The Name, JESUS

Matthew 1.18-25

There is no other name in heaven or on earth like this Name.

Go around the country, the continent, the world and this Name is known.

How often we have whispered it in times of trouble when we have needed help.

God gave Jesus the Name that is above every name.
At the name of Jesus
Every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is LORD.
Philippians 2.9-10

1. God entrusts this young couple with giving Jesus His Name.
This is huge.
Bible Prophesies and eternal things were riding on this.
The Salvation of souls, every soul who will be in heaven, was depending on the obedience of this young, unwed, couple. The Name, Jesus, was the most important naming of a baby that ever took place.
God entrusted this to a young couple not even married yet!

God entrusts precious things to the young.
-Psalm 8 out of the mouths of babes and infants have You ordained praise!
- Both David and Joseph were teenagers when God began to speak through them. Many believe some of the disciples were too. Most believe Mary was in her late teens.
Always wondered when David wrote the 23rd Psalm. If it was when he was out in the fields with the sheep, then he wasn't even old enough to fight in Israel's Army! Today in Israel the mandatory three years of military service for boys begins at 18. So he could have very well written this as a 14 or 15 year old.

In my prayer group this week we spoke of that little girl who invited my Nana to come to the Mission in Brooklyn. I rejoice at individuals coming to Christ, all the angels in heaven rejoice! I rejoice that my name is written down there. I rejoice and marvel at the Hand of God in generations, family, my family, your family, God's family.

When the LORD wanted Inland China reached 150 years ago, He chose young Hudson Taylor. When the LORD wanted a devotional book written to challenge the soul, He got a young man named Oswald Chambers to give chapel talks to the British Troops in Egypt in WWI and had his wife, a court stenographer, take down every word he gave and My Utmost For My Highest was born after he died!, the best loved devotional book ever written! he wrote in his journal, after witnessing the loss of a child in a family, "Death does profoundly alter life."
In the next World War, when the LORD wanted a book written about the Cost of Discipleship and the author to live out what he was writing, "the first line which read, "When Jesus calls a man, He bids him, 'Come and die,'"He worked in a Nazi Concentration Camp through a Lutheran pastor in his 30's by the name of Deitrich Bonhoffer. He was executed days before he would have been saved by forces defeating Hitler.

When He wanted the Auca Indians reached, He called young Jim Elliott to lay down His life in his 20's. Before his death he wrote, "He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." He also wrote, just a few years before his death, "I must not think it strange if God takes in youth those I would have kept on earth till they were older. God is peopling Eternity, and I must not restrict Him to old men and women."

In the past century, God entrusted the movement of His Spirit to Youth For Christ
Out of it came 2 young men, Billy Graham and Bob Pierce,
Think of what God did through them! BGEA, World Vision, Samaritan's Purse continue to bless the world.
Then in the 1960's The Jesus Movement
New music.

Today God is at work. All is not lost! I am so encouraged when I am around Christian young people with dreams and vision and a heart to do something wonderful for the Kingdom of God!


He entrusts us today.

Be faithful to His dear cause.

2. The Name
Jesus

Joshua or Jehoshua = "Jehovah is salvation"
son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and, Moses' Aide and successor as the leader of the children of Israel; led the conquest of Canaan

Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, God incarnate

The Names the Jews picked for their children had great significance.
What they were, what they believe they would be, what God instructed them to name them, Jesus and John.

David= beloved, leader
Joseph= May he add
John= God has been gracious
Peter= rock

3. His Work was Reflected in His Name.

He shall save. He is the Savior.
His people the lost sheep of the house of Israel, in the first instance; for they were the only people He then had. But, on the breaking down of the middle wall of partition, the saved people embraced the "redeemed unto God by His blood out of every kindred and people and tongue and nation."
Jews
Gentiles
From their sin.


They obeyed fully! God's will was done on earth as it was in heaven.

When the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born to a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under law.
That woman was Mary. Her husband to be was Joseph. Joseph and Mary were both given instructions. They both obeyed perfectly. Joseph gave Him the Name, Jesus.