Jesus Christ is King, our one and only Shepherd, and we live in the Spirit. 

Ezekiel 37:24

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“David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.” Ezekiel 37:24

God speaks through Ezekiel saying, “David My servant shall be king over them…”, and David is a prophetic symbolism for Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As we will see in the next paragraph, the Pharisees and Jesus Christ had that conversation. Jesus Christ is the one and only King over the children of God, and this following verse describes who the children of God are, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13. As followers of Jesus Christ, we walk with God by the Holy Spirit in us, and we keep the testimony of Jesus. “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16

Jesus Christ pointed out the obvious, which the Pharisees had a hard time accepting. They had such a hard time that they quit asking Jesus any questions and began to conspire to have Him put to death. The conversation the Pharisees and Jesus had about king David is an example, as described below.

Jesus asked the Pharisees whose Son is the Christ. The Pharisees replied that He was the son of David. Jesus pointed out the obvious that David called the Christ his Lord, not his son. Jesus made them realize the obvious, that the Christ could not be the son of David because David calls Him Lord. In those days, a son was never ever exalted above the father. Jesus was making them confront some very simple truth. Christ Jesus is indeed the Son of God, not the son of David, and king David himself calls Christ his Lord.

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.” He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:

 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.”
Matthew 22:41-46

For all practical purposes, Jesus Christ is indeed in the family tree of king David, both being from the tribe of Judah. The genealogy of Christ mentions king David as well as the fact that Jesus is the Christ, “…and Jesse begot David the king…And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.” Matthew 1:6,16 Jesus met every qualification of the Christ, as prophesied about in the scriptures, and the Jewish leaders were blind and deaf to the truth.

We walk in the judgments and statutes of God through Jesus Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit. He is our one Shepherd.  “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son…” Romans 8:1-3 “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.” Luke 16:15

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1