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As i was reflecting on Christ being our King this week, my wife and I went to Burger King.

Hudson runs around and grabs each of us crowns, so we felt like royalty while eating.

On the crowns was their motto, “you rule.”

I thought to myself there is something to this.

At burger king, I rule I am the authority over my meal.

I get to choose what I want on it and how I want it.

As a culture though, this is how we view our lives.

We are the sole authority in our own lives.

We do not submit to anyone, everyone must submit to me.

Its either my way or the highway.

I am king over my life.

We say things like Its my body, my choice.

No one tells me that my music must be turned down.

No one tells me what I can or cannot do with my own life.

As children and teens, some of us may not like those who were placed in authority over us.

We would argue with our parents, our teachers, others who were placed in authority over us.

What was being seen then as teenagers and what is being seen now in our lives when we reject authority is a much bigger issue.

It is a heart issue.

We reject authority, because we think that we are in control.

We go on through different ways that we interact with day to day life, in a state of anarchy.

Maybe not with human authority but we do not submit to the rule of God over our lives.

I think it was Paul Tripp who said that we are Spiritual Anarchist.

We do not submit to God’s rule in and over our lives, that is why we sin.

We want to be in control.

We set up boundaries that we allow God to be in control of, and we hold others closely not giving an inch to his authority.

We treat ourselves as Kings and rulers of our lives.

Scripture makes it clear, through Jesus being the King of Kings and Lord of Lords that we are to submit to his rule.

As we briefly think through what it means for Jesus to be King, I pray that as you see Jesus as King you would submit, you would love his authority and his kingship over your life.

You would let him tear down your kingdom and replace it with his own.

hope your crock pots on low lets go

As we continue to think about Jesus as King and what that means for us the main thing I want us to see today is this

MP: Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, submit to his rule.

Please turn with me to Luke Luke 1:26-33

Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords

Here in Luke 1 the angel Gabriel speaks of the child that Mary will become pregnant with.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the most high, he will be given the throne of his Father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and his kingdom will never end.

God had planned for Jesus to come and reign over all the earth.

He sent Gabriel to Mary so she would know these things concerning her son that would be born.

God even in this moment was sovereign over the kingdom that was going to be established with Jesus being King.

God was setting up a forever king in a forever kingdom.

The scriptures make it clear that all kings and kingdoms are the result of God’s sovereign power being orchestrated over his creation.

Daniel while interpreting Nebuchadnezzar’s dream said, Daniel 2:19-21 “Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night.

Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings.

This orchestration of setting up and removal of kings has been happening from the beginning of time.

God placed the Adam in the garden and God gave to Adam dominion over his creation.

God placed man in control of his creation to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.

Adam was established in the rule of the earth by God.

Adam’s rule and dominion was an extension of God’s universal kingship.

However, because of sin, Adam’s rule and dominion was cut short.

Sin began to rule and death thus had dominion upon the earth.

As man rebelled and rejected the Lordship and Kingship of God over him, sin rule and reign in the hearts of man.

Humanity would take the just, righteous, mercy-filled and grace-filled reign of a Holy and righteous God and reject it to be like God themselves.

Man’s dominion which originally began under the authority and rule of God, was rejected by man and mankind would then place themselves as kings and lords.

In the plan of redemption, God promised to send a better Adam, who would crush the head of the satan, defeat sin and death Further, From Abraham would come a king that would rule and bless all the nations.

God would even give Israel instructions on who are kings and how they will rule in Deuteronomy 17:14-19 .

However, the people of Israel were to be led by God as their king.

The Lord would be the one to rule over them.

Israel like Adam did not want to have God rule them as king rather they wanted a king to be placed over them.

As Saul ruled sin still reigned in his heart.

God chose David was lifted up to be king.

However, David was likewise sinful.

and the sin continued to Solomon.

It seemed the kings that were raised up inherited the same sin nature as their fathers before them.

Sin and death was still reigning.

Even in this God had a plan, to place one final king over all the earth, and give him a kingdom, dominion and rule for all time, now and forever.

Jer 23:5–6 ““Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely.

And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’”

and in Hos 3:5 “Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.”

There was a promised king that would come from the line of David that would rule in righteousness.

After years of exile and destruction, Israel was waiting for the promised messiah, the promised king that would bring a forever kingdom upon the earth, the one who would have victory over sin and death and would reign forever.

The angel speaking to Mary would even speak of this kingdom.

Luke 1:31-33 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.

And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.””

Jesus was the fulfilment of the messianic promises, the Son of God’s incarnation issues in the messianic kingdom.

The forever king would not come to live in riches and fame, being born into notoriety or in a huge palace.

Rather, his incarnation was of humility, being born into a home of an poor unknown woman in a small town.

As Jesus began his ministry he would say, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

How would Jesus bring in this kingdom and his reign?

Not by violence, nor with earthly power, but by obedience to God the Father.

That he would serve his God perfectly, die the death that his people deserved.

Jesus said in Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.””

Jesus would obey the father and redeem the dominion that Adam lost.

He would defeat sin and death and be given a everlasting dominion and rule.

Daniel 7:13-14 ““I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.”

Jesus would refer to himself as the Son of Man in Mark and Matthew often. he was given a dominion, glory and a kingdom.

In this kingdom all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.

His coronation into his kingdom was not by pomp and circumstance but by the pangs of death as he drew his last breath and muttered it is finished.

As Christ suffered and died as the better priest by offering himself as a sacrifice for sins, he conquered sin and death, and is now victorious.

His victory secured him dominion.

His death provided him glory and his Resurrection assured him a kingdom.

Oh the wonderful news of this kingdom and this king.

His victory over sin and death, his dominion and kingdom that extends to the ends of the earth and to the ends of time, is now for our benefit.and in 1 Cor.

15:21-22 “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”

As Jesus seemed to be defeated upon the cross, there was a benefit for all those who would believe in him, he would rescue his people from death and give them eternal life by God’s spirit.