Christ - A Most Unusual King!!

One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an travelling preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never travelled more than two hundred miles from the place He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself...

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Those are the facts of his human life. He rises from the dead. Twenty long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centrepiece of the human race and leader of all progress.

All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of people upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

All of us have been affected by the birth of this one man.

Christ the King

Shortly after her coronation, Queen Victoria attended a splendid performance of Handel’s Messiah. She’d been told in no uncertain terms that members of royalty do not stand with the others when the Hallelujah chorus is sung. It was simply not proper.

But when the singers lifted their voices to shout “Hallelujah! The Lord God omnipotent reigneth” she could only just stay in her seat. She didn’t want to violate the traditions of royalty. But when the chorus came to the climax, proclaiming Jesus Christ the “King of Kings and Lord of Lords”, repeating the phrase with increasing crescendos, the queen of all England rose and bowed her head before the King of all, including kings and queens.

There will come a day when every knee in heaven and earth will bow before him. And he shall reign for ever and ever! King of Kings and Lord of Lords!.