“None Other Name Given Among Men”



“None Other Name Under Heaven”

Text: Acts 4:12

INTRO: The Lord Jesus Christ is to many a sore subject these days. Many people think they are going to Heaven because of who they are or by what they have done. Sadly, these people are headed for Hell if they don’t get right. On the other hand, there are those who are saved because they truly know the Lord Jesus Christ personally and have accepted his finished work on Calvary. Gloriously, these are bound for Glory one blessed day. God did not give any other name, religion, ritual, program, fraternity, affiliation, association, to provide salvation but only His Son, The Lord Jesus. Remember our text has said plainly, Given Among Men, Whereby We Must Be Saved.

I. It Is The Only Name That Men Find Redemption – Romans 3:24

A) This redemption involved a person.

B) This redemption included a price.

C) This redemption insisted perfection.

ἀπολύτρωσις, ἀπολυτρώσεως, ἡ (from ἀπολυτρόω signifying a. to redeem one by paying the price, cf. λύτρον: Plutarch, Pomp. 24; the Septuagint Exo. 21:8; Zeph. 3:1; b. to let one go free on receiving the price: Plato, legg. 11, p. 919a.; Polybius 22, 21, 8; (cf.) Diodorus 13, 24), "a releasing effected by payment of ransom; redemption, deliverance, liberation procured by the payment of a ransom"

II. It Is The Only Name That Men Find Reconciliation – Heb 2:17; Eph 2:16; Col 1:20

A) A relationship with God through His Son.

B) A rejoicing from the forgiveness of sins.

C) A rest in the reality of satisfaction.

ἀποκαταλλάσσω or ἀποκαταλλάττω: 1 aorist ἀποκατηλλαξα; 2 aorist passive ἀποκατηλλαγητε (Col. 1:22 (21) L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading); to reconcile completely (ἀπό) (others, to reconcile back again, bring back to a former state of harmony

III. It Is The Only Name That Men Find Regeneration – Titus 3:5; 2 Cor 5:17

A) There is a change of their mind.

B) There is a change of their methods.

C) There is a change of their mouth.

D) There is a change of their meaning.

παλιγγενεσία παλιγγενεσία (T WH παλιγγενεσία (cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 77 bottom)), παλιγγενεσίας, ἡ (πάλιν and γένεσις), properly, new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation (see Halm on Cicero, pro Sest. sec. 140), Vulgate and Augustine regeneratio; hence, "moral renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better"

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