The answer
Jesus is the one who saved us from sin and death through His power; we therefore proclaim His name to the world as its Savior and praise and glorify this name of salvation accordingly.
The name of Jesus bears a mysterious power from above, as the seventy apostles discovered when they returned to Him, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name” (Luke 10:17). In His last conversation with the eleven before His ascension, He says, “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17). The apostles performed many signs, wonders, and healings in the name of Jesus; for example, the healing of the lame (Acts 3:6–8). Even those who are rejected on the great day of the Lord will say to Him, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” (Matt. 7:22).
The name of Jesus is the object of evangelism. In Samaria “they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized” (Acts 8:12).
The praises in the New Testament proclaim the glory of Jesus’ name (Heb. 1:4; Phil. 2:9–10). Christ gave Himself as a ransom on our behalf, to bestow upon us eternity and redeem us from death.704 The scholar Origen says, “The word ‘Jesus’ is glorious, and worthy of all adoration and worship.”705
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
704 St. Gregory of Nyssa, On Perfection (FOTC 58:103).
705 Origen, Homilies on Luke 14.2 (FOTC 94:57).