Christos = Kurios

Well, I finally made it to Trinity Baptist Church, and I wasn't disappointed. The preaching was excellent, it was not watered down, it was expositional deep and theologically challenging. If only more churches had preaching like this. It's obvious that a church like Trinity has many people that attend because they want to learn about the Word of God, not because of any charasmatic preacher or an entertaining service, i.e. Journey Church, where I previously attended.

The sermon was over Phil. 2:5-11, and I have never heard this passage exposited so well in my life. This is a passage of Scripture that has always troubled me. But he explained it as Jesus had to humble Himself as the Incarnation. This is the example that Christians are to follow, that of Christ humbling Himself as the Incarnate God.

One of the things that the pastor mentioned was Yahweh, and the significance of Christ is Lord. I can't insert Hebrew characters in my blog, but the word 'Yahweh' is often translated as Jehovah, but it's difficult to know how to translate it because the Hebrew text doesn't have any vowel points for the word, only consonents. Anyway, it was translated as 'Kurios' in the Greek Septuigint, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament. 'Kurios' is translated as 'Lord'. Hence, the significance of saying 'Christ is Lord'. When we make this assertion, we are saying that Jesus is the same person as the Lord in the Old Testament. So the statement, 'Christ is Lord' has Christological significance, as well as Trinitarian implications.

The Lord of the Old Testament is the Lord in the New Testament - that is what we are saying when we say Christ is Lord.