For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21
It is all in the Name
At the first Conference for World Peace for the limitation of armaments attended by Leaders and High Commissioners from many countries and continents was one Commissioner who stood out from the rest.
He was representing 350 million people and he attracted attention because he kept his hat on! While every head was uncovered he had a white turban closely wrapped round his dark skinned dignified head. Around his neck was a string of pearls which he fingered with reverence pushing them from right to left until he had made a complete circuit of it. This Commissioner from India was a Mohammedan nobleman he sat in silence moving his lips in inaudible speech as he moved his beads along.
Dr Howard the Chairman of the Conference was introduced to him by an official, asked, “What is the significance of that string of beads round your neck?”
“That is not a string,” he replied, “but a golden cord that binds my soul to Allah.”
“And the beads” was the next question.
“Beads! These are not beads, but gems of glory, jewels of joy, pearls of Paradise! This is my rosary. Each of these gems – jewels – pearls – ninety nine in all, one short of a hundred – is the name of Allah, the God of the Mohammedans, the God of the Koran, and I have a better speaking acquaintance with Allah than you have with your Lord Jesus Christ. I know my God by His full name and I challenge you to match my rosary.”
Dr Howard could not take up the challenge; he did not know his Bible well enough and was not on such a close speaking acquaintance with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Later he did take up the challenge in a prayer way and after study and search he found 208 names for our Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible, all gems of glory, jewels of joy, pearls of Paradise.
He also listed seven names from Heaven given to our Lord in the Incarnation at His birth – Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man, Son of the Highest, Immanuel, Saviour, Christ the Lord.
Also seven more names in John 1. The Word, the Lamb of God, the Son of God, Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, Rabbi, and King of Israel.
He discovered that the name of Jesus occurred 700 times in the New Testament.
Jesus – the name high over all – means Jehovah Saviour.
Jesus the name high over all
In hell, or earth, or sky
Angels and men before it fall
And devils fear and fly.
Jesus the name to sinners given
The name to sinners given
It scatters all their guilty fear
And turns their hell to Heaven.