Frankincense, Myrrh, Gold

• Frankincense, represented Jesus as the High Priest, the representative of the people to God as the one who would give his life and the one who would sit at the right hand of God the Father making intercession for God’s people, Jesus as High Priest.
• We also looked at myrrh, and that represents Jesus as the suffering servant or the Lamb of God.
• Today, we look at the gift of gold. Throughout history, because of the scarcity and value of gold, this has been known as a gift fit for a king.
• Today Kingship of Christ, Jesus as King.

 

King Will Come Again

• 15 For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords. 1 Tim 6:15
• Supreme authority over all the kingdoms in this world.
• The entire cosmos is in the hands of King Jesus!—
• King like no other!

 

Command that in Your kingdom

• Mat 20:20-22 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.  (21)  And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She *said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”  (22)  But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They *said to Him, “We are able.”

 

King’s Weapon = Cup to drink

• Mat 20:23-25 He *said to them, “My cup you shall drink; but to sit on My right and on My left, this is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.”  (24)  And hearing this, the ten became indignant with the two brothers.  (25)  But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

 

 

King Gives His Life a Ransom

• Mat 20:26-28 “It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,  (27)  and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;  (28)  just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

 

King & Lowly Disciples

• No one expected the King born: In Poverty—Cave—Farm Animals!
• !Didn’t expect Savior—Messiah—King—Nazareth—Son Carpenter
• No one predicted—Son of God—King of Glory
• Befriend prostitutes—Touch lepers—Love those religion rejected!
• !Never imagined he’d choose uneducated fishermen, despised tax collectors, rebellious trouble-makers disciples.

 

King on a Donkey

• No one ever imagined that a King would forgive a woman caught in the very act of adultery when the law said
• she should be stoned, and yet, he would confront the hypocrisy of the Pharisees again and again, and overturned tables when people misused his temple as a place of personal profit. They never imagined the King of the Jews would ride into Jerusalem on a donkey, of all creatures.

 

King Tortured

• And those who would be cheering for his arrival would be the outcasts, the overlooked, and even the immoral ones. No one expected a King to stand trial for crimes that he did not commit. No one ever imagined that an innocent King
• would be beaten, whipped, scourged, stripped naked to hang on an instrument of torture known as a cross, dying a death that a criminal deserved to die. No one would

 

King on the Cross

• ever have imagined this King hanging on a cross as the creator in the flesh, as the creation, the people, mocked him, spit on him, that this King, while he was suffering,
• would look up to heaven and pray for mercy for those who were torturing him when he said, “Father, please forgive them

 

King Mock Trial

• “because they don’t even know what they’re doing.“ When they offered him a drink to dull the pain, he rejected it, facing the full agony of the sin of the world. And he declared, “It’s finished, “I did what you sent me to do, Father. “Into your hands, I commit my spirit.” No one ever expected the King to die a shameful death in front of people mocking him.

 

At Death Kingship Shows Up

• It is finished – all along King was on a campaign – win the world back, defeat the enemy
• His weapon was love & forgiveness
• Centurion bowed
• Sku darkened in half mast saluting the king of creation dying
• Earth quaked in sorrow

 

Risen King

• they buried a dead King in a borrowed grave. No one expected, three days later, when some women went to check on the tomb that the
• stone would be rolled away, you see. The body was not there. This King was risen from the dead and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

 

Herod was Hostile to the King

The first one is represented by King Herod. If you know his story, Herod opposed Jesus as King. He wanted to guard and protect his kingship, so he issued a decree that all the boys under the age of two in Bethlehem would be put to death because he heard there might be a King who might threaten his kingdom.

 

Priests Didn’t Care

• here was a second group, and I think this is profoundly common today, the Jewish priests, they didn’t oppose Jesus, they just dismissed him as King. They dismissed him, they just kind a blew him off, which is so bizarre because these very Jewish priests, they actually quoted scripture, they quoted an Old Testament

 

Worship the KIng

• Then there were the Wise Men. The Wise Men bowed down and worshiped Jesus as King. The ultimate response to show reverence, awe, and honor to the God of heaven who became one of us in the person of Jesus, and they said, “It’s not about me, my throne, my desires. “With everything in me, I bow down,” “the most surrendered posture, to show you my reverence. “You’re my King, the King of the
• ” They bowed down, and they worshiped him.

 

• CEO Christians,
• C-E-O. He said, “You’re Christmas and Easter Only Christians,

 

King of All Ages

• worship this King, to give him honor, to give him reverence for who he is. Who is this King that gave his life for us? My King, according to scripture, is the King of Glory. He is the King of Righteousness, he is the King of the Ages, he is the King of all kings. Jesus, this King, heals the sick. He opens blind eyes, he heals deaf ears. He strengthens the weak, he delivers the captive,

 

King of Healing & Deliverance

• he restores those who are broken and hurting, he is the King. He is a shelter in your time of trouble. He is a light when your world is dark. He is the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the resurrection and life, he is our King. His goodness is indescribable. His power is His grace is irresistible. At his name, darkness trembles. In his presence, demons flee,

 

King We Worship

• Yes, “You are our King, Jesus, we worship you.” And I pray that we wouldn’t just pass though, wouldn’t take you for granted, but our hearts would be focused on you, worshiping you, showing you honor,
• and then showing your very love to everyone that we interact with.
• God, may we reflect your glory, your grace, your goodness, and your unconditional love.

King is Risen

• He was all God, and he was all man, all at the same time, he’s God in the flesh. He was perfect in every way. He honored God with a sinless life. Therefore, he could be our innocent sacrifice. He shed his blood on a cross for the forgiveness of our sins, and the good news is that when he gave his life, he did not stay dead. Our God raised him from the dead so that anyone, and this includes you, who calls on the name that is above every name, the
• King  &  High Priest
• name of our High Priest, the name of our suffering servant, the name of our King that is above every King, his name is Jesus. When you call on his name, God hears your prayers. He forgives all of your sins, and he makes you brand new. Many of you, that’sthe very reason that you’re here today.
• King shares His royalty & kingship with
• 1 priestly people
• 2 meek & mourning
• 3 peacemakers
• 4 hungering for righteousness
• 5 poor in spirit
• Kingship followers will
• 1 suffer to reign
• 2 will know fellowship of suffering to arise in power of resurrection
• 3 persecuted for righteousness
• 4 will attract others to the King & not to themselves- lift Jesus higher
• 5 they look forward kingdom from above
• Kingship extends when
• 1 when we lay down our life
• 2 we bear the shame & witness Heb 12
• 3 when we act as ambassadors of Christ at home work & at all times
• 4 we proclaim loud & soft who rules us
• 5 we turn other cheek
• Kingship not of this world
  but for this world, – suffers when
• 1 we increase & He decreases
• 2 we nix up glory & ambition
• 3 we refuse the cross way
• 4 we take law into our hands
• 5 refuse to turn other cheek
• Jesus’ Kingship is ours To the extent
• 1 We are priestly presenting man’s need to God, bearing them on our ❤ breastplate
• 2 we are priestly presenting God’s mercy for forgiveness & God’s righteous rectitude to man
• 3 we bend low to touch the leper to heal, heal the broken hearted
• 4 We serve the poor as eagerly as we sing carols to kings
• 5 We share our bread & good clothes – clothing the naked, visiting the prisoner
• Our Kingship in Christ
• Our Kingship in Christ – we are Royals Are you a King – Pilate asked
• 1 As we share His crown of thorns, healing bruised reeds, nursing withering flame of life, snuffing out none – so it’s a differently royalty of having the privilege of responsibilities, to right the wrong not by talk but by our walk
• 2 As we take dominion over our insides self ambition, we begin to raise up valleys, straighten crooked places, smoothen rough patches & flatten mountain, preparing the Way of the Lord Is 40:1
• Cup or Sword
• 3 It’s a kingship that increases when I decrease Jn 3:30
• 4 it’s a kingship of meekness & majesty as Graham Kendrick sang
• 5 We take up His cup as He offers a cup of suffering to triumph rather than sword
• 6 My tongue is the ready writer of His virtue & not my pomp Ps 45
• 7 King who rides a mule, heals lepers, befriends harlots & easily addresses Herod or Pilate