His 3-Fold Greatness

His Three-Fold Greatness

Some men are born to a great name as a czar or a king; others make their name great by achievements or have a great name conferred upon them. Jesus is great because He inherited a great Name; His Name is great because of achievements; He is great because a great Name was conferred upon Him.

He inherited a greater Name than any angelic being, and as a Son, He is heir of all things, and through Him, the ages have been brought into being. He is the effulgence-the very outshining of the Father.

His Name comes to Him as an Inheritance; and what it must have been to have Inherited this Name from His great Father-God!

In Philippians 2:9, 10 we find: “Wherefore also God highly exalted Him and gave unto Him the Name which is above every Name that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow of the beings in heaven and the beings on Earth and the beings under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father.”

If it tells us in Hebrews that He Inherited a greater Name than the angels, here it declares that God gave unto Him the Name which is above every name.

The inference is that there was a Name known in heaven, unknown elsewhere, and this Name was kept to be conferred upon someone who should merit it: and Jesus, as we know Him-the Eternal Son as He is known in the bosom of the Father-was given this Name, and at this Name every knee shall bow in the three worlds-Heaven, Earth, and Hell-and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord of the three worlds to the glory of God, the Father.