Why Only a King Can Give You What You’re Seeking | Seeking A King Pt 2 | Mike Darnell

You cannot read the story of Christmas intellectually and expect to understand it. You have to let the Holy Spirit speak to you. Scripture tells us in Luke chapter two that Mary brought forth her firstborn Son, wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for Him in the inn. That single phrase matters more than we realize.
In Scripture, the inn was not just a building. It was a household. And in the Kingdom, a household is a system. There was no room for Jesus in their system. There was no space for what He carried, how He would move, or what He was sent to accomplish. Everything Jesus came to do could not be done inside that system.
Yet even outside the system, He was still King.
He still had His benefits.
He still had provision.
He still fulfilled His assignment.
He still paid the price.
And He still rose again.
Jesus entered the earth in an unassuming way, outside the system, to show us something powerful: as long as you are in Him, you share what He shares. Mankind keeps marveling at what they built, waiting for a Savior to come through human effort. But salvation does not arrive through what people make. It comes by the Spirit.
Jesus was not born by human systems. Not by man-made activity. Not in a house that would have made natural sense. Even His birth bypassed the system. The virgin birth alone tells you this was never going to be something humanity could take credit for.
Jesus came outside the box so you could learn how to live outside of it too.
You have more in common with Jesus than you think. He came by the Spirit. He lived by the Spirit. He fulfilled His assignment by the Spirit. He was raised by the Spirit.
And when you make the confession that He is your Lord and Savior, you are pulled into that same Spirit-led life. Nothing a human being can give you compares to what you receive in that moment. It does not just change your eternity. It changes your every day.
Stop worrying about the wrong things.
Christmas is the reminder that everything you are looking for came through a baby in a manger, outside of the world’s system.


Understand: at some point in life, everything you lean on will fail or will not be enough. Jobs, systems, people, structures — they will all reach their limit. And when they do, you must know how to reach above them and say, I know where my help comes from.
That is why Christmas matters. Not because of presents as we know them, but because of everything that comes with seeking the King. Jesus came outside the system so you could live beyond it.


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