Ten Commandments: Neglected. Very important to us as Christians.

Useful for holiness

Conviction of sins. Romans

Used to judge people. As we will see.

One of them is important to us today as we continue with our study of Luke.

Exodus 20:8 Lists the Fourth commandment: 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God.

Sabbath means to rest. But we don’t just rest as an end in itself. We rest to give our attention to God.

Fairly basic instruction.

However, what has constantly gotten the practice in trouble has been the phrase “keep it holy.”

This inspired 1,521 different laws that the Jewish people had to obey,

for example, you had to remove your false teeth. Eventually, to not profane the name of God, they ceased saying it at all.

But the Jewish people were not the only ones who got hung up on how exactly keep the sabbath day holy. Possibly as early as 1781 so-called “blue laws” were enacted in various United States colonies that restricted certain activities on Sunday.

For example the Blue laws of Conneticut read

CONCERNING THE SABBATH:

The Sabbath Day shall begin at sunset Saturday.

No one shall cross a river on the Sabbath but authorized clergymen.

No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day.

No one shall kiss his or her children on the Sabbath or feasting days.

Winona Lake’s Blue laws read:

No manufacture, sale, consumption, or possession of alcohol

No swearing or spitting in public

No boating, carriage rides, or swimming on Sundays

No dancing with members of the opposite sex

No conducting of business (except food service) on Sundays

No card playing or wagering of any kind

In Texas a blue law was in effect until 1985 prohibiting selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday

Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota car dealerships continue to operate under blue-law prohibitions in which an automobile may not be purchased or traded on a Sunday.

It’s important that we find a balance in how we approach sabbath keeping. We’ve seen examples of how it has been overly legislated. But in our day the danger is probably more in not giving it enough attention.

Today we’ll learn from Luke how Jesus approached the sabbath and also learn some ways that we can make Sabbath keeping more meaningful.

Read Luke 6:1-5

1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

3 Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; 4 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?” 5 He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

Read 6:1 and 2 again.

1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

Let’s look first at what it was that the disciples did that got the Pharisees all rankled.

What was it exactly that they had done on the sabbath?

Was it the fact that they were walking on the sabbath?

No. You were allowed to walk, so long as it didn’t exceed two thousand cubits, about a 1/4 of a mile, which was called, appropriately a sabbath day’s journey.

Another possibility was that they were in a grain field on the sabbath. One of the sabbath laws said “it is not lawful for a man to visit his gardens or his fields to check on their progress.” In other words: it is work if you are checking how things are going. But the disciples weren’t checking up on the crop because it wasn’t theirs. They just happened to be passing through.

Perhaps we wonder if the trouble was that they were taking food that didn’t belong to them. Were they stealing? No. Even taking food from a field was allowed in Deuteronomy 23:25 “When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.” It is ok to snack at a man’s field but it is not ok to harvest. I wonder if the same applies to eating an apple off of someone’s tree.

The problem wasn’t walking on the sabbath, or being in a grain field on the sabbath, or taking food that didn’t belong to them. The problem was that they plucked the grain and rubbed it in their hands on the sabbath. They were harvesting and threshing. The Jewish rule was “he that reaps (on the sabbath day) ever so little, is guilty of stoning, and “plucking of ears of corn is a derivative of reaping”;” and is punishable with the same kind of death. Philo the Jew said that the rest of the sabbath not only reached to men, bond and free, and to beasts, but even to trees, and plants. He wrote “it was not lawful to cut a plant, or branch, or so much as a leaf”, on a sabbath day:

So the Pharisees were astonished at such a blatant disregard for the law and said to Jesus “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

Jesus answered in verse 3 “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him; 4 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

It was allowed of David because of necessity. 1Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread.

So Jesus is hear saying to the Pharisees that in the same case there was a necessity of the disciples to eat and so while they were breaking the ceremonial laws that had been added to the original fourth commandment, they were not in fact breaking the commandment.

But then He completely scandalized them by adding in verse 5: “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

John Gill writes: The Jews so far agree to this, that he that commanded the law of the sabbath, could dispense with it; For example: the day on which Jericho was taken was the sabbath day; and that though they slew and burnt on the sabbath day, the God that commanded the observation of the sabbath, commanded the profaning of it”.”

And since Christ is equal to the Father in power and glory so as he is Lord of all other things, he is of the sabbath, and has a power of dispensing with it, and even of abolishing it.

This helps to explain how the Gentile church changed the observance of the sabbath into observing The Lord’s Day.

The church began meeting on Sunday instead of saturday because it was the day that Jesus rose from the dead.

One of the early church fathers, Ignatius, wrote “We No longer keep the Sabbath but living according to the Lord’s day, on which also our Light arose”

Barnabus called it the eight day, the day after the Sabbath. As the first day of the week was the beginning of the first creation, they called the day after the sabbath the day of the beginning of the new creation. “We keep the eighth day with gladness, on which Jesus arose from the dead.”

Let’s look at some reasons why the Gentile church moved away from ceremonial observance of the seventh day as the sabbath.

When the Jewish Christians learned that the Gentiles had come into a saving knowledge of Jesus they were called upon to decide if the Gentile Christians needed to follow the Jewish laws. They convened a council to discuss it and made a lits of what they called “the necessary things”

Acts 15:28, 29 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

No mention of keeping the seventh day as a sabbath. And so the gentile Christians were under no obligation to keep the seventh day as a sabbath.

In Colossians, Paul warned against those who would judge based on whether or not people kept the sabbath day.

Colossians 2:16 16 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

As a matter of individual devotion a man might do as he pleased (Ro 14:5, 6, ), but no general rule as necessary for salvation could be compatible with the liberty wherein Christ has made us free.

In fact, even though the Christian’s worship was held on Sunday it did not even sanctify Sunday any more than a regular Wednesday service among us sanctifies Wednesday. John Calvin even proposed to adopt Thursday in place of Sunday. In fact the first church services were held in the evening, not in the morning. Should we then only meet on Sunday evening?

For many Christians meeting on Sunday morning is a simple impossibility. One member of our young adult small group works at Target at 3:00am making Sunday morning worship impossible for him. So Wednesday night _is_ his church. He is just as much a part of this church as anyone who attends on sunday.

So if Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and observance of the seventh day as the sabbath is no longer a command, then how should we observe the 4th commandment?

The puritans have some instruction to us. Their position generally was that the commandment teaches the principle that one day in seven is to be given to God, without in fact naming the day of the week. It says “Remember the sabbath day..the day of rest,” not “Remember the seventh day of the week…”. This is what distinguishes the ceremonial from the moral – the commandment reminded them that by ceremony, the seventh day had been marked out as the weekly Sabbath. But the identification of the specific day was not the essence of the commandment. The moral substance of the commandment was the principle to keep one day out of seven to the Lord.

So what we need to do is practice the principles that go with the sabbath, which are rest from work and worship to God.

Let’s look at each of these.

First rest from work.

According to a raft of recent studies, Americans are working more and enjoying it less. Between 1995 and 1999, the number of people calling in sick because of stress more than tripled. “I’ve got a lot of clients coming to me from Silicon Valley,” says Pam Ammondson…who runs a Santa Rosa…workshop to counsel…burnout [sufferers]. “It’s a dream to make a million dollars overnight. But these people are not happy, their relationships are miserable, and they’re taking a step back to ask what it’s all about”…. http://www.timesizing.com/1vacatns.htm

Sherman James, a researcher of epidemic diseases at the University of Michigan, describes a personality type named John Henryism. The name refers to the American folk hero who, hammering a six-foot-long steel drill, tried to out-race a steam drill tunneling through a mountain. John Henry beat the machine, only to fall dead from the superhuman effort.

Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, (W.H. Freman and Co., 1998), p. 332–333; submitted by James Lindberg, Cha

We need to be exceptionally cautious as Americans that we not fall victim to John Henryism: working so hard that we lose our life under the mistaken notion that with enough effort and determination we can control our world.

It is exactly to this tendency that the sabbath rest speaks to us. We need rest.

Our farmer friends at Menno Mennonite Church said that if they work on Sunday, the machinery will break on Monday. While this is a little superstitious it is a reminder that God wants us to rest.

We need rest. We need a break from our work during our work day. We need sleep to regenerate from our work. And we need a sabbath day of rest to break from our work. It is a reminder that we are not little gods over our worlds.

What about our worship. How does keeping the sabbath holy affect our worship?

Leland Rycken says “Earlier in this century, someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.” Leland Ryken, quoted in Critique (1997, No. 7), p. 9; submitted by Aaron Goerner, New Hartford, New York

Rafael Antonio Lozano is a man with a mission, albeit a strange one. The 33-year-old computer programmer from Plano, Texas, is on a quest to visit every company-owned Starbucks on the planet.

Lozano, who calls himself Winter, began his mission in 1997, when there were 1,304 such stores worldwide. Today, there are over 6,000 in 37 countries. As of October 31st, 2005, Winter had visited 4,918 Starbucks in North America, in addition to 213 others around the globe.

Despite his impressive pace, Winter is realistic about the nature of his quest, saying, “As long as they keep building Starbucks, I’ll never be finished.” He is also realistic about the importance of his mission. “Every time I reach a Starbucks, I feel like I’ve accomplished something,” he said, “when actually I’ve accomplished nothing.”

Jayne Clark, “Sooner or Latte, He’ll Get There,” USAToday.com (10-13-05); submitted by Sam O’Neal, St. Charles, Illino

One of the great concerns for how we treat the Lord’s day is that while we go as often as Lozano visits Starbucks, we may not actually be accomplishing anything.

As Annie Dillard says “Christians aren’t sensible of the conditions. The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets.”

In Isaiah 58:13, 14 God says “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.”

The temptation for us is the same as it was for the Pharisees. To make keeping the sabbath all about rest from work and to them minimize the focus on our devotion to god.

Richard Baxter, Puritan pastor and author says “It is a day for heart work, [not merely rest]. your principal business is with heaven; follow your hearts therefore all the day and see that they be not idle while your bodies are exercised: nothing is done if the heart do nothing. Follow your hearts therefore all the day and see that they be not idle while your bodies are exercised: nothing is done if the heart do nothing.”

Here are some ideas that he gives to prepare for the Lord’s day.

1. Do your work during the 6 days. Dispatch all your business

2. Shake off the thoughts of worldly things and clear your minds of worldly delights and cares

3. Call to mind the sermon you heard the last Lord’s day so that you may be prepared to receive the next.

4. Go seasonably to bed that you may not be sleepy on the Lord’s day. Acts 20:9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

5. Repent of the sins of the week past as particularly and seriously as you can; and seek pardon and peace through Christ that you come not with guilt or trouble upon your consciences before the Lord.

Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. We need to not be worried with keeping the law ceremonially. But we need to follow it as a rest from our work and focus of our attention on God and our heart.

Philippians 2:9 says

9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

If nothing happens today in this sermon, we want to exalt the name of Jesus. You should come away with a sense of awe about Jesus’ name.

Jesus’ name is so important because it did not come from human origin. It came directly from God himself.

When we utter the name “Jesus,” we are not speaking an ordinary name. This is the name that God gave HIm which is above every name. We need to reclaim a sense of awe at the name of Jesus.

This Sunday is called Holy Name on the church calendar. It commemorates the circumcision and naming of Jesus.

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This Sunday is called Holy Name on the church calendar. It commemorates the circumcision and naming of Jesus.

Luke 1:26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

and then in Luke 2:21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Jesus pronounced ee ye soos. Comes from the Hebrew word for Joshua. The angel told Mary’s husband Joseph the meaning of the Word in Matthew 1:21. He said “for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

I think it’s really important for us to use proper names when talking about God. That’s one of the reasons I use a Bible translation that uses the name Yahweh for God. We live in what’s called a pluralistic society. Pluralistic means lots of ideas side by side, each given the same amount of legitimacy. Yahweh is side by side with Allah, with the Buddah, mother earth, and others, and given no more significance to most people. In fact, there are often people attending Bible believing Churches who believe that each of these are legitimate ways to center your life and secure your eternity.

This is much like that of the Roman empire where multitude gods were acknowledged side by side. Pantheon. And leaders were considered gods. Tolerance for the Jewish God Yahweh. In fact, the Roman rulers were mostly tolerant of Jesus. His crucifixtion was more a result of the Jewish leader’s intolerance then the Romans.

The gospel of the Kingdom of God stands in the face of this and says, “No, there is only one God, He is Yahweh, and His Son Jesus is the only way into heaven.” He is a rock that makes men stumble. He has a claim on your life.

While driving with her 3-year-old nephew, Connor, his mother asked him to name the other people riding in the car with us. After he answered successfully, she then asked him to name every other family relative he could think of, including their nicknames–and he did. “Connor, what is God’s other name?” she finally asked him. Everyone all sat quietly, expecting him to say Jesus. After pondering the question a moment, his little face lit up. “Why, God’s last name is ‘Bless America,’” he said.

Amanda Scroggs, Alexandria, VA. “Heart to Heart,” Today’s Christian Woman

People have lots of funny ideas about who God is and what His name is. So, the name of Jesus is very important. It discriminates between Him and all the imposters out there.

Today we’re going to look at what role the name of Jesus plays in our lives.

Inside your bulletin (see this post) is a hand out with a list of some of the scriptures that reference the name of Jesus. Take it out and you’ll be able to follow along. Because the teaching on the name of Jesus is so extensive, I thought it would be good for you to have a reference. Stick this in your Bible, or at home on your refrigerator.

I want to make a point at the beginning that it is the Kingdom of God that is advanced through the proclamation of the name of Jesus.

Jesus the King. Servants act in the name of their king. The boundaries of a kingdom domain are established under the name of the king. Wars are fought.

When we use the name of Jesus, we are establishing territory in the name of our king. We are declaring that Jesus is Lord _here_.

First, there is Authority over demons in the name of Jesus.

I had the opportunity to read the sermon that Andy preached on the weapons of our warfare and it was a reminder that we don’t just live in a physical world, we live in a spiritual world that is antagonistic against us. It’s in this world that authority was given in Jesus name over demons.

Mark 9:38 39 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.” But Jesus said “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

People who weren’t even following Jesus had power over demons in Jesus’ name.

Acts 16:18 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed turned and said to the spirit, “I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

When we are confronted by darkness, whether it is in the physical world, or in the spiritual world, we need to claim the authority of Jesus’ name over these spiritual forces.

Second, there is Authority over sickness in the name of Jesus

Soon after Pentecost, a lame man asked Peter for a money.

In Acts 3:6 Peter said to him, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

It was in the name of Jesus that the miracle occurred. Peter was extending the boundaries of the Kingdom of God by praying for healing in the name of Jesus his King.

Some other examples:

Acts 4:10 be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

Acts 4:30 While you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.

In this case, not just healings, but signs and wonder. Ponder what that means.

It’s important to know that the powerful movements of God that establish themselves in local churches are most often a result of recovering the spirit of the book of Acts and the early church. We need to go back to Acts and begin applying the power of the Holy spirit in the name of Jesus.

Third, the Kingdom of God’s domain is expanded when people come into the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus.

Preaching, faith, repentence, and baptism all happen in the name of Jesus.

Speaking/preaching in the name of Jesus

Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ (the messiah) they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 9:27 After Paul’s conversion, Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Believing in his name

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name.

John 20:31 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.

1John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as He commanded.



Repentance, justification and forgiveness of sins are in the name of Jesus

Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.

1Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

We are baptized in the name of Jesus

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them “Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Acts 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Application: In sharing the good news of the Kingdom with people, we should make frequent use of the name of Jesus. Because there is power in the name. And also because it differentiates the gospel from the other religions of the world.

Fourth, the boundaries of the Kingdom of God are expanded when We live in the name of Jesus

Colossians 3:17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Living in Jesus’ name illustration

Laura Duvall Bush tells the story of when her daughter Aimee was in nursery school, she’d come home each day with drawings, collages, and other projects. Next to her own name she’d scrawl the name of someone she loved–usually Mommy or Daddy, sometimes baby brother Ben. “I did this for you,” she’d proudly say.

She says “As I reflect on this, I remember the apostle Paul’s exhortation, “Whatever you do … do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Colossians 3:17). If Aimee could do every school project for me or for her dad, surely I can do my “projects” for my heavenly Father. Now I often ask myself, Have I written my Lord’s name on all I’ve have done today?

Laura DuVall Bush, New Britain, CT, Today’s Christian Woman, “Heart to Heart.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.



Sometimes we suffer in the name of Jesus.

Acts 5:41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Acts 15:25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The year was A.D. 155, and the persecution against Christians swept across the Roman Empire and came to the city of Smyrna. The proconsul of Symrna, swept up in this persecution, put out an order that the Bishop of Symrna, Polycarp, was to be found, arrested, and brought to the public arena for execution. They found Polycarp and brought him before thousands of spectators screaming for blood. But the proconsul had compassion on this man who was almost a hundred years old. He signaled the crowd to silence. To Polycarp he said, “Curse the Christ and live.”

The crowd waited for the old man to answer. In an amazingly strong voice, he said, “Eighty and six years have I served him, and he has done me no wrong. How dare I blaspheme the name of my king and Lord!” With that Polycarp became a martyr.

Leith Anderson, “Can Jesus Trust Us?” Preaching Today, Tape No. 126.

Conclusion:

Awe when we say the name Jesus.

Begin to say the name Jesus in everyday settings. It’s evangelism. Learn to talk about Jesus, not just saying the generic “God”

What practical way can you put Jesus’ signature on the projects in your life.

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The naming of Jesus

God gave Him his name.

Philippians 2:99 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

Mary instructed to name Him Jesus

Matthew 1:21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.

Luke 1:31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and will call his name “Jesus”

Jesus named at His circumcision

Luke 2:21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called jesus, which was given by the angel before he was

conceived in the womb.

The name of Jesus is to be glorified

2Thessalonians 1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth.



Authority in the name of Jesus

Authority over demons in the name of Jesus.

Mark 9:38 39 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.” But Jesus said “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

Acts 16:18 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed turned and said to the spirit, “I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.

Authority over sickness in the name of Jesus

Acts 3:6 But Peter said “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

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Authority over sickness in the name of Jesus

Acts 3:6 But Peter said “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Acts 3:16 By faith in his name has his name made this man strong, whom you see and know.

Acts 4:10 be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

Acts 4:30 While you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.

Speaking/preaching in the name of Jesus

Acts 4:18 They called them and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

Acts 5:40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of jesus and let them go.

Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ (the messiah) they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Believing in his name

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name.

John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

John 20:31 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.

1John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as He commanded.



Repentance, justification and remission of sins are in the name of Jesus

Luke 24:47 repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.

1John 2:12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

1Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

We are baptized in the name of Jesus

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them “Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:16 for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

Acts 10:48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Acts 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

We live, dye and suffer for the name of Jesus

Acts 5:41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Acts 15:14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Acts 15:26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 19:17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, 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.

Romans 1:5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of fatih among all the nations, for his name’s sake.

1Corinthians 1:10 Now I beg you, brothers, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same spirit.

1Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ

Ephesians 5:20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Colossians 3:17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

2Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

1Corinthians 1:2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.

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