The name above every other name (Philippians 2:9). The only name that can save every person’s soul whose heart repents and places faith in that very name as Messiah. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the King of kings and Lord of lords. There is none other like Him! 

HOW WE USE HIS NAME

Why, oh why, do so many people say the name Jesus in a profane manner? Why not use Buddha, or Allah, or John Smith, or “Mother Earth”? Why use the name of Jesus to express disgust, anger, or frustration? His name has the power to heal, restore, and to declare power from the spiritual realm into this physical one. Jesus’s name has the power to make prayers become reality. Without Jesus, nothing that has been created was created. Remember these words from John 1:3:

(NIV Version)

“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”

If we won’t use the power of His name in prayer to command God’s will into reality, why do we use His name to express disapproval in our currently flawed reality?

OUR WAGES ARE PAID BECAUSE OF HIS NAME

That name is holy, reverential, and blameless. The man we’re talking about when we say Jesus Christ, was God made flesh; Emmanuel. They’re the same person. Jesus came down from heaven out of His glory and became human to take away our sins by suffering and dying on the cross (John 17:5). The wages of our sins are paid—so why are we using His name to curse?

USING HIS NAME GIVES IT POWER

We must very, very careful with how we select our words when we’ve lost our temper, or when we’re upset. For every person who claims to be an atheist, an agnostic, or for any person who doesn’t know what they believe and doesn’t know what word to use for it—here is the one thing we can all know with absolute certainty: whether or not we believe in Jesus as Lord, His name means something to us or we would not be using it.

THERE ARE MANY NAMES WITHOUT ANY POWER

Therefore, if we’re going to use it, learn the faith and be reborn. Come alive in Christ and stop using the name of the Lord in vain. If we’re not going to do that, then stop with the name of Jesus. There are name’s of people who didn’t come and pay the price for our sins. There are names of many who didn’t claim to be equal to God (John 10:30), who didn’t claim to be the only way to God in heaven (John 14:6), who didn’t say they were the bread of life (John 6:35). Stop using the name of Jesus in vain.

He didn’t stay dead, remember. He rose from the dead and is coming back to judge us based on our faith. Let’s not make the mistake of living a life blind to this, and let’s not carry the excuse that we didn’t know. We know, or else we wouldn’t be using that name. Use another name, or start using that name in prayer and faith, rather than blaspheming a holy name.

PROFANING HIS NAME IS COSTLY

Jesus saved us from eternal damnation, let’s gives thanks in prayer for the blessing of life and provision! There’s much good to be given for the sake of Jesus’s name. Everyone who believes in the name of Jesus as Lord has this same feeling; it’s disgusting when the name of Jesus isn’t used boldly for prayer, but rather used profanely, blindly and costly… don’t we realize using Jesus’s name in vain is costing people their soul to not believe in Him as Lord, just to use His name as though He were actually someone important despite denying His sovereignty?

BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

He’s sovereign and Lord, or He’s not. If He’s not, find another name. If He is, come to know Him. Make a choice! This is important, it’s critical. Don’t think about it later. Do it now, because when our last breath comes, it’s too late.

Let this be a warning sign reminding us to enforce into our conscious what keeps sliding into the afterthoughts. Without faith placed in the name of Jesus Christ, to dust we shall return, eternally separated from God without any hope of the very name we chose to slander and offend. Come to know Jesus as Lord and be renewed by His name. Use His name for glory!

I say all of this, in Jesus’s name.