The Story of the Greatest Coronation

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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David Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.

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0:00.0	This coming May the 6th, the United Kingdom plans to celebrate its first coronation ceremony
0:10.4	in almost 70 years.
0:13.6	So very few, if any in this room, have ever witnessed a coronation ceremony in their
0:19.2	lifetime.
0:22.0	According to the announcement from Buckingham Palace, the ceremony will see his majesty,
0:28.9	King Charles III crowned.
0:32.9	The coronation will reflect the monarch's role today and look towards the future, while
0:39.6	being rooted in long-standing traditions and pageantry.
0:47.0	Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on June the 2nd, 1953.
0:53.0	You can find videos online with YouTube, amazing.
0:57.0	There was indeed pageantry, and I'm sure there will be great pop and circumstance
1:03.2	coming on May the 6th.
1:05.4	It's an amazing thing.
1:06.9	When a kingdom marshals its collective energy and resources to mark with pageantry the
1:16.8	crowning of a new monarch, and the first chapter of Hebrews tells us of a coronation that
1:26.1	is even more impressive times 10 than anything an earthly kingdom can put together, only
1:35.0	faintly anticipate this coronation.
1:38.7	The opening scene in Hebrews is the coronation of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God,
1:46.9	who became man, lived, suffered, died for sins not his own, rose again in triumph, and
1:55.7	40 days later he ascended, and Hebrews gives us a glimpse into that moment when Jesus
2:04.9	returned to heaven with the angels looking on to be crowned Lord of all by his father
2:14.4	on the very throne of heaven.
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