Psalm 2
August 30, 2020
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”

~Voltaire

“For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself then he has naught,
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way.”

~“My Way,” popularized by Frank Sinatra

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. ”

~Martin Luther

“What are you really living for? It’s crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You’re always making something look big. If you don’t glorify God when you’re involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.”

~Ken Sande, Resolving Everyday Conflict

“The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual… Yet He restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.”

~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Sermon Passage

Psalm 2 (ESV)

¹ 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.”

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.”

⁷  I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
⁸  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
⁹  You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

¹⁰ Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with  trembling.
¹² Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.