You will see that we have another person speaking in these verses from the one whose words appear in verses 1-6. There the speaker is the ‘Psalmist’, who was David. This we are told in Acts 4:24-25.

But in our verses this morning we have the Lord Jesus speaking. This is made clear in verse 7. “I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”

I. CHRIST IS PROCLAIMED THE SON OF GOD.

There is much debate amongst men, especially those who are the enemies of God’s truth, about Who Jesus is. The Father says He is ‘the Son of God’.

The devil questioned Who he was, Matt 4:3. Other devils acknowledged Who He was, Matt 8:29. His disciples realised Who He was, Matt 14:33. The leaders of Israel mocked Him for saying Who He was, Matt 26:64-67. Even in death His title was mocked, Matt 27:40. The Roman centurion had no doubts, Matt 27:54.

We should be like him and believe Who Jesus is.

II. CHRIST IS ASSURED A POSSESSION.

Long, long ago, our heavenly Father promised to the Lord Jesus a wonderful possession. “I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”

He was promised an ‘elect’ people and it was for their salvation that He died. “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep,” John 10:11. These ‘sheep’ were given to the Saviour by the Father. “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand,” John 10:29. They shall be with Him forever, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.

III. CHRIST’S POWER IS ABSOLUTE.

One day the Lord Jesus shall possess the earth and none shall be able to resist His rule without paying a terrible price. “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel,” v. 9.

Oh how the Lord is resisted today and the Lord patiently bears with that defiance. Remember the words of Peter. “The longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,”1 Pet 3:20.

 So God has shown longsuffering toward sinful man since the days of Adam. But it will not always be so. “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer,” Rev 10:5-6.

Please learn that lesson and be in time!