He Who Sits in the Heavens Laughs

Psalms 2:1-2 ESV

“Why do the nations rage

    and the peoples plot in vain?

The kings of the earth set themselves,

    and the rulers take counsel together,

    against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,

‘Let us burst their bonds apart

    and cast away their cords from us.’”

The picture the Lord Jesus is giving me of this today is that of people who profess faith in Jesus Christ who give off the appearance of having repented of their sins, who have cast off the fruitless deeds of darkness, and who are no longer walking in deliberate and habitual sin. But it is in appearance only, and not a reality in their lives. Outwardly, for others to see, this is the image they are presenting, but it is in appearance only, and not in truth.

They also give the outward appearance that they are those who are examining the lies and who are clearly seeing the lies for what they are, and that they are now following the truth, and that what they are now speaking is the truth to others. But it is a sham. It only appears that way, for they are really people who are full of pride, who are lowering their moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible, low down dirty.

So, even though they are giving the appearance of following the truth and not the lies and of casting off the lies in favor of the truth, they are those who are actually drawing closer in a more intimate and personal way with what is unholy, ungodly, immoral, dishonest, faithless, and totally wicked. They are getting much more intimately involved with what is hidden, secret, and forbidden, and so they are also toying with false gospels, too.

And so they put on this outward disguise to mask what is really in their hearts, and to coverup what they are really doing in secret, in an attempt to deceive others into thinking that they are walking the straight and narrow while, in truth, they are going even deeper into moral depravity. And that is often the modus operandi of those who are living in addiction, trying to make you believe all is well, when the opposite of that is what is truth.

So these are people who plot against the Lord and against his word and against his servants and messengers. And so they gather together with others who are of like-mindedness, and they take counsel together against the Lord, and against the truth of the gospel, and they alter the truth of the gospel in order to gratify the sinful cravings of the flesh without conscience and without remorse and without feeling guilty for the evil they are doing.

And this is taking place within the gatherings of the church, and/or in what is falsely being called church here in America, big time. So they have altered and they have diluted the gospel of Christ to make it to where those who profess faith in Jesus Christ can now keep on in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord without conscience or remorse, so that they don’t have to feel guilty for sinning against God and against other humans to harm them.

Psalms 2:4-12 ESV

“He who sits in the heavens laughs;

    the Lord holds them in derision.

Then he will speak to them in his wrath,

    and terrify them in his fury, saying,

‘As for me, I have set my King

    on Zion, my holy hill.’

“I will tell of the decree:

The Lord said to me, ‘You are my Son;

    today I have begotten you.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,

    and the ends of the earth your possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron

    and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.’

“Now therefore, O kings, be wise;

    be warned, O rulers of the earth.

Serve the Lord with fear,

    and rejoice with trembling.

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.”

I like what the Pulpit Commentary has to say about God laughing at people who do such things, and of how God holds them in derision:

“God ‘laughs’ at the vain and futile efforts of man to escape from the control of his laws and throw off his dominion (comp. Psalm 37:13; Psalm 59:8). It is impossible that these efforts should succeed. Men must obey God willingly, or else unwillingly. The Lord (Adonay in the ordinary Hebrew text, but a large number of manuscripts have Jehovah) shall have them in derision. ‘Laughter’ and ‘derision’ are, of course, anthropo-morphisms. It is meant that God views with contempt and scorn man's weak attempts at rebellion.”

And who is God’s King on Zion? Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And what did Jesus Christ teach? He said that if anyone would come after him he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we save our lives, i.e. if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we deny self, die daily to sin, and walk in obedience to his commands under the New Covenant, we have eternal life (Luke 9:23-26).

And what else did he teach? He taught that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven but only the one DOING the will of God the Father who is in heaven. For many will stand before him one day professing him as Lord and claiming the things they did in his name, but he is going to say to them, “I never knew you. Depart from me you workers of lawlessness,” for they did not obey the Lord, but they only gave an appearance of being his followers, but not in truth (Matthew 7:21-23).

For Jesus Christ is going to judge all of us on the basis of what we do, by our works, by our deeds. If we are those who are walking in obedience to his commands, in his power and strength, who are dying daily to sin and who are living holy lives pleasing to him, then we will have eternal life in him. But if we are those who are deliberately and habitually continuing in sin against our Lord and against other humans, and so we are not obeying him, then we have the promise of facing God’s wrath and of the fires of hell for eternity.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Seek the Lord  

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Based off Isaiah 55

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.

Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.

The mountains will burst into song… before you, 

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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