We’ll take your copy of God’s Holy and Inspired Sufficient Word of God and turn to Psalm 2 if you have that copy there with you. And we’re going to go to Psalm 2.

You may recognize this Psalm and the title of the message. It’s the same as what appeared in our bulletin about a month ago. And I confess that I knew Pastor Ryan was going to be preaching in the Psalms on Sunday evenings. And then I saw it. It was the title, Kiss the Son. And that is one of my favorite passages in scripture, one that I have preached in many, many different places, in Christian schools and in different places, and at times have even incorporated the use of my wife in front of kids to kiss her and to talk about different kinds of kissing. It is something to get a standing ovation by a couple of hundred teenagers because they liked my kiss. I got to tell you, that’s a highlight in my life. But about this month ago, I saw that in the bulletin and he was going to preach on that. And he went through that particular sermon and preached. It was an excellent sermon.

It was a sermon on the whole of Psalm 2. He had talked about in his contextual analysis how Chapter 1 is a bit personal and Chapter 2 becomes more national, that there are some messianic aspects of especially the second one, the second Psalm. It’s eschatological, meaning it talks about the future, the kings and the king, and those sort of things. It just set the whole context and was very, very good. And when he was done, but when he came to chapter 12, or rather chapter two or Psalm two and verse 12, that he said, kiss the sun and that that in that is the gospel. And that was pretty much about all that he said and he went on.

Now you see, because I wondered, oh no, is he going to preach a sermon? How would it compare to mine? If anyone remembers years ago when I preached it here, that’s kind of thing what happens in my life when you’re the guy, the old guy who’s been here 30 years and the new guy takes a passage that you preached. And that’s kind of, I’m struggling with that. But his was the view of the whole psalm. And I went up to him right after, I was the first one, I made sure, I was the first one that got to him. And I said, excellent sermon, but you know what I thought of the whole time? I would so wish that we were in a Bible conference and they’d sing a song and we could do tag team and I could take the next sermon and I’ll just go to verse 12. Well, little did I know that in a couple of weeks, he would then graciously ask me. He said, I graciously accepted. I’ll say he graciously extended to me the invitation that that I could come back. And so this is kind of one of those things that there was that that ongoing.

I don’t know if you’ve ever watched tag team wrestling. I don’t know if you have or not. I don’t know if you want to admit it or not that you have done that. But what happens, there’s a lot of excitement. The one guy goes until he’s exhausted and then touches and then the other guy jumps in the ring and he takes on the opposition. Well, that’s kind of what we have here. I’m not going to go back and go through all of the sections of Psalm 2. You can go back to our YouTube channel and you can catch up on that. But I do want to take it a bit further, and I’m tagged, and I’m going to come to verse 12, a truly unique verse in the scriptures, because it talks about kissing. Now, even within our culture, kissing means a lot, but it can mean several different things. But it says, kiss the sun.

You see, there can be the kind of a kiss that yet those who will kiss the hand. Then there can be the kind of kiss that is a sneak kiss when a couple’s getting closer in their relationship and growing closer, closer, and you see if you can sneak a kiss to the cheek or something like that. You’ve got the kind of a kiss that, you know, if you’ve got a cold and you don’t want to share your cold with a significant person in your life, you can just, you know, Go like that. Or you can do the one if you’re further away. And sometimes it’s not convenient to be close together, but you can throw a kiss. And those all have individual meanings and and can be very, very good. But then we all know that there is the kiss, the kiss that is the Big Dipper, you know, the one that go down and and you can the kiss. But what do you do when you come to scriptures? And first of all, when you find it there, and then when you find it not only in the Bible, but you find it in such a serious passage. What does it mean?

Verse 12. Kiss the son, lest he become angry and you perish in the way for his wrath may be soon kindled. I’m going to probably stumble over that because I’m trying to use the legacy Bible and I’ve got it memorized and preached it so many times in Old King James. Kiss the son lest he be angry and you perish in the way when his wrath is kindled, but a little. It’s all there. But what does it mean and what is that context? How does this all come together? Well, in tag team, I’m gonna take the one verse and we’re gonna talk about the gospel. And what does this passage really mean? And I want us to come to it with three different approaches. We’re gonna approach it three different ways. First of all, we are going to approach this word to kiss. Now it becomes obvious that when it says kiss the son, from our perspective, that would mean the Lord Jesus Christ.

We know that from several different things. If we went further up into the passage, verse seven, I will surely tell of the decree of Yahweh. And he said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. There’s no serious interpreter of scripture that would see anything or anyone else but the Lord Jesus Christ in that. So when he said, you are my son, and then it comes on down here and it becomes This idea of the ends of the earth or your possessions, you break them under with a rod of iron that would refer to Christ. You shall shatter them as a potter’s vessel. And then he says, kiss the sun, lest he be angry. The theme and everything is there. The person of the Lord Jesus Christ is the one to whom we are supposed to plant this kiss. Well, it’s kind of important because the reasons are given and that’s the second approach. We’re going to look at the kiss, but we’re going to look at the reasons why we ought to kiss. And it becomes quite clear his anger and our perishing. And he describes the anger and it comes quick and it’s swift. We should be paying attention. And then it goes on to give us the possibilities that I’m going to then take a look at. So let’s come back up to the top here and to look at this term kiss.

It is, as the old Puritans would say, this is a pregnant word. Meaning, it’s full of meaning and it’s used in many, many different ways. The first way in scripture of which we could see this idea of kissing, and this is a general idea that throughout the whole psalm, it’s full of emotion. And I suppose that’s one characteristic that we would say is a motivating factor or is something that is real, is that kissing is an expression of emotion. There’s a lot of feeling that is behind it, and that is true here.

So this word kiss, it’s found in several different places. The kiss of emotion was seen in the life of David and Jonathan in 1 Samuel chapter 20 and verse 41. And that was that account where if you remember that David had been talking to Jonathan and those were two men that loved each other extremely well. Now this world tries to corrupt that and that’s a cry in shame. It’s almost created men to avoid having close relationships and men can have a close relationship to a man, and it can be thoroughly innocent and godly. And that was true in David and Jonathan’s life. And Jonathan was King Saul’s son, if you remember, and David was the The king of king or well, it was the king of kings choice for Israel. It was God’s choice for the nation of Israel. And and King Saul would have the spirit of God to come on him and then he would depart. And that’s not salvation and loss of salvation. That was an anointing of the spirit of God to be able to be the king over God’s people, Israel. And so there would be times when the spirit would leave and David came in and would play the harp and calm him down.

But as time proceeded, and pretty much King Saul knew David was the next king, but he wanted his son Jonathan, that he started hating David. And David had to flee. And David kept trying to convince Jonathan, your dad is trying to kill me. And Jonathan just didn’t think his dad would do that. Well, as this all played out and when David said, well, you go, I’m not going to go to the big feast. You go and you find out his response. Make a long story. Really come down here and to shorten it up. Well, King Saul. showed Jonathan he really did want David dead. And when Jonathan came back, and this was a little thing that they were going to shoot the arrow. Remember, if it comes short, it’s OK. But if it goes beyond, then, yeah, this isn’t a good sign. And then he shot it way beyond. And he told the little young man that was going to gather up the arrows. He said, gather up the arrows, and you can go. And then David, who was there in hiding, came out. And it says that they fell together and they kissed. And then it goes on and uses a word, and they agonized of soul over that. Because that was a time of full emotion. These were two best buds that were being ripped apart.

Now that’s Old Testament. And the word kiss is used there. But it’s used in the New Testament as well. In the book of Acts, chapter 20, Paul had called for the elders at Ephesus. And he was basically telling them, you know, I’m not going to be able to come back. And he talks to them about, be sure that you take care of the church of God over which the Holy Spirit has made you an overseer. But then in Acts chapter 20, verses 36 through the end of the chapter, this is what it says. And when he said these things, he knelt down and he prayed with them all, that is all of the elders that they had gathered there. And they began to weep aloud and falling on Paul’s neck. And they were kissing him. They were kissing him. being in agony, especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship. And Paul would go. And on this earth, they would not see each other again. And this is a basic emotion that comes from this concept of kissing.

We’re not going to talk about how they did that and the customary, the men with the whiskers and they kiss each side or like a lot of the Europeans do. But it was it was always something that was done with agony of soul, with a sense of full emotion. Kiss the son, he’s building up. The feeling of it all. Look at verse 11, just the immediate verse before. Well, let’s go to verse 10 in the stanza. So now, O kings, show insight. Take warning, O judges of the earth. Serve Yahweh with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun. You don’t go halfway with the sun. You don’t trifle with Jesus Christ. I have to just tell you, I’ve been dying to say something like this in public. But, you know, with the whole thing that’s going on in the world in the United States and everybody’s kind of happy that we’re maybe a turning back towards conservatism.

But, you know, if you listen to people talking. And you look at the Instagram and Facebook. I’m an older person, so I do Facebook. TikTok, I haven’t figured out even how to get that TikTok unless it’s transferred over to Instagram. But you listen to people. There’s a sense of conservatism, but don’t mix up conservatism with Christianity. And there’s an awful lot of profanity. that is in this world today by people that vote like us as born again, say, believing Christian people. Be careful of that. And so here, it becomes serious, full of emotion. And there’s people that, they take the name of Christ so flippantly. They need to tremble, but they’re not. They will one day, but they’re not because there’s no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. But that same name has been exalted and is high and it’s lifted up and it’s like no other name. And so we see that this idea of kissing becomes an act of emotion. Now, in First Thessalonians, chapter five and verse 26, that is one of those verses that in First Thessalonians, it goes through, gives us a lot of good instruction, and then it’s going through a lot of final exhortations. And then it says, greet the brethren with a holy kiss. Now, I tried to do that with Brother Harold Cummings today and he almost decked me. No, I just said, kiss me.

Now, and we understand what that means in our culture. We tend to boil that down a little bit and it means a handshake. You greet, but I did that on purpose because you see, it’s still emotional, but it’s emotion with the grieving. And so we greet one another happily, with full of emotion. And in our culture, it can be a handshake. If you’re a hugger, hugging and especially sideline hugging, that’s good. I’ve got several grandkids. I’ve got all my grandkids here. And most of them come up to me and they go, you know, come up and they grab you and want to hug. And we greet one another. Yeah, that’s family. But it’s also congregationally. And we greet one another. And so this idea of kiss the son, there was the kiss of greeting that even came over into the early church, full of emotion.

Have you greeted the Lord Jesus Christ in your life? When you hear his name spoken in a good way, does that draw you in? Do you almost feel an immediate bond with the one who also loves the Lord Jesus Christ? He loves my Savior. She loves my Savior. And I love her with Christian love. And it’s full of emotion. The kiss of greeting. But the real kiss that I tend to think of when I think of this, and it is recorded in three different ways, and they’re all seen the same way, and that is in Genesis 33, in Genesis 45, And in Luke chapter 15, so Old Testament, New Testament, using the term for kiss. And this is the kiss of reconciliation. We use it in our culture, a husband and a wife never have a disagreement, right? Yeah. No, we’re not in the kingdom yet. So, you know, no.

So we have we can have disagreements. And sometimes most of the time it’s over silly stuff. At least when she doesn’t agree with me. No, just kidding. And and, you know, but when there’s a disagreement, but then when you finally get those things worked out, ironed it out, what do we what do we say? Come on, let’s kiss and make up. Let’s kiss and the kiss will bring reconciliation. It takes two parties that were at odds and it brings them back together again. Now, that is seen in the scriptures with the word kiss. The first one there is in Genesis 33, between Jacob and Esau. Two brothers, kind of, boy, talk about, Jacob was a scoundrel. He’s the good guy, but he’s a scoundrel. Esau was the bad guy, but yet did some really nice things. And if you remember, he stole the birthright, and he stole the blessing, and then Jacob had to bail, get out of Dodge, because Esau’s ready to kill him. And he got those things by deceit, connivory, and whatever. And so he leaves. And then God, in I’ll say common grace, blessed him. And Laban, you know, gave him. But he got connived. And he ended up with two wives and got the one he really wanted second. Those are just bizarre circumstances. You just say, well, that’s what the Bible says.

But then there came a time that it was time for him to go back home. And if you remember, the last time Esau saw Jacob, he was not happy. And Jacob wasn’t so sure he’d be happy yet. So and again, don’t get this is it’s just fact. Don’t try and figure it out. Just fact. Jacob says to one wife, Leah, and some of her kids, you go first and we’ll stay back and we’ll see how he receives you. That’s kind of raunchy, actually. And so they’re going and they’re all moving up there and everything’s going on. And Esau hears your brother’s coming back. So Esau jumps on his horse and he’s coming out and he’s seeing it and he passes by the first entourage and goes back. And then the old King James is just hilarious, I think that it says that they saw each other. And they ran up to each other and he fell on his neck and kissed him. If you put that into strict literalism, that is a really funny sight. He falls down on his neck and then he gets up and then kisses each other. Just so funny. But what it is is he’s so full of emotion. And they come and they embrace.

These brothers who were once at odds are now together and they kiss. And it’s the kiss of reconciliation. That same thing was true of Joseph and his brothers. Boy, you know, later on in the book of Genesis. And that whole thing, the connivory, they throw Joseph in the pit and then they pull him out. They sell him as a slave and he goes in and God says, no, he’s not going to stay in the pit. And they goes into Egypt and then Potiphar buys him and he becomes high up in there. And then Potiphar’s wife tries to get him to fall into sin. That’s a no go. But then he’s thrown into prison again. And then through the prophecies and through the dreams and everything. He becomes second to Pharaoh.

And then finally, the whole family’s got to go there. And you know how it all goes in. And then his brothers come begging for food. That’s a long story. Takes up a lot of the book of Genesis. But then it says, and Joseph is going to check out whether his brothers have really repented of their sin. Have they really been, are they changed now? And so it comes and he You know, puts him in line and sets him down and they’re stunned at that at the meal. But he’s Egyptian, so he’s got to sit at another table. And he just can’t handle it anymore. And when you read the text, the text gives the indication Joseph is overwhelmed with what? Emotion. He’s overwhelmed and he just can’t hold it anymore. And he tells everyone. an Egyptian, get out of the room. And they all leave. And then he speaks Hebrew. And the brothers are gone. Oops. He reveals himself.

And when you read the text in Genesis chapter 45, verses 14 and 15, it says they wept and they gathered together, they embraced and they kissed reconciliation. Once I was lost, now I am found. Once I was blind, but now I see. They came together, reconciled, all put back together again. Full of emotion, reconciliation. Well, in the Gospel of Luke chapter 15 and verse 20, another account, the prodigal son. Now, we all know that. The one, he sees his dad’s wealth. He wants his inheritance now. I want to go. And he leaves and does the riotous living. And then he is eating slop of the pigs. And he says, wow, I can go back. My father’s servants are eating better than I am. So he goes back. And his father sees him afar off. And he, full of emotion, overwhelmed, runs out. And again, old King James says, I think that they fell on their necks there again. Just a funny way of putting that. But they came, they embraced and they kissed. In reconciliation, my son, who was once dead, is now alive.

Remember, the other son, he got ticked. Dad, why’d you kill the fatted calf? My son, he was dead. He’s alive. I’m excited. I’m full of emotion. We’ve kissed. We’re reconciled. Kiss the Son. Have you been reconciled to Jesus Christ? Do you know what it means? Do you understand that God is angry with the wicked every day? The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The wicked will be judged. With full of emotion, you need to come with the Savior, wrapped up, and repent of your sins and kiss the Son. Be reconciled to Him. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That’s how you kiss Him. You have reconciliation, your sins, which are many. Forgiven. Atoned for. You are free. You can know Christ. So the kiss of reconciliation. But there’s another one. And I think probably goes and especially with this particular hymn. It is the kiss of allegiance or homage. It is. That’s what it’s called. It’s the kiss. that a subject gives unto a king. In 1 Samuel chapter 10 and verse one, when King Saul, when he was young and he was selected by God because the nation of Israel wanted a king like the others. And when Samuel anointed him, it says that then once all that procedure was done, that he recognized that Saul was the king. We must recognize Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. You are not your own, you are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies. He is your Lord and Savior.

I know in our day and age a lot of people don’t like to talk about slavery, but you know what? I’m a doulos. I’m a slave of Jesus Christ. And He’s the master. I don’t always obey and He takes me to the woodshed. However, I love Him. I will serve Him. He is my Lord. We must recognize Jesus Christ is the king. Does that not what this passage is about? I mean, the whole thing, it starts off. Why do the nations rage and the people imagine, well, imitate, there you go, it’s like old King James. The people meditate on a vain thing. The kings of the earth take their stand. The rulers take counsel together against Yahweh and against his anointed saying, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us. Then he addresses the kings. Well, here it then says, he who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord mocks them. He speaks to them in his anger and terrifies them in his fury, saying, I’m gonna just drop down. Kiss the son. Why? Unless he become angry. So you see, we need this recognition of a kiss of the allegiance or homage unto King Jesus, that he is our Lord and our Savior.

Now, there’s another kind of kiss that goes on that’s in the Bible. It’s an interesting word. It just says you just do a word study to kiss. It is in reference to what all of the reprobate Canaanites, you know, the Canaanites parasites. One guy just said all the parasites of the Old Testament. And they would kiss their idols. But remember, in the Gospel of Luke, chapter seven, Jesus is invited to Simon’s house. And he goes in and he’s seated and that and then in comes a harlot and she’s weeping and they’re reclining. They kind of do the reclining thing and sit at a table. She comes in with the tears of her eyes. She moistens his feet. She washes his feet with the hairs of her head and she does what she kisses his feet. And Jesus kind of makes points it out.

So Simon said, you know, I came in here. You didn’t do anything because he started to get that sinner away from her, from him. And he says, you know, I came in, you didn’t kiss me. You didn’t kiss my feet. You didn’t kiss me. You didn’t welcome me. You didn’t honor me as a king. You didn’t honor me and show affection. You aren’t full of love and emotion towards me. Yet she who may be a sinner, And he eventually at the end says, go sin no more basically and forgives her of her sin. But she gave him the kiss of worship. She worshiped the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what we’re doing even now. As we worship, kiss the son. What about those that are not worshiping Jesus Christ today? You think he’s happy about that? Do you think judgment will come upon them swiftly unless they repent? Most certainly.

And that brings us then to the second, the reason why we are to kiss the sun, lest or unless he become angry and you perish in the way for his wrath may be soon kindled. The reasons that are given. Number one, simply it’s commanded. We used to talk about just invite people to trust Christ because that seems so politically correct. But you know, it’s not really biblically correct. We don’t invite people to repent of their sins and trust Christ. We need to hear that as a command. Turn or burn. I’d be like a John R. Rice comment, but that’s right. You need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because he demands it. He commands it. We must be obedient or die. It’s a command. This is in the imperative in the Hebrew language. We are commanded to kiss the Son. You need to recognize the fact that He is Lord over all. You need to recognize the preciousness of His name, His future kingdom on earth. You need to recognize and be reconciled to Him. So we have this command. Not only that, we have a warning in the fact, lest He be angry.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached this passage and it was at this point in his sermon. It’s always kind of fun to read his sermons. And he’ll say, kiss the sun lest he be angry. Can the lamb be angry? Can a lamb really have anger? Can that be? Who can match the anger of the lamb? We have a day and age where people say, well, God of the Old Testament was angry and was wrathful, but the God of the New Testament, oh, he’s a God of love. He’s a God, there’s no anger there, really. Listen to this, Revelation chapter 16, or chapter six, verse 16. Then when the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man, they hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. What did they say? And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath. Of the lamb. For the great day of the wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

Kiss the Son, or cry out for mountains to cover you, and even if they would, that’s not gonna hide you from a sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient God to have his wrath fall upon you. God is angry with the wicked every day. Book of Romans that begins with the gospel, the good news, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness. And there’s a long list in that list. It talks about those that take and change the glory of the incorruptible, the awesome God that we have, and change it into corruptible things. I kind of like to think of science and evolution and the whole rigmarole of all that wrong thinking and robbing God of glory. He is angry at that. But it goes on and talks about those who corrupt men with men, women with women. Oh, we need to get with it and accept that kind of a lifestyle. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all that. We need just the opposite. Kiss the son, lest he be angry. And that’s what makes him angry.

Kiss the Son lest He be angry. We need to kiss the Son because it’s commanded. We need to kiss the Son lest He be angry. We need to kiss the Son to keep from perishing, is what the text says. We need to kiss the Son. And we need to do it now. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Because notice what it says. This translation says, for his wrath may be soon kindled. It has this idea, his wrath is inflamed and it can blow up suddenly, explosively, quickly. It has the idea of suddenness with nothing holding it back but himself. It doesn’t mean that God in anger is going to burn sinners in hell as he loses control. No. The omnipotence of God is just being held back by his mercy, his grace, common grace. So that others can come, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be shall be saved. And you need to kiss the son, you need to be reconciled to him. So we’ve got the command, kiss him. We’ve got the reason to kiss him. But now what are the possibilities?

Well, there’s the possibility that I think is probably true for many of you. We saw the testimony of two young ladies up here today. They have kissed him. By faith, they came. They saw. They kissed by faith. And they have been reconciled with God. Full of emotion, they greeted Jesus into their life. They recognize, as what Pastor Ryan said, do you want to obey him for the rest of your life? That’s who you want him to be, your Lord and King? Ali said, yes. Praise God. And there’s many here today. I would dare say, probably in our kind of a church, most of you have done that. But then there is also a possibility that there’s some here today that simply won’t. They absolutely refuse. They think this is all ridiculous. Why on earth would you be taking a passage like this? One verse in the Old Testament doesn’t apply to us. You know, it’s just ancient lore. And they simply will not kiss the Son.

But what is really scary is when I went through the kisses, I did leave one out. There’s another kiss. It’s discussed in the Gospel of Luke chapter 22 and verse 48. The Lord Jesus Christ has steadfastly put his face towards Jerusalem. He’s going to die. He has just prayed three times and his disciples. Well, they were just you know, they thought it was Sunday afternoon and they kept napping. And so they have fallen asleep. And as he has spent this agonizing Sweating blood, kind of praying, agonizing. At the putrefaction of his thought of our sins being placed upon him, but his willingness to obey the father to accomplish salvation. The prayer is done and he tells them, get up, guys, it’s time to go. Those that are here to take me have now arrived. And, you know, they came out torches and it’s just almost hilarious. All those people they brought out and everything. But there’s a leader. Because, you see, there were only 11 disciples at that time, because the 12th one had sold Jesus out. 30 pieces of silver. And Judas is leading them. And he has a deal. And the deal is to the Roman cohort, The one that I kiss, he is the one you are to arrest.

So Judas goes up and kisses the son. I cannot imagine. Well, it’s omnipotence, and we can’t understand that, of why God the Father didn’t just squash him like a roach right then and there, but he didn’t. And then Jesus, I have this picture in my head. It doesn’t say he stepped back, but it does say these words, Judas. And now I am gonna quote King James, because it’s just so cool. Betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss? It’s a kiss of betrayal. It’s the kiss that you give, but you really don’t mean it. And there’s people that kiss the son, but they really don’t mean it. I’ll kiss him to keep from going to hell, but I don’t want him to be my Lord. That’s a kiss of betrayal. I’ll kiss him, but I wanna run my life. I’m gonna keep my sin. I don’t want him to be pointing out sin in my life. That’s a kiss of betrayal. You can walk and do the walk and the talk, as he did for three years with the disciples. And it’s a kiss of betrayal. And there are a lot of people professing Christians. Those that say, oh yeah, I love Jesus. Really? You sure don’t live like it. I can live in a godless lifestyle and still be a Christian. Really? My Bible seems to tell me that the wrath of God is revealed against that. You’re on the other part, lest he be angry and you perish.

Well, what about the love of God? He’ll love me. For God so loved the world. Everybody so loves that verse. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now that is love. That whosoever believeth in him, what? Should not perish. The wrath of God is in John 3:16. People will perish for eternity underneath the wrath of God because they would not kiss the Lord Jesus Christ in faith. You see, that is the climax of this particular passage, the kiss of betrayal. And what’s so interesting is, is right after he goes through all of this in Psalm 2, notice the benediction. How blessed are all who take refuge in him. Praise God. I trust you have found refuge in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the only place that is safe from the wrath of God, because he took it all on the cross. For those in him and he protects and he saves to the uttermost. Kiss the sun today, if you never have. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Kiss the sun, lest he be angry and you perish. when his wrath is kindled, just a little, but it will consume you for eternity.

Let’s pray. Our Father in heaven, how we thank you and praise you for the opportunity to kiss the son. Father, you could have let us go. You could have just not revealed this in the holy word of God. and what we need to do. But in the mystery of your will. You have in your word. Revealed. The truth of the gospel, the good news. That all who come by faith, you save. We rejoice. Father, this morning, even as we close this time together. May we be reminded. That if ever We loved you. We love you now. Because there was a day that we confessed our sins and trusted Christ. Father, may the Spirit of God work in all of our lives to make this a true reality as we rejoice in Jesus name. Amen.