No matter what you're dealing with in your life, it can be traced back to the presence of sin.

Dr Tony Evans says many people who think they have lots of problems really only have one,

and the Lord is ready to solve it.

Because Jesus Christ didn't come to fix symptoms.

He came to fix causes.

This is the alternative with Dr Tony Evans,

author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president

of the Urban Alternative.

The Bible ascribes several different names to Jesus, each of them telling us something significant about who he is.

Today Dr Evans explores the implications of one of Jesus' most familiar and most important names.

Let's join him in Matthew, Chapter 1.

Names matter.

When we speak about the name of a person,

we're giving their identity away.

If I would ask for Bill, then Ralph would not raise his hand.

Because if that's not his name,

that's not his identity.

Because names are more than nomenclature. it has to do with identification. In the Bible, they really mattered, because names

were given at the earliest possible time

to define the hopes and dreams of a child

by their parents. So the parents would give the child a name to reflect what that

child was destined to become because names mattered.

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