JESUS –
literally, “God saves.” In the original Hebrew, the name is
Yeshua,
“salvation,” and/or “The Lord who is salvation.” It is the name the
Angel of the Lord told Joseph to bestow upon Him (
Matthew
1:20-21).
And there is power in His name:
“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became
obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore
God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above
every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those
in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:8-11).
CHRIST – Not His
last name. It’s a Greek title meaning “Anointed Messiah.”
It denotes that He was… consecrated to his great
redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people… To believe
that ‘Jesus is the Christ’ is to believe that He is the Anointed, the
Messiah of the prophets, the Savior sent of God, that He was… what He
claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which
alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the
testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian
(1 Corinthians 12:3;
1 John 5:1).
(Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary).
MESSIAH – The
deliverer whose coming was foretold by the prophets of the Old
Testament. Jews still await the coming of their Messiah today (link to
MessiahRevealed.org).
SALVATION – The
condition of being redeemed by faith, saved by grace from an eternity
of damnation. Salvation is also the belief that the death and
resurrection of Christ accomplished:
- Substitution – Christ sacrificed
Himself in the place of sinners, just for unjust
- Redemption – He
paid the price of sin for each individual who accepts it
- Reconciliation
– Man is no longer alienated from God
- Propitiation – God is satisfied with
the sacrificial death of His perfect lamb as payment for sin
- The Fulfillment of
The Law
LINKS
More about Jesus:
Related Topics: