ASK OF ME, AND I WILL GIVE YOU HEATHEN AS YOUR POSSESSION

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For SUNDAY, 5TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: ASK OF ME, AND I WILL GIVE YOU HEATHEN AS YOUR POSSESSION 

MEMORIZE: “Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.” Psalm 2:8

SCRIPTURE READING: – Psalm 2:6-9.

"Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion." "I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.'"”

EXPOSITION:

A title by inheritance Ps 2:7: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.  This scripture the apostle quotes in Heb 1:5 to prove that Christ has a more excellent name than the angels, but that he obtained it by inheritance, Ps 2:4. He is the Son of God, not by adoption, but his begotten Son, the only begotten of the Father, John 1:14. And the Father owns him, and will have this declared to the world as the reason why he is constituted King upon the holy hill of Zion; he is therefore unquestionably entitled to, and perfectly qualified for, that great trust. He is the Son of God, and therefore of the same nature with the Father, has in him all the fulness of the godhead, infinite wisdom, power, and holiness. 

Being a Son, he is heir of all things, and, the Father having made the worlds by him, it is easy to infer thence that by him also he governs them; for he is the eternal Wisdom and the eternal Word.  If God hath said unto him, "Thou art my Son," it becomes each of us to say to him, "Thou art my Lord, my sovereign." 

Jesus is the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person (Ps 2:3), and to the evidence and demonstration given of it by his resurrection from the dead. It was by the resurrection from the dead, that he was declared to be the Son of God with power, Romans 1:4. Christ is the first begotten and first-born from the dead, Rev. 1:5; Col. 1:18. Immediately after his resurrection he entered upon the administration of his mediatorial kingdom; it was then that he said, All power is given unto me.

The Son must ask. This supposes his putting himself voluntarily into a state of inferiority to the Father, by taking upon him the human nature; for, as God, he was equal in power and glory with the Father and had nothing to ask. It supposes the making of a satisfaction by the virtue of which the intercession must be made, and the paying of a price, on which this large demand was to be grounded; see John 17:4-5. The Son, in asking the heathen for his inheritance, aims, not only at his own honour, but at the happiness of his subjects in him; so that he intercedes for them, and is therefore able to save to the uttermost. 

The Church is also to ask with the promise that God will answer her. Matt. 7:7-8.

The Father will grant more than to the half of the kingdom, even to the kingdom itself.  It is here promised him, 

[1.] That his government shall be universal: he shall have the heathen for his inheritance, not the Jews only, to whose nation the church had been long confined, but the Gentiles also.  

[2.] That it shall be victorious: You shall break them with a rod of iron, Ps 2:9. This was in part fulfilled when the nation of the Jews, those that persisted in unbelief and enmity to Christ's gospel, were destroyed by the Roman power, which was represented in Daniel 2:40 by feet of iron, as here by a rod of iron. 

It had a further accomplishment in the destruction of the Pagan powers, when the Christian religion came to be established; but it will not be completely fulfilled till all opposing rule, principality, and power, shall be finally put down, 1Co 15:24; Ps 110:5-6. Revelation 2:27 “'He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessels' --as I also have received from My Father;”. 

Nations shall be ruined, rather than the gospel church not to be built and established. I have loved thee, therefore will I give men for thee, Isa 43:4. "Thou shall have power to do it; none shall be able to stand before thee; and thou shall do it effectually." Those that will not bow shall break. 

ACTION POINT: In singing this, and praying it over, we must give glory to Christ as the eternal Son of God and our rightful Lord, and must take comfort from this promise, and plead it with God, that the kingdom of Christ shall be enlarged and established and shall triumph over all opposition.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Joshua 19 - 21

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