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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS intuition, not by struggle, for He holds all secrets of nature. All honour to those scientists who by laborious study are struggling to recover the power over nature that mankind has lost— that he forfeited through sin.— But He has all that dominion. Psalm 8 shows us what is man’s right ful place, over all other creation. And Hebrews 2 shows us Christ in that place,” but we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus.” Let us behold Him ever more! He has won back for man what man lost. He has the right to rule over nature, and He showed this in some of His miracles. And when He comes again to reign this great world,) now ruined and in pain, will find its true King.— The whole world is in a'gony.— It’s very songs of beauty and its loveli ness have the minor key. But all that will be removed when the New Man comes to reign! Creation at last will be at rest', under the Second Man, the KING! But more wondrous still is His Head ship of the Church, and the fact that we are His body, and that He has linked us with Him in eternal union. Read Ephesians 1:19-23. . . . What He wrought in Christ, when He set Him above all rule that is exerted anywhere, . . . and gave this King to the church! We as His body are linked up to this mighty King, that He might express Himself through us. Just as the head needs the body to express itself through, so Christ is gathering out this body to express Himself through. And as He waits till all things are put under His feet, He is gathering out His people.— The Bible never calls Him the King over Christians, never the King of the church, for He is our Head, the sovereign Head of the church. 3. His kingship, when ruling on the throne of David over Israel. To the prophets all the future was radiant with
651 the dawning of a glorious day: . . “ For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon Bis shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to estab lish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.’’ (Isaiah 9:6.7). That day is coming, whdn all lines of His kingship will converge. 4. His sovereignty over the whole world, with Israel as His stewards. See Isa. 3:1-3. The only key for the deliverance of this world from its agony is the coming of. the King. The history of the world is-the story of experiments of human governments, and all have been a failure. And behind it all rises the Figure of the King of kings and Lord of lords, waiting to rule. Then, when He comes, will come the day for which creation waits,— for which the church waits,— for which Israel waits,-t^for which the world waits. We ask, how did He reach this sove reignty?— How has He tne right?' — Because He went by the way of the valley of Humiliation, not by the way of pride and ambition. See in Phil. 2:5-8, (R. V.) the steps of humiliation that He went down. He was the equal of God, but did not con sider it a thing to be grasped at— in contrast to Satan, who was given a high large place of rule, but grasped at a higher, and lost all. The Lord Jesus won all this by self-abnegation. He won it by walking through the valley of Humiliation, and by the way of the Cross. ^ “ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a Name that is above every name; that
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