Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from the Maranatha Singers singing … Jesus, Name Above All Names … poignantly singing of how Jesus’ name declares exactly Whom He is … “glorious Lord!”
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Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 1:21 [NKJV] … 21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
… Jesus, in Hebrew, “Yeshua,” means “Jehovah saves!”
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Highlight Passage [context]: Matthew 1:18-25 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… The angel told Joseph not to fear Jesus’ coming because He would live up to HIs name and save man from his sins.
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Reference Passage : … John 20:31 [NKJV] … 30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
… Believing on the name of “Jesus,” as our Messiah, brings salvation in His Name.
Reference Passage : … Acts 4:12 [NKJV] … 12 “… Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
… Following or believing in one by any name other than “JESUS,” The Christ, cannot save us from our sinfulness.
Reference Passage : … Romans 10:13 [NKJV] … 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
… God, thru Paul, declares from His word that anyone who calls, and believes, on the Hame of “Jesus” will be saved.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Bill Crowder, used an historical reference to show that names don’t have the same significance in our day as they did in Bible times. … “Gip” Hardin, a Methodist preacher, named his son after the famous preacher John Wesley, reflecting Gip’s hopes and aspirations for his baby boy. John Wesley Hardin, however, tragically chose a different path than his ministry-minded namesake. Claiming to have killed forty-two men, Hardin became one of the most notorious gunfighters and outlaws of the American West of the late 1800s [see photo].
Though not so today in our culture, … in the Bible, as in some cultures today, names hold special significance. Announcing the birth of God’s Son, an angel instructed Joseph to name Mary’s child “Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). The meaning of Jesus’s name—“Jehovah saves”—confirmed His mission to save from sin.
As indicated in the ODB entry, names today in our culture generally don’t have the same character description that they did in Jesus’ culture and times. John Wesley Hardin’s name certainly didn’t live up to his name, did it [see photo]?
But very personally, my name, ”WILLIAM”, has a Germanic origin, and it means “Warrior.” And tho my parents didn’t envision that I would become a warrior, it turns out that I’m founder and director of a ministry which is on the front lines of spiritual warfare, entitled “Battle Plan Ministry.” [use this link] Go figure, … I actually did, in a sense, live up to my given name.
But JESUS was named by God’s angel (see highlight passage) to announce that He was (and is) The Messiah, … THE One sent by God to be THE CHRIST, the One - and only One - who could (and would) save mankind from his (our) sins. And the truth is in His Name, isn’t it?
And I pray that anyone reading here with me has done what God’s word says (see reference verses) … and you have trusted in the reality of Jesus’ Name so that He (i.e., we) can (and will) be saved.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for your Name, as the song sings, the “Name above all names!”
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here believe on Your Name and we have been saved forever from ourselves for Your glory. … Amen
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