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- Holiness means that God stands alone. His name is separate and distinct. This truth can be seen in the statement that ‘There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God’ (1 Samuel 2:2).
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Jan 4, 2022 · Question. Is Jehovah the true name of God? Answer. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the name of God is recorded as YHWH. So, where did the name “Jehovah” come from? Ancient Hebrew did not use vowels in its written form. The vowels were pronounced in spoken Hebrew but were not recorded in written Hebrew.
Reverence for the Trinity is at the heart of the Christian faith. “For there are three that bear witness in heaven; the Father, the Word [Jesus], and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one” (1 John 5:7, NKJV). The Holy Spirit is not a thing and Scripture severely warns against mocking (blaspheming) the Holy Spirit (see Matthew 12:31).
Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 3 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God ...
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Jesus himself instructed his disciples to “ask the Father in my name” (John 15:16; 16:23, 26). The apostle Paul spoke of Christians as those who “call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:2), and give thanks “to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20). Praying in Jesus’s name is just one act among m...
Praying in Jesus’s name aims at his glory, and the Father’s glory in him. “Whatever you ask in my name,” he says, “this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (John 14:13). When we pray with others, and they hear our prayers, invoking Jesus’s name redounds to his fame, his praise, his glory. Our prayers honor Jesus when we appeal t...
We pray in the name of one who shares in our humanity. He is our brother in nature, and the weaknesses this nature carries. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). To identify fully with us, “he had to be made like his br...
Again, he “has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Hebrews 2:18 makes the connection between temptation and suffering: “because he himself has sufferedwhen tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” Jesus not only took to himself our full humanity, but also the unavoidable reality of life in a fallen world: suffe...
Hebrews 10:19 claims, “We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.” He took our humanity, and shared in our suffering — to the point of shedding his own blood — that he, being without sin, might “make propitiation for the sins of the people” (Hebrews 2:17). Jesus is our substitute. He died the death we deserved for our sin. T...
If his sacrifice on the cross is the most remembered aspect of Jesus’s name (his substitution), the next might be the most overlooked: his ascension, procession, and session. So far, what we’ve highlighted about Jesus has been “down here”: his humanity, his suffering, his sacrifice. But how do our prayers get from down here to “up there” in heaven ...
We pray in Jesus’s name because in him “we have a great high priest” (Hebrews 4:14; also 10:21). Just as the high priest alone could enter the very presence of God in the earthly tabernacle (and only once a year), so Jesus is greater, entering God’s own presence in heaven. And he gives us this superior access, bringing us with him— and without end,...
When we Christians pray in Jesus’s name, we do not invoke some kind of magic spell or incantation that makes our prayers effective. “In Jesus’s name” is no mere tagline, added at the end of our prayers to make them Christian. We pray in Jesus’s name because he is our brother, our fellow human, our fellow sufferer, our sacrifice and substitute, and ...
King David understood this when he asked God to not remove the Holy Spirit from him. This is an important point. In 1 Samuel 16:13-14, we are told that the Holy Spirit came “mightily upon” David, and then later in Psalm 51:11 David asks God to not remove the Holy Spirit from him. The Holy Spirit came “upon” people, but He did not remain ...
For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is believed to be the third Person of the Trinity, [1] a triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each being God. [2] [3] [4] Nontrinitarian Christians, who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, differ significantly from mainstream ...
In summary, the "recognition" of Jesus as Messiah (Christos = Anointed One) did not come from man on earth (such as John the Baptist), but from God in heaven.
