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Introduction
Tonight we continue our study of God’s names revealed to us in Scripture.
If you look at your charts, we are still working through the compound names of Jehovah.
Remember, Jehovah means the God of righteousness and truth.
Already, we understand the implications of His name as Jehovah.
As a righteous God, He must judge sin.
Additionally, He demands that His people be righteous even as He is righteous.
However, as a righteous God, He also made way for us to be righteous by giving Himself as payment for our sins.
Last week, we concluded our study of the His compound name - Jehovah Rohi.
We understood God as our Good, Great, and Chief Shepherd in that study.
We learned just how much God loves and cares for His own.
As a Shepherd, He desires to feed, lead, and protect us.
Looking at your charts, we are ready to fill in the next name under Jehovah.
The name of God we will study this evening is Jehovah Jireh.
You can write that in the box just under Jehovah Rohi.
Our text for this name is Genesis 22.
We will get to the exact verse in just a moment.
By introduction, it is said that the “false” prophet Mohammed received from the archangel Gabriel 99 different divine names.
He was given the 99 holy names so he, as a prophet, could present the whole Being of God.
An objective that he totally failed to accomplish.
However, Scripture performs all that God intended for us to know.
This name, Jehovah Jireh, is one of the many precious names of God.
Again, this name is found as we read about the life of Abraham.
Throughout Abraham’s life, he continually made new discoveries about God.
As he did, Abraham, through the Holy Spirit’s working, coined several new names, of which Jehovah Jireh is a name.
The whole story behind Abraham’s declaration of Jehovah Jireh is recorded, as we already noted, in Genesis 22.
Here is the story in a nutshell.
Genesis 22 tells God’s great test of Abraham’s faith.
As we know, God promised that He would bless Abraham through Abraham’s seed.
A promise that later became a testimony of God’s miraculous ability to keep His promises.
Abraham and Sarah were well past their childbearing days at God’s covenant with Abraham.
It seemed an impossibility they would ever have children.
Again, in previous lessons, we noted their struggle with God’s promise of a child.
A struggle that resulted in the birth of Ishmael.
Yet, sure enough, God did precisely what God said He would do.
Despite Sarah’s doubt, God made her womb fruitful, and a beautiful baby boy was born of Sarah and Abraham.
His name was Isaac, and you can imagine the joy and excitement of his birth.
God kept His promise.
In doing so, Abraham and Sarah’s faith in God was strengthened.
Yet, how strong was that faith?
God wanted to know.
We often talk about Abraham’s faith and forget about Sarah.
Consequently, God puts both of them to the test.
I say both of them because both are involved.
As the story goes, God tested them by saying the following words to Abraham.
What was Abraham’s reaction?
Remember, this is not just a test of Abraham’s faith but also an examination of Sarah’s faith.
Interestingly, Scripture records nothing of Sarah’s reaction.
It would seem then from Scripture’s silence that she put her faith in God and His provision just as much as Abraham.
What mother, especially one who gives birth miraculously, would willingly give up their only child to be physically sacrificed?
Yet, here is Abraham, he rises up early, takes Isaac and two young servants, and they proceed to the “place of which God had told him.”
They arrive.
Abraham leads the two young servants behind and moves on with just Isaac, the fire for the sacrifice, and a knife.
At this point, Isaac thinks things are not adding here.
It is in Abraham’s answer that we see a man of faith.
Many of you already know the story of their arrival at the top of Mount Moriah.
Upon their arrival at the summit, Abraham builds an altar, lays the wood on top, binds Isaac places him on top of the wood and is about to slay with the knife.
It is then that God stops him.
Verse 14 provides us with the name of God we are considering this evening.
Abraham called the name of the place after God’s name which is Jehovah-jireh.
The word “jireh” means to give what is desired or needed, especially for things such as support, food, or sustenance.
Thus, God’s name reveals He is the Righteous God Who Will Provide.
An additional understanding of this name is that God sees.
Therefore, God is not only the One who foresees what is needed, but He is the one Who provides what is needed.
Essentially, what we understand about God through this name is that He is the God of pre-vision and pro-vision.
This entire story and Abraham’s declaration of His name show that God is omniscient (all-knowing) and utterly righteous in character.
Whatever He asks of His people He is quite capable of providing or supplying to meet His own demands.
Not only did God demand a sacrifice, He already knew what the provisional sacrifice would be.
Now, for a moment, I want to note a little bit of wordplay with the name of the mountain and God’s name.
Remember, this mountain is in the land of Moriah.
We have come to call it Mount Moriah today.
The name “Moriah” in Hebrews means “seen of Jehovah.”
As we already noted, the word “jireh” can also mean to see with the connotation of seeing and providing what is needed.
If you take those two and combine them, you have the following.
Genesis 22:2 (KJV 1900)
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
In the mount of the Lord, or in Moriah (that is, where Jehovah sees), He (Jehovah) will be seen.
As we continue this thought, we see one other thing related to God’s name.
Go back to verse 1.
Which name of God is used in this verse?
It is Elohim.
Thus, Elohim was the One Who demanded a sacrifice.
Yet, even though it was still God, Jehovah was the One who provided a substitute sacrifice for Isaac.
What God commanded, God supplied.
Does that not remind you of all God did for us on the cross of Calvary?
As we know, Mount Moriah was the summit of Abraham’s faith.
Abraham began the event with confidence that God would provide Himself a sacrifice.
This severe test resulted in the revelation of God as Jehovah-Jireh, the LORD Who Provides!
The entire event was a testimony to God’s all-sufficiency.
It ended with Abraham declaring:
As we think about this great name, Mount Moriah is a testimony to the Jehovah-Jireh.
There are three things seen at Mount Moriah.
A Memorial of God’s Gracious Provision
The mention of Mount Moriah and Abraham’s great test is, without a doubt, one of the great monuments of Scripture.
Undoubtedly, this event stands as a great memorial commemorating Abraham’s deliverance.
Until this moment on Mount Moriah, God’s revelation of His name stood apart from God’s direct intervention.
By that, I mean God directly intervened in this instance, and His name was revealed.
Now, after this first instance of God’s direct intervention combined with His name, many more came.
However, this was the first.
One of the gut-wrenching elements of this event is that God required Abraham to sacrifice the promised child, Isaac.
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