The all-too-brief answer to this question is that the lordship that is now Christ’s is a lordship that assumes the completion of his redemptive work. It is a lordship that could only take effect once the Son of God took to himself a human nature, walked in perfect obedience to his Father, gave himself up to save his people from their sins, and was seated at the Father’s right hand. It is, we could say, the full and complete redemptive lordship of the Son of God become man. This can be understood most clearly in the so-called status duplex, the two states of Christ.
