The Answer is Jesus

How to Find Jesus

The whole of the Bible is about Jesus. Martin Luther said, ‘Scripture is the manger in which the Christ lies.’ As a parent goes to a cot to find their baby, so the Christian goes to the Bible to find Jesus. Don’t inspect the cot and forget to worship the baby.

In today’s passages, we see how Jesus Christ is revealed not only in the New Testament, in the book of Revelation, but also in the Old Testament – in Proverbs and Zechariah.

The name of Jesus

Proverbs 30:1–10

Is there any evidence for God?

‘The sceptic swore, “There is no God! No God! – I can do anything I want!... I see no evidence of a holy God”’ (v.1–3, MSG).

The sceptic goes on to ask five questions (v.4):

1. Who has gone up to heaven and come down?

2. Whose hands have gathered up the wind?

3. Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?

4. Who has established all the ends of the earth?

5. What is that person’s name, and what is the name of that person’s son?

The New Testament reveals that the answer to each of these five questions is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It is Jesus who ascended on high (see, for example, Ephesians 4:8–10). It is through Jesus that the whole world came into being (John 1:1–3). He is the name above every name (Philippians 2:9). The evidence for God is found in Jesus.

The New Testament reveals that the name of God is Jesus. The writer of Proverbs cares deeply about ‘the name of [his] God’ (Proverbs 30:9). He asks for ‘neither poverty nor riches’ (v.8). He fears that riches may make him disown the Lord and poverty might make him steal and thereby ‘dishonour the name of [his] God’ (v.9).