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The Importance of Jesus is Lord

 



The word Lord gets lost on us anglos. It invokes images of a noble lord running a manor in Medieval times. When we see Lord in the Bible, it can be hard to shake seeing God as a English Lord who demands fealty and obedience. The truth is Lord is a place holder for Jehovah, and Jehovah means God of Israel, “Strong's Concordance

Yhvh: the proper name of the God of Israel

Original Word: ×™ְ×”ֹוָ×”

Part of Speech: Proper Name

Transliteration: Yhvh

Phonetic Spelling: (yeh-ho-vaw')

Transliteration: Yehovah, in Anglo Jehovah

Short Definition: LORD

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin

from havah

Definition

the proper name of the God of Israel

NASB Translation

GOD (314), LORD (6399), LORD'S (111).” . When we confess Jesus is Lord (Romans 10:9), we aren’t saying lord in the anglo sense, we are declaring Jesus is God of Israel, the I AM made flesh (John 1:1. 14). In Greek Lord means Master, but wr have to understand that Jesus apoke Aramaic which is closely tied fo Hebrew, which means Lord is meant in Hebraic sense of God of Israel, rather than Master. 


We read Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16) With the same anglo perspective, but it actually means King of Kings and God of gods, meaning greater than all gods, as seen in the old testament “For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God.” (Deuteronomy 10:17). 


Confusion comes from that Jesus spoke Aramaic and Hebrew is Aramaic’s offshoot, but the New Testament was written in Greek because it was the universal language. We have to be careful of thinking the greek word For Master is the true word for Lord, when Jesus and His Apostles spoke Aramaic and we must apply the Hebraic understanding of the word Lord, which has always been the placeholder for Jehovah (God of Israel). The apostles Peter and Paul just goes out and say it plainly, “Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ,” (2 Peter 1:1), and “while we wait for the blessed hope--the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). 


Yes Jesus is Master, but the point of Romans 10:9, and Philippians 2:11, is that confessing Jesus as Lord is to declare He is God of Israel. To quote a historian who understands how important this is, “the council (of Nicea) defined the Son [Jesus Christ] as consubstantial (homoousios) and co-eternal with the Father, sharing the same divine nature. This was vital, because if Christ was not the Incarnate Logos (Word of God) with the same fully divine nature, mere humans could not hope to share in eternal life through salvation.” (Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Judith Herrin, Chapter 4: Greek Orthodoxy, Pg 35-36). The Council of Nicea is right, Jesus is God, and they got the Co-Consubstantial from John 1:1, 14, John 5:18, John 10:27-30, John 14:9, John 20:28, Mathew 1:23, and etc. 


It is important we understand what calling Jesus our Lord really means. Amen. 



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