Lordship Is Necessary (Week 2)
Midweek Bible Study Teaching Series
A.J. Dummitt
Part of Lordship—Midweek Bible Study Teaching Series
November 17, 2020

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LORDSHIP IS NECESSARY

Review: What is Lordship?

  • Submission to God’s will. (Matt. 8:2)
  • Placing God first in your life. (Matt. 22:36-40)
  • Accepting responsibility and accountability. (Matt. 25:14-30)
  • Doing God’s will. (Matt. 7:21-27)
  • Personal obedience regardless of the cost. (John 21:15-23)

Lordship is Necessary

1. It settles the

issue. (Who is #1 in my life?)

  • Pride is the oldest sin in the universe and shows no sign of weakening with age.

Jesus washing the disciples feet account in John 13

1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”
12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. —John 13:1-17 (NKJV)

Jesus was not “position conscious” because He knew…

The more you know who you are, the less you think you

.

JESUS is to be Lord in our…

(Matthew 19:25-26)

When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible

EVERYDAY

(Colossians 3:23)
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.

(Romans 12:11)
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord

(Ephesians 5:22, 25)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord… Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it

2. It settles the

issue. (Who has a right to my life?) LUKE 9

  • Not everyone is ready for Lordship
  • Lordship is more than words.
  • Jesus sees our heart. (He knows us, He goes beyond our words).
  • Lordship forces us to change (to choose)! It will never leave us the same. (Better or Worse)
    Matthew 7:24 - you cannot serve two masters, seek first the Kingdom!!

Lordship means… (Luke 9:57-62)

57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. —Luke 9:57-62

Accepting the future regardless of the

. (vs. 57 & 58) - Give God a blank check with your life, however He wants to spend it!

Leaving the past regardless of the

. (vs. 61 & 62)- Nothing can pull you away from the things of God!

Seizing the moment regardless of the

. (vs. 59 & 60)

Main Point: If Christ is the center of my life, the circumference will take care of itself.

Lordship Ladder:

Instability (double minded) leads to

Surrender (hopefully leads you to)
Surrender (Consecration)
PEACE (WITH GOD) is Lordship

Your life should be a Check Payable to the Lord Jesus Christ