THE Name

JESUS

Some call Him Master... so do I. Some call Him Savior... so do I. Some call Him Lord... so do I. His name is - JESUS.

As the song says… ‘There’s just something about that name… Master, Savior…. Jesus, like the fragrance after the rain.” Is that what you think when you hear - Jesus? Do you follow the descriptions scripture provides? 

One interpretation [karengirlfriday.com] says:

   "We describe Jesus as: love, mercy, peace, hope, grace, truth, freedom, kindness, joy, victory."

She also uses scripture to 'flesh out' the descriptions. I have no problem with her delineation... it begins our understanding. But the Bible is rich from Genesis through Revelation in it's descriptions. The Bible is really all about Jesus, all about who He is, what He does, how He does it, what it represents for us. I'm not going to indicate all of the descriptions, but I do want to highlight a few of them to show us the FULLNESS of Jesus.

1. Savior - Acts 4:10-12

   "Let it be known and understood by all of you, and by the whole house of Israel, that in the name and through the power and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, [but] Whom God raised from the dead, in Him and by means of Him this man is standing here before you well and sound in body. This [Jesus] is the Stone which was despised and rejected by you, the builders, but which has become the Head of the corner [the Cornerstone]. And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved."

There may be many paths to get to Jesus, but once there - there is no other path! He is The Way... The Truth... and The Light. John 14:6 says:

   "Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me."

This puts a period. These verses give us the foundation for Jesus and relationships.

2. High Priest - Hebrews 4:14-16

   "Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him]. For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].

Jesus is still interceding on our behalf. He is still involved when we come to Him for mercy and grace.

3. Purpose for Coming. lay down divinity, purpose in John 3:16+. 

I don't know about you, but I definitely have difficulty getting my head around the fact of knowing that I would be tortured and killed. Yet that is exactly what our Lord knew and did.

   "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life." [John 3:16]

I doubt that there's anyone that doesn't know this verse - believer and non-believer alike. But this verse is only the beginning. Too often we aren't even aware of the verses that come next.

"For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes and has decided to trust in Him [as personal Savior and Lord] is not judged [for this one, there is no judgment, no rejection, no condemnation]; but the one who does not believe [and has decided to reject Him as personal Savior and Lord] is judged already [that one has been convicted and sentenced], because he has not believed and trusted in the name of the [One and] only begotten Son of God [the One who is truly unique, the only One of His kind, the One who alone can save him]. This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned. But whoever practices truth [and does what is right—morally, ethically, spiritually] comes to the Light, so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are—accomplished in God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence on Him].” [v.17-21]

The NAME of Jesus is powerful and provides us with truth... because HE is the way and the life.