Psalm 2:4 English Standard Version (ESV) He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Derision according to the Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon is spoken in a foreign language. Those in the world could not understand it even if they heard God because they did not have spiritual ears to hear. We have spiritual ears. What do we hear?

Since they will not listen or obey what God has said and provided, then God put His own King on the throne of earth.

Now we have entered into the realm of Kingdom living.

Psalm 2:6 English Standard Version (ESV) “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”

God speaks to us here in the past tense. When this psalm was written did they look to the past to identify who this King on Zion might be?

We live in a future time and Christ has come and done the work of the cross.

Where does Christ rule and reign?

The more we read the word of God the more questions we have.

Isaiah 1:18 English Standard Version (ESV) “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

This is the essence of Sunday school. We discover that we do not know it all. We should have questions. We should be allowed to speak about these things and not be made to just listen.

Speaking up in the congregation during a sermon is not the place to voice questions. That is disruptive and disrespectful. If we should find ourselves wanting an answer during a sermon, great, write it down and ask questions about that in the proper place.

Sunday school is one place. Life groups is another. Bible studies is another.

Choosing where to ask our questions will often come from the comfort we have found with others, our safe place.

Psalm 2 English Standard Version

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

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.

Recognize the words related to worldly people, their motivations and their desires.

Can we answer the question posed in verse 1? It will not be found in our hearts but rather in our mind and emotions. Rage and plots are the province of the mind. We see in ourselves how that might feel because we have lived in the world and can easily recognize what enrages us and what we have plotted that did not work out as we expected.

We can relate to those thoughts.

Then see with our spiritual eyes what the Lord says.