The Dead Are Judged

   We hope you followed "Power Week," from creation into the millennium. There is another exercise of power we did not include.

   Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence…  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne and books were opened.

   The sea gave up the dead…and each person was judged… Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. … If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. - Revelation 20:11-15

Lord or Savior? Which Comes First?

   Paul answers the question in Romans 10:9: If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

   Who is a lord (Greek hyrios)? A lord is someone with power, dominion, authority and the right to master.

   The earliest confession of the New Testament church was, Jesus is Lord. He is called Lord more than 450 times in Scripture; he is called Savior 16 times.

   In Acts 2:36-40, Peter, having spent time with the risen Christ, told his audience, God has made this Jesus … both Lord and Christ.

   Commentary: Jesus is worthy of power (Rev. 5:12), worship (Php. 2:10-11), trust (John 14:1; Heb. 2:13), obedience (Heb. 5:9), and prayer (Acts 7:59-60; 2 Cor. 12:8).

   Before we consider him our Savior, we allow him lordship over our life (Luke 6:46-49; John 15:14). This includes home, church, intellectual, financial, educational, recreational and vocational spheres of life. – Romans 12:1-2.