Extra Pages, Verses, Comments
Calvin Miller (author of The Singer): "I have always been a bit reluctant to give God the credit for anything, in case he doesn't want the credit. D. James Kennedy tells the story about a woman who came to him with a poem 'that the Holy Spirit gave me.' After he read the poem, he said that to accuse the Holy Spirit of a poem like that was not fair to God." Taking The Lord's Name In "Vain"...
Jer 29:9 (NIV) "They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them."
Lev 19:12 (NIV) "Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord."
Jer 7:9-11 (NIV) "Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, 'We are safe'--safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you?..."
Jer 7:30 (NIV) "The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it."
Zech 13:3 (NIV) "And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the Lord's name.' When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him."
The Power Of The Name
Ps 20:7 (NIV) Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
1 Sam 17:45 (NRS) But David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts..."
The Name Of The Lord: Where He Is!
Deut 12:5 (NIV) But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go.
Deut 14:23 (NIV) Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
What's In A Name...
Jud 13:18 (NRS) But the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful."
Ex 33:19 (NIV) And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Deut 32:3 (NIV) I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
Rev 3:12 (NIV) "Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name."
Gen 32:28-29 (NIV) Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome." Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?"...
Isa 42:8 (NIV) "I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols."
Rev 15:4 (NIV) Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?
The Name Of The Lord Revealed To Moses
Previous to the revelation of Messiah (the answer to the riddle posed below of how God can be both forgiving and punishing) this was the clearest description of the Name of the Lord given to mankind. Ex 3:13-15 (NIV) Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The Lord, the 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 for ever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation."Ex 34:5-7 (NIV) Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."
Jesus, The Perfect Expression Of The Father
Ps 118:26 (NIV) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord...
Ps 8:1 (KJV) O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!...
Prov 30:4 (NIV) Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know!
Rom 10:6-9 (NKJ) But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or," 'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Isa 57:15 (NIV) "For this is what the high and lofty One says--he who lives for ever, whose name is holy: 'I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'"
Rev 22:4 (NIV) They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
Micah 6:9 (NIV) Listen! The Lord is calling to the city--and to fear your name is wisdom--"Heed the rod and the One who appointed it."
Ex 23:21 (NIV) Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.
