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Stopping Short?

by TerryLema June 16, 2022

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” [Rom 10:9 HCSB]

You are probably reading this devotional this day because at some point in your life you did exactly what Paul wrote in Romans 10.  You confessed that Jesus is Lord, you believed that He died, was buried, and rose from the grave.  And you know that through that confession of faith, you are saved now and will be with Him one day.

Jesus is Lord.  Lord, NT:2962, kurios (koo’-ree-os); from kuros (supremacy); supreme in authority.

Jesus is Lord.  He is the supreme authority over and in our salvation.  (Colossians 1:15-20 also declares His authority over everything, “in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities….”)

Salvation, of course, is our greatest need, but I wonder what would happen if we, His church, started claiming and confessing His Lordship over more than just our salvation.  What if we started seeking His Lordship over our bodies, our minds, our wills?  What if we started claiming His Lordship over our jobs, our families, our finances, our marriages?  What would happen if we started claiming His Supreme authority over our churches, our neighborhoods, our politicians, our scientists, our doctors, and our lawyers?

I wonder if we are stopping short of what God’s great will is.  Jesus said that we are to pray that the Father’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  We acknowledge with our minds that God’s will is the supremacy, the Lordship of Christ over all things, but are we praying that way?  Are we expecting God’s Spirit to move in answer to those kinds of prayers? 

Or, are we stopping short?  Something I am surely going to be thinking and praying about today.

June 16, 2022 0 comment
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Truth Remains Truth

by TerryLema February 2, 2022

“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.”

February 2, 2022 0 comment
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Pastor Terry Lema

Pastor Terry Lema has been married for 53 years, and has 3 children and 3 grandsons. Terry graduated from Trinity Bible College, and and recently retired as Lead Pastor at The Way Church in Middleton, Idaho.

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