God’s Anointed - Psalm 2

Who is your Jesus? A spiritual guru? A new age hippie, tolerant of everyone and everything? Non-judgemental, loving everyone unconditionally? A son of God, like all of us are sons of God? A social justice warrior? A prophet, teacher and great man, but just a man?

Culture has many ideas of who Jesus is. These ideas naturally influence us. Yet surely our picture of Jesus needs to be informed by Scripture itself? Even as Christians it’s easy for us to just focus on portions of the Jesus of the Bible that we like – that he didn’t condemn the woman in adultery, that he healed the sick, he comforted the mourning, that he came to serve and not to be served. All great and true things about Jesus. Yet we must never lose the broader Scriptural teaching about Jesus – great king over all, God’s anointed king. Some of these things about him may even make us squirm or feel uncomfortable. NB – picture of Jesus we worship must be informed by the whole counsel of God.

Psalm 2 is one of the most quoted psalms in the NT. This is because it speaks very clearly about Jesus. It confirms that Jesus is indeed the promised Messiah of God, God’s anointed king.

Preacher: Antonio Coppola.