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*All Hail King Jesus!*
Revelation 1:1-18
It happened over 200 years ago, not too far from here.
Twelve-year-old Conrad Reed was playing with his younger brother and sister on the banks of a creek in western North Carolina when Conrad noticed something sparkling in the bed of the stream.
“Look at this yellow rock,” he shouted.
Soon, they were all wading in the creek bed, trying to pull the seventeen-pound rock out of the water.
The kids lugged the rock back home and their parents agreed that the rock was pretty enough and heavy enough to make the perfect doorstop for the family’s little home.
For three years, the sparkling, yellow stone held the front door open in the day time and kept the door from swinging open at night.
But Mr. Reed began to wonder if the rock might be worth something.
On a business trip to Fayetteville, he took it to a jeweler who melted the metal in the rock and poured it into a bar six inches long.
The old doorstop /was/ worth something.
Mr. Reed was pleased when the jeweler offered to buy it for three dollars and fifty cents.
Only later did Mr. Reed discover that the rock contained gold.
Today it would be worth more than two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.
Reed had something precious right under his nose, but never knew how valuable it was.
The family passed by that gold stone day after day.
They handled it.
They looked at it.
They knew about it.
But they failed to appreciate its value.
So many times, we fail to appreciate the value and worth of our Lord Jesus.
Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning on the throne of time and eternity.
No matter what the circumstances may be, He remains and always will remain our Almighty King.
Too often, though, we miss His majesty.
The shepherds at the manger knew who Jesus was.
He was the Savior.
He was the Lord.
But they didn’t know how precious and priceless that Baby was.
Simon Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God.
But Peter never knew how splendid and supreme was this carpenter of Nazareth.
The adoring multitude of Jerusalem shouted, “Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
The King of Israel.”
But that crowd never recognized how royal and righteous was that Rider.
If you have been saved by Christ, you know Jesus.
We know His power at work in our lives and we know His presence close to us.
But none of us know fully how glorious and gracious our Lord Jesus really is.
We see Him through a glass, darkly, not face to face.
One day, we will see Him face to face.
We know Him imperfectly, not as He knows us.
One glorious day, we will know Him just as He knows us.
But even today, we can know more of who Jesus really is.
I would like for you to turn with me to the first chapter of the book of Revelation.
Many times this precious final book of God’s Word is called by the wrong name.
Some call it “Revelations” (plural) rather than “Revelation” (singular).
The correct name is “Revelation.”
It’s a singular word because the book reveals a unique person, one who stands supremely alone on the platform of history: Jesus Christ.
Read with me Revelation 1, beginning with verse one.
[Read text.]
Here our Lord is revealed as He really is.
He is revealed as His Majesty, King Jesus—glorified in Heaven, ruling over the Earth, and walking among His churches.
In the words we have read, John saw Jesus revealed as King.
As we examine this passage, we can discover several descriptions of our King Jesus.
First of all,
*Jesus is Our Faithful King.*
In verse five, God’s Word calls King Jesus “the faithful witness.”
The word translated, “witness” is the literally Greek word “martyr.”
A martyr is someone who is faithful to the point of death.
When the great patriot Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death,” he meant that he was willing to be a martyr for the cause of freedom.
Countless Christians throughout the centuries have been faithful to the Lord to the point of death.
Even today, Christian martyrs are dying for the sake of their faith in Jesus Christ.
Every Christian martyr died for a worthy cause.
They died for Jesus, the precious and spotless Lamb of God.
But who did Jesus die for?
When the spikes attached my Lord’s body to Golgotha’s cross, He died for someone completely unworthy.
He died for me.
He died to become my sin and your sin.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:21: “For [God] made Him, who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Though I was unworthy, though I cost Him His life, Jesus was faithful to me.
And He remains faithful to me today—Jesus Christ is faithful.
Jesus is our Faithful King!
And we give Him glory, honor, and praise!
But there’s more.
The Bible also says,
*Jesus is our Risen King*
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Verse five continues:
… from Jesus, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead.
“Firstborn from the dead” describes the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Jesus is the only man ever to have died and then to have been raised to resurrection.
You might wonder, /What about those other people that rose from the dead?
What about Jairus’s daughter?
What about Lazarus?
What about others?
/Yes, Jesus did bring all of them back to physical life.
But, one day – I don’t know what the circumstances were – but Jairus’s daughter died again.
And one day, Lazarus grew old and died, too.
But when Jesus arose on Easter, He left the grave behind, never to return.
The tomb was empty and remains empty.
And one day, my tomb is going to be empty, too.
And so is yours, if you know Jesus as your Savior.
King Jesus is risen, and He gives eternal resurrection life to all who believe in Him!
In the late afternoon, Fannie Galloway crossed the road in front of her house to check her mailbox.
A 17-year-old boy was driving his truck at 70 miles per hour on that narrow road.
He hit Fannie, killing her almost instantly.
Herbert, Fannie’s husband of 60 years, saw the whole thing, but he did not understand anything he had seen.
He suffered from advanced Parkinson’s syndrome, and the disease and medication clouded his mind so that he did not comprehend her death.
I was Herbert and Fannie’s pastor.
I drove up into the driveway of Diane, their daughter.
She stopped me on the way into the house and said, “Brother Stephen, will you tell Daddy what happened to Mama?”
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