One Throne, One Name: Jesus Our Eternal King

Recently in London, I saw the queen's queen Victoria's throne. I saw her chair, and you gotta tell you something. While she sat in that chair, she had power, authority, and control, but that chair is empty today. Her queenship came and went. The kingdom comes and it goes, but there's one that will last forever. There's only one kingdom that will last forever. [01:10:33] (32 seconds)  #EarthlyThronesFade

And one of the cycles, one of the things that we keep reading about in the book of Judges is this, is that God's people keep going on the same cycle. The first thing they do is this, is they abandon God. Israel, God's people, abandon God. Then they end up being conquered. They cry out for help, and they are then rescued by a leader. And this keeps happening. Israel abandons God, and and they they didn't abandon God in the good time in the bad times. They abandoned God in the good times. [00:51:06] (35 seconds)  #CycleOfAbandonment

And here's where we see Jesus in the book of Judges. Because Jesus steps in as the righteous deliverer, as the righteous judge who delivers and rescues his people. Judges chapter six, the angel of the Lord turned to Gideon. Now in the verses previously, it says the angel of the lord. It's important here when we're reading about the angel of the lord, we're not reading about the archangel Gabriel or Michael. We're reading about Jesus Christ himself. [00:54:32] (30 seconds)  #ChristophanyMoments

And the thing about David is this, is that David's story wasn't just about David. David's story was about the one who was to come. Do remember that curious line in the gospels where Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem because they were of the line of David? Jesus was the fulfillment of David's family tree. Jesus is the fulfillment of this spiritual journey that we're on. [01:07:04] (32 seconds)  #DavidPointsToJesus

And just like the kingdoms that come and go, that which is in the throne will come and it will go. And we will keep replacing it with another king, with another leader, with another judge, with another priority, with something else. Because now my health's failed, and so I gotta fill it with something else. Now this part of my career has come to an end, so I gotta fill it with something else, and I'm continually trying to fill it. And I have no peace because I'm trying to fill the throne. But when we say Jesus, come and take your rightful place. Come and sit on the throne of my life. [01:13:53] (38 seconds)  #InviteJesusToThrone

We say, oh, Lord, I can't see you, and I can't hear you, and I can't feel you, and I can't touch you. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put something else on the throne of my life. I'm gonna put my career there. I'm gonna put my family there. I'm gonna put money there. I'm gonna put my health there. I'm gonna put fame and and fortune there. That's what the Israelites did, God's people. They put something else on the throne. One Samuel chapter eight. [00:57:47] (29 seconds)  #WePutOtherThingsFirst

And so when we think about king Saul, king Saul, he sat in the throne. He sat on the throne, and his kingship was about self preservation. It's about his control and his power. I, last year, I read Tony Blair's book on leadership. And in Tony Blair's book on leadership, he he talks about how politicians tell us what they need to tell us in order to get elected, but with no actual intention of following through on the very things they say that we vote them in to do. [00:59:33] (37 seconds)  #LeadershipWithoutIntegrity

You ever reached a place where you go, I am never gonna do that again until next Sunday comes. Lord, I need to repent for what I said I wouldn't do again. I've done it again. Oops. I did it again. And we keep going through this cycle of what is known as the apostasy cycle where God kept raising up leaders or judges to help direct their path. And here's where we see Jesus in the book of Judges. [00:54:08] (27 seconds)  #RepeatRepentance