I just arrived home from church and wanted to pose this question as it was raised in our adult sunday school class.
We are going through the Shorter Catechism and we are at the part about the office of Christ as King. Our pastor through out this question as something for us to mull over and give an answer next Sunday.
My thoughts are somewhat like this. The two levels of Christ's Lordship are His natural Lordship and His mediatorial Lordship. His natural Lordship is the Lordship He possess by original right because He is God, and God rules over all (Psalm 103:19). He has always been Lord in this way, since He has always been God. His mediatorial Lordship, on the other hand, is the Lordship He has because He is Savior of the world. This Lordship is based upon His suffering and death, by which He won our salvation. "For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living" (Romans 14:9). Whereas His natural Lordship is original, His mediatorial Lordship was won. Whereas His natural Lordship is eternal, His mediatorial Lordship was acquired (Hebrews 1:5; 5:5).
Am I on the right track?
We are going through the Shorter Catechism and we are at the part about the office of Christ as King. Our pastor through out this question as something for us to mull over and give an answer next Sunday.
My thoughts are somewhat like this. The two levels of Christ's Lordship are His natural Lordship and His mediatorial Lordship. His natural Lordship is the Lordship He possess by original right because He is God, and God rules over all (Psalm 103:19). He has always been Lord in this way, since He has always been God. His mediatorial Lordship, on the other hand, is the Lordship He has because He is Savior of the world. This Lordship is based upon His suffering and death, by which He won our salvation. "For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living" (Romans 14:9). Whereas His natural Lordship is original, His mediatorial Lordship was won. Whereas His natural Lordship is eternal, His mediatorial Lordship was acquired (Hebrews 1:5; 5:5).
Am I on the right track?