Chapter XLVI: Section IV: The Offices Of Christ (7)

_John 17:24_—“_Father, that which thou hast given me, I desire
that where I am, they also may be with me, that they may behold my
glory_”; _1 Pet. 3:21, 22_—“_Jesus Christ; who is on the right
hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him_”; _2 Pet. 1:11_—“_thus shall
be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ._” See Andrew Murray, With
Christ in the School of Prayer, preface, vi—“_Rev. 1:6_—‘_made us
to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father._’ ” Both
in the king and the priest, the chief thing is power, influence,
blessing. In the king, it is the power coming downward; in the
priest, it is the power rising upward, prevailing with God. As in
Christ, so in us, the kingly power is founded on the priestly:
_Heb. 7:25_—“_able to save to the uttermost, ... seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession_”.

Watts, New Apologetic, preface, ix—“We cannot have Christ as King
without having him also as Priest. It is as the Lamb that he sits
upon the throne in the Apocalypse; as the Lamb that he conducts
his conflict with the kings of the earth; and it is from the
throne of God on which the Lamb appears that the water of life
flows forth that carries refreshing throughout the Paradise of
God.”

Luther: “Now Christ reigns, not in visible, public manner, but
through the word, just as we see the sun through a cloud. We see
the light, but not the sun itself. But when the clouds are gone,
then we see at the same time both light and sun.” We may close our
consideration of Christ’s Kingship with two practical remarks: 1.
We never can think too much of the cross, but we may think too
little of the throne. 2. We can not have Christ as our Prophet or
our Priest, unless we take him also as our King. On Christ’s
Kingship, see Philippi, Glaubenslehre, IV, 2:342-351; Van
Oosterzee, Dogmatics, 586 sq.; Garbett, Christ as Prophet, Priest,
and King, 2:243-438; J. M. Mason, Sermon on Messiah’s Throne, in
Works, 3:241-275.