To fathom the
answer of a question of such immense proportion to Christianity, we need to
first apprehend what a NAME is.
A name is a
“MARK” used to distinguish, highlight, exalt or condemn and at the end monument
something, somewhere or someone.
Now let me
give you an example:
Take a
person to an island and leave him there with all the supplies that he could
need to survive. Would a lone man need his name? Who would call him by that
name? No-one. Gradually but imminently his psychological affinity towards his
name would decline proportionally.
Now let us repeat the same experiment with two persons. Over
the years, they too would gradually feel the lack of necessity to associate the
other person with a name and call or signal the other person with words like
“Hey Ho etc.”
Repeating the same experiment with three or more persons
changes everything. In the “three person” scenario, they would need to differentiate
between “the other two”. To reduce confusion “the other two” would be assigned names.
Now here we see, the presence of at least three, conceives
the urge for “NAME”.
From the scriptures, we know what importance the Name of Jesus
holds but why, that is the reason for this article.
The name of Jesus was visibly silent yet prophetically
present in the times of the Old Testament too.
The arrival of the Messiah (JESUS) served as HOPE to Israel.
Messiah (JESUS) was HOPE even before He had arrived
physically.
When Jesus physically arrived, He gave all – LOVE and His
works gave them FAITH (to all who believed).
When Jesus departed physically and ascended to Heaven, this
FAITH in few, which was rooted in LOVE, when started spreading across the
globe, gave birth to this Belief – Christianity.
So HOPE became LOVE and FAITH, which in turn gave rise to
this BELIEF system.
Now what can be the two things common among these four
attributes – “HOPE, LOVE, FAITH & BELIEF”? The two things, which are
common, are –
1.
The
name of JESUS “THE CHRIST.”
2.
The works of JESUS CHRIST.
How?
Name is an embodiment of the Spirit and since God is Spirit
(John 4:24) eventually the presence of Jesus encompasses the Whole Bible (Old
and New Testament both).
Now once we have established that the name of Jesus is
present across the Bible both visibly and concealedly (in a hidden manner), we
can determine that the works of God are the works of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;
some in a physical state but many in a Divine (Spiritual) state.
There is one verse in the Bible, which relates the NAME OF
JESUS with the WORKS OF JESUS. John 14:11 (Believe me that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.)
This verse gives us an option of either believing in the first
case (Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me) or believing in
the second case (or else believe me for the very works' sake) and does not intimidate
us of alternative consequences, thus agreeing towards the same reward for
believing in either options.
This means “Believing in the Name of Jesus” is similar to
“Believing in the Works of Jesus”.
Conceive this: When we believe in the Name of Jesus Christ,
we believe IN ALL HIS WORKS, IN ALL HIS CREATION, IN ALL HIS POWERS, IN ALL HIS
EXSISTANCE AND ALL HIS HOLLINESS. The entire energy of the “Universe and
Beyond” concentrates at one point – “THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST” and when we
believe in this name, Miracles Happen.
Your friend in Jesus Christ,
Sandeep Vikash Hembrom.
