Adonay / Kyrios
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INTRODUCTION.
MESSAGE.
Lord (Adonay) in the Old Testament.
Lord (Adonay) in the Old Testament.
“Lord” - Master.
Note difference “Lord” = Master “LORD” = Yawheh.
more than 300 times in Old Testament.
Abraham called on God as Adonay.
First reference to God as Adonay is in the book of genesis 15:2.
2 And Abram said, “O Lord Yahweh, what will You give me, as I go on being childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Moses called on God as Adonay.
We see this in his account of God calling Moses on the mountain to go to Pharaoh in exodus 4:1-17.
1 Then Moses answered and said, “What if they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
2 And Yahweh said to him, “What is this in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.”
3 Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
4 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand—
5 “that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6 And Yahweh furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom; then he took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
7 Then He said, “Return your hand into your bosom.” So he returned his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it returned to being like the rest of his flesh.
8 “And so it will be, if they will not believe you or listen to the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of this last sign.
9 “But if it will be that they will not believe even these two signs and that they will not listen to your voice, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry land; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry land.”
10 Then Moses said to Yahweh, “Please, Lord, I have never been a man of words, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your slave; for I am one with a hard mouth and a hard tongue.”
11 And Yahweh said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
12 “So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak.”
13 But he said, “Please, Lord, send now the message by whomever You will.”
14 Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can certainly speak. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you. And he will see you and be glad in his heart.
15 “And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will instruct you in what you shall do.
16 “Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will become as a mouth for you, and you will become as God to him.
17 “And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”
LORD (Kyrios) in the New Testament.
LORD (Kyrios) in the New Testament.
Jesus as Adonay
LORD/Master
1. one who is in charge by virtue of possession, (owner).
2. One who is in a position of authority.
Paul refers to the security of our salvation by virtue of possession in romans 8:38-39.
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul refers to Jesus as LORD/Master in his position of authority in philippians 2:5-11.
5 Have this way of thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men.
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and that EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
3. Jesus is to be LORD (Kyrios) of our lives not just Savior.
The Bible tells us to call on Jesus as our LORD (Kyrois) for salvation.
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
When we call on Jesus as our LORD we give up the right to be our own.
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
We were bought or purchased which means we are owned or belong to God.
20 For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
We can not longer live for ourselves but for Him who purchased us.
CONCLUSION.