What Is His Name?

Church, I'm going to invite you if you can, friend. If you can join me, I'm going to be

reading today out of the book of Exodus chapter 3 and verse 13. Exodus chapter 3 and verse

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13. This is where the Holy Ghost has led me today, and I believe that, amen, God has put

a word in my heart. It reads as follows, Then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the

children of Israel and say to them, The God of our fathers has sent me to you. And they

say to me, What is his name? What then, or what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I am who I am.

And he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am, has sent me to you. Moreover, God

said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of

Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this

is my memorial to all generations. Amen. With God's help today, I want to preach on this, this thought.

What is his name? What is his name? Church friend, I'm going to invite you to pray with me right now.

I know we've been worshiping. I know we've already been praying, but we're going to ask God, especially

now to speak to us for him to have his way. God, I come before you today. I want to thank you

for meeting us in this place. We do not take your presence for granted. We do not overlook

the sweetness of your glory, the power of your anointing that is in this place. God, and I ask

God that as we go into your word, that you will speak to us, God, that you will challenge us,

that you will encourage us, transform us, God. Father, I right now bind every, every spirit

that is contrary to the spirit of God, and we lose the power. We lose the anointing in this place

in the name of Jesus. God, have your way, Lord. Touch my lips of clay and put your word in my

mouth and be glorified in Jesus' mighty name. Can somebody say amen? Amen. You may be seated

in the presence of God. What is in a name? It's been said that a person's name is to that person

the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Since birth, you have been conditioned

to respond to your name, and the sound of your name at times will cut through all of the noise,

all of the distractions that are happening around you. You may remember those moments

as a child when, despite everything you're hearing, despite the commotion, despite the busyness of what

you were doing, when your parents shouted or said your name, you, you heard it, and just the hearing

of your name registered in you. It awoken something in you. It called for your attention, and when

you address someone by his or her name, what you are doing is acknowledging their importance.

But the fact is, it's hard to remember names. How many of us have ever said this before?

I'm good with faces, but I'm bad with names. Amen? Anybody else out there like that? How many of you

know the sheer embarrassment of somebody who comes up to you and remembers your name? Jacob,

how are you doing? And you start to break out into a panic, a cold sweat breaks out on your

forehead, and you're getting nervous. Why? Because you don't remember their name.

And thank God we're in a church, right? Because you can always get yourself out by just saying,

brother or sister? Hey, brother, how you doing? Amen. That's a get out of jail free card when

you don't remember their name. But sometimes you can't go anywhere and you're just like waiting

for it to come to you. Amen. And there is something about remembering people's names that

that is just special to them. They never forget that our names are incredibly important.

They're incredibly important part of our character. And aside from carrying deep, personal,

and familial connection, names gives us a sense of who we are and the communities in which we belong

and our place in the world. I want to tell you that your name is in many ways your identity.

Your name is your identity. And when people call you by your name, what they are doing is

they're calling upon you. That's what we respond to. And that is in many ways the way that we

understand ourselves. Sometimes when you have a moment of reflection and you need to kind of

talk to yourself, I know maybe you don't admit doing that, but sometimes we've got to talk to

ourselves and maybe even look ourselves in the mirror and say our name and just the speaking

of our own name to ourselves has some meaning. And if you can understand these things, then you

can understand these reasons, then you may understand why God is so sensitive about his name. Amen.

And why his name is so powerful. And why he told Moses these words that when people ask or

when they mention this, what is his name, you ought to tell them these words. I am who I am.

He said, I want you to tell them that I am sent you. Somebody say, I am.

Now according to Egyptian theology and philosophy, you could defeat a God if you knew his secret name.

This is how they thought. And this is something that the Hebrews, that generation grew up in

in Egyptian theology and philosophy would have understood that if a God reveals his secret name,

you can defeat that God. But when the one true God said, this is what you want to tell them,

you tell them that I am that I am. And what God was essentially telling Moses was, I'm not afraid

for them to know my name. In fact, I want them to know. I'm not afraid to reveal my name to you,

Moses. I'm not afraid to reveal who I am. And when God described himself as the I am,

he was revealing in essence his divine nature as the all eternal one, as the all

existent, self-existent one, as the all great and mighty God, the omnipresent one, the omnipotent

one, the omniscient one, the Lord of glory. He was declaring to himself, to his servant,

Moses, who would also stand before Pharaoh and declare the emancipation of God's people

after generations of slavery. He was announcing to him and to all of his people that I am

the God of glory. I am the only one, hallelujah. And he echoed the words that he would one day

speak in revelations one and eight, saying, I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

Who he is, who is, who was and who is to come, the almighty God. I have come today to preach to you

about the name of God. I have come today to tell you that God has a name and that name is worthy

to be praised and that name is worthy to be glorified and that name is worthy to be magnified

and that name is high and lifted up and there is no other name. I wish somebody can bless that name

today. I said I wish somebody can bless that name today. I am who I am is what God told Moses to

tell the people and I am who I am is also a Hebrew idiom meaning. It's a Hebrew expression meaning

that when you get there I will be there. God wasn't just saying I am who I am because he didn't know

what else to say. God didn't run out of words. He was expressing a very powerful and divine principle

to Moses. He wanted Moses to understand something about his existence, about his nature, and about

how awesome and sovereign that he is and he says I am that I am or I am who I am and what he's

telling him is that I am everything Moses that you need me to be. Hallelujah. He was telling him

I will always be what you need me to be. I will always be there before you get there. I will always

be at any point that you are in this life. Moses I want you to understand that I am whatever you

need from me I am whatever you desire from me I am how many of you under the sound of my voice

today understand this about God that no matter where you go in this world no matter what position

you find yourself in no matter where you are headed we serve a God that stands at the end and from

the beginning and no matter where we traverse to no matter where we progress to that God is

already there I wish I had a witness in the house today I said I wish I had a witness in the house

today we serve a God that is greater than everything that we could ever go through and he is already

there wherever I go and that's why I am in churus today that's why I can lift up my head today

and realize that no matter where I find myself in this world the Holy Spirit is already there

David said if I lay my head in hell you are there if I rise to the mountain you are there I cannot

escape you God my God is everywhere all at the same time he is a God of great glory he is a God

who is there when you get there and I've got to understand we've got to understand that when we

talk to God about what's going on when we pray we need to know that God is already there

God is somebody say he's already there come on say

he's already there and if you need God today I just want to give you some a few things for you

to get into your spirit and take somebody needs God today I mean everybody today needs God but

there is somebody right now who just needs to know that there is a God that you can call on

and I want to tell you number one is that if you need God all you got to do is call his name

whoo my God hallelujah I said all you got to do is call his name in the Old Testament

people could call on the name of the Lord and this practice started three generations after Adam

it says in Genesis 4 26 and asked for Seth to him also a son was born and he named him Enoch

watch this then men began to call on the name of the Lord three generations after Adam his

grandson generation Enoch was born and at this point in time men or humanity began to call

on the name of the Lord something was going on in the earth something was taking place in in

society something was happening throughout the world to to trigger this and to initiate this

desire within man to begin to call on the name of the Lord Enoch his name is significant and this

is probably a hidden clue for us today as to why men began to call upon his name Enoch's name

it means several things it means mortal frail miserable and incurable hallelujah Enoch his name

describes the sinful status of the world at that time three generations from the fall of man

three generations from the garden of Eden can I preach like I want to today three generations

from paradise three generations from it being the ideal world that God had created it to be

three generations from a perfect sinless innocent society and three generations later the world

had come become so perverse and so backward and so diabolical and so upside down and so needy and

broken that this boy Enoch was born and I think they named him that to symbolize and to embody

everything that was happening around them and it tells us something about our own lives we like

Enoch are mortal we are mortal what does that mean that means that we are earthly beings susceptible

to the realities of a broken world we are susceptible to the realities of a fallen world

we are mortal beings we are vulnerable to sickness we are vulnerable to the problems and the cares

of this life like Enoch not only are we mortal but we are also frail what does that mean it means

that we are in our own strength utterly powerless to lift ourselves out of the condition that we

are in that there is nothing within our self there is nothing intrinsically within us that can lift

us out of the clay of sin that can lift us out of where we are in our depravity in our failure

we are frail we are frail oh my god and as a result of being both mortal and frail humans are also

miserable because we are mortal and because we are frail we are left with our own devices

and we are hopelessly unhappy and discontent nothing seems to satisfy my god I'm gonna minister

today nothing seems to satisfy no nothing nothing seems to quench that aching thirst

nothing seems to satisfy the groaning of our hearts and we are we are miserable there is just

nowhere we can find solace there is just nothing we can do and that leads us to that final state

where man realizes that because I am mortal and because I am frail and miserable I am incurable

there is no man-made antidote there is no earthly solution my god I wish I had some help today

there is nothing on this side of heaven that can offer me a remedy for my sin-sick self and so

because there is nothing I can do because I am mortal and frail and miserable and incurable

there is no doctor there is no lawyer there is no physician there is no philosopher I

god my god I wish I had some help there is nobody that can offer you anything but there is a name

I said there is a name that I can call on today when nothing else can work and everything else

fails there is a name I wish somebody would call on him right now I wish somebody would

believe with all of their hearts my bible tells me that wherever you call on the name of the lord

you shall be saved I come to tell you you may have called a lot of people in your life you may

have called your doctor you may have called your therapist you may have called your boss you may

have called your friend but I want to tell you a number that you can call today you can call on

him and he'll answer your prayer I wish I had some help today you can how many of you are a witness

that you can call on him I said how many of you are a witness that you can call on him

it tells me my bible that nor is there salvation in any other for there is on there is no other name

given among men under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved there is only one name

today there is only one name and God wants you to know that name and I'm going to reveal it if you

don't know what it is you're going to understand it very clearly before this service and before

this message is over the most common name for God in the Old Testament was Yahweh or the English

version of Jehovah this is how God was known among his people and this was the most common term they

used title for God and there were many compound names throughout the bible there's a long list I

could read to you today but I'll just read a few of my personal favorites there was Jehovah Elohim

and this was this meant up the Lord our creator there was Jehovah Jireh the Lord our provider how

many of you know him to be your provider come on I said how many of you know him to be your provider

he is Jehovah Rafa which meant the Lord our healer how many of you know he's a healer today

oh hallelujah has he here is anybody got a testimony when God healed you oh hallelujah he is Jehovah

Nisi the Lord our banner or our miracle worker God is a miracle working God hallelujah he is Jehovah

Shalom the Lord our peace and there were many names upon which people called upon God when they

needed him and different types of names to describe different things that God did and that God could

do but in the New Testament which we are now a part of God accompanied the revelation of himself

in flesh with a whole new name and that name today I have come to emphatically declare it to your

spirit that name today is a name unlike any other that name today is a name that both includes and

surpasses every compound name revealed in the Old Testament that name today is a name that once it's

uttered and believed upon can absolutely revolutionize your very life from the crown of your head to the

soles of your feet that name is a name that even the dembles would tremble that name is a name that

can make all the difference my god I want a priest that name is a name that once it gets it to your

spirit I don't care what you're dealing with I don't care what you're going it can change everything

and I've come to tell you and announce it to your heart today that his name is Jesus

I think we ought to give him praise right now I think somebody ought to clap your hands I think

somebody ought to stand up on your feet and give that name the glory that it deserves

hallelujah hallelujah the name Jacob can't save you the name David can't save you the name Ben

can't do anything for you but if you call on that name oh I wish somebody with the Holy Ghost today

would call on that name Jesus is the name of God I feel the Holy Ghost in this place right now

I feel the Holy Ghost if you don't feel it it's because you don't want to feel it but there

is something happening in this house right now it's the Holy Ghost because whenever you lift up

that name whenever you magnify that name you bring in the presence of Almighty God

oh hallelujah hallelujah what did you just worship him for another few moments

hallelujah it is the name of supreme power it is the name of supreme authority it's the only

saving name with all due respect Buddha can't save you with all due respect Muhammad can't save you

with all due respect Allah can't do none for you with all due respect confucius can't help you

with all due respect christian can't do anything for you but there is a name that is above all

names come on now somebody I said there is a name that is above all names my bible says this I need

some help right here therefore God has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above

every name that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow oh those in heaven and those on earth

and those under the earth you stepped into an apostolic Jesus name Holy Ghost field

Pentecostal one god servant church services afternoon and we are not afraid we are not ashamed of the

name of Jesus we gotta talk about it we gotta sing about it we gotta shout about it we used to say

don't let his name go down somebody just needs to let the Holy Ghost move in you

I don't even know if I'll get to all of my messes today but that's all right because there is a

name that can save you right now there is a name that can heal you right now there oh my god

you don't have to say your way you don't have to say Jehovah those names are nice but there is a

name that is greater than all of that the angel came to Mary and said there is a name and you

shall call his name Jesus I wonder if I got any apostolics in the house today that are thankful

that are grateful that you know his name

hallelujah hallelujah I wish somebody would just let this get into your spirit right now

there is a name

oh hallelujah hallelujah something happens when we call that name something happens when we call

that name miracles happen when we call that name I need to help somebody today help you to call on

Jesus this afternoon there is no there is no other name and God has always desired she call

her mama yeah who god help me lord I don't know how I don't know how far further I can go right now

head up a baby yeah she call her mama I want everybody praying right now I come against every

spirit that's trying to resist what God is doing right now and I bind it in the name of Jesus I bind

it right now God wants to move and I pray that the holy ghost would saturate somebody from the

top of their head to the soles of their feet this is my god this is what God is wanting to do

God is saying I need you to exalt my name again it's not about the preacher it's not about the

praise team it's not about the musicians all that is wonderful but if we don't have the name we don't

have anything oh I wish I had somebody instead of we don't have the name we don't got nothing

alamayashama I am let me tell you something right now how about if you want to keep praying pray

I am more than ever going to be 100 unapologetic about being a preacher and being a church of the name

unapologetic about being a church of the name someone say the name come on shout and say the name

that's right don't get it twisted don't think otherwise there's nothing else that we can do

if we don't have the name oh hallelujah Jesus it's the only name it's the only name and I want to

tell you I may only have time to get to this but let me say that not only are we to call on that name

but we've got to carry on that name oh rabbi you've got to understand church hear me those that are

here and those that are watching me via live stream you need to understand that it's not just about

calling on the name there are many today that are calling on his name and that are saying wonderful

things and God in his mercy and in his grace will heal and show up whenever his name is mentioned

but I need you to understand that just because someone calls on the name is not a validation of

their lifestyle and not a validation of who they are or not a validation of their doctrine not a

validation of their theology you can call on his name and God will be good enough that he might

bless you but there is also a people of his name there is a people and God has always desired not

just for somebody to call on his name but for somebody to bear his name starting with the

nation of Israel he wanted them to be a people of the name and in Deuteronomy this and 28 and 10 it

says that all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord and

they shall be afraid of you let me tell you something the devil's not afraid of the degrees on your

wall the devil's not afraid hell's not nervous about who you know how much money you have in your

account or what kind of car you drive the devil's not nervous the enemy does not care about who you

are in fact he don't even care what your name is brother or sister because your name don't move hell

and don't scare the devil but when you get a revelation that you are a people of the name

and that the name of Jesus has been applied to your life that will shake the devil in his boots

if we were determined to be a people of his name there is no devil in hell there is no weapon formed

against the people of God that shall be able to prosper are you hearing what i'm saying today

there is nothing the devil can do to stop a church that is harness and bearing the name of God oh my

Lord i want to be a people of his name how many of you want to be a people of his name oh hallelujah

hallelujah hallelujah oh i want to be that i want to be that if i don't get the name right it doesn't

matter what programs we have it doesn't matter what else we do we've got to get the name right we

got to get it right we got to get it right and one of the and one of the commandments that God gave

to Israel out of the ten commandments he tells them you shall not take the name of the Lord your God

in vain now some of you were brought up to think just like i was at one point that that only applied

to like using the name of God as a swear word you know don't use God's name like that you know

using you know casually just just flippantly and can i tell you that that applies you know we we

have to respect the name of God with our words but it goes beyond that this command didn't have to do

with just how we talk about God with our mouth what this is telling us here that verb to take on

when it says you shall not take that word in the original language means bear he's saying you shall

not bear the name of the Lord your God in vain what God was trying to tell his people was that we

are not to just wear his name like a label or a brand and then not live a life that is resembling

of that name hallelujah what God is saying is that if i am holy you've got to be holy what God is

saying it's a my god hama hallelujah what God is saying is if you're gonna bear my name you're

gonna represent me in this world you're gonna be my ambassadors you gotta bear the name someone

say bear his name bear his name and God was saying don't just put on some people they just slap on

apostolic like it's a brand name you know slap on holy ghost and slap on new sin that that's all

right people slap on that but that's not gonna that's not what God's looking for God is saying I

want you to I want you to live up to it I don't just want you to wear it like a badge of honor

I want you to live it too my god I want you to be a people of my name no wonder when Jesus

commanded his disciple I'm almost when he commanded his disciples to go forth into all the world he

said go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name someone say the name

oh I'm gonna need some help right now I said somebody say the name in the name of a father

and of the son and of the holy spirit and you read that over and over you'll see that that word

name is singular and not plural what God was saying to his disciple is there is only one name

that can save you there is only one name that can sanctify you there is only one name

that can beautify you there is only one name that can raise you up there is only one name

that you can wear and it's the name of Jesus somebody shout his name today

come on somebody shout his name today oh when you are baptized you are not baptized in the name of

the father and of the son and of the holy ghost there is only one name that can save you you've

got to go down in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins you've got to go down

into the waters and be born again but it's his name somebody shout his name right now

oh hallelujah I don't know about you but I get excited when I think about the name of Jesus

oh my god I get excited when I think about that powerful name I've been in church all of my life

I grew up sleeping under the pews churches all that I know I can sing all of them songs

I know when to clap I know when to be quiet I've been in this for a while I've heard all of the

messages and I've heard all the things but there is something that even to this day really lights

my fire there is something that gets down into the inside of my spirit it's whenever we begin

to talk about that name whenever we begin to preach about that name and whenever we begin to worship

that name I'm so glad I know his name today I'm so glad I know his name today is there somebody

that will join me right now and give God about 20 seconds of glory 20 seconds of praise 20 seconds

of worship I love your name God I love your name God your name is the name your name is Jesus

I feel the Holy Ghost right now