A Psalm of Hope (Psalm 2)

Sermon Notes

Sermon Series: Psalms of Advent

Sermon Title: A Psalm of Hope

Passage: Psalm 2

Preacher: Ashley Herr

Historical Lens

• Act 1: A Rebellion Against God (v1-3)

• Act 2: God’s Response (v4-6)

• Act 3: God’s Promise (v7-9)

• Act 4: God’s Warning (v10-12)

Christological Lens

Eschatological Lens

• Advent serves as a reminder that the One who has come will come again

Reflection

• What is it you hope Jesus will do upon his return?

• What is it that leads you to ask God, “Why?” and cry out to God, “How long?”

Sermon Footnotes

• The church’s liturgical calendar is “the attempt to live the Jesus life over and over again all the years of our lives…The liturgical year is the process of slow, sure immersion in the life of Christ that, in the end, claims us, too, as heralds of that life ourselves.” - Joan Chittister (The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, pXVI, 13)

• “We begin our Christian year in waiting. We do not begin with our own frenetic effort or energy. We do not begin with the merriment of Christmas or the triumphs of Easter. We do not begin with the work of the church or the mandate of the Great Commission. Instead, we begin in a place of yearning. We wait for our king to come.” - Tish Harrison Warren (Advent: The Season of Hope, p3-4)

• “In Advent, we don’t pretend, as I once thought, that we are in the darkness before the birth of Christ. Rather, we take a good hard look at the darkness we are in now, facing and defining it honestly, so that we will understand with utmost clarity that our great and only hope is in Jesus’s final victorious coming.” - (Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ, p58)