Jesus has inherited a more excellent name than all others
- Higher than the prophets (Hebrews 1:1-3)
- Higher than the Angels (Hebrews 1:4)
- Hebrews 1:5-6 The Son of God
- Begotten of God as the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:17-20)
- Worthy of Worship
- Hebrews 1:7-9
- The name God
- Anointed (Acts 10:38) with the Holy Spirit and Power
- The day of Jesus’s anointing Mark 1:9-11
- Fulfilling Isaiah 61:1-3
- Prophet, Priest, and King
- Prophets were anointed: 1 Kings 19:16
- Priests were anointed: Exodus 28:41
- Kings were anointed: 1 Samuel 10:1
- Hebrews 1:10-14
- Creator over all things
- Eternal
- Hebrews 1:5-6 The Son of God
- The Way, The Truth, The Life: Scripture speaks of His coming (John 5:39-47)
- Those who come under their own name and authority or another name vs. the Christ
- Like Martin Luther who said, “I pray you leave my name alone. Do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians.”
- John Wesley a Methodist preacher: “I wish the name Methodist might never be mentioned again, but lost in eternal oblivion.”
- Charles Spurgeon a baptist preacher once said, “I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist, I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist, but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, ‘It is Jesus Christ.’ ”
- “I say of the Baptist name, let it perish, but let Christ’s name last forever. I look forward with pleasure to the day when there will not be a Baptist living.”
- Albert Barnes a Presbyterian preacher said this, “These divisions should be merged into the holy name Christian.”
- Henry Ward Beecher said, “Let me speak in the language of heaven and call you Christians.”
- The Apostle Paul spoke of it in 1 Corinthians 1:12-13
- Jesus spoke to our unity in John 15:1-11
- Those who come under their own name and authority or another name vs. the Christ
- We must pay closer attention to Him: 2:1-4
- Lest we receive the just penalty for our sin (Romans 1:28-32, 6:20, 21-23)
- How are we set free from sin? (Romans 5:1-2, 6-11, 6:1-2, 3-4, 5-7)