Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, June 09, 2008 6:35:29 PM
‘Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?’
God says to His Anointed that the nations belong to Him. He is King over the Church [Hebrews 12:22-24], having purchased her with His own blood.
‘Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.’
The High King of Heaven will not be denied His possession.
‘Now therefore, be wise…
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.’
The purpose of the Gospel is not to make America a righteous nation, but to call the redeemed to faith. The redeemed must come to the Redeemer from all the nations and from every generation.
‘Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.’
We have enjoyed the good Providence of God as the fruits of the work of our faithful forefathers. The system they put in place and blessed of God was a product of Gospel preaching where the revealed wisdom of God had its sanctifying influence over the whole culture. We as a culture have exchanged revealed truth for a hodgepodge of secularism and false religions that demean the name of Christ.
Apart from revealed truth we should not expect the system to be sustained. The truth of which I speak was laid out in the first systematic theology of the Christian religion in Calvin’s Institutes. That great work that broke the back of the apostate church in that day and influenced our founding is now disparaged or ignored by the culture and is an embarrassment to the churches. Now the Protestants are the apostate church of this day.
The fulfillment of Psalm 2 is in the words of Christ, “I will build My Church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”