The apostle then proceeds to sum up. ‘Teaching us’ – he uses the word ‘training us’.
That is one reason why we try to persuade people not just to throw around the word ‘Jesus’ lightly. When you read books today, it is, ‘Jesus did this’, ‘Jesus did that’. ‘Ask Jesus this’, ‘ask Jesus that.’ Jesus is in his familiar name. Throughout the Gospels he is called Jesus, because he was a man, the God man, and Jesus is his familiar name. But come into the epistles, and there is a change. In the Book of Acts and in the epistles, the disciples, the apostles, the apostle Paul in nine cases out of ten calls him Christ the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. They give him his full station and his full title. The reverence is never lost; the reverence isn’t thrown away. He is our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Don't just toss around his personal name as though he is your mate down the road. Jesus is the personal Lord of the Gospels, but to the disciples in all ages he is the Lord, the Saviour, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ the Lord, and we are never afraid to do that. The moderns don't want to do that. They want to take away his deity almost. They want to minimise him and reduce him. They want the relationship to be as casual and as light as possible. That is not a good thing, and not a healthy thing. It’s not good for us, and not honouring to him.