He's My Only Priest and Eternal King

Good kings also protect their people.  In this case, Christ keeps us - not happy, healthy, and wealthy - but free. Kevin DeYoung's The Good News We Almost Forgot

Q. Why is He called Christ, that is, Anointed? 

A. Because He has been ordained by God the Father, and anointed with the Holy Spirit, to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, who has fully revealed to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption;    

our only High Priest,

Psalm 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not relent, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” (cf. Hebrews 7:17 where it is quoted in reference to Christ).

who by the one sacrifice of His body has redeemed us,

Hebrews 9:12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 

Hebrews 10:11-14 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

and who continually intercedes for us before the Father;

Romans 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

and our eternal King,

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.” (cf. Matthew 21:5 where this is quoted in reference to Christ). 

Luke 1:33 “And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

who governs us by His Word and Spirit, and who defends and preserves us in the redemption obtained for us.

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.” 

John 10:28 “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 

Revelation 12:10,11 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 12