The Triumphant King
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week exploring various aspects of Jesus’ kingship, today we’ll celebrate his triumphant nature. What does it mean for God to be triumphant? Like most things with Jesus, the deeper we look, the more we’ll find he is contradictory to the ways of this world. His victory is no different. Jesus’ victory confounded the Jews on his time, and still confounds many to this day. May the nature of Jesus’ triumph astound your heart and provoke worship and awe in you today.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 12:15, and today's worship is Victor's Crown by Darlene Zschech.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week exploring various aspects of Jesus' kingship, today we'll celebrate |
| 0:11.4 | his triumphant nature. What does it mean for God to be triumphant? Like most things with |
| 0:17.1 | Jesus, the deeper we look, the more will find he is contradictory to the ways of |
| 0:23.0 | this world. His victory is no different. Jesus' victory confounded the Jews of his time, |
| 0:30.0 | and still confounds many to this day. May the nature of Jesus' triumph astound your heart |
| 0:36.2 | and provide worship and awe in you today. |
| 0:40.1 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | In Zachariah 9-9, we found a profound prophecy about Jesus, our triumphant king. |
| 0:51.5 | Scripture says, rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. |
| 0:55.8 | Shout out loud, O daughter of Jerusalem. |
| 0:58.8 | Behold, your king is coming to you. |
| 1:01.8 | Righteous and having salvation is he. |
| 1:05.0 | Humble and mounted on a donkey, on a cult, the full of a donkey. |
| 1:10.8 | Jesus achieved what no other king could have possibly |
| 1:13.6 | accomplished, and he did it by taking the untrodden path of humility unto death. Jesus triumphed |
| 1:20.6 | over death, ushered in salvation to all, and changed the eternal fate of the world through sacrifice. We serve a God who conquers with love. |
| 1:30.3 | Let us not miss the power in the metaphor Scripture prophesied |
| 1:35.3 | and what it means for our lives today. |
| 1:37.3 | When Jesus could have chosen any vessel to carry him down the pathway to victory, |
| 1:42.3 | he chose a donkey. In a world where those who conquered rode horses and chariots, he chose a lowly fowl. |
| 1:51.0 | And after being mocked and beaten by the very ones he would offer victory, |
| 1:55.0 | he chose the vessel of a cross as the means of triumph. |
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