In the Age of Social Media, Many Times Our Hash-Tag Declarations Need to be Explained and Detailed. Here are 12 Specific Ways that Saying CHRIST IS OUR KING Begs to be Unpacked in 2025.

For the last few weeks, it has become vogue to declare “Christ is King!” throughout evangelical circles. Memes, banners, t-shirts and coffee mugs trumpet this exultant proclamation. And it “is” a glorious reality. But what does it mean? In an age of spin, and nuance, when we openly launch our hashtags at each other, this phrase especially begs to be unpacked. It’s critical that we Christians understand what gives this statement great worth, and where it can lead to profound misunderstanding about the nature of Jesus’ Kingdom.

“There is a way of a man”, (Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25) and then there is “the way of the King”. This phrase, “the order of the King” is the literal, root definition of the greek word for righteousness: “dikaiosune” that’s found throughout the New Testament. To speak of righteousness, is to speak of THE WAY OF THE KING, or THE WAY OF CHRIST. One day, ONLY the way of Christ will exist on the earth. Consequently, it’s very wise, and right that we learn, honor and appropriate His way, within ourselves and our world, today, before He returns.

It’s also vital to note that in Jesus’ day, many good, moral, conservative Jews subscribed to the notion that CHRIST (defined literally, as the Jewish concept of Messiah) IS KING. But the KING they envisioned was one who would dominate, conquer, subject others, and ruled in glory WITHOUT the need for suffering, and the agency of a cross. This is the concept of JESUS IS KING that the twelve struggled with all throughout their discipleship. This is largely why Judas betrayed Jesus. And this is why the Jewish leaders simply couldn’t see their concept of Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth. Their concept of “CHRIST IS KING”, (or “Messiah will be King!”) was VASTLY different than Y’shua’s concept of “CHRIST as KING”.

When we say CHRIST IS OUR KING, we want to declare two things:
1. We agree with the Father’s decree in Psalm 2 to “anoint” (the literal meaning of the word “Christ”) Jesus of Nazareth, His eternal Son, as the historical human, Jewish King, to rule over every individual heart, and every distinct nation. We are saying “It is this God/Man, and not another ‘false christ’, that the Father has chosen to be King over the earth!”

2. We, ourselves choose to submit our lives to the reign and the claim that this King (Jesus of Nazareth) has upon us. We’re saying, “We submit our wills to Your will Jesus!” – often doing what He wants in direct contradiction to what we believe is good, and right, and permissible. As a result, we TAKE EVERY daily THOUGHT, piece of rhetoric, cultural narrative, value, belief and VAIN IMAGINATION CAPTIVE INTO OBEDIENCE to the desire and glory of CHRIST (2 Corinthians 10:5). We remember that WE ARE NOT OUR OWN (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). We live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28) unto His glory – which often means we will operate quite contrary to that which seeks our own pride and glory.

Personally, I don’t believe we’ll arrive at Y’shua’s concept of CHRIST AS KING, without MUCH inner conversation with the Lord, through the agency of the House of Prayer reality. The House of Prayer is where I go to “inquire of the Lord” (Psalm 27:4) regarding what kind of KING, JESUS is.

This is the kind of “learning” that the Spirit is actively drawing the Bride of Christ into in these hours of contention, conflict and judgment. He means for us to feel the pressures in our world, let them drive us into the Word, where He enlightens our own thinking, and intimately purges and purifies our heart attitudes and beliefs so they align with the nature, the order and the values of CHRIST, OUR KING.

(Isaiah 26:9) tells us – “When Your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the earth LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS.” ala. to “LEARN” the ways of our KING.

Without cultivating this ongoing, thought-forging “dia-logos” with the Living Word Himself, we will be easy prey for the rhetoric, temptations, and deceit of devil-inspired human logic.

The devil is only too happy to keep us saying CHRIST IS OUR KING, without bringing our narratives, attitudes and ways into the tabernacle of the Lord.

Mormons, religious parrots, cultists, and liberal liturgies can intone these syllables. Only a person who has dethroned, and crucified the universal king of “self” can say CHRIST IS KING, and walk in league with the true Christ, the incarnate, crucified, resurrected Jewish God/Man, Y’shua of Nazareth.

This is the monumental task that is before us in 2025: in the minutes before our King returns to fully establish His Kingdom on planet earth the Holy Spirit is keen to bring human hearts, souls, minds and flesh into obedient, wholehearted love to the KING, and His Kingly ways.

What follows are 12 specific dynamics that reflect the controversies in the Church and our culture right now that are calling us to come into agreement with the MAJESTIC WAY OF CHRIST. WHEREVER we see these issues exalting themselves within our souls, our fellowships, and our communities He is calling us to reject the predominant ways of our flesh, and the world, and instead choose to follow the radical WAY OF CHRIST. Wherever we do this, we are authentically testifying that CHRIST, is indeed, OUR KING.

Conversely, where we choose our own way, instead of the way of Christ, we betray the fact that CHRIST, in fact, is NOT KING over our lives. The knife cuts these matters quite sharply, beloved.

1. The ways of our King are clothed with humility and meekness. Wherever we act unto the prideful elevation, and the assertive dominion of man, and marginalize humility and meekness – we are declaring CHRIST IS NOT KING IN this place of MY LIFE.

2. The ways of our King are laden with compassion, empathy, and contrition toward the oppressed, the broken, the poor, and the afflicted. Wherever we diminish, and develop arguments against these internal qualities, we must consider the degree to which we have another vision what it means for CHRIST to be KING in our lives.

3. The way of our King often includes “being loyal to One”, at the expense of having many others (including many other Christians) who will laud and support our thoughts and opinions. Wherever we see the magnetic appeal to the power of the crowd, the popular, the majority voice – we must instead declare: “WE HAVE ONE KING”.

4. The way of our King is filled with divine order that maximizes the experience and expression of love. We are to bring this way to bear wherever we see the perversion and denigration of the human person, family, and community.

5. The “order of our King” is one that celebrates unity, congeniality, peaceability, and kindness. Where we feel the draw into hostility, alienation, provocation and elevated exclusivity – we must ask ourselves if we are indeed walking in the loving order of our KING, or the contentious way of selfishness and enmity.

6. Jesus is a curse-breaker. Wherever we hear curse, vile debasement and condemnation being heaped upon others – our allegiance to Jesus bids us to step in and declare: NO. CHRIST IS KING. THESE ARE NOT HIS WORDS. His will is to bless, and love unto redemption.

7. When CHRIST IS KING, all earthly power, wisdom and understanding will be submitted to His heart on a matter. Wherever we see the heart of Jesus being compromised with, and/or subjected to political expediency, earthly power, and carnal wisdom and logic – we must excuse ourselves, in order to declare: OUR WAY WILL BE THE WAY OF THE KING.

8. The way of the KING rings with the pure TRUTH of the WORD of GOD. Wherever we see our self, and those in our world wanting to cut deals, and make compromises with what the LORD has specifically declared in the scriptures, we must (often graciously, but steadfastly) remain true to the WORDS of our KING.

9. The way of the KING will ALWAYS bear the internal fruit of the Spirit. Wherever we see our self, and our world producing something other than the fruit of the Spirit, we must let the Lord examine our hearts and our lives to see if we are, in fact, living out the way of CHRIST.

10. The WAY of the KING will produce much repentance within ourselves, and wherever His glory is manifest within our world. Wherever we see our self, the Church, and our world wanting to avoid, or make little of repentance, confession, and self-abasement, we must understand that we have walked outside of the WAY of CHRIST.

11. The WAY of OUR KING rides on the deep pathways of prayer and meekness and peace-driven faith. The way of our flesh and the world will constantly give us arguments that urge us to rise up in protest, rebellion and insurrection.

12. The WAY of CHRIST JESUS invites us into an ocean of love that far surpasses our own capacity to love. Wherever we are giving ourselves to murder, shame, curse, and lock up our enemies in condemnation we must understand that our KING has much greater power to give us.

Beloved, TAKING THESE thought patterns and talking points captive within ourselves and our world is what having CHRIST AS KING is about! It’s the ONLY meaning that will bring pleasure to the Father. It’s the only way the declaration will prove beneficial to yourself and redemptive to the world.

Again. We cannot appropriate the way of our King, without coming into His Tent, and listening to His distinct, supernatural wisdom, guidance, and empowerment. It requires supernatural work to walk in the supernatural way of our King.

In the end, MANY believers will not do the supernatural work of aligning their hearts with the grace-saturated ways of our King, and instead, will succumb to the narrative of the devil. Without giving ourselves to this work of righteous formation within our souls, we WILL be found OPPOSING the ways of the KING in the hours of crisis, threat, and tribulation – no less than Peter did, (despite his protestations) when he betrayed “the CHRIST, the SON of the LIVING GOD” before a slave girl. (Mark 14:66-72)

Beloved. We want to exultantly proclaim “CHRIST IS KING!” But we must ask ourselves if the Christ we are exalting is the CHRIST of the Bible. And we dare not fail to examine ourselves to see if we indeed have surrendered ourselves to this, the TRUE and rightful KING.

“If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ’s, (and CHRIST IS HIS KING) let him again consider this in himself.” (2 Corinthians 10:7)

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JSB • October, 2025