Luke 6:6 - 11: Jesus is Lord

There are some churches that don't like direct preaching. Some churches that would say of a pastor that was direct, he's gone from preaching to meddling. And there are other congregations like you. English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon in the 1800s was talking about a pastor that didn't want to be direct with his congregation.

And he said this, I heard of an English preacher who was so fearful, lest he should be thought personal, that he said to his congregation in England, lest any of you think that I have prepared was meant for you, I would observe that the sermon I'm preaching to you was prepared for a congregation in Massachusetts.

Spurgeon then said, I can plead nothing of the sort. I refer to you, my dear, in the most pointed manner. I will attend to Massachusetts, if the Lord ever sends me there, but just now, I mean you. So dear church in Massachusetts, today, I mean you.

Jesus Is Lord Over Every Area of Life

We're gonna look at a topic this morning, and a theological concept that is very personal. It gets into your business as it were. And that is very clear when you look at the language of Jesus, that Jesus is Lord.

If Jesus is Lord, that means he's Lord over you. And he's Lord over your finances, it's Lord, he's Lord over your marriage, he's Lord over all kinds of things, including everything. So today, if you'll take your Bibles and turn to Luke chapter six, we're going to see first how Jesus is Lord, and then I will attend to you, dear Massachusetts, in a very personal way.

Luke chapter six, as you know, we're just going through the Gospel of Jesus according to Luke, and it makes you want to say Jesus is Lord, it makes you want to say he's King, he's the Son of God, he's the Son of Man, he's Prophet, Priest, and King, he's the Divine Son who's come to rescue the lost.

Luke chapter 19, he's come to seek and to save the lost. And Luke, the Doctrine, has put things together in such a way that it's very detailed, it's very persuasive, it's almost lawyer-like. How can you not believe that Jesus is the Savior?

Because he gives proof after proof after proof after proof. In terms of his preaching in Luke four, in terms of his acts of kindness in Luke chapter four and five, and later in six, everything about this book screams that Christ Jesus is Lord, and if you're not a believer, you must believe in him.

And if you are a believer, it's really good too, because we go through trials in life and situations where sometimes we might not be walking by faith like we should, and we might stumble, and we might fall, or we might even doubt.

And so you come back to Luke and you think, you know what, I was doubting before, my atheistic friend was trying to convince me of this, that, and the other, but I begin to reread Luke and I think, there's no one like Jesus, I'm putting everything on the line, trusting in Jesus for my eternal life, and even sustenance today.

Cotton Mather, the New England preacher of old, said, the great design and intention of the office of a Christian preacher is to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men. And that's exactly what Luke does, and that's exactly my prayer for you this week.

Jesus is Lord. Interesting, I mean, do we really say people are lords these days? Maybe in England people might say that. When I was a custodian for a church in California, I was to take desks and rearrange them, because there was a Christian school on campus, the desk had to be taken away on Friday for the Sunday school on Sunday, and then put back.

And on the desk they had little laminated names, and so we had to arrange things by names, and little third-grader desks. And some of the names were interesting. Jose, okay, fine. John, fine. Jesus, okay, we give it a pass.

But the one that struck out to me all the time was the name L-O-R-D. Can you imagine naming your child L-O-R-D? And we're gonna see today that there's only one king, there's only one Lord, there's only one master, and you can be glad you rest in him, and he's your captain, and he's your Savior.

Jesus is Lord. And what I love about Luke, he's not going to let us glibly say, oh, Jesus is Lord, he's my Lord and Savior. No, when Jesus says he's Lord, he really is Lord. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Therefore, God has highly exalted Jesus and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. What's that name? So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is, you wanna know what the name is?

Lord, to the glory of God the Father. We come to chapter six, and we have another Sabbath encounter. Another Sabbath encounter. And every time the Sabbath comes up in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, you know there's gonna be action.

You know there's gonna be a confrontation. You know there's gonna be something wonderful and wild happening. Jesus has been confronting the religious establishment, and they don't like who he hangs out with.

They don't like who he has fellowship with. They don't like it that he's not fasting. They don't like it that he's not mourning. They don't like it that he's forgiving sins. They don't like it that he's doing anything, because they're in charge, and here comes Jesus.

Instead of the legalistic Pharisees worshiping and being like, Simon, I'm holding the Lord of glory in my arms, they are going to attack, and eventually, of course, kill the Lord of glory. Jesus first came on the Sabbath in Luke chapter four, and they got so mad at him, Luke chapter four, verse 28, they were filled with wrath, because Jesus was talking about how God is kind to Syrians and Gentiles.

The next Sabbath scene is found in chapter four, verses 31 and following, and Jesus confronts a demon, and the demon says, have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebukes the demon.

And now we come to another Sabbath scene in Luke, and it's Luke chapter six, verses one through five. And my outline for this morning is super simple. The declaration, number one, and the demands, number two.

The declaration that Jesus is Lord, number one, and the demands of his Lordship on your life, number two. So we're gonna learn a theological truth, and then we're gonna say, because that's true, how does that affect me?

And by the way, that's one of the ways you should read the Bible. You learn some theological point, and then it's not just because you wanna study, you wanna know more, you wanna win a debate. Oh, I spoke to the WPI students, the Christian Fellowship Group, on Friday night, two nights ago.

And I got there, and they said, there's gonna be a game time, and then we're gonna have some singing, testimonies, and then you get to speak for 30 minutes. So they said, the game time on your phone, on Kahoot, I think it is, is Bible trivia.

And I thought, that is the pastor's worst nightmare. If I win, I'm expected to win. If I lose, I'm expected to win, so I can't win either way. Pastor. I came in second place. 31 questions, I only missed two.

And a team of other people beat me. Sounds like WPI. And I was trying to get the students, and I'm trying to remind you. I know you know this, but remind you. We learn something theologically, and we have to go more than that.

We have to then step back and say, it's just not theory, it's just not a truth, but truth affects. And then we realize, if Jesus is Lord for today, then how do I live? What should I do? Is repentance needed in my life?

Is there thanksgiving needed in my life? Do I need to think differently about God? Do I need to do other things? And so, when we come to this passage, Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath, we then step back and look at the demands of what he's saying.

And so that's what we're going to do today. We'll learn the truth, we'll understand the Bible better, but then I want you to sit back and think, if Jesus is Lord, what does that mean in my life? For instance, just to give you a teaser, if you look at your finances and your Venmo and your checking account and your bank statement, would it reveal Jesus is Lord?

That's the kind of stuff we'll talk about at the end. So number one, the declaration, number two, the demands. As you know, the Sabbath was created for God's people for their good. It wasn't to be a suffocating thing, a restricting thing, it was to be for their good.

And God demonstrated even in Genesis chapter two, rest on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. God blessed the seventh day, made it holy because on it God rested from all his work that he had done.

From the very beginning, a creation ordinance, God has set up the Sabbath. God didn't need rest. He never is weary, he never grows tired, but he knew the people needed rest. He knew the people needed rest both physically because we're finite and frail and so God knows we need rest.

And he also wanted that picture of physical rest to point to the ultimate Hebrews for rest that Jesus would earn for us. As you know, one of the 10 commandments, remember the Sabbath day to what? Keep it holy, six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord our God.

On it you shall not do any work. You, your son, your daughter, your male servant or your female servant or your livestock or the sojourner who is within your gates. Reason for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them and rested on the seventh day.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. And so God in his goodness and kindness creates the Sabbath for Israel that will one day point to the ultimate rest found in the Lord Jesus.

And the backdrop here is the Pharisees have gotten hold of something that's good and turned it wrong side up. And they're trying to control people by what they can and cannot do on the Sabbath. They were trying to be the Lord of the Sabbath.

They were trying to take control and if we control what people do, we can control them. And so we come to Luke six one and we see this declaration in these first five verses beginning in verse one on a Sabbath while he was going through the grain fields his disciples plucked and ate some of the heads of grain rubbing them in their hands.

And some of the Pharisees said, why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath? Now back in those days they had a few major roads but most of the time when you would go off the major roads it would just be little paths and you would walk through fields and you would walk through just, you know woods and forest and all those other things if it were around.

And here these men are hungry and so they pluck these heads of grain and then you rub and then you eat. I always thought, boy this would probably not taste that good. I want to soak them in water or something because I'd probably break my tooth on one of these things.

And the Pharisees didn't like it, it's not lawful. By the way, is it lawful to do? What did Mosaic law say? I'm glad you asked the question. Deuteronomy chapter 23, if you go into your neighbor's vineyard you may eat your fill of grapes as many as you wish but you shall not put any in your bag.

If you go into your neighbor's standing grain you may pluck the ears with your hand but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. You know what, it's okay if you're walking through and you just pick a few while you're going but if you're going to get a doggy bag to go, if you're going to get a bunch of stuff.

I just read about Red Lobster and how they finally went under in bankruptcy and it was capped off by they had all the shrimp you could eat and it kind of put them out of business. A lot of customers were mad because after they had 10 plates of shrimp they asked for a doggy bag and the people wouldn't give them to them.

Useless information, I know. We used to walk through the orchards in this apple picking time. We were at Carlson Orchards yesterday and people pay for their bag and walk through. Would you think it was wrong if somebody paid for a $20 bag of apples but they ate one on the way with their kids?

Would you think it's wrong if the Abendross 15 years ago we'd walk through the orchard and I would say to the kids, you can't pick an apple off the tree but you can pick one off the ground and eat it.

I mean, we're not taking thousands home. And so the disciples are just doing what's normal and natural. The Pharisees, they are trying to get after Jesus so they'll get after his disciples. And they say that's not lawful.

By the way, you know what? I saw them picking grain, that's harvesting and you're not allowed to harvest on the Sabbath. You're taking the chaff off the grain. I think you're threshing. And when you blow the chaff away, one man said, you're now winnowing.

So all those you couldn't do on the Sabbath but you could certainly eat. They could smell Sabbath breaking a mile off. But remember, it wasn't Sabbath breaking according to Moses, according to God. It was their own rules.

Rule upon rule upon rule, just like legalists do. They're just walking a little bit on the Sabbath and they want to eat. Last time in Luke 5, we were dealing with fasting and fasting was a big deal for the Pharisees.

Something bigger than fasting for the Pharisees was Sabbath. What you could do on the Sabbath. I read some Jewish reflections on the Sabbath, extra traditional rules. In case a woman rolls wheat to remove the husks, it is considered sifting.

If she rubs the head of wheat, it's regarded as threshing. If she cleans off the side adherences, it is sifting out fruit. If she throws them up in her hand, it's winnowing. Did you know some Jewish Maccabeans died in the revolt because they would not pick up a sword because that was work?

And by the way, Jesus, you approve this, you commend it, you're not rebuking the people for it, you're not going after them. What are you doing? You're not doing things that are lawful on the Sabbath.

Trying to go after Jesus. May I make a couple notes? Mentally, number one, self-righteousness deceives. When you impose certain extra biblical rules and then you try to live up to those rules to make you think you're standing before God is now right, it is a deception.

And by the way, it happens in our hearts if we're not careful. I mean, some people sin with gross, immoral sins, but a lot of other people who are moralist and upright, they sin with sins that are of self-righteousness.

One man said, beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys its hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands. And did you also notice something as you've been reading?

Did you know that people, as far as I know, religious leaders who hated Jesus never accused him of being a legalist? Never accused him of trying to obey every little rule. But what did they regularly and often accuse Jesus of?

Antinomianism. Anti, against, law, nom. Jesus, you're not doing the rules. And that's exactly what legalists do. That's what self-righteous people do. You don't do what we do. You don't do our traditions.

You don't keep up with us. And therefore, you're lawless. Note three, religion does not save. These were the most religious people in the world. And they're going to need a savior. Just because there's a large religion doesn't mean it's going to save anyone because only the Lord can.

To reiterate, they, the disciples of Jesus, were not breaking God's law. They were breaking the Pharisees' law. So how do you think Jesus is going to respond? I didn't do it. They did it. How do you think Jesus is going to respond?

Well, you got me. How does Jesus respond? He appeals to the word and he appeals to himself. Take a look. Jesus appeals to scripture. And by the way, this is a good lesson. And if you're ever around a legalist or a self-righteous person, appeal to scripture.

I guess you're around anybody, appeal to scripture. It works for any person in the world. But here, he appeals to scripture. And he, by the way, takes responsibility for his men. He, by the way, is the ultimate representative, not disassociating himself from those he came to save.

But one day, being that great advocate on the cross, of course, making propitiation, he stands up for his people as the last Adam, as the legal head and the perfect representative. And what does Jesus say?

He answers them in verse three with four English words that are just trumpet-like. Have you not read? Imagine telling that to the most influential religious people in the world. I mean, I think in the last week, the Pope said that you don't really need Jesus to get to heaven, essentially.

And I wanna say to the Pope, have you not read? Of course you've read. And what does Jesus bring up here? Have you not read what David did when he was hungry? He and those who were with him? Kinda sounds familiar here.

We've got some people who were hungry, got a bunch of other people with you. What's the illustration? Or what's the example, rather? How he entered the house of God. Is he supposed to do that? Took and ate the bread of the presence.

Is he supposed to do that? Which is not lawful for any but the priest to eat, and also gave it to those with him. You Pharisees don't think that's wrong. You Pharisees aren't condemning David. You Pharisees have different rules for different people.

And as you know, there was a special bread that God said to put in the tabernacle. And they would stack it, two piles, six in a pile. There's gold on the table, all kinds of other things in Leviticus.

But to make sure that if Jesus said to us, have you not read about David and the showbread? Why don't we turn to 1 Samuel chapter 21, so we've read. So keep your finger in Luke, and what Jesus is going after is found in 1 Samuel 21.

1 Samuel 21. There's a special bread in the tabernacle that only the priest are supposed to eat. It's supposed to be a memorial portion for the Lord, symbolizing sustenance from God. God sustains, God provides, God is there having fellowship, but only the priest should eat it.

So what's gonna go on here in 1 Samuel 21 that Jesus refers to? Verse one of 1 Samuel 21. Then David came to Nob, to Mimelech the priest, Mimelech, excuse me. And Mimelech came to meet David, trembling and said, why are you alone and no one with you?

Remember, he's running from Saul. David is. David said to Mimelech the priest, the king has charged me with a matter and said to me, let no one know anything of the matter about which I sent you and with which I've charged you.

I made an appointment with a young man for such and such a place. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever's here. The priest answered David, I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread, if the young men have kept themselves from women.

David answered the priest, verse five, truly women have been kept from us as always when we go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?

So the priest gave him the holy bread for there was no bread there, but the bread of the presence, which is removed from before the Lord to replace by hot bread on the day it is taken. So think through this a little bit.

Would there ever be a time where you can say ceremonial rules and laws might be superseded by love? Would there ever be a time where you say, I know what the Bible says about this ceremony here in the Old Testament, but there is something called loving your neighbor.

Does this not sound like the parable of the Good Samaritan? You have all these Jewish leaders walking by that person that they think is dead, and they think if I go over there and help the dead person, I'm going to be ceremonially defiled?

It sounds exactly like that. If David technically broke the law because of mercy and love and kindness, who do you think I am, Jesus is saying? The ultimate David, the great David, the son of man, the son of God.

If David could do that, and by the way, you Pharisees never condemned him. If David can do that, what in the world are you doing condemning me? They're not condemning David's actions. If the lesser David could do that, cannot the greater David do that?

And we know the answer. It's very clear. There was a need, and David ate the bread, this escape from Saul. And so Jesus says, and let's go back to Luke 6, haven't you read that? I mean, this is like a dumb moment.

Have you not read? I wonder what the response was from the Pharisees. Probably going from toes to heels. Jesus later called these kind of men whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but they're full of dead men's what?

Bones and uncleanness. Jesus, the greater David is here. Haven't you ever read you scriptural know-it-alls? You of all people should know that human need is higher than some kind of ceremonial law. Plus, we're not even talking about the real law of God and Moses.

We're talking about all your extra little things that you add on. Don't you know that the Sabbath was supposed to be a blessing? One writer said, if David had a right to ignore divinely ordained ceremonial provision when necessity demanded this, then would not God's anointed Jesus have a right under a similar condition of need to set aside totally unwarranted man-made Sabbath regulations?

The answer is yes. And so Jesus appeals to scripture, which is a good model for us. But now he appeals to himself, verse five. And he said to them, to them of all people who think they ran the Sabbath, who think they were a master of the Sabbath, who think they controlled the Sabbath, who think they were Lord of the Sabbath.

And Jesus said, the son of man, that's his favorite self-designation, is Lord of the Sabbath. I'm the master of the Sabbath. I created the Sabbath. I'm king of the Sabbath. I determine what goes on in the Sabbath.

Translation, I am God. I'm God, and I'll do whatever I please. I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. And the language of the original is he kept on over and over saying to them, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. I'm king of the Sabbath.

You guys have your ridiculous, tiny little rules. The rules found in scripture should be pointing to someone. All the types and shadows should be pointing to someone. All the laws should point that we need a savior to keep the law and to pay for our law breaking.

And I am standing right before your very midst. And because you want to control people and manipulate people and lord it over people with your self-righteousness, you can't even see. But Luke is wanting you to see that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.

Mark's account, Jesus said, Lord, I'm Lord even of the Sabbath. I'm Lord of everything, even the Sabbath. You think that's the most important thing in Judaism back in those days? I'm Lord of that. He's going after them, obviously.

Can't you do things of mercy on the Sabbath? Can't you do things of necessity on the Sabbath? Of course, God wanted to bless, not to suffocate. And of course, like all good false teachers, they take secondary issues and tertiary issues, second issues, third issues, and they make them super high.

They make it the issue. Sad. J .C. Rowell said, let us beware of falling into this state of mind. There's something sadly wrong in our spiritual condition when the only thing we look at in others is their outward Christianity.

The principal question we ask is whether they worship in our communion, use ceremonial, serve God in our way. Secondary, consuming, primary. So Jesus declares, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. I'm the Lord.

That's the declaration. Now let's move to the demands of lordship. We're going to just stop right there. We could see the illustration of his lordship in verses 6 through 11, and we will next week, Lord willing.

Trust and Obey as the Response to Christ's Lordship

But now I just want to let this settle in a little bit, the demands of Jesus' lordship. The Lord Jesus who said, why do you call me Lord, Lord, and don't do what I want? See, when I think of lordship, when I think of the lordship of Jesus, when I think about King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Master, Adonai, Ruler, Sovereign, and then I think about my response, I can probably boil down my response into two words.

You could talk about more things, but for the sake of today, two words in response to lordship that I think you should think about. If you're a Christian, Jesus is your Lord. How do you respond? If you're not a Christian, Jesus is Lord.

How do you respond? The two words in response to Jesus' lordship for the Christian, the blood-bought Christian, trusting in the resurrected Savior, the two words are trust. Any other guesses for the second one?

Trust and? How simple is that? Some lines in that song aren't too good, but we'll take it. Oh, I'll give you some. Then in fellowship sweet, we will sit at his feet, or we'll walk by his side in the way.

What he says we will do, where he sends we will go, never fear, only trust and obey. Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. When you think about the lordship of Jesus and how he's sovereign, I think it can break down into trusting and obeying.

Now for the record, to repeat one more time before I talk about some of this obedience, for all the proper talk in this pulpit about grace and resting and God accomplishing our salvation and how none of our works can contribute to our salvation and how the grace of God in Christ Jesus motivates us to obedience, for all the talk about guilty in Adam, graced in Jesus, the second Adam, and response out of gratitude, for all the talk about motivating people with grace and not naked brute law, I want you to know that obedience is important for the Christian.

Trusting is important for the Christian. Obeying is important for the Christian. God expects you, based on who you are in Christ, and by the way, you're able to do it because he gave you the spirit who dwells in you, to be holy, to live lives of holiness.

Of course, we don't want to be holy to earn God's grace. You don't earn grace, it's given to you. You don't do it to get saved. You don't do it to stay saved, but you do it because it pleases God, because he's commanded it.

Jesus alone is a savior, and when Jesus saves you, sanctification begins, and our response to sanctification is, we want to say no to sin and yes to righteousness. That's our response to God, the sanctifier.

So obedience is important. Works are important. They just have to be in the right category, and so I just want you to know, for all that talk about grace, motivating, resting in God, when it comes to our salvation, that's exactly true.

When it comes to our sanctification, we're still trusting, we're still resting, but then we have a response, and that response is obedience. So let me ask you a few questions about lordship, and I just want you to think through it.

By the way, here's my assignment for you. I can't come up with everything today, so just sometime this week, sit down with a paper and pencil, iPad, and just say, since Jesus is Lord, how does that affect all these areas in my life?

Here's some areas of your life that it should affect. Did you know Jesus is Lord of your health? He's Lord of your health, whether you're sick or whether you're healthy, Jesus is Lord. That means I can trust Him for the future.

If I'm worried about getting sick, that means I can trust Him for the present. If I am sick, that means I can trust, knowing that He's the King of kings and Lord of lords, and He sits in the heavens, and He does whatever He pleases, and I can say to myself, when it comes to health, Lord, I trust you.

I don't have to be worried, the part of obedience here, if the response of Jesus is Lord of my health, I can trust Him, and I don't have to complain, I don't have to worry, I don't have to fear. By the way, I would never worry about my health.

That's two below me. I'm preaching to you, Massachusetts, but I'm also preaching to me. By the way, if He's sovereign over your health, He's sovereign over your spouse's health, your kid's health, your parent's health.

And so part of lordship is, for the Christian, submitting, and resting, and trusting, and then obeying. How about this, whether you're single or married, Jesus is Lord over that. I talk to single people, they're dying to get married,.

Figuratively, and then when they get married, they have to die to self, literally.

How can I rescue that? And they make being married an idol, right? I'd only be joyful if I would have a spouse. And of course, married people, they're like, well, did I marry the wrong spouse? My spouse doesn't seem to change.

And you know what the lordship of Jesus Christ over your singleness, over your marriage does? It frees you from things like this. I can't be happy unless I'm married. It also frees me from this. Why won't my spouse change?

Why can't I make them change? I think I've told you there's a marriage book, and one of the appendices, it says in this particular appendix, it says, how to change your spouse. And the entire page is blank.

How dumb am I? Jesus is Lord. And he's put the spirit of God into my spouse and his spirit in me, and he's Lord. And I don't have to worry. I can rest in that. I can rest in, if Jesus is Lord of my marriage, then he has delineated roles.

And while love is certainly touted in this culture, self-sacrificial love at a cost isn't, certainly submission isn't touted at all. But that's what God says in Jesus is Lord, and I'll just submit to that.

How about Jesus is Lord of your work? And it should respond with, I need work. I should trust him and not worry. I am a workaholic. I work too much because I can't stand to be at home or whatever the reason is.

It starts influencing everything. He's Lord over your boss. I just had a better boss, and I can come up with 10 other things. But for the sake of time, what about your children? Is he Lord over your children?

How many, if any, miscarriages? Worrying about your children's safety, security, salvation? What's going to happen to our children in such a world as this where sin is touted as righteousness? And you begin to think children are the gift of the Lord.

The fruit of the womb is reward. What's going to happen to my children when I die? And the list goes on and on and on, and you think Jesus is Lord, and I can trust him. He's alive, and he's interceding, praying for me.

As I mentioned earlier, how about your finances? Will I have enough to retire? Where will I go when I retire? And again, just to be as personal as possible, how can Jesus, I'll just be blunt, how can Jesus be Lord of your finances if you're making $50 ,000, $100 ,000 a year, and you throw in $5 in the offering plate?

Really? You know I hardly ever talk about giving at this church. I think I've talked about giving maybe five times. So here's number six in 27 years. Remember the paradigm for giving. Jesus, who was rich, became poor for our sake.

Think incarnation. He saved us. He's given us the ability to work. He's given us the money, and then we sacrificially give, and so many of you here do. He is Lord of your sex life, which means only in marriage and not on TV screens.

He's Lord of your gender. He made you male, or he made you female. Boy, it sure is quiet in here, isn't it? Whoa. He is Lord of your time, how you spend your time, and of course, we have leisure time.

There's nothing wrong with that, but he's Lord of your time, and that influences Lord's Day worship. Good job coming for Lord's Day worship. It's the most important thing in your Christian life is Lord's Day worship.

It affects how I serve other people because that will cost me time. It will affect somebody interrupts me, and they have a need. Of course, I just think of Jesus as he's on his way over to Jairus' daughter to raise her from the dead, and then the lady with the blood issue comes to him.

He is Lord over all history, which helps me to be reminded that I don't have to freak out about current events. Acts 17, he made from one every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, sovereign over everything because he's the Lord.

It makes me think of Jesus as Lord of my future, how long I will live, how long you will live, how long your children will live. Psalm 31, don't you love this verse? My times are in your hand, Lordship.