22nd September 2024 - Teaching Service - Knowing His Name, Unlocks His Power

Okay, if I can work with the technology, yes I can.

Okay, good morning, Trust you're keeping well and I'm excited

to be here. I was sitting down and thinking, how

long have you been? First of all, after apologized for

not being here last year when I was supposed to

speak because we got stuck in Berlin.

I think we couldn't get a flight, so we had

to drive down.

In the end, Laura was going to have first our

youngest daughters were going to her first year at the

University of Bath, which holds a very significant place for

Dave and Julia.

So yeah, we went here.

But I was sitting down as we were just worshiping,

and I was thinking, Wow, it was twenty four years

ago that we came to this church for the first time,

twenty four years ago, and what a journey has been,

so many stories to tell.

Well, yeah, I just thank God for what he did

in us, what he did.

In our children, what he did in our relationship with

Dave and Julia and many other people who are here.

Yeah, I could get emotional about that, but.

You know, you know when you're on the right track

is when God interrupts your thinking. So I was driving

down here and I felt God interrupted my thoughts and

he was like.

Well, you know, running Meat needs to move out of

Virginia Lodge.

And I was like, oh, okay, that's gonna be a

hard one to talk about because I've not been here

in a long time, so I don't know what's happening.

And then as I walk in, they said, oh yeah,

next week, next week, next month, you're moving to strokes

and I was like, okay, God, you're speaking, I'm listening.

I'm listening.

Then the next thing that when we sang the song

for your Name is great and greatly to be praised.

So actually, before I start my preach this morning, I'm

going to read a psalm.

It's not you.

Wouldn't have it because I haven't given to Oh yeah,

So I'm going to preach there about knowing his name

unlocks his power. But before I start that, I'm just

gonna read a psalm that was given to me dream worship.

It does connect into the world i'm going to bring,

but I just felt the richness of this psalm as

we were worshiping. I'm going to read some one hundred

and thirty eight from the King James. I'm going to

preach from the amplifide. But I'm going to read this

from the King James, so I'm one hundred and thirty eight.

Verse one says this, I will praise THEE with my

whole heart before the gods. Will I sing praises onto THEE.

I will worship towards thy holy temple and praise thy

name be for thine loving kindness and for thy truth.

For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

And as a young man, that verse was very powerful

for me, that God magnified his word above all his name.

And actually, when you think about it, this is in Psalms.

By the time we get to John chapter one, we

realize why he said that, because his word is Jesus.

And so he's saying here like long before Jesus was born.

He's saying, there's going to come a time that above

every name, and they've already read it already from Philippines too,

that there's going to be my word is going to

be above all my name. Then verse three says this,

in the day when I cried, Thou answered me and

strengthened me with strength in my soul.

You know, sometimes you need strength in your physical body.

Sometimes you need strengthen your spirit, Sometimes you need strength

in your soul. All the kings of the earth shall

praise the Old Lord when thy when when they hear

the words of thy mouth verse five, Yeah, they shall

sing in the in the ways of the Lord.

For great is the glory of the Lord. Verse six.

Though the Lord be high, yet had he respects onto

the lowly, but the proud he knoweth a pharaohs Verse seven.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thous will

revive me. I don't know who that's for this morning.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thous will

revive me. Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the

wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand.

Shall save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.

Think about that, everything that concerns you, your.

Life, your work, your children.

And we've just become grandparents, our grandson, like God is

saying through his word in verse eight, the Lord will

perfect that which concerns me. That message, Old Lord, and

endure it forever forsake, not the work of thine own hand.

Wow, I don't know.

I just felt this urge to just declare this psalm

over us this morning, very powerful psalm. But let me

try and get into the world for today again, staying

in the palm samone twenty four, verse eight. The Bible

says this our Oh, well, okay, I don't want to

get your names wrong, but no, John and you're a couple, right.

I want to speak a word over you, like a

prophetic words. As you were leading worship, the word one

word was kind of over your heads, and it was stability.

God is saying that you're coming into a season of stability,

like being rooted and grounded and coming to a place

where there's been a lot of things happening, a lot

of places moving. God is like, ooh, stability, like foundation.

God is giving you this foundation of stability that He's

setting you in a stable season.

You're coming into a time where you.

Can say, Okay, you know, boat's been rocking, boat's been moving,

but right now you're in a place of stability. I

just speak that over you, right now, so someone twenty

four vers eight. It says, this is on the screen.

Our help is in Barclay's Bank. Okay, maybe you don't

like Barcley's Bank, but maybe maybe your help is in

Scottish widows for your insurance, or maybe your hope is

I've just I've just kind of tried to amalgamate all

my pensions. Maybe maybe your hope is in fun alliance. No,

the Bible says, our hope, our help.

Is in the name of the Lord m.

And then it's almost like just in case you don't

realize who this Lord is. He is the one who

made heaven and us. It's almost like it's like a commercial. Hey,

my help is in the name of the Lord. But

in case you don't know who the Lord is, let

me remind you this Lord he made the heavens and

the earth. That means he has ultimates. How Like it's

almost like my help comes from the help. Like, my

help comes from the Help. And we know the Bible

says that I will not leave you comfortless. I will

give you a comforter who.

Will do what he will help you.

And the Holy Spirit is our helper. And the Bible

is saying here, our help is in the name of

the Lord. And sometimes we come we run into trouble

and we think to ourselves, where is our help?

You're gonna come from? The summer said I lift up

my eyes to the heel from when it's coming to

my help.

My help comes from where from the Lord's this morning.

Our help is in the name of the Lord. That's

where I help us. Sam mighty one a lot of

palms today.

Oh did I mention that my my grandson is named Sam. Yeah,

it's not Sam Sam like the Book of Palms. So

his his name is Sam. So when you wake up,

and we told them that when they have if they

have another child, they have to call him the child praise,

so it to be fans and praise. Verse fourteen of

Sam mighty one, it says, because he has said, Oh,

I realized something I'm reading here from the.

James what I want to say with amplified. Sorry, sorry

about that.

Yeah, something also just happened, Like I got here, sat down,

realized I didn't bring my phone. My Bible was on

my phone, So I'm using somebody else's device. I'm using

COVID device. Ah two is better than one. Fam ninety

one Verse fourteen. Because he set his love on me, Therefore.

I will save him.

I will set him securely on high because he knows

what my name.

Wow, what he's saying, because he set his love on me.

Therefore I will save him, but I will set him

securely on high.

I will put him in a secure place.

Why because he knows my name.

So knowing the name of the Lord has power.

It almost it's almost like, because I know the name

of the Lord, God will automatically, by default put me

in a secure place.

He confidently trusts.

And relies on me, knowing I will never abandon him. No, never,

God will never abandon us. He will he will never

leave us, nor forsake us. Look at verse fifteen. He

will call upon me and I will answer him. I

will be with him in trouble. I will rescue him,

and I will honor him.

I will honor him.

Why because he knows my name. He knows my name,

knowing the name of the Lord. We signed it today

for the name. Your name is great, and it's greatly

to be praised. Praise to you. It's praise to your name,

O Lord, because know it. Like I think of that

song this morning, I was like, okay, okay, so there's

some people I need to set up on high because

they're knowing my name. They're singing about the greatness of

my name. They're singing about who I am so. Therefore,

when he calls me, I will answer him. Not only

will I answer him, I will deliver him from trouble.

I will rescue him. I will honor him. And there

are people here this morning, maybe people watching online.

And you're in trouble, and you're like, what do I do?

Just call his name, call his name, calling his name,

knowing his name, yielding to his name, sam oh No.

Acts forty two, Acts, Chapter four, Verse two, Act forty two. Wow,

that would be very heretical. Verse twelve, Thank you, sir,

You're on the money.

It says this. And there is salvation in no one else.

Mm hmmm.

No, no, no one else, not even a church, not

even a pastor, not even a missionary. There is no salvation. Yeah,

I'm going to go there, not even in labor or

in the Conservatives.

Or even in the Green Party.

There is no salvation in There is salvation in no

other name. For there is no other name under Heaven

that I've been given among people by which we must

be saved, not might not possibly that we must be saved,

For God has provided the world no alternative for salvation.

There's no other alternatives.

Like it's kind of an incredible scripture that we sometimes

just block over. It's like we know that there's salvation,

no the name, but the scriptures saying it emphatically in

Acts of the four verse twelve.

There is no other name under heaven by which man

can be saved.

In fact, God has done in such a way that

there is no other alternative. You can't go to God

and say, like, I just want to bargain with you God,

like salvation.

You know I've been a good man. It's like, no, no, no,

you know my name.

There's salvation in no other name except His Philippians to ten.

We've read part of it. We've read it this morning.

It was kind of like how they've open up and

let's read it again and then I'll get to the

heart of my message. This is all like the surround

found Philippines two Temphs. This so that at the name

of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Yeah, including your debt,

including your challenges, including your hurts, including your pain, including

your unfulfilled dreams. Everything the Bible says, at the name

of Jesus, every nee shall bow in submission of those

who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

There's no escape verse eleven, And that every tongue shall

confess openly and acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ, Sovereign God,

to the glory of God the Father.

This is fact, not fiction. It's facts. It will happen.

It is this destined to happen, that at the name

of Jesus, every kneed. So, like I said, this is

like surround sand. Let me take you to where I

really wanted to take you today. It's Mark ten verse

forty six. The story that we probably all know, the

story of blind Bati Males, very very popular story. But

let me read it to you again, refresh your memory,

and then dive into the context.

Because when I saw it, I was like, I've never

seen that before.

I've read the Bible how many times in my life,

but I've never seen that before. So hopefully you will

have a little feeling like that, or there might be

somebody who's that I've already know that. It's okay, it's fine,

we'll learn together, it says in verse forty six. Then

they came to Jericho, and as he was leaving Jericho

with his disciples, a large crowd and a large crowd, sorry,

a blind beggar batimers. The Sun of Tomaos was sitting

beside the road, as was his custom Verse forty seven.

Whenas heard that it was Jesus of Nazarebes, he began

to shout and say, Jesus, Jesus, son of David, open bracket, clothes,

bracket only in the amphithider says Messiah.

Have mercy on me.

Many standing rebuked him, telling him to stop, to keep

still and be quiet. When he kept on shouting all

the more, son of David, have mercy on me. Jesus

stopped and said to him call him. So they called

the blind man, telling him, take courage, get up, he's

calling for you. Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped up,

came to Jesus, and when and when she and Jesus

said to him, what do you want.

Me to do for you?

The the blind man said to him, rabon my master,

Let me regain my sight. And Jesus said to him,

go your faith and confident trust in my power has

made you well. Immediately he regained his side and began

following Jesus on the road. Let's go back to best

forty sis. Here's a man by the name of Batima's

been sitting on this road. But I will say it

was his custom. It was his custom to sit on

the road, just like maybe it's your custom to go

to work. Maybe just like you said, custom to take

care of the kids. Maybe it's like a custom to

take care of a loved one.

Custom. It's just a normal day, just sitting on the roads. Ah, No,

that's a normal day. It's just the way this is.

It's just today.

But then verse forty seven, the Bible says he hears something,

people began to mutter. People began to gather, and they said,

Jesus of Now the rest is passing by, and blind

Buttmo thinks to himself, this is my chance. This is

my chance to change my situation. Now we don't know

who he was, what he was, what his background was,

how he became blind, but we do know in that

moment he felt like, I'm gonna break normal. I'm just

gonna shout. I'm just gonna shout at the top of

my voice until somebody hears me and they get his.

Attention, and my situation is gonna change.

We know he said that because the Bible says he

took off his cloak. Now the blind people have a

cloak that they take that they wear so people can

recognize them as being of that persuasion or that situation.

But he throws it off when he hears that Jesus

calls it. But I'm going too fast in the movie.

Let's go back to season one and there's forty seven.

The Bible says this. When Batimo's heard that it was

Jesus's anotherret, he began to shout out and say, actually,

other translations says say, other transitions say they.

Told him that Jesus another Red was passing back.

And so here's the transformation that happens when g when

when blind, Buttemeos shouts out, he doesn't say, Jesus of

nazes have mercy on me. He doesn't because the name

Jesus another Red had limited Jesus to.

Be the boy that was born from Nazareth.

And if you've read your Bible well enough, the Bible says,

what good thing can come out of Nazareth? And so

people had given Jesus a local name. Oh, Jesus, the

local champion, Jesus of navtht. I think it's very interesting

that the Bible actually takes the time to tell us

that his name is Batameos because he's the son of

the Meos.

You see what's happening right now.

So when when blind Buttameos begins to shout out, he

doesn't shout out Jesus of another rest, he doesn't. He says, Jesus,

son of a king. He speaks to the deity of Jesus.

He said, Jesus, thou son of David. Yeah, I know

they call you Jesus another reth. I know you were

born in Bethlehem. I know you are to them a

normal human being. But I speak to the greatness that

is inside of you.

And he says, the son of David.

And in that moment, he speaks to something greater than Jesus,

another dth He speaks to Jesus's deity, his royalty, his power.

He's basically saying, Jesus, King, you're the son of a king,

so therefore you are a king.

And so I cry out to the king. I'm not

crying out to Jesus another at my neighbor.

I'm crying out I'm calling out the greatness that is

inside of you. I'm calling out the son of God

that is inside of you. I'm calling out to the.

Word you are.

I'm calling out to John chapter one, verse one, in

the beginning of the world, and the Word was with

God and the world became flesh and do all the monster.

I like the life. Who you are. I see you

for who you are. You are not just Jesus and

now the rest of my neighbor. You are Jesus, the

son of David.

Sometimes to unlock God's power, you need to see him

for who he really is. He's not just the God

he worship on a Sunday.

Yeah, that we do.

He's not just the God we gathered to that we do.

He's not just the God we pray to that we do.

He's not just the God be praise that we do.

But he is a king. He is the King of

all kings. He is the Lord of all lords. And

blind battlemos in the normality of his day, in the

normality of his moment, he recognizes that the person passing

by has the power not only to rescue, to save.

To deliver, but also to transform his life totally.

The Bible says, actually, when he got killed, he didn't

go back to his normal. He began to follow Jesus.

So he decides to call Jesus.

A man.

He called him the answer to my problem.

He wasn't just saying Jesus of Nazareth.

He was like, Jesus, our son of David, you are

the answer to my problem.

And the Bible says people are like, get it down,

to be annoying.

Then all of a sudden, Jesus stops. Jesus stops. It's

a crowded place, but here almost echoes in his ears.

This man is calling to something greater, like the woman

with the issue of blood.

Jesus said, somebody touched me.

And I'm sure disciples looked at him as like, Jesus,

everybody is.

Touching you, like look, there's a crowd around you. And

Jesus said, no, no, no, no, no.

Somebody touched me with so much intentionality that it withdrew

power from me. And I love how the Bible said

in the King James, the Bible says, the woman knowing

what she had done and what had happened in her body,

but I had not like.

That was me.

That was me that touched you with so much intentionality.

And here we have blind batter males in desperate need

of deliverance, in desperate need of a savior cries out

with intention, and when you cry out to God, when intention,

it unlocks his power. But even though he n locks

his power, Jesus doesn't immediately just heal him.

No, Jesus says, bring him. In fact, the people say.

To him, Wow, Wow, finally all your shouting have achieved

something for you. You're been shouting, shouting, shouting. That's forty nine.

Take courage, Get up, he calls for you. I would say,

he threw away his cloak, he jumped up and came

to Jesus. Now, excuse me, I have a question, like

primary school, how did he come to Jesus?

He's blind? How did he.

Find his way to Jesus? Would say, And they guided

him to Jesus? If I will says that he jumped

up and he came to Jesus.

He followed the voice.

Maybe people guided him, Maybe they made a passage for

him to guide him through. Maybe they were whispering in

his ears. Keep going, keep going, You're almost there. You're

almost at Jesus.

And sometimes that's how it is in life.

We cry out to God for help, but we have

to move in the direction of the help. Because if

they said to him, he calls you, and he just

sat there.

What Jesus would come to me? But he didn't.

He had to go to Jesus, and the Bible says

this in verse fifty one, and Jesus said, what do

you want me to do for him? You've cost the fuss,

I've stopped, We're now here. What do you want from me?

And sometimes.

We really need to know what we want from God.

We really really need to take the time and think

about it, because sometimes we just say to God, God

help me, and God's like, yeah, no, I'm happy to

help you, But what do you need help with? The

blind man said to him. And again here he does

something absolutely phenomenon. He calls him another name. Doesn't call

him someone David anymore.

It calls him rab an eye, my teacher, my master.

And you know, for me, it's almost like a movie

that's playing now. It's almost like you see the ends

from the beginning. So the first thing you see, he

calls him out as a king, so you know the

king is going to stop.

For him, so he stops.

And then when he meets the king, he responds by saying,

I'm gonna follow you for the rest of my days.

That's the first when he says he wasn't saying Jesus

that son of David. He wasn't saying Jesus my healer.

He was saying, Jesus, my master, my teacher. I am

now your disciple. He he stepped into discipleship by the

mere answer to the question what would you have me

do for you? And the answer to the question was

I'm your disciple. Now, let me regain my sight to

make this walk with you quite easy. I'm not just

here to get my side back.

I am here to follow you. I am here to

be because.

If I just said I want to see see and no,

he says Rablen like before I even answer question, Let's

develop a relationship.

Let us agree that I am now thy disciple.

I am now you are Now It's like the amphithepist

open blacket, close blackhead, my master. I'm sitting that thinking, Okay,

you could have used that earlier on you could have said,

Rabbi eye.

He did it. He calls him Jesus the one of Davis.

Now in the presence of his master, now, in the

presence of the King, Now, in the presence of Jesus,

our Savior and Lord.

He responds, rabble, nie, let.

Me regain my sight, and Jesus says to him, interestingly

what he says to him, He says, go your faith,

your confident trust in my power.

Has made you well. Hmmm.

I would have expected him to just say, have healed you?

That would be the correct dramatical thing to say. But

he didn't say you're healed, said you were well.

Huh.

Reminds me of a story the woman with the issue

of blood. Bible say, is the moment she touched the

m of Jesus garment, she was made no sorry when

she talked to the m of Judus garment, she was healed.

But then Jesus says to her, woman, thy faith has

made you who.

Always reminded of a story ahead of a lady who

got healed crippled all her life.

We got healed. Two weeks later the path I saw

her and said, how are you doing? He said, my

life is miserable. He said, why I've lost my parking.

I used to have.

I used to be able to park and be disabled parking.

I lost my parking. She was healed, but not yet whole.

So Jesus says to blind Batimius, I will give you

a word that is bigger than healing.

I have made you well physically healed, but mentally restored.

And immediately he regained his sight and began following Jesus

on the road.

You see what interested me the most about this story

is when you look at the Bible, particularly in Genesis,

lots of people give God a name after the experienced

God no Haga Genesis sixteenth, verse thirteen. After God so

had distressed, Haga calls him the God who sees me. Abraham,

after God had provided a ram, he called him Jehovah Jireh.

Moses after the victory over the Amalakites called him the

Lord my banner, Jehovah Nissi. Gideon, after God had given

him peace, he built an altar to God and called

God Jehovah Shalom, the Lord my Peace. Abraham, after God

revealed himself as the God Almighty, he called him El

Shaddai Genesis seventeen one. After the heading of the waters

of Marah, God declared himself as the Lord who heals you,

Jehovah Ralpha, Exodus fifteen twenty six.

But in this situation with blind Battimeo's he called God.

Even before his miracle, even before he received his side,

he gave God two names.

He said, first of all, you are.

The son of David, which was truth but not been

declared yet. And then second he called him Rabbinie, my Master.

I'm fascinated about Batimeo's experience, how he had the foresight,

the insight, the revelation to know that if you call

God by the name you need him.

He will unlock his power towards you.

And that's what happened. The moment he cried out Jesus,

our son of David. It unlocked the power of God,

not just to heal him, but to give him a

better future, a future where he became a follower of Jesus.

I wonder for you today, maybe you just need to

pray a little different, Maybe call him by the name.

Of the output that you're looking for.

God who delivers me from fear, God who is my prosperity,

God who is my provider, God who is my deliverer?

Bringing this home? Now?

I ire fifty two ver six. I don't even know

how to do it for time, but I'm just am

I okay, yeah, okay, I ire fifty two, verse six. Therefore,

my people my people. I think I'm talking to God's

people today, right Therefore, my people shall know my name.

And at this Jesus is already here present, he says.

And what it means you know, because you can know

his name, But you also have to know what it means.

What does it mean to call somebody a rabbin hie?

It means you have declared yourself his disciple. And so

the Bible doesn't leave us in suspense. It gives us

that final line in mark of the ten and he

followed Jesus for the rest of his days.

Therefore, my people shall know my name and what it means.

The verse before this says my name is blasphemed among

the nations because of you. But he says, there's coming

a time where my people shall know my name and

what it means. Therefore, in that day, in the day

you and I know his name. In that day, I

am the one who is speaking here. I am Wow.

In that day, in the normal day of Batimao's life,

he knew the name to call Jesus that would get

used his attention, and the results.

Of that calling out presented a moment where he was.

Standing faith to face with Jesus, and then Jesus says

to him here.

I am, here, I am.

What do you want me to do for you? What

would you have me do for you? I feel that's

what God is asking all of us today. What would

you have me do for you today? Doesn't long, doesn't

matter how long you've been walking with me, doesn't matter

if this was your custom to come and.

Call to me.

But today I want to ask you because he said,

the day you know my name, you call my name

and you understand what my name means, I will do

what I will be present and say.

Here I am. And right now he's here.

Of course, he was here before we got here, he

was here when we got here, he was here where

we worshiped him. But in this very moment, he is

taking over this moment and say, let me speak to you.

Has been talking, he talks a lot, but let me

talk to you. I'm going to start by asking a question,

what do you want me to do for you? I'm

just gonna ask you to simply buy your heads wherever

you are. Answer that question, not to me, not even

to your neighbor, but to yourself and to God. If

God asked you this question today what you want me

to do for you? What's your answer? Talk to God

for a moment. Then I'll make a declaration and pray,

and then hand over back to Dave. Sometimes we allow

fear of disappointment to stop us from really asking what

we want. Be specific today, face that disappointment. People try

to stop you from crying out to him. Just cry

out to him, tell him what you want. Amen, Jesus

said to him, And I say to you, also go

your faith.

Your confident trust in my power has made you well.

Be well, h