I'm going to touch on these two
verses here and what our Lord shows us and means and I'm not
going to scratch the surface. If somebody's got a checklist
and they sit down and they're going to see if I'm theologically
sound, if I hit all the points, yes, that's correct, you did
it, mm-hmm, little bobble heads, I ain't going to check all your
boxes. I could preach on this for eight hours or eight days
or 800 lifetimes and I ain't going to touch it. I ain't going
to. And I'm so excited about it. I'm tickled to death. I'll try not to yell while we
do this. Whenever I read these scriptures,
like we just read Psalm 2, I want to yell it. But the Lord's Word
doesn't have to be yelled, and it doesn't have to be whispered
neither. We don't have to whisper it, and we don't have to yell
it. It's power. It's true in it. What a thought. It says in John 6, verse 14,
the Lord just fed those 5,000 men, so at least 10, 15, 20,000
people were there, those 5,000 men. The Lord fed them with just
a couple biscuits and a couple sardines. That's all he had.
And he fed the multitudes and they took back 12 baskets. And
it says in verse 14, then those men, when they had seen the miracle
that Jesus did said, this is of a truth. Barely. This is of a truth. That prophet
that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived
that they would come and take him by force to make him a king,
he departed again into a mountain himself alone. I want to set
the stage for you. These men were sitting there
and they had their bellies full. Their bellies were full. They
probably had a toothpick in their mouth. And they were sitting
around talking. Those bellies were full. I know
more about Wonder Bread than I ought to. This is Wonder Bread.
This is wondrous bread. Miraculous meat. Miraculous fish
in their bellies. And they're plumb full. Everyone
ate until they were full. And they're sitting there cleaning
their teeth and they're talking. And they started thinking a little
bit. And they said, this is the prophet. that Moses wrote about. What would make him say that?
What he'd just done, the miracle he'd just performed, who he is
and what he did. They heard him preach. They heard
him pray. He gave thanks when he broke
the bread. Oh, could you imagine that? Could you imagine listening to
God pray to God? We'll sit down and take notes,
shouldn't we? That'd be something. They heard that. They heard him
preach all day. They heard him pray unto the
Father. They saw this miracle. And then they got to thinking.
I've been told several times throughout my working life, I
don't get paid to think. I ought to think as little as
I could. Mind's a wandering place, isn't it? They did some thinking.
And whenever they did some thinking, the Lord left them. They thought
what they may do with what information they had and he left. What they
said was true. It was scriptural. They held
to the scriptures just like you and I hold to the scriptures. You know what scriptures hold
on to? Deuteronomy 18. We looked at this whenever John
the Baptist said he's not that prophet. Moses wrote there in
Deuteronomy 18, 18, I will raise them up a prophet, Lord speaking
to him. from among their brethren, like
unto thee I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him." God's voices, just like
John the Baptist, just like in this day, they say His words,
but we say other words too. We say our faults too. The Prophet,
capital P, Prophet that's coming will only speak the Word of God.
And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto
my words which he shall speak in my name, those that won't
listen to his capital A, Ambassador, I will require it of him. You're
going to bow or bud. That's it. And the Lord's going
to require it if you don't bow. They heard His word, these people
here at this miracle, but they were not hearkened to. They didn't
hearken to the words of the Lord. They heard them. They could match
them up with some scripture that it linked up with, but they didn't
hearken. Maybe their bellies got full
and they took a good nap. Tell me whenever a fish comes
around. What a shame. What a shameful thing. We're
in the hands of the Lord in this world. He keeps us. But this
is a hard world we're in, isn't it? People say things that may
be in the Word of God. They may agree with many truths,
but they don't know Christ. How could I say such a thing?
How could I know such a thing? They didn't bow to Him. They
had a whole lot of scriptural truths, but they didn't bow to
Christ. It says in verse 14, Then those
men arose, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said,
This is of a truth, that prophet that should come into the world.
Outwardly, they said every word that was right. It was scriptural.
It was doctrinally correct. It sounded good and a child of
God would have said, Amen. You're right. You're right. Those
tares look and sound just like wheat when the wind blows through
them, don't they? They're two different things. God looks on
the heart. We could have heard that, we saw the same thing they
did, sitting right next to them men, but God looks on the heart. that ought to terrify every human
being alive. I heard on the radio the other
day talking about privacy. It's all perked up a little bit. The
government's unchecked, looking into everybody's things and their
phones and what they say. Well, now if you go to the store
too many times, this fast food restaurant, your insurance rates
won't go up because you're getting clogged arteries, you know. They
got information, they're going to use it. They say, well, that's
not privacy. Privacy is a man's right to not be perfect. And
I thought, boy, what a shame. They're fighting the government
on these things. You know who they're really fighting? God looks on the heart. Ooh,
you worry about the government. Oh, well, standing in fear and
trembling. Him who looks on the heart. That's what it is. He
asked Simon, this ought to be terrifying to every person that
walks this earth, born of Adam, but to the believer, this ought
to be great comfort. He's thankful God looks on the
heart. What heart is he looking on? The heart he gave me. Your
heart, you gave it to me. Thank you, Lord. Don't look at
me. Don't look at my actions. Don't look at my thoughts. Look
at the heart that you gave me. That's my only hope. You're doing
a work in me. You won't bury me again. He talked
to Simon. He said, Simon, son of Jonah.
He didn't call him Peter, did he? He named him Peter. Boy,
how often he reminded him that he's Simon. He said, Simon, son
of Jonah, you love me. Lord, you know I love you. He
said, you feed my lambs. That's where it started. He said,
you love me, Simon? He said, Lord, you know I love
you. He said, feed my sheep. And the third time, he said,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And Peter was grieved because
he said unto him the third time. He asked him three times, lovest
thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou
knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love thee.
And Jesus said unto him, feed my sheep. The command didn't
change. Feed my sheep. But Peter bowed,
didn't he? Bowed in his heart. If there's
a heart in a person that loves the Lord, the Lord's the one
that put that heart there. Because he first loved us and
we love him. If we love him, it's because
he first loved us and it's his workmanship. He did it. And we
cry out, Lord, you know all things. You know if I love you. If I
love you, it's because you gave it to me. These men at the feeding
of 5,000, they were of a double heart. They said one thing and
fought another. They said something true, but
we're on the inside. You know what I'm going to do?
We're going to make Him king. That sounds good, don't it? It says in verse 15, when Jesus
therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force
to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself
alone. This was evil. They're going to make him a king. That's evil. Do you know that?
That's blasphemous to the point Christ left him. But would you
or I do something the same? Would we have such a blasphemous
thought? We're going to make him king. Get a hold of him.
We live in a world that's corrupt, it's wicked, it's fallen, and
worldly speaking, what would it be like if a godly man was
running this nation? Could you imagine that? Worldly
speaking, what would it be like in our daily lives if a godly
man with some power was running things in this nation? Would
we want that? Worldly, carnally, would we want
that? Not just with power of ability,
but power of wisdom. I'm a true man of God of wisdom
running this nation. Would we be eager to see that
happen? Who's sitting there now? Who put him there? That's God's
man. We go vote and we exercise our
rights in this country that the Lord gave us, but when the matter
has fallen, when it's settled, we bow to Him. That's God's man.
We treat Him as such, shouldn't we? These people that were eyewitnesses
to this miracle, the fish and the loaves, they acknowledged
that this was that prophet to come. However, they were only
interested in what could benefit them to improve their situation. Let's get him in office. Let's
elect him king. And then we're going to end poverty.
There won't be no hunger. There won't be no more wars.
There won't be no more strife. There won't be no more sickness.
We won't even need pharmacies or doctors or nothing. We'll
have him. Trials will be over. He'll end employment. Did you
catch it? Not unemployment. We won't even
have to work. He'll set the house. He'll provide
everything for us, won't he? He's a carpenter. Build us a
house. Give us food. Look what he just did. We won't have to
work no more. He'll cater to us. We're going
to make him king, but he's going to cater to us. He's going to
serve us, and we won't have to be servants no more. We won't
have servants. You see, Kevin, that's extreme
thinking. Christ left him, didn't he? We're
going to make him king. Get a hold of him. And he left.
That's blasphemous thinking. That sounds good to make him
king, but to make this man king, to make him reign over them isn't
all it's cracked up to be from their point of view, from man's
point of view. I'm going to give you three reasons why the Lord
left them. Why he refused to allow them to make him king.
He refused. They're electing him to office.
Why did he leave? Why did he walk away from? First,
they don't have the power to make him king. They're not king
makers. their grass. I hear so much about
this. I saw it on three bumper stickers
the past couple weeks. Make Jesus King. Make Him Lord
of your life. Make Him Lord. That sounds good,
doesn't it? If a man can make Him Lord, who's
in charge? If you can appoint Him King,
you're the kingmaker. Who's the one with the power?
Who's the one pulling the strings behind the scenes? We're all
worried about that nowadays, aren't we? Who's really calling
the shots? Well, if you can make Him King,
you are. It's as plain as it can be. We see these illustrations
of, I see them, CEOs getting forced out of companies. That
one pizza fella, he started that business from the ground up,
right across the street from where Kimberly's parents live.
And boy, it's big, international. He owned it all, and he said
something he shouldn't have said, and he got booted. He don't own
the company no more. You think he truly owned that
company? You think he owned that company? If I own that company,
you ain't gonna get rid of me. I'm going to do with what I will
of my own with what I will. I'm going to say whatever I want
to do, good, bad or ugly, and if it drives it in the ground,
I'll ride it all the way to the ground. He didn't own that company. Somebody
pointed him there. He'd been whittled away or whatever.
He didn't run that. Brother Todd and I, but I'm going
to quote him and then I'll tell you a story on him later. He said,
a human being entertaining the thought of making Christ king
is an idea that's insolent, arrogant, and just plain stupid. It is. We just read Psalm 2. Who sets
king on the holy hill? He does. He sets his king. Humans don't elect the Lord to
be Lord. We don't have the position and we don't have the power to
do so. He's not in need of our approval and our acceptance.
We are in need of His. We're in need of His. Second,
man don't have the power to make Christ king, and we have no idea
what His kingdom is. We think it's something worldly.
Over in John 18, Pilate talked to him in that judgment hall,
and he called Jesus and said unto him, Art thou the king of
the Jews? Jesus answered, sayest thou this of thyself, or did
others tell it of me? Is that coming out of your mouth,
Pilate? Is that your thoughts, or did you hear somebody else
say it? And Pilate answered, am I a Jew? I ain't any like
you. What are you talking about? Thine own nation and the chief
priests have delivered thee unto me. What hast thou done? He said,
I got this from everybody else. Jesus answered, my kingdom is
not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,
you hear me? If, if my kingdom was of this
world that we're walking around in, then would my servants fight? Are we fighting now? Ooh, is
this kingdom of this world? that I should not be delivered
to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from hence. This ain't my
kingdom. To take a political stand, to
be an activist in the name of Christ and in the name of religion
is foolishness, because his kingdom is not of this world. When someone
tries to push his kingdom on other people in this world through
legislation, political force, whatever it is, it proves they
don't know anything of his kingdom. He refused those men to make
him king because his kingdom is not of this world. They didn't
have the power to do it and his kingdom is not of this world.
If I go into your house, you own your house. I go in and I
say, boy, this is a nice place. I like you. See that hallway
closet? I'm going to give that to you. You can own that hallway closet.
Well, you own the whole house. You'd laugh me out of that place,
wouldn't you? Are you kidding me? You're crazy. Get out of
here. I ain't going to feed you dinner. Lord, I'm going to make
you king of California. You say, well, that's ludicrous.
What's the difference? We can't do it. And we don't know what
this kingdom is. We'll know one day. These men told him in John
6 they didn't have the authority to make him king and they didn't
know he was going to be king over and Christ left him. Third
reason he refused to allow his people to make him a king on
this earth, he is king. He always has been. Brother Todd
was six years old and Doris was teaching Sunday school class
and she was on this text and she asked him, little children,
why do you think Christ wouldn't let him make him king? And he
said, because he already is king, they can't make him king. His
gospel hasn't changed in 60 years, has it? Christ hasn't changed
in 60 years either, has it? Not ever. Moses asked the Lord
before he went to Pharaoh. The Lord told Moses, he said,
I'm going to make you my mouthpiece. He said, I can't talk to the
Lord. He's my brother. And he said, you're going to go talk
to him. You're going to go in there. And he said, whenever
I get to Pharaoh, this is the king, earthly king. I'm going
to go into his courts and they're going to say, on what authority
are you here? What gives you the right to even
come into this palace? What are you thinking Moses?
We know you. And the Lord said, you tell them
that I am sent you. The ever present one. That's
who sends you Moses. Not I might be one day in the
future. Not I'd be if you'd let me be. Not I'd be if you'd make
me be. I am. I always have been. I am right now and He will be
forever. The great I am. That's who sent
Him. What's a king? What's a king? That's one who rules, who reigns,
who's in control of everything. He's the great king. He's the
great I am. You go further back in history
and you start looking, we keep diluting these examples. There's
a lady, I know who the queen is over in England. I never met
her. I know a lot about her. But that's a constitutional monarch
and we just keep diluting these things that's trying to mimic
God. It all started whenever Israel said, Lord, give us a
king. We want to be like everybody else. And his prophet said, you
don't want that. Believe me, leave it alone. Nuh-uh, we want a king. Okay,
you're going to get Saul. It first says happy and then
the honeymoon phase was over, wasn't it? But you go back in
history, a king, one who owns everything and has the right
to do so. It's just right. He owns it all.
You grow corn, that's his corn. It's his land. He might let you
grow it, but it's his corn. It's his water, his river running
through there. He's king. Our Lord's king. Christ is king. Lord, I'd like to enter into
that. I've thought about that all week and I can't get enough
of it. He rules everything. He's king. Always has been. He
owns everything. All the wars are in his hands. All the molecules floating around
in the air are his. He rules them. Can it go over
there? No, he's king. What about those
swine, when the demons was in them? They said, Lord if you
will. Or I'm sorry, before they went into the swine. If you will,
we're going to go in them swine. They'd ask his permission. The
devil's had to bow to him. He's king, he rules it. All the
food's his. It's his food. There's no commitment
or no committee that can push him out. If he's the CEO, if
this is his, if he's the king, ain't nobody can gang up and
get him out of office. Never have been able to, can't now,
and ain't going to be able to. I've preached on this a couple
times. Prayer chains and these prayer meetings and all these
people used to send me stuff. We're going to gang up together.
Boy, so and so is sick. And we're just going to pray
until so and so gets better. What's that called? I told you
all this a couple of times, it's a mutiny. God ain't doing what
you want. We're going to gang up on him,
twist his arm, make him do what we're, not this king, not the
God of the Bible you ain't. It ain't going to happen. And
if you understand anything about his wisdom and his holiness,
you'll be thankful that man can't twist his arm and make you do
something. We'll be thankful for it. We can't force him to
do anything. In Isaiah 9 it says, "...of the
increase of his government and 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 forevermore."
Who's going to make this happen? Who's going to force this king
and his kingdom? The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
will perform this. That's who's going to set that
king on Mount Zion. That's who set him there before
eternity. How's that happen? I don't know, but it's so. He
always has been. When that child was born, that
son was given, he was king. That great I Am always was the
king. He always was. Turn over to Matthew
chapter 2. Matthew chapter 2. In verse 1 there, Matthew 2,
it says, Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the
days of Herod the king, that's a lowercase k, Herod the king,
little k, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
very wise men, saying, Where is he that is born King, capital
K, of the Jews? For we have seen his star in
the east and are come to worship him. That's wise, isn't it? That's
wise. The King was born. They saw the
day star. They saw His star hung in the
skies. And they said, there He is. We
will worship Him. Come to Him. Come to the Son and worship Him.
Turn over to 1 Timothy chapter 1. 1 Timothy 1 verse 17. Paul writes, Now unto the King
eternal immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and
glory forever and ever. Amen. Do you want it any other
way? Do you want to have a little
bit of glory? You want to be a lieutenant governor
or something like that? Some recognition? No, we don't.
God's people don't. They want Him to have the glory,
the eternal King, the immortal one, the invisible. In chapter
6, 1 Timothy chapter 6, verse 15, over a couple pages, Paul
writes, which in his times he shall show who is the blessed
and only potentate, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. That's what's going to be revealed
to the child of God, this potentate. That's a word we don't use often.
When I was a young man, young fella, little bitty guy, I heard
that word quite a bit there for about 10 years. Apotentate. I
heard it often, but it seems to be going away, just like sucker.
To sucker someone. I knew what that meant when I
was a kid. Apotentate is an absolute authority. an absolute authority. It's not an authority. It's not the highest of multiple
authorities, and that's the head honcho, the biggest authority.
It's the only authority. He's potentate. He's the king
of kings and lord of lords. That's who he is. This is who
those men, they saw the fishes and the loaves, the miracles,
and they had their bellies full, and they're going to take him
by force and make him king. Rubbish. Is that comical? Is that foolish?
I'm going to make him lord of my life. No, you ain't. Not if
you know who you're dealing with. And I ain't scratched the surface
on who he is, on his kingship. We ain't going to make him king.
He is king. Do we try to do something with
him? You bow to him. Bow to him. That's what we need
to do. In Revelation, let me turn over here real quick. I
think we've got time. We'll do a little bit of turning
this evening as we finish this up. Revelation 1 verse 4. Revelation 1 verse 4 begins,
John to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you
and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come. From the I am. and from the seven
spirits which are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ,
who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved
us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made
us kings." Who's the kingmaker? He has made us kings and priests
unto God and His Father. To Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen. How did that happen? I'm interested in Him being king.
That's what I'm interested in. I want to hear about that. And
it says, because He's washed us in His own blood, He's made
us kings. We're lowercase kings, but we're
kings. Huh? How'd that happen? How'd that
happen? It's because we was washed in his blood. Well, how'd that
happen? How could a sinner be washed in the blood of Christ? That one who is king, is king
and shall always be king. He was made some things. He's
always been king. He is king and will always be
king. But he was made some things.
for his people. Do you know that? Turn back to
John chapter 1. Let's see what the one who could
not be made king was made for us to make us kings. First off
in John 1 verse 14. He was made flesh. It says, and
the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. He was made flesh. This King of Kings, the potentate,
was made like us. His body, He had a body prepared
for Him. He was made flesh. He was made
like His people. I remember the spot of the road
I was driving home on the other day when I thought of that. He
ain't a unicorn. I can't relate to a unicorn. You know what I
mean? I like dogs, but I ain't a dog.
That dog can't relate to me. He was made flesh. Just like
us. Made a man. Made like us. We'll turn over there. We'll
be in Hebrews for just a second. Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2. Verse 17. Hebrews 2.17 says, 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 his people. It
behooved him to be made like us. And buddy, let me tell you,
that behooves us. We'll be interested in these
things. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted,
he is able to succor them that are tempted. Oh, that's more
in comfort. That goes a lot deeper than comfort.
That's a man, made like me, that's tempted in all points just like
I am, yet without sin, and he can come talk to me. That's somebody
I can bow to. That's a person, isn't it? He
made himself of no reputation. He was made flesh, but he didn't
come to this earth high on the throne. He wasn't born in some
magnificent palace. He was born in a barn, laid up
in a stable, wasn't he? Paul wrote to us in Philippians
2, but made himself, this one who can't make king, made himself
of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and
was made in the likeness of men. A servant. A servant, one that
would serve. Imagine a king that would make
himself a no reputation. Do you have a good reputation?
Get rid of it. Maybe I can hold on to a little
bit of it. I want to keep my name. I knew a doctor. I had one. He
was from Argentina and he got his medical degree down there
and he was a doctor. They were socialists and they gave it to
him for free. But he worked for it and he was
a doctor and he saw that that country was going south and he
told his wife and his boys, he said, we're moving to America.
So years ago they moved up to New Jersey. And he passed his
written test to become a medical doctor, but he couldn't pass
the speaking part. He could speak English kind of,
but it wasn't good enough. He couldn't be a doctor. And
so for a year, he took English classes at the university. And
for a year, he delivered pizza, and he threw out newspapers to
make a living to send money back to his family. Can you imagine
somebody that's a surgeon, a doctor, going out and delivering newspapers? to make a living. Well, I wouldn't
do that. Maybe we can go to Canada. Is Australia open? Maybe we can
move down there. I ain't doing that. He did. I tell you what,
that was a good doctor. A year later he passed his test
and he got him a job at the VA and he sent for his wife and
his boys. That's some hard working boys too. They got a good work
ethic in them too. But our Lord, He was King of
Kings and He made Himself with no reputation. How marvelous
that is. How mysterious that is. He was
made a man. made a servant for His people.
Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received
up in the glory. He came to this earth, made like
His brethren, and He had the same law we have. That same law
I could not keep, that same law that I've broken a thousand times
in the last hour, He was under that same law. Did you know that?
During Galatians 4, Paul wrote, When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law. Why? Why would the King do that? Why would He be made under the
law? Made flesh, made under the law? To redeem them that were
under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
That King is going to make some little K-Kings. He's going to
make some princes. He's going to redeem His children. Did the
law condemn him? He was born under the law. No,
that one that was made under the law made the law. He fulfilled
every jot and tittle of that law because he gave every jot
and tittle of that law. That's his law. He come to keep
it. He didn't come to destroy it.
He come to fulfill it, didn't he? He made the law and he kept
the law. This holy high king of heaven
was made flesh. He was made under the law. He
dwelt among us. He was tempted in all points just like we are
yet without sin. He was perfect. He was holy.
So his people could be saved. Call his name Jesus for he shall
save his people. My friend was preaching Saturday
night and he said, what does your God mean when he says he
shall do something? You talk about painting somebody
in a corner. Does that mean he might do it? Or he could do it
if you let him? Or does that mean he's going
to get the job done? He shall save his people. What happened
when that great king, the great I Am, was made accursed while
hanging on the tree? He was made flesh. He was made
under the law. He was perfect. He walked this world keeping
every jot and tittle of the law, holy, without blame. Paul wrote to us in 2 Corinthians,
for he hath made him sin. to be sin for us, who knew no
sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."
He was made sin for His people. He was made a curse for His people. Worldly, a leader, a good leader,
won't ask anyone under Him to do something they won't do themselves.
Here's the High King of Heaven. being made his people, being
made a curse, having God turn his back on God so that his children
shall have life and have it more abundantly. Hanging on that cursed tree,
the sign above him in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek read, King of
the Jews. It didn't say prophet of the
Jews, did it? It didn't say high priest of the Jews. What if he's
a prophet? What if he tells us what God
says? Well, we can learn something from him. We can deal with that
a little bit. What if he's a high priest? Well, you know, he can
do some of the legwork. He can do some of the sacrificing for
us. They did bulls and goats. He did himself. We can kind of
get along with that, okay? It said king of the Jews. That's
why they killed him. We will not have this man reign over
us. We're going to do something with him. We can't bend his arm.
We can't pigeonhole him into saving grandma because she's
a sweet little old lady. He does with his arm as he sees
fit. I won't have that. I can't stand it. That's what
hung over his head, wasn't it? King of the Jews. That's who
he was. Why'd he do that? Why'd he suffer
that shame? So that we can dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
He bought us with his own blood, adopted us, made us his children
in doing so. All that he suffered, the humility,
the shame, the guilt, so he could make us his people. We could
be called his brethren. What a father. Children of the
King. When he was made sin, did he
fall from his throne as king? This one that was born king,
is king now? Was there a little hiccup there
where he wasn't king? Turn over to Hebrews 1, verse
8. The Father speaks here, but unto
the Son he saith, thy throne, who sits on a throne? King does,
doesn't he? Thy throne, O God, is forever
and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of thy kingdom. It ain't never changed. Well,
how could he be king if he made a curse? That's the power of
his blood. That's the value of the blood it took to buy his
people. We might be bigger sinners than we think we are. We may
need a little bit stronger redeemer than what we just carnally think
of, don't we? This is a king of kings and he
never changed. And God turned his back on him for his people.
Not for everybody, for his people. And he was made perfect. He was
made a curse for us, but he was made perfect. Turn over Hebrews
5. Hebrews 5 verse 8. It says, Yet learned he obedience by the
things which he suffered, and being made perfect, he became
the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey." What's
that obeyed? Bowing. How's he made perfect?
He was perfect. Yes. Explain that, Kevin. I can't.
I know he was made perfect. Same as he's made everything
else. He said he made himself. I believe it. But however he
did, however he did it, it was to become the author of eternal
salvation unto them that obey him, them that bow to him. He's
the author and finisher of our faith. He's the author of salvation.
And what's he doing now? Makes intercession for us, doesn't
he? Simeon was in the temple. And Joseph of Mary, as was the
custom, brought the Lord by the temple. It was a custom of the
law. And Simeon took him in his arms. held him, and blessed God
and said, Lord, now let us thy servant depart in peace according
to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou
hast prepared before the face of all people. He's going to
make us go before all people. Have you seen me holding him?
I've seen your salvation. I'm holding him. I'm holding
him in my arms. Human beings cannot make Christ
anything. We can't. And believers, we don't
see him only as a man. My pastor always told me from
a young child, he said, you can't put on tennis shoes and go out
in the street and talk about some dude named Jesus. That ain't who you're
dealing with. He's the almighty king. He'll
never be anything else. We take him as reverend, don't
we? Simeon didn't see that as a helpless child in his hands. He saw the God of salvation is
what he saw. The High King, the one that's
able, the one that owns everything, the one that rules everything.
This is Him. That's who He saw. Lastly, Hebrews 7. Just a page
over. Hebrews 7, 25. Where is He now? It says in verse 25, Wherefore
He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by Him. seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them. For such an high priest became
us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made
higher than the heavens." How can he be made higher than the
heavens? Because he's king. That's who he is. King of all.
What do you do with a king? What do you do with a king? You're
either saying, all hail the king, or you go to war with him. We
either bow to him or we fight him. That's what we do. Either
the heathen rage or we throw all of our trust on him. This
is wanting to throw your trust on him. I can tell you about
investments and that investment may sink. I can tell you about
good land to buy. That land may be underwater next month. I don't
know. It may flood. I can tell you about this king. Run to him and beg mercy. Bow
to him and beg mercy and I promise you he's happy to show mercy.
He delights to show it. His word says so, and you can
take Him at His word. Just whatever it says, you can take it to the
bank. That's something, man. Bow to the King. Amen.