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I know in this 21st century we do not know nor comprehend what an absolute monarch or absolute authority is all about.

Most of us today think of monarchy as we see in Europe. It was known as constitutional monarchy.

Very little power. Their power is mostly ceremonial. Their control or influence is

mostly on an advisory capacity. Their rule is mostly symbolic. And because of our experience, we often

think of King Jesus in the same way, that he is just an advisor, that he is,

King Jesus is just there to accommodate to us, that he is there to help us only when

we need him, that he is the one to whom we pray and we pay homage, or maybe

not an acquaintance with him once a week on a Sunday morning in church. But when the Bible

speak of the Christ the king, it means that he has absolute power over us. It means that he has absolute

control over us. It means that he has absolute authority over every aspect of our lives.

It means that he is the only one to whom we fully surrender and crown him on a daily

basis and obey him. And because of these distinctives of the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus Christ,

for a long time, he would not allow people during his

public ministry to call him king. For three, almost a third of a year, he would not allow anyone

to call him king. In fact, they don't want to make him king by force,

but he refused, and he waited until Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday, the very first Palm Sunday,

was the first time during his public ministry, the Lord Jesus Christ allowed the crowd to call him king

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