1. A WORLD OF DEFIANCE.
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
They oppose God’s authority; they reject God’s law; and they challenge God’s right to rule over them. Attempting to assert their own self-will, they embrace vain irrational philosophies, adopt wicked, twisted moral standards, attack the foundations of a Godly society. They do this for one main reason: this is an emphatic rejection & refusal to believe in God and live in accord with His law.
BURST THE – God’s bonds are bonds of love, bonds of grace, bonds of mercy. Spoils their happiness, infringes on their freedom. God spoils everything. And so, they live in Fear, hostility, futility, & hopelessness.
Christians were once the same way, – Colossians 1:21-22 - And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 He has now reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him,
1. THE FATHER in DERISION.
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then He will speak to them in His wrath, and terrify them in His fury, saying, 6 “As for Me, I have set My King on Zion, My holy hill.”
God shows His contempt for their rejection of Him by sitting and laughing at them! Their rebellions are so irrational, absurd, & so hopeless, that their efforts muster only His holy scorn.
(v,4)"The Lord holds them in derision." His only response to them is a deliberate show of utter contempt. God makes fun of them. He has no concern whatsoever for their pathetic efforts to overthrow Him.
The reign of Christ was established in eternity past by divine decree. It is part of the Son's birthright, growing out of the eternal counsel of the Godhead, and it cannot be changed or overthrown. This is the work the Father Has given the Son to do, and the Son is devoted to it.
And those whom He redeems, the ones who overcome, will share the very throne they were against.
Where do you place your trust? - in the stupidity of man or the Sovereignty of God.
May we live in a way that reflects God’s righteousness and His grace.
And may we honor our LORD Jesus Christ and lift up His holy name in all that we do.
