The Word Of GOD Over The Name Of GOD!
Psalm
138 A Psalm of David:
I
will praise You with my whole heart; before the gods I will sing praises to
You.
I
will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your Name*
For
Your Lovingkindness and Your Truth;
For
You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name.
In
the day when I cried out You answered me,
And
made me bold, with strength in my soul.
All
the kings of the earth shall praise You JEHOVAH,
When
they hear the Words of Your mouth.
Yes,
they shall sing of the Ways of JEHOVAH,
For
great is The Glory of JEHOVAH.
Though
JEHOVAH is on High,
Yet
He regards the lowly;
But
the proud He knows from afar.
Though
I walk in the midst of trouble, You Will Revive me;
You
Will Stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
And
Your right hand Will Save me.
JEHOVAH
Will perfect (Complete) that which concerns me;
Your
Mercy JEHOVAH endures Forever;
Do
not forsake The Works of Your hands.”
How many times have I (you) read
this passage of Scripture and missed the single most important understanding of
Who GOD Is?!
The GOD of all creation; The GOD
of Salvation; The Eternal, ever living GOD, JEHOVAH* magnifies His Word above
His Name, JEHOVAH!
CJB (Complete Jewish Bible) –
“…for You have made Your Word [even] greater than the whole of Your
Reputation.”
KJV – “…for Thou hast magnified
Thy Word above all Thy Name.”
The Scriptures – “For You have
made great Your Word, Your Name above all.”
NKJV – “For You have magnified
Your Word above all Your Name.”
JEHOVAH has put His Word above His
Name? Have you thought about that? What
does that mean?
It means that GOD’s Word has
preeminence over His Name? In other words GOD’s Word should be more important
to us than His Name? How So?
Actually by default we already
give little importance to GOD’s Name! Most modern translations and modern
Christianize use GOD’s titles rather than His Name.*
But the importance of what David
is saying is not that the modern Church does not know or use GOD’s Name; it is
that GOD’s Word is give more importance to GOD’s people then knowing His
Name.** (Some are going to argue this point.)
YESHUA – JESUS is The Living Word
of GOD: Genesis 1:1-4 “In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth;
the earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
And The SPIRIT of GOD (HOLY SPIRIT) was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then GOD said (YESHUA), ‘Let there be Light (YESHUA)!’ and there was Light; and
GOD saw the Light that it was Good and GOD divided the Light from the darkness.
And GOD Called the Light Day and the darkness He Called Night. So the evening
and the morning were the first day.” John 1:1-5, 14 “In the beginning was The
Word and The Word was with GOD and The Word was GOD. He was in the beginning
with GOD. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made
that was made. In Him was Life and the Life was The Light of men. And The Light
shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend (overcome) it…And
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory, The Glory as
of The Only Begotten of The Father, full of Grace and Truth.” Revelation 19:13
“He was clothed in a robe dipped in Blood and His Name is Called The Word of
GOD.”
In creation the most important
thing to all living beings and creatures is The Word of GOD – JESUS! If you do
not want to spend eternity in The Lake of Fire and Brimstone being tormented
for your sins (you go to the eternal lake of fire if you reject JESUS and there
you will be eternally torment for how you lived your life, Revelation 20:7-15,
21:8).
If you want to obey and follow
JESUS in this life then you have to be His disciple, going to Church and
keeping The Ten Commandments will not make you a disciple of JESUS! JESUS told
us how to be His disciple. But it is hard!
John 8:30-32 “As He (JESUS) spoke
these Words (take the time to go back and read John 8:21-29), many believed in
Him. Then JESUS said to those who believed Him, ‘If you Abide in My Word you
are My disciples indeed and you shall know The Truth and The Truth shall set
you free.’”
John 14:6 “JESUS said to him, ‘I
Am The Way, The Truth and The Life, no one comes to The Father (GOD) except
through Me!’”
Luke 9:57-62 “Now it happened as
they journeyed on the road that someone said to Him, ‘LORD, I will
follow you wherever You go. ’And JESUS said to him, ‘Foxes have holes and birds
of the air have nests, but The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’
Mark 8:34-38 “When He (JESUS) had
called the people to Himself with His disciples also, He said to them, ‘Whoever
desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow
Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life for My sake and The Gospel’s will save it.’ Then He said to another,
‘Follow Me.’ But he said, ‘LORD, let me first go and bury my father.’ JESUS
said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach The
Kingdom of GOD.’ And another also said, ‘LORD, I will follow you but first let
me go and bid them farewell who are at my house.’ But JESUS said to him, ‘No
one having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of
GOD.’”
Finally: Matthew 10:34-39 “Do not
think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a
sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her
mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man’s enemies will
be his own household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy
of Me and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he
who does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who
fines his live will lose it and he who loses his life for My sake will find
it.’”
If this is what it takes to be
JESUS’ disciple, how do we get there from being a sorrowful but unforgiven and
unrepentant sinner? When we come to the place that we understand that we are a
sinner and under GOD’s Eternal Judgment we want to be saved, whether it is a
moment of desperation, tragedy or just a realization, we call out to GOD and He
forgives us for being a sinner and takes away the punishment for our sins in
JESUS. Then He gives us His HOLY SPIRIT to teach us how to live as a Disciple
of JESUS. The HOLY SPIRIT uses GOD’s Word, The Bible to teach us all about Who
GOD is (John 7:38-39, 14:25-26) and how we can serve His Will for our life
(Psalm 139:15-18). The Bible is GOD’s Word – JESUS is The Word of GOD! Read The
Bible, Study The Bible, Meditate The Bible, Learn The Bible and Live according
to The Bible! To repent means to stop sinning and to start living according to
The Bible.
So The Word of GOD is more
important than The Name of GOD!
We can only be Saved in The Name
of JESUS! (Acts 4:12)
JESUS is The Living Word of GOD!
JEHOVAH is The Father, The Son
(JESUS) and The SPIRIT of GOD (The HOLY SPIRIT)!
The Bible is the written
representation of GOD!
If you want to be Saved and be a
Disciple of JESUS you have to know and live according to The Bible!
*GOD’s Name is not “The LORD” as
translated in many modern versions of the Bible. His Name was lost by the Jews
who so reverenced and feared miss using it that they stopped saying and writing
it. All we have are four consonants YHWH, which are transliterated into YAHOWEH
or YAHWEH, rendered in English as JEHOVAH.
GOD said to Moses, as recorded in
Exodus 3:13-15 “Then Moses said to GOD, ‘Indeed, when I come to the
children of Israel and say to them, “The GOD of your fathers has sent me to
you,” and they say to me, “What is His Name?” 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: “YHWH (JEHOVAH) 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 Memorial to all generations.”’”
Why would GOD call His Name “The
LORD”, The LORD is a title, like GOD, its what He is not Who He is!
**Now that would seem wrong
considering that GOD’s Name, His memorial Name I AM WHO I AM – YHWH includes
YESHUA (JESUS); The Only Name by which We are commanded to be Saved! Also it
includes “HOLY SPIRIT”, The Name of GOD’s SPIRIT that He has given to every
Believer in JESUS (John 14:15-18; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17)!
Philippians 2:9-11, “Therefore GOD
has highly exalted Him (JESUS) and given Him The Name which is above every
name, that at the Name of JESUS every knee shall bow, of those in Heaven [the
Heavenly host] and of those on earth [the human host] and of those under the
earth [the condemned host (Jude 6)]; and that every tongue should confess that
JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to The Glory of GOD The Father.” His Name is exalted
above every name!
But 1 Corinthians 15:25-28: “He
(JESUS) must reign till He (JEHOVAH The Father) has put all enemies under His (JESUS)
feet; the last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For ‘He (JEHOVAH) has
put all things under His (JESUS) feet.’ But when He says, ‘all things are
put under Him,’ it is evident that He (JEHOVAH) Who put all things under
Him (JESUS) is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him (JEHOVAH),
then The Son Himself will also be subject to Him Who put all things under Him,
that GOD may be all in all.”
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