Kingdom Principles

r Chapter Five K INGDOM C ONCEPT #2 U NDERSTANDING THE K INGDOM C ONCEPT OF L ORD O ne of the most common words used in Scripture is the word lord . This word does not exist in democracies, socialist societies, or republics, except in the word land lord , in reference to one who owns land. Landlord is the only com mon remnant of kingdoms in modern governments and Western societies. Yet this concept of lord is one of the fundamental princi ples of a kingdom. Every kingdom must have a king, but it is also true that every king is automatically a “lord.” It is this quality of lordship that distin guishes a king from a president, a prime minister, a mayor, and a governor. As a matter of fact, a king’s lordship makes him different from any other kind of human leader. Lordship makes a king unique. In the last chapter we talked about a king’s sovereignty—how a king is free from external control and he can do whatever he pleas es with accountability to no one except himself. A king’s sovereign ty is absolute. He is neither voted into nor voted out of power; sovereignty is his by right of birth. The same is true of a king’s lord ship. All kings are automatically lords.

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