Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world.
so that all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church. Located in Kernersville, North Carolina. The king is coming. Brother Frank read a passage from 1 Samuel.
We're going to get to that. later on this morning. We're going to pray and then we're going to jump into it as we try to birth this subject to many of you on the fact that Jesus is the king and the king is coming again. Let's pray. Lord, I love you.
Thank you for all that you've done. The music this morning, everything. I just thank you, it's blessed my heart. I needed to be reminded this morning of the cause of Christ. Lord, I love you and I thank you.
I pray you would bless folks in our church that are hurting, dealing with death and different things. And I pray you bless Brother Jacob today as he's sick. Lord, I just pray that you would bless our time together. Lord, we want to brag on you and glorify you as king.
So, God, help us as we try to somehow. There's no way to describe this full subject. But Jesus, I just want you to know I'm glad you're my king. And I thank you. for how you rule and reign in righteousness.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Now, we have to kind of start. I want to give you, if I can, a very oversimplified. I mentioned it this Wednesday night, kind of as an appetizer of what was coming on Sunday morning. And you got to kind of see the Bible as a whole. If you don't understand the Bible as a whole, you're not going to understand the individual parts.
You need to see it in the context of Scripture. And the Bible is, you know, we believe it's the Word of God and that it is God. But at the same time, it's a narrative, and Jesus is the subject of the narrative. Everything in the Bible points back or forward or to. It's all about Jesus Christ.
And the easiest way for you to understand is that beginning in Genesis, we have first the account of creation.
So creation would be our first subject. That literally we're told how God created, how He created the earth and everything in it, and how He created man, how He created woman. And so we have the creation, but not long after creation, almost immediately after creation. We have the fall.
So, the whole point of Scripture is that God created, and by the way, in creation, here we have a perfect God, a holy God, and here is a God that created a perfect environment. He created a perfect world, and in a sense, this perfection that He created here, we have always longed for, and we want and we desire, and many times feels like, and we still long for it. In fact, you know, you and I talk about heaven and different things, and part of it is because there's a longing in us. To have what God intended from the start. There was creation, but then we have the fall.
And in the fall, the creation that God had rebelled against him. And when that creation rebelled against him, they rebelled because they said, God, we don't want you. As our king. We don't want your rules. And we don't want you to rule over us.
What does it mean when you don't want somebody to rule over you? You don't want to have to follow their rules. That's the description of what it means: I don't want you to rule over me, which means I don't want to have to follow your rules.
So there was creation and then there's the fall. And the whole point of the Old Testament is to describe how the fall happened. What did the fall cause? What kind of a need did the fact that creation rebelled against God and creation was separated from God? And we follow in the Old Testament that in the middle of God's creation, and then you have the fall of that creation when they reject God as king and all those different things, that there is the promise of something coming.
And the entire Old Testament points to and shows the lineage of how we go from creation to the fall and then to redemption. And that's when Jesus comes to redeem us from the fall. That creation obviously rebelled against God. And so there is creation, there's the fall, there's redemption. And then after that, we even find in the book of Revelation, we find the story of restoration.
And that's where God brings things back to where it was. He rules and reigns on the earth for a thousand years. And then God even makes it better. There's a new heaven and a new earth. And now, obviously, we have the law in the Old Testament, but thank God for the grace of redemption in the New Testament.
Okay, you understand. But if you don't see the whole thing. You're not going to understand maybe the The smaller thing.
So let's talk about kings a little bit here.
So God had creation, God was their king, they rejected, they fell. I want you to see two things this morning, and as we introduce Jesus as King, you have to understand something about yourself. Number one, I want you to see this. I want you to see the king we desire. You see, the idea of a king is something that captivates us.
But it confuses us.
Now I want you to listen to me here this morning. We like the triumph of it, but we... Feel the trouble of it. We find it remarkable, but then at times we find it repulsive. You say, Preacher, what in the world are you talking about?
You see, there is part of us as human beings that longs for a king, a good king. An honest king, a just king. A pure king, a benevolent king, a generous king to solve all of our problems. We desire a king to fix the world around us and to fix the frustration within us. And whether you realize it or not, all of us have been born with this longing to be ruled.
by a righteous king. If you understand that, say amen. Whether you realize it or not, that's our longing, and so many times, listen to me. What we see in society is that there's so many people that live their lives. being ruled by things that they have made king.
You know, a lot of people say, well, I don't want God to control me, but you. You are all controlled by something. You know, one of the biggest lies in culture right now is when you see a younger generation say, I don't want anybody telling me what to do. Yeah, I do. You're listening to somebody.
I want to be my own person. No, you don't. You're trying to fit into a culture. You're trying, it's a lie. They're telling themselves a lie.
We all have this need and this desire for a king.
So, you know what we do oftentimes we set up things in our life to be king. And by the way, our culture loves kings. And say, what do you mean? Listen, we put all kinds of things as king. And by the way, what's interesting, we set up things to be our king, and then we find out that it doesn't fulfill, and the things that we thought Would rule my life that we would enjoy.
Now we find out it leaves us empty. It's literally, that's exactly what Solomon shares with us. in the book of Ecclesiastes. How Solomon looked at everything and literally, whether you want to put it this way or not, worshiped other things, set them up as a king in his life, and he found out that it was unfulfilling, that nothing is the righteous, pure king that we're longing for. But we as a society, we set up kings in our lives, and they all end up being insufficient.
And the right king that we long for ends up being the very king that we've denied. And that we've rejected. We've been searching for I want you to notice secondly the king we deny.
So we all and here's the problem within our own lives We all want a good king. But at the same time, we all don't want A king in our lives.
So in part of us, we long for a good king. A right king, but There's also part of us that doesn't want a king in our life. At all. We want to be our own king. Let me say that again.
We want to be our own king. We want a good king. And let me tell you something, all we can do is criticize anybody in leadership. And guess what we found out all through the Old Testament? Kings are humans.
And kings fall. And kings make mistakes. And kings are not perfect. And there might have been kings that did some good things, but none of them were good. There is none righteous, no not one, the Bible says.
So, we want to be our own king. We want to run our own life. We want to make our own decisions. We don't want some king telling us what to do. We don't want a king having sovereignty over us.
in our entire life. We don't want to be accountable. We don't want to be answerable. We want to be king. By the way, As I told you, in our society, we love the ideal of making something king.
But at the root of it is, we want to be our own king. You see, every king you and I set up in our life, it could be a whole lot of things, we do that because we deep down just don't want the one king. Because to have him as king means you have to submit. In our society, we call our kings all kinds of things. We crown kings in sports.
We crown kings in entertainment.
Now, I don't know if anybody here would waste your time watching these award shows like What are they? Oscar shows and Grammy shows and Emmy shows and Let me tell you something. Our society makes kings of people. Kings of sports, kings of entertainment. We make kings in the financial marketplace.
We make kings in politics. Yeah. Even Christians. Make kings. In politics, a person We call them all kinds of other things, but guess what?
Sometimes we even call them king. King James. Yeah. One of the most popular basketball players, we we call them King. We set them up to be king.
They're the greatest of all time. No, they're not. Are y'all with me? This is us. This is us.
There's a king we desire. But in all of us there's a king we deny. Because we're made with this need to want a good king, but in the deep down, Even a good king, we don't want telling us what to do.
So we have this conflict even in our own lives, and that brings us to our first sentence. Stop today is in Genesis chapter 14.
Now, I'm going to give you some history here. Because we have to understand where did Jes where did Jesus Obviously, as he is our king, where's the kingship? Where's the lordship? Where did all this somewhat begin?
Well, in Genesis, you know, we just have. creation and the fall in the first few chapters. But now here we go in Genesis 14, we have something interesting. There's this man named Abraham. And what God is going to do, God is going to make a covenant with Abraham, and He is going to say, listen, I'm going to be your God, and you're going to be my people.
And God becomes king. of the nation of Israel.
Okay, y'all with me so far?
So now, in Genesis chapter 14, this is before some of all this has literally taken place, but in Genesis chapter 14, and it'll be on the screen for you in verse 14. I want you to see something very interesting.
Now, this is where we're going to pause for motivation, and I'm going to give you some information here, okay, because this is interesting to me. Look at verse 14, it says, And when Abraham heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, 318, and pursued them unto Dan. Let me tell you what's going on here. We're going to find later in the book of Hebrews, we're going to show you in just a minute, that there is this great battle of nine kings. And all these, five kings went against four kings, and man, they fought it out.
And what happened is, as one group began to lead the other group, people were taken captive. And part of that was Abraham's brother. This is during the time of Abraham and Lot. You know the story, and Abraham's brother was taken. And when that happened, Lot, his nephew, was taken.
And Abraham hears about, he knows about this great battle. And here we now got people winning and people being killed and thousands upon thousands being killed. And then he finds out his family's been taken.
So Abraham takes 318 of his servants. Not his soldiers, his servants. He arms them, takes them. Guess what? They chase down the rest of the remnant of those, and they defeat them and bring back their family.
That's where he went and brought back his nephew Lot. And in the middle of all this, Look at this. Look at verse 17. But Genesis 14. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Shilodarimar and of the kings that were with him.
You say, is that the correct pronunciation? I have absolutely no idea. What do you care? You don't ever say it. You get up here and do it, okay?
We're just gonna call him Ched, okay? The slaughter of Ched.
Sounds like Chet Atkins didn't. We're gonna call him Chet. That's better than Chet. And of the kings that were with him, notice this, at the valley of Shava, which is the king's dale.
Now look at verse 18. And Melchizedek. King of Salem. Brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest.
Now we have something interesting here.
Nowhere in the Old Testament We have kings in the Old Testament. We have priests in the Old Testament. But never do we have somebody that is a king. And a priest.
Okay.
Now let me give you a little bit of Future here, Jesus. is our king. and he's our priest. Being our priest means we don't have to go through a priest to get to... The king, we go straight to the king because he's our priest.
So here's this guy in the Old Testament, Melchizedek. And he is king of Salem. And he's priest.
Now, notice this. Look at verse 19. And he blessed him. And said, blessed be.
So this Melchizedek, king of Salem, blesses. Abraham. He said, Blessed be Abraham of the Most High God. Possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand.
Now, listen to this, and he gave him tithes of all. Abraham, after this whole battle, This king Melchizedek was not in the battle. But he shows up. And he gives, we're going to find out, gives Abraham bread and wine and blesses him. And whatever Abraham knew and saw in Melchizedek, He gives tithes.
Of what he had taken, gives them to Melchizedek, worships Melchizedek, communes with Melchizedek. And here's Melchizedek, the only one in the Old Testament that is priest and king.
Now, listen to me. Melchizedek That word, Melchizedek, means the king of righteousness or the king of right. We have all longed for a righteous king, okay?
So he was king of a place he all follows so far, he is king of what? Anybody around here, you should be able to remember this. He is king of. Salem.
Now, what's interesting is Salem is where we get our word Salem. Shalom. Jeru Salem Salem literally means Peace. It's where we get our word shiloh, shalom. Peace, bringer of peace.
Jerusalem, by the way, is called the city of Peace. Jeru the city. Salam of peace. Jerusalem is, so here is Melchizedek in the Old Testament, king of what would be called. Jerusalem.
No, I'm not done. Let me, if I can, just take a little time out and let me just talk to you about our area here. Winston. Salem.
Now, the Winston part was named after Major Joseph Winston. He was a Revolutionary War hero. And the town of Winston was founded in 1849. But Salem, where we all go to get bread and cookies, Take a picture in a teapot. But Salem was founded in 1766 by the Moravians, obviously.
And where they got their name Salem is the Hebrew word. Shalom Which means Peace. Winston Salem got their name because a Revolutionary War hero. Brought peace. Everybody with me so far, say amen.
Okay.
So here's what's interesting. I just give you that tidbit because here's Melchizedek, king of Salem. He is the king of righteousness. He is the king of the city of peace. He's not only a king, but he's a priest.
No Old Testament king was a priest. No Old Testament priest was a king. And now I want you to look at this verse in Psalm 110, verse 4.
Now we have prophetic given about Jesus Christ. It says, The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
So we're told that Jesus will have the same characteristics as Melchizedek. The king had civil authority. A priest had spiritual authority.
So Jesus has civil and spiritual authority. He's sovereign. He rules and he reigns. Yeah, yeah. Let's go to Hebrews.
Now you gotta see this. Hebrews chapter 7. Gives us a little bit more information about this whole thing. And we don't know a whole lot about when Abraham met this king Melchizedek. It's the only time he's really mentioned here in the Old Testament.
He meets this priest that's a king, and he gives him tithes, and he worships him, and then this king priest blesses Abraham and all these different things, gives him bread and. Wine. What sounds familiar about bread? And wine. We just had Christmas, we just did it over the Christmas season.
Okay, look at Hebrews chapter 7 verse 1. For this Melchizedek, slightly different spelling, same person. For this Melchizedek, king. of Salem priest of the Most High God who met Abraham Returning from the slaughter of the kings. That's that big battle of these nine kings.
And Abraham went and ran after his family, took his servants, defeated the remnant that was left, brought back his family. Notice this, blessed him. To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all. He tithed to him. First, being by interpretation, Melchizedek means king of righteousness.
And after that, also, he was called not just Melchizedek, but he was king of Salem, which is king of people.
So here's the Bible explaining it all to us. His name, Melchizedek, means he's king of righteousness, but the fact that he's king of Salem means he's king of peace.
So he is the king of righteousness, and he's the king of peace. He's the king that gives us righteousness, and he's the king that gives us. Peace. You'll notice this. No, look at verse 3.
Look how the Bible describes Melchizedek. Without father. Without mother. Without descent means there's no lineage. Having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.
What?
Now consider how great this man was. unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Now look at me. As one preacher said about this, I'm not going to die on this hill. There's a lot of people that believe that Melchizedek in the Old Testament is Jesus Christ. It is a Christophany. It is Jesus.
In the Old Testament, guess what? And they tithed to Jesus in the Old Testament. We are to tithe to Jesus. Under the new covenant. All the way in Hebrews.
Here's the thing. Melchizedek had no beginning or end. The Bible says Jesus had no beginning or end. Melchizedek was a priest. Jesus was a priest.
But Melchizedek was also a king. Jesus is the king, and Jesus is the king of righteousness. And where is called the city of God, the city of peace, Jerusalem?
Solemn, king of Salem. He's our king.
Now you say, Preacher, why well it's just interesting. It's just interesting. But you've got to understand Jesus as king. At the least. is pictured in the Old Testament.
possibly present. In the Old Testament, you say, well, what does this mean to me? Here's what's interesting. I mean, let's let's continue it.
So Abraham is the man God said, and we believe Abraham might have even just looked Into the eyes of Jesus Christ. Through Abraham's line, Jesus said, Or that Jesus would come, God said that literally through Abraham's line. would come the Messiah.
Now, Abraham has Isaac. If the line for the Messiah is going to go through Abraham, we've got to have a son. They didn't think Abraham and Sarah couldn't have children. Here she is, up in years. God makes a promise that the king is going to come through Abraham's line.
But now he doesn't even have an heir.
So how can a king come through his line without an heir? And we all know the miraculous story: how God allowed Sarah to become pregnant and they have Isaac. And we finally have our heir. And then, all of a sudden, now we go up to the mount, and God wants a sacrifice, and He tells Abraham, Give me, offer me, sacrifice me, your only son. And Abraham's thinking, But you promised that there would be a line through my family, and this is my only child.
It was a miracle that my wife had him, she can't have more. We all know that as he took Isaac up on that mountain, and God provided himself. A lamb.
So here's Abraham. with the king and priest. And now we see Jesus as the Lamb pictured in the Old Testament.
So Abraham has Isaac. Isaac has two sons. Jacob and Esau. But the birthright was going to go through Esau. But we all know what happened.
Jacob manipulated and all these things, and Jacob ended up with the birthright. But we know that we were told the lineage would go through the line of Jacob. And then Jacob has a bunch of sons.
Some of you know. Reuben, Joseph, all these.
So here's Jacob and the now. I want you to find this in Genesis 49, verse 9. Still in the same book. I want to help you trace The line of the king, okay? Look at verse 9.
You say, Richard, this is a lot of information. I understand that. Just hold on. Look at Genesis 49, look at verse 9. Judah.
is a lion's whelp. That means cub. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up.
So he's talking to his son Judah. He stooped down, he. Couched as a lion and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? The scepter, there's the king. The scepter means king, the ruler, the scepter shall not depart from Judah.
So now, Abraham to Isaac, Isaac to Jacob, and now from Jacob and all of his sons, the line is going to go through Judah, nor a lawgiver between his feet. Notice this: until Shiloh comes.
So it's all going to go through Judah and to the day through Judah that Shiloh comes. What does Shiloh mean? Peace. King of Salem, Salem, Shalom, Silo, Shiloh. It's all the same word.
And Shiloh is not a place, it's not a word, it's a person here. It's Jesus Christ. Isaiah calls him the prince of Peace, Shiloh, the Prince of Shiloh. Notice this. And unto him shall the gathering of the people be, he shall walk.
What does this gathering word mean in the Hebrew here? He shall reign. He will be king. Over these people. The scepter, the king, will come through the line of Judah.
Judah is a person. And here's what's interesting, Judah becomes a place. The descendants of Judah, where they settled, is called. Judah. And Judah later became known what you and I would call Judea.
And guess what's right in the middle of Judea? Jerusalem. And literally, that is out of the line of Judaism. You say, Preacher, why in the world are you giving us all these different things? Isn't it amazing that in Matthew chapter 1, The New Testament, this new covenant.
begins with the lineage. If you go to Matthew chapter 1, it says, so-and-so begat, so and so, beget, so-and-so, begat, so-and-so, beget, so and so, beget, so-and-so, and it traces the lineage and all these history books in the Old Testament that you don't enjoy reading. Preacher, why are they there? Look at me. Those very books that you don't enjoy reading and that I have a hard time reading sometimes, they are actually going to be legal documents one day.
The greatest news that anyone can receive is the news of the free gift of salvation found in Jesus Christ. It is our desire for you to know him personally. Would you take a moment to hear this today? Every man is born with the sin nature. Romans 3.23 says, For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
No matter how hard we try, We're not good enough to obtain God's glory. or to get to heaven. Because of that, sin carries the penalty of death. Romans 6.23 says, For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The wages of our sin, or the payment of our sin, only equals death and separation from God. But it's only through God's Gift. salvation through Jesus Christ that we can accept him as our Saviour. Jesus Christ paid for your sin debt. The Bible says in Romans 5:8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
All you have to do is receive Christ. by faith as your Saviour. Romans ten nine says That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Verse 13 continues, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's as simple as admitting that you're a sinner believing that Jesus is the only way.
and calling upon his name. Bible says whosoever, that's any one. can call upon the name of the Lord to be saved. Have you accepted Christ as your personal Savior? There is no greater day than today to take care of this.
Would you accept Christ as your Savior? If you have any questions, please give us a call at 336-993-5192 or visit our website at Curlin Baptist Church. Dot com. or visits that person at one of our three service times. We hope you have a great rest of your day.
God bless you. Mm-hmm.
