He means that through the gospel, the Gentiles, the nations, would be brought to believe and obey Jesus as the Lord. Or Jesus the King in the language of the Old Testament.
Or Christ the King. Christ the King is a kind of tautology. The word “Christ” implies that he is King. But better to be sure what we mean I suppose. Do you serve the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one who was to come to rule God’s people, to rescue them by his death and resurrection? Do you obey him as the King not just of the Jews, but as King of the world?
Well, never mind the world for the moment. Is he King of you, and your world? Does he rule your life? Have you become his apprentice? His disciple, his pupil, his servant?
One of the difficulties with following Jesus is that much of what we understand about Christianity is tied up in “church”. It is hard to see how we can be a follower if it doesn’t have something to do with church.
But that is what we must see. Serving the King has everything to do with all the life that is not “church”. That is where the King has placed us to make disciples.
Dale
