{"id":8913,"date":"2015-02-15T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:38:55","slug":"book-review-jesus-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=8913","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Jesus the King"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The truth of the resurrection is of supreme and eternal importance. \u00a0It is the hinge upon which the story of the world pivots.<\/em>” Tim Keller, Jesus the King<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In Jesus the King<\/em><\/a>, Tim Keller takes a very thorough look at the gospel as relayed in the Gospel of Mark. \u00a0This book is a great read just in time for the Lenten and Easter season as we reexamine the necessity of the resurrection in our lives as a part of God’s story. \u00a0As you read this book, you will want to have your Bible with the book of Mark open to make notes as well. \u00a0Keller is known for his commitment to share how the gospel impacts history and literature in a way that compels us to look to the cross. \u00a0This book was not a quick read for me because I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to thoroughly consider the book of Mark and his perspective on the life and death of Jesus.<\/p>\n

I highlighted several things while reading and have pasted them below…<\/p>\n

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  • The whole story of the world\u2014and of how we fit into it\u2014is most clearly understood through a careful, direct look at the story of Jesus. \u00a0My purpose here is to show, through his words and actions, how beautifully his life makes sense of ours.<\/li>\n
  • You\u2019re glorifying something when you find it beautiful for what it is in itself. \u00a0Its beauty compels you to adore it, to have your imagination captured by it.<\/li>\n
  • Instead of self-centeredness, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are characterized in their very essence by mutually self-giving love. \u00a0No person in the Trinity insists that the others revolve around him; rather each of them voluntarily circles and orbits around the others.<\/li>\n
  • God didn\u2019t leave us to be defenseless. \u00a0God said to Jesus, \u201cObey me about the tree\u201d\u2014only this time the tree was a cross\u2014\u201cand you will die.\u201d \u00a0And Jesus did. \u00a0He has gone before you into the heart of a very real battle, to draw you into the ultimate reality of the dance. \u00a0What he has enjoyed from all eternity, he has come to offer you. \u00a0And sometimes, when you\u2019re in the deepest part of the battle, when you\u2019re tempted and hurt\u00a0and weak, you\u2019ll hear in the septs of your being the same words Jesus heard: \u201cThis is my beloved child\u2014you are my beloved child, whom I life; with you I\u2019m well pleased.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • A gospel is an announcement of something that has happened in history, something that\u2019s been done for you that changes your status forever.<\/li>\n
  • Jesus is saying\u00a0\u201cKnowing me, loving me, resembling me, serving me must become the supreme passion of your life. \u00a0Everything else comes second.\u201d \u00a0Mark 1:16-20<\/li>\n
  • Come follow me. \u00a0Jesus is saying, \u201cFollow me because I\u2019m the King you\u2019ve been looking for. \u00a0Follow me because I have authority over everything, yet I have humbled myself for you. \u00a0Because I \u00a0died on the cross for you when you didn\u2019t have the right beliefs or the right behavior. \u00a0Because I have brought you news, not advice. \u00a0Because I\u2019m your true love, your true life\u2014follow me.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • It\u2019s going to look as if your thread is taking you into dead ends, places where you\u2019ll get bloody, where the only way to follow the thread looks like it could crush you. \u00a0But don\u2019t try to go backward. \u00a0Don\u2019t turn to the left; don\u2019t turn to the right. \u00a0Jesus Christ\u2019s kingship will not crush you. \u00a0He was crushed for you. \u00a0He followed his thread to the cross so you can follow yours into his arms.<\/li>\n
  • Jesus is not going to play the rotten practical joke\u00a0of giving you your deepest wish\u2014until he has shown you that it was for him all along.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself,\u201d and I explained it this way: \u201cI think God is saying,\u2019I want you to meet the needs of other people with all of the joy, all of the eagerness, all\u00a0of the urgency, all of the ingenuity, creativity, and industry with which you meet your own needs. \u00a0That\u2019s the standard. \u00a0That\u2019s how I want you\u00a0to live your life.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Most of us work and work trying to prove ourselves, to convince God, others, and ourselves that we\u2019re good people. \u00a0That work is never over unless we rest in the gospel. \u00a0At the end of his great act of creation the Lord said, \u201cIt is finished,\u201d and he could rest. \u00a0On the cross at the end of his great act of redemption Jesus said, \u201cIt is finished\u201d\u2014and we can rest. \u00a0On the cross Jesus was saying of the work underneath your work\u2014the thing that makes you truly weary, this need to prove yourself because who you are and what you do are never good enough\u2014that it is finished. \u00a0He has lived the life you should have lived, he has died the death you should have died. \u00a0 If you rely on Jesus\u2019s finished work, you know that God is satisfied with you. \u00a0You can be satisfied with life.<\/li>\n
  • On the cross Jesus experienced the restlessness of separation from God so that we can have the deep rest of knowing that he\u00a0loves us and our sins have been forgiven.<\/li>\n
  • The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. \u00a0It can\u2019t be co-opted by either\u00a0moralism or relativism.<\/li>\n
  • If he\u2019s Lord of the storm, then no matter what shape the world is in\u2014or your life is in\u2014you will find Jesus provides all the healing, all the rest, all the power you could possibly want.<\/li>\n
  • Let us be conformed to his patience, that we might be make partakers of the resurrection.<\/li>\n
  • God made him who had no sin\u00a0to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. \u00a02 Corinthians 5:21<\/li>\n
  • Why did God create us and later redeem us at great cost even though he doesn\u2019t need us? \u00a0He did it because he loves us. \u00a0His love is perfect love, radically vulnerable love. \u00a0And when you begin to get it, when you begin to experience it, the fakery and manipulativeness of your own love starts to wash away, and you\u2019ve got the patience and security to reach out and start giving a truer love to other people.<\/li>\n
  • without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. \u00a0Hebrews 9:22<\/li>\n
  • When Jesus went to the cross and died for our sins, he won through losing; he achieved our forgiveness on the cross by turning the values of the world on their head. \u00a0He did not \u201cfight fire with fire.\u201d \u00a0He didn\u2019t come and raise an army in order to put down the latest corrupt regime. \u00a0He didn\u2019t take power; he gave it up\u2014and yet he triumphed. \u00a0On the cross, then, the world\u2019s misuse and glorification of power was exposed for what it is and defeated. \u00a0The spill of the world\u2019s systems was broken.<\/li>\n
  • Taking up your cross means for you to die to self-determination, die to control of your own life, die to using him for your agenda.<\/li>\n
  • You see, if there really is a dance, then there really is a King who loves us without need. \u00a0And if there really is a stain we can\u2019t wash out, then there is going to have to be a cross.<\/li>\n
  • Worship is a preview of\u00a0at the things that all of our hearts are longing for, whether we know it or not.<\/li>\n
  • When you have pursued God in repentant helplessness, you will have worshipped. \u00a0And every time you sense his embrace, your soul will shine the slightest bit brighter with his reflected glory, and you will be the slightest bit more ready to face what life has in store for you.<\/li>\n
  • Jesus Christ came not to be served\u00a0but to die, to give his life. \u00a0That sets him apart from the founder of every other major religion. \u00a0Their purpose was to live and be an example; Jesus\u2019s purpose was to die and be a sacrifice.<\/li>\n
  • God created the world in an instant, and it was a beautiful process. \u00a0He re-created the world on the cross\u2014and it was a horrible process. \u00a0That\u2019s how it works. \u00a0Love that really changes things and redeems things is always a substitutionary sacrifice.<\/li>\n
  • All real, life changing love is costly, substitutionary sacrifice.<\/li>\n
  • On the cross, Jesus is getting what we deserve so we can get what he deserves.<\/li>\n
  • The resurrection was God\u2019s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.<\/li>\n
  • The truth of the resurrection is of supreme and eternal importance. \u00a0It is the hinge upon which the story of the world pivots.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cDeath has been swallowed up in victory\u2026Thanks be to God! \u00a0He gives us the victory through Jesus Christ\u201d 1 Corinthians 15:54, 57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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