Jesus Jones?

Recently I was involved in a conversation with a whole group of people about what they believed about God and Jesus Christ. As I listened to the conversation, I could tell there were several people in the room that really loved God. When people say the name Jesus Christ utilizing both names, I love it. This group referred to him that way all the time. I love to tack Christ on the name Jesus because that is what God made him. On earth he was known as Jesus, a man at whom all the evil in the world was thrown. He died and God raised him up as The Christ. I celebrate that. I'm thankful for that.

This morning my husband was on the phone with someone whom he called to get a question answered about dog food. During the course of the conversation, he found out that the person had attended the school where we taught. So he asked her what her last name was and he recognized the name. A last name identifies a family. (Look what about.com has to say about the surname Jones: "A patronymic name meaning "son of John," the given name John deriving from the Hebrew 'Yochanan' meaning "Jehovah has favoured." The surname Johnson also comes from this.)

The name "Christ" added to Jesus identifies the family or household of God. If you go through the uses of Jesus in the New Testament after Acts, it is always combined with Christ (mostly), Lord (fewer times in regard to being born again) and both as Lord Jesus Christ. Rarely is it is found alone. One of these refer to 'another Jesus'. There are lots of people named Jesus in the world but only one Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:11  And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

What is in a name? Jesus Christ says it all.