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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Starting last week, we began a new series of lessons based on the theme “Names of Jesus” with the express purpose of drawing closer to God the Son by becoming more aware of the specific names give the Christ.
Last week we began by looking at what “Only Begotten Son” means and its significance.
It means that Jesus is the “unique, radically distinctive, and without equal.”
Today, we are going to focusing on the name “Jesus” specifically.
The apostle Paul would declare that this name Jesus, is above every name.
9 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,
If this name has such a weightiness behind it, we would do well to examine it.
With this in mind let’s examine our lesson for today.
The Name Jesus
The Name Jesus
Defined In The Bible.
Defined In The Bible.
Our modern usage of the word Jesus, from what I can find, has an interesting background.
Our modern spelling and pronunciation comes from the Latin Iesus (e-a-soos), which comes from the Greek Iesous (yah-soos), which comes from the Hebrew Yehoshu’a (Ye-who-shoe-a). 1
I say all that to say that to determine the name Jesus, which is a transliteration, rather than a translation we must consider what it means in the Hebrew.
The Hebrew name for Jesus is Joshua and as you know from scripture that is a very common name.
Breaking down the Hebrew word Joshua.
The Hebrew word for Joshua is a compound word made up of…
Ya: an abbreviation for Yahweh.
Yasha which means to “help, deliver, save.” 2
Thus, you have the meaning “God-Helps, Delivers, Saves.”
21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Summary
Summary
So, how exactly does Jesus “help,” “deliver,” and “save?”
You see the Father, Son, and Spirit whom we are here to worship today is our…
God Who…
God Who…
Helps
Helps
The word “helps,” in this instance holds the idea of “rescuing.”
Vines, concerning this says “Essentially the word means…
“to remove or seek to remove someone from a burden, oppression, or danger.”
How does Jesus rescue or help us from our burden, oppression, and danger?
You and I know that when we sin, we are burdened and oppressed with the reality that we are lost and in danger of spending eternity separated from God.
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
Jesus is the answer to our burden, oppression, and danger of sin in our lives.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Not only is Jesus our God who helps or rescues us, but he does so by being our God who…
Delivers
Delivers
When Jesus rescues us from our sins he “delivers us from this present evil age.”
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
When Jesus rescues us from our sins he “delivered us from the domain of darkness.”
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
When Jesus rescues us from our sins he “delivers us from a lifelong slavery to sin.”
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
When Jesus rescues us from our sins he “delivers us from the wrath to come.”
10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
When Jesus helps or rescues us by delivering us from evil and the wrath to come he does so by being our God who…
Saves
Saves
The help or rescuing and the deliverance is all for the purpose of salvation.
Jesus “God who saves” came to do just that.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
13 Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Summary
Summary
Our Messiah was given the name Jesus because it is only through him that we have salvation.
It is only through Jesus or “God Who Saves” that salvation is found.
12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
The name Jesus is “above every name” and at the mention of “every knee should bow.”
That is a name that invokes trust, reliance, and hope.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Endnotes
Endnotes
Where did the name “Jesus” come from? by Ancient Hebrew: https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/hebrew-names/from-where-did-the-name-jesus-come.htm
Vine “To Save” https://ref.ly/logosres/tn-vines?art=save
