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Announcements
Christmas Schedule:
Lunch 12/18 after morning worship
No Wednesday Evening Services 12/21
Christmas Eve Service 12/24 at 5pm
Christmas Morning: Sunday School at 9am, Worship at 10:15
Normal Services after Christmas
Reading: Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19.
Prayer
This sounds like a great beginning to Solomon’s reign.
He has a firm grip on power - the kingdom is his.
Enemies are subdued, contenders to the throne are defeated, and now the young king can fully implement his plans.
But things aren’t what they seem.
By the end of 2 Kings, we find a very different picture:
What happened?
How did Solomon’s kingdom, firmly established, become fully exterminated in such a short span of history?
1 and 2 Kings tell us the story of sin in the courts of the kings - the faithlessness of many kings eventually led to the judgment of God and the exile of his people.
The books of the Kings show us a hard truth: we need a different kind of king.
We need a faithful king - one who will exercise justice and righteousness, who will uphold truth and punish error, who will not show favoritism or prejudice, but will treat all with common dignity.
We need the kind of king who can firmly establish his kingdom and keep it that way.
We need a king who we can put our hope in, and who will not betray our hopes.
Men put their hopes in all sorts of places, but
Our Hopes are Eternally Secure Only in Jesus Christ
Let me show you in whom we place our hope.
We Place Our Hope in the Perfect King
Solomon was not a perfect king.
He did some righteous things, sure.
But he also did wickedness.
After all, you don’t get hundreds of wives and concubines by being righteous.
Solomon did many things that required God’s justice, and so did all of his successors.
Whether in the Northern or Southern kingdom, every king was imperfect.
Each one had his own struggles, and sinned against God.
That’s not just true of Old Testament kings - you and I are the same way.
We fail.
We fall short of God’s glory.
We sin, and our sin means that we are hopeless.
We face condemnation and doom when we are left on our own.
We have no business hoping in ourselves, or one another.
We need a king who is like us enough to know us and to know our struggles, but one who is different enough that he does not succumb to those struggles.
That’s why we place our hope in the perfect king.
He’s the branch from Jesse’s roots described in Isaiah 11:
The sons of David were unable to retain the kingdoms of Israel and Judah because they were sinners.
But this king is totally different.
Look at how different:
God’s Spirit Is upon Him
God’s Fear Is before Him
God’s Righteousness Is from Him
God’s Likeness Is within Him
We Place Our Hope in the Proven King
Not only do we have a flowery description of Jesus’ reign as king, but we also have some evidence to show us that he is the king we’re looking for.
Paul writes to the church in Rome some of this evidence.
Scripture Proves Him
Service Proves Him
Notice the logic: Christ’s service to the Jews demonstrates the fact that God does not lie.
God’s honesty proven by Christ’s service then (a) confirms God’s promises, and (b) brings the Gentiles into those promises, resulting in the nations praising God.
And that’s exactly what Micah said would happen:
Paul says that Christ, through suffering, would serve.
Jesus himself confirms his purpose to serve:
Christ came to serve, and that service proves that he is the king we need.
Jesus Christ is the firm foundation of our faith - the one in whom our hope is secure.
Concluding Prayer:
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