What Is in a Name?
“What a wonderful Name it is Nothing compares to this
What a wonderful Name it is The Name of Jesus.
Death could not hold You, the veil tore before You
You silenced the boast, of sin and grave….”
Hillsong’s “What a Beautiful Name….”
An angel appeared to a man named Joseph and said of Mary. “…she will bring forth a Son and you shall call His name Jesus…” (Matthew 1: 21).
Thus, “Christ came who is over all, the eternally blessed God” (Romans 9:5).
Incorporated in that name is all that He was and that He came to do.
In Hebrew His name is “yeshua,” transliterated “the Lord saves.”
In Isaiah 7: 14 it is foretold He would be called Immanuel, meaning “God with us.”
Thus, He was God with us who came to save us. Of all of His roles that was His primary one. He came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Jesus in Bethlehem was God away from home.
His presence is irrefutable evidence God loves you.
He came to cleanse the barren badlands of your soul.
He came to let His joy flow through the spiritually arid regions of your life.
He, Immanuel, “God with us,” is here to domicile in your heart.
He, God the Son, was co-equal, co-essential, and co-eternal with God the Father (John 1:14, 18). Jesus said, “I and My Father are one” (John 10: 30).
Good news was delivered by an angel: “There is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2: 11).
The Ancient of Days became a newborn one night in Judea under the dark night’s sky which formed a canopy for the Light of the World.
When scholars translated the Hebrew name, Jehovah, they used the Greek word “Kurios,” meaning Lord. When Jesus is called “Lord” the term “Kurios”is used. It is the same as used for Jehovah, meaning He is God.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). “Word” translated the Greek word “logos.” To understand a word’s meaning see how it was used at the time of use. About that time Plato used “logos” meaning “all that is known or knowable about God.” Thus Jesus was God.
He said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30).
In Titus 2: 13, 14, He is spoken of as “our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us…”
In Greek when two nouns are connected by the word for “and,” and the first is preceded by an article, and the second isn’t, the second is equal to the first and is a further explanation thereof. Thus, “great God” and “Savior Jesus Christ” are one.
“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;” (Colossians 2: 9). Who is He to you?