YOUR KING IS COMING

YOUR KING IS COMING

A sermon preached on the Palm Sunday !4^th/04/2019 @ A.C.F.M. Umudi Igbodo Etche Rivers State of Nigeria by Fortune Nwaiwu

Mat 21:5 KJV: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

We are here today to celebrate and to remember a certain day our Lord Jesus Christ rode on a donkey’s colt to Jerusalem. It was a day of his triumphant entry to his church.

I have a story to tell you. There was a very poor man walking in a street. His name was James. As he’s walking a man tapped on his shoulder and said, “James, you are a king’. James looked at himself and then retorted: “How can I be a king when I have no kingdom to rule? And how will I acquire the kingdom when my family is poor? Please do not tease me or less my mind explode with false hope.

For you to be a king, there must be a kingdom to rule. There must be riches before you become a rich man, and you must have amassed wealth before you become a wealthy man. Christ came as the king of his church and not for the world. This means, if you don’t belong to his church, he’s not your king, and if you are his fan, a member of his assembly, he’s your king who was years past prophesied by Zechariah 9:9

“Tell the people of Israel,

 ‘Look, your King is coming to you. He is humble, riding on a donkey−

Riding on a donkey’s colt,’ ”

Three qualities that distinguished Christ our King from worldly kings.

1.      He is a deliverer, not an oppressor:

When Christ and his disciples approached Jerusalem. They came to the town of Bethpage, and he sent his two disciples probably Peter and John to go to a near village and they would see a donkey tied with its colt. Untie them and bring them to me (Matt. 21:1-2). We see that the donkey and its colt significantly represent people of this world who are oppressed, and taken captive by the men of this world. Speaking from African culture, when one is tied spiritually, one is incapacitated to progress in life. How terrible it is, here a mother and her child are tied, no freedom for them and none would even rise to do exploit under such captivity, but our glorious King delivered them because he is in need of them. As you are here today, Jesus Christ is in need of you. He does not want you to perish in the hands of your oppressors, but to deliver you. He is not like King Hero who sought to kill all the children from two years down. But examine your life now, are you caged, experiencing hardship and suffering? Is anyone seeking after your life and your children’s, Jesus Christ is able to deliver you today.  

2.      He is humble, not proud

Our Lord Jesus Christ is humble, humility is one of the qualities expected from any one serving the LORD. For Christ coming to his church in meekness shows that God has already elevated him. This is in consonance with what the scriptures say: God exalts the humble but brings down the proud. The humility of Christ is shown when he took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash his disciples’’ feet, drying them with his towel. This is a core humbleness which the kings of this world can never do. He is not like Abimelech who’s not humble to be a king after his father Gideon died. He sought for supporters from his uncles of his maternal home who aided him with seventy silvers to hire assassins to kill his seventy brothers (Judges 9). Christ did not kill anyone for him to become a king. His kingship is divine and uncontestable, and yet he is humble. He didn’t force anyone to lend him a donkey. He is a king yet he borrowed a donkey unlike King Ahab who used his position as the King of Israel to kill Naboth because of his land, and the blood of Naboth cried to the King of Kings, and LORD’s vengeance was wroth on Ahab and his family.

3.      He comes in the name of LORD 

Blessed is he who comes in the name of God, not he who disguises himself as a man of God. Many preachers today claim they come in the name of God, but their evil deeds, corrupt minds betray them. Such people are not blessed no matter the amount of wealth they’ve amassed through their crooked acts, they are forever cursed.  Jesus came in the name of the LORD to reform his church and to heal as many that are sick seeking him as their Saviour. He condemns the attitude of the church leaders who have turned the church of God as a den of thieves.  Many church leaders are trained criminals, using church as a source of their income, but they should remember that one day they will vomit what they’ve stolen.

As we hope in the LORD our King, he will continue to rule in us, and we shall one day reign with him. Fear not, your king has come to deliver you. Would you surrender to him as people spread palm fonts and coats as a token of their hearts for God to rule in them?

May God bless you.

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