THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT<br> <br>

PROGRAM AIR DATE – 6-25-17<br> <br>



LESSON TITLE: “JESUS THE KING”<br> <br>



WELCOME<br> <br>

      TODAY WE ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD, THE BIBLE. THIS BOOK IS GOD'S LIVING WORD. IN ITS PAGES, WE ARE TOLD “FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD.” IT IS IN THIS BOOK OF BOOKS THAT WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF MAN'S QUESTIONS AND NEEDS. THIS MORNING YOUR AREA CHURCHES OF CHRIST WELCOME YOU TO A PROGRAM COMMITTED TO THAT PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. AS WE PRESENT THE LIVING WORD. NOW HERE IS YOUR HOST RAY SULLINS.<br> <br>

      GOOD MORNING! THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THE LIVING WORD PROGRAM. WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU AS A PART OF THIS TIME OF OFFERING TO GOD. WHAT A PRIVILEGE WE HAVE THIS LORD’S DAY TO GIVE THIS TIME TO HIM IN SINGING SONGS OF PRAISE AND IN STUDYING FROM HIS PERFECT WORD!  I HOPE ALL OF US ARE ENCOURAGED IN THIS SERVICE TO GOD, BUT ULTIMATELY, I HOPE WE ALL WILL GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, TO GOD BE THE GLORY! NOW LET’S APPROACH THE FATHER’S THRONE AS WE BEGIN OUR THOUGHTS OF THE MORNING.  <br> <br>

      PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE. FOR FATHER, WE KNOW THAT ALL GOOD AND WONDROUS GIFTS COME FROM YOU AND FROM YOU ALONE AND WE'RE THANKFUL MOST OF ALL FOR THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS: JESUS AND THE SACRIFICE HE MADE ON THE CROSS WHICH ALLOWS US TO BE, NOT ONLY YOUR CHILDREN, BUT GIVES US THE HOPE OF THE BLESSINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY IN THIS LIFE BUT ULTIMATELY THE REWARD THAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE LIFE TO COME. WE THANK YOU, FOR NOT ONLY YOUR SON, BUT THE CHURCH WHICH HE PURCHASED WITH HIS BLOOD. AND HELP US FATHER TO BE IN THAT CHURCH TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A PART OF IT. AND FATHER, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE EACH AND EVERY DAY WORKING OUT OUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING KNOWING THAT IN THE END WE WILL BE SAVED AS THE FAITHFUL THROUGH YOUR GRACE LOVE AND MERCY. THESE THINGS WE PRAY THROUGH JESUS' NAME, AMEN. <br> <br>

      NOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR FIRST HYMN OF THE MORNING. PLEASE PARTICIPATE WITH THE BRETHREN AS WE TOGETHER SING, “THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME!” 

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DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS<br> <br>

      WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY THERE IS ONE THING YOU KNOW FOR SURE, “WE ALL LOVE TO EAT!” IN FACT, IN SPRINGFIELD YOU CAN’T HARDLY DRIVE A BLOCK WITHOUT SEEING ANOTHER KIND OF RESTAURANT OR GROCERY STORE. I SOMETIMES FEEL THAT, AS AMERICANS, WE ARE ALMOST CONSUMED BY OUR FOOD.<br> <br>

      NOW AS WE THINK ABOUT OUR HEALTHY APPETITES FOR FOOD, THINK ABOUT HOW THIS SAME CONCEPT APPLIES TO OTHER PARTS OF OUR SECULAR AND CHRISTIAN LIVES. IT IS TRUE THAT WE HAVE BIG APPETITES IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY, BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT WE HAVE THESE APPETITES FOR MANY THINGS.  <br> <br>

      FROM A BIBLICAL STANDPOINT, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE REMEMBER THAT MOST THINGS IN EXCESS OR AN OVER ABUNDANCE ARE NOT GOOD FOR US. WHEN WE OVER INDULGE OURSELVES OR GOUGE OURSELVES WITH THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, WE ARE LIABLE TO FORGET GOD OR AT LEAST WE ARE OFTEN GUILTY OF REMOVING HIM FROM THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IN OUR LIVES.  <br> <br>

      WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT OUR APPETITES? WELL THE WISE MAN SOLOMON SAID, “WHEN YOU SIT DOWN TO EAT WITH A RULER, CONSIDER CAREFULLY WHAT IS BEFORE YOU; AND PUT A KNIFE TO YOUR THROAT IF YOU ARE A MAN GIVEN TO APPETITE. DO NOT DESIRE HIS DELICACIES, FOR THEY ARE DECEPTIVE FOOD,” PROVERBS 23:1-3. YOU SEE, WHEN WE GIVE INTO OUR APPETITE WE OFTEN HAVE A HARD TIME SATISFYING IT. WE JUST KEEP WANTING MORE AND MORE. WE ALL KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE, FROM OUR OWN LIVES. THE NEXT VERSE IN THE SAME PASSAGE GOES ON TO SAY, “DO NOT OVERWORK TO BE RICH; BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, CEASE!”  HERE AGAIN, ANYTHING WE DO THAT CONSUMES US OR THAT WE OVER INDULGE IN FOR OUR OWN BENEFIT WILL BRING US DOWN.  <br> <br>

      ALTHOUGH OUR APPETITE IS GOD GIVEN, LET’S REMEMBER THAT IT IS SOMETHING WHICH MUST BE CONTROLLED LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. A HEALTHY APPETITE IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE IN ALL RIGHTEOUS THINGS.  HOWEVER, AN OVER INDULGENT APPETITE IS HARMFUL TO US ALL AND OFTEN KEEPS US FROM LIVING LIKE WE SHOULD OR FROM DOING WHAT WE SHOULD, IN THE SERVICE OF OUR GOD. <br> <br> 

      FINALLY, NOTICE THE WORDS OF PAUL IN ROMANS 14:17. THERE HE SAID, “FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT EATING AND DRINKING, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.” LET’S FOCUS AND INDULGE ON THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER IN THIS LIFE. BECAUSE, “HE WHO SERVES CHRIST IN THESE THINGS IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD AND APPROVED BY MEN,” VERSE 18, OF THE SAME PASSAGE! IF WE WANT TO BE TRULY PLEASING TO GOD, WE WILL FOCUS OUR APPETITES ON HIM AND HIS WORD.  THIS IS HOW WE TRULY GLORIFY OUR CREATOR!  <br> <br>

      THIS MORNING WE WILL CONTINUE OUR STUDY PREACHING JESUS, AS WE CONSIDER OUR SPECIFIC LESSON, “JESUS THE KING!” AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, I WILL BE LEADING OUR LESSON THOUGHTS OF THE MORNING, AS WE TOGETHER STUDY THIS TOPIC FROM GOD’S WORD. NOW IT’S TIME TO JOIN IN OUR NEXT SONG. THE NAME OF THIS HYMN, “TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS.” <br> <br>

      

      LESSON<br> <br>

      BY RAY SULLINS<br> <br>

      WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'VE CONTINUED WITH US THIS DAY AS WE NOW GO TO GOD'S WORD AND LOOK AT ANOTHER LESSON CONCERNING PREACHING JESUS. AND HOPEFULLY TOGETHER IN OUR SERIES WE'VE BEEN LEARNING THAT PREACHING JESUS HAS A LOT TO DO WITH SO MANY ASPECTS OF THE BIBLE, NOT JUST MENTIONING THE NAME JESUS OR THE MAN HIMSELF, BUT THOSE THINGS THAT ARE TIED TO THE MAN AND THE WORKS THAT HE DID WHILE HE WAS ON THE EARTH. AND ULTIMATELY, NOT ONLY THE PURPOSE THAT HE CAME, BUT ULTIMATELY HIS DEATH, BURIAL, HIS RESURRECTION, AND HIS ASCENSION. AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS WE'VE LOOKED AT TOGETHER TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE OURSELVES TO KNOW, NOT ONLY WHO CHRIST IS, BUT TO BE THOSE WHO PREACH JESUS IN THE ENTIRETY SO THE PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO FOLLOW JESUS BY KNOWING EVERYTHING THEY ARE REQUIRED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM, NOT JUST SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE HEARD ABOUT HIM. <br> <br>

      WITH THAT IN MIND, WE BEGIN TODAY FROM MATTHEW 16, A VERY FAMILIAR TEXT WHERE JESUS ASKED HIS DISCIPLES A QUESTION: WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM? AS WE THINK ABOUT THOSE WHO DECLARE JESUS TO BE ONE THING OR ANOTHER, SOME CLAIMING HIM TO BE ELIJAH OR EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST, MAYBE ONE OF THE PROPHETS EVEN BACK FROM THE DEAD, WE SEE THAT REALLY THAT ANSWER OF WHO JESUS IS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN CONSIDERING TOGETHER NOW FOR MANY WEEKS. BUT TODAY I'D LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT THAT ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IN RELATIONSHIP TO REALLY UNDERSTANDING ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERISTICS OF JESUS. WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM? WHAT ABOUT KING OR KING OF KINGS? DO WE UNDERSTAND THAT JESUS IS THE KING? IN FACT, WE CAN GO BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND WE BEGIN TO NOT ONLY SEE THE IDEA OF JESUS, BUT WE BEGIN TO SEE THE IDEA OF JESUS AS A SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL AND CHARACTER, AND EVEN AS GOD. IN FACT, THERE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 9, IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME AT VERSE SIX WITHIN THE PROPHECY AND THE COMING OF CHRIST, THE BIBLE SAYS, “FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER. AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.” YOU SEE HERE THE IDEA OF JESUS COMING AND THE FACT THAT HE WOULD BE THE WONDERFUL AND ALMIGHTY, GLORIOUS, EVERLASTING FATHER AND PRINCE OF PEACE. A BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT BECAUSE IT TELLS US SO MUCH ABOUT THE CHARACTER, NOT ONLY OF THE MAN TO COME, BUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD HIMSELF. FOR WE KNOW JESUS WAS ALSO GOD AND, THEREFORE, WHEN WE GO TO OTHER PASSAGES IN ISAIAH AND OTHER PLACES, WE BEGIN TO SEE THE PROPHECY OF THE COMING OF CHRIST, THAT HE WILL BE COMING IN THE FUTURE. <br> <br>

      AND AS WE THINK ABOUT THOSE PROPHECIES WE ARE REMINDED THAT EVEN AS FAR BACK IN GENESIS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 15 THAT THE SEED OF WOMAN WAS PROPHESIED. THAT IT WOULD BE THROUGH HER SEED THAT EVENTUALLY SATAN WOULD BE DEALT A CRUSHING BLOW. AND IS IT NOT THAT SAME SEED THAT ONE JESUS WHO CAME FROM THAT SEED? WHOM WE ALSO LEARNED THERE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11, SPECIFICALLY TOGETHER IN VERSE 10, THIS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST? THE BIBLE SAYS, “AND AS MY HAND HAS FOUND THE FORMER IDOLS OR THE IMAGES THERE THAT ARE CARVED…” WELL I'M SORRY, CHAPTER 11 RATHER IN VERSE 10… “AND IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE, WHO SHALL STAND AS A BANNER TO THE PEOPLE; FOR THE GENTILES SHALL SEEK HIM, AND HIS RESTING PLACE SHALL BE GLORIOUS.” THERE'S THAT IDEA OF THE ROOT OF JESSE, OF THAT SEPTOR OF JUDAH, OF THAT ONE WHO IS TO COME, THAT RULER, THAT MESSIAH AS IS SPOKEN OF, AND EVEN THAT CONCEPT OF THE CHRIST WHICH WAS THAT PROPHESIED ONE WHO IS DOING WHAT? WHO IS COMING TO SAVE THE WORLD! AS JESUS PUT IT IN HIS OWN WORDS, HE CAME TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST. <br> <br>

      NOW, WE SEE THAT FULFILLMENT IN MANY PLACES THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT BUT I'D ASK YOU TO TURN OVER TO THE BOOK OF ACTS WITH ME BECAUSE THERE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, SPECIFICALLY IN CHAPTER 2, WITHIN THAT GREAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT WHERE PETER WAS IDENTIFYING TO THE PEOPLE THAT IT WAS WHAT? THE SAME JESUS WHOM NOW GOD THE FATHER HAS MADE WHAT? BOTH LORD AND SAVIOR. HE IS THAT MASTER. HE IS THAT PROPHESIED ONE. HE IS THAT CHRIST! WHO? THE ONE WHOM YOU HAVE CRUCIFIED, VERSE 36. BUT EARLIER IN THAT SAME TEXT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT HE SAID THERE IN VERSE 30 AND FOR CONTEXT LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ VERSE 29 AS WELL, “MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME SPEAK FREELY TO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND (IN HIS TOMB) AND HIS TOMB,” RATHER, “IS WITH US EVEN TODAY. THEREFORE, BEING A PROPHET, AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAD SWORN WITH AN OATH TO HIM THAT OF THE FRUIT OF HIS BODY, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, HE WOULD RAISE THE CHRIST TO SIT ON HIS THRONE.” HE WOULD DO WHAT? WHO WAS DAVID? THE KING. WHAT DID DAVID HAVE? AS KING, HE HAD A THRONE. THE THRONE OF GOD'S PEOPLE TO RULE GOD'S PEOPLE. THIS SAYS THAT THE CHRIST WOULD BE THE ONE WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY SIT ON WHAT? THAT THRONE. AND OBVIOUSLY BY THIS TIME WHAT DO WE KNOW HAS TAKEN PLACE THAT HAS BEEN FUFILLED? THAT HE'S ALREADY COME. HE'S ALREADY ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH. HE'S ALREADY ESTABLISHED THE KINGDOM AND IS IT NOT WHAT WE READ A MOMENT AGO AT VERSE 36 WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS, “DO YOU NOT KNOW HOUSE OF ISRAEL THAT THE LORD GOD HATH MADE,” WHAT? “THIS JESUS, THE ONE WHOM YOU CHRIST CRUCIFIED, BOTH LORD AND CHRIST.” CHRIST OF, SAME WORD AS USED BACK IN VERSE 30. OUR JESUS, OUR SAVIOR, WAS PROPHESIED AND THAT PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED AND THE FACT THAT HE CAME AND HE NOT ONLY CAME AS THAT MESSIAH OR CHRIST AS SAVIOR OF THE WORLD BUT HE CAME AS KING OF ALL THINGS. HE CAME AS RULER OVER ALL THINGS TO SIT ON THE SPIRITUAL THRONE OF GOD OR AS IS INDICATED HERE, THAT SPIRITUAL THRONE OF GOD'S PEOPLE THERE EVEN OF DAVID. AND THAT HE WOULD RULE THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE OF GOD. AND THAT THOSE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED IN HIM AND OBEYED AND FOLLOWED HIM AS KING OF KINGS WOULD THEREFORE HAVE GREAT BLESSING AND BENEFIT. <br> <br>

      AS WE CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT THAT QUESTION THEN “WHO IS JESUS?” AND WE BEGIN TO NOW CONTINUE TO LOOK THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ANSWER THAT QUESTION. WELL, HOW IS HE KNOWN AS THE KING OF KINGS? WELL, LET'S NOW LOOK AT SOME OTHER PASSAGES THAT WILL HELP US. FIRST OF ALL, LET'S SEE ONE THING THAT IS DECLARED TO US IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. IN CHAPTER 12 OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND VERSE 15, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT IT IS IN RELATIONSHIP TO JESUS AND THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM THAT TAKES PLACE. AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS ACCORDING TO PROPHECY BACK IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 9. READ WITH ME THERE IF YOU WILL, CHAPTER 12 IN JOHN THERE VERSE 15, “FOR,” OR RATHER, “’FEAR NOT DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SITTING ON A DONKEY’S COLT.’” WELL, WHAT WAS THE PROPHESIED THING? THAT JESUS WOULD COME. THAT HE WOULD COME HOW? AS PROPHESIED. AND WHAT DID HE DO?  WHEN HE CAME TO JERUSALEM LATER IN THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS, HE CAME IN RIDING THAT COLT, THAT YOUNG DONKEY. AND HE CAME IN AS WHAT? KING OF KINGS, WITH PEOPLE LAUDING AND MAGNIFYING HIM, LAYING DOWN THE LEAVES AND PROCLAIMING HIM AND GLORIFYING HIM TO BE THAT KING, THAT PROPHESIED ONE. WELL, CERTAINLY THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO REVEALED THIS TO PAUL. IF YOU'LL LOOK THERE WITH ME IN FIRST TIMOTHY IN CHAPTER 6, THERE IN VERSE 15, WHAT WAS IT THAT HE DECLARED TO THIS EVANGELIST THAT HE MIGHT THEN ALSO DECLARE IT TO OTHERS? BEGIN READING WITH ME THERE IN VERSE 15. IT SAYS, “WHICH HE WILL MANIFEST IN HIS OWN TIME, HE WHO IS THE BLESSED AND ONLY PONTENTATE, THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS.” WHO IS JESUS? HE IS THE ONLY RULER. HE IS THE ONLY SOVEIRGN RULER. HE IS THE ONLY RULER THAT IS OVER RULERS, THAT HAS POWER OVER OTHER RULERS. IN FACT, IF YOU'RE NOT SURE ABOUT THAT KEEP YOUR FINGER RIGHT THERE IN THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY BECAUSE WE'D LIKE TO COME BACK. BUT THERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 1, GUESS WHAT IT SAYS IN VERSE FIVE IN RELATIONSHIP TO JESUS CHRIST? IT SAYS THIS, “AND FROM JESUS CHRIST, THE FAITHFUL WITNESS, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD, AND THE RULER OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. TO HIM WHO LOVED US AND WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD.” THAT SAME SAVING JESUS, THAT CHRIST WHO CAME AND SHED HIS BLOOD THAT I MIGHT HAVE WHAT? FORGIVENESS OF SINS. HE IS WHAT? ONE OF THOSE DESCRIPTIVE CONCEPTS: HE IS THE RULER OVER ALL THE KINGS OF THE EARTH! NOT SOME. NOT A FEW. NOT THE LITTLE ONES OR THE BIG ONES. ALL THE KINGS! WHAT DOES THAT MAKE HIM? IF YOU'RE RULER OVER ALL THE KINGS, WHAT ARE YOU? YOU'RE THE KING OF KINGS! YOU'RE THE EMPEROR. THINK BACK TO THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. IN THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT, YOU HAD MANY KINGDOMS AND MANY KINGS THAT WERE UNDER THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. BUT WHO WAS OVER ALL OF THE KINGS? THE EMPEROR. AND WHO WAS THE EMPEROR? THE KING OF KINGS! HE WAS THE MASTER, THE LORD OF LORDS, ACCORDING TO THOSE OF THAT DAY. NO RULER ABOVE HIM AND NO RULER AS POWERFUL. JESUS SPIRITUALLY IS OUR WHAT? OUR KING OF KINGS. HE IS OVER ALL KINGS. HE IS OUR LORD OF LORDS; YES. AND THEREFORE, BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS, WE KNOW THAT HE IS OUR CREATOR. HE IS THAT GIVER OF LIFE INITIALLY AND THE SUSTAINER OF LIFE. AND THE FACT THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE SALVATION THROUGH HIM. <br> <br>

      IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THERE ARE MANY THINGS AS WELL THAT ARE SPOKEN CONCERNING JESUS AS BEING KING. AND I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS A FEW OF THOSE BRIEFLY AT THIS TIME. FIRST OF ALL, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 17 - AND I MIGHT REMIND YOU WE'VE ALREADY LOOKED AT CHAPTER 1 VERSE FIVE WHERE IT SAID THAT HE WAS RULER OVER ALL KINGS. BUT IN CHAPTER 17, AS IT DESCRIBES TO US THERE THE LAMB HIMSELF, THAT IS JESUS CHRIST, NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS THERE IN VERSE 14. IT SAYS, “THESE WILL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB, AND THE LAMB WILL OVERCOME THEM…” WHY? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE LAMB, JESUS, WILL OVERCOME? HE IS LORD OF LORDS! HE IS KING OF KINGS! AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH HIM ARE CALLED CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL. WHO IS THIS LORD OF LORDS? JESUS...THE SAME CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THE SAVIOR, THE ONE THAT CAME AND DIED FOR US. SEE, THERE'S NO DOUBT WHO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. THAT VERY ONE WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS! BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL ALSO ABOUT THAT VERSE? WE, AS THE FAITHFUL WHO FOLLOW JESUS AS OUR KING OF KINGS, AS OUR LORD OF LORDS, ARE THE WHAT? THE CHOSEN, THE ELECT OF GOD AND THE FAITHFUL OF GOD. WE OBEY HIM AND THEREFORE WE ARE SEEN AS HIS FAITHFUL CHILDREN. LET'S LOOK OVER A FEW CHAPTERS TO CHAPTER 19. AND AS WE SEE THERE IN CHAPTER 19, AGAIN JESUS AND HIS GREAT DEPICTION THERE AROUND VERSE 11 BEGINNING, YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THIS SECTION LATER BECAUSE IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SECTION. BUT AS WE SEE HIM THERE ON THE WHITE HORSE AND WE SEE THAT HE IS WITH HIS ARMIES AND THAT HE IS READY FOR THE BATTLE AGAINST EVIL, NOTICE WHAT IS FOUND ON HIS ROBE IN VERSE 16, “AND HIS ROBE HAD THIS NAME WRITTEN: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”<br> <br> 

      YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS THINK IN CONNECTION TO THIS DISCUSSION IS WHAT THE ARMIES OR THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLDIERS PUT ON THE CROSS OF JESUS. REMEMBER THE WAY THEY MOCKED HIM? THE KING OF THE JEWS, AND THEY DID IT IN A MOCKING WAY! THE JEWS, CERTAINLY MANY OF THEIR LEADERS, AT LEAST MOCKED JESUS AS THE KING OF THE JEWS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES US? THE SAME BIBLE THAT EVEN THE JEWS BELIEVED IN, AT LEAST THE OLD TESTAMENT. IT DECLARED HIM THAT COMING MESSIAH, THAT COMING CHRIST, TO BE THE KING OF THE JEWS, TO BE THE KING OF ALL NATIONS. AND WHAT WE HAVE SEEN TODAY IS THAT IT IS SAME CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THAT CAME IN THAT FIRST CENTURY WHO WAS THE KING OF KINGS - THE LORD OF LORDS. AND THEN TODAY, EVEN FOR US, IS STILL THAT SAME KING OF KINGS WHO IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 RULES FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, THE FATHER IN HEAVEN AS GOD HIMSELF. AND HE RULES OVER HIS SPIRITUAL KINGDOM THAT WE MIGHT WHAT? LOOK TO HIM AS KING! LOOK TO HIM AS CREATOR! LOOK TO HIM AS GOD! FOR EVEN JESUS DECLARED HIMSELF TO BE SO. DO YOU REMEMBER THERE WHEN HE WAS TALKING WITH PILATE IN JOHN 18? PILATE ASKED HIM THE QUESTION, “’SO ARE YOU A KING?’” AND JESUS SAID, “’YOU SAY CORRECTLY THAT I AM A KING. FOR THIS REASON I,’” JESUS SAID, “HAVE BEEN BORN.’” SEE, JESUS KNEW HE WAS A KING. GOD THE FATHER KNEW WAS A KING. GOD THE FATHER SENT HIM. THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THE FATHER AND THE SON, THEY KNEW HE WAS A KING. THE POWER OF GOD PROVED HE WAS A KING AND FROM GOD, AND GOD HIMSELF. AND YET MAN IN THE PAST AND EVEN TODAY STILL REJECT JESUS AS KING. THAT'S THE QUESTION FOR YOU TODAY. DO YOU NOT ONLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS AS GOD BUT HAVE YOU FOLLOWED AND OBEYED HIM SO THAT YOU'LL BE A RECIPIENT OF WHAT THE KINGDOM OFFERS TO THE FAITHFUL? IF NOT, GET YOUR LIFE RIGHT TODAY BECAUSE THE REWARD AWAITING YOU AND ME IS WORTH EVERY EFFORT THAT WE'LL EVER PUT FORTH! <br> <br>

      

      CLOSING COMMENTS<br> <br>

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