Jesus’ Kingship and the Benefits Scripture Describes
- Clarify what kind of King Jesus is—crowned with thorns, born in a manger, and riding on a donkey—so his kingship isn’t left ambiguous.
- Recognize how Jesus’ Kingship frees us from misguided self rule by correcting our basic sin problem of choosing good and evil for ourselves.
- See the three categories of benefit: forgiveness and right standing with God for Christians, help for the poor and oppressed as a new order forms around proclaiming Jesus as King, and liberation from decay for all creation.
This is Question #3 in Matthew W. Bates’s The Gospel Precisely: Surprisingly Good News about Jesus Christ the King.
