BOTH Lord and Christ

"King of kings and Lord of lords"

We do, indeed, have to know or be awakened to that place in the spirit where we realize that we are a lord or a king as, I believe, that this brother is trying to share. And we all know that Jesus is also our Elder Brother, which makes us and him have the same Father God. God's children could only be gods....for it is kind after kind.

How can Jesus be Lord of lords, if we have not found our own lordship....or be King of kings, if we have not found our authority or kingship with him? We are the lords and kings he is the Lord and King of.

BUT

We also need to be mindful that we are not The Lord or The God unto our self alone. This is where I think some of the teaching on this subject may seem to go astray.

Jesus was made BOTH Lord and Christ.

Acts 2:36

"Let the whole house of Israel recognize beyond all doubt and acknowledge assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, the Messiah, this Jesus Whom you have crucified."

God has made him. There is a making process involved to realize this by experience, not just intellectually, in us as well... our soul and our body.

Many, it seems to me, are trying to divorce Jesus from that highly exalted place that God brought him to.

1. He is LORD as the Son of God. He is LORD in his deity, His oneness with the Everlasting Father, The Mighty God.

2. He is Christ in his relationship with humanity, a Son of Man....not ashamed to call us brothers, the Chief Cornerstone of a living temple.

I was drawn to the Lord as a child and baptized in the Holy Ghost at 16 and it was not just a nebulous something that quickened me to life and baztized me in the Spirit, but it was Jesus, who was made both Christ and Lord. He has been given an exalted place, in order to bring many sons to glory, the same kind of glory he was glorified with. In other words, as Lord or in His Deity He fathers a people. Jesus as Lord fathered me.

Jesus prayed Father:

"Just as You have granted Him [your Son] power and authority over all flesh (all human kind), so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him.

And this is eternal life; [it means] to know ( to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, Whom You have sent."

And as the Christ, (the anointed One) he is in relationship with us as His Body. He is the Son of man, the firstborn of many brothers, the chief cornerstone of this temple not made with hands.

So, for me, this all means that he is one with the Father as LORD .

and

He is one with us as CHRIST, for the Church or His Body is the fullness of Him.

"He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the new life with which He quickened Him." Eph:2:5

and

with this Christ IN US we have the same hope of the same kind of glory being realized in us that Jesus was glorifed with.

"All power, both in heaven [as Lord]

and

in earth [as Christ] is given me", Jesus said.