King Without A Crown

Thats what Jesus was. He had no earthly crown or beauty to attract us to Him.

This puzzled me for awhile. Why would Jesus come as a normal man and not a King and conqueror?

He came to save. Kings judge, and judgement time had not yet come, though he did speak of a day when he was come as a king for judgement.

He came as a servant, a servant of God. So he took the place of a servant and served. It is a paradox of sort where God uses the weakest of all to do the greatest work of all. Here God Himself became weak and lowly to do the greatest work in history.

If Christ came as a King he would have to apply justice, and if it weren't for Christ not coming as a King we would not be able to come to the father.

Exactly why God chooses this method i do not completely know, it seems to just be apart of His very nature. Doing the impossible.


I also find it very interesting how Jesus, after healing people, would tell them not to tell anyone. This sounds like the very oppsite of what you would expect of someone coming to save people. Why would Jesus hide?

This was one the topics i addressed in my first(and only as of yet) sermon. It was a mystery even up to the studying i did for it.

I unearthed what i believe to be one of the reasons perhaps the main one.

It comes from the political atmosphere of the time and area. The Hebrews were trying to get out from under Roman rule. There were militias and uprisings here and there and riot was always a threat to the peace. The jews thought that this might be the time that the Messiah would come and would free them from Roman rule and establish His Kingdom as Israel.

Think how shocked the disciples must have been when they began to discover that Jesus was the Messiah but DID NOT come to throw off Roman rule!

I think Jesus did not want the people to mistake what was happening and miss the point of His coming. Many Jews wanted to crown Him king and use Him to defeat the Romans, but Jesus knew this was what they wanted. So he avoided it. I think certainly to get the point across that His Kingdom was not political or physical at all.

Jesus was not a social revolionary. His words and life were revolutionary of course, He changed the very course of history and our lives, but He did not come to change the ruling class or begin a utopia.

His mission was far deeper than politics or social change. It met the very heart of men where all evil begins. He met the gap between creator and created, between loved and lover, between God and man.

That was His mission. To bring us life and to defeat death, taking the punishment that was due to us and giving us His pure life.

Thereby restoring what was destoryed, repairing the connection, bridging the gap of between lovers, Jesus did the impossible and unpredicted.

Now the day is soon at hand when Christ shall return as the King that He is and judgment will befall us all. Those who are in Christ Jesus have been made clean and owe no debt, but those who have rejected Christ will pay the debt they owe.

Come, Lord Jesus Come. Amen.

Punk and Christianity.

I was reading some I Object lyrics today and actually found a song i didn't really like and it made me think.

The song was about seeing pro-life signs and what not and how she doesn't want to see them because she thinks those people can't speak for those who have had abortions.

Which may or may not be true since many people in the pro life fight are abortion survivors themselves. But thats not the point. The point is that she didn't want to SEE it. As if the pro lifers didn't have the right to voice there opinions the same as she does.

That then lead me to Christian bands in the punk scene and voicing their opinions. I've seen it many times before. Christians getting wailed on for voicing their belief's while other bands can talk about whatever they want and get nothing(cept for maybe hasling for talking at all).

Its a real double standard. If you can talk, I can too without getting murdered for it.
You talk about satanism and i don't hang you for it.