I. Christ's princes are princes born. The reason is that their birth is a new one, and any child may have it. Into the world in which Christ's princes are born no one can bring them but God.
II. They are princes by getting a royal education. Christ provides both a good textbook and a good Teacher. The textbook is the Bible; the Teacher is the Holy Spirit.
III. They are princes by training in royal work. The first subject that any Christian prince gets to rule is his own spirit. If you want to know whether you are a prince, ask if you can take care of yourself. Can you rule your own spirit? Apart from the general idea of ruling, there are three kinds of work that princes made by Christ get to do. The first is prayer; the second is patience; the third is peacemaking.
IV. All persons royally born may be said to have a crown in prospect. All princes do not come actually to be crowned with earthly crowns; but this is one of the best things about Christ's princes: they will all be crowned and all wear their crowns in heaven. The crown may be known by the inscription on it, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
J. Edmond, Christian World Pulpit,vol. ii., p. 161.
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