Psalm 2

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We had some changes tonight. We were going to look at the second half of Daniel chapter 11. But we we had some quick changes so tonight we're going to look at at Psalm chapter 2 and we want to continue to look at it from a Post-millennial perspective and Just to give a little reason why we want to do that.

I Know that a lot of our videos have been on Post-millennialism, but there's there's good reason for that. And this is from my perspective this is this is my opinion and then you can touch on this if you want to why you think it's important for us to have this conversation, but Excuse me growing up I Didn't know that there were there were other views Of eschatology or in times eschatology meaning in times or in things.

I didn't know there were the other viewpoints. I just thought there was the one and and that of the one I only knew you know certain key points that that were brought out in sermons.

And.

Learning the fine points of that one viewpoint was was very difficult to try to understand and Figure out you had to do a lot of jumping jacks and putting puzzle pieces together and still was so hard to understand for me and and I'm thinking is is that that's the only view and know that that's not the only view and Not only are we not having conversation in our churches about in times.

No, it's not the only doctrine we need to. We need to you know have conversations and teachings on on everything in Scripture but this is one of the key doctrines in Scripture the the second coming of Christ the end times and and How we view it how we interpret it how we understand it from Scripture Makes a difference in our life, and how we apply it.

So When when we look at Scripture.

When we.

We let the Bible tell us what eschatology what in times Doctrine it teaches. We let God tell us that we we let God put us in a box. And and let him tell us who he is and what he's doing what he's gonna do and then once he does that then we we can Look at other passages of Scripture and and see See it in light of what God has taught us and and then apply those things.

I had had a couple conversations today and. They were of course One of the reasons you want to wear provocative shirts is to start provocative conversations. And that's what I did today. It started the conversation they were asking me about post-millennialism, and if I knew what it mean and talking about the other views and.

Of course the the mark of the beast come up this person was actually an amillennialist but they still believe that we're going to go through a tribulation and. The Conversation for him even led to the mark of the beast and the financial situation and how things have changed and everything's going to a digital currency and.

And there's even people putting chips in their body. In certain countries he was talking about it and he said he was warning me about about the the chip for the the financial reason or whatever reasons and warning me not to get it because that was probably going to be the mark of the beast and my question Dan was what's what's wrong with the Technical advancements technology advancements in in our financial services.

What's what's wrong with that?

Practically a lot of problems. Practically.

Well, well practically, yeah, you know, I had my practical arguments against why I didn't want to want to get the chip but theologically. You know coming from a post-mill perspective. You know the conversation starts off with you you have gold or whatever you barter and then you have gold and then you have eventually.

However, the financial system progressed eventually. You have paper money. You have IOUs you have coins and then you have credit cards debit cards and it's all going digital. And and now of course, there are we do know that there are people putting chips or whatever that you can just you know scan.

And they make bracelets now for business cards or digital cards. So you can scan it with your phone and your information pops up like a digital business card. But theologically. You know from a post-mill perspective, how would you answer that?

From a post-millennial perspective, I don't think it has much. Only it has much to do with the end times. Now it does have a lot to do with how we conduct ourselves as Christian. That that we as those who are supposed to be discipling the nation's, you know.

How are we going to teach people about being secure with their funds? How are we going to make sure that we are being practical and wise and our business dealings. How are we. How are we as Christians going to be the ones?

Who come out of the other side of a recession or even a complete global? Economic meltdown like it looks like we're heading into. How are we going to be the ones? Who can show the rest of the world? This is how you survive.

When? No, you have a moment where everything kind of implodes on itself. You know, how is it that the Christian can say that things are okay and things are going to get better. No, if. Well, how would you how would we say that.

And we say that because of the way that the Bible has taught us to be wise with our money.

To be.

Secure in our dealings not to. There's several things in the Proverbs about not giving loans to people where you don't have security in it. No, go if you've made a I think of one is if you make a. If you've put up a pledge for somebody I think it's for someone you don't know or for Someone that you don't trust.

This is like run go back get your get your cloak back. Don't don't fall into that trap. So as far as going on a gold standard or bar system We need to be anti fragile, but as far as looking out for a mark of the beast or a End-times thing where we may inadvertently get tripped up into something there's a lot of freedom knowing that.

That's that's not the case now. It could very well be that we may back ourselves into a corner where? Some of this stuff may function like the mark of the beast. No drop your pinch of incense here or you can't buy or sell, you know.

Say that no go through your diversity training, you know, don't say that there's only two genders. Don't say that marriage is only between a man or a woman. Deny these doctrines of God deny his creative.

No order the way that he said things are going to be deny those things and you can have Commerce you can buy and sell and trade. We do need to take lessons. From the Bible and from the early church and things like that.

So practically speaking there's a lot that we can learn right as far as Looking for a mark of the beast. Something like that. I think that is uh, as over no more. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah with just going off what you were just saying, but we don't want to. We don't want to take the footing away from ourselves in my Opinion that we have right now the position. We don't want to give up the position that we have right now.

When it comes to being able to do some of those things that you were talking about. You think about the first century church and and the position that they were in we talk about how. From the post mills for first, well, it's not just the post mill perspective.

I mean, it's just reality the church started out, you know small. And now I know I've heard you Quote this quite a few times. They're they're more Christians today than there were people alive in the time of Jesus.

Mm-hmm. And so They they didn't have much of a choice but to. You know either Say Jesus is Lord or Caesar is Lord and and be done with it, you know, they didn't have much choice but Look where we are now.

Look at the footing that we have now the position that we have now we can and this is part of the Conversation different conversation that I had with somebody different after the one earlier. We were talking about Where our churches are today and they want entertainment we won't entertain.

I want to be entertained our churches want to be entertained. We set aside biblical knowledge. We set aside truth and because we we won't our way. We won't certain things. We won't entertain or whatever it is with that.

We won't in the church we set aside the biblical standard and biblical truth and I said, well, there's something else that you can add to that we We set aside Scripture and all the mandates of Scripture.

Because we've been taught that the the rapture is imminent. We're going to escape this world and so No wonder we're losing our footing. No wonder we're not taking advantage of the position that we're in.

God has given us a country Where we can Christians can hold office Christians can vote Christians can have influence, but all we're doing is Living out practically. Our eschatology we've been taught. You know set aside Scripture and and just look for the imminent return of Christ the imminent rapture.

That's going to happen any any moment and not worry about the world because it's just going it's you know going downhill anyway. And that was part of the conversation that we had and we shouldn't Lose the footing and lose the position because this could be a glorious time.

I.

Was part of the conversation that I had with folks trying to introduce them to the abortion Anti-abortion ministry that I'm a part of trying to get My county to pass a resolution that says we are a safe County for the pre-born and their families.

I was telling these folks look. This could be the the Berlin Wall of our time. We could see this wall fall down on one side you had baby you have babies being murdered and on the other side you have freedom for children and and freedom for God's Word and Morality and freedom for life and we need to break down this wall if we just continue doing as is you know we vote for the Right politician, and then we go back to our normal lives.

We're just going to continue to go through the same cycle. But but there are things that we can do. God has given us this position Where we can have influence and we can do things where we can tear down walls and save babies we can Save marriage we can Win this world for Christ.

But if we continue to set aside the knowledge set aside the truth set aside the Bible and Just living out that practical theology that comes from the the pre-millennial dispensational view. We're just going to continue to cycle.

And that that's why we want to have this conversation about post-millennialism and and it's The the truth of it how while we see it in Scripture while we believe that's what God teaches and how It can bring joy to your life.

How you can actually see things change in your life. If we live this out practically. If we actually we preach that God is in control that Jesus reigns, but we need to live it. We need to live out that theology and not just you know.

Have our eyes to the sky looking for this this certain event. Anything else you want to add?

There's so many things that we can we can get caught up with thinking that we either either we sit back and do nothing or Think that we're in such a small Position that we're not going to be able to affect any change and not that only that we personally wouldn't be able to but that.

There's no possibility of affecting any change, of course through the preaching of the gospel, but Proverbs 30 28 says the lizard is Easily grasped with his hand with a hand, but it's even in Kings palaces.

How easy is it to take down just just one Christian. I Mean, it'd be super easy to cancel. Just one Christian just to put him to the side. But where are we? We're everywhere. I mean, we're like little lizards like crawling on walls and stuff like.

Think about it. Um the book of Esther. Esther was just hanging out. She got scooped up by a king who got in a fight with his wife and all of a sudden she's in the king's palace. Why? She was pretty. Because God put her there.

And then what spectacular thing did she do? She didn't do anything incredibly spectacular. Um. But but what what did she do? She was faithful. She went to her husband and said hey you you realize that.

You've just said that all of my people can die. Like why would you do that to us? He's like I did what I I shouldn't be doing this and then. The the Jews were saved all because Esther was faithful to to her God and to her people.

It doesn't take much then that and that's the thing God isn't on. On our end God's plans aren't always known and generally it's not something.

Mm.

Large scale that's going to affect the most change. It's just going to be these simple basic.

Everyday.

Being God's people that is going to affect change. So when we look at certain things like Psalm 2 which we're about to look at and Maybe I don't know we may get lost. But.

There's.

Plots and in schemes and plans that the world just has no plan for God in and yet God is going to Put his purpose forward through one little decision here one little faithful person there. All the way to where his His gospel has gone forward and his kingdom is established all over the earth.

That the knowledge of the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the seas like Habakkuk and Isaiah both said.

Yeah, yeah.

And I want to Latch on to what something that you said because you said something that Was brought out in in our sermon at church this morning. That is so encouraging and I want to encourage the people that are watching the video with this word.

You ask yourself. What what can I do?

Um.

Well, who am I and what can I do? I'm just one person. I'm just one Christian. You know, we're supposed to be changing the world taking over the world. What can I do? Let me encourage you with this. The sermon was from Isaiah 43 1 1 through 3 and It says.

But now thus says the Lord your creator Oh Jacob and he who formed you Oh Israel. Do not fear for I have redeemed you. We've got a We've got a look at the weightiness of what what these words are. In these verses God is our creator and he formed us.

What does that mean? It's just what Dan said about Esther. He he made you and he put you where you are and he put you in those circumstances and He put you there because he made you to fit that circumstance and He's going to be with you and protect you and use you in those circumstances.

So what whether you are ministering to to one individual or 1 ,000 individuals? We should compare ourselves with one another. We should be living in joy because I'm ministering where God put me and how and how he made me to minister.

And that's why that's why women, especially Mothers are so important. Because mothers in raising their children raising their children Well are doing the work of ministering to you to into those young people's lives, right?

I think in the the final analysis We're gonna see far more faithful women in high places For eternity because they did just that they were in their place that submitted to God and they did as they were supposed to do.

And making sure their children heard the Word of God and Were uplifted and raised in the faith because they were faithful to what God had called them to do. Whereas a whole bunch of dudes out here trying to do stuff on their own strength Just messing stuff up all over the place, which you know guilty.

No, we may we'll probably have to answer for a bit more of why we're so you know boneheaded on the final analysis, so it's I guess we'll.

Keep each other honest. I guess I'm totally on board with with what you're saying. Totally on board.

And.

Well, we have to understand the reality. You know in 100 years. Nobody's gonna you know after we're gone 100 years later. Nobody's gonna remember who we are, but God made us we are his. We are precious to the precious one because he he made us we're his and He bought us with the price.

He redeemed us. He made us were made in his image and we were redeemed. We were bought with the price. So we we were made precious in both. In both aspects and and we were made for a purpose and that purpose is the ministry.

It's a in the circumstances where God put us and and He's going to reward obedience and it's not it's not like the world sees it. We want to compare ourselves with with the world and our. How our life is turning out and does it does it look like what the world says it should look like?

That's not where our reward is going to come from that's not where God is gonna receive the glory. It's like Dan was saying God's gonna receive the glory and we're gonna see receive the reward for our obedience and You know, we may feel like we were stuck in a dungeon and we're not making a difference.

But we are glorifying God because we're being obedient and that's that's what matters. That's what counts. And that's looking at the big picture and and that's what we want to do is as Post-millennialist is look at the big picture.

And not the small picture. Because that's what that's how God is working over over the big picture.

You ready to look at Psalm chapter 2? Yeah, let's let's show people how we can take down the communists. Okay.

Let's do it we won't we won't tear down that wall. We want to save babies and we want to bring God's glory to this nation in this world. Psalm chapter 2. If you're following with us if you want to look in your Bibles Let's take it.

One verse at a time it's not very long. Starting at verse 1 why are the nations in an uproar? When I read that verse man, I'm sorry to stop already, but When I when I read that verse I think about conversations that I've had with with folks that are You know pre-millennial dispensation with with Amil.

They they can't help but Remind me of how bad things look. Hey things are looking so bad and And I read this verse and and I'm like So did the psalmist. We are not unique In things looking bad. Yeah.

Kind of. Because he real quick changes his tune, but. But we'll get there in a little bit. Okay wanted to say.

That.

It's tempting to look at the world as being Horrific and wrong when we see the Nate or is you know the I got the new King James in front of me today for some reason. It says why do the nation's rage, you know, why are they up in arms?

Why are they? Brah, why are they doing stuff against God? And then to remember on our end that sin is self-destructive. Like what is the end of sin? It's death it it implodes on itself so the the Nastier the more wicked a nation becomes.

It's not something to fear. It's something to say. All right. God's about to do something because he said hold on for a second. I've got to let the Amorites fill up their wickedness, but 400 years later when they'd filled up their wickedness.

They were destroyed. It's the same thing when we look out at the nation's raging against God today. What do we think do we as they get worse? Do we think? Oh, no here it comes or do you think?

All right, here it comes. All right, right and just to hear you say that Brings me joy. I'm looking at Christ and and I'm being filled with joy. Because of my perspective because the perspective that you're talking about.

And and us and I won't I so desire. I don't want to use the word won't but I so desire that. And I face difficulties in the past and The difficulties that that God has brought in my life. But but when I face difficulties in the future My desire is for the Holy Spirit to continue to work that perspective in my heart.

Look God is doing something and God is going to do something. God is accomplishing something and it's for his for my good in his glory.

And and.

Instead of doom and gloom instead of self absorbing self. You know, what was me. Have that perspective that you're talking about. Because and I think now's the time to do it and we shouldn't feel guilty for having that joy right now because it's it's uh, that was another point in the sermon that we heard today is that For us to have that perspective then you've got to be practicing practicing that perspective.

Now, I Think it's good for us to do that.

Yeah, it's good to remember that the Christians are like cockroaches and Twinkies when everything melts down. We're still going to be here, right? It said so in Romans 8 it gives a long list, you know, what can separate us from the love of Christ can peril or famine or sword or.

It lists four or five other things and it says in these things in those things. And the Tribulation and the trial and the persecution. And you know when you're starving to death when people are trying to cancel you and put you out.

It's in those moments that you are more than a conqueror through him who loved us. So it's in it's in those moments that we see our victory. You know, people think that victory looks like World War two they think it looks like hey America came in swinging and we won.

We put those. Those folks back over there in Germany. We'll put those folks back over there in Japan and Italy kind of took care of itself who knows what they were doing and. But it's not like that because you know, I forget where.

But he says that uh. That God's gonna get the glory for it and that it was it was a story of Gideon he says I basically told him I whittled you down to 300 people because. In the end, I want you to be able to point and say God gave us this victory.

Yeah, and and when when when you think the enemy's looking at you and they're just seeing you know one. It may be that circumstance where they're they're looking and they see the whole Ridge full of torches and soldiers and it's and We need to remember that.

Visible or not the Ridge Honda the Ridge beside of us on either side of us. The the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. So our our Our quiver is always full of arrows because we've got the Lord. Our our Ridge is always full of soldiers because we have the Lord.

Just just having him.

Is it's all we need right. And that's why you should have children. Serious is it. That's what the whole River full is about. It's about having children and then firing your arrows of the devil. That's right.

You're not just having children to say one. One's pink and one's blue who now we're through. That's right. Having children because it is a means of combating.

Evil.

No, I should be able to take my sons and my daughter and you know. They turn 18 and kind of draw back and let an arrow fly and then you know. Watch what havoc my if my son's wrecked half the havoc on the kingdom of Satan as they have on my living room.

They're gonna tear some stuff off.

Well, and that's another reason why we're in the shape that we're in is because we want to. We've been duped into thinking that we should be striving for the American dream. And so the creation mandate right and that creation mandate has extended through all the all the forefathers throughout the Old Testament up until Jesus who Through us he is going to be the one who successfully Fulfills that mandate.

And we're we get to be a part of that. And so we we need to leave this Self-absorbed American dream You know to the side in the trash and and follow the creation mandate and the Great Commission. Let's get let's go on to verse one part B.

And then I'll read maybe read it two or three and the and the people's devising a vain thing. The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord is anointed.

Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us. What's going on here, Dan?

It I.

Guess the best way to look at it is that people are trying to assert their own autonomy. And we've seen it all the way back in the garden. Eve knew what was right and what was wrong.

I.

Don't know if she added in the extra rule of no, don't touch because she was she'd been mistaught or because she understood the seriousness of of what she was up against and touching the fruit or not tasting the fruit or whatever, but but the Big thing that happened there was that she thought that she could determine what was right and wrong for herself.

Adam, you know seeing nothing happened to his wife said well, hey, that's pretty good let me try to determine what's right and wrong for myself as well and Instead of being deceived he up and does something willfully sinful.

We see it All over the place folks do not want to listen to what God has to say see it in the abortion issue in people making Evil evil laws in regards to finance we think just back in our own country's history of redlining.

Different bank practices subprime mortgages. Back in Israel's history if you look at Micah, he talks about people who would make laws in order to steal money from folks. They do things. The nation's we as humans want to determine what is right or wrong so that way we can live the lot our lives the way that we want to in order to Live without having that judge over top of us and that that's what it gets down to.

It's not so much. We want this law or that law because this makes us feel good. It's we do not want to have a God over us who can tell us what to do. They're plotting a vein thing they're taking counsel together saying well if we just set ourselves up like this.

That God guy won't be a problem anymore. We can put Christianity to bed once and for all we don't have to listen to that to that garbage that Hate speech. Yeah. That's why I says their bonds let's break their bonds.

Because they think that that the reason they think that it's a really twisted way of looking at sin. They look at the problem of sin as if if there was no one there to tell us that was wrong. It wouldn't actually be wrong.

So they're saying that because there is a lawgiver. They're breaking of the law. Puts them in bondage to sin. So if you do away with the law, there is no sin. Therefore they don't have any bonds. They don't have any Fetters, I don't have any chains on them.

They can be free. And you hear that language of the sexual revolution. Different things going on in our culture today with the the LGBTQ plus agenda. Reproductive you hear reproductive freedom. It's not reproductive freedom.

You're murdering a child. You just don't want the consequences. You they cast their cords away from us. We don't want you to bind us to. We don't want our conscience is bound to what God has to say. We want to take that tear it down throw it away and we want to live lives on our own terms.

They want to be God. It's pure paganism.

Connection that we're seeing here in in verse two and three with this Taking their stand and and let us let us break the chains or tear the the bonds that you were talking about. And and that connection that the psalmist is making with his anointed so the the Casting away of the the chains the the bonds is.

Is an attack on on the anointed on the Messiah, right which is coming to take away sins of the world. Anyway, yeah. Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. It's like we don't want your we don't you're the one who caused the problem and we don't want your solution anyway.

So, please leave us alone. Yeah. It takes takes tons of different forms. I was only half playing about how to take down the communists. The communism is one of them that where they set themselves up to be God lawgiver.

We're seeing America where we're just we're trying to do it in a more Republic Democracy type setting. How you saw it in the monarchs, you know people who the Caesars claim to be deity.

Yeah, well, you can see this you can see this in the conversations that you have with the. Going back to your perspective coming from the the pre meal dispensation coming from a meal coming from post meal.

You can see That in the conversations you have with them. Because the the the folks that are looking for the or they're seeing the Gradual or continual decline everything's going to get continue to get worse and worse and worse.

They're usually the ones that that have the perspective. We don't need to mix Religion and politics. I can't speak to this from the pulpit because it's it's political. I don't need to get political you know, we just Need to keep it separate from religion.

You have that perspective and they hold that perspective but here. That those political Conversations that you were bringing up the the life issue the the gender issue the marriage issue, you know all those political issues.

The psalmist is telling us is an attack against the Messiah. Yeah, and so therefore it becomes. And a attack against us attack against our team and it becomes part of our battle.

Right.

We you almost and it's I don't think it's on purpose. So if anybody's listening from one of these perspectives, especially the guys that we do these programs I'm not trying to like put this on y 'all.

All right, right. It's not everybody using. But it it looks Gnostic and here's what I mean by that. It looks like we've made a distinction between the physical realm that we live in the spiritual realm as the physical realm that we live in being evil and lost and the spiritual realm being good and positive and.

They don't mix. Whereas we know that the earth is the Lord's and all that's in it. It's not just a spiritual thing. When or it's not just a physical thing an earthly temporal thing when these Political leaders are Acting out against God.

It is also inherently spiritual because the spiritual and physical realms are Well distinct they are a part of one reality. So to say that I can't get political from the pulpit like you have to like you don't have a choice.

Everything that is done in the political realm is a spiritual act as well. There's there's no division there, which is why I don't see I don't see that argument as being very valid. It's it's not just a spiritual thing or a physical thing.

There is one reality that we're a part of and while there are different aspects of that reality. We have to live under with the understanding of there being a whole a whole thing there. So while we are while we may go out at.

Um.

Specifically like what you're doing in Lincoln County with the with the abortion issue. Trying to do those things. You're not just trying to do that for as a political stand. No, go elephants. What you're the whole reason behind is because Jesus is Lord and Because people need salvation and healing from that sin of abortion that is so prevalent in the area.

Yeah, yeah.

Go ahead, you know.

That was pretty much it. I was just gonna say I'll say it again. Go ahead. Oh, well.

I'm just reminded of more things that were brought up in the conversation that I had today even though even though the person that I was talking to is more a meal. They also see the need to be, you know, politically motivated and The fact that we need believers in office and that and this person saw the they saw that.

The fact that Jesus is on his throne. Jesus is King. So therefore It is political in and of itself because he's. He's King. He's Lord. He's ruler. And so therefore it makes it makes it political. It's not just spiritual and you know and invisible world versus physical material world.

No, Jesus is King. Therefore. He's over all. He quoted the hymn. This is my father's world. He talked about God being the God of this world. Thy kingdom come thou will be done on earth as it is in heaven.