Turn with me in God's Word this evening, and as I said this morning and yesterday afternoon, it will be helpful to have your Bibles open, because we'll not just be staying in one place, we'll be going here and there, to put together a picture of Jesus Christ as our King. But by way of a text, please look with me at Revelation 19 and verse 16, The He is made very clear by verse 13, He is the Word of God, and if you compare John's other writings, particularly his Gospel, where we read, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God, we know the Word of God is very clearly Jesus Christ. So the Word of God has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus Christ is our King. We've been considering this weekend, for any that may not have been with us on the previous two occasions, the three officers of Christ as prophet, priest and king. sometimes otherwise regarded as three functions of his one overall office, as mediator, there is one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus, and as the one who has been appointed, the Son of God, become the Son of Man, to bring fallen humanity back to the Father, he does that by way of his three offices, prophet, by teaching us and instructing us priests, by atoning for our sins and interceding for us, applying the benefits of His redemption to us. And as we will see this evening, He acts as King to rule over us, to defend us and to protect us from all our enemies. Once we've grasped, in principle, the threefold office of Christ as our Mediator, when we see Him as Prophet, Priest and King, then we will begin to see it cropping up everywhere in the Bible. And let me give you just one example that occurred to me as I was preparing this message. Take the Lord's Prayer, which is familiar to us all. We pray there in the Lord's Prayer for thy will to be done. Well, in order for the Lord's will to be done, we need to know what that will is, and how is that will known to us, but by Christ as prophet. And so, we see there Christ as prophet, even in that petition, for God's will to be done. But also, we go on to pray, forgive us, our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. How can God forgive us, as we saw this morning, except by the atonement of Christ and the application of that by His intercession, His work as priest? But if there is one office that is most prominent in the Lord's Prayer, it is the office of King, because at least twice it is mentioned explicitly. We pray for Thy Kingdom to come. and we say at the end of the prayer that His kingdom, power and glory is forever and ever. That therefore relates to the kingly work of our Saviour. And so we see the central importance of Christ in those three offices just in that famous prayer. Well if His work as prophet is representing God to us, bringing God to us, and his work as priest is bringing us to God. How do we sum up his work as king? Well, Louis Burkhoff, a theologian of the 20th century, says it can be defined very simply as this, it is Christ exercising dominion and restoring the original dominion of man. That is, he exercises dominion over us and he restores to us the rightful dominion we had in the creation before sin entered the world. If we need Christ as prophet to teach us, and as priest to atone for our sins and intercede, why do we need him as king? Well, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, which answers all of these three offices, answers that question, how does Christ execute the office of a king? It says, Christ executes the office of a king in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his. and our enemies. So you could think, if you, to distill that even further, Christ rules over us and He protects us. That, if you like, is the great takeaway from this evening of Christ as King. But we want to see a bit more detail than that and so we'll look at Christ our King as our theme, I want to notice first of all with you the development of His reign as King, to trace that out as it's revealed to us in the Bible, secondly to look at the nature of His reign, what kind of a reign does Jesus exercise over His people, and then thirdly to close with some benefits that we receive from His reign. by having Christ as our King. Christ our King, the development of His reign, the nature of His reign and the benefits of that reign. Well, because He is very God, very God, He is one with the Father, Christ has always been and always will be ruler over the totality of His creation. And so we read, for example, in the Psalms, Psalm 47 and verse 2, the Lord Most High is terrible, He is a great King over all the earth. there is not a place where he is not king. And similar words are found in Psalm 103 and verse 19, the Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all. That is usually referred to as Christ's essential kingdom, he is king over everything. As Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Prime Minister and a theologian of about a hundred years ago, said, there is not a square inch in the universe where you cannot proclaim Christ is king here. He is king. And so there has never been any change or development to that reign. He is just as much king according to his divine nature as he ever was. However, as mediator, we can trace development in what was foretold about his reign in the Old Testament and as that reign has progressed since he came into this world. The first hint at the kingship of the promised Messiah is found in the book of Genesis and chapter 49, and verse 10 where we're told, Genesis 49 and verse 10, the scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. And so we see very clearly that the one who was to rule was going to come out of Judah. The scepter would not go, the instrument of rule would not go until Shiloh, another name for Messiah, could come. But a king, of course, has to have a people or a nation to rule over. You can't talk about yourself as king unless you've got at least some subjects over which to rule. People would just dismiss you as a fool. and perhaps out of your mind are crazy if you said you were king and there was no kingdom, no people. And so we see through the Old Testament God building a people, a nation over which he can rule, that happens through Genesis, out of one family, they're sent down to Egypt, you remember, through Joseph, Jacob and the rest of the family come down and then they grow to become this great nation of most estimates around two million people and then leaving Egypt in the Exodus under Moses and then into the wilderness And through that period, including the conquest of Canaan, you remember there was no king. Moses was the leader of God's people, Joshua later, but there was no stated king. But some while after that, the end of the period of the judges, that brings something of a crisis. Samuel was the last of the judges of Israel, and Samuel got old, and his sons were there and it was thought, well, his sons would then succeed him. but his sons were not fit. We read in 1 Samuel 8, and verses 1 to 5, that when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of the firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abiah. They were judges in Beersheba. And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after Luke, a dishonest financial gain, and took bribes and perverted judgment. Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramar, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. This is the crisis point. They're not fit to rule, and they weren't fit to rule, but the people's motivation was not pure either. They wanted to be like all the nations round about them. And as Samuel will later state to them, the Lord was their king. He was the king who ruled over them. But we see how gracious the Lord is, don't we? Because even though this was a sinful request by the people, the Lord gave them what they wanted and yet overruled it for good because he was creating a passage to bring his king So the people have a given Saul, he's a king but not a good one, and then we read that God chooses David as king, a man after God's own heart. That is a person who exhibits the virtues and the qualities that God has. And yes, David was a sinful man, he fell famously as we know, but generally speaking he exhibited the qualities of justice and goodness and truth. and others that reflected the God that he served. He was king. And then follows, of course, through the rest of the Old Testament, a whole series of kings ruling largely over a divided kingdom brought about by Rehoboam's folly. And that takes you all the way up to the exile, the time when Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians came and conquered, destroyed the temple. And what happened then? You remember there was Zedekiah and awfully, brutally, they brought his sons in front of him and they killed them all. And then that was the last thing he saw because they put out his eyes and they carted him off to Babylon. So all the princes, all those that would have succeeded to be king, were killed. He himself died in Babylon. The kingly line finished. And so after the exile, there was no king in Israel at all. And so for 600 years or thereabouts there was no king over the people of Israel. There were rulers who helped the people like Ezra and Nehemiah but no king and that caused the people to long for a king and prophecies like Isaiah saying, behold a king shall reign in righteousness and oh how the people longed for that king to appear and to be seen. And then we fast forward to the New Testament and what do we read, almost in the opening page of the New Testament, but these men come from the east and they say, where is he that is born king of the Jews? People aren't ordinarily born kings, usually born a prince, with the opportunity one day of being king, but Jesus Christ was born king of the Jews. And as he got into his ministry, we find that he speaks a lot about the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, which are interchangeable terms, and then as we get nearer to his time when he goes to the cross, on that Palm Sunday, as it's often referred to now, he comes in, doesn't he, and he's proclaimed as king. your king comes to you, gentle and lowly, riding upon a foal of an ass. And his kingship is the focal point of the accusations against him, which result in the trial and crucifixion. In Luke's account, Luke 23 and verses 1 to 3, we read, The whole multitude of them arose and led Jesus to Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king. And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it. And then, of course, there's the soldier's mockery, the crown of thorns, the reed, the purple robe. He's paraded as the king of the Jews. A placard is put above his cross. This is the king of the Jews. He's king. But then he arose, then he rose again from the dead. He ascended to his father. and children, do you know what he did when he ascended to his father? What was the first thing we read that he did when he entered into heaven? He sat down. He sat down. He sat down on a throne. not just on a chair but he sat down on a throne because he intended to rule as king. John sees him in Revelation 7 and verse 17, he sees him as the lamb in the midst of the throne, he is there reigning and we might say then it was at that point Christ was formally inaugurated as king. Now until recently most of us hadn't got within our living memory a king or queen being coronated, had we? But just two years ago Queen Elizabeth was taken, the second was taken from this earthly scene and of course Charles was recognized as King Charles III at that moment. But it wasn't until May the following year, around eight or nine months later, that he was formally invested and the coronation took place for him to be king. And so in some ways Christ was king here upon earth, but then when he sat down, he received his crown and his kingdom was officially set up. Having set up that kingdom, He is currently reigning and He is continuing to build His kingdom today. 2,000 years on, He is still at work, He is reigning and ruling. And when that kingdom is complete, He will return, because we read in 1 Corinthians 15, and verses 24 onwards, 1 Corinthians 15 24, then comes the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. He is going to subdue all his enemies and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest, it is clear that he is accepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all. He will present the kingdom to the Father. He will deliver it up to God, the Father, verse 24. Back in the time the New Testament was written was, of course, the time of the Roman Empire, and occasionally, of course, out in the far-flung reaches of the Empire, there were rebellions or uprisings. The Huns or some other group, the Britons, they would rise up and an emperor, whoever was reigning at the time, would send out a general and his armies with his legionaries and centurions to quash this rebellion, to restore law and order back to the kingdom. Well, once that victory had been gained, there were, of course, towards the end times when victory didn't happen for the Romans, but earlier on it did, well, he would then be expected to return to the emperor and to present the evidences of the victory, as it were, to hand back the rule over that part of His kingdom to the Emperor. And so that is what Christ is doing, He is reigning and ruling over all of the world, He is gaining victory over His enemies, and when that has been finished in His reign as King, He will then present this finished kingdom to God the Father. It's important to understand that God the Son, he will never cease being king, but at that point his work as mediator will be done and he can hand it finished back to the Father. And we read also in Revelation 11 and verse 15 that all the kingdoms of the earth will become His. They will be swallowed up into Christ's kingdom. So when we speak about Christ as King, hopefully you can see there's been a great development. He is progressing in His reign. He will though be King forever. But secondly, what is Jesus like as king? How does he exercise rule? What is the nature of his reign? We talk, don't we, particularly in this country, about good kings and bad kings. We can look back in our history books and say, well, yes, he was a good king. Then we can look at someone like King John and say he was a pretty bad king. What kind of king is the Lord Jesus Christ? There is a difference in the way that kings reign. How does Jesus Christ reign as king? There's four things I'd like to, four features of his reign I'd like to notice with you. First of all, his reign is an eternal reign. He reigns forever. In Daniel chapter 2, In verse 44, we have that great image of Nebuchadnezzar, composed of the different metals and the feet of iron and of clay. But then we're told that, forever. And similarly, at the birth of our, rather, at the annunciation of the incarnation to Mary by the angel Gabriel, we're told that Christ would reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end. As we look back throughout history we see kingdoms have come up and they've been dominant, they've been the world superpower. for a while, but then they've gone. There's been Babylon, there's been Assyria, there's been Egypt, there's been Great Britain. Currently the United States would be the world superpower, but every single kingdom has come and they've gone. But Jesus' kingdom will never go. It has come and it will stand forever because his reign is an eternal reign. But secondly, it is a spiritual reign. It is a spiritual reign. Jesus says, when he is before Pilate in John 18, that my kingdom is not of this world. That is, you mustn't think of my kingdom as you think of kingdoms in this world, it's not to be compared to them, it's of a totally different nature. And in Luke chapter 17 and verses 20 and 21, Jesus says, the kingdom of God comes not with observation, you can't see it with your naked eyes. Neither shall they say, lo here or lo there, for behold, he says, the kingdom of God is within you. It is an invisible, it is a spiritual reign, a spiritual kingdom. The Kingdom of Christ does not consist in material things. It's not meat and drink, but it's joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. And because it is not material, rather it is spiritual, the Kingdom of Christ uses spiritual weapons. We don't use carnal weapons, Paul says, but rather the implication is we use spiritual weapons. Prayer and the Word of God and the armour that God has given to us, described so famously in Ephesians 6. This was the great mistake of the Crusades, wasn't it? They thought that the kingdom of Christ was something to be established on earth, something to be done at the point of the sword by force, something external, and it was wrong. I remember when I was younger, and having recently become a Christian, people find all sorts of ways to criticize the Christian faith, don't they? They want to mock it and show how they think it's It's empty and foolish. And people come at you with this argument, well, you know, the Crusades were obviously so wrong and that was Christian, and so you're saying you're a Christian. Well, yes, the Crusades were wrong. They misunderstood the nature of Christ's reign as a distortion of Christianity. Jesus' reign is in the hearts of his people. It's by his word, it's by his spirit. It can't be seen with the natural eye. It's a spiritual kingdom. and therefore we are to advance that kingdom with spiritual means. It's very tempting, isn't it, to use the weapons of the flesh, to perhaps take the weapons of advancing a cause in our own day and generation, to get some great advertising, to be very, very proficient with technology, and to a certain extent there's nothing wrong with these things, but how is the Church of Christ the representation of his kingdom at the moment. How is it to be advanced? Well, it is by spiritual weapons, because it is a spiritual kingdom. It's by the preaching of the gospel, by prayer, and so forth. These things that God has given to us. But not only is it an eternal reign and a spiritual reign, it is a gracious reign. We come to a throne of grace. Aren't you glad it's a throne of grace? A propitiated throne. And we read there in Psalm 45 earlier, concerning our King, that grace is poured into his lips. All of the utterances of this great King are in grace. Grace is not only put into his lips, it's poured into his lips. In thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness. There is grace in Jesus' reign. Many kings have been known as tyrants, cruel, bloodthirsty, brutal men. They've ruled through force and cruelty. Think of men like Mao Zedong, or Attila the Hun, or Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin. There's been so many, haven't they? And they are brutal dictators. If you dared even speak against them, they would squash you in an instant. But Jesus reigned, oh, so different. He is so gracious, so kind and compassionate. John Flavel, the Puritan who ministered down in the, even further down southwest, Dartmouth and Exeter area, he says concerning our Saviour, he rules not by compulsion, but most sweetly. His law is a law of love written upon their hearts. For he delighteth in free, not in forced obedience. He rules children, not slaves. And so his kingly power is mixed with fatherly love. His yoke is not made of iron, but of gold. Aren't they beautiful words? Jesus reigns in grace and that is a pattern for rule in his kingdom and rule in his church. There is to be rule in the church. Pastors and elders are to rule, but it's to be a rule of grace, not of force and of control. Fourthly, and finally here, the reign of our Saviour is a just and a righteous reign. To look again in the Psalms, Psalm 72 and verses 1 to 4, give the king thy judgment, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. The mountain shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor. He's a just reign, he upholds perfect justice. Now one of the major facets of a king's reign is the production and maintenance of law. New laws are brought onto the statute book and whilst, yes, we have a constitutional monarchy, the government are doing that, but effectively it's the king ruling through his government, new laws are put on the statute book, but existing laws have to be maintained, don't they? And that is why we have the police and the judiciary and so on. There has to be an administration of justice. Well, Christ's laws, as king, are entirely right, and his upholding of those laws is perfect. He's just, and that shouldn't be something that scares us, that should be something that delights us. He's just, he's perfectly fair, every single time, and he has a particular regard, as the psalmist says there, for those that are vulnerable. those that are oppressed, those who are the victims of great injustice, Jesus will ensure that they get justice. He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, He shall break in pieces the oppressor. Jesus rules in justice. and in righteousness. And those qualities which are very much to the forefront of Jesus' reign ought to be to the forefront of our Christian witness as well. I would put it to you that in conservative evangelicalism, justice has become something of a forgotten category. The biblical virtue of upholding justice, of complete impartiality, of doing right all the time. That is something perhaps we need to recover, and we need to recover because it is an aspect of the way Jesus reigns over us. But thirdly, and finally this evening, I want to notice with you, as we draw to an end this weekend, some benefits of Jesus' reign. As I said earlier, Christ does not rule over all of His people in the same way. He rules over the whole creation, yes, but we're particularly concerned with His rule over His people, that is, you and me, if we belong to Him. Now, generally speaking, monarchy is not popular today. There were a lot of Republicans found their voice at the time of the last coronation. And over time, it is true, many countries have moved away from monarchy towards democracy of various sorts. And it was Winston Churchill who said that many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends, he says, that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. He makes a humorous point, but it's the least worst model for civil government. But generally, people don't respond well to the idea of having a king, another individual who is over them and exercises authority. No, there's me and my rights. We want to be our own kings. But being a citizen of the kingdom means that Jesus is our king, and we could not wish to have it better. We don't want a democracy, we want Jesus as king. He is the perfect ruler, it's the best possible arrangement. Why? Because of the benefits that we, the citizens, enjoy by the rule of the king. Let me mark some of these for you. As king, Jesus delivers us from Satan's power. We were captive to him. We were chained by him. But Paul says in Colossians 1, he has delivered us from Satan. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. We were held by the strong man, but a stronger than he has come, Jesus Christ, our King, and he has overpowered that strong man, Satan, and he has ransacked him of all the people that he wanted, all those chosen ones that belong to Jesus. And he exercises his kingly power and takes us out of Satan's clutches. and frees us to live to Himself. And until Jesus does that, we are utterly powerless to escape the power of Satan. But secondly, in His work as King, He removes the dominion of sin over us, there's wonderful words in the prophecy of Micah, chapter 7 and verse 19, and often attention is perhaps rightly drawn to other things that are said there, particularly the fact that God will cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea, that's a wonderful thing to read, but we also read there in that same verse, He will subdue our iniquities, He will subdue. That is, they rise up with force, they seek to get the mastery over us. But as King, Jesus is ruling and He's going to push that sin back down again. Because as Paul says, sin will not have dominion over you. Why not? Because Jesus is reigning and ruling in the lives of His people. To quote John Flavel again, it just so happens he had two very good quotes on Christ as King. When Christ takes the throne, sin quits it, the throne. It is true, the being of sin is there still, its defiling and troubling power remains still, but its dominion, its power is abolished. Oh joyful tidings, oh welcome day. Sin's dominion is beaten because Christ is there reigning and ruling. He rules thirdly, by way of discipline and correction. You might not think of discipline and correction as a benefit, but it is. What would be better, for Christ just to let us go our own way, and run back into the paths of sin, and let us do what we want, or to actually exercise correction and discipline in our lives to bring us back in the right path? How often children have much later on in life looked back at the discipline their parents gave them and thanked them for the discipline, for those painful memories, but it saved them a whole world of trouble. And we read of that, there's a number of places we could go to, but let me just mention one. Hebrews 12 and verse 11, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous. It's hard when the Lord chastens us. It's meant to be. There's meant to be some spiritual pain, as it were. Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Jesus reigns. He corrects us when we go astray. And fourthly, he reigns by protecting us from our enemies. He will give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. And I know Satan misused those words to try and tempt Christ there in the wilderness. But he is going to protect his people because we have enemies. Tom mentioned this yesterday in using Psalm 124 as a basis. Churches have enemies. We as individual Christians, we have enemies, people that bring themselves against us. They oppose us for no apparent reason. We wonder why they do it. And yet, If they oppose Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, must we be surprised if they oppose us? Jesus said, they've hated me, they will hate you also. You will find enemies as well. But Jesus, because he's King, he restrains his enemies. Now, true, enough, sometimes Jesus will allow. his enemies to score a blow, to strike his people in some way, so that they suffer, but his enemies will never win the war. You see that illustrated, for example, in the life of Job. Satan said, here's your servant Job and he doesn't fee you for any good reason, you've blessed him so much, take those things away and he'll curse you. And God said, well, OK, you can touch all of that, but you mustn't touch him. And, of course, all of that, the rest of the story of Job was to show that God was faithful to his servant and he was able to protect exactly as he determined his servant. God, or rather our Saviour Jesus, protects us from our enemies. But fifthly, as our king, he is also our commander in battle. He leads us to victory, doesn't he? He is our great commander. In Revelation 19, the passage we read earlier, we read of him as one who was sitting on a white horse. In righteousness he does judge and make war. And the armies which in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in filen and white and clean. He leads us into battle. He plans the war strategy. He directs his forces. He knows how he's going to win the war. And it is our delight to follow him. He is our commander. We're not left to work it out for ourselves, but we follow Jesus. We have a battle to be fought. He will guide everything to perfect victory. And all of those enemies ultimately will be destroyed. He will destroy them with the brightness of His mouth when He returns. 2 Thessalonians 1, verses 6-9. The Church of Jesus Christ will never be without enemies until Jesus comes again. We will always be fighting. We will always be the church militant until we join the church triumphant. But there will always be a church militant until Jesus comes again. And during that time, Jesus will protect His church, and even use those attacks to further his own kingdom in different ways. He foils Satan, he turns things that Satan intends for evil, he turns them for good. But then he will come and he will destroy all his enemies, he will cast all those that oppose him into the lake of fire. It will be a fearful day. But finally, the last benefit I wish to leave with you this evening, that we have by having Jesus Christ as our King, is that we who own Him as King will reign with Him. We will reign with Him. That is what Paul says, doesn't he, in 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verses 11 and 12. It is a faithful saying. If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful. He cannot deny Himself. As a reward for faithfulness, Christ will reward His people with a place on His throne to reign with him in the new heavens and the new earth. We will sit with him in his throne. And I remember many years ago hearing a sermon by the late Dr Ian Paisley in which he recounted that he had mentioned that verse either in passing or in a sermon and a lady had come up to him and said, oh Mr Paisley, that won't be possible. I'll get into heaven and I'll perhaps catch a glimpse of the Lord Jesus and then I'll be away because there'll be so many millions there. And he said, no, he said, God's word says we will sit with him on his throne. And she said, well, how is that even possible? He said, well, I've got a God who can do anything. With our God, nothing shall be impossible. And though there will be billions of God's children there, yet we shall all sit with Jesus in his throne. We will reign with him. And as we reign with him, we will exercise that reign over the new heavens and the new earth as we were created to do. because Adam was meant to have dominion and to subdue the earth, Genesis 1 and verse 28. As Jesus was being led out to be crucified, Pilate said to the people, behold your king. Words there that were meant with mockery, and of course the people dismissed him because they hated him so much. But we behold our King this evening because we love Him. He is our King. We bring Him homage. We bring Him worship and service. We give Him praise and honour because He is our King. We want to put the crown, as it's often been said, upon the right head. And that also means we submit to His reign. We receive His Word. We seek to fulfil it in our lives. We believe the Word of the King. and we accept His authority over our lives. And we seek to promote the interests of the Kingdom in every way, not only by the word of the King, but seeking to advance Christ's cause in all sorts of ways, by bringing everything under the sway and the reign of Jesus Christ, to bring the culture around us, under the reign of Christ, to have education that is worthy of the name of Jesus Christ, to have laws of our land that are worthy of His righteousness, science that recognises that Christ is King. Everything should be brought under Christ as King. This is our King. Is He your King? Are you one of His happy