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Part 1 the New Covenant and Christian Liberty … It is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace … Hebrews 13:9 Issue 201 October 2013 Christ, Our New Covenant King In This Issue Christ, Our New Covenant King —Part 1 ̶ Part 1 1 John G. Reisinger The New Covenant and Christian John G. Reisinger Liberty 1 This is the thirteenth in our series of articles on Christ, Our New Covenant Tom Wells Biblical Worship and Missions Prophet, Priest and King. We did five articles onChrist, Our New Covenant 3 Prophet and seven articles on Christ, Our New Covenant Priest. This is the first Steve West The Great Commission article in the last segment of this series, Christ, Our New Covenant King. The 5 kingship of Christ is the most controversial of all the three offices because it A. Blake White directly involves your prophetic view. We need to define what we mean when A Study of New Covenant 7 we refer to Christ as “our King.” There are quite a few references to “Christ, the Theology, Part 4 of 4 King of the Jews” in the New Testament, but there are only three direct refer- Kevin P. McAloon ences to Christ as “King” in the New Testament, and all three of those combine the word “King” and the word “Lord”. Christ is said to be “Lord of Lord and King of Kings.” Some dispensationalists insist that Christ is not presently King. They will speak of “Christ Our Prophet, Priest and coming King.” This grows out of their dispensational belief that Christ at his first coming offered the promised kingdom to the Jews, and they re- jected it. The kingdom was “postponed” and will be established at the second coming Reisinger—Continued on page 2 The New Covenant and Christian Liberty Tom Wells Most believers have what are called “daily devotions.” What is that point? The point is that the NT has no such For some time I have been asking my Christian friends, rules about our personal acts of worship. Why do I make “Do you keep the New Testament rules for your daily this point? Because, unlike the Mosaic Covenant, the New devotions?” A typical response is to look at me blankly Covenant approaches the question of our worship in quite and ask what rules I’m talking about. That response is a different way than the Mosaic Covenant does. To put it a fair one for at least two reasons. First, the NT doesn’t plainly, the older covenant has a number of rules for carry- use the phrase, “daily devotions.” And second, most of us ing out a person’s public acts of worship that please God. would be hard pressed to find verses that directly apply They are spelled out in detail. Those rules covered matters to this practice. One possible passage would be 1 Thes- that greatly restricted the freedom of Israelites, but that salonians 5:16-18. There we read, “Be joyful always; pray changes in the New Covenant. continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is When Jesus came, he hinted at a great change to begin God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” These verses command after his death and resurrection. We can see this hint in the three things: continual joy, continual prayer, and continual following exchange between Jesus and his critics in Mat- thanksgiving. And they do apply to our devotions, but they thew 22:15-21: are clearly far broader than that. The Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his My reason for raising the question about devotions is words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Hero- that it makes the point I want to make clear in this article. dians. “Teacher,” Wells—Continued on page 12 Page 2 October 2013 Issue 201 Reisinger—Continued from page 1 to him, that of the fruit of his loins, ac- Sound of Grace is a publication of Sovereign of Christ. 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