Normally only the rich and famous where called Lord it was a big thing for the person. It meant that he was respected throughout the land and by everybody. We must remember that Jesus did not live in Europe; the word lord may mean a totally different thing in Hebrew, Lord in Hebrew is “Yehovah” or “YHVH”. The word is widely used for the noble folk, as in our culture and language today.
In today’s world only the rich are called lord. There are no exceptions; the word’s meaning may be dying out. Surprisingly “lord” has stayed the same for the description of Jesus, this shows the strength of the word when it is used to describe Jesus. In Hebrew and in Jesus’ time, the word Yehovah (Jehovah) was a word which you were descried if you said, or mentioned it. It was used to describe God and anybody high religion If you were caught saying the word you would be either stoned to death or hanged.
The miracles that Jesus performed where performed through God. God helped Jesus to perform his miracles. The most important miracles that Jesus performed were the nature miracles. He performed these miracles to all people, of all races. The miracles have many hidden meaning in them; we can all learn things from the miracles that he performed. One such miracle is when he healed the woman with the hemeridge. This woman was an outcast, she could not walk down the street without being shouted at or mugged. Because she had a hemeridge she would bleed. In Jewish teaching blood was a symbol of life, they believed that blood was life, and it was holy. She lost blood, so they though she lost life. When Jesus was summoned to help the woman, he did not see her as an outcast or as unholy. He helped her and healed her back to full health. She was not outcast at all and was accepted back into the community. This teaches us to treat other as equals and that life is precious.
Another miracle that Jesus performed was titles “the centurion's servant”. In this miracle the servant goes to see Jesus about his sick master. Although the Centurion was a Roman, Jesus helped him. Romans Ran the country when Jesus was alive. They occupied Israel and the surrounding countries. The Romans went on to ban Christianity after Jesus died. Jesus was summoned to the centurion's house and healed the man. This is a good miracle with many meanings; it shows us again that when Jesus did not look at a man and see colour or creed but he saw an equal Human being. This shows us that racism should be abolished and that we should not judge people by their appearance. This is only one reason that the Christians called Jesus Lord.
In modern day Christians in church still talk about God and Jesus as Lord. We do not mean that Jesus was a great land owner, or that he was very wealthy, we mean that he was a great man that treated everybody as equals. From Jesus’ teaching we can learn to love everybody. The word Lord also throws a lot of respect onto Jesus.
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