Welcome to Bayside Community Church

Someone to Guide Us

A Call to Leadership

"Leadership in the Heart"

January 11, 2004

Someone to guide us …

Leadership in the Heart

Leadership in the Home

Leadership in the Church

Proverbs 3:5,6

“⁵Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
⁶in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”

LORD and Lord
– what’s the difference?

LORD – all capitals notes that God’s personal name is used

YHWH – from Hebrew scriptures (no vowels)

Yahweh – the personal name of God when we add vowels for the proper pronunciation

Lord (kurios (Greek), adonai (Hebrew)) - "master"

a o ai - because God's personal name was considered sacred they took the vowels from adonai (Hebrew for Lord, or master), added them to YHWH and came up with the word:

Y a H o W ai H or Jehovah

which is actually the improper way to say God’s name

At his incarnation, YHWH was given the name Jesus:

Isaiah 6:1-3; John 12:37-41

Revelation 1:8,17,18; 2:13,16

Jesus is Lord God Almighty!

Ephesians 4:4-6

^“⁴There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to one hope when you were called-- ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

1. “Lord and Savior”

– 4 times in the NT

2 Peter 1:11; 2:20; 3:2; 3:18

“grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

Luke 2:11

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord”

["The Christ" (Greek) and "the Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "the Anointed One".]

2. “My Lord”

– 8 times in NT

Psalm 16:1-2

¹ Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.

² I said to the LORD , "You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing."

Philippians 3:8

The apostle Paul:

“What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ”

Luke 1:43

Elizabeth to Mary:

“But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? “

John 20:28

Thomas to Jesus:

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

3. Lord Jesus

– 105 times in NT

Acts 15:11
– through the GRACE of

“We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved”

Acts 16:31
– BELIEVE in the

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved “

Acts 20:21
– have FAITH in

“I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.”

How do we apply this?

L – (Romans 10:9,10) Lordship brings genuine salvation

⁹That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”

O – (Luke 6:46) OBEYING God is how we live out Lordship

“Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?”

R – (Mathew 7:21-23) REALIZE that Lordship produces internal, not just outward, change.

²¹"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ²²Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' ²³Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Galatians 5:22,23

“²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

D – (Philippians 2:8-11) DECIDE before it’s too late.

⁸And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross! ⁹Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

If Jesus is not Lord of all,
He is not Lord at all.