Names of Jesus

1: Jesus - Matthew 1:21
• In Jewish tradition the father named his offspring. God was the father
• Means Saviour – He would deliver people from sin
• 600 years before He was born God let Isaiah in on a secret (Isaiah 7:144) Emmanuel means God with us

2: Man – 1 Timothy 2:5
• The Man – the greatest most gentle and most loving friend you can possibly have

3: Light – John 8:12
• In the days of Moses God lit up the sky with a pillar of fire
• He is the pillar of fire leading people of all nations to God
• Light is also associated with freedom
• Jesus, our light, came to win our freedom from the darkness of living without God
• Peter described becoming a Christian as coming ‘out of darkness into his wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9) to be in the light is to be in a place of great freedom and joy

4: Way – John 14:6
• God used pillars of cloud and fire to show Moses and the Israelites the way (Deut 1:33)
• Jesus called himself the Way, He was stating that He was the only way to God
• Jesus – Way to God, Way to Life

5: Alpha and Omega – Revelation 1:8
• The Greek alphabet starts with Alpha and ends with Omega, like ours starts with A and ends with Z
• Its saying He is the First and Last
• First because He was there at the beginning of things creating our world and everything in it
• Last because He is in control of all events in the future and will reign with God over a new heaven and earth (Revelation 21, 22)
• He is out ‘A’ because He is with us from the beginning of our lives, even knowing us before we are born (Ps 139:13-16)
• He is our ‘Z’ for if we believe in Him, when we die we shall go to live with Him
• With Him as our A-Z we need never feel lost for He can show us the right way ahead
• A-Z – our past, present and future is in His hands

6: Truth – John 14:6
• Means nothing is concealed
• Carries a label marked 100% genuine
• He is truth
• He is trustworthy, straight and reliable
• A friend who cannot and will not let you down
• Another 5 letter word you can substitute for Jesus – Jesus is Truth, Truth is Jesus – Inseparable
• We can rely on all the Jesus says

7: Gate – John 10: 7
• The only entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven
• You cannot be forgiven and enter the security of God’s family without meeting Him first (Acts 4:12)
• Jesus didn’t say He was one of the ways to God but ‘the gate’
• The sheepfold is not meant to be a holy huddle for Christian mutton heads – verse 9 Jesus says His sheep will go ‘in and out’ into the world and live for Him there

8: Resurrection – John 11:25
• Means to stand up again
• He had power over death
• His promise is that all who believe in Him will live even though they die – when Christians die it is not the end
• He is there to see we ‘stand up again’ in heaven with a new body and eternal life
• Proof – He rose from the dead. Greatest event in world history. Its evidence that He can carry out His promise to give new life to all who believe in Him

9: Bread Of Life – John 6:35
• Bead is the staple diet of alot of people in the world
• In poor areas it is a matter of life and death
• To Moses and the Israelites God delivered ‘bread from heaven’
• 7 times He said He came down from heaven (Verse 33-58) not to fill stomachs but to fill lives