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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