“God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD (Yahweh), the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” (Exo. 3:15) 

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is Yahweh – LORD God.

Yahweh

“Yahweh” (yah-WEH) is the Hebrew word for the self-revealed name of the God of the Old Testament. It comes from the Hebrew verb “To be.” At its core, “Yahweh” means “To be.” The English Bible translates it as “LORD,” which distinguishes it from “Lord” (which is translated as “master”).

The name Yahweh occurs more than 6,800 times in the Old Testament. It appears in every book but Esther, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. As the sacred, personal name of Israel's God, it was eventually spoken aloud only by priests worshiping in the Jerusalem temple. After the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70, the name was not pronounced. Adonay was substituted for Yahweh whenever it appeared in the biblical text. Because of this, the correct pronunciation of this name was eventually lost. English editions of the Bible usually translate Adonay as “Lord” and Yahweh as “LORD.” Yahweh is the name that is most closely linked to God's redeeming acts in the history of his chosen people. We know God because of what he has done.

Jesus is Yahweh LORD God

“For when you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me.” (John 12:45 NLT)

“Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.” (John 14:9-10 NIV)

“For to us a child is born, to us son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9:6)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is Wonderful Counselor.

Wonderful Counselor

When Isaiah wrote his prediction of the coming of the “Wonderful Counselor”, Isaiah 9:6, he was writing nearly 800 years before Christ. This period of history was tumultuous as the Assyrians were on the march, taking people into captivity by droves. Isaiah’s prophecy gave the people of God a hope they so desperately needed: a Child would be born to fulfill the Davidic Covenant, and He would bear the titles “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Jesus is Wonderful

Jesus demonstrated His wonderfulness in various ways when He was on the earth, beginning with His conception in the womb of a virgin (Matt. 1:23). He showed He is the “wonderful” One in His power to heal (Matt. 4:23), His amazing teaching (Mark 1:22), His perfect life (Heb. 4:15), and His resurrection from the dead (Mark 16:6).

Jesus taught wonderful things

“Blessed are those who mourn” (Matt. 5:4). “Rejoice and be glad” in persecution (Matt. 5:11–12). “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you” (Luke 6:27).

Jesus’ kind of wonderful superior to any other kind

He is perfect in every way. (Matt. 5:48)

Jesus is a wise counselor

Jesus did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.

“and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.” (John 2:25).

Jesus is able to advise His people thoroughly because He is qualified in ways no human counselor is. In Christ is “hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3), including the knowledge of all human nature (Psalms 139:1–2).

Jesus always knows what we are going through, and He always knows the right course of action (Heb. 4:15–16).

Therefore

Christ’s position as our Wonderful Counselor means we can trust Him to listen to our problems and guide us in the right direction.

“casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7 ESV)

  “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” (Prov. 3:6).

“To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.” (Rev. 3:21 NIV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is Victorious.

Jesus is Victorious

“When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.” (John 19:30)

This is a cry of victory. His suffering is over. His work on earth is done. He has accomplished the work His Father had prepared for Him. He had made a way. It was not a half job and nothing was left incomplete. It was done, it was complete, it was finished! He had done everything necessary to save us and give us the opportunity of eternal life with God. In that moment prophesy was fulfilled and complete. In that moment suffering was over. In that moment salvation became a reality. It was a declaration to all that the work was done.  It is finished! Jesus was victorious!

Because of what Jesus did, you are victorious, too!

“But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Cor. 15:57)

Jesus won the supreme victory at the cross. Sin was atoned for, and the power of sin and death was broken (John 12:31 and 1 Peter 2:24). After Christ’s crucifixion and burial, He rose from the dead three days later, and now we share that victory. Satan thought he had won the ultimate contest with the death of Christ. Instead, that death released our chains, set us free from the prison of sin, and disarmed the supernatural powers of evil.

“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” (Col. 2:13–15)

Therefore

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom. 8:31)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1 NIV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The Word.

Jesus is the Word

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14 NIV)

Therefore

“Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.” (Psalm 85:9)

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:3 ESV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The Life.

Jesus is The Life

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” (John 14:6)

In Jesus was life

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … In Him was life, and the life was the light of men … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us …” (John 1:1, 4, 14)

The Spirit gives life

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)

Jesus has the words of eternal life

“But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’” (John 6:68)

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:3 ESV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The Way.

Jesus is The Way

Jesus is the way to the Father. The way of life. The way to salvation. Jesus lived on earth to show us the way. To follow Him on this way means that we are to walk as He walked. We are to follow in His footsteps, living as He lived.

The Way is narrow 

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matt. 7:13-14)

What to do

There is something you must do before you can start to walk on the narrow way that leads to life. Paul describes it perfectly in the following passage:

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.” (Phil. 3:7-8)

We must leave behind everything that hinders us

Leave things behind like our own reasonings and ideas. Our belief in our own abilities. Relationships that hold us back. Status. Honor. Pride. Those have to be counted as loss and rubbish and left outside the gate; there is no room for them on the narrow way.

A way of action

“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”  (James 1:22) 

Therefore

There is actually great freedom on the narrow way. Freedom from being bound to commit sin when we are tempted! 

“Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.” (1 Pet. 4:1-2)

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.” (John 15:1 ESV)

Names of God

 God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The True Vine.

The True Vine – Jesus

A vine is what gives life to the branches, making them capable of producing fruit. Jesus said He is The True Vine. He gives life to his branches, us.

When a branch gets cut off

When a branch is cut off from the vine, it loses its ability to produce fruit; the branch is unable to produce any fruit outside of the connection to the vine. When you think about yourself and your Christian life, your ability to produce fruit is a direct result of being connected to Jesus, who is the true vine. Jesus gives credence to this by saying in the following verse.

“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” (John 15:4)

Pruned to be more fruitful

“He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” (John 15:2)

Therefore

There is a big difference between the fruit that comes from your own nature and the fruit that comes from the Spirit of God. Those who belong to Jesus, who is the true vine, will have the Spirit of Christ in them.

“You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. (Rom. 8:9)

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 ESV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is The Truth.

Jesus is The truth

Jesus is the source of all truth, and the standard by which all things are to be judged as either true or false. There is nobody else, besides Jesus, who so embodies truth as to be entitled to identify Himself as being the truth.

Truth is reality

Over half the New Testament uses of “truth” (aletheia) are in John’s gospel. Truth is reality. It’s the way things really are. To know the truth is to see accurately. To believe what isn’t true is to be blind.

God has written His truth on human hearts, in the conscience

Shame and twinges of conscience come from a recognition that truth has been violated. The heart longs for truth—even the heart that rejects it.

“They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.” (Rom. 2:15 NIV)

As followers of Christ

We are to walk in the truth, love the truth, believe the truth, and speak the truth in love. 

“…and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.” (2 Thess. 2:10-12)

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Eph. 4:32).

“It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.” (3 John 1:3 NIV)

“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” (John 1:9 ESV)

Names of God

God has many names and titles in the Bible. Each one tells us something important about Him—His character and how He relates to us. And how we must relate to Him. Here is another one of His many Names, which is Door.

Door - Jesus

A door is defined in the dictionary as a movable structure used to close off an entrance, typically consisting of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or rotates—as in gate a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; gate, hatch, portal. In John 1:9, Jesus said, “I am the door.” He said the way to eternal life is protected by a door, and He is that door.

Jesus is the only door to eternal life

“Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)

Therefore

Jesus, as the gatekeeper to eternal life, has sheep who hear his voice (only those who know Him do), and He knows their names and leads them.

“The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.” (John 10:3)