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经文: 耶和华永永远远为王。（诗篇十：16）
耶稣基督没有专制地宣告祂神圣的权柄。但祂确实是耶和华的受膏者。“因为父喜欢叫一切的丰盛，在祂里面居住。”（西一：19）上帝赐祂所有的能力和权柄。祂是人子，是祂教会万物之元首。祂统管天、地和阴间，祂握住生死之钥。许多王子喜欢能众望所归而称自己为王。我们的主耶稣基督在祂的教会中当然也有此盼望。倘若要以投票决定祂是否应作教会之王，每位信徒必从心中拥戴祂。我们将不计任何代价拥戴荣耀的基督。我们将视受苦为喜乐，视受损为获得，只要能换取更明亮的冠冕来载在祂的头上，使祂在人和天使面前得到更大的荣耀。是的，祂必作王！爱主的人，前进吧！在祂脚前跪拜，以你心爱的百合，感恩的玻瑰铺在祂所行的路径上。“以荣冠华冕拥戴祂为万主之主”。我们的主耶稣战胜一切作了锡安的王。祂重获祂百姓的心，摧毁那捆绑他们的敌人。在祂自己宝血的红海中，我们的救赎者淹没了罪的法老，将我们从律法的咒诅和铁轭下释放出来。祂的剑将我们从黑暗的权势下解救出来。谁能夺走祂手中的胜利？作王的耶稣是配受称颂的。亲爱的和平之君，愿祢永远统治我心。
Evening, April 27
Scripture: “The Lord is King for ever and ever.”(Psalm 10:16)
Jesus Christ is no despotic claimant of divine right, but he is really and truly the Lord’s anointed! “It hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.” God hath given to him all power and all authority. As the Son of man, he is now head over all things to his church, and he reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of life and death at his girdle. Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the popular will, and certainly our Lord Jesus Christ is such in his church. If it could be put to the vote whether he should be King in the church, every believing heart would crown him. O that we could crown him more gloriously than we do! We would count no expense to be wasted that could glorify Christ. Suffering would be pleasure, and loss would be gain, if thereby we could surround his brow with brighter crowns, and make him more glorious in the eyes of men and angels. Yes, he shall reign. Long live the King! All hail to thee, King Jesus! Go forth, ye virgin souls who love your Lord, bow at his feet, strew his way with the lilies of your love, and the roses of your gratitude: “Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all.” Moreover, our Lord Jesus is King in Zion by right of conquest: he has taken and carried by storm the hearts of his people, and has slain their enemies who held them in cruel bondage. In the Red Sea of his own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins: shall he not be King in Jeshurun? He has delivered us from the iron yoke and heavy curse of the law: shall not the Liberator be crowned? We are his portion, whom he has taken out of the hand of the Amorite with his sword and with his bow: who shall snatch his conquest from his hand? All hail, King Jesus! we gladly own thy gentle sway! Rule in our hearts for ever, thou lovely Prince of Peace.
