Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, and today I want to talk to you about the name of Jesus, because the name of Jesus is under attack today, and people want to replace it with the name Yeshua, and you're seeing this more and more. Everywhere you turn: Yeshua, Yahweh, instead of using the Biblical words of "Jesus" and "the Lord," and so I'm going to explain to you why this is so bad, to switch over to this Yeshua thing, and not only that, but I'm going to prove to you that the name of Jesus is legitimate.
Now, the first point I want to make is that if God wanted us to call our savior by the name of Yeshua, then the name Yeshua would be found somewhere in the Bible, which it is not in the Bible at all. The King James Bible, which is my final authority, actually uses the name Jesus every single time. Not only that, but the original Greek New Testament, from which the King James Bible was translated, says Jesus every single time.
In fact, this is what it looks like in the Greek New Testament, the name of Jesus, okay? It's the same in all 27 books of the New Testament. You're going to find the name of Jesus spelled like this. Now, in Latin letters this would basically be I-E-S-O-U-S. Okay, some of the letters are different in Greek. This thing that is an "n" with the tail hanging down, is actually an eta, so it makes an "e" sound, and then this is an "s", believe it or not. I-E-S-O-U-S.
Now, this is where we derive our English word Jesus, directly from the Greek New Testament. Now, how did this become Jesus? Well, like I said, it's I-E-S-O-U-S. Well, in a King James Bible, and right here I have the 1611 edition, a replica of the 1611 ... In the King James, it was spelled I-E-S-U-S. Now you can see that that's very similar to what it is in Greek, and in fact, here's something that kind of shows the progression, okay, because right here we've got the Greek spelling, I-E-S-O-U-S, and then I put it in Latin letters so that you can see it, and then you can see what it is in a 1611 King James Bible.
I-E-S-U-S, and you can see that it's the exact same name, just brought into the English language for us. Now, just to prove to you that that was pronounced "Jesus" when the King James Bible came out in 1611: You can also find this word in a 1611 King James Bible that says Jews, this is how Jews was spelled, I-E-W-E-S, because a lot of people will say, "Well, how could his name be Jesus when the letter 'j' is only a couple hundred years old? There's no way his name's Jesus."
Now first of all, we're speaking English, so we're going to pronounce it in an English way. If we were speaking Spanish, we'd pronounce it "hey-soos". If we were speaking German, we'd pronounce it "yay-zooz". Either way, it's the same name. In Greek, it's "ee-soos", so we have "ee-soos", "yay-zooz", "hey-soos", "Jesus". No one knows exactly how it was pronounced 2000 years ago, but that is his name, and this name of Yeshua is a complete fraud. That name is found nowhere in the Greek New Testament, and it's nothing like this word in the Greek New Testament. Yahashua or Yeshua: That's not what this says. This says Iesus or Jesus or "hey-soos" or "yay-zooz". That's what it is.
****A L S O .......... KEEP THIS IN MIND !!
John = John (In English and in Hebrew)
Daniel = Daniel (In English and in Hebrew)
King David = King David (In English and in Hebrew)
Paul = Paul (In English and in Hebrew)
Matthew = Matthew (In English and in Hebrew)
However, we're suppose to believe something extraordinary.
The name of Jesus is false?
RIGHT!!!
The name of Jesus, which is the name above all names is under attack because people HATE that name, they HATE it.
No one attacks anyone else's name, but Jesus.
You have to ask yourself why.
