WE PLEASE JESUS WHEN WE PRAISE JEHOVAH'S NAME

 Did Jesus also want others to use his Father's personal name?  Certainly, some pious religious leaders of he day may have held that God's name was too sacred to pronounce, but Jesus never allowed such unscriptural traditions to prevent him from honoring his Father's name. Consider the tine when he cured a demonized man in the region of the Gerasenes. The people became fearful and begged Jesus to leave, so he did not say in that region. (Mark5:16, 17) Still, Jesus wanted Jehovah's name to known there. Se he commissioned the man he had cured to tell people, not what Jesus had done, but what Jehovah had done. (Read Mark 5:19.) He wants the same today-that we make his Father's name known throughout the whole world! (Matthew 24:14; 28:29, 20) When we do our part, we please our King, Jesus.

Jesus knew that Jehovah's purpose is to sanctify His name, to clear it of all reproach. That is why our Master taught his follower to pray: "Our Father who is in the heavens, let your name be sanctified." Let your Kingdom come, let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9) Jesus understood that this is the greatest issue facing all creation. (Read Ezekiel36:23.) No intelligent creature in the universe has ever done more to sanctify Jehovah's name than Jesus has.  Yet, when Jesus was arrested, what sin did his enemies accuse him of? Blasphemy! Jesus surely felt that to abuse or slander his Father's holy name was the repugnant of sins. He was deeply disturbed that he would be charged and convicted of this crime. That may have been the reason why Jesus was "in such agony" in the hours leading up to his arrest. - LUKE 22:41-44.

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