Christ the Lord
Posted 2/28/25
The angel came to Joseph and Mary and said, Luke 2:11, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
So John 1:1, “The Word was made flesh.”
When? “This day.”
Where? In Jerusalem, the “city of David.”
The time had come for prophecy to be fulfilled, and with faith, the Jews were to look for their Messiah. He was born a “Savior” not one who shall be a Savior, but born a Savior.
“Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11 is the only place where these words come together; And there can be no other way to understand that “Lord” here corresponds to the Hebrew “Jehovah.”
The Septuagint generally translates “Yehovah” by the Greek word “Kurios.” The Hebrew word from “hayah,” he was, properly points out the eternity and self-existence of the Supreme being: “Kurios” is a proper translation or Yehovah, and comes from “I am, I exist.”
To understand and believe that Jehovah is not only Almighty, that he is not only all-sufficient, but he is God with us.
1 Timothy 3:16, “God was manifest in the flesh.”
Jesus Lordship must be understood strictly in a spiritual sense. He never set up a secular government upon the earth, neither commanded any to be established in his name: and there certainly is no spiritual government but that of Jehovah.
Jesus Christ, Jehovah in the flesh came to dwell with men in this lowly place and the commonest environment, the city called Bethlehem.