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For Your Name Is Holy

By Paul Wilbur

Year
2002
Lyrics
Available
Review
Reviewed
Themes
HolinessCross and atonementKingdom of godPrayer and communion with god
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Through the Lamb’s Blood

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The song centers on Jesus’ blood opening the holy place, leading God’s people into worship, holiness, and glory. Its river imagery joins prayerful longing for the life and reign of God.

Central message

Through Jesus’ blood, we draw near to the holy place and worship the Lamb whose holiness and glory give life.

Strengths

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  • It clearly celebrates access to God through Jesus’ blood.

  • It rightly joins the Lamb’s sacrifice with holiness, glory, and worship.

  • Its life-giving river imagery supports a prayerful vision of God’s renewing presence and reign.

  1. 1
    doctrinal assertionSupported

    Hebrews directly establishes access to the holy place through Jesus’ blood. Revelation establishes the Lamb’s blood, holiness, glory, and worship. Ezekiel partly echoes the life-giving river imagery; broader canonical witness supports God’s kingdom reigning within believers and fitting prayers for divine glory.

    Hebrews 10:19–22
    Close paraphraseMatches in context

    Hebrews connects bold entry into the holy place with Jesus’ blood and calls God’s people to draw near in faith.

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    Hebrews 10:17–24
    17“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.” 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, 21and having a great priest over God’s house, 22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water, 23let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. 24Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
    Revelation 5:9–14
    Related themePartly matches in context

    Revelation presents the slain Lamb receiving worship and glory because his blood purchased people for God.

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    Revelation 5:7–14
    7Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. 8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, 10and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.” 11I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, 12saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!” 13I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!” 14The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.
    Ezekiel 47:1–8
    Related themePartly matches in context

    Ezekiel describes temple waters becoming a life-giving river, echoing the lyric’s river imagery without establishing its congregational application.

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    Ezekiel 47:1–10
    1He brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, for the front of the temple faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the temple, on the south of the altar. 2Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side. 3When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. 4Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist. 5Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through. 6He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and caused me to return to the bank of the river. 7Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed. 9It will happen that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. 10It will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
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