Christ the King!

The season of Advent begins next Sunday November 30. The theme of our Advent series this year is: Behold Your King! This week, however, we are focusing on “A King like No Other” from Philippians 2:5-11, which will prepare us to walk through the life of Christ from His birth to His coming again.

While reading an online *Bible commentary on another passage highlighting the Kingship of Christ (Colossians 1:15-20), I was struck by its opening. It begins:

“The first half of Paul’s letter to the Colossians can be summarized in nine words:

Jesus made it all.

Then Jesus paid it all.”

The Theology of Work* online commentary then continues its exploration of Christ’s Kingship in creation and salvation:

“Paul puts Christ’s work in creation side by side with his work in redemption, with themes of creation dominating the first part of the passage (Col. 1:15–17) and themes of redemption dominating the second half (Col. 1:18–20). The parallelism is especially striking between 1:16, “in him all things in heaven and on earth were created,” and 1:20, “to reconcile to himself all things.” The pattern is easy to see: God created all things through Christ, and he is reconciling those same things to himself through Christ.”

Thanks be to God for the work of His Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Join us as we celebrate His Kingship which begins in humiliation and ends with exaltation. As you prepare for worship this coming Lord’s Day, the Book of Common Prayer offers a suggested prayer:

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

To God be the Glory,

Pastor Wayne

*Click here to find the Theology of Work commentary