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The angel, Gabriel, was sent by God to Mary, and he told her that she will conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. By your Spirit, through your Word, show us your glory.
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In our weakness you promise to be strong, and I ask for your strength this morning. Lord Jesus, I am a severely weak man whose only chance of doing anything of any lasting good is if you work through me. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today: Jesus, Our King.Īnd there are three things to see about his kingship in Luke Chapter 1. You go to work everyday and you do what you do, Jesus goes to work as King. Jesus being a King is his job, you could say. How does Jesus’s kingship fit with him as “Lord, Savior, and Treasure”? Why not add “King” to that list? We could! We could also add Priest and Way and Truth and Life - the glory of Jesus is inexhaustible, and we’re never gonna get it all in a sentence, but the way to think about Jesus’s kingship (and priesthood, as we’ll see next week), is that Lord, Savior, and Treasure are descriptions of Jesus, but Jesus as King is the office he holds. Jesus is King! - and so how should we think about this? I think that’s the most repeated theme in all our favorite Christmas songs: “Hark! The herald angels sing ‘Glory to the newborn King!’” “Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King!” If there’s one thing clear about Christmas, it’s that Jesus came as the King. He is Lord, Savior, and Treasure.Īnd he is King. It’s the paradox of Jesus as the Lion and the Lamb, the one who is mighty and meek, transcendent and near, fully God and fully man. Most of the time, Christians will say “Lord and Savior” but we add this Treasure part, for the reasons Pastor David Mathis showed us last week: Jesus as Lord and Savior is who he is and what he does, and Jesus as Treasure is what he is like as Lord and Savior.
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Well, first, it’s that we call Jesus “Jesus” … because that’s his name and he is a real person! Amen!īut also, we say that we embrace Jesus as our Lord, Savior, and Treasure. Okay, did you hear it? What does all of that have in common? Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God, to embrace Jesus as the Lord, Savior, and supreme Treasure of our lives …we enter into covenant … Then, at baptism, the third baptismal question we ask:ĭo you intend now, with God’s help, to obey the teachings of Jesus and to follow him as your Lord, Savior, and Treasure?Īnd then when we affirm our membership covenant together, that covenant starts like this: At each of these events there are things that we say, and I’m gonna read from some of that, and I want you to see if you can pick up on a theme:įirst, at child dedications, we ask our parents:ĭo you promise, God helping you, to make it your regular prayer that, by God’s grace, your children will come to trust in Jesus alone for the forgiveness of their sins and for the fulfillment of all his promises to them and in this faith follow Jesus as Lord, Savior, and supreme Treasure of their lives? These are high points for us, and recently, as I was thinking about these things I noticed at least one common thread in all three. One is when our parents dedicate their children to God Īnd then another is when we celebrate God’s grace in baptism andĪnd then another is when new members join our church. I try to reflect on these things this time of year, and there are a handful of moments stand out to me. And I wonder: if you were asked to name a few high points from 2021, what would they be? If one member is honored, we all rejoice together (see 1 Corinthians 12:26). We as a church have our lows.Īnd we have our highs - there are the ways God’s faithfulness is displayed the ways he provides for us the evidences of grace in our lives. If one member suffers, we all suffer together (see 1 Corinthians 12:26). Burdens to carry valleys to walk through complexities to navigate.
JESUS KING FULL
The life of the local church is full of things we have to endure.
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The life of a family has highs and lows, and so does the life of a church. There are gifts and losses, blessings and disappointments. Which I think is important.īecause we all have highs and lows, as family members and as a family as a whole. Most of the time it’s just crazy town - because half our kids are younger, and so there’s a lot of squirming and side-conversations and corrections that are needed and all that, but somehow we manage to get the highs and lows. I try to help the kids name their emotions and draw out the language of the heart - and it is the most chaotic thing I do.ĭon’t imagine that anything about this is orderly. What was your high and what was your low? What happened today that made you excited? One of the things that my family does on a normal night is that, over dinner, we go around the table and we talk about the highs and lows of our day.