Kingship of Christ in the Gospels

When the Stuarts no longer reigned, there could still be Stuart children, but there was no more Stuart dynasty — picturing how 'son of David' does not just mean bloodline but a continuing ruling house in Matthew 1:1.

as surely as the prediction that he would be a son of Abraham limits him to the descendants of Abraham, the Hebrew nation so the designation son of David not only identifies him as someone whose bloodlines go back to David but as someone who is part of a dynasty which began with David Now you see, a dynasty is a ruling family that exists as long as that family rules. And when the member of that family no longer rules, we say that was the end of the Stuart dynasty in England.

14:12 - 14:58 Read in full sermon

As Mary grew big with the child, she was never to look upon that swelling body apart from Gabriel's three-fold announcement — Jesus the Savior, Son of the Most High, Ruler upon David's throne.

There, in short, is a description of His mission. His mission is in His name, Matthew 1.21. Thou shalt call His name Jesus for...

20:54 - 21:05 Read in full sermon

The Bible never says there were three wise men, kings, or a manger at the magi's visit — Pastor Martin corrects the Christmas card tradition and stresses they came into a house, finding a child (not a newborn).

It just says they. There had to be more than one. There were at least two. That doesn't say three, and they didn't come to a manger.

36:11 - 36:19 Read in full sermon

The point: Learn from the Magi what so few Jews saw: Christ's kingly rule is not a white-charger rule but a reign of grace that receives Gentile outcasts.

Magi from the east come into a humble Palestinian dwelling and bow before an ordinary-looking Jewish boy with no princely garb — the first fruits of Psalm 72's promise that kings would fall down before him.

And if Gentiles ever become a part of it, it will be so insignificant as not to be accounted. And the first record of anyone paying homage to their king is not Jews. It's Gentiles from afar who come into a humble Palestinian dwelling in the presence of a humble little girl hardly out of her teens, if even out of her teens. And they look upon an ordinary little Jewish boy and what do they see?

38:17 - 38:49 Read in full sermon

Before Philip called him, Nathanael was in private intercourse of heart with God under a fig tree — and Jesus saw him, prompting Nathanael's confession of Son of God and King of Israel.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. And oh, how I must resist the temptation to open up what that under the fig tree might be.

45:25 - 45:40 Read in full sermon