I getta teach again:) tomorrow,,,here's my rough draft...any suggestions ?:) Yeah, yeah, I love this ...
Since Homecoming was yesterday, I decided to wear my tiara! Yup, believe it or not I was a Homecoming Princess years ago. Since I was a band geek and a cheerleader, I was an easy pick, friends with everybody, I even did a quick change from my cheerleading skirt to my Shako hat for the half time show at football games:)
and you know I'm not the only Princess here! We're all princes and princesses if our Father is the King. Jamie suggested we do a series on the Kingship of Jesus...
so I thought we'd start with the question ...
Is Jesus King?
Let's pray... Lord, You say we can be your children, we can be the children of the King. Help us to hear Your voice and listen with our hearts to what You want to say to each of us, individually.
We love you, Jesus. Amen
Last week we were talking about us being works of art and God using suffering and especially the great Suffering Artist to shape us and make us.
How can a King be gentle and humble and suffer like Jesus did?
Can He really be the King?
Here's one example that shows Jesus as Messiah King...
2Sam 7:16 -
Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.'"
God told David that his kingdom would last forever that it would never end. Well, around 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, so were the records in the temple and so was the recording of the line of David. How could there always be a Son of David on the throne, a king forever if no one even knows for sure who is a Son of David?
1Ch 28:20 -
David also said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the Lord is finished.
Here's a little hint in answering that question given by David to his son, Solomon. He promises that God will not fail until all of the temple service is done. Since 70 AD there hasn't been any service done in the temple. All the sacrifices and offering have ceased.
Jesus prophesied that the service of the temple would come to an end and He said from the cross, "It is finished." The final sacrifice, the atonement for all time had been made, Jesus gave Himself as the offering for us all.
Jesus was from the line of David on both His mother's and step-father's side...(see Matthew.) There's really no longer an option if the verses about David having a son on the throne forever are to be fulfilled it's Yeshua, Jesus or nobody.
But He suffered, and died and doesn't seem to be bringing in a beautiful Messianic Age???
What a about a conquering King coming in power and great glory?
I've shown you before how these verses in Daniel predict just when the Anointed One or the reigning King, in Hebrew; the Messiah will come.
Dan 9:25 -
"Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
Dan 9:26 -After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed
Daniel points out the Anointed One will suffer, be cut off, and will have nothing. Doesn't that sound ALOT like someone we know?
Doesn't sound to me like the Messiah will provide immediate external peace. Nope He came to bring a Kingdom of the heart and internal kingdom that never, ever ends no matter what is going on around us.
But remember the history and math we looked at, that Daniel provided and how it was so accurate that the three wisemen, the kings from the east knew when to come looking for the birth of Messiah .
Is. 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
In fact, Daniel had it down to the exact day that Jesus entered Jerusalem as predicted in Zech....
Mat 21:5 & Zech 9:9
"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Last week we were talking about how Mary expressed her love for Jesus through a gift and physically...anybody remember how she did that??? (anointed Jesus with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair)
Well that was the night before Jesus' donkey ride and have you ever put on some really good perfume and then not washed your hair for a couple of days. What happens?
Yeah you can still smell that perfume. It just surrounds you. Well here's this scene...
we've got this country bumpkin kind of guy ('can anything good come from Nazareth', they were kind of the hicks of the nation of Israel) his 12 followers who had sort of stole a donkey...
and He smells like the richest perfume, no way had Jesus taken a shower from the night before...
Why did Jesus say she put that perfume on Him???('anointed for burial!' talk about Emo!)
Since Homecoming was yesterday, I decided to wear my tiara! Yup, believe it or not I was a Homecoming Princess years ago. Since I was a band geek and a cheerleader, I was an easy pick, friends with everybody, I even did a quick change from my cheerleading skirt to my Shako hat for the half time show at football games:)
and you know I'm not the only Princess here! We're all princes and princesses if our Father is the King. Jamie suggested we do a series on the Kingship of Jesus...
so I thought we'd start with the question ...
Is Jesus King?
Let's pray... Lord, You say we can be your children, we can be the children of the King. Help us to hear Your voice and listen with our hearts to what You want to say to each of us, individually.
We love you, Jesus. Amen
Last week we were talking about us being works of art and God using suffering and especially the great Suffering Artist to shape us and make us.
How can a King be gentle and humble and suffer like Jesus did?
Can He really be the King?
Here's one example that shows Jesus as Messiah King...
2Sam 7:16 -
Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.'"
God told David that his kingdom would last forever that it would never end. Well, around 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, so were the records in the temple and so was the recording of the line of David. How could there always be a Son of David on the throne, a king forever if no one even knows for sure who is a Son of David?
1Ch 28:20 -
David also said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the Lord is finished.
Here's a little hint in answering that question given by David to his son, Solomon. He promises that God will not fail until all of the temple service is done. Since 70 AD there hasn't been any service done in the temple. All the sacrifices and offering have ceased.
Jesus prophesied that the service of the temple would come to an end and He said from the cross, "It is finished." The final sacrifice, the atonement for all time had been made, Jesus gave Himself as the offering for us all.
Jesus was from the line of David on both His mother's and step-father's side...(see Matthew.) There's really no longer an option if the verses about David having a son on the throne forever are to be fulfilled it's Yeshua, Jesus or nobody.
But He suffered, and died and doesn't seem to be bringing in a beautiful Messianic Age???
What a about a conquering King coming in power and great glory?
I've shown you before how these verses in Daniel predict just when the Anointed One or the reigning King, in Hebrew; the Messiah will come.
Dan 9:25 -
"Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
Dan 9:26 -After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed
Daniel points out the Anointed One will suffer, be cut off, and will have nothing. Doesn't that sound ALOT like someone we know?
Doesn't sound to me like the Messiah will provide immediate external peace. Nope He came to bring a Kingdom of the heart and internal kingdom that never, ever ends no matter what is going on around us.
But remember the history and math we looked at, that Daniel provided and how it was so accurate that the three wisemen, the kings from the east knew when to come looking for the birth of Messiah .
Is. 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
In fact, Daniel had it down to the exact day that Jesus entered Jerusalem as predicted in Zech....
Mat 21:5 & Zech 9:9
"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Last week we were talking about how Mary expressed her love for Jesus through a gift and physically...anybody remember how she did that??? (anointed Jesus with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair)
Well that was the night before Jesus' donkey ride and have you ever put on some really good perfume and then not washed your hair for a couple of days. What happens?
Yeah you can still smell that perfume. It just surrounds you. Well here's this scene...
we've got this country bumpkin kind of guy ('can anything good come from Nazareth', they were kind of the hicks of the nation of Israel) his 12 followers who had sort of stole a donkey...
and He smells like the richest perfume, no way had Jesus taken a shower from the night before...
Why did Jesus say she put that perfume on Him???('anointed for burial!' talk about Emo!)
You could also see that He was anointed as the King.
Luke 19:30 "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it.'" 32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?" 34 They replied, "The Lord needs it."
Now just like Mary doing something beyond what she thought; this donkey and it's owners were doing something probably beyond what they thought. They were fulfilling prophecy!
Zech 9:9 !
Luke 19:35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!" 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
Can't you just see it these people start singing a Hillel Psalm to Jesus, Yeshua proclaiming Him Messiah and King.... the Pharisees knew it! They tell Jesus to shut them up.
I love Jesus' response...
Luke 19:40 "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."(like in Joshua and Hab.)
He says just you try it! If they were quiet, the stones would shout because this was predicted in the prophets and it will happen!
Sometimes I just watch big stones (like the one by the Hotel Del down on the walk to the water) just waiting for them to start singing,,, I wrote a song about that too. It's called 'I Wanna Hear Rock Music!"
Luke 19:30 "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it.'" 32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?" 34 They replied, "The Lord needs it."
Now just like Mary doing something beyond what she thought; this donkey and it's owners were doing something probably beyond what they thought. They were fulfilling prophecy!
Zech 9:9 !
Luke 19:35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!" 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
Can't you just see it these people start singing a Hillel Psalm to Jesus, Yeshua proclaiming Him Messiah and King.... the Pharisees knew it! They tell Jesus to shut them up.
I love Jesus' response...
Luke 19:40 "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."(like in Joshua and Hab.)
He says just you try it! If they were quiet, the stones would shout because this was predicted in the prophets and it will happen!
Sometimes I just watch big stones (like the one by the Hotel Del down on the walk to the water) just waiting for them to start singing,,, I wrote a song about that too. It's called 'I Wanna Hear Rock Music!"
Once I saw a guy staring at that rock on the beach too and I thought ...yeah! someone else waiting for that stone to sing! But it turned out he was just watching for his wife.
Anyways...That's a future prophecy and today we're looking at the ones already fulfilled by Jesus our King!
I can't hit all the prophecies King Jesus fulfilled. Remember the example I gave you once..
in order for Him to fulfill them all the prophecies He fulfilled by chance it would be like filling Texas with silver dollars up to your chaps and marking one with a red lamb and dropping it somewhere in Texas then wading in and picking out one coin and it be the red lambie!
This Suffering Artist, and King is our Messiah. If you let Him be the king of your life then this amazing tapestry that He is creating will include the threads of your life hemmed in with others and just so intricately woven into His Masterpiece.
Romans 11:33-36
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34 "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" 35 "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Oh the depths and beyond searching out are these amazing things of our king.
Anyways...That's a future prophecy and today we're looking at the ones already fulfilled by Jesus our King!
I can't hit all the prophecies King Jesus fulfilled. Remember the example I gave you once..
in order for Him to fulfill them all the prophecies He fulfilled by chance it would be like filling Texas with silver dollars up to your chaps and marking one with a red lamb and dropping it somewhere in Texas then wading in and picking out one coin and it be the red lambie!
This Suffering Artist, and King is our Messiah. If you let Him be the king of your life then this amazing tapestry that He is creating will include the threads of your life hemmed in with others and just so intricately woven into His Masterpiece.
Romans 11:33-36
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34 "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" 35 "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Oh the depths and beyond searching out are these amazing things of our king.
Sometimes the back of a tapestry looks like a confusing mess. But it isn't.
Everything, every little stitch, is significant and if we could flip the tapestry over and see the whole, we would know what an amazing work He is accomplishing. That's what prophecy shows us. A glimpse of the other side of the tapestry... that everything is happening for a reason even a donkey ride is predicted and written and happens right on schedule to show us this peaceful King, God has provided for us.
So yes, Jesus is the Anointed One the King and He longs to use you his child, as another thread in the wonder of this work of art we call Life.
Lord, Messiah, King remake our hearts in Your likeness, we want to be Yours, your princes and princesses, children of the King.! Amen
So yes, Jesus is the Anointed One the King and He longs to use you his child, as another thread in the wonder of this work of art we call Life.
Lord, Messiah, King remake our hearts in Your likeness, we want to be Yours, your princes and princesses, children of the King.! Amen
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Hey again,
I just perused your blog while driving to Los Angeles on my BlackBerry and didn't know you were such a scholar on the bible, very nice...just like the Boreans.
Comment about the perfume...remember how Judas complain about wasting it and it should be sold and used to help the poor? Well Jesus said something that at times people didn't understand. He allowed Mary to do so because it is Jewish tradition to perfume a king before his death. The more expensive, the more cherished the king.
Robert
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