Embracing Jesus' Kingship: A Call to Worship

And so, you know, we just want to send them off, we just want to really want to send them off, right? So pastors, elders, senior leaders that are here for this service, if y 'all would come up, that would be great. And we just want to pray blessing over them, right? That's what you do with family. [00:47:43] (17 seconds)


So throughout history, because of its rarity and because of its value, gold has always been considered a gift for a king, a gift fit for a king, right? And that's why even, you know, we think about kings and things we've seen in movies and everything else. What do kings like to do? They like to surround themselves by gold. [01:10:50] (21 seconds)


So we're talking about Jesus. A king like no other, guys understanding that Jesus was not just another human being born of a woman into the earth, and He is Lord of lords and King of kings. He is King Jesus. Paul had a disciple named Timothy. He writes this letter to Timothy. [01:14:19] (20 seconds)


That there's no way to place more emphasis than saying the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords is the strongest possible way that it could have been communicated. So he was communicating in this that Jesus is the supreme authority over all the kingdoms of the world and the entire universe is in the hands of King Jesus. [01:15:42] (21 seconds)


Nobody ever imagined the king of the Jews would ride into Jerusalem on a stinky donkey and that the people who would welcome him and cheer him in would be outcasts. It would be those who were overlooked, those who might have even been considered immoral. No one ever expected this king would stand trial for his sins. [01:18:47] (21 seconds)


What's interesting to me is that when you look at this story from the very first century, there are three very distinct responses to the idea that Jesus is king. We see him all the way to the moment of his birth and really, those three distinct responses to the idea that Jesus is king, we're still responding in the same like manner today as humanity. [01:21:31] (22 seconds)


And here you've got the Magi who are saying, it's not about me. It's not about my throne. It's not about my way. It's not about my desires. With everything in me, they're saying, we bow our lives down. We assume a surrendered posture before. Before King Jesus. They were telling that little baby, you are my King. [01:26:24] (20 seconds)


And you're not riding on your parents' coattails, your grandma or whoever it is. And Jesus becomes Lord of your life, right? It's not just my family. No, now it's me. And so I knew all about God, but I came to a place of recognizing just because I know all about God doesn't mean that I know him. [01:29:27] (25 seconds)


How many of you know that Jesus came for people like that? And here's what I had to come to realize. I am those people and you are those people. And that's who Jesus came for. So he loved me right where I was at. And he forgave me. Not because I was that good. Because he was that good. [01:32:34] (23 seconds)


How many of you know He's not a distant, angry, uninvolved judge that's waiting on us to mess up? I was chatting with somebody this week, and that was their view of God. But that's not Him. He's not the big guy in the sky. He's not the man upstairs. He's not the, as the celebrities are wearing this T -shirt that says, Jesus is my homeboy. [01:35:01] (28 seconds)


He is your shelter in time of trouble. He's your light when the world is dark. He's the prince of peace, the lamb of God, the alpha, the omega. He is the resurrection and the life. He is our king. He is goodness indescribable. His power is incomprehensible. His grace is irresistible. At his name, darkness trembles. [01:37:55] (20 seconds)