Let's open our Bibles again to
Psalm 2. I have had such a good time with
this psalm this week. I do have a psalm I would call
my favorite, but I thought as I went through it and pretty
much finished up my notes yesterday, I thought of what Brother Tom
Harding said one time. He said, you know what my favorite
psalm is? It's the one I'm reading. And I kind of feel that way about
this psalm this evening. I hope the Lord will bless it
to our hearts. Maybe we'll all feel that way
when we leave this evening. David, his own experience moved
him to write this psalm. He wrote it in praise and thanksgiving
because God's will, his purpose, will always be accomplished.
There's nothing man can do, nothing Satan can do, will ever be able
to derail God's purpose. I remember many years before
the writing of this psalm, Israel wanted a king. They looked around,
all the other nations had kings. They wanted to be like the heathen.
They wanted them a king. And God's eternal purpose, he
was going to give Israel a king. David was God's king. But the
people couldn't wait on God's purpose to come to pass, to ripen. So they got Saul to be their
king. And do you know why that ended in such disaster? Because
Saul was the people's He wasn't God's king. He wasn't David.
See, no matter what man does, David's going to be king. David
may not have even known it at first, but he's going to be king.
The prophet Samuel didn't know it. Jesse didn't know it. David's
brothers didn't know it, but David is going to be king because
that's God's purpose. And after Samuel anointed David,
David met with a lot of opposition. A lot of opposition. I don't
care who opposed him. David's going to be king. Saul,
with all of his power and influence and scheming and conniving, he
couldn't stop God's purpose. David's going to be king. Giant
Goliath, he couldn't kill David. David's going to be God's king.
Nabal couldn't starve him out. Abner couldn't devise a military
plan that would be successful. Absalom and Joab couldn't get
rid of him. Shimei couldn't curse him. David's gonna be God's king,
but that's God's purpose. Even David, in all of his weakness,
in all of his sin, in all of his stumblings, could not stop
God's purpose. He's gonna be king, but that's
God's purpose. And I find so much comfort in
that. That just thrills my soul. God's
will shall be done in all the lives of His people. Whatever
it is God's given you to do, I promise you this, you're gonna
be successful at it. God's will be done in the lives
of His people. And this, God's purpose for the
salvation of His people, it's an eternal purpose. God purposed
it in eternity past. Before the creation of this world,
God purposed to save a people. I don't care what happens. Those
people are going to be saved. God's will shall be done. All Israel should be saved. That's
God's purpose. And on this life, the ever-changing,
stormy, choppy seas of this life, that's an anchor I can hang on
to. God's purpose shall happen. That's a blessing in There's
a greater blessing for us to find in this psalm. The main
application of this psalm, the main blessing of this psalm is
how David writes it as a picture of Christ, the son of David,
the son of David, who's king. King of kings and he Lord of
lords. Now this is just a fact. Christ is king. The only thing
left for you and me to do is to bow to King Jesus. He's King. Look what happened to everybody
who resisted David's reign. Without exception, everybody
that resisted David's reign, what happened to them? Every
last one of them was killed. How much more foolish is it to
resist the rule of Christ the King? Way more foolish, way more,
You know, just a lost cause just to resist David, isn't it? But
people tried it. Herod tried it. He tried to stop
him from being king. He couldn't do it. Pharisees
tried it. Judas and Satan got together
and they tried it, but they all failed. They were all destroyed
because the Lord Jesus Christ is God's king. He sits upon the
throne and everybody who resists his will is going to be damned.
He's the king. So David tells us in verse 12,
kiss the sun. And that's the title of the message
this evening, kiss the sun. And I want to give us three reasons
why we ought to kiss the sun. Now, first, let me tell you what
kiss the sun means. There's several things it means.
First of all, to kiss the sun means to submit to the authority
that Christ has over us. When we kiss the Son, we acknowledge
He's got the right to save me or He's got the right to damn
me. And whichever He does is right because He's King. To kiss
the Son is to worship Him. To bow before someone and kiss
the ring, that shows reverence and worship, doesn't it? It shows
this person's a whole lot higher than I am. That's why it's so
wrong for people to kiss the ring of the Pope. How awful that
is. We're to kiss the Son. To worship
Him. To kiss the Son means to surrender.
Salvation always involves a surrender. Surrender. We've got to surrender
to Christ. How many times did Brother Henry
tell us to put up a shotgun? Surrender. When we kiss the Son,
we surrender to His rule. We surrender to his righteousness.
Paul said that's a Jew's problem. They're religious, but they refuse
to submit themselves to the righteousness of Christ. They won't surrender.
To kiss the sun shows we surrender. Unconditional surrender. Then
to kiss the sun means to swear loyalty to. Does the mob do that? They kiss the mafia, Don's ring
or whatever, they're swearing allegiance That's to kiss the
Son is to swear loyalty to Him. It's to tell Him, you're the
King. And I will be your willing servant.
Whatever it is your will is, I'll do it. Unquestionably. I swear loyalty to your cause. Then to kiss the Son is to show
love. Salvation involves love. Christ
is King. And you know, I love it that
way. I love Christ on the throne ruling and reigning according
to his good pleasure. I love that. Then to kiss the
sun is to show reconciliation. Christ our King has reconciled
us to himself by his sacrifice, by his obedience, by his righteousness,
by his calling. He's reconciled us to himself
and we kiss him in reconciliation. And then this word kiss that
David uses, it comes from the root word that means to cling
to. When we kiss the son, we're showing our unending devotion
to him. And our unending need of him
is to cling to him. That's what it is to kiss the
son. Here's the first reason we should kiss the son. His enemies
never prosper and they'll all be destroyed. Verse one. Why
do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? 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. Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. Now why
is it that the heathen reign or rage against the kingship
of Christ. Why is it that they won't kiss
the sun? Why is it that they have to fight
against the kingship of Christ? Well, it's because they're dead.
They've fallen in Adam and they've got Adam's sinful nature. This
was Adam's problem in the garden. I'm going to be God. God's not
going to be king over me. I'm going to be God. And people
today still rage about the kingship of Christ because we've got Adam's
nature. We're fallen, lost in Adam. But
what is it to rage against the kingship of Christ? Well, it's
not just rebellion that happens in open sin, although certainly
that's part of it. But I'll tell you the real way,
the main way men rage against the kingship of Christ. It's
false religion. David says here, the leaders,
the kings of the earth, the rulers, they take counsel together against
the Lord. In David's day, the kings and
the leaders, they were the religious leaders. And that's the very
people. Isn't that the very people that
tried to get Christ off the throne by crucifying him? It was the
religious leaders. They're the ones who said, we'll
not have this man reign over us. I'm not going to kiss the
son. This is the carpenter's son. I'm not going to kiss him.
I'm not going to bow and submit myself to him. Look in Acts chapter
four. Peter and John told us this is
exactly what happened to Calvary. It's the kings and the rulers,
the religious leaders who led the people to say, we'll not
have this man reign over us. They raged against the kingship
of Christ. They crucified him as king. In
Acts four, verse 25. Who by the mouth of thy servant
David hath said, why did the heathen rage? And the people
imagined vain things. The kings of the earth stood
up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against his Christ. For I have a truth against thy
holy child, Jesus. And I said, there's the Old Testament
scripture and here's the fulfillment of it. For I have a truth against
thy holy child, Jesus, to whom thou hast anointed. Both Herod
and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were
gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done." They all gathered together. They took
counsel one from another and said, this is what we're going
to do. This is how we're going to do it. This is how we're going
to take Christ off the throne. This is how we're going to make
it so he can't rule over us. We're going to put him to death.
And when they did, you know all they accomplished to do? All
they accomplished was God's eternal purpose. When Christ died, he
rose again. He ascended back on high. You
know why he ascended back on high? To receive the throne of
the Lord. The father told him, you sit
here on the throne at my right hand till I make your enemies
your footstool. The enemies of Christ accomplished
God's eternal purpose for Christ to sit upon the throne. And one
day they will be judged and destroyed by the very king they crucified.
They are the ones that killed him to put him upon the throne.
Men made so many plans against the Lord Jesus. Here they are,
they're concocting all these plans, you know, they're weaving
all their spider webs. And God just laughed. God just
laughed because God's purpose will be done. God laughed at
the absurdity of man trying to stop the will and purpose of
Almighty God. It's just, that's just laughable.
There are a lot of examples, I'll give you two. One from the
Old Testament, one from the New Testament. Pharaoh heard God's
gonna raise up a deliverer from those Israelites. Pharaoh took
counsel together with himself, said, tell you what I'm gonna
do, I'm gonna solve this problem. Go out there and kill all the
boy babies. God just laughed. God just laughed. God arranged
it so Pharaoh's daughter would find the deliverer in a little
basket. And she took that baby home and
Pharaoh himself raised Moses the deliverer. All the while,
thinking I've killed all these boy babies, it was Pharaoh that
fed, clothed, and educated the deliverer. And then when Pharaoh
thought he finally had Israel, many, many years later, thought
he had him right where he wanted him, trapped at the Red Sea,
that's where God destroyed him. Moses, the deliverer, strolled
out into the wilderness, leading the children of Israel away from
Egypt. Pharaoh thought, I'm going to kill that deliverer, and God
laughed. In a New Testament example, Satan at Calvary. He thought
he'd finally done it, didn't he? He thought he'd finally done
it. He moved men to destroy Jesus. He thought he'd finally done
it, and God laughed. Right when Satan thought he'd
won the war, King Christ crushed his head by removing all the
sin of his people. By the blood of his sacrifice,
Christ set his people free from sin, from death, from hell, and
he was saved. He crushed his head. All people
make plans against him in God's eyes. And with all this history,
men are dead. I just showed you how dead men
are. They're still trying to do the same thing today. False
religion, that's exactly what they're trying to do. They're
trying to take Christ off the throne. They say, let's break
God's bands off of us. That God's bands are his restraints,
his control, the way he rules and reigns, he controls this
world. They say, let's remove God's control from us. The gospel
says, if we're going to be saved, God's got to choose us. They
say, well, let's break those bands off of us. We don't need
God to choose us. If we're going to be saved, we
can choose God our own selves. We say we've got the power to
choose God if we want to or not. And God laughs. So that's laughable. Man doesn't have the right to
choose God. Man doesn't have the ability to choose God. They
want to break his bands off of them. God laughs. False religion, they say, I don't
need Christ to do everything for me. I don't want to break
that vein. I don't want to break that restraint off of me. I don't
need Christ to do everything for me. They say we just need
Christ to finish what I can't do. You know, I've still got
some things I can contribute here and Christ can finish up,
you know, the job. And God just laughs. In false
religion, they say you can decide whether or not you want to accept
or reject Jesus. You can decide, they say. And
you know what? They can. They're little Jesus,
little J. They're idol. They can decide
if they want to accept or reject him. That's not the way it is
with King Jesus. No, he's the king. They say,
you can accept him or reject him. It's up to you. Whenever
you decide. And God laughs. They all say,
oh no, we want Jesus to be our savior, but he's not going to
be our king. You know, we're going to decide. The only way
he's going to be king is if we allow him to be king. And God
laughs. You know, they think they've
got Jesus right where they want him. They got him right here
in their hip pockets, you know. And one day, you know what they're
going to find out? They're going to find out that he has been
on the throne forever. And they're going to be destroyed
at the judgment seat of Christ. The judgment seat of Christ is
the throne upon which Christ sits. That's the throne they're
going to be called before. And they're going to be destroyed
by Him. He's been on the throne all this time. Now that's so. But you know, hearing about the
sovereign power and the sovereign, inescapable justice of Christ
will never make men bow to Him and kiss the sun. That's how
hard and dead our natural heart is. Hearing of his justice will
not make us bow down to him. It should, but it won't. All
right, here's the second reason we should kiss the sun. He's
holy. He deserves to be kissed. He
deserves to be worshiped. Verse six, yet despite all this
plans and goings on of men, yet have I set my king upon my holy
hills, The false prophets are all the time begging you, won't
you let Jesus be king of your life? God hears that and he laughs. The father's already made Christ
king. He's already sitting upon the throne. The father put him
there. And that throne is the throne
of holiness. And Christ can sit on that throne
because he's holy. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only holy man. only holy person to ever exist. Now that makes him worthy of
our worship. I don't even have any way to
describe what a holy man looks like. I mean, the only way we've
ever seen him is with the eye of faith. This man is holy. We ought to kiss the sun because
he's the holy king. Everything about him is holy.
Everything about him is beautiful. Everything about him deserves
to be worshipped, deserves to be kissed. Now, God is God. This is a point I wish people
could understand. God is God. God's worthy to be
worshipped. He's worthy to be kissed just
because of who he is. He's God. And we try to talk about who
God is. Very early in the conversation, we must start with this. God's
holy. He is holy. His holiness, His
purity is in a light that no man can approach unto. God's
holiness is reason to bow to Him and worship Him, to kiss
the sun. Look over in Psalm 99, I'll show you that. The holiness of King Jesus is
a good reason to bow, kiss the sun, and worship him. Psalm 99,
verse 1. The Lord reigneth. Christ is
sitting upon the throne and he reigns. Let the people tremble. He sitteth between the cherubims.
Let the earth be moved. The Lord is great in Zion. He's
high above all people. Let them praise thy great and
terrible name, for it is holy. That's the reason to praise his
great name, for he's holy. Look, hold your finger there,
look over a page of Psalm 103, verse one. Bless the Lord, O
my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. That's reason to bless, to kiss
the son, because his name is holy. Verse four, back in Psalm
99. The king's strength also loveth
judgment. Thou dost establish equity. Thou
executes judgment and righteousness in Jacob. Worship God because
everything he does is holy and right. He executes judgment.
He executes righteousness. He's holy, so everything he does
is holy. In verse five, exalt ye the Lord our God and worship
at his footstool. Come kiss the son. Worship at
his footstool. Kiss his feet for he is holy. Oh, bow and worship because he's
holy. That's reason to kiss the sinner.
Christ the King. He's the King, the Holy King
that I must answer to. He's holy and he demands absolute
holiness that I cannot produce. Now that ought to immediately
make me bow and kiss the sinner. and beg for the forgiveness of
my sin, how I need his forgiveness. But I'll never do it. Never will
I do that unless God gives me a new heart. We've got to have
a new heart. If God's going to save me, he's
going to have to save me in a way that's holy because he's holy
and everything he does is holy. Salvation that does not violate
God's holiness, but rather magnifies his holiness exalts the wisdom
of God. God found a way to be just, to
be holy, and still justify the sinner. That way is in the Lord
Jesus Christ. God saves sinners through his
Son and is still holy. That's good reason to kiss the
Son, isn't it? And that brings me to the third point. Kiss the
Son. Because he's the savior of sinners.
Verse 7 back in our text. I will declare the decree. The
Lord has said unto me, Thou art my son. This day have I begotten
thee. Ask of me, and I should give
thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. Now God's throne. Christ is King. He sits upon a throne. His throne
is a throne of sovereignty. His enemies are going to find
that out soon enough. Christ is King. He sits upon a throne.
And that throne is a throne of holy justice. His enemies are
going to find that out soon enough. Thank God his throne is also
a throne of grace. When he talks about here the
decree, he's talking about the covenant of grace in Christ. His throne is a covenant of grace. The decree is God's eternal covenant,
that covenant of grace that the Father and the Son are entered
into. And that covenant God promised, the Father promised a people
to His Son. God's decree is that He'll save
a people through the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In that covenant of grace, the Father chose a people. He elected
a people. He chose those people to save
them. And He promised those people to His Son. And His Son promised,
I'll save them. I'll provide the righteousness
that they need. I'll make them holy. I'll put
their sin away. The Father says, this day, I
begotten thee. You know why? He's begotten to
be the savior of sinners. That's why Christ came to this
earth. He came to this earth, the seed of woman, born of a
woman, so that he could save sinners. That's why he came. Did he get the job done? Did
he do it? I'm a sinner. I'd like to know. Did he get the job done? Could
he save a sinner like me? David says he got the job done. I can show you how he says that
right in this verse. The father says, now you ask me, ask me. I'll give you the heathen for
your inheritance. And when the father says, ask
me, ask me to give you these people. He's not telling his
son, ask me for a favor. The father says to the son, ask
me to give you what I promised you in the covenant of grace.
I promised to give you a people, a people who are saved and redeemed
and justified. Now you ask me, ask me to give
them to you, to be with you forever, and I'll give you everything
I promised in the covenant of grace. See, that's no favor,
is it? Christ the Son asked the Father,
give me what you promised. More than that, the Father says,
ask of me, and I'll give you everything you purchased. I'll
give you every one you purchased with your blood at Calvary Street. Lord Jesus Christ went to the
cross, not unwillingly. Nobody drove him there. Nobody
made him go. He didn't go because he couldn't avoid it. He didn't
go because he wanted people to feel sorry for him. No, he went
there on a business trip. He went there to accomplish the
salvation of all of his people. He went there by the sacrifice
of himself, by the shedding of his blood, by the breaking, the
crushing of his body. He went there to redeem his people
from their sin. Brother, he did it. His saving
power reaches to the uttermost parts of the earth. He's going
to have a people from the uttermost parts of the earth, from every
nation, from every corner from a nook and cranny of this planet,
his saving power reached even there. He's going to have a people
from everywhere. There's so much power in the
blood of Christ that everyone he died for, from all those far
flung places, from different eras and times and generations
and nations and tongues and languages, they're all saved because of
the one sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His blood blotted
out their sins. His obedience imputed to them
makes them righteous. Those sinners, I hate to say
they're so saved, but false religion makes salvation sounds like there's
levels of it. I guess a better way to say it
is this. Christ saved them perfectly. He saved them perfectly. Made them holy. He imputed His
holiness to them. He imputed His obedience to the
law to them. and they're legally holy. They're
without any sin before God. And Christ also imparted His
holiness to them. He imparted a holy nature to
them in the new birth when He caused them to be born again.
He made them to be partakers of the divine nature. Oh, now I see. Kiss the seed. Kiss the Son. Only the Lord Jesus Christ. would
do something so wonderful for such a sinful, rebellious people. Look over at John 17. The father
says, ask me, ask me to give you the people I promised you.
Ask me to give you the people that you purchased with your
blood. So that's exactly what the son did. John 17 verse 24. He says, Father, I will. Now,
the father said, ask of me, and the son says, Father, I will.
Remember I told you, this is not the way I'd ask you for something. Remember I told you that when
the son asked the father for what the father promised him,
what he purchased with his blood, he's not asking for a favor.
The way he phrases this makes it clear, he's not asking for
a favor, is he? Father, I will. That they also
whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory, which thou hast given me. For thou lovest me
before the foundation of the world. The son said, Father,
I will have all those you gave me. I will have all those I purchased
with my blood. And he will. I don't care how
much the heathen rage. I don't care how much Satan tempts
and tries. I don't care how many dangers,
toils and snares they go through. I don't care how many times They
go through times of sickness and sorrow and weakness to where
they can't lift their head. They feel like they can't even
lift up a groan in prayer to God. They feel so far from Him.
They feel so far beat down. I don't care how many times they
stumble and fall and embarrass themselves. Christ the King will
have all of His people. Everyone He died for, He's going
to have them all. He's going to have them in glory with Him
forever where they will forever. Behold the Son in His glory. Oh, kiss the Son. Kiss the Son. You see, knowing God's inescapable
justice, knowing His destroying wrath, that'll never make the
natural man kiss the Son. Knowing God's holy requirements
won't make us kiss the Son. But the revelation of God's grace
to sinners will always make us kiss the Son. Remember, I told
you to kiss the sun means to submit to the authority of Christ
over you. Sovereign grace will always make
a sinner submit lovingly and willingly. The king showed that
grace to me. Well, I submit, don't you? To kiss the sun means to worship. We only truly worship when we
know we can't influence the person. That's the key. We can't influence.
There's nothing we can do about this. It's all up to Him. Sovereign
grace will make a sinner worship. The key, He's holy. He's high
and lifted up. He's so much higher than me.
Yet, He's gracious to me. Oh, I bow in worship to Him.
To kiss the sun means to surrender. I tell you, nothing will make
a sinner surrender faster than grace. It's not breaking my knuckles
so I have to. No, I willingly lay that shotgun
down and willingly surrender to Him because of His grace to
me. To kiss the Son means to swear
loyalty to Him. I tell you, you'll not find a
more loyal servant than one to whom the Master has been so gracious.
How can I not be loyal to the King? He's been so gracious to
me. Oh, I must be loyal to Him. To kiss the sun is to show love.
Only sovereign grace can accomplish that. Christ is the king. And I love him. I love the king. He's been so gracious to an unworthy
rebel like me. I love him. To kiss the sun is
to show reconciliation. The Lord Jesus Christ, our king,
in unspeakable grace, has reconciled his people to God. and then to kiss. That word comes
from the root word that means to cling to. To kiss the Son
is to show unending need of His grace. I need Him everywhere. You're looking at Luke chapter
7. Let me show you an example of this. Luke chapter 7. I think this ties this all together
just wonderfully. I love this example. Luke 7,
verse 36. One of the Pharisees desired
him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's
house and sat down to meet. And behold, a woman in the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meet at
the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster box of ointment
and stood at his feet behind him, weeping and began to wash
his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head
and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment. Now, I try
to imagine myself there, there at the house. And you know how
they ate at that time is that the table was kind of low, you
know, and they kind of leaned on one elbow and they reclined
and stuck their feet back out there behind them. I just imagined
myself laying there, you know, eating and all these people around.
Pharisee's house, probably a fancy place. And there I am eating.
And this woman comes in and starts to kiss my feet. I'd be jumping
out of the way. That ain't right. That I would
be so uncomfortable. Wouldn't you be? I mean, besides
by the fact my feet are so ticklish. I can't even wash them in the
shower, you know. Somebody coming up and grabbing my feet and kissing
them. That's not right. I'd just be so uncomfortable
with that. The Lord was just fine with it.
He just kept on eating. He didn't jump out of the way.
He didn't act like anything was out of the ordinary. This is
a sinful woman. It's right. It's right she'd
come and kiss his feet. It's just right. He didn't act
like it was out of the ordinary. I know he just kept right on
eating because look at the Pharisee's response here. Verse 39. Now, when the Pharisee which
had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, if this
man were a prophet, he'd known who or what manner of woman this
is that touches him, for she's a sinner. He thought he should
jump out of the way. He thought he shouldn't let her
be kissing on his feet. Now, you know what happened in
these next verses. The Lord dealt with him, that
self-righteousness, but then he turns to this poor woman who
came and kissed the son. Verse 44. And he turned to the
woman and said, unto Simon, seest thou this woman? I entered into
thy house. Thou gavest me no water for my
feet, but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them
with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss. He refused
to come kiss the sun. But this woman, since the time
I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil,
thou didst not anoint, but this woman hath anointed my feet with
ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many,
are forgiven. For she loved much, but to whom
little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto
her, thy sins are forgiven. And he says that very same thing
to everyone who comes and kisses the sun. Thy sins, which are
many, are forgiven. Kiss the sun. Kiss the sun. Now
look back in our In conclusion, David the preacher speaks, verse
9. 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 when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in Him. That Christ the King will destroy
every enemy. Make no mistake about it now.
He will destroy every enemy. And it's not going to be hard
for Him to do. It's like breaking a piece of
pottery with a wrought iron. You just smash it to smithereens,
you know. It's very easy to do. All it's
going to take for Christ to destroy His enemies is just to flare
out His nostrils in anger The phrase here, when his wrath is
kindled but a little, means just that first flash of anger that
comes across his face, his nostrils flare a little bit, just that
little puff of air that comes out of his nostrils. When his
nostrils flare, it's all it's gonna take to destroy his enemies.
That's how easy this is gonna happen. So the preacher says,
be wise. Be wise. Ask God to give you
wisdom. So you serve Him with fear and
trembling. We who believe, you know what
this is to kiss the Son. We kiss the Son. And there's
a closeness there. If you're going to kiss somebody,
you've got to be close to them. There's a closeness there. But it's not
an over-familiarity. It's still done in fear and trembling,
isn't it? Our worship, our kisses are always
in reverence and worship because we worship Christ the King. Our Savior is the King, so we
always come before Him in fear, in reverence, worshiping Him.
So come worship, be wise, kiss the Son with a thankful heart. His kingdom shall come. He taught us to pray, thy kingdom
come. His kingdom shall come. His kingdom
shall never fail. And all His people, everyone
He's brought to His feet to kiss the Son, all of them are eternally
saved. They're safe in his sovereign,
gracious reign. He reigns and rules to ensure
the eternal life of his people. Kiss the seed. Kiss the seed.
Let's bow in prayer. Our Father, how we thank you
for this your word. How we thank you for revealing
Christ the King. Father, I pray that you would
reveal him by your spirit to the hearts of each one here this
evening, that we would see Christ, that you enable us to see who
we are in the light of who He is, that you give us the wisdom
to come before Him in fear and trembling and worship Him, to
kiss His feet, to submit to Him, to surrender to Him, to surrender
all to Him, to hear Him say, Thy sins, which are many, are
forgiven. how we thank you for the forgiveness
of sin our Lord Jesus Christ. Bless this message father I pray
for his glory and for the good of his people. In his precious
name we pray and give thanks.