Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: How Christ Became King of All
Kingdom Season is a period of reflection on the reign of Christ, observed between All Saints' Day (November 1st) and the start of Advent. It is also known as Kingdomtide and culminates in the Feast of Christ the King, which is the last Sunday of the church year. The season uses this time to focus on the themes of God's kingdom.
This week we look at How Christ Became King of All.
How God Became King of All.
In today's sermon we look at Paul's letter to the church in Philippi, which is at least 240 hours in travel via sailing and marching from Rome. In order to control that whole region in Northeastern Greece, the Roman military veterans were given land and placed there in that region after Rome conquered it so that they could import Rome's culture and could influence this region to help hold it under the control of the Empire, and it worked.
From our reading in Philippians 2,
"Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross."
What Paul is showing the Philippians is completely counter to everything the Empire had ever taught them. Jesus, though He was God, did not regard equality with God something to be exploited, but rather emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave being found in human likeness; became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. The cross is the Empire's most famous form of torture and humiliation. Jesus dies the most humiliating torturous death the Empire had invented.
Paul goes on to share that because of Jesus' death that,
"Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Jesus demonstrates His Kingship in that He reaches out to you, and to each one of us.
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