Hi and I meant 1 Cor 12:3 !!
Jesus
is Lord. He does not need us to make Him that.
And we are not God's righteousness in any way whatsoever.
That is reserved for Him alone. When we stand in Him, by faith, we partake of His righteousness. We glorify God but we do not add to righteousness in a theological sense.
By His grace He has revealed to us that He is Lord and by faith we recognize it.
God has elevated Him above all names that can be named.
Phil 2:9KJV, Eph 1:21KJV
He is Lord of the converted and unconverted.
He has the keys of hell and death.
Why does it has Lord in Rom 10:9 , is it important ??
Well, of course it is important, but it states that He is Lord Jesus, not that we can make Him that.
I do not follow Mac Arthur's teaching , just so you know !!
dan p
John MacArthur is a wonderful man of God and has many terrific things to say.
But, unfortunately, a part of his teaching includes things that we must do along with simply believing to attain unto salvation.
These things need to be reserved for sanctification, not as necessary for salvation.
Lordship salvation arose to combat "Easy Believism".
For this we are thankful, but not at the expense of adding our righteousnesses to those of Christ.