The Name Above All Names
Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day 36, Q&A 99-100.
Scripture Texts: Exodus 20:7; Philippians 2:9-11
All the gods of history and religion have been named by men. Only the one true living God has revealed His true name to us and told us what it is, what He is to be called.
Last week I mentioned that God’s OT name is Yahweh, sometimes shown in our Bibles as LORD. Yahweh is God’s personal name. “I am, or I am who I am” (Ex. 3:14; John 8:58).
God gave us His name as an act of grace. By giving us His name, God wants us to use it. He wants us to call on His name and to invite Him into our presence through prayer. He wants us to lift up His name in worship and to have personal fellowship with Him. He wants us to call on Him when things are good and when we are in great need.
Psalm 50:15 Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
All the gods of history and religion have been named by men. Only the one true living God has revealed His true name to us and told us what it is, what He is to be called.
Last week I mentioned that God’s OT name is Yahweh, sometimes shown in our Bibles as LORD. Yahweh is God’s personal name. “I am, or I am who I am” (Ex. 3:14; John 8:58).
God gave us His name as an act of grace. By giving us His name, God wants us to use it. He wants us to call on His name and to invite Him into our presence through prayer. He wants us to lift up His name in worship and to have personal fellowship with Him. He wants us to call on Him when things are good and when we are in great need.
Psalm 50:15 Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Psalm 20:1 May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
“God gave them His name in order that they might use it boldly and freely, regularly and reverently” (Ronald Wallace, The Ten Commandments, p. 53).