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The President Check out Psalm 2, ladies and gentlemen.

See out Psalm 2, ladies and gentlemen.

Psalm 2 says this, why do the nations conspire and the people's plot in vain?

The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed saying,

let us break their chains and throw off their shackles. The one enthroned in heaven laughs. The

Lord scoffs at them. Now what's this about? They weren't quite prepared for the Messiah

that Jesus represented. They imagined a political solution.

They preferred freedom from Roman oppression.

By the time Jesus arrived, the Romans were the overlords of the land, which was humiliating

for the people.

They were subjugated to the Roman soldiers, to Roman authority.

They paid excessive taxes,

they endured abusive treatment, they were not equal before the law.

And therefore their imagination was Messiah when he came would remove the political restraints.

It really seems to me that this is talking about how the nations around the world are in rebellion against God.

Jesus' message was directed at the behavior of the covenant people of God.

They wanted someone to talk to the Romans, and he talked to them.

He said, you're not reading the scriptures scriptures right. You have much religious activity and

lots of religious language and you have religious rules for what to eat and when to worship and how to

worship. But your hearts are far from God. And we see that in our government now. We see that in

human governments all over the world. We as people don't

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