Jesus! The Name High Over All
Jesus! The Name High over All
Jesus! the name high over all,
In hell or earth or sky;
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.
Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given;
It scatters all their guilty fear;
It turns their hell to heaven.
O that the world might taste and see
The riches of His grace!
The arms of love that compass me
Would all mankind embrace.
Thee I shall constantly proclaim,
Though earth and hell oppose,
Bold to confess Thy glorious name
Before a world of foes.
His only righteousness I show,
His saving grace proclaim;
’Tis all my business here below
To cry, “Behold the Lamb!”
Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp His name;
Preach Him to all and cry in death,
“Behold, behold the Lamb!”
MRS. TURNER was a quiet woman who had only recently come to faith in Christ. Charles Wesley was physically ill and spiritually hungry when he found refuge in her brother’s home in the spring of 1738. Shyly, Mrs. Turner told him how she had come to personal faith in Christ. Then she said, “In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, arise and believe, and thou shalt be healed of thine infirmities!” That was the turning point for Charles.
Several years later, when Charles Wesley was preaching in Cornwall, England, a drunken man started opposing him. Wesley responded, “Who is this that pleads for the devil?” and he rebuked the man in the name of Jesus. That night Wesley went to bed thinking about the name of Jesus. The hymn he wrote during the night referred to that experience in the first stanza. But as he wrote the second stanza he was probably thinking of what shy Mrs. Turner had told him years earlier.
Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!” Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. And as he did, the man’s feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened.
Acts 3:6-7
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