Just me. That's why I'd rather just
called me a couple weeks ago. I was like, hey, I'll do it now
dismiss for you. I don't know if that was for
your benefit or for his. He was like, I can't deal with
you up there all day, but first, Samuel chapter 30, we're not
going to, we're not going to. This is not the text but I want
to start here. Before I get started to just an
addition to the announcements, these are the faith promise that
brother Josh was talking about. We're not handing them out yet
because I know what'll happen to they'll end up lost and will you
end up having to get another one?
Anyways, so these you will get one of these.
And what it is is its Pastor will go through faith, promise
if you're not familiar with it, but this is the part that you'll
tear off. But we're not, those are not due
till the end of March. Okay.
So, faith Thomas will start April 1st.
So we have time, but be praying about that.
What God wants you to give and then it'll just be a matter of
writing that number down and turn it in.
All right? First Samuel, chapter 30.
I'm keeping track of time because I have a tendency to go
long and I'm not doing that this morning.
I'm promising you a myself that I'm not going to go along and
I'll just cut it off if I start getting along.
All right. But first remember the same and
13:6 if you know this passage You know that this is David
King, David? And the story of ziklag, anybody
know, what happened at ziklag? It was when David's Mighty Men
or David's, David's soldiers, not just his mighty member, all
of his army, was out there, fighting with him, not with him,
but with him not fighting with him, but on his side and they
came back to ziklag look at first.
Salmon 30:1 came to pass when David and his men were come to
ziklag on the third day that the amalekites had invaded, the
South and ziklag and Smitten ziklag and burned it with fire
ziklag was David's home and all of his when they went to war,
they had left all their wives children belongings that was
their homes. And when they came back from
fighting, this is what they found.
They had smitten ziklag and burned it with fire and had
taken the women captives that were there in.
They slew not any so they can kill anybody either.
Great or small but carried them away and went on their way.
So David and his men came to the city and behold.
It was burned with fire. And their wives and their sons
and their daughters were taken captive.
Could you imagine what that would be?
We don't live like this anymore, but this was normal that they
would pillage a city and take everything and and all the
people that they took would be captives and they would assume
them into their, their Community, or their tribe, or
whatever it was. But David remember, David's got
a whole group of Mighty Men. These guys aren't going to let
it happen, right? So, look at verse 5.
Or yeah, verse verse 4 then David and the people that were
with him, lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more
power to weep and David's two, wives were taking captives, a
henna ham, a hint, O M, and J and the jezreelite this and
Abigail the wife of nabal. The Carmelite and David was
greatly distressed for the people speak of stoning him
because the soul of all the people was grieved.
Every man for his sons and for his daughters, but David
encouraged himself. In the Lord his God, that's what
I want to look at that little tiny piece of that verse to
start off because I think we especially especially in our
world today, we get discouraged. I mean, on top of everything
we're doing with, with sickness and all the rest of that and I
don't want to call them out, but I just saw Mike and Joann leave,
I know she's not feeling good at all.
She's had some test results and I think that's why they had to
leave. She's just not feeling up to it,
but we get Scourged over, things like that.
We have, we have others going through tough times.
You may be going through some things that nobody knows about,
maybe it's with your family, or even with some adult children
that are out of the house in your heart is breaking for them.
Could be a job situation. We stuff people don't know
about. And my point here is we can
listen to because I've done it. I've gotten on and listen to
some motivational speeches and things like that and they're
great, it'll get you through for a little while.
I'll, but that goes away. That feeling of I'm just going
to do it that goes away. And we need to encourage
ourselves in the Lord, the people David's men isn't just
the people David's, men speak of stoning him, but David
encouraged himself in the Lord. His God.
So now turn to Psalm chapter 2. And that's what I want to talk
about this morning, this Psalm is an encouragement to us.
It's not a motivational speech. That's not what preaching is.
And that's not what the Bible is, but it we can encourage
ourselves in the Lord. Our God, I'm going to read all
of chapter 2 and then we'll pray and then we'll get into the
message. Alright.
So I'm chapter 2 is probably very familiar.
You probably recognize this at least parts of it.
But Psalm chapter 2 verse 1, says, why do the Heathen rage
and the people imagine a vain thing and that sounds like a
really good verse, right? But what does it mean to talk
about? That and just a few minutes, 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 in verse 4, 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 And this is God speaking yet.
Have I set my king upon my Holy Hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree This is now his King speaking.
I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, thou
art my son. And that's a 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 that possessions 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 you perish from the way when his
wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all.
They that put their trust in him.
This is a this is a Psalm of encouragement and it's a Psalm
of What should be fear to to the wicked?
But let's break and then we'll get right into the message.
Father, thank you for this day that you've given us got a thank
you. As we've been singing and
talking about this morning, we serve such a mighty God and I
pray that we never forget that God when we get into different
circumstances in our lives, things that pop up unexpectedly.
God, I pray that we would remember that we serve a mighty
God and it and as we'll see here in For two of Psalms blessed.
Are those that put their trust in you pray, that would remember
that pray that this message this morning would be a one of
encouragement but also one of us being more committed to you
because you're such a mighty and powerful and loving God to those
that put their trust in you pray that you would just be with my
words. God calm my nerves and that what
you want for your The here, this morning would be said, and that
you would work in hearts. In Jesus name, I pray.
Amen. So I'm told, I don't know,
Hebrew, I can't, if I looked at Hebrew, it looks like a kid
scribbled on a page. It actually looks pretty nice.
Believe it or not, and I don't know if you know this, but
Hebrew. So I actually looked it up
because I was reading on this and it says that this is a
really, really symmetrical song. So there's 12 verses, there's
four stanzas, it's almost like a poem or a him.
Obviously the Psalms were songs that the Israelites sang.
And so they say that this is a really symmetrical song and
there's four verses of three verses each.
So, I looked it up because symmetrical to me means, you
know, each line is kind of the first line shortly next.
One's long, the next one short on the first three verses.
And then the next one will be the exactly the same.
And if you look it up in the Hebrew, it actually is really
close to that. It's very symmetrical.
And when I first opened It up, I had forgotten that you read
Hebrew from right to left, and so when I looked at it, I was
like, what is that? It's upside down.
But anyway, they say that this song is very symmetrical, four,
stanzas of three lines each and it's, you can see it break at
the 33. Verse Mark, you can see it
change topics so to speak or change moods.
All right? So we're going to get into this.
But how does this song relate to us?
We often hear that the Old Testament is for is not for us,
right? We don't have to obey all those
rules and everything in the Old Testament.
But it's important to remember that the same God, that David
was singing about here or writing about is the same God,
we serve, right? And that we know that, but I
don't think all the time that transfers from our head into our
heart and into our actions. I think.
Yeah, we serve the same God, but he can't do that.
I got to worry about it. I need to be anxious about this
because God certainly can't fix that.
We wouldn't say that but that's the way we act, right?
So why do the Heathen rage will get right into it?
Verse 1? Why do the Heathen rage?
I think this is a rhetorical question.
Who, why do they raise him? And let me, I gotta follow my
notes because it's so easy. This is a really to me than
exciting chapter and I don't want to get ahead of myself and
then I have to backtrack, but the Heathen raging what does
that look like? You can go on YouTube or
anything else and find clips of anchors of mainstream TV
stations and things like that cursing, God?
I'm the are they hate him? They rage at him.
I wrote a few things down. Why do they ban prayer in
schools? What is prayer to them if they
don't believe in it? Why would they worry about it?
Why do they ban that? Why do they?
Why did they take the Ten Commandments out of the
courthouse is, why do they try to ban manger scenes from town
squares? Why?
When we saw Roe versus Wade, get overturned, why do they rage in
the streets and Riot and literally carrying signs that
say kill more babies? What is that?
That's the heating raging. They don't know what else to do.
So to show their hatred for God they'll actually Curse God
himself. If they knew who it was, they
were cursing if they had read Psalm.
To which they have and I'm sure. But if they had read Psalm
chapter 2, they would be afraid. Look at, look at versa.
Let's see. It's gone.
Where'd it go verse 12, kiss? The son, lest he be angry and
you perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little he
even gets a little bit angry. You're going to be gone and that
you curse God, the Heathen rage, but the verse 1, I think is a
rhetorical question saying, why do the Heathen rage?
What is the point? They think they can actually
beat God. They've never seen him just like
we haven't. So why do they rage against him?
And and the people imagine a vain thing?
I think the vain thing he's talking about is the fact that
they might actually be able to be God, so they rage for what
purpose, but they imagine that they might still be able to beat
God. And it's important to remember.
This is why I'm following my notes.
It's very important to remember because I've been on the
doorstep of people when we're knocking on doors and and it
feels feels like they're attacking us when they say not
interested. Bang, shut the door and you just
like How do you know what I'm about to say?
They know what we're doing and they're not, this is the
important thing. They are not mad at us, they're
not raging against us, they can't see God, he's not a
physical. He's he is a spirit and they
that worship Him must worship Him in spirit, and in truth,
they're not mad at us, but they don't know how else to take
their anger and their rage out on God.
So they take it out. On God.
And I mean, I'm his Representatives here on the
surface and that, and that's us. So, why do they?
Why do they vandalize churches? Why do why do these things
happen? They're not mad at us.
They're mad at God and that's important to remember because a
couple weeks ago, pastor, preached that message on
compassion. It's very hard to have
compassion when you're just as mad at them as they are you
right? Remember they're raging at God.
So verses 1 through 3, this is the first stands of this song.
Is sinful man is at war with God.
It's a, it's a plain truth. Sinful man is At War With God.
All men are until they are until they come to Christ.
They are at war with God. And it's also important to
remember here, that the reason that when the church stands up
for truth, the world is mad at them, the world.
The world cannot Just let their, their agenda and the church
coexist, they can't do it. Bible says, you cannot serve two
masters, right? You're either hate the one and
love the other. You'll love the one and hate the
other. You can't serve both.
So even though sometimes we seem to get along with the world as
soon as we stand for truth, they hate it.
Because they are, raging at God. Sinful man is at war with God.
And there comes a point and we'll see this later in the book
or in the chapter, there comes a point.
When? Man will either bow to God.
Or fight him for all they're worth.
And that is the facts of the matter.
They will either route. Oh god, well, they'll fight them
for all they're worth and I can't believe that some of these
that are cursing. God on live television or
whatever else have never heard the gospel.
Maybe they have it but there's a reason they're so mad about it.
It's because they hate what they've heard.
And I might be getting ahead of myself but I have this somewhere
in here but why do actually it's right there.
John 3:19. This is the condemnation that
light is come into the world and Men loved Darkness rather than
light because their deeds are evil or evil, they can't help
but rage against God. It's in there.
It's in our DNA, right? We talk about this all the time
and people hate to hear it. That we are born.
Sinners, no, no. Little children are not born.
Sinners. Yes they are.
It's in our DNA. I'm not saying that little
children are born murderers, even though it's in their DNA to
be that, but it is in our DNA, it is in our very nature to hate
God. So they imagine a vain thing,
it's a useless cause they actually believe that they can
win against God. And speaking of compassion, It
actually makes me sad or compassionate or feel sorry for
those that are doing this because Bible says that we will
bow before God. If that means if it means we
will that doesn't mean all are going to come to Christ.
It's just a matter of time. It means you will either bow
before the king because he's broken, both your legs and you
have no choice or you will willingly bow before the king.
It's a vain thing for them to think that they have a choice
but to Bow before God they do here on this Earth but at the
time will come. When they will bow before God.
Now this is important also Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1
through 3 and you're more than welcome to Turn to any of these
I wrote them down because of the time for me to get to them.
I don't want to take that waste that time but I wrote them all
down Ephesians chapter 2, verses 1 through 3 though says and you
hath he quickened, what does the word quick and mean Made Alive
you hath. He made alive who were dead in
trespasses and sins wherein in time past, ye walked.
According to the course of this world, you walked according to
the course of this world. What does that mean you raged
against God to you walked? According to the course of this
world according to the prince of the power of the air who is that
Satan the devil you walked, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
of Disobedience among whom. Also, we all All had our
conversation. That word means lifestyle,
right? We all have that lifestyle in
times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of
the Flesh, and of the mind, and we're by Nature the children of
Wrath, even as others that was us.
Because it's in our DNA and Revelation chapter 16, verse 13
through 16, I'm going to skip through here because there's a
part that I want to hear for they are Well, and I saw three
unclean spirits, like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon
and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of
the false prophet for. They are the spirits of Devil's
working miracles, which go forth unto, the kings of the earth,
and of the whole world, to gather them, to battle of that
to the Battle of that. Great day of God almighty.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the
Hebrew tongue. Armageddon, they gather all
these demons came out and gathered all the nations against
God, the Heathen rage. And the imagine a vain thing,
they think that if we can get enough people together enough
people against God, we might be able to beat him.
That's the vein thing that they are Imagine imagining and then
Acts chapter 4 verse 26 says the kings of the earth stood up.
And the rulers were gathered to gather 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 for to do
whatsoever, thy hand and thy counsel.
Determined before to be done, which is interesting that verse
got already had that he knew it was going to happen.
They gathered to do. God's will is what that say,
even though they weren't, they didn't know that they were
trying to crush him, the kings of the Earth.
You're stood up and gathered together against the Lord and
against his Christ, sinful man is at war with God, and there's
no way around that. 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.
We don't have to follow Bible truth.
We're going to break their bands that they have around us these,
these principles and these laws that govern mankind.
We're going to break. Break the break them away
because if we can do away with God, then then we've beat him.
All right. The second thing is the response
of a holy all-powerful. God in Verses 4 through 6.
He's not threatened by sinful man.
And we see that here in verse 4, he that sitteth in the heavens,
shall laugh? The Lord shall have them in
derision, they then, shall he speak unto them in his wrath and
Vex them in his sore displeasure Yet, have I set my king upon my
Holy Hill of Zion. What does that say?
In verse 4, it's pretty, pretty self-explanatory, but I want you
to think about, if somebody if somebody challenges me and
they're the same size as me and I've never met them before and
they look like they're in pretty good shape and they say, hey, I
want to go outside and have a, I already set up a boxing ring and
we're going to box. I might go as a nervous.
Laugh, right? I don't know this guy and he
might be a lot better than me. That's not what this is.
This isn't a This, laughs, this isn't embarrassed laugh.
This is, this is, this is a laugh.
When Charlie comes to me and says, I want to fight you, and
he's dead serious, right? If you don't know, Charlie, he's
Josh's. Little boy.
I'm gonna fight you because he does that to me.
Let's fight. That's me.
Go Charlie. If he's serious, if he's not
serious, I go. No, no, no, I don't have time
right now. But if he's serious, that's the
laughs God gives here what the entire armies of the entire
world are gathered together against God and he that sitteth
in the heavens shall laughs. The Lord shall have them in
derision to the world. This should be, it should be a
terrifying laughs to them. this is, this is like I what I like
to imagine. It's almost like God is sitting
there writing, you know, or whatever.
Like a person would do and there's this huge Army
Gathering. And finally, somebody says, hey,
you know, there's an army outside and I go and keep on
going, that's almost what this is.
It's just he's not mocking them, but he's completely unworried.
Right. Why is he so unworried?
He that sitteth in the heavens, shall laugh?
The Lord shall have them in derision this, this Rebellion.
In is, is it's a futile effort? And because I was thinking about
this because I was studying this, when the, when the
Superbowl happened is that last week, last week, I think anyway
and I was thinking, you know, it's almost like watching
somebody root for their favorite team when the game already
happened but they have, they haven't seen it yet.
Maybe it's a rerun or a, what do you call it?
A, DVR or whatever. And they haven't seen the game
yet, but I already know the outcome and they're cheering.
Yeah. Yes.
And I know that team loses, right?
That's kind of what this is because God knows the outcome.
In fact, we know the outcome. We're already told what's going
to happen. God wins and still they rage
against God, it's a vain thing and the he that sitteth in the
Heavenly laughs. Because if you would just listen
to what the guys at Mount Victory, Baptist Church or
trying to tell you, you would know it's a futile effort,
you've got to go, you've you're going to buy before the king and
he, laughs And the Lord shall have them in derision, then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath and Vex them in his sore
displeasure? So it's kind of a he laughs, but
then he vexes them in his sore displeasure.
I could not imagine having the King of Kings the god of Heaven
sorely displeased with me. The, the Wrath that would come
from that and we see that in the next few verses.
But, look at verse 6. And I'm kind of sort of getting
my ahead of myself but he can't really you can't really help it
because that is his answer he laughs at them and then God
speaks yet. Have I set my king upon my Holy
Hill of Zion that is his response to the armies Gathering
against him. I've set my king on the hill, on
the Holy Hill of Zion, what does that mean?
Imagine Gathering to war and you think.
Yeah. They're going to come to with
30,000, but we have 40,000, we've got an advantage and they
come with all the arm. News of the world and you got to
remember, it doesn't matter if they're allies or not, they're
all agreed on one thing. We hate God and this is not
necessarily spiritual armies, this is physical armies.
Raging against the god of Heaven.
They come and they are going. I will read a few verses about
that too, but they come and and they gather together against
God. And that's his answer.
I've set my king upon my Holy Hill of Zion What does that
mean? Then to the world?
Look at Philippians chapter 2 verses 9 9 through 11 it says
wherefore God hath also highly exalted him and given him a name
which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee,
should bow of things in heaven and things in Earth and things
under the Earth. And that every tongue should
confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the
Father, it doesn't matter. How loudly or how consistently
the church. Or we as individuals when we're
at work, when we're out and about Josh mentioned that this
morning, it doesn't matter how loudly we Proclaim it sinful
man, still rages against God because they really truly
believe they can win this war. And God tells them that fine.
We'll have a battle and you're going to fight one person.
My king, that's it. You're just going to fight him.
I have set my king upon my Holy Hill of Zion.
And verse 7 is is interesting. So this is the third stanza,
right? And so God answers them with a
laugh. And then sorely displeased at
them. And then he says this is what
I'm going to do is how I'm going to fight you my king on Zion.
Before we get to verse 7 though, how does he fight them?
How does God fight them? How does Jesus fight them
Colossians 2:13 and you being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh. Flesh hath, he quickened
together with him having forgiven all your trespasses
plotting out, the handwriting of ordinances, that was against us,
which was contrary to us and took it out of the way.
This is how he wins nailing it to his cross verse 15, and
having spoiled principalities and Powers.
He made. Show of them, openly triumphing
over them in it. What is it?
His death on the cross? That's how he beats.
The nation's, the armies of all the nations of the world with
his death on the cross. Now, it makes sense when he says
the preaching of the Cross is foolishness to them that perish.
It is foolish. You're going to beat me by
dying. That's how you're going to win.
That's what he's saying them. I've set my king upon my Holy
Hill of Zion and that's how I defeat the nation's.
And we'll get to that in a minute.
How does he defeat them though then just by dying?
But first Corinthians 1:18 for the preaching of the Cross, is
to them, that perish foolishness, but unto us, which
are saved. It is the power of God, it is
power, right? He defeats them with power, the
power of the death on the cross. It's it's, it makes no sense to
the world, it is foolishness to them.
That's why they rage thinking they can win, when it's not.
And I have these verses somewhere, hopefully they're
really close, but There we don't fight with carnal weapons,
right? The weapons of our Warfare are
not carnal, we don't come back at them.
Oh yeah. You got that.
I'm going to argue with you about this.
Then I got a better argument than you.
I've been practicing in Bible College.
That's not how we fight. Even though the Bible tells us
to have an answer, we fight with the gospel of the death of
Christ on the cross, and that's how we fight, because that's how
he fought, he's going to destroy the nation's with the death of
his son. Is 120.
Where is the wise? Where is the Scribe?
Where is the disputer of this world?
Hath. Not God.
Made foolish. The wisdom of this world.
And I'm going to start clipping along here.
The irony of all, this is mankind is going to the war to
war with. The only one who is with the
one, who is their only hope of salvation.
Is that my ironic they are fighting with everything they
have to destroy him when he's the only hope they have.
That's why it says they are imagining a vain thing.
This is ridiculous. Why are you doing this?
The one you need to rescue you. You're trying to destroy verses
seven through nine. Nine, this is, I'll just speak
on this short, very, very briefly because we've already
kind of talked about the outcome of this battle was never in
doubt, look at verse 9, Thou shalt break them with a rod of
iron, Thou shalt Dash them with in pieces.
And I didn't even hardly get to this but this is very, very
clearly a Psalm about It's not David because there's so many
other verses and if I come across them all, I'll read them.
But verse 7 I will declare the decree.
So he says I'm going to set my king upon the Holy Hill.
But then verse 7, Thou Art my son this day.
I have I begotten thee. Who is that?
That's Jesus. That's the king he setting on
this hill of Zion, but verse A task of me and I shall give Thee
the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost
parts of the Earth for thy possession.
This is, this is what it's going to end up looking like Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron.
Thou shalt Dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel you ever
broke a coffee cup, you drop it. On a tile floor it doesn't stand
a chance it shatters and pieces. That's what that's what God
Jesus is going to do to this Army that rages against him
through the death on his, his death on.
Across other break them in pieces, like a Potter's vessel.
Now, I'm coming. This thing's moving all over the
place on me. So the last thing is the last
point. The last stanza verses 10
through 12. What is the Hope then of the
world? What is there?
Hope? Repentance.
That's the only hope that they have without it.
They will be dashed in pieces like a Potter's vessel because
then in verse 10, he says this. So after all of this, this is
I'm the my I set my king on the hill of Zion.
This is my decree. My son can ask of me and I will
give him the Heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost
parts of the Earth for his possession, be wise.
Now, therefore, you Kings these are the same Kings.
He was talking about in verse two, the kings of the earth set
themselves and and the rulers take counsel together against
the Lord and against his anointed be wise now.
Therefore o Kings, I'm telling you, it's a vain thing, it's a
futile effort. Be instructed, ye judges the
Earth. This is the instruction serve
the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.
I was telling my wife last night, Rejoice with trembling,
that's a funny phrase, Rejoice, be happy with trembling.
This is the, this is the god of the universe that you are
dealing with. Be wise, serve him with fear and
rejoice with trembling and then this is the final piece of
advice or piece of. It's not even advise hey take it
or leave it. This is what you can do.
This is your only hope, 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. This is, this is the gospel.
Jeremiah, 23:29, is not my word, like, as a fire say, at the
Lord, and a hammer that breaketh The Rock in pieces.
This is how we fight. That's what he means by the
weapons of our Warfare are not carnal.
We are fighting with the gospel message.
His word is like a hammer that breaketh The Rock in pieces.
And so I'm going to finish here with a few few last thoughts.
But the Bible says there's other places.
But the Bible says he is, and he is a terrible, he is terrible.
First Corinthians chapter 6, There we go.
So, I'm 47 to. I knew that wasn't it.
So, I'm 47 to for the Lord, most high is terrible.
Ladies bad, when our kids are being really bad.
What do we say, you're being terrible or they're terrible?
That's not what this is talking about.
He is terrible. The next phrase says he is a
great king over all the Earth. This is their only hope.
There's a reason he is called the King of Kings and the Lord
of lords, he rules over all of them and he allows them to do
their thing on this Earth. He even allows them to come
against him and assemble their armies against him.
But he's saying in verse 10, he's Thing with them, please be
wise, o, Kings, kiss. The son.
Lest he be angry and you perish from the way.
When his wrath is kindled a little, I mentioned at the
beginning, even a little bit of his wrath and you're done your
ashes, your dust your disintegrated.
First Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 through 11.
This is important thing to remember know, ye not that the
right unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Be not deceived. I think, brother, Josh mentioned
this verse this morning neither fornicators nor idolaters nor
adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, nor thieves, nor Covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers nor extortioners. Has shall inherit the kingdom of
God and such were some of you. I think if you can imagine in
your mind, these armies are raging against God.
And if you're watching a video, you might be able to go.
That's me. You were in that Army you were
marching with whatever weapon you had against the king of
Heaven. And he called you.
And you drop those weapons and you come to the king of the
earth. Look blessed are all they that
put their trust in him. He's not saying oh yeah you can
you want to come against me? I'm going to destroy you.
He's saying I will, but be wise. Make this decision right now,
even the kings that are assembling their armies against
him, can drop their weapons and come to him.
We see that in the end of verse 12, blessed are all.
They that put their trust in him.
Go back to 1st Corinthians 6, verse 11 and such were some I
love you. That's how I know I was in that
that Army at one point such were some of you, but you are washed
your Sanctified. You're justified in the name of
the Lord Jesus. And by the spirit of our God,
the only hope we, the world has is repentance to this God,
because of his kit wrath is kindled.
Even a little bit, you'll perish from the earth, you'll be done.
Had a story I was going to get going to tell you, this happened
to me personally in fact I will, but I'm going to shorten it way
up. The reason so this it is a it's
a this is a message of encouragement.
You don't have to be one of the ones that perishes from the way
you can come to him. And be blessed by putting your
trust in him. I was talking to a friend of
mine and I won't mention his name.
Some of you may know him, but he called me one time and he was
talking about all this stuff that's happening in the world
and he said, I think you I think you know there's something not
right but I know what it is. I'm going to tell you the truth
and started into all these different conspiracy theories.
Now, there's a queue and I'm in there.
And I said, brother, I understand all about all the
conspiracy theories and he was like, no, no, no.
I don't think you Stand. America and all the nations,
they're ruled by satanists. I said, does that surprise you?
Satan runs the world. Why would he put a Christian in
charge of Any Nation, right? So he has set up his Kings on
this Earth. That shouldn't surprise us.
But if we get so caught up in fighting with carnal, this
carnal Warfare of. Well, we're going to save our
nation through politics or we're going to save them through these
conspiracy theories. Satan has done exactly what he
his goal is, distract us from telling others about Jesus
Christ, distract us from spreading the gospel, and I read
you one last verse and then we'll be done, Revelation
chapter 11, verse 17 and 18 saying we give thee, thanks O,
Lord God Almighty Which art and was an art to come because thou
Hast taken to thee thy, great power and Hast.
Reigned, and the nations were angry and thy wrath is come.
And the time of the Dead, that they should be judged.
And that thou shouldst give reward unto the servant by
servants the prophets, and to the Saints.
And to them that fear thy name, small and great and shouldest,
Destroy them, which destroy the Earth.
They're destroying our Earth right now.
And one day he will destroy them.
The time is short, but they can still come to him.
The nation's rage against him, it's a futile effort, it's
pointless, but they can still come to him as we did and we
should be doing everything we can really just talked about
that. This morning, we should be doing
everything we can to bring others with us because we know,
they're their Doom, they're the final outcome and we can be
excited about that. We want to bring everyone, we
can with us. 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.
He that sitteth in the heavens, shall laugh, but those are the
encouraging versus at the end. Kiss the son, lest he be angry
and you perish from the earth? Blessed are all.
They that put their trust in him.
Let's go ahead and pray. You can stand stand to your
feet. Heads bowed, eyes closed.
And I don't know if this is so much of a convicting message. as
much as it might be, it, I want, I meant it to be encouraging,
but it might even be more so of a Reprioritizing what's what
we're doing with our lives. We're not here to push
conspiracy theories were not here, too.
Fight with politicians again about different policies.
We are here because God rescued us out of that army, that was
raging against him and we're here to help others do the same
thing that we did. And when we get sidetracked from
that, for whatever any reason, whatever it is, when we get
sidetracked from that Satan has won in our lives.
He is winning that battle. Let's reprioritize.
Let's refocus on what it is that we're doing and remember this.
King that We serve, he's a terrible, terrible, God and a
mighty and great King on the earth.
Father, thank you for the Savior - God, I just, I thank you for
your word that it is quick. It's alive.
And it is powerful and I pray that it would work in the hearts
of your people. God, I pray, when we come to
church, we will be looking for things to change.
And got that we would surrender our hearts to you.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in you then we
aren't trying to figure things out on her own and trying to
make things happen. We are putting our trust in you
and leaning not on our own understanding and I pray that we
would do that. God, I pray that you would just
bless your people and I pray that as I know there are some
that are going through tough times in their lives.
I pray that you would help them to put that on you.
They would look to you for the comfort and for the rest for the
piece that they need. In Jesus name, I pray.
Amen.