"King Jesus"

"Thou madest Him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under His feet:" (Psalms 8:6) I don't know about you, but I am excited for this time of the year. Today is Psalm Sunday; which was the day Jesus made His entry into the Holy City, and all the people sang out, "Hosanna; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest", as they spread their garments and palm branches on the ground before Him. To many of that day, they were caught up in the emotion of something for which they had no control over; it was as if God's Spirit had been poured out, and they were proclaiming Jesus as king, not because they wanted to, but because they had to, that the Scripture must be fulfilled. Many of these same people would be yelling "crucify him", just less than a week later. Hebrews 2:9 & 10 declares, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." To really understand what this means, there needs to be an eternal timeline established in our minds; one that understands who Jesus was before He stepped down from glory, who He was upon this earth, and who He is placed back in glory. When we consider what is meant by, "to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings", it is not as though Jesus Christ was not already perfect in all His ways, but that through His sufferings He would bring everything completely under His feet; which included all things, or everything within all of creation; some of which shall not even been seen until that final day when we shall all stand with Him in heaven! If we go back to the beginning of creation, there was something that was not perfect in the Garden that man was placed into; although all might have seemed perfect, there was placed in the center of that Garden something that was forbidden unto man, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It was not as though life was perfect for man, because God had provided all that man needed in a beautiful paradise; yet within this paradise was placed something by which man could be tempted; something which would end up as causing man to sin. It is this, by which man was tempted in that Jesus was made perfect; as coming in the form of sinful flesh, Jesus withstood all temptation; being tempted just as you and I are, He willfully submitted to being obedient, even to the point of death; thereby destroying even that which would cause man to stumble. There will be no tree of knowledge of good and evil in heaven, for He has taken it out of the way...