One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor. To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; - sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles.
United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.
Published: 24 Apr, Lord noun obsolete The master of the servants of a household; historical the master of a feudal manor. King noun A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. Lord noun archaic The male head of a household, a father or husband. King noun A powerful or majorly influential person. Lord noun archaic The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession. King noun Something that has a preeminent position. Lord noun One possessing similar mastery over others; historical any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility the equivalent rank in England is baron.
King noun A component of certain games. Lord noun historical A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king. King noun chess The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate.
Lord noun A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one. King noun card games A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. Lord noun A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones.
Lord noun One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses esp. King noun A king skin. Lord noun The magnates of a trade or profession. King noun A male dragonfly; a drake. Lord noun astrology The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc. King noun A king-sized bed. Lord noun A hunchback. King verb To crown king, to make a person king.
Lord noun Sixpence. King verb To rule over as king. Lord verb Domineer or act like a lord. King verb To perform the duties of a king. Lord verb transitive To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord. King verb To assume or pretend preeminence over ; to lord it over. Lord noun A hump-backed person; - so called sportively. Lord noun One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. King verb To dress and perform as a drag king.
Lord noun A titled nobleman. King noun A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer. Lord noun A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. King noun A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
Lord noun A husband. King noun One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts. Lord noun One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, it involves a recognition of His lordship, for the Savior who saved us when we received Him by faith is the Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot and do not receive Him as Savior only. We receive Him as Lord and Savior.
However, for some yielding to Jesus as Lord is subsequent to their conversion. It may be a few months later, or for some, many years later.
This was my own experience. I did not willfully reject the lordship of Christ; I simply did not know about His lordship. He was presented to me as Savior at the time of my conversion. I was introduced to Him as Lord several years later.
However, let us note that this is not intended to be the biblical pattern. We must not fail to communicate the "whole council of God. For Jesus to be Lord of your life means that He is the ruler, the boss, the master of your whole life.
He cannot be Lord of a part — He must be given control of the entire life - the whole life. When thinking about the whole life of a person, we must think of various parts that make up a person. Paul wrote, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" I Thess.
Paul makes it plain that the whole person is made up of spirit, soul, and body. A person has an inner, private, unseen-to-the-natural-eye aspect of life and he has an outer, visible, and public life that is seen and heard by those with whom he comes in contact day by day. Jesus desires to be Lord of the seen and the unseen, the visible and the invisible, the private aspects of our life and the public aspects of our life.
He wants to be Lord of our spiritual life and of our physical life. The inner sanctuary, the spirit and soul, contains the mind, the emotion, and the will.
It is in our spirit and soul that we think, feel, choose, decide, dream, and plan. Battles are fought and won or lost on the battleground of our private life. Is Jesus Lord over this area of your life? The writer of Proverbs said. Don't underestimate the importance of our private life.
Although more attention is often given to the physical body, our true spiritual health is determined by the spirit and soul — not the body. The outward life expresses the inner life. The outward life involves our eyes, our ears, our lips, our hands, our feet, our entire body. Our public life is expressed by what we see, what we say, what we hear, where we go, and what we do.
It is so important that Jesus be Lord over our public life. We need to see the public life in the context of home life, the workplace, the classroom, and the neighborhood. We need to see it in its relationship with friends, family, work colleagues, neighbors, and classmates. We need to see it in its attitude toward possessions, obligations, and responsibilities, and the use of time and resources. If we agree with the view of S. Zwemer "If Jesus is not Lord of all, the He is not Lord at all" , then there are many areas of life that must come under His lordship.
Is Jesus Lord of your thoughts? Is Jesus Lord of your emotions? Is Jesus Lord of your speech, of your relationships, of your possessions? Is Jesus Christ Lord of your whole life? What must a person do in order for Jesus Christ to be Lord of his life? The easy answer is, "Yield your life to Him. Such an important question requires more than a surface answer. For Jesus to become Lord of a person's life involves absolute and total surrender. I can think of no better example of total surrender than F.
He was a Baptist preacher and pastor of Christ Church in the heart of London in the nineteenth century. In the midst of a successful ministry, F. Meyer confessed that something was lacking in his life and ministry.
Jowett recounts the following story: "Dr. Meyer has told us that his early Christian life was marred and his ministry paralyzed just because he had kept back one thing from the bunch of keys he had given to the Lord. Every key save one! The key of one room was kept for personal use, and the Lord shut out. The effect of the incomplete consecration was found in lack of power, lack of assurance, lack of joy and peace.
The joy of the Lord begins when we hand over the last key. We sit with Christ on His throne as soon as we have surrendered our crowns, and made Him sole and only ruler of our life and its possessions. Meyer experienced the lordship of Jesus Christ when he handed over the last key. He had kept back the key to one room in his life and it brought great defeat.
Remember, if He is not Lord of all of every room , then He is not Lord at all. Have you yielded keys to every room in your life? Does He have the key to every room in your private life? Is there a room marked "private — keep out? There is a second element to yielding our lives to the Lord. In addition to absolute surrender , there must also be an acknowledgment of His ownership.
Paul addressed the subject of ownership in 1 Corinthians "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? Yahweh is the high King, the great King, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
The second obvious symbols are the ark of the covenant and the tabernacle in the wilderness, designed to be seen as the dwelling place of Yahweh's Presence in the midst of the people.
More information on the tabernacle available from BiblePlaces. Eight times in the Old Testament Yahweh is described as "enthroned 5 between the cherubim" that were on the ark 2 Samuel ; also 1 Samuel ; 2 Kings ; 1 Chronicles ; Psalm ; cf. Ezekiel Twice God's enthroned Presence is in the context of reigning as King:. Let them praise your great and awesome name-- he is holy. The King is mighty, he loves justice -- you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.
A number of Near Eastern thrones were flanked by winged creatures. It is clear to a number of scholars that the ark is to be understood as the throne of the invisible King.
We should understand the tabernacle in the wilderness as the dwelling of a great desert monarch The Holy of Holies that contains the ark is the throne room, the Holy Place is the hall where his ministers serve him with the seven-branched lampstand, table of showbread, and the altar of incense, and the courtyard containing the laver and the bronze altar comprise his royal precincts. Balaam looked down from the mountain heights at the tabernacle in the midst of Israel's camp and declared:.
Those who refused to give God "the whole tithe" to provide food for his "house" i. Those, of course, who did not consider God their King, did not feel under any obligation to tithe to him, but withheld God's tithe for themselves. Read 1 Samuel and Malachi How did tithing relate to a person's acceptance of God being his or her King in the Old Testament?
How about for those of us who live under the New Covenant? What place does tithing have for us? Why don't you read each of them out loud, to get a sense of the Lord's majesty:. These are just a few of the many references to God as King. Yahweh was Israel's King. But during Samuel's term as Judge, Israel faced two problems that they felt would be solved by having a king: 1 they needed a designated military leader 1 Samuel and 2 an orderly succession from one leader to the next 1 Samuel One not-so-good reason was the desire to be like all other nations 1 Samuel Though Deuteronomy had made provision for a human king, the people's request was still an act of rebellion against God, a lack of trust in God's leadership.
The people approached Samuel:. Saul and then David were appointed kings of Israel. However, it was with the understanding that they were ruling on behalf of the Great King, the King of kings, and at his appointing and anointing, not that they would somehow replace him 1 Chronicles ; It was as the Queen of Sheba said to Solomon:. Just what does it mean to have Yahweh as your King?
In contrast to members of the British Commonwealth, the very premise of American democracy is the rejection of a king. The founding fathers were very careful to keep the President from having a king's absolute powers.
He was elected for a definite term and could be removed if necessary. The People were in charge. Thus it is terribly difficult for Americans to relate to an absolute monarch, whose word is law and beyond whom there is no appeal.
Americans are independent, fiercely resistant to any diminishment of their freedoms. It may be difficult but it is necessary to bend our knees and our wills before the King. If life is about doing your own thing rather than seeking to do the will of God, then your faith is a sham, a farce, a delusion.
Either Yahweh is your King or he is not? Which is it in reality? Jesus put it very clearly:. What are the personal implications of Yahweh being your King and of Jesus being the Messiah sent from God?
What are the advantages of being the subject of Yahweh as King? What does it mean for you to submit to the King on an everyday basis? How does a person reject Yahweh from being King over him or her?
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