Most Popular
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Psalm 139:14 (NKJV)14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully ...
About Dying!
Proverbs 27:1 (NKJV) 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do ...
The neat thing about it is that it works �
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NKJV)16 that He would grant you, according to the riches ...
�Jesus the Christ!"
Rated: 
, 0 Comments
, 0 Comments
Total visits: 140
Posted on: 6th Oct 2014
Matthew 16:20 (KJV)
20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
Reflections:
It�s surprising how many folks think that the Savior�s first name is Jesus, and that his last name is Christ. This is not true. All the way through scripture the nation of Israel typically did not use last names. Gentiles (non-Jews) did use last names especially, in the New Testament. Israelites went by their first name and then a descriptor(s) was added.
In Matthew 16:17 we see that Simon�s name was �Simon Barjona� which meant �Simon son of Jonas.� With this in mind, Jesus name would be �Jesus Barjoseph.� Further descriptors were used also i.e., �The carpenter�s son� (Mt 13:55) or �Jesus of Nazereth� (Mt 26:1). The point being that �Christ� was/is not Jesus last name.
The name Jesus means �Jehovah is salvation.� In the Greek Jesus name was �Iēsous.� It was pronounced �ē-ā-s�'s.� In the Old Testament Jesus name was �Joshua� which again means �salvation.� The Hebrew for Joshua was �Yĕhowshuwa`� Pronunced �yeh�hō�sh�'�ah.� There were other folks with the name �Jesus� in the New Testament: Jesus son of Eliezer (Lk 3:29) and Jesus surnamed Justus (Col 4:11).
I looked on line and found that the people who most commonly have �Jesus� for a first name, have the following last names: Garcia, Rodriguez, Martinez, Hernandez,Gonzalez, Lopez, Perez, Sanchez, Ramirez, Flores, Torres, Gutierrez, Gomez, Diaz,Mendoza, Rivera, Morales, Reyes, Alvarez and Chavez. You can see, there are, many, many Jesus�.
Sooo, if we were going to go toe to toe with the devil, and we were to command him to flee in �Jesus name!� -- would an appropriate response from the devil be,�Jesus who???� On the other hand if we were to speak the same command in the name of �Jesus the Christ!,� I don�t think there would be too much confusion over who�s authority we were talking about. �Christ� means �the anointed one,� �The Messiah,� �The Son of God�!
You might be thinking, �Ron, aren�t you being a bit picky here?� However, on the other hand, could this perhaps explain why the devil doesn�t respond so well when we attempt to use the authority of �Jesus� against him?
Comments
There are still no comments posted ...
Rate and post your comment