pronounce it. To summarize those points: throughout redemptive history, God seeks to identify himself to men as Lord and to teach and demonstrate to them the meaning of that concept. “God is Lord”—that is the message of the Old Testament; “Jesus Christ is Lord”—that is the message of the New. A. THE BIBLICAL CONCEPT OF LORDSHIP What is divine lordship? Little can be learned from the etymologies of Yahweh, adonai, or kurios. For one thing, those etymologies are uncertain (especially that of Yahweh),
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