The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
David speaks from hard experience: many conspired to keep him from the throne, and by mere reason he might have despaired. But he knew himself appointed by God, unsought and unforeseen, and so he steeled himself against the whole world with confidence in His power alone.
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Commenting on Psalm 2:1-12
Look away from the raging counsel-chamber of men to the majesty on high. God does not even rise to battle these rebels; He laughs at them because their opposition to His Son is absurd, irrational, and utterly futile.
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Satan knows that as Christ's kingdom rises, his falls, so he wages war without mercy. But mark the paradox: never were false philosophies or tyrannies resisted so fiercely as Christ's doctrine and rule. That violence proves it came from heaven, for the opposition plainly came from hell.
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Commenting on Psalm 2:1-6