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NAMES OF GOD

NAMES OF GOD. WHAT’S IN A NAME?. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO ME ?. MY GOAL IN LIFE? JEREMIAH 9:23-24 KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM? SUCCESS? RICHES? UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING GOD?. VALUE OF A NAME. SIGNIFICANT OR A NAMETAG? BIBLE NAMES TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE PERSON ADAM? EVE? JEDIDIAH?

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NAMES OF GOD

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  1. NAMES OF GOD WHAT’S IN A NAME?

  2. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO ME ? MY GOAL IN LIFE? JEREMIAH 9:23-24 • KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM? • SUCCESS? • RICHES? • UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING GOD?

  3. VALUE OF A NAME SIGNIFICANT OR A NAMETAG? BIBLE NAMES TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE PERSON ADAM? EVE? JEDIDIAH? JESUS?

  4. GOD’S NAMES GOD DESIRES RELATIONSHIPS RELATIONSHIPS ARE BASED ON SELF-REVELATION GOD REVEALS HIMSELF BY NAMES FIVE NAMES ELOHIM, ADONAI, EL-SHADDAI, YAHWEH, ABBA

  5. ELOHIM GENESIS 1:1 GOD, God THE SUPREME BEING, CREATOR OF ALL ELSE IN THE CREATOR-CREATURE RELATIONSHIP WE EXIST FOR HIM, NOT FOR OURSELVES WE NEED TO RESPECT, HONOUR AND WORSHIP OUR CREATOR

  6. ADONAI GENESIS 15:1-6 UNSETTLED TIMES, GOD REASURES ABRAHAM ABRAHAM BRINGS A PROBLEM TO GOD HE ADDRESSES GOD AS “SOVEREIGN LORD” SOVEREIGN = ADAONAI PLURAL POSSESSIVE = LORDS’ “I AM YOUR PROPERTY, YOU ARE MY OWNER”

  7. ADAONAI = PROPERTY OWNER GOD AND ABRAHM ARE IN A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP ELOHIM OWNS THE UNIVERSE ADONAI OWNS THE INDIVIDUAL A MASTER-SLAVE RELATIONSHIP ROMANS 10:9 IF YOU CONFESS “JESUS IS LORD” YOU CAN BE SAVED

  8. IMPICATION OF BEING OWNED ABRAHAM PRAYS AND BRING HIS PROBLEM TO ADAONAI 15:2-3 ADONAI TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SOLUTION IF I AM ADAONAI’S PROPERTY DO I HAVE ANY PERSONAL ‘POSSESSIONS’? PRAYER IS NOT A PRIVILEGE BUT A RESPONSIBILITY

  9. IMPLICATIONS OF ADONAI ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE HIS PROPERTY BEHAVE AS HIS PROPERTY ADAONIA HAS THE RIGHT TO DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH HIS PROPERTY [SEE EZEKIEL x 206] EVERY NT WRITER WHO INTRODUCES HIMSELF DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A SLAVE JESUS SENT THE BOOK OF REVELATION TO HIS SLAVES

  10. SLAVES? HUMANS CANNOT ESCAPE SLAVERY WE ARE EITHER SLAVES OF GOD OR SLAVES OF SIN ROMANS 5:19 SLAVES OF SIN FROM CONCEPTION ROMANS 6:22 SET FREE FROM SIN AND HAVE BECOME SLAVES OF GOD SO STOP MAKING YOURSELVES AVAILABLE TO SIN FOR ITS USE, MAKE YOUSELVES AVAILABLE TO GOD ROMANS 6:12-13

  11. KNOWING GOD AS ADONAI THIS IS OUR SECURITY WE WERE CREATED TO BELONG JOHN 15:15 I NO LONGER CALL YOU SLAVES, BUT FRIENDS CALL – NO LONGER TREAT YOU AS SLAVES, THINGS TO BE USED THE SLAVE BECOMES A FRIEND, AND ALSO A SON/BROTHER ROMANS 8:14-17

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