Shiloh Baptist Church

A lord is defined as someone who has authority, control, or power over others.

1. A lord is someone who exercises authority from property rights which means they own what they are lord over. A lord is also a person who is a leader or has great influence over people. A person becomes a lord by two methods.
2. They receive the title lord by virtue of being heir to it or they receive the title lord by life peerage, given rank and dignity from a person with the same legal status.
3. “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God” – Philippians 2:6 KJV.

A man is given the title ‘Lord’ by someone who is equal to him in abilities, qualifications, and background. In God’s kingdom, the one that is highest with God is first lowest with man. One must first learn submission before they can obtain ‘Lordship’ in God’s kingdom; “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered” – Hebrews 5:8 KJV. There is only one man that has ever lived that can meet all of these criteria. The Prophet Isaiah said there was nothing special or impressive about the way He looked and there was nothing that we could see that would cause us to like Him. He suffered like no other. He was totally innocent, but people still hated, rejected, despised, and mocked Him. People made fun of Him and even His friends left Him. He is the one who suffered pain and sickness for our sake. He is the one who people called names and took His stick and kept hitting Him on the head with it (Matthew 27:30). We treated Him like someone of no importance and like someone we did not even want to look at but turn away from in disgust (Isaiah 53:2-3). People spit in His face, beat Him with their fists, and slapped Him with the palms of their hands (Matthew 26:67). Many were shocked when they saw Him because He was beaten so badly that he no longer looked like a human (Isaiah 52:14). He is the only one that could trade places with us and hang on a tree as a curse (Deuteronomy 21:22-23). He is the only one that could deliver us from eternal damnation and give us the gift of eternal life (Galatians 3:13). He is the only man whose name is called The Word of God (Revelation 19:13). He was there when God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26 KJV). His name is called The Word of God because He was there with God the Father in the beginning and all things were made by Him (John 1:1-3).

He is the only human being to have died and rise up from the grave with all power in His hands (Matthew 28:18). God the Father gave Him a name above all other names (Philippians 2:9). He is the personification of love. He is the demonstrator of true humility. He is the embodiment of obedience. He is the ultimate example of flesh walking around the earth with power, grace, and mercy; “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14 KJV). He is God in the flesh, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30 KJV).

He is the only one to have earned LORDSHIP of all things and there is no other name like his name, the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Submitted By Trustee Stanley Ridley