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The Anointed OneRedeemer of Mind, Heart, and Soul
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The Anointed One• Redeemer of Our Minds: Jesus the anointed
prophet who shines the light of God’s truth.
• Redeemer of Our Hearts: Jesus the anointed king who subdues us
to the kindly rule of God.
• Redeemer of Our Souls: Jesus the anointed priest who atones
for our sin.
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Outline
• The King’s Reception
• The King’s Rejection
• The King’s Response
• The King’s Reign
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The King’s Reception• Palm Sunday
- The day that marks Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem five days prior
to his crucifixion and hailed as the promised king by the Jewish
people.
- Mark 9:1-11
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The King’s Reception
The people saw Jesus as a national and political king. In truth,
Jesus is a cosmic and
spiritual king.
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The King’s Rejection
• In the garden Adam rejected the kingship of God by rebelling
against God’s rule.
• Genesis 1-3
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The King’s Rejection• The result of Adam’s rebellion is that
our
hearts are now rebellious toward God’s rule.
“For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are
under sin, as it is written: ‘None is righteous, no, not one; no
one understands;
no one seeks for God.’”
Romans 3:9–11, ESV
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The King’s Response
God sent his Son to reclaim his people back to his kingdom.
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The King’s ResponseChrist executes the office of a king,
in SUBDUING us to Himself,
in RULING and DEFENDING us,
and in RESTRAINING and CONQUERING all His and our enemies.
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The King’s Response
Our King has subdued us to himself.
- by atoning for our rebellion
Isaiah 53:6
- by assuring our redemption
Isaiah 53:10-12
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The King’s Response
Our King has claimed us as his own
to rule and defend us.
John 10:14, 27-30
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The King’s Response
Our King will conquer all enemies
of his kingdom.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28
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The King’s ReignReceive the love of the Father by
coming under the kindly rule of Christ.
“Many would have Christ their saviour, but not their prince;
such as will not have Christ to be their king to rule over them,
shall never have
his blood to save them.”
~Thomas Watson
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The King’s ReignReceive the love of the Father by coming
under the kindly rule of Christ.
“Though he be the Lion of the tribe of Judah for majesty, yet he
is the Lamb of God for meekness. His regal rod has honey at the end
of it. He sheds abroad his love into the hearts of his subjects;
he
rules them with promises as well as precepts.”
~Thomas Watson
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The King’s ReignStay under the kindly rule of Christ by
returning love to the Father.
“Eye the Father as love; look not on him as an always lowering
father, but as one most kind and tender. Let us look on him by
faith, as one that hath had thoughts of
kindness towards us from everlasting…Let, then, this be the
saints’ first notion of the Father,—as one full of
eternal, free love towards them…”
~John Owen
