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NASB | Philippians 2:11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 2:11 and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father. |
Bible Question:
This is kind've a follow up question to the answer to why we should call Jesus "Lord". I'm still a bit confused. 1. I'm pretty sure 99 percent of the people I associate with can tell that I'm talking about - or to - Jesus Christ when I say Jesus in conversation. If they don't, then adding the suffix of 'Lord' isn't going to change that really... 2.Jesus is not just the Lord. He is the Saviour, Redeemer, Son of God, Son of Man, Christ and Messiah. Does this mean - if we must call Him 'Lord' when we say Jesus - that we have to call Him "Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah, Son of God and Man, our Saviour and Redeemer" every single time we want to say "Jesus"? If not, then why do you single out "Lord"? Thankyou, I am really trying to understand why. |
Bible Answer: Dear dboy: I will do my best to answer your questions. . . . 1) I agree with you that 99 percent of the people you know could tell who you are talking about when you say "Jesus." The same is true of my circle of acquaintances. But I respectfully disagree with you when you say that adding 'Lord' isn't going to change anything. Perhaps not to the people you're talking to. But the title Lord when used with the name Jesus or Jesus Christ is loaded with scriptural meaning. The Jewish religious leaders had no problem recognizing "the carpenter's son" as Jesus. But most of them would rather die and go to hell before they would ever say Jesus is Lord. . . . Rom 10:9 ASV "because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:" Rom 10:13 ASV for, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Philippians 2:11 ASV "and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Note in Phil 2:11 "JESUS CHRIST IS LORD." . . . 2) I agree with you, Jesus is more than "just the Lord", although I wouldn't phrase it that way. Words have meaning and the words we use are important. "Just the Lord?" Properly understood, the word Lord when applied to Jesus Christ carries with it so much meaning, that one can hardly use the phrase "just the Lord." It is almost like referring to Him as "just God." If He is God, He is everything, having all the Deity, glory, splendor, authority and power as the Father does. It's like saying, "Oh, that Texan sitting over there? He's nobody. He's 'just' the President of the United States." . . . To confess that Jesus Christ is Lord or to call Him the Lord Jesus Christ implies that he is all the other things you so correctly say that He is. . . . But Scripture itself lays a heavy emphasis upon the title Lord. The words "Lord Jesus Christ" appear together in 106 verses in the King James Version of the Bible. Whenever anything is repeated once in the Bible, it is significant. But for a thing to be repeated 105 times has to carry a lot of weight, if the words of the Bible mean anything at all. . . . Why do I single out the word Lord? Because the Word of God singles out the word Lord in connection with Jesus Christ. It does so 106 times. I am not criticizing you or your question. But I must say that we cannot go by what everybody else says. Or by what everybody else calls the Lord Jesus Christ. All our teaching and belief is based solely on Scripture, nothing else. I'm not saying you do this, but many people make the mistake of getting their theology (doctrine, teaching) and their terminology from Christian songs and Christmas cards. Be safe. Get your terminology and teaching from the Bible only. Also note that Christ is the Greek word and Messiah is the Hebrew word for "Anointed" or "Anointed One". Both words mean THE SAME THING. To call Him both Christ and Messiah would be redundant. That the Christ is the Son of God as well as Saviour and Redeemer is understood, it's a given among Christians in general. . . . Again, dboy, I care about you as a dear brother in the Lord. I submit my answer to you in all humility and respect. I hope that this helps answer your question. Yours in Christ, JVH0212 |
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