thankful for that. Oh, I'm so thankful for that.
Next time you watch the news, and I still ain't watched it,
but next time you watch the news, remember this. God does according
to His will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth. Now, does that include America?
Includes America. Next time you see them folks
getting their guns out, shooting at one another, say, God gave
them the guns. Let them just shoot one another
all they want to. Ain't that right? Go ahead, shoot
one another. I don't care. And that's the
way this world is, God. Boy, I tell you, God have mercy
on it. Then look what the Son says. Now, I've got to hurry
off. Look what the Son says now, here in verse 7. Oh, my. The Son proclaims the gospel
here and proclaims the decree. I will declare the decree I will declare the decree the Lord
has said unto me thou art my son this day have I begotten
thee when you look at the counsel of the wicked hear their ravening,
their boasting they told Peter and John and James said don't
you ever preach in this man's name again Peter and John and
James, we walked out of their presence and went right back
to preaching. Oh my! But I tell you what, God is sitting
on His throne, infinite power, unperturbed. And I said, I'm
sitting with my son, and Christ Himself says, now our risen Redeemer,
He comes forth and said, I'll declare the decree, I'll declare
it. The Lord said unto me, Jehovah said unto me Thou my son my eternal
son and this day of our begotten day Now I don't fully understand
that but I know this that there never was a time that Christ
wasn't Never was a time that he'll cease to be He's the true. He's the proper. He's the eternal
and only begotten Son of God God declared him God acknowledged
him And God said, this is my Son. This day, when He talks about
this day, this day, I think that it talks about eternity. When
He set Him up as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
I think that day stands from the day of Christ to the end
of time. I think that day is one eternal
day of our Lord Jesus Christ. And I tell you then what it look
what he says there in verse 8 Our Lord said God said to his son
ask of me and I'll give thee the heathen for thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Just
ask me and tell you that's me what you want. I'll give it to
you you know with kings and people that are wealthy and You know,
and if somebody does something and you know they give them a
favor, they do something special for them. You know, just like
when Herod, you know his daughter, his wife's daughter
was dancing and said, ask me for half of my kingdom. You know
what, she asked for John the Baptist's hand. But kings have
always said, you know, if you do something, you know, to honor
them and that, they'll try to give you some kind of a favor.
Well, God says to his son, you just ask me. You ask me. And I'll tell you what I'm going
to do. I'm going to give you the heathen.
I'm going to give you the Gentiles for your inheritance. Oh, you know we're the inheritance
of Christ? He said, I'm going to give you,
look at all these people here tonight, I'm going to give every
one of them to you for your inheritance. You ask and I'll give it to you.
And I tell you, He promised to uphold His blessed Son, and hold
up Him in His substitutionary death, and yet He prayed, He
prayed, our Lord did, He prayed for His own. In John 17, I pray
not for the world, but for those that has given Me. And I'll give
it to you. I'll give them to you. And I'll
give thee the heathen. That's God's elect among the
Gentiles. And then he says, you know, I'm
going to give you the uttermost parts of the earth. He said, thy kingdom,
thy kingdom will be all over from dominion to dominion and
everlasting dominion. The uttermost parts of the earth
is going to be your rule and your reign. And I tell you, beloved,
the stubborn and rebellious who will not have Christ to reign
over them and bow to His crowned rights, one day He's going to
put His foot on them, crush them and destroy them. The other night,
a dear sister here, she showed me from when I was talking about
Christ crushing people under His feet, she showed me that
place. I can't think of where it's at
right now. But our Lord Jesus Christ said, whoever shall fall
upon this stone shall be broken, but whomsoever Whosoever this
rock shall fall on, it'll crush him to dust. And so what happens
is that God calls us to fall on Christ. And we're broken to
pieces and He's the only one that can put us together. But
if He comes down on somebody that does not believe Him, He's
gonna crush them to powder. Oh my. And then let me show you
what else happens now. And then it says this in verse
9. Let me show you this real quick.
I've got to hurry. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Oh, you're
going to take that rod of iron. We saw that in Revelation. Wham! Wham! Wham! Then you're going
to take somebody like a pot. That's what we are, just clay
pots. And everybody is. You're going to break them like
breaking a pot. Easy, easy for him to do. Then look what he
says here now in the last three verses. Be wise now therefore,
O ye kings. Be instructed, you judges of
the earth. Serve the Lord with fear. Rejoice
with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but
a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in him. And then he gives us advice here.
He's telling you yield and give obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, be wise now there. Be instructed. It's always wise,
always wise to be willing to be taught. Oh my, you can't teach
somebody that knows everything. And when he talked about wise,
he talked about those that were wise built upon the rock. But
I tell you, it's always wise to be taught, especially when
the Lord Jesus Christ speaks and God speaks. And anything
that relates to His glory and the salvation of our souls, we
ought to listen to what He says. And He says, serve the Lord with
fear. Serve the Lord with fear. Brad preached a message here
one time, no fear of God. No fear of God. But here's the
thing. Fear the Lord. The beginning
of wisdom is to fear the Lord. Fear sinning before the Lord. Fear having the wrong thoughts
of the Lord. Fear the fact that He holds the
very breath you breathe in His hands and He can take it just
that quick. And I tell you what, and I fear
God in this sense, in this sense, that He has everything in His
power and I have none. And I do not want to stand and
think anything wrong of Him, say anything wrong of Him, even
imagine anything wrong with Him. So I fear Him to think even the
wrong, just anything that would be different than what He really
is. And serve the Lord with fear and then He says rejoice too. Rejoice! Rejoice that He's the Lord. Rejoice
that He's got His King on His throne. Rejoice that God just
speaks. That He's going to wind this
thing up to suit Himself. And I tell you what, don't be
presumptuous. For Christ is God. And you know,
you and I, you know they used to have these cartoons. Let me
see if I remember it right. They used to have... Comic books,
comic books. And at the last page of that
comic book, they'd always have some little old puny guy laying
on the beach, somebody kicking sand in his face. They kick sand
in his face. And they say, well listen, you
order this program for us from old Charles Atlas and nobody
will kick sand in your face anymore. We're like that fella that's
laying on the beach. We're puny and people kick sand
in our faces and only God can do anything about it. That's
how puny we are. And getting Charles Atlas' things
ain't going to help us a bit. It ain't gonna help us a bit.
Oh my. But I tell you, look what he
says now. And I tell you, old Scott, he got down on this one
time. Kiss the Son. Kiss the Son. Put your arms around the Son
of God. Think that He'll let you kiss
Him. Huh? Kiss Him. In love. Kiss Him in faith. Kiss Him in
submission. Kiss the Son. Put aside every
doubt you got. Put aside all resistance, all
rebellion. Embrace Him. Embrace Him as He
is. Our Lord, our King, our Savior,
our Redeemer, our great God and Savior. And then the last thing
He says, you know who's blessed out of all this? They that put
their trust in Him. Put your trust in Him. Put your
trust in Him. Let men do what they are going
to do but they are not going to win. They are not going to
win. Our Father, oh God, our Father,
in the precious, precious name of our Lord Jesus, our great
God, our Savior, our Redeemer, blessed be Your name for allowing
us to meet here tonight, to look at Your Word again, to talk about
Christ, talk about God and His sovereignty and His power and
His glory. talking about how he's unmoved
by anything a human being can possibly do. If the whole world
gathered up together by the tens of billions and gathered against
Christ, gathered against God, God just look at them and laugh.
Oh, God blessed be your holy name. We thank you. Lord, we
want to bow down. We want to be submissive. and
we want to be willing and we are and we come to kiss the sun
again with the kisses of our mouth and the kisses of our heart
we bless you and praise you in Christ's name amen amen he's the savior of my soul Jesus, my Jesus. He's the Savior of my soul. He's the Savior of my soul. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. He's the Savior of our
souls. He's the Savior of my soul.