“As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
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
While rebels rage and plot, God merely speaks and His purpose stands unmoved. He has already set His King on Zion while their fury still burns; their will froths and exhausts itself in vain against His. Yet Jesus reigns, and greater triumphs wait when He shall take His power and rule from sea to sea.
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Commenting on Psalm 2:5
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