Three Kings: Exemplify Way to Instill God's Kingdom

I'd like to explore a beautiful biblical illustration that brings insight into establishing God's kingdom. This example will help us better understand the concept of bringing God's kingdom and proclaiming it.

A Kingdom of Plunder and Oppression:

Three kings from the East, upon seeing the extraordinary star, left their kingdom, carrying gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Interestingly, history and the Bible record that kings would often plunder to add to their treasure. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh symbolized a king's prosperity and wealth compared to others. The amount of gold in a king's treasure indicated his pride, the amount of frankincense indicated his hypocrisy, and the amount of myrrh indicated his pretense.

The Three Kings Encounter a Greater Evil:

It's fascinating to note that these three kings, leaving behind their kingdom of plunder, tax collection through oppression, pride, hypocrisy, and pretense, carried gold, frankincense, and myrrh to follow the star. On their journey, they met King Herod, who embodied even more pride, hypocrisy, and pretense than they did. There can be no harmony between good and evil. The meeting between the three kings and Herod serves as evidence that, although they possessed pride, hypocrisy, and pretense, it was to a lesser extent than Herod's.

Consumed by pride, hypocrisy, and pretense, King Herod refused to join the three kings on their visit to the Son of God, as he was unwilling to relinquish his pride, hypocrisy, and pretense.

Jesus Extremely Poor in Evil:

The poverty of the King of Kings, Jesus Christ, substantiates the fact that He embodies no pride, hypocrisy, or pretense. He is the King of love, humility, forgiveness, peace, compassion, endurance, and patience.

Poor in Evil Influences the Rich in Evil:

When the three kings, laden with pride, hypocrisy, and pretense, approached the King of poverty, they encountered a paradox. They relinquished the gold, frankincense, and myrrh that symbolized their pride, hypocrisy, and pretense at the feet of Jesus. In turn, they received and instilled in themselves the values of love, humility, forgiveness, peace, compassion, endurance, and patience.

God Liberates and Redirects New Life:

Upon offering gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they were liberated from their pride, hypocrisy, and pretense. Consequently, they received God's message, instructing them to avoid revisiting Herod, the king of pride, hypocrisy, and pretense, and instead take an alternate route back to their kingdom. This underscores the fact that good and evil cannot coexist, and God's kingdom and the kingdom of evil are mutually exclusive. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. (Matthew 2:12, NIV)

Anointed to Proclaim and Spread God's Kingdom:

The three kings surrendered their inner vices - pride, hypocrisy, and pretense - at the feet of the King of Kings, Jesus. Thus, they were anointed with love, humility, forgiveness, peace, compassion, endurance, and patience. They were raised from the way of King Herod to the truth, walking on the path to reach their kingdom and spread God's kingdom.

Every Individual is a King:

We are all kings, reigning over realms of envy, strife, quarrels, estrangement, backbiting, anger, greed, hatred, lust, adultery, theft, selfishness, abortion, assassination, obscenity, arrogance, hypocrisy, pretense, unrest, impatience, intolerance, and more. To bring God's kingdom, it's essential to accept His invitation: “Come, follow me.” (Mark 1:17, NIV)

The Three Kings Embody the Bright Star:

As exemplified by the three kings, we, the kings, must surrender our gold (pride), frankincense (hypocrisy), and myrrh (pretence) at Jesus' feet to turn from the way of Herod to the way of truth. As scripture says: ”I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, NIV)

If we wish to visit God's kingdom and invite others to do the same, it's crucial to relinquish our kingship (pride, hypocrisy, and pretense) and walk on the path of truth. God's kingdom cannot be ushered in merely by reciting "Your kingdom come." While reciting this phrase is not prohibited, it's essential to embrace God's kingdom in our lives, just as the three kings did.

Continuing the Journey:

In our next article, we will delve deeper into understanding Lord's Prayer

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