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For His Name's Sake

     We have seen that the sons and daughters of God, soon to be revealed to this world, will know their Creator and Father by His name Yahweh. They will realize what the prophet Isaiah made so clear, that Yahweh is the Savior and beside Him there is no savior.  They will then begin to comprehend that when Immanuel, God with us, came on the scene some 2000 years ago in the Anointed One called the Christ, that His name was Yahshua.  For the Anointed One came in His Father’s name.  The offspring of God will see that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.”  They will see that Yahweh is the Savior, and He came in human form to deliver His creation from the depravity of sin.  And the sons and daughters of God for these latter days will realize that the very name of God-in-human-form, Yahshua, means Yahweh is Savior or Yahweh is salvation.  And knowing all this, they will implore their Father to save and deliver their people for His name’s sake.

     Many times in scripture the words “for thy name’s sake” are uttered by the people of Yahweh when they get into desperate situations and need to be saved or delivered.  “Sake” means “for the reason of” or “because of.”  “Because of your name, Yahweh, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great,” cries David in Psalm 25:11.  I am a sinner, he is saying, and my sin is great, and because you are the Savior, Yahweh, and because your name as we reach through a thousand years to your incarnation when you are called Yahshua or Yahweh Is the Savior—because your  name  means  that  you can and do save worms such as I out of the miry mud and slime of sin, pardon mine iniquity.  You are the Savior.  Even your name declares that you are in the business of saving wretches like me.  So, for your name’s sake, because the meaning of your very name declares that you, Yah, are the Savior and do save, I ask you to save me from this wretched state that I am in.

     Every time the phrase “for thy name’s sake” is used, the people of Yahweh are fervently longing for a great salvation.   Another example is in Psalm 31:3-4.  “For thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.  Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.”  My enemies, David is saying, are about to catch me in a net, but you are the Savior, and you can save me and deliver me out of the net and snare they have set for me.  Your name means “the Self-existent One (Yah) is the Savior (shua).  So, because your name spells out through its meaning that you save, please save me because of your name’s meaning, for your name’s sake.  This process is “calling upon the name of Yahweh”—what some would refer to as “calling on the name of the LORD.” 

     Knowing that the Savior’s name is Yahshua and means “Yahweh is Savior” opens up the meaning of the phrase “for thy name’s sake.”  In Psalm 79:9 the psalmist comes right out and says that it is sin that the Savior will take away because of God’s name and what it means.  “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.”  There it is.  Because of the very meaning of your name, because your name declares that you are the Savior and because of the glory of your name in that you alone do save, take away our sins. 

     In these passages and many more the prophets of old appeal to the Father because His very name in Hebrew alludes to His saving power.  His readiness and willingness to save those who have need is woven into the very meaning of His name.  If we think that “Jesus” is His name, then we lose all of this profound meaning  and  power.   For the power from on high comes when we worship in spirit and in truth.  Because the Savior’s true Hebrew name Yahshua means “Yahweh is Savior,” then the passage in Matthew 1:20-21, spoken by the angel from heaven really takes on meaning.  And you know that the heavenly messenger did not speak to them in Greek  when he said, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name YAHSHUA: for he shall save his people from their sins.”  In the King James Version it says the Greek name “JESUS,” but there is a footnote to that word.  In the center column the editors of Thomas Nelson Publishers have placed this clarification, “That is, Savior.”  The Savior had the same name as the patriarch Joshua, or Yahshua, which means Yah is Savior.

     Question:  How else are we to “have life through His name?”  John says that these things are written in his gospel, that we might believe that He is the Anointed One of God, “and that believing you might have life through his name.”  We receive “life through His name” because of what His true Hebrew name means—Yahshua, The Self-Existent One is the Savior in human form.  The meaning of His name has life-giving properties!  He saves us from sin and sinning.  Then we are free from sin’s consequences, death. 

     The children of God will believe in His name which is the same as receiving Him.  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12.  To believe on His name is to believe what His true Hebrew name means.  John wrote down the account of the Savior incarnate “that you may believe on the name of the Son of God” (I John 5:13). 

     To  prove  to  all  of us that believing on Him is equal to believing the meaning of the Savior’s name, John quotes the Savior Himself in this statement.  He that believes on Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18. Here the Savior in His own words says that believing in Him is believing in His name.  And believing in His name is receiving Him, and receiving Him is receiving the testimony that His name proclaims. And the testimony of His name says that the great God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob came down to earth and lived   in the seed of these patriarchs and grew up into the fullness of the Godhead dwelling bodily in the man they call the Messiah.  And that that pure vessel offered Himself as the Lamb of God as a sacrifice for our sins.  When we truly believe in His name, we believe in His saving power inherent in the meaning of His name—Yahweh is the Savior.

     With all of this in mind we literally can call upon God for help in time of need.  Because He is the Savior, and because His name means as much, we can call upon Him and ask for His help in our times of need.  Oh, Father, help us in our hour of desperation for thy name’s sake, because of what your name means.