THE BOSS

Hello friends and neighbors...whose your Boss? Someone say..."I am my OWN boss."

The boss in the traditional meaning would be the one who is your employer while you are the employed. There may be a chain of command and you have multiple bosses...that leads down to the one over you.

In the Greek language...there is a word...called KURIOS (koo-ree-os). It means
(1) supreme (2) supreme in authority (3) controller (4) Mr. (5) Master
(5) Lord (6)Sir...and by extension for our purposes...BOSS.

In our little collage, we have various pictures of various incarnations of the idea of BOSS. We have Jimmy Reed, the old Bluesman...who wrote the song BIG BOSS MAN. This was also recorded by Elvis...Bill Cosby...and multiple other singers. Bruce Springsteen is known as THE BOSS. Then there is Tony Danza who begs the question...Who's The Boss. Of course, who can forget that southern huckster...the Mayor of Hazzard County...BOSS Hogg.

The ultimate boss...is JESUS CHRIST. Jesus is BOSS...or at least he should be... and at some point...He WILL BE...whether you like it or not.



"Therefore [because He stooped so low], God has HIGHLY EXALTED Him and has freely bestowed on Him the NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME...That in (at) the NAME OF JESUS...every knee should (must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:10,11 The Amplified Bible)

Jesus is known by many names and as many things. To some....His name (along with God's name) is nothing more that a foul curse word used to (1) impress people with a limited vocabulary (2) make their mothers proud (3) show the world that they are adults (4) a sign of respect to believers everywhere.

JESUS: God is salvation
CHRIST: Anointed one, anointed with yoke destroying, burden lifting, oppression removing power of the Holy Spirit
LORD: Supremacy, supreme in authority, controller, Mr., Master, Sir, LORD.

He is known as the NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. A name is simply and agreed upon code that something is called something. A noun can be a person, place or thing. Whatever you can place a name on...JESUS' name is ABOVE that name. Name a denomination, world religion, human philosophy...and the name of Jesus is above that name. The name fear, sickness, disease, cancer, debt, poverty, depression are all descriptive names to describe something...but the NAME OF JESUS IS BOSS OVER THOSE NAMES.


C.S. Lewis wrote a book in 1943 called Mere Christianity. It is a systematic apologia (defense) for this thing called Christianity. Lewis who has written classic books from the Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, The Pilgrim's Regress...lays out a reasoned thought process for following Jesus Christ as Lord. Usually, any cult, heresy, religion, atheist, agnostic, non-religious, non (supposedly hypocrite)...will attack JESUS. If you disavow the leader of the revolt...you crush the revolt.

Lewis expounds..."I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him...'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must NOT say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. he would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the devil of hell. You must MAKE YOUR CHOICE. Either this man was and is, the SON OF GOD; or else a mad man or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and CALL HIM LORD AND GOD. But let us NOT come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. HE HAS NOT LEFT THAT OPEN TO US. He did not intend to." (C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity [Book 2 What Christians Believe: The Shocking Alternative])

Many people call Jesus a prophet, a teacher, a great moral man. As Larry Norman wrote in his song THE OUTLAW....he was known as a poet, sorcerer, politician. He is know as a teacher in the Koran...but underscored that he was a bastard...since the virgin birth was an impossibility. Peter was asked by Jesus..."Who do people say I am?" Peter layed out the thought process of the masses...John the Baptist, Elijah, some other prophet. Jesus gets specific with Peter...and He gets specific with us/you also...WHO DO YOU SAY I AM? Peter's response was...Thou are the Christ, the Living Son of God. God answer Peter!!!

I guess the question is...Who did Jesus think He was?!? "Jesus said to him (Thomas), I am the way, the truth, the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me." (John 14:6)

Peter and the boys (aka apostles) were speaking to the people. They had healed a lame man...and news was spreading. As they were speaking to the people...the priests, captain of the temple guard, the Sadducees came upon them. The ones in authority (the ones who thought they were the boss)...were being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming IN JESUS THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. (Acts 4:1-2) They put them in jail...as those who heard the message BELIEVED...and around 5000 were SAVED. Peter and the boys were placed in the center as they quizzed them...BY WHAT POWER, OR IN WHAT NAME HAVE YOU DONE THIS? (Acts 4:4-7) Peter's answer: Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers and elders of the people...if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man...as to how this man has been made well...let it be known to all of you...and to all the people of Israel...that BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THE NAZARENE...whom you crucified...whom GOD RAISED FROM THE DEAD...by this NAME...this man stands here before you in good health.
(Acts 4:8-10)

The bottom line of Peter's apologia (defense)..."And there is SALVATION in NO ONE ELSE...for there is NO OTHER NAME...under heaven that has been given among men... by which WE MUST BE SAVED." (Acts 4:12)

"...which He will bring about at the proper time--He who is the blessed and the only Sovereign, the KING of kings...and the LORD of lords..." (I Timothy 6:15)

"These will wage ware against the LAMB (Jesus)...and the LAMB (Jesus) will overcome them, because He is LORD of lords and KING of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful." (Revelation 17:14)

"And on His (Jesus') robe and on His thigh He has a NAME written...KING of kings...and LORD of lords." (Revelation 19:16)

Now...the fact is that JESUS IS LORD...but the question is...who do you say He is?

"Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? And then I will declare to them I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness."
(Matthew 7:21-23) It is more than JUST SAYING the word LORD. When the Lord speaks...we do.

Love and Kurios Kisses
Rodney "JESUS IS LORD" Boyd