It's only in Jesus' ascension that He has given the supreme name, the name that is above

every name.

Wherefore hath God highly exalted Him and given him the name that is above every name?

But what is that name? One of the reasons why the Christians became human torches to illumine the gardens of Nero

and so on is because as part of their loyalty oath to the Roman Empire they had to make

this simple affirmation, Kaiser Ho Curios.

Caesar is Lord.

And a Christian say, hey, we'll pay our taxes, we'll obey the magistrates, we'll do everything

you tell us to do, we'll say that Caesar is Caesar, but one thing we will not do is take the title Lord and render

it to Caesar.

We will render to Caesar the things that are Caesar, but unto God the things that are God.

And the title, Curious, in its supreme sense, Lord, is to be applied

only to God. And so when the Christian church confessed that Jesus was Lord, and not just

Lord, not just Curios, but Curioeone, the Lord of Lords.

It was clearly an ascription of deity to Jesus.

Remember the Canadiic hymn of Philippians 2, where Paul says, have this mind in you, which

was also in Christ Jesus, who being

in the form of God, took his equality with God, not as a thing to be grasp or tenaciously

held on to, jealously guarded, but he emptied himself and took upon himself the form of a servant

became obedient even unto death and so on. Wherefore hath God highly exalted him and given him the name

that is above every name? That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue confess

what? That He is Lord, that He is Curious, to the glory of God,

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