When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from,'
then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.'
But He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.' (Luke 13: 25-27)
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (John 1:12)
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (John 15:16)
Jesus said, "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We [are].
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare [it], that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them." (John 17: 6, 11, 12, 26)
let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:10 & 12)
To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins." (Acts 10:43)
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:9-11)
The name!! It is THE only name under heaven by which man can be saved...it is THE ONLY narrow way, the only door into heaven. And when that day comes that the Father shuts that way, closes that door, removes that name...there will be no chance left for mankind. And if a man comes to God by any other name...He will say depart from I never knew you...no matter that he may have followed God even to death, no matter that he lived out his life in the temple God, followed every letter of the law of God...unless He knew by THAT NAME...Jesus Christ...not Jehovah, not Muhammad, not Buddha, no other name will gain mankind access to heaven.
If Christians want to see people saved, the church revived, sin quenched, the world changed...they MUST begin to manifest THAT NAME!!! All their scare tactics, good deeds, programs and projects will not SAVE anyone.
