The Power Of Names | Ep.22

We get obsessed with why names hit harder than we expect, from everyday social respect to the ancient fear of a secret name being exposed. We retell Rumpelstiltskin, then trace how Scripture and history connect naming with nature, authority, and the power of speech. 
• why remembering a name feels like honour 
• how using names can build trust or feel fake 
• Rumpelstiltskin as a story about secret power 
• the ancient pattern of the supernatural helper 
• threads spindles and “gold” as spiritual motifs 
• why children are the most valuable creatures one earth
• Solomon’s question to demons and authority through naming 
• secret names in Egypt and reverence in Jewish tradition 
• God changing names as a change of identity 
• Peter as “rock” and the debate over church authority 
• calling things out as exposure and light 
• why Christians speak and act in Jesus’ name 

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Transcript

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Welcome to episode 22 of the Ministry Man podcast. I'm your host, Isaac Anthony Turner. It's doos do's baby. We're here. Throw your twos up. Now, update. I learned something this week. Last week, I was under the impression that violence is always the answer. Apparently, it's it's violence is never the answer. So I have some apologies to make to a lot of people this week because I got that really wrong. And I can tell you there are some very upset, uh, very upset people, and um, so I'm going to have to make amends. Anyway, we'll get there. So today, without further ado, without any further ado, we're talking about some cool stuff to do with names today. Talking about names. You know why we're talking about names? Because I I've just been fascinated by by a story. This story gripped me and it got me really fascinated. And then it and it was one of those things where you learn one thing and then it it unlocks all these other things you already knew, and then it links them all together, and you're like, wow, man. And so I hope maybe this will happen for you too. But they're important, like names are uh are weirdly important in our culture, not just on the surface level. There's something deeply weird about names. People feel so honored. Like if you remember someone's name, they get really impressed. I've had people be like, Oh, I can't believe you remember my name. We met once like a year ago or something. I was like, Yeah, well, yeah, I do. Some people try and make you feel weird about that, which I think is super lame. Is like, yeah, man, I am I have a good memory, I suppose, and I remember your name. You know, a lot of people say this. They go, Oh, I'm really bad with names. And they go, I'm good with faces, I'm bad with names. Well, that's literally everyone. Unless you make an effort. Unless you're like, I feel like I'm good at remembering people's names. And I, because I actually make an effort, like if someone says their name, I try really hard to remember their name because if I don't do that, I will forget it immediately. I will forget it as you've said it. You've said it, and if I don't make an attempt to try and actively remember that name, it's gone before the next word is spoken. So, but the natural thing for most people is yeah, everyone's good with faces and bad with names. It would be weird if it was the other way around. You're like, if you just met some of you, yeah, I have no idea what you look like. I can't remember anything you look like, but I do remember the name. I feel like that's the weirder way. Like the visual interpretation is uh is a more natural thing. But anyway. But if you are, let's say, on a first name basis with someone, then that's like a prestigious thing. It's like an honorable, yeah, I'm I'm familiar with this person's name. I can use their name in this way because it shows that we're comfortable. And and people do get really offended if you don't remember their name. So on the other side of that, if you don't remember someone's name, but you remember them and you can remember everything about them, you can remember everything you spoke about, you can remember where they work, and if they said particular stories about their family or something, you remember that. If you don't remember their name, then regardless of any of that, people will probably be a little bit offended. Oh, well, yeah, I mean, it mustn't be that important. You can remember a name. Um so, yeah, and so it is just a thing that um names seem to have this this heavier weight behind knowing someone's name and using someone's name. I know that there's there's a lot of memes about it now, but there's that that book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, and one of the things in it is to use someone's first name. And unfortunately, people that don't know how have like that don't have any tact, they end up using it a bunch of times. Like, hi, Tom. Oh, it's nice to meet you, Tom. Hey, Tom, where did you say you worked again, Tom? And it was like, you know, people use it in a way that's that's not meant to be used, but it is really good to use someone's first name. Like it's great advice in the book. But uh, if you use it wrong, then people really hate it and they'll be like, and they notice you doing it, and they'll be like, well, now I know that you're doing the thing from the book, and so I don't want to really have this conversation anymore. So I feel like you're trying to make me like you, and then and then that if it comes across as inauthentic, even though if someone's just like reading a book like that, how to win friends and influence people, like they obviously want to be able to socialize, they probably just want to make friends, and they probably just want to be liked by people because they they might just not be, they might not have many friends. And it's like how to win friends is the title of the book. I mean, we should go easy on people that that are doing that, and if you like, if you notice someone's doing that, I think the better thing to do is just be like, man, this guy's putting in effort. Like, that's there's got to be something said for that. Like, yeah, cool, you can see that he's trying to do a thing, but there's some effort there. Come on, let's give people a break. Come on now, or not, or I mean you can just be like, you conniving, little deceiving. I know you're using my name to try and make me like you. Well, guess what? I don't like you because you're doing that. Because you want me to like you, I'm not gonna like you. Just do that, have it your way. Don't listen to me. Um, so anyway, I'm gonna tell you a story. And this is the story that I've been fascinated about. And it's the story you may have heard of, but you probably don't remember the details of it. And it's that of Rumpel Stiltskin. So allow me to explain the story. Come with me now, come with me. I'll take you there with my words and envision this story for yourself. I'll take you there. Imagine this: a poor miller decides he wants to impress the king. And so he makes up a lie that his daughter can spin straw into gold. Well, the king hears this and he decides, as his greedy heart desires, I'm going to lock this man's daughter in a room full of straw and get her to spin as much straw as possible into gold that I can have for myself. And if she doesn't do it, he says he's gonna kill her in the morning. Now, obviously the girl doesn't have this ability, and so she panics and she cries. And it gets to midnight, and she's still crying, and all of a sudden, a weird little mysterious man appears into the room, a creepy little gremlin-like man, and he offers her a deal. He says to her, Listen, girl, I can spin that that straw into gold for you on one condition. And he makes a deal with her. In exchange for his services, he'll receive some of her jewellery. So on the first night, he receives her necklace and he makes the straw and turns it into gold, in which the king is very impressed. So he gets her to do it again. The next night, same thing happens. The weird little man occurs again and he makes a different deal, but this time he says, Oh, I'll take your ring in exchange. And so the girl is inclined, takes the deal, and then he makes the gold out of the straw again. Now on the third night, she has nothing left to give, but the king is still expecting more. The little weird man turns up again, but with nothing left to offer, she decides she's going to offer her firstborn child for the help of this little man. And so he accepts, and the king is very pleased and he's very happy. So much so he decides to marry the girl. Now, time passes by. She becomes queen, and she has her son, and she forgets about the deal with the little man, but he doesn't forget. And so he returns. He returns asking for this little child. He says, We made a deal, girly, we made a deal. So the queen begs to keep her child and offers anything, everything. He offers, she she she offers him land, she offers him money and jewels and gold and anything that the kingdom has to offer, and the little man declines it all. He says, No, what I want is a living thing. There isn't anything other than that that I'm seeking. And so she begs him for another way, another opportunity. And so the little man says, Well, I'll tell you this. If you can guess my name within three days, then I'll let you off. And we we can call the deal off. So she tries many names. Every name in the kingdom she tries, they actually go so far as to try every name that exists in the kingdom that is known. But to to no avail. Unfortunately, uh, on the first two days she tried, nothing worked, no name worked. It all failed. And then a messenger comes to the princess and says, Hey, look, I heard a little man singing in the forest. And this is what he's saying Today I'll bake, tomorrow I'll brew, then I'll fetch the queen's new child too. It's good that no one knows my game, because Rumpel Stiltskin is my name. And on the final day, the third day, the queen, for some reason, guesses two names incorrectly before giving the third name, which is that of Rumpel Stiltskin, in which he screams and he goes, No, no, no, no. And in some stories, he rips himself in two. But nevertheless, he dies or disappears. He loses his power, he disappears in his in his anger. And so there is the end. Now, this is an interesting story. I'm gonna go through and I'm gonna break down a bunch of these things. Most of what I will speak about will be the name, but before I get into the name stuff, I'm gonna I'm gonna give a little bit of information on what just took place. Because unlike most stories, this doesn't have a moral. So usually when you listen to a story, like let's say Pinocchio or something, or the Hunchback of Notre Dame, ones that I've talked about in previous podcasts, there's there's a clear outline, a clear moral to the story that you can learn from. There's many morals in in a lot of them, but this isn't something that has a lot of moral value in it, which is very strange. Because it's not like you would say, Oh, okay, yeah. The moral is don't lie to uh authority uh about your daughter, like being able to make gold or something, or um, or don't maybe you could take Rumble Stewartskin's side and don't sing songs about your name if that's I don't know, like don't make deals. Like these aren't really there's not like a strong moralistic concept that is threaded throughout this story, as there is in so many other stories and so many other folklore things and um and fairy tales. So the obviously the reason that this story was developed was for a different reason than to give you some sort of moral intuition. So as it turns out, this is this story belongs to a branch or a category of ancient stories that date back somewhere as as long as 4,000 years ago. Called uh the category is called the name of the supernatural helper. So there's a lot of different stories that have they're different in so many ways. It's not like the Rumpel Stiltskin story, but there'll be some key elements in the story that define it to be put into this category. So the impossible task, the magic helper, and the secret name. That they seem to be the bones of the story in in so many different ways, um, just told in different versions and variations. The the impossible task, the magic helper, and the secret name. So the first thing that I'll quickly touch on is the interesting part of the spindle, for one, you'll notice that in certain fairy tales or in in history, the spindle seems to be a strange item that's addressed or used a lot. So you you'll see in uh Malephosis, or well, in Sleeping Beauty, she pricks her finger on the end of a spindle. It's uh it's used in ancient Greek uh mythology, or even actually, probably before, I think it was before their Olympian gods, they had the three fates who would uh draw out the thread of life and they would they would cut the thread of life. If you've seen Hercules, they're in that, there's the thread that they use. Um, in ancient Vedic religions, and which is modern Hinduism, they speak of sacred threads, and those sacred threads are like um the fabric of reality is made up of thread kind of thing. Hinduism now have a term called the golden thread, which they which symbolizes beauty and luxury. Um, there's certain things that it embodies in in richness and things like that. And so there's an element in which this story is taking something that is mundane, which is straw, and turning it into something divine that they at least that they interpret as divine as being this golden thread. It's uh it's an important motif throughout history that they the idea of thread is something significant. The other strange thing to point out is that he was wanting a child. He wanted something living, he said. And it happened, and it came in the form of a child. And nothing on earth, that nothing in a kingdom would suffice for in exchange for this child. And that is also somewhat of a a running theme with a lot of these folklore fairy tales as well. Like obviously Hansel and Gretel, the Pie Piper, you've got Little Red Riding Hood, you've got the Little Mermaid, you've got Little Bo Peep, you've got Little Little Miss Muffet, you've got all these, you've got all these little these little people. And so, like, and I I suppose the more sinister look in regards to this particular story is that you you see in ancient history child sacrifice was a very popular thing, like to offer up a child to their deity or their god, uh, as horrific as that is, that was common practice along among a lot of pagan tribes. Uh, I mean, even in the land of Canaan, for 400 years they were sacrificing babies on the molten hot arms of Moloch. They would have this golden statue of Moloch that had uh a furnace within it, and they would they would literally have to beat their drums louder to drown out the sound of the screams because the mothers would hear and the people would hear. They would they would have to beat their drums louder. Like, this is the kind of horrific things that societies have thankfully, God willing, moved away from. And obviously, like you know, all the Epstein stuff is all child-related. Like it seems like that there seem there seems to be something in the that it it must be the most valuable thing in all of creation is is is a child. I belie I I think that's actually true. Like, I'm trying to think what would be more valuable than a child. Like it is the most, it's the purest, most innocent thing. It's creation at its best. We will never ever be able to create something even remotely close to that of a human life and that of a of a baby. Like it seems to be the most valuable thing that should be valued in in life. Like, I don't I can't think of anything else that would be of of higher value than that. You even have the story of Abraham and Isaac. This is an interesting thing of Abraham being asked by God to sacrifice Isaac, uh, although scholars now are saying that Isaac wasn't actually that young. Like he was sounded like he like most people read it that he was like a young boy, but it sounds like he was like in his 20s and he was capable of doing that. But like actually, yeah, but that's an interesting one. I probably won't unpack that now, but I'll move on to the uh the name element of the the story. So it's it's it's interesting because the history of the the motif of this, you know, supernatural helper. And the the name, the consistent thing is that the name is always strange. It's always a weird name. It's it's always unconventional and not like a name that anyone would have heard before. It's something very very strange about the name. Like Rumpel Stiltskin. I don't even know how you could possibly come up with a name like that. It's pretty cool. But I I know that there's this weird. This is okay. I read this recently. There's something called uh uh pseudo-epigraphal texts. These are books that may have been associated with biblical themes, so written about particular biblical characters or people in canonical biblical stories, but they aren't seen as being canonical because they might have been dated differently, they might be contradictory to some of the things that are written in the canon. And so one of those texts is called the Testament of Solomon. So it's it's pseudo-pigreful because I don't believe that Solomon wrote it, and that it's it's kind of dated not at the time when Solomon was alive, I suppose. So they don't accept it in in the canon. But here's an interesting thing. If you read it as just like a story, he Solomon uh favors one of his children. He has, I think, 11 children at this point. He favors one of his children, no, no, he has, I don't know how many he has. But he favors one of his children, he gives him a double portion of everything. But he finds that the child that he's giving a double portion of everything is actually uh losing weight and he's getting skinnier and skinnier, and he starts to get worried about him. He says, What's going on? I'm giving you double, double Porsche. I love you the most, and I'm giving you a double Porsche. Why are you getting skinny on me, boy? And the boy says, Well, it's because this demon keeps coming and stealing half my stuff, and then for some reason, sucks on the boy's thumb for hours. Now, I don't understand this. You can read it yourself, by the way. It's called the Testament of Solomon, it's an ancient manuscript. But you can't, it's on Google for free to read it. This demon sucks this boy's thumb for some reason. I don't know why.

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So Solomon prays and prays, and he uh eventually he wants to you know help his kid. And so he's like, How do I defeat this demon? And apparently, according to this text, he gets this God answers his prayer and gives him this ring. It's a ring with an emblem on it that's a pentagram, just the five-pointed star. Um, but it's called a pentalfa, I believe, in this in the scripture. And if you use this ring and you throw it at a demon, then they lose their power or something. Anyway, Solomon gets the ring and he gives it to the boy, and the boy throws it at the demon, and he, you know, the demon comes undone, and he screams, he gets angry, whatever, but he goes and and he has to obey, basically he has to obey. What ends up happening is Solomon starts summoning up demons, and he asks them all one question. The only question he asks them is what is your name? And then once he knows their name, he then controls them and gets them to do things. And as the story goes in the text, he gets them basically to build the temple of God, which is crazy to think. This is probably why they don't accept it, because it's like, oh, really? Like we're gonna believe that demons built God's temple. On behalf of Solomon, Solomon's just like, Yeah, I want you to cut stone for me. You can tell why it's a bit of a controversial text. Um, I haven't read all of it though, I've only read like you know, the first part. But anyway, he controls them, he overcomes them now that he knows their name, it seemed. He gets the name and then knows uh and then can control them from there. So um, which is which is an interesting point to note in the story of Rumpel Steelskin is that he isn't defeated by magic or by might, he's defeated by name. Like once the name is spoken, then he loses all his power and he either melts into the ground or rips himself in half. He like he dies from that. So that's a very significant part to the end of that story. In ancient Egypt, there were pharaohs that had secret names, and in order to protect their soul, they didn't, they wouldn't tell anyone their name, and it would only be carved on the inside of their tombs. Like they had this different idea of names. In some religions, you can't, they won't let you speak the name of their God. They have other names that you would use. I know in Jewish tradition, they won't even write down God. They'll put G-D. That's that's they they think that it's dishonorable or that it's too holy or too revered to speak or to write down in any way. So it seems in the in the ancient world, the way that they understood a name, it it wasn't just meaningless, or they understood that a name is not meaningless or arbitrary. Names and nature were synonymous. So one of the first things that God ever said to Adam, so when he created everything on earth on the sixth day, he creates Adam, and he and he has a job to do. And one of the jobs is to go and name everything on earth. He gives that, God gives that responsibility to Adam. And so he names things. And the the way that he names things, he doesn't just make up sounds and that sound, they go, Oh, you that looks good. I'll call you a bore. Like, I mean, from whatever language he spoke at the time. Obviously, it wasn't English, but he named things according to their nature. So what your name is is the same thing as what you are in nature and how you behave and operate. You are the name and the nature is the same thing. And that's a significant part of how names are understood in the Bible throughout the whole Bible as well. God had a uh, you know, a number of different times would change someone's name. And the reason he would do this is because he is changing their nature. No longer are you this, you are now this. In Genesis 32, Jacob wrestles with God. And after he wrestles with God, he he says, I want a blessing from you, I want a blessing from you. Now, Jacob's name was Jacob means deceiver. So that was his identity. He deceived in order to steal his brother's inheritance. He pretended to be his brother in order to receive the blessing from his father. So he is he was a deceiver by nature, and that was his name, Jacob Deceiver. God answers his prayer and goes, Okay, I'll give you an I'll give you a blessing. I'm gonna change your name. And so he changes his name to Israel, when Israel means he who wrestles with God or or strives with God. The verse actually says, For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed. And so he blessed him for it. And he changed his no longer are you deceiver, now you're the one who wrestles with God or strives with with God. That's a significant change. In uh in other parts, you've got Abram to Abraham, went from high father or exalted father to father of many, and that was a promise. That name was a was a promise that the Lord gave to Abraham. You got Sarai to Sarah, you got Paul to Saul, you've got Simon to Peter. Simon to Peter is a very interesting one because Simon uh that just means hearing and listening, or hearing or listening. Peter means rock. Now, it's a very interesting part of the Bible because it's actually a significant part of the Bible, a particular time where Jesus calls Peter the rock, and this is one of the reasons why Catholics have the Pope. It's as big as that because Protestants and Eastern Orthodox don't recognize the Pope, the Roman papacy, as any sort of uh the Catholics believe that the Pope is a line directly from Peter in the Bible, and uh and he became the first bishop of Rome. And they believe that there has been a succession of people since then that's been a direct line. So every Pope has uh has come directly in succession from Peter from the beginning. That's why they believe that they're the one true church, is because they're like, if you don't submit to the Pope, then you're not part of the of God's church, you're not you're not part of the body, you're you're cut off from the body. And this is interesting because if you read, like this is the thing. Because of that, because they the the Catholics have this thing of uh the Pope is the law, basically, he's infallible, whatever he says is truth. They don't believe that anyone can just read the Bible and interpret it for themselves. Protestants believe, which is what I am, a Protestant, uh, and I'll do another episode on this because it's all it's a lot in church history. But the essence of it is that Protestants believe in something called sola scriptura, which is the belief that the only infallible word or unfaulting word of God is the Bible. And so we submit to the Bible and that we still have authority, we still submit to authority, we just believe that church authority is fallible and they can be wrong about something. The Catholics don't believe that. The Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible, which is crazy because they've already been wrong about so many things, including this, including the fact that they even need a Pope, which is hilarious. Because it like you read the verse in Matthew 16, it talks about this, right? So if you read Matthew 16, I'll just I'll I'll go super quick through this. But Matthew 16 starts with saying this, right? Jesus says, he's speaking um to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, who the Pharisees, the Sadducees, they really hated Jesus because he was messing with them. They they thought they they knew everything, and Jesus is like, nah, you got it all wrong, basically. You're understanding the way you understand the Old Testament scriptures, or they just called it the scriptures, it's completely wrong. He basically comes away from them and goes, A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given except the sign of Jonah. Now, Jonah was a man who was buried in the belly of a whale for three days, spat back up later. So he went down to the belly of the beast. This is the part that's uh one of the motifs in Pinocchio. Now, immediately after that, Jesus says this to his disciples. They're crossing this lake, and Jesus says, Be careful, be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Now, the disciples, they forgot to take bread with them on this trip. And so they started talking about it with each other, and they're like, I think it, I think he said that because we didn't bring any bread. And like Jesus is like, No, no, it's not because you don't have any bread. Like, do you not understand? And he gives them these examples of do you don't remember when I gave you five loaves to feed the 5,000, there were still leftovers? I give you seven loaves to feed the 4,000, there were still leftovers after it. I'm not talking about bread. Okay, how do you not understand? He literally says this, this is where it says, How is it you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Like, I can just imagine. You know, he obviously said it the way he said it, not in the way I'm thinking it, but uh just how is it you don't understand that I'm not talking to you about bread? Like, come on. Because they're all just chatting about it. So and so he goes, he says it again, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And he says, then they understood he was not telling them to guard against yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Yes, now they're getting it, right? Now, immediately after that, straight after that, this is in the same chapter, Jesus says, Who do people say the Son of Man is? And they replied, They say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, some say Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He goes, What about you? Who do you who do you say that I am? Right. Now, Simon, who's Simon Peter, answers, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Right? Jesus says to him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. Right? So he's referencing what was just said a few verses ago, Simon, son of Jonah. For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. Right? So he says, You are Simon, you know, you heard, you're the listener, right? Because his name means listening, hearing. And immediately after answering this question, who do you say that I am? And he goes, I say you're the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. Boom. There you go. And on this rock, I will build my church. It's the rock is the revelation. The rock is the revelation, it's the understanding of who Jesus is. That it's not it's not a flesh and blood thing. He literally says, It was not revealed to you by flesh and blood. Again, he's not talking about literal bread, and so he's not talking about literal Peter. Like the whole thing, the whole verse, the whole chapter is like you aren't listening. How do you not understand? I'm not talking about the literal physical things. Like it just seems so clear to me. And like, here's the thing because they've submitted to the Pope, well then that's it. They don't they don't have the ability to go, hey, I am I think you might have got this wrong. Because like the way that I'm reading this, it seems obvious to me and um millions of other people, it really does seem that you got it wrong. And the fact that they just don't have that opportunity because they would well it would de it would flaw their whole religion, for one. Like their whole religion is built off of apostolic succession, they call it, or maybe yeah, whatever, the papacy. So yeah, I mean there's a lot more to be said about the Catholic Church, but it's not the time. It is the place, but it's just not the time. Anyway, we move on. So changing names is significant because it changes nature. It's also why Satan lost his name. Because those that might know, Satan's name was originally Lucifer, apparently, according to what we read. Lucifer meaning light bearer. Now he falls and is no longer called Lucifer. And everyone just calls him the devil or Satan. And Satan literally just means the accuser. So you've he that's an example of someone losing their name because they've lost their nature now. No one really uses the word Lucifer, it's it's a it's kind of archaic in a lot of ways, and it's definitely not used in scripture after that, it's only ever uh the devil or Satan, um, typically Satan in the scriptures, which is interesting. I mean, scripture is is littered. This is another thing that that's obviously piqued my curiosity so much about it, is because there's so many places in the Bible where a name is very, very relevant and it has some significance that we don't quite grasp yet. I don't think, like even I'm trying to really understand the full significance of it. In Revelation 2.17, it says, He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him the hidden manner, and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. So you get a new name, like by listening to the spirit. And what I understand that is like you get a new nature when you start, when you actually have an ear to listen to what the spirit says to the churches. You get a new name, you get new nature. I want to know more about that hidden manner too. Ooh, it's juicy. Give me some of that hidden manner. Revelation 19, 12. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. So even Jesus, this is talking about Jesus in that verse. Even he has a name that no one knows except him. So it's interesting, like there's some there's some significance in the in these things, and I don't know if there's any relevance between these secret names as well, because obviously Rumpel Stiltskin was keeping his name secret. It seemed like maybe in the testament of Solomon that getting the name of these demons gave him some authority over them. Perhaps I don't I don't exactly know in regard to that. But it is apparent that that names are a significant, like the secret name that the only one that knows it except the one who receives it. Jesus has a name that no one else knows but himself. You've got the pharaohs back in the day, like just keeping their name, their real name secret and just you know engraved on the inner tomb. They had some belief that it was linked to their soul in some way. And we do know that at least your speech, according to the Bible, is highly significant. And you know, Jesus is called the Word of God, and He's referred to as the Word of God in the book of John and in the book of Revelation. God created the world through speech. He said, uh, it said, God spoke, let there be light, and there was light. Let there be this and there was that. So there is some significance in speech. It says, death and life is in the power of the tongue. In James, it goes as far as to say you're you're perfect if you can bridle your tongue. James 3, 2, it says, For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. So you're able, if you can control your tongue, control what you say, you're able to have control over your whole body. Like that's the significance it puts on being able to have some control over the things that you say. So we stumble in many ways, but if anyone doesn't stumble on what he says, he is a perfect man. That is some bold text. And I think it's because like when there's some there's some idea of the way that evil works, evil lives in darkness, it live, it lives in anonymity. The Bible says that Jesus came into the world as the light, and the world hated him because the light exposed their dark, their dark works, and they didn't want to be exposed. They like their sin. People like the evil that they were doing, they don't want it to be anyone to see it. It likes to be anonymous. And so when you call something by name, you've exposed it. You've called it out. It's it's now no longer hidden. You're you're calling something, it sheds light upon the thing. When you address someone by name, attention is then drawn to that person. If anyone says someone's name, people look around who there. That's that's who's being addressed. Light, highlighted, exposed. There's there's something about calling something out. I mean, there is power in calling things out as well. There's a guy that's on around on TikTok and Instagram at the moment who's who says some things like, you know, if someone tr tries to do an alpha move on you, if they try and like squeeze your hand too hard, there's guys that definitely do that. They're trying to assert authority and they try to do a real hard handshake. If you call it out, the person loses power. It doesn't embarrass them or anything. It would say, call it out in the sense of like, oh, you got a firm handshake. You know, I heard recently on a podcast that people that have a firm handshake are kind of alpha guys. And then, you know, it's not really making fun of them, but it kind of is saying the unspoken thing, and then it kind of loses its purpose after that. It's now in the light and it's not really a thing. So you kind of just diminish whatever track that that person was trying to go down with you. So it is very interesting how you, you know, calling things out, exposing things is is shedding light upon the thing. In regards to the power of the name, now this is the juice, this is the meat. Because it's the name of Jesus that has the highest power. And this is very interesting. Whenever Christians do anything, they they do it in the name of Jesus, right? So they'll say, be healed in Jesus' name, or I prophesy in Jesus' name, or uh, you know, uh every behavior is like is is lifting up towards Jesus' name to make his name great. He is the name above all names, right? So there's a few things that you'll refer to Jesus as. He's the King of Kings, he's the Lord of lords, and he's the name above all names. His nature is the highest nature possible, right? If if a name and a nature is the same thing, well then Jesus being the highest name is also the highest nature, which is why we should follow him to try and conform to his nature. We want to bear his image. As Christians, that's the goal is that you want to look like Jesus. We want to walk like he walked, we want to talk like he talked, have the mind of Christ. In 1 John 2, verse 6, it says, Whoever says he abides in Christ, in him, or to walk in the same way in which he walked. The the New Living Translation says it a bit more clearer. It says, Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. That's that's how we should do it. Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. So that is why his name has been lifted up. I mean, his name has been lifted up for what he did, for what he did on the cross. He his name has been lifted up. But what comes with that is the power in the name as well, right? So demons will flee at his name. There's scripture in the book of Acts which will talk about the seven sons of Skeva who go around trying to, you know, use Jesus' name to kick demons out of people. And they do it for a little while until they get to someone who says, Well, hang on. Uh Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but I don't know you. And then he belts them. They get um, they get belted and they run away. But I've heard stories, and I've I've happened, this has happened to me myself, where people have awoken from sleep paralysis saying the name of Jesus. And that's something that's the best advice as well. If you ever get sleep paralysis, just try and say the name Jesus, boom, you're you're good, you're open, you're good to go. Whatever the thing is, it just leaves. So I don't know. I I believe that names that that his name specifically holds power and it holds authority. I was in I was watching Peaky Blinders recently and I wanted to re-watch it because of the new movie that's coming out. And it's interesting because they they do it. That their name, the Shelby name, holds weight and it holds authority. They walk into a bar and they go, oh, that's that's Polly Shelby's son. And they're like, Oh, it's Shelby. I didn't know, I didn't know, you know, the the name. And so the name of Jesus is is the most is the most loved and the most feared name in the best way possible, in the best reasons possible. So yeah, so there is some heavy significance in uh and a lot of power in in the name and in the name of Christ, in the name of Jesus. The demons shudder at the name of Jesus. People manifest at the name of Jesus because he is he's the king and he has the authority and he has the power. And when he's present, bad things don't want to be around. So it's very interesting. Anyway, so that's all I've really got to say about that. That's um that's about the name. So you know what? I know you know what, Christ is King, Jesus loves ya, and he's coming back soon, soon, soon. And that's a little bit uh bit for anyone that's stuck around this long, you got a little treat there. So you're welcome and um have a great, amazing week. I love you, you're amazing, you're the best. God bless.