{"id":17987,"date":"2016-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2016-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"lord-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2016\/03\/lord-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Jesus\u2019 death does not contradict His sovereignty. It is a revelation of His sovereign Lordship. Jesus\u2019 life and death reveals that God is Lord not only <i>over <\/i>all things He is Lord <i>in<\/i> all things.<\/p>\n<p>He is not only Lord over the safe confines of heaven, but Lord in the rough and tumble of Roman and Jewish politics. Not only Lord over galaxies, but Lord in the world of hunger and thirst. Not only the Lord over nations, but the Lord in suffering, injustice, and pain. Not only the Lord over life, but also the Lord and tamer in <i>death<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>No human experience is closed to God. We cannot put a sign outside any area of human life that says \u201cGod has no business here,\u201d \u201cGod may not enter.\u201d We set up obstacles and roadblocks, but the Lord bursts in regardless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal\">\u201cThey crucified the Lord of glory.\u201d This has often been an offense and a scandal. Paul exhorts us instead to make it a boast: Let him who boasts, boast in this Lord, the Lord of glory, the <i>crucified<\/i> Lord of glory. This is our boast to all the gods of the nations: Our God dies to conquer death. Can <i>yours<\/i> do <i>that<\/i>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus\u2019 death does not contradict His sovereignty. It is a revelation of His sovereign Lordship. Jesus\u2019 life and death reveals that God is Lord not only over all things He is Lord in all things. 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