Friday | 06 February 2026
A person who has truly met Christ recognises that He is the King. They relinquish their own conditions for life and yield to His commandments as slaves of righteousness. The most fundamental indicator of this encounter is that the hearer begins to learn the fear of the Lord. This is essential to becoming a believer.
Christ is the Lion of Judah. He was revealed as the King, the Son of David, when He was anointed by the Holy Spirit with the oil of the seven Spirits of the Lord at His baptism. Mat 3:16. Luk 3:21-22. Joh 1:32-34. He received this anointing without measure, testifying, ‘The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.’ Luk 4:18-19. Joh 3:34.
After His baptism, Jesus commenced His earthly ministry as the suffering King-Priest and the Lamb of God. He did this as the Son of God and the Son of Man. As the Lamb of God, Christ was the Lion of Judah. We know this because the apostle John recounted in the book of Revelation, ‘I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.” And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.’ Rev 5:4-6.
Further Study:
Luke 4
References:
Mat 3:16
When He had been baptised, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
Luk 3:21-22
When all the people were baptised, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptised; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, ‘You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.’
Joh 1:32-34
And John bore witness, saying, ‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptise with water said to me, “Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptises with the Holy Spirit.” And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.’
Luk 4:18-19
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.’
Joh 3:34
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.
Rev 5:4-6
So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.’ And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.