He’s My King

Pilate’s question still lands like a punch: “What shall I do with your king?” When the crowd answers, “We have no king but Caesar,” it exposes how easy it is to trade Jesus for whatever feels safer, louder, or more familiar. We’re not willing to leave that tension untouched. We’re planting a flag with the sermon title “He’s My King,” and we’re asking what it really means to confess Jesus Christ as Lord in a world full of rival thrones.

We open Romans 1:1–4 and trace how the entire Bible keeps pointing to one reality: the Jesus who came is the Jesus who reigns. We connect Matthew’s “Son of David” language to God’s promise of an enduring throne, unpack Mark’s use of “gospel” as a royal victory announcement, and follow John’s purpose statement into Psalm 2, where “Son of God” carries kingship weight. Then we return to Romans and press the claim all the way: the resurrection from the dead is the declaration of power, the proof that Jesus is not only King, but God in the flesh.

The takeaway is practical and personal. A king never asks for second place, and a king does not share territory. If Jesus alone is King, the only fitting response is allegiance, not a divided life. We also share a few ways our church community is building habits that support worship, discipleship, and outreach, from Faith and Fuel breakfasts to Family and Friends Sunday invites and a growing social media push to spread good news.

Listen, share it with someone who needs clarity on the gospel of the kingdom, and then subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: where do you need to give your King your full allegiance?

Transcript

Community Updates And Invitations

Anderson George 0:01

Before I begin, just want to round a few things by you that I really want you to take note of. The first one is that every Sunday morning, beginning from next week, will be what I am entitling Faith and Fuel. Faith and Fuel. That's just a fancy name for saying we're doing breakfast when we do Bible class. Faith and fuel. And so uh you don't have to get breakfast, you just need to come. And we'll have some breakfast while we study. I'm I'm I'm just weird that way that I like to find a nice name for everything. And so instead of just saying we're doing breakfast with Bible class, we're calling it faith and fuel. Right? So from now on, faith and fuel every Sunday at 9 30 right here, beginning next week. Also, uh, I want you to know that I want us to start taking uh an opportunity with something we do every second Sunday of the month. You know just as well as I do, every second Sunday is Potluck Sunday. This, however, is an opportunity for us to share the gospel, and so I want you for the rest of the year to invite somebody to be here every second Sunday for what I'm calling Family and Friends Sunday. So we have faith in few will, and now we have family and friends. Uh, I think that was the last of the F's. Couldn't think of anything else beginning with F um for the next few announcements. But family and friends. Uh, I promise you that the sermon every second Sunday is going to be Christ-centered, gospel-centered, eccentric, and energetic. Bring somebody to hear the good word of Jesus and invite them to grab something right after. Family and friends. Because we're in the summer, I'm here all summer. I want to take the opportunity to also encourage you to be with me midweek for Bible study, 6 p.m. every Wednesday. We're having a good time. There's no food. You could have coffee if you want, but there's no food otherwise. Midweek, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. I would love to see you there. Um, there's one more. Uh this one I'm hoping is for the young and maybe the young at heart, primarily the young. I'm hoping that at the end of summer we could launch a social media campaign. And so if you're interested in joining the social media team, where the goal is for us to just load hopefully the Instagram and eventually TikTok with uh reels and posts of good stuff, then contact me. I don't know if you could see it clearly, my number is at the bottom of the screen. If you can see it clearly, you know who I am. Just come to me, tell me you're interested. We're hoping to launch this at the end of summer. Um uh your ideas, your vision, your goal, they're all going to be valued as we try to get the good news spread on a social platform. Let's sing.

Worship Song And Transition

Anderson George 3:53

God has smiled on me, and he has said me free smiled on me. He's been good to me one more time. God has smiled on me. He has said me God has smiled on me. He's been good to me.

Romans Reading And Sermon Thesis

Anderson George 4:45

Romans chapter number twelve, Romans chapter number twelve, commencing at verse number one, culminating at verse number four. Scripture says Romans one, sorry, I said Romans twelve. Romans one chapter one, from verse one to four. Romans chapter one, beginning at verse number one, making our way to verse four. Scripture says, Paul, a bond servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his holy prophets in Scripture, concerning a son who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of Holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord. If you read that with me, say amen. The title is simple. He's my king. He's my king. We live in a time where we don't recognize that the thematic emphasis of scripture is that we have a king and his name is Jesus. That's the sermon on today. We do have a king and his name is Jesus. All of Scripture is geared towards pointing not just that Jesus came, but the Jesus who came is now king. This is why Matthew would tell you that Jesus preaches about the kingdom of God. This is why we're told we're translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. You can't have a kingdom without a king. Therefore, the first message of the entirety of scripture is he's my king. And so we ought to be able to say, We have no king but Jesus. I don't have any other king. I may have a prime minister, a mayor, a governor, a president, but I don't have any other king but Jesus. As Christians, that's our decree, as Christians, that's our shout. He is my king. There is a scene in the book of John, chapter number 19.

The Crowd Chooses Caesar Over Jesus

Anderson George 7:49

It's a scene of Jesus standing before Pilate. And as he stands before Pilate, Pilate asks a question to the scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Jews who were standing by. So Pilate looked at them after understanding that Jesus said he's king, and said, What shall I do with your king? And in this scene, everyone said, We have no king but Caesar. Jews didn't like Rome and didn't like Caesar, but they were unwilling to accept Jesus as their king, and so they said, We have no king but Caesar. I just want to tell you one today, we do have a king, and his name is Jesus.

Matthew Links Jesus To David

Anderson George 9:25

In Matthew chapter number one, verse number one, Jesus is called the Messiah, the son of David. Here is Matthew's word. This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. What I want you to know is that kings would normally have a record. King would know kings would normally have an account, a genealogical account written about them. It's why we have the annals of Caesar and the Gaelic Wars. We have historical records about kings. Matthew, as he writes, says, and writing you a record, a genealogical account of Jesus, who is one messiah. Messiah here means he is the chosen, appointed, anointed, sent one of God, and the son of David. The moment you hear son of David, you have to think king. David himself was a king, and in 2 Samuel chapter number 7, verse number 14, God through the prophet Nathan tells David that I will raise up your descendants when you go to sleep with the fathers, and I will establish their throne forever. The son of David is language for king. You can't read Matthew 1 and not hear Matthew telling you, I'm writing about the chosen, appointed, anointed, sent one of God who is king. But he's also the son of Abraham, which alludes to the promise that God gave Abraham in Genesis chapter number 12, before Matthew says or does anything.

Gospel Means Royal Victory News

Anderson George 11:27

But it's not the only time it happens in Mark, chapter number one, verse number one. Mark tells us this is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. You may say, Well, I didn't see King here. Hold on two seconds. King is in here. Watch this. King is in here by the word gospel. Now, unfortunately, we we we we like the word gospel, but the Greek word behind gospel is Euangelion, and it literally means good news. It means good news. We have called the good news gospel, but every time you see gospel in your Bible, the word means good news. So Mark is saying this is the beginning of good news of Jesus Christ, and I need to pause because some of us think Christ is his surname, Christ is not his surname, Christ is his title. This is the good news about Jesus the Christ, the anointed, the appointed, chosen, sent one of God, who is in himself, the Son of God, or God in the flesh. Well, Anderson, I still don't see King. Hold on Euangelion. Good news, mostly translated gospel, was a word used in the time that Mark is writing for the news that a messenger would normally give concerning a king and a war he just fought. I wish I had a church. Anytime someone was coming, normally we don't have them anymore. There were news boys back in the day that would walk around and say, News, news, news. In Jesus' day, there was a guy that used to walk around before a king enters into a city and he would say, Euangelion, Euangelion, Euangelion, and when he says that, everybody's expecting to hear news about a king and a recent victory. They're expecting to hear good news. So when Mark says this is the beginning of good news, and the good news is about Jesus, the anointed, appointed, chosen, and sent one of God, who himself is God, you should read that and hear this is about a king and a war he's going to fight. I don't have time, but it's the reason why Mark shows you that Jesus goes to war against spirits and demons. One of them is the demon called Legion. Mark wants you to know that Jesus is a king who's fought a war and he's won. And I'm telling you the story about his victory. This is good news, and it's good news about a king.

Son Of God As King

Anderson George 14:30

You keep running, and you're going to run into John. In John chapter 20, verse number 30 and 31. John says, Therefore, many of the signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the anointed, appointed, chosen, sent one of God, the Son of the Living God, and that believing you might have life in his name. John says, The reason why I am writing is so that you would know that Jesus, not anybody else, but Jesus, he is the anointed, appointed, chosen, sent one of God, who is also the Son of God. Now, in John's language, Son of God has two meanings. Son of God means he's God in the flesh, but it also means he's king. If I had time, I don't, I'm almost done. You just don't know it. If I had time, I would take you to Psalm chapter number two. Psalm chapter number two is a psalm that would normally be read when you anointed a king. It's a messianic psalm, it's a royal psalm. When the king is installed, when he's appointed, the high priest would have some oil, and he would anoint his head with the oil, and he would read to him psalm chapter number two. In Psalm chapter number two, there is a quote from God that says, You are my son, this day have I begotten you. When a king is installed, he was anointed. Psalm two was read, and psalm two says that he or God says to him, You are a son, son of who? My son. This day have I begotten you. The reason why kings were sometimes called the sons of God is because of Psalm chapter number two. And so Psalm 2 introduces us to the idea that the phrase son of God does not always mean son from God. Sometimes it means king. In John's Gospel, go back to John. In John's Gospel, when John said, But these have been written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, anointed, appointed, chosen, sent one of God, the Son of God, here he means King. I need you to believe John is saying that he alone is king.

Romans Frames The Risen King

Anderson George 17:34

And now we come to Romans. But before we get to Romans, there's a picture that Romans is painting for us. As Paul writes Romans, he he he gives us this picture of the risen Christ from his from the grave. The risen, ascended, exalted Christ is now here. And the Paul, the apostle Paul, wants you to see that he is king. That's the image. Everything Paul says is so that you could see Christ in all his glory, so that you could see him as a king. You could go to the next slide, Judy. That's what he wants you to see. He wants you to see. He's writing so you could see that Jesus alone is King. Now let's walk through this and then you could go home. Romans chapter number one, verse number one. I want to take my time here. He says Paul, a bond servant of King Jesus. It's like Anderson, my Bible doesn't say King Jesus, it says Christ Jesus. Hold on, who is Christ but King? I'll get it. Hold on, hold on. I'm a servant of the King, named Jesus. That reads good. Paul, a servant of the King, Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the Uangeleon, set apart for the good news. There's that word again. When you hear good news, you're expecting to hear about a king who's been victorious in war. Paul says, I'm a servant of this king, and he set me apart to write about the good news of God, and then he breaks it down for us. Verse 2 the good news of God, which God promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scripture. Now, if I had time, I did say I want to send you home early. If I had time, I would tell you that it doesn't matter where you land in scripture, all scripture points to Jesus. Even Jesus himself in John 5, verse 39, he says, You search the scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life. But these are they which testify of me. All scripture points to Jesus. It doesn't matter if you're in Genesis chapter number three. I'll tell you, look at verse 15. That points to Jesus. I'll put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on your head, you shall bruise him on your heel. That's Jesus. If you're in chapter 12 of Genesis, from verse number one, after well, let's get verse number three. Verse number three, and I will bless those that bless you and curse them that curse you, and in you and your seed, that's Jesus. All families of the earth shall be blessed. If you're in Genesis chapter number 49 and verse number 10, the scepter shall not depart from Judah, neither the law giver from between his feet until Shiloh comes. That's Jesus. Isaiah chapter number six or Isaiah chapter number nine, he talks about a son is given. That's Jesus. When you read, um, let me see. Let me let me when you read Micah chapter number five, verse number two, oh Bethlehem Freighter, though thou be littlest among the prophets, yet from you will come he who is going forth is everlasting unto every it doesn't matter where you start, every text points to Jesus. So Paul says, I'm writing about the good news of God which was promised and told beforehand through the prophets in the Holy Scripture concerning his son. The good news of God concerns his son. That's the first imagery of King. It concerns his son, who's the son of God, King. Read who was born. Of a descendant of David. Well, who's the son of David? A king. You're all looking at me funny. Okay, okay.

2 Samuel Explains David’s Promised King

Anderson George 22:10

Let's pause for a Bible commercial. 2 Samuel, everybody. 2nd Samuel. You could have been home by now, but um you looked at me funny. You didn't say man. You know, as you're too late now. As you're turning there, you know, um uh while you're turning there or tapping there, let me give you a quick announcement. I really should do this. Last week, while having lunch with Eddie, he reminded me that I was really long. And he said, you know what? I need to tell the church you all need to say amen. Because when you say amen, he thinks you get it, and he'll be shorter. And I think that sounds good. So you say amen. I think you get it, I'll cut five minutes for every amen. Right? Wow, all right, second Samuel chapter number seven, verse number 14, it says, I will be a father. Let's let's go up, let's let's let's meet it at verse number 12 so you get context. God is speaking, he's speaking to David, and he tells David in verse number 12, When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. God tells David, When you die, you will have a son that's a descendant or a seed, you will have a seed who is going to come from you, so he's going to be a son of you, and I will establish his kingdom. Well, who has kingdoms but kings? Keep reading, and then it says in verse 13, He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. The throne of his kingdom, the throne is where a king sits. Therefore, God is telling David, You are going to have sons, but there is a particular son who will be an eternal king, and I will establish his throne and his kingdom forever. Verse 14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son. I wish I had a church. He will be, yeah, you're almost there. That's five minutes less. You're learning. He will be a son to me. Well, who's the son in this context? The son is whoever is the king, he will be a son to me. Now we could go back to Romans. Go back to Romans, and hopefully, Romans makes more

Resurrection Proves Power And Divinity

Anderson George 25:02

sense now. Romans 1. Look at verse number 3. Paul says, It's the good news of God which was promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scripture. It concerns his son. Well, who's his son? A king. And to make sure you understand the reference, Paul pulls in the name David because, as we just read, God told David, it's your son that will also be my son. So it's your son that will be my son, it's a seed from David, it's the lineage of David, it's a son of David that will also be a son of God. A son from David will be the son of God, he'll be king. He was born of the descendant of David according to the flesh, verse 4, who was declared the son of God. Now, this time, when he says son, he means he's God. The first time he said son, he's king. This time he's declared to be God, of the same essence of God. Anderson, how do you know that? Just keep reading. He was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead. Here's what Paul is saying because uh he got up from the grave, he proved he's not just king, but he's God, because only God could get up from the dead, who was declared to be the Son of God with power. Jesus has all power in his hands by the resurrection from the dead, according to the spirit of holiness, was his name, Jesus. Who is Jesus? King, which king is he? Mine. Oh, it's in the text. You all missed it. Jesus Christ, our Lord. It literally says, Jesus, the Meshiach, Messiah, which is where we get Christ from. Jesus, the anointed King, who is Himself, our Lord. In these three words, Jesus Christ, four words, Jesus Christ, our Lord, we have the thematic emphasis of the entire Bible. That the man Jesus is king, and we claim him as our Lord. To say that Jesus is Lord is not just to claim him as master. This word Lord, every time it's used in the Old Testament, it referred to God. God was Lord. So when you say Jesus Christ is Lord, you're not just saying he's master, you're not just saying he's king, you're also saying he's God. And so this phrase Jesus Christ, our Lord, emphasizes that all of Scripture is about the good news of God, and the good news of God is that the man Jesus is king and is God. Let's all start. He's my king. Next slide.

Allegiance And The Kingship Of Jesus

Anderson George 29:01

We are going to peruse as we talk about going back to the spring. We have to start with the fundamental theology, the fundamental understanding that all of Christianity, all of my life begins with this point. Jesus alone is king. Not my wife, not my husband. Let me go back to the wives. Some wives like to think they're kings and queens. That's all I'll say because Mahalia is going to watch this sometime later. Some wives. So I'm thankful that you're all not a different crowd because yeah. Not not not honey, not Hobby, not babe, not my parents, not the president, not not anyone except Jesus. And the reason why we have to start this because if we understand that he alone is king, a king never asks for second place. And a king never shares territory or his kingdom with anybody else. Because he alone is king. We don't always act like he is king of our lives. Now I just love how the spirit moved. You all didn't recognize there were several songs John sang today that referenced the kingship of Jesus. And I didn't tell him to sing any of it, I just smiled while we were singing. Because the spirit of God moved in such a way that it allowed him through song to confirm the word of God. We don't always act like it. We don't always act like he alone has first place in the domain of our lives. We want to share it with others sometimes. And so we need to begin with he is king. And as we continue, we'll then move to we need to accept his kingship to be a citizen. You're not a citizen if you claim another king. But we start today by claiming, by announcing, by proclaiming, he alone is king. And the only thing kings want is allegiance. Is allegiance. And so as we announce him as king, we're heading to a place where we then say our loyalty, our allegiance is to my king. That we give him our allegiances.

Closing Charge And Final Song

Anderson George 32:35

I don't know the song John has in his mind now, he's going to sing it. But as we sing this song, let's remember, let's proclaim, let's announce that Jesus alone is King. Jesus, who is Christ, is also Lord. Jesus is King. Let's sing.