Christ Our King (Deuteronomy 17:14-20; Matthew 25:31-46)
/Jesus serves the church as king by ruling her in wisdom and protecting her from dangers.
Jesus serves the church as king by ruling her in wisdom and protecting her from dangers.
Jesus Christ fulfills the office of a priest in guarding the holiness of God’s name and house by standing between the holy God and sinful man.
Jesus Christ fulfills the kingdom office of prophet in revealing to us the will of God for our salvation.
The Kingdom of God is a Spiritual house of salvation which Christ builds and rules over.
Jesus summarizes the reason for his coming into the world as to bring salvation to those who believe in him, through his obedience to the Father.
There are two kingdoms and two glories – one of God and one of man and the two are mutually exclusive.
Jesus presents the kingdom as a current reality (inaugurated at his death) that is characterized by suffering in this life and glory in the next.
Jesus is inaugurating his kingdom by making a covenant in his blood.
In view of the life you have been given in Jesus Christ you are called to lay that life down for his sake.
Caiaphas, unknowingly, does his job as a high priest and lays the sins of God’s children upon the scapegoat for their salvation.
Jesus demonstrates the glory of God in this passage in the resurrection, showing that all who have new life, in him, see the glory of God.
Jesus, who is life itself, demonstrates the manner in which he loves, not just Lazarus, but all his people, by taking the misery of death upon himself.
Jesus announces that he has brought the hope of the Last Day into the present.
Jesus allows suffering for the benefit of the disciples and for the glory of God.
Jesus identifies himself with the covenantal curse in order to draw a people to himself.
Not only have Jesus’ accusers judged Jesus wrongly – calling him a blasphemer – but, in so doing, they have identified themselves with those who deserve the divine judgment of God.
Jesus fulfills the Feast of Dedication by showing himself to be the New Temple, consecrated by God.
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