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Now Unto The King Eternal.
Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 9, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: This is particularly pertinent in my own country at this time, with the announcement of the end of our Queen’s 70 year reign: ‘The Queen is dead. Long live the King.’
DOXOLOGY.
1 Timothy 1:17.
It is no wonder that Paul’s encouraging testimony (1 Timothy 1:12-17) ends with a word of doxology.
1. “Now unto the King eternal” (literally, “Now unto the King of the ages”) is addressed to the LORD God.
Now, “the King eternal” is none other than the LORD God Almighty (Revelation 15:3).
2. He is “immortal.” Incorruptible. Beyond the ravages of death and decay.
3. He is “invisible.” ‘No man hath seen God at any time’ (John 1:18a). What folly, then, idolatry proves to be.
However, God IS revealed in His Son:
‘the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him’ (John 1:18b).
4. He is the “only” God. The One and only. There is no other beside Him.
He is the only “wise” God (cf. Romans 16:27).
5. To whom be “honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
It is King Jesus who has the name written on His vesture and on His thigh, ‘KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS’ (Revelation 19:16).
‘I AM,’ says the risen triumphant Jesus, ‘the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty’ (Revelation 1:8).
