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glory. And they are being led in the way by been lost has been restored, and there is
God the Son, who is significantly called by release from bondage. As we pause and
His earthly, human name, Jesus: “but we gaze at the image, we apprehend a bit more
see Jesus.” It is a Man who is leading them, easily the sympathetic High Priest, for as
none other than the Man of Calvary, the He suffered, being tempted, “he is able to
One who suffered in the days of His flesh, succour them that are tempted.”
who suffered as a sacrifice for sin, a suffer-
ing that was foretold in the Old Testament Each one who has entered, by faith, into
and recorded in the New Testament. It was the number of those called “many sons” is
a suffering that met the demands of God being brought to glory. We can look back
and was fitting to the character of God. to the day when we trusted Christ and He
In fact, the great purpose of His descent first became the Captain of Our Salvation.
lower than the angels was “for the suffer- We can presently enjoy, day by day, a sense
ing of death.” of nearness to Him and communion with
This same One is crowned with glory Him as we closely follow the Captain of
and honor. All the glory, honor and do- Our Salvation. And one day, we’ll arrive
minion that the first man, Adam, lost in where God intends for us, simply called in
the fall have been restored in a Man, the our text “glory,” and it will be the Captain
Last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ. The of Our Salvation who has led us there.
longer the multitude follows this Captain Now is our salvation nearer than when
of Their Salvation, the more they can see we believed!
of His glory and honor. The more they
look upon Him, the more clearly His This brief article concludes this series,
righteous humanity shows. The glory of Finding Christ in the Alphabet. Each reader
His person shines brighter, the excellency is strongly encouraged to explore the
of His character is more keenly seen, and Scriptures to find the many other names
their devotion to Him as the Captain of throughout the written Word. The first
Their Salvation increases more and more. chapter of John’s Gospel alone contains
He has opened up the way to salvation, about a dozen names and titles of Christ,
and He leads them in that way. And along and elsewhere, there are seemingly count-
the way, there is an ever-increasing under- less others. Some are tender names, such as
standing that He is leading them to glory, the Shepherd of our Souls (1Pe 2:25); other
to be “conformed to the image of His Son,” names present Him in His august glory,
and that He will share His glory with His such as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev
own. Another has said, “Our captain has 5:5). Each presents something different of
gone before and met the foe: He stood in
the place of danger and overcame, and His glorious Person, and your meditations
now his followers receive of his mighty of Him will be sweet.
grace, and share his victory and spoils” O my Saviour, Shield, and Sun,
(J.R. Caldwell). Shepherd, Counsellor, and Friend!
As well, in this imagery, there are shades Every precious name in One;
of the Kinsman-Redeemer, for a fraternal I will love Thee without end. 2
relationship is established, the redemptive
price has been paid, something that had 2 John Newton (1725–1807)

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