The Name of Jesus is Salvation

In popular religion salvation has come to be regarded as a "thing" or "transaction" rather than what it really is: a person. In Scripture, Salvation is Jesus. It is His name. Jesus is Yeshua in Hebrew, the word for salvation.

Mat 1:21 (NIV) "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus [Yeshua, Hebrew for 'salvation'], because he will save his people from their sins."

Luke 2:30 (NIV) [Simeon, holding baby Jesus:] "For my eyes have seen your salvation..."

Anticipation of the Incarnation of God's Salvation

1Pet 1:10 (NIV) Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,

There are many prophecies of Christ/Messiah being named "Salvation/Jesus" in the Old Testament.

Exod. 15:2 (NIV) The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation [Yeshua/Jesus]. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Ps. 118:14 (NIV) The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my [Yeshua/Jesus] salvation.

Ps. 119:41 (NIV) May your unfailing love come to me, O LORD, your salvation [Yeshua/Jesus] according to your promise.

Isa. 12:2 (NIV) Surely God is my salvation [Yeshua/Jesus]; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation [Yeshua/Jesus]."

If we have Jesus in any measure at all, then we have salvation. Salvation is a person, not merely a concept. We either have Him or we don't.

Acts 4:12 (NIV) "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

Col 1:27 (NIV) To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

To be saved, then, means Christ is "in us", that we have "received Him." If we have Him in any measure, then we have "salvation" (for He is Salvation), and we are "saved".

Eph 1:13 (NIV) And you were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation [Jesus].

1Pet 2:2 (NIV) Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation.

There is only one salvation--even Jesus Christ, our Lord. Thus, ideas that you can be saved by Catechism or Communion or "going down an aisle" or even saying a prayer fall short of the reality. To have salvation is to have Christ in us, or not.

Acts 4:12 (NRS) "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved."

We initially receive this salvation, and then grow up in it. For salvation, again, is not a "thing" so much as a Person: Jesus Christ.

Col 2:6 (NIV) So then, just as you received Christ Jesus [The Anointed One of Salvation] as Lord, continue to live in him.

Ga 4:19 (Wey) [I (Paul) am] undergoing the pains of childbirth until Christ is fully formed within you.

Phil 2:12c-13 (NIV) ...Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

2Co 13:5 (NIV) Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?

Heb 6:9 (NIV) Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your case--things that accompany salvation.

Extra Verses, Puns, Etc.

Pr 30:4 (NIV) Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know! (See Rom 10:6-11 for a new testament reference to this old testament scripture.)

John 4:22 (NIV) [Jesus:] "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews."

2Ti 3:15 (NIV) ...and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ps 6:51:12,14 (NIV) Restore to me the joy of your salvation [Jesus/Yeshua] and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me... Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

Lu 19:9a (NIV) Jesus said to him [Zacchaeus], "Today salvation has come to this house."

1Th 5:9 (NIV) For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Ti 2:10 (NIV) Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Re 7:10 (NIV) And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

Re 12:10 (NIV) Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ..."

Re 19:1 (NIV) After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God."

Pr 18:10: (NIV) The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

Phil 2:9-11 (NIV) ...God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. 

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