On the eve of Christ’s last day with His disciples, before He was taken into custody by the Roman cohort and officers who were in league with the chief priests and the Pharisees, Jesus began a prayer with the disciples, saying “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You, just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.”

From how Jesus prayed, we realize the Father has given Him authority over all mankind. The reason the Father gave the Son that authority? So He would have the legal, binding right, along with the power necessary to carry it out, the giving of eternal life to all whom the Father had given to Him. No other king prior to this point in time, nor any other king since this point in time, possessed the authority to carry this out.

Jesus is our King of kings!

Immediately after Jesus addressed the Father with that statement in His prayer, He prayed, “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent”.

We know God the Father, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom the Father sent; and this is eternal life! He who has the Son has life.

That is a blood-sealed fact which no one can take away from you. No level of power that anyone wields on earth, nor any power of any unclean, evil spirit, can take that away from you. Jesus Christ, the King of kings, has sole possession of you, backed by the Father-endued authority which the Son reigns in.

Sure, it may seen like world governing powers do as they please with the authority “inherent” in the office they hold, but no world event can transpire without it first being authorized by Jesus, the King of kings. No world event can touch the eternal life the Son has given to you.

You reign in eternal life with the King of kings!