Our blessed Lord took care to make people understand that--
how He was not like one of the kings of the nations, how His kingdom
was not of this world. But yet the Bible tells us again and again
that all good kings, all real kings, are patterns of Christ; and,
therefore, that when we talk of Christ being a king, we mean that He
is a king in everything that a king ought to be; that He fulfils
perfectly all the duties of a king; that He is the pattern which all
kings ought to copy. Kings have been in all ages too apt to forget
that, and, indeed, so have the people too. We English have forgotten
most thoroughly in these days, that Christ is our king, or even a
king at all. We talk of Christ being a "spiritual" king, and then we
say that that merely means that He is king of Christians' hearts.
And when anyone asks what that means, it comes out, that all we mean
is, that Christ has a very great influence over the hearts of
believing Christians--when He can obtain it; or else that it means
that He is king of a very small number of people called the elect,
whom He has chosen out, but that He has absolutely nothing to do with
the whole rest of the world. And then, when anyone stands up with
the Bible in his hand, and says, in the plain words of Scripture:
"Christ is not only the king of believers, He is the king of the
whole earth; the king of the clouds and the thunder, the king of the
land and the cattle, and the trees, and the corn, and to whomsoever
He will He giveth them.
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