“It is good to be reminded that ‘Lord’ is more than a title, and more than a name. It reveals the identity of Jesus, and compels a response from us that is more than simply a phrase we say – ie., there is more at stake here than saying ‘Jesus is Lord.’ That phrase implies so much, that when rightly understood it alters our worldview.”
I recently preached 2 Corinthians 4:5 (“We do not breach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord”), and in preparation I came across this powerful list of 8 implications of preaching Jesus as Lord. These are from Murray Harris’s New International Greek Testament Commentary (p 332), where he writes:
Whenever worshiping Christians repeat the church’s confession “Jesus is Lord,” they are:
1. Implying that the Christ of faith was none other than the Jesus of history (Acts 2:34–36),
2. acknowledging the deity of Christ (John 20:28; Phil. 2:6, 9–11),
3. admitting the Lord’s personal rights to absolute supremacy in the universe, the church, and individual lives (Acts 10:36; Rom. 10:12; 14:8; 1 Cor. 8:6; Jas. 4:15),
4. affirming the triumph of Christ over death and hostile cosmic powers when God raised him from the dead (Rom. 10:9;
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