He Has A Name

“BE”

What Jesus calls us defines our purpose, what we call God defines our worship!

Romans 12:1-2

Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship.

We can’t worship a God we don’t know!

Who is He? - Not what He is called - it is who He is!

The character attached to his name.

The longer you live the greater the reputation

God has lived forever

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Most famous moment in Scripture where God reveals what we should call him:

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Exodus 3:14

And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.

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I am - Hebrew word Ha’y’ah (הָיָה)

The Hebrew lettering to represent this word looks like a lower case version of the Hebrew tetragrammaton ( ) which represents YAHWEH.

Ha’y’ah - I Am - be

Yahweh - The Great I Am - Be

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Definition: “actual release of power so that the accomplishment is assured.”

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It is in fact not what we should call Him it is in fact what we should call upon?

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Translated To Lord

Exodus 3:15

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.’

BE - in that moment God showed Moses that He had always BEEN. He was the very existence of all things.

His presence!

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He would BE what was needed for the release of His power so that the accomplishment would be assured.

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It was not a name it was a personal revelation in every situation!

So when the bible translators came they found this word Ha’ Ya’h in so many different situations referring to anything from power to love to mercy to wisdom to forgiveness, they could not figure out the word, the name so they put in a title LORD, GOD and hoped that the reader would find personal revelation of His name!

They were reading the revelation of God’s being in situations of some of the closest people to God in scripture

God of Abraham...

People knew of him because they knew who worshipped him

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Jeremiah 11:3-4 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant 4 which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you (worship); so shall you be (wihyîṯem - revelation - eyes will be opened) My people, and I will be (ha’ya’h) your God,’

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God’s name to you is the depth of who He is in the moment!

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What HE IS

What HE is Will BE

Genesis 1:3-8

3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”

And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.

6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. 8 God called the space “sky.”

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WISDOM - James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

He is Wisdom

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BE FORGIVEN

Its a state not a result of religious activity

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,

And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

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HE IS LOVE

BE BRAVE Is. 41:13

For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand,

Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’

BE SAVED Is 49:26

That I, the Lord, am your Savior,

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Next week - WORSHIP HIS BEING

Elohim and Abba

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HE has a name Pastor Craig Smee

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