"The Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age," Galatians 1:4.
Peter's Pentecost message asserts: God made Jesus both Lord and Christ (Messiah). This, the earliest public declaration about Jesus. The Hebrew Bible relentlessly points ahead to God's coming messiah and his kingdom. The New Testament affirms Jesus is that messiah. Every teaching of the New Testament returns to this axiom, God made Jesus Lord and Christ. The revealed will of God pivots about the work of Jesus. And what characterized that work? Jesus yielded his will to God, utterly. Jesus gave his very self. Why? To account for our sins. And to what end? To deliver us. From what? From the present evil age. This world is not heaven, and it ain't gonna be.
Reflect for a few moments what you mean when you say, "Jesus is Lord." And then, today, share with someone else what Jesus' work means for you.
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