1 00:00:01,540 --> 00:00:05,360 In Paul's second letter to the Corinthian church, 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:09,800 he makes mention of Jesus as Lord 29 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:14,580 times, and it is this emphasis of Christ's 4 00:00:14,580 --> 00:00:19,020 Lordship that is foundational to the series of 5 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:22,200 messages I bring before you, friends, on the 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,340 Lordship of Christ. 7 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:26,540 I never knew a man who embodied the 8 00:00:26,540 --> 00:00:30,300 theme of the Lordship of Jesus Christ more 9 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:32,160 than Dr. Stephen F. 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:32,580 Olford. 11 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:38,540 Dr. Olford was my homiletical mentor, colleague, and 12 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:38,920 friend. 13 00:00:39,460 --> 00:00:42,560 I was in his first graduating class of 14 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,840 his School of Preaching, and Stephen Olford and 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,820 I co-wrote a book together on his 16 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:54,180 homiletical mentor, Dr. Graham Scroggie, entitled Olford on 17 00:00:54,180 --> 00:00:55,660 Scroggie. 18 00:00:55,980 --> 00:01:00,260 I literally spent countless hours under the preaching 19 00:01:00,260 --> 00:01:03,080 of Stephen Olford, and his main message that 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,040 he preached was the Lordship of Jesus Christ. 21 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:11,260 I believe, friends, that the most neglected doctrine 22 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:14,340 in the church today is the Lordship of 23 00:01:14,340 --> 00:01:18,380 Jesus Christ, the rights and claims that Christ 24 00:01:18,380 --> 00:01:21,820 has on all followers of his has been 25 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:25,500 delegated to the ash heap by pastors today 26 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:29,360 who prefer to teach a more lenient gospel 27 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,260 and a more sin-tolerant Savior. 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,900 But unlike most of us preachers today, Jesus 29 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,060 never preached sin and religion. 30 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,660 God bless the preaching ministry of Stephen Olford 31 00:01:43,660 --> 00:01:47,720 through countless transformed lives who heard him. 32 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:51,500 My own life was turned upside down by 33 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,960 a sermon Dr. Olford preached on Lordship, and 34 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,860 God will bless the preacher who highlights in 35 00:01:57,860 --> 00:02:01,640 his sermons the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and 36 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,140 that's where we are going to go, friends, 37 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,419 in this series of messages on the Lordship 38 00:02:07,419 --> 00:02:08,139 of Christ. 39 00:02:08,940 --> 00:02:14,220 2 Corinthians 5.15 declares, And that he 40 00:02:14,220 --> 00:02:17,460 died for all, that they which live should 41 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:22,080 not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him 42 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,380 which died for them, and rose again. 43 00:02:25,860 --> 00:02:28,740 The Lordship of Christ is a life of 44 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:30,320 submission of Christ Jesus. 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,980 It is utter surrender to a living Lord. 46 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,680 It is the willingness to bow daily and 47 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,480 hourly to the sovereignty of Christ and to 48 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,020 the authority of the Word. 49 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,180 Through this submission to Christ comes victory in 50 00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:50,820 Christ for a daily living, as seen in 51 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:55,900 2 Corinthians 3.17 which states, Now the 52 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,820 Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit 53 00:02:59,820 --> 00:03:02,320 of the Lord is, there is liberty. 54 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,080 This can be understood where the spirit is 55 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,100 Lord, that is, where he is given his 56 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:13,060 true deity and sovereignty, there is liberty. 57 00:03:14,380 --> 00:03:18,340 We will see, friends, in this series that 58 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:21,880 the victorious Christian life is a surrendered life 59 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,800 to the Lordship of Christ. 60 00:03:24,220 --> 00:03:25,520 Let us pray.