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Deeper, God

Glorious Way Church

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  1. Well, open your Bibles if you would.

  2. Tonight we didn't even do a confession.

  3. I didn't let y'all stretch.

  4. Y'all need to stretch?

  5. No, okay, get to it, claire.

  6. All right.

  7. All right, I understand God is so good, so I want to bring to you a message tonight.

  8. I didn't know what else to call it, so bear with me, but I'm just going to call it deeper God.

  9. Deeper God, it's from.

  10. You know, I kind of scratched the surface of the Lord, our peace.

  11. I started talking about the names of God and meditating on the different names of God and the ways we know Him and when we know he's like a diamond and when we can look at Him from different angles and we see different parts of His character.

  12. And he is multifaceted in all His ways.

  13. He's good and wonderful, but there's more than what we know.

  14. We haven't seen all the facets yet and every time we look at Him we can see a different facet, and that different side of His character that he reveals to us is what we need to get through the next level of wherever we are.

  15. We need to keep pressing on and seeing a different side of God, seeing more of God In the book of Daniel, chapter 11, daniel's an end time book and forgive me for taking half of a verse here, but Daniel 11, 32, I bet you all have heard it before.

    Daniel 11 chapter mention

  16. It says but the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.

  17. Mighty miracle working power, they'll be strong.

  18. So your strength, your miracle working power comes every time you receive a revelation of who God is.

  19. We will trust Him, we will love Him more.

  20. You think, oh, I can't love you know, sometimes we think we just can't love Him anymore.

  21. But then we see a different thing and we fall down.

  22. That's why the 24 elders and the four living creatures in heaven are continually around the throne, buzzing and swirling around Him, and every time they can make another revelation Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, god Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

  23. But then they have to say it again because they thought of another thing or they saw another side of God, or they remember oh, holy, holy, holy is the Lord, god Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

  24. So we need to know Him.

  25. Paul.

  26. Paul prayed for the Colossian church and he said in Colossians 110.

  27. He prayed this that you might walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

  28. We don't have enough today.

  29. We have enough for where we are right now, but we're supposed to be growing from faith to faith and glory to glory.

  30. So Paul prayed that you'd increase in the knowledge of God, and not just head knowledge but experiential knowledge of God.

  31. And then Paul prayed that for his church, but then for himself in Philippians 310.

  32. He's talking about how he, he, just he.

  33. He came from good stock.

  34. You know.

  35. He did all the right religious rules.

  36. He was a Benjaminite.

  37. He studied under the right guy, gamaliel Gamaliel.

  38. He went to Harvard of religious school.

  39. He did everything right, but he counts it as nothing.

  40. And he said that I may know him, his laser focus, the apostle Paul, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering.

  41. Paul said and what I don't care, anything else I've ever done in my life, it does not compare just to know God more and love him and he deserves to be worshiped in all of those, for all those different things he is to us.

  42. But, uh, but we can't achieve the call of God on our lives until we know that side of him.

  43. So I'm going to use Abraham.

  44. My title is Deeper God, how God's Names Reveal His Character for your Battle.

  45. And so I'm going to, just I'm going to pick on Abraham tonight and use him.

  46. So we'll start in Genesis.

  47. But first I'm going to, I have one more little setup thing to do.

  48. You know, when I'm there's, there's different ways to know God, and the most basic way, the most basic way, is just by looking at creation and anybody.

  49. You don't even have to be a believer, you can just see how intricate the world, the heavens are, put together.

  50. You can see the human body and all of its intricacies, how it's amazing, how, how did that come to be?

  51. How did we come?

  52. Is it just evolution?

  53. Really, we can look at creation and go, wow, somebody put this together and they're smarter than me and they know a lot.

  54. And so Romans one puts it like this in verse 19.

  55. He's talking to Paul's.

  56. Paul's talking about unbelievers, he says, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them, for since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen Just from looking at the world around us, so being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

  57. There's no excuse for people to not believe in God.

  58. Any tribal person across the world who's never heard of God they can look.

  59. God preached a message in the heavens.

  60. The message is I have all these stars, but I love you, I made the, I made you, I love you.

  61. God's sending them a message and, but it's better if they hear it from another person.

  62. Amen, how shall they hear unless there's a preacher?

  63. But so we can see God, we can know him through his created world, and, and then a little bit higher knowledge of God is through his word.

  64. We can see.

  65. You know, this is not just a collection of stories.

  66. It has.

  67. Every one of these accounts in the word has a different facet of God's character, and we can find those facets of God.

  68. Sometimes they're difficult stories.

  69. They don't line up with or match what we think God should be.

  70. Well, god looks mean or he looks harsh there.

  71. I don't understand.

  72. But then we see but wait a minute, this is the same God who chose to die on the cross.

  73. How is it that this is the same God?

  74. It is the same God, it matches.

  75. You just haven't seen all the facets yet, and so you got to dig a little deeper.

  76. And so his word reveals his character in his word, and we have the Holy Ghost to shine light on the word when we read it.

  77. We don't have to be in the dark and wondering what is this?

  78. Well, we can simply ask.

  79. We can pray in the Holy Ghost until it bubbles up on the inside, because our spirit knows God.

  80. Our brain doesn't understand him sometimes, but I love what Tara says my brain knows what my spirit knows.

  81. She'll just say that as a confession my brain knows what my spirit knows.

  82. It isn't doesn't look true, but as we say it it becomes true.

  83. We can pray in the Holy Ghost till it bubbles up on the inside, and then our mind becomes aware and the light turns on and all of a sudden, wow, we see, so that we can know him through the world, through his word.

  84. And then this is the highest way, through personal revelation of the Holy Ghost.

  85. And going back to the Apostle Paul, he said you know, I know a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I don't know, but that man was caught up into the heaven and God revealed himself to the Apostle Paul personally.

  86. He didn't get to walk with Jesus during when Jesus was on the earth, he wasn't one of the original 12, but God brought him and showed him some things and gave him a revelation.

  87. And you have a revelation of God or you wouldn't be saved.

  88. You had to know Jesus as your savior, you had to know him as something.

  89. So I'm just going to start in the very basic, most basic, just because why not?

  90. And so the first name of God I might get through three tonight and the first, the most basic name of God that Abraham would have first encountered God is the name Elohim.

  91. Elohim, and that is just the Creator, god in the beginning, genesis, one one.

  92. Elohim made the heavens on the earth.

  93. And notice that you know in Hebrew, if you just any casual knowledge of Hebrew, anything that ends in an I am is plural, you know.

  94. So you have, like the angels, you have the cherubim and seraphim and then ends in I am.

  95. Why is that?

  96. Because it's a Hebrew word and it means angels, not just one.

  97. You would never say the cherubim unless you're a Hick.

  98. All right, all right.

  99. So I am means it's plural, right.

  100. And so Elohim wait a minute, that is not God's.

  101. God's made the heavens and the earth.

  102. It's treated as a singular, though.

  103. Every time you see Elohim in in Hebrew is treated as singular, but it's a plural word.

  104. Why?

  105. Because there's a Trinity right there Father, son and Holy Ghost presided upon creation and breathed life into man.

  106. Hallelujah Created all creation that was made, and of Jesus.

  107. Later it says in the New Testament, we know that not anything was made in heaven, or all things that were made were made in him.

  108. Without him was nothing, nothing was made that was made.

  109. And so Jesus was there at creation.

  110. We only sometimes we just think of the Father God there.

  111. But Jesus was there and God had a plan that whole time, before the foundation of the world, jesus was slain from the foundation of the world.

  112. God had a plan, and then in Ephesians one you can read about that plan that in the fullness of time we would, he would bring us to himself.

  113. From the foundation of the world.

  114. He saw you and he saw me and he said I'm going to, I'm going to bring you into my kingdom, I'm going to make you an heir, I'm going to bless you with every spiritual blessing and in Christ that heaven itself affords.

  115. That was God's plan from the very beginning to bring you and me into his heart.

  116. And Elohim did that.

  117. The Creator God did that.

  118. He created the world out of love and so that, elohim, he created the world with order, very orderly.

  119. The laws of gravity don't ever fail, do they?

  120. You've ever fallen, you know?

  121. Laws of gravity hold true.

  122. What comes up must go down.

  123. Laws of nature, they are the law of inertia.

  124. It holds true.

  125. You don't want to be on the wrong side of that in a grinding car accident or something like that.

  126. Elohim made the world and the laws keep going as he set them in order, the laws of nature, like clockwork.

  127. Elohim made those laws and he's a creator God.

  128. So, abraham, we're about to get to Genesis 12.

  129. Abraham, the laws of nature aren't working for him.

  130. That order that Elohim made and said in order, something got out of order in his body or in Sarah's body or something, and he was not able to have children.

  131. But God still had a plan for him.

  132. And in Genesis 12, elohim appears to Abraham and he said get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you.

  133. I will make you and I will make you a great nation.

  134. I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.

  135. And of course, Abraham didn't understand.

  136. I don't have any kids.

  137. Elohim appeared to him, but Abraham couldn't see in his limited revelation of God, he only knew God as the creator, he only knew these orderly laws.

  138. He was only.

  139. He didn't know yet he didn't know God, the next phase of God, and it would only take, and so I'm gonna get to the next.

  140. So then, if you turn five chapters forward, you're now you're in Genesis 17.

  141. So y'all know what happens.

  142. Abraham tries to make the promise happen and he ends up with Ishmael it's Abraham and Sarah.

  143. Sarah had was complicit in this plan and then she didn't like what she got afterwards.

  144. But they tried to do it themselves.

  145. How many of you have ever tried to do something?

  146. You know you have a promise from God, you know it's supposed to be a certain way and so you just make it happen.

  147. That does not work, does it?

  148. There is such regret when we get outside of the plan of God, even that we think we're trying to help God, but God does not need our help.

  149. All right, so it took this in verse one, chapter 17.

  150. When Abram was 99 years old that he still hadn't had a kid he's 99.

  151. The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him I am who Almighty God, walk before me and be blameless, and I will make my covenant between me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.

  152. Then Abram fell on his face and God talked with him, saying as for me, behold, my covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations.

  153. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be called Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

  154. I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you and kings shall come from you.

  155. And then we have the whole book of kings later and the book of Chronicles, all the kings that came from Abraham, and it says I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you and their generations, for an everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you.

  156. Also, I give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger right Right now.

  157. You're a stranger, but you're gonna own the land and it's gonna belong to your descendants and all the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

  158. It's an everlasting possession.

  159. That's why we pray for Israel.

  160. That's why Floor is working so hard to help Israel.

  161. It's their everlasting possession.

  162. That's why we shouldn't as the United States, we shouldn't get involved in policies that split the land or make Israel give away part of the land.

  163. It's their everlasting possession, amen, everlasting so.

  164. But God had to tell Abram I am Almighty God.

  165. That word is El Shaddai, el Shaddai, I am El Shaddai, almighty God.

  166. And so he had a different revelation.

  167. The revelation he had.

  168. Just Elohim did not do it for him.

  169. He couldn't get Isaac, he couldn't have the Son of promise until he knew El Shaddai.

  170. Once he knew God, god showed him.

  171. Then that's when very next, chapter 18, you can read about it.

  172. But that's when the promise is fulfilled, when he knows that side of God.

  173. Now, who is El Shaddai?

  174. Who is El Shaddai?

  175. So there are scholars who fight over this, and I'm gonna give you both sides, because I don't know which one is right.

  176. I'd like to think they're both right, because they're both really cool.

  177. And so El Shaddai, it's not just an Amy Grant song from the 80s.

  178. El Shaddai, el Shaddai.

  179. There's no milk, cause El Shaddai?

  180. Sorry, that was a children's church song, okay, but anyway.

  181. El Shaddai means there's two meanings, so I'm gonna go over the first one.

  182. Almighty God is the obvious one, the one that is translated right here in Genesis in my new King James version, and they think it's because there's an Akkadian word, a defunct language now, but anyway, the word is Shaddu, and it means mountain.

  183. So it's the God of the mountain, the God that is immovable, that is enormous, that is strong and mighty, the God who will never fail and never go away.

  184. He is the Almighty God, he's the overpower, the overpower, whoo.

  185. When we know God, the overpower, we will not be afraid of anything this world has throw at us.

  186. All right.

  187. So God, the, the starch fear of God, the awe that we have toward God when we think of Him in this way, and so the worship of God.

  188. You know, in Revelation 4 it describes God, it describes His voice like a trumpet, and that invites us in to see in His throne room what's going on.

  189. And then we talked about how the 24 elders and the four living creatures are around the throne and there's rainbows, and it's fearsome John the apostle who wrote the book of Revelation couldn't even describe.

  190. We should go there because it's really.

  191. He had a revelation of El Shaddai and he wrote about it in Revelation 4.

  192. After these things, he's seeing the future.

  193. He's seeing what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the different churches.

  194. And after that, after these things, I looked and behold the door standing open in heaven and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet, speaking with me, saying come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this.

  195. And immediately I was in the Spirit and behold the throne in heaven and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardis stone, and so a precious stone faceted stone, and there was a rainbow around the throne and it appears like an emerald, and around the throne, 24 thrones, and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns and gold on their heads.

  196. And so there's this scene.

  197. And then there's these four living creatures.

  198. You can read about them.

  199. They're weird sounding, I don't know why they're around the throne of God, but they represent different facets of Spirit.

  200. And then it says in the four living creatures, verse 8, each having six wings and full of eyes around and within, and they do not rest day or night saying holy, holy Lord, god, am I who was and is and is to come.

  201. Whatever living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him, who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, then the 24 elders have to fall down before him.

  202. And who sits on the throne, they have to worship and they have to say their own thing, and then it's just a repeating worship, and you can even turn to Daniel.

  203. Well, maybe we won't turn there, but if you want to write, if you're taking notes, well, ezekiel, ezekiel 1-24,.

  204. Ezekiel sees a very similar vision.

  205. He sees God like a wheel within a wheel, and the wheel has, there's the eyes again, has eyes all over the wheel.

  206. So God, he's watching, he sees, he knows, or, as we worship him, we see and we know, and we see the different depths of his character and the different shades of everything he is and we have to shout our praise and glory and honor to him.

  207. And so he's awesome, he's wonderful.

  208. He can't even be described in words, and in Psalm 91, it uses the word Almighty.

  209. Again, I bet y'all know the scripture he who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of who?

  210. The Almighty.

  211. The Almighty, what can we fear?

  212. Why would we fear?

  213. The arrow that flies by day?

  214. The pestilence that walks in darkness, destruction that wastes at noon day?

  215. What, what, what?

  216. Any of that can harm us when we are under the mountain.

  217. The Almighty God, he's never going to let anything get to us.

  218. When we know him, we really know him.

  219. When we really really know him, we won't fear.

  220. And he needs us to not fear in these days.

  221. He needs us to be bold.

  222. We can't get what God called us to if we're not bold.

  223. Amen.

  224. And so Psalm 91 applies to people who are dwelling with him and under his shadow of the oh, this God right here, el Shaddai.

  225. Alright, so that's one, the mighty God, the God of the mountain, and so the other, the other meaning of Shaddai, the other scholars think.

  226. Well, shadd is the Hebrew word for breast, so it's the breasty one, it's the all sufficient one, the one who feeds, nourishes and keeps everything running together, and, and, and so I, I.

  227. This is not one most people preach about.

  228. But I actually went to Winner Bible Seminar several long time ago, before I was a married lady, and I traveled to Tulsa and I heard Pastor Keith Butler minister on this subject, and I have never, ever forgotten it as he has such a revelation awesome, and you know it's anyway, and and I'm going to use my, the multi-breasted one he said multi-breasted one.

  229. I thought, oh, I can't believe you're talking about that in church.

  230. I'm going to tell you all this story.

  231. So when I was in 10th grade I was in Miss Bonitahti's Miss Bonitahti was my biology teacher, 10th grade honors biology, and we got to dissect cats.

  232. We got to, so we paired up and now my lab partner and I, we each got issued one cat and everybody else had normal cats soaked in formaldehyde.

  233. Mine was also soaked in formaldehyde, but my cat was a lactating female.

  234. And so when we did the Y incision, you know, at the first part of the procedure, there was milk everywhere, all, and it went everywhere.

  235. Everywhere there was a lot of milk.

  236. There was milk coming in and milk going out, milk in the city and milk in the field.

  237. There was way more milk than I can imagine any one kitten needed.

  238. And here this cat is dead and I would have thought, you know, maybe it wouldn't still be there.

  239. I don't know what would have happened to it, but I just know that there was a lot of milk in.

  240. God has a supply.

  241. He can make a supply for his children who cry out to him, and there's plenty to go around.

  242. And so in 1 Peter 2,2, peter says as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word.

  243. So the word of God is our nourishment.

  244. We get it from El Shaddai.

  245. He gives it to us whenever we are close to him.

  246. He gives us everything we need and he can feed.

  247. You know, mama Cat can feed a lot of kittens all at the same time.

  248. So it's not a problem, I can get what I need from God the same time as Ms Irma is getting what she needs from God, and we're all together dying and feasting on God's goodness and he's giving us what we need All right.

  249. Now, let me blow your mind one more time, y'all, and then I will get rid of this awkward topic soon.

  250. But this is good.

  251. You know, brother Mark can tell about DNA and all that.

  252. All right.

  253. So newborn babies we're supposed to be like them.

  254. We're supposed to desire the pure milk of the word of God, and that's how we get what we need.

  255. Well, so a mommy and her newborn baby are together a lot and her milk is uniquely suited to the needs of her baby, because in one way and we're still learning all the benefits of all of what goes on and how the babies benefit from the mommies.

  256. But we do know this that when every time the mommy kisses her baby, so the mommy and the baby are together a lot and they're in the same environment that has the same germs floating around, and so when the mommy kisses the baby, the mommy picks up the germs from the baby a little bit and they're sharing, you know, some germs when we kiss our babies, aren't we all?

  257. You know we're drawn to babies, they're so sweet.

  258. So the mommy now her body, knows exactly what infections that her baby has been exposed to in the environment and her immune system goes to work immediately, making the antibodies that the baby will need to fight that infection, because the mommy fought that infection before and she already won and obliterated that infection from her body, and so she has the antibodies already and she just her body, without her ever even knowing it, her body puts that right in the milk.

  259. So when the baby nestles up close to her and feeds and gets the milk from her, that baby is not gonna get sick.

  260. That baby has been.

  261. He can't get into the infection because the mama already beat the infection, hallelujah.

  262. So when we nestle up next to Jesus and next to the father guy, next to El Shaddai, then I'm telling you our God, the mighty God, the champion, has already beaten every sin and sickness and infirmity and disease on the face of this planet that you could ever be dealing with.

  263. And he knows the thing exactly that you need at that moment.

  264. And through the word, the milk of the word, he will deliver to you that word that you need, that will overcome that, that sickness, that disease, that infirmity, that habit, that problem.

  265. Amen, amen.

  266. His word is milk, it's nourishment, it's life to us, hallelujah.

  267. And so God has eradicated for us.

  268. Mighty God, almighty God, el Shaddai has already beaten this thing for us.

  269. So why are we afraid of it?

  270. Why are we trying to do it in our own strength?

  271. So when Abraham found out who God really was, then his promise came to pass and he was able to bring forth Isaac.

  272. You know, god can feed all of us.

  273. He knows exactly what we need.

  274. Psalm 145, verse 15.

    Psalms 145:15

  275. It says the eyes of all look expectantly to you and you give them their food and do season.

  276. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

  277. The Lord does not want you to go without.

  278. He is a God of abundance, the God that's more than enough, el Shaddai, the God that's more than enough, and he has abundance for you and he.

  279. Just all he has to do is open his hand.

  280. He, and he's already opened it, he's already blessed us.

  281. That makes me want to just go ahead.

  282. I tried to quote it early, I think I, I think I murderized it.

  283. But Ephesians 1, I just shared this with your kids on Wednesday night If you brought them to Children's Church.

  284. Ephesians 1, verse 3, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual spiritual blessing, has blessed, has blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, in Christ, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.

    Ephesians 1:3

  285. That we should be holy and without blaming Before him in love, having predestinated us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, I'm telling you.

  286. God has already brought you into the family.

  287. He is a feat.

  288. When you're in the family, you can eat from the fridge, and you can eat everything you need from God's fridge.

  289. You're in his family and he's already blessed you.

  290. The milk supply was already in that cat Just waiting for the kittens.

  291. I'm sorry that they never got it.

  292. Instead she ended up on my lab table, but the milk is already there.

  293. The supply is already there.

  294. God's supply was already there before you even cried out to him.

  295. The supply was already there, amen.

  296. And so Abraham finally connected with his supply, because he had to get his mouth work in the right way.

  297. So for God to do that for him, what did he have to do?

  298. Change his name, don't call yourself Abraham anymore.

  299. You're Abraham, father of many nations, and your wife, sarah, princess.

  300. And so God had to.

  301. He had to show him how to access that supply, all right.

  302. So then, finally, how much time do I have left over?

  303. Let me see if I have any.

  304. Well, I didn't set a timer, but I will go ahead and close out with the last thing.

  305. So now, if we're in Genesis 17, go five chapters even farther and we're going to get in Genesis 22.

  306. Now God has asked Abraham to do a really hard thing.

  307. Y'all know this story and he needed to know.

  308. God was showing Abraham now another facet of his character.

  309. And when God asks you to do something that you don't think you can do or something that does not make sense to your mind, god's probably trying to show you another aspect of his character, and if we'll dig in and get close to him, he'll reveal Amen.

  310. And so, in 22, y'all know that God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and human sacrifice is not something that God usually approves of at all.

  311. In fact, he's against that.

  312. It's puzzling why God would ask for that when you think of just human sacrifices against later in Mosaic law, that's forbidden.

  313. But you know, this was a special test because God was going to give his own son, his only son of promise.

  314. He was going to give up to mankind, and so he wanted to make sure will mankind give up his only son?

  315. Is mankind willing to give up his only son for a relationship with God?

  316. And so, because of Abraham and what he did, the answer was yes.

  317. And so, in 22, abraham goes.

  318. He rises early in the morning to obey God.

  319. He gets up, he gets his son up.

  320. They're heading up the mountain and, wearing Abraham's mind, he's about to offer Isaac on the altar.

  321. And so Isaac says look, dad, in verse let me see, this is verse seven Look the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb for a burnt offering?

  322. And Abraham said my son, god will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, god will provide.

  323. Well, my new King James has a four in there.

  324. The King James doesn't have four.

  325. It just says my son, god will provide himself the lamb God provided himself.

  326. I heard my dad preach on this when I was 16 years old.

  327. He taught this in Family Life Institute and I never forgot that either.

  328. God will provide himself, as I'm adding the as as a lamb.

  329. And so in that moment, this is what happened.

  330. They two of them went together and then they came to the place of which God had told him that was gonna be on Mount Moriah, the site where, eventually, solomon's Temple would be built.

  331. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood on the altar.

  332. And he bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

  333. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son, but the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said Abraham, abraham.

  334. So he said here I am.

  335. And he said do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.

  336. And then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns.

  337. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burn offering instead of a son.

  338. And Abraham called the name of that place.

  339. The Lord will provide, as it is to this day, in the Mount of the Lord.

  340. It shall be provided In the Mount of the Lord.

  341. It shall be provided In the Mount of the Lord.

  342. It shall be provided.

  343. And he who did not give up his own, who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also, with him, freely give us all things?

  344. If God offered his son?

  345. Abraham was willing to offer Isaac, and now God is pleased, greatly pleased, and he said I can offer my son and I am the Lord who provides.

  346. I bet y'all know what name of God that is Jehovah Jireh, jehovah Jireh, you know, actually Jehovah is the Romanized version of the Hebrew word Yahweh.

  347. It was just so I might stop saying Jehovah all together it's, I mean, god's Hebrew.

  348. Right, so he is Yahweh Jireh.

  349. Yahweh Yahweh is his name, it's his holy name In the Hebrew.

  350. They didn't even they didn't use vowels because it made the scrolls too big.

  351. So they took out all the vowels.

  352. You know, when you're having to write all that prophecy down on scrolls, it makes it real heavy and lug around.

  353. So they took out the vowels out and besides, they don't want to spell out God's name totally, because it was too holy.

  354. So Yahweh Yahweh, why HWH Yahweh?

  355. There's a Psalm about that.

  356. Who?

  357. Him who rides on the clouds, who calleth his name?

  358. Yahweh Yah.

  359. So that's his name, that's his holy name, and you can put all kinds of titles, just like Jesus, his title is Christ or Messiah, but his name is Jesus, yeshua and that's God.

  360. His name is Yahweh, he rides on the clouds, and so Yahweh Jireh is God, my provider.

  361. But it also means God sees.

  362. There's his eyes again, when he sees a need, he's already moved.

  363. I don't know how long that ram was waiting there, caught in that thicket, but God had already provided a long time ago and while we were yet sinners, christ died for the ungodly Romans five.

  364. Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.

  365. We didn't know we had a need, but God had already made provision.

  366. And whatever your need is today, god has already made provision.

  367. You didn't even yet cry, you don't even know yet, maybe, what it is, and you haven't even cried out to him, but he's already got the ram caught in the thicket.

  368. He is the Lord who provides, he sees the God who sees and he is the God who provides.

  369. And just like him, if we'll see with our eye of faith, we can access the things that he has given and freely given to us.

  370. We have to see it, we have to look at it, we have to look for him first and know him as the God who provides, as the almighty God, the multi-breasted one, the God of the mountain, the creator God.

  371. If he created it one way, if he created the laws of nature, if Elohim created it, el Shaddai can break the laws of nature to get you your miracle that you needed, because he is almighty, powerful, loving and he provides everything we need.

  372. Amen and amen, hallelujah.

  373. Well, that is all I have tonight.

  374. Welcome your pastor as he comes.

  375. Praise God, wasn't that good?

  376. Hallelujah, the names of God.

  377. He's revealing himself in greater and greater measure in these last days.

  378. I'll tell you, praise God.

  379. I was like James.

  380. James got me whipped up into a real appetite when he started talking about what he was talking about.

  381. Talking about first cafeteria, first cafeteria, and it got me reminded of Romanos cafeteria.

  382. I know I'm dating myself now, but before Lubies there was Romanos, and especially Romanos at Bel Air and Hillcroft.

  383. Oh man, they had the best food, but I'm not hungry anymore since the cat milk whole thing dissecting cats pretty well.

  384. I was gonna invite everybody to first for strawberry and banana gelatin, but we'll have to do that some other time.

  385. Let's all stand together.

  386. Praise God.

  387. We've had a wonderful night tonight.

  388. God is moving.

  389. Hallelujah, are you encouraged?

  390. Let's pray, Father.

  391. We thank you for what we heard tonight and thank God for the Holy Ghost who's revealing our Father in ever increasing measure.

  392. Lord, as we approach the greatest year, yet Every name that we need to know about that completes the picture, holy Spirit, you're showing us and we're able to call on the God that we know, and he hears and answers, and we thank you for it in Jesus' name, amen.