Shall we bow our
heads for prayer.
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Father in heaven, what a
joy it is to be in Your house
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of worship on Your holy Sabbath.
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We thank You for
this oasis in time.
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We thank You that we're
able to forget everything ours
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so that we can
focus on everything yours.
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We ask, Father, that as we open
Your Word that Your Holy Spirit
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will be with us to
instruct us and to guide us.
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Help us to learn the
lessons which will be useful
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in our own
personal walk with Jesus.
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And we thank You,
Father, for hearing our prayer,
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, amen.
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I would like us to
begin our study this morning
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at Psalm 8 and we will
read verses 3 through 5.
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If you remember, we're
studying now a series titled,
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The Law of Life and Death.
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And today is the second sermon
in this six part series titled,
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The Law of Life and Death.
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What I want us to notice
in this passage is that God
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placed Adam on the throne
as the ruler of planet earth
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at the very
beginning of human history.
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It says there is
Psalm 8 and verse 3,
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the psalmist speaking...
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Speaking about
the creation of Adam.
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Notice, this is the
idea of a coronation.
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And notice, he has a
territory which God gave him.
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"You have made him to
have dominion over the
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works of Your hands.
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You have put all
things under his feet;
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all sheep and oxen,
even the beasts of the field,
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the birds of the air
and the fish of the sea
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that pass through
the paths of the seas."
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Clearly, God placed Adam
as the king of planet earth
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at the very beginning.
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And He placed a
crown on his head,
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according to this passage.
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But when Adam chose
Satan as his sovereign,
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Satan took over the throne
and Adam lost his dominion.
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Let's read about
that in Luke chapter 4
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and verses 5 through 7.
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Luke chapter 4 and
verses 5 through 7.
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This is the moment when
the devil takes Jesus to a
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very high mountain.
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And it says there in verse 5...
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So basically, the
devil is saying to Jesus,
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"This kingdom or these kingdoms
have been delivered to me.
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And I give these
kingdoms to whomever I wish."
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Originally, we noticed, that
the kingdom was given to Adam.
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But now Satan is claiming
the kingdoms of this world.
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And he's actually offering
these kingdoms to Jesus.
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It becomes very
obvious that after Adam sinned,
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the kingdoms of this world
were taken over by usurpation
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from the hands of Adam.
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And therefore, the human
race needed someone to come
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and recover that
which had been lost.
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But the Bible says that
there was no one within humanity
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who could actually
come and defeat the devil,
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because everyone had already
been defeated by the devil.
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We find in Romans
chapter 3 and verse 10,
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"There is none
righteous, no not one."
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In Romans 3 verse 23,
"All have sinned and come short
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of the glory of God."
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There was no one within the
human race who could recover
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the throne and the dominion
which Adam had given over
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to Satan as the
ruler of this world.
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And so it became necessary
that Jesus, the Creator
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of the whole human
race, become incarnate
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so that He could
recover the throne
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and He could recover the crown.
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Now it's important to notice
the way in which Jesus did this.
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You know, in
heaven He was a King.
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He had a crown.
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He had His throne.
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You would have thought
that He would have said,
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"Okay, Satan,
you stole the throne.
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I'll knock you off and
I'll just restore the throne."
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But that's not
the way it happened.
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You see, in order for
Jesus to recover the throne,
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He had to get down
from His throne in heaven
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and He had to come to
this world in a very strange
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and unexpected way.
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Do you realize that the
last week of the life of Jesus
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before His death on
Calvary actually was the process
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of His coronation as a King?
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You know, we usually read those
texts where it speaks about
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Jesus coming on His throne
of glory with all of His angels
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and having a crown
within a crown on His head.
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And we think that this is the
description of Jesus as King.
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But there is another
description of Jesus as King,
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which is very, very strange.
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Let's notice John chapter
12 and verses 12 through 15.
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This passage is speaking
about the procession of Jesus.
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He's coming into
Jerusalem as a Prince.
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And as a Prince, He is going to
be eventually crowned as King,
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and He is going to
be placed on His throne.
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This is known as
the triumphal entry.
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It is taking place on what
Christians call, Palm Sunday.
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I want you to notice
the kingly terminology
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that you have in this passage.
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It says there,
beginning at verse 12...
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Do you see that
they're proclaiming Jesus King?
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He's entering
Jerusalem as a Prince.
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And the multitudes
are crying out, "Hosanna.
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Blessed is He who comes
in the name of the Lord.
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The King of Israel."
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So you'll notice that
Jesus enters Jerusalem
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in this triumphal
entry, and He's being acclaimed
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as a King by the multitudes.
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In fact, He sits on a donkey,
which was a sign of royalty.
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This is the procession
of Jesus as the Prince.
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He's coming to
Jerusalem to be crowned as King.
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Now it's interesting to
notice in John chapter 12
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and verses 31 to 33 that
the Lord Jesus predicted...
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This is taking place,
by the way, only three days
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before the death of Jesus,
what we're going to read now.
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Jesus is predicting
that He is going to cast out
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the present ruler at
that time of this world
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by what He was
going to do in Jerusalem.
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Notice John chapter
12 and verses 31 to 33.
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You see, this
world had a prince.
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This world had a ruler.
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He had taken it from Adam.
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Now Jesus is saying just
a few days before His death
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on the cross, He's saying, "I'm
going to take this individual
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off the throne and I'm
going to be the new ruler
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by what I'm going
to do in Jerusalem."
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Notice...
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He was saying,
"When I hang on the cross,
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when I say, 'It is finished,'
I am going to knock off
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the present ruler of
this world who took the throne
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from the original
ruler, from Adam."
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In other words He's saying, "I'm
going to lay stake to My throne.
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And I'm going to
lay stake to My crown."
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But this was a strange King.
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Very unusual King.
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Now every king, in order to
be king, needs to be anointed.
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Would you agree with that?
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Interestingly enough,
after the triumphal entry
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you find the
anointing of this King.
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Notice Matthew
chapter 26 and verses 1 and 2.
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And while you're
looking for Matthew 26:1-2,
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let me ask you,
where were kings anointed?
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On what part of their body?
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On their heads.
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And what were
they anointed with?
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They were anointed with oil.
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Now notice what we find in
Matthew 26 and verses 1 and 2.
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By the way, that
means to be enthroned.
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We're going to notice
that a little bit later.
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Let's jump down to verse 6.
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"And when Jesus was in Bethany
at the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came to Him
having an alabaster flask of
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very costly fragrant oil."
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Now some places
don't say that it was oil.
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But I want you to notice,
I'll just mention this text
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in passing, Luke 7 verse 46.
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Jesus says, "My head with
oil thou didst not anoint,"
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He's saying to Simon.
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"You didn't
anoint My head with oil."
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"But this woman hath
anointed My feet with ointment."
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So what this
woman was using was oil.
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And where did she anoint Jesus?
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Verse 7 again, "A woman came
to Him having an alabaster flask
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of costly fragrant oil, and
she poured it on His..." What?
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"...on His head as
He sat at the table.
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But when His disciples
saw it, they were indignant,
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saying, 'Why this waste?
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For this fragrant oil
might have been sold for much
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and given to the poor.'
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But when Jesus was
aware of it, He said to them,
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'Why do you trouble the woman?
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For she has done
a good work for Me.
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For you have the
poor with you always,
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but Me you do not have always.
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For in pouring this
fragrant oil on My body,
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she did it for My burial.'"
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So we find Jesus
entering as a triumphant Prince
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into Jerusalem.
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And now He is
anointed with oil on His head.
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He's being anointed as a King.
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But this is
quite a strange King.
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Now, all kings
need to have a crown.
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Don't they?
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Therefore, Jesus had
to have a crown as well.
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But it's a rather strange crown.
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Notice John chapter
19 and verses 2 and 3.
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John chapter 19
and verses 2 and 3.
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Jesus had a crown.
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But it was a strange crown.
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It says there in verse 2...
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Isn't that kind of a
strange crown for a King?
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Notice, they're
rendering Him homage as a King.
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And so this King who has
this triumphal procession
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into Jerusalem as the Prince
who is going to be crowned,
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who is anointed on His
head with oil to be the King,
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now a crown is
placed on His head.
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But it is a crown of thorns.
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Now every king needs
to have special garments.
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And the special
garments, of course, are to be
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a certain color.
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Kings actually
were garbed in purple.
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That was the royal color.
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And so Jesus, if He was
going to be a King, had to be
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robed in purple.
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Notice John chapter 19
and verses 2 and 3 once again.
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"And the soldiers twisted
a crown of thorns and put it
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on His head, and
they put on Him..." What?
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"...a purple robe.
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Then they said,
'Hail, King of the Jews!'
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And they struck
Him with their hands."
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So Jesus the King
wears a purple robe.
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They place a crown
of thorns on His head.
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It's the crown of a King.
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He has His anointing
service separating Him as King.
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And He enters triumphal
into Jerusalem as a Prince
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who is going to be crowned.
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But now every king needs to
be recognized by his subjects
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and needs to be honored
and glorified by his subjects.
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And so, of course, Jesus
had to also receive homage
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from His subjects.
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But the interesting thing
is, they acclaim Him as King,
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but they acclaim
Him in a mocking manner.
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Notice Mark chapter 15
and verses 17 through 19.
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Mark chapter 15 and
verses 17 through 19.
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See, like the multitudes
would do in case that a king
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is coming and is
going to be crowned.
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You know, they're going
to honor and glorify him
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and sing out his praises.
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But this is a
strange way for the people
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to recognize this King.
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It says, "And they
began to salute Him..."
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But all of this was done
by His subjects mockingly.
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Normally, a king,
when he's recognized,
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the multitudes would
actually praise him in a sincere
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and honest way, in a loving way.
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Now every king also has to have
a scepter in his right hand,
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which is a
symbol of his rulership.
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Therefore, Jesus
also had to have a scepter
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in His right hand.
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Notice Matthew
chapter 27 and verse 29.
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Matthew chapter 27 and verse 29.
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Jesus had His scepter as well.
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He's going through a
process of coronation as King.
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Strange King that we find here.
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It says...
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See, that's the scepter.
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So Jesus has His crown.
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He has His scepter.
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He has His purple robes.
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He had His anointing service.
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The people acclaim
Him, mockingly, as King.
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Was Jesus really a King?
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All of the evidence
seems to indicate so.
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In fact, in Matthew 27 verse
11, which we won't look up now,
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Jesus had a private
interview with Pilate,
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with Pontius Pilate.
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Pilate asked
Him, "Are you a King?"
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Jesus says, "Yes.
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But I'm not the type of
King that you think I am.
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I'm not a glorious King who's
going to take away your throne
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and sit on the throne of Rome."
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He says, "I am a King,
but My kingdom right now
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is not of this world."
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And then when Pilate brings
out Jesus before the Jews,
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I want you to notice
how he introduces Jesus.
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John chapter 19
and verses 14 and 15.
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John 19 and verses 14 and 15.
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So Pilate recognized
that Jesus was a King.
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He introduces Jesus as a King.
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In a private interview,
Jesus says, "I am a King."
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And then Jesus is
taken on the procession
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to the place of His coronation.
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But it's a strange procession.
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It's known commonly among
Christians as the Via Dolorosa;
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the way of sorrow and pain.
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You see, He's going on
the procession because they're
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going to place
Him on His throne.
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But we're going to notice that
the throne is actually a cross.
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What a strange way to
be recognized as a King,
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to be placed on a throne
which is actually a cross.
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Notice what we find in
Matthew 27 and verses 31 to 33.
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"And when they had come
to a place called Golgotha,
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that is to say, the
Place of a Skull..."
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So you have here the
procession of Jesus to the place
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of His coronation, to the
place where He's going to be
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put upon the throne.
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Now, you know, it's
very interesting that the
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book of Acts
describes this coronation
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and enthronement
ceremony by quoting a prophecy
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from the Old Testament.
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Turn with me to Acts
chapter 4 and verses 25 to 27.
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In case you haven't recognized
now that the last week
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of the life of Jesus before
His death was a process of
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coronation as a
King, this will seal it.
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Acts chapter 4 verses 25 to 27.
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Here, Peter is reminiscing
about the moment when
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Annas, Caiaphas,
the Jewish leaders,
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Herod, and Pilate
gathered around Jesus,
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mockingly, to destroy Him.
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And I want you to notice that
Peter quotes a very interesting
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passage from the Old Testament.
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Let's begin at verse
24 of Acts chapter 4.
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"So when they heard that,
they raised their voice to God
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with one accord and
said, 'Lord, You are God,
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who made heaven
and earth and the sea,
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and all that is in them...'"
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Do you know where
he's quoting from?
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Psalm 2, a very important psalm.
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"...to do whatever
Your hand and Your purpose
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determined before to be done."
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Now why would this passage
be quoted as referring to the
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moment when the leaders of
Israel and when Pilate and Herod
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gathered around
Jesus to mock Him?
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We need to know the original
historical context of Psalm 2.
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You see, Psalm 2 is speaking
about David's coronation then.
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And God is placing David
as His servant on the throne.
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And at the same time that David
is being placed on the throne,
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the surrounding nations
with their kings are conspiring
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to overthrow him before he wins
over the sympathy of the people.
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They say, "If we
can knock him off early,
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then he won't have the
confidence of the people,
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and we'll be
able to overcome him."
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Interesting that this passage
in Psalm 2, which applies
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originally to the coronation
of David and the nations
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conspiring against
him as the king of Israel,
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is used to refer to Jesus who
is also being crowned as a King
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and the nations are
conspiring against Jesus Christ.
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So this passage makes it
very clear that the process that
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Jesus went through was His
coronation day like in Psalm 2.
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Now every king needs to have
an inscription above his throne
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so that everybody
recognizes his name.
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And it couldn't be
any different than Jesus.
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Notice John
chapter 19 and verse 19,
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and we'll also read verse 20.
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John 19 and verses 19 and 20.
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It's beautiful to hear
the pages of the Bible.
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It's musical.
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It says there...
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Interesting.
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But there's another very
interesting detail about this.
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Notice the
following verse, verse 20.
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"Then many of the Jews read
this title, for the place where
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Jesus was crucified was
near the city," and notice this,
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"and it was written in
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin."
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Was Jesus only
the King of the Jews?
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No.
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The inscription
above His head that said,
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"Jesus, the King of the Jews,"
is actually in three languages.
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The main languages of that
day and age in the known world.
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Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
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In other words, this King is
not only the King of the Jews.
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This King is the King of what?
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He's the King of the world.
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He's the King of
everyone, whether it be Jew,
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or whether it be Greek,
or whether it be Gentile.
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Whatever, He is the King of all.
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And so we have this strange
description of Jesus as King.
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Now have you noticed in all
of this that Jesus is actually
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a suffering King in
everything that we've studied?
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A sorrowful King.
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A humiliated King.
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And yet Scripture presents
Him as King, because He is King
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by what He's doing,
by humbling Himself.
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He's taking away the throne
from the ruler of this world,
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who took it from Adam.
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And He is recovering the
throne by what He is doing.
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But He's not doing it by force.
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He's doing it by
becoming nothing.
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By emptying Himself.
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By humbling Himself.
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Now Scripture presents
Jesus in a different light
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in other passages.
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It presents Him, for example,
in Matthew 25 and verse 31
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as a King seated
on a glorious throne.
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With a crown, according
to Revelation chapter 19,
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within a crown.
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"On His head are many diadems,"
is what Scripture says.
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This is a
different kind of King.
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No longer mocking Christ,
no longer a crown of thorns,
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no longer a cross as His throne.
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But rather sitting on a
throne of glory with a glorious
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crown on His head.
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Let's read about that in
Matthew chapter 25 and verse 31.
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"When the Son of Man
comes in His glory, and all the
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holy angels with Him,
then He will sit on the
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throne of His glory."
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And do you know that Scripture
says that those who mocked Him,
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those who pierced
Him, will wail over Him
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when they see Him
seated on His glorious throne
00:29:13.13\00:29:16.20
with His glorious
crown on His head.
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Different kind of King.
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Now you remember that
in our last study together,
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we talked about upward
mobility and downward mobility.
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Most of the world operates
by the rule of upward mobility.
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But the kingdom of
Christ operates on the basis
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of downward mobility.
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"He who humbles
himself will be..." What?
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"...will be exalted."
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And in the case of
Jesus, we find an illustration
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of this principle very clear.
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Before Jesus can sit
on the glorious throne
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with a glorious crown on
His head, He must come down
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and He must have a
crown of thorns, and He must
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sit on a crown or rest on
a crown, which is actually
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a cross, and His hands and His
feet and His side being pierced.
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In other words, before He
can reign He must humble Himself
00:30:17.58\00:30:22.51
and He must become a servant.
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You see, this is how
we explain the two thrones
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and the two crowns of Jesus.
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He's, first of all,
the suffering servant.
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And then He
becomes the sovereign Lord
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as a result of humbling Himself.
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Let's read that passage
again in Philippians chapter 2
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and verses 5 through 11.
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Philippians chapter 2
and verses 5 through 11,
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which we looked at last time.
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But let's look at it
again, because here we have
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the law of life and death.
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If Jesus had remained on
His glorious throne in heaven,
00:30:58.79\00:31:01.39
we would all be lost.
00:31:01.42\00:31:02.91
But because He came
down, we all have the hope
00:31:03.69\00:31:06.67
of everlasting life.
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Notice Philippians 2 verse 5.
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Actually, He did not
consider His equality with God
00:31:20.76\00:31:23.46
as something to be hung on
to, as something to be grasped.
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Notice, this was His choice.
00:31:30.65\00:31:31.86
He made Himself
of no reputation.
00:31:31.89\00:31:34.65
Actually, He emptied Himself.
00:31:34.68\00:31:37.50
He said,
"Father, not I but You."
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See, He's already a man.
00:31:52.20\00:31:53.26
He's going to
humble Himself even more.
00:31:53.29\00:31:54.85
It's His choice.
He humbled Himself.
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Even that throne,
the throne of the cross.
00:32:06.60\00:32:09.36
Even that crown,
the crown of thorns.
00:32:10.14\00:32:12.63
Even the mocking
cries of the people.
00:32:12.66\00:32:15.05
He humbled Himself.
00:32:16.07\00:32:17.57
He emptied Himself.
00:32:17.60\00:32:19.46
He went to the cross.
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What did God do
as a result of that?
00:32:21.69\00:32:23.78
Notice verse 9.
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Did Jesus go to heaven and
say, "Okay Father, I went down
00:32:27.00\00:32:30.18
and I did it.
00:32:30.21\00:32:31.29
Now I want My just due.
00:32:32.43\00:32:34.18
Come on, give Me My name.
00:32:36.43\00:32:38.02
Give Me My throne back."
00:32:40.37\00:32:41.86
No.
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"He who humbles himself...
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...will be exalted."
00:32:47.31\00:32:48.84
See, you don't do
the exalting. God does.
00:32:49.69\00:32:51.93
"He who humbles
himself will be exalted."
00:32:51.96\00:32:54.14
"And he who exalts himself..."
00:32:54.17\00:32:55.72
Somebody else will
do also the humbling.
00:32:56.75\00:32:58.47
"...will be humbled."
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That's the law
of life and death.
00:33:01.05\00:33:02.17
You humble yourself; life.
00:33:02.37\00:33:03.73
You exalt yourself; death.
00:33:04.10\00:33:05.64
It's that simple.
00:33:06.29\00:33:07.45
Notice verse 9.
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Did He exalt Himself?
00:33:12.91\00:33:14.06
No, God did.
00:33:15.14\00:33:16.21
God has highly exalted
Him and given Him the name.
00:33:16.31\00:33:19.33
Who gave Him the name?
00:33:19.36\00:33:20.45
Did He grab the name? No.
00:33:20.98\00:33:22.88
Not even to His own glory,
but to the glory of His Father.
00:33:41.50\00:33:44.62
Are you catching
the picture here?
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He humbles Himself, and
His Father gives Him a name.
00:33:49.26\00:33:53.28
His Father exalts Him.
00:33:54.36\00:33:57.28
And it's all not for His glory.
00:33:57.48\00:33:59.56
It's for the glory of whom?
00:33:59.59\00:34:01.40
It's for the
glory of His Father.
00:34:01.43\00:34:03.07
Now how does this impact us?
00:34:04.18\00:34:07.30
You know, many times we want
to rule before we pay our dues.
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We want to be up here before we
are willing to humble ourselves.
00:34:15.17\00:34:19.10
In fact, the text that we
read last sermon, last Sabbath,
00:34:20.31\00:34:24.81
Matthew 23 verse 12,
has the essence of the
00:34:25.73\00:34:28.05
teachings of Jesus.
00:34:28.08\00:34:29.46
If you miss a lot of
the things that Jesus said
00:34:30.87\00:34:32.93
and you understand this
verse, you understand the most
00:34:32.96\00:34:35.54
important concept
that Jesus taught.
00:34:35.57\00:34:37.57
"He who exalts
himself will be humbled.
00:34:37.82\00:34:40.49
And he who humbles
himself will be exalted."
00:34:40.52\00:34:42.41
And the life of
Jesus is a living
00:34:42.51\00:34:44.84
illustration of this principle.
00:34:44.87\00:34:46.32
And the question
is, what about us?
00:34:46.35\00:34:48.73
Do we have to follow the
same process that Jesus did?
00:34:50.93\00:34:53.78
Of course we do.
00:34:54.64\00:34:55.68
Actually, Jesus is
giving us an example.
00:34:57.39\00:34:59.85
He's saying, "As I
have humbled Myself,
00:34:59.88\00:35:02.16
you humble yourselves too.
00:35:02.19\00:35:03.86
That as I was exalted,
someday you might be exalted
00:35:04.53\00:35:07.82
with Me as well."
00:35:07.85\00:35:09.29
You see, we can
never occupy the throne
00:35:10.44\00:35:12.79
until we have carried the cross.
00:35:12.82\00:35:15.03
We can never be exalted unless
first we have humbled ourselves.
00:35:16.59\00:35:20.60
You know, there
are many illustrations
00:35:21.79\00:35:23.12
of this in Scripture.
00:35:23.15\00:35:24.43
You have the life of Joseph.
00:35:24.90\00:35:26.07
Joseph was up here nice at home,
and God says, "Hey, you have to
00:35:27.79\00:35:31.84
go over to Egypt
and become a servant."
00:35:31.87\00:35:33.85
And so Joseph goes,
he's faithful as a servant,
00:35:35.37\00:35:37.91
he's faithful as a slave.
00:35:38.64\00:35:40.10
He ends up even in prison.
00:35:40.13\00:35:42.16
And so God says, "Okay,
now you have learned the
00:35:42.19\00:35:44.17
lesson of being humble.
00:35:44.20\00:35:45.34
Now I'm going to exalt you."
00:35:45.37\00:35:47.05
And He places him as
the Prime Minister of Egypt.
00:35:47.89\00:35:50.69
Do you think he would have
been ready to be Prime Minister
00:35:51.36\00:35:53.61
of Egypt unless
he had paid his dues.
00:35:53.64\00:35:55.65
Absolutely not.
00:35:56.63\00:35:57.87
You have the story
of the transfiguration.
00:36:00.42\00:36:02.35
See, the disciples, they
thought that Jesus was going to
00:36:03.72\00:36:06.77
sit on the throne, he was
going to destroy the Romans.
00:36:06.80\00:36:09.26
He was going to
be up here first.
00:36:09.46\00:36:11.13
Jesus says, "No, no, no, no.
00:36:11.68\00:36:13.14
I have to go to Jerusalem.
00:36:13.51\00:36:14.93
They're going to mock Me, they
are going to spit in My face,
00:36:15.23\00:36:17.19
and they're going to crucify Me.
00:36:17.22\00:36:18.52
But then I'll tell you what.
00:36:19.04\00:36:20.13
After I'm crucified,
I'm going to resurrect
00:36:20.16\00:36:22.75
and God is going to exalt Me."
00:36:22.78\00:36:24.31
So you see, "First,"
Jesus says, "I must die."
00:36:26.20\00:36:29.24
And then He's seen in His
kingdom with Moses and Elijah,
00:36:29.45\00:36:33.69
who represent a mini kingdom.
00:36:33.72\00:36:35.59
Moses; those who died
in Christ and resurrected.
00:36:36.35\00:36:39.08
And Elijah; those who
will be transported to heaven
00:36:39.11\00:36:41.52
from among the living.
00:36:41.55\00:36:42.61
Jesus is saying to the
disciples, "Listen, I know
00:36:42.64\00:36:45.02
you're all dejected because I
said I was going to Jerusalem,
00:36:45.05\00:36:47.39
I was going to be mistreated,
and I was going to die.
00:36:47.42\00:36:49.48
But lift up your spirits.
00:36:49.54\00:36:51.10
Look, this is the
way it's going to be.
00:36:51.13\00:36:52.68
This is the way the
kingdom is going to be.
00:36:54.47\00:36:56.37
I am going to be
glorified like you see Me here
00:36:56.57\00:36:58.80
on the mount of transfiguration.
00:36:58.83\00:37:00.26
And Moses and Elijah,
representing the whole
00:37:00.29\00:37:02.66
human race, are
going to be with Me."
00:37:02.69\00:37:04.36
Wow.
00:37:05.26\00:37:06.29
But first comes the humbling,
and then comes the exalting.
00:37:07.23\00:37:12.16
We have the same
thing in Daniel chapter 7.
00:37:12.97\00:37:15.37
You know, it talks
about the saints of God being
00:37:16.09\00:37:18.02
trampled upon
and being mistreated.
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But then the time
of the judgment comes.
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See, they've been stepped on.
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They've lost everything.
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They've been
burned at the stake.
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Their goods have
been confiscated.
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They've been hung.
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They've been stamped on.
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But then in the judgment,
we find the kingdom is given to
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Jesus and to the
saints of the Most High.
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And they shall
rule forever and ever.
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So don't you think
that suffering is so bad.
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Don't you think
that humbling is so bad.
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Because only those who
know the lesson of humility
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will ever be exalted.
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It's a law of life.
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Notice the way the
apostle Paul expresses this
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in 2 Timothy
chapter 2 and verse 12.
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2 Timothy
chapter 2 and verse 12.
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He gives us this maxim,
he gives us this formula,
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which has to be fulfilled.
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2 Timothy
chapter 2 and verse 12.
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The apostle Paul says...
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Now notice, "If we endure..."
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Other versions
translate, "If we suffer..."
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So what's the necessary
requisite for reigning with Him?
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Going through
suffering now, through trials,
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through tribulations,
through difficulties.
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And folks, as we go through
the trials and tribulations
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and difficulties in a humble
way, we learn great lessons
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that will make us
capable of handling the
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greater responsibilities.
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Because he who is faithful
in little will eventually be
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faithful in what?
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In much.
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I'd like to end by
reading 2 Corinthians 4:17-18,
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where the apostle Paul is
describing his own experience.
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He says...
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What's for a moment?
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Our light, what?
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"Oh Pastor, you don't
know how much I'm suffering."
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The apostle Paul says,
"For our light affliction,
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which is but for a moment..."
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I mean, what are 70 or 80 years
in the context of eternity?
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Notice that our light
affliction but for a moment,
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"is working for us..."
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Those are the things, the light
affliction but for a moment.
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I pray to God that He will help
us learn this lesson, folks.
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That he who humbles
himself will be exalted.
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And he who exalts
himself will be humbled.
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