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Discipleship Focus: King
- King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle. When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king. Authority comes from Him. Power comes through His authority. He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.
Ezekiel 39
is another very straightforward chapter – once we get past the fact that we
still don’t know exactly what Gog and Magog represent. In any case, the nations will come to war
against God. They will be defeated. God will defeat them. God will strip their weapons out of their
hands. God summons the carrion birds to
gather around the battlefield. God is
king of the universe.
That is
fundamentally what these chapters are all about. God is the king. He is the ultimate power. We can come against Him. We can rebel if we want to do so. We can strike out on our own. We can even organize other people to come against
Him. We have that kind of freedom in our
lives. But none of that causes Him to
stop being God. He is still God even in
our rebellion. He is still God even if
we don’t acknowledge it.
I’ve said it
many times over the last week in my blogging on Ezekiel. Yet it continues to be striking and
important. One of the preeminent themes
in the latter half of Ezekiel is that all of these things will happen so that
people will recognize, know, and understand that God is king. It isn’t primarily about saving the Hebrew
people. It isn’t about showing how
righteous the Hebrew people are. It isn’t
about them finally receiving what they deserve.
For that
matter, the same thing is true about us.
God is about making His name great.
He is the only one worthy. When
God reaches down into my life and grants me His grace, it’s just grace! I don’t deserve it. I haven’t earned it from Him. He gives it to me because He is great and He
is king and there is no other reason.
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