Sun 06Mar2022 20:45 hrs GMT+8
These notes were originally written in my note book on 23Dec2014 and has been left there for about eight years. Tonight, I came across the note and decided that I must post it here in this devotional blog.
Acts 19:13 records explicit evidence of how people called on the Name of the Lord Iesus the Anointed One in New Testament times.
- Acts 19:13 NKJV New King James Version
- Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
From verse 13 above, we can say that one calls upon the Name of the Lord with words such as,
- "by the Name of Iesus" or
- "in the Name of Iesus".
Similarly, in Acts 16:18 and in Acts 22:16. And compare with Acts 4:30 also:
- Acts 16:18 NKJV New King James Version
- And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
- Acts 22:16 NKJV
- And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
- Acts 4:30 NKJV
- by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
From the above verses, we can see that calling on the Name of the Lord is done by uttering, "in the Name of Iesus the Anointed". As such, whenever we come across the expression, "call on the Name of Iesus", as shown in Acts 9:14 and 1 Corinthians 1:2 below, we shall understand it to mean the utterance of "in the Name of Iesus".
- Acts 9:14 NKJV New King James Version
- And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:2 NKJV
- To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One. Let us call on the Name of Iesus the Anointed One. Let us call on the Name of our Lord.
In the Name of our Lord Iesus Anointed, Amen.
