For any new members who never saw my NWT scriptures about "witnesses" and the importance/usage of Jesus' name, here they are again:
(Matthew
10:18) ....before
governors and kings for my
sake, for a
witness....
(Mark
13:9) ...be put on the
stand......for my
sake, for a
witness to
them.
(Luke
24:48) You are to be
witnesses of
these things.
(John
1:15) John bore
witness about him, (Jesus)
(John
5:37) And the Father
who sent me has himself
borne witness
about me.
(John
8:18) ...bears witness
about myself, and the Father..bears
witness about me.”
(John
15:26, 27) ....bear
witness about me;
and you,
in turn, are to
bear witness....
(Acts
1:8) ..witnesses of me
in
Jerusalem,.....the most distant part of the earth.”
(Acts
9:15, 16) But the Lord
said to him: “Go! because this man is a chosen vessel to me to bear
my name
[Jesus] to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel.
For I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my
name.” [Jesus]
(Acts
10:39) And we are
witnesses of all the things he did.......
(Acts
10:43) To him
(Jesus) all the
prophets bear witness....
(Acts
13:31) .......These
are now his
witnesses to the
people.
(Acts
22:15) because you are
to be a witness for him
(Jesus) to all
men......
(Acts
22:20) and when the
blood of Stephen your
witness...
(Acts
23:11) ....witness
about me in
Jerusalem,.....also bear witness in Rome.”
(Acts
26:16) .....a
witness .....................respecting
me.
(1
Corinthians 1:6) ...the
witness about the
Christ has been
made firm among you,
(1
Timothy 2:6, 7) ...this
is what is to be
witnessed to in its own due time.
(2
Timothy 1:8) ....the
witness about our
Lord.......
(1
John 5:9) ....this is
the witness God gives, the witness.....about
his Son.
(Revelation
1:9) ......bearing
witness concerning
Jesus.
(Revelation
12:17) ....have the
work of bearing witness concerning
Jesus.
(Revelation
17:6) ......and with
the blood of the
witnesses of Jesus.
(Revelation
19:10) ....witnessing
concerning
Jesus...the
witness concerning Jesus...”
(Revelation
20:4) ...for the
witness they gave about
Jesus......
Christians
were to be witnesses of Christ.
He - not humans - was assigned to
be God's witness:
(Revelation
1:5) "....Jesus
Christ, “the Faithful Witness,”
(Revelation
3:14) "....the
faithful and true witness.."
(Revelation
19:11) "And the
one seated on it is called Faithful and True,.."
Also,
Christians were never told to do anything
in/for God's name.
Christ's
name was
fundamental for Christians - not "Jehovah":
(Isa.
62:2) ...a new
name.....Jehovah’s
own mouth
will designate. (see
Acts 11:26)
(Matthew
5:11) “Happy are you
when people reproach you and persecute you and lyingly say every sort
of wicked thing against you for my
sake.
(Matthew
10:22) And you will be
hated by all people on account of my
name,......
(Matthew
18:20) For where there
are two or three gathered together in my
name,....
(Matthew
19:29) .......for the
sake of my
name......will
inherit everlasting life.
(Matthew
24:9) .......and you
will be hated by all the nations on account of my
name.
(Luke
10:17) “...even the
demons are made subject to us by the use of your
name.”
(Luke
21:12) ......brought
before kings and governors for the sake of my
name.
(Luke
21:16, 17) .......and
you will be hated by all people because of my
name.
(John
2:23) .....many people
put their faith in his
(Jesus')
name........
(John
5:27, 28) .....in
which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his
voice..
(John
14:26) But the helper,
the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name,
(John
15:16) ......no matter
what you ask the Father in my
name,
(John
20:31) ...Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and because of
believing, you may have life by means of his name.
(Acts
2:38) Repent, and let
each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
(Acts
3:6) In the name of
Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!”
(Acts
4:10) .....in the name
of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,
(Acts
5:40) . . .and ordered
them to stop speaking on the basis of Jesus’
name.
(Acts
5:41) ....counted
worthy to be dishonored in behalf of his [Jesus'] name.
(Acts
9:14-16) .....all
those calling on your
name.....he must
suffer for my name.”
(Acts
10:48) .....he
commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
(Acts
11:26) ..........the
disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts
16:18) “I order you
in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
(Acts
19:5) On hearing this,
they got baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
(Acts
21:13) Rest assured, I
am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the
name of the Lord
Jesus...... (not
God's
name)
(Acts
22:16) ....get
baptized, and wash your sins away by your calling on his name.’
(1
Corinthians 6:11) ...been
declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(2
Corinthians 5:15) .....no
longer for themselves, but for him
who died for them.
(Philippians
2:10) .....so that in
the name of Jesus every knee should bend......
(Hebrews
13:15) Through him
(Jesus) let
us always offer to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of
our lips that make public declaration to his
name.*
(1
John 5:13) I write you
these things so that you may know that you have life everlasting, you
who put your faith in
the name of the Son of God.
(Revelation
2:3) ....and you have
borne up for my
name’s sake...
(Revelation
2:13) ......and yet
you keep on holding fast my
name,. . .
*The
name of Jesus
was to be "publicly
declared." See
27 "witness" scriptures and Romans
10:9 - “For if you
publicly declare
with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart
that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved.”
