Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died, and rose and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
He said, "The transcendence of the name of Jesus and its everlasting glory depend upon the work accomplished at the place called Calvary and at the open grave. And someday, 'every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord — to the glory of God the Father. When the lordship of Jesus is a settled issue in the Christian's life, all other issues are settled.
It is my privilege and responsibility to teach the members of my congregation what the Bible says about serving God; witnessing and soul winning; stewardship of time, talent, and treasure; faithfulness to God's work; missions; and many other aspects of Christian responsibility. I contend that if the Christian has settled the lordship issue, then all other issues in his life are also settled.
When Jesus is Lord of a person's life, he will fulfill his duties, obligations, and responsibilities with joy. In our lives there should be no rivalry for His throne. The lordship of Jesus has both future and present relevance in our lives. Read the words of the apostle Paul in Philippians NKJV : "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
There is coming a day when every person who has ever lived will bow and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But for the Christian that great confession should be an everyday reality. A Christian should live moment by moment in faithful submission to the lordship of Jesus Christ. While attempting to know more about the lordship of Christ and at the same time yield more fully to His lordship, I discovered that I, in presenting this glorious subject to others, made an appeal to people that was incorrect and potentially misleading.
There was a time when I would conclude my sermon by making an appeal to my hearers to make Jesus Lord of their life. The Lord knew the intent of my heart, but I am not as sure that the same was true of those who heard my appeal.
We do not make Jesus Lord — He is Lord! Now, when I preach on the lordship of Christ, my appeal to those in the audience is not to make Jesus Lord; I now appeal to them to surrender their lives to the sovereign rule and ownership of the Lord Jesus Christ. The central message of the Bible is that "Jesus Christ is Lord. If this is true, and I do believe that it is, should it not compel us to make the preaching of this message a matter of priority and urgency?
Could it be that the source of defeat, discouragement, and despair in the lives of some Christians is, in large part, the fact that they are attempting to live the Christian life in their own strength and power? When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, it involves a recognition of His lordship, for the Savior who saved us when we received Him by faith is the Lord Jesus Christ.
We cannot and do not receive Him as Savior only. We receive Him as Lord and Savior. However, for some yielding to Jesus as Lord is subsequent to their conversion. It may be a few months later, or for some, many years later. This was my own experience. I did not willfully reject the lordship of Christ; I simply did not know about His lordship.
He was presented to me as Savior at the time of my conversion. I was introduced to Him as Lord several years later. However, let us note that this is not intended to be the biblical pattern. We must not fail to communicate the "whole council of God. For Jesus to be Lord of your life means that He is the ruler, the boss, the master of your whole life. He cannot be Lord of a part — He must be given control of the entire life - the whole life. When thinking about the whole life of a person, we must think of various parts that make up a person.
Paul wrote, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" I Thess. Paul makes it plain that the whole person is made up of spirit, soul, and body. A person has an inner, private, unseen-to-the-natural-eye aspect of life and he has an outer, visible, and public life that is seen and heard by those with whom he comes in contact day by day.
Jesus desires to be Lord of the seen and the unseen, the visible and the invisible, the private aspects of our life and the public aspects of our life. He wants to be Lord of our spiritual life and of our physical life. The inner sanctuary, the spirit and soul, contains the mind, the emotion, and the will. It is in our spirit and soul that we think, feel, choose, decide, dream, and plan.
Battles are fought and won or lost on the battleground of our private life. Is Jesus Lord over this area of your life? The writer of Proverbs said. Don't underestimate the importance of our private life. Although more attention is often given to the physical body, our true spiritual health is determined by the spirit and soul — not the body. The outward life expresses the inner life. The outward life involves our eyes, our ears, our lips, our hands, our feet, our entire body.
Our public life is expressed by what we see, what we say, what we hear, where we go, and what we do. It is so important that Jesus be Lord over our public life. We need to see the public life in the context of home life, the workplace, the classroom, and the neighborhood. We need to see it in its relationship with friends, family, work colleagues, neighbors, and classmates. We need to see it in its attitude toward possessions, obligations, and responsibilities, and the use of time and resources.
If we agree with the view of S. Zwemer "If Jesus is not Lord of all, the He is not Lord at all" , then there are many areas of life that must come under His lordship. Is Jesus Lord of your thoughts?
Is Jesus Lord of your emotions? Is Jesus Lord of your speech, of your relationships, of your possessions? Is Jesus Christ Lord of your whole life? What must a person do in order for Jesus Christ to be Lord of his life? The easy answer is, "Yield your life to Him. He whines constantly about the old joke that "the Devil has the best music", taking it as a completely serious slight against his religion, and using it to attack virtually all modern music as "Satanic".
His website also attacks other Christian apologists apparently for not being as psychotic — such as banana enthusiast Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron , claiming that they are too affiliated with "Satanic" Hollywood. Even Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feminism is of course evil; a woman's place is in the home and subservient to her husband. Women are daughters of Eve and are rebelling as Eve did. Feminism, abortion and lesbianism are of course all the same thing.
Stewart takes Biblical commandments against cross-dressing rather literally. He has argued repeatedly and at great length against women wearing trousers or "pants", as he says, resulting in much unintentional hilarity amongst British English -speaking readers [14] and has also denounced men who wear kilts. Rice , Terry D. Stewart strongly denies the theory of Darwinian evolution and has an entire section of his website dedicated to "debunking" evolution [20] with links to a variety of crank sources and some sources composed by himself.
Stewart even goes to the extent of claiming that the idea of evolution was created by the Illuminati as a justification to bring about global communism and that evolution and Social Darwinism are inseparable. He also strongly denies anthropogenic global warming [22] and views this in the same context as evolution, somehow. Stewart also promotes homeopathy [23] even though the Bible tells us that diseases are caused by demons, which homeopathic "remedies" wouldn't be effective against.
As it happens, Stewart is horribly afflicted with constant, agonizing spinal pain which has not been cured by any surgeries or his years of fervent prayers. Either that, or it's actually God's idea of punishment for a truly baleful crime. The website also includes a list of "False Religions". Every religion known to man is on that list, including many Christian denominations. Apparently the Illuminati, Freemasonry, and atheism are also religions.
Stewart seems to have a hobby of looking for hidden imagery in the most innocent of TV shows. Every prayer in the home and every sermon in a chapel closes in the name of Jesus Christ.
The emblems of the sacrament similar to communion that are taken weekly in worship services are symbols of His atonement. As the only perfect man who ever lived, Jesus set the example in His life for all to follow. His sacrifice also allows all humankind to be resurrected into immortality.
He is the Savior, and in a future time will be the Judge.
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