Enjoy Christ as our King, Lord, Head, and Husband to Receive Blessing and Bless Others

The book of Judges shows that Israel offended God by rejecting Him as their King; we should never forsake or reject God as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband but rather, take Him and experience Him as such a One, and He will be our blessing and He will make us a channel of blessing to others. Amen!

This week in our morning revival we come to another portion in the Crystallization-study of Judges, and the topic is, God’s Raising Up of Deborah as a Judge of Israel and as a Mother in Israel Who Practiced the Female Submission to the Man in Order to Keep God’s Ordination and Bring All of Israel into a Proper Order under God’s Kingship and Headship.

It is mainly based on the story of Deborah, who was an outstanding prophet with much spiritual insight and a great capacity, but it is a crystal that can be seen throughout the Bible.

We need to see the hidden and intrinsic history in the books of Joshua, Judges and Ruth, and realize that we need to gain possession of the land for Christ, that is, gain Christ for Christ, and we also need to be the proper persons to bring forth Christ.

We need to be proper persons, like Ruth, for Christ to be brought forth into humanity.

We need to gain Christ for Christ; we need to take Christ as our good land, enjoy HIm as so many items and aspects of the land, and He will become in us what He He should be. God desires that we would enjoy and experience CHrist, and when we enjoy Him and experience Him,w e do Him a favor.

When a sinner is saved, the Savior is there with His salvation and He is pleased to give this One His salvation. God is happy when we enjoy Christ, possess Christ, gain Christ, and experience Christ, for when we do this, we are one with His purpose, and He becomes in us what He should be.

And what does God want to be in us? He wants to be our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband. We are created in the image and likeness of God to be filled with God as life and become part of the God’s counterpart, the church, to match Him as our husband.

We see this both in the Old and in the New Testament, and the whole Bible ends with the marriage of God and man.

Moses gave the law as an engagement contract between God and His people Israel. The prophets again and again said that God is the Husband and His people are His wife.

In the Gospels Christ came as the Bridegroom to gain His bride. At the end of Revelation, the Spirit and the bride are one to say, Come, Lord Jesus. We need to take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband.

Continually Take and Enjoy Christ as our King, Lord, Head, and Husband to Receive Blessing and be a Blessing to others

The book of Judges doesn’t show us only the dark history of the people of Israel in their apostasy; it shows that Israel offended God by rejecting Him as their King.

It is a great wickedness in the sight of God if we as His people reject Him as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband (1 Sam. 8:7; 12:17, 19; Judg. 21:25; 17:6; Luke 19:11-14; Jer. 11:13; Ezek. 16:24).

He is not only our Creator, our Redeemer, and our Savior – He also is our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband.

Throughout the book of Judges and throughout the Old Testament we see that the people of Israel rejected God as their King – they wanted to get a king, someone who would rule over them just like the nations around them had a king.

God was their King, and there was no nation on earth like this with God as their ruler, but they wanted a king like everyone else.

They didn’t reject merely the prophets and the judges; they also rejected God as their king.

Samuel was offended on God’s behalf when he heard their request in 1 Sam. 8:7, but God told him that it wasn’t him whom they rejected but it was God.

They rejected God as their Husband by setting up idol after idol; in Jer. 11:13 it says that they had gods as many as the number of their cities, and they had many altars.

In God’s view, an idol is anything or anyone that replaces God as our Husband; every idol is a “lover”, something or someone that we love more than God.

As we read the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea, we see that the Lord considers Israel as His unfaithful wife; however, He never gives up on her but always calls her back.

Even Hosea was one with the Lord to call the people to return to Jehovah from their unfaithfulness.

May we never forsake or reject the Lord as our King, Lord, Head, and Husband, but may we continually take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband.

If we do this, if we continually take and enjoy Christ as our King, Lord, Head, and Husband, He will be our blessing and He will make us a channel of blessing to the saints and all the churches.

When Christ was born, He was the King of the Jews, even the King of Israel (Matt. 2:2; John 1:49); such a One is the King of Peace, a King that reigns according to righteousness and rules according to justice (Heb. 7:2; Isa. 32:1-2).

He is our Judge, our Lawmaker, our King, and He will save us (Isa. 33:22).

As we pray over God’s word and take the Lord in by breathing Him in His living word, He will become in us what He should be; He will become our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband.

He is all the three branches of the government – He is the Judge (judicial), the Lawmaker (legislative), and the King (ruling) to be everything to us, save us, and care for us.

He is the Lord of all – God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that everyone would openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:9-11).

Whatever we do today, therefore, we do to the Lord, for Christ is the Lord both of the dead and of the living – He died and lived again for this (Rom. 14:6-9).

This One we preach, Jesus Christ as Lord (2 Cor. 4:5). Furthermore, Christ is our Head – He is the Head of the Body, and we hold Him as the Head to be richly supplied and knit together (Col. 2:19).

God gave Christ to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all (Eph. 1:22-23).

Christ is our Husband; through the ministry of the apostles, we have been betrothed to Christ to be a pure virgin to Him (2 Cor. 11:2-3).

May we never lose our simplicity and purity toward Christ, for He has betrothed us to Himself forever in righteousness and justice and in lovingkindness and compassion, even in faithfulness (Hosea 2:19-20).

When we take and enjoy Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband, we enjoy His blessing, for He is a blessing Triune God, and He also makes us a channel of blessing to others (Num. 6:23-27; Psa. 128:5; 48:2).

God doesn’t want only to bless us and give Himself to us as a blessing; He also wants to make us channels of blessing for others to enjoy Him and partake of Him! May we take and enjoy Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband!

Lord Jesus, we take and enjoy You as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband. We do not want to reject or forsake You as our King, Lord, Head, and Husband; save us from this great wickedness of forsaking You! May we continually take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband. Amen, Lord, You are our blessing, and You make us a channel of blessing to the saints and to all the churches! We take You as our King and we submit under Your authority. We take You as our Lord, the One enthroned far above all, and we call on Your name! We take You as our Head, holding You as the Head and giving You the preeminence in all things. We take You as our Husband and just love You, open to You, and enjoy You in love!

Being under the Throne under Christ as our King to enjoy Him as our Blessing and become a Blessing to others

In Matthew 1:1 we see an amazing principle – here we have Christ introduced as the son of David, the son of Abraham; first, He is the King, and then He is the blessing to us.

The principle is that we need to first take Christ as our King and then we can enjoy Him as the blessing of God to us.

Because we are rebels, we first need to repent and receive Christ as the Son of David.

As sinners, we are rebellious toward God, and we need to take Him as our Sovereign and King, so that He may rule in us and over us in God’s kingdom.

The first Gospel in the New Testament is not the gospel of John, the gospel of life, but the gospel of Matthew, the gospel of the kingdom.

Christ as the Son of David signifies the kingdom of God, and Christ as the Son of Abraham signifies the blessing.

We all want to receive God’s blessing, but in order to do so, we first need to say Amen to His kingdom by taking Christ as our King.

Christ has to become to us the King, the Lord, the Head, and the Husband, and then we can enjoy His blessing and even become a blessing to others.

If we have Christ as the Son of David, the greater Solomon, we will also have Him as the Son of Abraham, the real Isaac.

This means that we believers in Christ need to take Christ as our King to be under His ruling, and we will enjoy Him as our blessing. Amen!

The more we take Christ as our King (the son of David), the more we are under His ruling, and the more we are under His ruling, the more we enjoy Him as our blessing (the son of Abraham); this is the blessing of the processed Triune God consummated as the all-inclusive Spirit (Gal. 3:14, 16, 29).

We see this in the picture in Rev. 22 where we have the golden street with the river of water of life with the tree of life growing on both its side; this river proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

In order for us to have the flow, the way, and the supply, we need to say Amen to the throne; for us to be supplied in a rich way with the life of God and for us to be kept in the way of God, we need to be under the throne of God.

When there is a throne set up in the center of our being and God is on the throne, we will have the flow of life, and a rich supply of life will be our portion.

In our daily life, our life at home, our life at school, in the church life, and as we travel or go to work, in all things we need to say amen to the throne of God.

Our taking Christ as our King results in our having inward nourishment. This will cause us to become channels of blessing for the saints’ growth in life and their enjoyment of Christ (Phil. 1:25).

As we take Christ as our King, we enjoy Him as our supply and blessing, and we become a channel of blessing to others for the saints’ progress and their joy of the faith.

We, as blessed people, should always bless others so that we may inherit blessing (1 Pet. 3:9).

May we all become such factors of encouragement to the saints for their progress and growth in life, being channels of blessing to others so they may also be brought to take Christ as their King, their Lord, their Head, and their Husband to enjoy His blessing and become channels of blessing.

Lord Jesus, we take You as our King and say Amen to Your throne. Set up Your throne in the center of our being and have the full preeminence in us. We want to come to You with all things to check with You, allowing You to rule and reign in us. Amen, Lord Jesus, You are our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband. Rule in us and over us in the kingdom of God. We take You as our King to be under Your ruling and enjoy You as our blessing. Amen, Lord, You are our unique and all-inclusive blessing. We take You as our blessing and we enjoy You as our portion for our enjoyment. Make us those who are factors for others to grow and enjoy the Lord!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Ricky Acosta for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament (msg. 265), by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth (2021 summer training), week 7, God’s Raising Up of Deborah as a Judge of Israel and as a Mother in Israel Who Practiced the Female Submission to the Man in Order to Keep God’s Ordination and Bring All of Israel into a Proper Order under God’s Kingship and Headship.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – By reigning in His kingdom / God worketh all His will, / And under His dominion / His purpose doth fulfill. / ’Tis only in God’s kingdom / His blessing we may know; / ’Tis from His throne almighty / The stream of life doth flow. (Hymns #941)
  – ”Seed of Abraham,” Thou art, Lord, / By God’s promise Thou hast come, / That the blessing He hath promised / On all people thus might come. / Abraham Thou hast preceded, / For Thou art the great “I AM,” / Yet Thou cam’st to be his offspring / And become God’s promised “Lamb.” (Hymns #191)
  – Channels only, blessed Master, / But with all Thy wondrous grace, / Flowing through us, Thou canst use us / Every hour in every place. (Hymns #268)