Where has Caesar gone?

Philippians 2:9-11 :: Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We were working through Philippians 2:5-11 last night in our Bible study.  Though we didn't get time to talk about this, I love these last verses, in particular the phrase Jesus Christ is Lord.  In the day and time that Paul was penning these words this was an absolutely loaded statement, full of great political implications.  The declared phrase of the day, that was commonplace, was Caesar is Lord.  Yet, writing from a dark, dank prison, Paul declares that somebody else is on the throne and one day every knee will bow.  How foolish this must have sounded to those who heard these first Christians declare their allegiance to Jesus.  The people of that day couldn't have imagined anyone ever being more powerful than Caesar.  Funny thing though...couple thousand years later nobody is talking about Caesar, but they are talking about Jesus.  Sure there are plenty of things that compete for "lordship" in our day and time--we've replaced Caesar with countless other "lords", but at the end of the day, at the end of the age, those too will fade.  The only true LORD will be revealed and His name is Jesus.  Jesus Christ is Lord.  What if that statement became as radically subversive in our day and context as it was back then?  We'd have some Kingdom breaking in.