FBC Gridley

Which would you rather receive in the mail? A colored envelope the shape of a birthday card with the name of a favored Aunt? Or, a suspiciously non-descript legal sized envelope from the California Franchise Tax Board?

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Even our names mean something. We don’t like to have our names mispronounced, or we don’t like to have our names misspelled. But names were even more significant in the Bible.

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Think of how many times God changed somebody’s name just to depict the change of character that was going to take place. Abram became Abraham. Sarai became Sarah.

Or we think in the New Testament—Simon became Peter, Saul became Paul—because the name was significant.

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I want to talk to you about a name that is above every name, the name of Jesus. When we hear that name, it means something.

It means something in heaven, it means something on earth, it even means something in hell.

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Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9-11