In his sermon, 'An Inheritance of Nations,' Jason Dohm explores the theme of God's sovereignty and the role of Jesus as the anointed Messiah, using Psalm 2 as a primary text. Dohm emphasizes that nations may rage against the Lord, but God has established His King, Jesus, who will inherit the nations. He draws parallels between Psalm 2, Psalm 110, and the Great Commission in Matthew 28, illustrating the fulfillment of messianic prophecies and Jesus' authority over all nations, including Turkey, where the Templetons are being sent as missionaries. The speaker urges the congregation to support the mission through prayer and systematic planning, highlighting the importance of active participation in spreading the gospel. Dohm addresses various groups within the congregation, including children and mothers, encouraging them to embrace the missionary spirit and see the value in sacrificing comforts for eternal gains. He concludes with a call to hold the rope through prayer and financial support, invoking a commitment to both local and global evangelistic efforts.

Our God, the day is here. A day of goodbyes. God, you've shown us in many, many ways that you brought us here. There have been many signposts along the way to show that the inclination in the hearts of the Templetons and the Carringtons, and our unity with that inclination, and your gathering together other churches and other brethren from around the country and even some outside of our country. You're in this, orchestrating this, doing this.

Thank you for that. We've not been left to wonder whether we're running ahead. Whether we're running ahead. Thank you for raising up two churches and two families within those churches to go to the nations. Thank you for giving us all the resources that are required to do it.

We praise you for that. Pray now that you would come. Help us to see the things that are happening within the context of your word, within a framework of Scripture, and rejoice. The Gospel goes forth in this world. Pray that in Jesus name, Amen.

Please open your Bibles to Psalm chapter 2. The title of the sermon this morning is, an inheritance of nations. Pulling that right out of verse 8 of Psalm chapter 2. An inheritance has been marked out for the Messiah. And it's an inheritance of nations.

Dark nations. Pagan Nations. They may have started that way, continued that way, but God has not been content to leave them that way. You should thank God for that. Psalm chapter 2.

I'm grateful that our normal practice is to stand for the reading of God's Word. Every once in a while, we'll stay seated for it, so that it in no way becomes superstitious. You know, it's possible to stand with your Bible in hand and be very careless in our reading of the Word of God, and it's possible to sit in a chair and to tremble at it. So may God give us hearts that tremble at His Word. Psalm chapter 2.

Why do the nations rage? And the people plot a vain thing. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointeds saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision.

Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. 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, and you shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. Now therefore be wise, O kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth, serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way.

When his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all those who put their trust in him. What do we have here? Well, we have a psalm about the Lord and His anointed. In Daniel chapter 9, that Hebrew word rendered here anointed, is rendered messiah. I have No quibble with the translation here.

It's fine. In a broad sense, it means the anointed, one consecrated, one set aside to a specific office or purpose. In a narrow sense, it means the Messiah, the Anointed, the consecrated one to be the prophet, priest, and king of his people. Not a prophet, or a priest, or a king, but the prophet, priest, and king of his people. The Savior that God has promised to send from heaven.

In the first three verses, the nations are raging and plotting against The Lord and His anointed, the Lord and His Messiah, the Lord and the one that He has consecrated, set aside, the prophet, priest, and king. The kings and rulers are aligning against the Lord and his anointed. We even have what they say in verse 3. Look, the psalmist quotes the kings and the rulers of the peoples and nations. Let us break their bonds in pieces.

Let us break the bonds of the Lord and his consecrated one in pieces and throw off his chains. Let us cast away their cords from us. We will not be governed by the Lord and his anointed." In verses 4-6 we get the Lord's reaction to this and then what He says. His reaction is that He laughs and he holds them in derision. He scoffs and he distresses them in his deep displeasure.

He's not displeased a little. He has deep displeasure. He has deep displeasure. And so, he turns himself to distress the kings and the rulers of these nations and peoples. And then he is quoted in verse 6.

Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. You've endeavored to break the chains. You have said you will not be governed. You will be governed. Yet, In spite of your claims, I have installed my King, my consecrated one, my anointed, my Messiah on the holy hill of Zion.

He is King. You say you will not have him rule over you, he will rule over you. I scoff at your raging and your plotting. Verses 7 through 9, the anointed speaks. He testifies of what the Lord has said to him.

You are my son. Today I have begotten you. Furthermore, the anointed, the son, testifies that his father has invited him to ask for the nations. The Father invites the Son, ask me for the nations. Ask me that the nations might be your possession.

That the Son would be given the ends of the earth, the farthest isles, the darkest most pagan lands. And the anointed, the sun will rule these rebellious nations with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a clay pot." So think about that. A rod of iron dashing to pieces, a clay pot. So be warned, rebels. This is the end of rebels.

So if you've ever wondered what's going to happen to the rebellion of Earth, Iron rod meets clay pot. The final three verses, verses 10 through 12. Council is given to kings and rulers. The psalmist advises the kings and the rulers of these nations and peoples that gather together against the Lord and His anointed. What would He have them to do?

What would he counsel them to do? They must show themselves wise and teachable by submitting to the Lord, by fearing Him and rejoicing with trembling. What is being described there? Repentance! Turn around!

Rebelling nations and peoples. Turn around! Wicked kings and rulers who take counsel together against the Lord and His anointed, submit to Him. Rejoice in Him. You have aligned you who have aligned yourself against the Lord and His anointed, align yourself with the Lord and his anointed.

Submit to the Lord and his anointed. This is not isolated testimony in the Old Testament messianic prophecies. Listen to Psalm 110 verses 1 and 2. Psalm 110 verses 1 and 2. It's a Psalm of David.

David writes, The Lord said to my lord, this is just like Psalm 2, the Lord saying to his anointed, now it's the Lord saying to David's lord, it's the same two being spoken of. The Lord said to David's Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion rule in the midst of your enemies. Psalm 110 is saying what Psalm 2 says, what other Psalms say, what other messianic prophecies say. Jesus actually quotes what I just read from Psalm 110 in Matthew 22.

Listen to Jesus in Matthew 22 verses 41 through 45. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, what do you think about the Christ? Christ just means anointed. It's Christ and Messiah and anointed are synonyms. What do you think about the Christ?

Whose son is he? They said to him, the son of David. He said to them, how then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool." If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son? Jesus is giving them the key to understanding messianic prophecy, though they don't recognize it. What is the key to messianic prophecy?

The Messiah is not only the son of David, a man in the human line of a King, he is also the Son of God. At the same time, he is the Son of David, and he is the Son of the Lord from Psalm 2. And this, what Jesus quotes from Psalm 110, is Jesus now. What do I mean? He is seated at the right hand of God now.

His enemies are being made his footstool now. The time of his incarnation is over. The work of his atonement is finished. And now His enemies are being made his footstool now. The time of his incarnation is over.

The work of his atonement is finished. And now his enemies are being made his footstool. Why does all of this particularly matter to Sovereign Redeemer Community Church today. Because it is the lens through which we read the Great Commission. Turn to the Great Commission.

Matthew 28, 18-20. Matthew 28, 18-20. So I just handed you lenses, Psalm 2, Psalm 110, Matthew 22. Now Look at the great commission through that lens, Matthew 28, 18-20. Jesus came and spoke to them saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. Apply. Jesus Christ is King of Turkey.

Oh, there is a spiritual battle. Not a battle against flesh and blood, but a battle against spiritual powers of wickedness. So the Templetons will have to be wise as serpents in Turkey. But it is not a battle to determine who is king of Turkey. Turkey has a king.

Just as Psalm 2 says, nations rage, and people plot, but it is vain for them to do it. It is futile for them to do it. It is of no effect for them to rage and plot against the Lord and his anointed. The Lord has set his king on the holy hill of Zion. Jesus Christ is king of Turkey.

So Templetons, a word to you. The king sends you under his banner. Not to make him king, he needs no help with that. But simply to proclaim liberty to the captives. Listen to Isaiah 61.

Isaiah 61, 1-3. We're going to come upon the word anointed in verse 1. So this is about the anointed, the Messiah. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, who is me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn. To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified. That he may be glorified. So go and declare the King's terms of peace.

He offers peace to the nations and the peoples. Even those who rage and plot, they do it to no effect. The broken hearted are there. He will heal them. The prisoners are there.

He will free them. The king has marked out people who will hear you in Turkey. His sheep hear his voice and they follow him. Other sheep he has that are not of this fold, go and call them. So brethren of the Templetons, a word to you.

Listen to 2 Thessalonians 3 verse 1. Paul writes, Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified just as it is with you." The Apostle Paul solicits prayer from the Thessalonians. What does he want to be prayed for? That the word of the Lord would run swiftly and be glorified. If you have one of those Bibles that puts added words into italics, words that have been added by the translators because they think it helps with the right understanding of the original language.

But the words not there one for one in the original language. Swiftly is in italics. Swiftly is added. If you take that out, you get that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified. Sometimes it's helpful and wonderful just to remove the added words.

That the word of the Lord may run, not walk, and be glorified just as it is with you." So the Word of the Lord ran in Thessalonica and was glorified in Thessalonica, Paul is essentially saying God did that. So pray to God that His Word will keep running and keep being glorified in the next city and the next city and the next city. The implication is this. The apostle Paul believed that if the Lord's people in Thessalonica prayed that the word would run swiftly and be glorified, that it would have a greater impact, that God would hear the prayers of His people, And because he's so predisposed to honor and answer the prayers of his people, that Paul's gospel preaching would have more impact than if they didn't pray. Paul believed that, or you can't make sense of the verse.

If that is true, then the fruitfulness of this endeavor depends upon prayer. Depends upon our prayers. There will be more fruitfulness as God delights to respond to our prayers than there would have been had we not prayed. Don't let your Calvinism get in the way, friends. Don't be more Calvinist than Calvin.

Two things. We must be systematic, not organic. What am I saying? We should have a spreadsheet for this. We should have a spreadsheet for this.

We shouldn't just pray for the Word of the Lord to run swiftly and be glorified as it's preached by our friends in Turkey. We should have a system that has us praying. Secondly, we must not Let the system drain the life out of our praying. The first is easier than the second. People who love spreadsheets like me and Robert know that the first is easy.

Making the spreadsheet is easy. Even executing the plan is easy. Having your heart engaged and not having this become because it is systematic, lifeless and powerless is hard. I think we should do both. Some people take that second thing, that a system can suck the life out of it, and say therefore it should all just be organic.

When I feel like it, I'll do it. No. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive at all. We must have a system and we must not let the system suck the life out of our praying. All that's possible.

So children, a word to you. Jesus Christ is Lord and He is worthy of what's happening a thousand times over. He's worthy that a thousand Templetons would go away from parents and grandparents and friends and churches that love them. He is worthy of that. This is real.

When we began organizing to do this and going to churches and telling our story and getting in front of these two churches, Sovereign Redeemer and Hope, and giving updates. Janet, very early in that process said, it's coming flooding back to me, memories from my girlhood in a Southern Baptist Church that had missionaries come from the field to give reports. And as she tells it, this was important in her conversion. Why so? Because it brought her face to face, nose to nose, with people who would leave the comforts and the pleasures and the entertainments that we enjoy and cast them off to go tell this story in a place without all the comforts and pleasures and entertainments.

Because They believed it and they would bet their lives on it. I praise God for that. Children, you are face to face and nose to nose with people here in your midst that are betting so many of the things that you love and take for granted that there's only one way for pagans to escape hell. Jesus. That's it.

They're betting their lives that this book is true, that these things are real. Jim Elliot, who was a missionary, an American missionary, who was martyred in 1956 said this, it's a very famous statement, He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Now just stop and break that down. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep. So you're not a fool to give away what you couldn't keep anyway.

In fact, many times you're wise to give away things that you couldn't keep anyway. What can't you keep? Your American comforts. Even your life. How will you keep them?

The Bible says that life is like a vapor, it's a breath, you're like a flower of the field here today and gone tomorrow. You cannot keep your comforts and your pleasures. The Bible doesn't condemn out of hand comforts and pleasures. But we're in America, the center of them, and Scripture would have you know you cannot keep them. So don't be afraid of giving them away to gain What you can't lose.

What can't you lose? Your salvation. Your Savior who saves you. The opportunity to serve Him and honor Him in the brief life that you have. You can never lose any of those things.

You're not a fool to give away things you couldn't keep anyway in order to get things that you can never lose. You're wise! Children, know that. As you train your affections and your appetites, know you can't keep most of the things on that list. Don't be afraid to give them away to gain what you'll never lose.

Mothers, a word to you. Could you be raising a missionary? Have you ever thought of that? Could it be that one day one of your daughters or sons would have a Sunday like this? Mothers, please don't recoil from that thought.

When I think about that, there's something in my heart that recoils from that. Don't allow that to gain the upper hand. Open your hands regarding your children and the Lord's plans for your children. It is not paradise to have a big piece of land and have all of your kids right next to you on that piece of land. I'm not declaring that sinful, but I'm saying that's not paradise and that's not God's ultimate objective.

Mothers use turkey, what we're doing with turkey, to cultivate a missionary heart in these children that are in your home. Maybe they'll take the gospel to a dark place. Maybe They'll give the gospel to people in a dark neighborhood nearby. But we want our children to see the great worth of Jesus, that Jesus is worth that. And to understand the desperate need of sinners, and how tragic it is when a person lives and dies without meeting a Christian and hearing the gospel.

Mothers, give your children the big God of Scripture. When they have the big God of Scripture, they will love Him. He'll be worth giving up the things that they can't keep anyway to gain the things that they can never lose. We want that. I want that for myself, let alone my children.

Father's word to us. We own Holding this rope. Holding it through prayer. Holding it through purse. I don't mean that we carry purses.

As in, Congress holds the power of the purse, directs the finances. Fathers. The fathers in this church crossed the Rubicon a long time ago. Remember I explained where that expression came from. The Senate in Rome told Julius Caesar, who was just a general at that time, do not cross the Rubicon.

We know your intentions if you cross this river. So he knew if He crossed that river with his armies. He will have shouted his intentions to the Senate. And there will be no way back. We did that.

We already did it. We have many partner churches. They're not the same as us. I praise God for them. But if they drop out, we pick up.

If we fail at holding the rope, and that is unthinkable but possible, it is your failure. And my failure. I know we're not responsible for the results, but I know we've pledged ourselves to this family that we will hold the rope. So Sovereign Redeemer Community So, Sovereign Redeemer Community Church, a word to us. Imagine the insanity of sending our friends to Turkey and then letting the unbelieving in Youngsville march into destruction in peace, undisturbed.

Are we just paying the professionals? There are unbelieving that live around us, work with us. We pass them on the streets? Will we let them march into destruction and peace undisturbed? Acts chapter 1 verse 8, Jesus says immediately before His ascension, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth." Sending a family to the end of the earth.

Here we are in Jerusalem and Judea. We have power from on high to be witnesses here. Charles Spurgeon says this, and I want a hearty amen from all of us. I'm not calling for a vocal amen. I'm not setting you up for that.

I'm saying in your heart of hearts, I want a hearty amen. Let our hearts bubble up when we hear Charles Spurgeon say, If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped around their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unworn and unprayed for. Amen.

If sinners be damned in Youngsville, let them leap to hell over our dead bodies. There have been many costs of deploying this family to the nations. We're not surprised by that. And there's no way around it for a church of our size and resources to pay a price to deploy a family to the nations. One of those costs has been a diminished focus here this year.

Have you noticed that? I know you've noticed that. I'm not saying that no outreach has been done here. I'm saying it has resulted in a diminished focus, because you can only, we have limited resources, financial and otherwise, hours in the day. By God's grace, that ends right now.

By God's grace, the diminished focus on reaching the unbelieving in Youngsville as a price to be paid to launch a family that we love into Turkey that ends now. Not to the neglect of the Templetons, but to a renewed commitment to our neighbors. May God be pleased to make us a bright light and a mighty voice for the Gospel in Youngsville. Templetons, I take the liberty to speak for all of us. We love you.

We will hold the rope. And we thank God that it is 2019. William Carey, at the end of his life, they began to get correspondence by steam engine. It was lightning fast. They could get letters to England in six weeks.

It was like nothing they had ever experienced in 40 years. They could get a letter from England in six weeks. We'll probably see you on FaceTime in real time next week. In the spirit of Michael's resignation last Sunday, I'd like to close from Acts chapter 20. I live in Acts chapter 20 and a half for years because I'm an elder, and that's Paul's counsel to the Ephesian elders.

Depending on how familiar you are with that chapter, I mean, every phrase was borrowed. And I praise God for that from Acts chapter 20. So I'll pick up where Michael left off at his resignation. In Acts chapter 20, verses 32 through 37. Acts chapter 20 beginning in verse 32, reading to the end of the chapter.

So now brethren, After saying all that, brethren, I commend you to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified, among all those who are set apart by God for himself. I think that's right where you ended last week. Now verse 33, I have coveted no one silver or gold or apparel. Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities and for those who were with me. I have shown you in every way by laboring like this that you must support the weak.

And remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive. When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. Then they all wept freely and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke that they would see his face no more. And they and they accompanied him to the ship. It's right to weep freely on the necks of your brethren.

It's good to weep freely on the necks of your brethren. It's a statement of affection. What would it say if there was no weeping freely on each other's necks on a day like today? It just declares that we love you. It was right of Paul to still go.

It was good for Paul to still go. That too was a statement of affection. You think about that? We love each other, but we dare not love each other most. You've been saved from the penalty of your sin.

Your love for Christ has to run deeper than your love for the Templetons. And their love for Christ has to run deeper than their love for us. May we love the Lord Jesus. May we share the Lord Jesus. God, thank you.

Thank you for one sermon slot to just reflect on the things that are happening now in our midst. It will be a joy to come back into John next week to the resurrection text. For now, say goodbye to our friends. Thank you for our friendship. Thank you for the brotherhood that we enjoy.

Thank you for the bonds in your sun that run so deep. We also thank you that our bonds with your son run deeper still. Oh, exalt your son in Turkey. Let the Lord Jesus be known and loved in Turkey. Help us to pray like fruitfulness depends on it.

We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.