Jesus – YHWH is Salvation

“She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21.

Jesus is an English version of the Latin Jesu, which is Latin for the Greek Iesu, which is Greek for the Aramaic Yeshua, which is the Aramaic for the Hebrew Yehoshua. Some people like to put a lot of emphasis on what we call our Lord and Savior, but in every case, be it in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, or English, it has only one true meaning: YHWH (Yahweh) is Salvation.

Promised first in Genesis 3:15, this is the seed of the woman that crushes that foul serpent’s head. This is the root of Jesse, David’s son yet David’s Lord. This is the long awaited Messiah, the one who comes in the name of the Lord, and conquers sin, the grave, and death, and gives the believer newness of life to the one who believes.

He saves HIS people from their sins. What is a sinner? A person who sins it at enmity with, alternatively, one who is an enemy of the Living God. Scriptures tell us, “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8.

In Isaiah 53:5 it says “By His stripes we are healed.” The wound was mortal, the balm immortal. We were enemies of one whose wrath against all unrighteousness cannot be satisfied, so He, in love, sent the righteous one to fulfill the requirements of the law, the curse, sin, death, and the wrath to come.

John 14:6 is the statement of exclusivity. There is only one way to the Father, the God YHWH, and it is through the Son, the Risen Lord Jesus Christ – “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

This is a simple truth, Grace, through Faith in Christ, is the only remedy for your separation from God. Grace is the only path to Holiness. To walk humbly with God is to lay the burden of sin on Christ, who took the cross, so that you could take the crown.

Yes, this is the Christ. Look to Him and live. Look to the cross and see your shame, look to the Christ and see your victory. Then, pick up your cross and follow Him.

What's the Harm?

Recently, President Trump signed an executive order that stipulated that all official government buildings were to fly only official flags on all their facilities. That means that only flags that have been determined by the government to be “official” can be flown at buildings such as social security facilities, state and city municipal buildings, court facilities, and such.

Living for Christ by Vox Doulos

Romans 8:12-13 (NASB1995) reads:

"So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live."

This past Resurrection weekend, we meditate on the glorious wonders of God in our Lord Jesus Christ, who, knowing no sin, became sin in our stead, and bore our condemnation on Himself so that in His resurrection, we also might live. He did not die because we are so valuable, as so many claim. Rather, He died because God chose to ascribe value to us in Him, in the Christ, our Lord.