God has appointed our Lord Jesus to be a prince and a savior. His rule will be glorious for all eternity, a righteous reign, with all sin and death and sorrow banished.
Central to Christ's ministry during his incarnation was the rejection of his Lordship by Israel. Their opposition to Him seemed to turn on their confusion about the nature of His kingdom, and what His work was at that time.
They failed to understand that Christ's reign, at its core, is a reign of Righteousness, and not of force. His people shall be willing in the day of His power. The New Covenant is a promise of changed hearts and reconciliation. Christ's sacrifice effectuated that Covenant by His Blood.
Though He will rule with a rod of iron, in the end, His people will submit with eagerness to His rule, so that there will be no compulsion to His eternal reign over us!
But it was impossible that the Saints should be reconciled to Christ without the establishment of an alien Righteousness in our hearts first.
Thus, the kingdom of God that Christ set out to established was first and foremost, a rule of righteousness that would completely dominate His people.
He accomplished this rule by His teaching and by His death for us, by which He overthrew self-righteousness and exalted His Righteousness to rule over us.
Had He followed the will of lost Israel, He would have established a political and military rule, which without the rule of Righteousness in His people would have meant our destruction.
Christ's enemies thought, by destroying Him, that they destroyed His kingdom - but in fact, His death instituted a rule of Righteousness we enter into by faith in His blood.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
