0664. Master (Gr. Kurios), Lord

Master (Gr. Kurios), Lord

"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or In the morning" (Mar_13:35).

The word "Kurios," translated in our Key Verse, by the word "Master," occurs more times in the New Testament, than any other word which we have used. This word, however, is usually translated by the English word, "Lord."

Today the common word by which we speak of our Saviour is "Jesus." It would be far better, if we would speak of Him as the Lord Jesus, or, as Jesus Christ the Lord, or the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Act_2:36, we read, "God has made the same Jesus * * both Lord and Christ." No man can call Jesus, Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. No one has a right to say "Lord, Lord," except they are doing the will of their Father, Who is in Heaven.

The word "Lord," is a worshipful name. When we speak of Christ as Lord, we fall upon our faces before Him.

We recognize Him as the One Who died, the One Who was buried and the third day rose again; we behold Him as the One Who ascended up through the heavens and took His seat on the right hand of God.

When we call Jesus, Lord, we include in our adoration of Him, all the majesty which is His, as Master, in each of the six steps set forth above. Jesus Christ as Lord, is our Rabbi; He is our Great Chieftain; He is our Leader; He is our Teacher; He is the One Set Over; He is our Sovereign Lord; He is our Householder.

"Oh, that with yonder sacred throng

We at His feet may fall!

We’ll join the everlasting song,

And crown Him Lord of all.

"Let every kindred, every tribe,

On this terrestrial ball,

To Him all majesty ascribe,

And crown Him Lord of all."

When we come into the presence of Jesus Christ as Lord, we feel like saying, "Thou art worthy, oh Lord, to receive power and might, glory and honor, Thou wast slain."

Jesus Christ is Lord of lords, and when He comes down the clouds, riding upon His white horse, accompanied by myriads of angels and of saints, He will have written upon His vesture and on His thigh a name "King of kings, and Lord of lords."

The great denial of the age is the denial that Jesus Christ is Lord. The true believer claims Him as, "our only God, and our Lord Jesus Christ," but to the apostate, who has robbed Christ of His Deity, and who denies our only Lord Jesus, He is no more than Jesus, Joseph’s son.

Let us lift up our faces toward Him Who sitteth upon the throne; toward Him, Whose face is all glorious, shining as the sun in its strength; Whose hair is as white as snow, Whose voice is as the sound of many waters, let us lift up our faces toward Him and crown Him, "Lord of all."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR