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ADONAI IS LORD
JA NUARY 24, 20 21
WORSHIP WORD
Amazing God, READ IT! PARAPHRASE IT!
This is Amazing GENESIS 15:1 Restate the verse in your own words.
Grace, Your Great
“After these things the word TALK ABOUT IT!
Name
of the LORD came to Abram • What did you like about these verses?
in a vision saying, ‘Do not • What did you learn about God?
fear Abram, I am a shield, • What did you learn about people?
WELCOME your reward shall be very • What did you learn about following God
How do you usually great.’” • What does it mean for you that Jesus is Lord?
feel about and treat
those who are in READ Genesis 14:17-24 and POINT IT OUT!
Genesis 15:2-20 for context “Adonai” is another amazing name of God, and not just a
authority? Why? name, but a title of God first found in Genesis 15:1-2.
• It means Lord, Master, Owner, Supreme Authority,
Absolute Power (root word “adon”).
• When it refers to a human master, it is in the singular
form, “adoni.” But when it refers to God, amazingly, it’s in
the plural — “Adonai”! This is a hint of the Triunity of God
• Literally means, “Lords” when it refers to God and gives
the idea of the supreme, absolute, power of God, the
One who has all authority and the One who owns
everything— absolute Owner (Deuteronomy 10:17).
• Emphasis of this word is how we are to relate and
respond to Him.
“SODA” is an acronym to help us respond to the Lordship
of God:
• S – Surrender: Because God is the absolute Owner
of everything.
• O – unconditional Obedience: Because He has
supreme Authority.
• D – Devotion: Because He is a good Lord, a good
Master.
• A – Anticipation: Because our Master is good, we
anticipate His goodness towards us.
God takes the initiative to speak to Abraham, the first time in the
Bible where we read the words, “Do not fear”. Grammatically,
we see that our good Lord gave Abraham a command in the
continuous tense, “Abram, stop being afraid. Do not fear”.
God says, “I am a shield to you”. He’s not just saying He will
protect us – He’s saying, “I am your protection.” The amazing
answer to our fears, our security is none other than God Himself!
“Adonai” is translated in Greek as “Kyrios” which means “Lord”.
The word “Yahweh” is also translated as “Kyrios” in the Greek
Old Testament with the same meaning of “supreme power,
absolute authority”. Amazingly, this same title “Kyrios” is used
to describe Jesus 700 times in the New Testament! The word,
“Savior” is used to describe Jesus only 20 times. In other
words, Jesus is “Adonai = Kyrios”.
“The LORD says to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I make
your enemies a footstool for your feet’” (Psalm 110:1). The
LORD “Yahweh” says to “Adoni”. Jesus used this exact verse
to refer to Himself (Matthew 22:42-44). Based on Psalm 110 as
a Messianic prophecy about Himself—”I am the Adonai of the
Old Testament”. The apostles used the same passage to prove
that Jesus is the Messiah, that He is Adonai (Acts 2:34-36).
Adonai of the Old Testament is the same “Adonai” (“Kyrios”) of
the New Testament--Jesus. Jesus is none other than Lord.
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Kyrios has the corollary counterpart, “servant/slave” (doulos) APPLY IT!
in the Bible used 124 times in the New Testament; over 800 PRAYER POINTS
times in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, doulos is Based on this lesson on
translated only a few times as “slave” because English trans- God’s name: ADONAI IS I. Thanksgiving
lators in the 16th-17th century used the word “servant” instead LORD, write down your ac- Worship God for who He is, what
due to the negative connotation of “slave” then. But this does tion point to apply what you He has done, and what He will do
not show the original meaning of “doulos” because a servant
is hired; a slave is owned. A servant has limited freedom, a learned. Make this your “I in our lives
slave has no rights; their wellness and future depend on the will…” statement and follow
II. Country and the World
goodness of their master. New Testament writers understood the S.M.A.R.T guideline to
that Jesus is the Lord, and they considered themselves as His Upright and moral governance of
come up with a do-able Public Servants
slaves. The Roman government then would force people to action point.
say, “Caesar is lord”; if not, you are jailed or killed. But the true A God-centered Philippines
followers of Jesus never said, “Caesar is lord”; only, “Jesus is Repentance and Salvation
my Lord”. Simple
III. Church
SURRENDER Measurable That CCF Members would honor
True freedom from a biblical perspective is the power to say Appropriate and love God and make disciples
“no” to sin and “yes” to God. It’s the ability and desire that God Elders, Pastors, Leaders, and
gives to do what is right. True freedom comes only when you Realistic Families
recognize and submit to the Lordship of Jesus. We keep failing Time-bound Ministries and Churches
to do what we know is right but knowing the Lordship of Jesus worldwide
is liberating (Romans 7:15-25)! It will transform your life. If you
are a follower of Jesus but not completely surrendered, you’ll “I will_________________
be miserable (Romans 7:24) because the Holy Spirit is telling IV. CCF Facilities
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you what you’re doing is wrong. Victory is not a matter of a
“what”, but the “Who” – Jesus (Romans 7:25; John 8:34,36). Prayer Mountain
Only Jesus can truly set us free, but only when you surrender
completely to Him (John 8:31-32). V. Personal Concerns
Deeper intimate relationship
OBEDIENCE SHARE IT! with God
“Not so Lord…” (Acts 10:13-14) is an oxymoron; you cannot say, Righteous living
“not so,” and then call Jesus, “Lord”. Either He is Lord and you Who will you share these Salvation of family and friends
say, “yes” or, He is not Lord. If Jesus is Lord, then you obey truths to this week?
whatever He tells you; “Unless Jesus is Lord of all, He is not
Lord at all” (S.M. Zwemer). Jesus warns us that not all who keep
saying “Jesus is my Lord” will enter heaven (Matthew 7:21-23).
The key to genuine salvation is to understand who Jesus is. It PRAY CARE SHARE
is a false sense of security to believe that you can go to heaven IN ACTION
without really understanding what it means to follow Jesus.
We are saved by grace (Titus 2:11). But grace is never alone, it Pray that more people
gives you the power to do what is right (Titus 2:12,14). James around you will know
emphasized what true faith is vs. counterfeit faith (James 2:14-26). Jesus as Adonai through
Genuine faith is never alone, good works will follow, and the your life and witness. Tell 10 so that at the name
evidence is changed lives. others about how God is of Jesus every knee
DEVOTION their shield and rewarder. will bow, of those who
Jesus gave His life and bought our freedom from slavery to sin Share the gospel of Jesus, are in heaven and on
and have a life devoted to God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). This is let them know how they earth and under the
the amazing thing about Jesus, our Lord–He not only saved us, can know Him as their
but more than that, He calls us His friends (John 15:13-15) and Lord (Kyrios) and Savior. earth, 11 and that every
are now adopted children of God – amazing blessings! It does tongue will confess
not mean Jesus ceases to be Lord; our obedience to him as that Jesus Christ is
Lord and Master continues, and yet He tells us, “You are also
My friend and My brother”. Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.
ANTICIPATION
As you become devoted to him, you learn to anticipate His Philippians 2:10-11
promises and serve Him with zeal, knowing you work is not in
vain (1 Corinthians 15:58). Like Joshua who chose to serve the
Lord (Joshua 24:15), let us do so, too. The Bible is very, very,
clear that one day that the entire creation will bow before
Jesus, whether they like it or not (Philippians 2:10-11). Make
that choice TODAY because someday you will have no
choice--you’ll be forced to confess that He is Lord, but that will
be too late. Make a wise choice where you say, “Lord Jesus,
today, I will surrender my all, I confess that You are my Lord,
You are my Savior.”
