The being of Christians is accomplished in the finished works of Jesus Christ. It’s presented to us and we receive it by grace through faith as a gift from God. This life proceeds from the substance of the royal blood of Jesus.
By Erasmus Makarimayi
The living blood of Jesus Christ which is the power of the new covenant is eternal in nature. This gives credence to our eternal salvation and redemption.
Believers are born again of the precious imperishable blood of the Living Christ. We are royal now as we shall be in the age to come. Our coronation and the consecration are both past acts. They are the sequel certain to follow upon the previous act of Jesus Christ procuring eternal redemption for us.
As already observed, many biblical scholars argue that Christian royalty has two aspects, a present and a future, and therein the representation coincides with the whole strain of the New Testament, which never separates the present from the future condition of Christians.
New Testament theology represents that future as being but the completion and the heightening to a more lustrous splendour.
Revelation 1:6 states: “And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” So there is a present dominion, notwithstanding all the sorrows and limitations and burdens of life; and there is a future one, which is but the expansion and the superlative degree of that which is enjoined in the present.
Our queenship/kingship comes as the consequence of Christ’s emancipation of us from the guilt and power of sin. The blood of Jesus freed us from slavery and enthroned us. The communication i.e. the expression of the royal life of Christ in us conquers evil desires and passions around us.
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As we yield by grace and not by self effort to the inward working of the Spirit of God in us, we reign over sin.
With almost His dying breath, the incarnate Jesus declares in John 16:33: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” We are in the faith of Jesus Christ and, “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4. The royalty which begins with ruling your own nature goes on to be master of all things around you.
We master all things around us. The depth of this can only be realised by experience.
1 Corinthians 3:21b & 23 reveal: “[21b] For all things are yours; [23] And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.” By faith in Jesus Christ we are independent from fellow women/men. You do not need the approbation of praise singers for your joy.
In the same vein, you are not frightened nor bewildered by the disapprobation of your haters. Believers are divine servants thus free from human worship. We love our neighbours, but we are not manipulated. We reign now and reign in the future. Jesus became like us to adopt us and the Spirit of daughtership/sonship cries Abba Father.
The Bible goes further and states in Romans 8:17: “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
Where He is there we are. As He is so are we. 1 John 4:17 settles: “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”
We live boldly without guilt, shame or condemnation.
Death no longer frightens us because the life of Christ in us has overcome death. He has become like us that we might become like Him. Hebrews 2:14-15 reads: “[14] Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; [15] And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
We live in love and faith without fear. We are not just daughters and sons, but queens and kings. We reign now and forever and the dominion of Christ is everlasting.
One expositor ponders: “Is there no peace for a man’s heart in feeling that the Brother that loves him and died for him rules over all the perplexities of life? Is it not enough to drive away fears, to anodyne cares, to disentangle perplexities, to quiet disturbances, to make the coward brave, and the feeble strong, and the foolish wise, and the querulous patient, to think that my Christ is king; and that the hands which were nailed to the Cross wield the sceptre, and that He who died for me rules the universe and rules me?” Wow!
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through knowledge. You are going somewhere.
