“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

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 Only Begotten Son.

Only Begotten Son

The Greek term translated “only begotten” is monogenes, a word used nine times in the New Testament that can mean one of a kind or unique. For example, Luke uses the term three times to refer to an only child (Luke 7:12; 8:42; 9:38). The writer of Hebrews uses the term to refer to Isaac, the only son of Abraham and Sarah, the son of the promise (Hebrews 11:17). Modern translations generally translate monogenes in John 3:16 as “one and only Son” or “only Son” to reflect this definition.

Unique relationship with each other 

The Bible often uses Father and Son with God and Jesus to explain their relationship in terms we can better understand as humans, but this does not mean Jesus was created by God the Father as some cults teach. The emphasis of “only begotten son” is on Jesus as one in unique relationship with the Father. Other passages in the Bible make this very clear. For example, John 1:1-3 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Col. 1:15-17 also emphasizes Jesus creating all things. 

Therefore

Jesus is both eternal and is the one and only Son of God sent to offer salvation to the world.

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” (1 John 4:9 ESV)

“The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.” (John 3:2)

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 Teacher.

Jesus is teacher 

Sixty times Jesus was called Teacher in the gospels. This was the word the multitudes used. This was how the disciples referred to him. Jesus himself used the term when he said, “You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am” (John 13:13). When Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, he said, “We know that you are a teacher who has come from God.” (John 3:2)

Jesus taught with authority

Matthew said the crowds were amazed at his teaching because “he taught as one having authority, not as the teachers of the law” (Matt. 7:29). The rabbis only quoted each other, but Jesus spoke the true and authoritative words of God.

Therefore

His deep understanding and love of truth moved Jesus to fill the needs of others so that they too could hear His message, and He was resolved to teach it as effectively as possible.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and l we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” ( John 1:14 ESV)

“For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say,  therefore, I say as the Father Has told me.” (John 12:49-50 ESV)

“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” (1 John 2:1)

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 Advocate.

Advocate

The Greek word parakleton, means “helper, adviser, or counselor.”

An advocate is a person who comes to your aid or pleads your case to a judge. Advocates offer support, strength, and counsel and intercede for you when necessary.

Jesus calls the Holy Spirit our Advocate

“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.” (John 14:16 NIV)

“But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:26 NIV)

“When the Advocate comes, whom I Will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.” (John 15:26 NIV)

“But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that Iam going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to  you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7 NIV)

Jesus is an Advocate for those who’ve put their trust in Him

Jesus stands as the Advocate between our repentant hearts and the law. If His blood has been applied to our lives through faith and confession of Him as Lord

“because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” (Rom. 19:9-10 NIV)

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5:21 NIV)

Therefore

“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” (1 John 2:1)

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Heb. 12:2)

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 Author and Finisher of our Faith.

Jesus is the author and and finisher of our faith

“and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.” (Acts 3:15)

Author —An author is an originator or creator, as of a theory or plan. The Greek word translated “author” in Hebrews 12:2 can also mean “captain,” “chief leader” or “prince.”

Perfector—The Greek word translated “perfecter” in in Hebrews 12:2 means literally “completer” or “finisher” and speaks of bringing something to its conclusion.

Therefore

Jesus, as God, both creates and sustains our faith. He is the originator of our faith in that He begins it, as well as the captain and prince or our faith. Jesus controls our faith, steers it as a captain steers a ship, and presides over it and cares for it as a monarch presides over and cares for his people. 

“O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.” (Jer. 17:13)

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 Fountain of Living Waters.

The Fountain of Living Water is Jesus

“And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter. And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.” (Zech. 14-8-9)

“Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” (John 7:37-39)

“Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:6-8)

Therefore

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” (John 7:38)

“but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” (John 4:14)

“Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” (Luke 1:78–79)

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 Dayspring.

Dayspring

The term dayspring is only found in two places in the Bible and is used primarily in the King James Version. The word dayspring in Zacharias’s prophecy, at the birth of his son, John. Zacharias says that “the dayspring from on high hath visited us” (Luke 1:78, KJV). Dayspring is a metaphor for the promised Messiah, Jesus, who would soon arrive. 

Therefore

The word “dayspring” means the morning light, the aurora, the rising of the sun, and refers to Jesus the Messiah, the dayspring “from on high”—the light of the gospel that shines forth from heaven and, through His mercy, shines upon people.

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’” (2 Cor. 4:6)

“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matt. 16:16)

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 Christ.

Jesus – the Christ

“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Tim. 2:5 ESV)

“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.” (1 Cor. 11:3)

“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Rom. 19:17)

Therefore

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Cor. 5:17) 

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” (Phil. 1:21)

“In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature” (Col. 1:14–15)

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 the Image of the Invisible God.

Jesus – His invisible attributes

“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” (Rom. 1:20 ESV)

Therefore

“For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.” (Col. 1:16 ESV)

“To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” (1 Tim. 1:17 ESV)

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” (Gen. 49:10)

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 Shiloh.

Shiloh

The word Shiloh is used 32 times in the Old Testament to refer to a location—a city and one other time to refer to the Messiah, “the peaceful one,” in Gen. 49:10, at top.

Jesus

This passage ties into the New Testament as Jesus refers to Himself as, “Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” (John 17:3). Rom. 15:12 references this passage as a ruler who “arises to rule the Gentiles,” and the Apostle Paul also writes in Eph. 2:14 that Christ, “Himself is our peace.” All three of these passages have roots in “Shiloh.”