{"id":716,"date":"2012-04-03T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=716"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:23:17","slug":"psalm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/03\/psalm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 2<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This is the first messianic psalm in the Psalter. It is quoted often in the New Testament as applying to Jesus\u2019 ministry on earth (Acts 4.25<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>; <\/span>13.33<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>; <\/span>Hebrews 1.5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>; <\/span>5.5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). It completes the thoughts, also, from Psalm 1. The first psalm dealt with the righteous and ungodly individual, and the second psalm deals with the righteous and ungodly king or kingdom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After reading through this psalm, a question is given: what happens when rulers defy God? What does it mean to defy or conspire against God? Would our present nation be classified as having rulers who defy God, attempting to go beyond His Word or without His Word? Can we apply these same questions to a country, such as ours, that does not proclaim to be a Bible-believing nation? What parameters does Psalm 2.1-2 have for us today?<\/p>\n

Romans 13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0reminds us that no authority is placed\u00a0in power outside of God granting it power. Although this creates many questions in cases like Hitler, it also sheds light on our government. Neither this psalm nor Romans 13 places stipulations on what type of government, all are under the authority of\u00a0God. If He places them in power, they are responsible to Him and will be blessed\u00a0or cursed based on the relationship the leader has with God and based on the relationship the people of that government have with God. When the chapter closes, it closes with a command for the kings and all creation to be subject to God in five ways:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Be wise<\/li>\n
  2. Be warned<\/li>\n
  3. Serve the Lord<\/li>\n
  4. Kiss the Son, which means to embrace Him, to believe in Him, to not be ashamed of Him (Acts 16.31<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Can you picture Mary at the cross kissing the feet of her Son (view the Passion of the Christ<\/em> for a graphic display of this)?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Rejoice or live in His blessing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With this being said, the psalm has traditionally been divided into four parts:<\/p>\n

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    1. a description of the plans of the wicked )1\u20133)<\/li>\n
    2. the Father\u2019s laughter from heaven (4\u20136)<\/li>\n
    3. the Son\u2019s declaration of the Father\u2019s decree (7\u20139)<\/li>\n
    4. the Spirit\u2019s instruction to obey the Son (10\u201312)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What would you say about the kingship of Christ in your life? How does His reign manifest itself in your life?<\/p>\n

      If there are questions on this psalm, submit it to Pastor David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What would you say about the kingship of Christ in your life? How does His reign manifest itself in your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[28,24,82,95,43,89,60,85],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-acts","tag-god","tag-hebrews","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus","tag-king","tag-research","tag-romans","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}