We're in the book of Hebrews
again. Hebrews chapter 2. Here in our text we have three
of the glorious titles, and I had originally put the three titles,
but there are so many titles you can't narrow it down to three.
We have three glorious titles of our Lord, and it's what I've
titled this message. my prophet, king, and priest. Let's read our text together.
Hebrews 2 verse 10. For it became him, for whom are
all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons
into glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
suffering. For both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are
of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst
of the church while I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will
put my trust in him. And again, which I behold, I
and the children, which God hath given me. For as much then as
the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy
him that hath the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage. For verily he took not on him
the nature of angels, but he took on the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his
brethren, that he might be a merciful, and faithful high priests in
things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of
the people. For in that he himself has suffered
being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. My prophet, my king, and my priest
are all right here in this text. First one is verse 12, saying,
I will declare, that's the Lord, the Lord declares. Why does he
declare? Because he's the Lord's prophet. Second one is in verse
14 and 15. For as much then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also likewise took part of
the same that through death he might destroy him that hath the
power of death that is the devil, to deliver them who through fear
of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. First we
have declare, second as the prophet. Now second we have the king,
the one that destroyed him that had power of death. and deliver
them. So we have our king who is the
conquering king. And then lastly, we have in verse
17, a faithful high priest. He's a merciful and faithful
high priest. Wherefore in all things it behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful
and faithful high priest in all things pertaining to God to make
reconciliation for the sins of the people. Now, the first part
that we're gonna look at, we're gonna look at each one of these,
prophet, king, and priest. First one is a quote in verse
12 from Psalm 22, if you'd like to turn there. Prophetically, David is speaking
the words of the Lord Jesus Christ when he was on the cross of Calvary.
And I just want to point that out by showing us a couple of
verses here. Verse one of Psalm 22, my God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from
helping me and from the words of my roaring? Is that not the
words of the Lord Jesus Christ that he literally spoke? Look
down in verse 18. They part my garments among them
and cast lots upon my vesture. The scripture tells us the Lord
spoke and said in John 19, 24, that these words were fulfilled. This is a prophecy. This is a
prophecy. It's of the Lord. It's for the
Lord. It's about the Lord. Now look
down verse 22 at what we found in our text. I will declare thy
name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation while
I praise thee. This is what the Lord does for
his people. He declares the name of God to
his people. This is what our prophet does.
He has to be the one to introduce the I am to his people. Moses didn't know who God was
whenever he was or didn't know his name, I should say, when
he was looking at the burning bush, he said, when I go down
to Egypt to tell the children of Israel that God has sent me,
the God of your fathers has sent me, they're gonna say, what is
his name? And he said, tell them I am. I am. Lord's people know something
about that, don't we? To the world, I am doesn't make a whole
lot of sense, does it? Well, of course you are, but
what's your name? That is my name. That's what
the Lord is saying. The I am, that I am. No man can describe
him as we attempt to in preaching. We can describe his attributes
and his character, but we can't enter into or understand God
because he's other than we are. We just believe him. The work
of believing is the responsibility of the prophet, his declaration,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He tells us the truth. He introduces us unto the Lord
as our prophet. He's the sum and substance of
every prophecy that is written in this book. You know, men,
a lot of times, you remember recently, and I'm not gonna go
into too much detail about this, but recently there was a lot
of things happening in the Middle East that gave people a lot of
fear and concern. And I'm reminded of the scripture
that said, in the last days, there'll be wars and rumors of
wars. That's just what the Lord said.
That's exactly what's going to happen, which shouldn't take
us off guard. Certainly pray unto the Lord for peace, certainly
beg the Lord for peace, but What I'm saying is, is that when men
became afraid of what's happening over in the Middle East, it's. They begin to look to the book
of Revelation to try to find some prophecy that's going to
take place or some something that hasn't quite happened yet,
or maybe we can figure this out, or maybe I remember in religion.
Somebody said, and this is not the right chapter or the right
verse, but it was like they said to me, well, this is where we
are right now. Chapter 16, verse 22. And very
soon we're going to be in chapter 17. But they missed the most
important part of that entire book. And you've heard me say
this many times. What does it say in the very first chapter?
The top. The revelation of Jesus Christ,
all the prophecies are about him. It's not about what's going
to come to pass. He's the seated king. He's the
seated prophet. He's the seated priest. He's
our Lord. Nothing that's going to, everything that's going to
happen is because he's already purposed it. He's already purposed
it. God's not saying something new.
Something different, something other than what he's always said
from Genesis to Revelation, from the beginning of time, I am the
Lord, I change not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob
are not consumed. In the beginning was God, in
the end is God. All in between, from everlasting
to everlasting. He's God. He's God. What do prophets declare? God's
word. God's word, they speak what God
has said. That's what a prophet does. He
speaks what God has said. Turn back to our text in Hebrews
chapter two, verse 12. This is the Lord delivering the
truth unto his people. He says, I will declare thy name
unto my brethren. What's that gonna result in?
It's gonna result in the midst of the church while I sing praise
unto thee, and again I will put my trust in him, and again behold,
I and the children which God hath given me. This declaration
from the prophet, the Lord Jesus Christ, unto his people, results
in us trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trusting in God, not
trusting in ourself. This is the result of him speaking. The Lord doesn't speak to everybody.
Our hope is that he would speak to us. And if he does speak to
us, we'll trust in him, not in ourself. We'll believe the prophet.
We'll believe the Lord Jesus Christ. We won't believe ourself.
We're not looking to draw attention to ourself, are we? We're looking
for him. We're not looking to hear what
each other's opinions are about the finished work of Christ or
about the Bible or about who God is. We're looking to hear
from him. And this is whom God speaks through,
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Doesn't speak any other way.
He's the subject as well that is spoken about. The Lord Jesus
Christ is all. He's all. Here we have Christ
Jesus as the living word and the word spoken, both at the
same time. All of the prophets, all the
other prophets, they couldn't give life by the power of their
own word, could they? He can, he can. Was someone raised from the dead
by a prophet? Certainly, but was it with their
power? No, the power of God. It was the power of the prophet
through them. Did the disciples do anything,
any miracle whatsoever in their own power? No, no, it was the
Lord in them, the Lord, his name, his word that did it. No other prophets could give
life by just their word in and of themselves and their own power.
But he can. He can. The other prophets couldn't
give repentance, could they? He does. He does. Other prophets couldn't make
someone believe their word, could they? How many times have they,
they killed the prophets that came. The prophet was a representative. They even killed the Lord Jesus
Christ for the same reason, that he spoke the truth. The prophet's
a direct representative from God, telling exactly what God
has spoken, and they hated him for it. Matter of fact, one prophet
stood up before the king, and there were two kings that were
talking in Israel and Judah, and they said, uh, the one said,
do you know anybody else we can ask before we, before we undertake
this war that we're about to do? And he says, well, I know
one more guy, but I hate him. That's what he said. I hate him
because every time I ask him what the word of the Lord is,
he gives me nothing but negative. He said, well, go call him, call
him. And he came in and he asked him, he said, What is the word
from the Lord? And he said, you're going to
die. You're going to die. And the one that said, I hate
him, said, see, I told you so. That's all he ever tells me is bad news.
Never tells me anything good about myself. Never tells me
anything good about my kingdom or anything. I'm doing good.
He's always negative. Always negative. Men don't want the
truth. That man looks at that prophet
and says, change the word. He says, I can't. It's not my
word. It's God's word. That is what
Christ always speaks, is the word of God. Because he is the
word of God. He is the word of God, and that's
who we believe. We just believe God. We believe
God. No other prophets could give
repentance, but he does. No other prophet could make lepers
clean by their own power, but he does. He cleanses the deepest
stain by his precious blood according to the word of his power. He's
my prophet. He's our prophet. When the Lord speaks the word,
it's truth. Therefore, it comes to pass.
It's truth because he speaks it, and he speaks it because
it's truth. One and the same. He is the truth.
He is the word. Everything proceeding from him
is going to happen, has happened, and he is seated. He is seated. This is why he's my prophet.
This is why he's your prophet. We don't desire to speak about
us. You might have some interest
in how my week went, but that's not why we're here. You didn't
come here to hear about me. We come to hear about the prophet,
the king, the priest, the successful redeemer. That's who we want
to hear about. You don't want to hear my words, you want to
hear him. I don't want to speak my words. That might sound like
an oxymoron, but I don't. I don't want to talk about me,
draw attention to me, speak my words. I want them to be his
words. That's our hope, that you would
hear his word. Is that not true? We desire to hear him, to hear
from him. We long to see him. We don't want to be seen. We
want to see him. We no longer have any confidence
in ourself, do we? Not in spiritual things. The
older we get, the less confident we are in physical things as
well. Can you do that? Well, I'll try. I'll try. When the Lord says yes, he did
it. He did it. You and I will say
yes. Can you do that for me? Yeah, I will. Your confidence
is based upon the history of that individual, right? If you've
let me down five or six times, well, he said he's going to,
but I have no confidence he's gonna do it. What about the Lord's
track record? Perfectly righteous in everything
he's ever done. Never broken a single promise. He can't lie
because he's the truth of God. And what did he say? It is finished. That's what our prophet declared.
The truth, it is finished. Salvation accomplished. We have
confidence in him alone. We believe his word. We know
that we're wretched and vile and he is the glorious righteous
one, the truth of the Lord. We are full of sin and he cannot
sin. We are guilty before the Lord's law and he chose to become
guilty, bearing our own sin that he might put them away by the
sacrifice of himself, fulfilling every demand of God's law perfectly.
This is what our prophet has done. Now he's made his people, by
putting their sin away, made his people perfect. Made his
people perfect before God. This is what he's declared. I
will put my spirit upon you. I'll put my spirit upon you.
I will make you the righteousness of God. I have redeemed you.
Do you believe the prophet? That's what he said about his
people. There's hope in that, isn't there? He said, I will.
I'm gonna save you. And you're gonna be saved because
I'm gonna do it. He said, I'm going to save you. Then he saved
us. And he lets us know, hey, I saved you. That's exactly what
he does through the preaching of the gospel. I saved you. Not
by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to
his mercy. This is what our prophet declares. No other message gives
hope to the believer. No other voice has power. Not
like his, not compared to his. But his has power, doesn't it?
What did the man say when he came to the Lord about having
the daughter that was sick unto death? Lord, just speak the word.
Just speak the word, and you don't have to come to my house.
Just speak the word. Is that not what you believe?
Lord, just speak the word to my heart, and I'll believe. I
know. You've made me to know that. You just speak the word,
and it'll happen. No other being can speak peace
into the heart Now, the Lord tells us. He says told he said
he told Jacob, I'm going to redeem you, then he redeemed him and
then he let him know he redeemed him. That's what he's done for
us. That's what he's done for us. Reveals it is finished all
by himself. I love the thought that he says,
believe, and we believe. I love the thought that he says,
live, and we live. I love the thought that he says,
see, and we see. We don't contest it. We can't.
Even if we wanted to, we can't contest it. This is the word
that our prophet speaks into his people. This is why he's
our prophet. This is why he's my prophet. Now let's go back to our text
and Hebrews chapter two, I think
we're already there. But look at verse, the second
thing is he's our king. Look at verse 14. For as much
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy
him that hath the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver
them who through their life, who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage. He destroyed everything
contrary, that would separate us from the Lord, he destroyed
the devil, and he delivered us from our sin and from our flesh.
And in this doing so he is the seated successful king of his
people. He's the king. Because not because
he wasn't born to become king, he was born king. Because of
who he was, he destroyed the works of the devil, he destroyed
death, he conquered hell, conquered the grave on the cross for his
people, and he delivered us from the bondage of the law, the bondage
of sin, the bondage of the flesh. He did it all as king of kings
and lord of lords. That's why he's our king. Isaiah
9, 7 says, of the increase of his government, peace there shall
be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to
order it and to establish it with judgment and justice from
henceforth forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this." He's not talking about a physical throne
of David. That's the reason Jews hated the Lord Jesus Christ because
all they could wrap their brain around was the physical. You
and I will see it the same way. If we have favor with God, that's
the message of health, wealth, and prosperity, is it not? That's
the message that goes out. If you have favor with God, that's
what you'll receive. You won't find that in the book. You won't
find that in the Bible. No, Christ came born in a manger. Not for a physical kingdom, a
spiritual kingdom. He said, my kingdom's not of
this world. I'm not coming to conquer this earth. It's already
mine. The earth is already his in the fullness thereof. Now
he says, I came to redeem my people, to establish my kingdom,
which is an everlasting kingdom, isn't it? It's an everlasting
kingdom. It's not a physical throne. It's
a spiritual, eternal, everlasting throne. He was born king. He's
the one that went to war for his people on the cross of Calvary.
I love the thought that all these, if you knew the end of the war
already, would you fret over the battle near as bad? Think
about that. Is it not true, the battles that
we face from day to day, battle with ourself, battle with sin,
battle with the world, battle with Satan? If you knew the end
of the war, would you fret so much? Well, I say to my shame,
apparently, because that's what we do, isn't it? But what's the
end of the war? It was accomplished on Calvary's
cross. Everyone that Christ died for has been successfully redeemed.
They've even been glorified. We've been glorified. We haven't
experienced it yet, have we? That's what the scripture teaches
us. This is what our king accomplished. He went to war for his people
and established justice and judgment for his people. established justice
and judgment. God is satisfied with his son.
And if we are in the Lord Jesus Christ, God's satisfied with
him. He highly exalted him, gave him
a name above every name. He's the conquering king. If
we're in him, we have nothing to fret, nothing to fear. It shouldn't be any anxiety in
our life, yet it is. Why? Because we have two natures.
We have two natures. On the one hand, the new man
believes him as the successful king. And then on the other hand,
the flesh says, no, I want to be king. I want to be king. Thank
God the elder shall serve the younger. That's what the prophet
said, wasn't it? That means it's true, the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Lord as king didn't come
to become king. He came because he was king.
Lord Jesus Christ didn't save his people from their sins to
become king, he saved them because he was the only one by right
as the king to do so. Lord didn't redeem us in order
to become something, he did it because he is the I am. He is
the king of kings and Lord of lords. He condescended and to
this earth he created. To the earth he created to be
mocked, to be beaten, to be spit upon, to be rejected and despised
of men, To make his chosen sinners perfectly righteous, to make
them holy, to make them good, he alone tread the winepress
as our king. He tread the winepress of God's
wrath. When every bit you think of a
wine press being what's pressed, it's it's squeezed. That's what
a wine press represents. He was squeezed by the wrath,
his blood out came out forth that it not. This is what that
scripture is talking about there. He endured the wrath of God,
so that his people would never have to die. He alone He alone
saved his chosen subjects. I love the thought of being the
Lord's subject, don't you? A subject in his court, a beggar
in his kingdom. I mean, how bad's a beggar got
it in his kingdom? You think about the way our society is,
we have people that are more entitled than others, that have
financial abilities more than others, health more than others,
whatever it may be. You have the beggar too on the other end
of that, right? The poor, the needy. But to be a beggar in
his kingdom, what is there to beg for other than him? What
is there to beg? There's nothing lacking in his
kingdom. We just beg for him, don't we? And that's what we
are. It's just mercy beggars, mercy
beggars of him. And he says, come sit at my table.
You're wearing the ring, the Lord's ring, the robe, the king's
robe. He's given us all these things
as our king. He's the successful seated king
of his people. Turn with me to Ephesians 1. Verse 19 says, and what is the
exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according
to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ
when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right
hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power
and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only
in this world, but in that which is to come and hath put all things
under his feet and gave him to behead over all things to the
church, which is the body, that the fullness of him that filleth
all in all." That's who our King is. He's over all. I love the, Paul doesn't just
say here, far above all, and then move on. He actually gives
us the definitions of everything. that everything falls into these
categories, to make certain that there's no doubt that he's far
above all of this. And as his subjects and his kingdom,
we've been given all in Christ Jesus. He's not withheld one
thing from his people. There is nothing above him. He
destroyed any threat to his people. Any threat of judgment, any threat
of condemnation, any threat of damnation, he put it away by
the sacrifice of himself as our king. He delivered his people
by dying, and I said, somebody says, well, I'm not.
And what does it say in our text about being subject to bondage?
He set us free from the bondage that we were subject to. Men
won't admit that they're in bondage. I'm free. Doesn't make sense
to the natural man that you're in bondage, because we're able
to do whatever we want to do physically, but he's not talking
about a physical bondage, he's talking about a spiritual bondage.
He's talking about a bondage to the flesh, a bondage to the
world, a bondage to Satan, a bondage to the law. It's amazing, Satan
goes around tempting men to sin, and when they sin, he accuses
them before the Father. He tempts you to sin, and then
as soon as you do, he goes to the Father and says, see, I told
you he was gonna do that. What does the King say? The Father
looks at the Son. The Father looks at the Son and
the blood of Christ and sees no sin upon his people. Sees
no sin, I've put that away. I can't remember that, he says. Cast them as far as the east
is from the west, never to be remembered again. We've been
made free from the law of sin and death, free from the penalty
of sin. Our King took it and nailed it to his cross. It's
the greatest battle ever fought, greatest war ever won, the victory
Christ got for his people as our king. When he reveals this
to the heart, we're like the Queen of Sheba. Well, my ears
have heard with the hearing of the ears, but now my eyes have
seen the king, seen the king. This is why he's my king. This
is why he's our king. Now back to our text, lastly,
he's our faithful priest. Our faithful priest, look at
verse 17. Wherefore in all things it behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful
and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people. Now in the Old Testament, there
were priests who were not faithful. Now, whether they took the sacrifices
too lightly or they made the sacrifice about filling their
belly, they were unfaithful priests. Aaron's two sons let the fire
go out in the temple, didn't they? And they thought, well,
we could just light that back, no problem. But that was God's fire. You
can't light, can't add to God's fire, represented wrath. And
what'd the Lord do? He killed him. Killed him for
adding to the fire. Can't do that. You have Eli's
two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who decided they were just gonna
start taking the food as they saw it, which was the sacrifice,
the lambs and the other sacrifices that would come. The priests,
they were supposed to take a portion with the flesh hook for them
to be able to have sustenance, to live. And they started making
it into a feast for themselves every day. And the scripture
says that you can't sodden the sacrifice with water. It means
you can't water it down and says it's to be burned with fire.
But they were, they didn't want it cooked, they wanted it raw.
They said, no, we want it raw. They wanted their steak medium
rare. Do you understand what I'm saying?
That's what was in their head. They didn't obey God. They took
the sacrifice too lightly. It was just a feast to them.
So does all men by nature. So does all men by nature. We
take the sacrifice, Too lightly. We want it watered down. Men
want the gospel watered down. They don't really need a high
priest to intercede for me. I can intercede for myself. I'm
not really that bad. See, they're taking the sacrifice
too lightly. But not our high priest. Not
our high priest. He alone entered in to the holiest
of holies by his own blood. Him being the sacrifice. Him
being the priest. Him being everything that you
and I need. to obtain salvation in Him. Or He obtained eternal redemption
for us, but everything required is found in Him for salvation.
Everything. Everything. Christ Jesus, the Lamb slain,
offered Himself as the substitute surety faithfully unto His Father. He intercedes, he alone made
reconciliation. I love that word, reconciliation.
The root word's reconcile. He reconciled his people back
to God by his own blood. Hebrews 9, 12 says, neither by
the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered
once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us. That's past tense. Having obtained
eternal redemption for us. Understand the office of a priest
Briefly, understand the office of a priest, it's to intercede.
It's to intercede, it's to enable worship. These that were bringing
sacrifices, they couldn't offer up a sacrifice for themselves,
the priest had to do that. When you hear those in false
religions say do and live, Remember this, brethren, that these in
the Old Testament couldn't offer up the sacrifice for themselves.
The priest had to do that for them. We have to have a priest
before God, one ordained of God. It's not something we can do.
We can't worship God in and of ourself. We must worship him
in spirit and in truth. Whose spirit do you think that
is? That's the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? We know that. We know
that to be true. Without a priest, we have no
right, no ability, and no way to worship God. We must have
a high priest. We must have a high priest, one
who can stand before God and not be destroyed. But hear the
good news of the gospel. 1 Timothy 2, verse 5, for there
is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. He's our high priest. He's our
high priest. He's the one that can speak on
our behalf. Have you ever been told something
and you couldn't take up for yourself? Have you ever been
told something you couldn't take up for yourself? Or how many
times have you seen in scripture that David begging God regarding
his accusation of his enemies coming after him. He couldn't
take up for himself. He had to come to the Lord. That's where
the Lord set him up to. But in this life, have you ever had
a situation you couldn't take up for yourself? You knew the
consequences of taking up for yourself, even though the person
was wrong that's accusing you. When it comes to spiritual matters,
when we're accused of the law, the law's right. Most of the
time, even though he's a liar, when Satan accuses the brethren,
he's right only in that we are guilty of sin. But Christ put
that sin away, that makes him a liar, doesn't it? Everything
that we are accused of before the holiness of God, Christ Jesus
has interceded on our behalf so that we're no longer guilty.
We can't defend ourself in and of ourself in saying I'm not
that bad, I haven't done this, I haven't done that, no. We come
to our high priest confessing, confessing that we are but sin
and he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. You ever been accused and found
guilty of something but couldn't do anything about it? Think about
being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I know people that
went to jail and they say they didn't do it. Evidence says they
did. Lord knows. But think about being falsely
accused genuinely of doing something and being, the penalty of that
crime being committed had to be enacted upon you. It had to
be. Justice had to be served, they say. And this, a lot of
men don't know anything about justice, but you understand what
I'm saying. Everything. Pertaining to God, brethren pertain
to his law, we've been accused and we've been found wanting
we've been found guilty and we can't do anything about it, but
our high priest did. Our high priest did. He didn't
just make it because we were guilty to take our place in the
penalty as so many people seem to think. Men act like the cross
is something you can just come to and dump your sins in and
then you're forgiven of them. No, he bore them in his own body
upon the tree. He put them away completely so
that now we're not guilty and never have been guilty. Not once. That's what our high priest accomplished. Good news of the gospel is John
says, my little children, these things I write unto you that
you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate. We have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous,
and he is the propitiation for us. The Lord Jesus Christ advocates,
he defends, he intercedes for his people when Satan accuses
of sin upon the elect. They're already gone. They're
already gone. He doesn't have to defend what
he has done. You understand what I'm saying.
To be in a world where sometimes it feels like nobody takes up
for you, nobody has your best interest at heart. The Lord Jesus
Christ has put away your sin. He's not going to leave you utterly
to yourself. He's going to fulfill everything
that he has promised as prophet, that he accomplished as king,
and that he accomplished as priest. It's going to come to pass according
to his will. And the law demands righteousness
from God's people. Lord looks to his son when death
tries to claim one of God's sheep, he looks to his son, the faithful
high priest of the Lord's people. Aren't you glad the Lord doesn't
intercede for us and then say, now I need you to try a little
harder. Need you to do a little better. No, that's not what he
says. He intercedes and says it is
finished. It is finished. He doesn't give
us anything to do. He says it is finished. God's
people have a faithful high priest that intercedes before that very
throne of God. That's why he's our prophet.
He's our priest, and he's our king. Is that your hope by grace? Yes, my only hope. If he's not
my prophet, priest, and king, I have no hope. But if he is,
I have all the hope that there ever is or ever will be in him
alone. Let's pray. Father calls us. To see you,
to believe on you as our prophet, our priest and our king, for
we know it truly in you and only by you is salvation finished. In your name we pray, Amen. Closing,
let's turn to number 16. The Lord is king. Let's stand
together.