Christ as King

All right, so, you know, we've been talking about Prophet, Priest, and King and kind of began to think about Christ as King and so I want to spend some time on that look at a good number of scriptures but not all of them because again what's so interesting is

And I think I said it because I was at set free Thursday night I think I've said this to them. I know I did.

You know when people say that that men wrote the Bible and And that it's just was a conspiracy of you know 40 different writers over 1 ,500 years which is in and of itself so amazing to think about but There's no way that man

Could conspire To put these things in place like let's say what we're talking about this morning the office of Prophet Priest and King There's no way that a man could possibly

Men could possibly conceive because this whole thought of Prophet Priest and King Runs through all the scripture.

Now is it it? It appears in one place a little bit and another place, but if you really

Consider the Bible as a whole it really moves in From Seed form through a full blossom and ultimately the full blossom is of course when

Christ came in So even in the thought of Prophet Priest and King there's so many scriptures that either directly speak about it or Imply it and so, you know you think about Let's just think about the book of first and second

Kings and first and second Chronicles, which is mainly a book concerning what? the

Kings, right one book first second

Kings and first one takes the slant from the thought of basically the kings of Israel the northern kingdom and the other one takes this takes to Considers it mainly as the kings that were in Judah, right?

And so we see good kings and bad kings But if you were to follow the history of it

We're talking about hundreds of years worth of Kings. And so when people begin to Just say well, the

Bible is just a man -written book. This is it's so impossible to have that Mindset unless you're really not familiar with the scriptures.

So again this whole thought of Prophet Priest and King Runs through all the

Bible like I said and sometimes in more Vivid places than in others, but nevertheless, it's still there.

So as we begin to think about this I Wanted to say say it this way

Maybe I'll ask you to think about it. Would you agree that the office of pride?

Prophet Priest and King that they are inseparable to the person and work of Christ What I mean by that is you cannot divorce

Either Christ as the prophet you cannot divorce Christ as the priest and certainly you cannot separate him from the thought of being the king and Does that do any damage to the cross?

What I mean by that is does that minimize That sacrificial work

Or does it really in a sense highlight it? Certainly in the area of him being a priest who offers the sacrifice on our behalf, right?

the cross certainly would be prominent, but he the these offices that Christ holds which again

No one else held I mean there were many prophets many priests and as we just said there were many kings and it it really

Collates and Becomes a reality in the person of Christ and so it doesn't undermine the cross because All these things were involved in a in Bringing forth

God's Son and so As we consider the cross it doesn't do any damage to the reality reality that he is the king of kings

Because of the truth of him being the second person in a Trinity and so as we consider the king this morning he's

He's not only Well, let me see if you would agree. He's not only king

From the standpoint of being appointed king But he's the king

Because of what because of his very nature

If you think about it, he is the king of kings and Lord of Lords, right? And so it this this reality and we'll look at it in so many scriptures that God Gave him a government and God gave him a throne and all those things that we read about that It really is not just because he was appointed to but because by nature

He is the king of kings and Lord of Lords. He created all things and so We need to just keep these things in mind because so many people have

And we talked about this last week Certainly in the area of his kingship.

Remember we had a small conversation about eschatology and how that Well people who have different thoughts on end times if you really consider

Christ as prophet priest and king and If he's established as prophet priest and king then

Much of what people hold as an end time Consideration and I know you had brought up whether it's actual sacrifice in the temple or if it's just a memorial kind of thing

But nevertheless if you really understand it Christ as prophet priest and king and we'll look at a scripture about him being the king that it really makes it hard to have in my mind it makes it hard to have a

If you will dispensational premillennial view, but that's that that's just something that I think even when you were talking about his ascension

The other day that put him up, you know that yes, he ascended into heaven. He's put it right hand of God.

He's enthroned Yeah, and you know, that's that's to me and We're gonna look at a scripture

Well, let me let me let me ask us to look at it now because this scripture right here in Acts chapter 2

Let's just turn here to start and I'm going to say this, you know how I really came out of Premillennial thought

I mean, there was times I was waiting for the Chinese to come over the mountains with a thousand man army

What the million man army, right? And then I came on this scripture

In Acts chapter 2 so go there and it just for me and I'm not saying it

Might do it for everybody but for me it turned the lights on as far as my thought on And it has to do exactly what you just said that he is enthroned he is reigning now in Acts chapter 2

I'll read it from verse 32 Well, let me read it from verse 29

And this is Peter and again We know that the setting for this is the great sermon of Pentecost and he says verse 29 men and brethren

Let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his tomb is with us to this day

Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with the note to him That is of the fruit of his body according to the flesh.

He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne He for seeing this spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in Hades nor that his flesh see corruption

This Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses and and then the whole thought of him

Ascending but the verse that really got to me was in verse 33 and 34 therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and Having received from the father the promise of the

Holy Spirit. He poured out this Which you now see in here for David had did not ascend into the heavens

But he says himself the Lord said to my Lord sit on my right sit at my right hand so I make your enemies

Your footstool therefore let all the house of Israel know that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both

Lord and Christ and that clicked in my mind in such a way that I Don't need to have any other thought about Not only who is the king

But of him being enthroned and he's he's seated right and that's what you had just said

No, I didn't get any ascent, but he's now seated at the right hand And like I said for me, it just made a light click

In my mind so I want to look at some scriptures and Like I said, there's many more that we can look at.

So let's just Start roaming around a little bit. Let's go to Psalm 2 for a minute not just I'm gonna say one of the reasons why

I look I like to look at a bunch of scripture is That it helps me piece things together

So when we read something like what we're gonna read in Psalm 2 It helps me understand.

So let's just read it Short says why do the nation's rage and the people plot a vain thing and the kings of the earth set themselves

And the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bands 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 him in his deep displeasure

Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion And 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

Remember what we talked about as far as the king in order to be a king gotta have a kingdom You know, we're at that kingdom.

You gotta have servants. And so when you read like what we just Read there that that God's gonna give him the nation's as an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession

And you shall break them with a rod of iron You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel now, therefore be wise

O Kings Be instructed you judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear

Joyce 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 his trust in him. This is a messianic psalm. It was one of those psalms that either in certain places of it speak directly of Christ or by implication

Refer to Christ Just like what we're going to read in some of the other scriptures where it talks about how

Christ was The son of David, you know how many times and I don't know exactly how many times

You know how often Christ is called the son of David Not not only in the

Old Testament It by implication of him coming as the messianic

King, but in the New Testament, he's called the son of David And again, that all comes

Out of where I know I'm jumping around but let's do this.

Let's look at 2nd Samuel 7 I got to check these off because I Might forget because I'm old

Which ones we read already? You laughing at me, but I know you are baby if I go you go

I'm gonna hold your head 2nd

Samuel this is the great if you will

Davidic covenant that God has established right and Pick it up in verse 12

So it says when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your father's speaking to David, right?

When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your father's I will set up your seat after you who will come from your body

Look, and I will establish his kingdom, right? Who's he talking about?

You're not talking about David because he's telling David when your days are fulfilled You could say well, he's talking about Solomon and I would agree and then all the line that followed

Solomon, but ultimately where does it find its expression? It finds its expression in the

King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who is none other than Christ so I Will establish his kingdom and he shall build a house in my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever

I Will be his father. He shall be my son if he commits iniquity I will chase him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men and And certainly that was the case, right?

Many of those Kings suffered what they suffered the judgment of God because they went awry and Ultimately, it has to be in Christ because he was the one who was obedient and we'll look at that obedient unto death

So he shall build a house in my name. I will establish the throne of his king forever.

I will be his father He should be my son if he commits iniquity But my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom

I removed and your house and Your kingdom shall be established forever before you your

Throne shall be established forever According to all these words and according to all these visions.

So Nathan spoke to David again Who's immediately in view historically of you?

Well, you could say David right we could say Solomon we could say all the the royal

Line that ascended to the throne and again some of them were good what some of them were bad

It's an interesting study by the way to go through the Kings and see how often there was like a good king and then a bad king or maybe two bad kings and another good king because God was was always going to Bring it to that point where it would be

Fulfilled in Christ and if you think about that even from the standpoint of the seed

You remember Adeliah She tried to kill all the royal seed right and the one little one

Escaped was Josiah, right? Yeah, I think it was just sorry to escape but again all these things are

Bits and pieces for us of ultimately what would take place in Christ.

So This week that I ran right back in it, you know years ago asked for the ayatollahs, right?

They had the shop and they asked for it It's like Israel asked for Saul give me a king give me a king and look what happened man

It's like it was a disaster. Look what happened. I ran just yeah disaster. They don't know they're crying for something else.

Yeah That's such a mess over there. It's it's been such a mess.

Like you say historically and You know you think about those civilizations been around Right, we're celebrating 250 years and that's cool

And that's great and and I appreciate that and I don't want to live in any other country but they start thinking about some of these nations have been there yeah thousands of years and and Their heritage in that sense is much richer than ours and yet God has raised up us for his purpose and we should just be thankful.

So But let me ask you so I don't know let's go to Isaiah for a minute

Isaiah chapter 9 and again Familiar yes Worthwhile under the thought of King.

Yes And that's what that that's one of the great things about the Bible, right? Is that the

Bible not only When the

Bible speaks in prophetic words There are many things that are included so many times the same section

Can be used Both from a historical standpoint but also from the standpoint of how it shows forth

Christ in multiple ways so Look at verse 6 and again famous in that sense.

We especially around Christmastime for unto us Child is born unto us a son is given

But here it is and the government will be upon his shoulders If you're a king you rule the government, right

The government will be on his shoulders. His name shall be called and again This is where you can break out into a bunch of different ways wonderful counselor mighty

God everlasting father prince of peace now of the increase of his

Government and peace there will be no end Upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment and justice

From that time forward even forever and the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform it.

So is that is that not a if you will a prophecy concerning Christ That he is ultimately the one that God would bring forth and that and again

We're putting it in the context of him being king

Higher than the kings of the earth. That's what we read in Psalm 2, right? the kings of the earth shall be put under his feet and We should understand that.

All right, let's try this one. Let's go to Daniel for a minute

So Because again, this is If you will

Directing us to the fact that Christ is the king and That he's being brought forth for us

In Daniel chapter 7

I get lost because I don't know where to start sometimes because it's so good

But nevertheless, we'll start in verse 9 Look what he says. I watched till thrones were put in place and the ancient of days was seated and his garment was white as snow

The hair of his head was like pure wool. Well, this throne was a fiery flame

Its wheels a burning fire a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him a thousand thousands

Ministered to him and ten thousands times ten thousands stood before him kind of what

Revelation says, right? places, okay The court was seated and the books were open and I watched because of the sound of the pompous words

Which the horn was speaking of and I watched till the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to burning flame

As to the rest of the beast they had their dominion taken away yet. Their lives were prolonged for a season and a time

Then it says this I was watching in the night seasons behold One like the

Son of Man Coming with the clouds he came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him then to him was given dominion glory and a kingdom that all peoples

Nations languages should serve him his dominion is everlasting Which shall not pass away and his kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed again

Very Forward -looking in the sense of ultimately when

Christ would come and now you Begin to think so we were talking about prophet priest the king

You remember how the book of Hebrews opens up? God who at sundry times in times past spoke to the fathers by the prophets

Hath in these last days spoken to us by who his son and that encompasses the thought of He is the prophet because that's what we read

Specifically in Deuteronomy 18 that God was going to bring that prophet We read about him as priest and we read in Psalm like 110 where it said that he would be a priest

According to the line of who? Melchizedek who had no beginning no end and now certainly in the area of Christ being the king

That is again something that you and I can see fulfilled in Christ not partially fulfilled

Now no, I should do it this way that way.

Well, I'm gonna do it this way. I want to go I'm gonna go back here. We've been here before first Corinthians 15.

I want to ask you to think about some first Corinthians 15 Because And I think

I mentioned it less. This is a troubling Section for some people because I think that it can be easily

Misunderstood Okay So Paul's talking about the last enemy being destroyed and the last enemy ultimately is

Death now in verse 20 Of chapter first Corinthians 15

But now Christ has risen from the dead has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep

For since by man came death by man also came resurrection from the dead Let's talk about Adam and for as in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive

But each in his own order Christ the firstfruits Afterward those who are

Christ that is coming and then comes the end and this is where it gets really interesting Then comes the end

When he who's the he there? It's Christ when he delivers the kingdom to God the

Father when he puts an end of all rule and all authority and power for he must

Reign till he has put all enemies under his feet and the last enemy that will be destroyed is death for he

Has put all things under his feet But when he says all things are put under his feet is evident that he who is

Who has put all things on their feet is accepted Now when all these things are made subject to him

Then the son himself Will be subject to him who put all things under him that God may be all in all now

Many people have misunderstood this I believe what it's saying is that When Christ delivers that kingdom back to the father or delivers it up that he will always be the king of kings and Lord of Lords, but In the purpose of God in the eternal counsel of God in the eternal decrees of God This is what

God had established He sent his son and made him the king and when that is finally delivered up Which won't come to the end

Then the son himself in that sense is no longer Considered in the outworking of him as Just merely a mediator

But he's actually the God -man He shall ever be the God -man right and he shall ever sit on the throne

And he shall ever have the government upon his shoulders and every knee shall bow and every tongue shall

Confess that Jesus would so See some people will say well you see what this saying is that the son can't be divine because he's in subjection to the father

But that's not what its meaning its meaning is that he delivers up He finishes the work that God gave him to do and then

God becomes again in his absolute fullness the all -in -all that Was to come

Let me just read You don't have to turn there But in John 17, well

Let's do it Let's do this go to John 17 for a second and again all these things put together under a certain heading

Helps us to grab hold of what the richness of the meaning if you will

Jesus spoke these words. I'm John 17 lifted up his eyes to heaven and said father The hour has come glorify your son

That your son may also glorify you as you have given him what

Authority over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him

I think this in part is what Paul is stressing in first Corinthians 15 That that that that is the work that God gave the son to do and this is eternal life

Verse 3 that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent

I've glorified you on the earth. I finished the work what you gave me to do and now oh father

Glorify me together with yourself with the glory with with Glorify me with yourself with the glory which

I had with you before the world was See again, he's the king of kings and always been the king of kings and lord of lords but he came in the likeness of simple man, right and He was raised to that Exalted position on the throne of David which again the

Gospels speak of him as the the son of David the greatest son of David and that When he comes he fulfills all that is

I thought I dropped something Oh Look in in Luke, you know,

I've turned here. It's in Luke 22. It says I it talks about that it

Jesus says I appoint you saw the disciples. He says I appoint you a kingdom as my father appointed with me

Again the fact that he's the mediator He's the mediator under that thought of what?

Prophet priest and King has anybody ever been a prophet priest and King? Yes, but no one could do it in absolute perfection other than the

Son Because he is ultimately the divine Son of God So again all these things when you put it together

I Exalt his Lordship exalt his The fact that he's the king of kings

All right. Let's try this. Let's go to Philippians 2 for a second. You know, we're not gonna get to all of these

But that's okay so in Philippians chapter 2 and again Brings it into focus for us.

Is it a familiar section? Of course it is we probably Have memorized if not all of it at least part of it, but in Philippians chapter 2

Okay, I'll just pick it up in verse 3 Philippians 2 and verse well verse 5

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal to God that made himself of no reputation

Taking the form of servant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man

He humbled himself became obedient to death to the point of death even the death of the cross

But now here it is therefore God has also highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those

Not only in heaven and Those on earth and those on the earth that every tongue should confess that Jesus is

Lord to the glory of God the Father And then I will just read to you very quickly

Just with that floating around hopefully in our minds in a in our heads

What it says in Revelation 19 and And It talks about Christ.

I Just wanted to read this one verse now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with a

Rod of iron and he himself threads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God And he has on a rope he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written

King of Kings Lord of Lords Again not minimizing just the thought of like David was the king and and Hezekiah was a king and but he is the

King he's the king of kings in the Lord of Lords. And so again all these scriptures friends are just there for us to lay hold of and Enjoy.

Do you remember this one? Remember when Isaiah saw in Isaiah 6 it says I I saw the

Lord high and lifted up and his train filled the temple and it speaks about King sitting on his throne you do

Recall that in John chapter 12 Jesus goes back to that and he says

Isaiah was glad because he saw who? He saw Christ he saw me and so again the imagery

And I was going to look up a whole bunch of have you look at a whole bunch of scriptures with me about how the throne is always

Predominant as you see Christ. It's his throne. He's on the throne

He intercedes for us where? from the throne he sends the

Spirit as the comforter and yet he still is seated at the right hand of the

Father and We shall one day see him as he as he is

So like that scripture in 1st John chapter 3 it says We shall see him as he is not as we think he is

But as he truly is and one of those things certainly is under the headship of him being

The king and not just any old king. So There's some other scripts some of the cool messianic

Psalms and you can read these on your own. It's like Psalm 45 and Psalm 89 you read those and you're gonna see that itself talks about Christ as the king

That was to come forward. Is there a historical reality of it? Yeah, and many of them are in the thought of David or some of them or even speak about other kings

Solomon and whatnot, but Many of the Psalms not only speak of Christ as prophet as priest but as king so and I think that will conclude our thought on the prophet priest and king and then we'll

Maybe move forward Next week on a different topic questions comments insults