People’s Christ
The person to whom the name Jesus was first revealed was Joseph: – a carpenter, a humble man, a working man, unknown and undistinguished except by the justice of his character.
It is not, therefore, a title to be monopolized by princes, sages, priests, warriors or men of wealth. It is a name to be made a household word among common people!
He is the people’s Christ.
The name of Jesus was sweet from the start because of the words that accompanied it, for they were meant to remove perplexity from Joseph’s mind: “Fear not.”
Truly, no name can banish fear like the name of Jesus! It is the beginning of hope and the end of despair!
Let the sinner hear of the Saviour, and he forgets to die!He hopes to live! He rises out of the deadly lethargy of his hopelessness and, looking upward, he sees a reconciled God and no longer fears.
At the time when the name was given, His full person had not been seen by mortal eyes, for He lay as yet concealed. But soon He came forth, having been born of Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit.
A matchless man, He bears our nature but not our corruption! He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, but in His flesh there is no sin!
This Holy One is the Son of God, and yet He is the Son of man—the Saviour of the World!
“Dear Jesus, thank You for being the Saviour of my soul, the only One who could truly take my sins away. I pray I will never neglect so great a salvation. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
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