Note’s from Matt Redman’s “FACEDOWN”.

In the 17th century, Richard Sibbes encouraged worshippers everywhere to “take whole Christ” and not to “divide Lord from Jesus, and so make a Christ of their own.” When we encounter the whole Christ, we find an incredible mix of power and patience, glory and grace. One way to gain a greater glimpse of the whole Christ is to relect on some of the names and titles Jesus is given throughout the Scriptures. Graham Kendrick comments on the many names of Christ revealed in scripture:

“Each one is a key to who we are worshipping and why. Worship is a response and will grow or shrink in direct proportion to our view of Him.

I think that’s a very interesting point to make. Our worship of God is truly a response to our view OF GOD. So we can learn a lot about our many differing views of God, by examining how we worship. What does your worship reveal about your view of God? Do you view Him as majestic? Glorious? Powerful? A taskmaster? A good buddy? The King of Kings?

Here’s a spoken word piece from Hosanna/Integrity Music 1993. It documents how Jesus is revealed in each book from Genesis to Revelation. This helps a lot in trying to visualize the “whole Christ”.

In GENESIS Jesus is the Ram at Abraham’s altar
In EXODUS He’s the Passover Lamb.
In LEVITICUS He’s the High Priest.
In NUMBERS He’s the Cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.
In DEUTERONOMY He’s the City of our refuge.
In JOSHUA He’s the Scarlet Thread out Rahab’s window.
In JUDGES He is our judge.
In RUTH He is our Kinsman Redeemer.
In Ist and 2nd SAMUEL He’s our Trusted Prophet.
And in KINGS and CHRONICLES He’s our Reigning King
In EZRA He is our Faithful Scribe
In NEHEMIAH He’s the Rebuilder of everything that is broken
And in ESTHER He is the Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate
In JOB He’s our Redeemer that ever liveth
In PSALMS He is my Shepherd and I shall not want
In PROVERBS and ECCLESIASTES He’s our Wisdom
And in the SONG OF SOLOMON He’s the Beautiful Bridegroom
In ISAIAH He’s the Suffering Servant
In JEREMIAH and LAMENTATIONS it is Jesus that is the Weeping Prophet
In EZEKIEL He’s the Wonderful Four-Faced Man
And in DANIEL He is the Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace
In HOSEA He is my Love that is forever faithful
In JOEL He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit
In AMOS He’s our Burden Bearer
In OBADIAH our Savior
And in JONAH He is the Great Foreign Missionary that takes the Word of God into all of the world
You go on and you see in MICAH He is the Messenger with beautiful feet
In NAHUM He is the Avenger
In HABAKKUK He is the Watchman that is ever praying for revival
In ZEPHANIAH He is the Lord mighty to save
In HAGGAI He is the Restorer of our lost heritage
In ZECHARIAH He is our Fountain
And in MALACHI He is the Son of Righteousness with healing in His Wings
In MATTHEW Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God
In MARK He is the Miracle Worker
In LUKE He’s the Son of Man
And in JOHN He is the Door by which everyone of us must enter
In ACTS He is the Shining Light that appears to Saul on the road to Damascus
In ROMANS He is our justifier
In Ist CORINTHIANS our Resurrection
In 2nd CORINTHIANS our Sin Bearer
In GALATIANS He redeems us from the law
In EPHESIANS He is our Unsearchable Riches
In PHILIPPIANS He supplies our every need
And in COLOSSIANS He’s the Fullness of the Godhead Bodily
In 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS He is our Soon Coming King
In Ist and 2nd TIMOTHY He is the Mediator between God and man
In TITUS He is our Blessed Hope
In PHILEMON He is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother
And in HEBREWS He’s the Blood of the everlasting covenant
In JAMES it is the Lord that heals the sick
In lst and 2nd PETER He is the Chief Shepherd
In lst, 2nd, and 3rd JOHN it is Jesus who has the tenderness of love
In JUDE He is the Lord coming with 10,000 saints
And in REVELATION…….
Lift up your eyes, Church, for your redemption draweth nigh,
He is King of kings and Lord of lords!