Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise Him—may your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations (Psalm 22:26-28). The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want (Psalm 23:1). Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is He, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—He is the King of glory (Psalm 24:7-10). “The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,” declares the Lord Almighty (Haggai 2:8). In the same way as the Old Testament reveals God as King and Lord and Owner of all, the New Testament reveals Jesus Christ as Lord and Owner of all. First of all, as we have already seen, Jesus came announcing the arrival and reestablishment of the Kingdom of heaven on earth, something only the King Himself could do. And because a king is automatically a lord, this means that Jesus is Lord also. In addition, the most common Greek word for “lord,” kurios , is applied to Jesus repeatedly in the New Testament. Kurios signifies having power. It also means one who possesses ultimate authority; master. Everything the Old Testament says about God as Lord, the New Testament says about Jesus.

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