In response to the striving of nations and the evil of human hearts, God crowns His Son, Jesus Christ, as the world's true King. The message was given on Dec 15, 2013 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, go to www.NewCityChurch.ca.

1. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 2
Found on pages 448 in our guest Bibles.

2. O come, let us
adore him,
Christ the Lord.

3. “We want a
‘religious’ leader,
not a king!
We want someone
to save our souls,
not rule our world.”

4. “Tidings of Discomfort and Joy”
~ Psalm 2
image: Roger Smith

5. Psalm 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the
peoples plot in vain…?

6. “I led them with cords
of kindness, with
bands of love….”
~ Hosea 11:4

7. Psalm 2:2-3
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rules take counsel
together, against the LORD and
against his Anointed, saying, “Let
burst their bonds apart and cast
away their cords from us…”

8. Aldous Huxley
Author of Brave New World
and Ends & Means
“For myself…the philosophy of meaninglessness
was essentially an
instrument of liberation.
The liberation we desired
was…liberation from a
certain system of morality.
We objected to the morality
because it interfered with
our sexual freedom.”

9. Thomas Nagel
Prof. of Law & Philosophy
New York University
“I want atheism to be true
and am made uneasy by
the fact that some of the
most intelligent and wellinformed people I know
are religious believers. It
isn’t just that I don’t
believe in God and,
naturally, hope that I’m
right in my belief.

10. “It’s that I hope there is no
God! I don’t want there to
be a God; I don’t want the
universe to be like that.”
Thomas Nagel
Prof. of Law & Philosophy
New York University

11. “Long ago you broke off
your yoke and tore off
your bonds; you said,
‘I will not serve you’.”
~ Jeremiah 2:20

12. “The slightest sin is an
act of defiance against
cosmic authority. It is a
revolutionary act, a
rebellious act where we
are setting ourselves in
opposition to the One to
whom we owe everything.”

13. Psalm 2:4
He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the LORD holds them in derision….

14. Psalm 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his
wrath, and terrify them in his fury,
saying….

15. Psalm 2:5-6
Then he will speak to them in his
wrath, and terrify them in his fury,
saying, “As for me, I have set my
king on Zion, my holy hill….”

16. Psalm 2:7
I will tell of the decree: The Lord
said to me, “You are my Son; today
I have begotten you.…”

17. “I will raise up your offspring
after you…and I will
establish his kingdom…. I
will be to him a father, and
he will be to me a son.”
~ 2 Samuel 7:12, 14

18. And we bring you good news that what God has
promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us
their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written
in the second Psalm, “You are my Son, today I
have begotten you.”
~ The Apostle Paul, in Acts 13:32-33

19. “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus… [who] was
declared to be the Son of God in power
according to the Spirit of holiness by his
resurrection from the dead….”
~ The Apostle Paul, in Romans 1:1, 4

20. Psalm 2:8
“…Ask of me, and I will make the
nations your heritage and the ends
of the earth your possession….”

21. ~ Jesus of Nazareth
in Matthew 28:18-20
“All authority in heaven
and earth has been given
to me. Go therefore and
make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all that I
have commanded you.”

22. Psalm 2:9
“…You shall break them with a rod of
iron and dash them to pieces like a
potter’s vessel….”

23. Psalm 2:10
Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be
warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve
the LORD with fear; and rejoice
with trembling….

24. Psalm 2:10
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and you perish for his wrath is
quickly kindled….

25. “For God so loved the
world that he gave his
only Son, that whoever
believes in him might
not perish but have
eternal life.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth
in John 3:16

26. The hands he
holds forth for you
to kiss are the
hands that were
pierced by nails
when he was
crucified in your
place.

27. Psalm 2:10
Blessed are all who take refuge
in him.

28. John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
“The Jerusalem Sinner Saved”

29. In response to the striving
of nations and the evil of
human hearts,
God crowns His Son,
Jesus Christ,
as the world’s true King.

30. 1
Kiss the Son in submission
image: JD Hancock

31. 2
Join the Son in mission.
image: photos.com

32. “
We are Christ’s
ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal
through us. We implore you
on Christ’s behalf: Be
reconciled to God.
~ The Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 5:20
”

33. flickr images courtesy of:
JD Hancock: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/7238856518/
Roger Smith: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65701179@N00/3135628747/
other images:
Photos.com: Comstock / 78530804