GOD IS MY KING
"For
God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth."
-PSALM
74:12 [KJV]
In
our day men speak constantly of liberty, democracy and freedom. They
exalt self-rule, independence and individual rights. However, God’s
believing elect rejoice that they were made willing in the day of His
power to behold Jesus Christ as their God and King. Now we gladly bow
before Him, submit to His Kingship and behold the King in His beauty!
More than a king He is, for He is the King of kings! He is the King
of kings who sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high, rules
over all and all things exercising His sovereignty in every quarter.
As this glorious sovereign He has mercy upon whom He will have mercy
and is gracious to whom He would be gracious. He declares in the
positive, “I
will have mercy…”
and “none
can stay His hand or say unto Him what doest Thou?”
Have
you the eye of faith to behold this King in His beauty? His is the
beauty of holiness. He is King of Righteousness, being the Lord our
Righteousness to His people who are made the very righteousness of
God in Him. He is the King of Peace who made peace through the blood
of His cross. He is the King of glory who came from glory and was
made flesh, dwelling among us as the God-Man Mediator. On His holy
Head are “many
crowns,”
signifying His complete authority over all things and all men. He is
the “King of the Jews” in the truest sense being King over all
who are Jews “inwardly”
and whose circumcision is not outward but inward, of the heart and
not the flesh [ROMANS
2:28-29].
What a glorious King He is. He is God’s King whom He has set on His
holy hill Zion, the Church which is His body.
His
throne is forever and is a throne of grace to all He laid down His
life to save. He suffered in their place wearing a crown of thorns
and was given a reed for a scepter and then smitten with it and
crucified between heaven and earth. In this character He was dressed
in a purple robe by His slayers and mocked as He died. They buried
Him as one beneath themselves. But how did He raise from the grave?
He rose to take His throne which is the throne of glory upon which He
now sits as the King of glory [PSALM
24]!
He “spoiled
principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing
over them in it.”
Victorious
in His cross death! The mocked King on the cross is the enthroned
King of glory! “For
God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth”
[PSALM
74:12].
Oh give me a good, wise and powerful King such as ours! He is the
Savior King who saves all His people from their sins. He gives us to
sit with Him in His throne and we shall rule with Him forever!
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Please
find enclosed link to Gospel Sermon, “Who Is The King of
Glory?”
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