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What is in a name?
Hi! My name is Jason Davis.
Many of you know me by JD.
When I was in the Navy I was known as “doc,” “chief,” and “Senior” before I retired.
Names become someone’s identity.
They reveal their character.
Who they truly are.
There is a lot in a name.
Names are important and they matter.
When we say a name, we are speaking of someone’s identity.
If you google most common names in America you would find, James, John, Robert, Michael.
I bet you have even met someone by one of those names.
There are many reasons why someone would name their son one of these names.
It might be the meaning of the name, or it might be because one of their relatives or ancestors had the name and they wanted to remember them and carry the name on.
What ever the reason these names tend to get passed down more often than most.
Kind of like the name Jesus.
Maybe not as much today as it did more then 2,000 years ago.
Jesus was a common name.
Within today’s time, many would probably not imagine naming a child Jesus.
There is too much identity wrapped up in the name.
Jesus’s name was not given to Him by His human mother or father.
We saw in the scriptures that heaven sent a message to Joseph through an angel and told him what to name Jesus.
Jesus was not Joseph’s biological child, but He was the child Joseph would help raise.
Thus, the message of what to call Him came to the earthly father from His true heavenly Father.
God instructed Joseph to name the baby Jesus.
(Matthew 1:18-25)
This name would become His most well-known name.
The name Jesus is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua which means “Yahweh saves.”
Recall that Joshua delivered the Israelites into the promised land.
A man who was fierce and full of faith.
The name Joshua and the corresponding Greek name, Jesus, refers to a person who leads the way into a place of blessing – a person who delivers people from their enemies.
Jesus means “Savior,” “rescuer,” and “deliverer.”
God chose a name for His only begotten Son that means, “Savior.”
Jesus came to rescue each one of us.
We see it clearly in Matthew 1:21
The word used here “save” can also be translated as rescue.
Names are important and they matter.
Names are also more then just a nomenclature.
Names involve identity.
So, if names matter to us, one can imagine they matter even more to God – the Creator and originator of humanity, in whose image we have been made.
We see throughout scripture the various names of God reflecting His character and attributes.
Each one of them drawing us into a quality of and relational connection with Him that help us to identify who He is in each particular moment and situation.
This allows us to get to know Him better, as well as understand the numerous ways He can work both in and through our lives.
We will look at a few of them later.
Not only does God the Father go by many meaningful names, but Jesus – God the Son – has many names Himself.
Let’s take a moment to think back some 2,000 years ago.
There was no fanfare as you might have seen with a birth in a royal family.
But not for Jesus.
He came as a King, and He could have been born in a castle.
Yet he was born in a barn or place were the animals were kept, to parents who were both unknown and poor, and He arrived with little worldly notice.
No one sent flowers.
No nursemaid helped with his diapers.
And the few gifts that he did receive they were much later.
(The wise men didn’t show up till he was a child)
So why should we even give attention to Jesus?
Because heaven’s own heart had beat in the womb of a young woman for the previous nine months.
More then likely a young teenager herself, Jesus’s mother, Mary, who was full of faith far greater than the years she had known.
Out of her body came God’s omnipotence covered in humanity’s limitations.
He was flesh, bones, sinew, and blood.
Yet he was also the perfection of deity.
He felt hunger because He was fully human, yet He would later feed five thousand because He was fully God (Luke 9:10-17).
He grew thirsty because He was fully human, yet He would one day walk on water because He was fully God (John 6:16-21)
Jesus’ birth was like no other, for in Him, God took on human flesh.
He was born of a virgin.
Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit so that His human nature might be sinless.
His humanity had both a heavenly origin through the power of God’s Spirit and an earthly origin through Mary.
The virgin birth thus circumvented the transfer of a sinful nature.
God sent the Angel Gabriel to make sure that Mary was aware of the special role that Jesus would play in history – and for all eternity.
We see here as Messiah and King overall, Jesus has already established the rules of His reign,
Setting the tone through His life.
In His kingdom, neither race nor gender nor wealth nor social status determines our place in Him.Galatians 3:28
Christ gives strength to the weak who recognize their weakness and look to Him.
Forgiveness trumps bitterness.
This baby born of a virgin, came not to live and die, but to reign in power and glory.
Notice the given.
The Son was given by God.
As the Son of God, Jesus already existed, but He came to earth through human birth.
That’s why it could be said of Him that He created the universe.
Too many people want to keep Jesus in the manger because they don’t want to deal with His deity.
As long as they can keep Him asleep in the stable, they don’t’ have to reckon with the reality that He’s God on a throne.
But He was already God.
Thus, the Son had to be “given.”
Paul highlighted the reality of deity merging with humanity in (Galatians 4:4
God sent His Son – the Son was “given” – yet Jesus was “born of a woman.”
God became man.
Clearly summarizing the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
The two natures of Jesus Christ from what theologians call the hypostatic union.
This is just a big term that simply refers to the reality that Jesus is made up of undiminished deity and perfect humanity.
He became no less God when He became human.
Mary did not give birth to both God and a man.
Jesus was not 50 percent human and 50 percent God.
Rather, Mary gave birth to the God-man – God with us, Immanuel.
In Colossians 1:19 we see that:
We often see in the Bible that it equates Jesus with God, reinforcing this relationship.
Genesis 1:1 tells us that God created the world, and Colossians 1:16 tells us that all things were created by Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is distinct from God the Father in His person, yet equal with the Father in His deity.
He took on human flesh, being born as a baby in a world of darkness.
He came for the purpose of making the invisible God visible to us in history.
Jesus came to earth as the Son of God so that we may know God and experience Him more fully.
One of the ways we can get to know Jesus and the power He offers to give us in our daily lives is through coming to understand His names.
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