02 August 2010 Devotion for Today "No Other Name" Acts 2:8-12

Monday, August 02, 2010

11:14 AM

^{8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11He is}

   " 'the stone you builders rejected,

      which has become the capstone. 12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:8-12)

 
 

Recently Brit Hume of Fox News spoke that name in recommendation to Tiger Woods, citing his need of forgiveness and a faith that offers it. It was a personal recommendation given because he was asked for his personal opinion. But oh what a firestorm of controversy it sparked!

 
 

No one says "What in Allah's name is going on?" No one texts "OMB" for "Oh My Buddha." These facts help to prove the case that Christianity is the truth, and all else is false. Because only Jesus' name has the power and punch behind it to matter.

 
 

The truth hurts and the truth helps, but it never is neutral. No one ever tells an enemy to 'go to purgatory' for there is no jab found in saying it...for there is no truth in that non existent place. They tell their enemy to 'go to hell' ... a place they supposedly don't believe exists! I even heard an atheist say this before.

 
 

For 2,000 years the name of Jesus has not just reformed alcoholics, but transformed them. Purified prostitutes / made liars tell the truth / turned haters into lovers / turned wife beaters into docile men / made whoremongers faithful / cleaned up cursing mouths / has saved souls from hell!*

 
 

Every other religion on earth has this in common: their founder is today dead.

But I can say: "I serve a RISEN Savior." And that's why it's the only name!

 
 

Have a blessed day!

 
 

 
 

• Thanks to Jerry Shirley