The Power of His Name!

Yeah. For those of you that know his testimony, it's it'll blow your

mind. But I watched him go back to places from years ago, back

to other churches and ask for forgiveness for the life that he lived in the

past. I watched him make amends and seek reconciliation with other leaders. And

so I honor you for your heart. I honor you for your love for

the lost. And I honor I honor your your yes because what you came

out of took a big yes. And the body of Christ is better because

of your obedience. So if y'all would put your hands towards him, Father,

I thank you for my friend, for this leader, Jesus. I

thank you that he didn't stay down when he was down. So Lord,

fill his mouth with your words. This morning, Holy Spirit, I asked

that you would be his clothing. So Lord, would you come in power

and bring your kingdom in Jesus' name. How is everybody well? First of

all, I just want to honor. I just really want to honor what

Lord the Lord is doing today. I felt his presence. If you are

not aware the Holy Spirit is here today, there is definitely a presence of

joy, and I felt it as soon as we walked in the room,

as soon as people started feeling an auditorium. Today, everything in me wanted

to be nervous, but everybody that met me met me with love. And

today I feel more like part of your family than I've ever felt h And

I mean I mean that. So I want you to do something with me,

if you'll, if everybody will stand for just a moment, and I

want you to promise that you'll do this with me. Can you promise that

you'll do this with me? All right? Y'all are my family. All

are my brothers and sisters, So don't lie, okay, all right?

I want everybody to just shake it out, do this, okay, all

right, now y'all look as goofy as I do. So I'm okay,

young, Sit now, who that helps? That works? Do they follow

your directions? That easy? Justin no, before we start, I really

want to honor the Lord because I believe that I was hearing while we were

while we were worshiping, that he wants to do communion. So we're gonna

pass out communion elements for those of you that are helping. If y'all would

pass out communion elements are up here. We have some in the back,

some guys that are going to be helping. I just feel like, first

of all, I want to commune with you because I'm honored to be here

today and I want us to be unified in the name of Christ. So

as they're passing this out, I was praying about, Lord, what do

you want me to speak on? So I thought I was going to be

giving my testimony today and I was all gung ho ready to do that.

And we were in our staff meeting on Tuesday morning and Kim and Lisa and

Justin and Alex and all said that they thought it would be better for me

to just preach. And I was like, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no no no, I don't do that.

But you know, they just I said, what am I supposed to preach

on? They said, the Holy Spirit will tell you. So I went

to bed that night and I set up at two thirty in the morning,

but it was like two twenty nine, I think, and I had a

download from the Lord and I sat up and I barely had my eyes open.

I remember I grabbed my iPad and I like set up in the bed

and I started typing and I and I typed for an hour, and I'm

telling you, in the next morning, I did not have a clue what

I had typed. I knew nothing. I knew that I had done it,

but I didn't remember any of it. Like I didn't know. I

knew there was a topic, but I didn't know exactly what. So when

I got up and next the next morning, I looked at my iPad and

I heard the Lord saying that he wants to focus on the power of his

name. The power of his name. So his name is higher than any

other name. And there's so many names that God calls himself. There's so

many names that are mentioned all throughout scripture, and the name is is more

than just it's more than just a title, but it has value. And

so we're going to focus as we're doing communion, I want us to just

focus on the name of Jesus, and as we commune together, I just

want you to meditate on his name and let it just wash over you.

And then we're going to dive in, so everybody have communion elements. So

Father God, we just thank you, Lord for what you're doing. We

thank you for what you've already done. We thank you that the finished work

of Jesus is just that it's finished. Lord and Father, as we come

together and we remember his sacrifice, Lord, we come and we we remember

the atonement. We remember that holy moment, that holy moment when he said

it is finished. And Father, as we meditate on that sacrifice, Lord,

Father, let us not forget that the cross was not the ending.

Father, we come and we recognize the sacrifice that Jesus made, but we

recognize it through the fact that he sent his spirit to be with us until

he should come again. So, Father, as we take these communion elements,

Lord, would you just fill us with your spirit and we may become

one with you, just like Jesus talked about in John seventeen in Jesus' Mighty

Name. Amen, just have your Waylord, have your way. Lord.

Mm hmmm. So as we're as we're thinking about the name, I want

you to think about your own name, and I want you to think about

a time where you were either in extreme danger or you were in trouble and

your name got spoken. And I want you to remember that feeling that came

over you when you heard your name. Right, everybody had those everybody had

one of those moments, Right, your name was spoken in. Your name

has value. A name is not just something that we're given just to call

each other by, but it has value. There's power in a name.

There's power in each one of our names. All throughout Scripture we see the

name be recognized, and God even takes people with a name and he changes

their name to signify a change or sanctification or a new beginning. And that's

part of my story. I'm not going to give my testimony today, but

that's part of my story. After I came out of what I came out

of, I was being talked to by a counselor and I used to go

by Tony, and I remember my counselor said, called me Anthony, and

it resonated in a place that I hadn't heard since before I started making really

bad choices. And there was power in that name, because that's the name

that God gave me right, that's the name that I was called even before

the foundations of the earth. He knew my name right. In Proverbs eighteen

twenty one, it says death and life are in the power of the tongue,

and those who love it will eat of its fruits. So death and

life are in the power of the tongue, which tells us that there is

power in the spoken word. There's power in the word of God. When

he spoke the earth into existence, he just said a word. Just few

bird verses prior to that, in Proverbs eighteen ten, it says, the

name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous man runs to it

and is safe. Then, just a few verses later, it says,

in verse twenty, from the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach is

satisfied. He is satisfied by the yield of his lips. I want you

to think about that for a moment. Just meditate on that. He is

satisfied by the yield of his lips. How many times have you felt like

you were going to be satisfied by the use of your lips. How many

times have you used your lips thinking that you will get gratification speaking something that

you thought you could you could say about another person that would somehow make you

feel better. The man is satisfied by the yield of his lips. His

stomach is satisfied by his lips allowing the food. And there's so much power

in what that's saying. I'm going to go to Mark seven. I'm so

glad that we have a minister. We've had several ministers up here that have

these pauses where they look for a verse, because it makes me feel more

comfortable that I can do that. So in Mark seven, verse one,

it says, now, when the Pharisees gathered to him with some of the

scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate

with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. For the Pharisees and

all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to

the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the marketplace, they

do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they

observe, such as the washing of cups and pots, and copper vessels and

dining couches. And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, why do your

disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled

hands. And he said to them, well, did Isaiah prophesy? Well

did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites? As it is written this people honors me

with their lips but their heart is far from me. In vain do they

worship me teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. I feel like what he's

possibly referring to there is you cry out the name of the Lord. You

cry out in vain, you worship me in vain. It says, thou

shallnot take the Lord thy God's name in vain. You worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. My name is sanctified, and

you have desanctified my name. You leave the commandment of God and hold to

the tradition of men. And he said to them, you have a fine

way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition. For

Moses said, honor your father and mother, and whoever reviles father and mother

must surely die. But you say, if a man tells his father and

his mother or his mother whatever you would have gained from me as corbin,

which means given to God, then you no longer permit him to do anything

for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your

tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do. And

then he goes on to say, hear me, all of you who understand,

all of you, and understand there is nothing outside a person that going

into him can defile him. But the things that come out of a person

are what defile him. The disciples were confused about what he was meaning.

He was speaking out of He was speaking in parables, and we know that

almost every time he's spoke in parables. The disciples just got super confused.

Those poor guys, right, these guys are just fissures, they're just normal

men. And this this man comes and he's super holy, and he's speaking

in all these these parables, and they're they're just confused. And then he

pulls them to the side. When he entered the how and left the people,

his disciples asked him about the parable, and he said to them,

then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into

a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but

his stomach and is expelled. Thus he declared all foods clean, and he

said, what comes out of a person is what defiles him, for from

within, out of the heart of man. Now that this verse really kind

of scares me a little bit. For from within out of the heart of

man, come evil thoughts, sexual, immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride,

foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.

Lord save me, And it's only by the sanctification of his name,

by asking him to come in, because he knew. He knew that the

sacrifice that he was about to make was going to make an opportunity for us

to sanctify the insides so that what was coming out would no longer be defiled.

That by him living in our spirits, that now all things were going

to flow in and through him, because we've invited him to sanctify the inside.

Father, make us holy like you or holy, Make us one like

you or one. So the word used in seven twenty three Mark seven twenty

three, it says, from within, out of the heart of a man,

come evil thoughts, sexual, immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

and it goes on. The word used in this verse for evil is the

Greek word kaikos, which means inappropriate, armful, or bad, and the

word for thought is from the Greek dielogimus di elogismos, which is not the

same word that would describe a flickering impulse, rather a well thought out plan

or careful deliberation. So he didn't say, out of these things come impulsive

sin. Out of your heart comes impulsive sin. He said, the evil

that comes from your heart is well thought out. It is planned, not

a flickering impulse, rather a well thought plan or careful deliberation. James later

has his own things to say about the tongue and our inability as mankind to

tame the tongue. But thankfully we have the same spirit living inside of us

that raise Jesus from the dead, so we can allow God to tame our

tongue. It's through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, because it's not by

me. I promised. My tongue was not tamed until I got the unfilling

of the Holy Spirit. I didn't know how to speak truth over my life.

I didn't know how to speak truth into the world. I didn't know

how to speak life because I didn't know that life and death are in the

power of the tongue. Because I hadn't been shown the power of the tongue

that didn't come from Man. I hadn't been shown the power of tongue that

only came from God by the endwelling of his spirit. But when I understood

the true power of the tongue from Him, then I knew that every word

that could come from my mouth could flow directly from His throne. And it's

not that I'm special, It's not that any of us are special. But

we have a straight shot directly to the throne of God, and by the

yielding of our lips comes to satisfaction. It's by the yielding of our lips

that we are satisfied. Father, may we yield our lips to you.

So the point that I'm trying to make here is that the importance of the

words that come out of our mouth are reflections of our heart. If we

are made in God's image, then that means that the words that come out

of his mouth also reflect his heart. It reflects his heart in you.

How much of his heart have you allowed to be in you? Because the

words that come out of your mouth are direct reflections of how much of His

heart is flowing in yours. Our names were given to us, just as

He has many names. The names that we call ourselves or allow others to

call us have power. You know. I I'm very public about the fact

that I work a twelve step program, and I was taught to call myself

an alcoholic and an addict, and I highly, highly highly respect the programs.

But I'm recovering. I'm a recovering addict and alcoholic today. In fact,

in the power of Jesus, I'm a recovered alcoholic and addict. So

in the Word of God there are somewhere close to nine hundred and sixty seven.

Promise there's probably more references to the names of God. Of those nine

hundred and sixty seven references, two hundred and seventy five of them refer to

the name yodhey Vovy, or the ineffable name of God. Something really really

powerful about this name. It was the name that wasn't supposed to be spoken

in the Jewish in the Jewish world, it's not supposed to be uttered.

So I did some research, and I went through every book of the Bible,

and I found God, what did you call yourself in these books?

So we're gonna go through them. In Genesis, he's the Almighty God.

In Exodus, he's the I am that I am. In Leviticus, he's

the Jehovah m Kadesh or Jehovah sanctifies. In Numbers, he's the most High.

In Deuteronomy, he's the consuming Fire. In Joshua, he's the God

of Gods. In Judges, he's the Lord of Peace. In Judges,

he's the Lord of Peace. In Ruth, he's the God of recompense.

In First Samuel, he's the Living God. In Second Samuel, he's the

Delivery. In First Kings, he's the God of Hosts. In Second Kings,

he's the God of Israel who In First Chronicles he's the God of Abraham.

In Second Chronicles he's the True God. And Ezra he's the righteous one.

In Nehemiah, he's the Eloah. In Esther, How many of you

know the story of Esther? Okay, I have a lot of connections to

that story in this church. So Esther his name is not mentioned. Did

y'all know that his name is not mentioned in the book of Esther? But

something interesting occurs in the story of Esther. Esther's name was what Hadassah.

She was hiding her name because she knew that her name had power over her

right. It was a Jewish name, and she knew that if her name

was heard, that she would be exposed, she would be found out to

be a Jew. So she hid her name and went by the name Esther.

Well, in Ester five to four, if you go back to the

Hebrew and you look in the middle of that verse, you'll find four words

directly after one another, and each of those words begins with these letters yode

hey vov hey. He hid his name within the book of Esther because he

was partnering with Esther in her mission. Scholars all over the place are like,

oh, God's not mentioned in the book of Esther. Oh, yes

he is, Yes, he is Job. He's the Redeemer in Psalms.

He's Abbah in Proverbs. He's the Great God in Ecclesiastes. He's the Spirit

in Song of Solomon. He's the lover of lovers in Isaiah. He's the

Creator in Jeremiah, he's the Everlasting King. In Lamentations, he's Adanaia and

Ezekiel. He's Jehovah Shamah. In Daniel, he's the Ancient of Days.

We just talked about that last week or week before, last week, week

before, been talked about it in Hoseiah, he's semakh Adamayah, or branch

of the Lord. In Joel, he's the strength of Israel. In Amos,

he who forms mountains Obadiah, he is Yahweh. In Jonah, he's

the God of Heaven. In Micah, he's the breaker. In Nahem,

he's the just judge. In Hubaka, he's the Holy One. In Zephaniah,

he's the God in our midst. In Haggii, he's the desire of

all nations. In Zachariah, he's the only one. In Malachi, he's

the Great King. Now'll get ready, y'all, because that's just the old

covenant. I want you to close your eyes on this one. Jesus,

we acknowledge you. In Matthew, he's the bridegroom. And Mark he's the

great physician. In Luke, he's the dawn from on high. In John

he's the atoning sacrifice. In Acts, he's the author of life. In

Romans, he is everlasting. In First Corinthians, he's the author of peace.

In Second Corinthians, he's the Almighty. In Galatians, he is Jesus

Christ. In Ephesians, he's the chief cornerstone. In Philippians, he's the

Safe. In Colossians, he's the Beginning. In First Thessalonians, he's the

True God. In Second Thessalonians he's He's shoe, who shall establish you.

In First Timothy, he's the Light. In Second Timothy, the abolisher of

death. In Titus, he's our blessed Hope. In Fileeman, he is

the Lord. In Hebrews, he's our high Priest. In James, he

is the father of lights. In First Peter, he's the chief Shepherd.

In Second Peter, he's the day Star. In First John, he's the

Advocate. In Second John, he's the Son of God. In third John,

he is the Name. In Jude he's the Wise God. And in

Revelation he's the Amen. Yeah, you can call it for that. Yeah,

Prasey Jesus, I'm just glad we have a church that's awake, all

right. So I just want to show you one example of the name of

God that has power. And if Jesus cried out to John, and I

mean cried out to God on John seventeen for us to be one like he

and the Father are one, and that means that Jesus' name has power,

just like the name of God. That ceased to be being pronounced publicly before

Christianity existed, Before Christ came the name yodhey vov hey, if you can

put that up on the slide, it's gonna be up there. I have

faith in Micah. It's there we go. So this is yode heyvov hey.

For those of you that don't speak Hebrew, that means yeah, aweh.

We don't even actually know how it was pronounced officially. And I want

to tell you something. The name of God is in our DNA. No

oh, really, it's in our DNA. So just just come come with

me on this journey. We're gonna we're gonna get scientific a little bit.

Forgive me, Lord. The yode has a value of ten in Hebrew.

Because every Hebrew letter has a number attached to it. It's also a letter.

It's a letter and a number. The hey has the number five attached

to it. Bob is six, and hey, we already said it is

five. So it's ten five six five. Did you know in the DNA

mall, in the DNA and the double helix that the sides of the DNA

are made up of a protein called laminin, Thank you Lord, called laminin

and do you know that every ten laminin there's a crossing of an acid base

balance, and then after that one, every five laminin there's a crossing of

an acid base spells. And then every six and then every five, and

then every ten, and then every five, and then every six and every

five, and it does that. So his name is encoded in who you

are. Well, I don't have a picture of Lamanin, but Laminin does

look like a cross. But I found something even more interesting while I was

doing some research this week. Not only does Laminin look like a cross,

but they've been able to take the When DNA is replicated, it has to

be hmm, come on, Lord, it has to be ripped apart and

then put back together again. Where you go to the next slide, Micah,

DNA is ripped apart at the cross, and then it's brought back together

again at the cross. His flesh was ripped apart. He shared in that

expression with us, think about that. This is not by accident, guys,

this is not by accident. The Lord knew that scientists were going to

try to explain away who he was, and he said not today, I'm

putting my son in him. I'm gonna put my son in them, and

they're gonna see the cross everywhere they look. Lead me to the cross,

Lord, and Luke nine twenty three, it says he who comes after me,

let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.

Lord, Will you recreate our dna to be like you? Lord, there's

something interesting again about the name Yahweh. Can we go back to that Yahweh

slide Micah, the yode, hey, vav Hey, there's something really interesting

about this name. Also, every letter in Hebrew can stand alone and mean

something on its own, and so the hey, which is the one that

looks like a doorway, can mean behold. The yode, which is the

first letter, which they read the opposite way that we do, can mean

hand, and then the vov, the one in the middle of the two

hays, means nail. Behold the hand, behold the nail. The story

of Jesus was told even before he got to this earth is in the name

of his father. Lord, make me one, make us one like you

and the Father are one. We want to be one. Lord. We

want your name to be written in who we are. So I have an

interesting story to tell you. You know, I just started working across kingdom

back. It was right the week of Russiashana, and we had gone to

a fire conference in Houston, Texas and heard some amazing prophetic speakers, one

of which was Chuck Pierce, and we heard him speaking about the year fifty

seven eighty four and that we're going into the year of the Door. So

there's something interesting about the doorway. Can you go to the the two slides

from that one right after the DNA slide, this means Yehudah or Judah.

Notice that the only difference between yodhevav hey or Yahweh and the word Judah is

one letter. It's dollt. It's the one that has the little underline looking

tea underneath it. So all he has to do is insert a door into

his name so that Jesus can come through the tribe of Judah. Don't you

find it interesting that right before the dolet which means door, can mean door

and currently we are in the year fifty seven eighty four, which means the

year of many doors or the year of the door. Don't you find it

interesting that how many characters are there before that? Three father and son and

the Holy Spirit manifest through the door to become the beheld Son of God.

So as I was coming back from Houston. If you know my story,

you those of you that know me really well, know that God doesn't like

to show up in small ways. He likes to blow my mind. And

the thing is is it never gets old. It never gets old, and

I never stop being amazed because I can't ever fathom his true nature. I

can't ever behold all of him. So as we're driving back from Houston,

we're driving and I see in the spirit a big giant like like Susan's painting

that's in the back of the open door. I see a big giant light

and it looks like the doorway is opening. And I say to the Lord,

like Diana's gonna, y'all can look back there. It's really cool.

I see a doorway just like that, and I see the light in the

heavens and I literally see this big giant pillar and it looks like the Lord

is opening the door. And I said, Lord, what are you trying

to say? And he said, Anthony, I've shown you this day.

I showed you this. In two thousand and six, I graduated high school

in two thousand and six, and he said, remember, and I was

really confused. I mean, it was pretty clear. And he said,

I showed you that you would start ministry this week. And I said,

how did you show me that? Lord? Fifty seven eighty four is the

year of the Door. It's the year of the dollet. Every year has

a Hebrew letter attached to it. They go through the twenty two letters and

then cycle again, so we're in the year of the Door. My senior

year of high school, we had to do we had to do a senior

quote and they I don't think that they I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let us

use biblical scripture. I don't know why. And I was kind of upset.

So I just asked the Lord. I said, Lord, I don't

know what quote I'm supposed to use, because I just want to quote you.

And he said, I'm gonna give you a quote, and you're gonna

put your name, and one day you'll understand. And I had forgotten.

I had totally forgotten that conversation that he told me he would reveal it in

time and Chuck Pearce talked about the meaning of time and why time is important

and why this year that we're going into is important. We're walking through the

doorway and he said, Anthony, you're entering into the door and the quote

I can't make this stuff up, the quote that he gave me. Will

you go to the next slide. If you see in the middle or right

at the top right, can y'all read that if time is the key to

life, would someone please show me the door? The door is in the

power of the name of the tribe of Judah, from which the Lord came.

And he said, Anthony, if I would have brought you out any

sooner, it would not have worked. All the things that you went through

you had to go through. You had to walk through them. And he

called me, Anthony, go to the next line. This is the word

Yeshua. And I want you to notice the similarities between Yeshua's name and the

name and the four letter name of God yodey Vave. If you notice the

shin which represents the minora or the seven spirits of God or the fire,

the atonement, it can mean atonement. So if you were to translate these

letters one at a time, h it would say, behold the nail,

which is the atonement in his hand m God sees the atonement of the nail

in the hand. In Acts four to twelve, it says, and there

is salvation in no one else, For there is no other name under heaven

given among which by men must be saved Philippians two nine through eleven. Therefore

God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every

name, so that at the name of Jesus, every niece should bow in

heaven and on earth, and under the earth and under, and every tongue

confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. To the glory of God. The Father

says, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. He said that

your tongue will speak his name. John fourteenth thirteen through fourteen says, whatever

you ask in my name, this I will do. That the Father may

be glorified in the sun. If you ask me anything in my name,

I will do it. Do we believe that? Do we believe that?

Are we walking in the obedience and the belief that anything that we ask in

his name shall be done? I want to. I want to. I

want to believe that everything that I ask in his name, that He'll do

it, And I'll tell you. For the last year and a half,

I'm telling you I've asked a lot of things. I've asked a lot of

things in his name, and he has blown my mind because he doesn't do

it always slowly. Sometimes he says not right now. Sometimes he says,

hey, you haven't even asked for this yet. I'm gonna give it to

you. In Acts three sixteen, we see the lame beggar, heel that

says at his name, by his fight, by and his name, by

faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know.

And the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health

in the presence of you all. In Mark sixteen seventeen, you know what's

funny is in the tradition I was raised in. We got to Mark sixteen

sixteen, and we stopped. Whosoever believes in his baptized shall be saved,

but whoever does not believe shall be condemned. Boom might drop. Well,

there's more. It says, in these signs will accompany them who believe in

My name. They will cast out demons, They will speak in new tongues.

They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any

deadly poison, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the

sick and they will recover. Be baptized, every one of you in the

name of Jesus Christ. You think he might be talking about being baptized in

his name? How many times have we spoken the name of Jesus over people

who were sick? How many times have we baptized people in his name?

I just want the name of Jesus to be spoken over me. I just

want to be saturated in his name. Yes, is he talking about baptism.

Sure? Is he talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Sure,

But it's his name. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

God can say a whole lot of things in a lot of different ways,

and he can mean a whole lot of things in one sentence. All through

Scripture, we see God change names to signify a new identity. We see

Abram change to Abraham. We see Sarah I changed to Sarah. We see

Jacob to Israel, we see Simon to Peter. And we even see Jesus's

name changed. When he was baptized and he came up out of the water,

a voice from heaven spoke, this is my beloved son in whom I

am well pleased. Not only is he Jesus, not only us see the

one from Nazareth. But not until this day did you recognize that he is

my beloved son. That would be a marked moment for Jesus' ministry. See,

I walked in a different path and part of my life, and I

went and tried to find God in a lot of different arenas, and I

did a lot of different things to get a spiritual experience. And the Lord

said Anthony, I said, Lord, why did you let me go through

all that? I mean seriously, like, why am I still? You

should have stricken me dead? I mean anonia sin safar. They died right

on the spot. I'm like, Lord, why am I not dead on

the ground somewhere and a heap of ashes. And he said, because I

wanted to show you that one day you'd had to put all that stuff down.

And there's not a single ritual you need to do. There's not a

single name you need to call on all you've got to do. You don't

have to walk in a any kind of path, or go meditate or sit

cross leg it or do anything. All you've got to do is speak my

name and I will come, he said. I'll let you get all the

good feelings out of all the things that you were doing. He said,

because I work all things together for good. And he said, but one

day I was gonna tell you to put it all down and trust me that

all you have to do is speak my name and I will come running.

Y'all bear with me. I'm gonna land this in just a moment. As

Justin says, so when we call on his name, his name has the

power to transform. We go from being an abboct or a junkie, or

a dropout, or a sinner, or a lost son, or a troublemaker

or a loser, and we become a new creation in Christ. We become

a child of God. We become a branch of the True Vine. We

become a friend of Jesus. We become justified, redeemed, sanctified, a

temple of the Holy Spirit, and ambassador for Christ. We become chosen m

Even John the Baptist didn't recognize Jesus until that day. In Luke, we

see the blind beggar crying out the name of Jesus Jesus, son of David,

have mercy. Why did he call his name? How many times have

you heard people that don't believe use the name of Jesus. Where do you

think that comes from? Because every person has the living God living inside of

them, and they just haven't awoken to recognizing that it's a free gift that

they get to accept. He's in every one of us, and the true

power of his name is ingrained in all of us. And so when we

get into a place where we're pressured, where the world's telling us this is

who you are, this is who you are, there's fear coming at us,

we get into a car wreck, and what do they scream? They

scream his name, and I say, Jesus have mercy on him. Lord.

I I ask that even when they call on your name, if they

don't know what they're doing, Lord, that you answer the call. Would

you answer the call? Lord? Forgive them Father, for they know not

what they do. M hm. So we're gonna close, Wayne, would

you come up and be on the keys. Really? Thank you for listening.

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