1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages, and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,680 All right, let's get into the word this morning. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,520 If you would turn with me to Psalm Chapter 2, we are in a 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,720 miniseries, I guess you could call it. 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,240 We're looking at Psalm Chapter 2, and I want to look at Psalm 9 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:26,800 Chapter 2 and Psalm 149 this morning. 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,040 I want to tie those two together, and I also want to tie 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,080 in what we've been talking about on Wednesday night. 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,640 So on Wednesday nights, we've been doing a series that we're 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,400 wrapping up this Wednesday on authority, the biblical concept 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:39,800 of authority. Authority is different than 15 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,120 power. Power is a force from heaven 16 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,600 that comes upon us to do with God what we can't do without 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,120 him. Authority is the authorization 18 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,400 from the author to execute his will and to put our stamp on 19 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,360 things. It's really a governing word, 20 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,120 and God gives us authority, and so we need to understand that. 21 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,280 So we've been. I'm going to just read through 22 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,160 some things, otherwise I'll talk too much. 23 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,800 I know that's shocking to pastor. 24 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:05,640 You could. Yeah. 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,240 OK, we no one acted surprised. We have been talking about 26 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,440 authority. I want to give a quick over. 27 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,160 So God as creator or the author of all things hold all 28 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,680 authority. He controls the narrative, so 29 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,640 he's writing the story. He's the author. 30 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,600 He does he How he does so, however, is crucial to the rest 31 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,080 of your theology. If you get this wrong, it has a 32 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,080 cascading effect which shapes the rest of your theology, and 33 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,640 in so doing it will relegate you to passivity if you don't 34 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,040 understand how God governs. So God governs through delegates 35 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,080 He authorizes. And so as the source of all 36 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,960 authority, the author in turn authorizes others within his 37 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,640 created order with authority, responsibility for which he 38 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,920 empowers us. And so he does that with human 39 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,280 beings and he does that with angelic beings. 40 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,080 And we need to understand that because if we don't, there are 41 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:06,840 theologies that undermine and will literally create passivity 42 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,800 in the human heart because we think that God is up there doing 43 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,560 everything and acting upon us rather than saying, hey, I want 44 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,120 you to do something. And in other words, while most 45 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,760 of us are down here wringing our hands saying, God, look at the 46 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,560 situation. Would you do something? 47 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,760 Why don't you move? God looks at us and says, why 48 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,920 don't you do something? I've invited you to invite me. 49 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,520 It's called prayer. And so we need to engage and 50 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,120 there's there's action that we need to we need to participate 51 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,680 in. And so God delegates authority 52 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,800 to us. And that brings us to the whole 53 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,320 concept. We've talked about it last week, 54 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,640 touched on it, the concept of the Divine Council. 55 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:48,120 Now Psalm 2, what we're going to look at has it's got several 56 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,720 themes that carry throughout Scripture, themes that are very 57 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,760 important to your and I's role. And so it's Psalm Chapter 2. 58 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,280 It's got there's a number of points that it hits that we're 59 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,400 going to just touch on this morning that are overarching 60 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,840 themes that kind of spread throughout Scripture. 61 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,360 And one of them is the divine council. 62 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,360 Now, if you've ever studied the divine council, I don't know 63 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,280 about you, but when I read, when I first began to study about 64 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,560 this, I thought, this cannot be right. 65 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,720 I wasn't taught this in Bible school. 66 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,120 And if you don't have that reaction from time to time in 67 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,640 reading your Bible, you're probably not reading your Bible. 68 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,720 Seriously, You ever been reading and all of a sudden you realize, 69 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:35,360 I don't know what I read because I was thinking about something 70 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,240 else Good. I'm not the only one. 71 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,040 A lot of times we can just read over the Bible because we 72 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,160 already know what we believe. We already have this 73 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,720 presupposition that we bring to the word, and so we just gloss 74 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,920 over things and we miss things. That's, that's one of the 75 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,120 benefits, by the way, of reading other translations because it 76 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,000 kind of jars you and causes you to look at things from a little 77 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,520 different angle. And so you'll end up seeing 78 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,760 things you don't see or sometimes listening to the Bible 79 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,680 on, on, you know, on audible or something like that, listening 80 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,160 to the word because you'll catch things you wouldn't catch 81 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:14,000 before, because our tendency is to superimpose what we already 82 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,040 believe and miss what the word is really saying. 83 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,640 And so one of the things we need to do is we need to learn to 84 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,120 slow ourselves down in the study of the word in the reading of 85 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,080 the word. And as we slow down, we'll 86 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,280 discover things in like, whoa, I never saw that. 87 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,440 Can that really be? I have found myself disagreeing 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,360 with the word of God on many occasions. 89 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,240 Now I'm I may not be the brightest bulb in the room, but 90 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,760 I do know this that when I disagree with the word of the 91 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,800 God, God, the problems on my end. 92 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,600 And so I need to re look at that say God, what is this? 93 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,280 I've never seen this before. And that is a healthy thing for 94 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:54,600 us to be kind of hitting those snags in our Bible reading and 95 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,280 seeing things that we've never seen before and thinking 96 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,120 through. And the divine council is one of 97 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,960 those. And so real quick here, the 98 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,000 divine council, I'm just going to give you a little overview. 99 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,800 The Old Testament reveals a council of decision makers, 100 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,600 those beings with whom God willingly shares the 101 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,760 responsibility of governing His creation. 102 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,640 The book of Daniel gives us an interesting insight into the 103 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,280 happenings of the divine counsel in regards to an earthly king, 104 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,680 the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar. 105 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,560 So why don't you turn with me to Daniel chapter 4? 106 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,160 Very quickly we're going to look at that passage. 107 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,440 But the divine counsel is something that shows up in 108 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,480 numerous passages. Daniel 4 gives us a behind the 109 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,200 scenes happening and so the idea is that there is this, this 110 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,880 ruling body, this council, COUNCIL, this, this decision 111 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,120 making body that and and just just let me pause there. 112 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,640 God doesn't need any help making decisions. 113 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,240 He's pretty smart, he knows everything. 114 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,320 He's all powerful. God didn't make us because he 115 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,520 was lonely. I've heard people say it. 116 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:06,840 Well, God made us because he was lonely. 117 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,240 No, he wasn't lonely. He is self-sufficient. 118 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,440 He is perfectly, he perfectly has everything that he will need 119 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,120 for his existence. However, he is so relational and 120 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,600 so benevolent and giving that it emanates from him. 121 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,680 And he had one son. He wanted many sons. 122 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,440 He wanted a big family. He wants, he wants to share his 123 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,320 creation. He wants to share his rule with 124 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,760 his people. And so he created us. 125 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,600 And so God doesn't need a divine counsel, but he created one. 126 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,520 That's his business. That's above my pay grade. 127 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,400 Why he did it, I don't know. I know he doesn't need it, but 128 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,440 he did it. He doesn't need you and I, but 129 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,960 he created us and I'm glad he did. 130 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,240 I kind of like life. I like, I like this better than 131 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,640 the alternative of not existing. And so God created these things 132 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,400 because of his nature. So Daniel chapter 4, we're going 133 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,880 to look at this real quick. Look at verse one, but king, 134 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,200 King Nebuchadnezzar, Well, jump to I'm sorry, this is let's 135 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,760 let's look at verse jump to verse 4. 136 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,960 So in this passage King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. 137 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,440 Listen to he introduces it here in verse 4I. 138 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,680 Nebuchadnezzar was at ease in my house and prospering in my 139 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,640 palace. I saw a dream that made me 140 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,960 afraid as I laid in my bed in the fancies and visions of my 141 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,040 head. I like that the fancies and 142 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:34,280 visions of my head alarmed me. So I made a decree that all the 143 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,480 wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they 144 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,800 should make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 145 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,720 And so he says, I was at ease and prospering. 146 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,320 Sometimes we get so at ease God will interrupt our ease to kind 147 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,960 of jar us awake and bring some correction. 148 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,680 And that's what he was doing with the Nebuchadnezzar. 149 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,640 And in this dream, if you read on, I'm just do a quick 150 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,640 overview, He saw this large tree with roots that went down deep 151 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,040 into the earth. And then the tree, the branches 152 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,280 spanned and over the earth and the birds of the air found 153 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,960 shelter in his branches, and people came to live underneath 154 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,920 it. And it was this glorious tree. 155 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,040 And then he says this in his dream. 156 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,680 He says, Look at verse 13. I saw in the visions of my head 157 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,680 as I lay in bed, and behold, A watcher, a holy one, came down 158 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,280 from heaven. He proclaimed aloud and said, 159 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,360 thus chop down the tree and lop off its branches, branches, 160 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,720 strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. 161 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,159 Let the beast flee from under it, and the birds from its 162 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:39,039 branches. And so there's this, it says 163 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,640 that a watcher came and look at verse 17. 164 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:47,680 This is so this sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the 165 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:50,400 decision by the word of the holy ones. 166 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,600 Now what is going on there? That's a weird verse. 167 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:02,960 And so he calls his wise men his, his, the the all his, his 168 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,200 wise guys, his wise men. He brings them to say, hey, I 169 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,040 had this dream. You need to tell me what it is. 170 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,040 I'm very troubled by it. And Daniel being a man of God, 171 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,240 comes and he says to Daniel, I know and see his theology wasn't 172 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,080 all that correct. But he said, I know that the 173 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,960 spirit of the gods live within you, Daniel, tell me what my 174 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,120 dream meant. And Daniel tells him, Daniel 175 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,640 being a wise man, understood this guy held within his hand 176 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,640 the power of life and death over Daniel's life. 177 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,400 So he says, O king, live forever. 178 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,400 I wish this was about your enemies, but it's not. 179 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,800 You're in trouble because you are that large tree. 180 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,880 And the Lord has decreed that for seven seasons you would be 181 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:47,960 removed essentially. And then and, and so he it, then 182 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,600 it speeds forward. And one year later, Nebby is on 183 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,760 his porch looking out over his palace. 184 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,120 And he says, oh, is this not great Babylon that I've made for 185 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,520 my glory? And an audible voice from heaven 186 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,600 says, you be in trouble, boy. That's a paraphrase. 187 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,840 And he was literally sent out to pasture for seven years. 188 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,800 He wandered his hair grew out, he lost his mind and he became 189 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,360 like a brute beast. He's out eating grass and he's, 190 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,000 he's like a, like a beast of burden out there. 191 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,640 And they remove him from rulership. 192 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,600 But they he's just kind of alive out there in the yard somewhere. 193 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,400 And then after seven years, he comes to his senses, just like 194 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,880 Daniel told him would happen from the dream. 195 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,320 And he praises the living God, the the most high God, and he's 196 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,800 restored to rulership. It's a crazy story. 197 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,200 But my point is this, that number one, God was 198 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,400 orchestrating global affairs. He removed a king for a season 199 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,600 because he got too big for his britches. 200 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:50,200 It's not what the Hebrew says, but that's what that's what I'm 201 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,720 saying. He got too big for his britches 202 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,160 and God said, I'm going to remove you for a season and he 203 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,880 puts them back in. But whereas in the dream it 204 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,560 said, this is verse 17, the sentence is by decree of the 205 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:04,760 watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones. 206 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:10,240 This is this is a divine council scene where these beings are 207 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,120 intervening in global affairs. But look at this, look at verse 208 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,120 24. This interpretation, O king, it 209 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,320 is the decree of the Most High. So it begs the question, which 210 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,160 one's right? Is it the decree of the 211 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,200 watchers, these angelic beings? Or is this the decree of the 212 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,440 Most High God himself? And the answer is uh huh, 213 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,200 because this is a decision of the Divine Council that God is 214 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,320 ruling over global affairs. We see this in Psalm 82. 215 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,240 We've talked about this before, but if you look in Psalm 82, it 216 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,240 literally talks about the divine council. 217 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,560 In Psalm 89 does as well. But in Psalm 82, it says God 218 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:56,840 took his seat in the divine council among the gods. 219 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,800 He, he, he ruled, he, he, he sat in judgement. 220 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,840 And then he begins to rebuke these members of the Divine 221 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,800 Council. Now, what's important for you 222 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,600 and I this morning is that there is a ruling body called the 223 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,240 Divine Council that makes decisions over governing affairs 224 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,000 on the earth and #2 that they are imperfect, just like you and 225 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,760 I, and that God delegates authority. 226 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,520 And then he calls them into account for what they have done. 227 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,800 And we see this throughout the Old Testament. 228 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,480 It comes up as a theme again and again. 229 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,720 Why is that important to you and I? 230 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,520 Because it has everything to do with how God governs His 231 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,800 creation. And if we don't understand that, 232 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,200 if if our theology says that God is up there micromanaging every 233 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,120 minutiae of life and every decision made and everything 234 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,680 that happens was declared by God and sovereignly chosen by Him, 235 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,880 then all that we have to do is simply sit back and yield to 236 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,240 what God is doing in the earth. But I'm telling you what it will 237 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,920 do is it'll create a passivity in you that will cause you to 238 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,040 not do what God's called you to do. 239 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,120 So that's, that's the divine counsel. 240 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:20,600 So here is the astounding conclusion of the New Testament 241 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,240 that the New Testament seems to assert. 242 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,880 And this is where we tie in with the New Testament. 243 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,760 So we have this divine council that we have glimpses of in the 244 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,520 Old Testament. And now in the New Testament we 245 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,480 have introduced to us this new decision making body. 246 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:41,560 And it's called the ecclesia. It's what we nebulously 247 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,480 translate church, which by the way is a poor translation. 248 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,640 And there's reason that the English translators chose that 249 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,840 word because it was going to cause political problems, but it 250 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,080 doesn't mean the gathering of believers. 251 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:03,240 An ekklesia was a very clear a word that was already clearly 252 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,200 defined within the hearers of Jesus when he said I will build 253 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,400 my ekklesia and the gates of hell shall not prevail against 254 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,880 it. The ekklesia was raised up to 255 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,200 contend against Hell's purposes in the earth. 256 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,600 The gates of hell shall not contend against, shall not 257 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,840 prevail against it. And ekklesia was a ruling body. 258 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,720 It was a group that were called together. 259 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,440 They were called out to legislate affairs. 260 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,600 The Greeks had it and the Romans had it. 261 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,800 And Jesus speaking in that culture borrowed that non 262 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,760 religious term and said that's what I'm building. 263 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,240 I am building an ekklesia and the gates of hell shall not 264 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:50,080 prevail against it. It was a legislative body that 265 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,680 would that would govern affairs within the Grecian and Roman 266 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,720 world. Matter of fact, there's there's 267 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,200 literature that reads in the Roman world. 268 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,600 If two or three are gathered together. 269 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,640 There you have the ecclesia. Does that sound familiar? 270 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,000 That's not that what I just quoted you was from Roman 271 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,920 secular literature. And so we need to understand 272 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:18,480 when Jesus says this, it had a meaning already in the minds of 273 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:23,800 the hearers and we lose things when we don't realize that and 274 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,960 we just adopt it and saying this is what this is about all. 275 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,680 I will build a group of people that will sit on cushioned 276 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,960 chairs and air conditioning and hear a guy talk for an hour a 277 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,680 week. That's not what Jesus was 278 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,280 building. He was building a legislative 279 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,960 body that would enforce his will in the earth. 280 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,640 And so that's what I want to show you this morning. 281 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,120 So let's look at Psalm chapter 2. 282 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,080 We're going to read through this Psalm chapter 2 again, it's got 283 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:56,000 it's, it's, it's a, it's full of themes throughout Scripture and 284 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,080 it's really 12 verses, 4 sets of three verses. 285 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,360 So we're going to read through it and I want to unpack this for 286 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,440 you. So the first 3 verses, and we 287 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:10,000 need to understand this was a, an encounter that King David 288 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,440 had, OK, like we talked about this last week, if you want to 289 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,520 know what it says to us, you have to 1st know what it said to 290 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,840 the person that originally received it. 291 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,240 And this was an encounter that King David, who the Bible also 292 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,160 tells us was a prophet. He was a prophet king and he 293 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,040 also functioned as a priest, by the way. 294 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,720 He was a type of G, you know, he was a foreshadowing of the 295 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,600 office that Jesus would function in. 296 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,960 And so David was a prophet and we talked about this last week. 297 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,360 But if you look at, I want to say it's Jeremiah 22. 298 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,960 It God is rebuking the false prophets and this was the charge 299 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,920 he brings against them. He said you have not stood in 300 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:57,040 the counsel of the Lord and it's not COUNSEL, it's COUNCIL 301 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,320 because in the Jewish mindset, in the Jewish religion, what 302 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,400 qualified you to be a prophet in the Old Testament was to stand 303 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,760 in the counsel of the Lord. That's why Isaiah, Isaiah's 304 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,640 inauguration is initiation into the prophetic office was he went 305 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,319 up and stood before the Lord and he saw the Lord and his train 306 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:18,520 filled the temple and he was made Privy to the goings on in 307 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,640 this divine council scene. And the Lord says, who shall we 308 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,079 send? Who will go for us? 309 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:27,280 And Isaiah had the gumption to speak up and say, pick me, I'll 310 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,040 go. And the Angel came and burned 311 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,640 his lips because he said, I'm a person of unclean lips among a 312 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:37,000 I'm a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lips. 313 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,640 And he was inaugurated or initiated into prophetic office 314 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:46,400 by that scene. And so David also goes up into 315 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,400 an encounter. There are things that David 316 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,960 shares here that he would not know, he would not be Privy to 317 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,800 outside of divine revelation. He was brought into an encounter 318 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,960 with God, and that's what this is. 319 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,040 And if we don't understand that, this passage will lose its 320 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,640 weight. And it's nice poetry. 321 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,000 Oh, that's cute. And we'll move on. 322 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,920 But literally what happens is David has an encounter in the 323 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,720 throne room of God and he hears things and God says things to 324 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,200 him and gives him marching orders. 325 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,840 And David literally says in here, he says, I'm going to tell 326 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,720 you what he said. Now, if that doesn't make you 327 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,160 kind of scoot on the edge of your seat and lean in and say, 328 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:25,200 what do you say? What do you say? 329 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,680 Then I want to pray for you after service. 330 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,200 This, this should stir our hunger because David is there. 331 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:39,200 These, these tracks that David's leaving are little Rd. maps for 332 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,280 you and I so that we know what we're called to and how we can 333 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,800 function. I don't know about you, but I'm 334 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,480 not, I'm not content to just let David have those kinds of 335 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,040 encounters. Man. 336 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,120 If there's a crack in the door, I want in. 337 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,160 I want in on this. And so David tells us what 338 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,200 happened. So this is what it says. 339 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,640 So verses one through 3, why do the nation's rage in the 340 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:06,240 people's plot in vain the kings of the earth set themselves, and 341 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,880 the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his 342 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,120 anointed, saying, Let us burst their bonds apart, and cast 343 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,720 their cords from us. There as in plural, who's the 344 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,720 anointed 1 and the God of heaven. 345 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,600 And the anointed one was actually David. 346 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,440 No, we talked about this last week. 347 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,440 But this is vitally important because we tend to read this 348 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:35,720 solely as talking about Jesus. But it's not just talking about 349 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,240 Jesus. Yes, it's a messianic Psalm 350 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,400 pointing, pointing forward into the into the future of what God 351 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,400 would say over the Son Jesus. But first and foremost, it's 352 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,160 David having an encounter and God saying, you are my son 353 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,240 today. I have begotten you and that 354 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,800 word I told you. There's themes throughout this 355 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,400 passage that are very important that are all through Scripture. 356 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,760 Sonship is one of them. And so God is calling David into 357 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:08,640 something very specific with these words, sonship and all 358 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,240 that that entails. We'll get to that in a minute. 359 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,480 And it's also foreshadowing the Son Jesus. 360 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,560 Today you have become my son, and he's God's going to give his 361 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,120 son the Son Jesus, who is also the Son of David. 362 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,520 The son, the nations as an inheritance. 363 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,920 But here's the thing, what the New Testament does is it cracks 364 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,000 the door open and what we know as the divine council in the Old 365 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,560 Testament, that decision making body now in the New Testament 366 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,880 begins to talk about this decision making body called the 367 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,200 ecclesia of God, made-up of sons. 368 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:49,480 And what we need to understand is sonship in both Old and New 369 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,720 Testament has royal connotations because of whose son we are. 370 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,320 So we'll, we'll get into that in a moment. 371 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,120 So he says, so date the first 3 verses. 372 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,920 David's now gone. He's in this divine council 373 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,080 scene and he looks down on the kings of the earth coming 374 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,720 against Israel and God's purposes. 375 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,600 And David is incredulous. He's like, you got to be 376 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,280 kidding. They're down there. 377 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,400 We're not going to take this anymore, you know, shaking their 378 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,880 little fists and he's like, you got to be kidding this. 379 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,920 Why do the nation's rage? Why do the people's plot in 380 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,760 vain? And God's response is the same. 381 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,800 The next three verses are God's response. 382 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,800 So David looks at the kings, says to them, he's saying this 383 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,680 is crazy. Why would they do this? 384 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,240 Then he looks at God and he says, he who sits in the heavens 385 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,680 laughs. When you are going to war as a 386 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,640 human king against people who want your life, it's really good 387 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,040 to get God's perspective on them and your situation. 388 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,920 And what does God do? He has a good belly laugh. 389 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,200 He who sits in the heavens laughs. 390 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,720 And then he holds him in derision. 391 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:03,160 The word derision means to mock. And God holds him there, makes 392 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,080 fun of him, and won't let him out of the room, which of which 393 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,760 there are made a mockery. And then he will speak to them 394 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,240 in his wrath and terrify them in his theory, saying, As for me, I 395 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,520 have set my king on Zion, my holy hill. 396 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,160 And so literally what what God is saying is he's saying, hey, 397 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,960 kings down there, you guys throwing your hissy fit down 398 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:31,040 here, You global rulers, Putin, Zelensky, Trump, every other 399 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,560 ruler. As for me, I've already set my 400 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,480 king on Zion, my holy hill. You can throw your hissy fit, 401 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,440 but I've already decided who's going to rule this thing. 402 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,360 And so God is juxtaposing him over against all the rulers of 403 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,840 the earth. Now make no mistake about it, 404 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,240 God installs rulers. Daniel chapter 2 is very clear. 405 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,400 God promotes kings and he removes them. 406 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,680 He did it with Nebby, Nebuchadnezzar, most powerful 407 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,680 man on earth. How God's going to deal with 408 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,880 them? There was no military might big 409 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,480 enough to deal with Nebuchadnezzar. 410 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,800 So God said I'll do it make you out of your mind for a little 411 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,240 bit. He's over there eating grass. 412 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,920 OK, now let's get let's you helps think you've learned your 413 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:18,560 lesson and then reinstalls him. And so God is saying I've 414 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,440 already chosen who will rule from Zion, my holy hill. 415 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,360 Now here's another theme that's all throughout Scripture, this 416 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:28,160 concept of Zion or God's holy hill. 417 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,600 Zion becomes synonymous with the government of God and Hebrews 418 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,880 chapter 12, it juxtaposes it over against Mount Sinai. 419 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:41,560 Mount Sinai represents the old covenant, Mount Zion, the new 420 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,520 covenant, Mount Sinai. He said we have not come to 421 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Mount Zion this is or Mount Sinai this is Hebrews 12 to a 422 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:53,320 mountain trembling and it peels of Thunder and lightning and we 423 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,960 can't approach. He said, but we have come to 424 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Mount Zion and he shows this as the the government of God, the 425 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,120 mountain of God. And Mount Zion originally 426 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,160 referred to Jerusalem. David chose Mount Zion to rule 427 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,600 from. And that that's a whole nother 428 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,640 theme that is fascinating. But what? 429 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,480 So when David kills Goliath, he chops the giant's head off with 430 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,240 his own sword, which will preach for another day. 431 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,720 He grabs that head, throws it over his shoulder, you know, big 432 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,960 old head, grabs it by the beard or by the hair, and it's bloody 433 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,080 dripping down his back, and he's just walking. 434 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,560 And David's not content to just leave it lie there. 435 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:39,880 He carries it all the way to a place called Jebus, a city out 436 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,760 of which the Jebusites ruled. And then he puts the head there. 437 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,880 It's like a weird thing to do, but I am convinced the reason he 438 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,000 did that is he was sending a message. 439 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,720 Hey guys, when I sit on the throne, I'm coming for you next. 440 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,880 This will be the place that I take. 441 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,440 I am going to rule from this because Jabis would become 442 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,600 Jerusalem. It was the city on it was Zion. 443 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,400 In fact, I'm convinced the reason David wanted to rule from 444 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,200 Zion is because David had read the scrolls and he had read in 445 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,160 the book of Genesis where there's this guy, this weird 446 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,680 dude called a priest of the Most High God and the king of Salem, 447 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,640 which would eventually become Jerusalem and in between would 448 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,880 be called Jabus. And this guy sat on a throne and 449 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,480 his name was Melchizedek. And David looked at this guy and 450 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,360 said this guy is a priest of the Most High God, but he's not a 451 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:45,600 Levitical priest. He's not from the tribe of Levi. 452 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,760 And so if he could get in through a back door, then 453 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,240 there's one open for me. I can get in. 454 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,480 I'm not, I'm not kept out because of the wrong lineage. 455 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,880 I, there's another way in. And David looked at, at 456 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,600 Melchizedek and said, he rules from that throne. 457 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,160 And that's where I want to rule from. 458 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,160 And this is so significant that, you know, in the New Testament, 459 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:13,960 it tells us that Jesus rules from the throne of David. 460 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,440 I told the first service, if I wasn't wearing a mic, that'd be 461 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,120 a mic drop moment. Seriously, that that's a 462 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:27,360 profound thing that David, that God was so affectionate and and 463 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,040 knit to this man, that there's something that David established 464 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,400 in the Spirit, that Jesus actually rules from the throne 465 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,680 of David. He rules from the spiritual seat 466 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,880 of authority that David established that that's what 467 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,640 Jesus sits on and rules the universe and he'll rule from 468 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,280 there and from eternity. It's an amazing thing. 469 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,320 And so Mount Zion signifies the government of God. 470 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,480 And so when God says I have set my king on Mount Zion, yes, it 471 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,720 was talking to David and David, you're going to rule from 472 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,240 Jerusalem and all that, that, yes, that means that. 473 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,360 But there's a wider meaning that God is going to rule from the 474 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,760 spiritual Mount Zion of Hebrews chapter 12. 475 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,680 And so David understands this and God is declaring this to the 476 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,400 kings of the earth. Now look at the next three 477 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,080 verses. Now David says this, I will tell 478 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,440 of the decree. This is where he says, guys, 479 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,320 listen, God spoke to me and I'm going to tell you what he said. 480 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,280 This is what he's saying. He said, I will tell of the 481 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,680 decree. The Lord said to me, You are my 482 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:41,480 son today. I have begotten you ask of me, 483 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,760 and I will make the nation's your heritage, the ends of the 484 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,640 earth, your possession. You shall break them with a rod 485 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,640 of iron and dash them like pieces, dash them in pieces like 486 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,320 a Potter's vessel. Now there's a whole lot involved 487 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,320 that we don't even have time to get into the reinheritance of 488 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,640 the nation's and all that does have to do with the divine 489 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,880 council. We don't have to get get it time 490 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,640 to get into that, but this whole thing on Sonship is very, very 491 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,200 important. He says today he said I will, 492 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,760 I'll tell you the degree and David's saying this is what the 493 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,000 Lord said to me personally, OK, that that's what he's saying. 494 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,440 The Lord said to me, David, you are my son today. 495 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:25,240 I have begotten you. And so this idea of sonship, we 496 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,240 touched on this last week, but I just wanted, I want us to get 497 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,920 make sure we get this. So in Roman culture, sonship was 498 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:37,640 a status, a standing into which biological male offspring were 499 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,800 initiated once maturity had been exemplified. 500 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,600 In other words, it wasn't a a non biological child being 501 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,960 brought into the family, it was a biological child that was 502 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,360 initiated into maturity and therefore authority. 503 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,280 That's the idea. Once initiated, their standing 504 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,400 in the family fundamentally changed, especially in relation 505 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,040 to those outside the family. He then became a legal 506 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:08,000 representative authorized to do business on behalf of and of the 507 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,640 father and the family. That's the idea of Roman 508 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,520 sonship. Jewish sonship had an another 509 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,880 element to it. So until adoption, an initiation 510 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,600 into sonship that this is still Roman adoption. 511 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,000 The male offspring was considered a Tecnon or what we 512 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,080 call a born one that a child of God. 513 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,040 That's the word we translate child of God. 514 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,360 He was a Tecnon. A born 1A child was understood 515 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,440 to share the nature of the father, but a son shared the 516 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,200 character. Being born into a family granted 517 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,800 the potential of sonship, but submission to the discipline of 518 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,520 a what? What Paul calls in the King 519 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,440 James Version, a schoolmaster. The Greek word is pedagogue, 520 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,040 grant submission to the discipline of a pedagogue or a 521 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,160 male nanny granted character, ultimately qualifying the son to 522 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,880 exercise authority over his former pedagogue doing business 523 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,040 in the family name. So that was the idea and the New 524 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,120 Testament, when it talks about his sonship and it's talking 525 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,960 about this maturity thing, this process. 526 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,280 In the Old Testament, sonship in relation to God communicated 527 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,160 governmental authority. This is very, very important. 528 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,400 When we talk about someone being a son of God in the Old 529 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,240 Testament, it was talking about governmental authority. 530 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,040 Adam, or although a strange sounding idea, it is nonetheless 531 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,040 accurate. Furthermore, this was an idea 532 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,200 shared with the entire Fertile Crescent world. 533 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,480 A son of God was most often a designation given to a king. 534 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,720 Kings were viewed as the son of and even the embodiment of a God 535 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,240 that they served. So many of you know that the 536 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,600 Pharaohs Pharaoh was known as the son of RA. 537 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,360 Caesar was actually worshipped eventually as a God. 538 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,080 At first he was that he was the living representative on earth 539 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,640 of the God, and then he became deity himself. 540 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,280 And so it was the living embodiment that was the idea in 541 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,640 the ancient world, because they understood that there was a God 542 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,640 that ruled over the affairs of men and that it was the God. 543 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,560 It was God himself who would elevate kings and remove them. 544 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,600 Now they had different views of different gods. 545 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,680 Matter of fact, the Romans had this pantheon of gods, which was 546 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:27,640 actually a misinterpretation of the divine council, which is for 547 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,160 another day. But it was a twisting of the 548 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,360 mythology. It was a mythologizing of the 549 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,920 biblical view of the divine council. 550 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:43,760 And so the Jewish people, however, had a more developed 551 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,680 idea of sonship as reflected in the Old Testament. 552 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,840 So now listen, there's a progress here. 553 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,720 Adam was referred to as God's son because he was the original 554 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,360 ruler of the world. God gave him dominion. 555 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,440 He said be fruitful, multiply and take dominion. 556 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,960 He was the son of God. But Adam sinned and abdicated 557 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,960 his authority. Psalm chapter 8 God put 558 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,680 everything under man's feet. Hebrews 2 quotes that but adds 559 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,920 yet at present we don't see everything subject to him. 560 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,240 Why? Because man abdicated that 561 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:19,280 through sin. Then Israel as a nation carried 562 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:25,760 the title Exodus 422 through 23. Hosea 11/1 talks about Israel as 563 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,280 a nation being godson. Why? 564 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,920 Because they were his representative before all the 565 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,720 nations of the earth to be an example of what it's like to be 566 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,800 in relationship to God. So he would Israel as a 567 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,480 corporate people, as a nation. God spoke of them. 568 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:45,320 This is my son, Israel. And they were to be the one 569 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,360 through which God would reach the royal, because in the 570 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,240 Kingdom of God, it's a monarchy. It's always ruled by royal 571 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,400 family. So God rules through his sons 572 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,920 and daughters. And so Israel was an example 573 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:02,560 now, then, then our son of God, then later on, David as king was 574 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,360 referred to God's son. That's what we're talking about 575 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,600 this morning. And then the Son, the Messiah, 576 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,440 Jesus, of course, tied all of these together in that he was 577 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,480 the last Adam. He was the true Israel of God. 578 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,560 Matter of fact, the verse in Hosea that calls Israel his son 579 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,720 is quoted about Jesus in the book of Matthew. 580 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,840 So Jesus is the embodiment of Israel. 581 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,280 He's the true Israel. And to be grafted into God, to 582 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,920 be the true people of God, you've got to be grafted into 583 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,680 Christ. And he was also the son of 584 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,840 David. So Jesus takes all these titles, 585 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,640 this idea, and he sums it up in him. 586 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,960 Now, what does all that have to do? 587 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,520 That's a nice little theology history lesson, Pastor. 588 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,640 Well, here's the thing, that in Christ you and I are invited 589 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,560 into sonship. And we need to understand what 590 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:56,120 that means, that our invitation into sonship is a governmental 591 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,680 role, that you and I carry authority for affairs in the 592 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,720 earth. And again, while we're saying 593 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,880 God, why don't you do something, He's looking at us. 594 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,880 Say, why don't you do something? I've granted you authority. 595 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,800 Invite my intervention, ask of me and I will give you the 596 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:18,000 nation's as your inheritance. And so this sonship is a very 597 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,520 important thing that if we just gloss over, we can miss so much. 598 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,800 So David says what God told him. I will tell you of the decree. 599 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,719 You are my son today I've begotten you. 600 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,800 The word begotten means that God takes responsibility to bring 601 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,480 him to a sonship and he does the same with you and I. 602 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,440 The day you were born again, God took responsibility to grow you 603 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,239 up. Now you can fight the process or 604 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,560 you can cooperate. I would recommend the latter. 605 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,639 It's miserable to fight God. Matter of fact, if you fight God 606 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,639 and when you were in trouble, you always want to lose when 607 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,679 you're fighting God because if you lose, you win, and if you 608 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:59,920 win, you lose. OK, OK, Verse 8, ask me and I'll 609 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:01,680 give you the nation's, your inheritance, the ends of the 610 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,200 earth's, your possession. And then he says you shall break 611 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,920 them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a Potter's 612 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,120 vessel. We'll come back to that. 613 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,960 And then David, he said earlier in verse 7, I will tell of the 614 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,560 decree. Here's the decree versus the 615 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,920 last three verses. Now therefore, O kings, be wise, 616 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,600 be warned, O rulers of the earth, serve the Lord with fear, 617 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,480 and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, 618 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:30,800 and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. 619 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,600 Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 620 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,600 So David hears the Lord, he hears the word of the Lord 621 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,800 towards these kings and David. I wouldn't be surprised if David 622 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,640 yelled this dry riding off in the battle, you know, what was 623 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:52,000 it he says now? Therefore, O kings, be wise, be 624 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,760 warned, O rulers of the earth. I believe he was screaming these 625 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,440 3 verses going into battle because what he's doing is he's 626 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:05,440 declaring A decree from heaven. He's imposing God's will as the 627 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:11,240 sun, as the one who's seated on Mount Zion, as a picture for you 628 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,440 and I. What we're to do, we're to carry 629 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,480 that authority. Now turn with me to Psalm 149. 630 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,200 Let's look at this real quick. We'll close with this passage, 631 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:29,680 Psalm 149. So we've looked at the second 632 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,200 chapter of Psalms, and now this is the second to the last 633 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,800 chapter of the Psalms. Listen to what it says. 634 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,360 Sing the Lord a new song, His praise, in the assembly of the 635 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,760 godly. That word assembly is very 636 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,880 similar to what we translate in the New Testament as ecclesia. 637 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:53,240 Let Israel be glad in his Maker. Let the children of Zion rejoice 638 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:55,840 in their king. Let them praise His name with 639 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,440 dancing, making melody with him, and tambourine and lyre. 640 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,880 For the Lord takes pleasure in His people. 641 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,720 He adorns the humble with salvation. 642 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,080 Let the godly exalt in the glory, and let them sing for joy 643 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,040 on their beds. Now listen to verse 6. 644 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,400 Let the high praise of God be in their throats. 645 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,320 I love that and a two edged sword in their hands. 646 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,280 Another theme we see throughout scripture is this idea of the 647 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,480 word of the Lord as A2 edged sword. 648 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,200 We see in the Book of Revelation early on Jesus has a double 649 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,160 edged sword coming out his mouth and it signifies the word of the 650 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,200 Lord that God rules through his word. 651 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,960 He releases his word and it it mows down, it levels the enemy. 652 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,120 We see in Hebrews chapter 5, the word of God is sharper than any 653 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,080 2 edged sword. So when it says that we, it's 654 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,880 talking about, we have praise in our mouth and then we have the 655 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,640 word of the Lord in our hand and we're going into battle with 656 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,120 that. That like David, we need to hear 657 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,120 the decrees of the Lord and then release the decrees of the Lord 658 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,920 and the earth. Why? 659 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,640 What's the purpose of this verse 7? 660 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,560 And it's interesting. Verses 7 and 8 follow the same 661 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:11,360 outline as chapter 2 of Psalms. He says to execute vengeance on 662 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,440 the nation's punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings 663 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,920 with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron. 664 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:25,040 Chapter 2 talks about kings, peoples, nations, peoples, 665 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,680 kings, and then nobles. The only word that is different 666 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,640 in the last chapter or second to last chapter over the 2nd 667 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,000 chapter is the word nobles. But they have the same meaning. 668 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,000 It means somebody that carries weight. 669 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,800 They may not have a governmental position, but they have 670 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,920 influence in the earth. And the Lord saying that as we 671 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,240 worship him, we come in. There's a place in corporate 672 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,560 worship that we reach a platform of authority and we release the 673 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,960 word of the Lord and it literally binds kings with 674 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,200 fetters. How many of you have read the 675 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,160 book Reese Hall, Intercessor, raise your hand. 676 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,240 How many of you have never read it? 677 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,880 You need to listen. Seriously. 678 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,480 This book is a case study for this hour of human history. 679 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:18,800 It is a vitally important book. Reese Hall was a Welsh coal 680 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,560 miner that got saved during the Welsh revival. 681 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:27,160 And God began to deal with him, to prepare him literally to be a 682 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,760 weapon during World War 2. And so it's a fascinating book. 683 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,600 You'll read it and wonder if you're saved because this guy 684 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,480 walked with the Lord. But it's really, it's really a 685 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,080 good book. And So what we find is that God, 686 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,920 you know, prepared him so that when Hitler came on the scene, 687 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,960 Reese Hall began to pray against the rising power in the earth. 688 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,560 Matter of fact, a lot of people don't know Reese Hall wrote a 689 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,800 book about I think it was called the Rising Powers or something 690 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,480 like that. And he declared, he prophesied 691 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,720 that Hitler would not come to power, wrote a book on it and 692 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:08,600 was wrong because he understood the danger that Hitler would be 693 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,640 to the purposes of God in human history. 694 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,840 So he started a Bible school and they became this prayer meeting 695 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,000 that literally play prayed. The Allied forces through World 696 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,520 War 2, Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Britain, said 697 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:27,600 of Reese all he said when Reese and his team pray, we win 698 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,280 battles. The global powers understood 699 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:37,680 what he carried. Now when Hitler, if you know, 700 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,720 Hitler took, he was, he went into the Rhineland and went into 701 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:45,040 Czechoslovakia and Britain stood, it was, you know, they 702 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,360 were trying to keep him from going forward. 703 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,040 So Chamberlain was the Prime Minister. 704 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,520 This is before Winston Churchill and Chamberlain met with Adolf 705 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,280 Hitler. And people look at that as a 706 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,400 hinge moment in which everything started going in the wrong 707 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,760 direction. In Chamberlain, his name is 708 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,320 synonymous with accommodation of evil and a spineless person and 709 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,920 all that and and all that. He would have stood up. 710 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,600 However, what a lot of people don't realize is that Hitler was 711 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,920 very frustrated with his meeting, that when he met with 712 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,840 Chamberlain, because he told Chamberlain, he said, I don't 713 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,720 know why I'm giving you what you want. 714 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,520 He was kind of puzzled about it. And his advisor said later he 715 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,880 was very angry and he told them, he said, this is the first time 716 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:36,360 I've ever disobeyed the voice because there was this voice he 717 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,480 would listen to and it would often be contrary to his 718 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,160 military advisors. And they were in awe that as he 719 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,320 would, he would say, no, I know that your military, you know, 720 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,160 you're brilliant military analysts, but we're going to do 721 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,840 such and such. And then when they do it, they 722 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,440 would win these battles. And they were in awe of Hitler. 723 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:58,560 But for the first time, he disobeyed that internal voice. 724 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,160 And what it did is military analysts will look at that to 725 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:03,600 this day. And they say that it gave 726 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,920 Britain time to prepare for war. Had he obeyed the voice, that 727 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,440 demonic voice that was manipulating him, that he could 728 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,080 have marched right into Britain. But Britain had time to prepare 729 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,200 for war. So in Psalm chapter 2 says you 730 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:25,040 shall be a rod of iron that shall break them as pottery. 731 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,440 That's a vivid picture. The rod of iron is that 732 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:33,520 unbending rod. It's strong and pottery is 733 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,920 brittle. And what he's saying is that I 734 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,360 will use you. I'll put iron in your backbone 735 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:44,240 and I will strike the, the, the, the brittle will of these kings 736 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,240 that stand against me and you'll shatter them. 737 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,160 And that's exactly what happened with Adolf Hitler. 738 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:55,120 For a moment he gave in. He, he couldn't even understand 739 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,000 why he was frustrated with himself. 740 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,480 But got what happened is God made room so that eventually 741 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,000 Hitler would be defeated. And it began there because it 742 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,240 gave Britain time to gear up for war. 743 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,880 Listen, you and I are part where sons of God. 744 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,920 We've been given a royal position. 745 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,240 We talked about this last week and the old covenant. 746 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,520 The sons of God were primarily the the most of the time where 747 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,960 that phrase shows up, it's talking about angels. 748 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,600 Yet it mentions Israel as a son of God and Adam and how Adam 749 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,520 abdicated and then David is declared a son. 750 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,960 But it's a rare thing to be used of a person. 751 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,680 It's more the Angel angelic and the men are servants. 752 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,840 In the New Testament, the men become the sons and the angels 753 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,040 the servants. There's a shift because you and 754 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,680 I have been brought into this elevated position. 755 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,840 We are to rule and reign with Him and not in the sweet by and 756 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:57,560 by, but in the nasty now and now that we are to bend the will of 757 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:02,640 rulers in intercession. We are to be the iron rod in 758 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,840 God's hand. And if we don't understand this, 759 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,160 we end up abdicating our role. We're not. 760 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,680 We don't allow the Lord to use this because we think, well, it 761 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,880 doesn't really matter who am I? And I'm here to tell you, you 762 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,720 are a son or a daughter of God and God wants to grip you 763 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,400 tightly and he wants to bring you into those conners 764 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,840 encounters where you here the decrees and you release them and 765 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,560 God will bend the will of world rulers. 766 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,880 The reason I brought up this book about Reese Hall is we are 767 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,400 living in an hour very similar that things are shifting 768 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,600 globally and the church needs to be the one to be inserted and 769 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,480 shepherd this thing through an intercession. 770 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:51,040 But if we don't understand the tremendous authority that God 771 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:56,440 has extended to us, then we sit idly by wondering why God 772 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,400 doesn't do anything, while heaven looks down at us and 773 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:06,720 wonders the same. So God has called you to inherit 774 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,920 nations. He wants you to bend the will of 775 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,720 Xi Jinping. He wants you to bend the will of 776 00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:20,600 the Brazilian President of Putin and Zelensky and Donald Trump 777 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,400 and everyone else because he said his king on Zion, his holy 778 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,160 hill, he's already chosen, chosen the the ruler of the 779 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,760 world. And you and I are to get in his 780 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,760 presence, hear what he's saying, and begin to declare that in 781 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,240 prayer and not take no for an answer and bend human will. 782 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,800 And in the out and in times of upheaval, God always has had his 783 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,920 people. And I'm just telling you that 784 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,800 I've had this word again and again from people coming through 785 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,680 here. God has called heartland to this 786 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,400 to declare the word of the Lord. We're to dig in, in prayer. 787 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,800 It's not an arrogant thing. It's arrogant to leave that spot 788 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,400 empty because it's God's assignment. 789 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,560 It's arrogant for us to say, well, who am I? 790 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:08,840 Who are you to question the word of the Lord? 791 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,680 Who are you to question what God says about you? 792 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,520 You need to step into this role or to exercise God's will. 793 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,520 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 794 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,040 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 795 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,640 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 796 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,960 social media. If you'd like to support the 797 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,800 ministries of Heartland Church, you can do so at Heartland 798 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,040 Church online.com/give.