Lord of All (Or Not Lord at All)

The Kingdom of our God is all-inclusive. It covers everything about humanity individually and collectively. There is nothing that is left out.

Dr. E. Stanley Jones said this: “His Kingdom must be by its very nature a total Kingdom, for God is not a half-god ruling over a half-realm, ruling over the personal but not over the social, or ruling over the social and not over the personal. He must be God and not a mere half-god. And His kingdom must be totally present and totally relevant or totally nothing and hence totally irrelevant. There is no middle ground. He must be God of all or not God at all. And his Kingdom must be a total Kingdom or no Kingdom.”

The kingdom cannot be compartmentalized and only allowed access into just certain, limited areas of our lives. The kingdom is relevant in every facet and function of our lives. 

The kingdom allows Believers to have their being and to operate on another level, or within another realm, and in another dimension of power and authority. When Jesus said for humanity to make understanding and operating in His way of doing and being right for us our first priority and our first consideration, He meant everything about us should be engaged and operating within another level of reality. There is a Kingdom Way for everything. 

We cannot and we will not experience the victory that scripture (our Constitution) described as being our reality experience in this world, without our total engagement and without our complete selling out to His Kingdom. His Kingdom is the greater realm of greater power and greater authority that is the reality Christ has provided for humanity through the connection of a new birth. 

All our activity. All our choices, and all our relationships. He was not just speaking about religion and church. “He is not a half-god.” He is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.