Give Him the Name Jesus, because He will Save His People from their Sins

               Are names important?  Evidently God thinks so....for in the first chapter of Matthew... He lists 42 generations of individuals by name.  They were all part of the promise of God to Abraham.  By faith, Abraham obeyed God...and God promised to "make him into a great nation "  and each persons' name was written in this genealogy...as an ancestor of the "Name above all names".

            In Matthew 1: 20-25, an Angel of the Lord calmed the fears of a poor bewildered young man named Joseph. Even though the baby would not be from Joseph's seed...Joseph was to give the baby a name...."you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."  It says in Matt 1:23, "they will call him Immanuel...which means, 'God with us." 

And when the Lord gave Joseph orders through the Angel...He was obedient..."and gave him the name Jesus."   

What is it about the name of Jesus?  Philippians 2:9-11 say that one day, "every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord." Now that is some kind of name.  I hope you know Him...by name.