Price, Presence, Place | Rachel Ann Thong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

So today, I'm just going to bring us through some

scripture and declare His name, basically. I'm going to proclaim

the name of God. And you know, in the English Bible,

the words are very simplistic. So what do we refer

God to in the Bible? God. Lord, God and Lord, usually,

most of the time. In the Hebrew Bible, there's a

lot more words. And you know, I was thinking, yeah,

some of these words I know, but actually I don't

really know the real meaning or the background behind it.

So I went and did some research and I'll share

some of it with us today. Hopefully you can learn something,

those who are new in the faith or those who

never went into all the Hebrew words. You'll learn something

new today and learn something about God's character. Because you know,

in the Hebrew Bible, the word name to begin with

is Shem. Shem. And it's not just, you know, a

combination of sounds. It's not just an identifier. But it

is really a reputation. It conveys the essence and characteristics

of the person, you know, or thing that's being identified.

And that's why it's so important what our.

Names are, right?

I'm sure some of us have some friends whom we wonder,

why did the parents name them that? Go on. Do

you have some friends or heard a name that you're like,

why did the parents name them that?

Don't have?

No? God.

I know I met a few like, poor thing. Poor thing.

Would have been teased in school. What does that mean?

But yeah, a name carries so much weight. And actually,

you go to the first slide. Let me see how

many of you know these names. Go back to my

title slide. Elohim.

Show of hands, those who know this name. Heard it,

read it before? A few? Okay, El Shaddai. The older

ones know the song. El Shaddai, El Shaddai.

Um... Oh, what's that one with no consonants? No vowels, sorry.

Just consonants. What's the word?

Yahweh.

Later we'll go into it, but it's... They added in

the A, right?

And the E. But it's just.

It's the letters, the Hebrew letters is Yud, He, Vah, He.

Correct, Pastor Dan? I say it wrong. And Adonai. Heard it?

Read it?

Okay, some of us have. Here's something that might be

new to us. Yeah, so back to name. Example, my name.

Rachel and Rochelle. The same meaning. How many of you

know the meaning of the name? I think I've shared

it before. Eww. Eww.

Female sheep. Female sheep.

And really, it brings about... a gentleness about the character.

I don't know. I don't think I'm very gentle.

Gentle, nurturing, pure. But more than that, Rachel in the Bible,

she was a shepherdess as well. And that's where I find, wow.

You know, when my parents first named me, it's interesting

because those days, I can't remember whether they knew they

were going to have a girl. Like now we always scan, right?

Those days, I don't know whether they knew, maybe not.

But they both, both my mum and dad had the

same name in mind before they even discussed.

It was Rachel.

And so when I was born, they agreed, Rachel. And

you know, who would have known years later, that's what

we're doing, right? We're shepherding the sheep, we're taking care

of our flock, our homes, our huddles, the homes leaders,

and also the church.

But the name is so important.

I hope all you know the meaning of your name

and sometimes can see how God has, you know, used

your name and really seen your purpose come through your name.

But today, okay, we're not going to talk about our names.

We're going to talk about the name of God. So

let's go to the very first verse in the Bible.

Who knows what is Genesis 1.1? In the Biningging. Okay,

those who don't know, there's some real, is it? Some

real where this guy can't pronounce.

Beginning.

Okay, in the beginning, what happened? Come on, respond. Read

it with me. Yeah, God created the heavens and the earth.

This is the first verse in the Bible. And if

you read the Hebrew translation, what it's saying is actually

in the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.

Elohim. Elohim. That's the first Hebrew word. Can go to

the next slide.

Next TV. Elohim created the heavens and the earth. And

this talks about God being a creator, right? All-powerful creator.

He spoke the universe into existence. There was nothing.

And then when He spoke, everything came into being, right?

He created the sun, the moon, the stars, all the planets.

I love this topic because if you go and look

into outer space, into universe, and you see all his creation,

you're like, wow.

You can't stop but just be in awe. Right?

And then, and he created man in his own image.

And before I even go to that part where he

talks about that, the word Elohim, and just to share

with you, it appears in the Hebrew Bible, it appears

both as a common noun, common noun meaning it can

be a spirit a divinity and it also appears as

a proper noun so in the Hebrew Bible when it

says Elohim sometimes it can be talking about like gods

or the one and only God which is the God

we know okay God of God of Israel God of

the Jews another interesting thing about the word Elohim is

that it is in the masculine plural form what in

the world is that okay in the in some languages

there's There's feminine and masculine words. I don't know.

I'm not a linguist. So I don't... Yeah, like French.

What else? German?

I don't know. But there's a few languages that has

feminine and masculine. So Hebrew is one of them. And

the word Elohim is in the masculine plural form.

So it's like gods instead of God.

But without God, that plural form, you know, I think

it brings such weight to that because.

Apart from emphasising God's sovereign authority, His divinity, what does

it say in Genesis 1, verse 26? Just I gave

Genesis 1:26

a hint. What did He create? After He created the

whole earth, He created all the animals, the birds, the fish.

Then He said, in chapter 1, verse.

26, us. Then God said, let us. Plural.

More than one person. Make man in our image according

to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish

of the sea, over the birds of the air, over

the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping

thing that creeps on the earth. Here again, the word

God in the Hebrew Bible is Elohim. Elohim said, let

us make man in our image. Isn't that amazing? The Bible,

when you read it in its original language, this affirms

the Trinity right from the start. Father, Son, Holy Spirit

working in unity. And hence the plural form, you know,

I believe. Amen.

You go back to the first slide.

Is there anything that I wanted to call out?

Not first slide. Yeah, this one. Okay, yeah.

I mentioned all that. Okay, so keep that in mind.

If you see the word Elohim, remember it is a

reminder of our all-powerful Creator. All-powerful Creator. And it emphasizes

the Trinity as well. Let's read a few more verses

where Elohim or variation of the word appears. Deuteronomy 6

Deuteronomy 6:4

verse 4. There was one week I preached a sermon

on this, which is the Shema.

Do you remember Shema?

Yeah? Deuteronomy 6.4 says, Hear, O Israel. Again, in the

Hebrew word, it's Shema, because it doesn't just mean hear

like a sound, listen. It's hear and obey. It comes together.

There's an action to it. Hear and obey, O Israel,

the Lord our God. And here the word God is Elohinu.

I hope I'm not butchering all the words. Elohinu, the

Lord is one. And that word, Elohim is actually derived

from Elohim.

Okay? It means our God. Our God.

The Lord, our God. So Elohim is from Elohim but

just added the R there. Our God, the Lord is one. Again,

the Lord is one.

What is that?

It's again emphasizing the unity, right? Of God the Father,

the Son and the Holy Spirit. And it's just beautiful

the way the three persons of God works together. Works

together to create works together throughout the Bible. You see,

I mean, there's a lot of emphasis, of course, on Jesus,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.

But if you read throughout Old Testament, there are snippets

where you will see a mention of them. Yeah, and

the Trinity, I think, is one of the hardest things

for us to explain, comprehend, sometimes with our human minds.

It's hard to explain to people, but this is our God. And,

you know, even throughout worship, we sing so many things

about our Lord and, you know, saying, Lord, revive us.

But it has to come first with, wow, just such

a recognition of this almighty God. It's all-powerful one, amazing creator.

And if we move on, you know, in the Bible,

in Ecclesiastes, Anyone knows who wrote Ecclesiastes?

Anyone knows? Want to shout out? Solomon.

Yes.

Thank you, Benjamin. Solomon.

And he says this in chapter 12, verse 13.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. The conclusion.

Fear God. And again, the word here is Elohim.

Fear Elohim and keep His commandments for this is man's All.

King Solomon, he's King David's son, right? He's the richest,

wisest man in history who wrote this book. My devotion now,

I've been going through Samuel and 1 Kings and so

reading about Solomon, it's the first time I really paid

attention to like his wealth and all the things he built.

It's crazy in those times, the way how he built

the temple and his own palace and other buildings. When

you read it, it's like it's probably unheard of. In

those days, the amount of gold that he had, the

amount of gold is really rich. His annual income, I

read up and wanted to understand what it means in

the Bible. Interestingly, right, I don't know why, it's 666.

Talents of gold. 666.

I wonder if there's some hidden meaning in that. But

I didn't go research that. But in terms of value,

it's about 3.22 billion USD today. That was his annual income. 3.22 billion.

Back in that day. Now also a lot already, right?

But yeah, back in the day. That's how rich he was.

And did you know King Solomon had 700 wives and

300 concubines? I don't know how he housed all of them.

Now you're one also. Hard to manage, right? 700 wives

and 300 concubines. But anyway, this is King Solomon and

then it goes on. Talk about all his... all the

animals that he had. He's the richest and wisest man

and yet his conclusion of life, again, his kesimpulannya at

the end of his life, towards the end, he wrote Ecclesiastes.

In chapter 1, what does he start off with? We

all know the first words. What's the first word in

Ecclesiastes chapter 1?

Ecclesiastes 1 · chapter mention

Meaningless!

Meaningless!

Everything is meaningless. Okay, I can't remember the first verse,

but it's definitely in chapter one.

Meaningless.

Everything is meaningless. He's talking about, you know, what do

people get for all their hard work?

Now all of us working people are thinking, right, we

slow get our work, go early, finish late, brave the traffic,

work so hard.

What does it mean?

No matter how much we see, how much we hear,

how much we learn, how much we even have, how

much we get, right? Humans, we are never satisfied. It's

never enough, right? There will always be someone who knows more.

There will always be someone who has more. You know,

there will always be someone who's more experienced than us.

And he has everything, right?

King Solomon.

I always wonder like, my goodness, God gave him everything.

And still you can say it's meaningless. You know, and

he concluded with this fear, Elohim.

You know, I.

Don't know how many of you here are feeling this. Really,

we sacrifice so much time. We sacrifice our family time,

our sleep, mental health for some people.

For what? Right, I see it.

I see at work especially, you know, a lot of

people just giving so much and then at the end

of the day, don't really get anything in return.

They're like, why? What's all this for?

Thankfully, those who are believers, you know, my encouragement to

them is don't focus on this. Don't focus on what's physical,

what we see. Focus on eternal. But those who don't

know Christ, don't know eternity, even more so, everything looks meaningless.

And yeah. So what he concludes is our only duty

as human beings, as men on earth, as mortals, is

to fear Elohim. Fear God, our Creator. Keep His commandments.

And that is why when you, and I find that

for myself, the only way we find real purpose and

real fulfillment is when we know it's not about just

hitting our KPIs at work. It's not about getting a promotion,

it's not about getting a raise, not about getting recognition,

not even about closing a deal, you know, for a businessman,

but it's knowing, God, I'm serving you.

I'm serving you. I fear you.

I'm obeying what you say. That's where we get our

true fulfillment, right?

And purpose. Man, so that's Elohim. That's Elohim.

And in just some fun facts, some names that are

derived from there. So Elohim, as I said, is plural.

Just L, E-L, L. Like my son's name, Elias L,

is the singular form. So like Samuel, he's in ex-kids today, Samuel. Samuel,

the L is God. And so his name means heard

by God.

Emmanuel. Also, the word God is there. God with us.

Elijah. And, you know, my son's name, Elias, is also

derived from there. Elijah is the Hebrew name. And it

just means, my God is Yahweh. My God is Yahweh. Jah. Jah. Yah. Okay?

Alright.

So, that's the first name. Everyone say Elohim. Yeah, He's

our all-powerful Creator. And next to that, quite similar, has

the L also, El Shaddai. Just like I mentioned, El Shaddai.

And this means God Almighty. God Almighty. In Genesis chapter 17,

Genesis 17:1–2

verse 1 to 2, this is when God appears and

reveals Himself to Abraham.

Speaks to Abraham. Let's read this verse.

When Abraham was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to

him and said, I am.

Almighty God. I am El Shaddai.

Walk before me and be blameless and I will make

my covenant between me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.

And then all the way down to verse 19, it says,

Then God said, Now Sarah, your wife, shall bear you

a son. Right?

Because at this time, there are no children. It's like, huh?

How will you multiply me? I'm so old. I can't bear, right?

Sarah's barren.

No.

Sarah, your wife, shall bear you a son. You shall

call his name.

Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for

an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

This is El Shaddai.

He appears to Abraham and he makes a covenant. He

makes a covenant with Abraham and saying, I will multiply you.

And even at that impossible, to them they thought it's impossible.

Can't have any kids now. But God made the Impossible.

Possible.

And this is actually 25 years, I believe, after the promise.

They were still waiting. Waiting for the promised son. Their

promised son. And some of us, maybe we are still

waiting for our promise. Waiting for our breakthrough. Waiting for healing.

But God doesn't go by our timing. He has His

own timing and things has its time. Right, but we see...

El Shaddai is not mentioned as many times as Elohim,

but it is very apparent that he uses this name

when he reveals himself to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob.

Or some of you know as Abraham and the patriarchs.

So his covenant was with them for Abraham and his

descendants after him. If you read on in Genesis 35,

Genesis 35:11

verse 11, similarly, he reveals then himself to Jacob.

Next slide. Genesis 35, 11.

Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from

Paddan Aram and blessed him. God said to him, your

name is Jacob. Your name should not be called Jacob anymore.

But Israel, okay, that's where you get the name Israel,

shall be your name. And that's where the whole nation

comes from. So he called his name Israel. Also God

said to him, I am El Shaddai.

I'm El Shaddai.

Be fruitful and multiply. Does that sound familiar? Right at

the beginning, right?

Adam and Eve.

Same promise. Same promise to Abraham.

Isaac and to Jacob, then known as Israel.

And we see, you know, be fruitful and multiply. I

think that's what I caught from this name, El Shaddai.

It's something about multiplication, about being fruitful in our lives.

And we look at this name, El Shaddai. And in Exodus,

Exodus 6 verse 3, this is.

Exodus 6:3

When God meets Moses. Yeah.

God spoke to Moses and He says this, I am

the Lord. Later we'll go on to this name, Yahweh.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as

El Shaddai. Okay, so to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as

El Shaddai, but by my name, Lord. In the English Bible,

it's just by my name, Lord. Okay, but it's Yahweh.

I was not known to them. So they didn't yet

know this name. They knew God as El Shaddai. And

El Shaddai speaks about God being omnipotent. I'll give you

some big words.

Omnipotent. What does that mean? Yeah, all-powerful. It's omnipotent. It's all-sufficient.

He makes all things possible. Yeah, and He fulfills promises.

I want us to catch some of these things about

God's character. Fulfills His promises. Yes. And He brings about

blessing and fruitfulness. And we see that, you know, from

the time Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And it has, and

it's not even, you know, even when they fall short,

even when they weren't always, because Abraham was, you know,

he was a father of faith.

But there were times when each one of them failed.

And yet, His promises and His favour upon them continued

for generations and generations.

And you see till today, it's real.

I mean, going through a lot of stuff, But we

believe God is with them. Yeah.

Amen.

Are you all catching something about God and His name

and His character? And your vocab increased a little bit

about His names. Because usually we are just so used

with Lord, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. Okay, ready for the

next one. Next one is.

Alright.

So in the English Bible, again, it's just Lord. Every

time you read Lord, it's one of these words. And

the original word, the YHWH in Hebrew is Yud-Heh-Vah-Heh.

You want to say that? Yud-Heh-Vah-Heh.

And it's mentioned about seven times in the Old Testament. Okay,

just some facts for you. Now, where do we see

this mention of this name? Let's go to Genesis 2

Genesis 2:4

verse 4. It says, this is the history of the

heavens and the earth when they were created. In the

day that the Lord God made the heavens.

Okay, that Lord God is... Oh, I didn't put a verse,

did I? It's okay.

Genesis, yeah, 2 verse 4. Lord God, that is your Yahweh. Okay,

your Yud, He, Rav, He.

Lord God.

And then, but where this name really... Thank you, XTV.

Where this name really is introduced, as in God comes

and says, this is my name. You want to guess

who it was to? Some of you who know the

Bible pretty well. We already talked about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

Another great.

Yeah, Moses. Benjamin is the Bible scholar. Oh, there it is.

Came out already.

Moses.

Okay, in Exodus 3 verse 14, God introduces himself to

Exodus 3:14

Moses and he said, I.

Am who I am.

Albert jokes about this and saying, in Africa, it'd be

I is who I is.

Or the pastor Sandra. The black Bible would be I

is who I is. I am who I am. The

word in Hebrew.

Is ayeh asheh ayeh. Are you wondering where is the Yahweh? Okay,

I'll get to that. Then he said, Thus you shall

say to the children of Israel, I am. Okay, I

am is the ayah. Has sent me to you. Another

way of saying I am who I am is I

will be what I will be.

Okay, that's the translation. I am what I am. I

will be what I will be.

And this speaks about God being, again, He's self-sufficient, He's unchanging, right?

He is who He is.

He's eternally present and He's also about a relational God.

And why is not Yahweh there? Yahweh basically is He is.

He is. The A-Y is I am.

So God calls, refers to Himself, A-Y, I am. And

the Jusei Yahweh or Yud-Heh-Vah-Heh, He is. And you know

God is outside of time, right? He's outside of our

linear time. He's outside of space. As we know it,

He is, again, some words. Last time we always hear

these words. Don't really hear it much now. He is omniscient.

Omniscient meaning He knows all things. He has unlimited knowledge. Okay,

unlimited knowledge. And He's omnipresent.

These two things.

Omniscient, omnipresent. Omnipresent just means He's present everywhere.

Yeah.

Yeah. everywhere at the same time. And God is constant.

He doesn't change. Thank God He doesn't change. I tell you,

in my company now, everyone's like edgy and.

Feeling not at.

Rest because we are constantly changing. It's constantly changing and

I always have to tell them, yes, in this company,

change is the only constant. So we can only survive

if you're comfortable with it. with change or can manage change.

But it's, you know, it's always happening change. But the

only constant we know and we have, hallelujah, is God.

It's Yahweh.

Amen. And because of His name, we can fully trust God.

He's just. He never changes. Every generation from then till now, Abraham, Isaac.

Jacob, through our parents, through us, through our future generation,

our kids, He never changes. And Yahweh also describes God's interfacing,

His engagement with humans, with human beings, in kindness, in mercy.

He's always showing that.

We see that a lot.

He declares it a lot in His Word as well. Yeah,

actually this Yahweh is also a region of many names

or phrases. So just now we said Samuel, right? His brother, Joshua.

Joshua comes from Yehoshua. Yehoshua comes from, yeah. And it

means the Lord is my salvation. I cannot pronounce this man.

Which is actually Isaiah. Isaiah, which means God saves. Okay,

so you see the Yahweh name appearing, variations of it

in the Hebrew names. Okay, just now mentioning about how

God interacts with us in His kindness, in His mercy.

We see that in Exodus 34, verse 6 to 7. Now,

Exodus 34:6–7

this is after the Israelites sinned against God. Okay, if

you remember, they told Aaron, Oh, make us a golden calf.

Don't know where's Moses. He's been up there on the

mountain for so long. Don't know if he's coming down.

And so Aaron gave in to the people. He took

all the gold. He said he threw in the fire

and out came a calf. I don't know how that happened.

The calf jumped out and they all worshipped the golden calf.

And obviously, you know, if you read that whole chapter,

of course, God's anger burns against the people.

Moses' anger burns against the people. He again melted.

The calf and then sprinkled in the water and gave

the Israelites to drink. Drink gold water. But he meets

Moses again. And again, this is after Moses threw down

the tablets today. He really made the Ten Commandments. So angry,

broken to pieces. But God meets him again. And the Lord,

here again we see Yahweh, passed before him and proclaimed,

the Lord, in English Bible, the Lord, It's Yahweh here,

the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abounding in

goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and

transgressions and sin. By no means clearing the guilty, visiting

the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the

children's children.

To the third and the fourth generation.

Amen.

Someone say amen. Thankful for God's mercy. If not, we are.

All doomed, you know, for the sin of whoever, ancestors, ancestors, ancestors.

But He is merciful and gracious.

Amen.

Yahweh.

And in the New Testament, we see this term again, Ehyeh.

Proclaimed by who? In the New Testament. In the book

of John?

Yeah, Jesus.

In 858, Jesus said to them, Most assuredly, I say

to you, before Abraham was Ehyeh, I am.

And this went on. They all went crazy.

The Pharisees and the Sadducees, they all just went mad

because they're like, what?

A man saying you are Yahweh, that is blasphemy.

This is where they tried to stone Jesus because it was,

you know, to them at that time, this is really blasphemy.

But Jesus declared, I am. Again, He just confirmed, you know,

they are one. From the beginning, right, the start, In

the Bible, when it talks about Yahweh, Jesus declared that

He is.

He is. Amen.

In Psalms 68 verse 4, as a reminder of the song,

Psalms 68:4

Christ the King.

Always mixing up the name. Christ is King. Christ the King.

We sing, riding on the clouds.

Psalms 68 verse 4, it says, Extol him who rides

Psalms 68:4

on the clouds by his name Yah. Okay, this is

a short form, short form for Yahweh. Sing to God,

sing praises to his name. Extol him, he who rides

on the clouds by his name Yah. And guess what?

This riding on the clouds is mentioned a few times

in the Bible. Okay, so we see it in Daniel's vision.

Daniel 7 verse 13, it says, I was watching in

Daniel 7:13

the night visions. And behold, one like the Son of Man,

he didn't know the name Jesus yet at that time, right?

But he knows.

Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven, he

came to the Ancient of Days.

Okay, that's another name for God. Ancient of Days.

And they brought him near before him. So Daniel saw

that vision. You know, we see some, so King David

is writing about Yahweh riding.

On the clouds.

And then in All the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke. At

least Matthew, Mark, Luke. You want to take down the verses,

you can take it down. Matthew 24, verse 30. I

Matthew 24:30

didn't put it there. I don't think so. Matthew 24,

Matthew 24:30

verse 30. Mark 13, verse 26. You can go back

Mark 13:26

and read it for yourself. Luke 2, verse 27. Okay,

Luke 2:27

Matthew 24, 30, Mark 13, 26, Luke 2, 27. All

three men recorded Jesus telling about His second coming. And

it's all about coming on the clouds.

Wow. How many of you are excited to see that day? Oh,

can't imagine.

Can't imagine how we will feel when we see Jesus

coming on the clouds. Matthew 24, 30 says, And a

sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven.

And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn

and they will see the Son of Man coming on

the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The tribes of the earth will mourn, but we will

not mourn.

We will be rejoicing. Lord, take us home. And He's

coming with power and great glory. Before that day, that's

why we have Habakkuk, right? We want everyone to know

God's glory first. Not only see it on that day

because then they will mourn if that's the only time.

They're recognizing His glory. We want them to see it now. Yeah.

Amen.

And the beautiful thing about this, Yahweh, He's coming back.

He's coming back soon. This relational God that we have,

who's made a covenant, who's kept His promises, who's blessed us,

who has made us fruitful, He is coming back soon.

And He's going to take us home to be with

Him forever.

Yeah. The promise that we all hold on to. I'm

sure there are days when we are like, come sooner.

But some of us are like, wait, wait, Lord.

Unfinished business. We're not done yet. But He will. Still

want to enjoy.

Still have people to introduce to Him, to bring to Him.

But yes, we will be with Him forever.

Amen. Amen. Adonai.

Another word for Lord, Adonai. It means Lord or it

can mean my Lord or.

Master.

And just now we talked about Yahweh, right? They added

the A and the E or, you know, or some

of us, more English term, we say Jehovah. But it

was Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. And during those days, they don't even want

to say the name. So they replaced it basically.

With Adonai. So they called him Adonai.

They substituted the name Yahweh to Adonai because it was

just too holy to say. The name of God was

so holy, they couldn't even utter it. At some point,

I know they were saying it at some point, and

then at some point, they stopped using that name altogether.

They wouldn't say it. And then they replaced it with Adonai.

And if you read Exodus, Exodus chapter 4 verse 10,

Exodus 4:10

Moses uses this name. He says, Moses says to the Lord,

El Adonai. Okay, of God. God, Lord God.

Oh my Lord, Adonai again.

I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have

spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech

and slow of tongue.

Okay, you see here Moses calling him Adonai. A lot

more verses.

Actually one of the verses that you are very familiar

with and Now only I also know that the term

is actually Adonai is every week when we bless you

with the benediction.

Did you know that?

So God bless you and keep you, make His face

to shine upon you, that's Adonai. The Lord is Adonai.

Adonai bless you and keep you. Adonai make His face

shine upon you and be gracious to you. Adonai lift

up His countenance upon you and.

Give you peace.

Man, so every week when we declare that, we are saying,

my Lord, my Lord bless you. My Master, make His

face to shine upon you. My Lord, lift up His

countenance upon you. Give you peace. Amen.

Amen. Hallelujah. A few more verses.

I mean, Psalms 16 verse 2, if you want to

Psalms 16:2

take it down, also says Adonai. Psalm 83 verse 18,

Psalms 83:18

whose name alone is Adonai. These are some references. You'll

see King David using the name quite a bit. Daniel 9.19

as well.

Oh, Adonai.

So you see a lot of the Jews, you know,

using the name Adonai as opposed to Yahweh.

Wow, very fast, XTV. Thank you.

And Psalms 110. Psalms 110 verse 1. Yes, this one

Psalms 110:1

I have. It says, the Lord said to my Lord.

I used to read this and like, what? Why Lord

speaking to my Lord? The Lord said to my Lord,

whose Lord? Sit at my right hand till I make

your enemies your footstool. Okay, so again in Hebrew, there's

a distinction between the two words. So it's Yahweh said

to Adonai, sit at my right hand till I make

your enemies your footstool.

Okay, so you see the.

In the original, the Lord is used where the Hebrew

letters Yahweh.

Yahweh, so God the Father.

And then my Lord is used again, which is Adonai,

referring to the Messiah. Referring to the Messiah, Jesus. Amen.

You know, God's name, as you look at His names,

I mean, if you go through Yahweh, there's so many others.

Then you have Yahweh Nisi, Yahweh Nireh, Jehovah Jireh, as

you know it. And all these things and all God's

names just points to His character. You know, and I

pray this year we would just desire to go deeper

with Him. Know Him more, not just on the surface.

Really know His name because His name you know, explains

his character to us and he basically reveals himself to

us in different situations, different challenges that we go through

and he appears to us, you know, in different ways,

what we need at that time. So my desire, my

prayer is that as we know him more, as we

learn about his character more that is what stirs our

heart revival can't come just by like okay you know

we sit around here we talked about at homes right

about positioning ourselves how do we position ourselves right how

do we have our hearts open to him But when

we go into who this God is and what His

name means, then I pray that our hearts really, really

want to open to Him. And again, it is His timing.

Revival happens in His time. We can't orchestrate it. We

can't plan it. But in order to position ourselves, we

need to desire to know Him. We need to desire

and hunger to hear Him speak to us. And so

if I can just even summarize, you know, about God's names.

Again, Elohim. Everyone say Elohim. Elohim, our powerful creator and

a trinity.

He makes things come alive, right? We talk about revival

this year. He creates things out of nothing to begin with.

So reviving something that.

Exists, even though it might be dead or dormant now

in our lives, there's nothing for Him. We can create

things out of nothing. Reviving something is nothing. So my

question to us, is there anything dead? Is there anything

dormant within us that needs reviving? Let's call upon Elohim

to revive that.

Amen.

El Shaddai is God Almighty. Any of you here have

an impossible situation? Let me assure you, the same God

who enabled Abraham and Sarah to bear a son in their,

what age?

100? 190? 90? Sarah was 90, Abraham was 100.

That same God is the God we love, we serve.

He can do the impossible for you. Amen? Amen. And Lord,

Lord Yahweh, He's eternally present. He's unchanging.

No matter what you're going through, no matter what storms

you are going through, He never changes.

And He's already made a covenant with us. And He's

coming to take us home.

Right?

Our greatest....

And we need to ask ourselves, do we really have

that personal relationship with Him? He wants to have that

personal relationship with us. He's a relational God. Are we

ready for Him to return? Yeah, we don't talk a

lot about end times these days. Some of us grew

up in the era where they're talking about end times

all the time to scare us, but but.

He is coming soon. Are we ready? Are we ready

for Him? You know, we need to check, check our lives.

And Adonai, and I, I close with this because I

want us to ask ourselves, is He truly your Lord

and your Master? In the Bible, many people call Him Adonai.

I mean, even the Pharisees, Sadducees probably at that time,

you know, Adonai, Adonai. But is He really your personal Lord?

Your Lord, not just the Lord. Your Lord and your Master.

And are there things in our lives that we need

to align to His will, to His purpose? Let's not,

you know, let, let's not let any day pass us

by by just going with the flow. You know, we

want to be walking in His will, walking in His

purpose so that every day will be fulfilling.

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