Period of Preparation

Pastor Martin opens a new series within Here We Stand on the kingly office of Christ. He establishes the biblical concept of a king as one who possesses a real throne, wields a real scepter, and rules a real kingdom with absolute, unrivaled authority, and distinguishes Christ's eternal essential kingship as the second person of the Godhead from the mediatorial kingship He receives as the God-man Redeemer. Tracing the artist's brush strokes from Genesis 3:15 through Genesis 49 and Numbers 24, he begins to show how the Old Testament progressively reveals that the promised Redeemer must come as a true conquering king from the tribe of Judah.

Pastor Martin continues his sweep through the Old Testament period of preparation, showing how God added bolder strokes to the prophetic portrait of the coming Messiah-King. Beginning with the Davidic covenant in 2 Samuel 7, he traces the king motif through Psalm 2, Psalm 110, Isaiah 9, Micah 5, Jeremiah 33, Daniel 7, and Zechariah 6 and 9, demonstrating that the Old Testament builds inexorably toward a king from David's seed who would also be the mighty God, who would build God's true house, sit as priest upon his throne, ride lowly upon a donkey, and reign in righteousness to the ends of the earth. The Jews were inexcusable for missing such a king of grace.