When He was in this world, the Lord Jesus Christ suffered hunger, thirst, and had no place to lay His head, yet He never worked a single miracle for His own relief. While He was on this earth He gave health to the sick, sight to the blind, life to the dead, food for the hungry, and comforted the sad hearts of friend and enemy alike. His Gospel makes men happy, and causes men to "turn from darkness to light, to live soberly and righteously in this present world." So, "So why do the heathen rage?"

People who are sworn enemies, who disagree on every thing else, come together in one accord to oppose the Lord Jesus Christ. Kings, rulers, priests, the people, Herod, Pilate, the Jewish elders, Roman soldiers, Pharisees and the Sadducees all hated each other until Christ appeared, and then they hated Him. This world, for the most part, wears the name of Christian but their hearts are still in this same opposition against "the Lord's Anointed". Many who call themselves Christian and sit in churches today, are no less under the power of wickedness than those mentioned by the Psalmist. The Gospel always did, and always will, produce the same happy change in those who believe it; and it will always provoke the same opposition in those who reject it. The acts of the heathen may differ and circumstances may vary, but the principal is the same. This world is no more favorable to grace and the rule of Christ's kingdom now than it was in the dark ages. It does not change because man has not changed, God does not change, the Scriptures do not change, Sin has not changed, the Saviour has not changed, Our need has not changed, so people today still rage against the Lord God of Heaven and against His Anointed.

The Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace offends our pride. This Gospel tells us we cannot do what we thought all our lives we could do any time we wanted to. It tells us we are dead. This Gospel offends our pride because it declares every one of us to be sinners in the sight of God, and that is offensive. This Gospel offends us because it declares that there is only one way of salvation. "Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me."

This Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace sets forth the rule of absolute holiness, "without which no man shall see the Lord," and leaves no room for imperfection, and that is offensive to our way of thinking.

The Gospel declares a free salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and declares His obedience unto death, as our only acceptance with God. To the most wicked sinner the Gospel declares, "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."

The key word to this whole Psalm is "Why?" This word shows that there is no understandable reason why the people rage. You would think that after God seeing us as we really are, and then coming to us in mercy and bidding us to receive this Gospel, we would come to Him, especially when we see that in order to preserve us, "He gave His only begotten Son" to suffer and die for us. But, in spite of all the assaults against it, the Bible still stands and the Gospel is still preached. If this Gospel was not of God, the united efforts of kings, counsels, popes, philosophers, the great, the wise, the decent, and the indecent, would have overthrown it a long time ago. "He that sitteth in the heavens" laughs His opposers to scorn, and maintains His own cause in defiance of them all.