HE IS LORD OF ALL!
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· 8 viewsIn this lesson Pastor Bogan explains that through the resurrection Jesus has obtained an unconditional claim or right over all created things!
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According to this passage, through the resurrection God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ. Not just Christ (Messiah, King of the Jews), but also LORD!
The word “lord” has pretty much disappeared from our vocabulary. There was a time when servants would refer to their masters as lord and wives would call their husbands lord. Today, we hardly ever use the term. Sure, we recognize the word from our worship songs (For He Is Lord), but do we understand the meaning of the words? The truth is, ‘lord’ just doesn’t carry the same significance as it once did.
The Meaning of the Term
The term ‘lord’ means owner. It refers to someone who has absolute authority by virtue of their ownership. Therefore, to say that ‘Jesus is Lord’ is to say that He has absolute authority because He has redeemed (purchased) us with His blood (). Not just us, but the world ()!
To say that Jesus is Lord is to say that He has absolute authority and He has this authority by virtue of the fact that He has purchased (redeemed) the whole world with His blood (, ).
Because Jesus has purchased us with His blood, He has the right to command our actions. The world may not recognize Jesus as Lord, but God does and He has confirmed this through the resurrection (; ).
The world may not recognize Jesus as Lord, but God recognizes as the true Lord through the resurrection (). On what ‘day’ was the Christ begotten (Acts 13:30-33).
The world tends to identify God, if they even acknowledge Him at all, as an impersonal force. To the world God is someone who grants them power or an advantage in life. They do not, however, see Him as someone that has absolute authority over what they can or cannot do. Therefore, identifying Christ as Lord is what distinguishes a believer from the world ().
To confess Jesus as Lord is to acknowledge that Christ has bought me with His own blood and He, therefore, has the right to command my actions (). Not everybody confesses this about Christ, but they should (). If they don’t do it now in life, they SHALL do it in judgment (, ).
I think we have taken a very relaxed approached to the death and resurrection of Christ. We have assumed that Christ died and was raised from the dead simply to purchase salvation for us. But the truth is, He died and was raised from the dead to purchase us! When you pay money to a cashier you are not only satisfying a debt, but you are also gaining ownership of the merchandise!
Because of the resurrection, Christ has the unconditional claim (or right) over our lives (). The religious leaders had commanded the apostles not to preach or teach in Christ’s name (). Yet, the apostles did it anyway. When they were asked why they responded by telling them that the Lord had given them a commandment to teach in His name. Moreover, since He is not only our Savior but our PRINCE (commander and chief), His authority trumps all other authority.
In fact, all other lordships (authority) are derived from His Lordship. For example, He confers His authority to husbands (“…wives submit yourselves to your husbands AS UNTO THE LORD”). He also confers this authority to the Church (“In my name you shall cast out devils…heal…forgive sins…teach them whatsoever I have commanded you”).
There’s a sense in which Christ has always had this right. The disciples recognized the Lordship of Christ during the days of His flesh (raising of Lazarus from the dead, commanding the winds and the waves). But, it was the resurrection that this Lordship was ratified and made complete. (It’s similar to an engagement. When you’re engaged people may ‘recognize’ you and your fiancé as a couple. But, the marriage ceremony makes that union more complete and final.)