You shall call His name Jesus…
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For some unkown reason (to me) I haven’t been able to access my journal for the past couple of days. Nathan has been seeing to it. Looks like? everything is alright now.
Where do I begin? My sisters sure have been checking up on me. That always happens when the most handsome of all? brothers is walking through some ’stuff.’ (Course I am an only son of my dad and mom.)? 
First it was Bonnie for a good visit, then Julia called, and then Bertie came by yesterday for a visit. How I? love my three sisters. They are so blessed to have me as a brother. And my wife, how that woman loves me.?
What has been really interesting is that for the last three days I’ve been unable to get any further in my devotions than Psalm 3. Psalms is? such an awesome book. Seems every verse speaks to your heart concerning Jesus.
Here is the Scripture portion that? my devotions have centered on the last three days? — ?
“Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have shattered the teeth of the wicked. Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah.” (Vv 7,8 nasb.)
Where do we see Jesus here? Glad you asked.?
‘Arise, O Lord; save me.” This speaks to me of the? resurrection of the Lord Jesus, as our Lord and and Savior.
“O my God!” Who was it that resurrected and ascended into heaven? How did Thomas see Jesus after he was invited to touched the hands and the side of the Lord? He said, “My Lord and my God.”
“For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.”
The teeth of the wicked speaks of the enemies ability to gnash himself at us. The cross removed Satan’s power over any believer.? From the cross comes the? victory of Christ. Paul said …?
“When He [the Father] had disarmed the ruler and authorities [forces of darkness], He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him [His Son, Jesus].” (Col 2:15)? ?
How about our personal victory in Christ? Another, ‘Glad you asked.’ No matter what happens in life we have a promise. Listen with your heart — “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triump in Christ, and manifests through us the sweert aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.” (2Co2:14)
The victory Paul is describing is the victory of God’s grace. The cross removed any effort on man’s part to get good enough to become saved. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Here is the Scripture that really arrested my attention –? “Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessing be upon Your people!”? (v8)
The blessings that rest upon Jesus, those same blessings rest upon all the children of grace. John said that as Jesus is, so also are we in this world. Paul said that nothing would be able to separate us from? God’s love for us.?
As I meditated on this? Scripture,? another verse came to mind.? The angel told Joseph? in a dream,? “She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)
Jesus saves us from our sins! The name Jesus in Hebrew signifies ‘Yahweh is Savior,’? or, ‘Yahweh is salvation.’ Jesus can thus mean ‘Savior.’ There is a wonderful connection between the name Jesus in Hebrew and the word salvation in Hebrew. It is sort of like a hidden revelation to be discovered by the searching heart.
The Hebrew name for Jesus is ‘Yehoshua’ (Often shortened to? Yeshua) which means ‘the Lord delivers,’ or, ‘the Lord is salvation.’ It is a proper noun.
The word ’salvation’ in Hebrew is the word ‘yeshuah’ which speaks of welfare, prosperity, deliverance, and victory. It is a feminine noun. It comes from the word ‘yasha’ which simply means ‘to save, to be saved, be delivered, to be victorious’.
There is a relationship that? I want you to see. Whenever you read the word ’salvation’ in the Old Testament, if you will mentally exchange it with the name of ‘Jesus’ the revelation will? delight you.
Here are a couple of examples? where I will exchange the word ’salvation’ with the name ‘Jesus.’
“For Your Jesus I wait, O Lord.” (Gen 49:18. Spoken by Jacob.)
“The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my Jesus; this is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.” (Exo 15:2)
“Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of Jesus, and in that day you will say, ‘Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples…” (Isa12:3,4 - Keep in mind what Jesus said to the lady at the well concerning faith in Him becoming a well of water inside her, springing up.)
I find it more than a curiosity that the early Jewish Christians were able to find Jesus everywhere in the writings of Moses, of David, and of the prophets.
Verse 8 says,? “Salvation belongs to the Lord.” This statement is the sum and substance of the covenant of Christ. The doctrine of our salvation by grace alone is the keystone of the word of God. If salvation belongs to the Lord, then salvation cannot be attributed to man’s will, or his goodness, or his having achieved anything in relation to earning anything from the Lord. Salvation belongs to the Lord!
God calls us by His grace; He makes us alive by His Spirit; He keeps us by His power.
Paul said, “So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.” (Rom9:16)
John said, “…who were born [we Christians], not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:13)
Yes, this is a great mystery. We don’t have to understand it. It simply tells us that God knows a lot of things that we don’t know nor do we understand.
Aren’t you glad His name was called Jesus? The name of Jesus is not some magical word that we use as a matra.? The name of Jesus speaks of the person of Jesus. To call upon His name is to call on Him. Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
Aren’t you glad that you have called upon Him as Lord and Savior? Aren’t you glad that you are a living picture of God’s grace at work? I sure am.
Peter said, “…let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead — by this name this man stands here before you in good health…
“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men which which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:10,12)
What must a man do to be saved? He must call upon? Jesus as Lord and Savior. This is what it means to confess Him publicly. When this appeal is made, Paul said? a transfer is made. The new believer is taken from the authority of darkness and placed in the kingdom of God’s beloved Son. The kingdom of God’s Son is a kingdom of pure grace.? Is it any wonder that the elders in Revelation threw their crowns at the feet of Jesus.
Ok, nuff preaching for today. Think I’ll post this and then get on with other things.
Blessings,
Buddy
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