Jesus Is Lord
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 2/12/2017 PM |
Text: | Luke 6; Lord's Day 13 |
Psalters: | 259, 313, 3, 200 |
Applicatory to the Lord's Supper |
- What this means.
- Jesus Christ is supreme Lord of the entire universe.
- Jesus is the only Lord over all - not in a class of lords.
- Also Jesus is Lord in a special way to His people because He bought them with His blood and He rules over us by His grace.
- How does this confession reveal itself?
- After redeeming us, He establishes His throne in our hearts, realizing His Lordship in us. We do not make Him our Lord.
- Christ’s Lordship is made real to us by the work of His Spirit in our hearts, giving us a new, spiritual life.
- He is in sovereign and wise control of every circumstance and event in our lives: work, economy, cancer, birth, etc.
- Then we surrender ourselves to Him.
- We see ourselves as His property: body and soul, heart, mind, will, family, possessions, job, etc.
- And this means that He rules over us by grace and the constraining power of His love, not by force and compulsion.
- Thus we begin to love Him as Lord-Redeemer, to long for Him, to trust Him, and to surrender ourselves to Him.
- To confess His Lordship in this world means we receive the hatred of the world (John 16:33).
- After redeeming us, He establishes His throne in our hearts, realizing His Lordship in us. We do not make Him our Lord.
- The great implications of our acknowledging Jesus’ Lordship.
- First, all who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Rom. 10:13).
- Second, this fact brings a great obligation.
- Third, His Lordship gives great comfort.