Who Is This King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He Is the King of Glory - Part 1680

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up His soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of His salvation.

This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah." (Psalm 24:1-10)

After reading the psalm above, some might ask -- what does the good news gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ reveal? Please allow me to respond by first stating that the gospel reveals JESUS - who is the SEED of promise - in which SEED all the nations of the earth can be blessed. Why is this important? Because this life saving gospel became necessary when God Himself was veiled in flesh as a righteous man. For God declared that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. In this context then, there is none righteous, no not one.

But as we begin to understand how the old covenant differs from the new testament, the hidden plan of God is gradually unveiled to those who seek Him with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. Indeed, right from the beginning, God had a plan for man even though at times we cannot comprehend what God has in store for us. Indeed, we often scratch our heads endeavouring to understand what is man that the Lord our God would be so mindful of Him.

This is the same Lord who was made a little lower than the angels. Still, He set man over the works of his hands and crowned man with glory and honour. When man turned aside from His Word, it was here that He imparted into EVE a SEED of promise. A SEED of Himself emanating from Himself. So that in the process of time, He would clothe His promised SEED in sin prone flesh, thereby initiating at the fullness of time His hidden plan of redemption.

The mystery that was hid from the beginning of the world.

As a consequence, and through His abundant love, mercy and grace, He purchased us while we were yet His enemies. Why would the Lord of glory do this? To bring each and every one of us who believed back to His purpose, that He placed in our heart whilst we were still in our mother's womb. This redemption plan, purchased through the sacrifice of His own blood (the blood of His holy Spirit).

In our ignorance of prophetic scripture, we indeed crucified JESUS. We were spurred along by religious zealots who in pretense professed to be God’s ministers, and in the end, duped all of us into believing that such was the case!

But God’s love for His beloved and yet disobedient creation was much greater than our sin of beguiled disobedience. Because of God's love for us, there never can be anything that can separate us from God’s love. God manifested His love to us whilst inside a prone to sin body, a body in which He willingly inherited all of our sins and demerits. But even death did not deter JESUS from His purposed mission, which was to redeem and restore the fallen sons and daughters of God.

This is why JESUS died and was buried in a tomb. As stated in the scriptures, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone." However, if the corn of wheat were to die, in dying the potential life within the SEED springs forth as a multitude of the same SEEDS. In this example, JESUS is the SEED and we are the offspring of the SEED of JESUS. In this same SEED as afore promised of God in prophecy, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

To become one of the offspring, certain criteria must be willingly adhered too. First of all, one must recognize that JESUS put Himself on the cross for you and I who are the guilty ones. We must repent before God for our sinful deeds, giving thanks to the Lord God with a grateful heart. If one is not willing to offer themselves on these terms, then the door of redemption will remain closed!

If, on the other hand, one willing repents with a grateful heart, then their sins are remitted in full by the same JESUS has put Himself in our place. We then receive the gift of redemption. And now having received redemption, God commands that you be baptized into the likeness of JESUS death. In so doing, you will receive the promised gift of the Holy Ghost that comes forth from the SEED of Life within the kernel of wheat - JESUS!

As such, you become the offspring of JESUS. We are now the children of God in Christ! We have been born again as a new spiritual creation, dwelling within us is the same Spirit as was in the man JESUS the Christ! This Spirit is the Holy Ghost. We are ALL members of that ONE SEED and because we are the offspring of the SEED, we now hunger for the things of God, endeavouring to walk even as He walked!

More on this to come. Stand in the offering plate.