Do Not Make Corona World a Justifier

It seems that in this season, self-righteousness has been given a new stage to play itself out on. People feel righteous based on how fearful they are and others feel righteous due to how courageous they are. People feel righteous due to how faithful they are to the guidelines and also others as to how indifferent they are to them. We, as the people of God, must always remember that our righteousness is outside of us in the Jesus story (Romans 3:3-6).

Lordship Is About Sonship Not Slavery

2 Samuel 7:11-14, “The Lord declares to you: The Lord Himself will make a house for you. When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me.”

2 Corinthians 7:16-18, “And what agreement does God's sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said: I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people. Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Romans 8:15, “For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’”

There is something vital about these texts that contribute to this Lordship conversation. The first is that in 2 Samuel 7, we see that the Kingship is about Christ the Son. Vital to the concept of Kingship is the concept of sonship. The second thing we see in 2 Corinthians is that this King who is the Son makes us sons in Him by and through the King's gracious covenantal administration.

Lordship Salvation Is About the Freedom of His Beauty Not the Fear of His Authority

Romans 6:15-18, “What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! Don't you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to, and having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.”

This text is very instructive as to how we should see the Lordship of Christ. First note that we are said to be under the domain of grace not law.

Lordship Salvation Is More About How the King Creates Submission than Our Submission

Ephesians 1:22-23, “And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.”

Acts 5:30-31, “But Peter and the apostles replied, ‘We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree. God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.‘”

We have already used the Ephesians text in prior articles, but it is rich with various implications. Consider how the exaltation, position and power of the King is said to be a fullness that fills those who are united to Him. Meaning, the Lordship of Christ is about how the accomplishments of Christ from where He is fills and shape things (persons) beneath Him.