Understanding the Kingdom Concept of Lord and Territory. “If kingship has to do with authority, then lordship has to do with ownership” The lordship of a king speaks to that over which the king has power. Because our king, God through Christ, has dominion over His creation (heaven and earth), it is not ours but His. Munroe claims, ‘not only does a king possess the authority to distribute his property anytime … he also can switch his property from one person to another.’ We are merely stewards of those things the Lord blesses us with, which releases us from the anxiety and effort of trying to maintain that ownership and should nurture a generosity fuelled by the knowledge that, “He, who has no limitations, can replace what we give to others.” It is giving when you have little that is the greatest acknowledgement of His lordship over your life.
So God has given us dominion over earth and what we do with that privilege of being our Lord’s regents or representatives or stewards or ambassadors on earth is up to us. We relinquished our kingship over it with the fall of Adam. So Christ came as man to return that gift to us. Because of this gift and responsibility we should not be so cavalier as to blame God when “bad” things happen as a result of our own decisions and actions. We are often directly to blame for these events; implicitly or explicitly, as we cannot sin in a vacuum. Our actions never affect us alone. But God wants to intervene and waits for us to ask in prayer so that his, “will be done on earth as it is in heaven”.
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