“Jesus is LORD.” Romans 10:9 tells us that in order to have salvation, we must acknowledge His LORDship over every area of our lives. We do that through submission and obedience. That is the only way we will be conformed to the image of our Jesus
Jesus possesses all authority. All authority. ALL authority. He has delegated authority to us to go into all the world and make disciples—baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 28:18-20]
Jesus is LORD. That is the truth. It remains the truth whether or not people admit it is the truth. Truth does not change. What changes are opinions. Your “opinion” of Jesus as LORD has no effect on His position or authority.
One day all will submit to the truth that “Jesus is LORD.”
“[Jesus], existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage.
Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man in His external form,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross.
For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” [Philippians 2:6-11 HCSB]
That wondrous truth should encourage us to bow our knee now—willingly—and confess that “Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.”
