BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

alike. Jesus Himself said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9). Hebrews 1 describes Jesus as "the brightness of his [God's] glory, and the express image of his person." It also says that after He went to the cross and took upon Himself the sin of all mankind, Jesus inherited the Father's Name. We read in verses 3-6: When He had by Himself purged our sins, [He] sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For to which of the angels did He ever say: "You are My Son, today I have begotten You"? And again: "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son"? But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: "Let all the angels of God worship Him" (NKJV). A lot of people don't realize this, but Jesus didn't just die physically when He went to the cross; He died spiritually. He became sin for us and went into the pit of hell in our place. But when He had fully paid the price for our redemption, He was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was born again under His own sacrifice! When Almighty God declared over Him, "Again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son," Jesus came out of that pit as the reborn, resurrected, glorious Son of God. And He came out having obtained by inheritance the Name of Almighty God Himself. Before that happened, in the Gospels, Jesus was called God's "only begotten Son" (John 3:18). Now He is called the "firstborn of many brethren" (Romans 8:29), and we are the "brethren." As believers we've been born again of the Father just as surely as Jesus was, and we have inherited the same Name. That means God in all His wealth and all He has (and He has it all) are ours through the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ! No. 2: Jesus won His Name by conquest. Jesus did even more through His death and resurrection than pay the price for us to be forgiven of our sins. He totally defeated Satan and all his demonic hosts. He conquered hell and the grave. Then, "having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it" (Colossians 2:15). After His resurrection, Jesus declared: "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth…. and I have the keys of hell and of death" (Matthew 28:18; Revelation 1:18). That authority and those keys originally belonged to Adam, and Satan stole them when Adam sinned. But Jesus got them back! Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9–11). In other words, Jesus not only inherited the Name of the Father, He won it by conquering the devil in combat. He won it by conquest and then He gave His victory to us, making us "more than conquerors through him" (Romans 8:37, NKJV). No. 3: Jesus' Name was conferred on Him by God. As we just saw in Philippians 2:9, when God highly exalted Jesus, He gave Him a Name which is above every name. A Name so powerful that it is recognized as having absolute authority; not only in heaven and earth, but also "under the earth" in hell. Almighty God conferred that all-powerful Name on Jesus… and Jesus has given it to us. That means if you're a believer, that all- powerful Name is yours. Now you've got the power! You don't have to put up with anything from the devil. You can take the Name of Jesus and stop any devilish thing you want to stop. You can be like the first 70 disciples Jesus sent out in Luke 10. They returned to Him with joy saying: "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on 1 0 : B V O V You don't have to put up with anything from the devil. You can take the Name of Jesus and stop any devilish thing you want to stop. Vinita and Kenneth Copeland, together onstage in the mid-1980s.

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