A People Gathered About the Name

A People Gathered About the Name

The Gentile Church is a people taken out of the world unto the Name of Jesus, and we are a people who are gathered about the Name-when we meet as an assembly or a church, we are gathered about the Name of Jesus.
It is a supernatural body, clothed with supernatural power gathered about a supernatural Name.

The Lord have mercy upon us! How we have fallen from our high estate. One can go into the average church or assembly and hear men and women pleading with God for faith, bemoaning their weakness, confessing their inability to meet the crisis of the hour, when if they only knew the truth, they would gather about the Name of Jesus-this mighty Name that has enwrap¬ped within it the Omnipotence of God, the power of Him Who bore it, and they know it not!

Oh, if they only knew how to turn on the switch and receive the light, and glory, and might of Omnipotence which is at their disposal. In Acts 16:16-18 we have a striking illustration of the use of the Name “And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.

The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation. And this she did for many days. But Paul being sore and troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.”

The girl was delivered, the apostles arrested; then came the mighty miracle of the opening of the jail at Philippi when the jailer fell trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas crying, “What shall we do to be saved?”

They answered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.”
This same Name that had liberated the girl from the power of the demon in the afternoon now has led this man into sonship privileges in the family of God.
The Name of Jesus meant more to the Early Church than it does to us; it had a place in their ministry that we do not give it in these days.

Have we anything to take its place? They tell us that education will take its place; and that the Church no longer needs the supernatural power of God. They reason thus: That we have outgrown the teaching of the Holy Spirit and that the wisdom of man is to take the place of the power of the Name of Christ; that that Name has been stripped of its power because we through our colleges, universities, and our great intellectual development have outgrown God, and we can perform mental miracles so that God’s physical miracles are unnecessary.

Shame upon us! We have become an Apostate Church; we are grovelling in the dust; we are held in bondage to our ignorance. Israel when carried into captivity by the Babylonians is typical of the Church that has been carried into a Babylonish captivity by the world forces.

Nothing but a Supernatural God will ever deliver us! How little we realize that our vain preaching and our vain writing are simply the laughingstock of the Enemy.
One mighty miracle today in the Name of Jesus Christ is worth more than a hundred modernistic sermons that are being preached in many churches.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus – E. W Kenyon