Jesus the Savior

No matter what you're dealing with in your life. It can be traced back to the thousands of sin.

Dr. Tony Evans as many people who think they'll want your problem is really only have one board is ready to solve because Jesus Christ didn't come symptom. This is the alternative Tony other author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative today.ribbons begins her brand-new series on the power of Jesus name. The Bible uses several of them in each of them tell us something significant to begin today with one of the most familiar and most important, let's join him in Matthew chapter 1.

As he begins this matter. When we speak about the name of a person where giving their identity away if I would ask for Bill and Ralph would not raise his because if that's not his name that's not his identity because names are more than nomenclature. It has to do with identification in the Bible they really mattered because names were given at the earliest possible time to define the hopes and dreams of a child by their parents. So the parents would give the child a name to reflect what that child was destined to become because names mattered today I want to start off with Jesus is personal name Jesus. Now the first thing I want you to observe is that Jesus's name was not given to him by his human mother and father. It says have been sent the message to Joseph and told Joseph this is what I want you to name the baby. That's not biologically yours. But the one that you will raise and I want you to call him what his father wants him to be named, I want you to call his name Jesus. This word Jesus is his most known name is the name that references him even when other names are associated with him now, but word Jesus means that Savior rescuer or deliver it means a Savior, a rescuer or a deliver the Old Testament name for Jesus was Joshua Joshua in the Old Testament was the one who delivered the people into the promised land and overcame the enemies that land so Joshua which name in the New Testament Greek is Jesus had to do with the person who led the way into the place of blessing and who delivered the people from the enemies that would see to incarcerate them or hold them hostage. So when God wanted to.

Namely his only begotten son. He gave him the name of Savior, or deliver the primary reason why God became a man, and named his son Jesus is because he wanted to rescue people from their sin and arisen that that is the primary issue is because one of the reasons rescue us from a bunch of other stuff is because we don't allow him to rescue us from the main thing. What will is Jesus to rescue us from the periphery of which is important which is as long as he leaves the central thing alone and what Jesus once you understand if you can't deal with the central thing that you can recall known him all this other stuff because all the stuff that you and I wrestle with in our day-to-day life is in some way related to sin, it either is your sin something you've done that you shouldn't have done where you are now having a consequence for doing it. That's one or its related to somebody else's saying what they did that negatively affects you all can be related to a contaminated sinful environment in which you live or work or play. That's not necessarily caused by you or directly by somebody else. But just because evil has invaded the atmosphere. The flu virus has made its way around and brought a lot of health issues to a lot of people. So one reason you may have flu. Is that your old immune system may be weak and therefore susceptible.

Another reason you can get fluid somebody sleeve is in your face you breathe it in, and vast ladies has caused your problem but another reason you can have flu is that the atmosphere has become so toxic that simply by brave and bad and like secondhand smoke. You just pick it up and it infiltrates you.

But no matter where the flu comes from is rooted in the same virus no matter what you're dealing with in your life.

It can be traced back directly, indirectly or environmentally to the presence of sin. Therefore, if Jesus Christ, whose name means Savior and whose job description is salvific in nature. To save from sin if not free to deal with sin that he's also not free to fix the thing you're calling about, but that right is the problem.

We won't Jesus flexing as long as he doesn't fix that we have a world today that calls on Jesus to fix the racial problem to fix the social problem to fix the economy to fix the division in the nation. The fix my family with call on Jesus for everything to which God wants you to know if you can't deal with.

The main thing that he may not be able to help you with all the other stuff you're calling on them. For since the road of all the all the stuff you're calling on him for his directly, indirectly or environmentally tied to sin. So whenever you call the name Jesus. You are asking him not only to deal with the fruit of your problem, but the root of its origin. And if you cannot deal with the root of its origin, then you're saying but if it goes away for a while is gonna come back with a vengeance.

Because of that which caused it was never allowed to be rooted in cells people spent an inordinate amount of time and energy in the money fixing symptoms because they don't want to face sin, to appreciate Jesus's name, and the role that that name rings. One has to have an understanding about the nature of God. God lives in his perfections. Everything about God is perfect. So in terms of his standard. All sin has the same consequence. All sin is the same consequence if you went into the operating room in the hospital. You took a handful of dirt and put it in the room in the hospital of a person who would been opened up they would become contaminated by a handful of dirt. But let's say you just have a little bacterial on the scalpel back you can see, but it's gotten on the scalpel and it cuts the person the same contamination that came from a lot of dirt that comes from a little invisible virus would have the same effect because of the nature of the room. So in operating room. Everything is going to be sterilized. The doctors nurses at the washing hands all the time because they understand a little virus can produce a messy situation, God is sterilized. Everything about him is perfect and he cannot dumb down his standard to make us feel better because then he wouldn't be who he is, therefore, the issue of sin is the big issue that God must address whether it's little or whether it's great in order to address all the symptoms that we usually call on them for.

Therefore, when you call on God to fit your circumstance, you must basically ask him, is there a sin that needs to be addressed because if you call Anil about your money, circumstance, health, circumstance, relational circumstance, emotional circumstance, whenever that legitimate circumstance is but he is not free to unveil for him to address the sin, then you know you were not invited him to do his job. It's like having cancer and asking the doctor to give you some Tylenol. What you are asking for will fix what's really wrong and a lot of people asked Jesus to fix something that's not really wrong asking Jesus to reverse of symptom not repair the root of a problem.

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So as long as the compensation can be changed from the spiritual and make it social, secular, economic, political, and all that you keep talking for because the root will always reappear and make itself no so you can save a lot of dealing with issues in your life, your family, dealing with issues in our society if we just start with the sin issue and then we can apply to the skin as she walked to the money issue or to whatever the issue happens that way because Jesus Christ didn't come to fix symptoms became the fixed costs, which results in the repair of symptoms, but that's the deal with that in face that you will fire about me doing the patchwork of fixing a symptom. It gets better for a while then it reappears because sales goal is always the same thing death. So guess what Jesus came he came so you wouldn't die if you are Christian death is a moot word. I know we we talk about it physically, but if you are a Christian. The Bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord so you will be dead long enough to know he died. The penalty of sin which is always the same has been addressed once and for all.

The moment you come to Christ. But not only did he come to do with the penalty of sin. Stay with me here because his name is Jesus. Let me see the rescuer he came to be aware of the power of sin. The penalty of sin secures your eternal destiny, but of sin messes up your life now.

My life now all you have to do is look in the mirror and you will see sin has messed up. So don't look over here don't know your own. The mirror will show you who sin is done the same number but done a number on also. Many of us are still dealing as adults with things that affect the child.

Many of us are dealing with things related to emotional swings related to finances. If we witness same with our finances.

We would be paying MasterCard the rest of my life is because secretly that's like I can't pay my bills. God says you send with your money to finances, and if you just look at it.

I can pay my bill and you don't deal with the sin of financial disobedience. You will not address the road you just simply try to be delivered from the consequence of the fruit seeks a little different but I know his name is rescuer and as his name is rescuer. He wants to deal with one of sin. The penalty of sin.

He addressed on the cross when he died for your sins of sin was addressed when he rose from the dead, watch what killed Jesus say he knew no sin became sin for us, and because he bore our sin. Sin. Sin killed Jesus. But when he rose on Sunday morning he overrode what killed him what killed him was said, but the resurrection says I can be.

So I don't care what the said as he competed by virtue of his resurrection, which is why Romans five verse 10 says that we all say by his life saved means to be rescue that Jesus is alive right now to rescue you.

First and foremost from the circumstances.

I know he's a lawyer in the courtroom. I got I got these adopted in the sickroom. I doubt that he's a mother for the motherless and I got that he's a father for the fatherless. All that is real and all of that is true, he can't get to that unless the reason for his name is being introduced into the situation and that's what don't want talk about death were folk don't want deal work. They just say fix my problem we not here to talk about my sin on the sin of somebody else's effective make not here to discuss that you not here to talk to Jesus because Jesus is only job description is you shall call his name Jesus and rescuer because he shall deliver his people from their sin. That's why Jesus came. When you have a power of attorney that means somebody is giving you permission to use their name on their behalf because they've given you their power with their name was. If you have their name but have not been given permission to use it then you don't have a legal right for its use a lot of folk from Jesus's name not been given permission to use it. They have not been granted power of attorney, but because they think using the name will give them this magical.

They use the name without the backing of the person a great illustration of this is acts chapter 19 verses 11 and following when there is this daily possessed person. Paul is been casting out demons to get demons out of folk and seven census develop watch what Paul is doing and they say we can do that we can do that because they notice that every time Paul did it.

He did it in Jesus's name to Paula go up to the focus in the name of Jesus come out of the demons will come out when they said we like that so they they want to get rid of the demon so they go up to the demon possessed person and say James is come out of the right name and they saw that the name Mark because I saw Paul the but when they called for the day when the come out in Jesus name. The demon spoke up demons responded in a climax 90. The demon said now Jesus we know all we know you will know you and then it goes on to say that person can jump in Jesus's name. In other words, just because you know the name and just because you chose the name does not mean you've been given legitimate rights and authority to the name. That's why first John chapter 5 verses 15 and 16.

Watch even now it says that you can always use his name. If you are doing his will. God not going to respond to your use of name. If you are not only concerned with doing well using his name illegitimately using his name apart from his golf, which is dealing with things that don't don't bother calling on my name if you're not committed to my will and committed to my person got out about it, known Jesus and in the day with the family all I will know you so you can use his name without his and that he has no obligation to respond. So if you want to hear your prayer in Jesus's name.

I need you to rescue me have the freedom to identify if there is a sin. What sin that needs to be addressed, which frees them up to number one forget that sin will address the sin and then based on his will to address the circumstances. But if you skip his will in the matter spiritually. You waste your time with the tagline and say John chapter 16 he says in verse 23 and 24. If you ask in my name and say John 14 verses 13 and 14.

If you ask in my name. If you ask in my name, but right in the context of that if you ask in my name, we better have a relationship just to schedule out the word Jesus Bible says at the judgment of the goats and sheep people say we did this in your many different domain.

We did this in your name we say Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus of them on Jesus at noontime Jesus when the sun go down. We had Jesus all over the place and effective Jesus ago say I never knew you. I never you use my name, but we had no relationship there was no commitment to me that was not walking with me. That was seeking my will for your life. You were just throwing out my name so it's a special name, when used appropriately. Philippians chapter 2 verse nine says, for this reason also, God highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of the father. Now will you know I don't know the Mr. big stuff is in your life. I don't know the names that make you a name dropper, but no one name that is above every name you may know your doctors name but I know I hear about whose name is bigger than him. You may need an attorney, but I know they got then that name. You may make a friend, but I thought Fred is bigger than that had long as you keep the meaning of his name. And if you keep the meaning of his name, you will discover that he will in your life are restless and according to his will determine what he will address in the circumstance. You will discover that his name is greater than every other name that I love the way he closes by saying at the name of every knee and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord we want you to do two things with this name you will shoot up was now mostly taken name.

He wants you to take a name you really want to take and maybe take in the rain.

They shall bow wow you going down though you may open your mouth with your mouth you know somebody you talk about every body else. You better bring up the name Jesus talked about the big people in your life, you better bring up the name Jesus, because name is right that the human names you're looking at the fix the issue in your life and when you get right you'll get to see the visit, addressing sin and changing circumstances is all about the name Jesus. But as we learned that name describes a person a person you can know the Bible describes Jesus standing at the door of your heart, knocking when she let them in. That relationship begins.

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