In 2 Corinthians 4:5 it says thus: 'For we preach not of ourselves, but JESUS CHRIST the LORD'. Indeed Jesus Christ is Lord!!! When you as the church preach or make such a verbal statement; what are you really declaring?We are actually declaring three important things in respect to our Chief Cornerstone, the Firstborn of the Sons of God, The Overcomer; Our High Priest; Our Advocate; The King of the Kingdom of God. Before we explore and ratify our declaration lets ponder a few things.
1. God explicitly states in I Corinthians 12.3: ' . . . and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.' so when one says that Jesus Christ is Lord in actual fact it is the Spirit (the earnest of our inheritance~ Eph 1) that must and should have revealed something to the one making the utterance. If not; then some of us who make this declaration do so from a point of ignorance and therefore must be in that segment of the church I call in my vocabulary: 'copy-cat christians'. Meaning they are a group who have no fresh revelations of nor have they entered into a relationship (sonship) with Father of Creation. They just go with the flow (Hebrews 2:1 AMP ~ 'Since ALL this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away'. So what are we saying then? Hang in there . . . we see it just now.
2. I like the number three. In God's use of symbols and numbers in the context of His Man-Manual the number 3 refers to 'completeness' or 'completedness'. Most of God's work is a 'completed' work even unto perfection. Take for example:
Existence of all matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas.
Man: Body, Mind, Soul.
Tabernacle: Outer Court, Holy Place, Holy of Holies.
The list can go on and on . . . Our God is the maker of all things good.
Now then when we say JESUS CHRIST is LORD it speaks of His abosolute dominion and His wondrous works in our lives unto completion. Note three words: JESUS; CHRIST and LORD.
First: He is JESUS. Jesus means 'saviour'. He saved us from the kingdom of death; darkness and evil into realm of life, light and righteousness. So He is your personal SAVIOUR.
Two: He is the CHRIST. (This is not a surname but a title). Christ means 'the annointed one' 'annointing of the Spirit' Acts 1:4&5) ' the one who baptises in the Holy Ghost' 'the baptizer'. The one who gave us the 'ascension' gifts (Eph 4:11-15) and the 'decension' gifts (Acts 1:8/ 1 Cor 12). In saying Christ we are saying that we are born-again into the Kingdom of God. Peter said this 'born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible'. And so we declare that we are 'Spirit-filled' and are born-again of the Spirit
Three: He is LORD. This is the most neglected but also an important part of the declaration. That He might be absolute Lord of our lives, have dominion in His own Kingdom. For we are His Kingdom (Luke 17 :21) and He is our King. This Lordship can only come if we as His sons ( daughters also) have come through the gates of the Tabernacle and received Him as SAVIOUR; if we have traversed thro' the door of the Tent and are born again by 'water and by Spirit' and thirdly have gone thro the veil into the King's Throneroom, where 'self' must die. Self and Christ cannot both be LORD. Alas self must die for Christ to rule supreme.
But there are areas in your life that have not been touched yet where self still rules and we declare Him as LORD. There is a people, God's people who will come through this last death and a resurrection into His Life and Lordship.
Thats God's perfect man, the multi-membered man; God's 'a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ'. God's complete man!
How about you today? Are you trully declaring that 'JESUS CHRIST is LORD' in your life?
He is the KING of kings and the LORD of lords!!!!!
'I will come and bow down at your feet Lord Jesus'
God's peace to you.
Alec Jordan Seekola
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