WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:07.680 And I want to invite you to Psalm 2 and we're going to have a contest of whoever can name that song gets a special prize 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:09.120 of bragging rights. 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:12.660 That's it, you just get your name engraved in fame here at ABC. 00:00:12.700 --> 00:00:12.800 I'm kidding. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:15.490 Who cares what that song is. 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:18.600 Psalm 2 is where we are. 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:25.370 I want to say this for Psalm 2, by the way, if you want to know our church's announcements, look in the bulletin. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:26.810 I don't know what they are. 00:00:27.420 --> 00:00:30.470 Psalm 2, let me set the precedence for this. 00:00:31.220 --> 00:00:31.480 Sorry. 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:34.620 I got up here and realized my pulpit's shaking, it's got me way off base here. 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:38.500 We need Psalm 2. 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:41.880 I need Psalm 2. 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:48.720 The truth of this Psalm, I long for my soul to resonate with what it says. 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:58.540 And the reason is because to do what God has called us to in this world requires 00:00:58.540 --> 00:01:00.060 us to have faith in a big God. 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:10.200 I think sometimes, especially in the version of American Christianity and what we are today, the 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:16.100 reason that we don't do what God calls us to is because our faith really isn't in that big of a God. 00:01:17.700 --> 00:01:25.040 But when your faith rests in the God that scripture proclaims, I think it gives us a certain security 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.780 to walk the path that the Lord leads us down. 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:28.500 Let me give you an example. 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:36.800 When I think about passages of scripture where God calls his people, the premise for his calling 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:39.040 on his people is solely based on his authority. 00:01:40.220 --> 00:01:45.050 The only reason we can do anything that God calls us to is not because of how great we are, but because of how great he is. 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:55.280 When you get to Matthew 28:19, the last thing Jesus says to his disciples, the Great Commission, "Go into all the world and make disciples." That 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:01.940 is a very difficult statement when you consider the expression of Christianity around the world. 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:09.180 In America, you may face a little bit of struggle in coming to Jesus or trying to walk with Jesus with family and friends. 00:02:09.539 --> 00:02:14.020 But I think about other brothers and sisters in Christ around this world and what it might take for them to worship Jesus today. 00:02:16.660 --> 00:02:24.100 Go into the world and make disciples, and when you think about this Jesus and what we proclaim, this light comes against darkness, 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:25.700 and darkness wars against that light. 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:27.560 And there can be an expense to that. 00:02:27.650 --> 00:02:35.000 So go into the world and make disciples, the only reason you would do that is because you believe your God, the God of light, is 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.000 greater than the darkness you stand in front of. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:44.280 And the only reason, I think, that we have the authority to go into the world and make disciples is because of the next statement Jesus makes, which is, "And I am with 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:51.540 you always, even unto the end of the age." I even think of like in the Old Testament, one of the verses that God used to 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:57.360 provoke my life into following him, I was a very timid kid, hated public speaking in grade school. 00:02:57.660 --> 00:03:04.700 If the teacher said, "Oral book report time," I would be like, "I read the book, but I'm taking the F, because there ain't no way I'm standing in front of those people and saying anything." 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:12.160 But I remember reading Joshua 1:9 very early in my faith where Joshua assumes the position that Moses has and he leads Israel 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:13.800 after Moses' passing. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.340 Imagine those moments, those are big shoes to fill. 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:21.880 Joshua's probably timid and God says to him, "Have I not commanded you? 00:03:23.140 --> 00:03:30.340 Be strong and of good courage, don't be dismayed because the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." It's under the authority 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:33.600 of such a big God that we're able to do anything that he calls us to in this world. 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:37.340 And it's because of who he is that we have the opportunity to live for him. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.980 That's why Romans 8 gives you the promise that if God is for you, what can stand against you? 00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:42.780 I mean, you just sang that in one of the songs, right? 00:03:44.140 --> 00:03:51.320 And so the beauty of this God becomes significant in the way that we live our lives and how my faith is experienced in 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:51.660 him. 00:03:52.780 --> 00:04:00.340 If you feel like life has kicked you around at all, or maybe even this week there was some adversity you faced, this Psalm, 00:04:00.380 --> 00:04:07.540 Psalm 2 is an incredible Psalm to see, not only this Psalm, but the idea of this Psalm resonates in scripture 00:04:07.540 --> 00:04:11.640 on your behalf as the goodness and glory of this God is made known in your life. 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:20.000 When you look at the Psalms, we've shared a little bit about the background of what Psalms are, but Psalms represent a beautiful section of 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:20.519 scripture. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.840 There's a 150 Psalms in the book of Psalms. 00:04:24.860 --> 00:04:32.220 Most sections of scripture when you study the Bible is God speaking to us, but what makes the Psalms such a powerful book is it's really man's 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:33.180 response to God. 00:04:33.580 --> 00:04:40.740 It's how we then respond to the goodness of who this God is and worship who he is and the understanding that he has given to us 00:04:40.740 --> 00:04:43.200 through the truth of him being made known. 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:48.620 These Psalms are poetry, 150 Psalms are written poetically. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.740 In fact, it's Israel's songbook, it's Israel's prayer book in song. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:00.320 But when we say poetry in Israel's day, it doesn't mean rhyming like you think of rhyming today, roses are red, violets are blue, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:05.260 However you want to write that, everyone likes to create some kind of clever thing to the end of the roses are red poem. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:06.660 But we like to rhyme, right? 00:05:06.820 --> 00:05:10.520 That's what poetry is in some ways in our culture today. 00:05:10.760 --> 00:05:13.770 But in Israel's culture it wasn't about rhyming, it was about lining. 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.180 They wrote lines that paralleled. 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:18.440 First line and second line, they had to be succinct in some way. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:23.980 The first line was enhanced by the second line, or the second line became antithetical to the first line. 00:05:24.300 --> 00:05:25.530 But it was written in parallelism. 00:05:26.820 --> 00:05:29.840 And it would follow that way through the Psalms, so if you read the Psalms, that's what you see. 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:35.800 First line written a certain way and the second line enforces the first line, or it's the opposite of what's expressed in the first line. 00:05:36.280 --> 00:05:38.110 And so that's how Israel wrote their poetry. 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:46.580 These Psalms, the beauty of these Psalms teaches us really what an authentic relationship with God looks like. 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:55.660 If you read the Psalms, what you see is it's messy, but in the middle of that mess it's 00:05:55.900 --> 00:05:56.600 surrendered worship. 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:02.580 It's truth to who we are what we face day to day as people. 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:05.350 It teaches us how to worship in our own adversity. 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:11.160 I think sometimes in life we tend to think that we've got to get ourselves together, we've got to be perfect before we come to God. 00:06:11.200 --> 00:06:13.920 Or at least make ourselves presentable before we come to God. 00:06:14.020 --> 00:06:15.940 And the Psalms just blow that thought out of the water. 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:19.000 God's not interested in that. 00:06:20.300 --> 00:06:22.460 What God is interested in is your heart. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.400 In our lives, we tend to modify our behavior and then come to Jesus. 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:30.170 But rather, Jesus doesn't want you to modify your behavior, what he wants to do is transform your life. 00:06:31.200 --> 00:06:36.600 Because if he transforms your life, he modifies what you do because he changes the purpose for which you live your life. 00:06:37.780 --> 00:06:45.100 And so you come in the mess of that and you give your heart to God in worship and surrender, whatever that is, however that looks, whatever you present, Jesus wants 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:46.800 that heart given wholly to him. 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.430 And these Psalms present that in such a beautiful way. 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.220 And each of these Psalms are written for a purpose for all sorts of occasions. 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:58.320 There's Psalms of wisdom, which we saw last week in Psalm 1. 00:06:58.320 --> 00:07:05.400 There's the Psalms of lamenting, there are Psalms of rejoicing, there are Psalms of struggle, there are Psalms that they sung during 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:06.310 the holidays. 00:07:06.380 --> 00:07:13.560 And Psalm 2, what's unique about the Psalm is the purpose of this Psalm is for Israel's coronation day, the day Israel 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:14.900 appointed a king. 00:07:16.260 --> 00:07:18.940 They even had a Psalm to sing when they appointed a king. 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:27.590 In fact, if I were just to take a Psalm that really highlighted that or a portion of this Psalm that highlighted that well, 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:34.920 in Psalm 2, in the middle of this Psalm, it really identifies the thought of the coronation here when it says this, "But 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:40.740 as for me," God is saying this, "But as for me, I have installed my king upon my Zion, my holy mountain. 00:07:42.020 --> 00:07:44.440 I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord. 00:07:44.760 --> 00:07:51.880 He said to me," now it's the king saying what God said to him, which is, "You are my son, today I have begotten 00:07:51.880 --> 00:07:58.540 you." So Israel would sing this Psalm when they would present a king before the people. 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.120 The interesting thing about this is the words that God uses to describe this king. 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:11.160 He says, "You are son today, I have begotten you." This phrase is really identifying with the promise that God gave his people 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:13.700 in 2 Samuel 7:13-14. 00:08:14.440 --> 00:08:22.780 In that section of scripture, when God anoints David, what he tells David is that, "I will be a father to this king." And 00:08:22.780 --> 00:08:27.900 when they would present this king before Israel, they would recognize him as a son because God was described as a father. 00:08:27.960 --> 00:08:34.480 So when it says that, "You are my son," it's recognizing the promise of 2 Samuel where God said he would be a father unto him. 00:08:36.179 --> 00:08:43.919 Israel would anoint their king, recognizing him 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.420 as God's choice. 00:08:46.380 --> 00:08:49.300 Now I would say for the nation of Israel, this wasn't always the case. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:54.300 Meaning, we studied in the life of Elijah that Israel very early on went into a civil war. 00:08:55.040 --> 00:08:57.090 They had Saul, David, Solomon, civil war. 00:08:57.380 --> 00:09:02.250 And really Israel didn't wait for God to appoint kings, Israel appointed whoever they wanted to be king. 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:07.940 But when God appointed a king, he anointed that king for that service. 00:09:08.920 --> 00:09:13.780 And so this Psalm was to be sung when God anointed that king to lead Israel. 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:21.020 But here's the crazy thing about Psalm 2, truly this Psalm was sung when the anointing 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:23.480 of an earthly king was made known in Israel's day. 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:27.410 This Psalm was intended for more than just an earthly king. 00:09:29.160 --> 00:09:36.600 In fact, David wrote Psalm 2 for the coronation that he had and coronations of Israel's kings, but truthfully 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.660 he is writing this Psalm, not to identify himself as king. 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:48.980 But he's using this Psalm as an opportunity that while he is king, to point Israel to the one true 00:09:48.980 --> 00:09:52.620 King, the King that they were waiting for. 00:09:54.780 --> 00:09:59.000 This big God who leads them to the brokenness of this world. 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:01.220 Their ultimate King. 00:10:03.100 --> 00:10:10.540 And the idea of Israel looking for this King, the precedent for that was set all the way back in the early portions of scripture. 00:10:10.540 --> 00:10:17.780 I mean, you think when God created us, the Bible tells us that he creates everything for his purpose, his glory, everything defined 00:10:17.780 --> 00:10:19.820 its existence in him. 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:22.740 Then man rebels and God pursues. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.530 And in Genesis 3:15, he gives the promise. 00:10:25.620 --> 00:10:35.800 He says when man rebels that with Satan he's going to put enmity between him and the woman, Satan's 00:10:35.800 --> 00:10:37.060 seed and the woman's seed. 00:10:37.980 --> 00:10:42.640 And the woman's seed, he shall bruise the head of the serpent, Satan. 00:10:44.300 --> 00:10:46.560 And the serpent shall bruise him on the heel. 00:10:47.880 --> 00:10:49.800 What's God promising here? 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:56.860 That in the midst of sin, in the midst of rebellion, in the midst of the destruction that's brought forth, God will bring one who will restore and 00:10:56.860 --> 00:10:58.480 bring peace back to the earth. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:06.860 And when it says that he will put head on the serpent, what it is the kingdom crushing the head of the authority of the kingdom of darkness. 00:11:10.300 --> 00:11:11.940 In the midst of that, he suffers a heel wound. 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.600 A reflection of what Jesus would suffer on the cross. 00:11:18.340 --> 00:11:25.440 And so when you start with the idea of understanding of this kingship and God's pursuit to establish his authority again over this darkness, and you read 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:31.900 in Psalm 2:1, it starts off like this, "Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing? 00:11:33.680 --> 00:11:40.760 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take their counts together against the Lord and against his Anointed." 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:42.480 Notice the word anointed here is capitalized. 00:11:43.300 --> 00:11:46.940 Meaning it's pointing to something bigger than just the earthly king. 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:57.040 It says, "Saying, Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us." And 00:11:57.040 --> 00:12:04.140 so you continue to see perpetuated this lack of peace as kingdoms of this world represent the kingdoms of 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:04.240 darkness. 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:13.310 But there is one who is to come that is the King of light, he will be the anointed one that God desires to establish. 00:12:14.020 --> 00:12:17.360 And this is reflected in the promises throughout scripture. 00:12:17.380 --> 00:12:21.960 But if we just stay in the context of Genesis, look what God says, Genesis 49:10. 00:12:22.900 --> 00:12:29.980 He gives the promise to Israel, he says, "The scepter shall not depart from the tribe of Judah nor the ruler's staff from 00:12:30.060 --> 00:12:33.520 between his feet until Shiloh comes. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:42.440 And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." This word Shiloh 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:49.840 means rest, meaning what they're ultimately looking for 00:12:51.820 --> 00:12:59.600 is that one King who will deliver and restore peace and 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:00.100 rest. 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:08.800 In fact, in Genesis 12:3 it says this, "And I will bless those," talking to Abraham, God says this to him, "I will bless those who 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:12.020 bless you and the one who curses you, I will curse. 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:19.040 And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." How is this so? 00:13:20.780 --> 00:13:25.260 Because through Abraham will come a seed and he will be the deliverer. 00:13:27.460 --> 00:13:34.520 And in his deliverance, all people groups, all nations, all ethnicities, will be blessed 00:13:34.520 --> 00:13:36.240 under his authority and his reign. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:44.540 So you see in Psalm 2:1-3, the nations raging against God. 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:51.460 But then in chapter 4, God gives his response to this, he says, "He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them. 00:13:53.000 --> 00:14:00.100 Then he will speak to them in his anger and terrify them in his fury." Let me stop right there and say this, if 00:14:00.100 --> 00:14:06.970 I just think about the last 12 hours of my life, I would describe it as at the very least hectic. 00:14:07.820 --> 00:14:12.380 Had a few sick kids last night and everything that could be broken this morning was. 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:14.800 Coming to church, it was a frenzy, right? 00:14:14.860 --> 00:14:16.450 And what happens when you get in that state in life? 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:18.440 You stress out. 00:14:20.540 --> 00:14:24.960 You're not in control, but you're looking for the opportunity to be back in control. 00:14:26.380 --> 00:14:30.140 You spaz a little, I'm by nature, like, my first inclination is to spaz. 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:35.930 My kids get hurt at home and I spaz, I can do blood on me, I can't do blood on others. 00:14:36.580 --> 00:14:39.240 I spaz, the world falls apart. 00:14:40.060 --> 00:14:40.750 But how does God respond? 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:50.440 When the nations rage, when they shake their fists at this king, when that kingdom 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.640 of darkness shakes its fist against God's people, how does God respond? 00:14:56.500 --> 00:14:57.000 In a frenzy? 00:14:58.500 --> 00:14:58.880 Spaz? 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:02.080 No. 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:03.240 In verse 4, he laughs. 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:08.240 To think that these heathens could rise up against this king. 00:15:09.860 --> 00:15:11.120 And so what does God do in verse 5? 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:14.800 He reminds them of his authority and power. 00:15:17.560 --> 00:15:25.980 We think we're great, we think we have all the strength, and then God steps in and 00:15:25.980 --> 00:15:28.470 he demonstrates who really is in control. 00:15:30.040 --> 00:15:37.060 And in verse 6, "But as for me, I have installed my king upon Zion, my holy hill." I love this 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:38.600 statement because it's in past tense. 00:15:41.140 --> 00:15:47.720 Think about this, the nations think they are in control of their destiny, as if they've won the battle against God. 00:15:49.560 --> 00:15:50.500 But what does God say? 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:59.120 In the middle of a coronation, when a king is being installed, he speaks about it in past tense as if it's already happened. 00:16:01.940 --> 00:16:05.460 Meaning when God says it, it's as good as done. 00:16:07.220 --> 00:16:10.310 I love the way my kids always say this, God is faithful to his promises. 00:16:12.660 --> 00:16:19.820 Meaning when you study the things of God, if anything in this world, when you study the things of God, you are never wasting your time because what God says will 00:16:19.820 --> 00:16:20.380 be true. 00:16:22.300 --> 00:16:26.800 The rest of the world can make all the promises that it wants, but God is the only one that can deliver. 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:35.760 And so when God calls in this Old Testament that he will bring a king, this is past tense because it's already as good as done 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:38.260 and there isn't a nation that can stop it. 00:16:39.740 --> 00:16:43.740 The nations rage, God laughs because his promises are that good. 00:16:44.040 --> 00:16:49.020 And what God is saying, all the way back to the days of Genesis, is that this will happen. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:55.340 Then when you get to verse 7, it says this, "I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord. 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:00.460 He said to me, You are my son, today I have begotten you." So we've read this already about the coronation of the king. 00:17:00.800 --> 00:17:02.140 "You are my son, today I have begotten you. 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:07.560 Ask of me and I will surely give the nations as your inheritance and the very ends of the earth as your possession. 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:11.290 You shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall shatter them like earthenware. 00:17:11.700 --> 00:17:18.700 Now, therefore, oh kings, show discernment, take warning all judges of the earth." I like verse 10, let me just start with this verse and we'll back up for 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:18.920 a minute. 00:17:20.660 --> 00:17:22.819 God is in control, right? 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:29.220 I said in the beginning, the only thing you could ever do, the only reason you could ever do what God calls you to do is because of the authority of who he is. 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:36.300 And the reason we don't do things that God calls us to do is because our God frankly isn't that big in our minds or in our worship. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.080 But the truth is, he is. 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:47.860 And when he talks about these nations and what they're doing, verse 10, the good part of verse 10 is that it's showing while God is presenting his authority 00:17:47.860 --> 00:17:54.400 and power, his ruling, his reigning, that in verse 10 he provides a place of grace saying, "Look, wake up. 00:17:56.740 --> 00:17:57.400 I am king. 00:17:58.860 --> 00:18:01.800 Show discernment, take warning, oh judges of the earth. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.900 You're not who you think you are. 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:07.920 That's my place. 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:17.320 I rule and reign." Now when you look at this Psalm, what makes this Psalm incredible and 00:18:17.320 --> 00:18:23.760 you think of the time of Israel, I want our mentality to think like the Jews would receive the Psalm over time. 00:18:25.320 --> 00:18:28.620 King David was a good king, he wrote Psalm 2, he was a good king, he was a powerful king. 00:18:30.990 --> 00:18:34.760 But David never fulfilled what this Psalm is expressing. 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:44.160 David ruled, David reigned, David had power, but David never had the nations under him, or 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:45.320 at least not all of them. 00:18:46.740 --> 00:18:50.460 And when Israel left from King David and continued on, it didn't get any better. 00:18:50.520 --> 00:18:51.330 In fact, it got worse. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:59.720 And here they are looking at these promises of God, thinking God says through Judah there will come one who will rule and reign 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:01.830 and all nations will under his authority. 00:19:02.260 --> 00:19:09.480 And they continue to see their people go in this trajectory of darkness and other nations rise up against them and take them into slavery, 00:19:09.670 --> 00:19:10.120 Assyria and Babylon. 00:19:11.820 --> 00:19:15.900 In fact, you get to the end of the Old Testament and there's 400 years of silence. 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:18.500 Where are you? 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:22.880 God, are your promises true? 00:19:25.020 --> 00:19:27.770 Where is this King that says he wins? 00:19:29.060 --> 00:19:30.230 Where is the victory? 00:19:33.270 --> 00:19:39.860 And then you get to the New Testament, and I'm not going to read all these verses, but here's something I want to highlight for you. 00:19:39.860 --> 00:19:47.020 I want you to see this, something incredible happens in the New Testament because the authors of the New Testament takes 00:19:47.040 --> 00:19:50.860 Psalm 2, and I know this is a little bit smaller writing, I had to do this to fit it in. 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:59.160 But they take Psalm 2 and all of a sudden they start quoting this Psalm over and over again, 18 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:00.560 times they quote this Psalm directly. 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:03.210 What are they declaring? 00:20:05.420 --> 00:20:10.160 They're beginning to show us in the Psalm how the King has come. 00:20:15.540 --> 00:20:17.020 Could you imagine being Israel? 00:20:19.360 --> 00:20:21.600 You've seen devastation among your people. 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:24.940 In fact, you're not even ruling right now, Rome's thumb is over you. 00:20:26.300 --> 00:20:31.180 And you think of the promise of this King that who is to come to delivery you among all nations? 00:20:32.840 --> 00:20:33.620 And to bless all nations? 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:41.840 Out of all the places that this Psalm is quoted in the New Testament, my favorite is in the Gospels. 00:20:44.260 --> 00:20:49.820 If I just picked one of those Gospels, I would say my favorite out of all of those Gospels is Mark 1. 00:20:52.600 --> 00:20:56.420 Mark 1, think about this for a minute, God's been silent for 400 years. 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:05.480 David wrote this Psalm and they remember their history, the way it's been told, this King that would come and deliver 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:07.420 from all the way back to Genesis 3. 00:21:08.620 --> 00:21:12.160 David writes this Psalm, they reach their height and all of a sudden everything crumbles. 00:21:13.780 --> 00:21:18.440 God's been silent for hundreds of years, a people of no hope. 00:21:19.560 --> 00:21:21.140 The darkness looks greater than the light. 00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:30.060 Then all of a sudden you get to Mark 1 and John the Baptist begins the proclamation of 00:21:30.100 --> 00:21:32.840 one who is to come, of which John says is greater than him. 00:21:32.840 --> 00:21:38.860 In verse 8, he even says that he is unworthy to untie the one who is to come's shoes. 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.900 Now you think in John's day what that means, right? 00:21:45.940 --> 00:21:50.800 When Jesus and his disciples would walk around, common attire, if you had shoes, were sandals. 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.120 Roads were often dirt and animals walked those roads. 00:21:57.060 --> 00:22:04.120 I know we drive cars today and we might forget what happens when animals walk roads, but if you just hang around during the Lehi Days, you 00:22:04.120 --> 00:22:04.880 will find out. 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:12.420 It is incredible in this city when they say we're going to have a parade, how many horses come from who knows where to walk in that thing, right? 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.980 And then if you're not careful, you're going to walk in the residue they leave behind. 00:22:16.760 --> 00:22:20.800 And if you do that in sandals, in between your toes gets pretty interesting. 00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:25.680 You can imagine in Jesus' day, when that person would walk into a home. 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:30.030 I know if I were to do that and my wife were home, the kind of reception I would receive. 00:22:31.260 --> 00:22:38.280 And in Jesus' day, it was the duty of slaves to take care of the guests when they came in the door and it was the duty of the lowest 00:22:38.280 --> 00:22:43.290 slave to take care of the feet and what they brought in from off those roads. 00:22:44.800 --> 00:22:52.580 And John says about the one who is to come, "I am unworthy to even untie his sandals." After 00:22:52.580 --> 00:22:55.300 he says that in verse 8, Jesus appears. 00:22:56.540 --> 00:22:59.960 And he goes down with John into the waters and he's baptized. 00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:06.440 And in verse 11, look at this, guys, the first time God speaks to Israel in 400 years. 00:23:08.020 --> 00:23:15.100 Look what he says, "And a voice came out of the heavens and said, You are my 00:23:16.040 --> 00:23:17.360 beloved Son. 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:27.240 In you I am well pleased." Psalm 2:7, the 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:29.060 King. 00:23:29.580 --> 00:23:30.850 Could you imagine if you were Israel? 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:36.560 Psalm 2 was sung by God's people. 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:46.720 But here in this moment, at Jesus' baptism, it's not God's people singing this song, it's God himself singing 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:51.560 this song over his people in recognition of who Jesus is in their lives. 00:23:53.300 --> 00:23:54.860 The King of Shiloh. 00:23:56.700 --> 00:23:58.330 The King of rest and peace. 00:24:00.360 --> 00:24:07.400 Make no mistake, Jesus understood exactly what was said about him as the Father anoints him as king over Israel, 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:08.440 that's what that baptism was. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.100 And in Psalm 2, they anointed a king. 00:24:11.260 --> 00:24:16.400 Jesus' baptism, it's the anointing of a king in recognition before God's people who is. 00:24:16.520 --> 00:24:23.580 And when Jesus finally opens his mouth to Israel and to teach the world, look what he says, his first words of pronouncement, "The time is 00:24:23.580 --> 00:24:25.120 fulfilled." What's fulfilled? 00:24:26.780 --> 00:24:27.140 Psalm 2. 00:24:29.260 --> 00:24:33.360 The time is fulfilled and look, "The kingdom of God is at hand. 00:24:34.040 --> 00:24:39.360 Repent and believe in the Gospel." The kingdom has come. 00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:48.260 This idea of repent and believe is just to say to Israel, "Israel, whatever you're trusting in, whether it be Rome, other nations, religion, whatever you're 00:24:48.260 --> 00:24:55.860 finding your identity in, turn from that, trust in this is the Gospel or the good news." The way this worked in Jesus' 00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:57.680 day is kings would go to battle. 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:07.060 And when the kings would battle, the people of that kingdom would wait and just hold on to hope that was 00:25:07.060 --> 00:25:08.380 my king victorious? 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:13.620 And when the king had finished the battle, the battle was complete, he would pick an apostle. 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:19.580 And the apostle would run back, he would beat the army back into the town and he would herald the news. 00:25:19.860 --> 00:25:22.540 And if the king was victorious, it was the good news. 00:25:22.580 --> 00:25:24.940 If it was the bad news, it was like, "Look, other king won. 00:25:25.300 --> 00:25:31.390 You are now possessed by someone else." But if your king wins, you're victorious and you're not slaves, you are free. 00:25:34.370 --> 00:25:38.920 When Jesus proclaims the Gospel, the good news, why? 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:43.140 Because past tense, remember, guys? 00:25:43.580 --> 00:25:47.120 When God declares it, it's as good as done. 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:54.420 Jesus comes and wins the victory for you. 00:25:56.420 --> 00:26:00.760 Sin, Satan, and death defeated on the cross. 00:26:00.760 --> 00:26:07.760 We win victory in Jesus, whether it be tomorrow seeing small victories, or ultimately in eternity, God works together all things for good 00:26:07.760 --> 00:26:10.770 to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:18.860 Now if were to take a step back for just a moment from this Psalm and to do more of a 10,000 foot view, I want us to know the Bible cares 00:26:18.860 --> 00:26:20.180 about what you think about Jesus. 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:25.280 Meaning, if your God isn't big enough, you will never do what God calls you to in this world. 00:26:26.760 --> 00:26:30.920 If you don't see your God as greater than the things that you face, you won't walk with him in faith. 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:40.210 And so your idea of who God is, in light of him being King over kingdom and ruling all nations in authority and power becomes 00:26:40.610 --> 00:26:43.540 significant to how you pursue Jesus with your life. 00:26:43.540 --> 00:26:46.120 Your view of Christ matters. 00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:51.000 And I love the way God teaches us about who he is in scripture. 00:26:52.700 --> 00:26:55.640 I think he does this in a way that's experiential. 00:26:57.600 --> 00:27:00.400 You think in Israel's day, this inauguration was important, right? 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.820 I mean, you're picking a king who is going to lead you until he dies. 00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:10.340 That inauguration day is significant, at least for a few decades in their history. 00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:19.160 But in the midst of learning about their earthly king, God experientially uses the identity of this earthly king in Psalm 2 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.800 to continue to point them to their heavenly King. 00:27:23.860 --> 00:27:25.940 God teaches us that way throughout all of scripture. 00:27:27.020 --> 00:27:34.680 I think the way that the Bible was put together in a lot of ways, it's like this, Israel or in the New Testament, the church, they face problems, they have questions and 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:36.520 God inspires someone to write the answers. 00:27:38.180 --> 00:27:40.700 We tend to learn on a need to know basis as people. 00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:45.160 As a kid, the wonder of life is inspiring. 00:27:45.940 --> 00:27:47.460 But something happens to you when you get old. 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:53.760 You quit so much wondering and being mesmerized by things and you start focusing on just getting the job done, right? 00:27:55.080 --> 00:27:56.400 You learn on a need to know basis. 00:27:56.560 --> 00:28:01.260 That's why Google becomes second to God in your life, or YouTube maybe. 00:28:01.540 --> 00:28:02.580 Tell me how to fix this, YouTube. 00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:04.760 You learn when you need to know it. 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:09.860 And God knows that our hearts are hungry to learn when we need to know it. 00:28:10.620 --> 00:28:15.960 Which is why in scripture when the Bible is talking about creation, it reflects on God being sustainer, creator, ruler. 00:28:16.540 --> 00:28:22.400 Or when the Bible talks about the pain of this world, it demonstrates that God who is just, forgiving, Savior, restorer, redeemer. 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:30.560 God uses circumstances of which we encounter in life to really build on the significance of who he is in light of that. 00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:34.390 Learning who God is important. 00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:39.800 Who Jesus is important. 00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:49.300 Many people in our country today, even though we're in a post Christian time period, it's 00:28:49.300 --> 00:28:52.340 still popular in our country today for people to call themselves Christian. 00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:56.720 It's just sort of this label that we wear. 00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:03.740 I'm not trying to be negative towards that, I'm glad when at least people are favorable towards the thought of that. 00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:12.760 But let me just ask, just because you believe in a Jesus, does that make you Christian? 00:29:17.070 --> 00:29:19.260 Just because you believe in a Jesus, does that make you Christian? 00:29:21.560 --> 00:29:29.200 I know you might think that's a trick question here, but let me just say it like this, and this isn't offensive, I don't think, to this people group, but Muslims 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.260 believe in a Jesus. 00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:32.290 Are they Christian? 00:29:35.300 --> 00:29:37.780 I think if you were probably to tell them that would offend them. 00:29:38.840 --> 00:29:44.300 "You believe in a Jesus, therefore you're a Christian." No, it's not that you believe in a Jesus that makes you a Christian. 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:47.760 But rather what you believe about Jesus. 00:29:50.540 --> 00:29:56.400 The truth of who Jesus is, the Bible cares about what you think about Jesus. 00:29:56.780 --> 00:30:00.640 In fact, John 8:24 says this, "Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins. 00:30:02.540 --> 00:30:09.760 2 Corinthians 11:3-4, Paul says this, "But I am afraid your minds will be led away from the simplicity and 00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:11.440 purity of the devotion to Christ. 00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:19.900 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, you bear this beautifully." Mark 24:5, 00:30:20.540 --> 00:30:27.680 Jesus said this, "For many will come in my name saying, I am the Christ, and will mislead many." Now I'm not telling you that to freak 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.220 out, don't spaz about that. 00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:33.600 If someone says to you, "I am a Christian," cool. 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:34.260 Great label. 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:43.650 I think the more important question that we could just stop in those moments and ask rather than argue with anyone is just, "Well tell me what you think about Jesus. 00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:52.730 Who is Jesus?" Just look past the label for a minute, just talk about Jesus. 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:54.860 Who is Jesus? 00:30:57.140 --> 00:31:00.390 Because what you truly believe about Jesus will determine how you live your life. 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:07.380 If you look at the Connection Group questions this week, if you don't have any, they're in the bulletins, you can grab one when you leave. 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:14.250 But the Connection Group questions, just the bottom of the questions, there's just eight questions on the identity of Jesus and verse references for you. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:16.910 Just so you can see the significance of who Jesus is. 00:31:18.620 --> 00:31:19.920 Because who Jesus is matters. 00:31:21.540 --> 00:31:28.540 Because what this Psalm proclaims is that this Jesus big enough to take the cares of the world upon himself and 00:31:28.540 --> 00:31:31.160 defeat sin, Satan, and death, to be that true king. 00:31:31.540 --> 00:31:40.460 And I would just go a little step further and say this, it's not just in the sense that what you believe in Jesus in an intellectual assent, but 00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:43.500 rather what you surrender your life toward. 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:53.400 So it's one thing just to know the information about Jesus, but it's a totally different thing to then give your life over to him and say, "You 00:31:53.400 --> 00:32:00.580 are the King." In fact, if you follow this theme of Jesus being King, I mean it rests throughout all of scripture, but at 00:32:00.580 --> 00:32:07.580 the last book of the Bible, in Revelation 17, look what it says in verse 14, "These," talking about the nations, "will wage 00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:12.820 war against the Lamb," the Lamb being Jesus, he was the Lamb led to the slaughter, died on the cross for our sins. 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:20.380 "They will wage war against the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them because," look at this title, "he is Lord of lords 00:32:20.380 --> 00:32:24.800 and King of kings." Psalm 2. 00:32:26.060 --> 00:32:34.160 "And those who are with him are called the chosen and the faithful." 00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:41.960 What we think about Jesus matters and so at the end of this Psalm, this is how it ends in verse 11 and 12, he says this, "Worship 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:49.640 the Lord with reverence and rejoice with 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:57.700 trembling." This idea of trembling is the recognition that when you stand before such power, it 00:32:57.700 --> 00:32:58.120 is humbling. 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:03.660 Not one nation, not all nations can thwart his power. 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:09.400 To be in the presence of such authority is humbling. 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:11.260 It's trembling. 00:33:13.100 --> 00:33:21.540 But rather, he says worship this is the point, rather than you fight, let 00:33:21.560 --> 00:33:22.850 Jesus fight for you. 00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:27.920 He wins. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.140 Shiloh. 00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:30.240 Rest. 00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:33.800 He wins. 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:36.350 Life can be exhausting, right? 00:33:36.500 --> 00:33:39.800 Especially when we put it all on our shoulders, like it's up to us. 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:47.540 If Jesus said to his disciples, "Go into the world and make disciples, it's all on you, fellas!" No, no. 00:33:47.760 --> 00:33:50.090 Rather rest in him. 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:51.700 His victory is as good as won. 00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:54.610 He defeated it all. 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:56.260 Worship. 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:58.100 That's what worship is. 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:00.420 Resting under this King. 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:03.880 "Worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. 00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:06.180 Do homage," that's another word for worship. 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.060 It's a word of intimacy, it literally is about to kiss toward. 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:15.710 "To kiss toward the son that he not become angry and you perish in the way for his rather may soon be kindled. 00:34:15.860 --> 00:34:22.960 How blessed are all who take refuge in him." Now, I want to say this about his anger, I think I've talked about this recently, but when it talks about God's anger, guys, 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:24.800 it's not like human anger. 00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:27.520 Human anger for us is we fly off the cuff and everyone look out. 00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:30.820 "I'm going to blow my lid if you do that one more time, boy!" Right? 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:33.550 And then all of a sudden it's pandemonium and everyone get out of your way. 00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:38.139 And you're just as destructive as they were because you have just become as toxic and venomous back. 00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:39.760 That's not God's wrath. 00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:43.460 God is long suffering. 00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:52.560 God knows when he will return and God will pour out his wrath, not because he loses his head, but because the king just says enough. 00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:56.040 And so what's God doing? 00:34:56.080 --> 00:35:01.380 Well, in Mark 1, when Jesus declares the good news, he's extending his grace. 00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:08.280 The good thing about Jesus is that he is a God of reconciliation and redemption. 00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:16.820 In the beginning of Genesis, what we see in Genesis 3 when it talks about one who will come and crush the head of the serpent, what 00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:22.340 we see is a God who is pursuing us to offer us redemption in his Son as he dies on the cross. 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.110 God's desire is reconciliation, to belong to that kingdom for which we were originally created. 00:35:28.520 --> 00:35:33.000 And so, at his first coming when he declares his kingdom, he's extending to us grace and forgiveness. 00:35:33.100 --> 00:35:40.260 To be invited to belong to this kingdom because when he returns, justice against the darkness 00:35:40.260 --> 00:35:42.030 that wars against the light. 00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:45.430 All nations submit to him. 00:35:46.560 --> 00:35:52.160 Put Jesus in the story, how blessed are all who take refuge in him. 00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:56.360 You are created to belong, to let this King fight for you. 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:01.990 I, in thinking about this, let me just close with a couple of thoughts. 00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:11.320 The book of Revelation, the idea of the King and kingdom, book of Revelation 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:15.040 talks about, in verse 10, starts talking about 24 elders. 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:18.580 And I find that people often get confused over these 24 elders. 00:36:18.640 --> 00:36:22.270 In fact, people just get confused in general when they read the book of Revelation. 00:36:23.380 --> 00:36:27.680 But these 24 elders, I've seen lots of people talk about what they think this might be. 00:36:27.740 --> 00:36:34.920 I think one of the more popular things I've seen is like people start doing some math here and they're like, "Okay, there are 12 apostles in the New Testament 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:41.860 and there's 12 tribes in the Old Testament and you add 12 plus 12 and that makes 24, so that's what this is." I don't think that's what this is. 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:52.460 What's happening here in Revelation is that Jesus is seated in his heavenly temple, in his heavenly throne and 00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:54.740 the angels are around him giving glory. 00:36:54.740 --> 00:36:56.740 And the Bible's the describing the 24 elders. 00:36:56.780 --> 00:37:04.200 And here's the interesting thing about in Jesus' day and John when Revelation is being written, in the Old Testament you had priests, 00:37:04.340 --> 00:37:04.460 right? 00:37:05.560 --> 00:37:08.120 In the New Testament you have priests too, but the New Testament priests are different. 00:37:09.160 --> 00:37:12.200 Old Testament there was a particular group of people that held the priestly line. 00:37:12.640 --> 00:37:20.200 In the New Testament, because of what Jesus did for us, the Bible says in 1 Peter 2:9 and on that we are 00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:24.100 all God's priests, male, female, Jew, Gentile, it doesn't matter. 00:37:24.420 --> 00:37:28.040 We all are being built up into a spiritual household, we all hold the priesthood. 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:30.640 We're all priests before the Lord. 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:38.380 And in Jesus' day and John's day, in the temple, in the earthly temple, it took 24 priests 00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:40.980 to carry out the function in that temple. 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.340 In the New Testament, the church becomes the temple. 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:52.760 What I think is happening in Revelation 4:9-11 is it's describing now before the throne of God, 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:58.520 this King in his glory, in his heavenly temple, God's church being represented to these 24 priests. 00:37:59.180 --> 00:38:06.300 And so what it says here in this verse, look at this, "And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever 00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:13.180 and ever, the 24 elders will fall down before him who sits on the throne. 00:38:14.120 --> 00:38:21.140 They will worship him who lives forever and ever and they will cast their crowns before the throne saying, Worthy are 00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:25.040 you, oh Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power. 00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:33.140 For you created all things and because of your will they existed and were created." Now 00:38:33.140 --> 00:38:37.160 this crown isn't like a king's crown in this passage, this crown is more like a wreath. 00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:44.880 Sort of like if you ran a race or a competition during this day you would receive this wreath as a prize for winning the race. 00:38:46.820 --> 00:38:53.680 And in that prize you would receive glory from the people as they saw you touting the victor's crown. 00:38:56.220 --> 00:38:57.040 But what do these people do? 00:38:59.460 --> 00:39:07.240 They take the crown for which they have received glory, and instead of them receiving glory, they removed the crown and 00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:11.280 they give the glory to the King who won the victory for them. 00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:16.120 Forever and ever, it says in this passage. 00:39:18.060 --> 00:39:25.380 Rather than letting that fight rest on them, they allowed the fight to rest in Jesus. 00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:30.660 Who Jesus is matters. 00:39:32.740 --> 00:39:34.860 Letting Jesus fight for you matters. 00:39:36.380 --> 00:39:38.260 Psalms 2 is an incredible Psalm. 00:39:40.720 --> 00:39:48.130 We could never do what God calls us to do without faith and the ability that he possesses as the victor on our behalf. 00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:55.020 We sang this song a little earlier, we talked about the God of heaven's armies. 00:39:57.140 --> 00:40:05.120 Isaiah 6, and this is the last thing I'll tell you, Isaiah 6, God poses a question, "Whom 00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:12.140 will I send and whom will go for us?" As God poses that question in Isaiah 6, Isaiah 00:40:12.140 --> 00:40:13.990 looks up and he sees a heavenly picture. 00:40:15.700 --> 00:40:23.220 When Isaiah sees the heavenly picture, what he describes is he sees the Lord of hosts in heaven, his train 00:40:23.220 --> 00:40:30.840 of his robe filling the heavens and the foundations of heaven shaking and smoke filling the presence of God and angels 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:38.100 covering their faces and together angels crying out one to another, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord 00:40:38.100 --> 00:40:45.180 of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory." That phrase, Lord 00:40:45.180 --> 00:40:48.540 of hosts, an interesting way to describe Jesus. 00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:54.640 What it literally means is a warrior King coming to do battle with his angels. 00:40:56.160 --> 00:40:58.200 Now what's that warrior King doing battle against? 00:40:59.320 --> 00:40:59.600 Sin. 00:41:01.100 --> 00:41:02.920 And what's that warrior King doing battle for? 00:41:05.490 --> 00:41:06.540 You. 00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:14.480 Seeing the identity of Jesus as the King of kings and Lord of lords is intended to be the place for 00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:16.640 your soul to find rest in him. 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:23.000 Rather than fighting the battles yourself, knowing Jesus is enough. 00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:32.560 If your problems are reconciled today or reconciled tomorrow, 00:41:32.700 --> 00:41:40.020 rest assured because of the identity of Jesus and the faith that you put in the King who has won the battle, Jesus 00:41:40.020 --> 00:41:45.980 will reconcile all of that wrong, brought and made new in him. 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:53.960 Who Jesus is matters and when you believe in that God, God leads you to do great things for him.