Sandals Church Podcast

Pastor Fredo dives into Psalm 2, a powerful declaration about God's sovereignty and the reign of His Anointed One. He breaks down the rebellious nature of the world’s rulers and the unshakable authority of God’s King. Watch as he reflects on how this Psalm points us to Jesus Christ, the ultimate fulfillment of God’s plan.
In prayer, Pastor Fredo emphasizes the security and peace we can find when we submit to God’s authority. Psalm 2 reminds us that God’s plan is unstoppable, and He calls us to take refuge in His Son, Jesus Christ.

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Pastor Fredo Ramos:

For whatever reason, I have always struggled to pray. And so as this new year begins and as many of you think about new routines that you wanna give yourself to, especially for those of you who follow Jesus, I wanna invite you to learn to pray the Psalms with us. It's a practice I picked up years ago that really saved, my ability to learn to pray, to speak to God honestly about how I was feeling and what I was thinking. And so every single day on sandalschurch.tv on YouTube, we're gonna be releasing, praying the Psalms, a psalm a day. We started in January 1st and every day you're gonna get a new psalm, but the opportunity to read the psalm with us, to reflect on a phrase, and then to respond to God in prayer, how to pray through the psalms.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

This has been a gift to me in my own journey with Jesus. I pray that it's a gift to you and so would you join us. Grace and peace. Currently, we are in praying the Psalms and today we are in Psalm chapter 2. You can follow along.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

David writes, why do the nations conspire and the peoples 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. Let us throw off their shackles, but the one enthroned in heaven laughs. The lord scoffs at them. He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath saying I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance. The ends of the earth your possession, you will break them with a rod of iron. Verse 10. Therefore, you kings, be wise, be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

Verse 12 is so good. Kiss his son or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction. For his wrath can flare up in a moment, but blessed are all who take refuge in him as we reflect on this psalm there's a few things to keep in mind first the the psalmist David here is making clear that all of us as human beings we long to be ruled However, the struggle is on a regular basis, we don't accept the one whom God has given to us to rule over us. Even for those of us who profess Jesus as Lord, it's natural for us, because of our sin, to kick against the way that he desires to rule over us. And so David gives us this picture of the the kings, the entire group of nations, rage against God, but almost they do so in vain because because God will do what God desires to do and what he pleases.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

And the good news here is that he has installed us, a king, the one who actually will be just. He will make all things right, and we can actually trust him. And so our invitation to reflect comes there from verse 12. Kiss his son or he will be angry. And then he encourages us to take refuge in him.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

And so at first, you think this idea is like this kind of brutal submission. Kisses ring, you know, submit to him. But the invitation at the end is to take refuge in him. And And so this kind of surrendering to this king, this kind of yielding is one that we do for our good, for our safety, for our actual lives. And so as we think about praying through the Psalm, we realize that Jesus invites us today to trust him as our king.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

With all the things that you face today, with all the issues that you face, with even the things that maybe you are skeptical or resistant to surrender, know that today you surrender to a good king. And, Jesus, we hear you inviting us to surrender ourselves to you as the one who rules over everything. And so we do that. We yield our wills. We yield our desires and our ambitions, and we entrust that our life is in good hands because you are the just king.

Pastor Fredo Ramos:

Amen. Grace and peace continue to follow along with Psalm chapter 3.