Holy Is His Name

Old Testament

Deuteronomy 6:4

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!"

"I am the Lord, that is My name."  

"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."

"Make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth."

Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts."

You, O Lord, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.... And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Might God, Everlasting father, Prince of Peace.

The Lord shall be King over all the earth.

The New Testament

"She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." 

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us." 

"There is born to you this day...a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." 

"Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!"

"Where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

"If you ask anything in My name, I will do it."

"In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name."

"Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy."

I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True.... He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.... And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

"You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am."

The Heavenly Doctrines

Our Idea of God

The idea of God is the primary of all ideas. For such as this idea is such is a person’s communication with heaven and his conjunction with the Lord.

A right idea of God in the church is like the sanctuary and altar in a temple, or like the crown upon the head and the scepter in the hand of a king on his throne. For on a right idea of God the whole body of theology hangs, like a chain on its first link. And if you will believe it, everyone is allotted his place in the heavens in accordance with his idea of God.

Keeping the Name of the Lord Holy

[T]aking God's name in vain does not mean [only] His name but every single thing deriving from Him, and so every single thing belonging to the worship of Him, which must not be treated with disdain, still less be blasphemed and defiled by what is filthy.

Taking the name of God in vain means using anything from this source in idle talk, false statements, lies, curses, witchcraft and spells; for this is slandering and blaspheming God, and so His name.

To swear by God and His holiness, by the Word or the Gospel, at coronations, inaugurations into the priesthood, and inductions into offices of trust, is not to take the name of God in vain, unless he who takes the oath afterwards discards his promises.... [T]he name of God, because it is holiness itself, must be used continually in the holy things pertaining to the church, as in prayers, psalms, and all worship, also in preaching, and in writing on ecclesiastical subjects. This is so because God is in all things of religion, and when He is solemnly invoked He is present through His name and hears. In such ways is the name of God hallowed.

Jehovah God and the Lord

In the Word the Lord is sometimes called simply Jehovah, sometimes Jehovah God, sometimes God of Israel, and sometimes simply God.

[T]he name "THE LORD" is used exclusively to mean the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, and He is called the Lord without the addition of the rest of His names. Throughout heaven He is acknowledged and worshipped as Lord, since He has all power in heaven and on earth.

Throughout heaven they do not know any other Father than the Lord.

Names Reflect the Lord's Qualities

"Name" signifies quality for the reason that in heaven everyone is named according to his quality; and the quality of God or the Lord is everything that is from Him by which He is worshiped. For this reason, since no Divine quality of the Lord is acknowledged in hell, the Lord cannot be named there.

"The name of God" means every quality by which God is worshiped.... Now as His quality is manifold, for it comprises all things that are from Him, so He has many names; and each name involves and expresses His quality in general and in particular.... All these names are the names of the one God, who is the Lord; and yet where they occur in the Word they signify some... quality distinct from the other Divine attributes or qualities.