What Name Will Jesus Use for “Well-Done?” 8-2-24
We have names given to us at birth, and many parents name their children Biblical names, which have a specific meaning. But names/titles that are used for ministry are not proper.
Jesus said this about titles- But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi;’ for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren (Matthew 23:8). In other words, titles belong to Christ alone. He sent redemption unto his people: he has commanded his covenant forever: holy and reverend is his name (Psalm 111:9).
Misuse of titles is taking God’s glory. And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images (Isaiah 42:8).
From the internet- - the name of God is "holy"; it is his nature and appears in all his works; and in which he is glorious, and so is reverend; he is to be feared and reverenced by all his creatures, and among his saints, as he is by the angels in heaven.
Each child of God has a ministry- Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: (Roman12:7a ), not a title; whatever our ministry is, it is given for us to serve.
Qualifications of Overseers
This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good work (1 Timothy 3:1).
The Bible does name offices, not titles- example bishop, elder, overseer (names are interchangeable) are the five-fold ministry offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher (1 Timothy 3:, Ephesians 4:11-16) and yes they are still functional today. If the five-fold ministry is understood, accepted, and functions the way God ordained it too, the church would not be in such a chaotic state.
Why Ephesians 4:11-16 is so important.
And He [Jesus] Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
From the Internet
Name in the eternal realm – In the letters to the seven churches in Revelation, Jesus promises to give “a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” This mysterious promise suggests that believers will receive new names that are known only to them and to God (Revelation 2:17).
Well done, good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21, 23) is what we should desire to hear. The Word of God does not say: Well, done, my good and faithful pastor, bishop, evangelist, apostle, preacher, missionary, teacher, singer, worship leader; it says “Well done, My good and faithful servant”
I am looking forward to Jesus saying to me; “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and for my new name.
Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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