"...behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." Matt. 2:1-2

While the wise men recognized Jesus as the promised King of the Jews, He was actually, in fact, King of Kings and Lord of all. Ps 2:6 prophetically decreed in reference to Jesus: "Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion." The picture is carried forward in Isaiah's prophesy to show the eventual, total dominion of the Kingdom of God over all other kingdoms and dominions. "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; he will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Isa 2:2-3

Daniel saw and described it like this. "I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed. Dan 7:13-14

For those of us who have grown up in a western "democracy" form of government rather than one of kings and kingdoms, the term kingdom can easily lose it's simple significance. For me, the interposing of the word "government" for kingdom put it into much clearer perspective. In other words, the kingdom of God is the government of God. It is the domain in which the King rules, or in other words, where ever Jesus is Lord.

At His ascension Jesus said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me" (Matt. 28:18) The rule of Jesus extends over all. He rules over space. He rules over time and eternity. He rules over nature, and His rule shall eventually and inevitably extend to every individual, for Scripture states in Phil. 2:10-11 "at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, ... and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Jesus demonstrated his Lordship - His rulership over creation - by turning water to wine; through bread and fish multiplied; even through His authority over the elements. He commanded the wind and waves; He exerted authority over demons and the domain of darkness; sickness and disease, etc.

Where Jesus rules, demons flee, sickness is healed and captives are set free. It was interesting that over and over again when Jesus and the gospel of the kingdom is mentioned together, those things happened. And of course there are many other characteristics of His reign besides power and authority over the works of darkness; such as righteousness, peace and joy.

But while He rules sovereignly over all his creation, there remains one domain that, for a time, has eluded his Lordship, and that, itself only by sovereign permission. That domain is the heart and volition of man, and thus the "world system" created by man which man had in turn, betrayed to the evil one.

The Scripture, however, also indicates that through His coming, Jesus bought back that one last, lost domain, thus being established as Lord of all, once and for all; which now gives the conclusion of the matter. He is Lord of all! He rules out of Zion. But His kingdom has also been likened to leaven which slowly and subtly invades and infiltrates the entire loaf of bread. The Kingdom is come, where ever Jesus is given rule, and that rule in eventual and inevitable. That is why, when Jesus becomes Lord of our lives, the kingdom has come to our lives. Where Jesus is Lord in the "church" the kingdom of God has come to the church. Where Jesus is Lord of our eating habits, our financial dealings, our relationships, THERE, the Kingdom has come. His Kingdom is inevitable. We are all destined to acknowledge it by the confession of our tongue and the bending of our knee. The fact is, everyone WILL acknowledge Him as Lord. The choice each one has is to do so willingly now, for which there is great benefit, or under duress later at the final judgment. Never-the-less, He is Lord! Glory to the KING!

Jim Wies
jimmy@cornerstonemin.org

web site http://www.cornerstonemin.org

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