
The Lordship of Jesus
Introduction
One of the most important truths of Father God’s revelation to mankind, is that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. To know this fact, is foundational to have a victorious life in Christ Jesus. However, it has been my experience and ministry of over 53 years that many people who call themselves Christians have not submitted their lives to Christ, and received Him as Lord. The greatest truth is when one takes on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and has received eternal life.
In no way should this teaching is to bring about condemnation. At different times in our lives, we all had to repent for different shortcomings and seek God’s forgiveness. But at the same time, we must have as a constant reminder within our very spirit that we are to serve the risen, Lord, in every situation, and every circumstance.
Satan’s lordship.
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior revealed to us who believe in Him , is just as real as the fact that Satan is lord of the natural man. Christ showed us that when He recognized it and called him Satan, the prince of this world. And John, 14:38 says, “for the prince of this world comes and has nothing in me” Even the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:4 stated that “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, who is that image of God”. Satan and all his demons are called spiritual rulers of this world. And the apostle Paul said in Ephesians 6:12, that “we do not wrestle against people, flesh and blood, but against the rulers of this world, against spiritual darkness, hosts of spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.”
He also stated that the natural man is walking, according to the rule, according to their ruler. In Ephesians 2:2 says, “when you once walked walk according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit, that works in the sons of disobedience.”
Remember, that Satan, in the beginning did not hold authority over the human race and creation. Man was the original Lord. God gave him dominion over the works of creation, making him his under ruler. It says in Genesis 1:26, “let us make man in our manage, after our own, like this, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creepy thing that creeps up on the face of the earth.”
As we can see, now, the entire universe is suffering, and the misery has its reign in Satan, which has been brought to the human heart. Man was given dominion over the works of the hands of God. He returned that vast dominion over to the hands of Satan; man went from lordship to slavery. Even the animal kingdom has grown under the lordship of Satan. See Romans 8:20-24
However, Father God, did not leave man in his hopeless condition to suffer eternal wrath under the reign of Satan. In the very presence of Adam’s high crime of treason, Father God gave the promise of one Jesus, who legally broke the lordship of Satan over the human race. Genesis 3 15-18.
Christ, The Conqueror
We must understand that this was a legal contract between God and Adam and Eve. God being God could not just undo without him indeed have done God in his perfect timing brought to deliver for through the Virgin Mary Christ Jesus. Christ broke the dominion of Satan over the human race. Jesus at Calvary brought to nothing absolute and total deliverance once, and for all, over authority in the realm of death. Hebrews 2 :14.
Two things you must understand that are very important.
1st, Christ did not take authority over Satan for Himself. Satan was never Lord over Christ. The son of God, who lives in eternity and equality with a Father, was not touched by Adams, high crime of treason, which made Satan in lord of the human race. He did not partake of the sin nature. The impeccability of Christ was clear and never a question. He did not share in the fallen nature of humanity. He was without sin. Philippians 2: 2-8.
Even when Jesus became man, he was free from Satan’s dominion, for He was not born of natural generation He was God incarnate, and by this reason his deity He remained greater than Satan and his rulers of this world.
Remember, Christ said in John 14:30 the prince of this world, but has nothing or no part in me. The incarnation of Christ gave him no relationship to Satan. The term Son of God was expressed His deity and his title Son of Man, which expressed His humanity. He was never subject to the god of this world. He had the same kind of humanity that Adam had before the crime of high treason. Therefore, we must understand that the life of Christ upon earth demonstrated the life of man free from the lordship of Satan. Satan obeyed Jesus in every area that AFFECTED MANKIND; disease and sickness obeyed Jesus, He forgave sin, and every force of nature obeyed His command.
2nd, we can see the Christ took upon Himself the consequences of sin. He conquered sin for mankind. Christ was free from Satan’s, dominion, and Christ could broke the power of disease over a man’s life and cast out demons. Jesus did not need to be free from Satan’s lordship, humanity needed, deliverance from the nature of Satan out of which came selfish, jealousy, the reign of sin, disease, and rebellion toward God.
The lordship of Satan, over humanity, over the individual had to be broken by Christ Jesus on the cross. Christ identified himself with spiritual death. The nature of Satan has won dominion over mankind through the rebellion of Adam and Eve. Jesus conquered all on the behalf of humanity. 2 Corinthians 5: 21.
We do not know the exact nature of the combat between Christ and Satan. We only know that Jesus rose from the dead as a Man-God on our behalf. He himself conquered all satanic principalities and power. Christ entered the holy of holies with His own blood. Father God recognized and accepted the complete redemption from Satan’s authority over men that he had over the human race in Hebrews 912 it says, “through his own blood he entered it in once, for all onto the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.” The first man Adam was cast forth from the presence of God, because Satan had become his master, and the human race was identified in that rejection. Genesis 3:22- 24.
In Christ Jesus, there is now remission of sins as a result of His spiritual death. It says in Hebrews 10:14-18, In Christ Jesus, there is now remission sins as a result of His spiritual death. It says in Hebrews 10:14-18, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.” And man has been declared righteous before Father God who accepted the sacrifice of Jesus and His lordship.
Christ, Crowned Lord Overall.
Because of Calvary and His victory over Satan Father God crowned Jesus as Lord over all. When Christ rose from the dead, He arose above every rule and authority and power and dominion. Eph. 1:12-22.
In Christ, the son of man had risen from the dead and broken the lordship of Satan. God crowned him as lord when he gave him a name that is above every name invested with the authority of his conquest.
In Ephesian 1: 19-20 states the following and “what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us, who believe, according to that work, is of the strength of his mate, what she wrote in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at the right hand, and the heavenly places, for above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name it is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.”
His authority is our authority. His victory over Satan is our victory over Satan. As He was victorious over sin, sickness and spiritual death so are we. Our preaching the gospel can lead others to eternal life and bring health, healing, and freedom. It says in Ephesians 1:22- 23 that Father God put all things in subject under the feet of Jesus, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of Him, that filleth, all in all.