That's My King! (68 of 75)
Series: The Gospel of John
Mike Stone
John 19:1-16
Going back to John 12 and the triumphal entry, the Lord Jesus made a celebrated entrance into Jerusalem amidst waving palm branches and shouts of ''Hosanna.'' But within a few short days, everything has changed. Their desire for a coronation has been changed into their demand for a crucifixion.
While today's text stops just short of Golgotha's Hill, we will travel with the Lord up to the very foot of His cross. The crowd received Jesus on Sunday and rejected Him on Friday for the same reason...they were looking for the wrong kind of King.
Beaten beyond recognition and dripping with the blood of redemption, I acknowledge, He looked like anything but royalty. And Yet I want to boldly declare today, ''That's My King!'' And if you'll look with spiritual eyes, you'll see enough evidence for you to crown Him as King of your life, too.
Mark Twain's classic novel, The Prince and the Pauper, tells the fascinating story of two young boys who look strikingly alike. As the title implies, one is a prince and the other is a pauper. The boys meet by happenstance, exchange clothes, and rather unintentionally embark on a series of misadventures, each boy wrongfully assumed to be the other.
The story climaxes on Coronation Day as the PAUPER is about to be wrongly crowned as the king of England.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Apostle John set out to write about another case of mistaken identity...this one was of royal proportion. The King of Glory had made Himself of no reputation, hiding behind a veil of flesh and a robe of humanity, ''He came unto His own and His own received Him not.''
Like Prince Edward out of Twain's novel, Jesus is not truly recognized as the Monarch that He is. Oh, He is a King. But He is a very different kind of king than the one they are seeking. But for those of us who've been awakened by the Spirit to the reality of our sin, drawn by the power of God to the ...
Series: The Gospel of John
Mike Stone
John 19:1-16
Going back to John 12 and the triumphal entry, the Lord Jesus made a celebrated entrance into Jerusalem amidst waving palm branches and shouts of ''Hosanna.'' But within a few short days, everything has changed. Their desire for a coronation has been changed into their demand for a crucifixion.
While today's text stops just short of Golgotha's Hill, we will travel with the Lord up to the very foot of His cross. The crowd received Jesus on Sunday and rejected Him on Friday for the same reason...they were looking for the wrong kind of King.
Beaten beyond recognition and dripping with the blood of redemption, I acknowledge, He looked like anything but royalty. And Yet I want to boldly declare today, ''That's My King!'' And if you'll look with spiritual eyes, you'll see enough evidence for you to crown Him as King of your life, too.
Mark Twain's classic novel, The Prince and the Pauper, tells the fascinating story of two young boys who look strikingly alike. As the title implies, one is a prince and the other is a pauper. The boys meet by happenstance, exchange clothes, and rather unintentionally embark on a series of misadventures, each boy wrongfully assumed to be the other.
The story climaxes on Coronation Day as the PAUPER is about to be wrongly crowned as the king of England.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Apostle John set out to write about another case of mistaken identity...this one was of royal proportion. The King of Glory had made Himself of no reputation, hiding behind a veil of flesh and a robe of humanity, ''He came unto His own and His own received Him not.''
Like Prince Edward out of Twain's novel, Jesus is not truly recognized as the Monarch that He is. Oh, He is a King. But He is a very different kind of king than the one they are seeking. But for those of us who've been awakened by the Spirit to the reality of our sin, drawn by the power of God to the ...
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