“If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.”
for the name of Christ
“Name” refers to all that Christ represents. Our name represents us. If we write a check or note, that name represents our person and character.
Mt 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” (Jesus means Savior)
Mt 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (We gather together representing Jesus’ name)
Jn 1:12, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” (We believe in what he represents)
Jn 3:18, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Jn 14:13-14, “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” (We pray on the basis of the character of Christ)
Jn 15:16, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”
Jn 16:23-24, “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. “Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
Jn 20:31, “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” (We have eternal life because of what Jesus represents)
Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (We are baptized in what Jesus represents)
Acts 4:10-12, “Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. “This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Jesus name is the only basis of salvation)
Acts 15:14, “Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.” (We are called to represent his name)
Acts 21:13, “Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” (We die for what Jesus represents)
Php 2:9, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (The Father gives Jesus a distinct name)
Ro 10:13, “For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’”
1 Cor 1:10, “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (Appeal to unity is based on Jesus’ name, that is, what he represents)
Co 3:17, “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” (Everything we do we do represents Jesus the Lord)
Eph 5:20 “Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Re 19:13, 16, “He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. … And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
PRINCIPLE:
Everything we are and everything we do, we represent Jesus’ name.
APPLICATION:
What kind of representative of Jesus are you?
