Christ's Own Claims to Kingship

The point: Cultivate a growing and never-tiring desire to know more about the Savior and to have more accurate views of the way in which he saves his people.

Missing the centrality of Christ in the Bible is like reading with the wrong glasses or closed eyes, or a heart blinded by the god of this world, emphasizing the spiritual blindness that prevents understanding.

If the scriptures of the Old and the New Testament proclaim any fact with any degree of certainty, it is the fact that the only salvation which is ever held forth for guilty, hell-deserving sinners is a salvation which focuses in the person and work of Jesus Christ our Lord. A man who reads the Bible and misses that is reading it with the wrong glasses, or he's reading it with his eyes closed, or more likely he's reading it with his heart blinded by the God of this world.

0:02 - 0:42 Read in full sermon

Driving home: If you believed everything you wouldn't be disappointed for you would have known that your king was no political deliverer but he was a spiritual king to establish a spiritual king.

The crowd's attempt to seize Jesus by force to make Him king is likened to a kidnapping, illustrating their carnal, political understanding of His messianic role.

Now they begin to really scheme a wonderful thing so they think. If he's a king and we're on our way to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover and our minds are filled with the ancient deliverance that Jehovah wrought through Moses in bringing our peace to the people out of the bondage of Egypt then if the greater than Moses is here what better time than at the Passover not only to celebrate our deliverance from the oppression of Egypt but to celebrate our deliverance from the heel of Rome. And now we've got a king who can bring that deliverance for if he's greater than Moses he can bring a great...

10:49 - 11:34 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: He analyzes the Triumphal Entry, showing how Jesus intentionally orchestrated it to be acknowledged as the meek King prophesied in Zechariah 9:9. Jesus accepted the title of King…

The celebration of Palm Sunday and the Triumphal Entry is used as a familiar example to introduce the next set of passages demonstrating Christ's claims to kingship.

Or the next group of passages that cluster around the triumphant entry. Perhaps you've been brought up in a situation where in a church calendar you celebrated Palm Sunday. The triumphal entry of our Lord. It's recorded in all four of the Gospels.

13:40 - 13:59 Read in full sermon

The point: Glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, recognizing that our King is also our Priest, making salvation possible.

John Bunyan's imagery of the soul as a walled city that Emmanuel storms is used to illustrate the powerful, regal work of King Jesus in converting a sinner's heart.

of Christ all of these issues are bound up in a biblical understanding of this truth Christ is king king to save yes but he never saves at the expense of pocketing his scepter has king Jesus put forth his scepter has he shown you your guilt has he brought you to own it like that dying thief has he stormed your soul in his regal power and authority and brought you to see that he is king worthy of your trust worthy of your homage can you glory in that which was a stumbling block to the Jews king upon the cross under the heel of Rome never we say God forbid that I should glory save in the cross o...

49:46 - 51:16 Read in full sermon