The Kingdom. Faith, Hope & Love Part 5

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2 Faith, Hope & Love Part 5

3 Faith is the practical application of the facts which God has revealed about Himself in the name. Through faith that we come to understand what it means to believe in or call on the name, knowing that all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved, for there is much power in the name when accompanied by faith.

4 1. El Shaddai the Lord God Almighty. 2. El Elyon The Most High God. 3. Adonai Our Master. 4. Yahweh the I Am. 5. Jehovah Nissi The Lord my Banner. 6. Jehovah Raah The Lord my Shepherd. 7. Jehovah Rapha The Lord my Healer.

5 Goal: 1. To know our King so well that we become fully convinced based on all the facts that we would be stupid to put our trust in anything or anyone else (especially ourselves); and 2. To likewise be fully convinced that all our decisions must be made based on the reality of the character and nature of our King which has been revealed by the name. Calling on His name can brings our mind and emotions into alignment with the reality that we live for the Kingdom of God and not for what this world and for what this life can give us.

6 To know peace and rest: 1. Know His name, and 2. Be willing to call on His name in order that you might 3. Know Him by His name.

7 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. Ezekiel 48:35. Ezekiel describes a temple and a city. Perhaps a picture of the New Creation. 1 Corinthians 3:16, We are the Temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in us. If any man destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy him, for the Temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 1 Corinthians 6:19, our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.

8 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. Ezekiel 43:12, And this is the basic law of the Temple: absolute holiness! The entire top of the hill where the Temple is built is holy. Yes, this is the primary law of the Temple. Our New Creation has been created in the image of God in righteous and the holiness of truth (Ephesians 4:24). Ezekiel 43:5, the glory of the Lord came into the Temple which pictures the Holy Spirit indwelling our New Creation (1 Corinthians 3:16).

9 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. Ezekiel 48:30-35 describes the city where the Temple is located and its measurements around the city: six miles or 18,000 cubits. City of Revelation 21 has not temple and is magnitudes larger. 6-miles or 18,000 cubits (6x3). 6 the number of man 3 the number of God 6x3 (18) man and God together.

10 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. Ezekiel 43:7, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place where I will rest my feet. I will remain here forever, living among the people of Israel. (18,000 cubits) communicate to us a spiritual picture of what was once unthinkable: God in man. Hebrews 13:5 where the Lord promises: NO I will not leave you; NO I will not forsake you. Joshua 1:5, Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.

11 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. Ezekiel 48:35 we are told that name of the city is The Lord is There Jehovah Shammah. The Lord is There in the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives who dwells within our New Creation. Romans 8:9, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him The Lord is There: God in you! Every time you are ready to give an excuse, based on what you feel or what you think, remember the Lord is There.

12 8. Jehovah Shammah the Lord is There. 2 Peter 1:2-4, Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

13 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, 'The Lord our righteousness.' Isaiah 45:24, Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength. Jeremiah 33:16, In that day Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this will be her name: The Lord Is Our Righteousness.'

14 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Romans 3:22: The righteousness of God is obtained only through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe. Romans 9:30: this righteousness cannot be obtained by the works of the hands but only by belief. Belief: a full on commitment to that truth demonstrated in a life where one chooses what they say and do by the truth.

15 James 1:22-25 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

16 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. His name: The Lord our Righteousness. Our name: The Lord is our Righteousness. This name goes to the core of our struggle with shame and religious legalism birthed from the good child/bad child syndrome. Good child: the lie that we can be good like God. Bad child: the reality that we are not good like God.

17 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Our nature compromises every attempt to be good. In shame we hide the truth. Religion makes the works of our hands our attempts to be good seem so acceptable and proper. People realize they are sinful and need a savior; but so few are in touch with what it means to be saved. Most live under the same yoke of bondage: no freedom only bondage and shame.

18 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Religion provides rules, regulations, and methodologies to be good enough to get from God what we want. Requires new rules, regulations, and methodologies but they are not spiritual. They are legalism: the works of our hands which God completely loathes (Haggai 2:14-17). The rules of religion enable us to create and live in a hierarchy of delusional goodness which again gives us a way to hide the shame and darkness of our soul.

19 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Only God is good (Matthew 19:17 and Mark 10:18). Romans 3:10-18, there is none righteous not even one. We need His goodness to be saved, for only He is righteous.

20 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. To know Him by His name: Accept our inability to be good. By faith relinquish all our own attempts at finding favor and blessing with God and right-standing with men though what we do. Let go of all our would have s, could have s, and should have s. We must hate the lie that we can be good. Reject all aspects of religion that attempt to equate doing good with being good.

21 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. To know Him by His name: Romans 9:33, he who believes and continues to believe (present active participle) in Him (Jesus) will not be put to shame. Give up our desire to have God be proud of us and to earn our blessing. Rest in the fact that He is our righteousness and because of Him we are good.

22 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. God gives us complete freedom to replace our shame. Thankfulness takes its place. Galatians 5:1, It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

23 9. Jehovah Tsidkenu the Lord our Righteousness. Jehova Shammah, the Lord is There. He is righteous and since He is There, and There is in the Temple of my soul, then I have His righteousness (Jehovah Tsidkenu) and there is nothing I need to do to earn it and experience it except to believe. To practically experience His righteousness in in your day-in-andday-out life, you have to let Jesus take more and more possession of your soul. It is all a part of His personhood and is not truly known apart from His name.

24 The End