"The Appeal of the Messiah"

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Psalm 2:10-12: Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth.  Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.  Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

 

Here is an outline of these final verses that I trust you will review as they speak so much of the future that awaits us as believers.  I am sure there are days that you feel defeated.  Let these verses cheer you.   Indeed, we win!

 

A. The Admonition—Be wise (v. 10)

1. Destruction awaits rejecters (Matthew 21:44)

2. The stone will defeat the nations (Daniel 2)

B. The Direction—Serve the Lord with fear (v. 11)

1. The fear is a trembling reverence (Hebrews 12:28)—there must ever be a holy fear mixed with the Christian’s joy. Fear, without joy, is torment, and joy, without holy fear, would be presumption.

2. The rejoicing is gladness in the Lord and His service (Psalm 32:8). I think about all those who laugh to themselves that they have fooled God. They have cheated him from their time of worship, or think that they will still get all they need even though they cheat him with their tithes that they do not give.

C. The Final Persuasion—Kiss the Son (v. 12)

1. The thought of requiring a kiss is a sign of honor and a sign of allegiance to the King.

2. From John 5:23 we find that if we do not Kiss the Son, we have no part with the Father also.

Note the benediction with which the Psalm closes: “Blessed are they that put their trust in Him.” Our faith may be slender as a spider’s thread; but if it be real, we are in our measure blessed. The more we trust, the more fully shall we know this blessedness. We may therefore close the Psalm with the prayer of the apostles: “Lord increase our faith.”