Jesus Christ is Our Only King

Psalm chapter 2. I'm going to be speaking to you today from Psalm chapter 2. And the subject is Jesus Christ, our only King. King of kings, Lord of lords. Now in this Psalm, I guess I better turn to it. It's mainly dealing with King David. King David had many enemies and many troubles and many men tried to bring him down. But also, as believers, look to see the Lord Jesus Christ.

The whole purpose of the Scriptures is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ, His Majesty, and what He has done for His people. This Psalm 2 is a Messianic Psalm. All the Word of God is a Messianic Psalm, so to speak. His word, you know, Moses wrote of me, that's what our Lord says. The scriptures all testify of the Lord Jesus Christ, Him and Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

It says in Philippians chapter 2, Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every tongue confess in heaven, in earth, and under the earth that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords, King of Kings, to the glory of God the Father. And in spite of all the opposition from demons and devils, our Lord Jesus Christ is King. His kingdom is forever. He ruleth forever. The Lord Jesus Christ reigneth. Let all the earth rejoice. Jesus Christ is our only eternal King.

Now let's look at Psalm chapter 2, Psalm 2. There's four divisions in this Psalm. In verses 1, 2, and 3, the world speaks. In verses 4 through 6, God the Father speaks. In verses 7 through 9, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks. And in verses 10, 11, and 12, the preacher speaks. So in Psalm 2, Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth set themselves, and 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. saying, let us break their bands asunder. What are these bands? Well, the world would love to do away the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. All these little bands all across the world, all across our nation, we have Rocky Mount, we got Dingus, we got Todd's Road, we got Hurricane Road, all these different churches in Spring Lake that meet together and worship the only true God. These bands are also the word of God. Men don't like the word of God. They don't want to be restrained by the word of God, the rule of God. These chords is also the principles and morality of God's Word. Men don't want it. They will not have God to reign over them. They do not want it. It says in verse 1, why do the heathen rage? You ever ask the question why? Why is this and why is that? And why do I have to do this and why do I have to do that?

You know, it's good to ask questions, you know. That's how we learn, you know. Why is the ocean blue? Well, you know, that's a good. But, you know, Can a man by searching find out God to perfection? No. We read his word but we look through a glass dimly. We don't fully understand. It has to be revealed to us. Men are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. So when we ask someone in authority why, like, why do I have to clean up my room? You know, why God are you doing it this way, which we're all guilty of? Because God says so. That's why it is. and we should bow.

A heathen is one who does not worship the true and living God, whether he be an hell's angel, a biker, or a, you know, or a Methodist preacher. It's all the same, you know. Men worship God after the imagination of their own heart. Mankind, a mainstream religion, worships a God of their own imagination. They worship a God that cannot save unless man lets him. Well, that's not the God of the Bible. Our God shall work, and who shall let him?

He has power over all flesh. If you follow the news, there's a lot of rage going on in this country, in this world. Everyone is mad at someone. Nations against nations, people against people, Republicans against Democrats, Democrats against Republicans, religion against Christ and his church. The most foolish rage is man against God. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. That's all a natural man can do is hate God. Man does not like to retain God and His knowledge.

Mankind hates the God of the Bible, the true and living God. Men do hate to hear of their need of a Savior. They don't need saving. They're good enough. The worldly wise and leaders of nations, religious leaders, despise the God who is God, the God who rules and reigns over all things, who is holy, righteous, and just. who will by no means clear the guilty. God must punish sin, and men don't like that.

The talk of a holy, sovereign God who sent His only begotten, well-beloved Son to die on a cross to save His people from their sin It's foolishness to God. It's foolishness to man. Foolishness to man. The only way our holy God can be appeased is by the sacrifice of His Son. God made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Man's works. Man thinks he can please God by what he does. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There's none good. There's none good. No, not one.

In Psalm 2 verses 4, 5, and 6 it reads, He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sordid pleasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Turn to Proverbs chapter 1. Proverbs chapter 1. It speaks about God laughing at men, women, Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? In verse 7 it says, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. And go on down to verse 22. How long, ye simple ones, will you love simplicity or stupidity or ignorance as what man is? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.

The fool has said in his heart, no God, no God for me. Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you and I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regardeth. I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as in desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer.

They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of all my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices, For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." You know the Lord keeps talking to men, says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon me. My burden is light.

Our God is merciful. He delights to show mercy. He's raised up the prophets. He raised up preachers to preach the gospel all through the ages, and men don't want to hear it. Our Lord Jesus Christ rejoiced one day. I'm sure he laughed. It's hard not to rejoice and not laugh. In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and has revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, so it seemeth good in thy sight. The gospel has to be revealed.

Man is dead in trespasses and sins. He does not understand the things of God, neither can he. In spite of all the opposition of man and his many devices to thwart God's purposes, killing his prophets, Worshipping idols, tearing down, destroying, killing God's people.

In verse 6 it says, Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. In verses 7, 8, and 9, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks. He says, I will declare the decree. The Lord has said unto me, thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. Let's turn over to Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1, God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. The Lord Jesus Christ is God. The Lord Jesus Christ came manifest in the flesh. Great is the mystery of godliness. The only way God can be satisfied is if God dies on the cross.

He has to be perfect, has to be a perfect sacrifice without blemish. In Hebrews 1 verse 6, and again when he bringeth in the first begotten unto the world he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him. And of the angels he saith, who maketh his angel spirits and his ministers a flame of fire?

But unto the sun he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. In Psalm chapter 2 verse 8 it says, Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Zion is a picture of God's church. The church is full of sinners, made holy and righteous by the blood of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is able to save the guttermost to the uttermost. In verse 9 it says, Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, and Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

God is angry with the wicked every day. God hates all workers of iniquity, you know. He's going to judge this world. He's angry. Men will not hear. Men will not bow. He's given them every opportunity to repent, but they will not unless He shows mercy.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, or the same blunt to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What of God willing to show his wrath, and make his power known, endured with much affliction, Endured with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. Our Lord is so long-suffering. The long-suffering of the Lord is our salvation, because by nature we're no different than the heathen. We're no different than the God-haters and the scoffers and the mockers. We still murmur and complain when God crosses our will. We're just the way it is. I'm sorry.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had aforeprepared under glory? Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also the Gentiles. I'm glad he doesn't just save the Jews, because us Gentiles over here would have no hope. In Psalm 2 verses 10, 11, and 12, the preacher speaks.

Be wise now therefore, O you kings, and be instructed, ye judges of the earth." Be wise, unbeliever. Be wise. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ. All things are ready. He's prepared all things. If you're a sinner, He's paid your sin debt. If you need pasture, he'll give you green pastures to lay in, to lay down in. Are you hungry? He'll give you bread.

Verse 11 says, Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way. And when his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. In Acts chapter 2, let's all turn to Acts chapter 2. If you feel like it. In verse 22, I'm in the wrong place, I'm in the wrong state. Ye men of Israel, hear these words.

Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Every one has turned to his own way. But thank God the Lord has laid our iniquities on His Son. God's people's sins are put away. Acts chapter 2, verse 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? We've crucified the Lord of glory. All of us have. If you don't love Christ, you hate him. It ain't no gray matter. All of us at one time had no interest in the gospel, no interest in the Lord Jesus Christ. We didn't care.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

This world is not looking toward God for their help. They're looking to the world. They're looking to themselves, looking to every place and everything but God. But God who showeth mercy. We're no different. By nature, we're no different. In Acts chapter 4 it says, Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. Right here. I was diseased. A lame on both feet. A sinner. This is the stone which was set at naught of your builders, which has become the head corner. Jesus Christ at the head cornerstone of his church. He is that rock. that shall never fade away.

Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Though sinful men hate God and His Son, They hate God's sovereign rule over all things, especially salvation, God's electing grace, God's redeeming grace, His particular redemption, His irresistible grace. God hath made the Lord Jesus Christ both Lord and King. Sinner, behold your King. Amen. Now, that's all I've got for you. And Jeanette, come up here. Since Ron was so nice to read for me downstairs and to read for me upstairs, we're going to sing his favorite hymn.

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